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Forms & Filings
Candidate Campaign Statements
Campaign Statements (Form 460)
All officeholders and candidates with open committees are required to file semi-annual (twice a year) campaign statements reporting on their campaign accounts. Committee campaign statements are filed January 31 and July 31 of each year.
Campaign Contribution reports are available via this link after September 1, 2018, prior to that please use the list below.
Current Council Members
Rick Bonilla
Semi-Annual Campaign Statement 7/1/2018-12/31/2018
Semi-Annual Campaign Statement 1/1/2018-6/30/2018
Election Campaign Statement 10/22/2017-12/31/2017
Pre-Election Campaign Statement 9/24/2017-10/21/2017
Pre-Election Campaign Statement 7/1/2017-9/23/2017
Semi-Annual Campaign Statement 07/01/2016-12/31/2016
Statement of Organization Amended 4/15/2016, Amended 12/1/2017,
Amended 2/1/2019
Campaign Statement 9/20/2015-10/17/2015, Amended 12/13/2015
Campaign Statement 7/1/2015-9/19/2015
Maureen Freschet
Campaign Statement 9/20/2015-10/17/2015
Joe Goethals
Semi-Annual Campaign Statement 1/1/2018-6/30/2018, Amended 1/31/2019
Amended Statement of Committee Formation 3/31/2017
Termination of Campaign Committee 2/8/2016
Diane Papan
Semi-Annual Campaign Statement 07/01/2016-12/31/2016, Amended 7/12/2017
Semi-Annual Campaign Statement 10/18/2015-12/31/2015, Amended 1/7/2016
Campaign Statement 9/19/2015-10/17/2015, Amended 1/7/2016
Eric Rodriguez
Campaign Statement Short Form 7/31/2018
Committee Termination Statement 1/31/2018, Amended 1/31/18
San Mateans for Affordable Housing Solutions and Responsible Planning
Initial Statement of Committee Organization 7/11/2018
San Mateans for Responsive Government
Quarterly Campaign Statement 4/1/2018-6/30/2018, Amended 10/29/2018
Initial Statement of Committee Organization 2/7/2018, Amended 3/1/2018
2017 Candidates for City Council
Mark De Paula
Campaign Statement Short Form
Robert Newsom, Jr.
Closed Committees
Chelsea Bonini
Termination of Campaign Committee, 8/1/2018
Semi-Annual Campaign Statement & Termination of Campaign Committee 1/1/2017-6/30/2017
Charlie Drechsler
Termination of Campaign Committee, 3/31/2019
Semi-Annual Campaign Statement 10/1/2018-12/31/2018
Statement of Committee Formation 5/30/2017
Older Campaign Statements may be obtained by visiting the City Clerk's Office at City Hall, 330 W 20th Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403.
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All Skeem Saam auditions have been canned!
Producers' of the youth drama series have confirmed that public auditions have been stopped.
This comes hot on the heels of a stampede in Newtown three weeks ago, where more than 10 000 people pitched up for auditions.
Skeem Saam publicist Percy Vilakazi confirmed the news to Sunday World, admitting that the auditions were unlawful and too risky for people to come try their luck.
"We broke the law because the JMPD didn't know anything about the event. It was our mistake because we didn't anticipate that people will come in numbers. The auditions were just too big for us. The police told us to cancel them," Percy explained to the paper.
Following the chaos with auditions, scammers have jumped at the opportunity to make money from unassuming people. Bogus auditions are now being held across the city and scammers are charging a registration fee of R50.
Please be wary of these auditions as Skeem Saam will not be holding anymore public auditions. Producers' are now auditioning people from casting agencies.
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Turning a hobby into a career - why some do it
Attitudes toward work and life have evolved, and definitions of what makes the good life are being challenged, say local human resource academics. Channel NewsAsia profiles some Singaporeans who are finding their way.
By Linette Lim
15 Jan 2017 09:10AM (Updated: 31 Mar 2017 04:05PM )
SINGAPORE: Cheang Qing Xin is a frequent flyer who travels for work. In a year, the 34-year-old spends at most a couple of months in his three-room flat in Kallang. The rest of the time is split between the US, Taiwan and Thailand.
But Cheang is not your typical businessman or management consultant. He and his wife, Kelly Khiew, are rock climbing guides, who have managed to turn what would be a weekend hobby for most people into a personally rewarding and financially sustainable full-time career.
“Home is my duffel bag, and depending on where I am, I could be sleeping in a tent or a sleeping bag under the stars,” he said, adding that another place to crash would be the Bivy, the climbers’ hostel the couple owns, which is next to sea cliffs in northeastern Taiwan.
Khiew trad-climbing at Longdong in Taiwan. She and Cheang spend the spring and autumn months there, running their climbers' hostel, guiding and teaching. (Photo courtesy of Qxadventures)
With a combined 30 years of climbing experience between them, Cheang and Khiew both left their jobs - in the military and at the National Museum of Singapore, respectively - in 2013 to try to see if they could build a lifestyle and livelihood around their hobby.
“When we started the first year of operations, we did not make very much money. It was mainly enough to pay off operations and travel expenses, as we did not get a lot of details sorted out and the clientele was very small,” said Cheang, who initially supplemented his earnings by working part-time in climbing gyms.
Three years later and with a “mid-five-figure sum” sunk in, the duo says the venture - named Qx Adventures - is on a more stable footing. But Khiew, 32, acknowledged that there are moments when she still frets over their financial status.
“I’m teaching part-time in a tuition class as well and although I don’t earn much from it, I commit myself to a small amount of time each week,” she said. “I’m still able to spend the bulk of my time on climbing, guiding and working at the Bivy. I like how much control I have over my time now that I have the flexibility to move from one aspect of work to another.”
DESIGNING A LIFE THAT WORKS FOR YOU
Like Cheang and Khiew, Pauline Ho and Elaine Tan, both 29, left the security of being salaried employees to embark on personal projects about three years ago. Ho transitioned from advertising to floristry, while Tan struck out in jewellery-making after stints in fashion marketing and branding.
Tan's jewellery is crafted from environment-friendly bioresin and upcycled materials like driftwood. (Photos courtesy of Amado Gudek)
Tan, who says she is “much happier now compared to being a salaryman”, was initially afraid that turning her long-time hobby into work would “kill (her) passion for jewellery-making”.
This fear turned out to be unfounded. From selling her handcrafted jewellery at small shops and bazaars as a student 10 years ago, she now runs three costume jewellery brands under her company Alfie Atelier.
Ho’s foray was a little more straightforward. The founder of Fleurapy had been documenting her newfound hobby on her Instagram handle when it got noticed by friends, who began to commission bouquets for special occasions.
“I had then left my previous job not to ‘dive’ into the floral business but to do a career switch,” she explained. “However, in the period that I was looking for a new job, the number of orders started picking up. After six months of operating from home, I decided it was time to really go into it, and I rented a studio.”
"Floral arrangement has led me to learning many things - how to run my own business, managing staff and clients. I realise that because I'm doing different things all the time, I never get tired of doing any one thing." (Photo: Gideon Lim)
Speaking to the four of them, it is clear that they do not fit into common archetypes of people who choose to break away from the cookie-cutter approach to modern life. They are neither privileged individuals pursuing entrepreneurial dreams funded by family wealth, nor bohemians without responsibilities to family and society.
Anecdotally, local academics believe there are more Singaporeans breaking away from standard approaches to work and life.
“In today’s context, different career paths are leading towards success and people defining success in multiple ways. Multiple intelligence is emphasised. So, not only are the individuals willing to take the risk to try out, society is more positive about it,” said Wu Pei Chuan, a senior lecturer at the NUS Business School’s Department of Management & Organisation.
But because these individuals defy easy categorisation, it is hard to pin down exactly how many of them exist. One category they fit into is the self-employed, which number 300,500 and make up 14 per cent of Singapore's workforce. But this category does not quite represent them, as it is a broad church including taxi drivers, hawkers, property agents, insurance brokers, company directors and chief executive officers.
They can also be grouped with the estimated 200,000 freelancers in Singapore. But this data does not distinguish between those who are in the gig economy by choice, and those who are forced to enter less traditional employment arrangements.
Bespoke bouquets designed by Ho, who finds arranging flowers therapeutic. (Photos courtesy of Fleurapy)
REDEFINING THE GOOD LIFE
Cheang, Khiew, Ho and Tan are Gen-Y'ers who grew up in the '90s, seeing their elders - the baby-boomer generation - look to the 5Cs and material accumulation as a barometer of the good life.
These aspirations - Cash, Credit Card, Car, Condominium, Country Club - have since been supplanted by a broader definition of success and well-being, said Paul Lim, a lecturer of organisational behaviour and human resources at the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business.
According to Lim, who studies how attitudes and beliefs around work and life evolve with generational cohorts and a country’s level of wealth and development, Gen-Y’ers and millennials are influenced by the experiences of the previous generations, whom they perceived as “toiling in jobs they did not like at the expense of family time and community engagement”. They are thus more likely to feel called to a cause, and accept pay and lifestyle adjustments to act on a need “to do good”.
And the conditions enabling these Gen-Y entrepreneurs to do just that may have never been better. Technology-driven changes help them keep the cost of running a business low, and reach a wider, global clientele. On a personal level, they also face relatively fewer responsibilities to family compared to the baby-boomer generation.
In addition, the risk of entrepreneurial failure was arguably low - thanks to tight labour market conditions over the last five years. “So, even if the business didn’t work out, I could still go back to the workforce,” said Tan, reflecting on what made her take the plunge.
"You will need to have a deep interest or desire for doing what you plan to do as a business. This is key to survival as it naturally translates to perseverance and mental stamina." (Photo courtesy of Elaine Tan)
This safety net may currently be somewhat diminished for today’s would-be rainbow chasers, as Singapore closed yet another quarter with anaemic economic growth. But the silver lining is this: Against this backdrop, there are perhaps bigger lessons to be learnt from Cheang, Khiew, Ho and Tan - beyond feel-good exhortations to follow your heart and pursue your passions.
They demonstrate curiosity in trying to figure out their place in the world, courage in re-imagining work to fit their values, and tenacity in learning and applying themselves to a new hustle.
"There are many people who are left out in the traditional workforce system just because they are not good at talking or doing things the ‘right’ way," said Tan, referring to her experiences interviewing for staff.
"This does not mean that they are less capable in any way. They just happen to lack certain skills which are perceived to be superior in modern-day living. Very often these people go on to start their own thing - which is great!”
Source: CNA/ll
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Filming The Circus
The Circus, 1928
The Circus won Charles Chaplin his first Academy Award - it was still not yet called the ‘Oscar’ - he was given it at the first presentations ceremony, in 1929. The special award was for ‘Versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing’.
The film certainly merited the honor. It contains some of his best comic inventions, subtly balanced with sentiment that is kept tightly in control. Yet paradoxically, though, this is the only film from his mature feature productions which Chaplin does not once mention in his extensive autobiography. As late as 1964, it seemed, this was a film he preferred to forget.
Chaplin directing The Circus
The reason was not the film itself, but the deeply fraught circumstances surrounding its making. Chaplin was in the throes of the break-up of his marriage with Lita Grey; and production of The Circus coincided with one of the most unseemly and sensational divorces of twenties Hollywood, as Lita’s lawyers sought every means to ruin Chaplin’s career by smearing his reputation. At the height of the legal battle, production of The Circus was brought to a total halt for eight months, when the lawyers sought to seize the studio assets. Chaplin was forced to smuggle such of the film as was already shot to safe hiding.
As if his domestic troubles were not enough, the film seemed fated to catastrophe of every kind. Even before shooting began, the huge circus tent which provides the principal setting for the film was destroyed by gales. After four weeks of filming, Chaplin discovered that bad laboratory work had made everything already shot unusable. In the ninth month of shooting, a fire raged through the studio, destroying sets and props.
A studio fire destroyed sets and props for The Circus during shooting
Later, when the unit returned to work after the enforced lay-off, they found that Hollywood’s mushroom real-estate development had in the meantime transformed the scenery beyond recognition. The troubles persisted to the very end. For the final scene, of The Circus moving out of town, the wagons were towed to location. When the unit returned for the second day’s shooting the whole circus train had vanished. It had been stolen by some high-spirited students who planned to use it for a marathon bonfire. This time, luckily, Chaplin was just in time to prevent the catastrophe. Somehow, from all the chaos, Chaplin conjured a film of deft comedy and admirable structure.
Shooting the final scene of The Circus
The story had all grown out of a single idea: Chaplin imagined a scene of comic thrills, such as his contemporary Harold Lloyd had made his speciality. The scene he envisaged was the climactic sequence in which, having taken the place of the tight-rope walker, and suspended high over the circus ring, he is attacked by malicious escaped monkeys. They rip off his trousers to reveal that he has forgotten to put on his tights. With this nightmare moment as its climax, he built up the whole that leads up to it, and the finale to conclude.
Chaplin is attacked by monkeys in one of the film's most famous scenes
The Little Tramp is engaged as a clown by a travelling circus. He falls in love with the ill-treated daughter of the circus proprietor, but meets an insuperable rival in the handsome new tight-rope walker. It is while attempting to compete with this challenger that he has his confrontation with the malevolent monkeys.
Merna Kennedy at Chaplin studios
The heroine was played by Merna Kennedy, a beautiful 18-year-old dancer making her film debut; and the Tramp’s rival in love by Harry Crocker, a handsome young socialite. Chaplin and Crocker spent weeks mastering the skills of rope-walking. Chaplin ran other risks besides the tight-rope. For the scenes with the lions he made some 200 takes, in many of which he was actually inside the lion’s cage. His looks of fear are not all merely acting.
Chaplin was actually inside the lion's cage to shoot the famous scene
Alongside the thrills the film contains some of his most accomplished gags, notable among them the early scenes in the fairground hall of mirrors, and outside the fun-house where he and a hostile ruffian are forced to pose as automata. The film was so rich in comedy that Chaplin was obliged and able completely to remove an entire, wonderfully developed episode - really a little film in itself - which involved his confusions with a pair of identical twin prize-fighters. This virtuoso sequence, with its brilliant double exposure effects to enable the same actor, Doc Stone, to play both twins, is a tribute to the technical ingenuity of Chaplin’s collaborators.
In the late 1960s, after the years spent trying to forget it, Chaplin returned to The Circus to re-release it with a new musical score of his own composition. He even composed a theme song, ‘Swing Little Girl’, to be sung over the titles. A professional vocalist was engaged, but the musical director, Eric James, recognised that Chaplin himself sang the song much better. So he was persuaded, at the age of 79, to record the song. It seemed to symbolize his reconciliation to the film which cost him so much stress.
Chaplin and Merna Kennedy in The Circus
Text by David Robinson / Copyright 2004 MK2 SA
Essanay - Chaplin Brand
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An unreleased film from 1918, although parts were used in The Chaplin Revue (1959). Reconstructed in the 1980s
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From the moment he entered movies, Charles Chaplin knew that he needed total creative autonomy in order to make the kind of comedy of which he alone was capable...
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Two startups join battle to unseat Open Table
There's a battle brewing in the restaurant reservations business.
Two Chicago startups are joining a growing number of companies seeking to siphon business from industry giant Open Table by appealing to restaurateurs and diners frustrated by the old way of doing business.
Top-Top, a reservations portal that will cater to last-minute diners willing to pay a small fee for prime-time tables, plans to launch Jan. 5. Instead of holding back a few tables for walk-ins and VIPs, the 18 participating Chicago-area restaurants will keep a block of prime-time reservations available for Top-Top customers, who in return agree to spend a specified amount on dinner, say $35 to $100 per person. The service provides restaurants with additional protections, including the ability to collect up to 25 percent of the minimum spending requirement in the event a diner doesn't show.
The idea is to help restaurants capitalize when supply and demand shift as the date of dining approaches. “We believe that's when consumers should begin to come out of pocket for reservations,” says Todd Reed, Top-Top's founder. “When there's not a lot of supply left, restaurants should be in a better position of control, and we want to help them capitalize on higher demand.”
Like other companies in the space—Chicago-based gDine and TableSavvy among them—Top-Top aims to carve out a niche alongside San Francisco-based Open Table, which seats more than 15 million diners per month on its online booking system used by about 32,000 restaurants around the world.
Another Chicago startup, Tock, is going straight at Open Table's model. Restaurateur Nick Kokonas and his chef-partner, Grant Achatz, plan to roll out their restaurant ticketing system nationwide in early 2015, backed by about $2 million from boldfaced names in the restaurant and technology worlds, including Thomas Keller, chef-owner of Napa Valley's French Laundry and New York's Per Se, both of which will migrate to the system next year; Chicago's Melman family, owners of restaurant conglomerate Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises; and Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter.
Open Table charges restaurants $249 a month, $1 per seated diner who books through its website and 25 cents per reservation booked via the restaurant's own website. By contrast, Tock will charge restaurants a flat monthly fee of $695 for access to its platform.
It also offers more flexibility. Tock eventually will have five ticket types: fully prepaid prix-fixe tickets like those offered by Next and Alinea; deposit tickets, which require diners to put down a nonrefundable deposit for a reservation; dynamic deposit tickets, where the deposit varies depending on the date and time of reservation; special-event tickets; and no-cost tickets, which function as normal reservations. Kokonas expects most restaurants will start with the no-cost reservations and migrate to prepaid tickets over time.
“They've got incredible backing, and I'm bullish on what they can do,” says Jeremy Klein, CEO and co-founder of TableSavvy, an 18-month-old startup that offers discounted same-day tables at about 70 Chicago restaurants. “But it's very difficult going up against Open Table. That said, they have an awesome chance to make this work because of who they are.”
While Tock's prepaid ticketing model could work for high-end establishments, it may run into resistance trying to lure restaurants a notch below, which not only rely on Open Table for reservations management, but also benefit from the deep Rolodex of loyal consumers it has built over its 15 years in Chicago.
“I'm always a big supporter of small businesses,” says Aeron Lancero, president of Mount Prospect-based Intrestco, which owns three Chicago-area restaurants, one of which is supplementing its reservations system with Top-Top. “But the reality is, if you want to provide accessibility to consumers, we have to continue to use Open Table. There's no other platform out there that can do what they do.”
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What's next for Harley-Davidson
Micah Maidenberg
Harley-Davidson CEO Matt Levatich
Matt Levatich, CEO of Harley-Davidson, doesn't mince words about what the recession and its aftermath meant for the Milwaukee-based motorcycle maker. “The last six years have been brutally tough for our company,” he said yesterday at a lunch downtown sponsored by the Executives' Club of Chicago.
While the Harley brand is recognized the world over and inspires intense customer loyalty—just ask riders who have Harley-Davidson tattoos—the bikes are discretionary purchases that can cost upward of $40,000. But as the recession deepened, the company lost money in 2009, with its stock dropping to a bit over $8 a share.
Harley has come back since the trough, in terms of net income and the value of its stock, which closed yesterday at $53.60 a share, as consumers started spending again and it revamped factory operations. Still, the company faces a range of knotty challenges, including competitors that are discounting prices and a strong dollar that makes the American-made products more expensive outside the U.S.
Meanwhile, Harley is trying to expand what Levatich said is the brand's core consumer—white males age 35 and up. That means working with dealers to set up “garage parties,” for example, where women can check out bikes outside of the usual dealership environment, and reaching out to minorities and young people.
Levatich, 50, joined Harley-Davidson in 1994, holding a range of positions in the U.S. and Europe. In February, the company announced his promotion to CEO.
He spoke with Crain's after the Executives' Club event. (The interview has been lightly edited for clarity.)
You talked about responsive, flexible manufacturing during your speech. Can you elaborate on that? What does that mean day to day within the factories that Harley-Davidson runs?
The most important and maybe the biggest component of it is the shift from level production year round to a production pattern that is more in line with the seasonality of our business. That represented a huge challenge for every element of the production systems—the capital we use, the labor. Every one of our suppliers had to figure out how to supply a plant that has 30 percent more production in January than it does in November. The question is why do we do this, why do we go through this incredible effort?
The reason is because we want to be as close to consumer demand as we can be, and read the market and build what customers want, not have them buy what we built six months ago. We call it surge, the ability to surge our manufacturing in the spring when demand is highest and then bring it back down in the fall when it's lower. Surge allows us to read the market, build the motorcycles that are in demand and build them for markets where sales are happening, not for the markets where they're not.
What's the hardest part of retooling like this?
The hardest part is always that we have people working in the plants and people working in the supply base, and it requires a new level of thinking and working and flexibility on their part than what they're accustomed to. Change is difficult for people, for everybody—me, too—and we had to learn how to do new things for important reasons, and that's hard. The capital, the systems—those things are relatively more straightforward than the people side of it.
How do you make a U.S.-heavy manufacturing footprint work for Harley-Davidson, when presumably there are lower-cost locales where you could produce?
It isn't how we make it work; it's actually recognizing how important it is to our customers. And it isn't just Americans that want American-made Harleys. The world loves the American quality of a Harley-Davidson. So we have to balance this close-to-the-customer responsive, flexible manufacturing—it has to be balanced with the American qualities of Harley that everyone loves, and how do we find the right balance of building everything in the United States and then not being very responsive to somebody in Indonesia.
The other extreme is you have little plants all over the place so you can be responsive—it's expensive, complex. People will accept and understand that it's a global marketplace and some components are going to come from different parts of the word. People are pretty savvy now and they understand that, but the essence of the motorcycle being American is very important to every customer. So we have to find a balance.
What is the next phase of transformation within the company's manufacturing footprint?
Manufacturing is largely complete. We're working on more systems implementation to tie the whole network together better. We're operating in the future state and achieving levels of quality and safety that we've never achieved before as a company. All of the indications of the success are there. But like everything else, we have to keep getting better and better every day.
I would say the same thing is more or less the case with product development. We've made the tough moves that we needed to do to shorten our time to market and get more, sort of, accurate with the products we choose to develop. But we have to continue to improve and dial in and keep our edge sharp in product development.
The bigger transformation for us going forward is the marketplace. How do our dealers reach out and embrace new types of customers? How does our brand motivate and compete better with people who are choosing what to do with their time and their money? Not necessarily other motorcycle brands, but sailing, RV-ing. And I'm talking about the world. So how do we bring all of these assets we have—the brand, the products, the distribution—into each marketplace and lead in that marketplace? That work will probably forever be in front of us as the major driver of our strategies and our efforts.
How does Harley reach younger audiences and more diverse audiences?
I think people have this impression of what a Harley is in their head, including the person riding it, who is probably a guy and probably overweight and probably has gray hair. So because people tend to have that image, they can't imagine this woman that just came up to me, she owns four Harleys. She's probably in her mid-40s. She said, "I don't have a tattoo, but I have four Harleys." You would never, in a lineup of people, guess she is a Harley owner.
There are all kinds of people like that. The issue is the spirit the person has, the identity that they have, and does that identity of freedom, strength, independence connect with the Harley identity. There are a lot of people out there where the spirit is connected but they don't have the physical connections. They don't know or maybe aren't quite ready or maybe they're intimidated about walking into a dealership and talking to some guy—probably a guy, probably a tough-looking guy—about a product and an experience they don't understand yet.
All of our work is about breaking down those barriers. The riding academy helps new riders, the garage parties I mentioned, the boot camps for young adults, the training work we're doing with the dealers and what we do with product. The street motorcycle, the FL low, which is easier and narrower for shorter people to ride or people without the leg strength. All these little things we're doing are actually having a significant impact on the increasing diversity of our customer base.
Based on what you hear from customers, from dealers, how do you guys read the health of the U.S. economy right now?
Every indication of the U.S. economy is strength, but with a slow return. Steady, strengthening, broad-based, but people got rattled in 2009. The recovery in the United States is good. It's steady, it's consistent, but it's slow.
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As Bears try to play spoiler, Lions have a major decision ahead
By Brad Biggs
Lions head coach Jim Caldwell yells from the sidelines during the first half against the Jaguars on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016 in Detroit. (Paul Sancya / AP)
The Bears can play the role of the ultimate spoiler Sunday against the Lions, who lead the NFC North but face a tough slate to close the season.
The future of coach Jim Caldwell remains an important question for the Lions, who reshaped the organization last year by cleaning out the front office and hiring Bob Quinn from the Patriots as general manager. What was described as a country-club atmosphere has been turned upside down, and Quinn has taken a wait-and-see approach with Caldwell, who is signed through 2017. That means it will be time either to sign him to an extension or to replace him.
The Lions (8-4) have won seven of eight since the Bears defeated them 17-14 in Week 4 at Soldier Field. Caldwell's future looked bleak at the time — the Lions were 1-3 and had lost the mojo they showed in winning six of their last eight in 2015 — but they have gone on a roll and proved resilient in the clutch, winning seven games after trailing in the fourth quarter.
They are coming off a 28-13 victory in New Orleans, their first win that didn't require late heroics, and after playing the Bears, they visit the Giants and Cowboys before closing the season Jan. 2 at Ford Field against the Packers. A ton is on the line, especially when you consider it's a starved fan base. The Lions last won the division in 1993, when it was the NFC Central.
The Lions are seven-point favorites over the Bears, and a victory would ensure their fourth winning season since 2000. But if they fail to reach the playoffs, it's fair to wonder if Quinn will make a coaching change, a natural move by new GMs.
Huddle Up: MVP candidate Matthew Stafford has Lions thinking title
By Dan Wiederer
Phil Emery did the same with the Bears after he was hired to work with Lovie Smith. The Bears went 10-6 in 2012 but did not reach the postseason, and Emery fired Smith. Since Quinn's arrival, there has been speculation he could consider Bill Belichick's top lieutenants with the Patriots: offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and defensive coordinator Matt Patricia.
From that standpoint, the Bears can potentially alter the arc of a division foe with an upset, especially if it sends the Lions into a tailspin that leaves them home for the postseason. The Lions aren't intimidating for an 8-4 team, but they're doing a couple of things particularly well.
Matthew Stafford is doing a terrific job taking care of the football. The Lions have only eight turnovers all season and have surrendered only nine points off turnovers, best in the NFL. That doesn't bode well for a Bears defense that is on pace to set a franchise low for takeaways. They have eight after getting a record-low 17 last year.
And the Lions have consistently won the field-position game with their special teams. Punter Sam Martin ranks second with a net average of 44.8 yards. Matt Prater has kicked four game-winning field goals and is 5 of 5 from 50 yards and longer. Andre Roberts has two punt returns for touchdowns, including one against the Bears.
Bears at Lions: Is it just Matthew Stafford who gives Detroit the edge?
By Dan Wiederer , Rich Campbell and Brad Biggs
Dec 09, 2016 | 10:39 AM
But the team is not without its flaws. The Lions aren't running the ball well and have just 21 sacks. Only three teams have fewer. Defensive end Ziggy Ansah is yet to have a sack. He suffered a high ankle sprain in Week 2 and missed the next three games. He hasn't been the same player and might require surgery after the season.
An ineffective pass rush would help Bears quarterback Matt Barkley, who has been sacked only once in his two starts. Barkley has been poised despite not starting in his first three seasons, so a road game is unlikely to faze him — especially if the Bears can get Jordan Howard going against the Lions' 13th-ranked run defense (98.2 yards per game).
The Bears (3-9) aren't going anywhere, and any victory in their final four games will only weaken their draft position. But it's a young roster (12 of the 22 starters last week have less than three years of experience), and the only way to build confidence entering the offseason is to have success.
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John Fox's team hasn't won consecutive games this season. The Bears did so twice last year, also winning twice as a touchdown-or-more underdog on the road (at Kansas City and Green Bay). In the final quarter of the season, the Bears have an opportunity to put some of this year's disappointment behind them. They failed to accomplish that in 2015, when they lost four of their final five games.
Quinn will have to consider his move with Caldwell carefully at season's end. Caldwell is 26-18 in his third season with the Lions. The last Lions coach to finish his tenure with a winning record was Joe Schmidt, who went 43-34-7 in six seasons ending in 1972.
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Corrected Version: Harry Potter trivia, part 1
Trivia to go with Month of Harry Potter series.
Corrected Version: The first draft of this story contained incorrect information in the first bulleted item (about Hedwig).
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” • Harry is given a snowy owl and names her Hedwig. The most well-known Hedwig in history is St. Hedwig, beatified in the 13th century and recognized by Catholics as the patron saint of Silesia, most of which is located within Poland today. • The best wands are made by Mr. Ollivander, who uses unicorn hair, phoenix tailfeathers and dragon heartstrings to make the powerful core of a wand. Harry tried out dozens of wands before he was “chosen” by his wand: made of holly with a phoenix-feather core. As it turns out, the phoenix that gave the feather gave only one other – which found its way into the perfect wand for the evil Lord Voldemort. • J.K. Rowling uses charactonyms, names of literary characters suited to their personalities. Draco Malfoy, Dolores Umbridge (“umbrage” means resentment or offense) and Remus Lupin (“lupine” means wolflike) are charactonyms. Other names, such as Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, are clever plays on words. • Harry, whose forehead sports the most famous scar in the wizarding world, has at least one thing in common with Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore also has a scar, but instead of being shaped like a lightning bolt, Dumbledore’s is above his left knee and shaped like the the path of the London Underground, or subway system. • Voldemort started his rise to power 11 years before Harry was born, gathering his supporters and throwing the wizarding world into villainy and terror. No one knows why he targeted James and Lily Potter, Harry’s parents, but on Halloween night, right after Harry was born, he used one of the Unforgiveable Curses to destroy them. When he tried to murder Harry, the curse backfired and nearly destroyed Voldemort. • Rubeus Hagrid, the half-giant grounds- and gamekeeper at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is not supposed to do magic because he was expelled from Hogwarts in his third year, which is more fully explained in “The Chamber of Secrets.” Harry, however, suspects Hagrid keeps the pieces of his wand, broken in two when Hagrid was expelled, hidden in a pink umbrella that is never far from him. • Harry, as a first-year student at Hogwarts, was required to bring, among other things, three sets of plain work robes; one plain, black, pointed hat for day wear; one pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar, of course); one cauldron (pewter, standard size 2); and an owl, cat or toad – although toads went out of fashion years ago. Alas, first-years are not allowed their own broomsticks. • Dumbledore is considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times. He is famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the 12 uses of dragon’s blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel – the very same who owned the Sorcerer’s Stone, which can turn any metal into gold and produces the Elixir of Life, which makes the drinker immortal. Flamel lived to be 665 before agreeing to destroy the Stone. • When Harry meets Professor Severus Snape, the Potions teacher, the two instantly dislike each other. Snape treats Harry with the same disdain and condescension with which Harry’s father treated him – but Dumbledore makes a mysterious reference to James Potter saving Snape’s life (something to come in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," perhaps?) • Best advice: “Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” -- Dumbledore
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The Return...... (1985)
Born for Burning
Under the Sign of the Black Mark (1987)
Call From the Grave
Equimanthorn
Enter the Eternal Fire
Blood Fire Death (1988)
The Golden Walls of Heaven
Hammerheart (1990)
Home of Once Brave
One Rode to Asa Bay
Blood on Ice (1996)
Man of Iron
The Woodwoman
Destroyer of Worlds (2001)
Lake of Fire
Nordland I (2002)
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Bathory were an extreme metal band formed in Vällingby, Sweden, in 1983 named after Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory. The band’s frontman and main songwriter was Quorthon (Tomas Forsberg). Considered to be one of the most influential acts in heavy metal, Bathory’s first four albums are considered to be "the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal". The band departed from this style on their fifth album, Hammerheart (1990), which is often cited as the first Viking metal album. Bathory continued in the Viking metal style throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, although the band experimented with thrash metal on the albums Requiem (1994) and Octagon (1995). Bathory ended when Quorthon died from heart failure in 2004.
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Do We Control Our Own Purchasing Habits?
By Liraz Margalit | Sep 12, 2016
CHANNEL: Customer Experience
Persuading rational people to make rational decisions is easy.
Unfortunately, as humans, we’re often stuck with irrational thinking, fueled by cognitive biases and emotions.
While we’d all love to think that our actions are based in reason and logic, the truth is that we’re often driven by cognitive biases that completely ignore reality. In his book, "Descartes' Error," Antonio Damasio, professor of neuroscience at the University of Southern California, argues that emotion is a primary ingredient in nearly every decision.
So, how do you persuade your customers when they are heavily influenced by subjective factors that you have seemingly little control over?
The first step toward answering that question is identifying what those subjective factors are for your audience.
Define Free Choice
Flaws in our decision-making ability are fuel for the market. In certain situations, illustrated below, we are especially susceptible to external influences.
In those situations, our primitive needs and desires plague us. Our basic urges derive from the lower-level areas of the brain, such as the limbic system, which controls emotions and motivation. When it comes to consumers, perhaps the most important characteristic of emotions is that they push us toward action. As humans, we are often compelled to do something as a response to an emotion.
Imagine this scenario: You're at the supermarket with your three children, who you’ve just picked up from school.
After a tiring succession of aisles, punctuated by the begging, crying and screaming of your children asking for everything that catches their eyes, you’ve arrived undaunted at the checkout line. As you wait, a brave new world greets your little loved ones: a smorgasbord of tempting candies, each colorfully-wrapped treat at exactly the height where your children can reach them.
By wondrous coincidence, soda and popsicles are also within reach. At this moment — while you’re under the stares of the other awaiting shoppers, when you’ve successfully reached the finish line after triumphing over the ceaseless struggles that met you in every aisle of the store — you finally surrender to the pleas of your kids.
Into the cart you toss a Kit Kat bar, a Snickers bar and a packet of M&Ms. At that critical moment, with the barrier of resistance already breached, a chilled bottle of Diet Sprite beckoning from the cooler strikes you as just what you need. Your decision, apparently a choice freely made, is actually as far as it could be from a free choice.
It turns out that when we are worn out, tired, hungry or under pressure (or all of the above), we make decisions that differ completely from those we make when we’re calm, cool and collected.
Overestimating Our Own Powers of Reason
In countless interviews and studies, consumers have revealed that they lack basic understanding of the forces that shape their purchasing behavior.
When they decide to purchase a particular product, they believe that they are behaving rationally, making a choice in an effort to maximize their benefit. Yet this belief is nothing more than a cognitive deception.
Granted, today’s consumers are well aware of being targets of aggressive marketing. Yet in their hearts, they believe they are strong, independent thinkers, impervious to marketers’ manipulations.
When asked how they decide whether to purchase a particular product, consumers speak about an intensive, rational process of thought. They describe how they investigate and consider the characteristics of the product, compare the available prices, and thus attain the best value for their money.
The Illusion of Being in Charge
The problem with their self-conception is that it’s systematically biased. We overrate our resistance to external influences. This bias derives from our need to believe that at any given moment, we are in charge of our own decisions and actions. This delusion enables us to enjoy a feeling of independence and control over our lives. The locus of control bias is a basic, essential defense mechanism, and we couldn’t survive without it.
Our misconception of subjective experience gives us the illusion of control in our decisions. In order to preserve that sense of control that is so crucial in our lives, we create supporting narratives and tell ourselves stories about rational thought processes that underlie our decisions.
In reality, however, emotion and primitive urges play a very significant role part in our purchasing decisions. Much more so than we’d like to admit.
Which Force Decides: Rational or Emotional?
Inside our brains, decision-making is the product of two opposing forces — rational and emotional. The rational conscious force is governed by the brain’s command-and-control areas, located near the forehead. The emotional unconscious force is governed by the more primitive areas, such as the limbic system, which affect feelings and immediate urges, and which we share with our fellow animals.
The human brain has no access to the unconscious processes involved in decision-making. In fact, factors that have nothing to do with the actual decision greatly influence this process, such as environmental cues, context and our emotions.
When test subjects were asked to choose between receiving two Amazon coupons in a month’s time or receiving one coupon when the experiment finished, subjects who had shown high activity in the rational systems involved in long-term planning and in regulation of urges decided to wait a month to receive two Amazon coupons. Subjects who had shown higher activity in the emotional system that deals with immediate satisfaction of needs asked to receive one Amazon coupon on the spot.
The question is why the rational system takes charge in some cases, while in other cases our resistance is weakened and the emotional system takes control.
Draining Our Discipline
Until recently, the consensus was that self-restraint is an innate ability — that some people are born with abundant self-discipline and others with less. In order to test that conception, subjects were asked to forgo lunch and were presented with two bowls: one full of radishes and the other full of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
Half of the subjects were instructed to eat the cookies and ignore the radishes, while the other half was instructed conversely. Immediately after eating, the subjects were asked to perform a cognitive task, a persistence-testing puzzle, which was intentionally impossible to accomplish.
The cookie-eaters, fully armed with self-discipline and motivation, tried repeatedly to complete the task. On average, they spent nineteen minutes more at their attempts than the radish-eaters did. For their part, the radish-eaters made far fewer attempts and devoted less than half the time solving the puzzle compared to the chocolate-eating participants.
Those who had to resist the sweets and force themselves to eat pungent vegetables could no longer find the will to fully engage in another torturous task. They were already too tired and displayed frustration and irritation. They complained that the experiment was a complete waste of time. Some of them put their hands on the table and closed their eyes.
Manipulating People for a Profit
It appears that willpower is not a talent, but a matter of available energy.
When our kids at the supermarket have drained us of our last drop of energy, our ability to stand fast and resist is significantly impaired. When we are under pressure to catch a plane, our resistance to tempting smells from the bakery stalls is particularly low. When we’ve said a painful farewell, our ability to opt for healthy food over junk food becomes dubious.
In online buying as well, it can be observed that impulse buying tends to occur in the evening, after the hard knocks of the day erode our powers of control. Impulse buying is the purchase, for emotional reasons, of products that we don’t actually need. We purchase these things because they provide us, at the time, with a moment of emotional relief.
In contrast, an examination of purchasing in the daytime — when our cognitive resources are still at their fullest — shows consumers more involved in price comparisons and in careful examination of product characteristics.
We don’t stop to think how much effort and expertise is invested in understanding our moments of weakness and in developing strategies for exploiting them. With sufficient knowledge and understanding of people, someone will always find a way to sell an unnecessary product.
George Akerlof, a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, once said, “Taking advantage of weaknesses is an integral part of the free market. Manipulating people for profit is a natural aspect of the economic equilibrium. The free-market system exploits our weaknesses automatically.”
Or in other words: if we have a weakness, the market will be sure to manipulate it.
Title image "Walmart Grocery Checkout Line in Gladsto" (CC BY 2.0) by Walmart Corporate
Liraz Margalit, PhD, is a web psychologist, a lecturer and director of behavioral analytics at Clicktale, a company that provides a cloud-based Experience Analytics platform along with in-depth expert analysis. She leads the consumer behavior research team, in collaboration with academic and industry organizations.
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Power Lunch
In hiring, why not put safety first?
Ken Springer @corpresolutions
Published 12:53 PM ET Wed, 27 July 2016 CNBC.com
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As more cities and states adopt "ban the box" policies, it has become increasingly unclear who is being protected by these regulations. Ostensibly, "ban the box" seeks to protect people with prior criminal histories from being discriminated against when seeking a job. Proponents claim that employers ask about past criminal activity early in the application process as a way to discard people with criminal histories from consideration. No doubt, these activists have good intentions. But they fail to appreciate that "ban the box" puts the interests of people who have made poor decisions ahead of hardworking, law-abiding citizens.
Small businesses – the life blood of the US economy – are already time- and resource-constrained trying to stay afloat in an increasingly challenging global economy. Forcing them to spend money, time, and energy interviewing prospective employees is a burden they should not have to bear. And what of the legal liability a business owner would face if, by not having that box checked, they should neglect to ask a would-be employee about their criminal history, and that employee hurts another employee or customer?
Getting the issue of past criminal activity out in the open early on in the hiring process allows the employer to ask about it and better understand if it was a youthful indiscretion or a one-time mistake that the person made amends for. Was it a white-collar crime or an assault and battery or rape? Why assume ill-intent on the part of employers when they are trying to determine what's best for the company? Statistics show that many businesses are willing to hire people with a checkered past, providing they understand when and how the problem occurred.
In theory, "ban the box" serves a noble purpose. In practice, however, it impacts countless unwilling and unknowing participants. The ways in which a criminal record can impact your job are numerous: a salesman who has several DUIs and can not be responsible for driving around clients and entertaining them; an administrative assistant who has been convicted of theft; a summer intern who was found guilty of assault and battery; an IT guy who was arrested for hacking into his old boss's computer. It's senseless that employers are not entitled to know about these infractions. If the employer chooses to hire the candidate with the criminal record, then that is the employer's decision. But blocking that information is almost setting companies up to fail.
It's not as though people with criminal pasts are universally shunned, or that they don't already have certain protections under current laws. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is the federal regulation that dictates what employers can and cannot know about potential employees, and many states have adopted additional rules. Depending on the candidate's salary, employers may not be entitled to know about prior bankruptcies or arrests if they occurred more than seven years ago.
The introduction of "ban the box" will undoubtedly have another unintended consequence that will hurt business – lawsuits. If the sex offender was a great guy, needed a second chance but the employer decided not to hire him because he found a more qualified candidate, there should be no repercussions for the sex offender who was denied the job. And yet, with "ban the box," more rejected candidates will sue companies for not hiring them ,using the new law as a cudgel to intimidate employers.
An estimated 70 million Americans – roughly 20 percent of the population – have a criminal record of some kind, and no one would say that these people should be barred from working or unduly discriminated against. But that also doesn't mean that the government should use its muscle to force an employer who runs a daycare center from taking the time and effort to learn all about a would-be employer's work background, only to hear at the end of the process that the applicant was arrested and convicted of rape or possessing child pornography.
In advertisements, investment firms are obligated to say that past performance does not guarantee future results. But in most areas of life, past performance is the best indicator of how a person will perform.
Ken Springer is a former FBI agent and founder and president of Corporate Resolutions, which has been performing corporate investigations and due diligence for the past 25 years.
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Bianca Nobilo
CNN Anchor and Correspondent
Bianca Nobilo is a CNN anchor and correspondent based in the network's London bureau. She reports on topics related mainly to UK and European politics.
Bianca Nobilo is a CNN anchor and correspondent based in the network's London bureau. She joined CNN in 2013 and reports on topics related mainly to UK and European politics.
Since joining CNN, Nobilo has reported extensively on the UK's decision to leave the European Union and on the ongoing Brexit negotiations. She has interviewed multiple UK cabinet members and regularly reports from Brussels on European politics.
In February 2019 she sat down for a rare and exclusive interview with The Speaker of Britain's House of Commons, John Bercow. During the interview Bercow defended his impartiality and role as Brexit "referee".
In addition to reporting, Nobilo has anchored CNN Today, International Desk and CNN Newsroom.
As a politics producer, Nobilo was heavily involved in CNN International's political coverage planning and newsgathering. In 2017 she covered the Westminster terror attack, London bridge terror attack, British General Election, OPEC summits and the triggering of Article 50.
Nobilo has also secured exclusive interviews with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and the Lebanese Minister for Foreign Affairs. Additionally, she interviewed George Osborne on the election of President Trump and the architect of Brexit, Nigel Farage, in the lead up to the UK Brexit referendum. She also interviewed London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the wake of the Parsons Green attack.
Furthermore, Nobilo produced both the inaugural CNN Middle East Business Forum in Abu Dhabi and the CNN Asia Business Forum in Bangalore.
Nobilo holds a first-class degree in History from the University of Warwick, a Master of science in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, where she specialized in conflict. She also holds several professional diplomas in Communications and was the youngest ever recipient of a Fellowship in Communications where she designed and conducted original research into the impact of the body language of political leaders on their electoral success.
Prior to working at CNN, Nobilo worked in the Houses of Parliament and in the defence and security sectors. She has worked on three general election campaigns, a nationwide referendum as well as in research, speechwriting and campaigns for ministers and members of Parliament in the UK.
She received the MHP 30 under 30 Journalists to Watch Award in 2018.
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Born in Hartford 1814, Samuel Colt lived the life of a legend. With his first patent in 1836, he founded a company that played a leading role in the Industrial Revolution.
The Coltsville factory was constructed in 1847 and was expanded throughout the 19th century. Those expansions included the construction, in 1855, of the armory's distinctive blue onion dome, a Hartford landmark. In order to attract laborers, Colt created a self-contained community surrounding the factory that included housing, gardens and entertainment halls as well as a library, school, church and social hall. Two years after Samuel's death in 1862, the Colt factory was decimated by fire. However, his wife Elizabeth quickly rebuilt the factory and became one of the most fascinating examples of early American female industrialists in the process.
Elizabeth Colt's Trailblazing Path
Elizabeth led the company through its most prosperous years at a time when men dominated the industrial world. In fact, Colt's most recognized accomplishment, the peacemaker, was not manufactured until after his death. Elizabeth Colt's significant contributions to American industrialism make Coltsville unique from other historical sites, giving it appeal beyond the manufacture of munitions. Elizabeth Colt gives the site a central story, broad utility, a greater audience and a compelling reason to visit.
The Colt Revolver
Coltsville is most known as the birthplace of a concept that transformed the firearms from a single shot into a multiple shot device and changed the course of American economic and military history. The Colt revolver was a revolutionary weapon that changed military tactics and eventually made all previous weapons obsolete. Early industrial leaders like Henry Ford came to Coltsville to learn the innovative manufacturing techniques and equipment being developed in the area.
The Colt Legacy
The Colt legacy is about much more than firearms. It's about industrial innovation and the development of technology and manufacturing systems that would change the way of life in the United States. The same spirit of innovation today powers all of American industry and can be seen in such sectors as information technology, medical research, biotechnology, defense technology, public relations and many others.
Today, the Colt name is known throughout the world. Colt firearms and other products have been used in every major conflict - from the U.S-Mexican War to the present. Many structures Samuel constructed still exist today and are part of the industrial National Register District that was listed in 1966.
While Sam and Elizabeth Colt have both long since died, their vision for a dynamic community within Coltsville is ready to live again. In December of 2014, legislation was passed that authorized the creation of Coltsville National Historic Park. This park incorporates much of this landmark area and allows for the Colt legacy to live on.
For more info, please read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Colt
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Parag Khanna: Understanding the Asian Century
Parag Khanna says there is no more important region of the world for us to better understand than Asia, and thus, we cannot afford to keep getting Asia so wrong. He says Asia’s complexity has led to common misdiagnoses, namely that western thinking on Asia conflates the entire region with China, predicts imminent World War III around every corner and regularly forecasts debt-driven collapse for the region’s major economies. Khanna says that, in reality, the region is experiencing a confident new wave of growth led by younger societies from India to the Philippines, that nationalist leaders have put aside territorial disputes in favor of integration, and today’s infrastructure investments are the platform for the next generation of digital innovation.
Khanna asserts that in the 19th century, the world was Europeanized; in the 20th century, it was Americanized; and now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized. He says far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational order spanning from Saudi Arabia to Japan, Russia to Australia, Turkey to Indonesia—linking five billion people through trade, finance, infrastructure and diplomatic networks that together represent 40 percent of global GDP. Khanna says Asia is rapidly returning to the centuries-old patterns of commerce, conflict and cultural exchange that thrived long before European colonialism and American dominance. He will detail his view that as Asia determines its own future, it will determine ours as well.
Born in India, Khanna is the international best-selling author of six books, has traveled to most of the countries of the world, and holds a doctorate from the London School of Economics and master’s degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is a contributor to CNN, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and has also been an adviser to the U.S. National Intelligence Council.
In association with the Asia Society of Northern California, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, the McKinsey Global Institute and TiE Silicon Valley
Taube Family Auditorium
Parag Khanna
Managing Partner, FutureMap; Former Fellow, Brookings Institution and New America; Author, The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century
In Conversation with Margaret Conley
Executive Director, Asia Society of Northern California
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Six Cozen O'Connor Labor & Employment Attorneys Recognized by Benchmark Litigation
Benchmark Litigation has named six attorneys from Cozen O'Connor’s Labor & Employment department as Labor & Employment Stars for their respective regions. In addition, three states in which Cozen O'Connor has Labor & Employment attorneys have been recognized for their overall work in the practice area.
Susan Eisenberg was named a Labor & Employment Star for the South. Tom Giotto, Michael Schmidt, and George Voegele were named Labor & Employment Stars for the Northeast. Joe Tilson and Anna Wermuth were named Labor & Employment Stars for the Midwest.
Cozen O'Connor’s Labor & Employment attorneys in Florida were listed as a tier 2 group, Illinois was named a tier 1 group, and Pennsylvania was listed as a recommended firm for Labor & Employment by Benchmark.
About Benchmark
Now in its 11th year of publication, Benchmark exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market in North America, covering the US, Canada, and Mexico. The 2018 inaugural edition of Benchmark Litigation Labor & Employment went to press in September. The Benchmark team set out to find the best and brightest law firms and partners who stand out in their labor and employment practices throughout the US. Over several months of extensive research, the editorial team conducted interviews with individuals to learn about their recent work and discuss their feedback on the current labor and employment market. The team also distributed multiple surveys – one for firms to highlight recent casework, one for individual lawyers, and another for clients to provide their feedback.
About Cozen O'Connor
Established in 1970, Cozen O’Connor has more than 750 attorneys who help clients manage risk and make better business decisions. The firm counsels clients on their most sophisticated legal matters in all areas of the law, including litigation, corporate, and regulatory law. Representing a broad array of leading global corporations and middle market companies, Cozen O’Connor services its clients’ needs through 29 offices across two continents.
