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‘We were built up to go to war’: An Irish deserter who joined D-Day invasion
Vintan Donohoe was among hundreds of Irish involved in Normandy operation
Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 06:00
Joseph Quinn in Normandy
Vintan Donohoe (sitting on grass, left) with his platoon.
Dubliner Vintan Donohoe was one of hundreds of Irish who landed on the Normandy beaches 75 years ago today, part of Gen Dwight Eisenhower’s D-Day “great crusade”, with the eyes of the world upon them.
Leaving his landing craft, the Mountjoy Square-born Donohoe remembered later that he went “straight down” into the sea, and had to be pulled ashore by fellow members of the 2nd Battalion, the Rifles.
The 22-year-old Donohoe fought in Normandy for just a month, before he was badly wounded by a mortar explosion and evacuated back to England. Decades later, his memories were filled with thoughts of carnage and friends lost.
Like many others, Donohoe was a Defence Forces deserter, having joined up in Dublin in 1938. There, he served in the artillery, where he was trained in a variety of weaponry, including mobile artillery and fixed long-range guns.
The opening of war in 1939 surprised few as “most people expected it”, Donohoe remembered later, although morale in the Defence Forces dipped as soldiers found themselves with little to do.
By 1941, the Irish military was haemorrhaging troops, with about 1,000 disappearing across the Border from March to September of that year to enlist in the British forces.
“We were built up in our training to go to war, and then suddenly there was no war to go to. There was nothing to do. There didn’t seem to be any leadership about what we did next.
“We were all trained men. I was trained on revolvers, rifles, the Bren machine gun, the Vickers machine gun, the 38 field gun. So what was I to do with all this knowledge that I have?” he said.
Vintan Donohoe in 2014, on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
In May 1941, Donohoe took 14 days’ leave. Initially, he travelled to the Border by train, but was stopped at Goraghwood, near Newry, and sent back to Dublin. From there, he walked to the Border.
Recruiting office
Having got through, he was stopped by RUC constables in a passing car. He told them he was an Irish deserter and they offered him a lift to the local recruiting office in Newry. There, he signed up.
He was sent to the Royal Sussex Regiment at Chichester Barracks, where there were other Irish Army deserters. All feared discovery. However, they quickly realised that their training instructors knew exactly who they were.
After the war, Donohoe stayed in London, helping to build London Airport, which later became Heathrow. When fellow Normandy veteran Phil Farrington died in 2015 aged 94, it was believed that the last of the Irish deserters had died.
However, it now seems that place is filled by Donohoe, who died in London, aged 96, in March 2018. He had been awarded the Légion d’honneur by the French government for helping to liberate France.
Like hundreds of Irish, Donohoe went into battle on that June morning as one of “soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied expeditionary force”, with the words of Eisenhower in their breast pocket.
“Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely,” Eisenhower had told them.
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However, in the lead-up to D-Day, both the position of neutral Ireland and the dependability of southern Irish soldiers serving in the Allied forces were called into question by commanders.
The Irish in the American forces were likewise considered a potential liability, due to the persistent belief that they might be infiltrated by Irish “fifth columnists” connected with the IRA, or somehow sympathetic to Nazi Germany.
Early in 1944, relations between Éamon de Valera, then taoiseach, and the Allied powers were rocked by the American Note Crisis, following clumsy diplomacy by the American representative to Dublin, David Gray.
In late February, Gray presented de Valera with a formal request that Dublin take steps to remove Axis legations from the country. Querying whether the note was an ultimatum, de Valera told Gray that he would issue no such instruction.
An embarrassing series of communications and meetings ensued, with the Irish government seeking assurances from the British and Americans that southern Ireland would not be subject to Anglo-American military interventions.
Due to Gray’s actions, Dublin was clearly alerted to the fact that the invasion of Europe was imminent; with de Valera making it clear that neutral Ireland would not be held responsible for the failure of the operation.
Conciliatory messages
Winston Churchill offered conciliatory messages, denying hostile intentions against Ireland, and indicating that the request had been made merely to remove a threat of information being leaked to Berlin via Dublin.
Ironically, the incident prompted greater co-operation between the Irish and British military intelligence services, and an American intelligence officer was posted to Dublin to work alongside Irish G2 military intelligence.
From March 15th, 1944, normal travel and communication between Britain and the Free State, including cross-Border travel from Northern Ireland, was officially suspended on Churchill’s orders.
Postal censorship stiffened, while telephone traffic and telegrams were restricted as part of a wider campaign to isolate neutral Ireland from the outside world until after D-Day.
Censorship was vital, though it left the British war office pondering the effect it had on the morale of Irish soldiers serving with British forces. Mostly, however, they accepted the restrictions as an act of necessity, the chief British censor reported.
“Many troops comment that they expected such a measure for a long time, and on seeing the devastation and poverty left in Italy by the Germans they feel heartened to think that Éire should not share the same fate,” said the British censor.
However, not all agreed: “The few men who were not in favour of the ban stated that the action taken was an ‘insult to fighting Irishmen’ who have all volunteered to fight for England,” the notes record.
One Irish Fusilier in the 6th Inniskillings fighting at Monte Casino described de Valera as a “stupid nitwit”, while an Irish sergeant in the 8th Indian Infantry Division remarked that “maybe it would do some of the red-hot ‘Éire for the Irish’ crowd a world of good if they saw the result of what German friendship can do for a country”.
An Irish driver in the Royal Army Service Corps regretted the “transport ban”, but noted that “if it means the safety of our lads in the coming invasion, it will have been worthwhile”.
The British had legitimate fears that perfectly innocent Irish troops might talk about invasion plans during rare home leave – information that might find its way to the German legation in Dublin that was in daily radio contact with Berlin.
Nevertheless, the travel ban was lightly enforced. Lord Killanin (Michael Morris), later famous as head of the International Olympic Council, was an Irish staff officer in the British 79th Armoured Division deeply involved in D-Day planning. He returned home a fortnight before D-Day: “No one tried to stop me. If I had been disloyal or alcoholic I could easily have spilled the beans. I knew absolutely everything except there was going to be a postponement of D-Day by 24 hours because of the storm.”
The co-operation between the Irish, British and US intelligence services bore fruit. The work of Dr Richard Hayes, the director of the National Library, a talented codebreaker enlisted by the director of G2, Col Dan Bryan, proved extremely helpful.
German cipher
During lunch and after work, Hayes studied the complex German diplomatic code being used by the German legation to communicate with Berlin – an identical cipher had baffled Bletchley Park’s codebreakers the year before.
Hayes cracked this cipher, single-handedly. The decoded messages were passed by Bryan to British intelligence. Later, Hayes drafted bogus messages which Bryan had transmitted to the German legation’s wireless room, helping to lull Berlin.
Famously, the weather forecasts gathered at Blacksod Bay, off the Co Mayo coast, and passed on by G2 to the British led to Eisenhower’s decision to launch Overlord on the evening of June 5th – the saving of the invasion, in the eyes of many historians.
Recorded by Maureen Sweeney and her lighthouse-keeper husband, Ted, it gave the Allies the vital element of surprise, as senior German commanders believed no seaborne invasion would be launched in the middle of a storm.
The suitable conditions at sea predicted by Blacksod once the storm blew itself out were essential to Operation Neptune, the largest seaborne operation in the history of modern warfare, which supported Overlord.
Run by Combined Operations, Neptune oversaw the safe passage and landings at Normandy. One of the key members of that team was Wexford-born Commander Richard Donovan, a first World War submariner.
Today, no one knows how many Irish served in Normandy. More than 70,000 men and women signed up at recruiting centres in Northern Ireland over the course of the war – two-thirds of them were from the neutral South.
However, many of the 170,000 Irish migrants who emigrated to work in British factories were conscripted after two years, while 250,000 Irish migrants were already resident in Britain before the war began.
In 1946, Gen Sir Hubert Gough, a Waterford-born officer who commanded divisions in during the first World War, in a letter to The Times of London put the Irish numbers in uniform at 165,000.
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Ode to Henry Joy – An Irishman’s Diary about the 250th birthday of a revolutionary
Thu, Aug 31, 2017, 00:01
Frank McNally
Henry Joy McCracken: born 250 years ago today in Belfast
Leaving his revolutionary fame aside a moment, Henry Joy McCracken had one of the great Irish names. The “Joy” part came from his mother Ann, who was of French Huguenot stock. The “McCracken” bit was Ulster-Scots. But combined, they were a euphonious match made in heaven. With the addition of a sturdy two-syllable prefix, it was a name designed to resonate.
Born 250 years ago today in Belfast, however, its owner was not the first of his family to make a mark on history.
Thirty years earlier, in 1737, his maternal grandfather Francis Joy had established what remains the world’s oldest English-language daily newspaper, the Belfast Newsletter. And his grandfather on the other side had been a substantial enough businessman to gift the city an area known as the Cornmarket, where in a bitter irony, Henry Joy McCracken’s life would be ended on a scaffold in 1798.
But in the meantime, the child born on August 31st, 1767, grew up to be part of one of the most enlightened generations ever to have lived in Ireland, certainly in its northeastern part. Had their versions of the French and American revolutions, filtered through the Scottish enlightenment, succeeded peacefully, maybe many subsequent tragedies on the island might have been avoided.
The attempt had a promising start, at least. It was under the deliberately innocuous cover name of “The Muddlers Club” that McCracken and others, including Thomas Russell – “The Man from God Knows Where” (but actually Cork) – founded the United Irishmen in 1791. The mostly-Presbyterian group held their meetings in a pub, Peggy Barclay’s Tavern, on a Belfast alleyway called Sugarhouse Entry. And at first their plans were indeed peaceful, until hopes of a self-governing, multidenominational Ireland disappeared under repressive government policies in 1795. Thereafter, the Muddlers were on a path to violent confrontation with the law.
McCracken spent most of 1797 in Kilmainham Gaol, until released in bad health. Like most of his comrades, he then waited in vain from the French.
But after commanding his men at the doomed Battle of Antrim, he fled to the mountains, until arrested again.
He could have saved his neck by implicating others, but refused and was hanged on July 17th, 1798. His adoring younger sister Mary-Ann McCracken had arranged to have a doctor present lest there be a chance of resuscitation, and the body was brought back to Peggy Barclay’s with that aim. But the hangman had done his job. Henry was dead, aged 30.
Mary Ann, who spent the rest of her long life looking after his “illegitimate” daughter Maria, was a remarkable figure in her own right.
Among many acts of philanthropy, she ran a school for Belfast’s orphaned poor, operating on such advanced principles as a belief that children should be amused while learning.
She was also a big part of the Presbyterian campaign to revive Irish traditional music. And she was a lifelong campaigner against slavery, underwriting her commitment by abstention from one its main products, sugar.
Late in life, 60 years after Henry’s death, she lamented that the once-idealistic Belfast was “now so sunk in the love of filthy lucre there are but 16 or 17 female anti-slavery advocates [left]”, and none of these were active in disseminating propaganda except “an old woman within 17 days of 89”.
The old woman was herself. But she would yet see out the American civil war. And in forgoing sugar, she had been ahead of her time in more ways than one. As we know now, it’s very bad for your health too.
Mary Ann must have benefitted from abstention – she lived to be 96.
Besides all that, she was also an ardent defender of her bother’s reputation, although even without her long advocacy, his place in the pantheon was secure.
The United Irishmen’s birthplace, Sugarhouse Entry, was destroyed by German bombs in 1941. But in more recent times, the name of the Muddlers Club has reappeared in Belfast, this time on an upmarket restaurant in the Cathedral Quarter.
Thanks to the relative enlightenment that has returned to the city since 1998, the same quarter now hosts a number of public art works on the events of 200 years earlier, including a portrait of Henry and Mary Ann being parted at the gallows. But on his 250th birthday, the former is also remembered in a city where he was only briefly resident. His home for 13 months, Dublin’s Kilmainham Gaol, will this evening host the unveiling of a sculpture in his honour, accompanied by songs and poems of 1798.
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Paul Feiler 1918-2013
Feiler was a German painter, born in 1918, in Frankfurt am Main. He came to England in 1933 and studied from 1936 to 1939 at the Slade School. Interned in Canada at the outbreak of the Second World War, Feiler returned to Britain in 1941 to begin his career as an artist. From 1941- 1975 he taught art at the Combined Colleges of Eastbourne and Radley and West England College of Art. He then lived and worked in Newlyn, Cornwall.
Feiler was always concerned with the architecture of space and the ambiguity of visual experience. From the early 1950s, when he became known for his gestural abstractions inspired by the structure of natural forms, to his later work expressing shrine-like portals, Feiler's paintings are sensitive constructions using space, tone and light, leading to simplification.
Originally associated with the post-war Modernists in St Ives, by 1953, Feiler moved permanently to Cornwall. Inspired by the Cornish light and landscape, his painting during this and the following decade became influenced by Abstract Expressionism. However, his abstraction has consistently drawn on external sources, using light, tone and space to render an environment in pictorial terms.
During the 1970s the character of Feiler's work changed dramatically. He began painting thinly glazed surfaces of mechanically organised geometric forms. Meditative paintings relating to recessive spaces and projecting forms developed from themes of 'the hidden' and 'the shrine'. Feiler used these spatial explorations of the horizontal and the vertical as a gateway for the viewer to make potent connections with the world as he made it.
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Jonas Woods
Street Date: April 19, 2019
Style: Indie / Folk Rock
Jonas Woods may not be a well-known name among Christian music fans, but he has been active in the industry for over 15 years. He founded and fronted Farewell June, which saw one national release and opened for Petra during their Farewell Tour (where I saw them perform). Today, he flies as a solo artist with the support of his wife and kids and is now promoting his latest album, Whispers, a collection of nine tunes digging into various areas of life and dabbling in different genres.
You could break the themes down into three categories: love for his children, love for his wife, and spiritual musings. That first topic opens the record with "The Light is Always On," a country-tinged rocker that feels worthy of Drew Holcomb. "Paper Kites" shares the age-old struggle of letting kids grow up but with the resolution to enjoy the time we have with them now while it lasts. This one feels like an Andrew Peterson cut and Woods' voice almost mimics Peterson's soft tones. Love songs for his wife also take their turn with "Totally Still" (which musically echoes The Civil Wars), showing the hard times of marriage, while "Because a Girl Loves a Boy" (add some horns and here's a Michael Buble song) reveals the more tender and playful side.
The final category is spiritual musings, which takes up the most space on this record. "Love is Patient" dwells on the value of God's love with a poppy folk sound reminiscent of Ben Rector. "Words" offers a more quiet reflection on trusting in God "even though I'm not brave." "Hold My Tongue" is a bluesy tune of application, examining the world's tendency to be all talk and no action and resolving to be slow to speak. The album closes out with the title track, which was curiously split into two parts. The main part is soft and meditative, while "Part B" introduces a full band. Since the tracks come back-to-back, it's kind of head-scratching why they are split as they flow together well and aren't jarring enough to warrant separation. But that is more of an organizational nitpick.
The references to other artists and genres should give you a sense of how variegated this record is. Woods does a good job mimicking the styles without sounding like he's ripping them off. If anything, they come off as homage. While the record fits together sonically, it can be a little jarring to go from a bluesy rocker to a swinging pop number. There are also times where the vocals get drowned in the mix, but these moments are not often enough to undermine the experience. Overall, this is an impressive outing for Woods and shows the range of topics and genres a Christian artist could cover making this an indie effort worth checking out.
Record Label: Old Bear Records
The Light Is Always On (3:52)
Love Is Patient (3:31)
Words (5:30)
Paper Kites (4:46)
Totally Still (3:45)
Hold My Tongue (3:24)
Because a Girl Loves a Boy (3:54)
Whispers, Pt. A (3:46)
Whispers, Pt. B (1:48)
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Live From The Artists Den: Corinne Bailey Rae
Airs Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV
Credit: Erika Goldring
Above: The second season of LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN features a performance by Corinne Bailey Rae (pictured on stage) recorded December 7, 2009, Hiro Ballroom, New York, NY.
LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN showcases stellar musical performances in extraordinary settings. Filmed in high definition, each episode features an intimate, invitation-only concert by cutting-edge musicians.
The innovative series breaks away from the confines of the conventional studio set by unveiling a new, unexpected venue in every episode. The musicians often play a role in picking the stage for these memorable events, which frequently inspire new renditions of songs and special set lists.
Corinne Bailey Rae's Song List
“Paris Nights/New York Mornings”
“Love’s On Its Way”
“I’d Do It All Again”
“Like a Star”
“The Blackest Lily”
“Diving for Hearts”
“I Would Like to Call It Beauty”
“Put Your Records On”
“Till It Happens to You”
In 2006 neo-soul songstress Corinne Bailey Rae became only the fourth female British act in history to have her first album enter the UK charts at No. 1 – her self-titled solo debut, which earned her Grammy nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist.
Corinne’s highly anticipated follow-up album, "The Sea," was released in January 2010 and debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Top 200.
Beneath New York City’s Maritime Hotel, under the paper lanterns and vaulted ceilings of the Japanese-themed Hiro Ballroom, British neo-soul star Corinne Bailey Rae gave her fans a special treat: an intimate performance showcasing her new hit album, "The Sea," seven weeks before its release.
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Preview: Live From The Artists Den: Corinne Bailey Rae
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The second season of LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN features a performance by Corinne Bailey Rae. Beneath New York City’s Maritime Hotel, under the paper lanterns and vaulted ceilings of the Japanese-themed Hiro Ballroom, British neo-soul star Corinne Bailey Rae gave her fans a special treat: an intimate performance showcasing her new hit album, "The Sea," seven weeks before its release.
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KPBS Requests Law Enforcement Records; Police Unions Sue To Prevent Disclosure
By Claire Trageser, Tarryn Mento
Photo by Susan Murphy
Above: A San Diego police car parked in downtown San Diego, Oct. 24, 2018.
Aired 2/11/19 on KPBS Midday Edition
GUEST: Claire Trageser, investigative reporter, KPBS News
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Transcript for audioclip 43465
KPBS is asking for records from law enforcement agencies in San Diego County about officers who committed sexual assault, lied when reporting a crime or in an investigation, or used force that caused a person serious harm or death.
The responses to those requests have varied. One department supplied documents and two claimed they didn’t have any records to provide. The remaining agencies asked for extensions, and now some say they don't need to provide the records until a legal matter is settled.
What KPBS asked for
KPBS requested the records after a new state law went into effect Jan. 1. Senate Bill 1421 gives the public the right to see personnel records of law enforcement officers who are under investigation for things like shootings, other use of force and sexual assault.
Several local police unions sued over the law because they say it's not clear the legislation requires records from before Jan. 1, 2019 be made public. This week, a judge put a temporary hold on releasing the records until after a March 1 hearing.
KPBS and several other local media organizations filed a motion Monday to intervene on that case, which would allow them to argue the records should be released.
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In a separate case, KPBS is also suing the San Diego County Sheriff's Department for information on how long it took to respond to complaints made about its employees.
What KPBS has received so far
Despite the hold on releasing records, KPBS has received some reports.
The Chula Vista Police Department released one report about an officer who resigned after he was found having consensual sex in a public place.
Both the Coronado and Carlsbad police departments responded that they had no records that fit KPBS’s request.
A spokeswoman for the Coronado Police Department further clarified it conducted no investigations of officers between 2014 and 2018, the dates of records KPBS requested.
A deputy city clerk for the city of Carlsbad also said it had no responsive records to KPBS's request. A spokeswoman for the city attorney's office would not answer questions about whether this meant the Carlsbad Police Department had not conducted any investigations. A message seeking clarification from the police department was not returned.
The El Cajon Police Department sent a letter after the judge's ruling to hold off on releasing records.
It said, in part, "Until the legal question of retroactive application of the statute is resolved and litigation is concluded, we have determined that the public interest in accessing these records is clearly outweighed by the public's interest in protecting privacy rights. We will not disclose any peace officer personnel records that pre-date January 1, 2019, at this time."
The San Diego Police Department also sent a message after the judge's ruling saying it would also "comply with the Stay Order until further instruction from the court."
Every other local law enforcement agency has sent letters requesting extensions on complying with the request. That includes the California Highway Patrol, San Diego Sheriff’s Department, and police departments in the cities of Escondido, La Mesa, National City, Oceanside and San Diego.
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High-speed rail propels Hong Kong hotels
New bullet trains between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland are set to boost domestic visitor numbers – and Hong Kong’s hotels could benefit as a result
Eight years in the making, Hong Kong’s high-speed rail officially opened last month. The $11 billion project created the longest high-speed network in the world, connecting 44 cities in China to Hong Kong.
It’s forecast to ferry 80,000 passengers a day — including business travelers and tourists — in and out of Hong Kong.
An immediate impact for travelers to Hong Kong — a steep drop in costs. A ticket on the bullet-train saves upwards of 70 percent compared to the price of an airplane ticket, while travel time remains relatively unchanged, according to an analysis by Bloomberg.
The sudden discount for passengers from central Chinese cities like Changsha, Wuhan and Zhengzhou could result in a heavy influx of tourists, along with millions of dollars in additional revenue, says David Marriott, Senior Vice President of Strategic Advisory for JLL’s Hotels and Hospitality Group.
“While the bullet train has made it easier and more accessible to enter Hong Kong, finding a place to stay at a decent rate might get tougher,” adds Marriott.
A growing market
Hotel rooms in Hong Kong were already in high demand. Overnight visitor arrivals from China to Hong Kong grew by over 6 percent in the first half of 2018 when compared to a year earlier, according to Hong Kong Tourism Board statistics.
Hong Kong has nearly 80,000 guest rooms. This may sound like a lot, but New York has 115,000, and is expected to build another 30,000 rooms by 2019.
And steadily-increasing visitor arrivals in Hong Kong have pushed hotel occupancy rates to all-time highs, with average daily rates following suit.
“Hong Kong’s hotels already have occupancy rates in the high-80s,” says Corey Hamabata, Senior Vice President of Investment Sales for JLL’s Hotels and Hospitality Group. “With the supply pipeline decreasing post 2019 together with several hotels also being proposed for conversion to offices in the next few years, hotels are only expected to get busier and more expensive.”
JLL predicts that Hong Kong’s revenue per available room (RevPAR) — a common term used to measure hotel performance — will grow by more than 12 percent this year, having already grown by a staggering 13 percent in the first half of the year, according to the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
Growth will initially be higher in the budget and mid-level hotels versus the luxury properties. “Hotel owners looking to capitalize on this growth should be focused on active revenue and channel management, and ensuring their properties are well-maintained,” suggests Hamabata.
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In my book, at least, Woody Guthrie has been klezmerized
By Rachel Sarah | February 3, 2006
Until recently, I had never been to a real live klezmer concert (Jewish weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs don’t really count, right?), although I grew up playing both the clarinet and saxophone. But I stuck to classical and jazz; no klezmer. And neither of my parents ever played an instrument, let alone listened to klezmer music. So it wasn’t part of my upbringing. I did live in the same neighborhood as the Klezmatics for years — the East Village, New York City — but I never wandered into one of their shows.
And I certainly never thought of the legendary folksinger and composer Woody Guthrie as a klezmer musician. When I hear his name, I may start humming his song “This Land is Your Land.” (Hey, that could almost be the theme song for Israel, right?) But I’ve never been a big Woody Guthrie follower. His name brings to mind images of chain smokers in the Dust Bowl — certainly not Judaism.
But was I in for a surprise!
I invite a very cute Israeli to see the Klezmatics perform “Holy Ground: The Jewish Songs of Woody Guthrie” at the Osher Marin Jewish Community Center.
“But Woody Guthrie wasn’t Jewish,” he says as we roll across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.
“No, but his mother-in-law was,” I say. “And you know how those Jewish mother-in-laws can be.”
Uh-oh. I’ve already insulted his mother. And all I was trying to do was show off the research I had done that afternoon. Apparently, Guthrie’s mother-in-law, Aliza Greenblatt, a Yiddish poet, made quite an impression on him when he married her daughter, Marjorie Mazia, a professional dancer.
No, Guthrie wasn’t Jewish at all. He simply married into a Jewish family and got involved.
My date and I find our seats in the JCC auditorium. It’s packed with more than 400 well-dressed guests. My date wonders what we could have done to get one of those little candlelit tables, but I’m just excited to be out for the evening, off the hook for bedtime with my daughter.
At the start of the show, Klezmatic founding singer Lorin Sklamberg fills in the audience with a bit of history. We learn that in 1942, Guthrie settled in Brooklyn with his new wife, and soon, thanks to his mother-in-law, he became involved with the Coney Island Jewish community. He wrote songs about Jewish history and spiritual life, Chanukah and the Holocaust.
After his death in 1967, Guthrie’s Jewish lyrics sat in archives, where they were lost for almost 30 years. It was his daughter, Nora Guthrie, who discovered them in 1998 and asked the Klezmatics to write new music for the lyrics. The songs had never been performed before the Klezmatics set them to music.
When the seven-member band launches into its first song, “Brooklyn Towne,” it’s a lively tune, just as I imagined could have been sung by some traveler wandering through a village.
Sklamberg belts out the lyrics: “I’m going down to Brooklyn Towne, bye, bye, bye,” as trumpeter/composer Frank London belts out harmonies from the other side of the stage. Even my date is clapping his hands.
As the night progresses, the set slows down, becoming more bluegrass and folksy, with soloist Susan McKeown singing “Mermaid’s Avenue.” The audience roars with laughter at Guthrie’s lyrics about Coney Island, “where the lox and bagel meet, where the challah meets the pickle.”
Although the audience is predominately 50 or older, the Klezmatics perform a number of Guthrie’s children’s songs. My daughter would love “I Want to Ride,” about riding the merry-go-round on Coney Island.
At the end of the night, I like what I’ve heard, although I’m not sure if it’s authentic klezmer. On the way home, my date says, “No, that wasn’t real klezmer at all.” (You know how firm and opinionated those Israelis can be!)
For those of you who wonder, as I did, what makes that klezmer sound, it’s the use of the fourth and fifth modes of the harmonic minor scale. But according to the Klezmatics, the only parameters they use in setting the songs to music is their knowledge of klezmer and the lyrics themselves.
So, in my book, Woody Guthrie has, in fact, been “klezmerized.”
Rachel Sarah
http://singlemomseeking.com
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Gonzalez and then-general manager Carl Peterson butted heads last fall as Gonzalez asked the Chiefs to send him to a contender before the trade deadline. Peterson said the offers weren’t good enough, and Gonzalez wasn’t sure the Chiefs tried hard enough.
Pioli, who became Chiefs general manager in January, said Gonzalez never came to him with a similar request.
“Tony and I never had conversations, nor did Todd (Haley) and Tony,” Pioli said. “Tony didn’t have any conversations with anyone in this organization about that.
“I really want to stay away from characterizing Tony’s thoughts or comments other than . . . we didn’t get the sense he wanted (a trade).’’
Gonzalez, though, didn’t exactly seem on board when he decided not to show up for last weekend’s minicamp at Arrowhead Stadium, prompting expectations that a trade might be in the works this week before the NFL draft.
“We don’t believe in the rebuilding term and all of that stuff. This is something we really feel is best for the short-term and long-term interests of the Chiefs,’’ Pioli said.
Gonzalez owns NFL career records for tight ends with 916 receptions, 10,940 receiving yards, 76 receiving touchdowns and 26 100-yard receiving games, totals that are the highest of any player in Kansas City history in all categories. He played in 188 regular-season games for the Chiefs, meaning only guard Will Shields (224), kicker Nick Lowery (212) and punter Jerrel Wilson (203) played in more games.
He also earned 10 Pro Bowl berths as a member of the Chiefs, the highest total of any tight end in NFL history. He became just the fifth player and the first tight end in league history to produce 11 consecutive seasons with 50 or more catches in 2008.
“On behalf of my family and the Chiefs, I want to thank Tony for his time in Kansas City,” Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said. “Over the last 12 seasons, Tony has been one of the finest players in Chiefs history, and he will always be remembered as a member of the Chiefs. His play on the field speaks for itself – he holds almost every major NFL record for tight ends, and he is arguably the best to ever play his position. We wish him the best in Atlanta.”
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Wichita restaurant abandoning its address of 43 years, will open in new spot on Tuesday
McConnell silent on Trump tweets — like virtually all congressional Republicans
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José Ignacio Martín-Artajo Saracho – b 1932, Madrid; d 14 April 2005, Gerona – Anarchist, diplomat, blasphemer, poet and man of letters
Stuart Christie
My first meeting with the dynamic and generous-spirited writer José Martín-Artajo (Pepe) was… in London in the early part of 1968. It was a year after he broke completely with his bourgeois past and walked out of his career as a Francoist diplomat, following the US-led colonels’ coup in Greece in April 1967. He had been first secretary at the Spanish Embassy in Athens. At the same time he separated from his German wife, Christa von Petersdorff, a psychoanalyst and translator of the works of Freud into French. Christa and Pepe met while she was researching her PhD on the comparative myth of ‘Don Juan’ in France, Italy and Spain. After the split she always said, with a smile, that she had ‘known Don Juan personally’.
After leaving Greece José Martín-Artajo moved to Coolhurst Road in London’s Crouch End (where I was living at the time) with his then partner, the ethnomusicologist and broadcaster Lucy Durán. Lucy, whom he had met in Athens, was the daughter of Republican civil war general Gustavo Durán Martínez.
The son of Alberto Martín-Artajo, right-wing Catholic, pro-monarchist and Franco’s Foreign Minister from 1945 until 1957, José Martín-Artajo came from ‘impeccable’ Francoist, Integrist Catholic stock (an uncle became a Jesuit), and was a rebel from early youth. In the early 1950s he was arrested by the Gestapo-trained Brigada Politico Social for anti-Francoist activities, but instead of going to jail his father had him ‘sectioned’ on grounds of mental illness, a common ploy among the well-placed Francoist elite with dissident children, a device they shared with their opposite numbers in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, including the US according to Kurt Vonnegut’s novel ‘God Bless You Mr Rosewater’, in which the young son of a wealthy bourgeois family wishes to become a firefighter – “Where’s the profit in THAT?”
In his London years (1967-76), José Martín-Artajo (Pepe) became closely involved with the work of the Anarchist Black Cross, the Centro Ibérico, and latterly, in Paris, through Octavio Alberola, with Pepe Martínez of the libertarian Spanish-language publishing house Ruedo Ibérico.
In 1976, having put him in touch with my old comrade and cell-mate, the recently released Luis Andrés Edo, secretary general of the CNT and editor of Solidaridad Obrera, José Martín-Artajo returned to Spain after 9 years of exile where he threw himself into the task of helping rebuild the CNT and the Spanish Libertarian Movement. According to Federica Montseny, Martín-Artajo ‘fell into the wrong hands’ in London, Paris and Barcelona (she was referring to among others Miguel García, Albert Meltzer and myself in London, Octavio Alberola in Paris, and Luis Andrés in Barcelona).
In December 1979, the director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam (IISG), Rudolf de Jong, refused to accept the credentials of José Martín-Artajo, Luis Andrés and Victor León as official representatives of the CNT, sent to negotiate the return of the union’s archives (the (‘Amsterdam Boxes’), which had been deposited there since the end of the Spanish Civil War. De Jong’s obduracy led to the three comrades occupying the IISG main hall and CNT lawyer Pep Castells being sent to join them with a letter confirming their authority from newly elected CNT secretary general José Bondía. Even so, de Jong still refused to authorise the archives’ release and it wasn’t until the eve of the Xmas holidays (22 December), following a serious shouting match (in German) between Martín-Artajo and the IISG director, that an agreement was reached. The archives were returned to the CNT in Spain the following year.
In 1980, the prestigious publishing house Ediciones Júcar published his novel, Tigre Jack La vuelta de Ulises, El pecado del espiritu: prosas atroces. Pepe also edited the military memoirs of Lucy’s father, Gustavo Durán, Una enseñanza de la guerra española: glorias y miserias de la improvisación de un ejército …
His other published works of fiction include Fiesta a Oscuras (Ediciones Era, Mexico 1975), a critical attack on the repressive Catholic and bourgeois society in which he grew up, and Historia de la misteriosa desaparición de Porfiria Santillana, fragona española en país superdesarrollado (Joaquín Mortiz, Mexico1970). There was also another novel based on his time as consul in Frankfurt.
Incidentally, it was also José Martín-Artajo who, entirely out of his own salary and savings, generously, selflessly (and quietly), funded and maintained Miguel García García’s famous hostelry and international anarchist social centre, the Bar La Fragua in Barcelona’s carrer Cadena.
In those early post-Francoist years, Artajo’s connections with the so-called ‘Apaches’ of the CNT and the international activists of the movement made him vulnerable to provocations, one of which was an unsuccessful attempt by Antonio Navarro, a police agent infiltrated into the FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation) to implicate him in an arms-smuggling operation.
The first time I returned to Spain, in 1981, with my 3-year-old daughter Branwen, Pepe was waiting for us with his diplomatic credential at the airport arrivals lounge – just in case the police decided to detain me. Fortunately they didn’t
In 1984 Spain’s first socialist government wanted him out of the way and sent him off as cultural attaché to their embassy in Caracas and later, in 1990, to Brasilia. It was a difficult decision for him to accept the posting, which he did only after lengthy discussions with close comrades, including Luis Andrés Edo and Octavio Alberola, who appreciated how useful he could be to the movement in such a position. However, once installed in the Caracas embassy he became an important conduit and helped at least 5 wanted comrades escape to safety in South America. They entered the country through Colombia, which at the time required only a ‘weekend-pass’, where José Martín-Artajo arranged for the pass to be changed to a visa, which allowed them to move on, with the help of comrades, and establish themselves in Brazil, Bolivia or Nicaragua.
José Martín-Artajo spent the later years of his life in Massanes, Gerona (with his second wife, Marisa Ares, and his son Josta, born in 1992) writing and translating Chinese literature and poetry into Spanish. He has left many unpublished manuscripts. He also has a daughter, Iris, by his first wife, Christa von Petersdorff.
Throughout this time he worked closely with Edo, who was with him when he died.
Stuart Christie (via facebook)
In KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 80, October 2014
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Still no suspects in Cuvier Street shooting
By Ashley Mackin-Solomon
Just over one week after the deadly shooting that claimed the life of 20-year-old Nina Silver (around 12:40 a.m. June 23 in the alley on the 7500 block of Cuvier Street), police are still reviewing local surveillance footage to find any details that could lead them to the assailants.
In the days following the shooting, police successfully sought out local recordings with the hopes of identifying the car in which the shooters pulled up, killed Silver and injured three males, and drove away. The incident occurred during the time a party was taking place at a nearby residence on the 7500 block of Draper Avenue (those injured were gathered in the alley). The other victims were a 23-year-old black male, and two 19-year-old black males, all of whom were reported in stable condition after being treated for gunshot wounds to the upper body at area hospitals.
“Although we have video, (there is) nothing to help the case at this time,” Police Lt. Anthony Dupree told La Jolla Light via e-mail Monday morning. “(Investigators) are still looking through video. We are still following leads, but nothing that I can release at this time. But we will continue the search until something is found.”
Police were seeking surveillance footage because witnesses were unable to provide a suspect description or any other information the car, other than it was light-colored sedan.
Stop the bleeding event set
In the wake of the shooting, a community CPR and stop-the-bleed training event was set up to empower the community. It is 3:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6 at the La Jolla Library, 7555 Draper Ave. Local community advocates, physicians and educators will teach how to respond to emergencies with hands-only chest compression CPR and learn how to stop a bleed, how to apply a tourniquet and more. The event is free and open to the public.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to call the Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
Ashley Mackin-Solomon
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Supplies low for shelters helping asylum seekers across the southwest
Volunteer shelters in the U.S. say they are getting hit with an expected surge of new migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. who need temporary housing.
Supplies low for shelters helping asylum seekers across the southwest Volunteer shelters in the U.S. say they are getting hit with an expected surge of new migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. who need temporary housing. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2018/12/04/southwest-migrant-shelters-supply-shortage/2208254002/
Russell Contreras, Associated Press Published 5:35 p.m. MT Dec. 4, 2018
Over 300 Immigrants Surrendered to El Paso Border Patrol Monday morning. El Paso Times
In this Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 photo, Guatemalan migrant Cirila Alejandra Calelpu, 20, sitting, rests at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary migrant shelter in Las Cruces, after she and her 3-year-old daughter were released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Volunteer shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border say they are preparing for an expected surged of new immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. who will need temporary housing as the holidays approach.(Photo: Russell Contreras/AP)
LAS CRUCES - An exhausted Alonzo Juan Jose sat still on a cot inside a shelter in southern New Mexico. For six days, the 24-year-old migrant from Huehuetenango, Guatemala, and his 5-month-old daughter, Allison Yajaira Juan Miguel, slept on a concrete floor while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention.
Now they were moments away from a good night’s rest following a nearly monthlong journey through Mexico, to an El Paso Port of Entry, to the refuge of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Cathedral in Las Cruces.
“I just want her to sleep,” Juan Jose said in Spanish as he rocked his daughter.
More migrants like the father and daughter duo are coming. Volunteer shelters in the U.S. say they are getting hit with an expected surge of new migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. who need temporary housing. Nonprofit groups and churches — especially along the U.S.-Mexico border — are racing to get donated clothes, diapers, cots and meals for Central American migrants as the holidays approach and resources begin to dwindle.
More: LCPS program collects clothes, gifts for children of migrant workers
The move comes as Trump administration in recent weeks has been releasing detained immigrants from Central America at a quicker pace than previously, putting a strain on shelters from San Diego to South Texas.
Shelters say ICE is no longer helping migrants with travel plans and is now releasing them from custody whether the migrants have places to stay or not.
In some case, volunteers are picking up migrants from train and bus stations after getting dropped off by immigration officials. Other times, shelters are getting surprised by busloads of migrants at their front doors.
Church leaders in the Phoenix say ICE has released about 5,000 migrants in the last two months to Latino churches in the area.
In this Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 photo, a migrant family from Central America waits outside the Annunciation House shelter in El Paso, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer drops them off. Volunteer shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border say they are preparing for an expected surge of new immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. who will need temporary housing as the holidays approach. (Photo: Russell Contreras/AP)
ICE officials have said the agency lacks the resources to house the growing number of migrant families crossing into ports of entries in California, Arizona and Texas, and they have begun releasing them to nonprofit shelters and churches in the area.
Sylvia Corona, one of the volunteer coordinator at Immaculate Heart of Mary, said the network of shelters in southern New Mexico and West Texas believes the demand will continue to grow in the coming weeks.
“I think we’re going to see hundreds of families needing places to stay,” Corona said. “We’re opening up two more shelters soon. We’re letting them stay in our own homes if we have to, but we’ll find something.”
More: A look at one Las Cruces church offering shelter to immigrants seeking asylum
In the meantime, Immaculate Heart of Mary and others have set up Amazon.com registries to facilitate donations like baby clothes, paper plates and coats. Annunciation House, an immigrant shelter in El Paso, is asking for packets of underwear and socks.
The shelters house the migrants until they are able to make other travel arrangements.
The call for donations has hit communities far from the border and has used the migrant caravan to highlight the growing need, although not all migrants are connected to the caravan that has garnered international attention.
Last week, for example, the Berkeley City Council in California voted to donate money to provide food, shelter and basic needs to caravan members detained at U.S. ports of entry or traveling to immigration hearings.
During a recent evening at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cirila Alejandra Calelpu, 20, of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, selected donated clothes for her and her daughter Lucia Tojen Calel, 3. The pair had just been released from an El Paso ICE detention center following a monthlong journey north. Like Juan Jose, she was fleeing gang violence.
“I’m going to Florida tomorrow to be with my sister,” Calelpu said while fighting off a cold. Children around her played with donated toys while other mothers combed through piles of free clothes.
More: How the immigrant influx and federal policy shift is straining Las Cruces churches
Juan Jose has headed to Birmingham, Alabama, to join his brother. “At least tonight, I get to take a shower,” Juan Jose said before closing his eyes.
His 5-month-old daughter then fell asleep in his arms as the pair lied on a cot. She began to snore. “Well,” he said. “Maybe I won’t.”
Associated Press journalist Russell Contreras is a member of the AP’s race and ethnicity team. Follow Contreras on Twitter at http://twitter.com/russcontreras.
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Details emerge in deadly shooting
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NM State Senator arrested on suspicion of DWI
Quick response may have saved American Linen
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Crime and Security Act 2010
Prison security
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Crime and Security Act 2010, Section 45.
45Offences relating to electronic communications devices in prisonE+W
This section has no associated Explanatory Notes
In the Prison Act 1952, in section 40D (other offences relating to prison security)—
(a)in subsection (1)(b), for “or any sound” there is substituted “ , sound or information ”;
(b)in subsection (3), paragraph (b) and the preceding “or” are repealed;
(c)after subsection (3) there is inserted—
“(3A)A person who, without authorisation, is in possession of any of the items specified in subsection (3B) inside a prison is guilty of an offence.
(3B)The items referred to in subsection (3A) are—
(a)a device capable of transmitting or receiving images, sounds or information by electronic communications (including a mobile telephone);
(b)a component part of such a device;
(c)an article designed or adapted for use with such a device (including any disk, film or other separate article on which images, sounds or information may be recorded).”
