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#Thinkwing: Mon,2/27/2017, 9PM @KPFTHouston 90.1FM. TOPICS: Americans are seriously stressed out about the future of the country survey finds, SCOTUS docket # 16-907 (Writ of Mandamus before SCOTUS) WILL BE DISTRIBUTED FOR CONFERENCE to the Justices on March 17, 2017, Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to fly two private citizens around the moon by late next year, More. GUEST: OPEN FORUM [AUDIO]
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SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]:
“My great fear is that we are quickly approaching a situation where our two major political parties are not only distinguished by whether they are ideologically liberal or conservative but also by whether they actively support and defend basic liberal democratic norms and institutions or not. In the past, both the Republican and Democratic parties have been honorable defenders of American democratic norms and institutions. It is difficult to say, though, that the Republican Party as a whole is strongly committed to defending liberal democratic values right now.” ~ Dr. Benjamin Knoll, Ph.D., Contributor John Marshall Harlan Associate Professor of Politics, Centre College, “Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the future of American democracy are at a crossroads”, 02/26/2017, huffingtonpost.com
1. Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to fly two private citizens around the moon by late next year, By Christian Davenport and Joel Achenbach [Washington Post] February 27, 2017 at 6:15 PM
SpaceX said Monday it plans to fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon by late 2018 as part of a lunar journey that would last about a week and travel deeper into space than any human has ventured before.
U.S. detains and nearly deports French Holocaust historian, By James McAuleyFebruary 26, 2017
ike Honig @ThinkWingRadio 11h11 hours ago :: America was, “Give me your tired, your poor.” Now it’s, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way back home.”
Americans are seriously stressed out about the future of the country, survey finds, By Colby Itkowitz [www.washingtonpost.com] February 15, 2017
The American Psychological Association polls Americans about their stress every year, and it’s common for many of those polled to report anxiety around personal life issues like work and money. This time, however, people are also citing politics as a serious stressor in their lives.
Last year, the APA, which represents psychologists across the country, heard from its members that their patients were experiencing high levels of anxiety in the lead-up to the presidential election. Since November, those emotions haven’t let up. They’ve actually gotten worse with political talk consuming therapy sessions.
Because so many of its members were reporting election-related stress, the APA added questions about politics to its annual survey in August. When the negative feelings didn’t ease up, APA did another survey in January to capture stress levels post-election. In August, 71 percent of Americans reported feeling a physical or emotional symptom of stress at least one day that month. In January, 80 percent had symptoms such as tension headaches or feeling overwhelmed or depressed.
The survey, conducted by Harris Poll, found 66 percent of Americans reported stress about the future of the country, 57 percent about the current political climate and 49 percent about the election outcome. Minority groups, millennials, those living in urban areas, and those with a college education had higher levels of stress about the election, which is unsurprising since those demographics tend to lean left politically.
While Democrats surveyed were overwhelmingly more stressed about the election outcome than Republicans (72 percent to 26 percent), a majority of people from both parties, 59 percent of Republicans and 76 percent of Democrats, said they are stressed about the future of the country.
From Daily Kos: “MAJOR BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: SCOTUS docket # 16-907 WILL BE DISTRIBUTED FOR CONFERENCE to the Justices on March 17, 2017!”
Petition Before SCOTUS Seeks To Nullify Election, by FisherShannon [dailykos.com/] Feb 12, 2017 9:58am CST
http://revote2017.org/
While the world is paying attention to theatrical battles over President Trump’s executive orders and cabinet nominees, a largely unnoticed and potentially landmark case sits before the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. A petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to nullify the results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential electionsits on the SCOTUS docket.
A petition for a writ of mandamusis a filing imploring a Court to take mandatory action in the nature of public duty. The writ – filed Jan 18, 2017 by Diane Blumstein, Donna Soodalter-Toman, and Nancy Goodman – has been assigned docket number 16-907.
The main argument for the writ is that, per Article IV § 4 of the U.S. Constitution, it is the job of the federal government to keep U.S. territory safe from foreign invasion. The Constitution stipulates, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” The petition cites evidence of such an invasion, namely the Russian hacking, and asks that the entire 2016 election be nullified, all the way back to the primaries, on the grounds that cyber-territory in the U.S. was invaded with the intention of altering the results of our Presidential election. The petitioners seek an entirely new election.
A response is due from SCOTUS on February 21 with an answer as to whether the Court will hear oral arguments in this case. The fact that this petition for a writ of mandamus is being considered is quite remarkable. SCOTUS estimatesthat just 0.01% of cases filed with the court are granted plenary review with oral arguments, so the odds are stacked against this case being heard, but the writ is on the docket and they hold out hope that the odds are in their favor.
Writ of Mandamus – Wikipedia
Mandamus (Latin for “We command”) is a judicial remedy in the form of an order from a superior court,[1] to any government subordinate court, corporation, or public authority—to do (or forbear from doing) some specific act which that body is obliged under law to do (or refrain from doing)—and which is in the nature of public duty, and in certain cases one of a statutory duty. It cannot be issued to compel an authority to do something against statutory provision. For example, it cannot be used to force a lower court to reject or authorize applications that have been made, but if the court refuses to rule one way or the other then a mandamus can be used to order the court to rule on the applications.
Mandamus may be a command to do an administrative action or not to take a particular action, and it is supplemented by legal rights. In the American legal system it must be a judicially enforceable and legally protected right before one suffering a grievance can ask for a mandamus. A person can be said to be aggrieved only when he is denied a legal right by someone who has a legal duty to do something and abstains from doing it.
On Tuesday [Feb 28, 2017], House Republicans Will Betray Their Oaths, Their Country, And The American People. By Dartagnan [DailyKos] Sunday Feb 26, 2017 · 9:09 AM CST
On Tuesday the Republican-dominated House Judiciary Committee is expected to reject House Democrats’ Resolution for a formal inquiry into the potential ethical and legal violations committed by the Trump campaign apparatus in its contacts, communications and financial transactions with Russia during the run-up to Trump’s election last November, and throughout the transition since then. It will also reject calls to examine evidence of Trump’s solicitation and receipt of foreign gifts intended to influence American policy, and the potential violations of the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution.
The evidence pointing to Trump’s betrayal of American strategic interests has (thus far) included illegal contacts between Trump emissaries and Putin officials concerning the lifting of existing U.S. sanctions, evidence that the Trump campaign was aware of and likely complicit in Russian efforts to sway the election to Trump through Russian propaganda, and evidence suggesting that Trump himself may be compromised and subject to Russian blackmail due to either his financial dealings or his unusual sexual proclivities. These issues, unearthed by our intelligence agencies, directly implicate the integrity of our national government. It’s difficult to imagine any matter that could be more compelling for investigation and resolution. This is, in essence, a determination whether an elected President has been corrupted, compromised, or tainted by a hostile foreign power.
Why Trump is skipping the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, By Dean Obeidallah, CNN, Updated 4:58 PM ET, Sun February 26, 2017
CNN Is Considering Skipping White House Correspondents’ Dinner: The cable network, which Donald Trump has repeatedly called “fake news,” is discussing internally about whether to attend the annual star-studded dinner, sources say. By Steven Perlberg [BuzzFeed News Reporter] posted on Feb. 23, 2017, at 7:45 p.m.
CNN is still actively discussing internally whether it will ultimately send staffers to the event, which is scheduled for April 29, according to one of these people.
Plus, some in the media world are wondering whether Trump will even end up attending the event. The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.
Time to talk Trump impeachment: Jason Sattler, By Jason Sattler [com] Published 3:24 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2017 | Updated 11 hours ago
Republicans are burying Trump transgressions. Democrats need to make sure they get noticed.
Bannon predicts there will be an ideological ‘fight every day’
Atop Trump’s agenda, Bannon said, was the “deconstruction of the administrative state” — meaning a system of taxes, regulations and trade pacts that the president and his advisers believe stymie economic growth and infringe upon one’s sovereignty.
“If you look at these Cabinet nominees, they were selected for a reason, and that is deconstruction,” Bannon said. He posited that Trump’s announcement withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership was “one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history.”
Bannon picked up that theme Thursday in his remarks at CPAC: “They’re corporatist, globalist media that are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like Donald Trump has.”
Bannon also said, “If you look at the opposition party [e., the Press] and how they portrayed the campaign and how they portrayed the transition and how they portray the administration, it’s always wrong.”
Bannon: Trump administration is in unending battle for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’, By Philip Rucker (Washington Post) February 23, 2017 at 2:47 PM
Trump to propose 10 percent spike in defense spending, major cuts to other agencies, Washington Post – 5 hours ago
President Trump will propose a federal budget that would significantly increase defense-related spending by $54 billion while cutting other federal agencies by the same amount, an administration official said.
Trump vows military build-up, hammers nationalist themes: President Donald Trump said he would make a massive budget request for one of the “greatest military buildups in American history” on Friday in a feisty,… reuters.com
11. Thinkwing Radio with MIKE HONIG, Published by Michael R Honig · February 25 at 3:33pm ·
REUTERS – “…President Donald Trump [at CPAC] said he would make a massive budget request for one of the ‘greatest military buildups in American history’ on Friday in a feisty, campaign-style speech extolling robust nationalism to eager conservative activists.”
I’m a pro-military Liberal. I believe in peace through strength; that wars never fought are cheaper than spending on unassailable military strength.
But this isn’t the US military of the 1910s or 1930s. We have the pre-eminent military in the world, spending as much as the next 10 nations combined. At this point in time, to ‘make our military great again’ all we need is more troops in the rotation and/or fewer wars to rotate them through, normal munitions and hardware replacement, some small expansion of the Navy to replace aging ships, and normal technological changes/replacement in air-power, etc.
Given the above, there can only be one reason for one of “the greatest military buildups in American history”: War. An already powerful nation embarks on a historic military build-up when it’s preparing for war.
This should be a Red Flag for Americans and the world. Under Trump, America is planning for a major war, most likely with China.
12. Worried Over Trump, China Tries to Catch up With U.S. Navy, By Reuters (in NEWSWEEK) On 2/26/17 at 7:13 AM
The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China’s upcoming defense budget as Beijing seeks to check U.S. dominance of the high seas and step up its own projection of power around the globe.
China’s navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with a rising star admiral taking command, its first aircraft carrier sailing around self-ruled Taiwan and new Chinese warships popping up in far-flung places.
Now, with President Donald Trump promising a U.S. shipbuilding spree and unnerving Beijing with his unpredictable approach on hot button issues including Taiwan and the South and East China Seas, China is pushing to narrow the gap with the U.S. Navy.
NATO Intercepts Russian Bombers Above Baltic Sea Twice in One Week, By Damien Sharkov On 2/21/17 at 7:32 AM
NATO jets intercepted a skein of Russian combat aircraft, flying alongside Russian bomber planes above the Baltic Sea last Tuesday and Thursday—twice in a week, Lithuania’s government reports.
The uptick of Russian approaches to the airspace of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since Moscow’s annexation of another former Soviet territory—Crimea in 2014—has unnerved and convinced them that the Kremlin may harbor similar designs for their lands. Although Russia has denied it would attack any NATO state, its reinforcement actions and posturing for offensive, not defensive maneuvers, has kept nerves on the alliance’s eastern flank on edge.
According to Lithuania’s Ministry of Defense, which currently hosts the multinational police mission of jets from NATO that assist in preventing incursions into the country’s airspace, Russian jets approached allied airspace February 14 and 16.
In Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro, signs of ethnic tension are on the rise again. com/world/2017/feb…
Yemen SEAL Raid Has Yielded No Significant Intelligence: Officials, by Cynthia McFadden, William M. Arkin and Ken Dilanian [NBCNEWS.COM] Feb 27 2017, 7:04 pm ET
a. Three probes opened into SEAL’s death in controversial Yemen raid, USA TODAY
Last month’s deadly commando raid in Yemen, which cost the lives of a U.S. Navy SEAL and a number of children, has so far yielded no significant intelligence, U.S. officials told NBC News.
Although Pentagon officials have said the raid produced “actionable intelligence,” senior officials who spoke to NBC News said they were unaware of any, even as the father of the dead SEAL questioned the premise of the raid in an interview with the Miami Herald published Sunday.
Poll: Majority Think Media Too Hard on Trump, By Curt Mills | Staff Writer 27, 2017, at 1:12 p.m. U.S. News & World Report
A majority of Americans say the media has been too tough on President Donald Trump. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP). A majority of Americans say the media has been too critical of President Donald Trump, according to a new poll.
A Wall Street Journal / NBC News survey found that 51 percent of Americans thought the press was too critical of the new president, and 53 percent agreed that “news media and other elites” were exaggerating the administration’s problems because they are threatened by the changes in Washington.
By comparison, 41 percent said the media has been mostly fair and objective, and 45 percent disagreed with the assessment the media was exaggerating the situation in Washington. Finally 6 percent of Americans said the media hasn’t been tough on Trump enough. The poll surveyed Americans from Feb. 18-22.
DHS Immigration Memo Underscores Urgent Need for National Guard Reform: It’s time to rethink the mission and role of the already-stretched National Guard. By Ben Manski |[BillMoyers.com] February 22, 2017
A general alarm has risen in response to the recently leaked draft memo from Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly outlining steps for the deployment of National Guard units, as well as other measures, across vast regions of the country to hunt down and detain those suspected of being undocumented immigrants to the United States.
The Constitution of the United States disallows the use of the National Guard to invade and occupy other countries. Instead, Article 1, Section 8 provides for the use of the Guard “to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.” Federal statutes enacted under the authority of the Constitution describe the conditions under which the Guard may and may not be used for domestic law enforcement. Most readings of those statutes are that they do not authorize the unilateral federalization of state guard units to hunt down and detain those suspected of being undocumented immigrants. Yet as a matter of constitutional law involving at least several of the militia clauses and the Bill of Rights, the question is unclear.
What is clear is that National Guard law is currently broken. The United States have not been invaded since 1941, yet over the past year, National Guard units were deployed in 70 countries, reflecting former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s statement that, “There’s no way we could conduct a global war on terror without the Guard and Reserve.”
Law professors file misconduct complaint against Kellyanne Conway, By Sari Horwitz February 23,2017 [Washington Post] at 3:13 PM
A group of law professors from around the country has filed a professional misconduct complaint against White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, a graduate of George Washington University Law School who was admitted to the D.C. Bar in 1995.
The letter, filed with the office that handles misconduct by members of the D.C. Bar, said Conway should be sanctioned for violating government ethics rules and “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation,” the letter says.
Vitaly I. Churkin, Russian ambassador to the U.N., dies at 64, By staff reports and news services (Washington Post) February 20, 2017 at 3:05 PM
Vitaly I. Churkin, who had been Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations for more than a decade and championed Moscow’s perspective on barbarity in Syria, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other global flash points, died Feb. 20 at a hospital in New York. He died a day before his 65th birthday.
Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador, Vladimir Safronkov, said that his boss fell ill at his office. The cause wasn’t immediately known.
FREE SPEECH: What’s constitutionally guaranteed and what’s culturally expected
1st Amendment: First Amendment | Constitution | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The Amendment protects us against Government interference in speech, press and religion.
NON-government interference – private businesses, publishers. Etc. – is more culturally entrenched but usually not illegal.
1st Amendment: FREE SPEECH: What’s constitutionally guaranteed and what’s culturally expected
Roosevelt delivered his speech 11 months before the United States declared war on Japan, December 8, 1941. The State of the Union speech before Congress was largely about the national security of the United States and the threat to other democracies from world war that was being waged across the continents in the eastern hemisphere. In the speech, he made a break with the tradition of United States non-interventionism that had long been held in the United States. He outlined the U.S. role in helping allies already engaged in warfare.
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy:
1. Four Freedoms, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donald Trump is making a strong case for a recount of his own 2016 election win, By Aaron Blake, Nov 28, 2016 (Washington Post): On Sunday morning, President-elect Donald Trump assured us all that a recount of the 2016 election wouldn’t change the outcome and was a waste of resources.
“…the president-elect is also, unwittingly and amazingly, calling into question the results of an election that he won nearly three weeks ago. The logical extension of his argument is that all results should not be trusted. In effect, Trump is lending credence to the very same recount effort that he criticized as superfluous.
Russian Interference Could Give Courts Legal Authority To Install Clinton, By Alex Mohajer, Political Writer and Commentator (Huffington Post) 12/10/2016 06:28 am ET | Updated 6 days ago (12/13/2016)
…at least one federal court decision suggests there may be some federal case law on the question of whether it is possible to invalidate the outcome of an election after the fact when there is fraud, and replace a candidate benefitted by fraud with his opponent. The case, Marks v. Stinson, is the first and only known case in which a federal judge reversed an election outcome.
[In] a case originally brought before a federal district judge in Pennsylvania in 1993, which was subsequently appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1994. The Third Circuit partially upheld the federal judge’s decision to intervene and invalidate a 1993 state senate election due to fraud. Interestingly, the federal district judge ordered the winner be removed from office and the subsequent vacancy be filled by his opponent.
In February 1994, after Stinson had already taken office, the federal judge ordered he “be removed from his State Senate office and that [his opponent, Bruce Marks] be certified the winner within 72 hours.”
Two of the elected officials who testified in the Pennsylvania case said under oath that they were aware of the fraud, had intentionally failed to enforce laws, and hurried to certify Stinson the winner in order to bury the story. To some, the narrative draws parallels to the Washington Post’s revelation that Republican Mitch McConnell was aware of the CIA’s conclusion that Russians had intervened and opted to do nothing.
The case deliberates interesting rationale that could theoretically be applied in part if, after Donald Trump assumes office, it is shown that Russian hacking (or any fraud, for that matter) robbed Hillary Clinton of the presidency. The case offers clues that imply courts may intervene.