Susan N. Eisenberg
Thomas S. Giotto
Co-Chair, Labor & Employment Department
Michael C. Schmidt
Vice Chair, Labor & Employment Department
Joseph E. Tilson
George A. Voegele, Jr.
Anna Wermuth
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Drake breaks Taylor Swift's record at Billboard Music Awards
Drake poses in the press room with his awards at the Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Drake won for top artist, top male artist, top billboard 200 artist, top hot 100 artist, top streaming songs artist, top song sales artist, top radio songs artist, top rap artist, top rap male artist, top billboard 200 album and top rap album for "Scorpion," and top streaming song video for "In My Feelings."(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Mesfin Fekadu, The Associated Press
Published Thursday, May 2, 2019 8:13AM EDT
Last Updated Thursday, May 2, 2019 2:22PM EDT
With Mother's Day around the corner, Drake gave his mom an early gift with a heartfelt speech at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards, where the rap star also broke Taylor Swift's record for most wins.
Drake turned up the love for his mom when he picked up top artist, besting Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Post Malone and Travis Scott. He won 12 awards Wednesday in Las Vegas, making his career total 27 (Swift has 23 wins).
He looked up to the ceiling as he held the trophy, then said: “I just want to thank my mom for her relentless effort in my life.
“I want to thank my mom for all the times you drove me to piano. All the times you drove me to basketball and hockey - that clearly didn't work out. All the times you drove me to 'Degrassi.' No matter how long it took me to figure out what I wanted to do, you were always there to give me a ride, and now we're on one hell of ride,” Drake said.
Family bonding was a theme at the three-hour show, which aired live on NBC and was hosted by Kelly Clarkson
Ciara's young son and husband, NFL player Russell Wilson, danced along while she worked the stage, and Nick and Joe Jonas gave kisses to Priyanka Chopra and Sophie Turner of “Game of Thrones” fame when they sang in the audience before hitting the stage. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco looked to his parents as he accepted top rock song, quoting the name of his current hit: “Hey look Ma, I made it!”
Mariah Carey's twins cheered her on as she sang a medley of her hits and accepted the Icon award. She was in diva form before taking the award from Jennifer Hudson, throwing her napkin on the floor after dabbing her face with it.
“Without getting into all the drama, all the ups and downs of my career ... I guess I always felt like an outsider, someone who doesn't quite belong anywhere, and I still feel like that lost interracial child who had a lot of nerve to believe I could succeed at anything at all in this world. But, and this is the truth, I did believe because I had to,” she said. “The truth is I dedicated my life to my music - my saving grace - and to my fans.”
Cardi B, the night's top nominee with 21, locked lips with husband Offset on the red carpet and the couple sat closely inside the venue. She won six awards, including top Hot 100 song for “Girls Like You” with Maroon 5.
“I remember when Maroon 5 hit me up to do this song. I was like, 'Bro I'm five months pregnant. I can't even breathe.' But this record to me was so amazing. I was like, 'Oh this is going to be a hit.' And now I sing this song to my daughter because she's the girl that I need,” she said.
Drake and Cardi B - who both won multiple awards during the live telecast - used their speeches to promote love and appreciation for their peers in the music industry.
Others, too, brought on the positive energy when onstage. Imagine Dragons' band leader Dan Reynolds used his speech to highlight the dangers of conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth. He earned rousing applause. Florida Georgia Line's Tyler Hubbard followed suit, telling the audience after winning top country song: “In the spirit of so much truth being spoken tonight by so many talented artists, I think we should speak some truth.”
“As artists we all get to experience so many unbelievable things, but in our opinion, at the end of the day, it's all for nothing if you're not using your platform for better ... to spread love, to help those in needs, to be a light to your community,” he said.
Swift kicked off the show when she brought her new music video to life with a colorful, eye-popping performance of her song “ME!” Dancers wearing bright, pastel colours spun in the air holding umbrellas and a marching band kicked off Swift's performance - like most of the world, maybe she was inspired by Beyonce's new Coachella film?
Madonna, wearing an eye-patch, teamed up with Colombian singer Maluma for a performance, but it was Grammy-winning Christian artist Lauren Daigle who had the night's best performance. She sang “You Say,” giving the audience a calm, yet strong and powerful performance. She was backed by three awesome background singers and a pianist.
BTS, who performed alongside Halsey, also had a major night. At the Billboard Awards and American Music Awards, the K-pop band had only previously won “social” awards based off their fanatic fan base, but on Wednesday BTS picked up top duo/group, besting Grammy-winning groups like Maroon 5, Imagine Dragons and Dan + Shay.
“I still can't believe we're here on this stage with so many great artists,” RM said as fans screamed loudly. “We're still the same boys from six years ago, we still have the same dreams ... we still have the same thoughts. Let us keep dreaming.”
An unlikely winner at the Billboard Awards? “Game of Thrones” actress Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark on the HBO series and shined brightly on last week's episode.
“Shout-out to Arya Stark for putting in that work last week,” Drake said onstage after winning his first award of the evening.
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Developments in International Investment Law Herald Enhanced CSR Obligations for Investors
The protection of a company’s investments abroad could soon be linked to that company’s compliance with its CSR obligations. This is what the new Dutch draft model bilateral investment treaty (BIT) heralds. If other countries adopt the Netherlands’ approach, then international arbitration tribunals hearing claims that investors bring against foreign governments may also scrutinize the investors’ CSR track record.
CSR obligations are most relevant to the compensation a tribunal can award the investor.… More
New FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy Incentivizes Corporate Voluntary Self-Disclosure and Cooperation
Under the new FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy recently released by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), when a company has voluntarily self-disclosed misconduct, fully cooperated in the government’s ensuing investigation, and appropriately remediated the situation and made restitution or otherwise disgorged all illicit profits, there is a now an express presumption – absent certain identified aggravating factors – that DOJ will affirmatively decline to prosecute the company.
This new Policy is an evolutionary step forward in enforcement – not a radical change.… More
Forced Labor and North Korean Workers: New Concerns for Importers
In Washington, D.C., the news this week focused on President Trump’s decision to designate (or redesignate) North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. For companies importing goods into the United States, developments this past August are likely to have more immediate impact.
On August 2, the United States enacted amendments to the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016. The amendments create a presumption that goods made by North Korean citizens or nationals,… More
D.C. District Court Determines that Dakota Access Environmental Assessment was Inadequate
On June 14, 2017, the District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision in Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Court found that the Army Corps of Engineers (“the Corps”) had not adequately considered several issues in its environmental assessment (“EA”) for the Dakota Access Pipeline, and that therefore the Corps’ decision-making was arbitrary and capricious.
The EA was undertaken pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”),… More
Foley Hoag Releases Summary Report on Good Practices for Oil Pipelines, as Commissioned by the Dakota Access Consortium of Lenders
On May 9, we released a public summary of our report “Good Practice for Managing the Social Impacts of Oil Pipelines in the United States.” A copy of the public summary of the report is available here.
The independent report was prepared by Amy Lehr, Cicely Parseghian, and Gare Smith.… More
The SEC and the Conflict Minerals Rule: What You Need to Know about the Latest Developments
It is clear that Michael Piwowar, Acting Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) is not a fan of the conflict minerals rule. Earlier this month, the Acting Chairman and the Division of Corporation Finance released two statements regarding rule, both of which clearly state that the regulation will not be an enforcement priority.
By way of background, the statements were published after long-running litigation regarding the conflict minerals rule finally reached a formal conclusion.… More
The Fall of Section 1504: Congress Votes to Repeal the Revenue Transparency Rule
Congress passed a joint resolution this week expressing its disapproval of the revenue transparency rule issued last June by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The rule, issued pursuant to Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, required extractive sector companies (oil, gas, and mining) to disclose the payments that they make to governments for the commercial development of oil, gas, or minerals.
President Trump is expected to sign the joint resolution,… More
U.S. Government to Release Its National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct
On Friday, December 16, the Government of the United States will release its long-awaited National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct.
A livestream of the launch event, which will be held at 11 a.m. ET, can be accessed here.
First announced by President Obama in September 2014, the plan is expected to focus on ways in which the U.S.… More
Five on Friday – Five Recent Developments that We’ve Been Watching Closely (Special Post-Election Edition)
It’s Friday and time for an overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we’ve been monitoring. This week’s post is focused entirely on responses to the recent election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States.
This week’s post includes: the potential for changes to legislation and regulation related to the human rights impacts of business activity; private sector support for continued U.S.… More
Corporate Social Responsibility and Compliance: Practical Approaches to Integration
This is the final post in a series of posts reflecting excerpts from a chapter that I authored on corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) for the Corporate Legal Compliance Handbook.
In order to integrate concrete CSR commitments into corporate compliance programs, a company must establish how each commitment translates into performance requirements for the relevant business units and departments. The nature of these requirements may differ considerably depending on a company’s industry and operating context,… More
Five on Friday – Five Recent Developments that We’ve Been Watching Closely
It’s Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we’ve been monitoring.
This week’s post includes: the first annual report from the U.K. Anti-Slavery Commissioner; a new benchmarking report from Know the Chain focused on food and beverage companies; and the results of a survey on corporate human rights due diligence efforts.
On October 12,…
This week’s post includes: the GAO’s latest report on the conflict minerals rule; a civil society report on the SEC’s efforts to modernize financial disclosure requirements; and an independent impact assessment of the Better Work Programme.
At the end of August, the U.S.…
Corporate Social Responsibility and Compliance: Commitment at the Top
This is the fifth in a series of posts reflecting excerpts from a chapter that I authored on corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) for the Corporate Legal Compliance Handbook.
Integrating CSR into the framework of a company’s overall compliance program may help engage executive-level managers and the board of directors as allies in ensuring that CSR commitments are supported through the allocation of sufficient resources and management attention.… More
This week’s post includes: an announcement by the International Criminal Court regarding the potential for the prosecution of crimes based on environmental harm and land grabs; the lifting of sanctions on Burma and the end of the Burma Reporting Requirements on Responsible Investment; and new attention to the operational and reputational risks associated with global shipping.… More
This week’s post includes: litigation developments in cases that address the “Social Cost of Carbon,” the liability of interactive media service providers, and human trafficking in corporate supply chains; and a new global ranking of countries according to the relative risk of human trafficking and forced labor.… More
Using Information on Human Rights Impacts to Drive Social Performance
New legislative requirements and stakeholder concerns have driven many companies to implement systems to identify address the potential human rights impacts of their operations. Companies increasingly realize the responsible management of human rights impacts helps mitigate legal, operational, and reputational risks.
That said, as companies begin to assess human rights impacts, they need to avoid the trap of treating these assessments as box-checking exercises. A large volume of information can be gathered through human rights due diligence,… More
Five Key Points about the New European Union Conflict Minerals Agreement
On June 15, the European Union announced that it had reached a “political understanding” on many of the substantive components of a new conflict minerals regulation. The regulation, once drafted, will be submitted to the European Parliament and Council for adoption. The final regulation will be applicable to all E.U. member states.
The European Union has been engaged in a multi-year process of negotiation and deliberation regarding the sourcing of conflict minerals.… More
This week’s post includes: new private and public initiatives on recruitment fees, including a proposal to further amend the U.S. Government’s Federal Acquisition Regulation to provide a clear definition of such fees; the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse;… More
This week’s post includes: Apple’s refusal to comply with a federal court order; a new report highlighting the most pressing business and human rights challenges facing companies today; and an evaluation of corporate compliance with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act.
Apple made headlines this week when it announced that it would not comply with a federal court order requiring the company to assist the FBI in unlocking the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters.…
Compliance Challenge: The Links Between Corruption and Human Trafficking
Companies are increasingly being required to disclose how they assess and respond to the risks of human trafficking in their product supply chains. Statutes like the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and the U.K. Modern Slavery Act require such disclosures. In addition, certain U.S. federal contractors are now required to develop detailed compliance plans to address the risks of trafficking associated with the good and services they provide to the U.S.… More
This week’s post includes: recent developments with regard to a major Alien Tort Statute case; the announcement of a pilot effort to benchmark corporate human rights performance; and a major new report demonstrating the potential links between anti-corruption compliance programs and effort to eradicate labor trafficking in corporate supply chains.… More
SEC Extractive Industry Transparency Requirements Move Forward
On December 11, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a new proposed rule to implement a key provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that targets corruption and increases transparency requirements for payments made to foreign governments by the oil, gas, and mining industries.
The SEC voted to re-propose rule 13q-1 and proposed an amended form SD to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.… More
It’s Friday and time for our latest overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we’ve been monitoring.
This week’s post includes notice of several new lawsuits regarding human rights concerns in corporate supply chains as well as coverage of the European Court of Justice’s recent decision to strike down the 15-year old “Safe Harbor” agreement allowing companies to self-certify that their data transfers between the United States and Europe are in compliance with E.U.… More
The European Court of Justice Invalidates Safe Harbor
This post, written by Colin Zick, Catherine Muyl, and Alice Berendes, was originally published as a client alert on the firm’s Security, Privacy, and the Law blog.
The European Court of Justice has issued a decision (ECJ 6 October 2015 Case C-362/14, Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner) that invalidates the so-called US-EU “Safe Harbor” system.… More
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another rundown of five developments in the field of business and human rights — and broader corporate social responsibility — that we’ve been monitoring.
This week’s post includes a number of recent reports on issues ranging from conflict minerals to children’s rights. It also notes the release of the Sustainable Development Goals and the convening of Climate Week NYC.… More
D.C. Circuit Court Re-Affirms Decision that Portions of SEC’s Conflict Minerals Rule are Unconstitutional
This post, written by Dean Hanley, Paul Bork, and Anderson Chang, was originally published as a client alert by the firm’s Corporate Finance & Securities practice.
On August 18, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in likely the first majority opinion citing Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities) and George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four),… More
H.R. 3226: New Bill Calls for Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery in Corporate Supply Chains
In late July, Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced H.R. 3226, the Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act of 2015. The bill, if passed, would require companies to file annual reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) disclosing their efforts to identify and address specific human rights risks in their supply chains. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is expected to introduce a companion bill in the Senate.… More
Opportunity and Uncertainty for Entities Wishing to Do Business with Iran
The following is a client alert previously published here. Questions should be directed to Gwendolyn Jaramillo or Shrutih Tewarie.
Nuclear Deal with Iran Holds Out Possibility of Phased Relaxation of Sanctions
On July 14, 2015, the United States and five other countries (collectively known as the P5+1) reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran under which Iran will limit its nuclear activities in exchange for a gradual lifting of international economic sanctions.… More
Conflict Minerals: European Parliament Endorses New Compliance Requirements
It has been nearly a month since the deadline for companies in the United States to file their second annual conflict minerals reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As companies and their stakeholders assess the strength of their compliance efforts and public disclosures, many are also watching developments in Europe with regard to due diligence on conflict minerals.
In late May, the European Parliament endorsed a regulation that would require companies to perform due diligence with regard to the tin,… More
New Executive Order on Federal Sustainability Promotes Responsible Government Procurement Policies
In March, President Obama issued Executive Order 13693, “Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade.” It replaces and updates a number of Executive Orders and Memorandums, most notably replacing Executive Order 3514, “Federal Leadership In Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance,” issued by President Obama in 2009.
The new Order provides federal agencies with a series of targets and deadlines through 2025,… More
Alien Tort Case Development: Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Claims Against Occidental Petroleum
In mid-December, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of claims filed pursuant to the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) against Occidental Petroleum. Plaintiffs in the case argued that Occidental should be held liable for the deaths of three union leaders in Colombia who were killed by the Colombian National Army’s 18th Brigade in 2004. The court affirmed the lower court’s finding that the case raised non-justiciable political questions.… More
Flying High: The Human Rights Implications of Investing In Drones
Civilian application of drone technology has increased dramatically in recent years. The burgeoning civilian opportunities are a potential boon for investors, who view this emerging market as one that will expand long into the future, notwithstanding current and pending regulation of the industry. VCs are eager to get in on a piece of the action.
Notably, drones have historically been used primarily by the military,… More
Canada Announces Revised Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy for the Extractive Sector
In November, the Government of Canada announced a revised Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) strategy for the extractive sector. Building on Canada’s plan for Responsible Resource Development, the strategy (“Doing Business the Canadian Way: Advancing Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada’s Extractive Sector Abroad“) focuses on the activities of extractive sector companies, but is intended to provide “a more general audience with an overview of Canada’s approach to promoting and advancing CSR abroad.”… More
International Migrants Day and Operating with Respect for the Rights of Migrant Workers
December 18 is International Migrants Day. Companies in a wide variety of industry sectors must address the human rights-related risks specific to employing migrant workers. These workers are especially vulnerable to human rights abuses, including poor working conditions, discriminatory treatment, physical abuse, and forced labor.
Current guidance for companies seeking to understand and address risks to migrant workers includes the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity.… More
Coming Soon: New Requirements for Federal Contractors Regarding Human Trafficking
In the coming weeks, the U.S. federal government is expected to release amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) that are intended to strengthen existing prohibitions against human trafficking by federal contractors.
The draft FAR amendments were first released in September 2013. The final amendments, once released, will impact all federal contracts, with heightened requirements for contracts performed outside the United States that exceed $500,000 in value.… More
President Obama Issues New Executive Order on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces
On July 31, President Obama issued an Executive Order requiring federal contractors to disclose past labor violations. The order applies to new contracts for goods and services, including construction, valued at more than $500,000.
Contractors subject to the new order must disclose any “administrative merits determination, arbitral award or decision, or civil judgment, as defined in guidance issued by the Department of Labor”… More
Protecting the Rights of LGBT Employees in the United States and Abroad
On July 21, President Obama issued an Executive Order prohibiting federal government contractors from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (“LGBT”) employees. The President directed the U.S. Department of Labor to propose implementing regulations within 90 days.
The order amends Executive Order 11246, originally issued by President Johnson, which prohibits federal contractors from discriminating “against any employee or applicant for employment because of race,… More
Alien Tort Case Developments: Fourth and Eleventh Circuits Apply Kiobel’s “Touch and Concern” Standard
In the last month, two federal appellate courts have issued decisions in cases filed against U.S.-based corporations pursuant to the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”). Both courts applied the “touch and concern” standard established by the Supreme Court in its 2013 decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum with one court finding that jurisdiction was proper and the other court finding that “there is no jurisdiction” because all relevant conduct took place outside the United States.… More
U.S. Labor Law and Child Labor in Corporate Supply Chains
Human Rights Watch‘s recent report, Tobacco’s Hidden Children – Hazardous Child Labor in United States Tobacco Farming, seeks to draw attention to the presence of child labor on American tobacco farms and to the significant health and safety risks faced by young workers, including widespread acute nicotine poisoning. More generally, the report highlights key challenges for those concerned about human rights and corporate supply chains.… More
D.C. Circuit Largely Upholds SEC’s Conflict Minerals Rule But Supports First Amendment Challenge
On April 14, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in National Association of Manufacturers v. SEC, a case that sought to challenge the conflict minerals rule released by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in August 2012.
The Court largely rejected the plaintiffs’ challenges, holding that the SEC did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in adopting the due diligence and disclosure requirements of the rule and in deciding not to include a de minimis exception.… More
Foley Hoag Authors Good Practice Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
The U.N. Global Compact recently released a Good Practice Note on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and the Role of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (“FPIC”) authored by Amy Lehr, an associate in Foley Hoag’s Corporate Social Responsibility practice. The Note complements the U.N. Global Compact’s release of a longer Business Reference Guide to the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. … More
After the Super Bowl: Human Trafficking Occurs More Than Once a Year
Over the past week, significant attention has been paid to the risks of sex trafficking associated with the Super Bowl. Law enforcement resources were dedicated to identifying traffickers and ensuring that services are available for victims, and companies in both the airline and hotel industries took action to ensure that their facilities were not used to facilitate trafficking activities.
All of these actions are laudable,… More
“Hardening” Soft Law and Human Rights Expectations for Financial Institutions
Earlier this month, a group of global banks known as the Thun Group released a discussion paper exploring the ways in which financial institutions might seek to integrate the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights into their core business activities.
Current members of the Thun Group include Barclays, BBVA, Credit Suisse AG, ING Bank N.V., RBS Group,… More
U.S. District Court Upholds the Conflict Minerals Rule
On July 23, the District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a challenge to the conflict minerals rule adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in August 2012 and published in September 2012. Plaintiffs seeking a review of the rule included the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Business Roundtable.
Plaintiffs had challenged the rule under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”),… More
Mandatory Payment Disclosure: Bloodied but Unbowed
On July 2, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated the rule implementing Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and remanded it to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for further consideration. Section 1504 requires Securities and Exchange Commission issuers involved in the extraction of oil, gas, and minerals to report on their payments to foreign governments and the U.S.… More
What Might Liability under the ATS Look Like Post-Kiobel?: The Example of Private Contractors
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum a number of questions remain as to whether corporations may be held liable under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) for serious violations of human rights. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision authored by Chief Justice Roberts, held that the presumption against extraterritorial application of federal statutes applies to the ATS,… More
ICMM Releases Position Statement on Indigenous Peoples Establishing Commitment to FPIC
The International Council of Mining & Metals (“ICMM”) recently released a position statement on indigenous peoples and mining that explicitly requires its 22 member companies to work to obtain the free, prior, and informed consent (“FPIC”) of indigenous communities for new projects (and changes to existing projects).
Specifically, ICMM member companies commit to:
Work to obtain the consent of indigenous communities for new projects (and changes to existing projects) that are located on lands traditionally owned by or under customary use of Indigenous Peoples and are likely to have significant adverse impacts on Indigenous Peoples[.]
The position statement replaces an earlier statement,… More
The European Union Lifts Sanctions on Burma
On April 22, the European Union lifted all sanctions on Burma except an arms embargo. The sanctions had already been eased in April 2012, which left open the option of easily putting them back into place. The European Union’s move to lift them altogether sends a strong signal of support for the reform-oriented government in Burma.
The European Union made this decision at a controversial time,… More
New Charter Outlines Concrete Steps to Implement the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Contractors
The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers’ Association recently published its Charter. This marks a critical step in the establishment of oversight and governance processes to operationalize the commitments outlined in the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers (“ICoC”).
The ICoC is a multistakeholder initiative the aim of which is to establish principles and standards for the private security industry based on international human rights and humanitarian law.… More
The Transparency Agenda: Section 1504 and Beyond
A number of significant briefs were filed recently with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in support of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires oil, gas, and mining issuers to report on their payments to governments.
On January 16, Oxfam filed an intervenor brief in the case that the American Petroleum Institute (“API”) and others have brought against the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to block its final rule. … More
Due Diligence on Human Rights? Consider Consulting Your FPCA Counsel.
Human rights due diligence requires many of the hallmarks of existing corporate compliance programs: clear policies; assessments of risk; and the integration of strong standards into corporate management systems. This provides companies with the opportunity to leverage the capacity of a variety of existing internal compliance programs in an effort to integrate consideration of human rights-related risks and impacts into the management of their operations.… More
Looking Ahead: Five Developments We’ll be Watching in 2013
As memories of New Year’s Eve fade, and another Inauguration Day winds down in Washington, D.C., it’s time to look ahead and identify key events and emerging trends that we think will help shape the business and human rights agenda in 2013.
Here are five developments that we’ll be watching closely:
Further integration of human rights considerations into business management systems. Eighteen months after the release of the U.N.… More
SEC Files Brief in Lawsuit Challenging Extractive Industry Transparency Rule
On January 2, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed its brief (.pdf) in the lawsuit brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute (“API”), the National Foreign Trade Council, and the International Petroleum Association of America that seeks to alter or overturn the SEC’s final extractive industry transparency rule.
The petitioners’ lawsuit made several key arguments,… More
Brazil’s Belo Monte Move: Will National Development Banks Start Taking Human Rights and Environmental Concerns More Seriously?
In late November, the Brazilian national development bank (“BNDES”, by its Portuguese initials) announced its approval of a $10.8 billion loan to finance the construction of the Belo Monte dam, the world’s third largest hydroelectric dam. Approximately $1.5 billion, representing 11.2% of the loan, was earmarked for social and environmental programs — the largest amount ever set aside by BNDES for such purposes.… More
Corporate Responsibility for Human Trafficking & Five Steps that Your Company Can Take Right Now
In a landmark speech to the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2012, President Barack Obama declared that the “fight against human trafficking is one of the great human rights causes of our time” and that “our global economy companies have a responsibility to make sure that their supply chains, stretching into the far corners of the globe, are free of forced labor.”
The President’s speech is reflective of the fact that human trafficking and forced labor have become key priorities for those seeking to hold companies accountable for the human rights impacts of their operations.… More
Social Risk Assessment: China Raises Its Game
Until recently, it was not uncommon for Chinese companies to be invoked as bogeymen in certain circles. The narrative went something like this:
Western companies are more accountable than Chinese companies – via tort suits, civil society pressure, government regulation, and non-judicial accountability mechanisms such as the OECD Guidelines, to name a few. Although Western companies’ operations do create negative social, environmental and human rights impacts,… More
Human Rights Due Diligence – An Emerging Requirement in State and Federal Legislation
Two years ago, in October 2010, I published a post, Human Rights Due Diligence and the Corporate Lawyer, that addressed the need for corporate counsel to assess stakeholder expectations that companies should be accountable for identifying, and taking action to mitigate, the adverse human rights impacts of their operations. At the time, the expectation that companies should conduct human right due diligence had been put forward as a fundamental component of the “Protect,… More
The New Foreign Direct Investment Law in Burma (Myanmar): The Tiger Sniffs
Burma’s Hluttaw, or Parliament, passed a new Foreign Direct Investment Law on September 7. Few details on the legislation are yet available, and we have seen only partial translations, although the final version reportedly is preferable to its draft predecessor. President Thein Sein has not yet signed it into law.
From the information available thus far, it is clear, however, that the law is a significant improvement on the version that the lower Hluttaw passed earlier this summer,… More
Newly Released Draft Equator Principles Reflect Greater Focus on Human Rights
The proposed draft of the revised Equator Principles, released on August 13, reflects a greater focus on human rights, with explicit mention of the expectation of human rights due diligence as set forth in the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The revised Principles also cover a wider range of project financing structures in recognition of the fact that the project finance market has diversified significantly since the Principles were first released in 2003.… More
Responsible Investment in Burma (Myanmar): An Experiment that Cannot Afford to Fail
Amy Lehr, the author of this post, will be presenting during a webinar on “Responsible Business in Myanmar: Operating Context, Sanctions, and International CSR Standards,” this Thursday, August 16, at 11:00 a.m. She will be joined by John Ruggie and Gare Smith. Information on registration can be found here.
The U.S. decision to ease financial and investment sanctions on Burma for the first time since 1997 is a landmark – and controversial – moment.… More
Leverage and the Management of Adverse Human Rights Impacts
One of the challenges for companies seeking to manage the adverse human rights impacts of their operations is how to deal with impacts that are most directly tied to business partners, suppliers, and even governments. Companies have varying degrees of control over the actions of third parties, and yet the activities of third parties have the potential to expose companies to a range of reputational – and legal – risks.… More
Floating the Kyat: A First Step in Fighting Corruption in Burma (Myanmar)
On April 2, one day after its Parliamentary by-elections, Burma (Myanmar) floated its currency, the kyat. This is an important first step in normalizing the country’s investment climate and curbing corruption. For years, the official kyat exchange rate has been more than 100 times lower than the black market rate, which has led to endless headaches for organizations operating in Burma, as well as for Burmese citizens.… More
Afghanistan’s Ban on Private Security Companies: What are the Risks for Private Investors?
The month of March marked a key deadline in the compulsory — but gradual — transition from the use of private to public security forces in Afghanistan. This transition was initiated in August 2010 when President Hamid Karzai issued Presidential Decree 62 in response to a number of criticisms regarding the presence, role and activities of private security companies ("PSCs") in Afghanistan. With a few exceptions,… More
Obama Administration Announces Intent to Join EITI
On September 20, the Obama Administration announced its intent to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ("EITI"). Government members of the EITI are required to disclose the payments that oil, gas, and mining companies make to them, and companies operating in those countries publish their payments to the governments. The two can then be reconciled for greater transparency and certainty regarding payments to governments.
A working group in each EITI member country –… More
Greenpeace Critiques Apparel Sector Companies for Failing to Manage Water Contamination by Suppliers
Some of the world’s most well-known apparel companies have come under criticism from Greenpeace for not sufficiently monitoring and limiting industrial wastewater discharges by suppliers. In a new report called "Dirty Laundry", Greenpeace highlights the wastewater discharges from two major manufacturers in China that supply products to a range of major brands — including Adidas, Bauer Hockey, Calvin Klein, Converse, Lacoste, Nike, Phillips-Van Heusen and Puma. … More
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Veteran Filipino actor and director Eddie Garcia who appeared in more than 600 film and TV roles dies aged 90 after fall on set left him in a coma
Eddie Garcia, widely considered Philippines' greatest actor, has died aged 90
He died Thursday afternoon after slipping into a coma following a fall on set
He appeared in more than 600 film and TV roles during his seven-decade career
Garcia is the most-nominated and most-awarded actor in Filipino history
By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline
Eddie Garcia died aged 90 Thursday, two weeks after a fall on the set of his latest TV show left him in a coma
Eddie Garcia, who was widely considered to be the greatest Filipino actor of all time, has died at the age of 90.
Garcia, who starred in more than 600 film and TV roles during a seven-decade career, had been in a coma for two weeks after a fall on the set of his new TV show.
His condition worsened yesterday with 'little sign of brain activity' and he passed away on Thursday at 4.55pm local time, his family and agent confirmed.
Born Eduardo Verchez Garcia on May 2, 1929, Garcia worked as a Philippine Scout in the US Army for three years and was stationed in Okinawa in the aftermath of the Second World War.
He landed his first film role in 1949 with Siete Infantes de Lara, and rarely stopped working since then.
He went on to become the most-nominated and most-awarded actor at the FAMAS Awards - the Filipino equivalent of the Oscars - with 20 wins under his belt.
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Among his accolades were five Best Actor awards, five Best Directors, seven Best Supporting Actors and a lifetime achievement award.
He is the only actor to have been inducted into the FAMAS Hall Of Fame in three different categories - Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director.
Garcia is viewed as the greatest Filipino actor of all time, having scooped more nominations and awards at FAMAS - the Philippines equivalent of the Oscars - than any other actor
While he remained largely unknown in the West, his best-known roles among Asian audiences include in the 1971 film Tubog sa Ginto, 1996's Bakit May Kahapon Pa?, 2000 film Deathrow, and 2012 film Bwakaw.
In 1961 he made his directorial debut with Karugtong ng Kahapon, and went on to head up Magdusa Ka in 1986, Imortal in 1989 and Abakada… Ina in 2002.
Garcia was one of the hardest-working actors in the Philippine film industry right up until his death, telling CNN in April this year: 'Retirement? Not in my vocabulary.'
He was working on his latest project, a TV show called Rosang Agimat, when he tripped and fell on June 8.
He was rushed to hospital with his family initially saying he had suffered a heart attack, though this was later revised to a broken neck.
At 90, Eddie Garcia was still the most hardworking actor in the business
Veteran Filipino actor and director Eddie Garcia dies aged 90
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Biden leads Trump by 7 percentage points in hypothetical 2020 matchup, poll finds
Eighty percent say Mueller's report should be made public, and 52 percent say Trump tried to interfere in the investigation.
Biden leads Trump by 7 percentage points in hypothetical 2020 matchup, poll finds Eighty percent say Mueller's report should be made public, and 52 percent say Trump tried to interfere in the investigation. Check out this story on dailyrecord.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/03/24/joe-biden-leads-donald-trump-2020-election-matchup-poll-finds/3261265002/
In this March 13, 2019, photo, billionaire investor and Democratic activist Tom Steyer speaks during a "Need to Impeach" town hall event in Agawam, Mass. Steyer announced July 9, 2019, that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president after previously saying he would not join the race. Steven Senne, AP
Former Congressman Joe Sestak, center, said on June 22, 2019, he will seek the Democratic nomination for president. He is pictured here with his wife, Susan Sestak, left, and daughter Alex Sestak after speaking to supporters at his campaign headquarters in Pennsylvania on April 26, 2016. Matt Slocum, AP
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on May 16, 2019, he will seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. De Blasio becomes the 23rd prospective Democratic challenger to President Donald Trump. "Donald Trump must be stopped. I am Bill de Blasio and I am running for president because it's time we put the working people first," he said in a video announcing his candidacy. Seen here, de Blasio speaks inside Trump Tower on May 12, 2019 about the Green New Deal demanding more energy-efficient buildings, including Trump Tower, in New York. DON EMMERT, AFP/Getty Images
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In this March 13, 2019, photo, billionaire investor and Democratic activist Tom Steyer speaks during a "Need to Impeach" town hall event in Agawam, Mass. Steyer announced July 9, 2019, that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president after previously saying he would not join the race.
William Cummings, USA TODAY Published 1:45 p.m. ET March 24, 2019 | Updated 4:05 p.m. ET March 24, 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden remains the front-runner among the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls – despite not officially entering the race – and he performs the best of those potential nominees in a hypothetical matchup with President Donald Trump, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday.
Asked whom they would like to see win the nomination from a list of 20 potential candidates, 31 percent of Democratic primary voters choose Biden. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., comes in second with 23 percent, followed by California Sen. Kamala Harris (8 percent), former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke (8 percent), Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (4 percent) and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (4 percent).
Two percent or fewer Democratic primary voters chose each of the other potential candidates. Eleven percent say they don't know whom they would vote for.
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Overall, 67 percent of Democratic primary voters say they would like Biden to enter the race, and 19 percent say they hope he stays out.
Biden performed the best of the potential Democratic nominees in a theoretical head-to-head matchup with Trump. If the election were held today, 47 percent of voters say they would vote for Biden, and 40 percent say they would vote for Trump.
Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn't entered the race, but he has a strong polling lead. (Photo: Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images)
The poll found Sanders winning a contest with Trump, although by a narrower 44 to 41 percent. The other two potential matchups against Trump that pollsters looked at were Warren and Harris. Harris trailed Trump 39-41, and Warren was behind 40-42.
Eyes on the prize: In poll, Democrats care more about victory than ideology in 2020 nominee
Beating Trump remains the top criteria for Democrats as they select their standard bearer to try to unseat the president. Thirty-six percent of Democratic primary voters say the candidate they like the most will be the one they support. Fifty-one percent say the more important question is who can defeat Trump.
"Democratic primary voters would welcome Biden into the field, should he run," says Democratic pollster Chris Anderson, who conducted the Fox News Poll with Republican Daron Shaw. "They prioritize beating Trump, and as of now, Biden fares best of the more widely known Democratic candidates against Trump."
The poll was conducted from March 17-20, before the news broke that special counsel Robert Mueller completed his investigation into Russian election meddling without any further indictments.
Fifty-two percent of respondents say they approve of Mueller's handling of the investigation, and 36 percent say they disapprove. Eighty percent say Mueller's report should be made public. Fifty-two percent say Trump tried to interfere in the investigation, and 36 percent say he did not. Forty-five percent say they trust Mueller to tell the truth more than Trump, and 29 percent say they trust Trump over Mueller.
The poll found Trump's approval rating unchanged from 46 percent in February.
The Fox News poll was conducted from a random sample of 1,002 registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Ping Pong is the Most Played Sport in the World!
Just recently Ping Pong was noted as being the most tournament participant sport in the world with over 40,000,000 players! It’s such an incredible game and is so much fun!! It can also be crazy fast. Did you know that a ping pong ball can travel up to 100 miles per hour? It’s been said that a ping pong ball can rotate 130 times per second, that’s close to 8,000 rpm!! No wonder the professionals have to play so far from the actual ping pong table itself!
One of the fastest growing segments of the population that are avid about the game of ping pong are teenagers, they just can’t seem to get enough! High school clubs are popping up everywhere and some kids are qualifying for college scholarships too! The average wage of a professional ping pong player is now up around $100,000/year!
As a reflection of the sport’s growth it has been highlighted in commercials, social media and various other forms of pop culture! Another fun trend that has taken people by surprise are ping pong centered night clubs and bars…..what would be more fun than to go out and play a friendly game of ping pong with your friends or coworkers?
Ping pong is a game for everyone!!
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House Passes Medical Innovation Bill That Would Revise HIPAA
By Conor Duffy on July 27, 2015 Posted in HIPAA and Health Information
On July 10, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Cures Act (the Act), a bill intended to support advancements in medical innovation. The Act includes measures aimed at spurring medical research, reducing the regulatory burden on medical device development, improving health information interoperability, and expanding telehealth coverage.
In order to facilitate collaborative research, the Act proposes revisions to HIPAA regarding the ways in which protected health information (PHI) may be used or disclosed for research purposes. The Act directs HHS to “revise or clarify” HIPAA’s Privacy Rule to:
allow the use or disclosure of PHI by a covered entity for research purposes, including the pursuit of generalizable knowledge, to constitute a use or disclosure of PHI for health care operations purposes;
remove a current limitation on payment for disclosures of PHI for research purposes;
add the sharing of PHI with entities subject to FDA oversight for research activities as a permitted disclosure of PHI for which a patient authorization is not required;
permit researchers to remotely access PHI; and
enable researchers to obtain one-time authorizations for uses and disclosures of PHI for future research purposes.
The Act’s HIPAA provisions have generated controversy among health privacy experts. Although some commenters have praised the relaxed requirements for sharing PHI for research purposes, others have expressed concerns that the Act goes too far to reduce individuals’ abilities to consent to the use or disclosure of their PHI, and that the Act seeks to eliminate a perceived barrier to medical research posed by HIPAA that does not actually exist. It remains to be seen how the U.S. Senate will address these concerns as it reviews and drafts its own version of the Act, which is not expected to pass until early 2016.
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Shaq Says He Wouldn't Draft Zion Willamson
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Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich on Kawhi Leonard's Departure: 'It’s Time to Move On'
ByJose Martinez
Jose is a contributing writer for Complex Media. @ZayMarty
Kawhi Leonard finally got his wish—he is no longer a member of the San Antonio Spurs. Early Wednesday morning, the Spurs and Raptors came to terms on a deal that sent Leonard and Danny Green to Toronto in exchange for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl, and a protected 2019 first-round pick. Even though Kawhi has made it clear for quite some time that he didn’t have any intention of ever suiting up in a Spurs jersey ever again, the moment is still bittersweet for a franchise that finally got to rid themselves of their disgruntled superstar despite the fact that he’s a bona fide top 10 all-around player when healthy.
Later in the day, Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich spoke with reporters and reflected on Leonard’s time with the organization while keeping an eye on the future. "Kawhi obviously worked very hard to become the player he is and our staff worked very hard to help him get there and we wish him all the best as he moves on to Toronto," Popovich said. "I think he’s gonna be great."
Gregg Popovich addresses the Kawhi Leonard trade “Kawhi has worked very hard to become the player that he is.” Pop added that he’s very thrilled with acquiring Demar and team will miss Danny Green #GoSpursGo @Noticias60 pic.twitter.com/s3NY13Aujl
— Luis Ortiz (@OrtizSportsTV) July 18, 2018
Whether or not he intended to do it, Popovich was kind of more complimentary towards Green, applauding the way he handled himself on and off the court, as well as repeatedly saying how much he will be missed. "Danny Green will be missed. He’s been here quite a while and was a big part of what we do on and off the court,” he said. “He was a great community guy, and we are going to miss him very much." If we were to read too much into Pop’s remarks in the moment, we would immediately point out that he used some pretty boilerplate responses in regards to Kawhi’s departure before striking a more personal tone when speaking about Green.
Towards the end of their time together in San Antonio, Leonard and Popovich’s relationship became so strained that everyone sort of knew that their one-on-one meeting in the summer wasn’t going to fix something that was well beyond repair. Still, Pop was determined to remain cordial when speaking about his tenure with the team. With that chapter over, Pop wants to focus on the new players acquired from Toronto. "Kawhi conducted himself wonderfully while he was here. He helped us win a fifth championship and was a hard worker all the time. We wish him well, but at this point, it’s time to move on," Pop said. "I'm concerned about Jacob and DeMar and our basketball team and putting that together."
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Boeing has won a $23.4 million contract to provide logistics support to Poseidon P-8A aircraft belonging to the United Kingdom (UK).
Contractor logistics support includes initial acceptance and breakdown of four aircraft and provision of training with an eight-month detachment to the UK to establish initial operational capability as well as subsequent full operational capability, scheduled aircraft maintenance, support equipment maintenance, engineering reach back and technical assistance, the US Department of Defense said in a statement Thursday.
The Boeing P-8A aircraft is designed for long-range anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare and ISR missions. It is capable of broad-area maritime and littoral operations.
Work is expected to be completed by December 2020.
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Casting call invites Derbyshire people to be part of a new artwork for the Museum of Making
Posted in Museum News Silk Mill News Upcoming events on 21 February 2019
A casting call, inviting local people to be part of a new artwork by international artist Red Saunders, has been issued this week from Derby Museums for the new Museum of Making.
Choosing Derby as the location for his latest Hidden Project, photographer Red Saunders will be casting hundreds of people from across the region to be characters in three giant photographic tableaux, featuring historic scenes of innovation and disruption from Derbyshire’s past.
Hidden: Derby People Histories is being created for the new Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill, which will open its doors to the public in 2020. The project is being generously supported by funders of the Museum of Making and Rolls-Royce, and run in collaboration with Unite and FORMAT International Photography Festival.
Red Saunders, who has also created Hidden Project tableaux for Bradford and Manchester, commented:
“I love the excitement that history gives; the hidden stories of people’s histories in particular as they are just waiting to be discovered together. In my first visits to Derby Silk Mill, I became quickly immersed in the stories of the City’s industrial past and its people’s history. Derby also holds, for me, an immediate source of inspiration in the form of Enlightenment painter Joseph Wright, whose beautiful exploration of light and dark on canvas brings together my love of history as an artist who loves photography.”
A founder member of the Rock Against Racism movement in the 1970s, Red Saunders is a professional photographer who combines his photographic practice with cultural, artistic, musical, and political activism. Through re-imagining and reproducing important historic scenes featuring the revolutionaries and radicals so often hidden from history, Red aims to shine photographic light on great moments in the long struggle of working people for democracy and social justice.
In Derby, three historic and globally significant moments for the region will be recreated on camera; working closely with local people cast as actors to tell the hidden stories of the Enlightenment, the first Factory Lock-Out of 1833-34, and the advancement of technology from 1880 onwards.
Gill Fennell, Community Investment Manager at Rolls-Royce commented:
“This is an incredible opportunity to take part in the creation of three truly unique works of art that will show how local people have been – and still are – the pioneers that made Derby. It’s so important to tell this story at the Museum of Making, which is all about inspiring people to be curious and innovative, and helping them develop skills to secure our City’s future at the forefront of technology and engineering.”
In a casting call issued last week, Derby Museums are inviting people of all backgrounds and abilities, who live and work in Derbyshire, to get involved in this once-in-a-lifetime project and to register for the casting sessions, which will take place in Derby and Allenton on 30th and 31st March.
Red Saunders will also be sharing his experiences and expertise in a Q&A session at Derby QUAD on 22nd March, and again on 23rd March with a Masterclass at the University of Derby.
Find out more about Red Saunders and The Hidden Project here.
We’ll be holding two casting sessions for the Hidden Project in Derby on the following days:
Saturday 30 March, 10am-1pm and 2-5pm
Co-Production Hub at Derby Silk Mill near Cathedral Green
Sunday 31 March, 11am-2pm
St Martin’s Church and Community Centre, Allenton, Derby
To register for the casting event, you’ll need to be available during the production timeframe, when Red Saunders will be shooting the tableaux, for the week commencing 17th June. This will take place in central Derby (venue to be confirmed).
At these sessions, we’ll taking measurements and photographs of everyone who’s registered their interest in the project to help Red Saunders and the wardrobe team devise the Derby People Histories tableaux.
We welcome applications from people of all ages, ethnic groups, genders and abilities who are living and working in Derbyshire.
To receive more information about this project and to book a time slot at one of the casting sessions, please click here.
Other Red Saunders events…
Red Saunders will be appearing at two other events in Derby on 22nd and 23rd March:
Red Saunders In Conversation with Audience Q&A
Friday 22 March, 6-7.30pm
QUAD, Derby
Find out more hereA Masterclass with Red Saunders: An ABC of Hidden
Saturday 23 March, 12-3pm
University of Derby, School of Lens Media
Hidden: Derby People Histories is part of the Museum of Making project by Derby Museums. Supported by Rolls-Royce and funders of the Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill.
The Hidden Project Casting Call Out is supported by Unite TU and FORMAT19.
A former member of the 60’s underground theatre group CAST, Red Saunders made his name as a regular contributor for the ground-breaking Sunday Times colour supplement for over 20 years in addition to photographic commissions for Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire and Time Out.
As a founder member and activist with the Rock Against Racism campaign in the 70’s, Red’s ongoing engagement with politics and social change has resulted in The Hidden Project series which, through the involvement of local people, reproduces important historic scenes involving the dissenters, revolutionaries, radicals and non-conformists who have so often been written out of our history books.
Commissioned internationally, Red Saunders has created photographic tableaux including The Peterloo Massacre (Manchester 2019), Wyatt Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt 1381 (The Museum of London), The Signing of the Treaty of Utrecht 1731 for its 300th Year Commemoration (City Of Utrecht), and The Women Levellers of the Civil War 1646 as part of a major series of tableaux vivant (Impressions Gallery).
As an artist, Red’s work focusses on the staged or constructed school of photography using large format cameras and processes that lend themselves to a much slower, more considered composition. It is this practice that finds influence from the great traditions of classical painting, theatre and opera that are the palette from which he draws his photographic practice.
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Book review: 'The Runaway King' raises the stakes in a compelling sequel
By Emily Ellsworth
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Published: February 23, 2013 12:15 pm
"The Runaway King" by Jennifer A. Neilsen is the second book in the Ascendance Trilogy.
"THE RUNAWAY KING," by Jennifer Nielsen, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 352 pages (f) (ages 11 and up)
Following in the footsteps of Jennifer Nielsen’s first novel in her Ascendance series, “The Runaway King” has all the same qualities that made the first so compelling, and raises the stakes for an equally worthy second novel.
Of the many things that made “The False Prince” a favorite read, the one that stands out the most is the character Sage. A little arrogant and stupid, but still sympathetic, Jaron takes on the persona of Sage again to save his kingdom from the threats — both from neighboring countries and internal political maneuverings — that loom overhead even in the shadow of the death of his family, including the king, queen and crown prince.
It's on the night of his family's royal funeral that Jaron is attacked and he formulates a plan to leave the castle and make an unlikely alliance with the marauding pirates who were originally thought to have killed him in the first book.
Through Nielsen’s masterful storytelling and not letting the reader immediately understand Jaron’s motivations, this new adventure that Jaron embarks on seems impossible, and his actions are sometimes morally questionable.
Like many anti-heroes before him, one of his greatest flaws is his inability to recognize how deeply those around him care for him. It is obvious throughout the novel that Jaron is not able to do things all on his own. Because of his stubborn nature, many characters are forced to assist him in tricky and clever ways.
“The Runaway King” is the type of novel that will excite reluctant readers to pick up a flashlight and read under the covers late into the night. Jaron’s voice will captivate, and his close calls are thrilling. Though Jaron can seem morally ambiguous at times, his potential as a great leader shines through the pages. His confidence and willingness to dive headfirst into the unknown are the qualities that were absent from the previous monarch, the effects of which become apparent very early in the novel.
Make no mistake about it, whether you love or hate Jaron, “The Runaway King” will leave you with plenty of questions, and a need for the final book. There is plenty of fighting, including with swords, and stealing throughout "The Runaway King," but none of it is graphically described.
This novel would be ideal for early young adult readers or late middle grade readers.
If you go ...
What: Jennifer Nielsen book signing
When: Saturday, March 2, 6 p.m.
Where: The King's English, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City
Web: kingsenglish.com, www.jennielsen.com
Emily Ellsworth is a blogger at Emily's Reading Room, at emilysreadingroom.com and is a blog dedicated to promoting a love of young adult fiction.
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Remembering Dr. Joyce Brothers: Her Best Advice Quotes Ever
By Lauren Levinson
After learning last night that psychologist, magazine columnist, and TV and radio regular Dr. Joyce Brothers passed away at 85 in her home in Fort Lee, New Jersey, we decided that the best way to remember her legacy was through her wise words of wisdom. According to The New York Times, Brothers was described as the "mother of mass-media psychology" for she helped women by offering advice on love, sex, relationships, work, money management, and more since the 1950s. The Brooklyn native earned her bachelor's degree from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University. Highlights of her career include penning a column for Good Housekeeping, hosting nationally syndicated TV series (such as The Dr. Joyce Brothers Show and Ask Dr. Brothers), and appearing as a guest on talk shows (including The Tonight Show and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour).
In her personal life, she was married to physician Milton Brothers in 1949 and they had a daughter together, Lisa Brothers Arbisser. Read her best quotes below.
"The best proof of love is trust."
"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."
"When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all."
"I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
"No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along."
"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…The hangover comes the day after."
"There is such a thing as bad publicity."
"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."
"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
Our thoughts are with Brothers's friends and family.