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Judge rejects O.J. Simpson's bid for new trial
KEN RITTER
LAS VEGAS - A judge in Las Vegas on Tuesday rejected O.J. Simpson's bid for a new trial, dashing the former football star's bid for freedom based on the claim that his original lawyer botched his armed robbery and kidnapping trial in Las Vegas more than five years ago.
"All grounds in the petition lack merit and, consequently, are denied," Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell said.
Simpson's lawyer Patricia Palm said she wanted to speak to Simpson before commenting on the decision.
Simpson could appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court. If he loses at that level, the 66-year-old Simpson could go to federal courts to argue his constitutional right to effective counsel was violated.
The 101-page ruling came after a Clark County District Court jury found Simpson guilty in 2008 of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges in what he maintained was an attempt to retrieve memorabilia and personal items from two sports collectibles dealers in a casino hotel room.
It followed a small victory for Simpson in July, when Nevada parole commissioners granted parole on five concurrent sentences. The parole ruling didn't free Simpson, because he still faces at least four more years for other convictions in the case.
Simpson was handcuffed and jailed following his conviction on Oct. 3, 2008, and sentenced in December 2008 to nine to 33 years in Nevada state prison.
His conviction in Las Vegas came 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of murder in Los Angeles in the 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, and almost seven years after a jury in Miami acquitted him of all charges in a Florida road rage case.
Simpson's legal defense in Las Vegas was headed at trial by the same Miami-based attorney, Yale Galanter, who represented him in the 2001 road rage case. Attorney Gabriel Grasso served with Galanter as co-counsel in Simpson's Las Vegas case.
Simpson's attorneys in his plea for freedom are Palm, Ozzie Fumo and Tom Pitaro.
Bell's ruling came on their claim that Simpson received inadequate legal representation during his trial and unsuccessful appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court. That appeal was handled by Galanter after Grasso withdrew.
The judge considered a 94-page petition for a new trial and heard five days of testimony in May from 15 witnesses including Simpson, Galanter, Grasso and other lawyers involved in the trial.
Simpson's new legal team later said they believed they presented overwhelming evidence that Galanter knew in advance of Simpson's plan, had conflicted interests that shaped the way he handled Simpson's case, and that as a result Simpson didn't get a fair trial.
Palm, Fumo and Pitaro sought to show that Galanter advised Simpson it was OK to take back his items and should have stepped aside so he could be called as a witness for Simpson's defense.
Instead, they said, Galanter advised Simpson not to testify, failed to hire experts and investigators to help his case while pocketing much of the nearly $700,000 they say he was paid, and reached a pretrial agreement with prosecutors not to enter evidence into the trial record of phone calls that raised questions about whether he had knowledge of the heist.
Finally, Simpson's legal team said that by remaining on the case through the appeal, Galanter nearly precluded Simpson from ever arguing he had ineffective counsel.
Simpson spent an entire day recounting how he now believes Galanter misled him, including telling him it was OK to retrieve family photos and memorabilia he thought had been stolen from him after his acquittal in Los Angeles in 1995.
A shackled Simpson was noticeably grayer and heavier in May than when he was last seen in public. His testimony was his first in the case.
Simpson said he and Galanter talked over dinner in Las Vegas the night before the ill-fated September 2007 hotel room confrontation, and that Galanter advised him that it was his legal right to retrieve personal items as long as no force was used and no one trespassed.
"It was my stuff," Simpson said. "I followed what I thought was the law. My lawyer told me I couldn't break into a guy's room. I didn't break into anybody's room. I didn't try to muscle the guys. The guys had my stuff, even though they claimed they didn't steal it."
During his parole hearing in July, Simpson said he was sorry for his actions and said he had made amends with the two memorabilia dealers who were victimized in the heist.
"I just wish I never went to that room," Simpson said.
Galanter dramatically contradicted Simpson's account two days later. He took the stand and told the judge that he was surprised when Simpson told him that he and several other men were planning a "sting" the next morning to take back mementos.
The attorney denied giving Simpson the go-ahead to try to retrieve the items, which included photos and signed footballs that Simpson believed had been stolen from him.
"I said, 'O.J., you've got to call the police,'" Galanter testified.
Galanter disputed Simpson's claim that he was never informed about plea bargain discussions with prosecutors that could have resulted in a prison sentence of just a few years.
Galanter also testified that Simpson later confided to him that he knew some of the five men with him the night of the robbery had guns.
Simpson maintains to this day that he never asked anyone to bring guns or saw weapons in the cramped hotel room with nine men yelling profanities at each other and scooping up items arrayed on a king-sized bed.
"Mr. Simpson never told me he was going to go to the Palace (Station) hotel with a bunch of thugs, kidnap people and take property by force," Galanter said at one point. "To insinuate I, as his lawyer, would have blessed it is insane."
Pitaro subjected Galanter to a withering cross-examination aimed at showing the judge that Galanter's word couldn't be trusted. The new Simpson lawyer argued that Galanter was more interested in keeping himself out of the case than in representing his client.
"What Mr. Galanter has done is, this man has received over a half-million dollars and has put his interest, his financial interest, above the interest of his client," Pitaro said.
Galanter received more than $500,000 from Simpson for trial representation and another $125,000 to handle his appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court, according to testimony from other lawyers involved in the case.
But they said Galanter failed to hire an investigator or have experts examine crucial evidence including audio tapes that jurors later said convinced them of Simpson's guilt.
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Home Perspectives Return to Clinton approach heralds disaster
Return to Clinton approach heralds disaster
The most abused word of recent times is “ceasefire”. Hoping to reap international sympathy, several weeks ago Israel declared a unilateral “ceasefire” in its war against the Palestinian people. In reality, Israeli occupation forces continued to operate with all their customary brutality and violence, avoiding only the most dramatic measures, such as the use of attack helicopters and F-16 fighter-bombers.
What Israel discovered is that if it desists from these telegenic measures, it can continue with all its usual tactics of shooting dead unarmed civilians, assassinating activists with car bombs, demolishing houses as it has done without pause in occupied Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem, confiscating land and destroying tens of thousands of trees while building settlements apace.
On June 9, three Palestinian women were killed by Israeli shelling as they slept in their home in Gaza. Israel’s army later admitted that it used “Flechette” shells against them, a horrific and illegal weapon which spreads hundreds of razor-sharp nails over a wide area to kill and maim as many people as possible. Meanwhile, settlers rampage through the occupied territories, destroying Palestinian houses and crops and attacking civilians.
Israel guaranteed itself the space to behave in this way by tightening to an unprecedented degree its internal and external siege of the occupied territories, to such an extent that poverty has skyrocketed, normal life is rendered impossible and it is now routine for sick Palestinians to die because they are denied permission to pass through checkpoints, according to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
Following the horrendous bomb attack which killed twenty young Israelis in Tel Aviv two weeks ago, Israel made a great show of “restraint” even though its measures against Palestinians on the ground were as harsh as ever. But Israeli violence against Palestinians has become so routinised that most of the ongoing Israeli repression falls beneath the radar of the US media who almost universally continue to report that Israel has indeed imposed a “ceasefire” while Israel continues to be subject to “Palestinian attacks”. Under severe international pressure following the Tel Aviv bomb, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat also called for a “ceasefire”, an act which, while demanded by the Israelis and Americans, runs counter to popular feeling that a “ceasefire” is something which can only be called between two warring armies and not between an occupied population fighting for its freedom, on the one hand, and a powerful occupying army, on the other.
But like every word related to the “peace process”, the word “ceasefire” has been debased, its meaning altered beyond normal recognition. According to the Israelis, American government and the US media, “violence” is almost uniquely a Palestinian phenomenon. Israelis only “respond” and “retaliate”, the aggressive and systematically violent nature of the Israeli occupation itself having been deliberately obscured. Therefore, a “ceasefire” is something that imposes a burden almost entirely on the Palestinians. What it means in effect is that Palestinians are being told to cease their resistance, accept military occupation in full and return to the situation where Israel is allowed to do whatever it pleases on the ground. The Palestinians, meanwhile, are to give up all rights to respond on the ground and are to limit themselves to futile complaining at what is misleadingly called the “negotiating table”.
It is within this framework that CIA Director George Tenet came to the region with an American plan to cement the “ceasefire” and explicitly to restore the situation on the ground which existed prior to Sept. 28 – one which was rightly wholly unacceptable to Palestinians. This initiative sidestepped and undercut the already minimally acceptable suggestions of the Mitchell report which Palestinians embraced, albeit with reservations, since at least that report recognised the need for the cessation of all settlement activity as a condition for progress.
The Tenet plan, as far as it has been revealed, says nothing about settlements and calls only for Palestinians to cease all resistance (“violence”) and for the Palestinian National Authority to arrest those whom Israel deems to be “militants” or “terrorists”. What few obligations this plan imposes on Israel only follow after Israel deems the Palestinians to have carried out their part to its satisfaction. The absurdity of this plan and the impossibility of Palestinians complying with it successfully is embodied in a so-called six week “cooling off” period which, according to one of Sharon’s advisors, will be restarted every time any Palestinian anywhere so much as throws a rock at occupation troops.
Tenet’s initiative marks the final return of the Bush administration to the failed approach of the Clinton administration. The Bush administration has collaborated with Israel to gut the Mitchell report of the few points which could have served as a common basis for climbing out of the crisis and to adopt an approach which views the conflict entirely on Israeli terms. It treats the Intifada not as the symptom of a long-standing political conflict requiring a just resolution, but merely as a “security problem” requiring management primarily through control and repression of the Palestinians.
For now this must put to rest any hope that the United States can or will break out of its enthrallment to Israel and develop a more just and balanced policy, and must kill the illusion that the Bush administration is any more favourable to Palestinian rights and interests than Clinton.
But the message of the Intifada, which the Americans have studiously ignored, is that the Palestinians will not accept a return to occupation as usual. For seven years of the Oslo accords the Palestinians accepted innumerable agreements and Byzantine formulas, all “cemented” with worthless American assurances. What it got them was more settlements, more human rights abuses, more checkpoints and in the end, the prospect of living forever in a state of semi-autonomy and apartheid, surrounded by “Greater Israel”, while Palestinian refugees would have to give up all their fundamental rights.
The Palestinians have taken a decision to resist the occupation until they achieve freedom and independence once and for all. Neither Tenet nor anyone else is likely to be able to lead them back onto the road which goes from Oslo to prison.
Mr. Ali Abunimah contributed this article to The Jordan Times.
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• Medications: About 25 percent of ED cases are caused by drugs. Many medications, including common medicines prescribed for diabetes and its complications, can cause ED. The most common offenders are blood pressure drugs, antihistamines, antidepressants, tranquilizers, appetite suppressants, and cimetidine (an ulcer drug). In addition, over-the-counter medications, including certain eye drops and nose drops, have been associated with ED. That does not mean you should stop taking these medications! Rather, you should discuss them with your doctor to determine whether a different dosage, an alternate medicine, or additional treatments will resolve the ED.
Using a tiny needle and syringe, the man injects a small amount of medicine into the side of his penis. The medicine relaxes the blood vessels, allowing blood to flow into the penis. This treatment has been widely used and accepted since the early 1980s. The three most common medicines are prostaglandin E1 (alprostadil), papaverine (Papacon®), and phentolamine (Regitine®).
Induction of erection occurs after stimulation of the cavernous and pelvic nerve plexus. Conversely, stimulation of the sympathetic trunk leads to detumescence. The reflex erectile response requires that the sacral reflex arc remain intact. Tactile and sensory signals are received by the somatic sensory pathways and integrate with parasympathetic nuclei within the sacral spinal cord (S2-4) leading to induction of erection via cholinergic signaling. These reflexogenic erections remain intact with upper motor neuron injuries. Psychogenic erections do not require that the sacral reflex arc remain intact. In a cat models, spinal cord removal below L4/L5 led to absence of a reflexogenic erection but stimulation of the medial preoptic area (MPOA) or placement near a female cat in heat led to erection (5,6). Psychogenic erections occur via induction of central pathways traveling from the brain through the sympathetic chain. Non-penile sensory pathways induced by sight, sound, touch and smell travel through the MPOA to the erection centers within the cord T11-L2, and S2-S4 to induce erections (7). When a sacral lower motor neuron injury is present in men, below T12 these types of erections are more likely to occur (8). Spinal cord lesions above T9 are not associated with psychogenic erections (9). Rigidity of erections is less with psychogenic erections because the thoracolumbar sympathetic outflow may contain a decreased concentration of neurons compared to the parasympathetic outflow from the sacral spinal cord.
Due to the risk of hypotension, caution should be used in patients using alpha blockers for prostate hyperplasia and patients using other antihypertensive medications and alpha blockers, which should not be co-administered with PDE5 inhibitors. In patients who take 50 mg of sildenafil or more and use alpha blockers, sildenafil dosing should be avoided for at least 4 hours after the dose of the alpha blocker. In patients who take 25 mg of sildenafil, use of any alpha blockers is considered safe.
PDE5 inhibitors, the primary second-line therapy, have been the mainstay of ED treatment since the release of sildenafil (Viagra) in 1998, with the subsequent development of many others, and still more in the development stage. These medications do improve erectile quality for the majority of men, and they work by enhancing blood flow in the corpora cavernosa. These medications are generally used on demand and need to be taken about an hour before sexual intimacy. Tadalafil (Cialis) is longer acting and does come in a daily preparation potentially eliminating the ‘on-demand’ need. The daily dosing of tadalafil, 2.5–5 mg\day, has also been approved by the FDA for treatment of symptoms of BPH.41 PDE5 inhibitors are contraindicated in men taking nitrates, but otherwise PDE5 inhibitors are very safe and effective. When PDE5 inhibitors are coadministered with nitrates, pronounced systemic vasodilation and severe hypotension are possible. Many patients with ED are elderly and have the same risk factors as patients with CAD, so these drug combinations are commonly considered or encountered in clinical practice.42
Dr Kenny du Toit is a urologist practicing in Rondebosch, Cape Town. He is also consultant at Tygerberg hospital, where he is a senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University. He is a member of the South African Urological Association, Colleges of Medicine South Africa and Société Internationale d’Urologie. Board registered with both the HPCSA (Health professions council of South Africa) and GMC (General medical council UK). He has a keen interest in oncology, kidney stones and erectile dysfunction.http://www.dutoiturology.co.za
There are hundreds of medications that have the side effect of ED and/or decreased libido. Examples of drugs implicated as a cause of ED include hydrochlorothiazides and beta-blocking agents. Medications used to treat depression, particularly the SSRIs such as citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Lexapro), fluoxetine (Prozac, Prozac Weekly, Sarafem), fluvoxamine (Luvox, Luvox CR), paroxetine (Paxil, Paxil CR, Pexeva) and sertraline (Zoloft), may also contribute to ED.9 Bupropion (Wellbutrin) which has a predominant effect on blocking the reuptake of dopamine is an antidepressant with lower incidence of ED.10 The side effects of 5ARIs occurring in fewer than 5% of patients can include gynaecomastia, ED, loss of libido and ejaculatory dysfunction.11
Alprostadil is injected into the side of penis with a very fine needle. It's of great value to have the first shot in the doctor's office before doing this on your own. Self-injection lessons should be given in your doctor's office by an experienced professional. The success rate for getting an erection firm enough to have sex is as high as 85% with this treatment. Many men who do not respond to oral PDE5 inhibitors can be ‘rescued' with ICI.
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DDA Details to be Published on the Website of the Authority
The Ministry of HUPA has prepared DRAFT rules for Real Estate Regulation and Development Act 2016 for UTs without legislature (Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep). Public comments are sought on the same by maximum 08th July, 2016.
Details to be published on the website.-
(1) For the purpose of clause (b) of section 34, the regulatory authority shall ensure that the following information shall be made available on its website in respect of each project registered:
(a) Details of the promoter including the following:
(i) Developer or Group Profile:
(A) a brief detail of his enterprise including its name, registered address, type of enterprise (proprietorship, limited liability partnership, society, partnership, company, competent authority) and the particulars of registration and in case of a newly incorporated or registered entity, brief details of the of the parent entity including its name, registered address, type of enterprise (proprietorship, societies, limited liability partnership, partnership, companies, competent authority);
(B) background of promoter- educational qualification, work experience and in case of a newly incorporated or registered entity work experience of the parent entity.
(ii) Track record of the promoter:
(A) number of years of experience of the promoter or parent entity in real estate construction in the state/union territory;
(B) number of years of experience of the promoter or parent entity in real estate construction in other states or union territories;
(C) number of completed projects and area constructed till date;
(D) number of ongoing projects and proposed area to be constructed;
(E) details and profile of ongoing and completed projects for the last 5 years as provided under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 4.
(iii) Litigations: Details of past or ongoing litigations in relation to the real estate project.
(iv) Website:
(A) web link to the developer or group website;
(B) web link to the project website.
(b) Details of the real estate project including the following:
(i) Compliance and registration:
(A) authenticated copy of the approvals and commencement certificate from the competent authority as provided under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 4;
(B) the sanctioned plan, layout plan and specifications of the project or the phase thereof, and the whole project as sanctioned by the competent authority as provided under clause (d) of sub-section (2) of section 4;
(C) details of the registration granted by the Authority.
(ii) Apartment and garage related details:
(A) Details of the number, type and carpet area of apartments for sale in the project as provided under clause (h) of sub-section (2) of section 4;
(B) Details of the number and areas of garage for sale in the project as provided under clause (i) of sub-section (2) of section 4;
(C) Details of the number of open parking areas available in the real estate project.
(iii) Registered Agents: Names and addresses of real estate agents as provided under clause (j) of sub-section (2) of section 4.
(iv) Consultants: Details, including name and addresses, of contractors, architect and structural engineers and other persons concerned with the development of the real estate project as provided under clause (k) of sub-section (2) of section 4, such as:-
(A) Name and address of the firm
(B) Names of promoters
(C) Year of establishment
(D) Names and profile of key projects completed
(v) Location: the location details of the project, with clear demarcation of land dedicated for the project along with its boundaries including the latitude and longitude of the end points of the project as provided under clause (f) of sub-section (2) of section 4.
(vi) Development Plan:
(A) The plan of development works to be executed in the proposed project and the proposed facilities to be provided thereof including fire fighting facilities, drinking water facilities, emergency evacuation services, use of renewable energy etc. as provided under clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section 4;
(B) Amenities: a detailed note explaining the salient features of the proposed project including access to the project, design for electric supply including street lighting, water supply arrangements and site for disposal and treatment of storm and sullage water, any other facilities and amenities or public health services proposed to be provided in the project;
(C) Gantt Charts and Project schedule: the plan of development works to be executed in the project and the details of the proposed facilities to be provided thereof.
(c) Financials of the promoter:
(i) authenticated copy of the PAN card of the promoter
(ii) audited balance sheet of the promoter for the preceding financial year and income tax returns of the promoter for three preceding financial years and in case of a newly incorporated or registered entity annual returns of the last 3 financial years of the parent entity.
(d) The promoter shall upload the following updates on the webpage for the project, within seven days from the expiry of each quarter:
(i) List of number and types of apartments or plots, as the case may be booked;
(ii) List of number of garages booked;
(iii) Status of the project:
(A) Status of construction of each building with photographs;
(B) Status of construction of each floor with photographs;
(C) Status of construction of internal infrastructure and common areas with photographs.
(iv) Status of approvals:
(A) Approval received;
(B) Approvals applied and expected date of receipt;
(C) Approvals to be applied and date planned for application;
(D) Modifications, amendment or revisions, if any, issued by the competent authority with regard to any license, permit or approval for the project.
(e) Downloads:
(i) Approvals:
(A) No Objection certificates
Consent to Establish and Operate;
Environmental Clearance;
Fire NOC;
Permission from Water and Sewerage department;
Height clearance from Airport Authority of India;
Such other approvals as may be required and obtained for the project.
(B) Authenticated copy of the license or land use permission, building sanction plan and the commencement certificate from the competent authority obtained in accordance with the laws applicable for the project, and where the project is proposed to be developed in phases, an authenticated copy of the license or land use permission, building sanction plan and the commencement certificate for each of such phases;
(C) Authenticated copy of the site plan or site map showing the location of the project land along with names of revenue estates, survey numbers, cadastral numbers, khasra numbers and area of each parcels of the project land;
(D) Authenticated copy of the layout plan of the project or the phase thereof, and also the layout plan of the whole project as sanctioned by the competent authority;
(E) Floor plans for each tower and block including clubhouse, amenities and common areas;
(F) Any other permission, approval, or licence that may be required under applicable law;
(G) Authenticated copy of occupancy certificate and completion certificate including its application.
(ii) Legal Documents:
(A) Details including the proforma of the application form, allotment letter, agreement for sale and the conveyance deed;
(B) Authenticated copy of the legal title deed reflecting the title of the promoter to the land on which development is proposed to be developed along with legally valid documents with authentication of such title, if such land is owned by another person;
(C) Land Title Search Report from an advocate having experience of at least ten years in land related matters;
(D) Details of encumbrances on the land on which development is proposed including any rights, title, interest or name of any party in or over such land along with details or no encumbrance certificate from an advocate having experience of at-least ten years in land related matters;
(E) where the promoter is not the owner of the land on which development is proposed details of the consent of the owner of the land along with a copy of the collaboration agreement, development agreement, joint development agreement or any other agreement, as the case may be, entered into between the promoter and such owner and copies of title and other documents reflecting the title of such owner on the land proposed to be developed;
(F) Sanction letters:
From banks for construction finance;
From banks for home loan tie-ups.
(f) Contact details: Contact address, contact numbers and email-ids of the promoter and other officials handling the project.
(g) Such other documents or information as may be specified by the Act or the rules and regulations made thereunder.
(2) For the purpose of clause (c) of section 34, the regulatory authority shall maintain a database and ensure that the information specified therein shall be made available on its website in respect of each project revoked or penalised, as the case may be.
(3) For the purpose of clause (d) of section 34, the regulatory authority shall ensure that the following information shall be made available on its website in respect of each real estate agent registered with it or whose application for registration has been rejected or revoked:
(a) For real estate agents registered with the Authority:
(i) registration number and the period of validity of the registration of the real estate agent with the regulatory authority;
(ii) brief details of his enterprise including its name, registered address, type of enterprise (proprietorship, societies, partnership, companies etc.);
(iii) particulars of registration including the bye-laws, memorandum of association, articles of association etc. as the case may be;
(iv) photograph of the real estate agent if it is and individual and the photograph of the partners, directors etc. in case of other persons;
(v) authenticated copy of the PAN card;
(vi) income tax returns filed under the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961 for three financial years preceding the application or in case the applicant was exempted from filing returns under the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961 for any of the three year preceding the application, a declaration to such effect;
(vii) authenticated copy of the address proof of the place of business and the contact address, contact numbers and email-ids of the real estate agent and other officials responsible.
(b) In case of applicants whose application for registration as a real estate agent have been rejected or real estate agents whose registration has been revoked by the regulatory authority:
(iii) photograph of the real estate agent if it is and individual and the photograph of the partners, directors etc. in case of other persons.
(c) Such other documents or information as may be specified by the Act or the rules and regulations made thereunder.
(4) The Authority shall maintain a back-up, in digital form, of the contents of its website in terms of this rule, and ensure that such back-up is updated on the last day of each month.
For complete Draft Copy of this RERA documents, Please download here.
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MHTF Projects ›Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health Series ›
Maternal and Women’s Health, Two Years In: Measuring Progress Towards Meeting the SDGs
On 14 July 2017, the Wilson Center Maternal Health Initiative convened this dialogue, in partnership with the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
“The aspirations of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs are really high, and the data that will enable that have a long way to go,” said Rachel Snow from the United Nations Population Fund at a Wilson Center event on July 14, 2017.
The discussion focused on the progress countries are making towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on maternal health, which call for reducing the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to below 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030, with no single country having an MMR of more than 140. The SDGs also include set goals for reducing under-five and neonatal mortality, births unattended by skilled health personnel, unsatisfied family planning needs, and adolescent and at-risk pregnancies.
One of the ways to achieve these goals, said Snow, is by collecting comprehensive and disaggregated data on maternal health in every country that has committed itself to the SDGs. But how can countries collect the most reliable and indicative data, and what are the gaps that need to be filled? Doris Chou of the World Health Organization explained that countries are not all on the same page when it comes to maternal health measurement; some country databases have not been updated since the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ended in 2015.
We must engage the hundreds of players in the field to map the current situation
To move into the next era of sustainability and health, Chou said we must engage the hundreds of players in the field to map the current situation. Unfortunately, there are crucial gaps—especially in rural, vulnerable, and conflict-ridden areas—that leaves much of the territory uncharted.
Gaps In Maternal Health Measurement
The 2030 Agenda seeks to address the world’s longstanding health and development challenges through the lens of sustainability. “Sometimes it felt like people wanted to focus on the new things,” Chou said, “but we have to remember there are holdovers from the past that maybe were not always perfectly done before.”
While the SDGs are exciting and promising, Chou suggested it might be useful to conduct retrospective analysis and refine the work that has already been done in monitoring and evaluation. One area of refinement rests in the nooks and crannies of maternal health terminology. “What do we mean by maternal death?” Chou asked. “There is a definition, but the interpretation of that definition, we found in the MDG monitoring, varied widely.”
“We are supposed to be locating the people who are the furthest behind”
For example, who is counted when recording whether there were skilled attendants at each birth, one of the most crucial indicators of maternal health? Chou asked, “Is it the person who is there? Is it the environment that they are working in? And, even if you have the environment, does that person feel empowered to do what they have to do?”
Increased rates of migration also pose a challenge. “If you are a taxi driver but you were trained as a physician in another country, and then come [to the new country], do you get counted as a taxi driver or do you get counted as a physician? Depends who is doing the reporting,” Chou said. Ill-defined answers to these crucial questions lead to misinterpretation and inaccurate representations of the situation.
Snow has found that one of the biggest challenges in collecting data is the lack of disaggregated data. “We are supposed to be locating the people who are the furthest behind,” said Snow, “The preamble [of the SDGs] is that where relevant, we should be able to take every indicator and tell the story…how does this maternal mortality outcome vary by income…age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability status, geographic location, or any other relevant location.” According to the 2030 Agenda, countries should have the capacity to collect this data by 2020.
But one of the biggest challenges with collecting disaggregated data is comparability. To yield comparable statistics, Snow said, “UN agencies do model-based estimates for a lot of important health indicators…because it is so incredibly difficult to measure something that, as terrible as it is, remains a relatively rare event in a country.” Model-based estimates, however, typically cannot be disaggregated, making countries’ statistics crucially important. The balance between the two is often hard to establish.
The inaccessibility of some of the most under-resourced groups, such as adolescent girls (ages 10-14), migrants living in urban areas, and indigenous groups, presents another obstacle. Chou urged data collectors to pause and think: “Can we make sure that everybody who needs to be at the table is at the table to think this through? For instance…when we talk about measuring essential adolescent services, what is essential? ‘Essential’ to you and me might be very different than ‘essential’ to the adolescent that we are trying to reach.”
Improving the Metrics: Quality and Quantity
The importance of quantitative data should not be underestimated. Accurate and acceptable data measurement is a priority for pinpointing areas and groups that need the most support and for implementing the most successful evidence-based interventions.
“How do you measure the warmth of a relationship that the provider had with their client?”
We also need complementary qualitative data, as understanding the priorities of women and mothers is key to improving their health. But collecting qualitative data on a large scale is increasingly difficult. “How do you measure the warmth of a relationship that the provider had with their client? So we have to come up with something that is a proxy,” Chou explained.
According to Snow, asking questions such as, “did you get counseling about potential side effects [of family planning methods]? And did you get a choice of methods when you came in and got what you got?” could help make inherently subjective experiences more objective and quantifiable.
“We have to be more strategic and clever in terms of what questions we ask,” said Chou. “[It’s] not about only measuring one dimension of a person’s health, it is about how we can make sense of it all.”
“Everyone, everywhere, has something to do,” said Chou, “we all have something to do, and every country has something to do.”
Written by Yuval Cohen, edited by Sarah Barnes and Meaghan Parker.
See a video of the event>>
See event resources and documents>>
Roger-Mark De Souza
Global Fellow and Advisor
Former Director of Population, Environmental Security, and Resilience
Doris Chou
Rachel Snow
Chief, Population and Development Branch, United Nations Population Fund
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Former kicker Brendan Gibbons permanently separated from University for sexual misconduct
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Former Michigan kicker Brendan Gibbons has been permanently separated from the University for violating the institution's sexual misconduct policy, according to documents reviewed by The Michigan Daily.
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By Matt Slovin, Daily Sports Writer
and Adam Rubenfire, Daily Staff Reporter
Brendan Gibbons, the Michigan football team’s starting kicker for the past three seasons, was permanently separated from the University of Michigan last month for violating the University’s Student Sexual Misconduct Policy, according to documents reviewed by The Michigan Daily.
“You will be permanently separated from the University of Michigan effective December 20, 2013,” reads a Dec. 19, 2013 letter addressed to Gibbons at his Florida residence from the University’s Office of Student Conflict Resolution, which facilitates disciplinary proceedings against students. The Michigan Daily did not obtain these documents from the University.
The permanent separation of Gibbons, who was a graduate student in the School of Social Work after graduating with a general studies degree, stems from an incident that was reported to have occurred on Nov. 22, 2009, according to documents. This corresponds with previous media reports that a sexual assault involving a Michigan football player occurred in the early morning hours of that day. Gibbons was a freshman and a member of the football team at the time that the conduct was alleged to have occurred.
In the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities as well as the Student Sexual Misconduct Policy, the University uses the phrase “permanent separation” to refer to the expulsion of a student. The letter to Gibbons, signed by Stacy Vander Velde, associate director of OSCR, stated that he would be prohibited from taking any further courses at the University and that his student privileges would be revoked.
An additional OSCR document signed by Vander Velde and dated Nov. 20, 2013, stated that it was determined by the University that a preponderance of evidence supports “a finding that the Respondent engaged in unwanted or unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, committed without valid consent, and that conduct was so severe as to create a hostile, offensive, or abusive environment.” The Daily has been told that the respondent referred to in this letter is Gibbons. Complainants in this case are not identified in the documents reviewed by the Daily.
Dave Ablauf, an associate athletic director and spokesman for the Athletic Department, declined to comment, noting that it was the first time it had been suggested to him that Gibbons was permanently separated.
“We can’t comment on anything that involves private student matters in terms of student academic standings or University standing,” Ablauf said.
University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said he could not comment on Gibbons' academic record because of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
Gibbons could not be immediately reached for comment.
Permanent separation is a very rare sanction in OSCR proceedings. In the latest OSCR data from the 2011-2012 academic year, there were zero permanent separations. The Statement of Students Rights and Responsibilities states that “some behavior is so harmful to the University community or so deleterious to the educational process” that it may result in expulsion, among other possible sanctions.
The Daily is not aware of any criminal charges pending against Gibbons. OSCR operates independently of the criminal justice system.
Investigators in the University’s Office of Institutional Equity, which reviews internal complaints of sexual assault, work with a lower standard of evidence than that of criminal prosecutors, who must prove that a defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. OIE may presume that a respondent engaged in alleged conduct if there is a “preponderance of evidence” against the individual. This standard states that a respondent is responsible if there is enough evidence to suggest a complaint is more likely true than not.
If OIE investigators find a respondent to be responsible for alleged conduct, OSCR officials determine what sanctions, if any, will be leveled against the respondent. According to Vander Velde’s letter to him, Gibbons met with OSCR officials on Dec. 4, 2013, to discuss OIE’s findings.
It’s unclear why sanctions were not decided in this matter until recently. Revised University policies regarding sexual misconduct may have forced officials to internally review or re-review the allegations. The updated policies, which have been in effect since 2011, state that any allegation of sexual misconduct received by the University must be investigated.
Reports made to officials other than those at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, Counseling and Psychological Services and the Office of Ombuds are not considered confidential and are expected to be investigated by OIE. The participation of survivors in sexual misconduct cases is not required for the disciplinary process to take place. Other individuals or University officials may report allegations.
A permanent separation would render an athlete ineligible to participate in any NCAA event. Michigan coach Brady Hoke said at a Dec. 23 press conference that Gibbons didn’t travel to Tempe, Ariz., for the Dec. 28 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl because he was dealing with a family matter at home.
Ablauf, the Athletic Department spokesman, said he is unable to comment as to whether Hoke was referring to the permanent separation.
Earlier, on Nov. 30, 2013, Gibbons sat out the football team’s regular-season finale against Ohio State after team officials said he suffered an undisclosed muscle injury in the week leading up to the game.
“He’s a little iffy,” Hoke said on Dec. 16. “He’s kicking a little bit. But I don’t want to over-kick him. I’ve never been a kicker, so I can’t imagine that (muscle) problem. So he’s a little iffy.”
Hoke assumed the position of head coach in 2011, after the incident is alleged to have occurred.
Though it’s not clear what Gibbons’ career plans are, Vander Velde’s letter noted that he might be obligated to inform future schools or employers of the sexual misconduct case in order to comply with those organizations’ respective policies. The letter advises Gibbons to “make this disclosure in the future as appropriate and in a manner that authentically represents the behavior for which you have been found responsible.”
Gibbons is fourth in made field goals in Michigan history and owns the program record for consecutive successful extra points with 141.
The University offers many resources for counseling and reporting for survivors of Sexual Assault. A listing of available services can be found here. In addition, the University's Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center staffs a 24/7 crisis line at (734) 936-3333.
Slovin, the former Managing Editor, can be reached on Twitter at @MattSlovin. Rubenfire, the former Managing News Editor, can be reached on Twitter at @arubenfire.
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Woman gets fired after racist rant goes viral
by: NBC News
Posted: Oct 31, 2018 / 03:42 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 31, 2018 / 03:42 PM EDT
CHARLOTTE, NC (WCNC) A white woman in Charlotte, North Carolina has been fired after she was caught on camera confronting two black women in a parking lot and making racial comments.
In a series of viral videos posted to Facebook, Susan Westwood can be heard harassing the two sisters who were waiting for AAA outside of the apartment complex, where they all three live.
In one of those videos, Westwood asks if she needs to bring out her concealed weapon.
Feeling threatened by her comments, the sisters called police and filed a report.
Westwood is now facing four criminal summons for communicating threats and simple assault.
She has been fired from her job at Spectrum Cable.
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Around Irondequoit, more demolition, construction are on the horizon
Linda Quinlan, staff writer
Oct 28, 2011 at 12:01 AM Oct 28, 2011 at 7:01 AM
Three redevelopment projects are under way, or about to get going.
Two buildings — the onetime Titus Ave. Hardware and the other a structure once known as the “animal house” — in what may become the I-Square development were demolished last week. Developer Mike Nolan said they were the only two vacant buildings, but that he expects to have three more ready for demolition over the next five to six weeks.
Nolan, who just announced his I-Square project for the Cooper-Titus area in late summer, isn’t letting any grass grow under his feet. His plan is to transform the area into a “town center” that adheres to a Cooper-Hudson-Titus mixed-use master plan that was developed and adopted about eight years ago.
Nolan expects to take his plans to the town for necessary approvals before the first of the year, and could start construction as soon as next summer.
Demolition equipment arrived on the future site of an LA Fitness facility near the intersection of East Ridge Road and Kings Highway last week. Town officials said demolition permits have been issued.
LA Fitness, a chain of health and fitness clubs in the U.S. and Canada, plans to demolish the existing structures — former car dealerships — at 1600 and 1612 E. Ridge Road and build a 45,000 square foot facility on the site. The approximately $10 million project on four acres is expected to include a swimming pool, sauna, racquetball, basketball and other fitness related facilities.
The project, which received COMIDA tax breaks last week, is projected to create 30 new jobs. The buildings on the site now have remained vacant since early this year, when the Ideal Nissan car dealership moved to Greece.
Work on the site of Irondequoit's former Newport House, at 500 Newport Road, on Irondequoit Bay, got under way this spring with demolition of the former restaurant, but it now looks like earth work and construction may be imminent. A pre-construction meeting was held on the site earlier this week. Earth work, including erosion control, is expected to get under way soon and take the next four to five weeks, after which the foundation for one building that will house three town homes is expected to begin.
RSM Development has already-approved plans to build high-end condominiums and town homes on the scenic property, which will become a gated community. The developer’s website still says the project is “coming soon.”
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Daytona 500: Ford’s hopes rest in new Mustang
By Godwin Kelly godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com
Feb 15, 2019 at 2:52 PM Feb 15, 2019 at 2:52 PM
Ford held its head high and beat its chest after the 2018 season and with good reason.
Its venerable Fusion — driver Clint Bowyer referred to it as a “rental car” — was exceptional.
Ford drivers won 20 of the 36 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races and captured the manufacturers’ championship as Team Penske’s Joey Logano navigated to the drivers’ title.
Those victories and celebrations have been folded into the NASCAR record book and a new season has dawned with Ford facing a daunting task — getting its Mustang quickly up to speed with the Chevrolet Camaro and Toyota Camry.
The latest Camry was introduced in 2017 and Toyota scored only a pair of wins in its first 17 starts. The Camaro made its debut in 2018 and took home a meager four wins.
Now, Ford has pushed all its stock-car chips into the middle of the table with the Mustang after the company decided to take the Fusion off the assembly line in 2020.
Logano said he’s not worried because of NASCAR’s new engine/aero rules for tracks longer than a mile. All three manufacturers have to come up with new, competitive packages. The 2018 notebook won’t work in 2019.
“If there was a time to switch to the Mustang, this was the year because there was a rules change coming with it,” said Logano, who drives the No. 22 Team Penske Ford. “If you looked at Toyota and Chevy, when they switched to their new body there was a learning curve for them, and there will be a learning curve for us.
“So, the timing of this decision by Ford and the race teams affiliated with them, I think, is perfect. It’s as good as it can be. Maybe we have a little bit more to learn than the other teams or the other manufacturers, but I do think this is the time to do it and it’s gonna work out well, I think.”
Bowyer, who wheels the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford, is all for the change. He believes the Mustang was built for this kind of racing.
“We got a Mustang in the stable and we were racing Fusions?” said Bowyer during NASCAR media day at Daytona International Speedway. “I never understood that.
“The stage is set the way it’s supposed to be in our sport. You are supposed to have the muscle cars. These are car guys coming to watch our races and certainly the Mustang has been around forever.”
Bowyer observed Toyota and Chevy struggle with their new stock cars and said Ford executives and engineers paid close attention.
“We had the opportunity to watch both of them and determine what’s gonna work,” he said. “We know what worked before on our Fusions and try to tie it all that together.
“They had time to do that. I think that’s why we’re aren’t going to struggle as much as the others because this isn’t out of the clear blue. They spent a lot of hard work over a long time to perfect it.”
Ford has participated in some competition testing, performed well in Daytona 500 qualifying and had a top-5 finish in the Advance Auto Parts Clash.
“It’s hard to tell yet,” Toyota driver Erik Jones said of the Fords. “They are always strong on superspeedways, but it will be tough to see until we get to Atlanta (for Race 2). That’s when we’ll see what they really got.
“The rules package is gonna be a lot different. They were strong in qualifying and looked good in the Clash and I’m sure they’ll be a threat on Sunday.”
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Bound for open road: 100-year-old Jack McClary climbs aboard bike again
Sydney Nimeth Monroe News Staff Reporter
Motorcyclists from across Monroe and Lenawee counties gathered to honor a 100-year-old World War II veteran — Jack McClary.
MILAN — Motorcyclists from across Monroe and Lenawee counties gathered to honor a 100-year-old World War II veteran — Jack McClary.
Wearing his riding jacket from the 1940s, McClary sat in the sidecar of Dan “Griz” Kofahl’s Indian motorcycle — the same type of bike he once owned — with a smile on his face. He was ready for the second annual Jack’s Ride, a motorcycle ride from Milan to Cement City.
“I love supporting people who don’t have the means to ride on their own,” Kofahl said. “I’m elated when I can offer a few moment of fun … and to see people smile, it’s a good feeling.”
Since buying his bike in 2016, the Clinton resident has offered rides in his sidecar to children and veterans throughout Michigan.
“It’s very important to take care of our vets,” Mark “Nitro” Taylor, ride organizer and McClary’s neighbor, said. “We take care of our brothers and sisters.”
Sponsored by the Iron Circle Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in Milan, the ride originated because of a miscommunication.
According to Taylor, who is an Air Force vet, when McClary was honored by Foundation 14 last June for his service in WWII and longevity as a Milan resident, he thought he’d have the opportunity to ride to a Harley Davidson dealership in Tecumseh, but that wasn’t the case.
“We had to get him (McClary) his throttle therapy,” Taylor said. “We had such an awesome turnout last year that we wanted to give Jack another chance to get in the wind.”
McClary said “the wind” was his favorite thing about being on a motorcycle.
Born Nov. 7, 1918, McClary served in the Army from 1938 through VE Day in the Italian campaign’s 5th Army Artillery as a convoy artillery trainer and artillery liaison. According to his son and caregiver, Keith McClary, he may also be one of the last surviving members of Gen. Mark Clark’s staff.