There is also, of course, no constitutional Electoral College process or system in Pennsylvania, so the situations are not exactly analogous. But the reasoning behind the federal court’s decision may hold muster. It is not clear how the case would impact a presidential election.
| Updated 6 days ago [MARKS v. STINSON | 19 F.3d 873 (1994) | Leagle.com]
BREAKING: Russian Interference In The Election Just Handed Hillary The White House (DETAILS), December 10, 2016 New Century Times
His opponent in the race, Republican Bruce Marks was then made the winner. The judge who made the ruling, Judge Clarence Newcomer, said:
“Substantial evidence was presented establishing massive absentee ballot fraud, deception, intimidation, harassment and forgery.”
According to the New York Times: “Judge Newcomer ordered that Mr. Stinson, a 49-year-old former assistant deputy mayor of Philadelphia, be removed from his State Senate office and that Mr. Marks, a 36-year-old lawyer and former aide to United States Senator Arlen Specter, be certified the winner within 72 hours.”
SOURCES WHICH MAY BE RELEVANT TO OTHER DISCUSSION:
The worst passwords of 2016 are as lazy as ever: Please, stop using “123456.”, By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day (ZDNet) | January 13, 2017 — 14:00 GMT (06:00 PST)
How Wisdom Teeth Are Fueling the Opioid Epidemic, By Melissa Pandika 1/22/2017, [Ozy.com] via MSN
… In 2015, opioids killed a record 33,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About half of those deaths involved a prescription opioid. Now, a new study drills down to one source of these drugs: wisdom-tooth extractions.
More than half of the opioid painkillers prescribed to patients after wisdom tooth removal surgery in a recent Drug and Alcohol Dependence study went unused.
100 million opioid pills, prescribed for wisdom-tooth extractions, go unused.
Which means they’re available for misuse and abuse by patients, their loved ones or others. But the study also found that offering information about a pharmacy-based drug-disposal program, plus a financial incentive, made patients more likely to properly dispose of their unused medication, or at least plan to do so.
Tanks Roll Through ‘Chunnel’ as Europe Frets About Trump, Russia, NBC News by Alexander Smith and Carlo Angerer and Keir Simmons 5 hrs ago
… in the dead of night this week, Britain’s military sent five tanks down the 30-mile “Chunnel” to test whether it would be an effective route for forces if deployed to places such as Eastern Europe amid tensions between Russia and NATO.
the potential need to fast-track forces to the Russian front served as a reminder of how seriously Washington’s allies in Europe perceive the threat on their doorstep.
These allies have traditionally felt that Washington has their back, something thrown into doubt by Trump cozying up to Moscow and branding NATO “obsolete” earlier this week.
Trump’s comments this week came after he suggested during his campaign that he might not honor NATO’s central tenet that an attack against one member state would be seen as an attack against all.
“It’s certainly freaked people out,” according to Alexander Lanoszka, an expert in American foreign policy at City, University of London. He said Trump’s comments have brought European concerns about an emboldened Russia “into sharp focus.”
White House vows to fight media ‘tooth and nail’ over Trump coverage, By Doina Chiacu and Jason Lange [Reuters] 1/22/2017
The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media “tooth and nail” over what it sees as unfair attacks, with [Kellyanne Conway] saying the Trump administration had presented “alternative facts” to counter low inauguration crowd estimates.
Trial Balloon for a Coup? Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours, by Yonatan Zunger
Group will sue Trump over business’ foreign profits, By Cyra Master 2 hrs ago (The Hill) 1/22/2017 via MSN
The Title of Nobility Clause [Also known as the Emoluments Clause] is a provision in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts members of the government from receiving gifts, emoluments, offices or titles from foreign states without the consent of the United States Congress. Also known as the Emoluments Clause, it was designed to shield the republican character of the United States against so–called “corrupting foreign influences”. This shield is reinforced by the corresponding prohibition on state titles of nobility in Article I, Section 10, and more generally by the Republican Guarantee Clause in Article IV, Section[2] ~ Title of Nobility Clause – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) announced Sunday night it is bringing a suit “to stop President Trump from violating the Constitution (the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause ) by illegally receiving payments from foreign governments.”
At issue is Trump’s refusal to divest from his business or place his assets into a blind trust, which would separate him entirely from his business empire. He has said his adult sons will run his business while he is in office, that they will not conduct any foreign deals and will subject any domestic deals to an ethics review.
Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.[3]
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities. It supersedes the ambiguous wording of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, which does not expressly state whether the Vice President becomes the President or Acting President if the President dies, resigns, is removed from office or is otherwise unable to discharge the powers of the presidency.[1] The Twenty-fifth Amendment was adopted on February 10, 1967.[2]
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Emoluments Clause of the Constitution (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia):
The Ineligibility Clause, one of the two clauses often called the Emoluments Clause,[1][2] and sometimes also referred to as the Incompatibility Clause[3] or the Sinecure Clause,[4] is found in Article 1, Section 6, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution. It places limitations upon the employment of members of Congress and prohibits employees of the Executive Branch from serving in Congress during their terms in office. The name “Ineligibility Clause” is only used by a minority of writers, as compared to the name “Emoluments Clause”.[1][2][5]
The clause states: “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.”
The oath of office is given to the candidates who abided by the rules, and did not compromise their integrity. Inspite of all the Republican protestations, the oath of office should be given to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Tim Kaine.
The intelligence community already has the evidence that a foreign government interfered in the election so that Trump & Pence would win. That foreign power was Russia. So long as Trump is in office, he will be beholden to Vladimir Putin. If Pence were to become President, he also would be beholden to Putin. The interference of a foreign power on behalf of one of the candidates invalidates the election, and the elected candidates are rendered unqualified to serve.
I think Impeachment would take too long, and would not solve the problem.
Impeachment would remove Trump, but then we get a President who believes GLBT people should be sent to some form of concentration camps to be reprogrammed.
Some people are calling for impeachment. I believe impeachment would take too long. They first have to introduce articles of impeachment, then have hearings, then vote. If he is impeached by the House of Representatives, they then have to bring it before the Senate. The Senate would have their own hearings and then vote on whether to remove him from office. If he is removed from office, Vice President Mike Pence becomes President.
John Ibanez, Yesterday at 2:31pm 1/29/2017
The election must be overturned.
John Ibanez’s post (which I have pasted below) persuaded me. His last two paragraphs locked it up. Essentially, this whole administration is tainted. They have all “bitten of the poisoned apple”, as they sometimes say in law. Therefore this administration must be pulled up by the roots of the Republic is to survive as we have known it.The solution may lie in a minor precedent called “Marks v. Stinson” ([MARKS v. STINSON | 19 F.3d 873 (1994) | Leagle.com]). The ruling states, in part: “Substantial evidence was presented establishing massive absentee ballot fraud, deception, intimidation, harassment and forgery.”
According to the New York Times: “Judge Newcomer ordered that Mr. Stinson, a 49-year-old former assistant deputy mayor of Philadelphia, be removed from his State Senate office and that Mr. Marks, a 36-year-old lawyer and former aide to United States Senator Arlen Specter, be certified the winner within 72 hours.”I am now convinced that as farfetched as this may sound, it is in fact the only real solution to our nation’s current dilemma.
Up until now, I’ve been arguing that the only to remotely realistic choices we have is Pres. Trump or Pres. Pence. I know longer believe that is even Constitutionally acceptable.
I don’t like to engage in hyperbole, but I believe we are approaching a real existential, Constitutional crisis.
Latest: Inmates cite Trump, education as motive for takeover, By Associated Press By Associated Press [National] February 1 at 6:35 PM
Inmates inside a Delaware prison where four staff members were being held hostage reached out to a newspaper in two phone calls to explain their concerns, including the leadership of the U.S., educational opportunities, rehabilitation and how the state spends money on prisons.
In that call, an inmate said their reasons “for doing what we’re doing” included “Donald Trump. Everything that he did. All the things that he’s doing now. We know that the institution is going to change for the worse.”
That caller said education for prisoners was the inmates’ priority. They also sought effective rehabilitation for all prisoners and information about how money is allocated to prisons.
LATER REPORTED: “Early Thursday, the siege ended after police breached the building and rescued a female staff member who was not injured. They also found Sgt. Steven R. Floyd, a 16-year veteran of the Delaware Department of Correction, but he was unresponsive. Floyd, 47, was declared dead a short time later…”
a. First Amendment | Constitution | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Republican Congress puts priority on targeting regulations, by Herb Jackson, USA TODAY 11:23 a.m. EST January 2, 2017
The House is expected to take up two bills — the Midnight Rules Act and the REINS Act (which stands for Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) — that passed on largely party-line votes in the 114th, 113th and 112th congressional sessions, but died in the Senate. The REINS Act would require that before any new major regulation could take effect, the House and Senate would have to pass a resolution of approval. The Midnight Rules Act would let Congress invalidate rules in bulk that passed in the final year of a presidential term.
And under the 1996 Congressional Review Act, Congress can pass a resolution of disapproval to block a rule if it acts within 60 days of notification from an agency.
[The bill’s sponsor is Republican Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia.] The new legislation would further expand congressional power by preventing an administration from implementing rules without another vote. Under the REINS act, a proposed regulation would be deemed rejected if Congress was in session for 70 days and took no action. The bill allows for a major rule to take effect for a single 90-day period if the president determined it was necessary because of an imminent threat to health or safety or other emergency.
Claiming mandate, GOP Congress lays plans to propel sweeping conservative agenda, By David Weigel [Washington Post] January 1, 2017 at 7:46 PM
Differences between Liberals, Conservatives, Libertarians and neo-Conservatives
Left–right politics, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History of the terms: The terms “left” and “right” appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president’s right and supporters of the revolution to his left. One deputy, the Baron de Gauville, explained, “We began to recognize each other: those who were loyal to religion and the king took up positions to the right of the chair so as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp.” However the Right opposed the seating arrangement because they believed that deputies should support private or general interests but should not form factions or political parties. The contemporary press occasionally used the terms “left” and “right” to refer to the opposing sides.[9]
Greens and Libertarians: The yin and yang of our political future, by Dan Sullivan (originally appearing in Green Revolution, Volume 49, No. 2, summer, 1992)
… Libertarians tend to be logical and analytical. They are confident that their principles will create an ideal society, even though they have no consensus of what that society would be like. Greens, on the other hand, tend to be more intuitive and imaginative. They have clear images of what kind of society they want, but are fuzzy about the principles on which that society would be based.
Ironically, Libertarians tend to be more utopian and uncompromising about their political positions, and are often unable to focus on politically winnable proposals to make the system more consistent with their overall goals. Greens on the other hand, embrace immediate proposals with ease, but are often unable to show how those proposals fit in to their ultimate goals.
The most difficult differences to reconcile, however, stem from baggage that members of each party have brought with them from their former political affiliations. Most Libertarians are overly hostile to government and cling to the fiction that virtually all private fortunes are legitimately earned. Most Greens are overly hostile to free enterprise and cling to the fiction that harmony and balance can be achieved through increased government intervention.
Amongst published researchers, there is agreement that the Left includes anarchists, communists, socialists, progressives, anti-capitalists, anti-imperialists, anti-racists, democratic socialists, greens, left-libertarians, social democrats, and social liberals.[5][6][7]
Researchers have also said that the Right includes capitalists, conservatives, monarchists, nationalists, neoconservatives, neoliberals, reactionaries, imperialists, right-libertarians, social authoritarians, religious fundamentalists, and traditionalists.[8]
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M.O.D. on March 1, 2017 at 1:22 PM said:
Mike, as requested, The Wall Street Journal article stating new DNC Chair issuing waivers to the several banks which Congress asked him not to.
As you have stated, please announce provided “sourced” information in Monday March 6th, 2017 show.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-ask-labor-secretary-to-thoroughly-review-waiver-requests-from-banks-in-forex-probe-1433426907
http://www.mortgageorb.com/nc-congressmen-call-for-federal-probe-of-scra-violations
http://observer.com/2016/12/dnc-chair-candidate-tom-perez-gives-tax-breaks-to-clinton-donors/
http://onrabble.com/tom-perez-big-banks-dnc/
Hillary’s private double-talk with the banks:
https://thinkwingradio.com/2017/02/27/thinkwing-mon2272017-9pm-kpfthouston-90-1fm-topics-americans-are-seriously-stressed-out-about-the-future-of-the-country-survey-finds-scotus-docket-16-907-writ-of-mandamus-before-scotus/#comment-28819
To follow up on the HCF…so they created an LLC in New Guinea, but finally got caught and the entity’s license to operate was revoked by authorities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by an order published on 31 March 2008, taking operative effect from 31 December 2007.
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2016/09/new-documents-that-reveal-bill-clintons-backdated-contracts-and-multimillion-frauds-in-the-name-of-h.html
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Freshness and Familiarity Part Three – Time, gentlemen, please
June 16, 2013 1:56 pm / 1 Comment on Freshness and Familiarity Part Three – Time, gentlemen, please
I saw The Hangover Part III unexpectedly when, after I originally not planned to bother, one of my workmates suggested it and I decided “Why not?” Damning reviews and user comments had lowered my expectations, so I did not anticipate being impressed, but low expectations have previously led to pleasant surprises (see Olympus Has Fallen), so I approached Todd Phillips’ final (?) adventure of the Wolf Pack with an open mind.
To be fair, I was not exactly disappointed because I had not expected very little, and it is very easy to make me laugh. The last laugh-free comedy I saw was The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller, 1996) on TV, and The Hangover Part III is similarly unfunny. But it lacks laughs for a different reason, which makes it an interesting continuation/conclusion (hopefully) to the franchise. The Cable Guy is not funny because all of its jokes are creepy, based around the premise of Jim Carrey’s character being borderline psychotic. Hardly great comedic material, which is a shame because writer/director Ben Stiller went on to find great humour in male models (Zoolander, 2001) and Hollywood stars (Tropic Thunder, 2008). The Hangover Part III is a different beast because it deviates from the formula of its previous instalments, making it a sequel mainly by virtue of its characters, although some plot elements continue from the first and second films. The first film featured the bachelor party in Las Vegas that went horribly wrong and the Wolf Pack had to find their missing friend. The second one had exactly the same premise, but cranked up to 11, set in Bangkok and with rather more racist humour. Part III is less comedic and more dramatic, as the Wolf Pack pursues Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong). The opening scene in a Thai prison explicitly references The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994), and the evasion of danger remains a conceit throughout, as Doug (Justin Bartha) is held hostage by Marshall (John Goodman) while Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zack Galifianakis) attempt to find Chow. Their escapades include breaking into a heavily fortified house and invading the penthouse suite of a Las Vegas hotel, as well as grappling with some fighting cocks (don’t ask).
While these stunts are dramatic they are not particularly funny, and much of the film feels as though the characters have stepped out of their genre into something more akin to Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) or Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988). But the action scenes are not gripping enough to be exciting nor crazy enough to be funny. In a standout moment, Phil and Alan abseil down a rope of sheets from the roof of a hotel to the balcony below. Alan (of course) loses his grip and Phil tells him to drop down but not to push off; Alan (of course) pushes off and almost falls off to his death, Phil pulling him back in the nick of time. I found this sequence dramatic, but as I swallowed my heart back into my chest, I wondered why it wasn’t funny. It is not that the scene could not be funny because it was a brush with death – such narrow escapes are played for laughs in films as varied as Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) and Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) – but this scene is played straight, with Alan’s mental peculiarity simply a device that almost kills him.
The lack of humour in Alan’s madness is particularly annoying, because the scenes that do play it for laughs are among the funnier moments, such as his eulogy at his father’s funeral and reaction to his friends’ intervention. His first scene in the film involves a giraffe-related motor vehicle accident, which is funny in a horrific way (much like the tazering scene in the first film). Alan and Chow demonstrating their peculiar friendship is passingly amusing, as are Chow’s intoxicated outbursts. At one point, Chow parachutes off a tall building, singing “I Believe I Can Fly” and proclaiming his adoration of cocaine. Stu catches him on the roof of a limousine and has to drive blind before almost killing Chow when he stops suddenly. Had this scene been simply a crazy stunt, it might have been funny, but the stakes are such that if Chow gets away, Doug will be killed, and this neuters the humour because the two elements are not meshed together. This is the film’s fundamental problem – it continually feels like two films jostling for dominance, and both end up losing. Freshness in this case spoils the recipe, and the bursts of familiarity feel like another film trying to re-establish itself without success.
There are enough of these bursts to indicate what The Hangover Part III might have been. Best of these is Alan finding love (seriously) with Cassie (Megan McCarthy), as their scenes are both funny and touching. Alan’s romance suggests the film I would have liked to see, with the Wolf Pack preparing for Alan and Cassie’s wedding, and then in a post credits scene they wake up the morning after asking “What the hell happened?” That would have actually been The Hangover Part III, and considering how outrageous the events appear to have been (boob job?!), I predict the results would be hilarious, or at least wild, zany and shocking. Unfortunately, the film we get is none of these things, because it tries to be something other than a Hangover film. The franchise’s laddish, outrageous and sometimes shocking type of humour is not for everyone, but at least the first two films committed to this and delivered wild and zany humour. Part III’s failure to deliver on this front results in a film that is confused, misguided and deeply unsatisfying, providing a few laugh-out-loud moments, but not enough to justify the involvement of the talent involved nor the investment of the cinema viewer. Perhaps it’ll work better on DVD, especially if drunk. Just be careful what you drink…
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Polycystic Kidney Disease in Cats
By Ernest Ward, DVM; Updated by Malcolm Weir, DVM, MSc, MPH
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What is polycystic kidney disease?
Polycystic kidney disease or PKD is an inherited condition in cats that causes multiple cysts (pockets of fluid) to form in the kidneys. These cysts are present from birth. Initially they are very small but they grow larger over time and may eventually disrupt kidney function resulting in kidney failure.
"The number of cysts and the rate at which the cysts enlarge varies between cats."
All cats with polycystic kidney disease have cysts in their kidneys, but the number of cysts and the rate at which the cysts enlarge varies between cats. In most cats, the cysts enlarge slowly and affected cats will not show any signs of kidney disease until later in life, typically around seven years of age. In some cats, kidney failure will occur at a much younger age while in other cats kidney failure will not develop at all. There is currently no way of predicting how rapidly the disease will progress in a particular cat.