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Obama Administration Announces $500 Million for Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced a new $500 million state-level grant competition, the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that New Hampshire will receive $1.47 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. The funds are part of $546 million available to states for the School Improvement Grant program in fiscal year 2010.
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Porsche 911 996 GT3 RS
LHD - Rare factory front cage - VAT Qualifying
This Porsche 911 996 GT3 RS is no longer available. Please contact us for any further information you may require.
The reference ''RS'' will quicken the pulse of Porsche connoisseurs. Models such as the legendary Carrera RS 2.7 of 1972 and the 1991 964 911 RS were also sports cars that stood out on account of their extreme degree of manoeuvrability and handling. That tradition is continued with the 993 RS and then the 996 GT3 RS. In common with its predecessors, it provides a homologation model for use in a range of racing series.
Although the horsepower remained the same 375 bhp as per the GT3 model, the GT3 RS's overall performance increase was highly distinguishable. This owed thanks to the wider wheels and tyres combined with a revised suspension system, as well as a stringent diet that Porsche subject the RS too. Weight was extracted from a reduction in sound deadening, air conditioning, a composite bonnet, rear seats delete and a Perspex rear window instead of glass. To increase rear downforce and maximise the use of the wider rear wheels, the fixed rear wing grew to race car proportions.
The combination of these improvements allowed the GT3 RS to accelerate from 0 - 60 in a just 4.2 seconds with an ultimate top speed of 190 mph. It was available only in Carrara white with the option of red or blue livery with colour matched wheels, as to pay homage to the 2.7 RS.
This superb 996 GT3 RS was delivered to its first private owner in June 2004 in Norway, one of just two cars delivered to that country. Presented in the superb combination of Carrera White with Red RS Livery, it was equipped with the following options from new; Radio, air conditioning, fire extinguisher, steel disc brakes and the much sought after, removable front roll cage.
Recently imported into the United Kingdom by DK Engineering, it has been subjected to a no expense spared major service by marque specialists, Jaz Porsche. Presented with just over 35,000 miles from new and in superb condition, reflecting the fastidious nature in which this car has been cared for. This stunning GT3 RS comes accompanied by its original books, spare key and tools. Located in our showrooms just outside London and available to view immediately.
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Labrinth
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Listen to Labrinth's top songs like Let the Sunshine, Jealous, Beneath Your Beautiful on EDM Hunters. The list is updated daily to include all of Labrinth's latest songs. The songs on this are ordered by number of likes, plays and downloads. Like your favourite songs to make your vote count. What's your #1?
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Labrinth Bio
Timothy McKenzie (born 4 January 1989), better known by his stage name Labrinth, is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Initially, he was tipped to work as a producer, but Simon Cowell signed him to his record label Syco Music as a solo act. In the process, Labrinth became Cowell's first non-talent show signing in six years.
Labrinth made his debut appearance on the UK Singles Chart in March 2010, when his collaboration with rapper Tinie Tempah, "Pass Out", reached number one. McKenzie has collaborated with Tinie Tempah on numerous occasions since. Labrinth's first solo single, "Let the Sun Shine" was released in September 2010, reaching number three in the same chart. His debut album Electronic Earth, was released on 31 March 2012, having been preceded by the singles "Earthquake" featuring Tinie Tempah and "Last Time", which peaked at number two and number four respectively. He achieved his first number-one single in November 2012 with "Beneath Your Beautiful", featuring Emeli Sandé.
Listen to Labrinth's top and latest Hip-Hop / R&B, Pop / Rock, Drum & Bass songs, watch videos and discover DJs similar to Labrinth on EDM Hunters. Like your favourite songs to make your vote count. What's your #1?
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Breazeale: Once NFL Doors Closed, Boxing Was Only Thing I Had
May 18, 2019 admin 0 Comments Boxing, Breazeale, Closed, doors, NFL
By Jake Donovan
Dominic Breazeale was ranked 33rd amongst a lengthy field of quarterbacks hoping to have their name called during the 2008 NFL Draft. Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco were among the short list of 12 ultimately selected, both going in the first round.
The weekend session would end with Breazeale—a two-year starter for the University of Northern Colorado—remaining undrafted and ensuing weeks all but killing his dream of playing pro football. Then came a call from a visionary—the late, great Michael King whom wanted to place the California native on the path to a different pro career.
“The idea first came across in a phone call (from) Joe Onowar the recruiter at the time,” Breazeale (20-1, 18KOs) recalled of his being recruited for King’s now-defunct All-American Heavyweight camp shortly after graduating from college. “I completely thought he was crazy. There was no way in hell that I was going to pick up boxing at 23 years old.
“After I’d done football, basketball, track, baseball, hockey, wrestling – all that as a kid—never stepped foot into a boxing ring, then to pick it up as a sport at 23 years old when I was at the end of my (football) career. There was no way.”
There was a way, as it turned out. Breazeale—who closed out his college career with 2,468 passing yards and 10 touchdowns for a Bears team which managed just two wins in two season—realized the one open road at a time when the path towards his longtime dream was now a dead end, deciding to give it a try.
Fast forward 11 years later, and the veteran contender now has an Olympic tour behind him and—come May 18—a second crack at the heavyweight crown as he faces unbeaten titlist Deontay Wilder live on Showtime from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
“Honestly at the time I thought it was a real dumb idea but three months into it, I had my first amateur fight,” reflects Breazeale on the risk he took which ultimately changed his life in ways he never imagined. “Then I became a 2012 Olympian and now (more than) 10 years later now I’m fighting for the WBC World Title. I think Michael King was the smartest man on the planet.
“For me to be the one that came out the man on top is special, there were hundreds of athletes that came to the door. I feel like the idea of turning a Division I athlete into a professional boxer was crazy then… but now, I think it’s a great, phenomenal idea.”
Breazeale remained with the program until qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics. Shortly after the summer games came his pro debut in Nov. 2012, having since emerged as a mid-tier heavyweight contender. His lone career defeat came in his previous title bid, suffering a 7th round knockout at the hands of Anthony Joshua in June 2016.
Just three fights have followed, all knockout victories including an 8th round stoppage of Eric Molina in Nov. 2017 to earn a mandatory title shot versus Wilder (40-0-1, 39KOs). The streaking heavyweight—who is coming off of a 9th round knockout of Carlos Negron last December—is considered a massive longshot to unseat Wilder this weekend.
Still, the odds are much better than the chance anyone—himself included—ever gave him of even making it in the ring after having to step away from the gridiron.
Even if he didn’t always see it that way.
“I was actually pursuing the NFL. Things didn’t pan out the way I wanted them to,” Breazeale admits in looking back at the end of his senior year. “And it turned out that Michael King was still there when the NFL door closed so that’s why I began to venture into the boxing world.
“To tell you the truth, I actually started boxing to stay in shape for football camps but soon those doors closed and boxing was the only thing I had. And I’m grateful for it now. God put boxing into my life and it’s been a blessing in disguise.”
Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
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Alternative Medicine Ebooks
By Pauline Banes on Fri, 12 Jul 2019
The lost book of remedies is an enjoyable book to read, and at the same time, it provides the readers with informative content which is easily understandable and applicable. Claude Davis who is the author of the lost book of remedies has gained a lot of experience from his grandfather, and after learning about the medicinal plants, he gained passion in them and decided to share the importance of the remedies to save many lives and encourage a healthy lifestyle. All the remedies prescribed in the book are carefully selected, tested and proven to work 100% so you can trust the products. The author of the book guarantees the users of the remedies positive outcomes and in cases where the users feel not satisfied with the results they are free to ask for the refund. After purchasing the lost book, the user can get full access to support where you can ask any questions in a 24/7 platform. Read more...
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This book comes with the great features it has and offers you a totally simple steps explaining everything in detail with a very understandable language for all those who are interested.
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The Big Book of Home Remedies
The Big Book of Home Remedies was created and authored by Samuel Taylor and Sarah Collingwood. The two have put a lot of time and energy into researching and creating this eBook. The duo took some time to research about the Home remedies for certain types of illnesses and later put it down into this amazing eBook. Aside from all the tricks, tips and health remedies that leave you feeling fit and healthier, they are cheaper than the doctors' fees. The encyclopedia has over 2000 Homemade Natural Remedies for any type of the illness you have right now. Sammy and Sarah believe that every health condition comes with a natural solution. In this program, you will get: Home remedies for any type of health condition you might be battling right now or any other that may come in the future. You will as well get the Images to match your condition. You also get additional remedies to match and cure your certain conditions. The authors have also given you some over the counter remedies Read more...
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The use of alternative medicine therapies for cancer patients varies from 7 to 64 in published studies with an average prevalence of 31.4 Ernst, 1998 2103 .7 Interestingly, it appears that up to 72 of those patients using alternative therapies do not inform their doctors.1 Many patients hold high expectations for their alternative medicines. Most patients who utilize complementary therapy expect it to improve the quality of their life, over 70 expect it to boost their immune system and 62 believe that it will prolong *The term conventional medicine refers to medicine as practiced by holders of MD (medical doctor) or DO (doctor of osteopathy) degrees, some of whom may also practice complementary and alternative medicine. Other terms for conventional medicine are allopathy, Western, regular and mainstream medicine, and biomedicine (source http nccam.nih.gov). their life. As many as 37 of CAM users anticipate that the therapy will cure their disorder.4 Lazar and O'Connor reported several...
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The limits of scientific medicine leave room for alternative interpretations, explanations, and therapies, for example, alternative medicine like chiropractic, homeopathy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, and a multitude of herbs and natural folk remedies. Some people are reluctant to use governmen-tally approved and regulated remedies, regardless of testing, and prefer to use relatively untested and loosely regulated nutraceuticals (drugs marketed as foods). (See Chapter 5.) Some forms of alternative medicine have no theoretical foundation and no empirical support, and seem to be fraudulent attempts to exploit human suffering. However, the history of medicine includes a number of folk remedies that were discovered and subsequently absorbed by mainstream medicine, with or without scientific proof. Examples include digitalis, rau-wolfia, and smallpox vaccinations. Acupuncture may be moving from illegitimacy to legitimacy.
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Currency notes in circulation rise 22% in May over pre-demonetisation levels; what Nirmala Sitharaman says
By: PTI |
Published: June 25, 2019 7:33:47 PM
Currency notes in circulation stood at Rs 21.71 lakh crore at May-end 2019, showing an increase of more than 22 per cent over the pre-demonetisation level.
In a shock decision, the government had decided to demonetised old Rs 500/1,000 notes on November 8, 2016.
Currency notes in circulation stood at Rs 21.71 lakh crore at May-end 2019, showing an increase of more than 22 per cent over the pre-demonetisation level. As per a written reply given by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday, the notes in circulation as on November 4, 2016 were Rs 17,74,187 crore, which have now increased to Rs 21,71,385 crore as on May 31, 2019.
In a shock decision, the government had decided to demonetised old Rs 500/1,000 notes on November 8, 2016. Sitharaman said the notes in circulation had grown at an average growth rate of 14.51 per cent year on year wise since October 2014. “As actual notes in circulation on May 31, 2019 are only 21,713.85 billion, the demonetisation, followed by digitalisation and reduction of cash use in informal economy has succeeded in reducing the notes in circulation by as much as 3,408.68 billion rupees,” she said.
The demonetisation, the minister said, was done with a view to eliminate black money, curb fake currency and thereby to create deterrence to funding of terror and left-wing extremism, facilitate transition of India’s non-formal economy into the formal economy and to give a boost to digitalisation, among other objectives. Sitharaman further said that as reported by the RBI, 7,62,072 pieces of counterfeit bank notes were detected in the banking system during 2016-17, 5,22,783 pieces in 2017-18 and 3,17,389 in 2018-19.
Hence, demonetisation resulted in curbing of the counterfeit currency, she added. The minister further said a significant growth has been observed in digital transactions in the country post demonetisation. Growth of digital transactions in terms of value has increased to 188.07 lakh crore in September 2018 from 112.27 lakh crore in November 2016.
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It Just Aint So
My rantings about some topics. Email me at with your comments and your favorite "ItJustAintSo"s.
Several myths are quite enduring about the American Revolution.
The majority of Colonists supported it.
In fact, best estimates are that only a third wanted to break with Britain, a third wanted to stay a colony, and a third didn't really care.
The colonists won by using guerrilla style tactics
George Washington fought for the British in the Indian wars and was trained in European tactics. Except for a few notable battles, like the Cowpens, the Colonists fought a European style war.
We won it ourselves.
The success of the revolution depended upon French aid. Without French troops and money the revolution would not have succeeded. At Yorktown, the French had almost three times the number of troops as did Washington. The French fielded 29,000 men with 37 ships, Washington mustered 11,000 soldiers, and the British had 8,700. Without the French blockade of Yorktown, the British would have collected the troops by ship and moved them to fight another day. Ironically, the French support of the Americans contributed greatly to the downfall of the French monarchy. The immense cost of the war bankrupted the French treasury and the French soldiers returned with funny ideas about rebelling against monarchs.
People in Columbus's day thought the world was flat.
Educated people since the third century knew the shape of the earth. The scholars of Queen Isabella knew that you could sail West to reach China, but that it was too far and the crew would die of thirst or starvation. Which, of course, would have been true if North American had not gotten in the way.
Before 1830, no one believed that the Medievals thought the world to be flat. John Draper promoted this erroneous view apparently to discredit Christianity. He believed the world was in a struggle between dualities, like good and evil, science and religion. As an example he propagated the myth of a "modern" scientific Columbus battling backward religious leaders. His view was put into textbooks in America, and the rest is history. See http://id-www.ucsb.edu/fscf/library/RUSSELL/FlatEarth.html for more info. and Inventing the Flat Earth
Quote from Dr. Lawrence M. Principe, History of Science: Antiquity to 1700 The Teaching Company:
"The flat-earth story is flat-out wrong. The Greeks knew the earth was spherical, the Romans knew it, the Arabs, the Middle Ages, everyone. The notion that the earth was once believed to be flat is totally bogus. The flat-earth notion was invented in the 19th century and passed on from schoolteachers to students. It's time to break the cycle." -
'Third World' Development
I used to believe that poverty in the 'Developing Countries' was caused by:
Exploitation by rich countries
Lack of money
A dearth of natural resources
Effects of colonial occupation
Over population
But after a trip to a third world country, I realized that those are too simplistic.
In short, poverty is most likely caused by a corrupt government, an inept economic system, or a cultural view that discourages development of resources. Some of the most resource rich countries are the poorest.
An example of governments impoverishing their people was recently exemplified by Zimbabwe. In the May 18th issue of "The Economist" it is reported,
"In Zimbabwe, tobacco farmers refused to sell their crop, which is the country's main export, because the government insists on confiscating five-sixths of the proceeds through a rigged exchange rate."
Next year the farmers may not even plant a cash crop; why bother if the government is going to make you sell it for less than it costs to raise it.
We are about to run out of Oil and Coal
I like the following quote attributed to Alexander Graham Bell
"In relation to coal and oil, the world's annual consumption has become so enormous that we are now actually within measurable distance of the end of the supply."
It sounds like something we would hear today, but it was said on February 1, 1917. Bell did not foresee the vast fields of petroleum found by new technology or in distant lands.
Besides, we will never "run out" of oil. It will just get more expensive. At some price point, other sources of energy will be more economical. Coal could be converted into a fuel for our car's gas tanks using the Fischer-Tropsch process that was used by Germany and Japan in WWII and more recently by South Africa. Biofuels made from algae or agriculture waste can make fuel for our cars, although the technology needs improving. Ultimately electric cars will slowly replace gasoline cars as battery technology improves. The electricity for those cars can be made by wind, solar, tidal, nuclear.
The only commodity we are really running out of is Helium. This precious element is produced deep inside the earth from radioactive decay and slowly floats to the surface. Breaking free of its earthly bonds, the Helium flies up to the roof of our atmosphere, beyond our reach and floats into space.
Fear of new technologies, forgetful of the old dangers
For example, people are very afraid to give a credit card number over the web, but will happily give it to an unknown waiter who takes it to a back room and could do anything with it.
The Rosetta Stone was written in three languages.
The Rosetta Stone actually only has two languages, Egyptian and Greek. The Egyptian is written in two different alphabets, hieroglyphs and demotic. Demotic was the common man's writing alphabet. Hieroglyphs were used for formal or religious purposes.
Melting the Arctic ice cap would flood coastlines.
Oddly enough, if the entire North Pole ice cap were to melt completely next week, the sea level would remain constant. Underneath the North Pole is just water, and since ice displaces its own weight of water, the level remains constant when ice melts in water. Kids, you can try it at home with a glass of ice water.
The ice on Antarctica and Greenland are a different matter. Since most of it sits on top of land, these would raise the level of the oceans if melted.
Solar cells are a great pollution free way to make electricity
Actually it takes a lot of energy just to create a solar cell. It takes many years of continuous operation before a solar cell "repays" the amount of energy it took to create it. Solar cells are getting cheaper and more efficient and will one day, I think, contribute much to our power needs.
Creating solar cells actually produces two types of pollution. The first is from generating the energy to create the cell (usually fossil fuels). The second type is the result of using toxic chemicals in the production of the cells. Also disposing of spent solar cells can be tricky.
The Myth of the Better Alternative
People are averse to picking a known bad alternative, while waiting for the perfect solution to a problem. Often waiting for the perfect solution is a much worse situation than picking the known bad alternative.
This can be illustrated with the problem of storing of nuclear waste.
"We know that the desert repository in Nevada has some problems, so let's not put our nuclear waste there."
This really doesn't address the real issue of "Is it safer to store the waste in 141 sites, 75% of which are just 50 miles from major urban centers, or one remote site in the desert?" Just because the Nevada site is bad, doesn't mean it's not a better alternative than the current solution. (Unless of course, you live in Nevada).
If an event causes a bad result, the event is totally bad.
In 1997 El Nino caused over 4 billion dollars of damage - so El Nino is bad. But wait - the Midwest US saved billions of dollars in lower heating costs due to the milder winter. All totaled the net benefit to the US from the '97 El Nino is estimated to be 15 billion dollars. (From Science News March 2, 2002)
The same is true of automation. The automobile put many people out of work which is bad, but it also employed more people doing other types of work. I get frustrated by listening to the news talking about how bad a development is, but they often do not give the complete picture.
Planting trees is good for the environment
Often planting a tree is a good thing, sometimes it's bad thing.
Trees use so much water they can dry up streams and suck the life from entire ecosystems.
Trees are planted to control soil erosion, but trees can kill the grass underneath them making soil erosion even worse.
New research implies trees can produce the green house gas methane which traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide.
Trees give off volatile organic compounds, primarily monoterpenes and isoprene. These chemicals are involved in the formation of smog.
Trees can make the landscape darker, reducing the amount of sunlight reflected from the earth, called albedo.
America's Great Depression was caused by government inaction and only recovered after FDR's interventionist policies.
Our government's actions worsened what could have been a bad recession to be worse. Interest rates were raised, instead of lowered to encourage employment and investment. The Smoot-Hawley tariff act reduced trade with the world when trade should have been encouraged. Although the New Deal reduced suffering for many people, World War II really put an end to the Depression.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is true
Lots of people believe it is, but really think about it. Just think of starving soldiers fighting for a cause, risking their lives and giving all for a cause. Many people have braved physical danger and hunger for higher values.
Hawaii was paradise on earth before the white man came.
The actual history of Hawaii is very different than what the tourist bureau would have you believe.
Only men were allowed to perform the hula dance
Men and women never ate together
Women were forbidden, on pain of death, from eating certain foods
Not just anybody could go fishing, only members of the fishing guild could fish
Taxes were levied on the population
Wars were very bloody. The losers were hunted down and killed (unlike European wars where prisoners were often ransomed or freed).
Food origins
Potatoes come from South America, not Ireland.
Pineapples originated in South Brazil and Paraguay, not Hawaii (although we got them through Mexico)
Religious wars are the worst
I hear this occasionally that religious wars are more cruel because of the fanaticism of those involved. Consider the twentieth century. Some of the worst wars were not for the name of a religion, but for communism, oddly enough, under the banner of atheism. When you think about the Chinese, Cambodian and Russian atrocities during war times, it's every bit as ruthless as the horrible religious war of the past.
Even in the U.S., the most vicious war was the Civil War, which was not fought along religious lines.
Vietnam was the first truly unpopular war
Very few of our wars have been supported by an overwhelming proportion of the population. The Revolutionary War not - more Americans in 1779 fought for the British than with Washington. The War of 1812 was not very popular in many regions of the country. WWI was not seen as "our" war; the US did not enter until very late in the war. The Mexican-American war was very unpopular, especially in the North, where it was viewed simply as a land grab for slave states.
World War II was widely supported because Pearl Harbor in the American territory of Hawaii was attacked and then Hitler declared war on the United States.
A sixty year old person was rare in previous centuries
Most people see statistics that the average age in previous centuries was only 30 years old and assume people older than 30 would have been rare. But average includes infant mortality figures. An average life span of 30 years would be achieved if half of all infants died and the survivors lived to be 60.
In ancient Greece, Spartan men served in the army until the age of 59.
Manned space flight is a good idea
Manned space flights really only made sense in a military context. Without an arms race with the evil empire, it's way too expensive to do anything in space with people. A better idea is unmanned space exploration and experiments - so much cheaper since the hardware doesn't have to have such an extremely high margin of safety. Sure, the space program gave us Tang and ceramic bricks that can be heated to a zillion degrees, but what is the opportunity cost of all that money?
With regard to traveling to other planets, the really hard part is not shielding the travelers from deadly radiation. Also, can humans survive in gravities vastly different from earth?
The Myth of the Noble Savage
People believe that primitive man was kind, loving, and respectful of nature and the neighboring tribe, but it's just not true. More info by Michael Shermer at Scientific American.
Thomas Malthus was Right
Malthus wrote "Essay on the Principle of Population" in 1798. He believed food resources grew linearly, but human population grew exponentially. The inevitable outcome was mass starvation. Although 200 hundred years of history have proved him to be dead wrong, his beliefs, oddly enough, are still held by many.
We need to work at raising children's self-esteem.
From Reuters news agency, 2001/11/16:
Common Beliefs on Low Self-Esteem Are Myths
Many of the most commonly held beliefs about low self-esteem are myths without reliable evidence to support them, says a study published on Wednesday. Low self-esteem has become one of the most frequently cited explanations for social and personal problems, ranging from young people's involvement in violent crime to adult failures in business, and the U.S. state of California has gone so far as to invest significant public funds in trying to raise the self-esteem of its citizens.
But Nicholas Emler, a social psychologist who conducted the study, said his research showed that people with a high opinion of themselves could pose a far greater threat to others than those with a low sense of self-worth.
``People with low self-esteem tend to injure themselves rather than other people. Those with high self- esteem tend to damage other people, either because they are reckless and dangerous or because they're unpleasant,'' he told Reuters. Young people with very high self-esteem are more likely than others to hold racist attitudes, reject social pressures from adults and peers, and engage in physically risky pursuits such as drunk-driving or driving too fast, the study said.
Animals are noble and only kill for food and waste nothing
I often hear how in nature animals only kill for food, and are not as cruel as man. I watched an interesting documentary on bears and they said, "As bears become sated on Salmon, they only eat the eyes, eggs, and brains of the fish" The film showed a bear grabbing a salmon swiftly ripping out the eyes and eggs and letting the rest of the fish carcass float downstream.
In the documentary series "Blue Planet" a pack of killer whales is shown hunting a baby whale for days. The pack eventually separate the youngster from its mother, kills the baby, and eats only the tongue (which I assume is the tastiest part for a fellow cetacean). The rest of the body drifts down into the deep.
An Orca has also been filmed killing a large Great White shark just to eat its liver.
Mother Nature is Loving
People often say "Mother Nature" to imply that the wild world is a kind, nurturing place. In Austin a popular bumper sticker even has a picture of the earth and the slogan, "Be kind to your mother" on it.
In my limited experience, nature is not a nurturing mother, but is out to kill us. Given half a chance we die. Microbes, viruses, wild animals, sun exposure, cancer are all out to get us. We survive by outsmarting nature.
Nature should be respected , but not thought of as our "Mother".
"In the jungle, you're just another piece of protein".
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Movie explores dark world of sexual exploitation of children online
By Rodger Mullen Staff writer
The way Pat Wright sees it, parents are at somewhat of a disadvantage to their children when it comes to the Internet.
"They're natives to the digital world," Wright said. "Not like us - we're immigrants."
To help address that situation, Wright and Jan Johnson, her partner at GroundSwell Pictures, made a movie. "Not Just Pictures," which explores the dark world of the sexual exploitation of children online, was premiered Friday night at Seabrook Auditorium on the campus of Fayetteville State University.
The movie addresses a topic that parents might not want to acknowledge, and one that many don't fully understand.
"This is not a date night movie at all," Wright said. "It is a film for people who are ready to stop looking the other way and pretend it doesn't exist. It is a film for people who want to say, 'What can I do to help children from becoming victims of online predators?'"
The hour-and-a-half long film features interviews with victims of online sexual abuse and harassment, their parents, law enforcement officials and therapists.
The thread running through the film is the reality that an inappropriate picture of a child that is posted online may be there forever and can conceivably be seen by millions. The emotional devastation that results can be extreme - some children have committed suicide over the shame they felt and harassment they received after their pictures were posted.
Johnson said she and the other makers of the film traveled throughout the United States and Canada doing interviews for the movie, which she hopes will be used as a teaching tool. She said everyone was eager to talk about a subject they said is not understood nearly well enough.
"Everywhere we went, people said, 'Oh my God, this is so needed. We can't wait to use this tool when it comes out.'"
Sharon Cooper, a developmental and forensic pediatrician based in Fayetteville, served as executive producer of the film. She is one of the experts interviewed in the film and traveled with Wright and Johnson for the filming.
"I felt that many people didn't understand how complex this topic was," Cooper said. "The victims are very silent."
The film opens with an image of an old movie projector, contrasting that with today's digital technology that can send an image around the world in an instant.
People interviewed include Alicia Kozakiewicz, who at age 13 was abducted, raped and tortured by a 38-year-old man she was corresponding with online. The man pretended to be a boy Alicia's age and arranged to meet her.
Kozakiewicz, now 27, later founded The Alicia Project, an advocacy group that raises awareness and provides education on Internet safety and other topics. She visited Fayetteville in June to talk about the issue and to be interviewed for the movie.
The film ends with tips for parents for protecting their children from cyber-crime, including keeping home computers in a central location, not allowing computers or phones in children's bedrooms, using filtering software and keeping passwords private.
Teresa Warner, an administrator at Seventy-First Classical Middle School, said she came to the premiere with some teachers at the school to learn about the topic.
Warner said while schools use filtering software, teachers can't control what their students might see online after they leave the classroom.
"I think awareness like this will help us identify students who need special assistance," Warner said in the Seabrook lobby before the movie started. "It's going to be a sobering night, I think."
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MB Financial Bank, National Association, Chicago, Illinois, Assumes All Of The Deposits Of New Century Bank, Chicago, Illinois
Greg Hernandez (202) 898-6984
New Century Bank, Chicago, Illinois, was closed today by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation — Division of Banking, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with MB Financial Bank, National Association, Chicago, Illinois, to assume all of the deposits of New Century Bank.
The three branches of New Century Bank will reopen on Saturday as branches of MB Financial Bank, National Association. Depositors of New Century Bank will automatically become depositors of MB Financial Bank, National Association. Deposits will continue to be insured by the FDIC, so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship to retain their deposit insurance coverage. Customers should continue to use their existing branch until they receive notice from MB Financial Bank, National Association that it has completed systems changes to allow other MB Financial Bank, National Association branches to process their accounts as well.
This evening and over the weekend, depositors of New Century Bank can access their money by writing checks or using ATM or debit cards. Checks drawn on the bank will continue to be processed. Loan customers should continue to make their payments as usual.
As of December 31, 2009, New Century Bank had approximately $485.6 million in total assets and $492.0 million in total deposits. MB Financial Bank, National Association did not pay the FDIC a premium for the deposits of New Century Bank. In addition to assuming all of the deposits of the failed bank, MB Financial Bank, National Association agreed to purchase essentially all of the assets.
The FDIC and MB Financial Bank, National Association entered into a loss-share transaction on $429.1 million of New Century Bank's assets. MB Financial Bank, National Association will share in the losses on the asset pools covered under the loss-share agreement. The loss-share transaction is projected to maximize returns on the assets covered by keeping them in the private sector. The transaction also is expected to minimize disruptions for loan customers. For more information on loss share, please visit: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/lossshare/index.html.
Customers who have questions about today's transaction can call the FDIC toll-free at 1-800-883-4390. The phone number will be operational this evening until 9:00 p.m., Central Daylight Time (CDT); on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., CDT; on Sunday from noon to 6:00 p.m., CDT; and thereafter from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., CDT. Interested parties also can visit the FDIC's Web site at http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/new-century-il.html.
The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $125.3 million. MB Financial Bank, National Association's acquisition of all the deposits was the "least costly" resolution for the FDIC's DIF compared to all alternatives. New Century Bank is the 54th FDIC-insured institution to fail in the nation this year, and the seventh in Illinois. The last FDIC-insured institution closed in the state was Citizens Bank&Trust Company of Chicago, Chicago, earlier today.
Last Updated 4/23/2010 communications@fdic.gov
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Softball falls to UW-Oshkosh in five; loses to Chicago in eight
Wis.-Oshkosh
Wis.-Oshkosh (10-3) 1 0 1 8 1 11 12 0
Fontbonne (2-5) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6
Fontbonne (2-6) 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 10 0
Chicago (4-2) 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 7 15 4
3B: Erika Berry
2B: Sam Brown
2B: Holli Jones
Clermont, Fla. - After multiple errors the Griffins fell to the hands of Wisconsin Oshkosh 11-0 in five innings. Fontbonne then gave up a 6-2 lead against the University of Chicago. The Griffins are now 2-6 on the year.
Fontbonne trailed 0-2 before they took a beating from the Titans in the fourth inning where UW-Oshkosh scored eight runs. Fontbonne then lost the game in five innings after committing six errors and allowing 10 hits.
Diamond Thomas suffered the loss for the Griffins, her third of the year.
The Griffins led 6-2 until Chicago scored two runs in the sixth. The Maroons then had the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the seventh with two outs after they walked and singled. Fontbonne brought in freshman Brianna Durant to the circle to replace Maddy Strickland. Durant walked her first batter to load the bases. Chicago singled and with two runs scoring, tied the game 6-6. Fontbonne's coaching staff decided to put Strickland back in and the sophomore got out of the jam with a fly ball to left field.
In the eighth, Cooksey singled and then stole second. Fontbonne stranded McNiff on third along with Cooksey after Kedroski, Modglin and Fields got put out in the field.
The Maroons came back to win the game in the bottom of the 8th on a hit up the middle. The Titans sent Moss who was placed on second all the way home for the win.
In the game, McNiff went 2-4 with two runs scored and two RBI's. Sam Brown's double secured Fontbonne's fifth run of the game. Stickland fanned four in her first 5.1 innings pitched. She suffered her third loss of the season.
Fontbonne is off on Wednesday before taking on Luther and Hope on Thursday and Bowdoin and Tufts on Friday.
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Home Lifestyle Food & Health Now the Chinese are going gaga for African foods
Now the Chinese are going gaga for African foods
Lindsay Jefthas
Eden Gilanda dreams of serving dishes from all African countries.
When he first set foot off the plane, a young Chinese boy approached him. The boy wanted to rub his finger against him to check if his black skin was genuine. Absurd as it may sound, this was the beginning of an incredible expedition that awaited Eden Gilanda.
Gilanda (29), a citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been residing in Beijing for the past seven years. He initially came to the country of The Red Dragon as a talented 22-year-old football player, in search of an opportunity to boost his career.
“I didn’t find a team who could give me a chance as a professional player, so I decided to do something else. I did not really enjoy the local cuisine, hence I decided to open a restaurant that could cater for me and my fellow Africans,” says Gilanda.
These days, Eden Blessing House also attracts many Chinese customers.
Over the past few years, China has opened its doors to many foreigners from all over the world. Amongst the abundant expat community in Beijing are numerous Africans who came to China to further their studies, some to work for their country’s embassies and others are just in search of a better standard of living.
With this being said, Gilanda saw another business opportunity – opening a hair salon that mainly accommodates African males and females, but also welcoming other foreign nationals.
Today, seven years later, he is the proud owner of Eden Blessing House (a hair salon and restaurant), operated from an exclusive hotel in Beijing’s busy Dongzhimen area. “Business is all about patience and you have to stay positive, especially in a country like China. It’s of the outmost importance that you bring something unique and different. I also try to stay close to Chinese people to learn as much as possible.”
With Gilanda being from DRC and his girlfriend from Tanzania, his restaurant mainly serves Central and Eastern African foods. “My goal is to expand my menu to an all-African menu, which will cater for people from all 54 African countries,” he promises.
He initially launched the restaurant for Africans, but ironically, the locals are now his most loyal customers.
Gilanda smiles and says: “The Chinese are getting addicted to African dishes. They are surprised that we use the same vegetables, but with different flavours. They just love it!”
Beijing residents seem to love Cassa Leaf, a popular West African dish.
What do the Chinese commonly order? Cassa Leaf, an original Liberian dish. Cassava leaves are the main ingredient of this popular dish, also known as Saka Saka and Pondo in other African countries. Liberians are quick to point out that the dish is specifically known as Cassa Leaf (and not “leaves”), based on the Liberian pronunciation.
Gilanda displays the characteristics of a typical successful entrepreneur. He is hardworking, driven and most certainly not a small dreamer. This month he will be opening a second salon in China’s largest city by population, Shanghai, whereafter the restaurant will follow. He came from humble beginnings, where he first worked at an oil company in his home country, but today he is an inspiration to many. He believes one should always try to achieve your goals on your own, because no one else will help you reach them.
African food in Beijing
African restaurant in Dongzhimen
boerewors
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fried scorpions
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roast duck
Saka Saka
South African food in Beijing
South Africans in Beijing
Lindsay Jefthas resides in Beijing, China where he works as a mathematics teacher. He holds a bachelor’s degree in education and has also previously taught at a school in the Western Cape. Lindsay has been writing since his high school days, and his work has since been published in a leading magazine. These days he mostly writes poems and short stories. He is passionate about economics, both in South Africa and globally.
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Friday April 26 2019
La Liga's three standout 2018/19 stars
Barcelona star Lionel Messi naturally makes the list, but Kieran Quaile explains why understated stars at Getafe and Celta Vigo deserve the limelight.
With 33 goals to his name this campaign, Lionel Messi is 12 goals clear of his nearest challenger in the race for the Pichichi trophy. Once again, the Argentine maestro has proven vital in his side’s inevitable title victory and this campaign has been one of his best ever.
In the current season,the 31-year-oldhas the most assists in LaLiga (13) and has scored seven goals from free-kicks. Barcelona are currently competing to the win the treble (LaLiga,theChampions League and Copa Del Rey) and with Messi there is no reason why the Blaugrana can’t achieve the feat.
The strikeris the undoubted key man in Getafe's spectacular season that could see them qualify for the Champions League. Mata signed for Los Azulones aged 29 on a free transfer from Real Valladolid and the Spaniard hashas scored 14 league goals in his opening season for Jose Bordalas’ men. His form earned him an international call from Luis Enrique and his value in the market, despite his age, has skyrocketed.
Mata also has six assists to his name and has been involved in 20 goals, playing a huge role in possibly the story of the season. Getafe earnedpromoted back to LaLiga in 2017 and less than two years later they are in with a chance of Champions League qualification with the help of Mata.
The player that has become the club. Vigo-native Aspas joined Celta Vigo aged eight. The diminutive striker is currently fifth in the LaLiga scoring charts with 16 goals, an impressive return for a player that missed three months of the season with a calf injury.
He picked up the injury at the end of December, which resulted in Celta slipping from ninth place to 18th in the table.
The club legend netted twice in a 3–2 win over Villarreal on his return on 30 March and Celta’s relegation fight began.Since returning from injury he has played four games, earning his side 10 points and being involved in nine of their 11 goals, scoring six and assisting three.
With 16 goals and seven assists he’s had a say in 23 goals this season; the highest number for a Spanish player in the league and all coming in only 23 matchess, averaging a goal per game.
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Revealed: Leeds agree to sell Byram to Premier League club
Date: 14th January 2016 at 7:39pm
Written by: Football Insider
By Alex Stevens
Leeds have agreed a £3.7million fee with Everton for star player Sam Byram, Football Insider sources understand.
The 22-year-old, who can play at right-back or right midfield, is set to move to Goodison Park this month after the Merseysiders’ bid was accepted by the Championship club.
An Everton source has told Football Insider that the Premier League side sent top scout Ian Atkins to watch Byram during Leeds’ 2-1 defeat to Ipswich on Tuesday and have tempted Leeds to cash in on him.
Everton, who have been pursuing Byram for months, have tabled a formal bid that has been accepted by the Yorkshire giants.
Byram’s exit was widely expected in the January window after Leeds failed with attempts to extend his contract, which expires at the end of this season.
Manager Steve Evans paved the way for Bryam’s exit by revealing last week that he was unsure whether the club’s prize asset will be at Elland Road beyond the end of the month.
“I can’t say whether he will be there or not,” Evans said. “The young man has made it clear through his representatives that he doesn’t want to extend his contract beyond the summer.
“I’ve spoken to a couple [of Premier League clubs] before the weekend and a couple during the weekend. There are four or five clubs that want to get Sam. It would be unprofessional to name names.
Done deal: Byram is set to join Martinez at Everton this month
“They’re good clubs. He has every attribute to play in the Premier League but it has to be right for Leeds United and the young man.”
Byram’s reputation is growing rapidly, and on Tuesday of last week he was crowned the Championship PFA Fans’ Player of the Month for December, in which he scored three goals and grabbed an assist to help Leeds stay unbeaten during the month.
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Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart Wanted On Assault Charges
Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart (Getty)
Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is being sought by authorities on assault charges.
According to the AP, police in Kentucky have issued a warrant for the arrest of Hart stemming from an alleged Sept. 7 incident after a performance by the Mickey Hart Band at Terrapin Hill Farm in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
Police reports obtained by TMZ show that Hart was on his band's tour bus when his manager asked the accuser to come aboard and to speak with Hart. When the accuser entered the bus, which he owns and had rented to the band, he claims Hart directed him to the back section, closed the door behind him, and "proceeded to beat the living crap out [of him]," says the report.
"[Mickey Hart] threw me down, started [to] cuss [at] me, hitting me, pushing me around then told me to get off MY bus."
Hart said he was "baffled by a bizarre claim of an assault" in an e-mail to his local newspaper, the Marin Independent Journal.
"Any accusation or claim of assault against me is completely false and without any basis whatsoever. I played drums on 'Shakedown Street,' but I never expected to be 'The Victim or the Crime,'" he said, referencing two Grateful Dead songs.
Before Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia died in 1995, the band was one of the world's top touring acts and has long been credited for creating innovative business models. Forbes has estimated Hart's own net worth at $30 million.
"Let's admit it," writes business scholar Barry Barnes in his book Everything I Know About Business I learned From the Grateful Dead. "They were not exactly poster boys for corporate America, [but] the Dead's influence on the business world will turn out to be a significant part of their legacy. Without intending to, the band pioneered ideas and practices that were subsequently embraced by American corporations."
In a recent interview with Barnes, a former IBM and John Deere IT executive who first saw the Grateful Dead in 1969, he said he was at a Dead show in 1985 when he realized the band had some lessons to teach the business world.
“I have a passion for music, and something about the Grateful Dead really got to me. I had to understand their ability to change and their improvisation,” Barnes said, pointing out that both are crucial in today’s tough economy times in a rapidly evolving high-tech world.
“Even now, 16 years after breaking up, the Grateful Dead, remains a formidable business empire."
Follow me on Twitter @johnmclarkejr or e-mail me at johnmclarkejr@gmail.com.
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Cyberattack Hits 100,000 Groups
LONDON (AP) -- An unprecedented global "ransomware" attack has hit at least 100,000 organizations in 150 countries, Europe's police agency said Sunday — and predicted that more damage may be seen Monday as people return to work and switch on their computers.
The attack that began Friday is believed to be the biggest online extortion attack ever recorded, spreading chaos by locking computers that run Britain's hospital network, Germany's national railway and scores of other companies, factories and government agencies worldwide.
"It was essentially an indiscriminate attack across the world," Europol director Rob Wainwright said. "It's a massive reminder to sectors right across the world cyber security should be a topline strategic priority."
Jan Op Gen Oorth, spokesman for the Netherlands-based Europol, said the number of individuals who have fallen victim to the cyberextortion attack could be much higher.
He said it was too early to say who is behind the onslaught and what their motivation was. The main challenge for investigators was the fast-spreading capabilities of the malware, he said, adding that so far not many people have paid the ransoms that the virus demands.
The attack held hospitals and other entities hostage by freezing their computers, encrypting their data and demanding money through online bitcoin payment — $300 at first, rising to $600 before it destroys files hours later.
The effects were felt across the globe, with Russia's Interior Ministry and companies including Spain's Telefonica, FedEx Corp. in the U.S. and French carmaker Renault all reporting disruptions.
On Sunday, Chinese media reported that students at several universities were hit by the virus, which blocked access to their thesis papers and their dissertation presentations.
Had it not been for a young cybersecurity researcher's accidental discovery of a so-called "kill switch," the malicious software likely would have spread much farther and faster. Security experts say this attack should wake up every corporate board room and legislative chamber around the globe.
Nonetheless, the experts say such widespread attacks are tough to pull off.
This one worked because of a "perfect storm" of conditions, including a known and highly dangerous security hole in Microsoft Windows, tardy users who didn't apply Microsoft's March software fix, and malware designed to spread quickly once inside university, business and government networks.
What's worse, those responsible were able to borrow a weaponized "exploit," apparently created by the U.S. National Security Agency, to launch the attack in the first place.
Darien Huss, a 28-year-old research engineer who helped stop the malware's spread, said he was "still worried for what's to come in the next few days, because it really would not be so difficult for the actors behind this to re-release their code without a kill switch or with a better kill switch.
"Or we could potentially see copycats mimic the delivery or exploit method they used," he said.
Now that this "WannaCry" malware is out there, the world's computer systems are vulnerable to a degree they haven't been before, unless people everywhere move quickly to install Microsoft's security patches.
The worldwide effort to extort cash from computer users is the first widely successful example of ransomware that self-replicates like a virus, and it prompted Microsoft to quickly change its policy, announcing free security patches to fix this vulnerability in the older Windows systems still used by millions of individuals and smaller businesses.
Security officials in Britain urged organizations to protect themselves by installing the security fixes, running antivirus software and backing up data elsewhere. Experts say this vulnerability has been understood among experts for months, yet too many groups failed to take it seriously.
The ransomware exploited a vulnerability that has been patched in updates of recent versions of Windows since March.
"The problem is the larger organizations are still running on old, no longer supported operating systems," said Lawrence Abrams, a New York-based blogger who runs BleepingComputer.com. "So they no longer get the security updates they should be."
Britain's National Cyber Security Center said it could have been much worse if not for a 22-year-old Britain-based cybersecurity researcher.
The researcher, identified online only as MalwareTech, explained that he spotted a hidden web address in the "WannaCry" code and made it official by registering its domain name. That inexpensive move redirected the attacks to the server of Kryptos Logic, the security company he works for. The server operates as a "sinkhole" to collect information about malware — and in Friday's case kept the malware from escaping.
That quick thinking may have saved governments and companies millions of dollars and slowed the outbreak before U.S.-based computers were more widely infected.
But the kill switch couldn't help those already infected. Short of paying, options for these individuals and companies are usually limited to recovering data files from a backup, if available, or living without them.
The Windows vulnerability in question was purportedly identified by the NSA for its own intelligence-gathering purposes. Intelligence officials wouldn't comment on the authenticity of the claims. The tools appeared stolen by hackers, who dumped them on the internet.
British cybersecurity expert Graham Cluley doesn't want to blame the NSA for the attack.
"There are other criminals who've launched this attack, and they are ultimately responsible for this," he said. "But there's clearly some culpability on the part of the U.S. intelligence services. Because they could have done something ages ago to get this problem fixed, and they didn't do it."
He said most people "are living an online life," and these agencies have a duty to protect their countries' citizens in that realm as well.
"Obviously, they want those tools in order to spy on people of interest, on other countries, to conduct surveillance," Cluley said. "It's a handy thing to have, but it's a dangerous thing to have. Because they can be used against you. And that's what's happening right now."
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June 7, 2012 Updated: June 7, 2012 8:37 p.m.
Drilling activity trending down
Texas oil and gas producers in April began to curtail drilling as falling crude oil prices fed anxiety over economic uncertainty, according to the Texas Petro Index, prepared by economist Karr Ingham for the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, the largest state association of independent oil and gas producers.
The trend could lead to a halt in a 28-month-long expansion of the state's drilling and oil production, the report noted.
Ingham said a retreat from higher crude prices that prevailed earlier in 2012 wasn't unexpected, but the rate of the decline caught producers by surprise. Repercussions of European debt woes and economic slowdown in Asia that could affect the U.S. economy in the year's second half are weighing heavily on crude oil markets, he said.
It's possible, Ingham said, that the state is on the cusp of a slowdown in drilling and production.
S.A. firm to build site for Trump
A San Antonio-based design and web marketing firm has been tapped to create a website for The Trump Organization, which is headed by Donald Trump.
New York-based Trump Sales & Leasing, the organization's boutique brokerage firm, has retained Giles-Parscale Inc. to design its website, handle web marketing and execute other digital strategies, said Amanda Miller, vice president of marketing for The Trump Organization.
Giles-Parscale has designed websites for several New York real estate firms and local organizations such as the San Antonio River Walk and the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, said Brad Parscale, the firm's co-owner.
Crude-gathering system open
Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP said the first phase of its crude-oil gathering system for Eagle Ford Shale producers is complete.
The pipeline begins in Wilson County, which is southeast of San Antonio and extends 147 miles to Sealy, which is 50 miles west of Houston. The pipeline has a capacity of 350,000 barrels a day and gives oil producers in the Eagle Ford Shale improved access to Gulf Coast refineries.
The pipeline has secured long-term commitments from shippers, Enterprise executive vice president A.J. Teague said in a statement.
The gathering system links to Enterprise's Rancho pipeline at Sealy that extends to the Gulf Coast, and also will reach an Enterprise storage facility under construction in southeast Houston.
J.C. Penney names new executives
J.C. Penney Co. announced the promotion and addition of several executives, marking the company's latest efforts to boost its leadership team as it undergoes a transformation.
“Our sights are set on revolutionizing the way America shops, and having the best leaders in place is instrumental to helping us fully realize this vision,” said Ron Johnson, who became J.C. Penney's CEO in November.
The Plano-based department store chain said Thursday it has promoted John Tighe, senior vice president and former general merchandise manager of the company's home division, to become general merchandise manager of the men's division. In his new role, Tighe will lead the team responsible for enhancing the company's men's merchandise assortment.
Paul Rutenis has been promoted to senior vice president and general merchandise manager for the chain's home division.
Aztec Theatre to feature rooftop bar, event space
Frost Bank CEO talks highs, lows and being ‘a nobody from nowhere’
Do you know where your dollars have been?
CPS may harvest own solar power
San Antonio economic development head leaving city for firm that got $5.7...
Feud heats up over San Antonio lawyer’s advertising slogan
State to sell vacant East Side building
Report: VA clinic in San Antonio, 23 others are behind schedule, costlier...
H-E-B to test driverless van for deliveries near Olmos Park
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Pictures From Pilgrims Progress
John Bunyan informs us that the “narrow way” in which Christian was to go to reach the Celestial City was “fenced on either side by a wall that was called Salvation”. In other words, there is only one way to reach heaven and rest for your soul at last, and that is by remaining within the confines of God’s one and only way of Redemption.
As Christian walked that “narrow way”, however, he was soon joined by two other travelers who confessed to him that they hadn’t come on to the path via the way of the Wicket Gate and the Cross, but had climbed in over the wall. The names of these two travelers, according to Bunyan, were Formalist and Hypocrisy; and the lesson that Bunyan places before us is this, that along the road of our Christian pilgrimage we will often meet with those who have “a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof”. Two such were Formalist and Hypocrisy.
Formalist and Hypocrisy, we are told, “were born in the Land of Vain Glory”; i.e. they were religious because it placed them high in the esteem of others. The Formalist is the man who religiously goes to church, reads his Bible, gives thanks at meals, and does a dozen and one other things even thought none of these things works any change in his life. The Hypocrite is a “journeyman” Formalist – one who has “served his time” at the trade. He is the “Hypocrites” – the “play-actor”; and even though he is a spiritual pauper, he can play the part of a spiritual king to the deceit of himself and others.
Let us look at these three as Bunyan pictures them coming to the bottom of The Hill called Difficulty. “There were also in the same place”, we read, “two other ways besides that which came straight from the Wicket Gate: one turned to the left hand and the other to the right at the bottom of the hill; but the narrow way led right up the hill …” This is what distinguishes the true Christian way of salvation from all other ways. The Christian way – the “narrow way” – leads only up and over the Hill Difficulty. And here too is what distinguishes the true Christian Pilgrim from all other travelers – from the Formalist and the Hypocrite. Formalist and Hypocrisy, Bunyan tells us, set out on the two paths that led “round” the hill; the name of one was “danger” and the name of the other “destruction”; but the Christian Pilgrim surveyed the peak, and then resolutely set off to reach the summit and the other side.