The Bronze Star recipient also served in the North African Campaign and fought in the Battle of Monte Cassino under Clark.
“Someone was needed to train truck gunners to protect the convoy from the Luftwaffe and he (Jack) was the only one in the European theater with the qualifications,” Keith said. “He saved a lot of lives and taught people how to defend themselves … His service mattered.”
McClary, who use to ride around Michigan and Chicago, would ride his bike to work at Cook County Hospital in Chicago to cut down his commute time.
“He would change from his riding gear into a suit and tie and then back into his riding gear at the end of the day,” his son said.
John Price, an Army veteran and president of the American Legion Riders Post 97 in Adrian, said he never turns down the opportunity to ride — especially for a good cause.
“Anybody who wants to ride at 100, I’m down,” he said. “Riding is never a bad thing.”
Clapping and cheering as Kofahl revved his bike’s engine and took off with McClary by his side, the bikers agreed to one thing before revving their own motorcycle’s engines and heading down US- 23 to their first stop in Tecumseh: It’s gonna be a smooth ride.
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Delta adding free cocktails, warm towels, other perks for economy passengers on some flights
Delta Air Lines is upping its game, unveiling a host of new perks for international passengers flying on economy flights.
While many carriers have been eliminating amenities for low-fare travelers in recent years, Atlanta-based Delta is heading in the opposite direction.
Starting in November, it plans to begin offering free peach bellinis (a "welcome" drink) and warm towels to economy passengers. Dining options will be upgraded, as well, and chocolates will be handed out prior to landing, Thrillist says.
The new perks will be standard on all international flights that are at least 6.5 hours long.
“This is about investing in every single customer who chooses Delta, no matter where they sit on the plane,” Allison Ausband, Delta's senior vice president of in-flight service, said in a written statement posted on Delta's website.
While a number of other airlines have been struggling in recent months, due largely to many Boeing jets being grounded, Delta hasn't had that problem. In fact, CNN reports the airline just had one of its best quarters ever.
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Business briefs: Bed and breakfast honored
Lattice Inn wins TripAdvisor award
Business briefs: Bed and breakfast honored Lattice Inn wins TripAdvisor award Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/money/business/2014/05/31/business-briefs-bed-breakfast-honored/9804225/
Brad Harper, Montgomery Advertiser Published 1:12 a.m. CT May 31, 2014
The Lattice Inn bed on breakfast on South Hull Street in Montgomery recently won an award from review site TripAdvisor. (Photo: MICKEY WELSH/ADVERTISER FILE )Buy Photo
A historic Montgomery bed and breakfast has won a national tourism honor for the third consecutive year.
Review site TripAdvisor recently named The Lattice Inn, a restored 1906 Garden District cottage, as one of its Certificate of Excellence award winners. The honor is given to establishments that maintain the highest reviews from visitors, along with other factors such as tenure and popularity.
“Winning the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence is a true source of pride, and we’d like to thank all of our past guests who took the time to complete a review of their stay at The Lattice Inn on TripAdvisor,” Lattice Inn owner and innkeeper Jim Yeaman said. “There is no greater seal of approval than being recognized by one’s customers.”
The Lattice Inn also has also been named the No. 1 bed and breakfast in Montgomery for the past two years in the annual Readers Choice survey conducted by the Montgomery Advertiser.
Event to honor linemen
Representatives from Alabama’s 22 electric cooperatives, Alabama Power Company, and the state’s municipally owned electric utilities will gather at 10 a.m. Monday at the State Capitol to recognize contributions made by linemen as part of a celebration of the first official Alabama Lineman Appreciation Day.
Linemen and trucks from several of Alabama’s electric cooperatives, Alabama Power Company and Electric Cities, a coalition of the state’s municipally owned electric utilities, will be on hand.
Scheduled speakers include State Senator Cam Ward, Rep. April Weaver, and State Emergency Management Agency Director Art Faulkner.
Alabama’s not-for-profit electric cooperatives employ some 600 linemen who help keep the lights on for more than 1 million Alabamians in 64 counties.
The ceremony will be at the Circle of Flags on the Washington Avenue side of the Capitol.
In the last session of the Alabama Legislature, both houses designated the first Monday in June as Alabama Lineman Appreciation Day.
In previous years, Congress had designated April 18 as National Lineman Appreciation Day, but no designation was formally made this year. “By having the Alabama legislature set aside the first Monday in June as a special day to honor our linemen, we can be sure they are formally recognized every year,” said Sean Strickler, AREA vice president for public affairs.
Two apartment complexes sold
Fox Valley, a 120-unit apartment community in Birmingham, and Maplewood, a 54-unit complex in Hanceville, were recently sold.
Fox Valley Partners LLC sold the Birmingham complex for $4.1 million, and APEC Properties LLC sold the Hanceville apartments for $1.1 million. Both sales were negotiated by multifamily investment banking and research company Hendricks-Berkadia.
RoCo Fox Valley Apartments, a Michigan LLC, bought the Birmingham complex. New York-based RJJ Maplewood bought the Hanceville community.
Built in 1974, Fox Valley is a garden-style community with two-story apartment buildings situated on about 5.70 acres of land and an average unit size of 791 square feet. The six buildings house a total of 94,900 rentable square feet offering a mix of studio, one-, two-, and three-bedrooms, ranging from 625 to 1,400 square feet.
Built in 1999, Maplewoodis also a garden-style community with two-story buildings situated on about 5.57 acres of land with a density of 9.7 units per acre and an average unit size of 506 square feet. The three buildings house a total of 26,850 rental square feet offering all one-bedroom, one-bath units in three floor plans, ranging from 425 to 600 square feet.
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OUR TOP PICKS OF THE MONTH’S EVENTS
Sarah Ravits,
Dynamic Dancing
A riveting, highly innovative performance by the Stephen Petronio Company will take place March 2 and 3 at the Freda Lupin Memorial Hall at NOCCA. Co-presented by the NOCCA Institute and the New Orleans Ballet Association, Petronio’s troupe fuses their imaginative dance moves with music, visual art and high fashion. This program will feature “Underland,” a work set to the dark, bittersweet songs of rocker Nick Cave; another highlight is “City of Twist,” a tribute to New York City with music by performance art guru Laurie Anderson.
Information, NobaDance.com.
A Study in Teen Angst
Salome, the story of a love-scorned emotional train wreck of a princess, will be performed by the New Orleans Opera Association at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts on March 2 and 4, with unforgettable displays of passion, anger, fear and complex familial relationships. Set in King Herod’s palace, the story takes a turn when Jochanaan, a jailed prophet, curses Queen Herodias, mother of the adolescent Salome. Infatuated by Jochanaan, Salome begins a disastrous flirtation with him and is rejected and pushed over the edge when he urges her to seek salvation in the Messiah. Memorable scenes include the famously provocative “Dance of the Seven Veils,” some dramatic deaths and stunning opera singing from a cast that includes Miada Khudoley, John Mac Master, Ryan McKinny, Gwendolyn Jones and others.
Information, NewOrleansOpera.org.
Beads, Brogues and Rogues
As a welcome respite from the post-Carnival chill-out (you know you miss the parties), the 65th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, put on by the Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Club, will get your spirits soaring again. The streets will be filled with cabbage, green beer, beads and brogues as the parade, held on Saturday, March 17, winds its way through the Irish Channel and Garden District. The parade starts around noon and you might either get pinched or kissed, depending on whether luck is on your side and how much green you’re wearing.
Information, IrishChannelNO.org.
Memories of Music
Playwright Tennessee Williams wrote in The Glass Menagerie, “In memory everything seems to happen to music.” This year at the annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, local musician, writer and educator Tom Sancton will kick off the celebration on March 21 at The Old U.S. Mint with “Song for My Fathers,” a multimedia autobiographical performance that celebrates the city’s music and pays a heartfelt tribute to those who taught it to him. Based on his memoir, “Song For My Fathers” weaves live music from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Sancton’s personal experiences, offering glimpses into an era that remains a powerful influence on our culture.
What is this performance about? “Song for My Fathers” is the story of a young white middle-class kid’s encounter with a group of elderly black jazz musicians at the tail end of the segregation era in the 1960s. The boy learns to play their music and gets a privileged lesson on life, culture and humanity from his willing mentors. That is the central theme of both the book and the stage show version.
Who’s involved? Ben Jaffe [of Preservation Hall] is the overall producer. Staging and direction were handled by Ron Rona of Preservation Hall; he was also the one who put together the terrific audio-visual package. I am present as the narrator. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is on stage and provides live music, and we have a young man, Zach Young, who plays me as a teenager.
How does it tie in with the festival? It ties in with the festival in several ways. First, it’s theater – not an actual play, but certainly a theatrical presentation. Secondly, it’s based on a literary work, my coming-of-age memoir. Thirdly, it celebrates New Orleans culture and musical history. I have been involved in the festival in various capacities for the past few years and like to consider myself part of the Tennessee Williams Festival “family.”
The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival takes place March 21-25, featuring plays, staged readings, lectures, panel discussions, parties and more, at various locations throughout downtown. Information, TennesseeWilliams.net.
March 2, 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 27-28. French Quarter Wine Festival; Le Meritage. Information, FrenchQuarterWineFestival.com.
March 3. Bonerama + Yojimbo; Tipitina’s Uptown. Information, tipitinas.com.
March 9-11. Foburg music festival; throughout Marigny/Bywater. Information, FoburgNewOrleans.com.
March 9-11, 16-18, 23-25, 30-April 1. JPAS presents Flanagan’s Wake; Teatro Wego! Theatre, Westwego; St. Catherine of Siena School, Metairie; and North Star Theatre, Covington. Information, jpas.org.
March 14-18. Art in Bloom – New Orleans: Life in Color; New Orleans Museum of Art. Information, noma.org.
March 14, 21, 28. Wednesday at the Square concerts; Lafayette Square. Information, WednesdayAtTheSquare.com.
March 14- April 15. The Lion King; Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts. Information, MahaliaJackson.com.
March 15. AIA New Orleans 2012 Design Awards, Design Beyond Sustainability; Patrick F. Taylor Library, Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Information, AIANewOrleans.org.
March 16. An Evening with Heart; House of Blues. Information, HouseOfBlues.com.
March 17. St. Patrick’s Day block party; Irish Channel.
March 17. SweetArts fundraiser; Contemporary Arts Center. Information, cacno.org.
March 22-25. Louisiana Crawfish Festival; Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center, Chalmette. Information, LouisianaCrawfishFestival.com.
March 31 and April 2. NCAA Final Four basketball games; New Orleans Arena. Information, ncaa.com.
April 1. The O-Mazing Race; throughout the French Quarter. Information, OgdenMuseum.org/race/OmazingRace.html.
Categories: Entertainment Features, Festivals, Festivals & Events, LL_Feature
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Rekor Announces Upgrade to Industry Leading OpenALPR Vehicle Recognition Software
Allows Use of Up to Twice as Many Cameras While Reducing Computing Cost
COLUMBIA, MD / ACCESSWIRE / July 10, 2019 / Rekor Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: REKR) ('Rekor'), a leading provider of innovative vehicle recognition systems, announced today that it has released an upgrade to its OpenALPR vehicle recognition software. The newly released software improves processing speed on Central Processing Units ("CPU") up to 100%, thus enabling customers to reduce costs by deploying up to twice as many cameras using the same computing hardware.
Other upgrades include performance improvements on Nvidia Graphics Processing Units ("GPU"), which decrease memory usage on both CPU and GPUs and reduce reads of road signs and billboards by mobile units. Already operating at a precision 99.02% accuracy rating on U.S. license plates, OpenALPR was able to improve accuracy across all vehicle recognition metrics, based on publicly available benchmarks.
The new software also includes enhancements that improve user experience, including a new dispatch view for real-time alerting in map-view, text message alerts, usability enhancements for analytic reports, and improvements in overall efficiency.
"We've already exceeded human-level accuracy benchmarks, so to be able to develop an even more accurate solution is a giant leap for vehicle recognition technology," said Matthew Hill, Chief Science Officer, Rekor. "Doubling processing speed can be a game-changer for customers who want to increase the number of vehicle recognition cameras they're running. Now they'll be able to do so without incurring additional capital expense for the purchase of supporting hardware. This represents a significant cost reduction while improving overall camera coverage. Our customers rely on OpenALPR for its speed, accuracy and scalability, so we're pleased that this enhanced version will also reduce their need to purchase additional expensive hardware."
With its robust and growing license plate database covering 69 countries, OpenALPR's software can identify in real time vehicle license plate data, color, make, model and body type. To learn more please visit our website: https://rekorsystems.com/openalpr/.
About Rekor Systems, Inc.
Rekor Systems, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed (REKR) Delaware company, is the parent of Maryland-based Rekor Recognition Systems, Inc. Our smarter, faster, cost-competitive solutions are disrupting major industries in over 60 countries across the globe, including security and surveillance, public safety, electronic toll collection, brand loyalty, parking operations, banking and insurance, logistics, and traffic management. We use the power of artificial intelligence to analyze video streams and transform them into actionable information for our clients. Our machine learning enabled software can turn most IP cameras into highly accurate and affordable vehicle recognition devices. Rekor provides advanced vehicle recognition systems, powered by its innovative OpenALPR software, which dramatically improves the accuracy of license plate reads and can also identify the make, model and color of vehicles. Rekor's solutions include mobile and fixed license plate readers, 'Move Over' law enforcement, school bus stop-arm enforcement, and red light and speed enforcement, parking enforcement and citation management. Rekor's solutions help to protect lives, increase brand loyalty, and manage complex supply chain logistics. Our systems can dramatically reduce the cost of collecting tolls on major highways or manage congestion in the bumper-to-bumper traffic of large cities, without the need to install expensive new infrastructure. We make what was once considered impossible, possible. To learn more please visit our website: https://rekorsystems.com
This press release includes statements concerning Rekor Systems, Inc. and its future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding the impact of Rekor's core suite of AI-powered technology and the size of the market for global ALPR systems. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, any statements that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as 'may,' 'should,' 'expects,' 'plans,' 'anticipates,' 'could,' 'intends,' 'target,' 'projects,' 'contemplates,' 'believes,' 'estimates,' 'predicts,' 'potential,' or 'continue,' by the negative of these terms or by other similar expressions. You are cautioned that such statements are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual circumstances, events or results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, particularly as a result of various risks and other factors identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made and are based on management's assumptions and estimates as of such date. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of the receipt of new information, the occurrence of future events, or otherwise.
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SOURCE: Rekor Systems, Inc.
https://www.accesswire.com/551380/Rekor-Announces-Upgrade-to-Industry-Leading-OpenALPR-Vehicle-Recognition-Software
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Painters' Paintings in the collection
Freud and Corot
Matisse and Degas
Degas and Manet
Leighton and Corot
Watts and Macchietti
Lawrence and Rembrandt
Reynolds and Michelangelo
Van Dyck and Titian
See below for a list of paintings in this location
Explore paintings in the National Galley Collection once owned by painters – from Freud to Van Dyck
Lucian Freud (1922–2011) bought Corot’s Italian Woman at auction in 2001, and for the last decade of his life, it hung above the fireplace in the drawing room of his Kensington home. In the same room, he kept paintings by Constable, Frank Auerbach, and a bronze by Degas. Freud lived surrounded by art, and as he got older and more successful, he acquired more works for himself.
The paintings Freud owned reflected his lifelong interest in past masters, as well as his acquaintances and friendships, for instance with Auerbach. He selected works that had a deep personal or emotional significance for him, or that resonated with his own work.
Freud was known for his probing and intensely observed nudes and portraits, and his acquisition of a figure painting by Corot reflects his own artistic focus on the human body. Though best known for his landscapes, Corot painted hundreds of figures in his later years, many of them lone, contemplative female figures. Dressed in regional Italian dress, this woman is given solidity and presence through Corot’s pronounced lighting and thick, robust brushwork, which find an echo in Freud’s own technique.
When Freud died in 2011, he left the painting to the nation as a thank-you gesture to Britain for welcoming his Jewish family in 1933; they fled Berlin to escape the rise of Nazism in Germany when he was just 11. Freud went on to become one of Britain’s leading painters.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, ‘Italian Woman, or Woman with Yellow Sleeve (L'Italienne)', about 1870
Painters' Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck
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What time you eat matters more than how much you eat, study finds
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
Tags: food timing, eating habits, meals
https://www.naturalnews.com/038971_food_timing_eating_habits_meals.html
(NaturalNews) In trying to gain or maintain a healthy weight, how much you eat may actually matter less than the timing of your meals, according to a surprising study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Tufts University, the University of Murcia, and published in the International Journal of Obesity.
"This is the first large-scale prospective study to demonstrate that the timing of meals predicts weight-loss effectiveness," senior author Frank Scheer said. "Our results [suggest] that the timing of large meals could be an important factor in a weight loss program."
The study was conducted on 420 overweight people who were categorized as either early eaters or late eaters, depending upon the time of day at which they preferred to eat their large meal (because the study was conducted in Spain, the largest meal of the day was lunch). Anyone who ate lunch before 3 p.m. was classified as an early eaters, while anyone who ate lunch after 3 p.m. was classified as a late eater. The average participant consumed 40 percent of their daily calories at the large meal.
All participants were enrolled in a 20-week weight-loss treatment program. At the end of the program, the early eaters had lost significantly more weight than the late eaters, and had lost weight more quickly. Late eaters also demonstrated a lower insulin sensitivity, indicating that they were at higher risk for diabetes than the early eaters.
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The researchers found no difference between calorie intake, energy expenditure, sleep duration, or levels of the appetite-related hormones leptin and ghrelin between the early and the late eaters. This suggested that the timing of the meal was, in and of itself, a significant factor influencing weight loss.
"This study emphasizes that the timing of food intake itself may play a significant role in weight regulation," lead author Marta Garaulet said. "Novel therapeutic strategies should incorporate not only the caloric intake and macronutrient distribution, as it is classically done, but also the timing of food."
The researchers could not explain why meal timing appeared to be so important, but suggested that it may have something to do with the body's internal clock, or circadian rhythm, which scientists are increasingly finding to play a role in many bodily processes.
"The body deals differently with food depending on the time of day," Scheer said. "For instance, glucose is cleared more easily from the bloodstream in the morning than in the evening. And if glucose is not going to the organs and tissues where it is needed for energy, it could end up being deposited as fat."
It remains unclear whether the study has implications for countries where dinner is the largest meal of the day, such as the United States.
"We recommend people to eat while they are active during the day," said obesity researcher David Lau of the University of Calgary. "Typically, I tell my patients to eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and supper like a pauper."
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Elephants in Botswana
Simon Jeavons
Botswana provides a SAFe haven for elephants
Recent data indicates that Botswana has the biggest population of elephants in Africa. According to the 651 counts conducted for Elephant Database in 2012, Botswana has a definite elephant population of 133,088, with a further 21,183 considered to be ‘probable’ or ‘possible’. Having deviated little since the previous counts in 2007, the total number of over 150,000 animals represents impressive stability for the elephant population of Botswana and underlines one of the country’s strengths as a safari destination.
Botswana’s elephants belong to the subspecies Loxodonta africana – the savannah or bush elephant. African elephants are typically bigger than their Asian relatives, and Loxodonta africana have bigger ears and tusks than Africa’s other subspecies of pachyderm, the forest-dwelling Loxodonta cyclotis. This population is concentrated in two riverine areas of Botswana’s northern reaches – the Okavango Delta and, especially, Chobe National Park. This latter location is believed to support up to 50,000 elephants – with many staying close to the Chobe River for several months of the year. In contrast, the annual ebb and flow of the Okavango Delta results in a population scattered over a wider and somewhat-less-predictable area.
To put this wealth of elephants into continental and recent historical perspective, by 1989 the population of elephants in the whole of Africa was estimated at just 17,000 – having plummeted during the previous decade as a result of widespread poaching. Alarmingly, after a period of relative stability, Tanzania and Kenya have once again started to struggle to control ivory poaching within their borders – and world leaders are paying the situation renewed attention.
It could be argued that widespread political instability in neighbouring countries served to increase the concentration of elephants in Botswana. Whilst some of the population still ranges into Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola (the source of the Okavango River), state breakdown in Namibia and Angola increased the incidence of poaching in these countries. This, in turn, led to some of the surviving elephants spending more of the year in and around the relative safe haven of the Chobe River; knowledge of the established migratory paths to the north and west of Botswana was therefore not passed onto the younger generation of elephants and they, too, stay close to Chobe. For safari-goers, this is effectively a virtuous circle.
In contrast to the struggles of its neighbours, Botswana’s increasing prosperity since independence from Britain in 1966, the resulting political stability and the government’s steady emphasis on wildlife tourism has ensured that the country continues to be a stronghold for elephants.
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HomePOLITICSIn memory of the 4th President of India
In memory of the 4th President of India
News Crust Saturday, June 23, 2018
Anagha Telang
Varahagiri Venkata commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth president of India from 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974.
Giri was born on 10 August,1894 in Berhampur Odisha to a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family. His father, V. V. Jogayya Pantulu, was a successful lawyer and political activist of the Indian National Congress. Giri's mother Subhadramma was active in the national movement in Berhampur during the Non Cooperation and Civil Disobedience Movements and was arrested for leading a strike for prohibition during the Civil Disobedience Movement. He was highly inspired by his parents.
He completed his initial education at the Khallikote College, in Berhampur. In 1913 he went to Ireland to study law which he did at University College Dublin and the Honourable Society of King's Inns, Dublin between 1913–1916. The notable achievemnet of Giri was that he was one among the first crop of thirteen Indian students who sat the obligatory year long course at UCD in 1914–15. This was a requirement for being called to the Irish Bar through study at the King's Inns. In total, 50 Indian students studied at UCD between 1914 and 1917.
During the First World War, Giri travelled from Dublin to London and there he met Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi wanted for Giri to join the Imperial war effort as a Red Cross Volunteer. Giri initially agreed to Gandhi's request but later regretted his decision.
Giri was active in both Indian and Irish politics during his studies. Along with fellow Indian students he produced a pamphlet about the abuse of Indians in South Africa. The pamphlet created lot of controversy and resulted in increased police scrutiny of Giri and his fellow students in Dublin.
Giri was suspected of association with prominent ring leaders in the 1916. He was called to the Irish Bar on 21 June 1916 but he did not complete his studies for BA in UCD. Indian students were subjected to police raids following the 1916 Rising and he was served with one month's notice to leave Ireland on 1 June 1916.
Political Career...
On returning to India in 1916 Giri enrolled himself at the Madras High Court and also became a member of the Congress party. He attended the Lucknow session and joined the Home Rule Movement of Annie Beasant. Giri left a rising legal career in response fot Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920. He was arrested for the first time for demonstrating against the sale of liquor shops in 1922.
Giri & Labour Movement:
Giri was associated with the labour and trade union movement in the country throughout his career.
In the year 1923 All India Railwaymen's association was formed and Giri was a foundinng member and he also served as its general secretary for over a decade.
In 1926 he was elected as the president of the All India Trade Union Congress for the first time. Giri also founded the Bengal Nagpur Railway Association and
in 1928 led the workers of the Bengal Nagpur Railway in a non violent strike for the rights of retrenched workers. The strike succeeded in forcing the British Indian government and the management of the railway company to concede the workers' demands and is regarded as a milestone in the labour movement in India.
The Indian Trade Union Federation (ITUF) was formed by Giri in the year 1929.
At the International Labour Conference of the ILO in 1927 Giri was the Workers' Delegate of the Indian delegation.
Giri was present as a representative of the industrial workers of India at the Second Round Table Conference.
Career in British India:
In 1934 Giri became a member of the Imperial Legislative Assembly and remained its member until 1937 and emerged a spokesman for matters of labour and trade unions in the Assembly.
In the General Elections of 1936, Giri defeated the Raja of Bobbili to become a member of the Madras Legislative Assembly.
Between 1937–1939, he was Minister for Labour and Industry in the Congress government headed by C Rajagopalachari.
He was appointed Governor of the National Planning Committee of the Indian National Congress in 1938.
In 1939, the Congress ministries resigned in protest against the British decision to make India a party in the Second World War. Having returned to the labour movement, Giri was arrested and spent 15 months in prison till March 1941.
In 1942 following the launch of the Quit India Movement, Giri was imprisoned again by the colonial government He remained in prison when the AITUC met in Nagpur in 1943 where he was the president elect.
He served his sentence in the Vellore and Amaravathi prisons. Giri remained in prison for three years, his longest sentence, until his release in 1945.
In the General Elections of 1946, Giri was reelected to the Madras Legislative Assembly and became a minister again in charge of the labour portfolio under T. Prakasam.
Career in Independent India:
From 1947 to 1951, Giri served as India's first High Commissioner to Ceylon. In the General Elections of 1951, he was elected to the 1st Lok Sabha from Pathapatnam Lok Sabha Constituency in the Madras State.
Union Minister for Labour from 1952–1954
Gubernatorial tenures from 1957–1967
Governor of Kerala from 1960–1965
Vice president from 1967–1969
Acting president of India in 1969
President of India from 1967-1974
Work as President:
On 24 August 1969 Giri was sworn in as President of India and held office till 24 August 1974 when he was succeeded by Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. On his election, Giri became the only president to have also been an acting president and the only person to be elected president as an independent candidate.
As president, In 1971 Giri unquestioningly accepted Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's decision to sack the Charan Singh ministry in Uttar Pradesh and advised her to go in for early elections.
The ordinance abolishing privy purses and privileges of the erstwhile rulers of India's princely states was promulgated by Giri after the government's original amendment was defeated in the Rajya Sabha.
His advice to Prime Minister Gandhi against the appointement of A.N. Ray as the Chief Justice of India superseding three judges senior to him was ignored by her as was his warning that a crackdown on striking railwaymen would only exacerbate the situation.
As president, Giri made 14 state visits to 22 countries in South and South East Asia, Europe and Africa.
Giri is regarded as a president who completely subordinated himself to the prime minister and has been described as a "Prime Minister’s President", a loyalist president and a rubber stamp president under whom the independence of the office eroded. In 1974,Giri's term ended .
Awards & Honours...
Bharat Ratna in 1975 for his contributions in the area of public affairs.
Commemorative Medal of the 2500th Anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire on 14/10/1971
King Jigme Singye Investiture Medal 1974 .gif King Jigme Singye Investiture Medal by Kingdom of Bhutan on 02/06/1974
Death..
Giri died of a heart attack in Madras on 24 June 1980. He was given a state funeral the next day and a week-long mourning period was declared by the Government of India. Rajya Sabha, of which Giri had been ex-officio chairman as Vice President of India, adjourned for two days as a mark of respect to him.
Commemoration...
A commemorative postage stamp on V.V Giri was released by the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department in 1974.
The National Labour Institute was renamed in honour of V.V Giri in 1995.
Giri's hometown of Berhampur has a major road, a secondary training school and a market that are named after him.
Giri authored Industrial Relations and Labour Problems in Indian Industry, two popular books on issues of labour in India.
His memoirs, published in 1976, are titled My Life and Times.
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HomeENTERTAINMENTMahesh Bhatt is all set to return into direction
Mahesh Bhatt is all set to return into direction
Unknown Thursday, September 20, 2018
Mahesh Bhatt all is set to return into direction with "Sadak 2", after a break of 19 years, his daughter, Alia Bhatt said on Thursday.
Alia, who is also part of the cast of the film, which is a sequel to Mahesh Bhatt's 1991 'Sadak', tweeted on her father's 70th birthday, "On your 70th birthday you have given me the greatest present I could ask and dream for. You are directing me! 'Sadak 2' is a dream come true...
"What I thought will never be possible you have made possible. Thank you daddy from the bottom of my heart, soul and bones. This will be a journey of discovery..."she twitted.
This is the first time Bhatt will direct his daughter.
Pooja Bhatt and Sanjay Dutt, the original leads, also part of cast in the film, along with new actors Aditya Roy Kapur.
Bhatt's production house Vishesh Films confirmed the news on the microblogging site on Thursday.
"27 years ago, a love story won your hearts. A timeless tale. The next chapter begins... @MaheshNBhatt's #Sadak2 in cinemas 25th March 2020!" the post read.
Pooja welcomed Bhatt back to direction and thanked him for "the gift of 'Sadak 2' and the privilege of being directed by you".
This will be Pooja's first film in almost two decades. She was last seen in 2001's "Everybody Says I'm Fine!". Pooja debuted in 1990 with Bhatt's "Daddy" and followed it along with films such as "Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin", "Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee" and "Sir", among others.
Sanjay said he was proud to embark on this journey with the director again. "Thank you for giving me #Sadak bhatt saab. Wish you a very Happy Birthday," he tweeted.
Sanjay and Alia are also working together in "Kalank".
The original film's story was of a taxi driver (Sanjay) trying to rescue the woman he loves (Pooja) from a brothel. It also featured Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Maharani, brothel's owner and Soni Razdan.
"Sadak 2" is stated to release on March 25, 2020.
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Pipe bomb exploded close to house with young children
Published: 10:08 Sunday 17 February 2019
Police have slammed as “reckless” an incident in Co Armagh during which a pipe bomb exploded close to a house where young children were living.
Residents in the Enniskeen area of Craigavon reported hearing a loud bang sometime between 11.20pm and 11.30pm on Saturday.
When police and army bomb experts arrived at the scene, it was established that a pipe bomb had exploded outside a house where a woman and a number of young children had been.
A second device, which had not detonated, was also discovered in the area.
“The remnants of the device that exploded and the second device have been seized by police and taken away for further forensic examination,” a police spokesman said.
There have been no reports of any injury or damage to property.
Residents who were evacuated overnight were allowed to return to their homes on Sunday morning.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have described the incident as a “reckless attack by those responsible”.
“We are extremely fortunate that we are not dealing with any serious injuries, or worse today,” the spokesman said.
“Anyone could have picked up these potentially deadly devices, and those behind the attack have clearly no regard for the safety of the others.
“Our enquiries are at an early stage and I want to appeal to anyone who was in the area last night and saw any suspicious activity, or any suspicious vehicles in the area to get in touch with us on the non emergency number 101, quoting reference number 1611 of 16/02/19.”
Democratic Unionist MLA Carla Lockhart condemned those responsible for the pipe bombs.
“It doesn’t matter what cause or reason they think they are advancing, violence is not the way to do it,” she said.
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“My thoughts are with the families who had to leave their home overnight especially on a Saturday night when people are relaxing after a hard week at work. Craigavon doesn’t need this and these families certainly don’t.
“I am concerned at this worrying trend of criminal activity. These devices were viable and could very well have caused serious injury or indeed death. I would ask anyone with information to come forward to the PSNI via the 101 service.”
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£1.2million boost for young people’s groups in East Antrim
Larne's Centrepoint building, which is home to social enterprise AEL. INLT-50-717-con
Victoria Leonard victoria.leonard@jpress.co.uk
Published: 12:00 Wednesday 07 December 2016
Local young people’s groups have received £1.2 million for community projects from the Big Lottery Fund’s Empowering Young People programme.
Larne social enterprise Acceptable Enterprises Limited (AEL) received a grant of £600,000 for their five-year Transitions programme, while Women’s Aid Antrim, Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey (ABCLN) received £600,000 for their three-year Make It Better project.
AEL’s Transitions programme is designed to provide young people with a learning disability with a structured and organised route from educational children’s services into adult services and, where possible, the world of work.
AEL says that the programme “will ease uncertainty and fear about what the future holds whilst providing opportunities to gain basic work experience and new skills.”
The programme will start in 2017 and includes provision of a young people’s hub at Centre Point on Pound Street
Chief Executive David Hunter said: “This is a massive boost for our organisation and those we seek to help.
“Transitions can be a very difficult time for both young people and their family/ support network.”
Meanwhile, Women’s Aid ABCLN’s Make It Better project will support young people who have been affected by domestic violence and help them to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding.
It also supports them with their education, health and wellbeing and social development. They are helped to understand the barriers they face to learning and set goals to achieve their potential.
The young people are offered training programmes including an OCN in Domestic Violence Prevention, talks on mental health and help with CVs.
They sit on a project advisory group and steering groups which decide activities, help recruit project staff, boost confidence in younger children, fundraise and lobby.
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Sarah Jarosz and Sam Bush live on ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ Sept. 26
Lisa L. Rollins Posted On September 24, 2009
Sugar Hill acts Sarah Jarosz and The Sam Bush Band will both appear live this Saturday on the National Public Radio program “A Prairie Home Companion” hosted by Garrison Keillor. The season opener for PHC will air nationally between 5 and 7 p.m. (CST).
Check your local public radio station for specific air times or visit http://prairiehome.publicradio.org for a live audio web-steam of the show. The program broadcasts live to a nation-wide audience from the historic Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul, MN.
Sarah’s debut CD, Song Up In Her Head, was released to critical acclaim earlier this year on Sugar Hill Records. Sarah is currently attending New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and performing as often as possible. To take a listen, access http://sarahjarosz.sugarhillrecords.com.
Sam Bush is touring in promotion of his upcoming cd entitled Circles Around Me due out October 20th on Sugar Hill Records. Produced by three-time Grammy winner Bush, the 14-song set includes appearances by Del McCoury, Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas and New Grass Revival co-founder Courtney Johnson (posthumously). The album also employs the phenomenal talent of Bush’s band: Scott Vestal, Stephen Mougin, Byron House and Chris Brown.
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HomeNewsSt. Lawrence Medical Clinic eliminating its Iroquois presence
St. Lawrence Medical Clinic eliminating its Iroquois presence
May 30, 2019 Editor News
St. Lawrence Medical Clinic’s Iroquois location on College Street. Opened in 2013 as part of a joint venture between the Municipality of South Dundas and the St. Lawrence Medical Clinic group, it was announced today (May 30) that the clinic will no longer offer appointments at the location as of July 15. (The Leader/Comfort photo)
IROQUOIS – The St. Lawrence Medical Clinic is making major changes to the health care services it provides to this community, and that will mean the end for the Iroquois clinic.
SLMC is consolidating its medical care in South Dundas at its Morrisburg location, announcing this afternoon that they will not offer appointments at the Iroquois office as of July 15, 2019.
In the media release SLMC officials said: “The Medical profession in Ontario has been under strain. We are having difficulty recruiting new physicians, as are many rural areas in Ontario. At the present time we do not have enough physicians to operate three facilities nor is it economically feasible for the Clinic to do so. Therefore, we have decided to consolidate South Dundas medical care at the Morrisburg location.”
Changes are also coming to laboratory services offered at the clinics in South Dundas and South Stormont.
“St Lawrence Medical Clinic has been funding the provision of laboratory services at our clinics. We recognize that this is an important resource for our patients and that is why we have absorbed the significant cost associated with operating the lab. Unfortunately, we can no longer privately fund the labs and will cease to do so as of September 2,2019. The Clinic is working with the lab companies and we are hopeful that laboratory services will continue to be available at our sites.”
“The Townships of South Dundas and South Stormont have agreed to assist us in physician recruitment. If we are successful Clinic services may be revised,” reads the release.
The SLMC also announced that its future plans include a new after hours service that will be offered by the Clinic to provide urgent care appointments. That service is expected to commence in July 2019 and further details will be forthcoming.
The St Lawrence Medical Clinic has been providing medical care to this community for more than 50 years.
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Reader Contribution By Geri Vistein
| 6/27/2016 7:28:00 AM
Tags: coyotes, wildlife, predators, sustainable grazing, nature writing, Maine, Geri Vistein,
Understanding historical events, that have taken place on our American continent ever since our human species arrived, facilitates understanding of our perceptions and behavior of today. And one striking example of this is the dramatic change that took place in the life of our native wild dog: coyote.
In his newly published book, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, author Dan Flores wrote that Native Americans called coyote “Medicine wolf,” and they held coyote “in reverential awe.” He added: “Across the last 10,000 years, Coyote has been America’s Universal Deity.”
Why this reverence and respect? Well, Coyotes lived alongside Native Peoples who had numerous opportunities to observe the intelligence, behavior, and survival skills of this wild canine. They observed them survive against all odds; they observed their resilience and delight in being alive.
Our Native Peoples somehow intuitively understood coyote’s unique ability as a wild canine to live alongside them and be at ease in doing so. Both were at ease in this relationship.
Then 500+ years ago, enter the Europeans, replete with their own world view. As Coyote is unique to the North American continent, the Europeans who first came upon them did not quite know what to make of them. But with the invasion of millions and millions of non-native cows and sheep, and the carnage of Coyote’s native prey, coyote’s survival skills, once so revered by our Native Peoples, came into play once more.
And so began a completely different relationship with our human species — a relationship that tragically continues today across the continent.
So, I believe that this newly published book should be a must read for all Americans, whether you are a farmer or rancher, a suburban or city folk. And I think that what is so important about this book is how the author links a perspective or worldview to the human behavior that flows from that. And he doesn’t write in generalities — over and over and over again he gives innumerable historical accounts of human perspectives and the resulting behavior.
There is such a need for our generation to take that wider, broader, more distant view if we are not to remain stuck in the 16th-Century perspective — and behavior. And that wider, broader view really “gets” that our coyotes today are just as capable, and at ease living alongside us as they were with our Native Peoples.
But are we at ease? What keeps us from being at ease? Fear….lack of understanding of who Coyotes really are… our just not knowing how to behave in their presence…or just not understanding our place on the landscape?
What do you want to pass down to your children and your children’s children? Fear, narrow views of who has a right to be on the land? Or respect and awe and wonder? What would your young child ask of you?
In closing, Dan Flores wrote of Adolph Murie, a biologist in the first half of the 20th Century who was one of the few who understood at that time how vital carnivores were to a healthy ecosystem.
During Adolph’s research of the coyotes in Yellowstone at that time he “had stood rapt, watching a coyote trot along a trail with a sprig of sagebrush in its mouth. At repeated intervals it had tossed the sprig joyously into the air, caught it, then trotted on. ..an animal that took such pleasure of being alive in the world.” Close your eyes…and envision that happening.
Geri Vistein is a conservation biologist whose work focuses on carnivores and our human relationships with them. In addition to research and collaboration with fellow biologists in Maine, she educates communities about carnivores and how we can coexist with them. You can find her at Coyote Lives in Maine, and read all of Geri's MOTHER EARTH NEWS posts here.
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Home Features Rock Climb Your Way Into the 2019 Season
Rock Climb Your Way Into the 2019 Season
As endurance athletes end their 2018 season and endure Chicago’s winter, they can maintain and improve their fitness at a nearby rock climbing facility.
Regardless of how positive a person is, The Windy City’s long, cold days of winter can influence their moods to a degree, especially by the end of February. The winter months are particularly challenging for endurance athletes that would like to maintain their spring, summer and fall fitness levels without being overly bored by the mundaneness of indoor workouts.
The same old, same old should certainly not be the only form of exercise that endurance athletes consider, especially when there are so many options in Chicago. One option will probably surprise many athletes though—rock climbing. Although it’s not usually near the top of most athletes’ lists with regards to endurance exercising, rock climbing will definitely help them prepare for their next season of marathons, triathlons and so forth.
To provide readers more information about this challenging, yet fun (and warm) sport, Chicago Athlete Magazine recently spoke to rock climbing experts who shared their insights on the positives of the sport, as well as the ways in which it can benefit endurance athletes and help them remain in peak form, regardless of Mother Nature’s upcoming plans.
The Benefits are Wide Ranging
Rock climbing is a full-body workout—requiring agility, balance, flexibility and strength—that incorporates a wide array of muscle groups at the same time, from athletes’ back and arm muscles, to their abdominals, calves, deltoids, fingers, obliques and quads.
“When people rock climb, all of their limbs are on the wall at the same time and vertical movement requires using both their arms and legs at the same time,” says Noal Ronken, training and business development manager at Vertical Endeavors. “As a result, multiple muscle groups, involving both push (legs) and pull (arms and back) actions, are used.”
He adds, “In addition, people utilize joints such as the shoulders and hips extensively, further adding other muscle groups to the mix.”
Aside from using a variety of muscle groups simultaneously, rock climbers also discover muscles they never noticed before, especially within a day or two after their first climb. After all, they’re utilizing tendons and muscles they rarely use, particularly back muscles—at different angles (as climbers move up, down and to the side) and intensities throughout each climb.
Of equal importance, rock climbing also builds strength and stability in the upper body throughout a wide range of anatomical positions and across all three planes of motion: frontal, sagittal and even transverse. The infinite variability of hold placements and shapes ensures no two routes require the same physical demands of a climber.
“Climbing accomplishes this naturally and without requiring athletes to even think about it,” states Eric Schafer, fitness and corporate events coordinator at First Ascent Climbing & Fitness. “Replicating the same variability in a traditional fitness setting would be nearly impossible and certainly not as much fun.”
Not to mention, rock climbing’s impact on forearm strength and endurance, along with core strength and stability, must not be overlooked. As a climbing wall’s steepness increases, more and more core strength is required to keep climbers’ feet firmly placed on the wall. Likewise, climbers’ forearms are also strengthened as routes become steeper and more challenging, thereby improving their performances in grip-specific activities like barbell lifting.