What causes polycystic kidney disease?
Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited disease. Unfortunately, PKD has become very common in certain cat breeds.
"Persian cats have the highest incidence of PKD."
Persian cats have the highest incidence of PKD. Studies have shown that the disease affects around one-third of Persian cats. Breeds such as Chinchillas and Exotic Shorthairs, that have been developed using Persian bloodlines, also have a significant number of affected cats. In the majority of other cats, especially mixed breeds, it is a rare condition.
PKD is the result of a single, autosomal dominant gene abnormality. This means that every cat with the abnormal gene will have PKD. All with the PKD gene, even those with only a few small cysts or those with no clinical signs, will still pass the genetic defect onto its kittens, even if mated with an unaffected, healthy cat. In other words, a cat only needs one of its parents to be affected with PKD in order to inherit the abnormal gene and be affected itself.
How is PKD diagnosed?
The diagnosis is based on breed, medical history, clinical signs, blood and urine tests, genetic testing, and ultrasound evaluation of the kidneys. Special radiographic dye studies may also be used in certain situations.
"Early diagnosis is imperative for all potential breeding cats..."
If you are interested in purchasing a Persian kitten, it is very important that you verify that it is not carrying the PKD gene. Genetic testing for PKD is available to see if your cat has the defective PKD1 gene, and therefore is likely to develop the condition. For further details about this testing, please ask your veterinarian.
What is the treatment for PKD?
There is no specific treatment for PKD, as the disease causes similar clinical signs to those seen in cats with chronic kidney disease. Special diets, fluid therapy, and medications to reduce nausea and vomiting and to block the absorption of phosphorus are often used to treat the symptoms of kidney failure (for further details, see handout “Chronic Kidney Disease in Cats”).
Contributors: Ernest Ward, DVM; Updated by Malcolm Weir, DVM, MSc, MPH
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Acute Kidney Failure in Cats
Acute renal failure (ARF) or acute kidney failure refers to the sudden failure of the kidneys to perform normal filtration duties. ARF leads to accumulation of toxins and other metabolic wastes in the bloodstream, dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, and disturbances in the acid-base balance of the blood. The initial prognosis is guarded for all cases of ARF. If the cause is an infection, there is a better prognosis than if the cause is a toxic substance.
Giving Injections to Cats
Certain medical conditions can be controlled by the use of drugs that are only available in an injectable format. Two of these conditions are diabetes mellitus, which is controlled by daily insulin injections, and certain allergies, which are controlled by regular injections of allergenic extracts.
Applying Eye Drops to Cats
The proper administration of eye medication is critical in helping your cat quickly recover from an eye injury or infection. Make sure you have carefully read the drug label and understand the prescription instructions.
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In Philly, some fines, court costs that hurt low-income people are going away
John N. Mitchell, The Philadelphia Tribune
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
This article originally appeared on The Philadelphia Tribune.
Attorney Rhonda Hill Wilson was happy to learn this week that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office decided earlier this week to implement a new policy that will dismiss certain court-mandated fines.
“I think it’s good stuff,” said Wilson, who is a member of the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness, an organization that addresses inequities in the state court system.
“This is something that should happen around the country. Once you start putting those fees on someone, you can can’t just get out from under it.”
Kranser’s office made its announcement on Wednesday, saying it was waiving fines and fees in an effort to help low-income defendants afford things such as “transportation and other costs associated with employment, education and training programs, completing probation terms, and child or elder care.”
“Philadelphia is a giant step closer to a truly fair and consistent system of justice in which low-income defendants do not face additional punishment by way of unaffordable fines and fees that drive them deeper into debt and poverty,” Krasner said in a statement. The new policy also ensures that restitution is made to victims.
Roughly 26% of Philadelphians live below the federal poverty line, which is an annual income of $19,337 for a family of three, according to the Pew Charitable Trust.
Under the current system, defendants pay fees such as the court-mandated booking center fee ($175), judicial computer project fee ($12), Commonwealth costs ($20), costs of prosecution ($50), county Court cost ($30), state court costs ($14), monthly offender supervision fees ($25), and fees associated with the particular crime in question.
To be considered for the DA’s office’s new policy, defendants must have a form of free legal representation, receive “means-based pubic assistance,” have an income at 125% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines; or show other proof that they have low income.
Keir Bradford-Grey, Chief Defender at the Philadelphia Defender Association, said in a statement that last year the courts ordered Philadelphians to pay more than $21 million in fees despite the city’s high poverty rate.
Pennsylvania’s poor population are not alone in having to deal with the financial burdens associated with court-related fines, which average $13,000 per defendant, according to a recent study by the Harvard Kennedy School.
Many defendants in Alabama were sacrificing food, medicine and other basic necessities — and in some cases, resorting to crime — to pay down burdensome court costs, fines and fees, according to an October 2018 report released by the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice that looked at the experiences of almost 1,000 Alabama residents.
The report also found that African Americans, due to the “over-policing of African-American communities are disproportionately” impacted.
“For people living just above the poverty line, fines and court fees become an obstacle to rehabilitation,” Bradford-Grey said in a statement. “They can trap people in a cycle of poverty and incarceration and effectively turn our jails into debtor prisons.”
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Krasner reverses position, no longer opposes new hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner previously tried to block Abu-Jamal’s latest appeal, but now has changed his mind.
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Representing 1970s activism on Wikipedia
By Cassidy Villeneuve on August 30, 2018
Posted in Equity, Roundups, Student work, Wikipedia Student Program by Cassidy Villeneuve
Only about 17% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women, but as efforts worldwide attempt to close this gender gap that number is slowly changing. Students in our program are one group of Wikipedians contributing to solving this problem. This week, we’re highlighting three biography articles that Dr. Jamie Wagman’s students at St. Mary’s College created from scratch. Thanks to them, the lives and accomplishments of these three women are represented on the world’s most popular source of online information.
Gloria Frankel circa 1980s.
Gloria Frankel was an activist who opened the first LGBTQ club in South Bend, Indiana in 1971. Other grassroots activists for LGBTQ rights cite her as a mentor and inspiration. Frankel intended her club Seahorse to provide a safe space for people of all identities in South Bend. Seahorse hosted drag events, educational events about HIV/AIDS, and free HIV testing. Frankel also worked toward the decriminalization of same-sex dancing in South Bend and Indiana. An article about Frankel’s life and legacy didn’t exist before a student in Dr. Wagman’s course created it. The student also uploaded an image of Frankel in the 1980s.
Carol Greitzer was an American politician who served on the New York City Council from 1969 to 1991 and was the first president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. Greitzer represented Greenwich Village and other downtown areas as New York City Councilwoman for 22 years. During her years on the Council, she worked with politician Percy Sutton to advocate for pro-choice legislation for New York State. In 1969, she was named president of NARAL and further stressed the importance of reproductive rights.
Dorinda Moreno is a Chicana activist, feminist, and writer. As a professor, she has taught in history, journalism, theater, philosophy, and Chicana Studies. She has also founded cultural groups, Las Cucarachas-Mexcla Teatral and Concilio Mujeres – groups that advocate for Chicanas in higher education and beyond. Moreno edited the anthology in 1973, a mujer: En pie de lucha, y la hora es ya, contributing her voice to Chicana activism.
Thank you to Dr. Wagmans students for all their hard work, and to the dozens of other courses we support working to grow the number of women’s biographies on Wikipedia.
Interested in teaching with Wikipedia in your course? Visit teach.wikiedu.org for all you need to know to get started. Or reach out to contact@wikiedu.org with questions.
Image: File:CRHC.LGBTQ.152f. Wearing bows on her shirt.jpg, Jlolmaugh01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Turnout drop-off in “down ballot” races: what are the political implications?
in 2011 Election, 2014 Election, Analysis, Demographics, Louisiana
In the elections world, human and machine imperfection are variables that have to be factored in when discussing election results, turnout, and the like. Some of those imperfections can prevent every vote cast from being counted – a reality that became apparent during the Florida recount in the 2000 Presidential race. For this article, we are focused on the human side. More specifically, when an election consists of multiple races on the same ballot, there is a noticeable drop-off in voter turnout between the race at the top of the ballot and the race at the bottom of the ballot.
To illustrate, in the October 2011 statewide primary, 1,023,163 officially voted in the Governor’s race that saw Governor Jindal re-elected in a landslide. Also on the ballot were the races for Lt Governor, Secretary of State, Agriculture Commissioner, and Insuramce Commissioner. Did the same 1,023,163 who voted for Governor also vote in those other statewide races ? The answer to this question is “no”: while 1,023,163 voted in the Governor’s race at the “top of the ballot”, that number steadily decreased for those other offices also on the October ballot, as turnout varied from 890,786 who voted in the Secretary of State’s race (where Tom Schedler was narrowly re-elected) to 965,876 who voted in the Insurance Commissioner’s race that saw Jim Donelon comfortably re-elected.
While “ballot drop-off/fatigue” is not exactly news, what has not been covered until now is whether “ballot drop off” is more or less prevalent among particular voter demographics. To answer this question, we analyzed the October 2011 statewide races and the December 2014 runoffs in two Congressional districts (in that scenario, both the US Senate and Congressional runoffs were on the ballot). In looking at these races, we found that to varying extents, black turnout drop-off was noticeably higher than white turnout drop-off for downballot races.
Turnout Dropoff, 2011 and 2014
To explain this analysis, turnout steadily dropped when going down the ballot from Governor to Lt. Governor, then to Secretary of State. And in those latter two races, turnout drop-off was even more substantial among black voters than among whites. When comparing turnout for the Governor’s race to the Lt. Governor’s race, white turnout dropped 4.4%, and black turnout dropped 17.2%. When comparing turnout for the Governor’s race to the Secretary of State’s race, white turnout dropped 9.5%, and black turnout dropped 27.0%. This racial disparity also happened when we looked at the December 2014 runoff for the 5th Congressional District: (northeast Louisiana/the Florida Parishes) between the US Senate and the Congressional race, where 1.7% less whites voted for Congress than for US Senator, while that figure was 4.9% for blacks. The differences were more muted, however, in the 6th Congressional district (areas around Baton Rouge and Houma/Thibodaux): white drop-off was 0.7%, while it was 1.3% in black precincts.
There is an anomaly in this analysis that deserves some mention: while the offices of Insurance and Agriculture Commissioner are actually after the Lt Governor and Secretary of State’s races on the statewide ballot, turnout drop-off was actually LESS than it was for Lt Governor/Secretary of State. For Agriculture, a 5.3% drop-off for whites and 9.9% for blacks occurred, while for Insurance, the drop-offs were 5.2% for whites and 9.2% for blacks. Why was this the case ? The Lt Governor and Secretary of State races were races between two Republicans, while there were Democratic candidates for Insurance and Agriculture. It’s entirely possible that partisan Democratic voters skipped those two “all Republican” races, while deciding instead to participate in races (Insurance/Agriculture Commissioner) where Democratic candidates were on the ballot.
So why would turnout “drop-off” even matter ? Given the racial polarization that exists in Louisiana elections, a higher black turnout benefits Democratic candidates, while a lower black turnout hurts their chances. And if we apply that to the 2011 statewide races and analyze the impact, we start off with the 2011 voter registration’s being 65-30% white/black, while the racial breakdown of those who voted (presumably in the governor’s race) was 72-25.5% white. However, the racial disparity that existed for the downballot races meant that the electorate for the Lt. Governor’s race was an estimated 75-23% white/black. For the Secretary of State’s race, it was 76-22% white/black, while those voting for Insurance/Agriculture Commissioner were 73-25% white/black. And in a closely contested “down ballot” partisan contest, this decrease in black influence of up to 3.5% could make the difference in some races, and that is why turnout drop-off matters.
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6 Fairytale Destinations Around the World
By Robert Schrader on October 28, 2017 in Africa, Asia, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, East Africa, Ethiopia, Europe, Featured, Iran, Middle East, North America, Pacific, Photos
When most people think of magical places and fairytale destinations, they might imagine castles in Europe, paradisiacal scenery in the Caribbean and maybe something in New Zealand—nothing says “magic” like a little Lord of the...
Fun Local Things To Do in Bosnia’s Sarajevo
By Jessica Tiare Bowen on October 20, 2017 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Photos, Sarajevo
Recently, I headed back to the Balkans for the fifth time where we spent a relaxing trip in Sarajevo in Bosnia. By now I pretty much feel like the city is my 2nd home largely...
A Trip Through Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina
By Jonny Scott Blair on August 20, 2017 in Belgrade, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Serbia
In 2014 I crossed from Bulgaria into the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. That was my second ex Yugoslav state. I followed it up with only Kosovo and Montenegro, writing detailed reports at the time...
Why Head to Beautiful Sarajevo
By Robert Schrader on October 15, 2016 in Europe, Featured, Photos, Sarajevo
When the owners of my guest house in Mostar, Bosnia picked me up, they seemed genuinely endeared by my interest in their country—and adamant that theirs wouldn’t be the only Bosnian city I visited. “You must go...
Reflections in Beautiful Bosnia
By Robert Schrader on October 4, 2016 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Europe, Featured, Photos
It wasn’t until we pulled away from Bosnia’s border with Croatia that the casual pace at which she redistributed the passports began to wear at me. That, and the fact that her bleached hair and yellowed-white...
How & Where To Spend Your Time in the Balkans
By Robert Schrader on September 30, 2016 in Belgrade, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Europe, Montenegro, Photos, Serbia
Need help planning your trip to the Balkans? Let's look at the options. CROATIA Croatia has been on my travel radar since about 2008, when my Austin friends and I used to get high and daydream about...
Culture, Heritage & Historical Sites of Sarajevo Bosnia
By Jessica Tiare Bowen on September 19, 2014 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Photos, Sarajevo
I recently returned from Sarajevo, Bosnia and while it wasn’t the first time I have been there, this time since I went with my hubby and in-laws, all of whom haven’t been back to their...
This Year's Bosnian Herzegovinian Film Festival
By Jessica Tiare Bowen on May 12, 2014 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Events, Festivals, Photos, Sarajevo
Recently, I spent several hours immersed in the language at the 11th Annual Bosnian Herzegovinian Film Festival.This year’s festival screened 16 films in the categories of feature, short, and documentary, which were chosen from 33...
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Censuses From Heaven
We are very fortunate in this country to have one of, if not the, best census bureaus on the planet. The U.S. Congress doesn't always understand the importance of census data, as I noted yesterday, but a lot of other people do, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been funding a study to use satellite imagery to create estimates of population in countries like Nigeria where census-taking has a pretty rough history. Back in 2013 I blogged about the WorldPop project that Andy Tatem at the University of Southampton in the U.K. had just organized, and he is also involved in this more detailed project, as outlined today in a news story in Nature.
Nigerian health officials won’t have to rely on flawed, decade-old census data when they plan deliveries of the measles vaccine next year. Instead, they will have access to what may be the most detailed and up-to-date population map ever produced for a developing country.
The Gates Foundation began its mapping project after encountering problems while distributing polio vaccines in Nigeria: millions of doses would be sent to areas where they weren’t needed and would disappear, while other areas suffered shortages. The foundation teamed up with researchers at Oak Ridge and the University of Southampton, UK, in 2013 to produce the first high-resolution maps of Nigeria’s northern states. The group completed those in 2015, and next month it group will make public its first country-wide map.
The plot reveals villages that weren’t included in Nigeria’s most recent census, in 2006, and shows that many urban areas are more populated than the census data indicated, says Vince Seaman, an epidemiologist and interim deputy director of data and analytics for global develop-ment at the Gates Foundation. “This has the potential to change the whole game,” he says. “For all of the different vaccines in Nigeria, it could save US$1 billion in a space of a few years.”
The scale is much grander, but this is the same type of work that I and my colleagues have been doing since 1998, first in Egypt, and more recently in Ghana. Indeed, the image below from the Gates project in Nigeria could easily be mistaken for some that we have created for Accra, the capital of Ghana.
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Whighams is steeped in history and was originally the kitchen and wine cellars for a traditional townhouse once occupied by Earl Haig. Over time, the cellars evolved as a wholesale wine merchant, bottling from wooden barrels for many years, supplying wine to Edinburgh’s gentry from the prestigious Charlotte Square in Edinburgh’s New Town.
The history of decision to construct the New Town was taken by the city fathers in 1766, after overcrowding inside the Old Town city walls reached breaking point and to prevent an exodus of wealthy citizens from the city to London. A design competition was held in January 1766 to find a suitably modern layout for the new suburb which was won by 26 year old James Craig. Today, the New Town remains a gem in Edinburgh’s crown and locals and visitors continue to be in awe of the stunning and imposing architecture throughout our streets.
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The Ok (Dog) trecena: July 23-Aug. 4, 2016
Posted by Marguerite Paquin in Entertainers, Trecena Horoscopes, World Events, World leaders
True to form, the past 13 days have been HIGHLY eventful, with significant “movement” on many levels, from the sudden transfer of leadership in the U.K. on 4 Ajaw, to the attempted military coup in Turkey and the extraordinary firing of tens of thousands of people, to the stupefying nomination of Donald Trump at the Republication Convention in the U.S. and the cementing of the extreme chasm in both that party and that country as a whole because of it.
One striking contrast can be seen in the fact that Trump’s bombastic acceptance speech two days ago was delivered precisely one 260-day cycle after the historic swearing in last year of Justin Trudeau as Canada’s new Prime Minister, and the appointment of his new cabinet. That marked the beginning of a whole new “ball game” in terms of the governance of Canada, and the revamping of Canada’s role on the world stage. And now, as this new trecena begins, the question of the implications of the Trump nomination looms large.