“The hill, though high, I covet to ascend”, he sang;
“The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive,” he says, “the way of life lies here”.
Let us look now at how the Christian Pilgrim approached, scaled, and overcame the Hill Difficulty. “At the bottom of the hill”, we are told, “there was a spring”. And before Christian even dares to set a foot towards the summit of Hill Difficulty, he must, first of all, refresh and fortify himself for the climb by drinking “at the springs of water” that the Lord has provided for the traveling pilgrim; Isaiah 49 verse 10. “About the midway to the top of the hill”, we are next told, “was a pleasant arbor, made by the Lord of the hill for the refreshment of weary travelers”. And in this “arbor of ease” Pilgrim sets himself down to rest.
Let us learn three main lessons from this climb of Christian’s, for there are three words for us here. There is a word of Comfort, a word of Encouragement, and a word of Warning for those believers who now find themselves confronted with a Hill Difficulty.
A word of Comfort in the fact that we are told that the hill was the property of the Lord; even our difficulties are under the control of Him who worketh all things for the good of His people.
A word of Encouragement, too, for in the midst of that difficulty the Lord of the hill has provided an “arbor of ease” – a time of respite, surely, for those who are burdened.
A word of Warning, a real word of Warning in the fact that this “arbor” – this shelter – this time of relief is given so that we might strengthen ourselves in order to complete the climb, and it must not be used as a place where we lay off to “watch and be sober”.
Those who are familiar with the Pilgrim’s Progress will know that this is what happened to the Pilgrim Christian. He sat down and he began to examine the “Roll” that had been given him at the Cross, i.e. the assurance of salvation; and perhaps he became over-confident, for he fell into a deep sleep. And when he awoke and started on his journey again he soon discovered that he had, in fact, lost his “Roll” – he had lost his Assurance of Salvation and was unable to continue his journey until he had retraced his steps and searched for his “Roll” again. How many Pilgrims has this happened to? And where is that blessed assurance that they once enjoyed? So often, back in the arbor that was abused and where they slumbered in the things of their salvation. “But who can tell”, asks Bunyan, “How joyful this man was when he had gotten his Roll again?”
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STI76090
Back to Bass Tour
Symphonicity Tour
Music and DVD's
View Larger STING: LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA PARIS BluRay Sting: Live At The Olympia Paris captures the musician's critically-acclaimed guitar-driven rock tour as it hit the French capital for a very special performance at the iconic venue in April, 2017.
Hailed 'the show of a lifetime' (The Vancouver Globe & Mail), Live At The Olympia Paris celebrates highlights from across the 16-time Grammy Award winner's illustrious career, with blistering performances of new songs from his latest album 57th & 9th including the infectious first single,"I Can't Stop Thinking About You", and the anthemic "50,000", alongside classic hits from The Police as well as Sting's solo career. Sting: Live At The Olympia Paris showcases the wide range of his eclectic style and songwriting influences in one momentous live show.
Sting is joined onstage by a 4-piece band including his longtime guitarist, Dominic Miller, Josh Freese (drums), Rufus Miller (guitar) and Percy Cardona (accordion), with backing vocals from Joe Sumner plus Diego Navaira & Jerry Fuentes of Warner Music Nashville recording artists, The Last Bandoleros.
Bonus content features 9 performances from Sting and special guests, Joe Sumner and The Last Bandoleros.
Synchronicity II
Spirits In The Material World
Englishman In New York
I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
She’s Too Good For Me
I Hung My Head
Down, Down, Down
Pretty Young Soldier
Walking On The Moon
Roxanne / Ain’t No Sunshine
Sting & Joe Sumner
Heading South On The Great North Road
Joe Sumner
Looking For Me, Looking For You
Don’t Change The Love
The Last Bandoleros
Riverman
Take Me To It
I Don’t Want To Know
Where Do You Go? (STI76090)
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FSB welcomes Task Force consultation on recommendations for climate change disclosure
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), today welcomed the publication of a consultation paper by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) with recommendations for effective disclosure of climate-related financial risks.
The Task Force was asked by the FSB to develop a set of voluntary, consistent disclosure recommendations for use by companies in providing information to investors, lenders, and insurance underwriters about the financial risks companies face from climate change. The TCFD framework includes disclosures about the way firms consider the impact of climate change as part of their governance, risk management and strategy and sets out metrics and scenarios that firms should consider disclosing.
Speaking about the draft recommendations, FSB Chair Mark Carney said: “The disclosure recommendations will give financial markets the information they need to manage risks, and seize opportunities, stemming from climate change. As a private sector solution to a market issue, the Task Force has focused on the practical, material disclosures investors want and which all capital-raising companies can compile.”
The draft recommendations were launched at an event in London attended by Michael R. Bloomberg, Chair of the TCFD, other members of the Task Force and senior executives of a number of the firms that provided Task Force members.
Speaking at the event Michael R. Bloomberg said: “The Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures report represents an important effort by the private sector to improve transparency around climate-related financial risks and opportunities. Climate change is not only an environmental problem, but a business one as well. We need business leaders to join us to help spread these recommendations across their industries in order to help make markets more efficient and economies more stable, resilient, and sustainable.”
The TCFD’s consultation period runs for 60 days until 12 February. The FSB encourages publicly-listed companies, investors, financial institutions and other stakeholders to respond to the consultation.
The final TCFD recommendations will be presented to G20 Leaders in advance of their Summit in Hamburg in July. The FSB encourages the TCFD, following the publication of the final TCFD recommendations, to monitor and report on industry take-up of the recommendations.
On the launch of the consultation the firms that contributed Task Force members, with market capitalisations of $1.5 trillion and responsible for almost $20 trillion of assets, have provided statements of support to welcome the recommended disclosures and encourage take-up of the recommendations. The statements of support are available on the FSB and TCFD websites.
The TCFD was established by the FSB in December 2015 after a request in April 2015 from the G20 for the FSB to work with the private sector to review how the financial sector can take account of climate-related issues. As part of this work the FSB concluded that appropriate disclosure is a prerequisite for the private sector to understand and measure the potential effects on the financial sector of climate change. The FSB therefore set up the TCFD as an industry-led body to develop voluntary disclosure recommendations. The TCFD consultation closes on 12 February. Responses to the consultation can be made via the TCFD website.
For media inquiries about the launch event please contact the TCFD Secretariat: [email protected].
The FSB has been established to coordinate at the international level the work of national financial authorities and international standard setting bodies and to develop and promote the implementation of effective regulatory, supervisory and other financial sector policies in the interest of financial stability. It brings together national authorities responsible for financial stability in 24 countries and jurisdictions, international financial institutions, sector-specific international groupings of regulators and supervisors, and committees of central bank experts. The FSB also conducts outreach with 65 other jurisdictions through its six regional consultative groups.
The FSB is chaired by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England. Its Secretariat is located in Basel, Switzerland, and hosted by the Bank for International Settlements.
Content Type(s): Press, Press Releases Policy Area(s): Climate-related Disclosures
14 December 2016 Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
The TCFD consultation on its recommendations for climate-related financial disclosures provides a framework for the disclosure of these risks to meet existing reporting requirements.
Content Type(s): Consultations, Publications Source(s): TCFD Policy Area(s): Climate-related Disclosures, Disclosure
TCFD Recommendations Report Launch - Statements of Support
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Summary Prospectus
Monthly Performance Report
Fund Summary | Holdings | News & Literature | Historical Pricing | Distribution History | Contact Fund
Investment Objective/Strategy - The First Trust Alternative Absolute Return Strategy ETF is an actively managed exchange-traded fund that seeks to provide investors with long-term total return.
There can be no assurance that the Fund's investment objectives will be achieved.
Ticker FAAR
Fund Type Alternative Investments
Investment Advisor First Trust Advisors L.P.
Investor Servicing Agent Brown Brothers Harriman
CUSIP 33740Y101
ISIN US33740Y1010
Intraday NAV FAARIV
Fiscal Year-End 12/31
Inception 5/18/2016
Inception Price $30.00
Inception NAV $30.00
Current Fund Data (as of 7/12/2019)
Closing NAV1 $26.72
Closing Market Price2 $26.73
Bid/Ask Midpoint $26.75
Bid/Ask Premium 0.11%
Total Net Assets $44,080,367
Outstanding Shares 1,650,002
Daily Volume 3,948
Average 30-Day Daily Volume 12,022
Closing Market Price 52-Week High/Low $29.00 / $26.33
Closing NAV 52-Week High/Low $28.87 / $26.35
Top Holdings - Long Exposure (as of 7/12/2019)*
Holding Percent
U.S. Treasury Bill, 0%, due 08/29/2019 15.83%
U.S. Treasury Bill, 0%, due 08/15/2019 9.06%
* Excluding cash. Holdings are subject to change.
NAV History (Since Inception)
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Dividend per Share Amt (as of 7/15/2019)3 $0.1407
30-Day SEC Yield (as of 6/28/2019)4 0.90%
12-Month Distribution Rate (as of 6/28/2019)5 0.53%
Bid/Ask Midpoint vs. NAV (as of 6/30/2019)
Number of Days Bid/Ask Midpoint Above NAV
Quarter Ended 0-49
Basis Points 50-99
Basis Points 100-199
Basis Points >=200
Basis Points
6/30/2019 46 0 1 0
12/31/2018 50 2 0 0
Number of Days Bid/Ask Midpoint Below NAV
3/31/2019 7 0 0 0
The price used to calculate market return is determined by using the midpoint between the highest bid and the lowest offer on the stock exchange, on which shares of the Fund are listed for trading, as of the time that the Fund's NAV is calculated.
Fund Exposure (as of 7/12/2019)
Long Exposure 36.40%
Short Exposure -26.16%
Net Exposure 10.24%
Month End Performance (as of 6/28/2019)
3 Mos YTD 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since
Inception6
Fund Performance *
Net Asset Value (NAV) -0.26% 0.45% -7.85% -2.62% N/A N/A -2.74%
After Tax Held -0.26% 0.45% -8.05% -3.08% N/A N/A -3.19%
After Tax Sold -0.16% 0.27% -4.65% -2.18% N/A N/A -2.26%
Market Price -0.34% 0.30% -7.88% -2.29% N/A N/A -2.73%
Index Performance **
Bloomberg Commodity Index -1.19% 5.06% -6.75% -2.18% N/A N/A -0.84%
3 Month U.S. Treasury Bills + 3% 1.40% 2.74% 5.41% 4.46% N/A N/A 4.43%
S&P 500 Index 4.30% 18.54% 10.42% 14.19% N/A N/A 14.61%
Quarter End Performance (as of 6/28/2019)
3-Year Statistics (as of 6/28/2019)
Standard Deviation Alpha Beta Sharpe Ratio Correlation
FAAR 5.77% 26.84 -10.32 -0.67 -0.13
Bloomberg Commodity Index 8.59% 4.94 -2.75 -0.38 -0.02
3 Month U.S. Treasury Bills + 3% 0.23% --- 1.00 43.20 1.00
Standard Deviation is a measure of price variability (risk). Alpha is an indication of how much an investment outperforms or underperforms on a risk-adjusted basis relative to its benchmark.Beta is a measure of price variability relative to the market. Sharpe Ratio is a measure of excess reward per unit of volatility. Correlation is a measure of the similarity of performance.
*Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results and current performance may be higher or lower than performance quoted. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate and shares when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.
After Tax Held returns represent return after taxes on distributions. Assumes shares have not been sold. After Tax Sold returns represent the return after taxes on distributions and the sale of fund shares. Returns do not represent the returns you would receive if you traded shares at other times. Market Price returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread on the stock exchange on which shares of the fund are listed for trading as of the time that the fund’s NAV is calculated. Returns are average annualized total returns, except those for periods of less than one year, which are cumulative.
After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. The after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
**Indexes do not charge management fees or brokerage expenses, and no such fees or expenses were deducted from the performance shown. Indexes are unmanaged and an investor cannot invest directly in an index.
Bloomberg Commodity Index - The Index is made up of exchange-traded futures on physical commodities and represents 20 commodities, which are weighted to account for economic significance and market liquidity.
3 Month U.S. Treasury Bills + 3% - The Index is made up of 3 Month U.S. Treasury Bills and a spread of 3 percent accrued daily because the Treasury bill rate can fluctuate over time.
S&P 500 Index - The Index is an unmanaged index of 500 stocks used to measure large-cap U.S. stock market performance.
1 The NAV represents the fund's net assets (assets less liabilities) divided by the fund's outstanding shares .
2 Fund shares are purchased and sold on an exchange at their market price rather than net asset value (NAV), which may cause the shares to trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount).
3 Most recent distribution paid or declared to today's date. Subject to change in the future. There is no guarantee that the fund will declare dividends.
4 The 30-day SEC yield is calculated by dividing the net investment income per share earned during the most recent 30-day period by the maximum offering price per share on the last day of the period and includes the effects of fee waivers and expense reimbursements, if applicable.
5 12-Month Distribution Rate is calculated by dividing the sum of the fund's trailing 12-month ordinary distributions paid or declared by the NAV price. Distribution rates may vary.
6 Inception Date is 5/18/2016
You should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. You can download a prospectus or summary prospectus, or contact First Trust Portfolios L.P. at 1-800-621-1675 to request a prospectus or summary prospectus which contains this and other information about the fund. The prospectus or summary prospectus should be read carefully before investing.
ETF Characteristics
The fund lists and principally trades its shares on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.
Investors buying or selling fund shares on the secondary market may incur customary brokerage commissions. Market prices may differ to some degree from the net asset value of the shares. Investors who sell fund shares may receive less than the share's net asset value. Shares may be sold throughout the day on the exchange through any brokerage account. However, unlike mutual funds, shares may only be redeemed directly from the fund by authorized participants, in very large creation/redemption units. If the fund's authorized participants are unable to proceed with creation/redemption orders and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem, fund shares may trade at a discount to the fund's net asset value and possibly face delisting.
The fund's shares will change in value, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. One of the principal risks of investing in the fund is market risk. Market risk is the risk that a particular security owned by the fund or shares of the fund in general, may fall in value.
The trading prices of commodities futures, fixed income securities and other instruments fluctuate in response to a variety of factors. The fund's net asset value and market price may fluctuate significantly in response to these factors. As a result, an investor could lose money over short or long periods of time. In addition, the net asset value of the fund may be more volatile over short-term periods than other investment options because of the fund's significant use of financial instruments that have a leveraging effect.
The fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed portfolio. In managing the fund's investment portfolio, the advisor will apply investment techniques and risk analyses that may not have the desired result. There can be no guarantee that the fund will meet its investment objective.
The fund does not invest directly in futures instruments. Rather, it invests in a wholly owned subsidiary, which will have the same investment objective as the fund, but unlike the fund, it may invest without limitation in futures instruments. The subsidiary is not registered under the 1940 Act and is not subject to all the investor protections of the 1940 Act. Thus, the fund, as an investor in the subsidiary, will not have all the protections offered to investors in registered investment companies.
The failure or bankruptcy of the fund's and the subsidiary's clearing broker could result in a substantial loss of fund assets.
The value of commodity futures typically is based upon the price movements of a physical commodity or an economic variable linked to such price movements. The prices of commodity futures may fluctuate quickly and dramatically and may not correlate to price movements in other asset classes. An active trading market may not exist for certain commodities. Each of these factors and events could have a significant negative impact on the fund.
All futures and futures-related products are highly volatile. Price movements are influenced by a variety of factors, including: changes in overall economic conditions, changes in interest rates, or factors affecting a particular commodity or industry, such as production, supply, demand, drought, floods, weather, political, economic and regulatory developments. Futures contracts may be less liquid than other types of investments.
The frequent trading of futures contracts may increase the amount of commissions or mark-ups to broker-dealers that the fund pays when it buys and sells contracts, which may detract from the fund's performance.
The fund will, under most circumstances, effect most creations and redemptions, in whole or in part for cash, rather than in-kind securities. As a result, the fund may be less tax-efficient.
Trading on commodity markets outside the U.S. is not regulated by any U.S. government agency and may involve certain risks not applicable to trading on U.S. exchanges. The subsidiary is subject to portfolio turnover risk, which may result in the fund paying higher levels of transaction costs and generating greater tax liability for shareholders, with the potential to lessen performance. The fund holds investments that are denominated in non-U.S. currencies, or in securities that provide exposure to such currencies, currency exchange rates or interest rates denominated in such currencies. Changes in currency exchange rates and the relative value of non-U.S. currencies may affect the value of the fund's investments and the value of the fund's shares. The fund intends to treat any income it may derive from commodity futures contracts received by the subsidiary as qualified income, subject to regulatory rules and annual re-examination.
The fund may be subject to the forces of "whipsaw" markets (as opposed to choppy or stable markets), in which significant price movements develop but then repeatedly reverse, which could cause substantial losses.
The fund is classified as "non-diversified" and may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a limited number of issuers. As a result, the fund may be more susceptible to a single adverse economic or regulatory occurrence affecting one or more of these issuers, experience increased volatility and be highly concentrated in certain issuers.
Shorting may result in greater gains or greater losses. Short selling creates special risks which could result in increased volatility of returns. Because losses on short sales arise from increases in the value of the security sold short, such losses are theoretically unlimited.
Certain securities in the fund are subject to credit risk, interest rate risk, and income risk. Credit risk is the risk that an issuer of a security will be unable or unwilling to make dividend, interest and/or principal payments when due and that the value of a security may decline as a result. Interest rate risk is the risk that the value of the fixed income securities in the fund will decline because of rising market interest rates. Income risk is the risk that income from the fund's fixed income investments could decline during periods of falling interest rates.
The fund currently has fewer assets than larger funds, and like other relatively new funds, large inflows and outflows may impact the fund's market exposure for limited periods of time.
The fund is subject to gap risk, which is the risk that a commodity price will change from one level to another with no trading in between.
The fund is subject to regulatory risk, which may result in commodity contract positions requiring liquidation at disadvantageous times or prices.
The fund's investment in repurchase agreements may be subject to market and credit risk with respect to the collateral securing the repurchase agreements.
The fund may invest in U.S. government obligations, including U.S.Treasury obligations and securities. Securities issued or guaranteed by federal agencies and U.S. government sponsored instrumentalities may or may not be backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
First Trust Advisors L.P. is the adviser to the fund. First Trust Advisors L.P. is an affiliate of First Trust Portfolios L.P., the fund's distributor.
First Trust Advisors L.P. is registered as a commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor and is also a member of the National Futures Association.
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Patryk I. Labuda
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow at New York University School of Law
International Humanitarian Law / Public International Law / Peacekeeping / Transitional Justice / International Criminal Justice / Empirical Methods
Patryk I. Labuda is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow in the Hauser Global Law School Program of the New York University School of Law.
His research lies at the intersection of international law, transitional justice, and peace and security studies. Patryk's post-doctoral research examines the nature and scope of the protection of civilians norm in United Nations peacekeeping, in particular, the relationship between protection obligations in international humanitarian law and international human rights law. His teaching interests include international criminal law, public international law, transitional justice, and empirical methods.
Patryk's PhD on ‘The Complementarity Turn in International Criminal Justice’ explored how various international criminal tribunals influence the accountability policies of governments in conflict-affected countries. A recipient of the Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship, he finished his doctorate at Harvard Law School, Cambridge University’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Patryk has several years of work experience in transitional justice and security sector reform. Most recently, he was a legal reform advisor to the European Union’s border assistance mission in Libya. Previously, Patryk trained and advised officials from the Sudanese Ministry of Justice, the Sudanese Bar Union and parliamentarians from both chambers of the South Sudanese legislature. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, he worked on transitional justice and rule of law reform with the Ministry of Justice, Parliament and the Congolese National Police. Patryk is a member of the UN Security Council Roster of Experts.
Patryk holds a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, an LLM from Columbia Law School, a Certificate of Transnational Law from the University of Geneva, and degrees in law (Magister iuris) and history (Licencjat) from Adam Mickiewicz University.
Khmer Rouge Tribunal (ECCC)
LLM - Course
INSTITUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
This course covers several cross-cutting institutional themes in international criminal justice, ranging from investigation strategies and relations with state actors to much-overlooked topics like victim and witness protection and the right to an adequate defence.
Trying Sitting Heads of State: the African Union versus the ICC in the Al-Bashir and Kenyatta Cases
Patryk I. Labuda, co-authored with Paola Gaeta
in Ilias Bantekas and Charles Jalloh (eds), The International Criminal Court and Africa, Oxford University Press
The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic: Failure or Vindication of Complementarity
Journal of International Criminal Justice
Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement
Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press
The International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Decade of Partnership and Antagonism
in Kamari Clarke, Abel S. Knottnerus, Eefje de Volder (eds), Africa and the ICC: Perceptions of Justice, Cambridge University Press
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Abortion, Catholicism, Euthanasia, Godbeat, International News, Marriage & Family, LGBTQ, Pope Francis, Politics, Scriptures, Terry Mattingly
So how much do you trust Pope Francis? Here's why death penalty debate is heating up
St. Pope John Paul II condemned the death penalty and urged government leaders to end it.
Pope Benedict XVI did the same, in language just as strong as that used by his beloved predecessor.
Now Pope Francis has gone one step further, saying that the church can now say that the faith of the ages has evolved, allowing the Catholic Catechism to condemn the death penalty in strong, but somewhat unusual language. Is use of the death penalty now a mortal sin, like abortion and euthanasia? Well, the word is that it is "inadmissible."
This is, of course, a major news story and, no surprise, host Todd Wilken and I discussed the early press coverage in this week's "Crossroads" podcast. Click here to tune that in.
But what does this change really mean?
Did Pope Francis simply take the work of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI one step further? Thus, Catholic traditionalists can chill.
Or is this an example of Pope Francis the progressive, moving one piece on the Jesuit chessboard to prepare for further shifts in the future on other doctrines? If the church was wrong on the death penalty for 2,000 years, who knows what doctrine will evolve next?
So, is this doctrinal shift a big deal or not?
It appears, after looking at lots of commentary on social media, that the answer to that question depends on whether someone trusts Pope Francis or not.
Tagged: Catholic Catechism, Pope Francis, death penalty, right to life, abortion, euthanasia
Euthanasia, Social Issues, Health, Catholicism, Ethics, Journalism, Human Rights, International News, Kellerism, George Conger, Death & dying, Europe
Good advocacy journalism -- The French daily Liberation on the right to die
What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, (1711) line 203.
Regular readers of these columns will discern my disdain for advocacy journalism. It is part of my personal catalogue of the seven deadly sins. Let us tick them off according to Pope Gregory I’s list: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, wnvy and pride. Advocacy journalism is the reporter’s particular sin of pride. It takes humility to handle opposing voices with accuracy and respect.
But I do not want to dismiss this style out of hand for there are many examples of excellent opinion-centered news articles. A recent story on euthanasia from the French daily Libération is an example of how to do advocacy journalism well.
But first let us define our terms. In a recent GetReligion article, editor tmatt described the clash of ideologies between the classical school of Anglo-American reporting, and the older but now revived school of advocacy reporting.
When I say "old-school journalism," I am referring to what textbooks often call the "American model of the press," which stresses that journalists should strive to honor standards of accuracy, fairness and balance when covering the news. The key: When reporting on hot-button issues, journalists should strive to treat people on all sides of these debates with respect.
This classically liberal approach to news emerged, and evolved, in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The goal was to produce news that was as independent as possible, thus exposing readers to genuine diversity. Citizens could then make up their own minds.
Tagged: ALS, Anne Bert, Europe, Liberation, euthanasia, advocacy journalism, American Model of the Press, Charcot's disease
Catholicism, Euthanasia, Canada, Julia Duin, Kellerism, Health, Ethics
Former Catholic priest does euthanasia (in numbing detail) recorded by the New York Times
It’s beginning to feel like fill-in-the-blanks journalism: A terminally ill person wishes to die on his own terms and so we are walked through his last hours in a happy celebration of the joys of euthanasia.
Some of us have mixed feelings about assisted suicide, especially if you’ve spent any time in a ward of very elderly people, many of whom have no idea of where they are. And, were they cognizant, they might vote themselves off the Earth pretty quickly.
Yes, this is personal. After spending some time at the bedside of my dying father a year ago and seeing how miserable so many of the elderly and sick truly are, I can understand wanting to end it. But there is always that slippery slope when it comes to science, law and doctrine.
Here we have a lyrical New York Times piece about a former Catholic priest arranging his own death. We start here:
VICTORIA, British Columbia -- Two days before he was scheduled to die, John Shields roused in his hospice bed with an unusual idea. He wanted to organize an Irish wake for himself. It would be old-fashioned with music and booze, except for one notable detail -- he would be present.
The party should take up a big section of Swiss Chalet, a family-style chain restaurant on the road out of town. Mr. Shields wanted his last supper to be one he so often enjoyed on Friday nights when he was a young Catholic priest -- rotisserie chicken legs with gravy.
Then, his family would take him home and he would die there in the morning, preferably in the garden. It was his favorite spot, rocky and wild. Flowering native shrubs pressed in from all sides and a stone Buddha and birdbath peeked out from among the ferns and boulders. Before he got sick, Mr. Shields liked to sit in his old Adirondack chair and watch the bald eagles train their juveniles to soar overhead. He meditated there twice a day, among the towering Douglas firs.
Wait a minute: Chicken legs (not fish) on Fridays when he was a YOUNG priest? Maybe this is a sign of Catholic tensions to come.
Not surprisingly, the locale is in the Pacific Northwest in a part of Canada that the article calls “ground zero for assisted suicide in the country.”
Tagged: John Shields, euthanasia, assisted suicide, New York Times, Victoria
Catholicism, Euthanasia, Julia Duin, Women, Social Issues, People, Ethics
A suicide party? Moral and religious questions? Associated Press draws a blank
Ever hear of a suicide party?
There was such an event in San Diego in July and the Associated Press was there to tell us the details. The piece came with photos of a party with a 41-year-old woman who was sometimes sitting up, other times lying down. However, she could not stand or walk nor move her arms and her speech was so slurred, most had problems understanding her.
Still, what would you do if you were invited to such an event? Would you raise any questions of a moral or religious nature? We will come back to that.
SAN DIEGO -- In early July, Betsy Davis emailed her closest friends and relatives to invite them to a two-day party, telling them: “These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness and openness.”
And just one rule: No crying in front of her.
The 41-year-old artist with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, held the gathering to say goodbye before becoming one of the first Californians to take a lethal dose of drugs under the state's new doctor-assisted suicide law for the terminally ill.
“For me and everyone who was invited, it was very challenging to consider, but there was no question that we would be there for her,” said Niels Alpert, a cinematographer from New York City. “The idea to go and spend a beautiful weekend that culminates in their suicide — that is not a normal thing, not a normal, everyday occurrence. In the background of the lovely fun, smiles and laughter that we had that weekend was the knowledge of what was coming.”
Davis worked out a detailed schedule for the gathering on the weekend of July 23-24, including the precise hour she planned to slip into a coma. ...
The article described the party, and then its end:
Tagged: physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, Betsy Davis, Associated Press, National Review
Euthanasia, Health, Julia Duin
Child euthanasia: CNN is still leaving God and faith questions on cutting room floor
“Heaven over hospital” is the tearjerker story lots of folks have been talking about this week, with good cause.
Set in Oregon, a state with liberal euthanasia laws, the major players aren’t consenting adults dying of some awful disease and who want to put a quicker end to their misery.
No, this time the major player is a 5-year-old.
The story is in two parts. Here is how the second part debuts:
(CNN) Five-year-old Julianna Snow has never been healthy enough to attend Sunday school at the City Bible Church in Portland, Oregon, where her family belongs, so most of what she knows about heaven, she knows from her parents.
They tell her that heaven is where she'll be able to run and play and eat, none of which she can do now. Heaven is where she'll meet her great-grandmother, who shared Julianna's love of shiny, sparkly, mismatched clothes.
God will be in heaven, too, they tell her, and he will love her even more than they do.
But Michelle Moon and Steve Snow explain that they won't be in heaven when Julianna arrives there, and neither will her big brother, Alex. She'll go to heaven before them because she has a severe case of an incurable neurodegenerative illness called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Her coughing and breathing muscles are so weak that the next time she catches even a cold, the infection could settle in her lungs, where it could cause a deadly pneumonia. Her doctors believe that if they can save her under those circumstances -- and that's a big if -- she will likely end up sedated on a respirator with very little quality of life.
And here comes the issue that lifts this tragic story into the news:
Tagged: euthanasia, Julianna Snow, CNN, Bethany Maynard
Catholicism, Euthanasia, Julia Duin
Gov. Jerry Brown's Catholicity vs. euthanasia decision gets above-the-fold ink
Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old Californian who moved to Oregon last year so she could end her life instead of facing the last stages of brain cancer, got her political revenge this week.
That's the reality in the news coverage. That’s because -- unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere -- California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill making assisted suicide legal. Which opened the gates to this controversial personal or family choice to some 38 million people overnight.
And the Los Angeles Times reporter who covered it did a great job of making the religion angle front and center. That is, the Catholic governor of the country’s most populous state did something totally against his religion, but readers got to learn about how that decision played out. Start reading here:
Caught between conflicting moral arguments, Gov. Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit seminary student, signed a measure Monday allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients who want to hasten their deaths.
Brown appeared to struggle in deciding whether to approve the bill, whose opponents included the Catholic Church.
“In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death,” Brown wrote in a signing message. “I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. And I wouldn’t deny that right to others.”
After explaining some provisions of the End of Life Option Act and placing a quote by its opponents quite high in the story, the reporter swung back to Brown, who said he had weighed the religious arguments.
Tagged: Los Angeles Times, KTLA TV, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, Gov. Jerry Brown, Archbishop Jose Gomez, Brittany Maynard, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, right to die, CNN, Compassion and Choices
Julia Duin, Euthanasia
New Yorker article finds unusual scapegoat for euthanasia in Belgium: Secular humanists
Euthanasia has gotten some pretty uncritical treatment from the media, especially the month-long media drama last fall involving 29-year-old Bethany Maynard. Her decision to short-circuit an almost-certain agonizing death via brain cancer by deciding to kill herself beforehand kept the nation enthralled for weeks, especially when she seemed to back off from her resolution near the end. But she did the deed last Nov. 1, her target date.
What went untold there -- and in many euthanasia narratives before that -- was something of the devastation felt by the nearest of kin.
Which is why this New Yorker piece on Godelieva De Troyer, a Belgian woman who did not have a terminal illness but chose to die nevertheless, is the exception.
The story first goes into De Troyer’s lifelong battles with depression, which was abetted when her husband committed suicide, leaving her a single parent with two small children. She struggled along, finding comfort in a new boyfriend for a time, but then losing him and also losing the affection of her daughter, who had moved to Africa and wished no contact with her. What remained was a son, who was married with two children. It is this son, named Tom, that the article spends much time on.
Belgium had passed a law in 2002 that allows euthanasia for those who have an incurable illness that causes them unbearable physical or mental suffering. (It also allows euthanasia for incurably ill children and a law allowing euthanasia for dementia is also in the works.) When De Troyer turned 63, she met Wim Distelmans, a doctor who was a proponent of that law. One thing led to another and in late 2011, she told her children she’d filed a euthanasia request with her doctor. Neither took her seriously, so they were shocked to learn the following April that she had indeed killed herself. The son found a note from her saying that after 40 years of unsuccessful therapy for her depression, she was done.
At this point, the article slips into theology:
Tagged: Belgium, euthanasia, Auschwitz, Bethany Maynard, The New Yorker, Godelieva De Troyer, Secular humanism
Catholicism, Journalism, Mainline, People, Politics, Terry Mattingly, Vatican, Church & State
Baltimore Sun ignores religion ghosts in Maryland debates on 'death with dignity' bill
Baltimore is the kind of place where a Super Bowl ring does grant someone a certain level of moral and cultural authority.
Thus, I was not surprised that Baltimore Ravens executive O.J. Brigance, a linebacker and special-teams star in the team's first Super Bowl win, was asked to testify during the legislative hearings on a proposed "death with dignity" law in Maryland. Also, I was not surprised that The Baltimore Sun decided to lead its report on these hearings with this unique man's testimony.
However, I was surprised that Brigance -- one of the most outspoken Christians on the Raven's staff (click here for previous GetReligion posts on this) -- did not say anything about his faith during his testimony. Or, perhaps, the members of the Sun team were anxious to avoid the Godtalk during the debates about this hot-button moral issue?
First, here is what readers were told about Brigance:
On Tuesday, testifying with a machine that replaced the voice taken from him by ALS, the former linebacker told Maryland lawmakers that his most significant feat came after he grieved over his degenerative condition and decided to live.
"Because I decided to live life the best I could, there has been a ripple effect of goodness in the world," Brigance said. "Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years than in my previous 37 years on earth."
His testimony came during an emotional hearing in Annapolis on a proposed "death with dignity" law, a measure that is named in honor of Richard E. "Dick" Israel, another prominent Marylander with a neurodegenerative disease. While Israel is spending his final months fighting for the right to end his life, Brigance says his terminal disease brought meaning to his.
Tagged: euthanasia, death with dignity, Maryland, O.J. Brigance, Baltimore Ravens, The Baltimore Sun, Catholic Catechism, Gov. Larry Hogan
Bobby Ross Jr., Catholicism, Journalism, Politics, Social Issues, Episcopalians
Terri Schiavo case revisited: What role did faith play in Jeb Bush's fight to keep her alive?
In a fascinating story, the Tampa Bay Times explores former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's role in the case of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who died a decade ago after the feeding tube that sustained her for 15 years was removed.
The front-page report published Sunday focuses on Bush's decision to "err on the side of life" in a messy conflict over the fate of Schiavo, whom medical experts described as in a "persistent vegetative state."
The lede:
Tricia Rivas had never written to an elected official, but gripped with emotion, she composed an urgent email to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. "Please save Terri Schiavo!" she wrote from her home in Tucson, Ariz., on March 20, 2005. "Do something before it is too late … please! Every parent is watching this drama unfold … and will remember the outcome in future elections." Schiavo would be dead by the end of the month at a hospice near St. Petersburg, but not before Bush took a series of actions that, looking back a decade later, are stunning for their breadth and audacity.
A governor who was known for his my-way-or-the-highway approach — and who rarely was challenged by fellow Republicans controlling the legislative branch — stormed to the brink of a constitutional crisis in order to overrule the judicial branch for which he often showed contempt. Bush used his administration to battle in court after court, in Congress, in his brother's White House, and, even after Schiavo's death, to press a state attorney for an investigation into her husband, Michael Schiavo.
While many Republicans espouse a limited role for government in personal lives, Bush, now a leading contender for president in 2016, went all in on Schiavo.
Brief glimpses of faith and religion appear throughout the 2,200-word story. Unfortunately, those glimpses function more as flashing lights — as buzzwords — than real spotlights illuminating any kind of spiritual insight or depth.
Tagged: Terri Schiavo, Jeb Bush, Tampa Bay Times, euthanasia, life support, 2016 presidential race, Republicans
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Now Streaming: These Movies and Shows are Actually Based on AWESOME Books!
Okay, so Netflix has truly been on its A game recently with some on-point new rom-coms like The Kissing Booth and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, which we can finally watch! Plus they’ve been digging up some classics from the good ol’ days (by that we mean the ’90s and early ’00s), and TBH we are HERE FOR IT.
Turns out that some of the best content out there right now is based on YA books. YA all DAY, people! These nine movies and shows are ready for your binge-watching pleasure . . . but don’t forget to check out the books, too!
Netflix Newbies:
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
We’ve literally been waiting all summer for this movie to come out on Netflix. It’s based on the series by Jenny Han, who is basically YA royalty. With a diverse cast, a too-cute story, and three books to binge-read after you watch the movie multiple times, this is the new age of rom-coms—and we love it. It’s about Lara Jean, whose secret love letters somehow get mailed to her past crushes, and madness ensues.
The Kissing Booth by Beth Reekles
No one knew that The Kissing Booth would become such a smash for Netflix. The original novel, which was published in 2013, is just as adorable, and has a fascinating backstory: it started off as a teen’s Wattpad passion project!
The story follows never-been-kissed Elle Evans, who runs a kissing booth at her high school Spring Carnival and finds herself locking lips with her secret crush, Noah! It may sound like a teen’s dream come true, but there is a hitch: Noah is the brother of Elle’s best friend, Lee, and he’s totally off-limits per the terms of their friendship.
Love, Simon by Becky Albertalli
When Love, Simon came out in theaters, people really started to LOVE Simon. It’s a coming-of-age tale about a closeted gay teen who is forced to come out after being blackmailed with his romantic emails to a fellow closeted classmate. But it’s not just a coming-out story. It’s a story about how it can be hard for anyone to show the world who they really are. We can all relate to that.
Not everyone knows that Love, Simon actually goes by a different name in the YA world. It’s based on the highly acclaimed LGBTQ+ novel by Becky Albertalli called Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Becky has become a champion of celebrating LGTBQ+ characters in YA, and Simon is one of our all-time faves. It doesn’t hurt that Nick Robinson is irresistible as Simon in the movie.
The Classics Are Back:
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
Philip Pullman is so hot right now. Not only does he have a new book out (you need to read The Book of Dust), but the His Dark Materials series is being made into a TV show by the BBC. Oh, and Lin-Manuel Miranda has been cast to play Lee Scoresby. Many of us first fell in love with this world through The Golden Compass movie, which is now available to stream on Netflix, so we’re pretty busy all of a sudden.
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
If you think Meghan and Harry are a fairy-tale royal romance, you probably have yet to meet Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries. And lucky you—once you watch both movies and fall in love with them, there are ELEVEN books in the series by Meg Cabot.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
So we all know that jeans don’t just magically fit people, let alone the same pair of jeans fitting four different girls. What even is that, witchcraft? But seriously, this book was a teen rite of passage in 2001, and everyone lost it when the movie came out four years later. While that seems like eons ago, this friendship story is still relevant in both formats.
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The Evolution of Claire by Tess Sharp
If you went to the movies at all this summer, you probably saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. If you’ve had dino fever ever since, you need to get your hands on Tess Sharpe’s The Evolution of Claire. It’s a pulse-pounding prequel to both Jurassic World movies that follows the beloved Claire Dearing during her freshman year in college. It’s set in 2004, after Claire has been offered the chance to intern at the Jurassic Park theme park less than a year before it opens to the public. The book is a satisfying bridge between the tough businesswoman we see in the movies and the young woman who fought so hard for the park’s dinosaurs all those years ago.
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Not that we want to bring up Nick Robinson again (we do), but in case you missed Everything, Everything when it was in theaters (he was in it), it’s now available to stream on HBO Go. And we suggest you GO read everything by Nicola Yoon because The Sun Is Also a Star movie is coming out next year.
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Okay, so this one is not YA and it WILL scare you, but we have to talk about it. Book lovers everywhere know that Gillian Flynn is the author of Gone Girl, which blew our minds a few years ago. But not everyone knows that her debut novel was Sharp Objects, and it’s even creepier and way more twisted. Seeing it come to life in the new HBO series is keeping us up at night—in a good way.
It’s about a journalist named Camille who returns to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to help cover an ongoing murder investigation. The deeper into the mystery Camille goes, the more she revisits her traumatic past. With its multilayered female characters and secretive small town so haunting it’ll give you nightmares, Sharp Objects is a must-read for mystery and thriller fans, and readers who love great stories about complicated women written by women.
What are you streaming right now? Tell us in the comments below!
Author Gift Guide: 5 Gifts Inspired by Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
What If These Authors Picked Synonyms for Their Book Titles? The Results Are Hilarious...
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Argentina again facing early elimination at Copa America
AP Jun 18, 2019 at 6:10p ET
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — A year later, Argentina is again facing the prospect of an early elimination.
After struggling in the group stage of the World Cup in Russia, Argentina also got off to a bad start at the Copa America in Brazil.
And another setback on Wednesday against Paraguay will leave the team in danger of enduring its worst fiasco in nearly four decades. The last time Argentina failed to advance past the group stage in the South American competition was in 1983.
Trying to end a title drought of 26 years, Argentina opened its Copa America campaign with a demoralizing 2-0 loss to Colombia, falling to last place in Group B after Paraguay and Qatar earned a point each from their 2-2 draw.
“We wanted to start differently,” Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni said Tuesday. “But the players know we still have plenty of chances of advancing. Tomorrow’s match will be very important for us.”
At last year’s World Cup, Argentina needed a win over Nigeria in the final group match to avoid elimination. The team got it, but they then lost to France in the last 16.
Scaloni was part of the staff of then-coach Jorge Sampaoli, who was fired after the loss to the eventual champions. Scaloni, a former player, now faces the urgency of a good result against Paraguay at the Mineirao Stadium.
With a squad with less than half of the players who were in Russia, Argentina has shown little progress since the World Cup. The loss to Colombia revealed many of the mistakes the team endured in Russia, including the lack of efficiency in attack despite the leadership of Lionel Messi.
Messi was far from his best against Colombia but remained optimistic.
“This group is ready for this challenge and we will try to succeed,” said the 31-year-old Messi, the team’s oldest player at this year’s Copa America. “This group is strong and united. We can make it.”
Messi, Sergio Aguero and Angel Di Maria are the only survivors from the group that lost the finals of the World Cup in 2014 and the Copa America in 2015 and 2016. Aguero and Di Maria also struggled against Colombia, being heavily criticized back home.
Aguero had only one significant attempt on goal early in the game, while Di Maria was never a real threat against the Colombian defense. Udinese captain Rodrigo De Paul is now touted as a possible replacement for Di Maria after entering the match against Colombia and adding a spark to the Argentina attack.
Aguero had not been in Scaloni’s plans before the Copa America but his good season with Manchester City made it nearly impossible to leave the striker out of the squad. Scaloni previously had favored strikers with a greater presence in the area, such as Lautaro Martinez.
In defense, a lackluster performance by Renzo Saravia could lead to him being replaced by Milton Casco.
Paraguay has never beaten Argentina in 24 Copa America matches, but it has always proven a tough opponent thanks to its solid defensive system. Paraguay didn’t concede in its last two matches against its neighbor.
To make it even harder for Argentina, the Paraguayan defense is likely to be boosted by the return of Palmeiras defender Gustavo Gomez, who was suspended for the first match against Qatar.
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Side-Event on “The implementation of the right to enjoy scientific progress and the freedom indispensable for scientific research” (Geneva, Sept. 20, 2016) -
Side-Event on “The implementation of the right to enjoy scientific progress and the freedom indispensable for scientific research” (Geneva, Sept. 20, 2016)
Palais des Nations, Room XXVII (Geneva, Switzerland)
– Organized by the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research and the “Associazione Luca Coscioni” in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva and with the International Institute for the Human right to science
Hon. Mr. Benedetto Della Vedova, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – Italy
Ms. Filomena Gallo and Mr. Marco Cappato, Associazione Luca Coscioni
Mr. Mikel Mancisidor, Vice-Chairperson- CESCR
Mr. Cesare Romano, Professor of Law & W. Joseph Ford Fellow Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Ms. Marisa Jaconi, University of Geneva, and Marco Gentili, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patient
Malin Parmar, Lund University
Dr. Marco Traub, Director of TransEuropean Stem Cell Therapy Society, Bern- Stettlen- Switzerland
*Sandwiches and beverages will be served
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The Romani People
The Romani people, also referred to as Roma, or Gypsy, are an ethnic group who live primarily in Europe. The Roma are unique because they have never identified themselves with a specific land region or territory. They have no traditional homeland or have no claim to a national sovereignty. There are even theories to their origin as being a lost tribe of Israel.
The Roma people have experienced hundreds of years of living in persecution. Some of the persecution stems from their traditions and beliefs steeped in superstition and fortunetelling, but a lot of the persecution is racially motivated. From persecution in historical records dating back to as early as the early 1300’s, to the Nazi’s trying to exterminate their race along with the Jewish people, and even now, to this day, they are treated as outcasts among all of the European countries.
Timeline of Romani Persecution In History
The Roma, being known as mystics and thieves, are not welcome in regular society and therefore, live in very poor conditions in villages (called Mahalas) outside of cities and towns. There are integration issues to which has led to a current severe 70% unemployment rate among their people. This leads to most of them begging or resorting to other shady ways of earning money.
We came to Bulgaria six years ago and spent one day in a village outside of Samokov, Bulgaria. That one day changed our lives forever. God developed in us a love for the Roma people. We saw how loving and giving they truly are. We knew our life’s mission would be to love and encourage them, to teach, train and disciple them, but most importantly to proclaim God’s love and His purpose for them.
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Determining effect order
By Telanor, August 17, 2013 in General and Gameplay Programming
Telanor 1486
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I'm having a hard time trying to come up with a way to determine the order to apply/process effects on an entity. The ideas I've come up with all have downsides to them, so I'm wondering if anyone can provide some insight on this problem.
First idea is to have a preset list of categories. Every effect/spell is assigned to a category and the categories are all processed in a certain order. There's two downsides to this: If I have an effect that needs to be applied between "category A" and "category B", there's no way to do that without introducing another category. The other issue is, if two effects are both in "category B" and I now have an effect that needs to happen between them, I'm out of luck.
Second idea is to assign a priority to each effect/spell as a float value. Effects/spells with a higher value are applied first. The problem with this one is that if I have "effect B" that needs to be applied after "effect A" and before "effect C", but A has a value of 5, and C has a value of 10, no value assigned to B will create that order.
And the last idea, which is downright awful, is to have each effect (optionally) define every effect that needs to be applied before (or after) it. Aside from the issue of creating circular dependencies, this would really get out of hand if you tried to make an effect that always has to be applied last. Either it would have to specify every single effect must occur before it, or every other effect would have to specify that that effect must come after it.
I feel like the 2nd idea is the most workable, but I want to be as accommodating to modding as possible, so people don't run into issues like "oh well, they set the priority of this spell too high, there's no way to have my effect run in the proper order". Basically all of these work in a closed system when you know every spell/effect that could be applied, but are problematic when mixed with mods. Thoughts?
haegarr 7407
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A fourth approach would be to ask for a total order statement. I.e. all possible effects are presented in a chain (or perhaps a tree), and a new effect needs to be inserted into this chain to become available in the game. This pushes the responsibility to the designer.
The example shows a design mistake: If C has a priority of 10, and A has a priority of 5, then this is already a statement about the order of A and C. If now B comes into play and contradicts the already established order, then there is a break in the logic.
Now, because you can't have both A before C and A after C, you perhaps wanted to say that the order of A and C is arbitrary until B comes into play. This may be expressed by letting A and C have the same priority first, but requires automatic priority adaption. This solution is a mix of both the category as well as the priority solution, because it allows to shift the category of a particular effect a bit towards another category, so that is is mainly category 1 but a bit also category 2.
On the other hand, if the above situation may occur legally, then obviously you need to cancel either the one or the other effect. Either the second effect cannot take place until the former situation has been settled, or else the new situation overrides the older one.
What makes this different from solution 3? And how does it handle the case where Mod A adds 5 effects and then Mod B adds another 10 effects. It seems like each mod would have to know about every other mod.
Now, because you can't have both A before C and A after C, you perhaps wanted to say that the order of A and C is arbitrary until B comes into play. This may be expressed by letting A and C have the same priority first, but requires automatic priority adaption.
That is exactly the situation I wanted to express with that example. How would you code/design such an automatic priority adaption system? It seems to just end up with solution 3.
LorenzoGatti 4549
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If you have impossible ordering constraints (A before B, but B before A), it's a mistake regardless of how they are represented.
Of the three representations in the original posts, the third one is by far the most appropriate one because it represents an order relationship correctly; in particular, new "effects" can be added anywhere in the dependency graph, without running into trouble with missing gaps between "layers" or "priorities".
It isn't awful; realistically, a few dependencies imply a node's position with respect to all nodes that matter. For example, many different attack types, with various precedences among themselves, can be specified to happen before explosion rendering; then if you say that the two "final" steps of creating debris objects and swapping in damaged sprites and models take place after explosions, they automatically take place after all attacks too.
The actual game engine should probably process a list of "pass" objects in sequence, but turning a direct acyclic graph of precedences into a processing order is a computer's job; avoid unneeded bookkeeping for game content authors.
Edited August 17, 2013 by LorenzoGatti
Of course. I didn't state this but in that example, effects A and C don't actually care what order they're in, but since the system would require a priority be assigned for all effects, they were arbitrarily assigned those orders. When just A and C are used, it made no difference, but when B came into the equation, it caused a problem.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we're thinking about where the order is assigned in two different ways. You seem to be thinking of it in terms of the spell specifying the order of each of its effects. I was thinking about it in more global terms, as in "effect C" always occurs before "effect B" regardless of whether its applied by a "spell A", "spell B" or "spell C". I'm not sure there would be a case where you'd want to have the order be one way for one spell and then entirely different for another spell given the same effects.
Also, I think the order is far more important when considering the effects currently on an entity. Entities can have effects like "damage reduction" or "fire resistance" applied to them from separate spells. Now when the entity is attacked, these effects will inspect the incoming damage and modify it. This is where I feel the order is important.