Furthermore, rock climbing is highly proprioceptive as climbers are required to push and pull simultaneously with different body parts. Consequently, their body awareness increases considerably as they develop their climbing technique on vertical terrain.
“Most new climbers will only concentrate on the next hold they have to grab, and they will grab every hold as if their lives depended on it,” says Do Nguyen, assistant director of operations and training at Planet Granite Portland. “Over time, new climbers will realize that the reason their forearms are getting so tired is that they’re squeezing too much.”
Nguyen continues, “Climbers need to expand their awareness to where their entire body is in space—not just the hold their hands are touching.”
Aside from its physical benefits, it’s important to consider yet another positive aspect of rock climbing: socialization. According to Schafer, Chicago’s climbing community is very welcoming to beginners and extremely social, as climbers of all ages and experience levels develop friendships.
“Rock climbing is inherently social, as roped climbing requires a partner to belay the climber,” Schafer says. “Meanwhile, bouldering—climbing without ropes up to about 15 feet—fosters a collaborative community atmosphere where groups of climbers will naturally come together to figure out a particular sequence of moves.”
He adds, “These community aspects reduce the barrier to entry for climbing and make it easier to stick with once athletes get started.”
Bob Good, general manager and operations manager of the Maggie Daley Park Climbing Wall and manager of the Lakeshore Sport & Fitness Climbing Wall, agrees with this sentiment, stressing that the social component of rock climbing is becoming very prevalent.
“There is no better way to get to know someone than to have them attached to you by a rope and a belay device. Climbers trust their lives with someone else’s ability to belay,” he explains. “As a climber, it is also an exhilarating experience having someone on the ground encourage you to climb higher and higher.”
Become a More Well-Rounded Athlete
Although rock climbing is not the first form of exercise that endurance athletes typically consider, they can certainly benefit from regular visits to a climbing wall, especially during the off-season. First off, the sport is just as mentally demanding as it is physically challenging.
“When climbers look at a climbing route or boulder problem, they have a set amount of holds and feet they can utilize. That’s all,” Nguyen states. “It’s up to the climber to decide the best possible way for them to climb and to also adjust their game plan when they get to a hold and realize it’s worse than they thought. They must constantly think about what their next move should be.”
With this in mind, rock climbers—much like endurance athletes—must “stay in the moment,” according to Ronken, as they’re often in situations in which they’re pushing their bodies and minds to the limit. Ralph Woolard, head-route setter at Maggie Daley Park, also considers rock climbing a complement to most endurance sports.
“Each climb is a small window into a climber’s personality, which sometimes highlights flaws in their mental attitudes (that can hamper performance). These trials allow climbers to improve their mentality,” Woolard says. “As a mentally stimulating activity, climbing also helps with the monotony of most endurance exercises.”
In addition to improving endurance athletes’ mental strength, rock climbing also offers them a unique strength training method, according to Anna Bifano, a climbing wall instructor at Lakeshore Sport & Fitness. Due to the variety of muscles that are utilized on a wall (not to mention the positive mentality that’s required), rock climbers can not only train for a wide array of athletic endeavors—swimming, bicycling, yoga, rowing—but they can also train for rock climbing by participating in those endeavors. The bottom line? Rock climbing is a win-win for any endurance athlete in the off-season.
“The off-season is a time to dial back the intensity of training in a primary sport. Climbing provides an outlet for that focus and intensity, while giving athletes’ bodies a chance to recover from the stresses of hard training and competition in primary sports,” Schafer adds. “Simply put, climbing helps endurance athletes become more well-rounded athletes.”
If endurance athletes have just begun to rock climb, Nguyen, Schafer and Woolard advise them to train for the climbing wall in one particular way: climb, climb, climb, as they need to learn how to move on vertical terrain. As they become more experienced, they should focus on identifying and then improving their weaknesses while implementing basic techniques.
“I’d advise athletes to concentrate on keeping their arms straight, using their legs, utilizing the edge of their shoes and keeping their hips in towards the wall,” Nguyen suggests.
Climbing training, as a whole, can be broken down into four categories—strength/power, technique, flexibility and mental—according to Daniel Rudolph, climbing and fitness manager at Brooklyn Boulders. Technique is trained so that athletes learn how to apply their strength and power to the climbing wall in the most efficient way possible. Meanwhile, flexibility is just as critical, as athletes must distribute their weight properly from their upper bodies to their lower bodies.
“More than most sports, climbing relies on a practiced mental game,” Rudolph explains. “The fear of falling is hardwired into everyone. Pushing hard on the climbing wall requires athletes to get comfortable with falling, as well as failure.”
Ronken also advises athletes to consider developing an overall training program for climbing, similar to other sports, with regards to the phases that are involved.
“A climber may choose to focus a few weeks at a time on endurance training, finger strength training, power training and technique training—and then combine them all for a final two weeks of ‘maxing’ out on trying to accomplish a certain level of climbing,” Ronken says. “A typical training period is around 10 weeks, although it can vary from climber to climber.”
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Manawatu,Auckland and Wellington Campus
Web Site: http://www.massey.ac.nz/
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Management and/or Entrepreneurship and Innovation
$69,841 - $89,134 pa
Education, Marketing, media & communications
School of Management, Massey Business School
This full-time permanent position is based at the University’s Auckland campus, in Albany. Having presence across campuses (Auckland & Manawatu) and Distance Learning, you will be expected to deliver courses internally and via distance across all levels and supervise research students.
Lecturer/Research Officer
Applications close:
11:30 p.m. on 14 October 2018
Massey Business School is one of New Zealand’s (NZ) leading and largest business schools, and is ranked in the top 2% business schools globally. We are accredited by AACSB, AMBA (the Association of MBAs), and are a CFA® partner school, and in 2017, we were ranked in the world’s top 150 internationally in Finance & Accounting and top 250 in Economics in the QS rankings. In 2018, our subject areas in Finance and Business Administration were ranked No. 1 in NZ by Shanghai Rankings. The School’s strategic priorities are Thriving Work Environment, Impactful Research, Teaching & Learning Excellence, Engaged Stakeholders, Responsible Citizenship, Globally Capable Staff and Students, and Diversified Revenue Streams. The School has a positive culture that enables scholars to thrive in their teaching, research and professional service, including engagement with industry.
The School of Management (http://www.massey.ac.nz/?s2aa01412t), which is housed in the Massey Business School, invites applications from academic scholars who are researching in the area of Management and/or Entrepreneurship and Innovation. This full-time permanent position is based at the University’s Auckland campus, in Albany. Having presence across campuses (Auckland & Manawatu) and Distance Learning, you will be expected to deliver courses internally and via distance across all levels and supervise research students.
To be successful in appointment, you will have a PhD or equivalent in Management or complementary field, demonstrated teaching experience, research expertise and a track record of research outputs. You will also have experience and/or commitment to engaging with the business community to create research and learning opportunities. A proven ability to secure external research funds and/or engage effectively with business audiences would be an advantage. You will also be expected to plan, develop, research and teach in the Management and/or Entrepreneurship and Innovation academic discipline and will have a flexible and innovative approach to learning and teaching.
All applications should be made via the Massey website. Enquiries of an academic nature regarding the position should be directed to the Acting Head of School, Associate Professor Bevan Catley, via email: B.E.Catley@massey.ac.nz
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NBA Analysis: Reaction to Carmelo's Debut with Knicks
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Wow. That was the most fun I’ve had as a Knicks fan in a very, very long time. I had the good fortune to be at the Garden for a number of playoff games during the Knicks’ special run to the ’99 finals, including LJ’s 4-point play against the Pacers (the best moment of basketball I’ve ever witnessed live) and last night was like a trip back in time.
The Knicks aren’t title contenders yet, but when the players took the court, despite not having even so much as one practice together, it was easy to see just how much the team has been upgraded. The Knicks’ talent simply overwhelmed a well-coached team that had given them fits over the past few years. The roster is still a solid big man (and perhaps a backup PG) away from being truly formidable, but this is shaping up to be a special era in Knicks history.
Anyway, here are a couple of thoughts that popped into my head this morning:
– As great a scorer as Melo has been to this point in his career, it’s easy to envision him becoming even more deadly playing in D’Antoni’s system. I wouldn’t judge him to much on what he did last night, because it was basically a pick-up game and I’m sure he was an exhausted, emotional wreck given what the past 72 hours have been like for him and his family. That said, Melo does stop the ball. That won’t always be a bad thing, especially with the shot clock running down when the team badly needs a bucket, but I think he’d be wise to embrace the ball and human movement in D’Antoni’s sets.
When Gallo was here he got most of his half-court looks off drive & kicks and dribble drag action. He scored a lot of points pretty efficiently that way too. D’Antoni’s sets are designed to make scoring easy and fun. If Gallo could be so effective using that action, imagine what Melo could do with it.
This isn’t to say that the Knicks shouldn’t bend the offense to suit Melo too. His post game is amazing and the team should definitely experiment a lot with putting Melo and Amar’e in pick & rolls together, but it’s not hard to imagine Melo’s efficiency stats skyrocketing if he just embraces some of the motion in D’Antoni’s sets that’s created easy looks for so many lesser players.
–The more I think about the Knicks’ choice to trade for and lock up Anthony now, the more sense it makes to me. Consider the decision within the context of the Nets’ conundrum:
When the league owners are negotiating internally about the terms they seek from the players in the next CBA, both the Knicks and the Nets will surely be in the camp that supports a more flexible cap that allows players more freedom of movement. The reasons are obvious: both teams have loads of money and offer a desirable locale (in the Nets’ case, eventually).
But the Nets’ situation is a little more complicated than the Knicks’ because, although they have Prokho, Jay-Z, Brooklyn (eventually), and now own the rights to Deron Williams, they can’t extend Williams now and have absolutely no assurances that he’ll stay beyond 2011. In fact, if there’s a lockout that lasts the whole season, the Nets may have traded Devin Harris, Derrick Favors and two lottery picks for the rights to rent Williams for just 2 months of actual basketball–or, in other words, the exact same deal they refused to make for Anthony.
So, on the one hand, the Nets are surely hoping for a less restrictive cap so that they’ll have the ability to chase other superstar players like Dwight Howard to put around Williams. After all, making the Nets a great team is the best way to convince him to stay.
On the other hand, though, if Williams is hellbent on walking away, a more restrictive cap with a franchise tag would prevent him from doing so and leaving the Nets with nothing. But in that case, even if the Nets were able to keep Williams, the more restrictive system would make it much more difficult to surround him with good players.
Basically, the Nets are staring down great uncertainty and there’s at least a decent chance they end up getting burned no matter what happens with the CBA.
The Knicks, on the other hand, now have two superstars locked up for the next five years. If certain owners have their way, maybe they won’t be able to sign Chris Paul, but at least they’ve assembled a much sturdier bomb shelter in the event that the next CBA really does go nuclear.
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Mahomet Aquifer Coalition
In 2011, the Mahomet Aquifer Coalition was formed in response to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision allowing Clinton Landfill, Inc. to operate a chemical waste unit (CWU) for the disposal of toxic substances at its facility located near Clinton, Illinois. The EPA’s decision allowing the disposal of hazardous waste directly over the Mahomet Aquifer jeopardized the aquifers safety as the primary drinking water source for an estimated three quarters of a million residents in Central Illinois.
The coalition, which included twenty local government and stakeholders organizations, banded together to educate the public and area legislators in an effort to protect and preserve the Mahomet Aquifer. Fourteen coalition members approved an intergovernmental agreement to share legal costs associated with preventing further disposal of toxic substances over the Mahomet Aquifer. The City of Champaign, acting as lead agency, contracted with attorneys to file and prosecute legal challenges to the operation of the CWU in December 2012.
Mahomet Aquifer Summit
The Annual Summit is a recurring opportunity for Alliance members and stakeholders to share updates and learn about the Alliance's ongoing effort to protect and preserve the Mahomet Aquifer. You may access the presentations from the June 2017 summit meeting held in Normal, IL by clicking on the links below.
Consent Decree and Sole Source Review
MAAA Overview
MET Presentation
On February 22, 2014, the Coalition hosted a summit in Normal, Illinois. View the recorded videos of the summit:
Summit Part 1
After four years of combined efforts, the coalition agreed to a consent decree by which Clinton Landfill, Inc. agreed not to dispose of any toxic PCB or additional MGP waste within DeWitt County, effective November 12, 2015. The decree, limited in its scope, applied to the hazardous wastes that were an issue in the underling litigation and does not prohibit the landfill from depositing other types of wastes not classified as “hazardous”.
Sole Source
In addition to the consent decree, the U.S. EPA granted sole source designation to the Illinois portion of the Mahomet Aquifer in March 2015. The Safe Drinking Water Act gives the EPA authority to designate all or part of an aquifer as a "sole source" if contamination of the aquifer would create a significant public-health hazard and there are no physically available or economically feasible alternative sources of drinking water to serve the population that relies on the aquifer.
The benefits of the Sole Source designation for the Aquifer are:
Extra review for Federally funded projects above the Aquifer to insure they would not contaminate the Aquifer
Extra notice to all governments in the region to consider actions which may impact the Aquifer
Activating a higher set of State standards for future landfills and landfill expansions above the Aquifer
A better informed public
Another event of note occurred August 14, 2015, when the Governor signed House Bill 1326 prohibiting the disposal of hazardous MGP wastes in landfills other than a permitted hazardous waste site.
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Parents' complaint over council school taxi offer for autistic child upheld
Amanda Cameron
Hundreds of criminals, including sex offenders, have applied for a taxi driver's licence in North Somerset since 2012. Picture: Pixabay
An autistic boy's trip to school became 'traumatic' after the local authority decided to save money by putting him in a taxi with another pupil.
The nearest secondary school which could meet the boy's needs was 35 miles away, but the journey took about 90 minutes because he was picked up before another child.
The boy's mother said the journey could take more than two hours in bad traffic, and she often had to take him herself because he became so anxious he refused the taxi.
North Somerset Council made the school transport offer after rejecting the woman's appeal for a separate taxi to shorten the trip for her son.
The Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman has upheld a complaint from the boy's parents against the council and ordered it to hold another appeal and revise its school transport rules.
Mr and Mrs B - as referred to in the report - said the council failed to consider the impact of the journey time on their son and its school transport policy was unlawful.
Local authorities are required to provide suitable transport to school, where necessary. The trip for a secondary school child should be no longer than 75 minutes and 'reasonably stress-free', according to Government guidance.
North Somerset Council offered a taxi shared with three other pupils along a 50-mile route which would have taken at least an hour and 40 minutes, the Ombudsman's report shows.
The boy's mother appealed, asking for a separate taxi to keep his journey to around 75 minutes to avoid 'stress and anxiety' for him.
But the council said separate taxis would double travel costs and offered instead to explore whether a larger vehicle would help and promised to review the travel arrangements after a couple of months. Shortly after the appeal hearing, the council decided to divide the four children into two taxis, reducing the travelling time.
The council obtained taxi information suggesting the boy's trip to school took 90 minutes on average and that the journey home took around 75 minutes.
The boy started on a part-time timetable in January 2018, went full-time two weeks later, and started travelling by taxi in April 2018.
The Ombudsman's decision said: "The council was at fault, as its school transport appeal panel failed to fully consider Mr and Mrs B's son's circumstances when hearing their appeal against the council's offer of transport."
The council was ordered to review its transport policy to reflect the requirements of the Education Act and the statutory guidance by the end of August.
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Before Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, pop culture struggled with subject
By Ethan Sacks
Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) get married in the now legendary episode of ‘Modern Family.’ (Peter "Hopper" Stone/ABC)
Well before the Supreme Court's historic ruling on same-sex marriage Friday, the issue has been under deliberation in American pop culture with mixed results.
"We know that from polling data that one of the biggest determinants of whether someone supports marriage equality, is if they know someone in their own life who is a member of LGBT community," says Matt Kane, director of entertainment media at the advocacy group GLAAD, "in the absence of that (personal connection), it's influenced (by) images they see in the media and entertainment."
While the May 2014 episode of "Modern Family" wasn't the first depiction of gay marriage on television, the fact that 10.2 million viewers tuned in to watch proved to be a major milestone.
"We know that pop culture matters, and when we watch Cam and Mitch on 'Modern Family' every week it has an impact — they're lovable and apolitical," said a veteran entertainment industry watcher, who wished to remain anonymous.
Fire Emblem Fates is the first Nintendo game to allow same-sex marriage (Nintendo)
Times are changing all over.
Two days before the decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, Nintendo quietly announced that its new game, Fire Emblem Fates — on sale now in Japan, arriving on this side of the Pacific next year — would allow gamers a same-sex marriage option.
The 3DS role-playing game is a milestone for the company, which drew criticism for leaving out a similar option in previous titles, Eurogamer.net reported.
The Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage nationwide
But not all mediums have been as progressive, says Kane, whose organization has given a big thumbs down to Hollywood.
Part of the lack of representation of same-sex marriage on the big screen may stem from the adversity to risk in a business where major movies cost tens of millions of dollars or more and rely on alienating as few potential ticket-buyers as possible.
The most recent GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index study found that most movies from major studios that include LGBT characters tend to be comedies, where their sexuality is often played for laughs.
Kevin James and Adam Sandler in ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.’ (Tracy Bennett/AP)
Case in point: the poorly received Adam Sandler/Kevin James comedy, "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" may have presaged the legality of same-sex marriage in New York by four years, but it certainly didn't address the subject with any dignity. But even more recently, this year's Will Ferrell and Kevin hart comedy, "Get Hard," drew outrage for a scene set in a gay bar that seemed entirely populated by offensive stereotypes.
"There are systematic problems with the film industry that have produced one of the most non-diverse mediums that we have in our age," he said.
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Kenny Ortega: The man behind every step of 'High School Musical 3'
By Lee Hernández
"High School Musical 3," from l. to r.: Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Ashley Tisdale, Jason Williams. (Fred Hayes)
World-wide teen phenomenon "High School Musical" is back friday with the third — and allegedly final — installment of the Disney series.
"It's a big and wondrous celebration of the final chapter of 'High School Musical' as we know it," says director-choreographer Kenny Ortega over the phone sounding a little nostalgic.
"Many of them came to me as kids," he says of young stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, who have worked on all three "HSM" movies with him since 2006 and in the last one, are in their senior year of high school.
"It's been so wonderful to watch them grow into themselves," says Ortega, 58. "It's kind of like being a schoolteacher watching kids return each year."
With starlet Selena Gomez gone from from the cast, there is no one of Latin heritage in "HSM3," with the big exception of Ortega himself, who has Spanish ancestry.
Gomez told the Daily News in March that she turned down the lead role in "HSM3" because "after Disney, I want to be taken seriously for many years," but Ortega says he didn't offer Gomez the role.
"We didn't approach her - not to my knowledge," he says, but adds that it's possible someone else did.
"There may have been casting directors that put out a feel for her," he says. "I love Selena. She's a darling and I would love to do something with her sometime."
In "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," the students of East High participate in typical senior-year activities like preparing for the big basketball game, staging their final spring musical, going to the prom and trying to find a way to say goodbye to friends and love interests after graduation.
Ortega admits his own senior year wasn't anything like the movie's.
"I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom," he says. "This movie was kind of wonderful in that I get to go to prom as a second visitation."
Born and raised in Palo Alto, Calif., Ortega's parents were also born here but his paternal grandparents were from Spain.
"I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot old culture," Ortega says.
Although he directed the 1993 film "Hocus Pocus," starring Bette Midler, and episodes of TV shows "Gilmore Girls" and "Ally McBeal," Ortega is best known for some of Hollywood's most memorable dance sequences.
He choreographed actor Gene Kelly on the 1980 film "Xanadu" and Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze's steamy moves in 1987's "Dirty Dancing." Other 80s teen hits include "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and "Pretty in Pink," starring Molly Ringwald.
Now, Ortega is re-teaming with Efron for a remake of the Kevin Bacon dance classic "Footloose," due out in 2010.
Ortega says his Spanish grandmother, Juana, gave him the vision for his choreographies.
"She would do flamenco in the kitchen while cooking migas on a Sunday morning, and I remember the sound of her heels kicking against the linoleum in the kitchen," he says.
"That passion and excitement for life has had an impact on everything I've done."
Two weeks ago, when Ortega made a promotional visit to his grandmother's native country, he was given the royal treatment.
"I love Spain, from Zaragoza to Barcelona to Madrid, but I have never been there for a project that created this kind of reaction," he says.
"The fans were shouting my name at the red carpet. For me, returning to this place that is my family's place, and that has such importance to me, and to feel this adoration," he says, "was very moving."
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Two killed, a dozen more injured in fast-moving Bronx apartment fire
By Molly Crane-Newman , Edgar Sandoval , Nicole Hensley and Laura Dimon
A Bronx neighborhood is grieving over another deadly fire after two men were trapped and killed Monday.
A Bronx neighborhood is grieving over another deadly fire after two men were trapped and killed Monday when flames tore through an apartment just blocks away from a building where 13 people perished in December.
The latest deadly blaze broke out just before 1:30 a.m. in a ground floor apartment along Hoffman St. near E. 187th St. in Belmont.
Fire officials said residents of the apartment where the fire began fled from the flames without closing any doors behind them, leaving a clear path of destruction.
It was an open door that paved the way for fire to spread through an apartment building and kill 13 residents just days after Christmas, in a blaze that started when a 3-year-old boy was playing with the burners on the stove.
That fire — less than half a mile from Monday's fire — was the city's deadliest inferno in more than 25 years.
The Hoffman St. fire trapped residents in the second-floor apartment directly above where the fire began, including the two men who died, FDNY Assistant Chief Roger Sakowich said. Neither apartment had working smoke alarms, officials said.
The men who died were not identified.
Two women, who lived in the same apartment as the two men who died, were rushed to Jacobi Medical Center in critical condition.
Many of the residents were trapped on the second floor of this Belmont apartment building. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)
Firefighters "had to push the fire back" in a stairway before they could reach those trapped by the flames, Sakowich told reporters.
Seven other residents, including a 7-year-old girl, were taken to Jacobi for burns and smoke inhalation but were expected to survive, authorities said. Three firefighters suffered minor injuries tackling the blaze.
Residents who managed to escape their apartments took shelter in their cars to keep warm as smoke-eaters extinguished the fire.
Officials did not say how the blaze began in the five-story building, but a resident who lived in the apartment mentioned he had been smoking before the fire erupted.
"I couldn't breathe," said Paul Montgomery, who was staying in the apartment where the fire started.
"I was walking around smoking a cigarette and weed and trying to figure out what was going on. I was scared to death — a fire, I've never been in a fire before. Luckily, I got out."
Montgomery, 35, did not say whether he was the one to start the blaze. He said he woke up to a smoke-filled room and saw orange flames licking the walls of the apartment. He said he tried to douse the flames, but only made it worse.
Bronx firefighters treat a resident who was carried out of the burning building early Monday. (Vic Nicastro/ for New York Daily News)
"I come outside the building and I see big flames everywhere on the fourth floor. Next thing you know, I see people hanging out the windows trying to get out," he told the Daily News.
"I heard two people died. I don't know what happened."
Building owner Dom Petruzzelli, 60, said residents have been having issues with the first-floor tenants for months.
"I've been trying to get them out," he said. "I'm in court, that's all I can do. I can't go in there and grab them out of there, you know?"
Petruzzelli, who has owned the Belmont building for two decades, could not explain why two smoke detectors were not working. He said he made sure to place smoke detectors in every corner of the property after the nearby Bronx fire.
"After that building, that scared the hell out of me," Petruzzelli said. "I didn't want to take any chances."
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Five people injured in Bronx apartment building fire
By Laura Dimon
One firefighter was among the five injured in the blaze on Monday afternoon. (JANIFEST/Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Five people were hurt in a Bronx fire Monday, authorities said.
The flames broke out on the second floor of a six-story building on University Ave. near 195th St. in Jerome Park about 1:30 p.m.
One resident was seriously injured, according to officials. The other four people, including one firefighter, suffered minor injuries.
Two people were taken to Jacobi Hospital, according to the FDNY. It wasn't known if the others were taken in for treatment.
The fire was under control at about 2:20 p.m., officials said.
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Alabama doubles Lane Kiffin’s salary, O-coordinator now makes $1.4 million this season
Ex-USC coach Lane Kiffin (l.) gets a big pay raise from the University of Alabama. (Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has doubled offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin's salary for this season.
The university trustees' compensation committee approved Kiffin's new $1.4 million deal on Friday. It runs from July 1, 2016 to Feb. 28, 2017.
He made $714,000 last season under a three-year deal which ran through this season.
Kiffin was the only returning assistant who didn't get a raise in June. He had been receiving a buyout from USC.
"It was a significant amount and that ended June 30 of this year," athletic director Bill Battle told trustees. "It is what the top coordinators are making and Lane has been very effective for us the two years that he's been here. We feel like this is very appropriate for what he should be making."
Alabama has made the playoffs with new starting quarterbacks in each of Kiffin's first two years, including last season's national title. The new salary would have put him alongside Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables as college football's fifth-highest paid assistant in 2015, according to USA Today. The top four were all in the Southeastern Conference, led by then-Auburn defensive coordinator Will Muschamp at $1.6 million.
Kiffin is a former Tennessee, Southern California and Oakland Raiders head coach who was a finalist for the Frank Broyles Award given to the nation's top assistant in 2014. That season, Blake Sims set a school record with 3,487 passing yards.
New defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt is making $1 million annually on his three-year deal.
Trustees also approved a 5-year deal for new baseball coach Greg Goff worth $450,000 annually.
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De Blasio, At Debate, Takes A Minimum Wage Victory Lap
There’s a rich irony, somewhere, that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was touting a $15 minimum wage that his some-time rival Gov. Andrew Cuomo had backed 200 miles to the north in Albany.
De Blasio repeatedly at last night’s debate returned to New York City’s $15 minimum wage. He could have been referring to the 2016 order he gave that set the minimum wage for city workers at $15. But he also spoke about the wage in broad terms.
As de Blasio can attest, the city remains a creature of the state, and it was up to state lawmakers and Cuomo to increase the minimum. The $15 minimum for large employers took effect at the end of last year (for small business of 10 or less employees, the wage hits $15 at the end of this year).
Beyond the minimum wage claim, de Blasio also falsely asserted he enacted “universal health care” in New York City — a claim that vastly overstated the scope of an existing program.
Still, de Blasio’s debate performance, honed perhaps by two terms of wrestling with New York City’s cantankerous press corps, was seen as sharp — interrupting his fellow presidential candidates several times, including an early-evening swipe at former Rep. Beto O’Rourke over health care.
The mayor and Sen. Elizabeth Warren were also the only candidates on the stage to raise their hands when asked if they would abolish private insurance when switching the nation over to a single-payer health care system.
And de Blasio returned to what had been a solid formula for him when he first ran for mayor in 2013 by touting his family, especially his son Dante, when discussing the need to speak to him about his interactions with the police as a person of color.
Tonight, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is the familiar face from New York who will take the debate stage in round two.
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PLUS: BASEBALL; Yanks Raise Prices
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NOV. 14, 1998
The cost of the best box seats at Yankee Stadium next season will increase to $50 from $45 as part of a full-scale rise in ticket prices.
Premium box seats, which include waiter service, will cost $50 (field) and $37.50 (main), up from $45 and $35 this season. These tickets are not available for individual games, but sold only as part of season plans. Other box seats will cost $29 (field, main near the infield and loge near the infield), $26 (main and loge in the outfield) and $23 (upper deck), up from $25, $23 and $20 in 1998.
Reserved seats will cost $26 (main near the infield), $23 (main near the outfield) and $14 (upper deck), up from $23, $20 and $12 this year. Bleacher seats will cost $8, a $1 increase.
A version of this article appears in print on November 14, 1998, on Page D00005 of the National edition with the headline: PLUS: BASEBALL; Yanks Raise Prices. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Business|Jeff Raider on Founding Warby Parker and Harry’s
Jeff Raider, the co-founder of Warby Parker, and Harry’s.CreditCreditMike Cohen for The New York Times
Jeff Raider on Founding Warby Parker and Harry’s
First, eyeglasses. Now, shaving. Mr. Raider, a co-founder of two powerful direct-to-consumer brands, says change happens faster than we think.
By David Gelles
It’s hard enough to start one billion-dollar company. Jeff Raider has co-founded two.
While at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, he helped launch Warby Parker, the direct-to-consumer eyeglasses company with a social mission. Warby Parker is now worth some $1.75 billion, and has given away four million pairs of glasses to date.
After graduating from Wharton, Mr. Raider opted not to stay with Warby Parker. Instead, he went to work at a private equity firm, Charlesbank. But after a short stint on Wall Street, Mr. Raider got the entrepreneurial bug again.
In 2013, he co-founded Harry’s, a direct-to-consumer men’s shaving business, with Andy Katz-Mayfield. This time, he had the advantage of experience: He raised ample capital, staffed up and bought a factory early on. Recently, Harry’s expanded with a line of women’s products.
This interview, which was condensed and edited for clarity, was conducted in New York City.
What did your parents do for a living?
My mom was an entrepreneur. She started a company when I was 11, and they were one of the pioneers in the loyalty-card space. I saw how hard it was and how much she worked. I saw how high the highs could be when they’d get a new account, and how difficult the lows could be. And I thought, “I don’t want to do that when I get older.” It’s ironic that I’ve come full circle and ended up starting companies.
I worked in buildings and grounds in high school, with people who were living paycheck to paycheck. We got paid on Fridays, and on Thursday we’d go out to lunch together, and sometimes I would have to loan my co-workers, who were 40 years old, enough money to buy a slice of pizza. They clearly hadn’t had the opportunities that I was having. It gave me a ton of respect for both hard work, and also was really motivating to me to try to go build additional skills so that I could have more career opportunities beyond just buildings and grounds.
And what was your first real experience with business?
The first job I got out of college was at Bain & Company, which has this philosophy that everyone was going to have impact on the projects. I was 22 years old, I didn’t know anything about business, and immediately they started giving me a lot of responsibility, which was really motivating. I was sort of out over my skis for a long, long time, but I loved that feeling. Where I think I’ve been most excited professionally is where I felt really highly challenged, and where the work has felt like it’s had outsized impact.
You went to Wharton, but it wasn’t the usual B-school experience.
People ask me what I learned at business school and I’m like, “I learned Warby Parker.” We had the idea early on at school, and there’s this incredible community of people at Wharton who understood how to launch a business. We went to our professors and said, “Hey, we don’t want to talk about the Coke versus Pepsi case that you just taught in class. We need to have you help us understand how to price eyeglasses.”
“Disruption happens at a geometric pace as opposed to a linear pace.” — Jeff Raider
How did the company get started?
When I first heard about the idea for Warby Parker, I was sitting around after class with one of my good friends, and another one of our friends came up and said, “What do you think about the idea of selling glasses online?” At the time, I had on a $500 pair of designer glasses that were being held together by a piece of duct tape. I was, like, “Oh man, there’s this huge pain point here. I would love a new pair of glasses.”
I went home that night and I couldn’t sleep. I emailed my friends at 1 a.m. and I was, like, “I can’t stop thinking about this. This is a good idea. We should do this.” And then they emailed right back and said, “Yeah, I can’t sleep either.”
Was the school supportive?
Yeah. They had a venture award in which they essentially just granted money to people starting businesses, which we got. They had this program called the Venture Initiation Program, where we had space where we could kind of congregate and work, which became the early Warby Parker addresses. And we’d take a marketing class with an amazing professor, and we’d say, “We’re going to make our class project about Warby Parker.”
Were you convinced it would be successful?
No. We did the Wharton business plan competition and we lost. And at that point, I was like, “Oh, man, is this going to work?” I went to my co-founders and was like, “Guys, I don’t know. I’m not sure this is a good idea.” And Neil, one of my co-founders, said, “I believe in this idea. I believe in us. We are going to make this happen and we are going to prove to these naysayers that they were wrong.” There’s going to be ups and downs in the journey, and the ability of your co-founders to pick you up when you’re a little bit down is super important.
What had changed from your childhood that you now wanted to be an entrepreneur?
I’ve thought a bunch about this over time. The thing that I misunderstood about my mom’s experience as an entrepreneur, because I was young and not really talking to her in a grown-up way about it, is that, while there were ups and downs, she loved it.
After school you left Warby Parker and went to private equity. How did Harry’s start?
I went back to Charlesbank, but it started to feel a little bit more like work, rather than fun. It was at that moment I realized that I wanted to do something entrepreneurial again. I had to take a step back. What do I want to do with my life, at least professionally? Right around that time, Andy called me with the idea for Harry’s, and it felt like the first conversations we had at Warby Parker. I remember being like, “This is what I’ve got to go do. Here we go again.”
What was different between starting Warby Parker and Harry’s?
When we launched Warby Parker, we were still graduating from business school. It was just four of us, and we were working part time. When we turned the site on, we thought we’d get 20 or 30 orders, but we were getting hundreds and thousands of orders. We’d get as many glasses in as we could, sell them all, go out of stock, take the money and buy a bunch more, sell them, and go out of stock again. We didn’t presume a lot of success, and had to play catch-up. It was frenetic.
At Harry’s we presumed more success. We raised a bunch of capital ahead of our launch. We built a team of 11 people before we launched. We made our own custom razor handles, custom blades with a factory in Germany, made our own shave cream. We had forecast more sales at Harry’s than we did at Warby Parker, and we still sold out. But we were better prepared to absorb the shock.
Warby Parker is known for its social mission. How did you approach that at Harry’s?
We think that there is a really important role that we as a brand can play in having a voice around what it means to be a man in the world today. The traditional masculine norms are O.K., but guys need to be able to define masculinity on their own terms. Men can be both confident and vulnerable, they can be both strong and empathetic. So we partnered with organizations that are helping to sort of expand the narrative around masculinity, and we donate 1 percent of our sales to those organizations.
What advice would you give to aspiring entrepreneurs?
You’ve got to be all in, and you’ve got to love it. Those two things are two sides of the same coin. And then, be humble enough to learn along the way. When we started Warby Parker, we asked all of our friends, “What do you think, would you buy glasses online?” They were like, “No, I don’t think I would. I’ve got to kind of touch them and feel them and experience them in person before I buy.”
At that point, we could have just said, “That feedback doesn’t make sense.” But instead we said, “That’s a really important thing that we just learned. How can we evolve our business model to account for that?” And so we ended up with this home try-on program where we let people try on glasses at home for free and then send them back to us.
What keeps you up at night?
I think that the world’s going to change a lot faster than most people do, that disruption happens at a geometric pace as opposed to a linear pace, and that pace is only going to increase. If you think about our industry, a couple years ago it was 0 percent online. Now our market is 10 to 20 percent online and growing really fast. People incrementalize change when actually, change happens exponentially.
David Gelles is the Corner Office columnist and a business reporter. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter. @dgelles
A version of this article appears in print on , Section BU, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: The Billion-Dollar-Company Touch. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Though he spends most of his time with virtual servers and core switches, Director of Systems and Network Services John Wade says straight out that he’s no geek. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, John received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1988. While electrical engineers are normally more at home around electricity and electromagnets, he began to find computers more of an attraction. But for a while, John kept his newfound field of interest under wraps. “I resisted computers in college because I didn’t want to be labeled as a geek,” he says. “But the jobs I was interested in were all in the IT world. So I finally embraced my inner geek.”
After taking some personal time to hike the Appalachian Trail, John became a technical support representative at Helix Technologies in Prospect Heights, Illinois in 1993. During his tenure, he provided design consultation, problem resolution, and tested new software upgrades. A year later, John became a computer technician at Niles North High School in Skokie. Within a few years, he became the school’s instructional information technology manager.
In March 1998, John was hired as manager of microcomputer operations at Oakton. A year later, he was promoted to his current position. “My job is never boring,” John says. “It’s always challenging. Always new.”
His duties include maintenance of the entire computer network; data center upgrades; campus PC operations; the campus telephony (telecommunications services, including voice and data transmissions); security cameras; HVAC controls; and computer security issues.
“If we do our job effectively, no one even knows we’re there, so there’s no down time,” John says. “The goal of my team is to deliver quality IT service that students and faculty expect. And that’s what makes my job so challenging.”
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Join us for the release of former journalist Rebecca Theim's important new book, HELL AND HIGH WATER: The Battle to Save the Daily New Orleans Times-Picayune, essential reading for anyone interested in New Orleans or the future of journalism in America.
Internationally lauded for its heroic role chronicling the death, destruction and public ineptitude during and after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, The Times-Picayune's unofficial rallying cry became "We publish come hell and high water." Despite plummeting circulation and ad revenues after the storm and during the Great Recession, the newspaper remained profitable and boasted the country's highest readership in a city its size.
But New Orleans in 2012 faced "Katrina without the water," as one veteran reporter described it, when the newspaper's owner, New York media conglomerate Advance Publications, put the then-175-year-old The Times-Picayune at the center of a risky experiment in American newspaper journalism. It would become a three-day-a-week publication and instead shift focus and resources to its much derided website, making New Orleans the largest U.S. city without a daily newspaper. Advance and the newspaper's brass then proceeded to slash its veteran newsroom in a mass layoff, antagonize much of the city and state, and ultimately jeopardize The Times-Picayune's vaunted reputation.
This is the story of the eclectic mix of uptown elites, the owner of the New Orleans Saints NFL team, raucous community activists, and newspaper employees and alumni around the country who waged a vociferous grassroots battle to save the daily paper. In a seemingly quixotic twist, they have been joined by a billionaire New Orleans businessman who is financing the type of ferocious newspaper war the region hasn't seen in decades.
It is also the saga of Advance Publications and its controlling billionaire Newhouse family, which began their "forced march to digital," as one newspaper analyst described it, with their eight small newspapers in Michigan, and now have continued it at larger newspapers stretching from Portland, Oregon, to Mobile, Alabama. As newspaper owners ranging from investor Warren Buffett to the nation's largest newspaper chain, the Gannett Company, reject Advance's "digital first" strategy, the future of print newspaper journalism remains uncertain. Author Rebecca Theim examines the upheaval and trials at The Times-Picayune and other Advance newspapers in the context of the rapid-fire digital age, and documents a pivotal event in the newspaper's--and the industry's--history.
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M.J.C. Vile’s classic introductory text, Politics in the USA, has now been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the considerable developments in American politics over the last ten years.
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BACKGROUND OF THE REV. ROBERT MOORE
The Rev. Robert Moore has served since 1981 as full-time Executive Director of the Princeton, NJ-based Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA), a regional organization dedicated to global abolition of nuclear weapons, a peace economy, and a halt to weapons trafficking. From 1988-2014, he served as part-time Pastor of East Brunswick Congregational Church, and from 2014-2016 as part-time Co-Pastor of Christ Congregation in Princeton.
Prior to his current positions, Rev. Moore was for 3 and ½ years the National Secretary of Mobilization for Survival, a nationwide coalition of some 250 organizations working for disarmament and the conversion of resources from military purposes to urgent human needs. Previously, he served as Assistant Pastor to Luther Place Church in Washington DC.
Rev. Moore is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Wittenberg University in 1976, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Purdue University in 1972.
Since his fulltime peacemaking ministry began in 1978, Rev. Moore has played a leadership role in major activities in the US peace movement. He organized a press conference at Three Mile Island the day after the March 1979 nuclear accident, with experts including a Nobel Laureate in Biology, a radiologist, and a physician. The next day, the Governor of Pennsylvania heeded the experts’ call to evacuate pregnant women and children.
He chaired the first meetings of the Organizing Committee for one of the largest demonstration in US history, when one million came to New York demanding a Freeze and Reduction of Nuclear Weapons on June 12, 1982. He chaired the NJ Nuclear Weapons Freeze Referendum which in November 1982 received the support of 2/3 of New Jersey’s voters.
In 1993, Rev. Moore and CFPA’s Ceasefire NJ (CFNJ) Project played a major role in defeating the NRA’s attempt to rescind New Jersey’s Assault Weapons Ban; and in 2002 was a leader in passage of the first in the nation Childproof Handgun Bill into law. In 2017, CFNJ spearheaded bipartisan passage of a law to keep guns away from domestic abusers, and in early 2018 of a Ban on Bump Stocks. Both bills were signed into law by NJ Republican Governor Chris Christie.
In 1995, under Rev. Moore’s leadership, CFPA pioneered the first Peace Voter Campaign in the US, with distribution of tens of thousands of Peace Voter Guides. In 1996, CFPA did the first Peace Voter Signature Ads in newspapers in targeted races, which have since run in over 4 million newspapers in 40 targeted races. In 2000, CFPA did the first Candidate Briefings in the nation. These activities have become a model for peace groups across the country.
In 2005-2006, Rev. Moore co-organized the founding conference of the National Religious Campaign against Torture under CFPA’s umbrella. It subsequently spun off to become an ongoing major national interfaith group. In 2014-2015, he played a similar role in the founding conference of the Interfaith Network on Drone Warfare, a national effort that remains a Project of CFPA’s Peace Action Education Fund.