So this brings us to the Ok (Dog) trecena, traditionally associated with Love, Loyalty, Warmth, Guidance, and so much more. Originally the first day of this trecena was celebrated as an ancient feast day of renewal, oriented around the idea of guidance, justice, and the restoration of life. Thought of as being under the influence of Xipe Tótec, the Lord of Renewal, and Quetzalcóatl, Lord of Life, this is a time when a new sense of direction in conjunction with the energies of renewal come into play. This was specifically symbolized by Xipe Tótec who was generally depicted wearing a flayed skin, symbolic of the “sloughing off” of the old and the bursting forth of the new.
John F. Kennedy stamp. It is intriguing that there is a torch on this stamp, reflective of a key symbol for this Ok trecena, as this is the trecena during which Kennedy was inaugurated, and during which he was assassinated. His state funeral was held at the mid point of this trecena, four Tzolk’in cycles less a day after his inauguration. Photo Credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (U.S. Post Office) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
One of the key symbols associated with this time frame is a dog holding a torch, bringing light into the darkness and showing the way. Sometimes associated with fire as well, the energy that kicks off this trecena is correlating at this time with a weather phenomenon called a “heat dome” over some 26 U.S. states, with that dome being a stretch of hot, humid weather that “sits” over an area for an extended period of time. Those areas as well as parts of eastern Canada are experiencing blistering triple digit temperatures in many places, making this “fire” aspect particularly prominent at this time. Nevertheless, the energy of Ok was traditionally seen as a symbol of comfort and direction, which, as has happened many times in the past, is greatly needed in the context of recent events.
In terms of the situation in the U.S., many people are now desperately trying to find some light in the context of the darkness and viciousness of the presidential race, particularly given the developments over the past few days. Some may find it in the context of the Democratic National Convention that will unfold in Philadelphia in the early part of this trecena. And coinciding with the second day of this four-day convention is a highly significant energy that, in the past, has been very consequential to the world at large. And once again the timing for that is intriguing. This is the day known as 4 B’en, which comes in on July 26th, precisely 1313 days after the end of the 13th B’aktun on Dec. 21st, 2012, and the start of this whole new era.
Cover of the official report of the 1896 Athens Summer Olympics, which opened during this trecena. Public Domain via WIkimedia Commons.
In 1963 this was the energy in place at the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Eleven cycles ago it was in place at the time of the massive bank failure in the U.S. So here we are precisely one Calendar Round (52 years) plus one Tzolk’in cycle after Kennedy’s assassination, with the energy of that day falling on the second day of the DNC, at a time when legions of people are once again looking for comfort and guidance. Will the “establishment”, which Hillary Clinton represents, provide that comfort and direction, or will the fallout from the RNC take over?
One thing to keep in mind is that, as always, there are two sides to everything, and – as it happens – in the past this trecena has also provided a great deal of hope for many. One hundred and twenty years ago that same 4 B’en energy coincided with the opening of the first international Olympics of the modern era, in Athens. In 1976 this trecena saw the roll-out of the space shuttle Enterprise, the first test shuttle of the space shuttle series, which significantly opened the door to new explorations in space. In 2000 this 4 B’en energy found Pope John Paul II asking forgiveness for the sins of Catholics throughout the ages. During a public Mass of Pardon, the Pope said that “Christians…have violated the rights of ethnic groups and peoples, and shown contempt for their cultures and religious traditions…”, which was a monumental declaration.
Roll-out of the Space Shuttle Enterprise at the mid point of this trecena in 1976. The cast members of the Star Trek television series were in attendance. Photo Credit: NASA, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
And in terms of speeches, one of the most memorable in the U.S. came on the eighth day of this trecena in 1961 at the time of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration as president, when he delivered his famous “Ask not what your country can do …..” address.
Some of the boats used in the extraordinary evacuation of Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, through much of this trecena in 1940. Photo Credit: Colin Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
And we can never forget the monumental “miracle of deliverance” that unfolded 76 years ago from the fifth to the thirteenth days within this time frame. During that nine day period over 800 boats of all shapes and sizes embarked on Operation Dynamo, the extraordinary rescue of nearly 340,000 allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France when they were trapped by the German army. It was a seemingly impossible situation that was turned around by the unselfish involvement of ordinary citizens who leaped into the breach to save the lives of all those men who were cornered in a hellish situation.
So what role might “ordinary folks” play at this time? If appropriate and trustworthy leadership is lacking what happens next? It is a question being asked in many, many places – as in the U.S., Turkey, France, Venezuela, Brazil, etc., etc. – in many, many ways at the present time.
What can we do to make the best of the Ok trecena? What can we do to bring in more light and sanity? Perhaps a good place to start would be to conjure up the metaphors provided by the patrons of this time frame – Xipe Tótec, the Lord of Renewal, and Quetzalcóatl, the great embodiment of Life.
This would be an opportune time to reflect on things that might need to be “sloughed off” so that renewal can take place. Are there any thoughts, feelings or actions that are no longer working for you? Are there any thoughts, feelings or actions that can be brought forth to counter the confusion and instability that is currently in place? Any means at all that can emphasize the light, to show the way through the darkness, would be helpful. Remember Dunkirk!! It was a seemingly impossible rescue but it was done! Even the smallest boat helped to save lives! As this “sloughing off”/renewal process gets underway these are the energies that will come into play:
1 Ok (July 23rd) – the “initiation of love, warmth, guidance” – an energy that can be seen as having an ability to shine light on things previously unseen; an ancient Maya Feast Day of Renewal but at the moment predicted to be in place at the peak of the “heat dome”
2 Chuwen (July 24th) – a dynamic type of energy traditionally aligned with creativity, and often involving some kind of “intense heat”. As this is a solar force within a fire-oriented time frame, this energy can trigger intense action. Maya birth energy of the long-running broadcast journalist Morley Safer who died on May 19th at age 84; closing of Comic-Con International 2016.
Pete Townshend performing with The Who in 2008. Photo Credit: Kubackeck [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
3 Eb’ (July 25th ) – the activation of “animated vitality”, a pathfinding/stream-of-consciousness type of force, coinciding at this time with the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Also the Maya birth energy of legendary musician Pete Townshend.
4 B’en (July 26th) – a “defining” energy associated with personal authority; a highly consequential force in world history, as this was the energy in place at the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Coinciding with the midpoint of the Democratic Convention, this is the 1313th day after the end of the 13th B’aktun, the 13th day of Theresa May’s tenure as the new British P.M., and the 80th anniversary of the unveiling of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. It is also the 73rd Gregorian birthday for rock musician Mick Jagger who is currently expecting his eighth child.
5 Ix (July 27th) – a “blessing” or “precision” type of energy associated with mystery and transformation, as was in place at the opening of the Paris Peace Conference for negotiation of treaty settlements after World War I. Maya Calendar anniversary of the energy in place when the Dunkirk evacuation began during World War II.
6 Men (July 28th) – an “everywhere” type of energy associated with the high vision of the eagle, this time in conjunction with the last day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, at which time Hillary Clinton will deliver her acceptance speech as the Democratic nominee for President
7 Kib’ (July 29th) – a self-generating type of energy, often associated with an effort to restore order. The 40th anniversary of the roll-out of the space shuttle Enterprise, the first test shuttle of the space shuttle series.
The inauguration of John F. Kennedy on 8 Kab’an in 1961. Photo Credit: United States Army Signal Corps [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
8 Kab’an (July 30th) – a “resurrection” type of energy associated with “evolutionary” movement, coinciding at this time with Toronto’s huge Caribana parade involving over 16.000 brightly costumed participants. Tzolk’in anniversary of the energy in place at the time of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
9 Etz’nab’ (July 31st) – representative of “outwardly-projecting” flint, a “spark-oriented” (and even knife-edged) type of energy that can be quite dramatic and consequential, this time coinciding with Vancouver’s Gay Pride Parade and some of the main events of Toronto’s Carnival in the City
Fans dressed as Klingons at a Star Trek Convention in 2007. The opening of the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention takes place during this trecena. Photo Credit: Eric (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
10 Kawak (Aug. 1st) – “foundational storm” – an energy associated with intense catalyzation that can manifest in major energy pushes or strong weather systems. Civic Holiday for several Canadian provinces.
11 Ajaw (Aug. 2nd) – an “inspirational sun” or “inspirational enlightenment” Burner Day, coinciding at this time with the New Moon. In 2011 this was the energy in place when the price of gold rose to an unprecedented $1743/oz. on the same day as the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 solar flare.
The extraordinary Tony Bennett in 2012. He celebrates his 90th birthday during this current trecena. Photo Credit: David Becker (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
12 Imix (Aug. 3rd) – a “gathering together” type of force oriented around new beginnings (often “cosmic”), this time coinciding with the opening of the Star Trek 50th anniversary convention in Las Vegas and legendary singer Tony Bennett’s 90th Gregorian birthday
13 Ik’ (Aug. 4th) – transformational wind, breath, and spirit – Maya anniversary of the energy in place during the final day of the enormous Dunkirk rescue operation in 1940.
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Manhattan-based soprano by way of Westchester County, Victoria Miningham, is a professional opera singer and entrepreneur with the ambition to share her passion of classical music with her.
Welcome to Major Themes, a monthly feature in which classical music experts recommend a must-hear recording. conducted by Donald Nally. This album, inspired by Buxtehude’s oratorio Membra Jesu.
Sheet Music Download is a site dedicated to all amateur music performers around the world, giving them the opportunity to download the sheet music for free for trial purposes. It’s completely free, have fun and don’t forget: If you like the piece of music you have just learned playing, treat the artist with respect, and go buy the original sheet music: this is the way to support them!
How has classical music inspired popular music? What are the tunes that have been nicked from the classic composers? Here’s Trevor Chappell with Overnights ‘Maestro’ Scott Speck, who is co-author of.
FORT WORTH — Novels inspired both works on Friday night’s Fort Worth Symphony. I did wish that supertitles had been provided to articulate the nine sections of the work. Formerly classical music.
Together they explore the works of composers who were inspired by Jazz in this. the much-loved ‘Cafe Music ‘ by Paul Schoenfield, Fazil Say’s effervescent ‘Space Jump ‘ and the Haydn ‘Gypsy Trio’.
Bella Musica Thursday April 4 at King Family Vineyards. You’re invited to Bella Musica, a gala benefiting the Charlottesville Symphony on Thursday, April 4, 6:00pm, at.
By popular demand, Steve Balbi strides to the crease and takes guard for the first time in 2019, at the Camelot Lounge on Friday 15 March! The year 2018 was momentous for composer, performer and producer, Steve Balbi, for so many reasons.
In preparation for the 2019 Juno Awards, which are coming up on Sunday, March 17, we’ve been analyzing the four classical music categories. visual novel-style video game. inspired by wuxia.
Animated talking stories for children, story songs, sing-along songs, educational games, puzzles, poetry and activities that help teach kids to read.
There are few people in the UK who have done as much to make classical music popular as Debbie Wiseman. As the composer of more than 200 scores for films and television, her music has been enjoyed by.
"I wanted to be a classical. Music Educator Award finalist won a Teacher of Excellence Award from the Country Music Assn. Foundation on Monday. The honor includes a trip to Nashville in late April.
On Saturday night, though, Chamber Music International presented pianist Joyce Yang and. the first the composer’s subsequent deconstruction of its elements. Said to be inspired by O’Grady’s photos.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ("Main Title") [YouTube clip at that link], composed by Frank Skinner, captures both the chills and the laughs of the classic film that drops the immortal comedic duo into the horrors of the Universal monster franchise. Skinner’s wonderful score for this 1948 film was given a Halloween tribute by conductor William Stromberg and the Golden State Pops.
The Harry Potter Concert Saturday, June 1 at the Paramount. Grab your wand and join Harry, Ron and Hermione at Platform 9 ¾ to board the Hogwarts Express for a.
League Of Legends Worlds 2019 Orchestra The League of Legends. Worlds 2018 can only bolster an already thriving LoL esports scene, even as it enters its ninth competitive season. LoL seems set for even more growth in the coming year, so. Tag Team / Stable Members Tag Team Finisher #1 Tag Team Finisher #2 The Authors of Pain Akam and Rezar
During her days as a graduate student at Indiana University, New Voices Opera performed her Poe-inspired work as a world. different background influences in my music," she says. "I didn’t grow up.
This is where you’ll find human beings playing, signing and dancing with rock, jazz, hip hop, acoustic, classical, county and more music at local bars, clubs, music halls, universities and concert hall venues in Buffalo and WNY.
The Civitas Ensemble released its inner Roma in a unique meeting of classical and Romani cultural traditions Sunday at the Merit School of Music. Two years in the. found common cause in a program.
Enjoy an evening of great entertainment. We are proud to be on DownBeat Magazine’s Top 100 Jazz Clubs in the World! From jazz, Broadway and cabaret to world music and classical, we have been entertaining you since 1965 in our unique and intimate venue.
Secret Signs is inspired by the title of a poem by Alexander Blok. a new kind of artistic experience is created out of the group’s strong framework of classical, folk and contemporary music.
WW016: The Classical Woodwind Cadenza, A Workbook by David Lasocki & Betty Bang Mather. McGinnis & Marx, 1979, SS, 60 pages. This workbook is designed to involve the performer of eighteenth-century woodwind music in the composition of classical cadenzas.
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Lebanon’s Solid Waste Manager Wins Award
Lebanon NH – Congratulations to Marc Morgan, Lebanon’s Solid Waste Manager, for his well-deserved receipt of the “2019 Environmental Stewardship Award” from New Hampshire the Beautiful. Morgan’s knowledge and dedication have made him an asset to the community and New England Region.
New Hampshire the Beautiful Inc. Is a profit non profit charitable trust founded in 1983 that develops comprehensive programs to address litter issues, recycling challenges, environmental awareness and education.
Lebanon City Clerk’s Office Temporarily Short-Staffed
Lebanon NH – Due to extenuating circumstances, the City Clerk’s office will be short-staffed until early August. And with Summer being our busiest season, you may experience longer than usual wait times in our office or on the phone. Therefore, if you do not have transactions that require you to appear in-person, we suggest you consider conducting your business through the mail or online.
Payments and requests can also be left in our green drop box, located at the side entrance to City Hall. Please do not leave cash in the drop box and be sure to enclose your transaction in an envelope to keep everything together. The drop box is checked at the beginning of each business day.
To better help you complete your transactions in a timely manner, here are some helpful tips and suggestions:
Motor Vehicle Renewals: Can be renewed through the mail or online. (If paying online, it is free to use your checking account, however, there is a 2.95% processing fee for using a card.) If renewing in-person, please bring your renewal notice or previous registration as well as your photo ID. If paying by check, it is helpful to have your check already completed.
New Vehicle Registrations: It is recommended that you plan for your visit, to ensure you have everything you need to complete your registration. Ourwebsite has a lot of great information about the documents and procedures required to register a vehicle for the first time. You can also call or email our office for further guidance.
Motor Vehicle Estimates: Our new online toolallows you to obtain an estimate for a new (or new-to-you) vehicle registration! When we are short staffed we are not always available to provide phone estimates. This is a great way to obtain an estimate quickly and efficiently. Please note, our online tool does not provide amounts for renewals or transferring of plates.
Vital Records: Certified copies of birth, marriage, death and divorce can be purchased through the mail or online. If coming in-person, please feel free to download and complete a formin advance, to save time when you arrive at our office.
Dogs: Dog license renewals can be processed onlineor through the mail using your last year’s tag number; new dogs can only be licensed through the mail or in-person. If you would just like to update rabies information, report that you have moved out of Lebanon or report that you no longer own a dog, please send an email to cityclerk@lebanonnh.gov.
Landfill Tickets: These must be purchased in-person; however, you do not need to wait in the City Clerk’s office line. You may go directly to the Water Department or Tax Collector window (The last two windows located at the end of the counter) to obtain tickets. Both of our Libraries also sell Landfill Tickets
Hartford Police Seek Public’s Help with Preventing Thefts, Identifying Suspects
Hartford, Vermont, Tuesday, May 8, 2019 – Police were dispatched late yesterday to a private residence along the 100 block of Hollow Drive for a theft of several thousand dollars of firearms taken from a vehicle that had been left parked for several days while the owner traveled. All but one of those firearms were recovered yesterday when Massachusetts State Police Troopers and investigators, and the Holyoke Police arrested 32 year old Timothy Keith of White River Junction and 33 year old Phillip Damone of Grantham, New Hampshire when the two attempted to exchange the firearms for drugs and cash. For more information, see: mspnews.org/2019/05/illegally-possessed-firearms-and-narcotics-seized-in-joint-effort-in-holyoke/
During their investigation yesterday, Hartford Police spoke with several residents along Hollow Drive and learned that thieves had entered at least two other unlocked vehicles and removed loose change overnight between Monday the 5th and Tuesday morning the 6th. This is the third occurrence reported in the past two weeks in the Wilder Village area where thieves have removed loose change, a purse, and barber tools from vehicles parked overnight. Residents are reminded to roll-up car windows, lock car doors and remove valuables from sight when leaving vehicles unattended. Also, residents are asked to report unfamiliar vehicles and persons roaming neighborhoods and parking lots during the late evening and early morning hours by calling 911. Anyone with information about these incidents, or anyone who still needs to make a report to police is asked to contact the Hartford Police Department at 802-295-9425. The investigation continues…
Canaan Man Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Child Porn
CONCORD NH – Zachary A. C. Benoit, 28, of Canaan, was sentenced to 156 months in prison for transportation and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in the summer of 2017, the Grafton County Sheriff’s Department was conducting an online investigation into individuals involved in the trading of illegal images of child pornography. Benoit was identified after he uploaded numerous images of child sexual abuse, which were intercepted by law enforcement. Forensic examinations of several of Benoit’s electronic devices revealed thousands of images and videos depicting the sexual assaults of children including babies and toddlers.
Benoit previously pleaded guilty on November 7, 2018.
“It is critical that we safeguard children from being exploited on the internet” said U.S. Attorney Murray. “To that end, we will continue to allocate substantial resources to stopping the distribution of these terrible images in New Hampshire. In conjunction with our law enforcement partners, we will prioritize the investigation and prosecution of offenses involving child pornography.”