Consider a zombie that has the following two effects applied to it: "Converts healing spells to 'harm' spells, and 'harm' spells to healing spells" and "All damage is reduced by 50%". If you cast a 'harm' spell on the zombie, one of two things can happen, depending on the order those effects are applied. If the damage reduct is applied first, the zombie will be healed by 50%. If the conversion is applied first, then the damage reduct won't apply (since it's now a heal instead of a damage spell), and the zombie will be healed for 100%.
How would you specify the order in this case?
DrEvil 1151
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I would create dependency categories that you can associate with effects that require ordering dependencies. This allows your effect to define one or more types of effects it depends on being processed first so that when effects are added or removed you can order them by their dependencies. Dependencies could vary by specificity. Maybe there is a damage dependency that must process after all damage and more specific ones that only apply to fire damage. Depending on the complexity of the effects system you might need to essentially build an effect dependency graph with the prerequisite conditions and then when taking damage that may have multiple effects, propagate the list of damage effects through the tree, where its effects might split and follow different paths down the graph and get modified in various ways until it comes out the other side of the graph potentially heavily modified or transformed into a wholly different effect set.
On top of that you might also want to create processing groups to batch process different effect types before others. Effects that convert effects to other effects should probably come first so that before other effects are applied, conversions are made so that later effects can be applied to the conversions.
So kind of like a more flexible version of solution A? The dependencies would be applied to the categories themselves and anyone could add new categories? Seems pretty good, but it might make it easier to end up creating circular dependencies. Also it would still have the problem of not being able to stick an effect in between two effects with the same category(s).
IMHO a reliable non-compromise solution doesn't exist as soon as you want to mix the input from 2 independent sources and the criteria isn't already defined for both sources.
Could you please give an example of how an effect should work, and how 2 effects from unaware sources have to be integrated?
If I could come up with an example of how it should work, the problem would be solved. All I know is that there are some effects where the order will matter, and in such cases, there needs to be a way to specify the order. I think it would be a nightmare if I tried to just specify that manually for each effect, so I want some more general way of doing it.
I agree that there probably isn't a perfect solution to this. But just because I can't think of one doesn't mean one doesn't exist . I wanted to see if anyone could come up with "better" solutions. DrEvil's idea is pretty good and I may end up going with that.
Zipster 2413
Zipster
It's difficult to give an exact answer without knowing exactly what effects can... well... affect in your game, but ideally, you don't want effect order to matter. There are ways to design such a system so that effects can be applied in an arbitrary order, and an intermediary layer can sort out the side-effects and make sure objects are actually affected in a sane manner.
The analog is a graphics engine which renders in two phases: the first phase collecting all the objects that need to render (or in your case, all the effects that need to be applied), and then breaking down the objects into their component pieces and rendering them in the correct order to minimize state changes, handle transparency properly, etc. (which in your case is breaking down a high-level effect into its low-level state changes and sorting them appropriately).
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UK game charts: June 4-10
Football fever causes EA's 2006 FIFA World Cup to rise to the top, while three new entries make an appearance in the top 10.
By Guy Cocker | @guycocker on August 16, 2006 at 2:15PM PDT
EA's 2006 FIFA World Cup may have been dislodged from the top of the UK game charts last week, but the start of its real-life namesake has seen its return to number one. It knocked Hitman: Blood Money down to two, while another Eidos game, Tomb Raider: Legend, held the number three position.
The other big news this week is the three new games to enter the top 10. The highest was Moto GP 06 at number four, with Dr Kawashima's Brain Training and Sensible Soccer 2006 following at six and seven, respectively. Half-Life 2 maintained eighth place after entering the charts last week in the same position, although the listing doesn't include copies that have been sold on the Internet via Valve Software's Steam download service.
Three other games remained in the top 10 this week, although they all fell down the charts. Pro Evolution Soccer 5 occupies the number five slot with its Platinum rerelease, while Animal Crossing: Wild World and X-Men: The Official Game round off the list at numbers nine and 10, respectively.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Sensible Soccer 2006
MotoGP '06
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9
Animal Crossing: Wild World
FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006
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We were waiting for call - Darlington hero Kevan Smith
FORMER Quakers' hero Kevan Smith is 'gutted' that the club has been placed in administration when he had a potential buyer ready to step forward.
Andrew Wilkinson
FORMER Quakers' hero Kevan Smith is 'gutted' that the club has been placed in administration when he had a potential buyer ready to step forward.
Teessider Smith, the only man to skipper the side to two significant trophies, revealed that a wealthy friend was willing to talk to club chairman Raj Singh - who Smith claims knew of the interest.
Yet the club was yesterday placed in administration without talks with the potential saviour taking place.
“I’m gutted to see the club go into administration again,” said Smith, who won the Conference and Division Four title with Quakers in back-to-back seasons in 1990 and 1991, having earlier won promotion from the bottom flight in 1985.
“I am surprised at Raj’s actions when he knew there was another party willing to discuss taking over the club.
“In fact I’m amazed he’s gone down this route without those discussions taking place. We had been waiting for his call and were willing to meet at very short notice.”
It is unclear whether the potential saviour, who comes from Darlington and was at Sunday’s game with Gateshead, will be willing to talk to administrators. Any takeover might be harder to achieve now that the club is in administration.
Mark Meynell, spokesman for the Darlington Football Club Rescue Group, another interested party, is certainly of that opinion.
DFCRG had discussed taking over the club in the summer, and will, initially at least, still pursue that goal and he said: “We hope to talk to administrators, but it does make the situation more difficult.”
In a statement Singh said: “It is with huge regret that we’ve had to place the club into administration.
“I didn’t envisage this when I took over the club in August 2009.
“We’ve been trying to make cutbacks to be able to ensure the future of the club, including negotiating reduced players’ wages and a settlement with (former manager) Mark Cooper.
“We haven’t been able to do that, while we also haven’t received a viable offer to take the club over and its ongoing running costs.”
The team has had 10 points deducted and with a small squad is now in a relegation battle to preserve their Blue Square Premier status - if the club survives.
They were not paid last month’s wages before the administrators were called in and it would seem that any potential saviour must act fast.
A statement on behalf of joint administrator Harvey Madden of Yarm-based Rowlands accounts last night read: “I was appointed as joint administrator of Darlington Football Club (2009) Ltd, together with my co-administrator, Peter Gray, earlier today by the directors of the club.
“I am currently exploring all options to try and find a way to enable the football club to remain in existence but the position of the club is such that without any financial support from outside the club or anyone willing to acquire the club I will, unfortunately, have little alternative but to cease to trade in a very short time.
“Anyone interested in assisting the club or acquiring the club out of administration should therefore contact my office on 01642 790790 as a matter of urgency. Every day is critical if the club is to survive.”
Quakers play Hartlepool at Norton tonight in the Durham County Cup (7pm) when a young side with a couple of senior players will play.
But there is no first team home game scheduled until a fortnight on Saturday.
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Dr Bell David Paul
Orthosports Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine
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Dr David Paul Bell graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1995. He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in October 2000 and was conferred the Masters of Medicine in Orthopaedics by the Academy of Medicine of Singapore in April 2002. He completed training in Orthopaedic Surgery and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Orthopaedics) in November 2005.
He was awarded the Ministry of Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) Scholarship to train at the Charite University in Berlin, Germany in the specialist fields of Adult Reconstruction in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty and management of complex musculoskeletal trauma. Prior to coming on board at Island Orthopaedics, he was Consultant and Director of the Orthopaedic Trauma Service at Changi General Hospital (CGH), and Clinical Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
He is also active in medical education, having received the Orthopaedic Teaching Excellence Award annually from 2004 till the present. He is also a member of the AO International Alumni, and has served as chairman and instructor for numerous international and regional instructional courses.
In addition, Dr Bell was also actively involved as an NSmen Medical Officer in the Singapore Navy, being a certified Designated Factory Doctor for Compressed Air Works and having been involved in the hyperbaric treatment of divers with decompression illness and also patients with poorly healing wounds.
Dr Bell's sub-specialty interests are in joint replacement surgery, trauma and reconstructive surgery. Common procedures performed by Dr Bell include: post-traumatic reconstructive surgery using minimally invasive techniques, surgery for deformity correction., hip and knee joint replacement surgery using minimally invasive techniques, knee replacement surgery using computer navigation and minimally invasive surgery, knee arthroscopy including anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, meniscus repair and cartilage repair, fracture surgery for the pelvis, upper and lower limbs and arthroscopic surgery and complex joint reconstruction.
Orthopaedic Teaching Excellence Award annually from 2004 till the present
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You won’t believe what Al Jazeera said about the terror attacks in France
In the wake of the terror attacks on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, countless journalists and media personalities stood in solidarity with the murdered cartoonists. While not all - including Glenn - agreed with the content of the magazine, no one could deny their right to mock. But one organization, Qatar-funded Al-Jazeera, took a decidedly different tone behind closed doors. Internal communications leaked this week which showed conflict between staff based in Qatar and the reporters in America. Glenn analyzed the e-mails on radio this morning and wondered just how anyone could call Al-Jazeera a real news organization.
Salah-Aldeen Khadr, executive producer for Al-Jazeera English, questioned whether the cartoonists were really taking a stand or simply being "infantile" and even making it about them. He wrote, "And within a climate where violent response—however illegitimate—is a real risk, taking a goading stand on a principle virtually no one contests is worse than pointless: it’s pointlessly all about you."
U.S.-based correspondent Tom Ackerman shot back by quoting a New York Times article (emphasis added):
If a large enough group of someone is willing to kill you for saying something, then it’s something that almost certainly needs to be said, because otherwise the violent have veto power over liberal civilization, and when that scenario obtains it isn’t really a liberal civilization any more….liberalism doesn’t depend on everyone offending everyone else all the time, and it’s okay to prefer a society where offense for its own sake is limited rather than pervasive. But when offenses are policed by murder, that’s when we need more of them, not less, because the murderers cannot be allowed for a single moment to think that their strategy can succeed.
Another Qatar employee, reporter Mohamed Vall, wrote, "And I guess if you encourage people to go on insulting 1.5 billion people about their most sacred icons then you just want more killings because as I said in 1.5 billion there will remain some fools who don’t abide by the laws or know about free speech."
Vall later added "I condemn those heinous killings, but I AM NOT CHARLIE".
Glenn couldn't believe this was a network being treated as real news by cable providers and politicians like Hillary Clinton.
"If you were working at Al Jazeera and you thought, well, this is a serious news place and everything else and I'm not working for the enemy, and you got this memo, you're hanging lights at Al Jazeera, how do you go into work the next day? How do you do it? DirecTV, tell me, how do you guys keep these guys on the air?" Glenn asked.
Featured image courtesy of the AP.
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US preparing for “Possible Military Intervention” in Syria, Various Options Contemplated
By Press TV
Global Research, December 27, 2012
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Theme: US NATO War Agenda
In-depth Report: SYRIA
A senior Israeli official says the United States is gearing up for a possible military intervention in Syria to prevent Syria’s alleged chemical weapons from being used against civilians or falling into wrong hands.
Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya’alon told Israel Radio on Thursday that Israeli officials were in close touch with their American counterparts about the latest developments in Syria. He added that at the current juncture there was no fear that Syria would use its alleged chemical weapons against Israel.
Ya’alon refused to comment on media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had secretly met with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman to discuss Syria’s alleged stockpile of chemical weapons.
During the meeting, Netanyahu proposed a coordinated Israeli-Jordanian lightning air strike to destroy Syria’s alleged stockpile of chemical weapons.
Jordanians, however, have reportedly declined the option over concerns that it would cause chemical fallout around the target sites.
Israel then proposed a second option, a comprehensive joint military incursion into Syria. The operation would include at least 8,000 soldiers entering Syria from different directions to neutralize the alleged chemical weapons sites.
The Jordanians did not support the Israeli proposals, but they did not completely reject them either.
Foreign-backed militants, however, have reportedly formed a company which has already used chemical weapons in battle against Syrian armed forces. However, in their propaganda, they have tried to incriminate the Syrian army for using such weapons against civilians.
On December 22, Syrian rebels used chemical weapons against the Syrian Army in the town of Daraya, located eight kilometers southwest of Damascus. At least seven Syrian soldiers were killed after they were attacked by a chemical weapon which produced a toxic yellow gas.
Syrian militants have also threatened to contaminate Syria’s drinking water supply in a bid to kill all Alawite Shias and the supporters of President Bashar al-Assad.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.
The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.
The original source of this article is Press TV
Copyright © Press TV, Press TV, 2012
Articles by: Press TV
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How to Run a Successful Football Club Online certificate
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SD Eibar is widely recognized in the football industry for being one of the most modern, open and transparent clubs in La Liga. With a rich history of 75 years, the club's management model has been studied across the top business schools in Spain and abroad.
The five-month course will be delivered online and will expose students to the business strategy of the club through live lectures via web conferences with club executives, real-life case studies and an optional two-day site visit to SD Eibar's Ipurua Stadium, located in the heart of the Basque Country.
“How to Run a Successful Football Club” is the ideal course for professionals looking to start or advance their professional career in the football industry and gain a first-hand look at how a top-flight club in La Liga operates successfully year after year.
The Online Certificate on "How to Run a Successful Football Club" is designed for:
Professionals in the football industry who seek to enhance management skills and leadership capabilities for personal development and organizational growth
Professionals from other corporate sectors looking to gain an understanding on the football industry
Professionals seeking to change careers looking to have an understanding on the inner workings of a professional football club
Investors seeking to gain football industry insight prior to acquiring a professional football club
This programme is divided into three different terms, ending with an optional visit to SD Eibar.
1. Financial Management
2. Digital Business
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5. Stadium Venue Management
6. Marketing & Sponsorship
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8. International Business Strategy
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10. SD Eibar Foundation
11. Executive Board Business & Management
12. Technical Sport Management
13. Final Project
14. SD Eibar Experience Tour - Includes graduation ceremony and study tour at SD Eibar's Ipurua Stadium (*Optional)
Upon successful completion of the program participants will receive a certificate of completion issued by the Sports Business Institute Barcelona in collaboration with SD Eibar. The certificate will also receive the recognition from La Liga.
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Workers at Canadian Hearing Society say four years is too long
March 02, 2017 11:54 ET | Source: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 2, 2017) - Local 2073 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 2073) which represents 227 counsellors, literacy instructors, audiologists, speech language pathologists, interpreters/interpreter trainers, clerical support, program coordinators, program assistants, information technology specialists and other staff at 24 Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) offices across Ontario, is looking to move forward in their contract negotiations tomorrow, but is prepared to strike, if necessary, union representatives have indicated.
The members of CUPE 2073 have been without a contract for the past four years and are facing major rollbacks to their health benefits in negotiations with the Canadian Hearing Society. The two parties are scheduled to meet with a provincially-appointed mediator tomorrow in a final attempt to reach an agreement before the strike deadline on 12:01 a.m. Saturday. The union has indicated that, if a deal cannot be reached, workers will take to the picket lines on Monday, March 6, at CHS offices across Ontario.
"Four years without a contract is too long. It's time to settle this," said Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario, speaking at a press conference this morning. "The Canadian Hearing Society needs to understand that the vital services it provides to communities are the result of the hard work, talent and dedication of the members of CUPE Local 2073. Our members fight, every day, to ensure fairness and dignity for the communities they serve, and they deserve nothing less from their employer. The CHS needs to negotiate a fair contract now."
President of CUPE 2073, Stacey Connor, also spoke at the press conference, stressing the need to wrap up the current round of negotiations. "Our goal tomorrow is to reach an agreement that will allow both parties to put the past four years behind us and begin to focus on the future," Connor said. "But we must reach an agreement that maintains the necessary health benefits to allow us to do our jobs, and the necessary wage improvements that will prevent us from falling further behind."
The workers are calling on supporters to send messages to the employer, urging them to reach a fair settlement and prevent a strike.
Barbara Wilker-Frey
CUPE National Representative
Matthew Stella
CUPE Communications
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
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Ryder CupJanuary 18, 2017
Euro Tour announces drastic changes for 2018 Ryder Cup
Joel Beall
Getty Images LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 07: Thomas Bjorn poses with the Ryder Cup trophy as he is named 2018 Europe Ryder Cup Captain at Hilton Heathrow T5 on December 7, 2016 in London, England. The 2018 Ryder Cup will be held at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
Though the European team has enjoyed a dominant run at the Ryder Cup, an embarrassing showing at Hazeltine last fall has forced the squad to evaluate its current surroundings. Mainly, regarding the team's selection process, with calls from stars like Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood, as well as legend Tony Jacklin, to revamp the system. It appears their petitions have been heard.
On Wednesday, the European Tour Tournament Committee announced three alterations for the 2018 Ryder Cup team, the most significant being an extra captain's pick. Players will be required to play at least four official Euro Tour events for consideration -- one less than years past -- and extra team points will be given down the Ryder Cup home stretch, trying to ensure a roster that's "in form."
“The change to our minimum tournament requirement will help many of our members who play around the world but who, at the same time, wish to remain loyal to the European Tour," stated European Tour CEO Keith Pelley. “It will enable them to remain in membership in what are extremely exciting times for the European Tour with the advent of the Rolex Series, one of the most important and significant developments in our 44-year history.”
However, the European Tour did not waive its membership requirement. This stipulation kept top 20 player Paul Casey off the team, and hindered Russell Knox's chances for a spot.
“In my role as chairman of the tournament committee for the past ten years and now as Ryder Cup captain, I fully appreciate the need to balance both of these essential elements, and I think we have managed to do that," said captain Thomas Bjorn. “Part of the reason for my appointment last month was to, as soon as possible, begin the process required to regain the Ryder Cup at Le Golf National in 2018, and these changes are the first step on that journey. Hopefully they will help me have the 12 best European players available in 20 months’ time.”
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A. Degrees Offered
Gonzaga University offers programs leading to the degrees listed below. For specific majors within these degrees, more information can be found under the listing of the individual School or College. This document provides undergraduate degree information and references to the other divisions of the University. Information on graduate and legal studies can be found in the separate catalogs of the Graduate School and the School of Law.
The University has the following advisory programs to assist students in preparation for admission to professional schools: pre-dentistry, pre-law, and pre-medicine. The Department of Military Science also offers a program leading to a commission in the United States Army.
The College of Arts and Sciences confers the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Honors and General), and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (Honors and General).
The School of Business Administration confers the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) (Honors and General).
The School of Education confers four degrees: Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) (Honors and General) in Special Education, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in Sport Management, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in Kinesiology and Physical Education, and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in Community, Culture, and Language Education. The school also provides programs leading to initial and continuing teacher certification in elementary, secondary, and special education in conjunction with the B.A. degree.
The School of Engineering and Applied Science confers the degree of Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (Honors and General) in Civil, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, and Computer Science.
The School of Nursing and Human Physiology confers the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) (Honors and General) and B.S. in Human Physiology (Honors and General).
The School of Law confers the degree of Juris Doctor. In cooperation with the Graduate School of Business, a combined program is offered for the M.B.A./J.D. and MACC/J.D.
A listing of graduate programs in the above College and Schools can be found at www.gonzaga.edu/catalogs.
B. Programs Offered
1. Special University-Wide Programs
Gonzaga makes available special programs for selected students in all of its Schools and the College. Further information on the following programs can be found on the Gonzaga website.
Honors Program: A special curriculum for academically gifted undergraduates: Specific requirements vary from school to school. Upon graduation, students in this program receive an Honors designation as part of their degree. For further information visit www.gonzaga.edu/honors.
International Admission: Gonzaga University welcomes international students and provides guidance on admission criteria and required documentation. International applicants are encouraged to contact Gonzaga at iadmissions@gonzaga.edu.
International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS): International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) offers centralized support to all international undergraduate, transfer, graduate, PhD, law, ESL, Global Bridge, exchange and visiting students attending Gonzaga as well as support for visiting scholars. The offices specialize academic and immigration advising; international student, visiting professor and scholar support; international student and faculty employment authorization; tax assistance; workshops and specialized international programming.
Ministry Institute: An international educational discernment community for service and leadership. Students develop or improve their ministerial skills in a community setting by working toward graduate degrees at the University (i.e., religious studies, leadership, counseling), studying English as a second language, or participating in the sabbatical spiritual renewal program in religious studies while auditing religious studies courses.
Study Abroad Program: Gonzaga University offers a multitude of different study abroad opportunities in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Oceania for the academic year, semester, or summer study. This includes opportunities to do not just academic work, but also to do internships and service learning experience abroad too.
2. Pre-Professional Programs
Pre-Medicine, Pre-Dentistry, and Pre-Veterinary Studies: Gonzaga University offers a number of programs for students who are interested in pursuing careers in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Gonzaga graduates have recently attended medical, dental or veterinary programs at the following universities: Harvard University, John Hopkins University, Emory University, Loyola University Chicago, Georgetown University, Mayo Medical School, Colorado State University, Creighton University, Georgetown University, Marquette University, Oregon Health & Science University, Tulane University, University of Colorado at Denver, University of Colorado, University of Hawaii, University of Washington and Washington State University, to name a few. Members of the Committee on Health Science Careers (CHSC) share a commitment to preparing students for graduate studies in the health sciences. Faculty members of the CHSC represent a broad range of departments including Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Human Physiology, as well as Physics, Psychology, Sociology and English. Not only are committee members active in pre-health science advising, but they also support the student's application by providing mock entrance interviews, reviewing personal statements, and writing letters of recommendation. Students who indicate an interest in the health sciences are encouraged to consult with committee members or an advisor with expertise in advising in that area.
Students interested in medicine, dentistry or veterinary studies choose and complete a regular undergraduate major under the supervision of their academic advisor. There is no "pre-medicine" or any other pre-health science major at the undergraduate level. Health science students must demonstrate strong achievement and aptitude in the natural sciences. Professional school requirements are in most cases embedded within Biology, Biochemistry and Human Physiology majors; however, a science major is not required. Admission committees consider each candidate based on record of academic success, score on the standardized entrance examination (MCAT, DAT, or for most Veterinary schools the GRE), personal characteristics, which are further developed through the core curriculum, demonstrated commitment to service, and knowledge of the chosen career field. The CHSC recommends that students select a major based on individual interests and potential alternative career plans as well as a thorough exploration of the sum of requirements for their degree and entry into specific professional programs.
All pre-professional health science students should complete certain science courses as minimum preparation for professional programs. These courses should be finished prior to the spring semester of the junior year, which is when most students take standardized entrance examinations. The following courses offered at Gonzaga fulfill the minimal science requirements established by most health science programs:
One semester of General Chemistry (CHEM 101 and CHEM 101L)
Three semesters of Biology (BIOL 105, BIOL 105L, BIOL 106, BIOL 207, and BIOL 207L)
Two semesters of Organic Chemistry (CHEM 230, CHEM 230L, CHEM 231 and CHEM 231L)
One semester of Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM 205)
One semester of Biochemistry (CHEM 245 and CHEM 245L)
Two semesters of Physics (PHYS 101, PHYS 101L and PHYS 102, PHYS 102L) or (PHYS 103, PHYS 103L and PHYS 204, PHYS 204L)
One semester of Sociology (SOCI 101)
One semester of Psychology (PSYC 101)
Many schools recommend one semester of calculus (MATH 148 or MATH 157).
Many schools recommend at least one additional semester of upper division molecular biology or physiology (many of the courses offered in the Biology or Human Physiology Departments fulfill this recommendation)
It is the responsibility of each student to learn about the requirements of specific professional programs and take additional courses, if needed. The CHSC can advise students on the most appropriate courses to meet or exceed those requirements and the sequencing of these courses. As a complement to science courses, the University Core Curriculum provides students with a broad liberal arts education that will help them develop the philosophical and humanitarian perspective necessary to handle complex social and ethical issues. Knowledge of psychology, sociology and statistics is also expected, as questions related to these topics are included in several sections of the new MCAT exam that was introduced in 2015. Courses exploring these topics are widely available. Moreover, the CHSC encourages students to seek out volunteer opportunities and exposure to health care providers and work environments. Students who demonstrate a humanitarian concern for others through regular volunteer work in the community have higher acceptance rates than students who show no such interest or concern. Additionally, health science students must learn about their chosen career through direct interaction with health care providers. In fact, some professional programs require entering students to obtain substantial exposure to their chosen field. Lastly, Gonzaga's science programs have excellent opportunities to participate in fascinating faculty research throughout the academic year and during the summer. Health science students are encouraged to participate in mentored research either at Gonzaga or through summer research opportunities at other institutions to demonstrate their resourcefulness and aptitude. For further information on the CHSC, or preparation for health science careers, contact the committee (hsc@gonzaga.edu). Information can also be found at the websites for the American Association of Medical Schools (aamc.org), the American Dental Education Association (adea.org), or the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (aavmc.org).
Pre-Law: A bachelor’s degree is normally required by law schools for admission. No particular major is required, but these schools look for students who have done well in their undergraduate program and on the Law School Admission Test. Further information can be found at: The School Of Law.
The best preparation for law school is a solid liberal arts education with particular emphasis on those majors and courses that develop the ability to read critically, to analyze difficult written material carefully, to think logically, and to write clear, coherent, and effective English prose. More pre-law students major in Political Science than any other field, but Gonzaga graduates have done well in law school recently with majors in all rigorous academic programs.
The pre-law program is administered by the Department of Political Science. Students can request to be assigned to the pre-law advisor, Dr. Joseph Gardner. The pre-law advisor can suggest an individually tailored minor in legal studies, upon request, or specific pre-law courses typically offered by the Political Science department. A course helping students to prepare for the LSAT examination is generally offered in the fall semester. Internships with private law firms, prosecutors and public defender offices, or the Office of the State Attorney General can be arranged for qualified students.
Preparation for Careers in Allied Health: The University provides students with opportunities to prepare for graduate or professional study in a variety of health related areas including physical and occupational therapy, physician assistant programs, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, public health, business careers in health fitness and human performance, corporate fitness, health education, and sport and fitness business administration. Careers in allied health require additional study after completion of an undergraduate degree and therefore consideration of the prerequisites for admission to individual graduate programs is critical and should be considered by the student in selecting an undergraduate major. For further information on preparation for careers in allied health, contact the Department of Human Physiology in the School of Nursing and Human Physiology or the Department of Sport and Physical Education in the School of Education.
3. Miscellaneous Programs:
Students who wish to pursue degrees in medical records, physical therapy, optometry, pharmacy, agriculture, architecture, forestry, or mining are encouraged to complete the core curriculum at Gonzaga as well as those courses which will form a foundation for further study in the field of their choice.
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We’ve partnered with BAFTA-winning youth media agency to raise awareness of Restorative Justice
The Restorative Justice Council asked the team at GOOD to create a campaign for them that would reach and be heard by young men between the age of 16 and 25 without coming across as the ‘voice of authority’ whilst also addressing key barriers to uptake of the service.
To do this, we partnered with BAFTA-winning youth media agency, Fully Focused to create a powerful ten-minute film that sets restorative justice in the real world. Through the drama of Alex and Jay — who have both been deeply affected by a violent crime and have to rewind to the day that changed everything, to be able to move forward with their lives.
The film abruptly moves between past and present, gradually unveiling the chain of events in the words of the young men, bringing to life the profound impact the crime and the restorative justice process have had on them. Restorative Justice is seen ‘in action’. Urban youth comedy duo Percelle Ascott and Joivan Wade from ‘Mandem on the Wall’ brought the story to life through their performances as Alex and Jay and made the film highly shareable amongst young people.
Andy Powell, Associate Creative Director at GOOD Agency said: “At GOOD, we believe that the most powerful work is told in the language of your audience. And the real-world responses to the RWD/FWD film that we’re already seeing across social media is testament to our approach. We’re incredibly proud to be helping to stop the cycle of crime in this way.”
Jon Collins, CEO of the Restorative Justice Council added: “Our aim is to make restorative justice available to everyone, and we’re very concerned that some of the people most likely to be affected by crime are also the least likely to know that it’s available and how it can help. This campaign is a big step towards changing that, and the more widely it’s shared, the more young men can potentially benefit from restorative justice.”
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More Than One Thousand Jews Visit Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av, Setting New Record
Activists encouraged Jews to visit the site on Tisha B'Av following the recent tensions in the last two weeks; nine removed from site for attempting to pray contrary to status-quo rules
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At least 1,046 Jews visited the Temple Mount on Tuesday, according to Jewish activists, setting a new record for most Jewish visitors in one day. Many more are expected to visit later in the afternoon.
Activists have been organizing a campaign in recent days aimed at encouraging Jews to visit the site on Tisha B'Av, following the recent tensions at the flashpoint holy site over the last two weeks. The fast day commemorates the anniversary of the destruction of the First and Second Temple, as well as several other disasters in Jewish history. The previous record in Jewish visitors to the site was during the most recent Jerusalem Day, marking the city's reunification, when some 900 Jewish visitors entered the Temple Mount.
Police removed nine Jews who attempted to pray or prostrate themselves, which is against the rules set by the police for visitors, and five were arrested for assaulting police officers and preventing a police officer from performing his duties. Activists claimed that in some cases the arrest was carried out violently.
Three Jewish visitors and one Muslim were among those arrested after fighting by the Chain Gate.
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Analysis The Team Behind Gantz's Liberal Stance on Religion and State
Benny Gantz, the man seen as the main challenger to Netanyahu in the upcoming election, was unusually forthcoming on issues such as freedom of prayer at the Western Wall and LGBT rights in his maiden speech. Here's why
About three-quarters of the way through his inaugural campaign speech Tuesday night, Benny Gantz delivered a surprise: He expressed his unwavering support for freedom of prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
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Home > World News
Britain in the Dark About Cost of Nuclear Upgrade
Replacing Trident, Britain's aging nuclear submarine fleet, becoming increasingly controversial.
Elizabeth Piper Mar 24, 2016 10:25 AM
A Royal Marine soldier stands guard on submarine HMS Vanguard moored at the Faslane naval base near Glasgow, Scotland, December 4, 2006.Reuters
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REUTERS - Britain's defense ministry has not yet established the overall cost of replacing and maintaining its aging nuclear weapons system, it told Reuters, prompting opposition charges of mismanagement of a mega-project expected to be given the go-ahead this year.
In response to a request by Reuters about an estimate of the total price tag for the new Trident submarine fleet – Britain's sole nuclear weapons system – the ministry said it was still working on "policy options" and gave no overall figure.
The replacement of Trident, which was backed in principle by parliament in 2007 and is expected to be formally approved this year, has raised questions about national security as Britain heads for a referendum on European Union membership that may decide its future status on the world stage.
The Conservative government says the deterrent is vital to keep Britain safe in an increasingly hostile world, but some leading opposition figures say it is indefensible to commit a significant portion of the public purse to renewing the program at a time of deep austerity cuts.
The government has indicated the price tag for replacing the fleet has risen since 2007 but has not given a full cost over its expected 30-year life. Calculations by Reuters and a Conservative lawmaker suggest it could reach 167 billion pounds.
"The department does not hold a cost forecast for the whole capability," the Defense Ministry said in response to the Reuters request under the Freedom of Information Act asking for the estimated cost of replacing Trident over 30 years.
"The government needs a safe space away from the public gaze to allow it to consider policy options for delivering the deterrent in the most cost-effective way, unfettered from public comment about the affordability of particular policy options, some of which many not be at a mature stage of development."
It did not elaborate on the policy options.
The main opposition Labour Party criticized the government for refusing to offer any detail over what is called the "Successor program."
Its defense spokeswoman, Emily Thornberry, said it was clear costs were "out of control" at a time when Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is struggling to balance his budget.
"It is astonishing that the Ministry of Defense still cannot say what the total costs of the Successor program will be, despite the massive implications of this program for government spending in the coming decades," said Thornberry, who is leading Labour's Defense Policy Review and has in the past been a critic of replacing Trident.
She accused the government of a lack of transparency over the costs and arrogance in demanding more time to develop policy when it has already spent 10 years and "more than 3 billion pounds."
"That arrogant refusal to account to parliament and the public is simply unacceptable," she said.
"It is high time that the National Audit Office (the public spending watchdog) and the Public Accounts Committee conducted full investigations into the costs and management of the Successor program, and forced the Ministry of Defense to start answering the legitimate questions they are being asked."
Labour is deeply divided over whether to replace Trident – its leader opposes it but many in the party believe it is necessary. It is however keen to put more pressure on a government torn by divisions over EU membership and forced after just two days to abandon welfare cuts in its 2016 budget.
The Defense Ministry said: "The government is committed to maintaining the UK's independent nuclear deterrent – the ultimate guarantee of our nation's safety."
Rising costs
The ministry has been working on replacing Trident for a decade and has tracked the rising costs in speeches to parliament, which have been criticized by opposition MPs for being too vague. Initially, in 2006, the cost of producing the submarine and warheads was put at around 15-20 billion pounds.
In its response to Reuters, the ministry gave some of its latest costs that had already made public: the replacement of Trident would cost 31 billion pounds to produce the four submarines, with a contingency of 10 billion pounds, and another 3.9 billion pounds had been already allocated to their design.
The ministry also said in its statement that in-service costs over its lifetime would be about 6 percent of the annual defense budget.
According to the calculations by Reuters and a Tory MP last year based on assumptions the defense budget would remain largely the same as now, that would take the total to 167 billion pounds over 32 years – a sum that has spurred calls by the Scottish National Party to scrap the fleet.
But the ministry said it could not provide any detail of the costs for the nuclear warheads, support services infrastructure and running costs, as the scheme involved projects which formed parts of other defense capabilities.
"The department does not hold information in a form that would allow for a 30-year cost forecast for the nuclear deterrent capability to be easily calculated," it said.
Ministers have said it is one of the government's biggest schemes ever, and that building the submarines alone would cost about twice as much as London's 15-billion-pound new railway link, currently the largest infrastructure project in Europe.
The government is expected to put the decision on whether to replace Trident to a parliamentary debate and vote later this year, when the project is set to get the green light. But it has been accused by opposition politicians of delaying the debate to avoid any contentious issues before the June 23 EU referendum.
Last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Britain needed to renew Trident if it was to maintain its "outsized" role in world affairs.
Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general for defense and security think-tank RUSI, agreed and underlined the difficulty in coming up with long-term cost estimates as they could be "radically different," depending on what assumptions were made.
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Russia, ISIS Threat on Agenda at NATO's 'Most Important Meeting in a Generation'
The alliance will be discussing how to retool the Cold War-era military alliance to face a daunting range of modern threats, from a hostile Kremlin to religious-fueled violence and attacks in cyberspace.
John-Thor Dahlburg Jul 07, 2016 4:28 PM
NATO Leaders watch a flypast of military aircraft on the second day of the NATO 2014 Summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales, September 5, 2014.Leon Neal/AFP
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AP - In what some are terming NATO's most important meeting in a generation, U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of the 27 other member nations are deciding how to retool the Cold War-era military alliance to face a daunting range of modern threats, from a hostile Kremlin to religious-fueled violence and attacks in cyberspace.
They meet in the Polish capital, Warsaw, for a two-day summit starting Friday.
"We live in a more dangerous world, with terrorism, with turmoil, especially to the south of the alliance, in Iraq, Syria, North Africa," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told The Associated Press. "But also with a Russia which is more assertive, a Russia which has tripled its defense spending since 2000, and which has used force against an independent nation in Europe, Ukraine."
"This has really changed our security environment," Stoltenberg said. "NATO has to respond. When the world is changing, we have to change."
Recently, yet another factor of uncertainty has arisen inside the trans-Atlantic community with the decision by British voters to pull their country — NATO's leading European military power — out of the European Union, just as the economic bloc and the U.S-led alliance are planning unprecedented cooperation on security and defense.
The British electorate's June 23 choice "really puts into question the confidence of the West," Michal Baranowski, director of the Warsaw office of the German Marshall Fund think tank, said this week. "The silver lining could be that the Brits decide to double down on NATO, and be super helpful in NATO since they won't be in the EU."
Heads of state and government assembled in Warsaw will give the formal go-ahead to the greatest reinforcement of collective alliance defense since the collapse of the Soviet Union, including deployment of four reinforced multinational battalions, headed by the U.S., Britain, Canada and Germany, to Poland and the Baltic states.
The new units, totaling roughly 4,000 troops, will serve as a reassurance to allies feeling threatened by Moscow that NATO has their back, and also as a warning to Russia that a military incursion into the territory of front-line NATO states could bring it into head-to-head confrontation with the whole alliance.
"NATO is based on the core idea of one for all, and all for one," said Stoltenberg.
Further to the south, a Romanian-led multinational brigade is also planned as the start of an increased NATO presence designed to reassure and protect allies concerned about Moscow's beefed-up military presence in the Black Sea.
The measures to be ordered in Warsaw, which complement national actions by the U.S. and some other allies, constitute "the most significant accomplishment of alliance deterrence and defense in decades," Polish NATO Ambassador Jacek Najder told a pre-summit media briefing in Brussels.
Russian officials have already vowed to take unspecified but appropriate countermeasures.
"The Soviet Union is no more; the Warsaw Pact has ceased to exist," Russian President Vladimir Putin said recently, referring to the now-defunct military alliance between Moscow and its Eastern European satellites that was also formalized in Poland's capital. "But for some reason, NATO continues to expand its infrastructure and advance toward Russia's borders."
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Interior Ministry Board meeting in Moscow, Russia, March 15, 2016.Reuters
One independent Washington-based analyst, however, termed NATO's actions "too little, too late," and predicted they will be largely ineffective against Moscow's military, which has an official strength of one million.
"It's a minimal effort, with incremental steps," Jorge Benitez, senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, told the AP. "The little we do is quickly superseded by what the Russians do."
A second major set of decisions expected at the Warsaw summit concern what NATO officials call projecting stability beyond the alliance's borders.
Here a priority concern is ISIS, which has exploited the territory it holds in Syria and Iraq to mount devastating suicide attacks in the NATO member capitals of Paris and Brussels.
The extremist Muslim organization is also suspected of last week's attack by three suicide bombers that killed 44 people at Istanbul's airport.
At Warsaw, NATO leaders are expected to agree "on how we can do more also in the fight against terrorism, including strengthening our sharing of intelligence," Stoltenberg said.
Alliance AWACS surveillance aircraft will likely be ordered to peer into ISIS-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq to assist the U.S.-led coalition combating the group, probably beginning this fall.
Leaders are also expected to order NATO training and capacity-building operations inside Iraq for that nation's military, and to pledge to renew their funding and training commitments to Afghanistan's government and security forces, which are increasingly hard-pressed by Taliban insurgents.
NATO and EU officials will also sign a pledge to boost cooperation against an array of security threats, including cyberattacks and organized disinformation campaigns. NATO leaders are also expected to order creation of a new Intelligence Division at alliance headquarters to streamline the collection and sharing of civilian and military intelligence and enable NATO to be more effective in combating extremist threats against allied member nations and their populations.
"We need NATO to continue to adapt in order to be able to react to the continued erosion of Europe's security," said Adam Thomson, British ambassador to the alliance.
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Loretha’s Story
Editor’s Note: Loretha is such an inspiration to everyone she meets in her journey as a community based doula. Her knowledge and strength has continued to help women around the world since her start in community based doula work nearly twenty-two years ago. HealthConnect One extends our deepest gratitude and congratulations to Loretha on receiving the 2018 Durbin CHW of the Year Award.
Loretha Weisinger’s story as told by herself.
I became community-based doula in 1995. There were a lot of different things that inspired me to become a community-based doula, but the main thing was I was here at the Marillac and I was volunteering. I volunteered here for ten years. They were continuously asking me what it is that I wanted to do for my future, and I wasn’t coming up with anything. They would bring different ideas to me like culinary arts. Once I graduated from that, I was about to be a chef, and then the opportunity came along to be a doula. I became involved in the Marillac house because I was taking some assistance with finances , and I heard of a place that was doing a lot of different things for people, making a difference in their life, so I wanted to be involved in that.
I was halfway through classes when I went on a birth, and it was too soon before I knew what I was supposed to know. I didn’t know how a baby looked when it was being pushed out or what the body had to go through so all of that was traumatizing to me.
When I came to class and told them about the birth everybody was putting their arms around me and holding me like a baby and telling me everything is going to be okay and it was normal. I was like the guinea pig to them because they were hiring different people and they were quitting because there wasn’t any money in it. I just said that no matter how hard it is, let me just try to stick with this.
I am now a prenatal educator, meaning I teach the young ladies how to go through the pregnancy by first starting off with healthy eating, moving around during the pregnancy and keeping fit. We have nurses from U of I that come help us with breastfeeding, and we went from a 3% breastfeeding initiation rate to now about 70%-80%. A lot of these things help the mom get a visualization of what is expected, what they’re supposed to be doing, what is not acceptable and all that.
Many people have inspired me. Rachel and I went to Japan together to talk and educate women there about becoming doulas, Wandy held my hand and took me to classes in different cities to teach and learn different things. Gerrie McKinley oh my gosh, she would put her hand on my shoulder just to tell me that I don’t need to be stressed.
Community health work has impacted my life in such a way that it’s helped me to think about a lot of different things that people are going through and how grateful I am for what I do have. The sky’s the limit, well really there is no limit rather. Just the mere fact that I’m able to help nurture and help the moms bring life into this world and how their faces are glowing when they see their babies. And involving the dads. Since that’s a really big thing of mine, involving dads in the programs.
Moments that really stand out to me are when moms and babies are running around and they talk to me and tell me they love me. I feel like a super doula because I helped them through their pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. I have the opportunity to be trusted enough that some of the young ladies that are still around who have their children in daycare ask me to pick up their babies and everything. You know, that is love. I am so grateful for what I do.
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Christy Calhoun
Senior Vice President Consumer Health Experience
Christy Calhoun is an accomplished, innovative leader in health information technology and patient education. In her role as SVP of Consumer Health Experiences at Healthwise, Christy promotes health literacy while helping people make better health decisions.
In partnership with the Chief Medical Officer at Healthwise, Dr. Adam Husney, Christy leads the Content Solutions Team, which creates Healthwise patient education and keeps it medically accurate and consistent. Christy is passionate about listening to patients and clinicians to understand their health needs, goals and challenges. She draws on patient perspective to help strengthen relationships of care through the solutions Healthwise develops. In collaboration with others at Healthwise, she advocates for patient voice to be infused in everything Healthwise develops – from videos, and tools for shared decision-making, to health behavior change content.
She is a collaborative innovator of client solutions that meet patient and provider needs for health education. Christy leads the team that develops health information in plain language at Healthwise, which offers flexible, innovative, trusted health education solutions that support patients on a healthcare journey.
Christy’s experience in public health, bilingual health education and health behavior change methods was enriched by her work as an advocate for women and communities in challenged areas of Latin America, Africa and border areas of the United States. She is a team-builder who inspires strength and collaboration with a focus on results.
Christy is a graduate of the Health Innovation and Design Thinking program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has a Master’s degree in Public Health from San Diego State University. She holds a B.A. in International Studies and Spanish, and she completed a post-graduate program in Health and Environmental Education at Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica.
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Ariana Grande Teases 'Sweetener' Artwork ariana-grande-teases-album-artwork-sweetener-pieces
Ariana Grande Teases Album Artwork For 'Sweetener' In Pieces
Ahead of her highly anticipated fourth studio album, the "No Tears Left To Cry" singer launches a new Instagram account to reveal the cover art one piece at a time
Nate Hertweck
Fans across the globe were already hyped for Ariana Grande's fourth album, Sweetener, which will be available for preorder starting June 20. But now the GRAMMY-nominated singer has taken to instagram to tease the album's visuals with a mysterious new account and what appears to be a fragment of the album artwork.
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A post shared by Sweetener (@sweetener) on Jun 12, 2018 at 1:00pm PDT
The post comes from an account named after the album and features an upside-down shot of Grande's eyelash and brow set against a plain peach-tan background. Mysterious indeed. But the inverted element matches much of the visuals on Grande's website and the artwork for her smash lead single from the new album, "No Tears Left To Cry." Fans have found their way to the new Instagram account, and they are intrigued. The post has already racked up more than 70,000 likes in less than a day.
Sweetener preorders start on June 20, the same day Grande's collaboration with Nicki Minaj, "The Light Is Coming," is set to drop, according to Billboard. Minaj also recently revealed her new album artwork via social media for her own upcoming fourth release, Queen, due out Aug. 10.
If Grande's aforementioned first single from Sweetener is any indication, all of the hype is for good reason. "No Tears Left To Cry" arrived on Apr. 20 and climbed its way to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also listed as Apple Music's No. 2 early contender for 2018 song of the summer. Not a bad way to start the follow-up to her GRAMMY-nominated 2016 album Dangerous Woman.
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Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj's "The Light Is Coming" Arrives
The new Pharrell-produced single from Grande's upcoming album 'Sweetener' is her latest in a string of collaborations with Minaj
Just one day after Ariana Grande revealed the full artwork for her upcoming album Sweetener, the pop superstar drops her new single, "The Light Is Coming," featuring Nicki Minaj.
Produced by none other than Pharrell Williams, the song's frantic beat, quirky effects and stair-step melody are right in line with the producer's signature style. Minaj bursts out of the gate, delivering her bars up front before Grande enters with the promising chorus, singing "the light is coming to give back everything the darkness stole."
The latest Grande/Minaj collaboration follows "Bed," which dropped on June 14 and showed a more sultry side of both artists. "Bed" is set to be included on Minaj's new album, Queen, out Aug. 10. Grande and Minaj have joined forces several times in the past, teaming up for "Side To Side" on Grande's 2016 album Dangerous Woman, "Band Bang" with Jessie J from her 2014 album Sweet Talker, and "Get On Your Knees" from Minaj's 2014 LP The Pinkprint.
https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/1009289088283930624
Sweetener is now available for preorder 🖖🏼 & The Light Is Coming feat @nickiminaj is out now everywhere ☁️ ♡ 💡🌫 https://t.co/o3UsUHDrb6 pic.twitter.com/bPqaJ2yBPU
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) June 20, 2018
"The Light Is Coming" also follows Grande's first single from Sweetener, "No Tears Left To Cry," which has fought its way into contention for song of the summer and has climbed its way to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Sweetener is due out Aug. 17 an available for pre-order now via Grande's website.
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Ariana Grande Stays Positive With New Single hear-ariana-grandes-new-single-no-tears-left-cry
Hear Ariana Grande's New Single "No Tears Left To Cry"
The 'Dangerous Woman' returns with the uplifting lead single from her forthcoming album
Ariana Grande has released a brand-new song and video, "No Tears Left To Cry," from her forthcoming album, and it's here to lift your spirits.
The singer has reportedly been working with everyone from Pharrell Williams to Max Martin on the follow up to her 2016 GRAMMY-nominated album Dangerous Woman. Just yesterday, Grande teased her new single with a cryptic video and album artwork featuring upside-down lettering, and now "No Tears Left To Cry" arrives as the first sneak peek of the project that Williams called "amazing" in a recent interview.
https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/987179102137335808
ʎɹɔ oʇ ʇɟǝl sɹɐǝʇ ou
ʍou ʇnohttps://t.co/8RDqtRLeC8 pic.twitter.com/wL7QYWbyrW
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) April 20, 2018
Undoubtedly, Grande was influenced by the tragic events of her May 2017 concert in Manchester where a terrorist detonated a bomb outside the arena, but "No Tears Left To Cry" leaves fans with a positive message of moving on. The GRAMMY nominee helped organize the "One Love Manchester" benefit concert two weeks after the tragedy and raised over $13 million for victims of the bombing on her way to being named Manchester's first "honorary citizen."
While no official release date or title have been revealed for what will be Grande's fourth studio album, her new single shows the pop star moving in a very positive direction.
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Drake Drops New Double Album 'Scorpion' listen-drakes-new-double-album-scorpion-here
Listen: Drake's New Double Album 'Scorpion' Is Here
After months of buildup and three singles, the GRAMMY-winning rapper's fifth album finally arrives
Anticipation has been mounting all year for Drake's fifth album, Scorpion. Today, the wait is finally over as the Canadian rapper's new double album arrived.
Scorpion includes three previously released singles. "God's Plan" came first as part of Drake's Scary Hours EP in January. The song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and held strong in that spot, making Drake the first male solo artist in history to keep more than one single in the chart's top spot for double-digit weeks. "God's Plan" appears as the fifth track on the first "disc" of Scorpion.
"Nice For What" dropped in April, featuring a sample of Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor" and dethroning "God's Plan" at No. 1. In May, Drake released the third single from Scorpion, "I'm Upset," which he followed with a nostalgic video for the song focused around a cast reunion of "Degrassi: The Next Generation," the Canadian teen television drama he acted on a decade ago. "I'm Upset" follows "God's Plan" as track six on disc one, while "Nice For What" anchors disc two of Scorpion as track four.
https://twitter.com/Drake/status/1012583972835069952
#ScorpionSZN https://t.co/5AgN5pnhpn
— Drizzy (@Drake) June 29, 2018
With 25 tracks total, Scorpion defies the Kanye West-led trend of releasing relatively short albums – in West's case, all of his recent releases as a producer or artist from the "Wyoming Session" have either seven or eight tracks. West also recently revealed Drake was indeed a co-writer on "Yikes" from Ye.
Drake also used featured guests sparingly on Scorpion, but the album does feature Jay-Z on "Talk Up," Static Major and Ty Dolla $ign on "After Dark," and even a posthumous appearance from Michael Jackson on "Don't Matter To Me."
Drake is all set to head out on tour in support of Scorpion. The Aubrey And The Three Amigos North American tour with Migos kicks off July 26 in Salt Lake City and wraps in Atlanta on Nov. 17. For a full list of dates and ticket info, visit Drake's website.