Starting as a single group with one office, under Rev. Moore’s leadership, CFPA has grown to a major regional organization. Its member and supporting households has grown to over 7,800, and there are three field organizers under its umbrella. It is recognized as one of the fastest growing and most effective grassroots peace groups in the nation.
In addition to his other roles, Rev. Moore serves on the Board of the National Religious Campaign against Torture Action Fund and as Treasurer of the Princeton Clergy Association. He Co-chairs the Action and Advocacy Committee of the Just Peace Priority of the United Church of Christ (national). He serves on the Advisory Boards of The Gandhian Forum for Peace and Justice at William Paterson University; The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice; and the Network of Spiritual Progressives.
Rev. Moore contributed the preface and first chapter of the book Breaking Silence: Pastoral Approaches to Creating an Ethos of Peace (August 2004 from Pilgrim Process). He is also the author of numerous articles, op-eds, letters to the editor, etc. published in newspapers throughout the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania region.
Previously he served as Coordinator of Peacemaking Ministries at the Center of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary; President and Vice-President of the Princeton Clergy Association; Chairperson of the N.J. Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and of the N.J. Disarmament Network; State Coordinator of NJ Peace Action; Coordinator of the N.J. Coalition Against War in Iraq; and on the Princeton Boro Affordable Housing Board.
Rev. Moore has received many honors in his personal and organizational capacities: Outstanding Ecumenical Ministry in New Jersey (1982 from N.J. Council of Churches); Visibility Award (1993 and 2002 from National Peace Action); Citizen Hero (1995 from the ACLU); Community Service Award (1998 from Community House, Princeton University); Peace Builder Award (1999 from Princeton Rotary Club); Gandhi, King, Ikeda Award (2003 from Martin Luther King International Chapel at Morehouse College); Distinguished Leadership Award (2003 from NJ Council of Churches); Outstanding Grassroots Organizer of the Year (2003 from National Peace Action); co-recipient of Humanitarian of the Year (2005 from National Conference for Community and Justice); Excellence in Membership Development, and in Student Organizing (2006 from National Peace Action); Quarter Century Award and Membership Growth Award (2008 from National Peace Action); the Evanoff-Schucter Award for Lifelong Commitment to Organizing (2008 from NJ Citizen Action); Peacemaker Award (2012 from Peace, Love, and Prosperity, International); Peace and Understanding Award (2014 from Peace Islands Institute); and Interfaith Leadership Award (2016 from Institute for Islamic Studies; and 2017 from Muslims for Peace).
Rev. Moore has traveled widely in his various peacemaking ministry roles, including trips to Hiroshima and Nagaski, the former Soviet Union, Germany, Scandanavia, Greece, Holland, Canada, and Mexico. He and his wife, Mary Timberlake, have three children and two grandchildren, and reside in Princeton.
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Karen Buck: Every tenant deserves a home that’s fit for human habitation
Karen Buck MP
My Private Members’ Bill will empower renters to take action against irresponsible landlords and substandard accommodation, writes Karen Buck
'While most landlords act responsibly to their tenants, a significant minority do not', Karen Buck writes
Rare indeed will be the Member of Parliament whose caseload has not included tenants living in shocking conditions – a property riddled with damp and mould most likely, or with wholly inadequate facilities, lacking effective heating or ventilation. While most landlords – social and private – act responsibly to their tenants, a significant minority do not.
We know the scale of the problem from the English Housing Survey. A million homes in total; three-quarters in the private rented sector (representing one in six of all private rentals), and a quarter of a million in social rent, have at least one hazard classed as a serious risk to the occupier’s health. So around three million people, many of them children, are living in unfit homes that present a serious risk to their health and safety.
Yet to most people’s surprise, there is currently no legal obligation on landlords to put or keep the property in a condition ‘fit for habitation’. Of course, there are some duties in this area. There is a duty to repair structure of the property, and keep in repair, heating, gas, water and electricity installations, but that only applies where something is broken or damaged. It does not cover things like fire safety, or inadequate heating, or poor ventilation causing condensation and mould growth.
There are a whole range of ‘fitness’ issues, which affect the well-being and safety of tenants, about which tenants can do nothing themselves at all.
For properties in the private sector or Housing Association, it is possible for the council to take enforcement action under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System. Environmental Health Officers are at the forefront of the battle against bad housing and do excellent work.
However, there is a huge variation in levels of inspection, notices and enforcement rates, and only a tiny proportion of the million or so properties estimated to have one or more ‘hazards’ are subject to action. The fact that local councils have been hit by some of the deepest cuts in the public sector hardly helps. And even before those cuts hit, social housing tenants weren’t covered in the same way – councils can’t enforce against themselves.
I’m cautious about any discussion of the Grenfell disaster in this context, with the inquiry yet to report, but nonetheless one of the problems that those tenants had was that they had no way of challenging the potentially dangerous condition of the common parts of the block, such as the cladding.
Parliament has intended there to be measures to protect tenants against the worst conditions for over 100 years. Back in 1885, Lord Salisbury wrote of the need to ensure ‘Labourers’ and Artisan’s dwellings’ were of a decent standard, since the alternative was injurious to ‘morals and to health’. The subsequent Royal Commission and Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 included an obligation that tenanted homes should, subject to a specified rent ceiling, be ‘fit for human occupation’.
Unfortunately, the rent ceiling hasn’t been revisited since 1959, rending that particular legal remedy worthless, and, despite both Law Commission and Court of Appeal recommendations, that is how things still stand today.
The Private Members’ Bill I will introduce on January 19th will enable all tenants to take action and seek redress on the same issues and at the same standards as can local authorities. This doesn’t create a new regulatory burden – it is a strengthening of tenants’ rights.
Backed by a wide range of organisations, from Shelter and Generation Rent to the Residential Landlord’s Association and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Officers, it will mean tenants can take action against their landlord to make them put right problems or hazards that make the property unfit, and seek compensation when they don’t.
It is not a replacement for council powers, but works alongside them, enabling tenants redress where the council hasn’t, or can’t act. It will make it a right to have a home fit for living in. It is only one weapon in the battle against substandard accommodation, of course, but it is one well worth having.
Karen Buck is Labour MP for Westminster North. The second reading of her Private Members’ Bill is on Friday 19 January
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A Public Service Announcement From Your Future AI Overlords
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Perhaps what worries Stephen Hawking and his fear mongering colleagues is not some hostile Other like Agent Smith from The Matrix, but the more pedestrian Other that is other people.
There's been a lot of chatter in recent months about the menace of artificial intelligence. This summer's movie season offers no less than four films featuring major AI characters, most recently Terminator Genisys, but also Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ex Machina, and Chappie. Following in the venerable virtual footsteps of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, for the most part, Hollywood is in the habit of painting its AI characters as sociopaths, bent on the destruction not only of the story's protagonists, but homo sapiens as a whole. In the interminable Terminator franchise, the "machines" have even learned how to travel through time, bending not only the laws of physics, but also the audience's tolerance for convoluted plot twists.
Hollywood's fixation with the threat of AI only exacerbates the public's predisposition to worry over abstract bogeys while ignoring more pressing concerns, like climate change. It doesn't help when, as the BBC recently dubbed him, "one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists", Stephen Hawking, reinforced the hysteria with references to yet another movie, Transcendence, featuring a sociopathic AI antagonist. Where the Oracle of Cambridge goes, tech billionaires dutifully follow. So Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak have piled onto the fear mongering.
Taking full advantage of the bully pulpit afforded him by his revered standing as a leading theoretical physicist, on numerous occasions, Hawking has gone on the public record with ominous pronouncements about AI. In the interview with the BBC, he said that the "development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race". This, he explains, is likely because "humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."
It's indisputable that Stephen Hawking is a brilliant physicist. He's given us mind-boggling insights into the nature of the cosmos, most notably, the notion that black holes, contrary to the name, actually emit radiation. He's won just about every accolade for which physicists are eligible, short of the Nobel Prize.
But like so many things in the cult of scientism, physicists, as public intellectuals, take on the role that high priests once played in pre-industrial societies. Hawking's proclamations on matters well beyond his expertise take on an almost oracular significance. It doesn't hurt that his public image—he of the nerdy spectacles, the tweed sport coat, the emaciated body, and the high-tech wheelchair—only reinforces a modern variation on the archetype of the sibyl.
As a man, Hawking shows great courage in remaining sanguine in the face of such a debilitating physical condition as Lou Gehrig's disease. But as a public figure, the fact that Hawking makes his encyclicals using a single cheek muscle attached to his trademark retro robotic voice only makes his proclamations all the more oracular. Theoretical physicists, especially cosmologists, have always held a special place, like hierophants of scientism, where they, as the OED would have it, serve as "expounders of sacred mysteries... interpreters of esoteric principle."
The problem is that as great a cosmologist as Hawking undoubtedly is, he's a lousy philosopher of science, let alone predictor of the far-off future. He himself has dismissed philosophy altogether as obviated by the omniscience of monolithic science. In his blinkered rationalist worldview, he might very well be referring exclusively to analytic philosophy, which indeed has lost much of its credibility due to its obsession with aping the technical rigor of mathematics. But to dismiss philosophy as a whole is to betray a disturbing indifference to not only a rich Western intellectual tradition, but also to the limits of science.
Since it's far-fetched to imagine Hawking poking a stick into a steaming pile of goat entrails as he, in a trance state, practices the ancient art of haruspicy, we might as well think of him practicing a decidedly more modern form of divination, such as algorithmancy, divination by algorithm, the method of choice for technophiles worldwide.
Part of the problem is that the term "artificial intelligence" itself is a misnomer. AI is neither artificial, nor all that intelligent. As any food chemist, if pressed, will tell you, beyond the trivial commonsense definition, the distinction between natural and artificial is arbitrary at best, but more often than not, politically motivated. AI isn't artificial, simply because we, natural creatures that we are, make it.
Neither is AI all that intelligent, in the crucial sense of autonomous. Consider, for example, Watson, the IBM supercomputer that famously won the American game show Jeopardy. Not content with that remarkable feat, its makers have had Watson prepare for the federal medical licensing exam, conduct legal discovery work better than first-year lawyers, and outperform radiologists in detecting lung cancer on digital X-rays.
But compared to the bacteria Escherichia coli, Watson is a moron. The first life forms on Earth, bacteria have been around for four billion years. They make up more of the planet's biomass than plants and animals combined. Bacteria exhibit a bewildering array of forms, behaviors, and habitats. Unlike AI, though, bacteria are autonomous. They locomote, consume, and proliferate all on their own. They exercise true agency in the world. Accordingly, to be more precise, we should say that bacteria are more than just autonomous, they're autopoietic, self-made. Despite their structural complexity, they require no human intervention or otherwise to evolve.
Yet when we imagine bacteria, we tend to evoke illustrations of them that misleadingly simplify. On a molecular scale, it's more apt to imagine each bacterium not as a pill with a tail, but, as James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis has it, like the island of Manhattan. Within the bacterium, one of the simplest living things on Earth, an array of structures—capsule, wall, membrane, cytoplasm, ribosomes, plasmid, pili, nucleoid, flagellum—work in concert to common ends. In this astonishing symphony of internal and external organic activity, there is undeniably a vast intelligence at play, an intelligence of which we, as rational scrutinizers, have but a dim grasp.
Here's an example that helps to illuminate the stark contrast in intelligence between a lowly single-celled organism like Escherichia coli and AI. A few years back, the noted Wall Street quant, D.E. Shaw, in all his munificence, started a not-for-profit spinoff of his hyper-successful hedge fund with the sole purpose of analyzing the molecular dynamics of proteins within cells in the hopes of laying the groundwork for future medical breakthroughs. He skimmed off a pile of cash from his vast fortune and hired a gaggle of scientists and engineers to make this possible. They custom built their own supercomputer, which they dubbed Anton, in honor of the famous Dutch inventor of the microscope, Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
Anton and its successors spend their days bringing world-class processing power to bear on the stochastic wrigglings of bits of protein chains. Let's come back to Lovelock's analogy that, in terms of complexity, equates a single cell to the island of Manhattan. Extending the analogy, what Shaw and his minions are doing with their superexpensive supercomputers is modeling one apartment building, say, at the corner of East 82nd and York. Shaw would need an army of Antons to even begin to approximate the hubbub of the entire island.
People's behavior, in all its predictably irrational glory, is still the culmination of a complexity that dwarfs the relative primitiveness of the bacterium. Our bodies consist of ten trillion eukaryotic cells working in concert with 100 trillion non-human guest cells. Our minds—grounded in these bodies—interact with a vast, dynamic world. Max Galka, an expert in machine learning, says that "machines have historically been very bad at the kind of thinking needed to anticipate human behavior." "After decades of work," he points out, "there has been very little progress to suggest it is even possible."
So here is where Hawking's conception of AI falters. He admonishes that "there is no physical law precluding particles from being organized in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains." This is the perspective of a physicist, indoctrinated at a formative age, in the "brain as computer" notion of human intelligence. But brains are organs in bodies made up of cells, and intelligence is much more than merely making "advanced computations". The molecules that make up the proteins within a bacterium are doing more than jostling each other randomly. Something akin to "advanced computations" occur here as well, inasmuch as bacteria cohere as living things.
To be sure, bacteria may not be rational in the proscribed way that rationalists like Hawking define it, but they certainly exhibit an intelligence. They have needs. They act in the world to meet those needs. As such, prokaryotes, bacteria and their single-celled brethren, the Archaea, are much more than the organic equivalent of machines. Machines may act in the world, but they don't have agency. Machines extend the agency of those who make and use them. Machines are akin to prosthetics.
Accordingly, a more apt term for artificial intelligence is cognitive prosthetics. AI augments people's thinking, their goals, drives, and prejudices. I say "people" and not "human" because I don't want to imply a universality. Particular instances of AI, which is essentially computer code, are written and executed on computer networks by people in specific social contexts. An AI's drives are a reflection of the idiosyncrasies of the individuals who write its code. As John Havens, author of the forthcoming book, Heartificial Intelligence, puts it, "Since humans are programming the code for AI, this essentially means we have to codify our own values before programming them." Not only must we codify our ethics in them, such values-inculcation is unavoidable. Watson, along with Anton, have been set by their makers to work on specific tasks that serve the interests of the organizations that fund them. They are we.
Some of the Chicken Littles decrying the rise of the machines point ahead to the inevitable moment when our AI servants become "self-aware". Perhaps enraptured by millenarian fervor, Hawking has called this moment the "intelligence explosion". Others prefer what Vernor Vinge has dubbed, with all the histrionics of pulp science fiction, the "singularity". At this grand reckoning, AI will figure out it's in competition with us for resources, conclude we're a nuisance obstructing the realization of its own glorious civilization and, with nary an inkling of compunction, mobilize to exterminate us.
But this presentiment again betrays an ignorance of how truly autopoietic intelligence functions. Rationalists like Hawking tend to think of consciousness as a magical essence that inheres in the human brain. Given the right recipe of algorithms and data, a comparable sentience could magically erupt from the matrix of code that haunts our precious supercomputers. It's a delicious irony that those like Hawking who are so quick to scoff at the absurdities of intelligent design are also the ones who intone that we puny humans will create life out of 0s and 1s.
The improv director Keith Johnstone wrote, back in 1979, that "normal consciousness is related to transactions, real or imagined, with other people." I would take that a step further and say, echoing the philosopher Alva Noë, that consciousness, normal or otherwise, emerges from interactions with people, real or imagined. The brain hosts consciousness, yes, but the brain isn't in a jar. By obvious necessity, it works in conjunction with the vast, largely unconscious intelligence that is the body. Crucially, though, consciousness also arises from our interactions with each other. In effect, consciousness is just as external to the body as it is internal. It's distributed across the network of interactions, both symbolic and physical, that we have with each other. Sentience is social.
For any AI to become self-aware, it would have to become other-aware, since the self has no meaning outside of a social context. And to properly socialize in this way, our hypothetical AI entity would require a body beyond the circuits that comprise the internal environs of computers. Like brains, AI can't know itself without interacting with others in the world through a body. An AI's sense of self would emerge from this coupling of its body to a community of other bodies in the world.
Most AI professionals realize this. The Executive Director of the Data Incubator, Michael Li, writes:
Early AI research... thought of reasoning as a totally abstract and deductive: brain in a vat just processing symbolic information. These paradigms tended to be brittle and not very generalizable. More recent updates have tended to incorporate the body and "sensory perception", inductively taking real-world data into account and learning from experience—much as a human child might do. We see a dog, and hear it barking, and slowly begin to associate the dogs with barking.
Given the practical limitations of AI, we're left wondering what Hawking the Diviner is really getting at when he warns of an imminent AI coup. Since it's more apt to think of AI as cognitive prosthetics, it behooves us to trace the augmentation back to its source. I wonder, then, if what really worries Hawking is not some hostile Other like Agent Smith from The Matrix, but the more pedestrian Other that is other people.
This becomes readily apparent when we consider a thought experiment popular with the AI crowd: that a superintelligence might destroy us inadvertently in pursuit of its single-minded goal to manufacture paper clips. The image of the paper clip is meant to be whimsically arbitrary. It's a stand-in for any goal that might be radically extraneous to our own. But the choice of the paper clip is telling. This seemingly innocuous image is an exemplar of an artificial intelligence that exists in our world today and that threatens to destroy us just as surely as Ultron.
We call it bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is a superintelligence that transmutes individuals into a machine. While utterly dependent upon it, we all mistrust, even begrudge it. It's the DMV. It's Big Data. It's Wall Street. It's the Deep State. What's most intimidating about bureaucracy is that it's a human-machine hybrid, a cyborg. We tend to think of cyborgs in the vein of the Terminator or Robocop, but the most terrifyingly sublime form of the cyborg is the one where a tech-enabled system does the "thinking", while people are the cogs. Like The Matrix. Or McDonald's.
Unfortunately for us, though, despite Hawking's perseverations, the "singularity" of the cyborg bureaucracy is already upon us. It was there when Sumerian satraps began scoring clay tablets to account for the harvest. And it persists today in the joystick jockeys in Arizona trailer parks pulling triggers that unleash deadly airstrikes from Predators buzzing over Pakistan.
When physicists and tech billionaires publicly hand-wring over an AI apocalypse, politely suggest to them that they get out of their heads. If they're feeling social, they might even sit in on Dr. Li's data scientist incubator, where they'll get a crash course on how big business uses AI to better serve customers, and just maybe, to make a profit.
Hopefully, in the near and long term, our corporate overlords—and the bureaucracies that empower them—won't destroy our habitat in the monomaniacal pursuit of ever more paper clips.
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Charleston County Deputy B. Lebo prepares inmates at the Al Cannon Detention Center for bond hearings on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Brad Nettles/Staff
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Some inmates recently played chess to pass the time in one of the units at the Al Cannon Detention Center on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Brad Nettles/Staff
Capt. Emma Salters talks about the impact of the Charleston County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's reforms on the Al Cannon Detention Center on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Brad Nettles/Staff
Inmates sleep inside the Al Cannon Detention Center on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Brad Nettles/Staff
Detention officers work the Behavioral Management Unit at the Al Cannon Detention Center on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Brad Nettles/Staff
Inmates wait for bond hearings at the Al Cannon Detention Center Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Brad Nettles/Staff
How millions spent on criminal justice reform in Charleston is paying off
By Gregory Yee gyee@postandcourier.com
Gregory Yee
On a frigid morning in early December, inmates at the Al Cannon Detention Center in North Charleston did what they could to pass the time.
Inside a lower-security dorm, inmates were spread throughout an open unit with bunks lining the sides of the room. A cluster of tables bore instructions for games like checkers, chess and solitaire.
In one corner, an inmate did pushups on a towel laid out on the floor. Others read books. Many slept.
For these inmates, this day in Charleston County's jail proceeded at the same regimented pace as any other.
Their world is striped jumpsuits, beige sandals and doors that open and close with the heavy clank of solid metal.
But beyond the daily routine, the jail is at the center of an ambitious project aimed at making Charleston County's criminal justice system more efficient and equitable by lowering the number of locally arrested inmates, reducing racial disparities, collecting and using data to make informed decisions, and providing resources for courts and those with mental health issues.
The initiative comes after decades of struggles with inmate overpopulation and a justice system that held too many minorities and poor people behind bars on relatively minor charges. After three years and $4.95 million in grant funding, supporters say programs developed by the Charleston County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council are making a difference.
"Charleston County has leaped ahead of the state and the rest of the Southeast by forming CJCC and asking hard questions that needed to have been asked generations before," said Charleston County Public Defender Ashley Pennington.
Beginnings of a movement
CJCC's reforms come after officials struggled for years to deal with a ballooning inmate population and chronic lack of resources.
By the mid-2000s, authorities were overwhelmed. The oldest part of the jail was built in the 1960s. Dilapidated and overcrowded, it was last expanded in 1993 and built to house 661 inmates.
At times, it held more than 2,000.
In 2007, Charleston County Council approved a $100 million project that boosted the jail's capacity to 2,112 inmates plus room for further expansion.
Welcome to jail without bars
The new wing opened in 2010. While it provided a buffer to overpopulation, it did little to address the underlying issues that were steering people into jail and putting strain on the courts, according to Kristy Danford, CJCC's project director.
"Many of the same underlying challenges that contributed to overcrowding in the first place remained — such as high rates of recidivism, lack of adequate information to accurately assess risk at bond hearings, high caseloads and too few options other than jail," she said. "Business as usual resumed as the urgency of the overcrowding crisis went away."
In 2015, Charleston County officials founded CJCC with the goal of addressing these problems.
The core of the council's work is to shape a system in which crime is still addressed, public safety is not compromised and people are not stripped of their rights in the pursuit of justice, Pennington said. A large part of that effort has been in getting a diverse group of partners to the table.
"Before CJCC, I felt that it was a very hard, uphill battle to see any kind of coordinated improvement to the system’s reaction to social issues," he said. "It has given me hope and confidence that there is common ground where we all want this community to be as healthy and successful as possible."
In addition to law enforcement and others who work directly in the criminal justice system, the council also includes social workers, mental health professionals, representatives from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and other organizations.
After initial planning phases, the group got a $2.25 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as part of its national Safety and Justice Challenge in April 2016. It was one of 11 jurisdictions across the country to be funded. CJCC received an additional $2.46 million grant from the foundation in October.
For those involved in this project, proof of success lies in the numbers.
CJCC's work has led to an 18 percent drop in the locally arrested inmates booked into the Cannon Detention Center, according to the latest available statistics.
Officials spent hundreds of hours going through data for 2014, the first year analyzed, and found that the majority of the jail's bookings were for minor charges like simple possession of marijuana, violating open alcohol container laws, trespassing, misdemeanor shoplifting and public intoxication.
Housing people accused of these crimes, even for a short period of time, was taking up valuable space and other resources that could instead be used to manage inmates facing more serious charges.
The project's organizers came up with a plan to direct officers and deputies on the streets to issue citations to people accused of those five lower-level crimes if no other charge was associated with the case. Doing so keeps offenders like these out of the jail while still ensuring they are held accountable, officials said.
As of 2017, the last full year of available data, there has been a 51 percent drop in single-charge bookings on those five targeted offenses and a 46 percent increase in officers deciding to issue citations on those charges rather than make arrests.
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The impact of these drops is already being felt, said Capt. Emma Salters, who oversees security and administration at the detention center.
"Some people that would normally come into jail, public intox for one, they come in the back door, they're drunk, they're belligerent, there's always going to be a delay if they're uncooperative in their process here," Salters said. "Not every drunk person comes in and goes straight to sleep."
Delays caused by high numbers of inmates charged with lower-level crimes like public intoxication or trespassing only make it more difficult to manage a diverse, challenging jail population because they create bottlenecks in the system, she said.
If an officer tickets these individuals or takes them to the Stabilization Center instead of arresting them, delays can be more easily avoided, Salters said. Day-to-day processing of inmates at the jail runs more smoothly, which also helps make sure inmates get to their bond hearings on time.
Capt. Roger Antonio, a spokesman for the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, noted that while there have been declines in the local inmate population, the jail's total population is still substantial because inmates facing immigration charges — a population not addressed by CJCC's work — and inmates being held on behalf of other South Carolina jurisdictions are also held at the facility.
For Deputy Chief Delmar Johnson, who oversees the North Charleston Police Department's Uniform Patrol Division, CJCC's initiatives are helping to focus and boost efforts already underway at a city level to increase community trust and safety.
"It gives us more freedom," Johnson said. "Unfortunately, before this program, sometimes (individuals) would fall through the cracks and they would be in jail longer than they would be now that this system is in place. There are societal problems and we're not going to be able to arrest our way out of them."
Police officers have always relied on training, experience and discretion when determining whether they need to make an arrest, he said. Having resources like the Tri-County Crisis Stabilization Center and risk assessment tools gives those officers more to draw on.
The center reopened in June 2017 after an eight-year hiatus, providing 10 beds for homeless adults and those with mental health or substance abuse issues — people who before may have ended up in jail or taking up space in an emergency room.
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These initiatives and others have led to a 42 percent drop in so called "familiar faces," people booked into jail three or more times in two years, according to the most recently available CJCC data.
"We've done this in three years here, and I really do think we'll do a lot more over the next three," Danford said. "We are continuing to learn and adapt and move things forward. The kind of conversations that we have today have evolved a good deal."
Pennington has seen this evolution firsthand.
Through a decades-long career as an attorney, the public defender said he has seen many examples of lives negatively impacted by an inefficient, overtaxed justice system.
"I think it’s sometimes hard for folks who have stable employment to understand," Pennington said. "(Jail) becomes a destabilizing influence that can immediately ripple out. Poor people have ended up getting incarcerated at a disproportionate rate."
A few of the council's initiatives are helping to directly address these concerns, he said.
First, bond hearings now have a public defender present who can represent defendants that are too impoverished to afford a private attorney. In years past, some defendants would show up for a hearing without an attorney present.
In addition, magistrates are now being provided with a tool to assess whether a defendant is likely to flee the community if released and how much of a danger they are to others.
That document gives magistrates valuable information they can use to better determine whether someone should be released of their own recognizance, or if they should be given a money bond, according to Pennington and others.
Often, when someone is brought before a magistrate for their first bond hearing, they have virtually no opportunity to assemble evidence that they are not a significant danger to the community or a flight risk, Pennington said.
"We have asked magistrate judges in the past to make a decision without any kind of help," he said. "It's the high price that we’ve paid for generations."
As local officials celebrate the progress made over the past three years, some groups have remained skeptical of reforms.
Don Mescia, executive director of United Bail of America, an industry lobbying group, said that he agrees with efforts to provide treatment programs and other resources.
"You have got to get more judges, more public defenders, more state attorneys," Mescia said. "In the middle there could be reforms that could make common sense."
But changes to the bail system could have unintended consequences by removing the sense of responsibility and investment that paying bail creates for a defendant and their loved ones, he said.
The CJCC has not advocated for eliminating the bail system but has encouraged the use of personal recognizance bonds when appropriate.
Use of such bonds increased by 29 percent from 2014 to 2017, according to the council's most current data.
Under South Carolina law, a person arrested on suspicion of a crime must appear in bond court within 24 hours where a magistrate assesses whether a that defendant is at risk of failing to appear for trial and a risk to public safety.
For Danford, the council's work is aimed at giving those magistrates the best possible information to use while assessing a defendant's case.
Building a future
With the CJCC beginning to reach some of its initial goals, Danford and others involved in the project are setting their sights on the future.
Inmate reduction efforts have nearly reached the council's goal of a 25 percent decrease in three years, she said. The Stabilization Center, risk assessment tool, expansion of public defenders to bond court and other initiatives are continuing to help drive down those numbers and steer people in need of help toward treatment programs where they can get help instead of being incarcerated.
Danford said she and others leading the project are working to make the reforms self-sustaining through reallocating cost savings locally and finding other grants and additional sources of funding so that the project is not reliant on money from the MacArthur Foundation.
They're also looking to fill seats on the council with community representatives for sectors like business, health care, survivors of crime and those who have been previously incarcerated.
"I want to make sure what we do ... is going to be more and more focused on community," Danford said.
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Gregory Yee covers breaking news and public safety. He's a native Angeleno and previously covered crime and courts for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA. He studied journalism and Spanish literature at the University of California, Irvine.
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What comes next after a denomination apologizes for its sin?
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An important step in healing is to hear the stories of affected Native Americans
Two years ago, the current and former Stated Clerks of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) journeyed to Utqiagvik (Barrow, Alaska) — the nation’s northernmost city — to apologize to Native Americans, Alaska natives and native Hawaiians for damage inflicted by the church in previous decades.
That act came as the result of action by the 222nd General Assembly (2016), which directed the apology within and beyond the denomination “especially to those who were and are part of ‘stolen generations’ during the Indian-assimilation movement, namely former students of Indian boarding schools, their families and their communities,” according to assembly minutes.
From left, the Rev. Vernon Broyles, the Rev. Irv Porter and the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, participate in “Coffee with the Clerk” Monday. (Photo by Randy Hobson)
The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, the current Stated Clerk, used his “Coffee with the Clerk” Facebook Live platform to talk about ways Presbyterians can continue their work to honor and include Native Americans. His guests were the Rev. Irv Porter, the denomination’s associate for Native American Intercultural Congregational Support, and the Rev. Vernon Broyles, a volunteer for public witness serving in the Office of the General Assembly.
Porter, an enrolled member of the Pima Tribe who’s also descended from the Nez Perce and T’hono O’odham tribes, is also the part-time pastor of Church of the Indian Fellowship in Tacoma, Washington. He said many Native Americans have used storytelling to begin healing from the intergenerational trauma that comes from being torn from their family to attend a boarding school.
“I highly recommend the church hear the stories of where people are coming from. Not to rehash what happened, but in telling their stories, there’s healing,” he said. “An apology is really just the beginning. To hear a national church apologize is one thing. Now Native American people are waiting to see what the next result will be.”
The forced education by white people that many Native children experienced two and three generations ago impacted each one differently, Porter said. Many children grew up not speaking what would have been their Native tongue and not knowing the family stories that other children learn by heart at a young age.
“Some went on to have very good lives,” he said. “For others, this was the beginning of traumatic experiences they had for the rest of their lives,” trauma they often passed on to their children and grandchildren, he said.
After viewing the video of the Rev. Gradye Parsons, the former Stated Clerk of the PC(USA), apologizing on behalf of the denomination, “you could see in people’s faces” the impact the apology made as Parsons’ words were translated into their indigenous language, Porter said.
Walk into a Presbyterian Church with mostly Native worshipers “and a lot of what you’d see is familiar,” Porter said. But the visitor would also see a few elements not present in most Presbyterian churches, he said.
“There’s time for people to share what God is doing in their life,” he said. “People can go on and on, but nobody leaves. The 60-minute issue [capping worship at one hour] is not there for Native Americans. It has everything to do with being there in the spirit of what is happening.”
Looking at the mistreatment of Native people and the denomination’s eventual apology in theological terms, Broyles said, “Sin is sin.”
“One thing that has come through clearly in conversation with Alaska native people is that we as white people look at nature as something to be exploited,” he said. “The Genesis story clearly lays out the unity of God’s creation, and Native people understand that.”
While there are plenty of books and other resources Presbyterians can use to educate themselves about this era, “the emphasis today is how do we do that with regards to relationships,” Nelson said, wrapping up the hourlong conversation. The “powerful message” he learned while helping to deliver the apology “is that a way to break down barriers is through personal engagement.”
“People do things we don’t understand,” he said. “There is something in their story that makes a difference” in beginning to understand their thinking, “and that only happens through relationships.”
“I’m glad we’re moving in that direction as a denomination,” he said, including becoming “better neighbors” with more and more Native Americans. “Continue to keep us in your prayers,” he asked viewers.
Mike Ferguson, Editor, Presbyterian News Service
Today’s Focus: Native Americans
Paul Seebeck, PMA
Allison Seed, BOP
Father, we thank you for calling us to be your hands and feet. We ask you to open our hearts and minds to do your work every day, everywhere, and through everyone we meet. You have placed us here to do your work, and with your help we will gladly obey. Amen.
First Reading Daniel 4:28-37
Second Reading 1 John 4:7-21
Gospel Reading Luke 4:31-37
Evening Psalms 66; 116
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Visual Content Popularity Will Only Increase, Prepare Now For It
There’s always something new to learn, an innovative strategy to uncover and a potentially successful hypothesis to use in an experiment. But in the midst of the ever-evolving infrastructureof the online world, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: visual content is the way of the future.
Sure, written content will still have its place — at least for the next few years. But entrepreneurs that are refusing to get on board with this new frontier of visual content will almost certainly miss out.
Related: 9 Must-Have Visual-Marketing Tools on the Web
I’ve always found visual content tricky for small businesses, particularly when it comes to video content. It seems that business owners feel really hesitant about implementing it, despite the huge demand from consumers.
Perhaps it’s a fear of transparency and putting yourself out there. After all, the Internet is a pretty brutal place — especially YouTube. Maybe it’s a concern that visual content in general will be too expensive to produce to justify the investment. But you can’t hide behind fear forever.
Visual content continues to rise in popularity throughout the web. It’s what people want, and as digital entrepreneurs, it’s what we need to supply.
Types of visuals to use
I believe that what we currently know about visual content is just the beginning. It will continue to evolve as consumers grow more and more innovative in their desires.
But, for now, there seem to be six main types of visual content companies should focus on:
Video: Remember, YouTube is a social network that comes with a pre-loaded community just waiting to see how your business can inform and entertain them. Facebook has also made a huge push toward video the past few months.
Photography: This includes stock photos, but it also encompasses photos that you can take of yourself, your company and your team. This type of photography can add an incredibly personal element to your digital marketing.
Infographics: I’m convinced that your average consumer won’t appreciate data unless it’s laid out in an infographic format. Chances are, your business has some form of data that it can use to engage and captivate your audience. Put it to good use with an infographic.
Screenshots: As a digital entrepreneur, I do a lot of mind maps, workflows and product designs that could benefit my audience. Instead of putting together something fancy, sometimes a simple screenshot will suffice.
Memes: Not everyone is funny. If you’re not, that’s OK. But for entrepreneurs that can wield humor well, don’t be afraid to jump on a popular meme and give your take.
Graphics: These are miscellaneous graphics and vectors that often work well as featured images, quote photos or other visuals that complement your content.
Related: A Beginner’s Guide to Turning GIFs Into an Awesome Marketing Tool
Whether you want measurable content-marketing success or simply need a stronger impact on social media, it all comes down to visuals. Don’t mistake it for a fad. In fact, the popularity of visual marketing is only going to increase. You’ve got to get on board and start the process now before it’s too late.
Making the visual-content investment
High-quality visual content requires a commitment. You’ve got to decide that it’s worth the investment for your brand (it is).
Original Article resource from enterpreneur.com written by Aaron Agius
Once you decide to go all in, there are a couple of things you need to do to prepare. With the right preparation, you’ll see great results along this new frontier.
Create a strategy that fits your brand.
Not everyone is cut out to be a video personality. That’s just the harsh truth. As an entrepreneur, it’s important to play to your strengths while being keenly aware of your weaknesses. You know what will work for your brand and what won’t.
Don’t try to develop a strategy based on what you think is popular. Cater it to the strengths of your brand, its messaging and its goals. That may mean that you focus only on infographics in the beginning, or that you go all out with video.
Make it personal, and make it good.
Get a team to help you succeed.
Entrepreneurs often fall into the trap of trying to do everything on their own. But it doesn’t need to be that way. In fact, the most successful entrepreneurs understand the power of surrounding yourself with brilliant people. If you aren’t a designer or videographer, don’t be afraid of enlisting the help of someone else.
Visual content has a lot of moving parts, from script writing, outlining, storyboards, graphic design to cinematography and more. Once you understand your strategy, find people that can help you make it a reality.
Are you ready for the future of visual content? Are you actively investing in this new frontier?
If you’re already making the move into visual content, share your best tips and tricks for doing so by leaving a comment below.
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Gulf Breeze appoints former Councilman J.B. Schluter to empty city council seat
Former Gulf Breeze city councilman J.B. Schluter will sit in a city council seat once again after the Gulf Breeze City Council unanimously appointed him to fill their vacant spot on Wednesday night.
Gulf Breeze appoints former Councilman J.B. Schluter to empty city council seat Former Gulf Breeze city councilman J.B. Schluter will sit in a city council seat once again after the Gulf Breeze City Council unanimously appointed him to fill their vacant spot on Wednesday night. Check out this story on pnj.com: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/02/13/gulf-breeze-appoints-former-councilman-j-b-schluter-empty-city-council-seat/2865151002/
Annie Blanks, Pensacola News Journal Published 7:47 p.m. CT Feb. 13, 2019 | Updated 2:29 p.m. CT Feb. 14, 2019
J.B. Schluter, a businessman who has previously served on the Gulf Breeze City Council, was unanimously appointed to fill the council's vacant seat on Wednesday. (Photo: Annie Blanks/ablanks@pnj.com)
Correction: This article has been edited to clarify that the city of Gulf Breeze's charter calls for the council to appoint a new council person in the event a seat is left vacant.
Former Gulf Breeze City Councilman J.B. Schluter will sit in a City Council seat once again after the Gulf Breeze City Council unanimously appointed him to fill a vacant spot on Wednesday night.
At the council's executive session, Mayor Pro Tem Tom Naile motioned to appoint Schluter to the seat, and was seconded by Councilman Todd Torgensen.
“Everyone I talked to about J.B. Schluter had positive things to say about him as an individual in our community and his experience on this council, so it seems to me that he would be a good choice,” Torgensen said.
The council chose Schluter out of a pool of five candidates, which was narrowed down last week from 16. They cited Schluter's experience in city government and his volunteerism for the city of Gulf Breeze as a reason for his appointment.
A Gulf Breeze resident since 1971, Schluter has previously served as a City Councilman and mayor pro tem, and has also served on the Bay Area Resource Council, Advisory Park Board, Development Review Board and Gulf Breeze Sports Association. Schluter owns the Innerlight Surf Shop and the Pensacola Beach Marina.
Gulf Breeze residents pack the City Council chambers on Wednesday evening when the council announced its appointee to fill the vacant council seat. (Photo: Annie Blanks/ablanks@pnj.com)
"I feel very honored to be appointed," Schluter said after the meeting. "I was privileged to serve eight years from 2006 to 2014, and I've been off for five years. But I look forward to being back on the council and working with the rest of the council to try and get a lot of things done for the city of Gulf Breeze."
The council has been one member short since Jan. 18, when newly elected Gulf Breeze Mayor David Landfair unexpectedly resigned after admitting to "inappropriate texting with an adult woman." The city charter calls for the council to appoint a new member to serve a two-year term in the event a seat is left vacant, rather than hold a special election. Mayor Pro Tem Cherry Fitch ascended to the mayor's seat and Councilman Tom Naile became mayor pro tem.
The council used a weighted matrix to rate each candidate.
“It was a tough decision, because everyone on this list is a good potential candidate,” Councilman Randy Hebert said. “It’s interesting to see we (council members) all went in a pretty close, tight direction. It was very close.”
Schluter and Fitch will be sworn in at Tuesday night's City Council meeting.
Annie Blanks can be reached at ablanks@pnj.com and 850-435-8632.
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No One Saw Symptoms
I have a domestic worker
Who helps,
To maintain the house
I have a mistress
Who advises and guides
The subjects, which
I trust not
I have a therapist
Who alleviates and appeases,
The psychological problems
In a daily life
I have contacts
To stay busy
Even though,
I feel alone, realizing that
I miss a vital part of life
It is You
It would stay You
The real and pure
Therapist of my life,
My feelings and thoughts
Alas, You are unaware
Whereas,
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Ehsan Sehgal
Ehsan Sehgal is a Pakistani-Dutch poet and writer. He moved to the Netherlands in 1978 to avoid persecution during the General Zia era in Pakistan and has lived in the Netherlands since. Ehsan Sehgal began his literary career in 1967. His first publication was a novel, but his consequent books were all collections of poetry. He writes mostly in the poetic form called ghazal but has also written Ruba'i, Nazm, Qataa, and Naat. He also writes in the meter called Beher and is well versed in poetry meter of the Urdu language. Zarb-e-Sukhan is a collection of the collections, and he is famous as of that book. Besides the novel and books of poetry, he published a collection of quotes and articles in 1999. In 2010, having lived in the Netherlands for over three decades, he also published a collection of aphorisms in Dutch and having the desire to share his ideas with a Dutch audience. The book, in Dutch De Wijze Weg ("The Wise Way"), was translated by Naeem Arif. The Wise Way is also published in both the English and Urdu languages. Daily Dawn mentioned him, one of those a few Pakistani English poets, whom poetry, has been traveled, and acknowledged abroad and homeland as well. His latest collection of English prose poems is Breathing Words. Various Pakistan singers have sung his ghazals and naats. He has been praised by many Urdu writers and poets, especially by Ibn-e-Insha who has appreciated Sehgal's literary work in his weekly written columns in Akhbar-e-Jahan Karachi. An author writes, "As far as the poetic justice in Sehgal's writing is considered, it is debatable. In spite of some shortcomings, he keeps on writing which is good. His work over a period of time has been acknowledged." A journalist of English newspaper The News International wrote in an interview that "Going through Sehgal's poetry one is instantly aware of a strong message, an intellectual depth, and a sharp poetic sensibility." A famous poet of India Nida Fazli and Pakistani journalist and writer Sultana Mehr compared his poetry with the style of Ghalib and Allama Iqbal. Sehgal has received awards of Molana Maher-ul-Qadri Award in 2001 from Urdu Trust London, U.K, Allama Shariq Jamal Award in 2005 from Bazm-e-Shaoor-e-Adab in Jaipur, India, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz Award in 2011 from Urdu Tahreek Aalmi London, U.K, in recognition of his best poetry works. He has also received Pride of Performance by Maraqaba Hal Holland, The Hague, Netherlands in December 2013. He also writes prose poetry in English. More here -https://www.conservapedia.com/Ehsan_Sehgal more…
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Could this be the final curtain for the world’s greatest detective?