“This is a very appropriate sentence in light of the truly disturbing facts of this case” said Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in Boston. “The successful prosecution of this individual could not have happened without the close coordination that we share with our very dedicated New Hampshire law enforcement partners, and with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, whose work in this case was invaluable.”
This matter was investigated by the Grafton County Sheriff’s Department, Lebanon Police Department, Nashua Police Department, members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen W. Fitzgibbon.
In February 2006, the Department of Justice introduced Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorney’s Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Update- Quechee Man Charge with Domestic Assault Shot by Officer
Hartford Vt – Vermont State Police identify trooper in officer-involved shooting
HARTFORD, Vermont (May 6, 2019) — The Vermont State Police is identifying the member involved in this incident as Trooper Eric Vitali of the Royalton Barracks. He was hired in 2005 and initially assigned to the Rockingham Barracks. He transferred to the Westminster Barracks in 2016 and the Royalton Barracks in 2018.
Preliminary investigation shows that James Luce was armed with a shotgun, which he had just used to fire at the home located on Quechee West Hartford Road in Hartford, while he was moving away from Hartford, Vermont, and Lebanon, New Hampshire, police officers and toward members of the Vermont State Police. Luce was ordered by state police to drop the firearm and not pick it up again, but when he failed to comply, Trooper Vitali responded by firing his shotgun one time, grazing Luce. He received minor abrasions and was treated and released from Mount Ascutney Hospital.
The investigation by Vermont State Police into the officer-involved shooting is ongoing. No further information is available at this time.
Quechee Man Charged with Domestic Assault
Police have updated the information. 19-year-old-James Luce is from Quechee VT not White River Junction VT.
Hartford, Vermont – Police charged 19 year old James Luce of White River Junction with 1st Degree Aggravated Domestic Assault, Aggravated Assault, Reckless Endangerment, and Resisting Arrest overnight as a result of events that occurred at the residence located at 4536 Quechee West Hartford Road.
Just after 7:00 PM Sunday night, Hartford Police were dispatched to 4536 Quechee West Hartford Road for a domestic assault where the suspect was alleged to have a shotgun in his possession. While in route to the home, police received updated information that the man had fired the shotgun at the house and fled on foot into the nearby woods. Officers from Hartford and the Lebanon, New Hampshire, Police Department encountered a man armed with shotgun walking in the road near the residence. The man refused to comply with orders from the police officers but did not threaten anyone with the shotgun at that time. Shortly after, the man encountered Vermont State Police troopers who had responded to assist. The man again refused to comply with commands, and a state trooper fired at the suspect one time with a shotgun. The suspect continued to be non-compliant, and an electronic control device (Taser) was deployed to bring the man under control.
In accordance with procedure, Luce was assessed by paramedics at the scene, and taken by police to Mount Ascutney Hospital as a precaution. He sustained minor abrasions. No police officers or other individuals were injured during this incident.
The Vermont State Police Major Crime Unit is investigating the officer-involved shooting. Investigators from the Vermont State Police Crime Scene Unit are also assisting with the officer-involved shooting, and the domestic assault investigation. Luce is currently awaiting arraignment proceedings before the District Court for Windsor County early this afternoon. The investigation continues and further charges may be forthcoming.
Daytime Burglary Suspect Arrested in West Lebanon
Lebanon NH – On Friday April 26, 2019, shortly before 3:00 PM, a UPS delivery driver reported a suspicious male walking and approaching homes in a neighborhood off Seminary Hill, in West Lebanon. Lebanon officers were sent to investigate and given a description of the male suspect. A responding officer observed the suspect walking down Seminary Hill and attempted to contact him when the suspect took off running. A short foot chase ensued before the suspect was taken into custody on South Main St.
The male was identified as Marcello Terino, age 28, of White River Jct., VT. Terino was found to be in possession of various articles belonging to multiple residents from the West Lebanon neighborhood, where the suspicious behavior had been reported. Officers were able to determine that Terino had just burglarized a household while the residents were at work.
Terino was arrested and charged with Burglary, a Class B Felony, and resisting arrest or detention, a Class A Misdemeanor. The investigation is on-going, and further charges may still be pending. He was held at the Grafton County House of Corrections, without bail, and was scheduled to be arraigned on Monday April 29, 2019 at the Grafton County Superior Court.
Update Regarding January 27, 2019 Death in Lebanon
Concord, NH – New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Christopher J. Wagner, and Lebanon Police Chief Richard R. Mello announce the cause and manner of death has been determined for an adult female who died at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Susan Massey, age 67, of East Corinth, Vermont, was receiving treatment at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center when she died on January 27, 2019. The Lebanon Police, Department of Justice and the New Hampshire State Police were notified. It is not unusual for each agency to regularly receive reports of witnessed or unattended deaths that cannot quickly and easily be identified as a natural, accidental, or suicidal death. In this matter, the agencies were initially informed that there were concerns about the circumstances of Ms. Massey’s death, and an investigation ensued.
Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jennie V. Duval has now determined that Ms. Massey’s death was the result of complications of disease, and that her manner of death was natural.
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Flyadeal Confirms Cancellation of 737 Maxs
by Peter Shaw-Smith
- July 9, 2019, 2:01 PM
Flyadeal today shied away from acknowledging that two deadly crashes and a subsequent worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 Max fleet were the reasons behind its cancellation of an order for 30 of the Max 8, in the wake of an increased order for Airbus A320neos by the LCC’s parent, Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAA), at the Paris Airshow June 18.
Flyadeal on July 7 announced “significant growth to its fleet, with an order for 30 A320neo aircraft, and options for a further 20. This order will result in [our] operating an all-Airbus A320 fleet in the future. Deliveries of the Flyadeal aircraft will commence in 2021.” The press release did not refer to Boeing.
“[We have] nothing to add to our press release on [the] fleet,” CEO Con Korfiatis told AIN on July 9.
In November, Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the sea off Indonesia, while in March, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after takeoff from Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa. The two crashes resulted in 346 fatalities. The entire global 737 Max fleet was grounded three days later, when the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration became the last national agency to approve suspension of flights, due to concerns over the design of the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
Earlier this year, Flyadeal threatened to cancel an order for the 30 Boeing 737 Max 8s if clarity were not forthcoming on the status of the order with Boeing, when the groundings would end, and how updated software changes would restore the aircraft to airworthiness. On April 30, Korfiatis told AIN that a decision on whether to proceed with the Boeing order was “imminent.”
Flyadeal’s parent was quick to come to its aid in the midst of the uncertainty. SAA announced June 18 at the Paris Airshow that it had “reached an agreement to expand its existing purchase of A320 aircraft from 35 to 100 aircraft comprising a firm order of 65 [of the] A320neo family, plus options for a further 35.”
Boeing has almost 400 Max aircraft scheduled for delivery in the Middle East. “Boeing is proud of its seven-decade-long partnership with Saudi Arabia’s aviation industry and we wish the Flyadeal team well as it builds out its operations,” a Dubai-based Boeing spokesperson told AIN. “Our team continues to focus on safely returning the 737 Max to service and resuming deliveries of Max airplanes.”
Another major Middle East LCC hit by the grounding of the 737 Max, Flydubai, said in late April it might consider Airbus orders in future, even though it has operated a Boeing-only narrowbody fleet to date.
The FAA said June 26 it was “following a thorough process, not a prescribed timeline, for returning the Boeing 737 Max to passenger service.” On July 3, Boeing pledged $100 million in funds to address the family and community needs of those affected by the “tragic accidents” involving the two aircraft. Also June 26, the OEM conceded that the FAA had “identified an additional requirement during simulator sessions reviewing specific flight conditions and scenarios” that it would have to address.
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2019-07-09/flyadeal-confirms-cancellation-737-maxs
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Georgia Tech quarterback TaQuon Marshall rushed for 1,146 yards and passed for 927 in 2017, accounting for 27 touchdowns. Tech B-back KirVonte Benson rushed for 1,053 yards in 2017, averaging 5.2 yards per rush. Tech A-back Qua Searcy had 40 touches on offense in 2017, gaining 347 yards (8.7 yards per play). Tech A-back Clinton Lynch had 31 touches on offense in 2017, gaining 252 yards (8.1 yards per play). Tech A-back Nathan Cottrell averaged 8.2 yards per rush in 2017, gaining 271 yards. Tech B-back Jer
Georgia Tech has fifth-best offensive line in ACC
JuliaKate E. Culpepper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georiga Tech has the fifth-best offensive line in the ACC, according to a ranking on Facebook by ESPN’s David M. Hale.
The Tech offensive line — part of the Yellow Jackets’ triple-option offense — followed Boston College, Wake Forest, Clemson and NC State, respectively, on Hale’s list that was based on stats on returning starts courtesy of Phil Steele.
“We know, it's all about the system, right?” Hale wrote. “Sure, that's partially true. But last year, Georgia Tech effectively turned over its entire backfield, and yet the offense didn't miss a beat. That's a credit to Parker Braun and Co., who certainly benefit from a system geared toward success, but manage to execute that system well week in and week out.”
Below are Hale’s full rankings of the ACC’s best offensive lines:
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Georgia Tech linebacker Victor Alexander led the Yellow Jackets in tackles in 2017, with 60, and had two sacks. Tech linebacker Brant Mitchell recorded 51 total tackles in 2017, the second most among players returning for 2018. Tech linebacker Bruce Jordan-Swilling recorded 34 tackles as a freshman in 2017. Tech defensive end Anree Saint-Amour ranked second in sacks (2.5) and tackles for loss (5.5) in 2017. Tech defensive lineman Desmond Branch produced 3.5 tackles for loss in 2017, the third most on the
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Company Law Board (Qualifications, Experience and Other Conditions of Service of Members) Rules, 1993
7. Removal of Members from office in certain circumstances
The Central Government in consultation with the Chief Justice of India may remove from office any Member, who-
(a) has been adjudged an insolvent; or
(b) has been convicted of an offence which, in the opinion of the Central Government, involves moral turpitude; or
(c) has become physically or mentally incapable of acting as such Members; or
(d) has acquired such financial or other interest as is likely to affect prejudicially his functions as a Member; or
(e) has so abused his position as to render his continuance in office prejudicial to the public interest:
Provided that nothing contained in this rule shall apply to a Chairman who is Judge of a High Court:
Provided further that where a Member is proposed to be removed on any of the grounds specified in clauses (b) to (c), the Members shall be informed of the charges against him and given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges
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Gannett Investigates the Global Groundwater Crisis
A five-part series by Desert Sun reporter Ian James and USA Today photographer Steve Elfers.
By Richard Horgan
Over a period of eight months, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Desert Sun reporter Ian James and USA Today managing editor of multimedia Steve Elfers investigated a growing, global crisis: the depletion of the world’s groundwater. Today, their chastening five-part series continues in print with a focus on India.
Per the front-page annotations above, the series began with articles about California and the U.S. and concludes in print next weekend with looks at Peru and Morocco. All portions of the investigation are available online. From today’s India report:
Falling water tables and crushing burdens of debt have contributed to a growing sense of desperation in the western state of Maharashtra, where farmers have been committing suicide in large numbers. Some families have turned to chopping down trees on their land to sell off the wood. Many young people have given up farming and moved away to cities to look for work.
In large portions of India, from the plains that spread out below the Himalayas to the country’s southern plateau, water is being quickly drained from the ground and aquifers are rapidly declining. In some areas, government data show groundwater levels have dropped by an average of more than 30 feet since 2005…
Already in parts of India, people say water has become their biggest worry. The shortages have become so acute in some places that families have had to spend half the day or more searching for drinking water, walking for miles at a time.
The presentation of the series on the Web is stellar, with video, statistical data and navigation sidebars dividing each article into an introduction and titled chapters. Collectively titled “Pumped Dry,” this is reporting on a grand and sobering scale.
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Richard Horgan is co-editor of Fishbowl.
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Grad Guide
Capture the Genuine Journeys of Your Customers
Wed., April 24, 2019
Be a Lean Agency with Happier Employees (and Clients)
Take Personalization to New Places
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NIK SHARMA
Founder, Sharma Brands
22-year-old DTC Marketing Maven Nik Sharma Urges Brands to Keep it Simple
By Nick Gardner | July 1, 2019
At just 15 years old, Nik was already handling social strategy for celebrities like Pitbull and Priyanka Chopra. Now at age 22, he's already built up a long list of accomplishments. As the former Director of DTC at hint, Nik helped grow the brand's direct-to-consumer business which, in 2018, accounted for nearly 40% of their $100 million in sales. He's also previously built audiences for Complex Media, Bustle Media Group and Refinery 29 – and most recently served as Head of D2C for VaynerMedia. On this episode, Nik shares what he learned from those experiences, what he’s up to now and how DTC is more than just a business model, it’s a way of truly owning the customer experience. Listen in to hear which brands are killing it in direct-to-consumer marketing and truly resonating with Gen Z.
Heard on this Episode:
Adweek: What's one thing you've learned from leading DTC social strategies since the age of 15?
Nik Sharma: "A good DTC brand, their customers are their product planners for the future. They’ll tell you what they want from you. They’ll tell you what’s working, what’s not working, what they like and don’t like. Your customers are your best feedback loop of what to do next and how to go about it. A lot of times marketing gets so analytical and so numbers-focused like 'what's the sentiment analysis of this post?' It's just too much. And when marketing gets to a point where you're talking more about data and less about the experience to where your end consumer can't understand what you're talking about, then it's just not gonna work. It's just got to be super relatable and transparent."
What D2C brands or industries are resonating most with Gen Z?
"What I think is really interesting is telemedicine, like Hims, Hers, Roman, Rory, The Pill Club, Cureology, right? They're all creating these experiences where you don't have to interact with a doctor in person. You don't have to go out and stand in line at a pharmacy. You don't have to be embarrassed about going to a doctor and admitting an issue or a problem you have. I think that's going to be a huge space that takes off."
As a Gen Zer yourself, what would you say is working in marketing to Gen Z?
"If you can create content that's so good that they don't look like ads, you're going to win."
"It's just better storytelling, right? We never ran ads to a customer that hadn't seen us before that said, come try this, get 20% off, click here now. It was always how can we introduce this person to a story that gets them so invested that they personally want to try the brand? And that's been consistent across any brand I work with. It's just how do we create this desire from the consumer to want to try the brand rather than from the brand trying to sell something to the consumer. And there are many different ways to do it, but the best way to do it is just don't force a sale and make ads that don't necessarily look like ads. If you can create content that's so good that they don't look like ads, you're going to win."
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Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
2006, History - 93 min 45 Comments
Marie Antoinette, the young and beautiful Austrian princess who was strategically married into the most prestigious monarchy in Europe, was to become the symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century aristocracy and was to be France's last queen.
This is the story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French Revolution. It is also the tale of a fragile young woman struggling to find herself during one of the most turbulent moments in human history.
Filmed in France and Austria, with rare access to Versailles, Le Petit Trianon, and the Austro-Hungarian palaces of her youth, Marie Antoinette will tell the intensely human story of the often misunderstood monarch who was beheaded during the turbulence and horror of the French revolution.
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Nyhus - 04/30/2014 at 10:50
Good documentary, but i find it a little too pro Marie Antoinette. Killing her and her family might seem horrible to us, but i bet being a starving peasant, watching your children die off, and reading about her building her own little fantasy village because she was bored is worse.
They keep talking about her being a lot smarter then she was given credit, yet they defend her spending by saying she didnt know about how her people suffered. A smart queen would at some moment during her life have inquired about the french populous, of that i have no doubt. So either she was stupid, or she really did not care about the starving people outside her walls. Either way, non excusable, and her being punished was not a tragedy. Her son being left do die in jail, on the other hand. Thats horrible. No child should ever go through that.
Chloetsundere - 08/11/2015 at 20:03
Her attitude was misunderstood as she does care about the people.. But never showed it. She was generous yet no one knew.
And I dont entirely blaim her spendings and attitude,not saying it is right but she is just very spoiled and used to the way it goes there.. Which was just saying what you want and you get it one way or another.. It is like playing with toys but veeery expensive "toys". No good advisors either all corrupt.. Wasnt only her but the entire monarchy.. Tho it should have done differently but well message was clearly given..
Plus women were just there to produce kids and look all neat and tidy doing nothing.. I think it wasnt her fault as she had no saying in this eventho it seemed like she had a great luxorious life.
Its an empty luxorious life she never chose to be in anyways as she still loved her own country, austria but was forced to marry.
HMan570 - 03/21/2014 at 01:24
Had the world not gone thru a a small ice age at that time things would have been much differant. People didn't understand about things as we do today. Neither the King or she had the education to lead a nation. Louis XVI did good for the United States and had they not done so I think the out come of our begining would have turned out much differantly. I have most of the books and CD's with all the documentary's that have been
A MFM - 03/14/2014 at 00:40
She was no hero. How about doing a documentary on one of the people who starved to death when she was feasting and gambling? This obsession with aristocracy, and there counterparts in the U.S., the Wall Street Billionaires, perpetuates their existence. We want to be them, until we become the second course at their dinner table. The violence perpetrated on the aristocracy was wrong, but what can you expect from starved, uneducated citizens?
morsie2 - 03/19/2013 at 13:42
A well-made documentary. Very interesting had me entranced. Perhaps we should blame the pamphleteers - the media of the time!
qzqzqz - 09/30/2012 at 18:33
there ought to be docu's like this on all the main school history subjects.
and have them in the right order.era colour coded as a proper set,and compulsory viewing in schools..history is so dull in books.this is a better story than most so called fiction entertainment..and its all true.
I for one,have learned more history from this doc site than ever i did at school.
Merly Costa - 05/27/2014 at 02:47
There's no such thing as "it is all true". There are many things that are not registered in documents and documentary films have their own agenda and are manipulative. I suggest you watch (and read) everything with a critical eye. But I'm glad you liked it. It is indeed a good documentary.
bringmeredwine - 09/28/2012 at 02:13
A very interesting doc, full of details I never knew before.