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Demi Lovato Raises Money For GLAAD demi-lovatos-pride-fundraiser-takes-raises-funds-glaad
Demi Lovato's Pride Fundraiser Takes Off, Raises Funds For GLAAD
The pop songstress launches an online campaign to raise money in support of the organization that amplifies the voice of the LGBTQ community, and fans follow suit
While we recognize the LGBTQ community during Pride Month each June, Demi Lovato has taken the celebration one step further. The GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter launched a fundraising campaign via Facebook in support of GLAAD, and her fans responded generously.
https://twitter.com/ddlovato/status/1011640171916226561
Lovato set an initial fundraising goal of $5,000 on June 26, and donations have already surpassed $8,500, driving the superstar to raise the bar to a new goal of $30,000.
"Join me in supporting a good cause," she wrote. "I'm raising money for GLAAD and your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. Every little bit helps."
GLAAD is a non-governmental media monitoring organization with the mission of promoting understanding, increasing acceptance and advancing equality by amplifying the voice of the LGBTQ community. The organization also empowers real people to share their stories and holds the media accountable for the words and images they present. In April, GLAAD honored Britney Spears with their prestigious Vanguard Award.
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Other stars from the world of entertainment and sports have also contributed to the cause this month, including Iggy Azalea, who auctioned off her iconic cheerleading costume from her 2014 Billboard Music Awards performance. The auction raised more than $2,000.
Lovato is currently on the road in Europe, returning for a run of North American dates next month and heading to South America this fall. For a full list of dates and ticket information, visit Lovato's website.
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Grayling shortlisted for four major awards
Grayling has been named a finalist in four categories, in the prestigious SABRE Awards EMEA.
The Hungary team is recognized in the 'Central and Eastern Europe' category for its 'Bring Your Parents to Work' campaign on behalf of GE Digital. This inventive campaign has already won Hungary's most prestigious PR prize, the Prizma Gold Award, and an HRKOMM Silver Award.
In Russia, our team has been shortlisted for two awards - in the 'Product Media Relations (Consumer Media)' category for an April Fool's Day project with Airbnb, and the 'Government Agencies' category for a content marketing program on behalf of Swiss Business Hub, which has already scooped an Eventiada Award for Communication Strategy.
Finally, Grayling Spain is a finalist in the Trade Show category, for the team's work on second edition of the Metallic Mining Hall show in Seville, last October.
The 2018 EMEA SABRE Awards shortlist was selected from among more than 2,500 entries in this year's competition, which recognizes superior achievement in branding, reputation and engagement. The campaigns were evaluated by a jury of more than 40 industry leaders, including Grayling's global head of strategic services, Jon Meakin (who naturally recused himself from judging Grayling's entries). The winners will be announced at a gala event in Amsterdam on 23 May.
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To celebrate its 20th anniversary in Slovakia, Grayling has decided to share its experience contributing to the visibility of projects that are changing Slovakia for the better. In collaboration with...
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'Hands off Venezuela' forum calls for solidarity
"We are resisting", is the answer that Venezuelan-Australian activist Eulalia Reyes receives when she speaks to friends and family back home. "Right now, international solidarity is so important for the Venezuelan people, who are fighting against US sanctions and threats of military intervention", she said.
Fans stay away from Eurovision in Tel Aviv
An Israeli government-backed propaganda initiative is attempting to rig another online poll about whether there should be a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv later this month.
This desperate effort to manipulate public opinion comes as Israeli organisers are struggling to unload thousands of unsold tickets to the event.
Venezuela delegation urges concrete solidarity action
Solidarity activists who recently returned from a fact-finding tour of Venezuela are calling for concrete actions by the Australian community to assist the Venezuelan people currently facing economic hardship, primarily as a result of harsh US sanctions.
Join calls for SBS, artists to boycott Eurovision 2019
The Israeli city of Tel Aviv is preparing to host the Eurovision Song Contest in May, following Israeli artist Netta Barzilai’s win in Eurovision 2018.
In response, BDS Australia, which support the global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, says: “As a serial human rights abuser, it is unacceptable for Israel to be the host country for a competition that, in SBS’s own words, is supposed to ‘bring people and cultures together’.
Australians say 'Hands off Venezuela'
Protests were held in various Australian cities on February 23 as part of a global day of action against US-led aggression towards the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
More than 60 human rights groups back Eurovision boycott
More than 60 international NGOs have added their voices in protest against the plan to hold the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv this year. They are now part of what is quickly becoming an international campaign by civil society groups seeking to move the event, which is scheduled for May, from Israel.
Roger Waters on US coup: 'Leave Venezuela alone'
British musician and activist Roger Waters has called on people to act against the ongoing United States coup against the elected Venezuelan government. Waters specifically urged people to join the February 4 “emergency demonstration” in front of the US Mission to the United Nations (USUN) located in New York City.
Gaza rallies for Venezuela to oppose US coup
Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of besieged Gaza on January 29 to show their support of the democratically-elected government of Venezuela and it’s legitimate leader, President Nicolas Maduro.
European parliamentarians condemn EU support for US coup
Below is a February 4 letter signed by 39 members of the European Parliament. It comes from three different political groups in the European Parliament and condemns EU support for the attempted coup in Venezuela.
Letter in defence of a political dialogue in Venezuela, guaranteeing that Latin America and the Caribbean remains a zone of peace.
Kurdish activist: 'I'm on hunger strike for freedom'
Leyla Guven, a member of Turkey’s parliament for the left-wing, Kurdish-led People’s Democratic party (HDP), launched an indefinite hunger strike on November 7 from Amed Prison, where she was held jailed by Turkey’s regime. Her demand is for an end to the isolation of jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Jailed by Turkey since 1999, Ocalan is the recognised leader of the Kurdish liberation movement. Since 2011, his lawyers have been unable to met with him.
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Adityanath government looking forward to lion’s share in Union Budget for Uttar Pradesh
A higher share in certain central schemes and more funds for development projects are some other demands made to the Centre to accelerate the pace of development and show concrete results before 2022 assembly elections.
budget Updated: Jul 05, 2019 08:09 IST
Umesh Raghuvanshi
Rs 2,774 crore has been demanded under the Namami Gange project(HT File)
As union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents her first budget on Friday, hopes are high in Uttar Pradesh.
An All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for west UP, an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) for east UP and an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) for Bundelkhand figure on the top of the list of demands that the state government has already made to the Centre.
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“Yes, we have demanded an AIIMS for west UP as the state already has AIIMS at Rae Bareli and Gorakhpur. We need an additional IIM for east UP region. A demand for IIT for Bundelkhand has also been made as the region will need more engineers for projects to be set up in the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor. We have demanded more central funds for developments schemes, too,” said minister for finance Rajesh Agarwal.
Agarwal, who had made the demand at a meeting of state finance ministers that Sitharaman convened to hold pre-budget discussions in New Delhi on June 21, said he was hopeful of getting more from the Centre.
At this meeting, Agarwal reminded Sitharaman that UP had got the defence corridor project during her tenure as defence minister and so the state government’s expectations are high from the Centre this time.
Moreover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi represents the state in the Lok Sabha. UP’s contribution to the NDA’s return to power has remained significantly high. Major opposition parties -- BSP, SP and Congress -- have begun preparations for the 2022 assembly elections in the state. All eyes will, therefore, be set on Sitharaman’s announcements on Friday.
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Uttar Pradesh, which has 16 per cent of India’s population, has remained backward over the years. “Out of state’s 75 districts, 34 are situated in backward Bundelkhand and Purvanchal regions. Both these regions have faced drought and floods year after year,” said Agarwal while justifying the demand for more fund allocation to the state.
An estimated investment of Rs 3,700 crore is likely to be made in different projects to be set up in the defence corridor and so more jobs would be created there, he said while justifying the demand for setting up of institutes like IIT in Bundelkhand. Besides demanding more central institutions Agarwal has also urged Sitharaman to consider launching a centrally-sponsored scheme to provide additional funds on 60:40 basis for drinking water scheme to be implemented in Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal regions of the state.
UP’s budget for 2019-2020 already provides for Rs 3,000 crore drinking water scheme and a demand for ₹ 1,800 crore central share has been made to the Centre. An additional demand of funds has been made for completion of projects being implemented under the World Bank-aided Nir Nirmal Scheme.
“The projects have to be completed by March 2020 or else the state government will have to bear the total financial burden. We need an additional allocation of Rs 1,783 crore to complete the projects in time,” he said.
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Hit by cyberattack, officials say traffic congestion in India’s largest container port JNPT unlikely
“The trade activity at JNPT has been reduced to a great extent over the past five to six months. There are various reasons behind it and Goods and Service Tax (GST) is one of them,” the official said.
Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan
Hindustan Times, Navi Mumbai
Fishing trawlers are seen in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Mumbai.(Reuters)
Officials at Mumbai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), where one of the three terminals was hit by a global ransomware attack, said on Wednesday there won’t be a traffic congestion of containers as trade activity at India’s largest container port has been “reduced to a great extent”.
The Gateway Terminal India (GTI) impacted is operated by Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk, which has experienced outages in its computer systems globally. The GTI has a capacity to handle 1.8 million standard container units.
“It has been informed by the private terminal operator (AP Moller-Maersk) that this disruption is a consequence of a worldwide disruption being faced by them because of a cyber attack,” the Ministry of Shipping said in a statement on Wednesday.
“Had this problem occurred a few months earlier, there would have been severe traffic congestions both inside and outside the port by now. But the scenario has changed over the past few months. Still, if the officials cannot tackle the situation efficiently, there might be snarls of containers by evening,” a senior official said.
“The trade activity at JNPT has been reduced to a great extent over the past five to six months. There are various reasons behind it and Goods and Service Tax (GST) is one of them,” the official added.
According to the official, loading and discharge of containers have been totally stopped after the software at GTI stopped functioning since Tuesday night.
“There is limited space inside the port. So when containers cannot be loaded and discharged, traffic snarls of containers are normally expected here,” he further said.
The Hague-based APM Terminals also operates the Pipavav terminal in Gujarat. APM Terminals is a subsidiary of shipping giant Maersk, which has confirmed it has been hit by the cyber attack.
Foreign media reports quoted the Dutch public broadcast organisation RTV Rijnmond as saying that a new ransomware virus called Petya has hit 17 APM terminals, including two in Rotterdam and 15 in other parts of the world.
An APM spokesperson refused to comment on the India impact of the attack.
“We can confirm that Maersk’s IT systems are down across multiple geographies and business units due to a cyber-attack. We continue to assess the situation. The safety of our employees, our operation and our customers’ businesses is our top priority. We will update when we have more information,” the spokesperson said in a written statement issued globally.
Russia and Ukraine were most affected by the thousands of attacks similar to the ransomware that infected more than 300,000 computers last month. Other victims spread across countries including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United States. The total number of attacks was unknown.
The rapidly spreading cyber extortion campaign emphasised growing concerns that businesses have failed to secure their networks from increasingly aggressive hackers, who have shown they are capable of shutting down critical infrastructure and crippling corporate and government networks.
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Home Research > Members > 1386-1421 > SEABURGH (SABURGH), John (-d.1410)
SEABURGH (SABURGH), John (d.1410), of Colchester, Essex.
s. of John Seaburgh (d.1373) of Colchester by his w. Maud.1 m. bef. Nov. 1391, Alice, wid. of Simon Merchant of Colchester,2 2s.
Alderman, Colchester Sept. 1384-5, 1392-3, 1395-6, 1398-9, 1400-1, 1405-7; bailiff 1387-8, 1391-2, 1394-5, 1396-7, 1399-1400, 1401-2, 1404-5; claviger 1392-3, 1395-6, 1398-9; mace-bearer 1400-1, 1405-7.3
Commr. to levy a fine of £2,000, Essex, Herts. Dec. 1397; prohibit vessels of over 30 tuns from leaving port, Essex May 1401.
Rent collector, estates of Elizabeth, Lady Grey of Wilton, Essex Sept. 1401-Jan. 1402.4
Seaburgh held a considerable number of properties in Colchester. In 1380 he obtained rents of £5 a year from the lands of John Christian*; he was granted 15 acres in the town in 1384; by 1387 he was holding three plots, upon one of which he had built a house, and in 1398 he purchased a messuage from John Pod*, with whom he subsequently occupied premises in All Saints’ parish. In right of his wife he possessed another messuage in New Hythe. He does not appear to have pursued territorial interests outside the town, although in 1407 he became a feoffee of several acres in Salcott, Layer Marney and elsewhere.5 He must have been a merchant of some substance with important commercial interests, for in November 1388 he was assessed for a contribution of £3 11s.8d. towards the cost of a royal embassy to Prussia, then being one of only three men of Colchester to be approached. Evidently he traded with the Hanseatic towns and with the Netherlands, dealing in large qwuantities of herring and cloth, and he also imported wine from France. He was charged alnage on as many as 85 ‘dozens’ of cloth sold in Colchester in 1394-5. Seaburgh could afford to employ a servant who had once been retained by the countess of Oxford.6
Seaburgh was active in the government of Colchester for more than 20 years, beginning in 1384. He was chosen for a jury empannelled in the courts at Westminster in May 1387, in a suit brought by Sir Thomas Swinburne* concerning other local men, and he was returned to Parliament in 1397 during his fourth term as bailiff. In January 1398 he represented the town at the Exchequer following royal demands for the full fee farm, and he was again selected to do so in May 1400 when pressure for payment was renewed. In 1405, as bailiff, he received instructions from the archbishop of Canterbury ordering the confiscation of all books written in English, this being part of a move to unearth the heretical writings of the lollards. At the parliamentary elections of 1388 (Sept.) and 1402 he appeared as mainpernor for Simon Fordham and Thomas Godstone, respectively.7
On 11 Jan. 1410 Seaburgh and his wife completed enfeoffments of all their lands, tenements and services in Colchester; and he made his will on 1 Feb. following. In this he asked to be buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas’s church under his family gravestone, and left bequests to the church (including £20 to build a new roof over the chancel), and for works on St. Paul’s cathedral in London. His widow was to have their dwelling in St. Nicholas’s parish and all his other property in Colchester for life provided that she stayed single, with remainder to his sons, John and Robert. The will was proved by Archbishop Arundel at Lambeth on 19 Apr.8
Author: K.N. Houghton
1. Colchester Oath Bk. ed. Benham, 69, 97; Red Ppr. Bk. ed. Benham, 8; Colchester Ct. Rolls ed. Jeayes, ii. 104.
2. Colchester Moot Hall, ct. rools 27 m. 10v, 37 m. 19.
3. Ct. rolls 24, 28-30, 32, 35-36; Cal. Colchester Ct. Rolls ed. Harrod, 1.
4. Essex RO, D/D Vo, 13 m. 2v.
5. Oath Bk. 208-10; ct. rolls 20 m. 37, 23 mm. 57v, 59, 27 m. 10v, 33 m. 7; Essex Feet of Fines, iii. 228, 247.
6. Ct. roll 34 m. 6; CCR, 1385-9, p. 566; E101/342/9, 14, 16; E122/50/30, 51/12, 193/33 ff. 15, 24d.
7. Oath Bk. 17, 21, 218; EHR, xxix. 101-4; C219/9/5, 10/2.
8. Ct. roll 37 m. 19; Lamberth Pal. Lib. Reg. Arundel, ii. ff. 47-48.
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Battle of Chattanooga (Nov. 24-25, 1863)
The Background Battle of Chattanooga:
In the background of Battle of Chattanooga – Rosecrans had performed badly at Chickamauga, fleeing the field. Grant sacked him and appointed the Rock of Chickamauga, General Thomas, to replace the Runner of Chickamauga. General Thomas had the task of holding Chattanooga at all costs—and Lincoln made sure he was plentifully reinforced, which was easy to do because Braxton Bragg besieged the city with his usual incompetence; as Longstreet said: “We were trying to starve the enemy by investing him on the only side from which he could not have gathered supplies.”
The Battle of Chattanooga:
By 23 November 1863, 70,000 Federal troops were amassed in battle of Chattanooga. The Federal breakout began with General Thomas seizing Orchard Knob from the Confederates, and driving the Confederate line back. The next day, Joseph Hooker led the Federal attack at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, known as the “The Battle above the Clouds,” and used his six-to-one advantage in men to defeat the Confederates.
But the key battle was the Battle of Missionary Ridge. It was begun on 24 November and engaged with a fury on 25 November. Again the Federals had six to one odds in their favor, but the three Confederate lines ascending the steep ridge threw back Federal attacks all day—at times in hand to hand combat.
General Thomas, however, refused to be denied victory. He brought up 23,000 Federals on a two mile-long line and sent them charging a full mile under fire. The bluecoats crashed into and overwhelmed the 3,200 Confederates in the rifle pits at the base of the ridge. As retreating Confederates scrambled out of the way, fire poured down on the Federals from the Confederate second line: artillery fire, musket fire, an inferno of blazing fire. The Yankee junior officers on the spot thought they had no choice: they had to charge straight up the mountain through that avalanche of artillery shells and bullets.
Grant, seeing the blue uniforms move up, thought it was suicide and demanded to know who had given the order to attack up the ridge. No one knew, but the bluecoats kept moving, dodging behind whatever cover they could find as they made their ascent. Soon they had captured the second line of Confederate rifle pits, the defenders scrambling higher to the final line. Though the fire remained fierce and deadly, the Union troops got a break. As the Federals ascended, the Confederate artillery‘s field of fire diminished to nothing, it being impossible to depress the barrels any farther. The Confederate gunners were reduced to lighting fuses on canister shells and rolling them and cannon balls down the ridge.
Grabbing the flag of the 24th Wisconsin from an exhausted color sergeant, eighteen-year-old Lieutenant Arthur MacArthur (father of future general Douglas MacArthur) led the final charge: “On Wisconsin!” he cried. Soon the Federals were over the top, and as MacArthur planted his regiment’s colors in front of what had been Braxton Bragg’s headquarters he was greeted with the sight of Confederate uniforms melting away down the reverse slope of the ridge.
Phil Sheridan led the Federals’ pursuit, which continued the next day. Only the fighting courage of Patrick Cleburne’s shielding division (Cleburne was known as “the Stonewall Jackson of the West”) allowed the Confederates to escape. The charge up Missionary Ridge had decided the contest. Told that Confederate generals had considered Missionary Ridge impregnable, Grant replied, “Well, it was impregnable.”4 But the bravery of men like Arthur MacArthur and Phil Sheridan had changed that.
What You Need to Know about Battle of Chattanooga:
The Battle of Chattanooga at last led to General Braxton Bragg’s removal from command. Unfortunately, Jefferson Davis replaced him with another general who specialized in retreat: Joseph E. Johnston
Following Union defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, Union forces retreated to the railroad junction of Chattanooga, Tennessee. From November 23-25, 1863, Union troops routed the Confederates at the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionaries Ridge; the victories forces the Confederate troops back into Georgia, ending the siege of Chattanooga and creating the groundwork for Sherman’s Atlanta campaign and March to the Sea in 1864.
After Chickamauga, Rosecrans moved his entire army into the defenses of Chattanooga. He was expecting Bragg to attack.
Bragg’s army was beset with dissension. Most of his subordinate generals detested him and quarreled with him. Bragg was not good at dealing with difficult people unlike Lee.
When Bragg was criticized for not pursuing Rosecrans, he blamed his subordinates.
The dissension became so bad that Davis decided to visit the army to personally straighten things out. Davis asked all of Bragg’s subordinate generals if they though he should remove Bragg, and all said yes.
The only real alternative to Bragg was Johnston, whom Davis despised, so Davis decided to keep Bragg.
Bragg removed two of his corps commanders, including Polk.
Forrest urged Bragg to attack. Bragg refused and had a sharp quarrel with Forrest, whom he ordered to turn over his command to another general. Forrest told Bragg “You have played the part of a damned scoundrel and are a coward. If you were any part of a man, I would slap your jaws. If you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path, it will be at the peril of your life.” Bragg did nothing in response.
Bragg Moves
Bragg moved his army toward Chattanooga and occupied two major pieces of ground: Missionary Ridge (400 feet high and to the east of Chattanooga) and Lookout Mountain, which loomed over Chattanooga.
Union reinforcements, including Sherman’s force of 17,000, plus 25,000 troops from Virginia under Joseph Hooker, joined Rosecrans’ army.
Inside Chattanooga, supplies were beginning to run short. There was only one very narrow road over which supplies could be brought. By October, Rosecrans’ army was on quarter rations.
On October 17, Lincoln named Grant commander of all Union armies between the Mississippi and the Appalachians (Halleck’s old job). Grant removed Rosecrans from command, went to Chattanooga, and took personal command of the Federals there.
At the same time, the Federals opened up new lines of supply.
Meanwhile, Longstreet was sent with 15,000 troops to try and retake Knoxville. This left Bragg with only 45,000 men.
By mid-November, Grant had 75,000 men.
Bragg’s army was still deployed on Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. The ridge had rifle pits at its bottom and its top, and it had some about halfway between the top and bottom.
Three rebel brigades held lookout Mountain, which was 2000 feet high
Grant wanted Hooker (on the Union left) to capture Lookout Mountain.
Sherman’s army would attack Bragg’s right lank at the northern end of Missionary Ridge.
Thomas would demonstrate against the Confederate center, also on Missionary Ridge. Thomas’ soldiers were offended by this seemingly secondary assignment.
On November 24, Hooker’s men captured Lookout Mountain. The clouds were hanging low, so that the fight was later called “The Battle Above the Clouds.” The following morning, some Union soldiers placed a flag at the top of the hill. Union soldiers on the ground broke into cheers.
Sherman had less success, having to fight the best Confederate division, under Patrick Cleburne. Cleburne repulsed the bluecoats.
The next morning, one of Sherman’s subordinate generals, Phil Sheridan, took out flask, and raised it to the Confederate gunners at the top of the ridge. “Here’s at you!” he said. A Confederate cannon fired at him in response, missing but splattering him with mud. “That was ungenerous.” Sheridan replied. “I’ll take your guns for that!”
Grant ordered Thomas to attack the line of trenches at the base of Missionary Ridge. Thomas was NOT to go any further.
Thomas’ men moved forward. Grant and Thomas were quite a way back from the front, watching them. To their surprise, Thomas’ men marched all the way toward the top of the ridge. (The men were sitting ducks in the first row of rifle pits, and they had something to prove after Chickamauga.)
Grant asked Thomas “Who ordered those men up the hill.” “I don’t know. I did not.” Thomas replied. “When those fellows get started, all hell can’t stop them.” Grant replied that someone would catch hell if this turned out badly.
When the Federals reached the top of the ridge, the rebels retreated. (This was an exception to the usual rule about frontal assaults on fortified positions).
As the Confederates retreated, many Federal soldiers taunted them, shouting “Chickamauga! Chickamauga!
(Fun fact): One of the color bearers in the charge up Missionary Ridge was a young officer named Arthur MacArthur.
The entire Confederate army retreated 25 miles to Dalton, GA
Years later, when a student of the battle commented to Grant that the Confederate generals saw their position as impregnable, Grant replied, “Well, it was impregnable.”
Outcome of Battle of Chattanooga
The Union had 6000 casualties, while the Confederates had about 6500. This was a much lower total than in many battles.
Chattanooga was now irretrievably lost to the Confederates. (Also, Longstreet’s attack on Knoxville failed).
All rail connections between the Confederate East and West are severed.
This was the third major defeat for the Confederacy (along with Gettysburg and Vicksburg) in the summer and fall of 1863.
After the battle, Bragg admitted fault for the defeat. Davis removed him from command and replaced him with Joseph Johnston. Bragg goes to Richmond to become Davis’ chief military advisor. (Tell Joke about Bragg – 1848)
Grant’s reputation as the greatest Union general is confirmed. Sherman said “It was a great victory…the neatest and cleanest battle I was ever in. And Grant deserves the credit for it all.”
Other Union commanders moved up with Grant, including George Thomas, William T. Sherman, and Philip Sheridan.
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Midway Class Carrier: The Behemoth of the Navy
The following article on the Midway Class Carrier is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman’s book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
During the Second World War, the Navy evolved the concept of the “battle carrier,” bigger and more capable than the Essex class. Of six CVBs planned, three were ordered, with Midway (CV-41) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) commissioned immediately after V-J Day, followed by Coral Sea (CVB-43) two years later.
The Midway-class aircraft carrier acted as one of the longest-serving aircraft carrier designs in U.S. naval history. The USS Midway was first commissioned in late 1945 and was not decommissioned until 1992, serving its final tour of duty in Desert Storm. Few ships saw as much change in warfare as her.
The Midway Class carriers were transitional ships. Originally displacing forty-five thousand tons, they were envisioned as embarking more than 120 aircraft. The concept proved unworkable, however, and in fact undesirable. Early experience demonstrated the difficulty of operating so many planes with four squadrons of Corsairs (sixty-three F4Us) and Helldivers (fifty-three SB2Cs). Because of their size, the CVBs were better equipped for operating jets and larger piston aircraft simultaneously. Midway, for instance, briefly flew twin-jet McDonnell FH-1s in 1949 but retained piston-engine fighters until 1950.
The three ships were assigned to the Atlantic Fleet for much of their careers, tentatively opposing the Soviet threat. Midway and Coral Sea served into the 1990s, with Midway becoming a museum ship in San Diego. The hard-used FDR (uncharitably called “Filthy Dirty Rusty” late in her career) was sold in 1977.
This article on the Midway Class Carrier is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman’s book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
This article is part of our larger resource on the WW2 Navies warfare. Click here for our comprehensive article on the WW2 Navies.
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Mel Davidson And Ken Hitchcock Added To Alberta Hockey Summit List Of Guest Speakers
Hockey Alberta, along with its invested stakeholders; Hockey Canada, the Calgary Flames, the Edmonton Oilers and the Western Hockey League, announced on Thursday the additions of Mel Davidson and Ken Hitchcock as guest speakers at the Alberta Hockey Summit August 22-24, 2013 at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta.
The purpose of the three day summit is to build a shared vision for the game in Alberta, align key stakeholders around a common purpose and ensure Alberta remains a world leader in Hockey Leadership and Development for years to come.
Mel Davidson is the general manager of Hockey Canada’s National Women’s Team Program. She’s also a two-time gold medal winner as head coach of Team Canada Female in 2012 and 2008.
Ken Hitchcock is a Stanley Cup winning coach and currently the head coach of the St. Louis Blues. He will also serve as an assistant coach of the Team Canada Male team that will compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics. At the conclusion of the 2011-12 NHL season, Hitchcock won the Jack Adams Award for NHL coach of the year.
The two will participate in hot-stove type session on the Friday evening, August 23rd. They will be discussing the unique challenges and opportunities they and their teams will face in a quest for gold at the Sochi Olympic Games.
They join an esteemed list of keynote speakers already confirmed for the Alberta Hockey Summit:
Ken Dryden (Former NHL goalie) - Opening Speaker – The History & Relevance of Hockey to Canadians
Ryan Walter (Former NHLer & current President of Abbotsford Heat) - Leadership in Today’s Game
Dr. Steve Norris (Former Vice-President of WinSport Canada) – Building a Player Development System for Everyone
George Kingston (Former NHL head coach & current coach on Norway’s Men’s and Women’s National Teams) – The Dynamic Future of Hockey
In addition to the keynote and guest speakers, the Summit will also feature a panel made up of members from each of the invested stakeholders. Bob Nicholson (Hockey Canada, President), Patrick LaForge (Edmonton Oilers, CEO) Ron Robison (WHL, Commissioner), Jim Peplinski (Calgary Flames, VP of Business Development), Bob Hartley (Calgary Flames, Head Coach) and Rob Litwinski (Hockey Alberta, Executive Director) will take part in a Q&A to discuss themes and ideas in moving the game forward and what role each stakeholder plays.
“At the rate the game is evolving, especially in the last decade or so, we felt hosting a hockey summit in Alberta was the right thing to do,” said Litwinski. “It gives everyone involved in hockey the opportunity to meet and talk openly on how we can improve the sport in Alberta for years to come.”
Registration for the Alberta Hockey Summit is still open and includes an Opening Reception on the Thursday, Friday Session and Social evening, the full Summit program on Saturday, and six meals.
Seven Themes Emerge From 2013 Alberta Hockey Summit
The 2013 Alberta Hockey Summit, which was attended by over 200 delegates, wrapped up on Saturday afternoon in Banff, Alberta. The summit brought together Alberta’s invested stakeholders in hockey, who were able to identify seven themes providing a sense of clarity and direction towards a shared vision for hockey in Alberta.
The event included a keynote speech from former NHLer and Hockey Hall of Famer, Ken Dryden and presentations from some of hockey’s greatest minds including President of the Abbotsford Heat, Ryan Walter, former Vice-President of Sport with WinSport Canada, Dr. Stephen Norris and Managing Director of the NHL Coaches Association, George Kingston.
The seven themes identified are:
1. Shared Leadership Across Sports
- Stronger advocacy for government
- Promote families registering their children in multiple sports and reducing the cost
- Modifying or removing boundaries to line up opportunities
- Focus efforts on communities that are willing to accept change
2. Train our Future Leaders
- Identify leaders at younger ages and train them to be great volunteers
- Clearly outline what leadership skills we are trying to develop
- Active recruitment of graduating players
- Engage the education system
- Utilize stakeholders like ATB to train hockey leaders under the parameters of their personnel development
3. Strengthen Business Relationships
- Identify businesses with a vested interest who can help
- Use the size of the game to leverage relationships
4. Develop a Model for the Ideal Local Minor Hockey Association (LMHA)
- Built by hockey in Alberta for hockey in Alberta
- Establish metrics of success for programming
- Education of stakeholders within the LMHA on the vision
- Emphasize the principles of Long-Term Athlete Development
- Utilize technology to educate and communicate
5. Reduce System Bias
- Manage the Age of Determination Date to benefit a broader cross section of players
- Pay attention to the next generation
- Remove the one-size-fits-all system that discourages participation
6. Open the Doors to Non-Traditional Participants
- Change the perception of our game – fun, family, friendly, flexible
- Work with ethnic communication groups to speak the ‘best’ language
- Remove the perception of who the game is for
7. Focus on the Player
- FUN – what is it, how do we deliver it
- Development programs designed for player need
- Shrink the game to their size
“These themes are just a starting point because they’ve emerged from raw data,” said Hockey Alberta’s Executive Director, Rob Litwinski. “We have to consolidate the reports, share the presentations and then develop action plans. We gained a lot of knowledge from this summit and we will be doing something with it.”
The delegate group was made up of representatives from varying levels of hockey, including Hockey Canada, the Edmonton Oilers, the Calgary Flames, the Western Hockey League, minor hockey associations, the CIS and ACAC, sports schools and facility operators.
2013 Alberta Hockey Summit Kicks Off In Banff
Hockey Alberta, along with its invested stakeholders; Hockey Canada, the Calgary Flames, the Edmonton Oilers and the Western Hockey League, is proud to kick off the Alberta Hockey Summit tonight, August 22, 2013 at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta.
The event will be kicked off by former NHLer and Hockey Hall of Fame member, Ken Dryden, with a presentation on the history and relevance of hockey to Canadians. The session will included discussions revolving around the past, present and future of hockey and what the stakeholders can do to ensure we stay on the right course.
“Sometimes to move forward, you have to look back a bit and remember where you came from,” said Hockey Alberta’s Senior Manager of Business Development, Scott Robinson. “This summit is about the future, but we really have to learn from the positives and mistakes of the past to forge a new direction.”
The purpose of the three-day summit is to build a shared vision for the game in Alberta, align key stakeholders around a common purpose and ensure Alberta remains a world leader in Hockey Leadership and Development for years to come.
ABOUT THE ALBERTA HOCKEY SUMMIT
The 2013 Alberta Hockey Summit is an event designed to review the current state of hockey within Alberta and identify and address the key issues and concerns facing the game. Hockey Alberta aims to become the most progressive and innovative sport organization in Canada. Through its core mission of bringing hockey loving Albertan’s together, the Summit will look to provide world leading presentations by professionals that impact the game on every level.
Hockey Alberta Announces Team Alberta Male U16 Top 34 In Preperation For The Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup
Hockey Alberta announced on Friday the top 34 U16 male hockey players that have been short listed for further evaluation in preparation to represent Team Alberta at the 2012 Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup taking place November 1 - 4 in Calgary, AB.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE TEAM ALBERTA U16 TOP 34 ROSTER
81 players were evaluated at the Team Alberta U16 Provincial Development Camp in July in Camrose. The 34 short listed players will now be scouted with their club teams until the final 20 player Team Alberta roster is named.
“We want to put together a highly competitive team and we think out of these 34 athletes, we will be able to do that,” said Team Alberta Head Coach, Bryce Thoma. “To go from 80 players down to 34 is no easy task, but it will be exciting to watch all these players perform with their club teams.”
The Challenge Cup sees Alberta and the other three Western provinces’ top U16 talent compete against each other. 2012 will be the third year for this event; Alberta captured gold in 2009 with a 6-4 win over Manitoba and gold in 2011 with a 10-4 win over Manitoba.
Six players from the 2009 Team Alberta U16 Team were drafted into the NHL in the 2012 NHL Draft, including Mathew Dumba (7th), Mitchell Moroz (32nd) and Mike Winther (54th). Dumba and Hunter Shinkurak, who also played on the 2009 Team Alberta U16 team, will also play for Team Canada at the 2012 Canada-Russia Challege next week.
Brayden Point, who finished last season by scoring seven goals and ten points in 14 playoff games with the Moose Jaw Warriors, was a part of the 2011 Team Alberta U16 Team.
August 08, 2013 Mel Davidson And Ken Hitchcock Added To Alberta Hockey Summit List Of Guest Speakers
August 26, 2013 Seven Themes Emerge From 2013 Alberta Hockey Summit
August 22, 2013 2013 Alberta Hockey Summit Kicks Off In Banff
August 03, 2013 Hockey Alberta Announces Team Alberta Male U16 Top 34 In Preperation For The Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup
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Jul 15, 9:07 PM EDT
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Theranos To Close Its Blood-Testing Labs, Wellness Centers, Cut 340 Jobs
By Seerat Chabba @crat074
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative's closing session in New York City, Sept. 29, 2015. Photo: Getty Images/Andrew Burton
Health technology startup Theranos announced Wednesday that it will close all its blood-testing labs and wellness centers across the country following a series of hurdles.
“After many months spent assessing our strengths and addressing our weaknesses, we have moved to structure our company around the model best aligned with our core values and mission,” CEO Elizabeth Holmes said in a blog post on the company’s website. The move will put “approximately 340 employees in Arizona, California, and Pennsylvania” — approximately 44 percent of the 790 full-time employees — out of jobs.
The shuttering of the labs and centers is set to pave the path for the company to concentrate on its flagship innovation, the miniLab. The new blood-testing device — about the size of a printer — was announced in August but is yet to gain approval from federal regulators following a failed bid for Zika detectors that was denied by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“We will return our undivided attention to our miniLab platform. Our ultimate goal is to commercialize miniaturized, automated laboratories capable of small-volume sample testing, with an emphasis on vulnerable patient populations, including oncology, pediatrics, and intensive care,” Holmes explained.
The shift in strategy comes a year after the Wall Street Journal launched an investigation into the company’s technology, which is based on the Edison machine. Regulators from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found the blood-testing methods used by Theranos as inaccurate, causing them to announce sanctions against the company. Theranos, which was valued at $9 billion in 2014, was forced to shut down its California lab facility after the company’s license to operate it was revoked in July. Holmes has been banned from operating any of her labs for two years. Theranos is appealing the move.
The Palo Alto-based company has labs in Newark, California, and Scottsdale, Arizona, along with five blood-drawing sites from where samples are sent to the Arizona lab. Amid the controversy surrounding the legitimacy of its technology, Theranos also lost its partnership with Walgreens drugstores, which closed all of its collaborative blood-collection locations in June.
“We have a new executive team leading our work toward obtaining FDA clearances, building commercial partnerships, and pursuing publications in scientific journals,” Holmes said in the post, thanking “supporters and investors” for continued support.
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Brian Liebel, PE, Chosen as IES Technical Director of Standards
6 January 2016 March 20, 2019
Brian Liebel, PE
New York, January 6, 2016 — The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) is proud to announce and welcome Brian Liebel as the new Technical Director of Standards, effective February 16, 2016. Liebel succeeds Rita Harrold, who retired June 30, 2015. While Liebel will primarily be responsible for overseeing the development and production of IES Standards, he will also play a key role in developing plans and implementing programs to meet the objectives of the 2014-2020 IES Strategic Plan specific to Educational, Consensus, Research and Advocacy objectives.
Liebel joined the IES as a student while attending the University of Kansas School of Architectural Engineering, then under the direction of Ron “Doc” Helms. Liebel attributes his dedication to lighting and the Society from his experience at KU, where he was a member of the first class of Besal Scholarship recipients in 1984. Throughout his 30-year career, Brian has been involved with the IES as an educator, committee chair, and for the last 2½ years, a member of the Board of Directors. His professional career path has always emphasized his belief in melding the art and science of lighting design and illuminating engineering; he has received awards for both innovative design and technical achievement, been a recognized advocate for quality lighting in energy codes, and provided design guidance in lighting research. He received the Presidential Award at this year’s Annual Conference for overseeing the IES Business Review that was conducted in 2015.
“Brian’s wealth of experience and industry knowledge makes him a key addition to the IES family,” said Tim Licitra, IES Executive Vice President. “We view his appointment as a sign of our commitment to maintaining our position as leaders and an authoritative body in our industry. IES is very fortunate that we were able to find someone of Brian’s caliber to fulfill this role. I’m confident that Brian will play a key role in providing and implementing high quality programs and solutions that will allow us to improve the value of membership and execute on our strategic plan.”
“This is an exciting and pivotal time in our industry, with rapid advances in lighting technologies and our understanding of how light affects vision and health,” Liebel said. “It’s particularly important that we reflect and assess our strength of membership knowledge, while we modernize our methods for delivering that same knowledge to a younger and broader audience. It’s also more important than ever to engage with university programs, advocate for improved lighting education through all industry sectors, and to participate with other organizations and government agencies to communicate the importance of quality lighting.”
Mark Roush, President of the IES commented, “We are very excited to see Brian assume this role. He has proven his professionalism and thoroughness time and again as a valued Board Member, has performed exemplary both as a volunteer task leader and hired consultant, and impressed the executive search committee with the preparedness and vision that is sure to help lead IES into a new era of standards, publications, and program development. With two new key staff positions now filled I am confident that both Tim and Brian will make a leadership team that forms the foundation of modernization needed in our headquarters operation.”
A five–member committee appointed by the IES Board worked in tandem with Tim Licitra to review potential candidates. IES retained the services of Sterling Martin Associates, a Washington, DC–based executive search firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Orange County, California, to help with the recruitment. In accordance with proper nonprofit governance, Brian’s current Board Member position will be filled according to the process outlined within the IES Bylaws.
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HOBY Deposit (%) - i.e. % amount of transaction value paid by customer online to secure booking.
HOBY Service Fee (%) - i.e. % of transaction value charged by HOBY for its services.
Effective Date (as applicable)
Signed for and on behalf of Licensee
Name (First Name, Last Name)
Licensee's email address for Contracts (to be used for future contract related correspondence)
Signed Date
"Agreement" shall mean this agreement including the "Key Details" page and all appendices.
"Available Beds" shall be all those beds in the Property which, prior to being booked by anybody, the Licensee is able to make available to Customers on any given night that the Property is open for business (i.e. regardless of season, day of the week or popular travel dates).
"Bedrooms" shall mean the total number of bedrooms within the Licensee's property that are available to rent by a customer. (For the avoidance of doubt, a property with a single bed room, a double bed room and a 12 bed dormitory would have 3 bedrooms).
"Beds" shall mean the beds together with all other ancillary products and services offered for sale by the Licensee on a non-optional basis or as part of one inclusive price (examples of ancillary products and services being breakfast, airport pick-ups and internet access).
"Booking Price" shall mean the total price that the Licensee quotes on any one or more of the Websites for a person to stay at the Property for one night, including the price of all non-optional ancillary products and services.
"Deposit" shall mean the amount collected from Customers by HOBY for and on behalf of the Licensee in accordance with Appendix 1.
"Force Majeure Event" shall mean any event which affects or prevents a party from being able to perform its obligations under this Agreement and which is beyond the affected party's reasonable control, but which shall not include events which could have been avoided by the taking of reasonable precautions or which arise from the negligence or wilful default or act of the affected party.
"HOBY Booking Engine" refers to HOBY's proprietary technology which HOBY makes available to the Licensee to incorporate on its own website(s) as an online reservations system enabling customers to check bed / room availability and rates and process reservations.
"Inbox" refers to the extranet facility provided by HOBY to the Licensee's authorized representatives for the management of their property information, bed / room availability and rates that are in turn published on HOBY websites. In addition, it provides access to all reservation details and related reporting from HOBY. It includes all variants of this system that may be used by a Licensee, including HOBY Inbox.
"Licensee" shall mean the individual, business or corporate entity which owns the Property.
"Login" means the account login given to a Licensee to enable it to set up an account with and accept bookings from HOBY via a Website.
"Property Information" shall have the meaning given in clause 2.1.
"Service Fee" shall mean the fee payable by the Licensee to HOBY for the provision of marketing, IT and data processing services (as more particularly described in clause 4.1).
"Term" shall mean the term of this Agreement as specified in clause 8.1.
"Travel Services" shall mean the provision of the Bed and any and all other travel services to be provided by the Licensee to the Customers as is envisaged by this Agreement.
"Websites" shall mean Hostelbay.com and any other websites or technology platforms in respect of which a licensing agreement exists to utilize HOBY's technology for the purposes of processing online reservations.
"Working Days" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or bank or public holiday (in either of the GREECE ).
1. LICENSEE'S OBLIGATIONS
1.1. HOBY has a strategic objective to be associated only with third party providers of high quality, value-for-money products and services, who operate their business in a manner that protects the integrity and value of the HOBY brand. The Licensee is aware that Customers booking through the Websites are entitled to expect a certain level of service from the Licensee and, accordingly, the Licensee agrees that throughout the Term it will:
1.1.1. honour all bookings made through the Websites (and perform all checks necessary to be able to do this), including bookings made during special event periods;
1.1.2. ensure that all Customers are treated equally (in particular with regard to gender, race, religion, disability and sexual orientation) both at the time of bookings and during the Customer's stay at the Property;
1.1.3. respond in a timely manner in relation to any and all queries from HOBY and/or Customers;
1.1.4. ensure that the Booking Price (i.e. the price displayed on the Websites, which includes the Licensee's websites which use the HOBY Booking Engine) will not exceed the lowest price at which the Licensee offers such Beds elsewhere online (i.e. when compared on the basis of the same room type, same facilities, same dates, same bed type, same number of guests and same terms as to any "ancillary products" such as breakfast), including on the Licensee's other websites. In the event that it comes to the Licensee's attention that it is possible to book a Bed elsewhere at a cheaper price than the Booking Price, the Licensee shall: (i) immediately arrange to offer that lower price on the Websites, (ii) charge all Customers who have not yet arrived at the Property the lower price on arrival and (iii) promptly and fully recompense all past Customers who seek redress from HOBY in relation to the price difference (such compensation to equal the difference between the price that was advertised to those Customers on any one or more of the Websites and the lower price that was available at that time through some other channel);
1.1.5. ensure that it will give HOBY "availability parity" in relation to its Beds such that it will make Beds available for promotion by HOBY on a no less favourable basis than they are available by any and all other distribution channels (including via the Licensee's own website(s)); and
1.1.6. grant and provide to HOBY access to all its Available Beds as are for sale/available via any and all other online distribution channels (including the Licensee's own website(s)) and always on a real-time basis (i.e. first come first served) and always with "last bed / room availability".
1.2. In any circumstances where the Licensee cannot honour a Customer booking, it shall:
1.2.1. find (without recourse to HOBY) and provide an equivalent bed for the Customer for the applicable night(s) (equivalent in terms of price, location and facilities) and, if this is not possible, find and provide a superior bed in the relevant location and pay to the Customer an amount equal to the increased cost of that bed for the duration of the Customer's booking; and
1.2.2. refund the Deposit to the Customer.
1.3. The Licensee warrants that it possesses (and undertakes to maintain throughout the Term) all such licences, permissions, permits and approvals as are necessary so as to allow accommodation at the Property to be provided lawfully to Customers (including, without limitation, all such health and safety licences, permissions, permits and approvals as are required by any relevant authority).
1.4. The Licensee hereby warrants that it currently possesses (and undertakes to maintain throughout the Term) a comprehensive insurance policy / policies with a reputable insurer to cover:
1.4.1. all risks that do or may relate to and/or arise out of the performance of this Agreement and/or the provision of the Travel Services and in respect of which a reputable and prudent accommodation and/or travel services provider would normally obtain insurance including (by way of example and without limitation): (i) occupier's liability, (ii) public liability insurance and (iii) all other risks which it would be reasonable to insure against including cover for death, personal injury and illness (including all legal costs of both the Customers concerned and the Licensee) of or suffered by the Customers and/or the Licensee's employees, agents and representatives arising, directly or indirectly, from any act(s) and/or default(s) by the Licensee and/or any person(s) employed, contracted or instructed (directly or indirectly) by the Licensee (including employees, agents, suppliers and sub-contractors of the Licensee) and/or any use of the Property and
1.4.2. the full amount of all sums which it is reasonably foreseeable could potentially become payable pursuant to all or any of the indemnities provided by the Licensee under this Agreement.
1.5. The aforementioned level of insurance cover held by the Licensee shall be kept under review by the Licensee to ensure its adequacy and shall, in any event, at all times be at a level which a reputable, reasonable and prudent accommodation and/or travel services provider would hold.
1.6. The Licensee will produce to HOBY (on request) satisfactory evidence of the existence and renewal of the insurance policies referred to in clause 1.4.
1.7. The Licensee confirms that it will keep sensitive credit card data confidential, will always handle it in accordance with PCI security standards and will ensure that customer credit card details obtained from HOBY are only ever used for the sole purpose of payment of legitimate and authorised cancellation charges. The Licensee hereby indemnifies the Company for the full amount of all claims, liabilities, demands, damages, expenses, losses, refunds, fines, costs (including all legal costs) and all other sums of whatever nature which the Company incurs, suffers or becomes responsible for as a result of fraudulent or unauthorized use of any credit card details where the Licensee is identified as the party committing the fraud or permitting a third party to commit the fraud.
1.8. The Licensee warrants that this Agreement has been executed by its duly authorized representative.
1.9. The Licensee will keep its (Manager) Logins for HOBY - provided software e.g. (Inbox) confidential and will only allow individuals who are validly authorized by the Licensee to use the Login or to access any part of the Website.
1.10. The Licensee is responsible to HOBY for all activities carried out under the Login, whether such activities are carried out by authorized individuals or not.
2. PROPERTY INFORMATION AND MARKETING
2.1. The Licensee will provide information relating to the Property for inclusion on the Websites throughout the Term. This information will include a description of the Property (including photos), its facilities, amenities and location, details of the Beds and services available to Customers, the price of the Beds and services and details of any local or value added taxes that the Customer will be required to pay in respect of the Bed or other services (the "Property Information"). The Licensee will supply the Property Information in any format that is reasonably required by HOBY.
2.2. The Licensee hereby grants HOBY (and any affiliate or sub-licensee of HOBY) a royalty-free, transferable license to use the Property Information throughout the Term.
2.3. The Licensee shall provide HOBY with accurate information as to any additional local or value added taxes to be paid by the Customer in respect of the Beds. The Licensee shall ensure that all pricing and related information (including all references to local taxes) that it supplies to HOBY as part of the Property Information are accurate and inclusive of all value added or other taxes payable by the Customer and it undertakes not to levy further taxes on the Customer other than those specified within the Property Information.
2.4. The Licensee will not include within the Property Information: (a) its telephone number, fax number, email address (including skype) or social media page references, (b) its web-link, (c) direct references to its website or a third party's website or (d) any other means by which a Customer could directly contact the Licensee. HOBY reserves the right to exclude or edit any of the Property Information which it considers to be incorrect, inappropriate or incomplete.
2.5. The Licensee warrants that (i) the Property Information is owned by the Licensee, subject to clause 2.6 below; and (ii) the Property Information is and shall be at all times true, accurate and not misleading. In the event that any of the Property Information becomes untrue, inaccurate or misleading at any time during the Term, the Licensee shall inform HOBY in writing (including via email) promptly (and in any event within 24 hours). The Licensee hereby indemnifies HOBY against all losses, damages, costs and expenses suffered as a result of any claim or complaint brought on the basis that the Property Information is or has become untrue, inaccurate or misleading.
2.6. In the event that HOBY translates the Property Information into another language and is responsible for meeting the associated costs, the intellectual property and any other rights associated with that translation shall belong to HOBY and the Licensee hereby assigns to HW any right, title or interest which it may have in and to such translation.
2.7. The Licensee hereby acknowledges and agrees that the data relating to a Customer who has made a booking via the Websites belongs to HOBY and this data is only made available to the Licensee for the purpose of enabling the Licensee to fulfill the booking. The Licensee shall not, for the avoidance of doubt, be entitled to use the Customer data in order to market to that Customer.