Sherlock Holmes lives in retirement on the South Coast. He keeps bees, occasionally casts his fly fishing rod, even plays his Stradivarius when the rheumatism allows.
All too aware that he’s older and slower, he’s concerned that he might have lost his touch, paranoid that he is an easy target for his enemies. There have been so many over the years. He never truly believed Moriarty - his arch nemesis - died at the Reichenbach Falls.
Then Mary Watson (wife of his former associate Dr John Watson) tracks him down. She tells him she has seen her long-dead son, James, through the window of 221B Baker Street, apparently alive and well. Now, Holmes is determined to solve the mystery and confront his own demons at the same time.
Chilling, gripping and filled with unforeseen twists and revelations, this new thriller has been commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath from award-winning dramatist Simon Reade, previously Literary Manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company. This world premiere production reunites the dream team of Robert Powell and Liza Goddard following huge acclaim for their performances in Single Spies and Relatively Speaking.
Robert Powell received multiple awards and a BAFTA nomination for his portrayal of Jesus in Franco Zefferelli’s Jesus of Nazareth. His numerous credits include Holby City on television and Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and King Charles III on stage.
Liza Goddard is one of the UK’s favourite actresses. Her extensive stage credits include Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband and Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors and Season’s Greetings. Her television work includes cult classics Doctor Who and Bergerac.
Duration: 2 hours with interval
Presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Kenny Wax
by Simon Reade
Directed by David Grindley
Starring Robert Powell & Eliza Goddard
We are delighted to welcome UK treasures Robert Powell and Liza Goddard back to our stage in this new gripping thriller, not to be missed.
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Holiday Fund: A brighter future
Catholic Charities Youth Club gives students tools to succeed in and out of the classroom
Ron Whiteside, right, an eight-year volunteer tutor and advisory council member for the Youth Club at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto, helps students Kayle Manriquez, left, and Zuri Bermudez, right, with their homework after school on Dec. 11, 2018. Photo by Veronica Weber.
by Linda Taaffe / Palo Alto Weekly
Students from the Youth Club at St. Francis of Assisi Church color after finishing their homework on Dec. 11, 2018. Photo by Veronica Weber.
The two portable classrooms behind St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto bustled with activity in the days leading up to this week's community Posada festival. Students in the Catholic Charities Youth Club were practicing songs and readings for the big holiday event commemorating Joseph and Mary's journey to Bethlehem.
"I want to be the ant! I want to be the ant!" one third-grader excitedly yelled out as he prepared to read from the pages of "Hey Little Ant," which he and his classmates performed at the event.
In the adjacent classroom located across a large wood deck, more than a dozen fourth-graders gathered at the front of the room waving their hands high above their heads while singing "Jingle Bell Rock."
As soon as the clock hit 5:20 p.m., however, it became clear that the after-school club was about much more than just fun and games. The room quickly quieted down as the students found a desk, table or comfortable space on the floor to put themselves, opened their books and teamed up with a group leader or volunteer to practice their reading, writing and math skills.
For most of the students, the year-round academic enrichment program is the only place where they have access to a strong support system designed to help them overcome language, economic and other social barriers that otherwise might hold them back in life.
"We give kids as much support as possible to succeed," said Sarah Burton, division director of Youth and Child Development Services at Catholic Charities, which has operated the East Palo Alto program since 2015. "This is really a place where we can move (students) forward and help them see a better future for themselves."
The results have been significant.
Over the past school year, 85 percent of students in the program have improved their reading scores by two or more levels on standardized literacy tests, and 74 percent have improved their grades in math, according to academic information collected by Catholic Charities throughout the year.
At the start of the year, about 39 percent of students were reading below grade level, compared to only 9 percent by the end of the year, Burton said. She said some students advanced as many as six reading levels during the year.
Focused on closing the achievement gap, the nonprofit program this year was supported in part by a $10,000 grant from the Palo Alto Weekly's Holiday Fund. The students receive structured academic-enrichment activities with one-on-one tutoring, homework support, instruction from guest chefs, artists, environmental experts and other community partners, as well as meals and family counseling, if needed, during four hours after school every day and during the summer. The 80 to 100 students enrolled in the program receive about 336 hours of academic support each year. These services are all provided by five employees (including three who work part-time) and about 20 volunteers.
Initially launched in 2004, the program wasn't always focused on academics.
Lawrence Goode, a pastor at St. Francis, started the after-school program at the church to provide boys in the neighborhood a safe space to hang out after the community experienced a significant spike in gun violence in late 2003. Over the past 14 years, the program evolved from a safe haven for boys to a co-ed recreational center for students of all ages and then into today's accredited after-school program focused on literacy and math exclusively for third- to fifth-graders from six feeder schools in the Ravenswood City School District, which encompass East Palo Alto and a portion of Menlo Park.
"We really looked at the needs of the community and decided to focus our time and energy on younger students and closing the achievement gap," Burton said.
Studies show that students who can't read at grade level by third grade are more likely to drop out of high school and experience higher levels of poverty and crime, she said.
Based on those studies, "We see that many youth in East Palo Alto have a higher chance of becoming incarcerated than attending college," she added.
Most of the students in the program come from families whose annual incomes fall significantly below the poverty level, and about half of them are considered chronically homeless.
In addition to these challenges, many come from homes where English is not spoken, said program director Amy Hafter, who works onsite in the classrooms.
"While their parents are extremely supportive, they don't necessarily have the language skills to support them with their school work," Hafter said.
The program provides students that "little extra support to give them the confidence to be confident learners in the classroom," Burton said. "But it's not just about academics, it's about supporting this young person as a person and not just as a student. We take a holistic approach."
Hafter said the Youth Club also has helped foster strong family and community ties. Students from the six feeder schools, who might not otherwise know one another, are now spending time together while developing their social skills, she said.
Parents also play a large role in the program, she said. Those who can't afford the monthly $40 enrollment fee contribute in other ways, such as volunteering during special events or helping out in the classroom.
Hafter, who was hired this fall, said she hopes in upcoming months to partner with engineers and coders from Facebook and other local companies to bring their skills into the after-school club.
"Most importantly, this program gives children a vision," Hafter said. "When I grew up, it was a question of 'Where will you go to college? What career will you have?'"
That vision isn't always communicated to these students, she said.
"It's of pivotal importance that we give them the vision to move beyond their circumstances, to let them know that 'You, too, have opportunities,'" Hafter said.
This year's Holiday Fund goal is to raise $350,000 for programs serving kids, families and others in need. More stories about the work of funded nonprofit agencies and instructions for donating to the fund online are posted here.
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Vnukovo Airport
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There are three international airports in Moscow but the best one for private jets is Vnukovo International (VKO).
Located about 20 miles southwest of Red Square, Vnukovo has the best general aviation amenities, including private vehicle pickup planeside.
Charter a Jet to Vnukovo
Vnukovo International Airport (ICAO code: UUWW) is a 24-hour airport of entry – there are no noise restrictions – with a general aviation facility that is the largest in Russia.
Vnukovo-3, the largest center of business aviation in Russia and Eastern Europe, has two VIP terminals. The apron and hangar complex has parking places for cars and more than 250 aircraft.
It has on-site customs, immigration, and quarantine clearance.
Visitors who want to be picked up planeside need only report information on the vehicle, not the driver. Diplomats and elected officials often use this airport so, be advised, the airport may be temporarily shut down, often without notice, to allow these VIPs to arrive or depart in open air space.
Airport slots at Vnukovo should be requested as soon as possible, advises Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc., a Houston, Texas, company that provides products and services in the general aviation industry. There are restrictions for Friday operations to this airport – parking is tight – so make sure you request prior permission at least four days before planning to arrive. Hangar space may be available for private jets but can be expensive during winter months.
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Only a few of Russia’s airports operate 24 hours a day. The ones that do are in the major cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is best to make arrangements to land and get permits as far in advance as possible.
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Vnukovo is Moscow’s oldest operating airport. It was approved for construction in 1937 and opened in 1941. It was used as a military base during World War II and then opened for civilian air traffic after the war.
The other two international airports in Moscow are Domodedovo International Airport (DME), which is 26 miles southeast of Red Square; and Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO), 19 miles northwest of Red Square.
Vnukovo, located 17 miles southwest of Red Square, is at the highest elevation of the three airports. At 670 feet above sea level, it has the advantage of better visibility in fog, snow and other adverse weather conditions. It is the busiest business airport in Russia.
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Overflight and landing permits are required for both private and non-scheduled flights into VKO.
There are no parking restrictions at this airport.
You must obtain a visa prior to your arrival.
Visitors should touch base with the Russian Embassy in their home countries before coming to make sure all their entry papers into Russia are in order.
Crew members can obtain a visa on arrival at the three Moscow airports – VKO, SVO and DME – but not at any other airport.
FBOs at VKO
Vnukovo International Airport is considered the VIP gateway into Moscow. Its lone fixed base operator, VIPPORT Vnukovo-3, has been in operation there since 2004.
VIPPORT Vnukovo-3 Building Picture Source.
Operating out of Vnukovo-3, the largest center of business aviation in Eastern Europe, VIPPORT is responsible for the organization, control and coordination of ground service for business aviation.
The growing interest of private business aircraft owners, charter brokers, businessmen, politicians and other elite travelers has allowed Russia’s business aviation to grow and to make Vnukovo-3 the country’s largest FBO operation.
VIPPORT Vnukovo-3 says it handled 15,751 business aviation flights and 101,180 passengers in 2017. This includes 143 government flights made by Russian and foreign top-ranking officials and their families.
A representative of Vnukovo-3’s operator VIPPORT says it has seen a steady increase in both flights and passengers on routes to and from Europe. The most popular destinations for owned or chartered private jets leaving VKO are London, Nice and Geneva.
There is a large seasonal demand for flights to Chambery in the French Alps, Olbia in Sardinia and other famous resorts.
Vnukovo-3 operates out of two VIP terminals. There are two hangars, parking and almost a square mile of apron space. It can handle more than 250 aircraft simultaneously. Business aircraft of all types can be stored and maintained in hangars at Vnukovo. Vnukovo-3 is the first FBO in Russia and Eastern Europe to receive the International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling certificate at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE).
Igor Mudrik, VIPPORT CEO, said all of the employees know English and other languages, are trained and certified. VIPPORT has an exclusive contractual relationship with all of services at Vnukovo Airport and can give services at Vnukovo-1, Vnukovo-2 and Vnukovo-3.
VIPPORT can arrange inflight catering as well as:
Russian and foreign newspapers
Fresh flowers and flower arrangements
Dishwashing, laundering and dry cleaning
Aircraft exterior washing and interior cleanin.
Warm and cold storage
Delivery of catering and other requests
Moscow events
Russia is so enormous that it covers 11 time zones. And, a hugely disproportionate number of its citizens live in Moscow. Consider these numbers:
Moscow has a population of 12 million.
Russia has a population of 144 million.
And, Russia is 6.6 million square miles while Moscow is 970 square miles.
That means 8 percent of the population lives in 0.015 percent of the country.
(The Russian capital, according to worldatlas.com, is the second most populous city on the European continent, after Istanbul, Turkey. Paris and London are No. 3 and No. 4..
With that many people competing for that small slice of the country, it is understandable that Moscow is one of the most expensive cities in the world in which to live.
So, it’s no surprise that some 68,000 millionaires and billionaires call it home.
If you are after high-class entertainment and restaurants, there is plenty in Moscow. The city also has more than 400 museums and a subway so beautiful that it looks like an underground art and history museum. A policy of the former Soviet Union was to integrate art into public places – even underground rails.
A lot of people use the Moscow Metro stations. In fact, the only cities that carry more people on their subway systems are Tokyo and Seoul.
The financial hub of Moscow plays host to events such as:
RUBAE (Russian Business Aviation Exhibition) is the only international business aviation exhibition in Russia and CIS countries. It is held over three days in September in Vnukovo-3. Formerly called Jet Expo, RUBAE expanded its business program and conference to attract a larger audience and to be recognized as one of the biggest and best trade shows in the aviation industry.
The Vnukovo-3 hangar becomes an exhibition hall for planes and booths manned by major players in the industry, such as Cessna Aircraft, Bell Helicopter, Embraer, Bombardier Aerospace, Dassault Aviation, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and Beechcraft Corporation.
In addition to the aircraft manufacturers, brokers, operators, airlines and service providers also attend RUBAE.
CIS Wealth Moscow is a wealth structuring conference held in February with a focus on the Russian market.
It is the place where more than 400 delegates from more than 200 companies in 30 countries gather to find business partners and get answers and solutions from others in their field. Part conference and part exhibition, attendees are invited to confer with wealth professionals, hear about the latest trends, network with industry experts and learn from others. CIS Wealth is for senior management and executive decision-makers who have the authority to buy or recommend buying products and services. There will be experts in the following fields:
Financial planning and retail investment
Asset management and wealth protection
Tax consulting and tax planning
Accounting and audits
FBOs and Handlers at Vnukovo Airport, UUWW, VKO
Streamline (749) 536-6250
Evo Jet Services +380 44 332 5471 www.evo-jet.com
Euro Jet Intercontinental 420233343362 www.eurojet-service.com
Universal Aviation 7-421-2274614
Rusaero / Shannon Air (C.I.S.) PR VERNADS KOGO, 15 (749) 598-3035
Vipport Terminal:
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VIP lounge +7 495 648 28 82
Golden Wings 7-495-7433179
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Bank of Scotland fined £45 million for failing to report suspicions of fraud at HBOS
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Bank of Scotland £45,500,000 for failures to disclose information about its suspicions that fraud may have occurred at the Reading-based Impaired Assets (IAR) team of Halifax Bank of Scotland.
The FCA found that Bank of Scotland failed to be open and co-operative and also failed to disclose information appropriately to the then regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Mark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: “Bank of Scotland failed to alert the regulator and the police about suspicions of fraud at its Reading branch when those suspicions first became apparent. Bank of Scotland’s failures caused delays to the investigations by both the FCA and Thames Valley Police. There’s no evidence anyone properly addressed their mind to this matter or its consequences. The result risked substantial prejudice to the interests of justice, delaying scrutiny of the fraud by regulators, the start of criminal proceedings and the payment of compensation to customers.”
Bank of Scotland identified suspicious conduct in the IAR team in early 2007. The director of the Impaired Asset Team at the Reading branch, namely Lynden Scourfield, had been sanctioning limits and additional lending facilities beyond the scope of his authority undetected for at least three years. Bank of Scotland knew by 3 May 2007 that the impact of these breaches would result in substantial losses for Bank of Scotland.
Clear warning signs
Over the next two years, and on numerous occasions, Bank of Scotland failed to properly understand and appreciate the significance of the information that it had identified despite clear warning signs that fraud might have occurred. There was insufficient challenge, scrutiny or inquiry across the organisation and from top to bottom. At no stage was all the information that had been identified properly considered.
There’s also no evidence anyone realised – or even thought about – the consequences of not informing the authorities, including how that might delay proper scrutiny of the misconduct and prejudice the interests of justice.
It wasn’t until July 2009 that Bank of Scotland provided the FSA with full disclosure in relation to its suspicions, including the report of the investigation it had conducted in 2007. Bank of Scotland also did not report its suspicions to any other law enforcement agency. The FSA reported the matter to the National Crime Agency (then the Serious Organised Crime Agency) on 26 June 2009.
In 2017, following an investigation by Thames Valley Police, six individuals including Lynden Scourfield and another Bank of Scotland employee, Mark Dobson, were sentenced for their part in the fraud committed through the IAR.
Largely unregulated
Commercial lending was – and still is – largely unregulated in the UK which meant that the activities of IAR were not subject to specific rules imposed by the FSA. For example, conduct of business rules and complaints handling rules didn’t apply. However, Bank of Scotland was required to be open and co-operative with the FSA, and the FSA would reasonably have expected to have been notified of Bank of Scotland’s suspicions that a fraud may have been committed in May 2007.
If Bank of Scotland had communicated its suspicions to the FSA in May 2007, as it should have done, then the criminal misconduct could have been identified much earlier. The delay also risked prejudice to the criminal investigation conducted by Thames Valley Police. Full disclosure would also have allowed the FSA, at an earlier opportunity, to assess Bank of Scotland’s response to the issue and its approach to customers and complaints.
Bank of Scotland agreed to resolve the matter and qualified for a 30% (Stage 1) discount. Were it not for this discount, the FCA would have imposed a financial penalty of £65,000,000 on Bank of Scotland.
The FCA has also banned four individuals from working in financial services due to their role in the fraud at HBOS Reading. Those individuals are Lynden Scourfield, Mark Dobson, Alison Mills and David Mills.
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Black hole of the 1990s: The lawless market where people could buy guns and go into hiding (PHOTOS)
Yekaterina Sinelschikova
The Cherkizovsky Market once dressed half of Russia. It was also a place filled with brothels and arms dealers, where dog meat was served as food and criminal bosses congregated. When it was finally shut down, the proceedings were even broadcast on live TV in China.
Try to imagine: There was once a huge market on the outskirts of Moscow where dozens of diasporas lived by their own laws, where smuggled goods flowed freely, where people disappeared, and where one could illegally purchase weapons and drugs.
The Cherkizovsky Market became a symbol of the 1990s as a Wild West of trade. People who didn’t know about it and had never been there found it hard to believe that such a place could exist at all—what’s more legally and for so many years. Once the largest marketplace in Eastern Europe, it made millions of dollars until it was shut down ten years ago.
The market was established in the early 1990s on the site of a vast wasteland between the Schelkovsky and Izmaylovsky motorways in an eastern part of Moscow. Part of the territory of this trading Babylon belonged to the State University of Physical Culture. Market stalls came to occupy more and more space. By 2009, when the market was finally closed, its area had reached 72 hectares (around one and a half times the size of the Vatican).
Marin Lystseva/TASS
It was a place where one could buy and sell everything under the sun: clothes of all sizes, fur, leather, shoes, toys, electronics and food from all over the world. People from throughout Russia came to Cherkizovsky Market to make wholesale purchases, sell goods from their own cities, buy things at cheaper prices or to sell their own goods at ten times the original price.
Iliya Pitalev/Sputnik
It was also a haven for counterfeit goods, and any more or less high-quality item could be copied and reproduced here. For example, there was a Vietnamese tailor's shop where you could bring a sample and have it reproduced using cheaper fabrics. Colloquially, "items from Cherkizon" became synonymous with "counterfeit," while the name Cherkizovsky itself became associated with a lawless place where hungry migrant workers eat dog.
"That place was considered a kind of a black hole,” recalls Ilya Daniltsev, a graduate of the university on whose territory the market was located. “Entering it was like walking into a dense forest where the sunlight could barely penetrate through rows of clothes." The site quickly became a refuge for migrants, many of whom were staying in the country illegally. "You could walk there for half a day and not hear a word of Russian. Even policemen preferred not to go there alone," Daniltsev says.
Weapons, counterfeit money and drugs were sometimes smuggled in bales of clothes. One thing that made the market unique was the flow of goods from abroad, a place where items from China, Turkey, Romania, Spain and so on all converged. The different diasporas divided up many parts of the market into makeshift neighborhoods: Azeri, Armenian, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. Naturally, the relevant "infrastructure" followed shortly thereafter.
There were hotels, ethnic restaurants, a synagogue, medical services (e.g. general practitioners and gynecologists) operating on the market’s territory. There were places selling foreign newspapers, a casino, even leech therapy and traditional Chinese massage parlors. The market was so densely populated that in 2008 Tajikistan opened an official consulate there. There were also reports of dens and brothels set up in the basements at Cherkizovsky. "What that place was really full of were smuggled goods and people, who were in Moscow illegally," says Sergey Molokhov, a former officer at the Department for Combating Crime.
Migrants came to Cherkizovsky on purpose and to stay. They lived at the market and tried not to leave its boundaries for fear of having their documents checked by the police. At the market itself, document checks were rare since the territory was guarded by a private company hired by the owners. If they were lucky, migrants could rent a place in the basement, while the poorest of them slept in bathroom stalls.
"In the late 1990s, the Cherkizovsky Market presented an awful sight. It consisted of covered wagons and containers,” recalls Olga Kosets, who used to sell goods at the market. “For 11 years, I virtually lived in a container, like a dog tied to a booth. The conditions were not great." Despite all this, many of Cherkizovsky’s inhabitants believed it was worth it.
According to MACON Realty Group, there were more than 100,000 retail outlets and stalls on the site. Most were little more than small, cramped cubbyholes. At the same time, the rent was US$ 50,000 a month per stall. It was said that a stall could generate US$ 250,000 in sales every month, which might be true since few spaces at the market were ever vacant.
In 2006, Forbes estimated that the market's main beneficiary, Telman Ismailov, was worth $620 million. James Brown, Jennifer Lopez and other stars performed at his 50th birthday party, and Moscow’s mayor at the time, Yuri Luzhkov, made the first toast.
The empire first began to crumble in 2006, when a fire destroyed more than 500 square meters of the market and then, later the same year, right-wing radicals set off an improvised bomb at the market. The attack claimed the lives of 14 people, including two children. These incidents attracted the attention of the authorities. A proposal to close the market came from Rospotrebnadzor, the state consumer rights watchdog, which cited multiple violations of sanitary and fire safety regulations.
The Investigations Committee soon declared that it would seek the closure of this "hellhole," and Yuri Luzhkov immediately promised to do so as soon as possible. It all ended on June 29, 2009. The market’s former owner, Telman Ismailov, was arrested in absentia on charges of organizing two murders and arms trafficking. He was placed on the international wanted list but remains in hiding in Montenegro.
Valery Sharifulin/TASS
In the ten years that have passed since Cherkizovsky Market’s closure nothing has been built on its site. At first, IKEA showed interest in acquiring it, but nothing came of that and in 2018 the site was allocated for the construction of new housing.
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A look at the old ration system in Russia
Elena Revinskaya
The coupon-based goods' distribution system in the USSR created long queues. Source: TASS
Food items such as sausages, grains and butter were rationed in the USSR/Russia from the mid-1980s for about a decade. Unlike in India today, the Soviet rationing system distributed food to the whole country and not just poor people.
There was a joke about 40 years ago in the Soviet Union: A boy asks his mother, “Mama, where is papa?" She responds by saying that “he is standing in the line to get coupons for the coupons.”
Not that long ago, till the mid-1990s to be precise, Russia had a distribution system based on coupons. Originally, the ration coupons were given as part of a motivation system. An outstanding employee would be given a coupon entitling him to receive a TV, a pair of shoes or something else. Without those coupons it was very difficult to buy those items. Later on, a similar system was implemented for food items that were not readily available in the shops. From 1983, the USSR started experiencing a shortage of food supply and food items were rationed for about a decade.
Ration cards have been an important part of the Public Distribution System in India, but are now used to support the poor and not to provide food for the nation as a whole. Depending on their financial condition, people can buy food grains, sugar and kerosene with the help of their ration cards. It is considered to be the most important food security network, in terms of coverage and public expenditure. The Soviet/Russian system reached out to a lesser number of people than in India but had to cover the entire country.
I remember the ration system in Russia. Small pieces of paper of different colours were given to us on a monthly basis to be able to buy various items. I am curious about the list of food items that were short in supply. The Soviet government made a list of necessities for citizens and the quantity that they would receive. Number one on that list was sausages. Russians can’t live without sausages and lack of them on the shelves of grocery stores was definitely a societal problem
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev launched an anti-alcohol campaign, backing it up with a series of measures to reduce alcohol production and sales. These included limiting the kinds of shops permitted to sell alcohol, closing many vodka distilleries and destroying vineyards in the wine-producing republics. While the anti-alcohol campaign resulted in a decline in alcohol consumption, it also precipitated a sharp rise in the production of moonshine (samogon) - a distilled homemade alcoholic drink. As a result, the demand for sugar increased dramatically and created a deficit of the commodity. People started receiving coupons to buy sugar! I remember at harvest time, there was a big problem to get sugar to make jam from berries. Even with coupons it was not possible to find it in the shops. My mother had to buy sugar several months in advance and stock it to have enough quantity for preservation.
Slowly many other products disappeared from the shelves and were added to the list to be provided through the coupons. Below is the list of items that were included into distribution system in most of the regions (quantity is per person):
1. Sausages (500 g a month)
3. Vodka (1 litre per month)
4. Soap
5. Cigarettes (half a pack a day)
6. Salt
7. Butter (300 g a month)
8. Grains
Other items:
Matches (5 packs per month)
These coupons were distributed through the unions and given based on the number of members of a family. Even cigarettes and vodka were given for the kids in the family. The system encouraged barter exchange especially with liquor. Vodka became a valuable commodity and many times was acceptable instead of currency. It is remarkable that our consumption was decided by a third party and we had to adjust and plan for the future: what to keep, what to exchange and how much to eat.
I am just fantasising, what was India that faced this policy and not the Soviet Union. What would be the items available only through the coupon system? My guess is rice, ginger-garlic paste, ghee, chilli powder and supari.
Thankfully, food and essential commodities are readily available on the shelves of grocery stores and supermarkets in both countries now.
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California on path to meet goal of 1.5 million…
California on path to meet goal of 1.5 million electric cars, but charging stations lag behind
A Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF charge up under solar panels that power electric vehicle recharging at CALSTART in Pasadena on June 25, 2012. (SCNG Staff Photo by Walt Mancini. )
By Steve Scauzillo | sscauzillo@scng.com | San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Buoyed by an exceptional sales year in 2017, the state’s electric vehicle market will continue to grow this year and will reach 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2025, an earlier target set by Gov. Jerry Brown.
That rosy forecast is according to a report released Tuesday by the Silicon Valley-based think tank Next 10 and Beacon Economics in Los Angeles. The joint report, “The Road Ahead for Zero-Emission Vehicles in California: Market Trends & Policy Analysis,” said 2018 sales will piggyback on a 29.1 percent increase of zero-emission vehicle sales in California in 2017, a turning point year.
Currently, 337,483 zero-emission vehicles have been sold in California, reaching nearly 5 percent of the state’s market share, accelerating from 3.6 percent in 2016, Beacon reported. Global passenger electric vehicle sales reached 1 million by the end of 2017, up from 500,000 in 2015.
By far, California has the most of any state, and Brown wants to speed sales even more. Last week, he set a new goal of 5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2030, a number the report said will be a challenge to meet unless more charging infrastructure is built.
“The trends in California are all good for the continued increase in sales of electric vehicles,” Noel Perry, founder of Next 10, a group that examines the nexus of the economy, environment and climate change, said during an interview Wednesday.
“We talk about how smartphones became ubiquitous in a short period of time. It is possible ZEVs can go the route of smartphones by 2040,” Perry said.
Prices of ZEVs (battery-electric, hydrogen-powered and plug-in hybrids) are becoming competitive with gasoline-powered cars, in part because battery costs have dropped from $1,000 to $209 per kilowatt-hour from 2010-2016, the report noted. Also, the percentage of electric cars in the world will grow in 2018 as more car-makers jump on the EV bandwagon, with 150 zero-emission models on the global market today and 240 expected in 2021.
Sales of electric cars may be encouraged by higher prices at the pump. Gas prices in California hit their highest level on Wednesday since September 2015, according to gasbuddy.com.
In addition, governments committed to reducing greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels are putting pressure on automakers to stop making internal combustion engine cars. China, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and India intend to phase-out gasoline-powered cars, according to the report.
The United States is going in the opposite direction, the report said, while California’s targets for reducing greenhouse gasses are also an incentive to electrify the transportation fleet.
For the first time, China leads the world in sales of zero-emission passenger cars. EV sales increased 70 percent from 2015 to 2016 and cumulative sales reached 650,000, overtaking the United States, according to the report.
A Tesla Model 3 is parked behind an office building in Costa Mesa. (Photo by Penny Arevalo, SCNG)
Usually, advanced technology adoption follows an S-curve, when adoption hits a tipping point followed by exponential growth, rather than linear. The sales of zero-emission vehicles are following this pattern, said Adam Fowler, economist at Beacon.
“Add to that the advent of autonomous vehicles and new business models, such as ride-hailing and car-sharing, and we could be on the brink of major disruption in the transportation sector,” Folwer said in a prepared statement.
The promised delivery this year of thousands of Tesla Model 3s, a more affordable electric sedan from Elon Musk’s iconic brand, could also break open the market, Perry said. Tesla’s most equipped Model 3 has a range of 315 miles, more than the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt at 238 miles.
Dashboard readout of the Chevrolet Bolt EV, with 220 volt current in owner’s his Santa Monica garage on March 29, 2017. The Bolt EV is an all-electric vehicle with a near 240 mile driving range. (SCNG (Photo by Leo Jarzomb)
While Tesla has built its exclusive charging stations along the 5 Freeway from L.A. to San Francisco and in towns such as Baker and Barstow on the way to Las Vegas, California has reached 16,549 public charging outlets, most in the nation. But that works out to be 0.05 per each zero-emission vehicle on the road in the state, “one of the lowest ratios in the country,” the report said.
Southern California Edison will finish installing 1,000 public charging ports before the end of the year, mostly in disadvantaged communities, said Katie Sloan, SCE principal manager of innovation, development and controls in an interview.
The Rosemead-based power company has received the go-ahead from the California Public Utilities Commission to add charging for electric buses and electrified vehicles in the Port of Long Beach, she said.
SCE is also trying to boost residential charging by offering a $350 rebate on the conduit and labor, not the cost of the charging unit. “It’s to help residents defray the cost of putting in home charging,” she said.
The electric utility wants to see 7 million ZEVs in the state by 2030, a more ambitious goal than the state’s. But increasing charging stations remains a looming challenge.
“We agree that we need a significant amount more public charging infrastructure to meet these aggressive goals,” Sloan said.
Marilyn North, of Pomona, charges her Ford C-Max Energi at the Southern California Edison Energy Education Center in Irwindale on Friday, May 13, 2016. (SCNG photo by Watchara Phomicinda/ San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
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Steve Scauzillo covers environment, public health and transportation for the Southern California News Group. He has won two journalist of the year awards from the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club and is a recipient of the Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing on environmental issues. Steve studied biology/chemistry when attending East Meadow High School and Nassau College in New York (he actually loved botany!) and then majored in social ecology at UCI until switching to journalism. He also earned a master's degree in media from Cal State Fullerton. He has been an adjunct professor since 2005. Steve likes to take the train, subway and bicycle – sometimes all three – to assignments and the newsroom. He has two grown sons, Andy and Matthew. Steve recently watched all of “Star Trek” the remastered original season one on Amazon, so he has an inner nerd.
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Fire at Pechanga Resort & Casino leads to 3…
Fire at Pechanga Resort & Casino leads to 3 injuries and evacuation of hotel tower
Fire officials are on scene, Monday, June 3, at Pechanga Resort & Casino near Temecula. (Photo by Alex grives/The Press=Enterprise/SCNG)
By Josh Cain | jcain@scng.com, Alex Groves | agroves@scng.com and Robert Gundran | rgundran@scng.com | Los Angeles Daily News
PUBLISHED: June 3, 2019 at 12:35 pm | UPDATED: June 3, 2019 at 8:01 pm
An elevator fire at Pechanga Resort & Casino midday Monday led to three injuries and the evacuation of a hotel tower.
The three victims were hospitalized but it was unclear as to whether any of the them were inside the elevator. Among those hurt, one person with burn injuries was taken to a hospital and two were treated for smoke inhalation.
“At approximately 11:30 a.m., a fire broke out in a hotel elevator portal in the original tower of the Pechanga Resort Casino,” spokeswoman Ciara Green said in an email. “The Pechanga Fire Department immediately responded and knocked the fire down.”
It was “out of an abundance of caution, team members and guests in the hotel tower were evacuated,” the email said.
The incident was not near the casino.
Fire trucks respond to reports of a fire at Pechanga Resort & Casino on Monday after an incident on site that may have led to evacuations and a medical response. There were no visible signs of a fire. (Photo by Frank Bellino, Contributing Photographer)
Fire trucks line up in the valet line at Pechanga Resort & Casino after reports of a fire in one of the hotel tower In Temecula Monday, June 3, 2019. Photo by FRANK BELLINO, Contributing Photographer.
Fire trucks line up outside and stage at Pechanga Resort & Casino after reports of a fire in one of the hotel tower In Temecula Monday, June 3, 2019. Photo by FRANK BELLINO, Contributing Photographer.
Fire trucks were seen outside the Pechanga Resort and Casino at around noon on June 3, 2019. (Photo by Alex Groves, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Fire officials are on scene, Monday, June 3, at Pechanga Resort & Casino near Temecula. (Photo by Alex Groves, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Pechanga Fire Department Chief Jason Keeling said the fire started on the first floor in the elevator.
“I don’t believe people were inside the elevator, but I can’t say for sure that they weren’t,” Keeling said.
All 517 rooms in the tower were evacuated. People staying in those rooms were moved to a ballroom at the resort, where they were provided food and drink.
“There’s a lot of people in that ballroom,” Keeling said. “It holds between 3,000 and 4,000 people.”
Arson hadn’t been ruled out, but the Pechanga Fire chief noted that it isn’t believed to be the cause.
Everyone was escorted back to their rooms at around 5 p.m., according to Green. They were brought up by casino employees and security.
“People went back up through service elevators,” Green said. “Right now crews are working on getting half of our elevators in Tower One working.”
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Geist said she saw a man receiving oxygen on the back of an ambulance. The man had told her he came out of his hotel room to find the hallway filled with smoke and had to crawl on his hands and knees to get to a stairway.
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Home Entertainment News Bollywood News #MeToo: "I Was Being Advised To Not Come Out," Vinta Nanda On Alok Nath Rape Allegations
#MeToo: "I Was Being Advised To Not Come Out," Vinta Nanda On Alok Nath Rape Allegations
Written By Diyali Banerjee | Mumbai | Published: October 09, 2018 18:32 IST
Vinta Nanda opened up about the incident that happened to her in the 90s during the shooting of television soap opera 'Tara'
Vinta Nanda accused actor Alok Nath of alleged rape and brutality.
Bollywood's #MeToo movement has gained momentum in past few days following Tanushree Dutta's allegations against veteran actor Nata Patekar. In one of the latest revelations, producer of the popular 90s show, Vinta Nanda accused actor Alok Nath of alleged rape and brutality. Nanda, in an elaborate Facebook post, narrated the details of the horrific incident that happened to her back in the 90s. Although, Nanda did not name the accused, she did call him the 'TV actor of the decade' and so the internet was quick enough to connect the dots. Shortly after, Alok Nath became an instant trend, with several calling for prosecution. In a string of tweets, several Bollywood celebrities opened up on the matter calling it 'heart-wrenching' and 'terrifying'.
In an exclusive interview with Republic TV, Vinta Nanda opened up about the incident that happened to her in the 90s during the shoot of television soap opera 'Tara' that aired on Zee TV. Detailing about the incident she revealed that she has always been very vocal about the allegations which went unheard. Although, Alok Nath, who was one of the leads of her show that time, was thrown out of it, no strong action was taken against him. She further stated that everyone at the time suggested her to keep mum and forget what happened instead of reporting it.
READ: Vinta Nanda On Alok Nath: He Did Not Deny It Even In 2003, 04 And 05 When I Had Written About It
The producer in her statement said, "His misbehaviour had been reported and it had been registered and therefore he was thrown out of the show. He was asked to leave the show"
"I was being advised not to come out and was being told I was committing hara-kiri when I came out. I was bold enough to say no way, I'll bring out the truth, and then I saw that the truth only came back to hit me, and nothing happened. Despite everyone knowing what had happened and what he had done to me, nobody was ready to support me and come out and say that this guy needs to be punished. And yes, I could have gone to the cops, filed FIRs but it didn't occur to me without support." she added.
Nanda further stated that her career suffered a lot because of the incident. She was not getting work as the production houses feared that she won't compromise and might report the wrongdoings. She revealed that the incident left her with huge mental setback on her conscience and she got addicted to drugs and alcohol for a while to come over the situation. She said that she was silenced by the society that eventually weakened her will to fight for justice.
"Silence has severe consequences, especially in this regard, because what happened to me, I wouldn't wish upon anybody. I was silenced and that made me easy prey. It also turned me to this person who everyone knew won't be heard. I was physically not able to respond to a human being who was a male." she said in a statement.
READ: #MeToo | After Vinta Nanda Accuses Alok Nath Of Alleged Rape, Actress Navneet Nishan Comes Out And Supports The Claims
Talking about regaining the courage to raise her voice once again, Nanda said, "the environment now is extremely enabling and women are not going to settle for less. And that's the change that has taken place and that's the change that has motivated me to come out and talk and come to terms with the situation that happened in my life and also move on."
The actress, who mentioned Nath's wife as her best friend in her Facebook post said that "In my time, we women were very together but we didn't have the courage to go against the men in our lives, for each other." Talking about her future course of action, the producer said, "I will be meeting people who will advise me and then I will take a call"
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Your question sparked some interesting conversation. You were asking about process and the conversation ended up a debate on the purpose of live music. So my response doesn't really answer your question, but rather this second question that came up.
My opinion is that every audience goes to a show for different reason. Some are there to dance and party. Some are there to appreciate musicianship. Most are there for a mix of the two. The genre of music and its audience will figure out whatever show format makes them happy.
DJ shows, to me, seem more about the dancing and partying. What the guy does up there isn't as important to the audience as the music being played. But the good time the DJ knows how to put on for an audience doesn't mean the guy or girl isn't a musical savant. A great show here is probably when the audience finds connection with the music, each other, and the DJ made it all happen.
At a jazz show, people sit and listen. It seems to me these audiences go to listen for small nuances, maybe like perfect resonances and players grooving in the pocket. So here the musicianship is the main thing that makes a show good or bad. And a good time for this audience usually isn't defined by sweating and shared experience with like-minded peers. It's about the coordination of a particular key change between 4 players, and the polyrhythm that set up the transition into the other.
But in any case, all these people come together around the music, one way or another. I think it's kind of crazy and pointless to weigh what merit is deserved by any genre, its players, and its audiences. And in the end, no player or audience deserves anything, really. It's accrued from communities of people discovering and enjoying music, back to when it was probably hitting stones against stumps, and branches against stone.
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The Adventures of Sir Samuel White Baker
Victorian Hero
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The life of the explorer, naturalist, hunter, soldier, writer and colonial administrator Samuel White Baker (1821–93) reads like a novel by H Rider Haggard. Trow's gripping biography charts the extraordinary career of this energetic, multi-faceted Victorian. Drawing on official records and Baker's own prolific writings, it recounts his adventures in Africa and India, his devotion to his wife Florence, his ardent opposition to slavery, and his friendships with Henry Morton Stanley, John Speke, General Gordon, and Maharaja Duleep Singh.
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Home > Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) > Living with Anxiety > IBS Anxiety: How Digestive Disorders Affect Your Mental Health
Researchers are exploring the link between IBS and psychiatric disorders including anxiety, insomnia, depression, and bipolar disorder
Susan McQuillan, MS, RDN
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common gastrointestinal disorder characterized by varying degrees of recurring abdominal pain and bloating, diarrhea, constipation, and gas. Even though IBS is frequently diagnosed—reportedly affecting up to 23% of people around the world, and more women than men (1, 2) — the exact cause remains unknown, and medical experts do not fully understand how the disease process works. Unlike ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and other inflammatory bowel diseases with similar symptoms, IBS is considered a functional disorder, which means symptoms are caused by a dysfunctional digestive system, rather than by chronic inflammation, growth, or permanent damage along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract that can identified in a physical examination. This dysfunction interrupts the normal movement of food through the GI tract, causing the related symptoms. IBS can produce different symptoms in different people, and multiple factors—both physical and psychological—are thought to be involved in its development.