But part 5 never loaded for me, which was so disappointing!
Albie Farinas - 09/15/2012 at 02:57
She had a lovely run and in the end death waits for us all....
1l2eo3 - 06/13/2012 at 02:41
if they would have drove an old beat up bucket they would have made to Austria. Oh well hind sight is always 20/20
Symone Moses - 05/18/2012 at 05:08
I can't help but feel sorry for Marie because she was going into a country by herself without anyone else from her homeland except for Count Mercy to help guide her after being born and raised in Austria. I also can't help but feel a little bit sad for the way she treated France before and during the French Revolution.
Connie Buckley Smith - 03/19/2012 at 08:48
Ah the French!!!
Angela Velazquez - 11/15/2011 at 03:42
very nice documentary. worth watching. historically accurate. Definitely sympathetic to Marie Antionette.
lullajah - 11/14/2011 at 06:35
heart-touching. a real masterpiece.
Yusiley S - 10/20/2011 at 23:27
I feel bad for Marie Antoinette. She was a byproduct of her society. Also be fair, she was a woman and at that time women had the same status as a house or the chair one sat on. Yea... she was Queen of France and lived better than the poor, but don;t mistake that with having the power to control a nation. After all, the fact still remain... she was a woman during the late-1700s. She wasn't given the same power and authority as the men within her courts. She was just there to produce hairs for the King and for appearance of Frances' power. There wasn't much she can do for her people, even if she wanted to. The people of France at that time overlooked at that fact. They forgot that women at that time couldn't speak up and it didn't matter of their husbands' status they were still factories to make babies and couldn't possibly be responsible with what happened to the country...that was ALL on the MEN!!!! Men were the ones making and enforcing the laws of society and how it ought to be conducted at that time period. Therefore the people should had just punished the repugnant, over-privileged, aristocratic men, and left the women and children alone.
candyflippin - 06/26/2011 at 20:25
this doesnt take place too long after the Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom
Anu Ferro - 06/04/2011 at 10:44
That would never happen to a ferro...they knew how to retain power...unfortunately (for them) the stream of change is sometimes even too powerful for them to resist. It happens, its called novelty or newness. The event horizon is near...thats why people everywhere...
Jane Doe - 09/22/2011 at 03:42
"a ferro" LMFAO!!
Layla Phelps - 05/17/2011 at 02:33
Oh and treason??? For what? Remaining true to the country she was born into? And having an affair? Woopty do. Prince Charles had affairs but he wasn't punished.
beautybelle29 - 05/25/2012 at 18:36
i agree...and on the other hand she has done nothing wrong to the country...the punishment is not right...i pity for her children,they lost their parents at a young age and in a very horrible situation...i can't help but cry for the death of her son inside the prison cell...they're just but children and knew nothing about the whole situation...huh!!
I don't think her death was justified! All because the poor wanted to be their own rulers? We have that here and its not all its cracked up to be. My neighbor is right maybe we do need a monarchy instead of a democracy.
yeah? you'd be first to go if you're on that side of the fence, this isnt a democracy
Sorry, but I like to live in society that I make my own decision in what I want to be and not have my life be dictated by society all because of my parents' socioeconomic status. In a monarchical society, your status is determined by what your parents and grandparents did and not by your own personal gifts and talents. Seriously, I rather have the status that I have now as a teacher for children with special needs than being a serf or peasant any day. I moved up the latter by freewill, rather than be stuck into poverty because society said so. I helped myself and my parents through my own determination and talent. I would never have that opportunity living in a monarchical society. Do a careful research on the historical aspect of monarchical society before posting such bogus comment that retards our species progress. We may still have a long way to go before we can regard ourselves as a true superior species, but we're far more evolved than our great, great, great, grand parents ever were when it came to the ways of determining our own path and future.
Darren Malin - 12/21/2011 at 21:02
Strange I live in a monarchy and live in another yet I have made my own way just as you have.
Hodd - 07/14/2012 at 01:38
No, all because the poor didn't much like having no privileges or rights and realized how they were being treated. It was these movements in history that brought all the rights and freedoms we have today. You do realize a monarch is the same as a dictator?
mark gaboury - 04/15/2011 at 03:56
Horrific, touching, and tragic. What an interesting woman! And I like all the French clips of excellent speakers. It gives this doc the right tone. This is a masterpiece documentary.
0zyxcba1 - 04/11/2011 at 09:30
If the Bastille could be stormed, why not then the Federal Reserve?
far - 04/11/2011 at 22:08
it will be one day....... by the Mexicans...... they would need farms of automated guillotines running around the clock to cleans the US of their Bourgeoisie..... Start with the Federal Reserve and Wall Street, then Washington, then Hollywood and finally Malls...
...sounds good to me (lol)!...but why especially does it have to be "by the Mexicans?"
davenportplay - 04/10/2011 at 18:11
Great doc for sure.
RiverAsUsual - 04/10/2011 at 08:53
(@far) Actually, Marie Antoinette washed daily, but almost everyone else in France washed more like once a week or less.
MA was actually looked upon as strange for bathing so often.
However recent studies have shown that the possible reason for the dramatic rise in allergies in the world are due to the human race being too clean and immune systems aren't building up resistance to allergens etc. (See recently added Horizon documentary: Allergy Planet)
So you can look at it from either viewpoint.
"Despite the opulence of the palaces of France, they lacked indoor plumbing. ... it was not uncommon to find human excrement in the elegant carpeted stairways of the great palaces. Piles could be found in hallways and corridors. With bathing a rarity..."
"Marie Antoinette ....never bathed, seldom changed clothes, and was around people who were actually less hygienic than she was."
Guest - 04/11/2011 at 00:04
There was a neat little book, The Clean on Dirt by Katherine Ashenburg, published a few years back on this very topic; it was fascinating... in a grubby sort of way..... ; )))
Hexotica - 04/14/2011 at 04:00
I've visited her bathing chambers in Versailles so I don't see how that could be true...
Marie A. bathed everyday, whole websites on her bathing practices. Seldom changed clothes?? then why did she buy all those dresses?? And yes, was around people much less hygienic than she.
Seaton McClellan - 11/17/2012 at 18:02
It`s interesting that you did not source your quotes, and when I googled them it seems that the only person who has ever your quotes.......well, was you.
Very interesting doc.
The paintings show all that pomp, grandeur and romance but we know from hygiene habits of the time they must have smelled like pigs!
This documentary shows much of what happened in public but aristocrats at the time where worse then they are now.
I am sure those unflattering pamphlets had more truth to them then anyone would admit.
crstlsnowflake - 04/09/2011 at 15:54
Thank you for obtaining the video! It was great!
esmuziq & frames - 04/09/2011 at 13:04
pulunco - 04/09/2011 at 11:30
Eloquent little documentary. Try it on if you are interested in this time period.
Sieben Stern - 04/09/2011 at 09:52
the last three minutes of this video tries really hard to redeem the first hour and fifty seven minutes. as interesting as it was, i have little pity for the 'poor little rich girl' that this docu portrays. did she suffer? i can't say she didn't, but not in the way that her lifestyle and that of her caste created for the poor and the serfs with their opulence.
if the people are starving and so crushed by the upper echelon of their hierarchal society that they lose their own humanity to lust for blood (more than just dethroning the royalty and creating a republic) then there was suffering greater than we can understand.
Yes, same with the Russian Revolution. Seems a percentage of this species never learns. However, it does say a lot for most humans; they're pretty content until pushed over the limit. Speaking of which.... I think we are off for another run..... sigh...
Lynsey - 07/11/2011 at 21:40
Well, like with the Russian Revolution, I don't think the children of the rulers should be forced to pay the mistakes of their parents. They had little or no control over the state of their parents' empires, and yet MA's little son and Nicholas II's five children were unjustly murdered through no fault of their own.
i can't help but cry watching the last 2 parts of the doc...i have 2 children...a mother can understand another mother...i pity for her children...cruelty is not the answer to solve political crises...they're just a family loving each other like any other simple families...that should not happen
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Questions for the Author of "Rules of Thumb"
An interview with witty and wise author Alan M. Webber on his new book, “Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths For Winning At Business Without Losing Y
Laurel Delaney
An interview with witty and wise author Alan M. Webber on his new book, “Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths For Winning At Business Without Losing Your Self”.
Allow me to get this off my chest right off the bat. I have had a major intellectual crush on Alan M. Webber ever since he wrote a gem of a book called “Going Global,” which was light years ahead of its time on the subject of globalization (published a decade earlier than Thomas Friedman’s classic bestselling book “The World Is Flat”). Ever since then, I have both admired and deeply respected Alan’s work from afar. Considered one of the brightest minds, you’ll understand why after you read his interview.
For those of you who are hearing about Alan for the first time, he is former editor and co-founder of Fast Company Magazine, former editorial director and managing editor of the Harvard Business Review, a columnist and author of a new book, “Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths For Winning At Business Without Losing Your Self.” It is hands down one of the best and wisest business books I have ever read. Alan doesn’t believe in spin for the sake of spin to get the word out on his book. If he did, it would have hit the best-seller list overnight. Instead, he relies on folks like me to tell the truth and slowly put the good word in. That said, if I had a bottomless piggybank, I would gift this book to everyone I know so they could reflect on it and become a better and wiser person. It’s a must-read.
I set out to ask Alan critical questions relating to how his book came about. Here’s our interview:
Question: Why did you write “Rules of Thumb”?
Webber: I wrote “Rules of Thumb” after giving a speech to a CEO and his executive team on leadership. At the end of the speech, the CEO asked his team to name one person in America with "moral leadership" — the kind of person you'd follow based on their character and life-view. The entire room was silent for about 5 minutes. No one could think of a single name — not in business, government, or organized religion. When I got home from that, I realized that we all need to be moral leaders, and that we need to devise a way to create a conversation about the kind of future we want to create together. “Rules of Thumb” is my invitation to that conversation.
Question: Who did you write it for?
Webber: I wrote it for my children, of course, and also for anyone who is looking to learn, to teach, to grow, and to perform as a leader and a person during this time of enormous uncertainty and transition.
Question: What's the gist of it?
Webber: I suppose the gist of it is that we all need to pay attention to the new rules of work and life; that the world is changing and we are all responsible for how it changes — and to guide our own lives, our companies, our families, and our communities in a direction that makes sense, that works, that has positive results, and that is sustainable.
Question: What will readers learn from reading the book?
Webber: Readers will learn how I see the world; how to begin to see the world for themselves with fresh eyes; some things about leadership, creativity, innovation, that could help them as they find their own way in the world.
Question: If there is one rule of thumb you had to live by, what would it be and why?
Webber: Rule #52, the last one I wrote tells us all to pay attention — there are teachers everywhere. If we pay attention to what we're doing, to who we're meeting, to what is actually going on around us, we'll all make better choices, have a greater awareness of what matters, and be more alive to the possibilities in life and in work.
Question: According to your book and your own life experience, what is the recipe (key ingredients) to becoming a great leader?
Webber: Being an active listener; a passionate and involved person; a person with high standards and moral clarity; being focused on things that really matter; caring about more than just yourself.
Question: How will your book change our world for the better?
Webber: Ah, good question! By telling the truth, I hope!
Question: Where can people go to learn more about “Rules of Thumb”?
Webber: RulesofThumbBook.com
Thank you, Alan, for sharing your wisdom. Now, to all of you: What’s the rule of thumb that you live by? Share yours and add to the conversation.??
About the Author: Global business expert Laurel Delaney is the founder of GlobalTrade.com. She also is the creator of "Borderbuster," an e-newsletter, and The Global Small Business Blog, all highly regarded for their global small business coverage.
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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi in shameful defence of Reuters journalists’ conviction
13 September 2018, 13:45 UTC
Responding to comments by Myanmar's State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, at the World Economic Forum in Hanoi today defending the conviction of Reuters journalists Wa Lone, and Kyaw Soe Oo, Minar Pimple, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Global Operations, said:
“This is a disgraceful attempt by Aung San Suu Kyi to defend the indefensible. To say that this case had ‘nothing to do with freedom of expression’ and that Wa Lone, and Kyaw Soe Oo ‘were not jailed for being journalists’ is a deluded misrepresentation of the facts.
This is a disgraceful attempt by Aung San Suu Kyi to defend the indefensible
Minar Pimple, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Global Operations
“These two men were convicted under a draconian, colonial-era law that was deliberately misused to halt their investigations into the appalling atrocities that took place in Rakhine State. From start to finish, the case was nothing more than a brazen attack on freedom of expression and independent journalism in Myanmar
“To argue that the letter of the law was followed is to wilfully ignore all of these glaringly obvious shortcomings. It’s also eerily similar to the line taken by the military generals when Aung San Suu Kyi herself was locked up. The international condemnation heading Aung San Suu Kyi’s way is fully deserved, she should be ashamed.”
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in Yangon, Myanmar’s main city, on 12 December 2017. At the time, the two men had been investigating military operations in northern Rakhine State. These operations were marked by crimes against humanity against the Rohingya population, including deportation, murder, rape, torture and burning of homes and villages.
The two journalists were held incommunicado for two weeks before being transferred to Yangon’s Insein prison. They were convicted on 3 September 2018 under the Official Secrets Act – one of a number of repressive laws in Myanmar – and each sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Fleeing my whole life
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Rescuers scour sea for Malaysian jet lost in 'unprecedented mystery'
A relative of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared Saturday while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Photo Credit: Getty Images / ChinaFotoPress
By REUTERS March 10, 2014 7:51 AM
The disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an "unprecedented aviation mystery", a senior official said on Monday, with a massive air and sea search now in its third day failing to find any confirmed trace of the plane or the 239 people aboard.
The head of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Authority, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, said a hijacking attempt could not be ruled out as investigators explore all theories for the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 en route to Beijing.
"Unfortunately we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft," he told a news conference.
"As far as we are concerned, we have to find the aircraft, we have to find a piece of the aircraft if possible."
As dozens of ships and aircraft from seven countries scour the seas around Malaysia and south of Vietnam, questions mounted over possible security lapses and whether a bomb or hijacking attempt could have brought down the Boeing 777-200ER airliner.
Hopes for a breakthrough rose briefly when Vietnam scrambled helicopters to investigate a floating yellow object it was thought could have been a life raft. But the country's Civil Aviation Authority said on its website that the object turned out to be a "moss-covered cap of a cable reel".
Interpol confirmed on Sunday at least two passengers used stolen passports and said it was checking whether others aboard had used false identity documents.
Flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens in the early hours of Saturday, about an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur, after climbing to a cruising altitude of 35,000 ft.
Underlining the lack of hard information about the plane's fate, a U.S. Navy P-3 aircraft capable of covering 1,500 sq miles every hour was sweeping the northern part of the Strait of Malacca, on the other side of the Malaysian peninsula from where the last contact with MH370 was made.
"Our aircraft are able to clearly detect small debris in the water, but so far it has all been trash or wood," said U.S. 7th Fleet spokesman Commander William Marks in an emailed statement.
Shares in Malaysia Airlines fell as much as 18 percent to a record low on Monday morning and were down 4 percent near the close.
NO DISTRESS SIGNAL
No distress signal was sent from the lost plane, which experts said suggested a sudden catastrophic failure or explosion, but Malaysia's air force chief said radar tracking showed it may have turned back from its scheduled route before it disappeared.
A senior source involved in preliminary investigations in Malaysia said the failure to quickly find any debris indicated the plane may have broken up mid-flight, which could disperse wreckage over a very wide area.
"The fact that we are unable to find any debris so far appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet," said the source.
Asked about the possibility of an explosion, such as a bomb, the source said there was no evidence yet of foul play and that the aircraft could have broken up due to mechanical causes.
Still, the source said the closest parallels were the explosion on board an Air India jetliner in 1985 when it was over the Atlantic Ocean and the Lockerbie air disaster in 1988. Both planes were cruising at around 31,000 feet when bombs exploded on board.
The United States extensively reviewed imagery taken by American spy satellites for evidence of a mid-air explosion, but saw none, a U.S. government source said. The source described U.S. satellite coverage of the region as thorough.
Boeing declined to comment and referred to its brief earlier statement that said it was monitoring the situation.
The Boeing 777 has one of the best safety records of any commercial aircraft in service. Its only previous fatal crash came on July 6 last year when Asiana Airlines flight 214 struck a seawall on landing in San Francisco, killing three people.
MASSIVE SEARCH
About two-thirds of the 227 passengers and 12 crew now presumed to have died aboard the plane were Chinese. The airline said other nationalities included 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French and three Americans.
The passenger manifest issued by the airline included the names of two Europeans - Austrian Christian Kozel and Italian Luigi Maraldi - who were not on the plane. Their passports had been stolen in Thailand during the past two years.
An Interpol spokeswoman said a check of all documents used to board the plane had revealed more "suspect passports", which were being investigated.
"Whilst it is too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane, it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in Interpol's databases," Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said.
Malaysia's state news agency quoted Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as saying the two passengers using the stolen European passports were of Asian appearance, and criticized the border officials who let them through.
"I am still perturbed. Can't these immigration officials think? Italian and Austrian but with Asian faces," he was quoted as saying late on Sunday.
A European diplomat in Kuala Lumpur cautioned that the Malaysian capital was an Asian hub for illegal migrants, many of whom used false documents and complex routes including via Beijing or West Africa to reach a final destination in Europe.
"You shouldn't automatically think that the fact there were two people on the plane with false passports had anything to do with the disappearance of the plane," the diplomat said.
"The more you know about the role of Kuala Lumpur in this chain, the more doubtful you are of the chances of a linkage."