2.8. HOBY shall be entitled to promote the Property using the Property's name during the term of this Agreement in online marketing (including email marketing and pay-per-click advertising) at its own cost. The Licensee grants to HOBY a royalty-free, non-exclusive transferable license to use the Property name for this purpose during the term of this Agreement.
3. HOBY'S OBLIGATIONS
3.1. As soon as reasonably practicable after commencement of the Term (and thereafter throughout the rest of the Term) HOBY shall provide marketing, IT and data processing services to the Licensee to enable and facilitate the booking online of the Licensee's products and/or services by Customers.
3.2. HOBY shall promote the Beds on Hostelbay.com and through its network of affiliates. It may also promote the Beds via some or all of its other Websites. The order in which properties (including the Property) are displayed and/or listed on the Websites shall be determined by HOBY acting in its own discretion. HOBY shall be entitled to generate and display Customer search results in any manner and according to any system of ranking that it determines to be appropriate.
3.3 HOBY automatically ignores a maximum of 10 % of the worst reviews during the calculation of the global average property rating.
4. HOBY'S SERVICE FEES
4.1. In consideration of the provision of the services by HOBY to the Licensee under the terms of this Agreement, the Licensee shall pay to HOBY a service fee (the "Service Fee"). The Service Fee will be equal to a percentage of the Booking Price that all Customers making a booking via the Websites would be charged for all the nights comprising their booking (whether or not that booking is honoured or subsequently cancelled or the Customer fails to turn up). The percentage amount of the Booking Price that will comprise the Service Fee is specified in the Key Details at the beginning of this Agreement.
4.2. The Licensee will pay the Service Fee (and any other amounts) due to HOBY under this Agreement free and clear of all taxes, deductions or withholdings whatsoever, save only as may be required by law. The Licensee hereby indemnifies HOBY for any costs or loss arising to HOBY as a result of any such taxes, deductions or withholdings and agrees that if such taxes, deductions or withholdings are required by law, the Licensee shall pay to HOBY such additional amount as may be necessary in order that the net amount received by HOBY after such taxes, deductions and withholdings shall not be less than the amount HOBY would have been entitled to receive in the absence of any such taxes, deductions or withholding and nothing in this Agreement shall give the Licensee the right to seek to reclaim from HOBY any taxes, deductions or withholdings which it is required to pay or make in respect of the Service Fee and/or any other payments due to HOBY at any time.
5. COLLECTIONS AND SETTLEMENT
5.1. In respect of each Customer booking for the Property which is made during the Term, HOBY shall collect a Deposit from the Customer (in its capacity as agent for (and acting on behalf of) the Licensee) by means of an online debit, credit card and/or other online payments' transaction at the time the booking is made. The percentage of the total Booking Price (for all the nights comprising a Customer's booking) that will comprise the Deposit is specified in the Key Details at the beginning of this Agreement. HOBY shall hold the Deposit on trust for the Licensee and shall (subject to the arrangements set out in Appendix 1 to this Agreement) pay the Deposit to the Licensee in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
5.2. The Licensee will be responsible for collecting from the Customer the balance payable to the Licensee (being the Booking Price for each night booked less the Deposit unless otherwise set out in the Licensee's terms and conditions and booking confirmation that is provided to the Customer at time of booking), but such collection shall not take place until the Customer's arrival at the Property, unless otherwise specified in the Property Information. Each Customer's debit or credit card details which are collected by HOBY at the point of payment of the Deposit will thereafter be made available to the Licensee (via HOBY's extranet facility, Inbox or its PMS (HostelBay Administration) system so that either: (a) the balance due in respect of the Bed (in the event that the Customer arrives at the Property and fulfills the booking) or (b) the Cancellation Fee, as defined in clause 5.3 (in the event that they do not turn up) may be debited or obtained via that card by the Licensee in accordance with HOBY's customer terms and conditions which are displayed on its Websites.
5.3. In the event of a failure by the Customer to turn up at the Property for their booking, the Licensee shall be entitled at its discretion to charge a cancellation fee which is equal to or less than the full price of the first night's stay of the booking less the Deposit (save where the Licensee clearly stated to the Customer prior to the point of booking that the cancellation fee would be higher). It shall be the responsibility of the Licensee to collect any cancellation fee from the Customer.
5.4. The Licensee is responsible for (i) updating and maintaining the pricing for its beds through Inbox or other connectivity approved by HOBY and (ii) any data entry errors which may arise in respect of pricing. This responsibility includes ensuring that the correct pricing and availability is displayed for special event periods.
5.5. HOBY may at its own discretion charge a booking (or other processing) fee to Customers at the time of booking and the amount of that fee shall be determined by HOBY. The fee shall be for the account of HOBY notwithstanding that the fee may be charged to the Customer at the same time that the Deposit is collected from the Customer on behalf of the Licensee.
5.6. Following termination or expiry of this Agreement Service Fees shall continue to be payable by the Licensee in respect of Customer bookings which were made during the Term.
6. RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY
6.1. The Licensee hereby grants to HOBY the authority to conclude bookings with Customers on behalf of the Licensee and further agrees that HOBY has no responsibility to the Customer for the fulfillment of bookings. A booking creates an agreement between the Customer and the Licensee and the Licensee hereby agrees to indemnify HOBY in respect of all losses, costs and damage suffered or incurred by HOBY as a result of any claims being brought against HOBY which relate to a booking and/or the provision of a Bed and/or any other service provided by the Licensee (save to the extent that such loss, cost or damage is caused by the negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation of HOBY).
6.2. Subject to clause 6.5, the parties hereby acknowledge and agree that HOBY shall have no liability to the Licensee, any member of its corporate group or any other person which has rights under this Agreement in contract, tort (including negligence), misrepresentation or breach of any duty for any of the following types of loss or damage arising out of or in connection with this Agreement: (i) loss of data, income, profit, business or opportunity, (ii) damages, losses and costs that relate to third party claims and (iii) indirect, special and consequential loss or damage.
6.3. The maximum aggregate liability of HOBY to the Licensee (and each member of the Licensee's corporate group and any other person which has rights under the Agreement) in respect of any and all claims arising out of or pursuant to this Agreement (whether in contract, tort, (including negligence), misrepresentation, breach of duty or otherwise) shall be limited to €5,000.
6.4. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree that the existence of the agency relationship described herein shall be disclosed to the Customer so that the Customer is made aware that (inter alia) the Customer is contracting with the Licensee and not HOBY in relation to the provision of the Beds, that the amount paid by the Customer at the time of booking is a deposit which is collected by HOBY on behalf of the Licensee and that the final price payable by the Customer to the Licensee shall be reduced by the amount of such deposit.
6.5. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree that nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall take effect to limit or exclude the liability of either party for; (i) the fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation of that party or (ii) death or personal injury caused by the negligence of that party.
6.6. The Licensee agrees to indemnify and hold HOBY and its affiliates and sub-licensees harmless in respect of any claim by any third party arising from the use of the Property Information by HOBY or its affiliates and sub-licensees.
6.7. The Licensee hereby acknowledges and agrees that the marketing, IT and data processing services (and any other services, data, reports or other information relating to the Websites, the Property or Customer activity which HOBY may provide from time to time) are provided by HOBY on an 'as is' basis. HOBY neither makes nor gives any representations, warranties or undertakings with respect to such services and deliverables and, to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law, HOBY hereby excludes all representations, warranties and conditions, express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including without limitation warranties as to quality or fitness for a particular purpose.
6.8. Neither party shall be liable to the other for any failure or delay in performing this Agreement to the extent that such failure or delay is caused by a Force Majeure Event.
6.9. Where the Licensee operates Website(s) that incorporate a HOBY Booking Engine, the Licensee;
6.9.1. shall inform HOBY (via written notice, including via email) of the existence of all such Websites and provide HOBY with full details of the domain names /website addresses of such Websites in advance (i.e. before incorporating the HOBY Booking Engine in such Website);
6.9.2. will (subject to clause 6.10 below) be entitled to receive a rebate in respect of the bookings that are transacted on that Website(s) on the basis and in the amounts specified in clause 11 of this Agreement only and that Licensee shall not be entitled to any other rebates or payments of any kind from HOBY;
6.9.3. must check the terms of clause 11 before signing this Agreement and notify HOBY in the event that the Licensee is aware that the commercial terms (including those that set out the rebate percentage and the booking fee amount) are not correct and/or do not reflect the commercial arrangement that it has with HOBY; and
6.9.4. agrees that it will sign a new version of this Agreement in the event that it agrees with HOBY a different rebate percentage and/or booking fee in respect of its HOBY Booking Engine.
6.10. The Licensee acknowledges and agrees that if it does not comply in full with clause 6.9.1 in respect of any Website in which it has incorporated a HOBY Booking Engine it will not be entitled to any rebate or any other payments from HOBY (notwithstanding any other clause in this Agreement) in respect of any bookings that are transacted on that Website and that it will be in breach of this Agreement.
7. RESTRICTED NATIONS
Licensee hereby warrants and represents that it is not a national or controlled by a national of Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan, or North Korea (each a "Restricted Nation") and that the Licensee's services are not and will not be situate or delivered in a Restricted Nation. HOBY hereby reserves the right to add or remove countries from the list that comprises the definition of Restricted Nations from time to time upon the giving of written (including emailed) notice to the Licensee. The Licensee agrees that this Agreement is immediately terminable by HOBY in the event the Licensee breaches this clause 7.
8. TERM AND TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT
8.1. This Agreement commences when it takes effect (as per the explanation at the beginning of this Agreement) and will, subject to the parties' rights of termination set out in this Agreement, remain in full force and effect for as long as the Login is used on the Website and/or Beds at the Property are available to book via the Websites.
8.2. Either party may terminate this Agreement by giving not less than 28 days' notice in line with clause 9.1.
8.3. Without prejudice to its other rights, each of the parties shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement immediately on giving notice to the other party in the event that: (i) the other party has committed a material breach of this Agreement and, where such breach is remediable, has not remedied that breach within 14 days of being notified of such breach; (ii) the other party ceases to carry on its business or stops payments of its debts or (iii) in respect of that other party, a liquidator, receiver or administrator is appointed in respect of it or any of its assets, or (iv) the other party has suffered a Force Majeure Event which has prevented it from performing all or part of this Agreement for more than 7 days.
8.4. HOBY may also, at its own discretion, give written notice to terminate this Agreement with immediate effect in the event that:
8.4.1. the Licensee's average rating by Customers on any of the Websites falls below 60% (sixty per cent) at any time;
8.4.2. the Licensee engages in any sort of advertising of its pricing or offers that is, in HOBY's reasonable opinion, likely to mislead Customers or to have the effect of deceiving Customers about the extent of the price or other advantage they will enjoy;
8.4.3. the Licensee's conduct (and/or HOBY's association with the Licensee) is such that HOBY has reasonable grounds to believe its reputation may be harmed;
8.4.4. without prejudice to the generality of 8.4.3 above, HOBY believes that the Licensee is engaging in the practice of writing or paying for "fake" customer reviews and/or is accessing Customer accounts to amend or vary reviews; or
8.4.5. the Licensee is in breach of clause 1.
8.5. Notwithstanding, any other term in this Agreement, in the event that this Agreement expires or is terminated (for any reason), all bookings made via the Websites prior to the date of termination for Bed reservations occurring on or after the date of termination shall be honoured by the Licensee on the basis of and in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
8.6. The Licensee undertakes on termination of this Agreement to immediately cease using and to refrain from all further use of all software, technology and services previously provided by HOBY.
9.1. A notice given to a party under or in connection with this Agreement must be in writing and shall be sent:
9.1.1. (if from the Licensee to HOBY) to support@hostelbay.com; and
9.1.2. (if from HOBY to the Licensee) to the email address specified by the Licensee as the email address for future contract related correspondence as part of the contract signature process and included within the Key Details of this Agreement), and, in each case, shall be deemed to have been served when sent.
9.2. HOBY shall be entitled to vary any of the terms of this Agreement at any time by giving no less than 14 days' notice of such changes to the Licensee. In the event that the Licensee is dissatisfied with a notified variation, it shall be entitled to terminate the Agreement (notwithstanding the provisions of clause 8.2) on the giving of at least 3 Working Days' notice (such notice to expire no later than the last day of the 14 day notice period given by HOBY in respect of the varied term). Notwithstanding the above, HOBY may agree to accept less than 3 Working Days' notice in some circumstances but the parties must agree this in writing (i.e. via email). Subject to the foregoing, no variation of this Agreement shall be effective unless in writing and signed by or on behalf of both parties.
9.3. Without prejudice to clause 2.7, the parties acknowledge and agree that they are each responsible for compliance with all relevant data protection legislation and laws relating to privacy in all relevant jurisdictions (the "Data Protection Legislation") in relation to their own respective activities. The Licensee also agrees that it shall protect and respect all personal data that it receives relating to its Customers and shall comply with all Data Protection Legislation and shall not do anything which (or omit to do anything the omission of which) would put HOBY in breach of any Data Protection Legislation (and in particular the Licensee shall not disclose any debit or credit card information provided by any Customer to any person other than as necessary to effect a lawful payment for a Bed or a booking or as required by law).
9.4. The Licensee hereby agrees in advance that HOBY is freely entitled to transfer all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to (i) any third party acquiring all or a substantial element of that part of HOBY's business or assets to which this Agreement relates or (ii) any subsidiary or group or sister company of HOBY (the "Transferee").
9.5. Upon the Licensee being notified of the identity and contact details of a Transferee, the Licensee agrees that, with effect from the date specified in the notification, it will thereafter treat the Transferee (i) as solely responsible to the Licensee for all of the obligations of HOBY and (ii) as the recipient of all of the rights of HOBY under this Agreement.
9.6. Without prejudice to clause 9.5, the Licensee shall (where requested by HOBY) promptly do all such acts and sign such documents (including entering into a novation agreement) so as to confirm and evidence any transfer of the type described in clause 9.4 and HOBY shall procure that the transferee signs such documents where necessary.
9.7. This Agreement (which includes the Key Details and all appendices) contains the entire agreement and understanding of the parties and supersedes all prior agreements, undertakings, or arrangements relating to its subject matter, save for any or all of the following contracts which the Licensee may be bound by:
(i) any terms and conditions governing featured listings on HOBY-related Websites and/or
(ii) any other written terms and conditions that may be introduced by HOBY in the future. For the avoidance of doubt it is HOBY's opinion that none of these terms and conditions listed in (i) to (ii) of this clause 9.7 cover the same subject matter as this Agreement but, in the event of any conflict, this Agreement would take precedence.
9.8. This Agreement is personal to the Licensee and may not be assigned, sub-contracted or otherwise transferred in whole or in part without HOBY's prior written consent. The Licensee shall give HOBY reasonable prior notice if it proposes to transfer ownership of the Property to a third party. Nothing in this Agreement shall render HOBY and the Licensee as partners or joint venturers.
9.9. The original English language version of this Agreement may have been translated into other languages. The translated version of the English version is a courtesy translation only and the parties' rights and obligations are and shall be determined by the English version. In the event of a dispute about the contents or interpretation of this Agreement or in the event of any conflict, ambiguity, inconsistency or discrepancy between the English version and any other language version, the English language version shall prevail and be binding and conclusive. The English version shall be used in any and all legal proceedings.
9.10. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of GREECE, and HOBY and the Licensee agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the Greece courts. Certain Licensees connect to HOBY's IT system and obtain the benefit of HOBY's marketing, IT and data management services via an API and using their own property management system or a third party management system. Other Licensees incorporate HOBY's Booking Engine into their own website. The following clauses 10 and 11 only apply (respectively) to those Licensees that use the HOBY technology in one of these ways.
10. API LICENSEES
This clause only relates to and is only binding on those Licensees that connect to HOBY's IT system via an API.
10.1. HOBY shall have the right to suspend the API connection at any time and from time to time in its absolute discretion in the event that the connection causes: (a) the HOBY system to suffer technical problems and/or (b) the HOBY system becoming overloaded and/or (c) the HOBY system's processing or response times to significantly increase. HOBY values all their accommodation partners who connect via the API and will not take such action lightly or without making reasonable attempts to notify any Licensees who would be or might be suspended as a result of this action, ideally in advance of but possibly during or after such a suspension of services. Furthermore, HOBY will endeavour to minimize the amount of time for which the API is suspended and to work with the Licensees to, where reasonably possible, mitigate the impact of such a suspension on the Licensees business.
10.2. The Licensee is responsible for ensuring that its API connectivity provider has the capacity and functionality to be able to provide reporting to HOBY that shows the level of Bed / Bedroom availability and allocation provided to HOBY, both historically and by way of projections for the future.
11. BOOKING ENGINE LICENSEES
This clause only relates to and is only binding on those Licensees that operate Websites that incorporate the HOBY Booking Engine.
11.1 The Licensee agrees that, to the extent that there are intellectual property and other rights in and to the "confirmation of booking" page of the Licensee's website, such rights will vest in HOBY and HOBY may require its own branding (and such other content as HOBY considers to be fit and appropriate) to appear on this page.
11.2 The Licensee is hereby granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable personal, revocable licence to use HOBY's proprietary technology as the basis of its HOBY Booking Engine for use in those of its Websites as are specified in the table in clause 11.4 below. This licence is granted solely and strictly for the purpose of enabling the Licensee to accept online bookings in respect of the Properties that are owned and operated by the Licensee in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and said license shall expire and terminate in full automatically at the end of the Term.
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Trucker just wants to thank the men who saved him
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Houston man was pulled from burning truck
Emma Hinchliffe Nov. 26, 2015 Updated: Dec. 1, 2015 9:25 p.m.
1of2Rodney Bigham, a stand-up comic who has been driving an 18-wheeler for the past seven years, was pulled from his flaming truck by four bystanders after an accident in Alabama in October. Brigham, who is not sure what he will do next except not drive a truck again, says he is thanking God and recovering from his injuries at his Houston home, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015.Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle
Rodney Bigham was driving his 18-wheeler on Interstate 10 outside of Mobile, Ala., when he smelled smoke.
He looked at the front of the truck and saw a small fire. He tried to pull off to the side of the road, but there was another truck parked straight ahead. Somehow, his vehicle flipped, and Bigham became unconscious.
Four Coast Guardsmen driving behind the lifelong Houstonian saw the 18-wheeler lying on the side of the road. Their training kicked in, and they dragged Bigham to safety. Seconds later, his truck burst into flames.
Thanks to the good Samaritans, Bigham, 50, made it out with non-life-threatening injuries. Almost two months later, Bigham continues to recuperate at his home in northeast Houston. He wants to thank the men who saved his life.
"It was a miracle they were there at that time to get me out, in the right place at the right time," Bigham said. "It's thanks to them I'm still here."
Bigham, who had been driving his truck for 3½ years after buying it off his sister, is also a stand-up comedian. He had a show scheduled for Nov. 25 in Houston, where he wanted to present his rescuers with a plaque in thanks. The four men - Ensigns Richard Quintana and Andrew Nielsen, and Chief Warrant Officers Paul Rotolo and Benjamin Wagner - are stationed in Mobile and could not make it to town for the show.
Part of training
The four are all marine inspectors, and they were on their way to a routine inspection when they encountered Bigham's accident, the details of which were confirmed by the Mobile Police Department. Bigham's truck, coincidentally, was hauling buoys to a port in Theodore, Ala.
Even though they couldn't make it to the show - missing out on "adult comedy," as Bigham describes his act - the four men appreciate Bigham's message, coming at a time of year especially fitting for gratitude.
"We're very glad he's doing OK, and we wish him a happy Thanksgiving and merry Christmas," Quintana said.
For Quintana, 29, saving Bigham's life was just part of his training. Before working as a marine inspector, he was for 10 years a medic in the Coast Guard. He tended to injuries at sea, so the situations he encountered were never similar to those caused by a car accident or fire.
"I heard him grunting. I needed to pull him out. They train us the first day, you don't want to move somebody in an accident in case you cause further harm, but there was a fire, so forget that," Quintana said. "My training kicked in, and I knew what to do and what not to do."
Bigham was amused by the Coast Guardsmen's focus on keeping him safe as they rescued him. The four men were also helped by the driver of the truck parked on the side of the highway, who neither the rescuers nor Bigham has been able to reach. Two of the men pulled Bigham to safety while a third calmed bystanders and a fourth prepared for the arrival of paramedics. The group gave first aid to Bigham until medics arrived.
"One of them apologized for scratches he may have gotten on my leg," Bigham said. "I said, 'Thank you for these scratches. I can deal with this.' "
Bigham has spent the last several weeks recovering from his accident. He had to have his "ear sewed down" and stitches above his right eye, and he suffered a lacerated liver and a serious concussion that is proving difficult to shake. He lost his source of income when the truck he owned went up in flames, and he hasn't worked since the accident besides a few stand-up shows.
'They saved a life'
As he waits for the verdict on his truck's insurance, he's pondering what to do next - maybe motivational speaking or expanding his reach as a comic. His brother died in a trucking accident six years ago, and Bigham just feels grateful he avoided that fate. When he first saw flames, he yelled "Please don't let me die like my brother" inside his truck.
Bigham just wants to make sure the men who saved him are properly recognized as heroes.
"I don't have money or anything like that. But a plaque to put on their wall and say they actually saved a life," Bigham said, "That they can show their grandchildren."
Emma Hinchliffe is a general assignment reporter at the Houston Chronicle through the Hearst Journalism Fellowship. Before coming to the Chronicle, Emma covered local government at The Bergen Record and worked for USA Today’s Money section.
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Retrograde Human Rights Trends and Stagnation of the Human Rights Reform Process
As noted above, the reform process that resulted in significant human rights improvements between 2002 and 2005 has stagnated in the last two years, and there have been a number of negative trends. In the following section, Human Rights Watch documents some of the key current human rights concerns in Turkey. This section is not meant to be comprehensive, but to underscore those abuses that appear to be directly related to and/or to have had direct implications for the election period, or those that have long featured as a prominent component of the reform agenda.
Rest rictions on Freedom of Expression
Turkey has a long record of restricting peaceful expression and prosecuting those who peacefully express critical views of state policies on controversial issues such as secularism and religion, ethnicity, or the role of the army, or who question state-sanctioned interpretations of history. Human rights defenders in Turkey and internationally have repeatedly called on the Turkish government to abolish penal code article 301 (insulting Turkishness and the state institutions) and similar provisions that are often used to prosecute such speech. Instead of repealing these laws, however, the state continues to prosecute and convict writers, journalists, publishers, and human rights activists for their peaceful speech and expression. Although the Turkish public is increasingly willing to discuss even difficult and previously taboo topics, elements of the judiciary and some politicians continue to attempt to limit such public discourse and prevent greater public scrutiny and criticism of the conduct of Turkish state institutions.
While there are no official statistics on the total number of ongoing prosecutions for freedom of expression and speech-related offenses, the media monitoring desk of the Istanbul-based online news service Bianet has calculated that 132 individuals and seven publications had trial hearings for speech-related offenses in May-June 2007. Bianet reported that 12 of these cases involved charges brought under article 301; five under article 216 ("inciting hatred and enmity), and four under articles relating to "making terrorist propaganda.13
Numerous prosecutions, as well as some convictions, under article 301 occurred during 2007. The indictment of the Nokta journalist and his interviewee, mentioned above, is one such pending case. The following two other cases are typical of the trend:
İbrahim Güçlü, spokesman for the Diyarbakır Kurdish Association (Kürd-Der), was charged under article 301 for insulting Turkishness and the Turkish Republic for a speech he made in 2005 about the killing of 33 Kurdish villagers in Van in August 1943 (the so-called Muğlalı incident), on the 62nd anniversary of the killings. On January 24, 2007, the Diyarbakır Court of First Instance No. 5 found Güçlü guilty and sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment. He has appealed the verdict.
On July 11, human rights defender Eren Keskin received a one-year sentence converted to a fine (US$3,400) under article 301. Çerkezköy Penal Court of First Instance convicted her for a speech made on February 20, 2005, at an event organized by the Çerkezköy district headquarters of the Kurdish party DEHAP during which Keskin had referred to Turkeys dirty history and used the word Kurdistan.
Though there are few prosecutions under the Law on Crimes Committed against the Memory of Atatürk, one recent example was especially striking:
On March 13, 2007, Atilla Yayla, a professor of politics and political economy at Gazi University in Ankara and president of the Association for Liberal Thinking, was charged with insulting Atatürk for critical comments about Kemalism, as well as for his comments on the difficulty of explaining to foreign visitors the preponderance of images of Atatürk, which he made during a November 18, 2006 panel discussion in Izmir on the Social Impact of EU-Turkey Relations. On November 21, 2006, Yayla had been notified by the university that he would not be allowed to continue teaching pending the results of a disciplinary investigation by the university. He was later reinstated after receiving a reprimand. However, he now faces a possible three-year prison sentence if convicted in the trial begun against him on April 30 in Izmir. That trial is ongoing.
(See also discussion of the charges of speech-related offenses brought against the Kurdish Democratic Society Party, below.)
The pattern of prosecutions demonstrates an intolerance of free discussion and an impulse to defend state institutions perceived as being under threat. Although prosecutions under article 301 have been directed against writers, journalists, academics, and public figures across the political spectrum, most of the prosecutions brought under other articles of the law have been aimed at those who have emphasized questions of (mainly Kurdish) ethnicity in their writings and are often singled out because of their political affiliations and/or activism. Human Rights Watch raised a number of these cases in a letter to the Turkish prime minister in April 2007.14
The relentless prosecution of peaceful expression is deeply troubling because it relates to one of the most fundamental of human rights. Human Rights Watch is also concerned that the prosecution of journalists and writers for expressing their views has helped to foster a climate of hostility against those who ask critical questions about the status quo in Turkey. These concerns are particularly acute during an election period.
The murder of Hrant Dink, editor of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos and human rights defender, on January 19, 2007, is a shocking example of the potentially deadly consequences of such prosecutions and the publicity that accompanies them. Prior to his murder, Hrant Dink had been prosecuted three times for speech-related offenses, one of which resulted in his conviction under article 301, and a six-month suspended prison sentence. Dinks murderers apparently identified their victim as an Armenian who had been prosecuted for insulting Turkishness under article 301.
Harassment and Prosecution of Kurdish Political Party Officials in an Election Year
Kurdish political party leaders have been a particular target of prosecution for speech-related offenses, as well as of police raids and other harassment, in the lead up to the 2007 election period.
Turkish law requires that all political parties obtain at least 10 percent of the national vote in order to enter the parliament. In previous elections this threshold has resulted in the exclusion of a number of parties, including most notably Kurdish parties. On several occasions Kurdish parties have received a majority of votes in provinces in the mainly Kurdish-populated southeast and east of the country; in the 2002 elections, the Kurdish party DEHAP won the majority of votes in 13 provinces. However, their national vote has not been sufficient to pass the threshold and secure seats in parliament. In an effort to overcome this obstacle, in 2007 for the first time the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) decided to bypass the 10 percent threshold by running independent candidatesin some areas in cooperation with other partiesin the general election.
During the past year, in the build-up to the general election, DTP officials in cities throughout Turkey, but especially in the southeast, have been repeatedly prosecuted for speech-related crimes such as making propaganda for an illegal organization (article 7/1 of the Law to Fight Terrorism and article 220/8 of the Turkish Penal Code) or publicly praising a crime or criminal (article 215 of the TPC). Such prosecutions were typically brought for public statements that mentioned the PKK and referred to its imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan with the formal and respectful title of Mr (sayın).
Prosecutions of officials from the DTP, as well as another Kurdish party, the Rights and Freedoms Party (HAK-PAR), were also brought repeatedly under the Law on Political Parties for infringements of the prohibition on using languages other than Turkish in material published by the party, on banners, at political meetings, or to address public gatherings, or for using letters such as w, q, or x to indicate a Kurdish spelling and that do not exist in the Turkish alphabet. The following cases are typical:
On February 14 the Ankara Court of First Instance No. 3 sentenced four former and current HAK-PAR executives to one years imprisonment for sending invitation letters and making speeches in Kurdish during a party congress, in violation of the Law on Political Parties (articles 81/c and 117), and eight others to six-month sentences commuted to fines. Former party chair Abdülmelik Fırat had his one-year prison sentence commuted to a 29,200 Turkish Lira (TL) (US$22,600) fine for reasons of his advanced age. The case is currently under appeal.
On February 26 the Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 9 sentenced Ahmet Türk and Ayşe Tuğluk, respectively president and vice-president of the DTP, to 18-month prison sentences for the offense of using Kurdish in a leaflet prepared by the DTP Womens Wing on March 8, International Womens Day. They were also punished for publicly praising a crime or criminal for statements in the leaflet relating to Abdullah Öcalan. On March 6 Ahmet Türk was again sentenced to a six-month suspended sentence for publicly praising a crime or criminal for referring to Mr Abdullah Öcalan. The cases are currently under appeal. Both Türk and Tuğluk also face numerous other ongoing prosecutions for similar offenses.
Police raids on the offices of some local branches of the DTP have only added to the pressure on the party. From late February to early March 2007 several DTP premises in a number of provinces were raided by the security forces. Documents and computers were seized, party members and executives were arbitrarily detained, and some were later charged with speech- and language-related offenses such as those mentioned above.
One entire elected DTP municipal administration, in the Sur district of Diyarbakır, has paid a high price for its efforts begun in October 2006 to provide municipal services in other languages as well as Turkish after having surveyed the languages used by its residents (which included Kurdish and Suryani). In a June 15 decision of the 8th Chamber of the Council of State (Daniştay), after an investigation initiated by the Ministry of Interior, the democratically elected municipal council was dissolved and Mayor Abdullah Demirtaş was removed from office on the grounds that the multi-language provision policy violated the constitution. Demirtaş is appealing that decision to a higher board in the Council of State (Danıştay İdari Dava Daireleri Kurulu). Criminal proceedings against Demirtaş and 20 other defendants were begun on June 2; they face prison sentences of up to three-and-one-half years if found guilty of having violated the constitution and the Law on the Acceptance and Application of Turkish Letters (No. 1353).
Kurdish political activists charged with speech-related offenses have sometimes been detained pending trial. On February 23 Hilmi Aydoğdu, chair of Diyarbakır DTP, was arrested and imprisoned in Diyarbakır D-type prison for 41 days. He had made a statement opposing possible military intervention in northern Iraq by the Turkish Armed Forces and mentioned in particular the symbolic importance of Kirkuk. Released on bail at his first hearing on April 5, he is currently on trial for inciting hatred and enmity among the population (article 216/1 of the TPC) and faces a possible prison sentence of between one and three years.
Those charged with knowingly and willingly aiding and abetting an illegal organization (article 220/7 of the TPC) face the highest possible sentence for a speech-related offense. If convicted under article 220/7, a person is sentenced pursuant to article 314/2 of the TPC as if he or she were a member of an illegal organization, so the sentence is between five and 10 years. Fifty-six mayors (54 of them from the DTP) are currently standing trial for a letter they sent to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on December 27, 2005. The mayors urged the Danish authorities not to approve the Turkish governments request to close down the Denmark-based satellite television channel Roj TV, arguing that the TV channel is a popular broadcaster of Kurdish language and cultural life. The mayors explicitly avoided commenting on the political line promoted by the television channel and the content of its broadcasts, but rather dwelt on the need for greater freedom of expression in Turkey. The mayors are being prosecuted under TPC articles 220/7, 314/2, and 314/3; they face prison sentences of between seven-and-a-half and 15 years if convicted.
Impunity for Human Rights Violations by State Officials
There continues to be widespread impunity in Turkey for serious human rights violations committed by members of the Turkish security forces and other state officials. Although the need for accountability for such abuses has long been a priority for both domestic and international human rights organizations, little progress has been made in addressing the root causes of this problem.
While prosecutors in Turkey have a duty to conduct effective and independent investigations into all allegations of human rights violations, they routinely decide not to open an investigation despite not having fully examined the allegations or conducted an effective preliminary investigation. This is particularly true in cases involving serious allegations of abuse, such as ill-treatment. Even in cases involving allegations of misconduct and negligence, however, criminal investigations often do not occur; an old law concerning the prosecution of civil servants (who include police and gendarmerie) requires that permission for a criminal investigation has to be given by a Provincial Administrative Board headed by the provincial governor. This law creates a cumbersome process that often serves as an obstacle to accountability.
What is more, even after the important reform processes of the past years, including reform and training of the judiciary itself, the courts in Turkey have failed to demonstrate independence and have repeatedly issued decisions that are inconsistent with international human rights law, including the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Courts regularly demonstrate far greater leniency toward defendants who are state officials than toward other defendants, and protracted trials too often result in their acquittal or token sentences. Three ongoing cases clearly demonstrate these concerns.
Widening the scope of the Hrant Dink murder investigation
Human Rights Watch is particularly concerned about the investigation into possible misconduct or complicity by police and gendarmerie in the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist and human rights defender Hrant Dink, who was gunned down outside his office in Istanbul on January 19, 2007. The main murder trial, which began on July 2, currently involves 12 defendants, mostly originating from Pelitli in Trabzon where the murder was allegedly planned. However, Human Rights Watch is also concerned about the outcome of various Ministry of Interior investigations into the conduct of police and gendarmerie in the case.
Dink had been receiving death threats for some time before his murder and had reported these threats to the local prosecutor in Istanbul. His reports apparently went unheeded. In the 18 months preceding his murder, officials in Istanbul and Trabzon also reportedly failed to act on numerous police intelligence reports revealing a plan to murder Dink. In fact, the indictment alleges that one of the three main defendants had operated as a police informer, and the police had repeatedly been told that another defendant was planning to kill Dink.
Following a report by the Ministry of Interior inspectorate, the Provincial Administrative Board headed by the Trabzon governor was given permission to open a criminal investigation for misconduct against only two gendarmes in Trabzon. The results of that investigation are awaited.
Human Rights Watch is also deeply concerned by the statements and conduct of some Turkish officials that point to possible bias and raise questions about their ability to act impartially in the Dink case. Before any investigation into Dinks murder could be conducted, Celalettin Cerrah, the head of the Istanbul Police, stated publicly that there was no political dimension to the killing, that the suspected gunman had no links to political organizations, and that the gunman was motivated only by nationalist sentiment.15 The Ministry of Interior inspectorate recommended that Cerrah receive an official reprimand for this statement. However, the Istanbul prosecutor issued a decisionnow being appealed by the Dink familynot to open a criminal investigation against Cerrah for possible negligence in failing to respond to warnings that Dinks life was under threat, or for the statements made after Dinks murder. Nevertheless, İlhan Güler, the head of the Intelligence Department of the Istanbul Police, is facing criminal prosecution for negligence in not responding to warnings that Dinks life was under threat.
Turkish television broadcast footage it had obtained of several police and gendarmerie officers posing for photographs with the murder suspect directly after his apprehension in the Black Sea city of Samsun on January 21. The footage reveals the suspect holding up a Turkish flag and surrounded by officers in the Samsun Security Directorate, who apparently considered this a souvenir.16 Immediately after the footage was broadcast, four police officers were suspended from duty pending an investigation and four gendarmes were transferred to other posts. Although the Samsun prosecutor was granted permission to undertake a preliminary investigation into the conduct of some involved in the footage, on June 8 he decided not to open a case against the officers, apparently taking his lead from a report by the Ministry of Interior inspectorate that recommended against criminal prosecution. The prosecutor reasoned that the conduct of the 21 police and gendarmes did not amount to the criminal offense of publicly praising a crime or criminal, but was instead conduct aimed at getting the suspect to confess to the murder of Hrant Dink. However, the prosecutor did not rule out criminal prosecution of the police officer who failed to place the murder suspect in a cell or the individual who leaked the film footage to the television channel.17
Şemdinli bombing trial
On November 9, 2005, a bomb was thrown into the Umut bookshop in the southeastern town of Şemdinli, killing owner Mehmet Zahir Korkmaz. Local people who were present in the vicinity at the time of the bombing chased men seen running from the bookshop, and caught Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz, both members of the gendarmerie intelligence service, and informer Veysel Ateş, near the scene of the crime. The car in which the men were travelling was found to contain another bomb identical to that used in the attack, other weaponry, plans of the bookshop and other workplaces, and lists of names of prominent local people. The Şemdinli bookshop bombing became one of the most notorious episodes in recent times, demonstrating the resort to lawlessness in the name of counterterrorism.
The three men were arrested and ultimately each sentenced to 39 years imprisonment by the Van Heavy Penal Court No. 3. However, on May 16, 2007, the 9th Penal Court of the Court of Cassation quashed the sentences on both procedural and substantive grounds. On substantive grounds, the court ruled that certain charges could not be applied to the men because their crime had been committed in the course of a counterterrorism operation, and that they should be retried in a military court. In defiance of the Court of Cassations verdict, the Van Heavy Penal Court No. 3 decided not to forward the case to a military court, but to proceed with the retrial of the defendants on June 13.
Ferhat Sarıkaya, the prosecutor responsible for the March 3, 2006 indictment of the three alleged perpetrators, had also recommended that an investigation be carried out to determine whether senior military officers had ordered the attack on the bookshop. On March 20, 2006, the Office of the Chief of General Staff issued a statement that the indictment was political
aiming to undermine the Turkish Armed Forces and the fight against terror, and made a complaint against the prosecutor. By April 21 the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors had taken Sarıkaya off the case, removed him from his job, and stripped him of his status as a lawyer for abuse of his duty and exceeding his authority. The speed with which the council took action against Sarıkaya was unprecedented and raises serious concern that the council was used to block any investigation into responsibility for the bombing.
In late February 2006 Sabri Uzun, director of the Police Security Intelligence Bureau, had also raised concern about possible military involvement in several bombings in Şemdinli when he was questioned by a parliamentary commission. He indicated in coded but quite clear terms that a November 1 explosion had possibly been the work of people within the security forces, and expressed doubt that the gendarmes indicted for the bookshop attack could have been in Şemdinli without the knowledge of higher-ranking officials, as claimed.18 Within a month Sabri Uzun was removed from his post. This administrative sanction was apparently an attempt to intimidate any other public officials who might have been considering providing information to the parliamentary commission, or offering testimony in the Şemdinli prosecutions.
The military high commands decision to block the investigation into the chain of command in this case has prevented an investigation of whether the Şemdinli bookshop bombing was part of a wider conspiracy or an official policy to carry out such bombings.
At the end of June 2007 the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors issued a decree that resulted in the rotation of 1,499 judges and prosecutors. 19All the Van judges and prosecutors associated with the Şemdinli bookshop bombing case were transferred to other cities, and an entirely new group of judicial personnel will be charged with handling this most notorious case as it is retried.
The Kızıltepe case
Ahmet Kaymaz and his son Uğur Kaymaz were shot dead on November 21, 2004, outside their home in Kızıltepe, Mardin, in southeast Turkey. Immediate statements by the office of the Mardin governor claimed that two PKK members had been killed in a clash with the security forces, despite the fact that Uğur Kaymaz was only 12 years old. Forensic reports indicate that the father and son were repeatedly shot at close range: nine bullets had been fired into Uğur Kaymazs back and four bullets into his arm and hands, and six bullets into Ahmet Kaymazs chest and stomach and two more into his hand and leg. There were strong suggestions from the forensic reports, as well as from indications of clear irregularities in the collection and handling of evidence and other aspects of the investigation, that the killing of the two may have amounted to a summary execution.20 On December 27, 2004, four police officers were indicted for exceeding the legitimate use of force and killing. On April 18, 2007, they were acquitted. Although the forensic reports demonstrated that it was not plausible that the father and son had fired at the police, the court ruled that an armed clash had taken place, and concluded that the police had not used excessive force. The case is now under appeal.
Police Ill-treatment
Reports of torture and ill-treatment remain much lower than in the 1990s, when torture was pandemic in police stations throughout Turkey, and especially in Turkeys anti-terror units. As a result of legislative and other reforms that, among other things, shortened detention periods, abolished incommunicado detention, and allow all detainees, including those detained under the Anti-Terror Law, to consult with their lawyer from the first moments of detention, there has been a decrease in reports of torture and other ill-treatment. In fact, the greatest reduction has occurred in the anti-terror departments of police precincts.
Ill-treatment of detainees at the time of arrest and outside official places of detention remains a worrying and widely reported practice, however, especially for those apprehended on suspicion of committing ordinary crimes such as theft.
On June 2, 2007, a new law amending the Law on the Powers and Duties of the Police (Law no. 5681) was rushed through parliament. Among other provisions, the law greatly increases the authority of the police to stop and search individuals whom they suspect of committing crimes. While it is too early to evaluate the effect of the new law, these wide-ranging new stop and search powers raise concern because there is no mechanism for monitoring their application or preventing their abuse.
13 Figures reported in "İhlaller Hükümetten, Paralar Bizden! (The government violates, we pay!), Bianet online news service (Istanbul), July 6, 2007, http://www.bianet.org/2007/07/09/98870.htm (accessed July 17, 2007).
14 Human Rights Watch, Turkey: Ongoing Restrictions on Freedom of Expression Human Rights Watch Letter to the Turkish Prime Minister, April 13, 2007, http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/04/13/turkey15692.htm.
15 Cerrah örtbas ediyor (Cerrah is covering up), Radikal newspaper website (Istanbul), January 23, 2007, http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=210927 (accessed July 18, 2007).
16 Samast'la 'hatıra fotoğrafı' (Souvenir photo with Samast), BBC Turkish Service website (London), February 2, 2007, http://www.bbc.co.uk/turkish/europe/story/2007/02/070202_samast_investigation.shtml.
17 Demet Bilge Ergün and Timur Soykan, Ne kadar yanlış anlamışız! (How wrong we got it!), Radikal newspaper website (Istanbul), July 4, 2007, http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=225936.
18 İsmet Demirdöğen, Hırsız evin içindeyse kilit bir işe yaramaz (If theres a thief in the house theres no point in a lock), Radikal newspaper (Istanbul), February 20, 2006, http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=179204 (accessed July 18, 2007).
19 Adnan Keskin, 'Şemdinli' heyeti dağıldı, (The Şemdinli panel [of judges] is dispersed) Radikal newspaper (Istanbul), June 29, 2007.
20 Tolga Korkut, Uğur Kaymaz ve Babasını Öldürenlere Beraat (Acquittal of the killers of Uğur Kaymaz and his father), Bianet online news service (Istanbul), April 18, 2007, http://www.bianet.org/2007/04/18/94759.htm (accessed July 18, 2007).
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Violence in the Federal Workplace: A Guide for Prevention and Response [open pdf - 1MB]
"According to the figures released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the estimated number of violent crimes in 2011 declined for the fifth consecutive year. The 2011 statistics show the estimated violent crime rate decreased 4.5% decrease from the 2010 rate. However and according to the latest known statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), from 2006 to 2010, an average of 551 workers per year were killed as a result of work-related homicides. In 2010 (the last year for which final data are available), there was a reported total of 518 workplace homicides, or 11% of all fatal work injuries that occurred that year. Shootings accounted for 78% of all workplace homicides in 2010 (405 fatal injuries). More than four-fifths (83%) of these workplace homicides from shootings occurred in the private sector, while only 17% of such shootings occurred in government. Five percent of all establishments in the United States experienced a violent incident in 2005, and half of the largest establishments (employing 1,000 or more workers) reported at least one incident. No workplace is immune, and any government facility can serve as the setting for an incident of workplace violence. The April 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City provides an extreme example of how an office setting can be affected by workplace violence, in this case terrorism. This single act killed 168 people, injured 800 more, and was the largest terrorist attack on American soil prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It remains the most deadly terrorist attack ever perpetrated by an American citizen on American soil."
United States. Interagency Security Committee
Violence in the Federal Workplace
Department of Homeland Security: http://www.dhs.gov/
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Anthony Scaramucci Says Trump Lies 'Because He Thinks It's Fun'
The former White House communications director argued that the president's base loves it.
By Amy Russo
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who famously held his post for 10 days before being abruptly fired, has a theory on President Donald Trump’s penchant for lying.
“He does it because he thinks it’s fun,” he told CNN’s John Berman during a Friday appearance on the network, adding that “he also does it because he likes the fact that you guys are talking about it.”
No matter the reasons for Trump’s tenuous grasp on the truth, erroneous and deceptive statements have become a fixture of his presidency.
According to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column, which last updated its tally on March 31, Trump has made more than 9,400 “false or misleading claims” since assuming office.
Among his favorite topics to spin are the U.S.-Mexico trade deficit, the southern border wall, which he routinely asserts is being constructed even though it is not, and claiming he passed the largest tax cut in U.S. history. In reality, the Reagan administration approved a far larger tax cut in 1981. Even the Obama administration was responsible for two cuts that surpass Trump’s.
However, Scaramucci believes the president’s problem with facts plays well with his base of supporters.
“At the end of the day, for him, he’s figured out that there’s a very large group of people inside of our population that, when he does it and the media talks about it, they laugh,” he said, admitting he’s told Trump, “Hey, you don’t need to do that.”
“He does it because it’s fun:" Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci explains President Trump’s thinking while discussing his recent lies https://t.co/5wD5Bvogb5 pic.twitter.com/AARtujFWoT
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 5, 2019
Scaramucci was ousted in July 2017 immediately following a profanity-laced rant to The New Yorker in which he slammed then-chief of staff Reince Priebus along with then-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and threatened he would “fucking kill” leakers within the administration.
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New Podcast Pairs Prisoners And Professor For A Look At Life Behind Bars
"Ear Hustle" gives you a glimpse into the lives of inmates of San Quentin State prison.
By Zahara Hill
Ear Hustle/Radiotopia
Pictured left to right: Antwan Williams, Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods.
A new podcast is offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prisoners.
“Ear Hustle,” which premieres on June 14, is the brainchild of San Quentin State Prison inmates Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, and Bay Area professor Nigel Poor.
A collaboration with podcast company Radiotopia, “Ear Hustle” is operated out of the prison’s media lab. The series plans to delve into experiences and hardships unique to prisoners, such as the effect incarceration can have on their memory, celebrating holidays in prison and ministering on death row.
Woods was incarcerated for second-degree robbery and is serving 31 years to life. Williams, in for armed robbery, was sentenced to 15 years in prison at 18 years old.
According to Poor, media has had its place in the prison for quite some time. In fact, she previously worked on a radio series with Woods and Williams titled “San Quentin Prison Report,” which would come to serve as the inspiration for the podcast.
"Ear Hustle" premieres on June 14.
“We were interested in doing longer stories, ones that weren’t so news-oriented,” Poor said in an email to HuffPost on Wednesday. “We wanted to be able to work more like artists and less like journalists ... We feel like the podcast allows us more freedom to work creatively, experiment with more impressionistic storytelling.”
Poor said the podcast has the prison’s full support, but each episode has to first be approved by the prison’s Lt. Sam Robinson, who’s been working at San Quentin for 21 years.
The podcast’s three creators make up the entire cast and crew. Williams doesn’t co-host the show with Woods and Poor, instead operating as the show’s co-producer and sound designer.
But it’s not so much the size of the crew that Poor says is most challenging about producing the podcast.
“We have to be able to work together without the benefit of communicating once I leave the prison: we do not have access to phones, email or the internet,” she said. “So the work we do has to be done while we are in the prison together. There is no virtual commuting to work.”
Poor knows, however, that these obstacles will prove worthwhile.
“I hope [the podcast] can show that incarcerated and non-incarcerated people can work together as equal colleagues with respect and professionalism,” she said. “One of the things I see in prison is a terrible waste of human potential. My personal belief is that we as humans thrive when we find purpose and a way to be productive citizens ― [it] is my humble opinion that this would make a difference in rehabilitation.”
“I also hope that our stories will allow people to see those who are incarcerated in a more three-dimensional way,” she continued. “It seems the media ― TV, movies and sometimes news reporting ― thrives on reinforcing tired tropes and it would be wonderful to broaden that representation.”
The first episode of “Ear Hustle” will be available on iTunes and Ear Hustle’s website beginning June 14.
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Zahara Hill
Black Voices Editorial Fellow, HuffPost
Pop of Culture Law Sociology San Quentin State Prison
<em>"My son’s first birthday was here. I would like to get out of here. I’ve been here for a long time. I would like you to help us get out." -<a href="http://endfamilydetention.com/mother-and-son-1/">Inspired by this letter</a></em> Artist statement: "We cannot be OK with the thought that a mother has to celebrate their child's birthday behind bars. Their crime was to be responsible and courageous because they defied borders in order to offer a better future for their children. How dare a government punish a mother's heroism? Instead, we should be building monuments that celebrate their resistance." -Julio Salgado
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03/09/2017 10:36 am ET Updated Mar 09, 2017
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Disagrees With Science On Another Major Climate Change Issue
He said he doesn't believe carbon dioxide emissions are to blame.
By Alana Horowitz Satlin
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday doubled down on climate change denial, saying he doesn’t believe carbon dioxide is to blame for global warming.
“I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” he told CNBC. “We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis.”
The majority of the scientific community agrees with the finding that humans are the primary cause of global warming. And as NASA puts it, carbon dioxide emissions are “the most important long-lived ‘forcing’ of climate change.” Scientists at the United Nations have warned that the planet will be in dire straits if nations don’t dramatically decrease their carbon emissions. So it’s problematic that the man in charge of U.S. environmental regulations doesn’t think his agency should focus on working toward that goal.