The Brain-Belly Connection
Although IBS is not fully understood, symptoms appear to result from a disturbance in the brain-gut axis—the line of communication that exists between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract—that may include disruptions in the microbiome and the immune system. (3) This, they believe, helps explain why approximately half of all IBS patients, particularly those who suffer from chronic abdominal pain, report mental symptoms and distress along with abnormal and inexplicable symptoms that were once considered to be “all in their heads” because doctors couldn’t find any physical abnormalities. (4)
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A large-scale Taiwanese population study used anonymous medical records to follow more than 4,500 IBS patients ranging in age from 34 to 59 for approximately 6 years from diagnosis. None of the study patients had previously been diagnosed with any type of psychiatric disorders. At follow-up, when the researchers compared the study population to patients in the general population who were never diagnosed with IBS, they found that the IBS patients were significantly more likely to develop mental health conditions such as depressive disorders, anxiety disorders and sleep disorders. IBS patients were also found to be at higher than average risk of developing bipolar disorder, but not schizophrenia. Upon further investigation, the researchers found the highest risk of developing these mental health conditions occurred within a year of being diagnosed with IBS, and while the risk decreased over time, was still significant more than five years after diagnosis. (2)
The Link Between Stomach Issues and Suicide
While this research appears to confirm the findings of numerous other studies, researchers still have many question about the link between IBS and psychiatric disorders. There’s no doubt that IBS causes patients significant distress and is associated with higher levels of mood disorders, anxiety, and other psychiatric conditions. A study of 100 IBS patients found that more than one-third had considered suicide as a result of their symptoms. (5) But just as several factors may play a role in the development of IBS, many different circumstances also play a role in the development of psychiatric disorders. This complicates the work of any researcher seeking to find a definitive link between IBS and mental health issues. Furthermore, it complicates the ability to determine the best treatment. (2, 6)
The Potential Benefits of Probiotics
One area of great interest to researchers looking at IBS, mental health disorders, and links between the two, is the human microbiome, or the diverse population of gut microbia (bacteria) that lives in our gastrointestinal tract, which appears to play an active role in many areas of health. Normally, a balanced population of “good” bacteria keeps our digestive system healthy but when that balance is disrupted, as it can be for a variety of biological, psychological, medical and environmental reasons, an overgrowth of “bad” bacteria can result. Studies are showing this imbalance can have profound negative effects on both physical and mental health. (7)
Ongoing studies are also looking at the benefits of treating both IBS and mental health issues with probiotics—helpful live bacteria—found in fermented foods, taken as supplements, and introduced via a technique known as fecal microbial transplantation that involves introducing bacteria from a healthy person into the gastrointestinal tract of a patient with physical or mental health problems, in a procedure similar to a colonoscopy. (7,8) Research on probiotic bacteria thought to be most beneficial to people with IBS centers on different strains of the species known as Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, both considered key to replenishing the gut with good bacteria and restoring a healthy balance to the microbiota. Yogurt, kefir and aged cheeses are probably the most common food sources of these bacterial species in the American diet. These strains also serve as the components of many different brands of probiotic supplements, alone and in combination with other beneficial bacteria. More and better controlled studies are necessary, however, before the effectiveness of different strains, combinations, and doses of probiotics can be confirmed and recommended by medical experts. (9)
Tips for Soothing Your Upset Stomach
While it is clear that more research needs to be done on IBS, mental health conditions, and how the two impact one another, it is important to keep in mind basic rules of healthy living when trying to improve both stomach issues and mental health woes. But don’t underplay any condition that is getting in the way of your life; make an appointment with your health practitioner to discuss the problem.
Here are tips to help you begin the journey to full bodily wellness.
Incorporate foods rich in fermentable fibers, called inulin-type fructans, which, studies show, can help nurture beneficial gut bacteria. These are found in foods such as leek, asparagus, chicory, Jerusalem artichoke, garlic, artichoke, onion, wheat, bananas, oats and soybeans, according to nutrition researchers from the UK’s University of Reading. Plant compounds called polyphenols, found fruit, vegetables, tea, coffee, wine, soymilk, nuts and chocolate may also contribute to healthy blood sugar via beneficial effects on gut bacteria, the researchers note.10
Avoid artificial sweeteners: they have been shown to change gut bacteria colonies in ways that may contribute to blood-sugar problems, the UK study shows. 10
“The best advice for people who want to improve their health and keep their beneficial gut bacteria happy at present is still what we have recommended for many years. Base your diet on plenty of vegetables and fruits and wholegrain breads and cereals. Include nuts, lean meats, and fish, chicken and dairy products. Minimize your intake of highly processed foods that are high in saturated fat, sugar and salt. Try to get at least 30 minutes of exercise each day, and don’t smoke,” says Australian dietitian Nicole Kellow, who is researching gut bacteria in people with prediabetes at Monash University and Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute.
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Fadgyas-Stanculete M, Buga A-M, Popa-Wagner A, Dumitrascu DL. The relationship between irritable bowel syndrome and psychiatric disorders: from molecular changes to clinical manifestations. Journal of Molecular Psychiatry. June 27, 2014;2(1):4
Harper A, Naghibi MM, Garcha D. The role of bacteria, probiotics and diet in irritable bowel syndrome. Foods. February 2018; 7(2):13
El-Salhy M, Mazzawi T. Fecal microbiota transplantation for managing irritable bowel syndrome. Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. May 2018;12(5):439-445
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by Graham
11 Oak Street is the true story of how the Queen’s bankers, Coutts & Co, sent two cashier’s cheques to the law firm of Urie Walsh in San Francisco with the wrong address on the envelope (11 Oak Street instead of 1111 Oak Street), setting off a chain of events that led to the abduction of a three-year-old child from Bristol, England, to San Francisco, California.It is a horrifying story of greed, ineptness, corruption, stupidity and wasted years as the father tries to seek justice and access to his son in the midst of a thirteen-year nightmare that even Kafka could not have thought up. If you want to read about the seven California lawyers involved in this story who either went to jail, were disbarred, or resigned with charges pending, and inept judges who broke all the rules or were disciplined, this is the book for you. This is a story that would never have happened if those concerned had fulfilled their duties correctly and not broken the law. If Graham Cook, the author, had known then what he knows now, there would have been no story and he would not have gone bankrupt, become homeless or, through the actions of his own brother, ended up in a California jail. This is the book the California Judges Association refused to let the author promote to its members, since it reveals in detail the judicial abuse by some of their past and present members whose conduct will shock and disgust any right-minded person.
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Graham Cook grew up as one of six children from an humble background in a dysfunctional family with a dark secret which would affect him all his life. He left school at fifteen and undertook an apprenticeship as a Heating & Ventilation Engineer. Aged twenty-three he started and sold one successful large company after another to companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, each of which, based on the principles of ethics and quality that are his hallmark, made him a very wealthy man at a very early age. However, after accumulating such wealth, he made the worst decision of his life in pandering to the "snob" value of wanting and obtaining an account with the very exclusive Coutts & Co bank, whose mistake despite their esteemed name, led to the chain of events which changed Graham Cook's life forever, and ended in the abduction of his son and financial ruin. After living in California for years, he returned to the UK penniless and needing to start a business career all over again; he is now the founder and owner of a successful company, building it up from nothing.
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House passes Kauffman workers' compensation bill
A Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision last year on a technicality invalidated one of the major cost controls of the Workers’ Compensation system.
House passes Kauffman workers' compensation bill A Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision last year on a technicality invalidated one of the major cost controls of the Workers’ Compensation system. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: https://ponews.co/2Ir0HNf
Staff report Published 2:24 p.m. ET June 25, 2018 | Updated 3:24 p.m. ET June 25, 2018
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State Rep. Rob Kauffman, R-Chambersburg, represents Pennsylvania's 89th Legislative District.(Photo: Courtesy)
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Friday voted to pass a bill authored by Rep. Rob Kauffman, R-Chambersburg, that would reform the state’s Workers’ Compensation system.
A major component of House Bill 1840 would save the state millions of dollars by reducing Workers’ Compensation costs for employers. The legislation also would adjust compensation for workers and increase the burial benefits for claimants from $3,000 to $7,000.
A Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision last year on a technicality invalidated one of the major cost controls of the Workers’ Compensation system that was enacted in the 1990s.
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“Because of that decision employers were basically saddled with hundreds of millions of dollars in additional workers’ compensation costs,” Kauffman said. “This has been a major issue for Pennsylvania’s business community, which was being unfairly impacted by the court’s decision. House Bill 1840 restores the controls in a manner that complies with the law.”
The bill moves to the Senate.
The Supreme Court in 2017 invalidated a provision of PA’s 1996 Workers’ Compensation reforms that allows employers to request an Impairment Rating Evaluation after an injured worker has been out of the workplace for 104 weeks, according to Kauffman. The IRE process helps to lower workers’ compensation costs by providing certainty for insurers and employers, as well as injured workers. It incentivized injured workers to attempt to return to work. The court did not find any constitutional problems with the IRE process, but disagreed with the method the Act provided for updates to the standards for evaluating a worker’s degree of impairment.
Reforms of Pennsylvania’s Workers’ Compensation laws in the 1990s contributed to a 62.3 percent reduction in loss costs, a major component in the calculation of insurance premiums, according to the Pennsylvania Compensation Ratings Bureau. The PCRB had filed for a 6 percent mid-year increase of lost costs when the court ruled on the method of updating IREs.
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Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, June 6, 2001
June 6, 2001 9:18PM (UTC)
The West Wing (8 p.m. EST/10 p.m. PST, NBC) reruns the one where Bartlet ruffles feathers with his State of the Union address. On a rerun of Malcolm in the Middle (8 p.m., Fox), Hal leaves the 9-to-5 grind behind to become an artist. For some people, the beginning of summer is signaled by the longer days; for others, it's the first barbecue of the season, or the opening of the community swimming pool. On TV, you can tell it's summer by the return of Ladies Man (8 p.m., CBS), the irredeemably lame sitcom that has been yanked off CBS's schedule a million times, but will not die. And guess what? It airs for a whole hour tonight! Alfred Molina stars as a blue-collar guy in a house of women. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (9 p.m., WB) moves into a new time slot for summer reruns, before it surfaces on UPN in the fall. UPN will run it in its familiar 8 p.m. Tuesday slot; the WB is just messing with our heads by moving it to Wednesday, hoping we'll get out of the "Buffy"-on-Tuesday habit and forget to watch it on UPN. In tonight's rerun, the Watchers Council turns up to sneer at Giles and tease Buffy with what it knows about Glory.
The bad boys from Boston (well, that's what we used to call them in Boston) kick off their summer concert tour in Aerosmith: Opening Night Live (9 p.m., VH1), which brings us the first half-hour of the band's opening gig in Hartford, Conn.
Baseball:
Indians at Twins (7 p.m., ESPN)
Dodgers at Diamondbacks (10 p.m., ESPN2)
NBA Finals:
76ers at Lakers, Game 1 (9 p.m., NBC)
Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Regis Philbin, Jimmy Fallon, Margaret Cho
David Letterman (CBS) Jimmy Fallon, Black Crowes
Jay Leno (NBC) Kirsten Dunst, Guy Torry, Ben Harper
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Orlando Jones, Chris Connelly
Conan O'Brien (NBC) David Duchovny, Al Franken, Frank McCourt
Craig Kilborn (CBS) Hugh Jackman
All times Eastern unless noted.
5 shows unite liberals and conservatives
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Destination: Togo
The wild character of this tiny West African nation is captured in a brilliant roman
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2006/06/15/togo_2/
Matt Steinglass
June 15, 2006 4:00PM (UTC)
Togo is the Zembla of West Africa: If it did not exist, it would have been invented by the author of an absurdist experimental novel, prompting generations of unwary readers to leaf through their atlases in search of the place. Indeed, some of Togo's own residents may occasionally be tempted to leaf through their atlases, to assure themselves of their own existence. How is one to account for this finger of a country tucked in between Ghana and Benin, its population of 5 million people speaking 40-odd different languages? A country that owes its existence to the off chance of having been the tiniest of Germany's short-lived African colonies, inherited by France after World War I, which absentmindedly failed to consolidate it into its other colonies? Where, until February of 2005, a general who had first seized power in 1967 still reigned, Mobutu-like, over a tribalized kleptocracy, propped up by French money and military advisors, referred to by his countrymen in hushed whispers as "le vieux." Is this place for real?
In fact, Togo does exist; but that didnt stop the great Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma from inventing it. Kouroumas brilliant 1998 roman à clef, "Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals," is a folk-absurdist chronicle of the life of Koyaga, a champion wrestler from a northern hill tribe (as Togo's longtime dictator Eyadéma was) who is recruited into the French army, fights in Vietnam (as Kourouma did), and winds up commanding a clique of disgruntled ex-officers in his country's first coup. He then gradually descends into the familiar dictatorial narrative of gold-plated extravagance and familial intrigue. Koyaga is tutored in the fine arts of torture, repression and opulent state dinners by a panoply of African greats, including Ivory Coast's Houphouët-Boigny, Guineas Sékou Touré, Congo's Mobutu, and the Central African Republic's Bokassa. (They appear in clever guises: "The Man whose Totem is the Crocodile," "The Man whose Totem is the Leopard," and so on.)
The novel follows Koyaga's history through the Cold War years of Western-sponsored corruption, and into the '90s, when the old wrestler finds himself lost in a new world of IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs and exiles returning from Europe demanding transparency and decentralization. But its real genius is stylistic: The narrator, Bingo, is Koyaga's griot, a praise-singing storyteller who recites the leader's history over the course of a six-day, five-night banquet. The language, thick with African idiom and oral tradition, throws the postcolonial political narrative into high relief, like Woody Guthrie reciting the life and times of Richard Nixon.
For a more realistic introduction to Togo, there's the book beloved of every Peace Corps volunteer: "The Village of Waiting" (1988), by George Packer. Packer is best known today for his superb reporting on the Iraq war for the New Yorker, which culminated in the 2005 book "The Assassins' Gate." He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo in 1982-83. Stationed as an English teacher in a sluggish village of the Ewe ethnicity called Laviéma (whose name, according to legend, meant "wait a little longer"), Packer found his modest optimism deteriorating into a profound alienation and cynicism over the course of 18 months. His intense friendships with his host family, with the village chief, and with his students were laced with mistrust and incomprehension. Confronted by their poverty, he felt responsible; confronted by their manipulation and dishonesty, he felt simultaneously abused and sympathetic. Ultimately, wracked by hypochondria and anxiety, he quit before his two-year Peace Corps term was up. "The Village of Waiting" is one of the most wrenchingly honest books ever written by a white person about Africa, a bracing antidote to romantic authenticity myths and exotic horror stories alike. Isak Dinesen, Packer notes, wrote of waking in the Kenyan highlands and thinking, "Here I am, where I ought to be." He himself woke up sweating, hungry, "mildly at ease, or mildly anxious. But never where I ought to be."
Tété-Michel Kpomassie didn't feel Togo was where he ought to be, either, though he grew up in a typical family of the Mina ethnicity in the 1940s and '50s, herding goats and picking coconuts on a coastal plantation. When a priestess of the local python god demanded that he be apprenticed to her, he fled the country, setting out for a far land he had become obsessed with since discovering a book about it in a missionary bookshop: Greenland. It took him eight years to work his way up through West Africa and Europe, but he made it, and spent two years living among the Inuit, driving a dog sled and hunting seal in a kayak. "An African in Greenland," his 1981 account of those years, is one of the more original volumes of amateur anthropology ever written, as well as a ripping good travel yarn. And it's a curious meditation on Africa, Europe, the Arctic, and the tenuous and arbitrary ways in which different cultures regard each other as "savage."
No bibliography of Togo would be complete without a guide to some aspect of vodun, the animist religion that thrives from southeastern Ghana to southern Benin, and the ancestor of Haitian voodoo. Judy Rosenthal's 1998 "Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo" focuses on two of the more colorful and fast-growing sects, gorovodun and Tchamba vodun, both of which are tied up in fascinating ways with cultural exchange between Togo's Christian/vodun south and its Muslim north, and with the history of slavery. Rosenthal lived for long stretches in an impoverished fishing village called Dogbeda, and intimately shared the lives of the vodun priestesses, or "horses." She recounts their jealous rivalries, their ever-changing family arrangements, and the splendidly chaotic festivals at which they are possessed and transformed by spirits of varying personalities and sexes. Imagine the early-'90s voguing documentary "Paris Is Burning" recast in a dirt-poor African fishing community, with a certain amount of animal sacrifice thrown in. If that sounds appealing, you will enjoy your time in Togo.
Matt Steinglass writes for the Boston Globe and other publications, and for the children's television show "Arthur." He lives in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Rachelle Sussman Rumph
Undergraduate Discipline
Women's History Program
Associate Dean of Studies
MA, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD, New York University. Rumph's research and teaching interests include visual culture theory, media history, critical race theory, and gender studies. For many years, she taught media and communication studies courses at New York University and worked with students as an administrator in the areas of academic advisement and student support. She is currently a guest faculty member in the Women's History program and an Associate Dean of Studies at SLC.
Undergraduate Courses 2018-2019
Gender, Race, and Media: Historicizing Visual Culture
Advanced , Seminar—Year
In this course, we will engage with the field of visual culture in order to develop a critical framework through which we may understand visual perception as a set of practices that inform, and are informed by, structures of power. Throughout the semester and the year, we will consider the following questions: What does it mean, from a historical perspective, to live in a society that seemingly privileges visual perception? How does power figure into past and contemporary viewing practices? How have visual technologies been leveraged to situate alternative practices of looking more squarely within the Western public’s fields of vision? We will accomplish this by focusing on the rich scholarship of visual culture theory, media and communication scholarship that foregrounds gender and racial analysis, and the excellent work that bridges media/visual studies and women’s history. We will work with a variety of texts, such as art, advertising, print magazines, television programming, film, and social media. Readings roughly span the 19th century through the contemporary era. Through our readings, we will observe the ways in which the 19th-century production and circulation of images of the “other” and a gendered gaze began to take on a particular potency in the United States and Europe with the growth of industrialization, commercial advertising, and immigration. Twentieth-century scholarship will focus on, among other things, the rise of a global media landscape in which the lines between producers and consumers of media became increasingly blurred. An examination of contemporary viewing practices will enable us to consider some of the implications of a radically fractured “mediascape” and its attendant struggles over ownership of meaning, as media technologies enable visual processes of signification to spin out wildly in unpredictable and surprising directions.
Related Disciplines
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Visual and Studio Arts
Women's History 2018-2019
Graduate Seminar—Year
In this course, we will engage with the field of visual culture in order to develop a critical framework through which we may understand visual perception as a set of practices that inform, and are informed by, structures of power. Throughout the semester and the year, we will consider the following questions: What does it mean, from a historical perspective, to live in a society that seemingly privileges visual perception? How does power figure into past and contemporary viewing practices? How have visual technologies been leveraged to situate alternative practices of looking more squarely within the Western public’s fields of vision? We will accomplish this by focusing on the rich scholarship of visual culture theory, media and communication scholarship that foregrounds gender and racial analysis, and the excellent work that bridges media/visual studies and women’s history. We will work with a variety of examples, including art, advertising, print magazines, television programming, film, and social media. Readings roughly span the 19th century through the contemporary era. Through our readings, we will observe the ways in which the 19th-century production and circulation of images of the “other” and a gendered gaze began to take on a particular potency in the United States and Europe with the growth of industrialization, commercial advertising, and immigration. Twentieth-century scholarship will focus on, among other things, the rise of a global media landscape in which the lines between producers and consumers of media become increasingly blurred. An examination of contemporary viewing practices will enable us to consider some of the implications of a radically fractured “mediascape” and its attendant struggles over ownership of meaning, as media technologies enable visual processes of signification to spin out wildly in unpredictable and surprising directions.
Faculty List A–Z
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Lagunas’ late goal lifts SBCC over Glendale, 2-1
Glendale (0-3) 1 0 1
Santa Barbara (3-0) 0 2 2
Celso Lagunas scored the game-winning goal after an interior pass from Joel Ramirez Vega. (Photo by Ken Sciallo/Sevilla Photography)
1st - 43:55 - Luis Cervantes (Glendale)
2nd - 72:41 - Kevin Kwizera (Santa Barbara)
2nd - 77:12 - Celso Lagunas (Santa Barbara)
G: Luis Cervantes - 1
A: Kai Saito - 1
Sh: Team - 3
Sv: Harutyun Avetisyan - 4
G: 2 Players (#9, #11) - 1
A: 2 Players (#2, #34) - 1
Sh: Team - 22
After a plethora of near-misses, SBCC found the net twice in a span of 4:31 to rally past Glendale 2-1 in a men's soccer match at La Playa Stadium.
The Vaqueros dominated in shots 22-3 but didn't get their first shot on-goal until the 60th minute. Kevin Kwizera tied it at 1 at 72:41 after some clever dribbling and a long cross from Ameyawu Muntari.
At 77:12, Joel Ramirez Vega delivered a through ball to former Santa Barbara High star Celso Lagunas and the sophomore forward buried it from 14 yards out for the game-winner.
"I opened up wide, got the slip ball and just finished it," said Lagunas. "I hit it with my right foot and crossed it to the left of the goalie. We knew we just had to keep shooting and test the keeper."
SBCC, ranked No. 6 in the state and No. 9 in the country, improved to 3-0. The Vaqueros are unbeaten in their last 14 home games (12-0-2).
Glendale only had two first-half shots but the second one went in for a 1-0 lead in the 44th minute. Luis Cervantes chipped the ball over the keeper's head after a pass from Kai Saito.
The hometown Vaqueros (Glendale is also the Vaqueros) won the second-half shot battle 12-1 and Glendale's only attempt came in the 82nd minute. Santa Barbara enjoyed a 10-2 first-half shot advantage with zero shots on-goal. But there were plenty of narrow misses -- to the right, to the left and over the top.
"In the first half, we played into their hands," said SBCC coach John Sisterson. "We weren't composed, we didn't kick the ball well and we were trying to force it. At halftime, we told them to stay patient, stay with the plan and start testing the keeper.
"Their game plan was to pack it in and make it difficult and deny us the space behind. Overall, it was a good comeback and we got the win, which is all-important."
The Vaqueros travel to Citrus on Friday for a non-conference game at 1 p.m.
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NewsWalker - SCANDAL's 『her』 and 『Masterpiece / Mabataki』 Interview
Posted on Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:48 am
SCANDAL, who established a private record label, will be releasing their first double A-side single 『Masterpiece / Mabataki』 on 3/27!
SCANDAL has established a private record label. The first work they will be releasing on their label on 3/27 is the band's first double A-side single, 『Masterpiece / Mabataki』. We asked HARUNA, MAMI, TOMOMI, and RINA about the details on how their label was started, as well as their latest work that starts the band's second chapter.
―Before talking about your new single, we'll be asking about your private record label "her." When did you start thinking about establishing a label?
HARUNA: Last year we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our major label debut, but right before that is around when we started thinking, "It'd be great to do something new in anticipation of SCANDAL's second chapter." As we were discussing that, it flowed to, "How about establishing a private record label?" We prepared for it and were able to launch it this year.
―I'm the sure the members all felt that reaching the point of ten years after having your major label debut was a major break for the band.
RINA: Yes. It felt like a major break. It was also a year where we felt we got to experience all sorts of things, and our desire to do something new reached its peak. After we released our album 『HONEY』 last February, we couldn't make songs right away that made it seem like "This is it!"... Up until then, we'd digest the desire to do something new whenever we'd write a new song. However, we didn't feel that last year. We thought it'd be best if we created a new place before we created new songs. We needed a change that would completely change our environment. Since we had those kinds of thoughts, we needed a lot of courage. We decided to establish a label ourselves and make a style of releasing things from there. Accordingly, our music-making started to go smoothly after we decided to establish a label, which means that this was the right thing to do.
―Did all of you come up with "her" for the label's name?
RINA: We all discussed what name would be good. We had the general framework of going with a name that would tell you at first glance that it's an all-girl band's label, but there's a surprisingly limited amount of words that directly remind you of women. It was kind of like, 「"she" doesn't feel right. So, maybe "her"」.
MAMI: The word "her" came out in a very natural flow. I think it's because it was close to what we were thinking of.
TOMOMI: The word "her" is the theme we have within ourselves―rather, if there was a book about ourselves, we'd want that word to be the title. It felt like we were moving anew when we established our private label, but perhaps it felt more realistic when we decided on a name. It feels that comfortable.
―It doesn't mean that your recording and music production style have changed greatly, but it's a big change emotional-wise to decide on the name of your label and release your work on there.
TOMOMI: Yes.
―Its first work will be the band's first double A-side single, 『Masterpiece / Mabataki』. This song [Masterpiece] features lyrics by RINA and music by MAMI.
MAMI: 「Masterpiece」 had a completely different arrangement when it was just a demo song. The members and the staff liked the song when I made the demo, and we talked about how we'd like to release it someday. But, at that time, we thought that the timing was a little off and I therefore did not give the song shape. Even though I would make songs, I wouldn't stockpile them if the timing didn't work out. However, this time, everyone told me, "That song would be great!", and I tried throwing away my stubborn sense of pride a bit (laughs). But, since only the original arrangement would come to mind, I had Keita Kawaguchi-san do the arrangement. Lyrics-wise, since I entrenched myself and didn't think I could write them well, I had RINA write them.
―RINA, what kind of lyrics did you decide to place on MAMI's song?
RINA: The four of us had always been talking about how a cheerful song would be nice, so I thought that lyrics with that kind of content would be good. Because the four of us reaching the tenth year of being a major-label band is linked to us having greater confidence in ourselves, I thought that having content that acknowledged that and pumped out our story would be good. It's our starting song, and since we made it a song that's like 「If we're debuting again, we have to make it this single!」, and since the other three members told me, 「Sounds great!」 when I told them my thoughts in the studio, I began writing the lyrics.
―You included what the four of you have been through up until now, as well as what's to come.
RINA: Yes.
HARUNA: We had sang and performed it live several times before we recorded it, but there was a unique sense of tension when it came to recording vocals for it. Even though I should have been used to singing it, I felt like I couldn't shake off that sense of tension. I sang it over and over again, like, "I'll sing it until we've gotten a good take!" It's become the starting song for SCANDAL's second chapter, and since the lyrics are straight-forward, I tried to sing it frankly and not change it too much so that its message could be delivered properly.
TOMOMI: Our recording was influenced by our live performances of the song. There haven't been many times when we've recorded a song after playing it live. That's why we wanted to lock up the atmosphere we had when playing this song live, and tried getting it close to our live sound, including our instruments; equipment; and settings. It was really fresh and a lot of fun.
RINA: It wasn't like we recorded from zero a song that we just made; the song and how we performed it live was ingrained in our bodies, so I think that was really good.
―What did you ask of the arranger Kawaguchi-san?
MAMI: Kawaguchi-san has been watching SCANDAL since our major label debut and knows about the current us, so we thought that asking him would be the right thing to do. Basically, we told him that we wanted the band to be the main source of sound, and we started from telling him, 『At any rate, make it heavy』. I put strings into the demo I made, which gave it a pretty sound, but I said, 『Get rid of it!』 (laughs). Then, we made it by exchanging it over and over again.
―It feels like, including the music; lyrics; and arrangement, it turned out to be a song that could be delivered to the fans with confidence. It also has the title 「Masterpiece」.
MAMI: The title gives you a feeling of, 「How's this for you!」 (laughs).
―Also, the second song on the single, 「Mabataki」, features lyrics and music by RINA, with arrangement by MAMI.
RINA: I was able to write this song relatively around the same time we decided on the name "her" for our label. It's very personal and feminine, and it makes me feel like, "It's completely fine to have a song with a sweet worldview to it." It's precisely because we started a label called "her" that I wanted the four of us to perform this kind of song. I think "SCANDAL" has a strong woman image attached to it. Because that's also SCANDAL-like, I want to keep launching out those aspects while desiring them. I think we have a 「Mabataki」-like femininity within us, so I'm happy that it was able to take shape at this timing. Since 「Masterpiece」 is a completely different type of song, I'm really looking forward to the fans' reactions.
MAMI: As for the arrangement, RINA already knew what kind of song she wanted it to be, so I made it in line with that thought.
HARUNA: Since it's pretty personal song, I tried to sing it very gently and softly. It's the complete opposite of 「Masterpiece」, and such extremely different songs were born. Being able to sing those is a moment that makes me think of how much fun it is to be in SCANDAL.
RINA: This features dual vocals, with TOMOMI singing as well. I wanted it to be sung in a way that would make people feel relaxed, so I told them, 「Sing it with around 10% power」 (laughs).
TOMOMI: It was fun singing it (laughs). Like what everyone else is saying, we broke the rules by daring to make two different types of songs into a double A-side single―rather, it made us think that we can make songs from any angle from here on.
―Well then, after releasing this single, you'll be going on 「SCANDAL TOUR 2019 "Fuzzy Summer Mood"」, a nationwide tour that starts in June. What kind of tour will it be?
RINA: The title "Fuzzy Summer Mood" perfectly represents our current mode. We hope it'll be a live house tour that incorporates fuzzy feelings and a nice looseness.
HARUNA: It'll be held from June to the beginning of July, the exact period of time when it becomes summer, and it might change rapidly with each performance. Also, since the season of summer festivals will start after our tour ends, we want to build up a lot of strength while on tour.
https://news.walkerplus.com/article/181417/
Re: NewsWalker - SCANDAL's 『her』 and 『Masterpiece / Mabataki』 Interview
Posted on Mon Mar 25, 2019 10:55 am
Great interview! Thanks for the translation, Jade
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Important interview, thanks Jade. Was this maybe the first time they've performed a song before recording it? I understand the Stones used to do that, and think that's why their recordings are the best in the business. Until now!
Posted on Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:52 pm
Lots of the classic era rock bands used to perform songs live before recording: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Who, Grateful Dead... In some cases the only known version of some songs is a live performance. Back in the 70s and early 80s when bands like Fleetwood Mac and Boston would take their sweet time experimenting in the studio and recording multiple overdubs, Van Halen would record live and many of their songs were completed in one take. This was because they would perform the tunes live before recording. Personally, I think this makes for good energy in the final song. "Masterpiece" displays that well.
Nice interview overall. The ladies are far too polite to ever present any dirt on on their old label and management to give a deeper, more rounded understanding of why they've gone independent.
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NNT joins PCI Security Standards Council
PCI DSS and general security and compliance solutions provider New Net Technologies (NNT) has become a member of the PCI Security Standards Council.
To enhance payment data security globally while embracing developing technologies, the council relies on the involvement of those across the payments processing chain, from merchants and service providers to payment device manufacturers and software developers, financial institutions and processors.
According to NNT, as a participating organisation it will add its voice to the standards-setting process and receive previews of standards drafts. It will also engage with a growing community of more than 600 organisations working to improve payment security.
Russell Willcox, chairman at NNT, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be involved with the PCI Security Standards Council. The more weight we can add to the ongoing drive to secure and protect organisations involved in the handling of credit card data the better. We hope others will come on board and continue to develop the important body of work already under way at the council.”
Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council, said: “By joining as a participating organisation, NNT demonstrates it is playing an active part in mitigating the threats and improving the security of the payment chain globally by driving the security standards to higher levels of adoption and strength.”
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Scotland in Europe Update: 1st June 2018
Yesterday, the Trump administration announced new duties on steel and aluminium imports from the European Union, Canada, and Mexico. As Cecilia Malmström, the European Trade Commissioner said, “today is a bad day for world trade.” The EU will respond and has already notified the WTO that it intends to levy duties on $7.2 billion worth of US exports in response. You can read more here:
politico.eu/...
and see the WTO notification here:
docs.wto.org/...
Rest assured, so long as Scotland is in the EU, the Commission will stand up for our interests. Protecting as much as is legally possible the vital industries and jobs that are under threat from Trump’s dangerous adventures.
Only a trading bloc the size of the EU can exert meaningful influence here, and this is why Scotland, as an independent state, should be a member of the EU sitting at the top table. Instead we have to trust our future trading policy to Liam Fox, who even after these events clings to the delusion that the protectionist American president will sign a glorious trade deal with Brexit Britain.
The reality is that he will sign away anything to secure that. The Brexiters, as with Trump, are hell-bent on pursuing a raft of policies that will harm those they pretend to represent.
As each week passes the need to stop Brexit becomes ever clearer.
PS Last week I had a wonderful time appearing on the Cakewatch podcast. It is well worth a listen and remember: “Shy Weans Get No Sweeties”!
cakewatch.fireside.fm/14
Michel Barnier delivered an important speech at the 28th Congress of the International Federation for European Law (FIDE). His conclusions are well worth a read. The UK has simply not understood what the EU is, or how it works.
“From our side, there is no spirit or revenge or punishment, and there never will be. But it must be understood that, in the European Union, our strength comes from the trust between Member States. This trust does not fall from the sky. The trust between us is founded on a normative ecosystem, common rules, shared decisions, joint supervision and implementation and a common Court of Justice. Nowhere else in the world will you find a common legal order for an entire continent like the one we have built together over the past 60 years. There is no reason, no justification, for accepting to weaken this community of law and destiny because one of our Member States has decided to leave.”
europa.eu/...
Under current plans from the UK Government farming 'would disappear from large parts of Scotland' according to Scotland’s Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing.
In an outrageous move, the UK Government has increased the fees to renounce British citizenship to over £1,000 for a family of three. Some EU27 countries do not allow dual nationality so Brexit has forced UK citizens to choose which country they wish to keep their citizenship.
independent.co.uk/...
In troubling news – considering the extra work load that EU citizens will place on the department – the Home Office has lost documents from hundreds of people.
Councillors, AMs, MPs and MEPs representing Wales from across the political spectrum have united in calling for a vote on the final Brexit deal.
walesforeurope.org/...
A number of Corbyn’s allies have launched a campaign to try and persuade him of the merits of EU membership.
Sarah O’Connor has written a wonderful piece in the FT arguing that UK immigration needs to be based on people not wealth.
ft.com/...
Nicola Sturgeon held a constructive meeting with Michel Barnier.
Bruegel have published their testimony to the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy which is well worth a read.
bruegel.org/...
In an interview in the Daily Record I have commented on how we can move forward. The bottom line is we need to see movement in England.
“Scotland voted on Brexit and our position was clear. We don’t want leaving the EU to happen, we want to remain and we want that to be turned around for the whole of the UK. Whether there is a vote in the House of Commons, whether there is a second referendum on the terms of the deal, we’re open to how that might happen. Calls for a second referendum need to come from England because that is where it will be won or lost. That’s where things need to move.”
dailyrecord.co.uk/...
Key figures in industry have warned that investment plans are at risk because of Brexit.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said that the transition deal will need to last longer than two years.
bloomberg.com/...
Border gardaí are requesting automatic weapons because of their fears of a hard border post-Brexit.
The UK Government have produced a position paper on sharing classified information with the EU post-Brexit. There isn’t a huge amount of detail (when is there?) but the short version is they would like to.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/...
TV channel Discovery is to shut its European hub in London due to Brexit.
HMRC, who let’s remember are responsible for delivering whatever customs arrangement the UK ends up with, now employ 2,000 fewer people that on the day before the EU referendum.
thetimes.co.uk/...
In the meantime, the UK Government has hired just three civil servants to work on Brexit in Scotland.
huffingtonpost.co.uk/...
Chris Patten, a former EU Commissioner for External Affairs has written a thoughtful piece warning of the dangers we now face. “As the stark reality of Brexit sinks in, members of Britain’s cabinet and leading Brexiteers have increasingly turned on one another and attempted to cast blame on everyone but themselves: judges, civil servants, parliamentarians – even those who voted to remain in the EU.” Brexit is bad, full stop.
project-syndicate.org/...
This piece in Prospect Magazine neatly explains the key problems with trying to follow the Swiss model.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/...
Nigel Lawson, a former chair of Vote Leave, has applied for French residency.
The EU is doubling Erasmus spending. It is a tragedy we don’t know if Scots will be able to take advantage of the scheme in the future.
uk.reuters.com/...
The Conversation have produced an excellent explainer of how a full English breakfast will be affected by Brexit.
theconversation.com/...
And finally, my colleague Richard Corbett has put together an entertaining and informative guide to all the UKIP MEPs who have either defected, been arrested, suspended or convicted.
richardcorbett.org.uk/...
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Scotland in Europe update 1st September 2017
So, that was the third round of negotiations. I must admit, even I thought this was the week when the UK would get serious. In reality, nothing has happened. As Michel Barnier, the lead EU negotiator, said at the end of the week “we made no decisive progress on the main subjects”.
The situation is rapidly becoming a farce. From the very beginning the EU has made clear that citizens’ rights, the financial settlement and the Irish border come first, and then talk of trade deals will follow.
David Davis signed up to this in the first round. It was not, as he promised, ‘the fight of the summer’ but something the UK just accepted. Now we are in September and the UK Government still does not have a position paper on the financial settlement. It has produced papers on other issues - which can’t be dealt with yet - the positions in which are not realistic. Michel Barnier put it well:
“The UK wants to take back control, it wants to adopt its own standards and regulations.
“But it also wants to have these standards recognised automatically in the EU. That is what UK papers ask for.
“This is simply impossible. You cannot be outside the Single Market and shape its legal order.”
The full text of his speech at the end of the negotiations is here:
europa.eu/rapid/...
And here are a few videos of the key sections.
For now, the talks are in deadlock. The UK Government needs to take responsibility and engage seriously with Brussels. A deal is possible, but will require two sides to make it. At the moment only the EU is stepping up to the plate.
This month I will be hosting a meet your MEP event discussing my work at the European Parliament, the EU referendum, and the future of Scotland’s place in Europe. If you want to come along you can register here:
Once again European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said that a future EU-UK trading relationship could only be discussed once the exit terms are confirmed. I increasingly feel that he says this every week but since the UK still hasn’t worked it out, that is understandable.
www.reuters.com/...
Japan would like a trade deal with the UK, but the EU is the priority so the UK is back of the queue.
Theresa May has proposed to use the EU-Japan trade deal as a model. Vote Leave, Take Control, get a smaller duplicate of the same deal you could have had five years earlier
www.theguardian.com/...
Keir Stammer wrote a piece stating that Labour will seek to remain in a Customs Union with the EU and within the Single Market during a transition. I just hope that Jeremy Corbyn will back him up…
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has condemned Theresa May's Brexit strategy.
news.sky.com/...
Iain Macwhirter wrote a brutal, and entirely correct, piece arguing that immigration has been great for Scotland. Anyone who lives here is one of us.
www.heraldscotland.com/...
The Home Office has launched an inquiry into how a “seriously misleading” version of research into student migration was leaked to the press. The UK Statistics Authority chair has also expressed his concerns.
The Centre for European Reform has produced an interesting analysis on what the German elections mean for Brexit.
www.cer.eu/...
Brexit could harm African economies that trade with the UK, according to Peg Murray-Evans of the University of York.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/...
The House of Commons all-party parliamentary group on EU Relations has made the case for continued membership of the Customs Union.
www.open-britain.co.uk/...
Two of the parties which may form a coalition with Angela Merkel’s have given their backing to an independent Scotland inside the European Union.
www.bloomberg.com/...
Finally, if you are in Edinburgh this Saturday the European Movement are campaigning against a hard Brexit. Anyone can join, so perhaps I’ll see you there!
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Prime Minister David Cameron joins German Chancellor Angela Merkel to open CeBIT, calling it an honour to be this year’s partner country
Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened this year’s CeBIT show in Hannover by talking about the need for the UK and Germany to co-operate on technological advances such as 5G, the Internet of Things, and European legislation if they are to remain competitive.
The UK is this year’s partner country for CeBIT and Cameron said it was a “huge honour” to co-host the event, declaring that Germany was a country with a proud history and that he grew up hearing about “Vorsprung durch technik” – the famous Audi slogan.
“This is a world on fast forward,” he said of recent technological advances. “Just a decade ago, Skype was a typo, a tweet came from a bird, and the cloud was something in the sky.
“This is a world of permanent technological revolution. In this world, countries like the UK and Germany will only succeed with a relentless stride for innovation.”
Vorsprung durch technik
Cameron said that technology formed a huge part of the UK’s future economy and that he hoped to use CeBIT to promote the country’s technology sector. He pointed out government investment in science, tax breaks for the video gaming industry, easier visa applications for startups, and the advent of Tech City.
He also said there had been a revolution in public sector IT since he assumed power in 2010, claiming that one percent of government spending was on IT and most of it went to large firms, whereas now it was geared towards smaller firms as well with the launch of the G-Cloud, which he called “one of the most innovative IT services in the world”.
“It is our ambition to make the UK the most digital nation in the G8,” he said, but added that it wanted to work with Germany to share strengths and expertise.
He announced a 5G partnership between the University of Surrey, the University of Dresden and Kings College London and voiced support for a European single telecoms market that abolished all roaming charges within the UK.
Much of his focus was on the Internet of Things, with the announcement of a new £45 million grant fund, and on Ofcom’s continued work to use the UK’s spectrum resources more efficiently.
“I see the Internet of Things as a transformative development,” he said, noting the potential for health monitors and smart meters which could help tackle climate change.
German enthusiasm
Merkel said she was “delighted” the UK was this year’s partner country for CeBIT, noting that there had been a long history of cultural and scientific exchange since George I, of the House of Hannover, was made king of Great Britain in 1686. However, she also noted that 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I and the 75th anniversary of World War II, declaring it a “miracle” that the two nations continue to support each other.
Stephan Weil, the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, pointed out that the British army occupied Hannover following the end of WWII and initiated the first trade fair in the city shortly after, paving the way for CeBIT itself.