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Hunting Rabbits, Byzantine Mosaic
by Hagia Sophia Research Team
Hunting Rabbits: The dogs are attacking the rabbit on its neck and abdomen. The hunter is depicted having just released the dogs, Byzantine Mosaic, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 6th. century CE. Place: Constantinople, (Modern Istanbul, Turkey). Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
The Great Palace Mosaic Museum was inaugurated in 1987 CE. The mosaics in the museum mostly depict the animals and humans in nature, mythological, pastoral motifs and hunting scenes. Once located in today’s Sultan Ahmet District, the Great Palace of Constantinople was built by Constantine the Great. The Palace area extended from the Hippodrome to the coastline. Destroyed in the Nika Riot in the 6th century CE, the Great Palace was rebuilt by Justinian I. The mosaics, decorating the floors of the museum today date back to that restoration time. The mosaics are just one-seventh of the original work.
Original image by Hagia Sophia Research Team. Uploaded by Rome and Byzantium, published on 08 January 2018 under the following license: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
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Album Pick
Album Rock Arena Rock Hard Rock
Sol Studio, Cookham, Berkshire, England
Refined Rousing Self-Conscious
AllMusic Review by Brian Downing
Anticipation was quite high when it was announced in 1984 that Paul Rodgers, the past voice of Bad Company, and Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's former guitarist, were creating a "supergroup" called the Firm. Page and Rodgers had first tinkered with the idea of an album after their successful collaboration on the ARMS benefit tour for Ronnie Lane in 1983. Based upon the fact that it had been over five years since Page's last band effort, and two years since Rodger's lackluster finale with the original Bad Company, pundits were more than eager to hear what new material the duo would unleash. However, when the band's self-titled debut was actually released in 1985, it received a critical drubbing and was all but ignored by the record-buying public. That's too bad, for the album is quite good and does nothing to taint the sterling reputations of either of its key players. Page and Rodgers were joined on The Firm by veteran drummer Chris Slade and Roy Harper-alum Tony Franklin. Slade's Bonham-esque sledgehammer attack on the skins, coupled with Franklin's fretless basslines, added dimension to Rodgers' smooth vocals and Page's layered guitar textures. Page's tone throughout is very reminiscent of the sound of his overdubs on Coda, as well as the sound he would subsequently employ on 1988's Outrider. Opening track "Closer" cleverly uses a subtle horn section to good effect, while "Someone to Love" represents all the good elements of the band in one number. Rodgers' "Radioactive" was actually a minor hit for the band, its quirkiness overcoming the goofiness of the lyrics. The album's best cut is "Satisfaction Guaranteed," a mid-tempo gem with a snaky and exotic Page riff and a heartfelt vocal performance by Rodgers. The only weak track on the record is the unnecessary cover of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," which feels totally out of place. The album-closing "Midnight Moonlight" could have been the Firm's best song, but the underwhelming arrangement and superfluous backing vocals partially destroyed it. The fact that "Midnight Moonlight" was actually an unfinished Led Zeppelin cut entitled "Swansong," left over from the Physical Graffiti sessions, led some to believe that Page had run out of new ideas for the project. While it is true that this album isn't as uniformly excellent as Led Zeppelin's work, it is the best from this short-lived band and turned out to be Page's most consistent effort from the entire decade of the '80s.
Jimmy Page / Paul Rodgers
Make or Break
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
Barry Mann / Phil Spector / Cynthia Weil
Money Can't Buy
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MSPs demand investigation into reports children still detained in Dungavel
Jun 1st 2019 10:24AM
Politicians are demanding a full investigation be carried out by the UK Government into reports children are being held in a Scottish detention centre – despite the practice being outlawed.
At least 21 under-18s were held at the Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre in South Lanarkshire between 2010 and 2018, according to figures obtained by BBC Scotland’s The Nine.
That is despite then-immigration minister Damian Green announcing in 2010 that the UK Government was “committed to ending the detention of all children for immigration purposes”.
Official figures showed that between June 2010 and January 2014 two children were held at Dungavel, the BBC reported.
And a Freedom of Information request was reported to have revealed 19 young people were held between 2014 and 2018 – including at least five who were aged 16 or under.
Many including @LindaFabianiSNP have been calling for Indefinite Immigration Detention to end. Having visited Dungavel myself on more than one occasion I can confirm how foreboding & uninviting it is. Time to implement a MAXIMUM 28 day limit. Keep up the pressure #Time4aTimeLimithttps://t.co/3amwJ8ibQu
— Margaret Ferrier SNP (@MargaretFerrier) May 31, 2019
SNP MSP Linda Fabiani criticised the practice: “This is the harsh reality of the Tories ‘hostile environment’ – children and pregnant women held in what is effectively a private prison.
“The UK is the only country in the EU which has no cap on the length of time somebody can be detained under immigration powers. Innocent families, women and children shouldn’t be held like this for months on end, especially almost a decade after the Home Office promised to end the practice of detaining children.”
The Dungavel centre is in Ms Fabiani’s East Kilbride constituency.
“The UK Government must urgently stop detaining children and pregnant women at Dungavel – a facility entirely unsuitable for people in such a vulnerable position,” she demanded.
“This only goes to show the total disregard the Tory Government shows towards migrants – and the need for Scotland to have full control over these powers.”
Labour equalities spokeswoman Pauline McNeill said reports of children being housed in Dungavel were “extremely distrubing”.
She said she will press Home Secretary Sajid Javid on the issue, adding it was now nearly 10 years since “the disgraceful practice of detaining children at Dungavel was supposed to have stopped”.
She said: “This is why I have consistently called on the Home Office to allow MSPs visiting access to Dungavel, to increase transparency and ensure that this is no longer happening.
“I will be writing again to the Home Secretary to demand a full investigation, and reassurances that the practice of detaining children will be ended immediately.”
A Home Office spokeswoman said: “We ended the routine detention of children for immigration purposes in 2010, and fundamentally changed the system to ensure that the welfare of the child is at the heart of every decision we make.”
Dungavel
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Constellation Software Writes Money Book On Apps
A penchant for acquisitions, coupled with a lean operating model, has benefited CSI
Fueled by robust maintenance revenues, CSI’s market cap has soared to $8B
The book of the Toronto-based ERP apps vendor Constellation Software Inc.(CSI) tells a simple story – it makes good money as shown in its latest results of 2015 by ending the year with a 72% jump in earnings to $177 million on a 10% rise in total revenues to nearly $2 billion.
CSI used to be a little known on-premise software vendor with a knack of juicing up its returns by acquiring hundreds of small and niche vertical players since 2003, 31 alone in 2015. The strategy has worked so well that CSI now fetches a market cap of $8 billion. Even though CSI’s listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange has eased 14% to about C$515 from a high of almost C$600 since July 2015, the annualized return for its shareholders has exceeded 40% after it went public in 2006. By comparison, the annualized return on Cloud pioneeer Salesforce stock grew less than 26% during the same period.
In 2015, CSI became the largest independent software vendor in Canada, surpassing OpenText, which had held the No. 1 position for years following IBM’s 2008 purchase of the previous country leader Cognos. Like OpenText, the majority of CSI’s revenues comes from United States and Europe.
At a time when many applications vendors are embracing the Cloud but incurring steep losses along the way, the experiences of CSI raise some interesting questions about the future of the software industry.
Good Money On Software?
Can on-premise software companies continue to make money consistently in this new era of digital disruption? Are Cloud companies fundamentally a money-losing proposition because they spend so much on infrastructure and even more on sales and marketing?
Generally speaking, Cloud or on-premise software companies make good money, perhaps much more so than soda bottlers and drug makers because digital production and distribution costs are negligible. With Cloud delivery, the opportunities for making more money are enormous given the ease to reach a global user base with the help of cheap infrastructure courtesy of someone like Amazon Web Services.
The reality is quite different. Cloud apps vendors like Box, Salesforce and Mindbody(which competes with the club-membership apps unit of CSI) routinely spend two to four times more on sales and marketing than what other software providers like Oracle and SAP do as a percentage of total revenues as shown in the following graphic. And it could be years before many of these Cloud apps vendors that spend lavishly to expect to turn a profit consistently.
Source: Company Reports
CSI has been relentless driving its sales and marketing costs down since 2003 when its sales and marketing spend was 13% of its revenues. In 2014, it went down to 7.1% and last year it fell even further to 6.7%. Through the period, its revenues soared from $80 million in 2003 to $1.83 billion in 2015, a 23 times climb. Its sales and marketing spend rose from $10 million to $124 million, a 12-fold increase. Corresponding to its overall growth, its research and development spend as a percentage of total revenues increased nearly 26 times from $10.6 million in 2003 to $259 million last year.
One of the reasons behind its relatively meager sales and marketing spend has to do with the nature of its customer base. It sells into about 85,000 organizations across scores of verticals like local government agencies and subverticals like cabinet manufacturing. Many of its customers have been running these applications for decades and there is little need for CSI to boost sales and marketing spend just to get a few dollars extra from them on new modules or enhancements.
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Instead, CSI invests in maintenance in hopes of extending the recurring revenue stream for a long time. Last year, for every dollar CSI put into maintenance, it yielded nearly $7. At Oracle, the enterprise software giant pocketed $16 for every dollar it spends on maintenance. Maintenance represents about 64% of CSI’s revenues, while maintenance and Cloud revenues make up about 61% of Oracle’s revenues.
Most acquisitions that CSI make are small spending no more than $5 million a pop on average. What it does well is the classic buy low and sell high strategy. In October 2015, CSI’s Quadramed unit acquired the hospital solutions operations from QSII picking up about 100 rural and community hospitals as customers. QSII said the sale was immaterial as the operations were losing money and its revenues tumbled to almost nothing in 2015 from $4.4 million a year earlier.
Similarly CSI bought CareTracker and Picis in late 2014 and May 2015 from UnitedHealthcare’s OptumInsight. Adversely impacted by the ACA legislation, United Healthcare and its OptumInsight unit have been focusing more on its analytics and coding business, while unloading noncore apps assets like CareTracker for practice management and Picis for emergency departments.
Following the Brexit vote on June 23, 2016, CSI proceeded with a cash offer for UK-based Bond International, which sells a range of HR, payroll and talent management apps for £44 million. Before it made its move, CSI had already accumulated Bond shares representing about 30% of the vendor. In July 2016, Bond rebuffed the overture from CSI by divesting its HR and Payroll unit to FMP Global Bidco Ltd, a UK-based HR and payroll firm backed by Tenzing Private Equity. FMP said it was paying £27.4 million and the assumption of £2 million of net debt for Bond’s HR and Payroll unit. After the sale, Bond is expected to mull over future of its remaining assets including recruiting apps, real estate, etc.
Whatever the outcome, these are what CSI president Mark Leonard refers to as distressed assets that his company can turn around and continue to profit by squeezing the remaining money-making opportunities in maintenance and support.
Leonard, who founded the company in 1995, takes pride in the decentralized structure of CSI. Its head office in Toronto keeps a skeleton staff – a little over a dozen – that manages such functions as M&A, finance, compliance and mentoring. According to Leonard, its head office expense as a percent of net revenues halved from 1.9% in 2005 to 0.9% in 2014, the latest data available in his annual letter to shareholders.
Last year, Leonard went even further by asking his board to cut his total compensation to zero, saving about $1 million for CSI. The former venture capitalist, who owns a 6.7% stake in the company worth about $535 million, said instead of charging his company for coach tickets on business trips, he would pay for such travels out of his own pocket. That way, he considers himself not as a CSI employee, but rather a shareholder whose sole interest is to ensure the CSI business is sustainable and viable for the long haul.
The rest is up to thousands of CSI employees located around the world running nearly 200 business units with the biggest employing about 500, trying to serve their customers better and ultimately making a buck out of their software IP. Instead of passing out options, CSI offers them incentives in the form of shares escrowed for three to five years.
CSI’s Future
Following the financial crisis, CSI saw declining sales in its construction software business and its acquisitions were briefly interrupted. In May 2011, CSI announced that it would explore strategic options, a prelude to putting itself up for sale. That did not happen.
Subsequently, CSI made more acquisitions including some of its biggest deals like TSS for its healthcare, property tax and civil affairs apps in the Netherlands for €240 million. The recent purchases have also opened up new revenue models including Software as a Service. In 2014, 17 business units at CSI generated more than half of their revenues by hosting applications on behalf of customers and their recurring revenues represented 13% of its maintenance stream.
Similar to other Cloud vendors, CSI faces the same challenge of higher than normal churn rates among its SaaS customers, while racking up bigger expenses in acquiring or retaining them. That renders the Cloud less financially attractive than its on-premise business, according to Leonard.
Another challenge facing CSI is its foray into the healthcare vertical, a notoriously difficult market for many ERP vendors. Sage, for instance, sold its healthcare apps business for a loss of $108 million to Vista Equity Partners in 2011 after years of failing to turn the former Emdeon division around.
It’s possible that CSI has seen some sluggishness among its TSS healthcare customers with its professional services revenues(a prerequisite and substantial part of most healthcare apps implementations) dropping 16% in 2015, having contributed heavily to its top line in 2014 after the completion of the TSS purchase in December 2013.
With IBM spending $4 billion in recent months to bulk up its healthcare software portfolio including the recent purchases of Merge for medical imaging and Truven Analytics for Big Data, CSI may need to reevaluate its options in the healthcare vertical. Without a defensible niche in healthcare, CSI could end up competing on the sidelines and not being able to add incremental gains to its mix.
Leonard gives little hint on what he wants to do next with CSI other than continuing its acquisition-centric strategy, while positioning himself as someone with a vested interest in the long-term health of the company. In his letter, he suggests that he may want to travel less, but if he does he will fly first class in greater comfort. Also, he would recommend books on such enlightening topics as prisoner game dilemma and loss aversion to better oneself.
In the same vein, while it may sound altruistic for giving up his compensation for the good of the tribe, Leonard is fully convinced that the best chapters of CSI’s money book have yet to be written.
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Coach Savage’s entire life was ‘in service to another’
CATONSVILLE – In sending off Gerald “Jerry” Savage, his good friend, Father Christopher J. Whatley offered a trinity of images.
None focused on Loyola Blakefield basketball or the Baltimore Catholic League, two institutions elevated by Savage. Father Whatley chose instead to linger on the strength of Savage’s grace, marriage of 51 years and selfless faith.
Savage died May 23, six days after his 77th birthday and three months after he suffered a stroke while keeping score at the 44th annual BCL tournament. He had served Loyola Blakefield as athletic director and basketball coach, the latter from 1968 to 2003, and was instrumental in the 1971 formation of the BCL.
His funeral Mass was offered May 28 at St. Mark in Catonsville, where Father Whatley, the pastor, is a family friend and former colleague, having been on staff at Loyola Blakefield from 1977 to 1986.
“Jerry preached, but he didn’t use words,” Father Whatley said in his homily, referencing St. Francis of Assisi’s directive and recalling Savage’s response to the drowning of a Blakefield student, Clarence Braye (‘81), at nearby Patapsco Valley State Park.
“I drove to the site where they were recovering the body, and here came Jerry, with that bouncing gait of his, out of the woods,” Father Whatley said. “We were both grief-stricken, waited for hours, but Clarence’s mother had pled with us, ‘don’t let them leave him in the water.’
“Both of us were lamenting the loss of a young man heading to Tulane University when I asked, ‘What is God up to?’ Jerry said, ‘He has a plan.’ “He (God) had a plan for Jerry.”
Savage’s first sporting love was baseball. He coached the JV at Loyola Blakefield, and Father Whatley was his assistant.
“Practice or a game would end, and I would walk across the road into (the Jesuit) community and sit down to dinner,” Father Whatley said. “Jerry lined the fields, remained at school until every student had a ride, then drove himself home where dinner was waiting for him.
“When I asked Jerry how his wife (Pat) felt about that, he said ‘You can’t believe the books she’s read.’ I can’t believe the meals she cooked. … When it comes to marriage preparation, all I have to do is share stories about Jerry and Pat.”
The two raised three sons, Jim, Michael and Kevin. To mark their 50th anniversary in the summer of 2013, Savage and his wife, who taught math at Mount St. Joseph for 23 years, had their wedding vows renewed by Father Whatley, in the chapel at St. Mark.
As to the third image of Savage, Father Whatley talked of his solemn approach to his faith, and in particular, the Eucharist.
“I would give all I have if I could know what Jerry said to God,” Father Whatley said. “He listened to Jesus Christ. Jerry never drew attention to himself after a game; he wanted the attention on his players. His entire life was a Kairos moment, ‘to be in service to another.’ ”
The pews – and altar – were packed with Loyola Blakefield alumni and staff, as well as former rival coaches and players, and Savage’s fellow parishioners from nearby St. Agnes.
His funeral Mass – and the evening wakes that preceded it – were all held at the larger St. Mark, with the approval of Father Michael Foppiano, pastor of St. Agnes. He was a concelebrant, along with Monsignor Carl Cummings, pastor emeritus of St. Agnes, and Jesuit Father Frank Moan (Loyola Blakefield ’45), a former administrator at his prep alma mater.
The first and second readings, Wisdom 3:1-6, 9 and Romans 8:31-35, 37-39, respectively, were given by fellow Loyola Blakefield mainstays, religion teacher and former basketball coach Pat Maggio, and Joe Brune, Savage’s football counterpart.
In remarks before Mass, Jack Degele, commissioner of the BCL, talked of watching Savage play for Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg when it was a small college power, then having him as an English teacher as a freshman at Mount St. Joseph High School in 1961, and then babysitting his oldest.
“When I got married in 1972, he was my best man,” Degele said. “He wasn’t my best friend, but I wanted to be like Jerry Savage. He loved his work, he loved his family, and he treated everyone with respect. In maturity, I witnessed a man for others.”
A eulogy before Mass was given by Savage’s brother, James. The gifts were brought by his five grand-daughters.
Pallbearers included former Loyola Blakefield players, such as Morris Cannon, a senior on the inaugural BCL tournament champions in 1972. An IT specialist for the Social Security Administration, graduate of Loyola University Maryland and 2014 BCL Hall of Fame inductee, Cannon was asked which lessons imparted by Savage stuck.
“Do the right thing consistently, and good things will happen” he said. “Like everyone else here, I am blessed to have known Jerry. I am the person I am today due in part to Jerry’s guidance.”