This isn’t the first time that Pruitt, who sued the EPA over a dozen times before becoming its administrator, has broken with the scientific community. He’s also said he doesn’t believe humans are the primary cause of climate change and once expressed doubt that mercury pollution is dangerous.
2017 Scenes From Congress & Capitol Hill
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Senior Editor of Breaking News, HuffPost
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Taking Security Seriously
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) talks with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) before the start of a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing concerning the roles and responsibilities for defending the nation against cyberattacks, on Oct. 19, 2017.
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Geoff Wilson, Contributor
Policy Associate, Ploughshares Fund
When Will Our Nuclear Luck Run Out?
This piece was co-authored with Cora Henry, a Research Assistant at Ploughshares Fund.
"Whoops" is not a word that you want to hear around the most destructive weapons on earth. Unfortunately it happens more often than you would like to think.
There are over 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. The US alone has over 7,000. Many are actively deployed on missiles, bombers and submarines, ready to launch at a moment's notice.
With so many nuclear weapons, technical failures are a constant risk. Human error exacerbates the problem.
A recent investigation by The Associated Press into an accident at a nuclear missile silo in Colorado illustrates the danger perfectly. In 2014, airmen manning a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile severely damaged the weapon.
The Air Force has not been forthcoming about the accident, but what we do know is that a "mishap" occurred during a diagnostic test and that the "mishap crew chief" in charge of handling the problem did not "correctly adhere to technical guidance" and "lacked the necessary proficiency level" to properly "anticipate the consequences of his actions during the troubleshooting."
While the account is cloaked in bureaucratic jargon, it raises some serious questions. Why was someone without proper training working on a nuclear weapon? And why didn't the technician listen to technical guidance?
Whatever happened, it cost U.S. taxpayers $1.8 million in damage to the missile. It also cost the three airmen their nuclear weapons certification -- but they were put back on the job a year later.
By itself, it's a disconcerting story. What makes it truly scary is that the Air Force neglected to report it to Pentagon investigators looking into the pattern of misconduct and negligence plaguing U.S. nuclear forces.
That investigation was launched after revelations of widespread abuse and misconduct among nuclear missileers, including illegal drug use and systemic cheating on missileer proficiency tests. If the investigators missed the 2014 Minuteman incident, what other nuclear mishaps did they miss?
Accidents involving our nuclear arsenal are nothing new. On a few occasions, we almost lost a state.
In 1980, an airman dropped part of a socket wrench while performing routine maintenance on a Titan II ballistic missile in Damascus, Arkansas. The socket fell about 70 feet and punctured the aluminum skin of the missile, which started leaking liquid rocket fuel.
After eight and a half stressful hours, dramatically portrayed in Eric Schlosser's Command and Control, the fuel exploded and the 9 megaton nuclear warhead landed about 100 feet from the launch complex. To give you an idea of just how powerful that warhead was, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was only 15 kilotons. Nine megatons is about equal to three times the explosive force of all the bombs dropped during the Second World War, including the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Luckily, it didn't explode. We could have lost Arkansas.
Perhaps the most famous U.S. nuclear weapons accident happened in 1961, when a B-52 flying over North Carolina broke apart, releasing two 4 megaton hydrogen bombs. One bomb's parachute deployed, but the other fell all the way to earth. As Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione put it, "all of the weapon's safety mechanisms failed, except one. It was a single low-voltage switch that prevented a hydrogen bomb from destroying a good portion of North Carolina."
These type of incidents aren't things of the distant past.
In 2007, a B-52 flight from North Dakota to Louisiana carried six nuclear warheads -- by mistake -- in violation of a Cold War era treaty not to fly nuclear weapons. The crew of the plane did not realize that they were carrying nuclear weapons. Airmen in North Dakota did not know that any nuclear weapons were missing. And nobody realized that something was amiss for 36 hours.
Just a year later, the Air Force investigated a case of gross incompetence at an ICBM launch silo after a fire in a launcher equipment room went unnoticed for five days. Again, the AP's writeup of the incident sounds like a script for a low budget slapstick comedy, but nobody is laughing.
The fire was caused by a loose electrical connection on a battery charger that was activated when a storm knocked out the main power source. The fire ignited a shotgun storage case, incinerated shotgun shells, ignited and melted duct tape at the opening of the launch tube, charred an umbilical cable in several places, and burned through wires in a pressure monitoring cable.
Other revelations concerning our nuclear security aside, the incident report "uncovered the remarkable fact that the Air Force was using duct tape on cables linked to the missile," according to the AP.
These incidents are only a small sample of our nuclear near-misses, and we do not have a comprehensive list of nuclear accidents.
Jeffrey Lewis writes in Foreign Policy, "the Department of Defense has released narrative summaries for 32 accidents involving nuclear weapons between 1950 and 1980, many of which involve aircraft bearing bombs. False alarms? Please. The Department of Defense admitted 1,152 'moderately serious' false alarms between 1977 and 1984 -- roughly three a week."
The point here is that if you have so many nuclear weapons that you can misplace them and don't maintain them properly, you probably have too many.
But we're not the only nuclear power with problems like this. There are eight other nuclear weapons states. If we have these sorts of hair-raising problems, imagine what the Russians or the Pakistanis have to deal with.
These weapons are far too dangerous to treat with such carelessness. With some 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world today, every year that goes by without a nuclear accident is a miracle.
In 1961, President Kennedy warned that "every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness." Today his warning still rings true.
We must reduce our nuclear arsenals before they begin to reduce us.
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Here are a few of the more common questions.
1. What kind of game is Imperian?
Iron Realms Entertainment makes what are called MMORPGs. (Or just MMOs or MUDs. Different words for the same thing.) That stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Whew! What a mouthful, eh?
Imperian is essentially a virtual world where thousands of people live alternate lives and interact in real-time. When you begin, you'll create a character, pick a name and gender, pick a race (like human, dwarf, troll, etc.), and then you'll be given the option to be led through a short introduction to the game. This introduction only scratches the surface for you, though. These worlds have far, far more in them than you can see in a year. As you learn more about the world you're in and progress, options will open up like traveling to other planes, running for political office, becoming a merchant, joining a religion, going to war, and far more.
Now here's what will really blow your mind: There are almost no graphics. Almost everything is done using text. Hard to imagine, isn't it? The only way to really 'get' it is to start playing. It'll seem unfamiliar at first, but soon you'll find that your mind creates images a whole lot better than a 3D game developer can, and you may start looking at 3D worlds as a bit cartoony and awkward.
2. How much does it cost to play?
Nothing! Imperian is completely free to play, and we do not run third-party ads on any of our sites. You do, however, have the opportunity to purchase credits which will allow you to speed your progress towards certain goals in-game. They are entirely optional, and anything you can attain with them you can attain without them by just playing the game longer. If you would like to learn more about credits, please read the Payment FAQ on the main Iron Realms website.
We're confident that you're going to like our games enough to want to support us - that's how we have not just survived, but thrived since 1997. Our players are fanatically loyal, and we do our best to ensure we give them a playing experience that warrants that kind of loyalty.
3. Why should I play your game instead of World of Warcraft or Star Wars: the Old Republic?
If you've played any of the big MMOs, you know that they are comprised of a few fundamental things: killing monsters, quests, and PvP. Yes, many of them add on things like crafting, special events, and player-run organisations, but there is a limit to the amount of realism, depth, and options they can provide.
Imperian is different. Of course we have monster bashing, quests, and PvP, but that's just a fraction of what is possible. We have player-run organisations that can permanently expand their territory, declare war on each other, and run elections; an extensive mercantile system for trading, bartering, or opening your own shop; ships you can use for travel, combat or fishing; and active and meaningful religions where you can interact with the Gods. You'll find all sorts of systems that allow more customisation than just your character's face and body type: libraries of books written by players, the ability to become a bookie or design heraldry, fully customisable tailoring and cooking skills, marriage and extended family relationships with other players. One of our best features is the opportunity to participate in realtime roleplaying events run by the administrators, where endings are often open-ended and directly affected by the choices our players make.
In short, what you'll find is that you're trading eye-candy for depth and breadth of content when you switch from a graphical MMORPG to the world of Imperian. And hey - we are not completely without eye-candy either. Check out our gallery!
4. I've played text MUDs/MMOs before. What is so special about Imperian?
A number of things. First, at least 98% of text MUDs are run by people as hobbies. Some of them do a remarkably good job at it, but they're in the distinct minority. Iron Realms, on the other hand, has over ten professional, full-time developers and a whole cadre of administrators working on our games. We are very dedicated to giving players an unparalleled game experience.
Second, our designs are more sophisticated and in-depth than virtually any other MMO. Not only is the combat the best that can be found, but it's just one feature of an incredible range of game systems. New content is constantly in development and is released throughout the year. Don't believe us? Check out our recent events or in-game announcements to see all that is happening.
Finally, customer service. We pride ourselves on offering a high standard of service to all of our players, whether they have been playing for 10 years or 10 days. Timely response to your questions and requests is a top priority for us.
Remember: There's a reason that the worlds of Iron Realms are all consistently rated in the top 10 MUDs in the world, often reaching #1. We are supremely dedicated to our players in a way that few other MUD operators are.
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Maternity facilities are like 'cattle marts' - TD tells Dáil
Criticism: Fianna Fáil TD Lisa Chambers attacked the Government’s record
Hugh O'Connell
Maternity facilities in some hospitals have been compared to "cattle marts" as the Dáil heard strong criticism of the standards of care for pregnant women and new mothers.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/maternity-facilities-are-like-cattle-marts-td-tells-dil-38236607.html
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Fianna Fáil TD Lisa Chambers said the standards of care for pregnant women fall well below what is expected.
"Ireland is not anywhere near top of the league when it comes to having a baby in safe and dignified care," she told the Dáil last night.
Comparing some hospitals to "cattle marts", the Mayo deputy cited a situation where six women who had given birth were "crammed" into one room with their newborns.
In another instance she had heard of a woman, who had given birth less than 24 hours earlier, being asked to sit in a chair while hospital staff cleaned her bed for the next patient.
A Fianna Fáil motion calling for better standards of maternity care was debated by TDs yesterday evening.
Health Minister Simon Harris hit back at the opposition party's criticism, saying its "new-found interest in maternity care stands in stark contrast to their record".
"Fianna Fáil governments, with all the bounty of a booming economy at their disposal, did not rebuild Holles Street or the Coombe or the Rotunda, set up a HSE which did not have a Women and Infants Health Programme, and didn't even have a national maternity strategy," he said.
Opposition TDs said the Government had been slow to act on the maternity strategy since it had been published in 2016.
One of the main issues highlighted was difficulties in obtaining foetal anomaly scans with Ms Chambers saying it can be a "postcode lottery" with inconsistencies across the country.
"In some parts of the country you get better scans than in other areas," she said. "Getting a scan at 20 weeks isn't always possible."
Mr Harris said additional funding was made available to hire 28 new sonographers to read scans to provide 100pc access to the service. "The strategy is unambiguous about anomaly scanning, stipulating that all women must have equal access to standardised ultrasound services," he said.
He added that all 19 maternity units in the country will offer full access to anomaly scanning by the end of this year, adding there had been a "sustained and long overdue" focus on maternity services in recent years.
The motion was tabled by Fianna Fáil's Stephen Donnelly who said many of the State's maternity facilities are "not fit for purpose".
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Pathogens>Viral
Texas A&M Launches New Zika-Fighting App
As the Zika virus spreads locally in the continental United States, communities across the country have started thinking about mosquito control measures. The Aedes mosquito that transmits the virus can breed in containers of standing water as small as a bottle cap, and the eggs can survive even without water for months. Still, the egg and larval stage is the best time to control the insect because the adult mosquito tends to be very resistant to traditional pesticides.
Jennifer A. Horney, PhD, MPH, CPH, associate professor in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, and Daniel W. Goldberg, PhD, assistant professor of geography in the Texas A&M College of Geosciences and of computer science and engineering in the college of engineering, have created a type of mobile health technology to fight the mosquitos at their source: standing water.
“With our new app, community members—citizen scientists so to speak—can do surveys and note the prevalence and locations of potential mosquito breeding grounds,” Horney said. “This data will then all be mapped online, and health departments can use that information to prioritize areas for mosquito control measures.”
People can record the number of different types of containers—old tires, buckets, bird baths, clogged gutters—that could harbor Zika-carrying mosquito eggs, along with the address of the property. The app then automatically adds the location to a website for local health officials to review.
The app is available to download for iOS and Android devices.
“We work with a number of people involved in community engagement, including many students, the Green Ambassadors in Houston, for example, who we’re going to train how to use the app,” Horney said. “The health departments get some free data, without having to use their own very limited staff resources, and it’s a great learning experience for the students as well.” The students will learn about sampling, data collection, data analysis and more.
“Effectively combating the spread of Zika will require contributions from many stakeholder groups,” Goldberg said. “With the release of this app, members of the community will be empowered to help monitor and control the risk of Zika in their own neighborhoods.”
Source: Texas A&M Health Science Center
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The Controversial Iraqi Militia That Now Prefers Social Work To Politics
Not as well armed but possibly nicer guys: Members of the al-Abbas Combat Brigade. (photo: صفحة فرقة العباس القتالية على الفيسبوك )
Mustafa Habib – Niqash
The fight against extremists is almost over and one of the country’s often-controversial Shiite Muslim militias is doing good deeds and eschewing politics. Is the al-Abbas Combat Brigade too good to be true?
For the people of Basra, unexploded ordinances and long-forgotten mines have been an ongoing concern; the explosives were left over from historical conflicts, such as the war between Iraq and Iran. Recently they have been getting help from a slightly unexpected quarter: Fighters from one of the country’s often-controversial Shiite Muslim militias have been out on Shalamcheh road, along the Shatt al-Arab estuary, with mine sweepers trying to clean up the left-over explosives.
The fighters are members of the al-Abbas Combat Brigade, which numbers around 7,000 and was formed by the country’s most senior Shiite Muslim cleric, Ali al-Sistani, in the summer of 2014, in response to attacks by the extremist group known as the Islamic State. The brigade has infantry battalions as well as engineering and heavy weapons specialists and was just one of several other major fighting groups formed in response to the security crisis that started then.
But while the other militias have often been controversial, accused of retaliatory killings, kidnappings, and looting, often targeting the country’s Sunni Muslims, the Abbas brigade seems slowly to be emerging as one of the good guys.
Recently, the Abbas Brigades have been engaging in social services in southern Iraq. Apart from clearing the mines here in Basra, they have also started to organize extra tutorials for struggling local students, free of charge. In Baghdad they have helped with the reconstruction of schools; less of their altruism happens in Sunni-majority areas but they have also participated in the reconstruction of a university in Tikrit. In the province of Muthanna, the brigade has been coordinating with the international Red Cross to deliver first aid courses for locals.
When al-Sistani first called for volunteers to fight the Islamic State, or IS, group, there were all kinds of different, ordinary Iraqis among those who came to help, says Ammar al-Zuhairi, a 31-year-old member of the Abbas brigades, who joined up three years ago.
“There were former army members who offered to share military expertise but there were also teachers and doctors and representatives of other professions,” al-Zuhairi said. “We all took part in the battles but after the fighting ended, we decided to continue our work, except it would be in the civilian sector. Today campaigns are being organized where we can utilize the experiences of our members, from their previous work as civilians.”
Members of the Abbas brigades clear mines in Basra.
The Iraqi government has said it wants to restructure the various militias that sprang up during the security crisis and to integrate them into the official armed forces or have their members return to civilian life. The militias, which have evolved into a powerful political and military force since then, have been reluctant to devolve.
Iraq’s militias can be split into roughly three groups. The first group usually professes their loyalty to Iran and receives support and funds from the Iranians. The second is affiliated with more nationalistic Shiite clerics, like Muqtada al-Sadr, and similar political parties. And the third is comprised of militias working at the behest of al-Sistani.
It is often unclear whether the first group, which includes some of the more extreme and controversial militias, actually supports the Iraqi government. They have developed as a force independent of the government and often pledge allegiance to Iranian leaders. Both the first and second groups are planning to take part in the upcoming Iraqi elections, in the form of political parties they founded or by advocating for politicians who support them.
However the third group – which includes not only the al-Abbas Combat Brigades but also the Ali al-Akbar brigades, the Abbasiyah Shrine brigades, the Alawite Shrine brigades and the Husayniyah Shrine brigades – does not apparently have the same political ambitions.
Also in contrast to the other militias, the third group, which is not as well armed and fewer in number, has mostly been opposed to the idea of participating in the fighting in Syria.
After the majority of the IS group was pushed out of Iraq, the militias loyal to al-Sistani were told to perform civic services, rather than sitting in their barracks. They are also the only militia doing sanctioned social work like this. All of which reflects al-Sistani’s own philosophy, about keeping religion out of everyday politics and doing good works in his own community. It is also a function of the fact that there are suddenly many more fighters around, with a diverse range of skills, who can be put to work doing the kind of work al-Sistani’s establishment prefers.
Journalists on the ground in Sunni-majority areas like Salahaddin and Mosul have reported that, unlike the other, more extreme Shiite militias, locals generally have a good impression of the members of the Abbas Combat Brigades.
It is also true that, where other militias have been told not to get involved in fighting in Sunni-majority areas because of fears they could take the law into their own hands, the Abbas brigades have been the able to participate. As analysts at the Washington Institute explained recently, “by integrating with the national battle plan and with supporting coalition forces, the al-Abbas Combat [Brigade] has provided Iraq with military capability at moments when the Iran-backed factions were absent or unusable because they could not work productively with the coalition or Kurdish forces”.
A member of the Abbas brigades doing social work, teaching.
The Abbas Combat Brigades appear to have better discipline than some of the other militias. For example, the militia has strict rules about publishing pictures of dead combatants and extremists on social media, as well as guidelines on how to deal mercifully with the families of members of the IS group.
Obviously, the Abbas brigade fighters are not angels. They have also been accused of harassing residents in some areas and of not allowing Sunni Muslim families back into their homes in northern Iraq, while allowing Shiite locals to return. They have been known to favour one Kurdish political party over another. Some critics in the media have noted that they treat local journalists very well while on the battlefield, which is why they get a lot of glowing reports in the Iraqi media. And others have said that, although the social work they are doing is worthy, it is unclear whether this is a role fighters should be playing at all – qualified, government-paid employees should supply these kinds of services, they say.
Still, on the whole even those critics will agree they are a better kind of militia than the majority. And, as has been pointed out by other analysts, they do appear to represent a more positive example of the role the formerly-volunteer militias could play in Iraq’s future.
In fact, some of the Abbas Combat Brigade’s most potent enemies come from within their own sect, from that aforementioned first group of militias, loyal to Iran.
Affairs pertaining to the Shiite Muslim militias in Iraq are now supposed to be administered by a special commission – it is part of the process of bringing the volunteers closer to the official apparatus of government. That commission is headed by Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, one of the most senior commanders in the Shiite Muslim militias, with close contacts to Hezbollah in Iraq and a strong affiliation to Iran.
The good behavior of the Abbas Combat Brigades make the Iranian-affiliated militias look bad, locals say. And at one stage al-Mohandes refused to pay the salaries of members of the Abbas brigades, even trying to force some of the brigade members to resign.
Apparently during a conversation between the Abbas brigades’ commander, Maytham al-Zaidi, and al-Mohandes, the former was told by the latter that his fighters didn’t obey al-Mohandes’ commands so they should find their money elsewhere. As a result, the missing salaries were paid by the cleric, al-Sistani’s organization.
“Being a member of the Abbas Combat Brigade has its price,” al-Sistani’s spokesperson, Ahmad al-Safi, said at a meeting with the brigade’s commanders. “And part of that price is patience, not giving up our principles, our identity and our values even though there are other alternatives available to us.” He was referring to the conflicts that the Abbas Combat Brigade have had with the other militias.
Local analysts have suggested that the Iraqi government would actually prefer to keep the Abbas Combat Brigades around, rather than seeing the units dissolved and the members sent home – in the public’s eyes, their good behaviour embarrasses the Iran-sponsored militias, who may not always be as well behaved or as pro-government.
“The Abbas brigades reflect the image that al-Sistani wants to reflect when he issued his fatwa [religious call] against the terrorists,” says Jabr al-Mohammedawi, an independent Shiite Muslim cleric who teaches theology in Najaf, in southern Iraq. “Al-Sistani rejects the idea of fighters participating in politics and supports the integration of them into the army, police and other security organisations. He does not seem to much like the idea of keeping the militias on as an independent military force.”
Members of the Abbas brigades carry an inverted IS flag.
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From Individual Initiatives to Democratic Organizations
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A history of the world in five typefaces
The author of The Visual History of Type on five typefaces that represent paradigm shifts in how we communicate
Paul McNeil
Gutenberg’s Bastarda
The Visual History of Type is a definitive survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with movable type in the mid-15th century to the present day. Arranged chronologically, more than 320 typefaces are faithfully reproduced in the form of their original type specimens or earliest printings, located in their historical context through brief overviews and descriptions of the key characteristics of each typeface. Here, I outline five typefaces that represent major paradigm shifts in the field of typographic communications.
1454: Gutenberg’s Bastarda
Popular tradition has it that Johannes Gutenberg invented the art of printing in the early 1450s. However, Gutenberg certainly did not originate either the press or the printing process but was the first to implement the practical use of movable type, not initially for the superlative 42-line Bible for which he is renowned but for much more pragmatic business purposes.
Since the 11th century, indulgences had been awarded by the church for the remission of sins. This involved costly, labour-intensive procedures where monastic scribes would write thousands of identical documents by hand. Gutenberg’s decisive contribution to printing – and to the direction of Western culture – was devised to solve this commercial problem. The invention of type in the form of single letters cast on individual bodies allowed the reproduction of uniform documents in huge quantities, rapidly, adaptably, accurately and, above all, cheaply.
1501: The Aldine Italic
Aldine Italic
Towards the end of the 15th century, when most printed books were as large and unwieldy as the medieval manuscripts they had begun to replace, the publisher Aldus Manutius commissioned Francesco Griffo to cut a compact, inclined letterform. Easily legible at tiny sizes, the Aldine Italic allowed Manutius to produce small, affordable, portable books designed for a burgeoning class of educated, literate individuals for whom reading was beginning to become a reflective, personal activity.
Over the next three centuries, the new practice of publishing completely transformed Western society and culture. By permitting texts to be reliably reproduced and disseminated in almost limitless time frames, it triggered new ideas that profoundly challenged all forms of institutional control, leading to dramatic religious conflicts and reforms, radical socio-political changes, and to the scientific worldview that initiated the modern era.
1695: The Romain du Roi
Romain du Roi
In 1692, the French Academy of Sciences commissioned a rationally constructed alphabet, the Romain du Roi. This ambitious initiative was the starting point of a radical new direction in letterform design that would have a huge impact on the future of typography. For the first time, disregarding the influence of handwriting that had underpinned the design of type since its inception, letters were constructed mathematically, with their individual parts treated as elements coordinated within a larger overall design scheme.
The Romain du Roi introduced many innovations that would become the hallmarks of modern type design: a shift of the balance of thick and thin strokes to the vertical, much greater contrast between them, and knife-sharp serifs at their endings. Above all, its analytical approach signalled a move away from letters derived traditionally from handwriting towards those that began to be perceived as products of mechanical processes and as component parts in visual systems.
1832: Figgins’s Sans Serif
Figgins’s Sans Serif
From the turn of the 19th century, increasing commercial competition required type to work harder on posters and hoardings in the dense, fast-moving environments of industrialised cities, where for the first time it had to shout in short bursts in order to compete for attention. This resulted in a proliferation of many novel, bold faces, many of which were very short-lived. However, a few, such as the sans serif style, had a permanent influence on the development of visual communication. The first typeface without any serifs at the ends of its strokes appeared as a single line of capitals under the name “Egyptian” in a Caslon specimen book of 1816. These even, heavy letters are thought to have originated in architectural lettering. There is scant evidence of these forms being used commercially until 1832 when dense, black, somewhat clumsy capitals of a similar style appeared under the name “Sans-Serif” in the specimen of Vincent Figgins, who subsequently pioneered its further development.
1967: New Alphabet
New Alphabet
In the earliest days of the use of computers for text communications, Wim Crouwel decided that it was vital to create new letterforms for new technologies rather than developing the machines to conform to pre-existing design tropes. He created the New Alphabet to verify his proposition. Radically innovative, it was intended as a provocation to designers to stimulate debate and to spark new ideas rather than to operate as a functioning typeface.
Drawn using a systematic geometric construction method appropriate to the primitive hardware of the time, about half of the letters were easily recognisable, but others assumed a completely alien, unfamiliar appearance that seemed to imply an unforeseeable future for the appearance of text. Still iconic and hugely influential today, the New Alphabet was, Crouwel said, “never meant to be really used. It was unreadable”.
The Visual History of Type by Paul McNeil is available at laurenceking.com
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Bombs, Bullets and the Border, by Patrick Mulroe
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"I AM" by ANDRONA dance theatre
Kelly Androna
Aimee Williamson
Bobbie Dalley
Emily Brown
Helen McFarlane
'I am' is a choreographic piece of work containing dance, movement, physical theatre and spoken word which aims to address the concept of the body being a site of socio-cultural projections. The piece contains an experimental movement exploration of the body and of the performers' relationships on stage with regards to how the body is perceived by society and what it actually means for the body to be a 'lived' experience.
Spoken word and poetry is used metaphorically and symbolically alongside movement exploration and theatrical experimentation with the purpose of creatively addressing contemporary societal and cultural stereotypes of gender and sexuality. The project emphasises the challenge of understanding whether gender and sexuality is performative or not.
Androna are looking to examine contemporary issues that stem from modern day life and to challenge our individuality in response to these issues. Through choreographic work we are interested in developing performative work exploring concerns that we have as individuals in our society. Gender, Age-ism Sexuality, Socio-economics, socio-cultural issues, Diversity and the Politics of the Body. Where do we stand as individuals within a framework where the Body is constantly being given identities and labels?. How does it feel for us to exist in our bodies, and our bodies to exist within these contexts? How is it to embody these labels placed upon the body? These company offers a space for adult dancer artists to explore their gendered, social, diverse, political and sexual selves and bodies.
Age is a key focus of the company's interest. We wish to look at why dance is considered to be age- appropriate and why is not socially acceptable for dancers to be above a certain age. Is Dance Age-ist? Does age define dance as an art form?
1440 by jennifer scott dance
Jennifer Scott & Clark Wallace
'1440' Tackles the theme of sleep disorders focusing on sleep deprivation and insomnia and the effects this has on the brain and body. The dancers went through weeks of deliberate sleep deprivation in order to understand how the effects felt first hand and the comparison of one person to another.
Jennifer is a choreographer, dancer and teacher. While studying to become a professional in dance Jennifer's choreographic work every year was chosen to be showcased at each showcase the college establishments had. After successfully completing her training and gaining her BA Honours Degree from the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance (The Space) she has been performing across the UK as well as choreographing work under the name of Jennifer Scott Dance. Her work has been performed in venues and festivals across the UK including Theatre Royal Glasgow, Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Bark Productions, Innovations Platform- Chester, Circulate and supporting company Fertile Ground, Newcastle. Jennifer also works within the community teaching children ages 2-17 as well as adults. Her most recent duet work has received funding from The Peter Darrell Trust.
MAN UP BY JACK STINTON DANCE COMPANY
Jack Stinton
Boys don't cry...
Man Up is a personal exploration of the stories and expectations surrounding the norms of behaviour and actions of men in society...
It explores the often-negative impact this can have on a man's ability to express emotion, the fear of being laughed at or somehow emasculated and the different ways that this can manifest itself.
Formed in 2012 by Jack Stinton, JSDC have been creating and touring the UK ever since. Previous appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and platforms at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Innovations 2014 in Chester. We are a company split between our performance and education work. Recent touring work has included first dates a piece that explored the stories that take during a first date and puts them into a public setting, for example coffee shops or foyers.
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Man held in child sex abuse inquiry
Detectives investigating the suspected sexual abuse and exploitation of more than 20 children have arrested a 22-year-old man.
The unnamed man was arrested on Tuesday morning at a police station in the West Midlands, Devon and Cornwall Police said.
He is the second person to be arrested in the inquiry into the suspected grooming of children, mainly girls, aged 12 and above in the Torbay and Teignbridge areas of Devon.
Police said the 22-year-old is being held on suspicion of the rape of two women and sexual activity with a child. The offences are alleged to have taken place in Torbay.
The man, who lives in Brierley Hill, is formerly of Torquay and a team of detectives has travelled to the West Midlands to interview him.
Det Insp Simon Snell, who is leading the investigation, said: "Police continue to interview a number of children in Torbay in connection with Operation Mansfield.
"We are still asking anyone with any information to please come forward and speak to us regarding child exploitation in the bay area.
"I need to reiterate to any families and children who have been affected to please come forward and speak to us - we are able to protect anyone who picks up the phone and talks to us."
The inquiry started after children came forward to childcare agencies, which then alerted police.
A team of 50 police officers are working on the investigation which is looking at offences alleged to have occurred over a two to three-year period. Specially trained police officers and social workers have interviewed more than 20 children and police say their list of alleged victims is growing.
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Erotica Authors Grapple with Sex and Literature in the Age of '50 Shades'
Tiffany Reisz, Megan Hart, Cara McKenna, Skye Warren, and Kitty Thomas talk about the craft of literary smut.
By Lauren Sarner
Filed Under Psychology & Sex
Most people aren’t keen to talk about porn in mixed company. In the halcyon days before 50 Shades of Grey became a thing, explicit sex in literature didn’t have much presence in the mainstream cultural dialogue either. In the years since, with erotic fiction still dominating bestseller lists and regularly popping up in talk show monologues, it’s safe to say our collective boundaries have shifted.
When 50 Shades of Grey movie billboards were ubiquitous, the slogan on them was “Curious?” but the only things we were curious about was whether Jamie Dornan cried between takes. But real erotica — by which I mean that written by authors who don’t plagiarize ideas and who grasp the basic points of writing — is indeed curious. It has been an art for hundreds of years but was thrust into the mainstream in large part because of a shabbily written novel that began its incredibly lucrative life as Twilight fan fiction, an ignominious moment in the sun for any genre.
So I did some Sherlocking (and no, by ‘Sherlocking,’ I don’t mean erotic Sherlock fan fiction) into the world of literary sex to find out just what goes into the profession of well-written smut.
“God, I love a man with a big vocabulary.”
—Tiffany Reisz, The Siren
Because a lack of strong writing in carnal matters can lead to misunderstandings.
Now, because the most famous current entry in the genre is the most objectively terrible book to achieve popularity in recent memory, you might think, “Well, I have sex — how hard can writing it be? I’ll just go ahead and crank out out some dinosaur erotica!” But literary titillation takes craft and finesse.
And these five authors have it in spades. For example, see what this reviewer said of Cara McKenna’s work: “I’m a bit in awe of McKenna’s ability … some of the imagery and writing style were so exquisitely executed … knocked character development out of the park…” Or see what this one said of Tiffany Reisz’s work: “So intelligently written … Yes, it is hot and steamy but … if you just want the titillation, then go find a different book. If you like smart, fun, deep, books with a heavy sensual side then The Siren is the book for you.” Or see this review of Megan Hart’s work: “Hart has done an incredible job of crafting an erotic story with an actual storyline, rather than lots of ‘wham, bam, thank you man’ sex. … A recommended read for those looking for something sensual yet deeper.”
In addition to McKenna, Reisz, and Hart, I spoke to Skye Warren and Kitty Thomas, both of whom specialize in taking the “is he dangerous” element to more provocative places.
First things first: If you want to know if erotica writers have done everything their characters have, nobody’s got time for that.
Megan Hart: Everyone asks, “Do you do all the things you write about?” My goodness, who would have the time? If I was doing that, I wouldn’t have the time to write. If someone writes a murder mystery, people don’t ask, “Have you killed a lot of people?”
Cara McKenna: Anyone who thinks we’re all nymphos and have done everything our characters are doing will either be really disappointed or really relieved. There are a lot of writers who write psychopaths and serial killers who have never killed a squirrel, but they can imagine who this person is and what they might do. I think erotica and sex scenes are the same. If you know your character well enough, you can guess what would turn their crank.
What are the most common misconceptions about erotica?
Cara McKenna: That it’s a new thing that E. L. James invented. Bless her heart, she’s been great for the industry’s visibility and great for my sales. You can ask 100 people what they think about her and get 100 different answers. To generalize wildly, I don’t think women realized erotica was out there and definitely not in the volume it is. It’s been around for as long as people had language. Every decade there seems to be a new book that reminds people it exists. 50 Shades is the current one.
Tiffany Reisz: Probably that we’re sex-crazed and having sex all the time. I’ve lost count of the amount of people who volunteer information about their sex lives and think I want to hear it. I don’t want to hear it any more than if you go to the dentist, you’d want to hear about his sex life. People can have trouble separating the writer from the creation. Every year around November, there’s a company that does a calendar of naked priests. I get inundated on Twitter and Facebook — hundreds of people send me links, thinking I’m dying to see this. I don’t have a priest fetish; just because I write about somebody who has a certain profession, doesn’t mean that’s my fetish. I don’t think Stephen King has tried to re-animate a dead pet. But you never know!
Megan Hart: I think the biggest misconception is that people who write and read that kind of material are doing so because they’re unhappy or unfulfilled in their personal lives. What drives anyone to enjoy any kind of stories they read or write? I like to write sexy stories because how can you write about two people falling in love — or more than two if that’s the case — without exploring that? My goodness, people do crazy, crazy things if they want to have sex. It’s a huge motivational thing; so universal, and at the same time, it’s individual and unique and not the same for any two people.
Sex makes bumble-tongued fools even out of the most eloquent, but the beauty of it is that it also tunes our ears to hear the meaning of words that, spoken under other circumstances, would make us laugh or cry or frown.
—Megan Hart, Dirty
Skye Warren: There are a lot of ideas that erotica is either cheap or in some way, very different from a regular other type of book. To me, at the end of the day, it’s just a book, with all that implies. Any book, regardless of the genre, is designed to evoke emotion. A good erotica book would do exactly that — evoke all the same emotions as another book, including arousal.
Kitty Thomas: It’s not romance with more sex. It’s a totally different focus and genre. I think there can definitely be a disconnect with readers coming in from romance who are just expecting a “dirtier romance” that follows all the genre conventions. Erotic romance is a thing, of course, but readers shouldn’t expect standard romance genre happily-ever-afters from me. There are other authors who write that and write it beautifully, but it’s not my thing.
What were you doing before erotica?
Cara McKenna: Graphic design for a magazine company.
Tiffany Reisz: I was in seminary school.
Skye Warren: I used to write software. Very left-brain.
I’d never really had a plan. That had been the point. I had wanted to wander, to flit, and I’d flown right into a spider’s web.
—Skye Warren, Wanderlust
So, what are the components of good erotica?
Cara McKenna: I prefer it to be well-written and smart, with the kind of vocabulary where I don’t feel like my intelligence is being insulted. I get fascinated by the psychology of it. Peeling back the brain layers is just as interesting as all the parts moving in and out of each other. I like that part of the story. But my answer might not look like another reader’s, and that’s totally legit. One person might not blink an eye if a heroine refers to her genitals as her pussy. That might turn someone on; it might squick someone else out. You have to poke around and experiment. Word choice is important.
There was summer in the air, a warm breeze that reminded me of broken teenage curfews and a hundred once-favorite songs and forgotten crushes.
—Cara McKenna, After Hours
Tiffany Reisz: Good erotica is very subjective, because I’ll read one book that really does it for me, and then another along similar lines that doesn’t. But good erotica needs good world building and fantasy building. I’m thinking of Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty chronicles. The characters are pretty flat, but they’re the hottest books I’ve ever read. Conversely, in the Kushiel’s Dart books, which I also loved, the characters are well-developed. Erotica needs a good setup. I really need to believe the world and be immersed in it.
“What’s your favourite position?”
“I usually play winger.”
“Zach, I adore you, but you can’t make soccer jokes during phone sex. It just isn’t done.”
Megan Hart: To me, good erotica is a story that makes you think and feel, but that’s any good story. Good erotica makes you a little bit uncomfortable. I like to leave it a bit subtle or vague and open to interpretation. I like to make the reader think and maybe accept points of view or situations they wouldn’t normally understand or think, “Why does that turn someone on?”
Skye Warren: Good erotica is simply a good book that either has sex in it or happens to focus on the sexual journey of one of the characters.
Kitty Thomas: Good erotica is somewhat literary and engages your brain as much as your naughty bits.
He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.
—Kitty Thomas, Comfort Food
Turn-ons can be intensely personal and vary wildly between people. How do you gauge what will be sexy to others — do you simply write what appeals to you, and trust that it will also appeal to others?
Cara McKenna: I’ve certainly written sex acts that I’d never in a million years want to do. But if it makes sense for the characters, that transcends any personal appetites. First and foremost, it has to be sexy to the characters.
Megan Hart: I write things I personally find sexy and I assume the people who read my books read them because they like what I do. When I first started off writing and I didn’t have a reading audience, I wrote a little bit to what was marketable at the time or trendy or what everyone wrote about. Also things I found interesting to read. But it has to be stuff I enjoy myself or can understand why others would enjoy it.
Shadows suited him. On James they skittered and fled, even in the dark, leaving him bright and shining. On Alex they clung and caressed, dressing him in mystery.
—Megan Hart, Tempted
Kitty Thomas: Mainly I write things I find hot on the page and trust that I’m not a special snowflake with totally unique interests. I just trust that the compatible people will find my work.
If you haven’t developed morals by the time you start reading erotica, it’s probably too late.
Let’s talk research. Do you do it, and if so, how?
Cara McKenna: If you’re going to write about a fetish or a community that has a lot of tradition — like the BDSM community, or cuckolding, which is what my next book is about — a lot of these communities have specific vocabularies for the different roles and acts. You don’t want to mess it up. But you also don’t want it to sound robotic, like a how-to manual. I always research. You don’t want to get other people’s kinks wrong. That would be rude, like writing about another culture and getting it wrong. I listen to a lot of Savage Love podcast with Dan Savage. That’s a good resource.
Tiffany Reisz: I started playing around with kink when I was 21 or 22. But I’ve never personally done suspension, so if I put that in a book, I have to research it. I’ve never personally done bloodplay, but I’ve talked to someone who has. I think it’s great more people are aware of BDSM and talking about it, but if it does inspire an interest, do your research. The real world is not the same as fiction. I have been to kink clubs, but when I created the club in The Siren, I hadn’t been. I based it off a documentary I saw about the old Playboy clubs.
“Impressive, isn’t it?”
“No,” Zach said. “It’s appalling.”
“Really? Such a strong word to describe sensual activities shared between consenting adults.”
“Hurting people for pleasure? For sexual pleasure?”
“Holding Eleanor down while she struggled underneath me and begged me to stop…that was beautiful.”
“Rape isn’t beautiful.”
“But you see, it wasn’t rape,” Søren said, his tone light and conversational. “She enjoyed the struggle, enjoyed feeling overpowered and taken. I take rape very seriously, Zachary. … You seem uncomfortable with women fully owning their sexuality.”
Megan Hart: I research all aspects of the story I don’t know, not just the sex things. I go online; I ask people who have experienced it. It’s really not that hard to get people talking about their sex lives.
How would you respond to someone who called your work porn?
Cara McKenna: I think it fills gaps in the sexual entertainment market that porn can’t. With porn, you can hear what they sound like and see what they look like. For a lot of women, that doesn’t work. To generalize bombastically, we’re wired differently than dudes. There are too many chances to be picky, like, “I don’t like his voice, or face.” With erotica, so much of the ambiance is in your own imagination. You can picture who you want and make their voices how you want. It’s more erotic because there’s room for editing. It’s a more inclusive kind of porn delivery system. And there’s also not a lot of super creepy “Just turned 18!” ads flashing in the corner that might harsh your buzz.
A snatch of memory visited me, of my pitching a fit when an old boyfriend had grasped my hair when I’d been giving him head. It had hurt, and worse, it’d made me feel like he’d written me into some porn scene. I’d signed up to be with a nice guy, not some porno-jack-off hair-grabber, and he’d violated my expectations. How dare he not conform to the script I’d composed when I cast him as my gentle lover? How dare he try to recast me as some slap-around slut whose hair he got to grab while he fucked my mouth? … Funny how with Kelly, I welcomed the dirty stuff. I guess because he came as advertised. He couldn’t violate my expectations, when violation was basically his main selling point.
Tiffany Reisz: It depends on your definition of pornography. With The Sleeping Beauty chronicles, there’s literally a sex scene on every page and the point is to get you off, but porn is typically more visual. This is the analogy I use: Romance is to porn as a cozy mystery is to a snuff film. Just because they both have a dead body, doesn’t mean they’re the same thing.
Romance is sex plus love. Erotica is sex plus fear.
Megan Hart: I certainly have had more than one person try to tell me I write porn. My belief is porn, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I know the difference between porn and erotic fiction. I know the difference, but trying to convince someone else will be a lost cause.
In the wake of the success of the 50 Shades franchise, have you felt pressured to meet popular demand by dumbing down your work or by making your heroes gazillionaires or by adding in BDSM if you didn’t have it before?
Cara McKenna: A lot of us felt pressure after 50 Shades to gravitate towards writing these super alpha male heroes. Certainly more mainstreamish BDSM. I write D/s books, but DIY, none of the bells and whistles. BDSM is expensive, elaborate, and time-consuming. It doesn’t appeal to me. In my books, it’s “what does he have, probably duct tape and a mirror.” It feels sexier if it’s more spontaneous. And I have this weird aversion to books that have heroes that are jacked and fit but don’t do sports or physical jobs. My heroes are working-class. Ellora’s Cave always let me write whatever I want. After 50 Shades, Penguin came a-courting. They’d taken the time to read my stuff and knew what I wrote. For the first book, they did want a real alpha hero, and I was happy to do that, but they never cared about a billionaire. I’ve never felt external pressure to write a hero who’s a millionaire. I know in not doing that, I might be missing out on sales. Billionaires are huge, stepbrothers are huge, vampires also huge, so if you want big bucks, you should write billionaire stepbrother vampires. The tradeoff in not chasing trends is not chasing the gold rush — but I wouldn’t be interested in the work, and it would show on the page.
“Are you part of the BDSM scene or whatever?” Laurel asked. He made an exasperated noise. “I can’t stand that shit. They make everything so fucking complicated. You might as well be one of those Civil-fucking-War reenactors…Anyhow, I just like stuff a lot of women don’t, so I have to make sure I find the ones who do.”
—Cara McKenna, Willing Victim
Tiffany Reisz: I get a lot of recommendations through it. Like, “If you thought 50 Shades was poorly written, here’s well-written BDSM.” I never read it. I read the first paragraph and knew it wasn’t for me. I don’t like first-person present tense, and the heroine sounded 14. But you can’t really compare them. Her books came from Twilight. They began as fan fiction and came with a built-in audience from the Twilight base. It’s like Jurassic World — of course it was No. 1 at the box office, because it had the built-in base of fans of the Jurassic Park franchise. My books are original fiction, they come from nowhere, so that’s more of an arthouse film.
Megan Hart: Those books certainly got a lot of people reading the genre who had not read for a long time. As far as the books themselves, I think they have created really divisive opinions, but my opinion is that it was overall positive in that it brought readers. I was fortunate in that I had already established a readership at the time, and I have not felt any pressure to change the way I write. I don’t have a checklist, like ‘oh, I haven’t done an orgy book yet, let me try that out.’ But I also don’t want to write the same story again and again.
Sex is not wrong. Sex is not dirty. Not even sex in a public place with a man you barely know. It’s not. Sex is a gift, a built-in human pleasure, something to enjoy and cherish and utilize. Sex rejuvenates. Sex replenishes. Orgasms are just one more miraculous function our body provides, no more shameful than a sneeze or the beating of our hearts. Sex is not dirty, not even in public places with someone you barely know. Liking sex, like a man’s hands on me, coming with him, letting him inside me … that doesn’t make me dirty.
Finally, let’s talk about “grape,” as Amy Schumer calls it — grey-area rape that isn’t a black-and-white situation. Erotica uses more technical terminology than Schumer; the official term is “dubious consent.” Fantasy of a partner exerting power and force does not signify that someone would welcome such a scenario in real life. Still, it’s a loaded topic — so for those who chose to engage with it, why? And were there any concerns over how it might be received?
Cara McKenna: There are books like 50 Shades that purport to be consensual, but readers might not interpret it that way. Then there are books like mine, that might have edgy kink or one that has rape role-play. Some readers might find it a turnoff; some like the dubious consent. Skye Warren writes a lot of dubcon books. She’s a great writer. It’s just at the edge of what I’m comfortable reading. Never before have I felt like there’s been such a mass public discussion of consent and rape. Which is great, it needs to be talked about. But because it’s such a hot-button issue, we’re sort of primed to be looking for it, and some might be looking to witch-hunt people who are not showing enough concern. On the other hand, our culture is full of it. I watch a lot of crime shows, and people are getting raped all over the place. There’s no doubt there’s a titillation aspect. No one likes to recognize in themselves that they have that response, but rape fantasies are really common because I think fear and arousal operate from similar places.
“Me wanting to pretend a man is forcing me once in a while doesn’t mean I secretly think I deserve to get raped or that I’d ever in a million years want to be. It’s all about control—having it or giving it up.”
Kitty Thomas: Sex and fear together can be very potent. I think it’s a primal thing. Orgasm is “the little death.” There is something about sex, death, fear, that’s all mixed up deep in our psyches. No matter how outwardly civilized we become, it’s still right there just under the surface, and I think these types of books tap into that in a safe space. I don’t usually write safewords. The book itself is the fantasy/scene. So if you need a safeword, putting the book down is your safeword. And that’s perfectly acceptable. I definitely want readers to feel that mix of fear and arousal when reading. That’s a way to make that happen where it is safe — because it’s a book — but it doesn’t always feel safe in the experience of reading it. I think readers begin to trust certain authors to take them into that space and then bring them back into the real world without too many psychic bumps and bruises for the journey.
Skye Warren: Ideally, women would be able to explore and enjoy their sexual fantasy without shame. But that’s almost an impossible ideal. There’s quite a bit of shame tied up in these subjects that we’ve internalized. Wanderlust [in which the hero rapes the heroine] freaked a lot of people out. It freaked me out, honestly. I literally wrote it in the dark at night. I stayed up late and didn’t let myself think about what it was. It was really only looking back, I thought, “Wow, this is crazy dark, people will be so mad at this hero and at me for writing it, I can’t publish this.” From a career standpoint, it might not be good to publish. It’s too out-there. But almost immediately, people were reading it and reviewing it. It really struck a chord. I got a lot of, “I liked it, but I wasn’t sure I should,” or, “I loved it and feel bad that I did,” or, “I found it strangely hot but it’s not for everyone.” Even when they liked it, they wanted to temper it. It’s a tough question because they feel like, if he did this awful thing to her, are you saying rape is OK? If I like it, am I saying that I’m OK with it?
Gentle hands wrapped the smooth leather around my wrists and secured them to the headboard with an ease that scared me. “You can get out of this,” he said, nodding toward my tethered hands. “If something were to happen, you could wriggle and yank them out. It’s safe.” Safe? Was that really a consideration here? This whole thing was unsafe. That was too mild a word.
Skye Warren, continued: When people talk about concerns over the fact that these books exist or are being read, ultimately there are women who have these desires, fantasies, or curiosities, and this is the safest possible way to explore that. And they’re entitled to that. That’s why, for me as an author, I don’t feel shame or worry about the fact that I write it. I get contacted by a lot of new authors, and I always get asked about morality. They like reading [dubious consent] and the idea of writing it, but they’re concerned about what they’re putting out into the world — is it morally OK? I always say, “If you don’t feel comfortable, then don’t do it.”
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E-cigarette vape not safe for children either
Believing that exposure to e-cigarette vape is safe for children, parents are increasingly vaping both at home and in car
Believing that exposure to e-cigarette vape is safe for children, parents are increasingly vaping both at home and in car, finds a study.
The study showed only 38 percent of parents who smoked cigarettes and 22 percent dual users were found to strictly restrict cigarette use in both home and car.
On the other hand, 56 percent of both e-cigarette users and dual users reported using e-cigarettes in their cars with children around. The research included 750 parents.
"The finding that a large majority of parents are vaping e-cigarettes inside homes and cars is an alarming trend," said lead author Jeremy Drehmer at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the US.
"Our results suggest parents perceive it's safe to use electronic cigarettes and are not taking the same precautions they do to protect their children from exposure to traditional cigarettes," Drehmer said.
Although e-cigarettes, found comparatively safer than cigarettes in terms of harmful substances released, may prove no less harmful when used in the presence of children or inside homes and cars.
Carcinogenetic volatile organic compounds have been detected in the urine of e-cigarette users, and e-cigarettes leave deposits of nicotine on surfaces when used inside, according to the paper published in the Pediatrics journal.
Drehmer said parents have been misled by the marketing of vaping products to believe that the aerosol produced by them is harmless to children.
The researchers said tobacco majors market e-cigarettes as healthy products without warning about the harms to infants and children from nicotine and ultra-fine toxic particles that spread into the air and coats surfaces.
"Paediatric healthcare providers need to help set the record straight and inform parents that e-cigarette vapour is not safe for children," Drehmer suggested.
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