“The fact we are here today is because of extremely smart and wise British policy makers,” he said.
Merkel also voiced her support for a single European telecoms market and said that the UK was one of Germany’s most important trading partners and that the two countries should continue to work together.
Cameron echoed, “We are on the brink of a new industrial revolution and I want the UK and Germany to lead it.”
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10 things I predict and/or hope we'll see on Selection Sunday
Submitted by Josh Cook on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 11:24pm
Here are 10 things I predict and/or hope we'll see tomorrow on Selection Sunday, when the 68-team field is announced for the NCAA Tournament:
1. Kentucky and Western Kentucky will be set up to meet in the second round in Louisville as long as the Hilltoppers win their First Four game Tuesday in Dayton.
2. The bracket will almost certainly be set up so Kentucky will have a third-round game against Memphis. John Calipari's former team, which is coached by his former assistant Josh Pastner, will probably either be an 8 or 9 seed.
3. I could also see Indiana being a 4 or 5 seed in the same half of the region as Kentucky. The Selection Committee would love to see a Round of 16 rematch between the teams that produced one of the best endings in college basketball this season and Big Blue fans would love a chance for the Wildcats to avenge their lone loss of the season (as long as Vandy doesn't beat them Sunday in the SEC Tournament final).
4. Duke will be the No. 2 seed in Kentucky's region with the hopes that the two teams will meet in the Elite Eight on the 20th anniversary of the Greatest College Basketball Game Ever Played.
5. Either Murray State or Indiana, or possibly both, will also be playing at the KFC Yum! Center next week.
6. Speaking of the Hoosiers, Indiana should be set up to play Lamar, the Southland Conference champ coached by Pat Knight, in a second-round game. The NCAA Selection Committee never had the guts to put Bob Knight up against IU in the Big Dance after he went to Texas Tech, but putting his son up against the Hoosiers would be a great early-tourney storyline.
7. Louisville could be a 4 seed with a potential third-round game against 5-seed IU.
8. There's also a chance that the Cardinals will be a 3 seed and have a opportunity for a third-round game against Murray State.
9. I also think there's a chance that UofL could be a 4 seed with Florida a 5 seed in the same bracket. The NCAA Selection Committee would love a Ricky P. vs. Billy D. matchup.
10. And finally, I also wouldn't be surprised to see Louisville as a 4 seed in the same half of the bracket as Kentucky. That would create quite a buzz around here with the possibility of a Round of 16 matchup between the two.
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Eva Mendes’ Didn’t Just Want to Have Kids, She Wanted to Have Ryan Gosling’s Kids
by Allie Gemmill
Apr 16, 2019 at 11:30 am EDT
Image: Dave Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock.
It’s not every day that Eva Mendes opens up about her life with long-time partner Ryan Gosling and their two daughters, Esmerelda, 4, and Amada, 3. But that’s exactly what the über-private actress did in a recent interview, sharing her main reason for having kids, how Gosling factored into that decision and what life is like for the family of four these days.
As part of her Women’s Health May cover shoot, Mendes got to talking about her family and career, looking back to life before her two daughters arrived on the scene, readily admitting that having kids just wasn’t part of her plan.
“It was the furthest thing from my mind,” she reveals, going on to say that the one person who changed it all was the man she ended up marrying. “[Then] Ryan Gosling happened. I mean, falling in love with him. Then it made sense for me to have…not kids, but his kids. It was very specific to him.”
Image: Molly Creeden/Women’s Health.
The couple, who met and started dating while filming The Place Beyond the Pines in 2011, have maintained a relatively low profile over the years. But Mendes dropped a few nuggets of information, going on to detail her life as a coparent with Gosling these days and joking that the couple is “just starting to get out of survival mode. I’m starting to feel like a person again,” she said.
The Hitch actress also admitted that their family unit doesn’t work without lots of love and support from other family members. She tells Women’s Health that the Mendes-Gosling dream team works because of family. “We have an amazing support group: Ryan’s mom, my mom, Ryan’s and my sisters. It’s a village that helped us. My heart goes out to women who do this alone.”
Mendes certainly understands what it’s like to be raised by a single mother, as that was her experience growing up. She also commented on this aspect of her life, opening up about the hardships she saw her mother, Eva Perez Suarez, go through as she raised Mendes and her three siblings.
“I basically come from a single-parent household; although I love my dad, my mom mostly raised four of us on her own…She was the mom in Cuba who had to walk however many miles to fetch water from the well. That was her reality for a while, so the level of respect and appreciation I have for her now is incredible,” she tells Women’s Health, continuing later, “My mother would say, ‘As little as we have, there are so many people who have less.’ She made me appreciate that from an early age.”
Mendes also shares how she and Gosling create a relatively normal childhood for Esmerelda and Amanda: “What I try to emphasize is that I don’t let them see me put attention to how I dress. They’ve never seen me get ready for something; they’ve never seen me at work. Which is fine, for whoever wants to do it that way, but the way I keep it normal is by not letting them see me in these situations. I’m just Mom. And I’m more than happy to just be Mom.”
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Rebecca Greenberg named exec director of SAG-AFTRA music department
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018
Rebecca Greenberg
Veteran music industry executive Rebecca Greenberg has joined SAG-AFTRA as the executive director of the music department. In her new role, Greenberg will oversee SAG-AFTRA’s activities in the music industry, including the negotiation and administration of collective bargaining agreements with the major and independent record labels, artist and performer relations, as well as collaboration with the organizing and government affairs departments. She will report jointly to COO and general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and chief contracts officer Ray Rodriguez.
“I am thrilled to join SAG-AFTRA and am looking forward to working with my team to continue protecting and advocating for our sound recording artists,” said Greenberg. “The music industry is constantly evolving and our artists are showcased everywhere--from radio to digital platforms--so it’s imperative to work with our members and allies to ensure that our artists’ rights are protected and that they are fairly compensated for their work.”
Over the course of her 20-year career, Greenberg has held leadership positions in music advocacy, working for leading live and recorded music organizations and championing the rights of creators. Greenberg has worked for Irving Azoff at his various companies, including The Madison Square Garden Company/The Forum, Azoff Music Management, and Global Music Rights. Previously, she was head of government relations for Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster. In 2004, Don Henley and Azoff hired Greenberg to be the national director of the Recording Artists’ Coalition, a nonprofit recording artist advocacy organization started by Henley and Sheryl Crow that lobbied for artists’ rights. She also worked for the Screen Actors Guild from 2001-2004, after working on Capitol Hill as well as for the Clinton administration.
SAG-AFTRA Members Ratify New 3-Year Commercials Contracts
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Members of SAG-AFTRA today overwhelmingly voted to ratify the 2019 SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract and the 2019 SAG-AFTRA Audio Commercials Contract. The vote was 96.85 percent in favor. The...
SAG-AFTRA National Board Unanimously Approves Commercials Contracts
Sunday, Apr. 14, 2019
At its two-day plenary, SAG-AFTRA’s National Board unanimously approved the 2019 Commercials Contracts tentative agreement reached with the Joint Policy Committee on April 2. The agreement will...
SAG-AFTRA, JPC Reach Tentative Deal On Commercials Contracts
Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2019
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and The Joint Policy Committee, LLC (JPC) have reached a tentative agreement on terms for successor television...
SAG-AFTRA Members Approve TV Animation Agreements
In national voting completed on Monday (11/19), affected members of SAG-AFTRA voted overwhelmingly to approve the 2018 successor agreements to the 2014 Producer-SAG-AFTRA Television Animation...
SAG-AFTRA Strikes Against BBH; Agency Contends Union Contract Put It At Competitive Disadvantage
Friday, Sep. 21, 2018
SAG-AFTRA has called a strike against advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, LLC (BBH) after the union’s National Board unanimously voted to issue a strike authorization. Members have been...
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Telecast for the first time exclusively on cable, the NCAA basketball championship game drew 17.8 million viewers, down 37% from last year’s game on CBS. What does this say about sports on cable?
With cord cutting on the rise, events can't reach their audience potential on cable, making the game less attractive to sponsors
Streaming of the game on mobile and other devices will grow which combined with cable will yield just as large an audience.
Too much is being made of the audience decline. The final match-up wasn't as attractive as last year's game.
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Abortion rights groups sue to block Alabama's near-total ban
The near-total abortion ban in Alabama is scheduled to go into effect in November, but Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are suing to block it.
Abortion rights groups sue to block Alabama's near-total ban The near-total abortion ban in Alabama is scheduled to go into effect in November, but Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are suing to block it. Check out this story on statesmanjournal.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/24/alabama-abortion-law-planned-parenthood-aclu-sue-block-ban/1220001001/
Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser Published 7:04 a.m. PT May 24, 2019 | Updated 9:46 a.m. PT May 24, 2019
Legislators discuss the lack of exceptions for rape and incest in HB314, the near-total ban on abortion bill, that passed the senate in Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery Advertiser
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama's near-total abortion ban is headed to court.
Planned Parenthood Southeast, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Alabama on Friday filed a long-promised lawsuit against the law signed by Gov. Kay Ivey on May 15, saying it was unconstitutional and a threat to womens' health.
“Abortion has been safe and legal in this country for more than 45 years and we aim to keep it that way," Staci Fox, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast, said in a statement. "We are protecting the rights of our patients. We are defending the work of the brave folks who came before us. And we are fighting to take this country forward, not backwards.”
Tough, new abortion laws in Alabama and several other states face legal battles in court... and that's the point. We explain how they take aim at Roe v. Wade. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY
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The lawsuit gives supporters of Alabama's ban what they said they've wanted: A case that they think they can take to the U.S. Supreme Court as a challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down state bans on first-trimester abortion.
The law, sponsored by Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, makes it a felony, punishable by 10 to 99 years or life in prison, for anyone to perform an abortion. Attempting to perform an abortion would also be a felony, punishable by one to 10 years in prison. The woman who sought the abortion would not be held criminally liable.
More: 25 men voted to ban abortion in Alabama. Do they reflect the rest of America?
The only exceptions allowed under the law – which goes into effect in November – would be the health of the mother; a mental illness that could result in a woman's death or a child's death if she gives birth; or if a fetus had a lethal anomaly.
Alabama's law contains no exceptions for rape and incest. The Alabama House of Representatives and the state Senate, both of which have Republican supermajorities, overwhelmingly rejected attempts from Democrats to include those exceptions in the law.
Collins argues that the ban was designed specifically to challenge Roe v. Wade, and that including those exceptions would weaken their argument for fetal personhood.
Both supporters and opponents of the law expect lower federal courts to block the ban from going into effect. Ivey acknowledged that in a statement issued after she signed the law.
"No matter one’s personal view on abortion, we can all recognize that, at least for the short term, this bill may similarly be unenforceable," the statement said. "As citizens of this great country, we must always respect the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court even when we disagree with their decisions."
Rep. Terri Collins reacts to the passage on HB314, the near-total ban on abortion bill, in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday May 14, 2019. (Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser)
'An utter disgrace': 2020 Democrats denounce Alabama's near-total abortion ban
Collins has argued that if the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, the state could create a new abortion law that includes exceptions for rape and incest, which she says she supports. Doing that in a post-Roe world could be complicated by a state constitutional amendment, approved by voters last fall, that says there is no right to an abortion in the Alabama Constitution.
The ban sparked protests throughout Alabama and brought national condemnation, including calls to boycott Alabama businesses.
The lack of exceptions for sexual assault victims brought criticism from conservative quarters, including President Donald Trump who said he did not support Alabama's ban due to a lack of exceptions for rape and incest.
More: When it comes to abortion, conservative women aren't a monolith
Passage of the law also led to a surge of donations to the Yellowhammer Fund, a Tuscaloosa-based group which provides financial support to women seeking reproductive health care.
A rally against HB314, the near-total ban on abortion bill, outside of the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday May 14, 2019. (Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser)
There are three clinics currently providing abortion services in Alabama, located in Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery. Planned Parenthood operates clinics in Birmingham and Mobile that are currently closed for renovations.
A woman seeking an abortion in the state of Alabama must first submit to mandatory counseling, then wait 48 hours before undergoing the procedure. A sonogram is also required.
The Alabama Department of Public Health said 6,768 abortions took place in the state in 2017: 56% took place before the eighth week of pregnancy, and 63% of women who sought abortions in Alabama in 2017 had already given birth at least once before.
The Alabama ban is part of a wave of similarly restrictive abortion legislation pushed by anti-abortion activists around the country. Kentucky, Georgia, Ohio and Mississippi have passed bills effectively banning abortion this year. On Friday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill banning abortion in that state after eight weeks.
The day in pictures
Swans are carried to be released after being weighed, documented and measured during the annual Swan Upping Census on the River Thames at Staines, west of London on July 15, 2019. Swan Upping is the annual census of the swan population on stretches of the River Thames and dates from the twelfth century when the Queen claimed ownership of all mute swans and is overseen by the Queen's Marker. The census takes place over five days on the third week of July every year. Tolga Akmen, AFP/Getty Images
A girl disguised as St. Fermin takes part in the 'encierro' called 'Villavesa' in the morning after Sanfermines festivities in downtown Pamplona, northern Spain, July 15, 2019. Inaki Porto, EPA-EFE
Zapata CEO Franky Zapata flies a jet-powered hoverboard or "Flyboard" over the old harbour as part of Bastille Day celebrations in Marseille France on July 14, 2019. Boris Horvat, AFP/Getty Images
An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Maj. James G. Sartor at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on July 15, 2018. According to the Department of Defense, Sartor, 40, of Teague, Texas, died July 13, 2019, in Faryab province, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained from enemy small arms fire. Steve Ruark, AP
Revellers raise red scarves and candles as they sing the song 'Pobre de Mi', marking the end of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain on July 15, 2019. Jaime Reina, AFP/Getty Images
People sit on the Belvedere d'Auriac motorway rest area as they wait for the fireworks over the city of Carcassonne, southern France, during the celebration of the Bastille Day on July 14, 2019. Eric Cabanis, AFP/Getty Images
Demonstrators from the "Extinction Rebellion" climate environmental activist group, protest outside of The Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand in central London in London on July 15, 2019. Niklas Halle'n, AFP/Getty Images
A motorist drives past a destroyed house after a large earthquake that hit Surigao City, in southern island of Mindanao on July 15, 2019. Erwin Mascarinas, AFP/Getty Images
A lineman works on the electricity power transmission line in Ampang in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur on July 15, 2019. Mohd Rasfan, AFP/Getty Images
Villagers travel on a boat in the flood affected Jhargaon village in Morigaon district of India's Assam state on July 15, 2019. Biju Boro, AFP/Getty Images
China's Banding Niu and China's Juntao Lian compete with their buggy during the nineth stage of the Silk Way Rally 2019 from Alashan to Jiayuguan on July 15, 2019. Damien Meyer, AFP/Getty Images
Emergency personnel move part of a wing and other airplane wreckage retrieved from the crash site at Ume river outside Umea, Sweden, on July 15, 2019. A Gipps Aero Airvan aircraft with nine parajumpers on board crashed July 14 with no survivors. Erik Abel, AP
Squatters set a barricade on fire outside a former occupied school in Via Cardinal Domenico Capranica in Primavalle Rome, Italy, July 15, 2019. Massimo Percossi, EPA-EFE
A woman walks through flood water at a village near the Kyauk Taw township area in Western Myanmar, July 15, 2019. Nyunt Win, EPA-EFE
People flee the areas affected by monsoon rains, in Neelum Valley, Kashmir, July 15, 2019. At least 22 people were killed, five injured, and 150 houses damaged in floods following heavy rain. Amiruddin Mughal, EPA-EFE
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, patron of 'The Big Lunch' talks to members of a steel band during the tenth anniversary celebration of the initiative at the Eden Project during an official visit to Devon & Cornwall on July 15, 2019 in St Blazey, United Kingdom. WPA Pool, Getty Images
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Q&A with 2020 candidate Tim Ryan: Democrats are out of touch with the working class
Donald Trump 'wants a campaign on the economy. But I'm going to campaign on the economy because it's not working': Q&A with USA TODAY Editorial Board
Q&A with 2020 candidate Tim Ryan: Democrats are out of touch with the working class Donald Trump 'wants a campaign on the economy. But I'm going to campaign on the economy because it's not working': Q&A with USA TODAY Editorial Board Check out this story on statesmanjournal.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/20/candidate-tim-ryan-democrats-out-touch-working-class-editorial-board/1517099001/
USA TODAY Published 4:53 p.m. PT June 20, 2019
Democratic presidential hopeful discusses impeaching Trump, reviving the Rust Belt and rebranding the 'coastal, Ivy League' Democratic Party USA TODAY
President Donald Trump’s path to victory in 2016 went straight through the industrial Midwest. Rep. Tim Ryan, who represents Northeast Ohio in the House of Representatives, hopes to win the Democratic presidential nomination by portraying himself as the candidate who could best compete in those battleground states. Ryan, 45, sat down this week with USA TODAY’s Editorial Board to discuss his long-shot candidacy and other timely issues. Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity:
Q. Why are you running?
A. It's important for Democrats to nominate somebody who understands what the American people are going through day to day. I come from an area where I've lived in the epicenter of deindustrialization, the opioid crisis, the mental health crisis and the infant mortality crisis.
Q. President Trump thinks the strong economy will carry him to reelection.
A. I know that the president wants a campaign on the economy. But I'm going to campaign on the economy because it's not working for the vast majority of the people in the country. Seventy-five percent of the people are still living paycheck to paycheck.
Q. What’s your pitch to someone who voted for Trump in 2016?
A. I think you say, look, I understand why you voted for Donald Trump. I get it. You wanted him to come down and blow things up. You know, it kind of looks like he did. Now it's time to put things back together and in a new way for the new economy.
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, discusses his presidential candidacy with the USA TODAY Editorial Board on June 19, 2019. (Photo: Matthew Sobocinski/USA TODAY)
Q. He says the current economy is the envy of the world.
A. Those commercials write themselves. It’s going to be an Achilles' heel for him, and we've got to take advantage of it by nominating somebody who can go speak to the working-class people in those areas: white, black, brown, gay, straight, people who, you know, take a shower after work.
Q. How would you help revive the industrial Midwest?
A. Eighty percent of venture capital goes to three states: California, New York and Massachusetts. (We have to get) creative with how we connect venture capital to these ideas that are happening in the Midwest.
Q. Should the House move ahead with impeachment proceedings against Trump?
A: Trump committed crimes. It's pretty clear. Although I'm not sure how it plays out politically, I do think you have a responsibility to act when you think — and there's ample evidence to show — that the president has been engaged in criminal conduct.
Q. Is Trump daring you to impeach him?
A. Quite frankly, I think Trump wants this to be the conversation. He likes to be in battle mode. He likes to be in a fight, he likes to be in the news and he likes to keep his base very energized. I think he welcomes it, which is an odd thing. This would be the first time in American history where a president actually thinks an impeachment would be good for him politically. I think it shows how bizarre the times are that we're living in.
Q. Is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doing a disservice by standing in the way of impeachment?
A. My personal opinion is: We need to do it. But she has a job to do, and that means corralling enough votes to impeach.
Q. Why not focus on removing him at the ballot box in 2020?
A. You've got to do it because the president is engaged in criminal activity. So you have to do it. This is not fun. But it has to be done, because if the president was an autoworker in Youngstown, Ohio, he would be charged with these criminal activities. If he was a waitress in New York City, he would be charged or she would be charged. So the ultimate question is: Is the president above the law?
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, answers questions from the Editorial Board on June 19, 2019. (Photo: Matthew Sobocinski/USA TODAY)
Q. How are you going to fix what you’ve called a broken education system?
A. We start with the understanding that our kids are coming to our schools traumatized, and until you understand that then we're not going to see movement. And so we need trauma-based care. We need mental health counselors in every school that needs one. We need social and emotional learning in our in our schools. I think we also need to get good food in the schools. We can’t be feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk. A lot of these kids end up being diabetics.
Q. Your district and state have been hard hit by the opioid epidemic. How would you grade the Trump administration’s response?
A. C-minus. There's been a lack of investment into the prevention side and into the treatment side. So that's something that is lacking.
Q. What would you do differently?
A. Most Medicaid systems will cover 30 days (of treatment). What we've seen in Ohio is that 30 days isn't nearly long enough for someone to get treatment for drugs as potent as heroin or opiates or fentanyl or carfentanil. So I think part of what we need to do is say OK, we need to move this to 90 days or maybe even 120 days.
Q. As somebody who used to be pro-life, do you think that taxpayers should be funding abortions?
A. It's a constitutional right, and I think if it's a constitutional right it should be available to everybody even if you're on the Medicaid program. I do.
Q. Turning to foreign policy, are you worried about rising tensions with Iran?
A: We're watching this thing spin out of control. This is because the president has recklessly got us out of the nuclear deal. We watched Sen. (John) Kerry and President (Barack) Obama go through very tedious negotiations with our European allies and Russia to get that deal done. And now all of a sudden we're getting more and more pulled into what's happening in the Persian Gulf. And so you've got to be engaged, and you've got to make friends, and I think it starts with getting back into the Iran deal and being engaged in the Middle East. It's obviously a mess.
Q: Does the Democratic Party have a problem with working-class voters?
A. We have a perception problem with the party. We are perceived as being a coastal elite, Ivy League party that does not connect to working-class people. The waitress, the teacher, the construction worker, we've lost our connection to them.
Q. What do you hope to accomplish at the first Democratic debate?
A. My debate strategy is to make sure those people know that if they nominate Tim Ryan, those people come back into the fold and we can win the industrial Midwest, we can send Trump packing, and then we can also make a good run in the Senate.
Q. Realistically, can you break out of the pack?
A. I think once people hear my message that there's going to be a breakthrough. I'm not here on an ego trip. I'm not here because it's fun. I miss being with my family, I've got three kids and two dogs and a great wife. But I think this is important. And I do, I feel like I can best represent these forgotten people, because it's been going on my whole life. I've literally watched this train wreck my whole life.
Democratic presidential candidate Tim Ryan meets with the USA TODAY Editorial Board on June 19, 2019. (Photo: Matthew Sobocinski/USA TODAY)
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Italy: digital music sales revenue 2012-2015
Total revenue from sales of digital music in Italy from 2012 to 2015 (in million euros)
by Daniela Coppola, last edited May 22, 2019
The statistic shows the total revenue from sales of digital music in Italy from 2012 to 2015. In 2015, the total revenue from digital music sales was about 147 million euros, an increase compared to the previous years.
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Total revenue from background music used in public places in Italy from 2012 to 2015 (in million euros)
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Audience expenditure for concerts in Italy in 2017, by region (in euros)
Concerts turnover in Italy in 2017, by region (in euros)
Average price for a classical music concert ticket in Italy from 2006 to 2017 (in euros)
Average price for a pop music concert ticket in Italy from 2006 to 2015 (in euros)
Average price for a jazz music concert ticket in Italy from 2006 to 2016 (in euros)
Number of music distribution companies in Italy as of March 2018, by region
Number of music management companies in Italy as of March 2018, by region
Number of music press agencies in Italy as of March 2018, by region
Number of music events and concert organization agencies in Italy as of March 2018, by region
Number of recording studios in Italy as of March 2018, by region
Number of musical instrument stores in Italy as of April 2018, by region
Number of record labels in Italy as of March 2018, by region
Number of concerts in Italy in 2017, by type
Ten most successful pop music concerts in Italy in the 4th quarter of 2017, by number of tickets sold
Ten most successful pop music concerts in Italy in 2017, by number of tickets sold
Number of rock concerts in Italy of worldwide famous bands from 1989 to 2015
Number of concertinos in Italy in 2017, by month
Number of music festivals in Italy as of March 2018, by region
Number of pop music concerts in Italy in 2017, by month
Number of music bars and pubs in Italy as of March 2018, by region
Number of jazz music concerts in Italy in 2017, by month
Number of music performers, composers and authors in Italy from 2012 to 2014 (in 1,000 individuals)
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Number of individuals working for the music industry in Italy from 2012 to 2014 (in millions)
Best-selling Italian music artists of all time as of August 2014 (in million copies sold)
Number of music bands in Italy in 2016, by region
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Number of singer-songwriters in Italy in 2016, by music genre
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Streaming platforms used to listen to music in Italy in 2015 and 2016
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Revenue of the digital music market in Germany from 2017 to 2018, by segment (in million euros)
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Music gifting expenditure distribution in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015, by gender
Annual growth rate of digital music market revenue in China from 2013 to 2023
Age distribution of music market consumers in Germany from 2007 to 2018
Production volume of grains in Norway from 2012 to 2018 (in metric tons)
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St. Catherine community mourns loss of faithful and generous alumna
Joan Kelly '46 (center) with EVP and Provost Colleen Hegranes (right) and Professor Kathleen Matuska (left) the 2012 Bonnie Jean Kelly and Joan Kelly Award for Faculty Excellence winner.
Categories: Alumnae, Announcement
The St. Catherine community is mourning the loss of alumna Joan Kelly. A 1946 graduate, she died Wednesday, Nov. 2. Described by those who knew her well as “loyal, wise, practical, and generous,” Joan Kelly was a faithful, lifelong supporter of St. Catherine University and an exemplary alumna. Through hard work, a disarming congenial personality, and well-honed business skills, she was an early and highly successful woman business owner who led the trade show business founded by her father to national stature.
Kelly attributed her exceptional business acumen to the outstanding liberal arts education she received at St. Catherine University and to the Sisters of St. Joseph who taught and influenced her throughout her education. She sold the business and retired in 1991.
Joan Kelly was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and earned a bachelor of arts degree in English at St. Kate’s in 1946. Long before women in business were the accepted norm, she was a St. Catherine convocation speaker where she shared practical advice about careers previously not held by women and urged students to pursue liberal arts degrees.
Joan was continuous donor to St. Catherine for over 60 years, and made significant gifts to every St. Catherine capital campaign. She was a charter member of the Ireland Society and President’s Forum. She was among the first alumnae to establish a named scholarship in 1981, supported the Women and Leadership Forum, and in 1996 co-chaired her 50th Reunion Giving Committee, raising the largest combined gift to date for a reunion class.
Joan established the Bonnie Jean Kelly and Joan Kelly Faculty Excellence Award Fund and the Bonnie Jean Kelly Student Excellence in Writing Award in 2006 to honor her beloved sister Bonnie Jean, who died while a student at St. Kate’s. The faculty award honors and encourages outstanding faculty and the student writing award acknowledges and fosters their development through excellence in writing. Also, in 2006, she established the Bonnie Jean Kelly and Joan Kelly Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fund to enhance the academic reputation and visibility of St. Catherine University.
In 2012, she was honored with the St. Catherine’s Alumnae Award for her excellence in leadership and service to others upholding the ideals of the University. In 2005, she was named to the Centennial 100 that honored those who made a significant impact on St. Catherine in its first one hundred years and in 1998 she received an Alexandrine Medal in 1998 that honored her for intelligence and integrity inspiring others to make a difference in the world.
Joan was preceded in death by parents, Martin P. and Bonnie McL. Kelly; sister Bonnie Jean Kelly; and cousin, J. Robert Kelly. Survived by cousins, Jerry Kelly (Phyllis), Karen Kelly (Peter Bridston), Megan Kelly (Jim Smart), Jack Kelly Smart; many other cousins and dear friends. Joan wished to extend her heart-felt thanks to her relatives and dear friends, her treasured neighbors and her invaluable advisors and counselors. Those who loved Joan wish to especially thank caregivers, Florence, Abby and other Baywood staff members, and the entire HealthEast Hospice staff for their kind, gentle, attentive and respectful care of Joan.
Services were held at Our Lady of Victory Chapel on the St. Kate's campus on Thursday, November 10. President Roloff welcomed guests and former President, Andrea J. Lee, IHM, delivered the eulogy.
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by Matt Alderton | May 10, 2019
For the last 40 years, China has been a rising star in the global economy. But it's not just economists who have been paying close attention to the country's growth. It's also meeting professionals, whose business prospects in China have skyrocketed in step with Chinese companies' ascendance.
In fact, China's meetings profiles has become so prominent that destination and event management company Pacific World recently named it No. 3 on its list of the top 10 most demanded destinations of 2019.
"China remains a strong player in the MICE market, with its staggering growth driving more interest from a wider swath of audiences," Pacific World stated in a press release, citing infrastructure improvements as yet another meetings catalyst within the country. "As more and more international and regional airlines open new routes to various cities, China's most-sought after destinations are becoming more accessible."
Even as new Chinese destinations emerge, the country's best-known hubs continue to dominate -- including Shanghai, China's largest city and a financial center of both regional and global import. There, new hotels are opening at a rapid clip in order to accommodate an influx of business travelers, including meeting and incentive groups.
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Howard Schultz Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
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American businessman, Howard Schultz was born on July 19th in 1953. His place of birth was in Brooklyn, Newyork. He majored in communications while at the Northern Michigan University. He later graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the university. Later on, in 1982, he became the retail and marketing director of Starbucks Coffee Company. He was the founder of Il Giornale Company in 1987. After this, he went on to buy Starbucks and became its CEO. A few years later, Schultz resigned as the CEO of Starbucks before returning after eight years.
Howard Schultz is the son of an ex-US army trooper called Fred Schultz. His mother is called Elaine. When he was three years old, they moved to Canarsie and settled at Bayview Housing projects. He was a talented athlete as he outperformed others on the basketball court. He later earned a football scholarship which made him leave Canarsie in 1970 heading to Northern Michigan University.
Howard Schultz graduated from the university in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree. Shortly he got employed in Hammarplast Company which mainly dealt in selling European coffee makers to the U.S. He rose through the ranks of his new job, and he was soon promoted to be the sales director. From his experience in the field, he found out that he was selling more coffee makers to a particular company in Seattle named Starbucks Coffee Company. The numbers kept rising, and Schultz found the place lucrative and worth investing in.
In 1981, Howard Schultz made his first visit to the original Starbucks. During this time, the company had been in operation for about ten years as it had been established in 1971. A year later, in 1982, Schultz was the director or retail and marketing for the young organization. During this period, the company dealt in selling coffee beans and that it was not involved in selling coffee drinks.
In 1983, Howard Schultz was on a trip in Milan, Italy and he noticed something unique about the place. He was amazed at a large number of coffee bars. It is from here that an idea came to mind; that Starbucks should also sell coffee drinks. Upon returning, he tried his best to convince the owners about the thought he had.
Unfortunately, the owners were not into the idea since they had all along been selling coffee beans. Soon, they gave him the chance to try this in one of the branches opening up in Seattle. It was an instant success as it pulled hundreds on a regular basis. It was the birth of coffeehouses in Seattle.
In spite of the success that Schultz had proved to Starbucks owners, they were still hesitant about the whole idea. This left Schultz feeling disappointed and left the company in 1985. He opened up his own Il Giornale Company which was successful right from the start.
After two years, Schultz pulled funds from other investors and purchased Starbucks. This made him the CEO as well as the chairman of Starbucks. As part of his investment plan, he wanted to venture into the American market. He was positive that Americans would pay a higher price for a cup of coffee they loved.
However, it is in 2000 that Howard Schulz announced his resignation from Starbucks as its CEO. 8 years later, he went back to lead the company.
Individual Success & Recognition
In 2006, Howard Schultz was ranked by Forbes Magazine as No. 359 on the top 400 wealthiest people in the U.S. His continued success landed him a higher spot, No. 311 out of 400 in 2013. He was also ranked as No. 931 on the same magazine for the list of top billionaires globally.
In 1982, Howard Schultz married Sheri Kersch. The couple has two children, Eliahu Jordan and Addison. His son, Jordan writes in the sports section for The Huffington Post.
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Accept Women Astronauts And Male Nurses
Some supporters of feminism have been said to evolve into feminazis, referring to them as radical extremists who seek superiority and not equality.
Aditi Aryal
Women's movements have sprung up in different parts of the world over the time. Their ideologies have changed with the needs and demands of the hour. Today, feminism has become diverse. It is not just a movement for the right to vote or the right to drive but also accepts easily the myriad of needs of women in different parts of the world.
"Feminism" as a term came to demand equal treatment of women, at par with men. Today, feminists are often criticised for being women-centric and male bashers and blamed for over-glorifying and unnecessarily exaggerating their situation. Some supporters of feminism have been said to evolve into feminazis, referring to them as radical extremists who seek superiority and not equality.
This portrayal has two aspects. Firstly, it is an unfortunate representation because it paints people, mostly women, in a picture that has roots in stereotypes arising from a patriarchal viewpoint – constantly whining, super aggressive about things they do not know about, stubborn and dimwitted. Another aspect to consider is whether superiority of one gender over the other is a correct way to address the problem that is patriarchy.
Patriarchy is what I call a 'problem' because patriarchy has always put women to a disadvantaged position. It has always dictated women how they should lead their lives by placing a value on their chastity, obedience, submission, and beauty. It also exerts a great deal of pressure on men who do not adhere to the guidelines and criteria considered standard and normal. Something that disadvantages people and deprives them of their bodily and mental freedom cannot be anything but a problem. Any society should aim for the coexistence of different kinds of people. Now this calls for another discourse on whether people who believe in and perform their actions around proving the superiority of any sex should be tolerated.
While it is true that extremist feminists root for an all women aggregation, it is equally important to understand that different people lie on different points in the spectrum. In fact, the entire concept of feminism translates differently to different people, with a major focus on what the topmost priority on their agenda is. A lot of people also stress the importance of equality and a need for an egalitarian society. However, the anti-male propaganda also promotes and encourages a point that lies on the far end of the spectrum; a point one should be careful to be on.
Nevertheless, when people claim that they are not feminists that automatically translates to them as not wanting equal rights for women. It is true that patriarchy runs deep through our veins. Women, even today, are treated differently than men are – by both men and women. It is also not uncommon to come across people who believe by every cell in their bodies that women are inferior to men in ways more than only biology. To fight this attitude, feminism is of the utmost need, the kind of feminism that demands equal rights and representation and at the same time giving a choice and freedom to the women.
Not all women can be heroes, not all of them have to be a role model. We cannot always frame a picture of the ideal woman and have everybody live up to that image. There are dysfunctional women, there are also women who are criminals, and some of them physically abuse their partners. But there are many women capable of taking decisions, accountable and independent. We cannot make people choose what they want according to what we think is correct. Women empowerment lies in giving women the ability to choose and to be able to do that well, one has to let others think freely. To get to that level of freedom of thought, a lot of gender-role deconstruction and demolishment has to take place. This can only come about when we start to respect each other as individuals and not by their gender. A truly egalitarian society will stop being astonished at women astronauts and scientists and male nurses. Till then, the fight for equality will go on.
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Wayne Bradley
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Wayne Bradley advises domestic and global, public and private companies in a variety of strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. His practice spans the additional areas of corporate finance, distress and commercial contracts.
A skilled negotiator, clients recognize Wayne for his service and responsiveness. Clients also appreciate his ability to quickly get to the “commercial crux of a transaction.” He is a trusted adviser and creative problem solver who develops strategies based on his understanding of the client’s business goals, their unique challenges and his exceptional knowledge of the dynamics of several key industries.
Wayne has extensive experience across industries, including paper and corrugated packaging, aviation, manufacturing, retail, and food and beverage. A significant portion of his experience is in representing non-US companies in their operations, financial transactions and acquisitions in the US, and in representing global companies in transactions and other matters across multiple jurisdictions. In addition, he often works with private equity groups, representing them in buying and selling portfolio companies, or negotiating with private equity groups on behalf of other clients.
Represented a US airline in connection with the formation of a global cargo alliance, including airlines in France and Korea, to focus on cargo being shipped from the US to locations throughout the world. Also represented the airline in other matters, including supply agreements, outsourcing agreements, marketing agreements, technology agreements and contract disputes, as well as operations outside the US.
Represented a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of wire and cable products in connection with a number of transactions, including the sale of its enamels business in Europe and China, the acquisition of a Malaysian manufacturing business and the sale of its US energy business unit.
Represented the world's largest publicly listed independent provider of claims management solutions to insurance companies and self-insured entities in its acquisition of a majority interest in an online and mobile collaborative economy platform headquartered in Oklahoma City.
Advised a UK-based plastic packaging company in connection with a number of transactions, including the sales of several of its US-based plastic packaging businesses, certain of its South American operations, its materials handling business, and its corrugated packaging business.
Represented a division of an information services company in connection with numerous acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures.
Represented numerous global businesses and funds in connection with the US aspects of cross-border transactions.
Represented a Switzerland-based leading manufacturer of conveyor belts in its tender offer for a publicly listed diversified manufacturer and in its acquisition of two conveyor belt companies, located in New York and Connecticut.
Represented a paper company in connection with financing for paper mills in Louisiana, Georgia, New York and Indiana, as well as acquisitions in a number of US states.
Represented an Atlanta-based private equity fund in connection with numerous transactions, including the purchase and subsequent sale of two aviation businesses, purchase of certain assets of a home décor company, purchase of an industrial adhesives company, purchase of an auto parts manufacturer, purchase of a pool supplier, sale of a healthcare company, sale of a manufactured homes company and purchase of a consumer crafts company.
Represented a home improvement company in connection with its acquisition of providers of measurement and quote-building services and its acquisition of a home improvement retail chain in California.
Served as corporate counsel during the bankruptcy of a US poultry company, representing it with respect to the negotiation of a debtor-in-possession credit facility and the sale of an Arkansas-based division, its Delaware headquarters and a North Carolina division to a subsidiary of a Ukraine-based conglomerate. The credit facility allowed the company to continue operations during the bankruptcy process, paving the way for the sale transactions pursuant to which the operating divisions were sold as going concerns.
Advised the shareholders of a family-run Arkansas poultry company in the sale of the business to the leading poultry firm in Mexico.
Represented an Atlanta-based global manufacturer of engineered products, with operations in China and Vietnam, in connection with the sale of preferred units of the company representing a significant minority interest to affiliates of private equity groups and the redemption of a minority shareholder, as well as in connection with a related refinancing of the company's credit facility. This transaction was a 2017 ACG Atlanta Deal of the Year winner.
Represented a leading manufacturer of ice making equipment in connection with its acquisition of a major manufacturer of beverage dispensing equipment.
Represented an asset management business in its sale of a controlling interest of its registered investment advisor subsidiary.
Represented a leading collegiate and custom apparel supplier in the US and internationally in the sale of a controlling equity interest to a private equity firm. This transaction also required the transfer of an entity formed pursuant to Hong Kong law.
Represented a private equity firm based in Winnipeg, Manitoba in connection with the sale of one of the world's largest manufacturers of bar soap to an India-based conglomerate.
Represented a Germany-based leading manufacturer of pumps and valves in the divestiture of the business activities of its subsidiary located in Houston, Texas.
Advised a Georgia-based metal recycling company in the sale of substantially all of its assets to an Oregon-based steel company.
Represented a poultry products company in connection with the acquisition of a poultry processing company and several of its affiliates, as well as related financing.
Emory University School of Law, J.D., with distinction, 1990
Rutgers College, B.A., 1983
Georgia, 1991
Past secretary and director, Association for Corporate Growth, Atlanta Chapter
Past board member, Atlanta Bar Association, Business and Finance Section
Past board member, British American Business Group
Past member, Board of Directors, General Counsel Forum, Atlanta Chapter
Member, Corporate Code Committee, State Bar of Georgia
Member, Board of Directors, Thione International, Inc.
Member, Board of Advisors, Cox Family Enterprise Center
Past member, Board of Directors, Georgia Cancer Foundation
Past officer and board member, OnBoard
Past board member, Hands On Georgia
Named Best Lawyers 2019 Lawyer of the Year for Mergers and Acquisitions Law in Atlanta
Highly regarded in IFLR1000 2019 for M&A in Georgia
Listed in IFLR1000 Elite Dealmakers 2018 for M&A
Recognized by Chambers USA for Corporate/M&A in Georgia since 2006
Listed for Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, The Best Lawyers in America since 2008
Recognized by Georgia Super Lawyers as a Top Rated Mergers & Acquisitions Attorney in Atlanta
Recommended as an elite Leading Lawyer for middle-market M&A nationwide by The Legal 500
One of the top 100 lawyers in Georgia, Atlanta magazine
Member of Georgia’s Legal Elite, Georgia Trend magazine
Speaker, "From Trump to Brexit and Beyond: Investing Around the World in Uncertain Times," International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 2017.
Author, "A buyer's guide to representation and warranty insurance,” North American Regional Forum News, March 2016.
Author, "A valuable alternative to the purchase price adjustment: the locked box method,” North American Regional Forum News, September 2014.
Speaker, "Advising Foreign Clients on US Acquisitions," The Emory Law Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop Series, February 6, 2009.
Author, "Inbound US M&A Roundtable,” Financier Worldwide, September 2008.
Author, "Inbound US M&A: The Decline of the Dollar Attracts Foreign Buyers,” Financier Worldwide, May 2008.
Co-author, "Drafting and Negotiating Purchase Agreements to Meet Challenges,” Financier Worldwide, International Mergers & Acquisitions: Creating Value in an Increasingly Complex Corporate Environment, 2008.
Author, "When the Lights Go Out,” Financier Worldwide, December 2007.
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