Loyola Blakefield to honor former coach: Basketball floor will become ‘Jerry Savage Court’
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The DACA deadline was approaching. He knew there were no easy answers.
Francisco Luna saw how community groups worked to make sure that no 'dreamer' was left behind.
Dianna M. Náñez, The Republic | azcentral.com
Published 3:08 p.m. MT Oct. 4, 2017
Francisco Luna looked around the room filled with mothers, fathers and young people who had just heard that President Donald Trump had decided to end the federal immigration program shielding so-called “dreamers” from deportation.
He didn’t know what the decision would mean for the future of migrants like him, people whose lives had changed because of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
The program, established by former President Barack Obama in 2012, grants qualifying immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children temporary protection from deportation and renewable two-year work permits.
A friend hugged him. He wept, and she hugged him harder, kissing him on the cheek.
Francisco ran his hand over his wavy black hair. His DACA permit would expire in two weeks. The Trump administration announced on Sept. 5 that it would allow current participants to renew, but they needed to submit the paperwork within one month.
That time runs out Thursday, the deadline for anyone eligible to file renewal applications.
Francisco knew he had to act quickly. He needed to see an attorney. He needed to make sense of Trump’s decision on the fate of nearly 800,000 people nationwide who had felt safe under the program. Safe enough to buy houses, start businesses or go to college.
He knew there would be no easy answers.
Should he renew his permit? Would he be safe if he turned over his address and the address of his mother — who has lived for decades in the U.S. without legal authorization — to the administration? What if Congress didn’t act before the deadline to end the program? What would happen to him, to his friends?
Then, there was the immediate dilemma: How would he come up with the $495 he needed to renew his permit? He knew he needed money, and he needed it in a hurry. His permit would expire Sept. 21.
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What he didn’t know was that, in the days and weeks to come, people would come together to create a safety net for dreamers.
In states from the West to the East Coast, people would donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to help DACA recipients meet the deadline to pay fees for permits that could protect them from deportation for up to two years.
In Arizona, people would donate to online fundraisers. Private donations would pour into a fund for college students with DACA permits. The Phoenix mayor would donate $10,000. California legislators earmarked $20 million to help DACA recipients.
In the hours after Trump’s announcement, teachers, friends, business owners, celebrities, non-profits and complete strangers would launch countless fundraisers for dreamers. No one wanted $495 to stand in the way.
Soon there was a mantra of sorts: No dreamer left behind.
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DACA recipients (from left) Lizette Zamudio, Karina Ruiz and Korina Iribe hold hands at UFCW Local 99 in Phoenix as Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces an end to the DACA program that gives work permits to people who were brought to the country illegally as children.
(Nick Oza/The Republic)
One man was holding what was left of his pink pan dulce (sweet bread) and black coffee when he rushed to his seat after someone shouted, “It’s starting!”
For many gathered in the Phoenix union hall on that hot September morning, it felt like they’d been waiting since the November night last year when Trump was elected president. One young woman called the months of uncertainty over their DACA permits psychological torture.
Voters who backed Trump because he campaigned as an immigration hardliner were waiting for him to keep his promises: End the DACA program, build a wall on the border with Mexico, deport the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status.
Francisco woke up early that Tuesday to be at the hall with his friends. The 27-year-old is used to long days.
Depending on the day of the week, Francisco's at barber school, working behind the camera at an internship with a Spanish-language radio show or volunteering with an Arizona migrant-rights group whose members have become his extended family.
Any downtime is spent with his partner and their dog in the Phoenix home they share and checking on his mom, whom he helps support financially.
“There's a lot of emotions because, like me and many others, there's folks that have hopes and families to provide for. What's going to happen?”
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Francisco closed his eyes at times as he listened to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions deliver Trump’s message on DACA.
“Good morning," Sessions began from Washington, D.C. "I am here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded.”
Then Sessions called them “illegal aliens.”
Francisco cringed. Others gasped. The message sank in.
Francisco was standing near his friend Karina Ruiz. The mother of three children is the president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition.
She was there four years earlier when, in an act of civil disobedience, Francisco was arrested after chaining himself to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility gate in Phoenix. She was there to hug him when he was released from jail.
Francisco glanced at Karina. He was trying to piece together what he’d heard.
He said the attorney general’s language was a wake-up call for what people in the country without legal authorization would face in the weeks, months and years ahead.
“Trump didn’t have the guts to deliver the news himself. He sent Jeff Sessions and, the moment he was speaking, it was a lot of ignorance, a lot of hatred and a lot of messaging for white nationalists to continue to hate our community,” he said. “But my community’s here, my community is gathered to fight, to make sure that we are going to stay together.”
Francisco’s words were fierce, but his voice trembled. He was thinking about people who qualified for DACA and about people like his partner and his mother, who are among the estimated 11 million migrants who don't qualify for DACA.
“There’s a lot of emotions because, like me and many others, there’s folks that have hopes and families to provide for,” he said. “What’s going to happen?”
As he spoke, he looked around the room, watching over his friends. He had dressed to represent his group, wearing a black T-shirt with three words: “Trans Queer Pueblo” in pink, white and blue.
“I’m not worried about the people in this room right now, I’m worried about the people who are home alone right now,” he said. “Maybe they don’t have anyone or know what to do.”
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Berania Yanez, 16, shouts from a megaphone to other students from North High School protesting outside ICE headquarters, Tuesday, September 5, 2017, after leaving campus at lunchtime to make their feelings known about the decision by President Donald Trump to cancel the DACA program in six months if Congress doesn’t fix the problem.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
Students from North High School head West on Virigina at 8th St. in Phoenix, Tuesday, September 5, 2017, on their way to ICE headquarters to protest the decision by President Donald Trump to cancel the DACA program in six months if Congress doesn’t fix the problem.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
Students from North High School south on Central Ave. toward ICE headquarters in Phoenix, Tuesday, September 5, 2017, to protest the decision by President Donald Trump to cancel the DACA program in six months if Congress doesn’t fix the problem.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
Students from North High School protest outside ICE headquarters, Tuesday, September 5, 2017, after leaving campus at lunchtime to make their feelings known about the decision by President Donald Trump to cancel the DACA program in six months if Congress doesn’t fix the problem.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
Lizette Zamudio and Karina Ruiz (both DACA recipients) listen to Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the DACA announcement, September 5, 2017, at the UFCW Hall, 2401 N Central Ave., Phoenix.(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
Lizette Zamudio (right, DACA recipient) is comforted by Maria Cruz (DACA recipient mother) after the DACA announcement, September 5, 2017, at the UFCW Hall, 2401 N Central Ave., Phoenix.(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
Rep. Isela Blanc and Maria Cruz (DACA recipient mother) listen to Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the DACA announcement, September 5, 2017, at the UFCW Hall, 2401 N Central Ave., Phoenix.(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
Karina Ruiz and Korina Iribe (both DACA recipient) listen to Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the DACA announcement, September 5, 2017, at the UFCW Hall, 2401 N Central Ave., Phoenix.(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
Korina Iribe (DACA recipient) listens to Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the DACA announcement, September 5, 2017, at the UFCW Hall, 2401 N Central Ave., Phoenix.(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
Rep. Isela Blanc, Maria Cruz (DACA recipient mother) and Sinclaire Bales listen to Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the DACA announcement, September 5, 2017, at the UFCW Hall, 2401 N Central Ave., Phoenix.(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
Students from South Mountain High School walk out of class in Phoenix Sept. 5, 2017. They were protesting the elimination of the program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.(Photo: Michael Chow/The Republic)
Phoenix police keep watch over students from South Mountain High School who walked out of class in Phoenix Sept. 5, 2017. The students were protesting the elimination of the program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.(Photo: Michael Chow/The Republic)
Quinton Reed, a junior at South Mountain High Scool, marches out of class with other students in Phoenix Sept. 5, 2017. They were protesting the elimination of the program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.(Photo: Michael Chow/The Republic)
Quinton Reed, a junior at South Mountain High School, marches out of class with other students in Phoenix Sept. 5, 2017. They were protesting the elimination of the program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.(Photo: Michael Chow/The Republic)
Phoenix police use a vehicle to block the front door at the South Mountain Precinct as students from South Mountain High School walk out of class in Phoenix Sept. 5, 2017. They were protesting the elimination of the program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.(Photo: Michael Chow/The Republic)
Students make silk-screened posters outside Phoenix Police Department's South Mountain Precinct. They had participated in a walkout from South Mountain High School in response to the announcement of DACA's undoing on Sept. 5, 2017.(Photo: Robert Gundran/The Republic)
DACA recipients and supporters at UFCW Local 99 in Phoenix on Sept. 5, 2017, react as they listen to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement of the end the nation's DACA program.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Valley faith leaders host a vigil for "dreamers" and their supporters at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 4, 2017.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Valley faith leaders host a vigil for "dreamers" and their supporters at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 4, 2017.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Rabbi Shmuly Yankowitz joins other Valley faith leaders at a vigil for "dreamers" and their supporters at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 4, 2017.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Petra Falcon, executive director of Promise Arizona, joins other Valley faith leaders at a vigil for "dreamers" and their supporters at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 4, 2017.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Judith Danvers, left, holds a candle during a vigil for "dreamers" and their supporters at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 4, 2017.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Rabbi Shmuly Yankowitz, along with other Valley faith leaders, host a vigil for "dreamers" and their supporters at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 4, 2017.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Llandel Polanco, 8, stands with his grandma Reyna Polanco and Valley faith leaders at a vigil for "dreamers" and their supporters at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 4, 2017.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Judith Danvers holds a candle during a vigil for "dreamers" and their supporters at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 4, 2017.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
They needed one another
Within an hour of the announcement, Francisco joined the crowd in the Phoenix union hall on a march to ICE. They said they wouldn't leave the country they call home. They held protest signs. One said: "No human is illegal."
Francisco has been paying his own way for years now. He has been able to work since he first qualified for DACA in 2012. He also helps his mother, who raised him and his sisters without help from their father.
Like many DACA recipients, Francisco had postponed renewing his permit until hearing Trump’s decision.
Waiting had cost him. His permit would expire on Sept. 21. That meant that even if he renewed immediately, he still wouldn’t receive his permit in time.
He could spend weeks, maybe months, without protection from deportation.
Under the new guidelines, the federal government would stop accepting new DACA requests after Sept. 5 and only would accept renewal requests received by Oct. 5 for people whose permits expire between Sept. 5 and March, 5, 2018.
On the day of the announcement, Trump used Twitter to call on Congress to “do your job” on DACA.
Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2017
After years of watching lawmakers fail to pass immigration reform, Francisco doesn’t have faith in Trump or Congress to seal a deal on a pathway to citizenship for dreamers.
His only chance of living and working without fear was to renew his DACA permit before it was too late.
He had to raise $495. But he had rent to pay, car insurance due and too many other bills. He had two sisters who also need to renew their DACA permits.
In the days following the announcement, people started a YouCaring crowdfunding campaign. The initial goal was for $15,000. As of Friday, 181 donors had raised $18,739 for the groups helping DACA recipients.
Puente Arizona, a longtime migrant-rights group that has made news headlines for its acts of civil disobedience, started an online campaign, too. The group, also as of Friday, had surpassed its goal of $10,000, with 129 donors.
Promise Arizona, a non-profit that supports immigrant families, received a $10,000 donation from two Valley Latino leaders, Roberto Reveles and Tommy Espinoza. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton donated $10,000 to Mi Familia Vota for DACA renewals.
But the need was expansive, and the money went fast. So attorneys in Phoenix started working with the migrant-rights groups to hold DACA-renewal clinics where they offered free legal advice for people who needed help renewing their permit.
Francisco didn’t know it that day he stood in the Phoenix union hall with friends wondering about his next steps and the people who were alone but, soon he’d find help, too.
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Francisco Luna, 27, holds his DACA card, which allowed him to work, buy a car and help take care of his family.(Photo: Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
Francisco Luna, 27, was 11 years old when he came from Mexico to Arizona with his family.(Photo: Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
His DACA permit expired Sept. 21. Like many DACA recipients, he had postponed renewing his permit until hearing President Donald Trump’s decision about the future of the program.(Photo: Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
Francisco Luna raised money online and received assistance from migrant-rights group Puente Arizona to pay for his DACA renewal.(Photo: Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
Francisco Luna tries to fix his computer on Sept. 29, 2017, so he can sell it. He’s thinking of everything he can sell if he needs to, if something goes wrong.(Photo: Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
Francisco Luna plays with his dog, Nini, at his Phoenix home on Sept. 29, 2017.(Photo: Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
Francisco Luna advocates with Trans Queer Pueblo on behalf of LGBT migrants of color.(Photo: Dianna M. Náñez/The Republic)
Francisco Luna (center) reacts in August 2015 when presidential candidate Donald Trump calls Rosie O'Donnell fat as they watch the GOP debate at Mi Familia Vota in Phoenix.(Photo: Patrick Breen/The Republic)
Francisco Luna outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., after visiting then-House Speaker John Boehner's office in October 2013.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Francisco Luna, hugs Karina Ruiz after he was released from custody in August 2013 following his arrest with three other activists. The activists had chained themselves to a gate at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Phoenix to protest federal immigration policies.(Photo: David Kadlubowski/The Republic)
Immigration activists (from left) Maria Castro, Maria Alejandra, Francisco Luna and Yadira Garcia celebrate in August 2013 after they are released from custody. They were arrested after chaining themselves to a gate at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Phoenix.(Photo: David Kadlubowski/The Republic)
Bibiana Vasquez (left) and Francisco Luna watch on June 27, 2013, as the U.S. Senate passes an immigration bill that would have boosted border security, overhauled the visa system and provided a pathway to citizenship for many migrants. While it passed the Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives never acted on the measure.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
No way they could raise that much money
About a week after receiving the $10,000 donation, Promise Arizona had already earmarked the scholarship money for 20 students.
The non-profit decided to dip into its reserves to keep paying for renewal fees for anyone who needed the money.
Rep. Tony Navarrete, D-Phoenix, is the deputy director of Promise Arizona. He spoke of one Arizona family with four siblings, all of whom qualified to renew their permit.
“There’s no way they could raise that much money in time,” he said.
Navarrete said the last estimates he received showed there were about 6,000 people in Arizona whose permits qualify for renewal under the new guidelines.
People whose DACA permits expire between Sept. 5 and March 5 are eligible to renew for two years. Nationwide, about 154,000 permits expire during that period, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Families or young people who live paycheck to paycheck can’t come up with $500 on the spot, Navarrete said.
“That’s a bunch of money for working families paying their car payments and insurance ... and their rent at the beginning of the month,” he said. “We don’t want them to feel that burden really impact their lives.”
Navarrete said it's an emotional time. Some DACA recipients are ready to fight. Some are tired. Some are scared.
“They’re a little more anxious to talk on camera,” he said. “Some are starting to go back into the shadows.”
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Karina, Francisco's friend and the president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, said she hasn’t had much rest since the Sept. 5 announcement.
In 2015, Karina, 33, earned a bachelor’s in biochemistry at ASU while working full-time and raising three children, all born in America. She was 15 when her parents crossed the border illegally to give her a better life in the U.S.
Lately, she spends her days fundraising. As of Sept. 22, her coalition had paid for 10 students to renew their permits.
One story of a young mom sticks with her. The woman’s DACA permit had expired two days before Karina spoke with her.
“She has an autistic son and a girl who has disabilities, so she had to stop working to care of her kids,” she said. “We don’t want her to be in fear of deportation.”
Karina’s DACA permit expires in January. She has put her career on hold to work full-time for the coalition.
She remembers her high school librarian's message for the teenage girl who dreamed of becoming a scientist.
"She said, 'I'll see you when you cure cancer,'" she said.
Karina likes to believe that one day, things will be different, and she'll go back to studying science.
Gallery: What DACA means to recipients, their families
DACA recipients and their families say the program allowed them to attend school, work full-time and become parents. These are some of their stories.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Ellie Perez, seen here in 2014, is an aide to Phoenix Councilwoman Kate Gallego. With DACA status, she was able to attend full-time, get an associate’s degreeand become the first person in her family to attenda four-year university.(Photo: The Republic)
Reyna Montoya, 26, came to the U.S. at age 13. She founded Aliento, which advocates for young migrant children, in 2016. DACA gave Montoya the chance to earn an education, she said.(Photo: Dianna M. Náñez/The Republic)
Thomas Kim, 25, came to the U.S. with his family legally 12 years ago from South Korea. An unscrupulous immigration attorney botched their case, he said. Kim is finishing his last year of law school and works at a public defender's office in Phoenix.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Francisco Luna, an advocate with the organization Trans Queer Pueblo, came to the U.S. when he was 11. DACA allowed him to work, buy a car and help take care of his relatives. He said he has filed and paid taxes for several years now.(Photo: Dianna M. Náñez/The Republic)
Julio Zuñiga, 27, was 5 when he came from Mexico to Arizona with his parents in 1996. DACA allowed Zuñigato begin working as a mortgage loan officer, and he has paid more than $10,000 in taxes over the course of his career, he said.(Photo: Laura Gómez/The Republic)
Immigration attorney Daniel Rodriguez, 31, had DACA status until he became a legal resident in 2015. He said he had started law school in 2008 but had to take a break from 2009-2012 because he couldn’t afford out-of-state tuition.(Photo: Maria Polletta/The Republic)
Carla Chavarria, 24, has DACA status until November and is waiting to see if her application for renewal has been approved. DACA allowed Chavarria to start her own digital-marketing business. She also launched activewear line Ganaz with fellow dreamer Máxima Guerrero last year.(Photo: Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
Abril Gallardo, 27, came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 12. DACA provided an opportunity to work and go to college, she said.(Photo: David Kadlubowski/The Republic)
Maria Cruz Ramirez, who does not have legal status, is the mother of three DACA recipients. She said her son recently bought a home. Without DACA, it's uncertain whether he'll be able to keep it, she said.(Photo: Laura Gómez/The Republic)
Isabel O'Neal (right) is the mother of prominent DACA activist Belen Sisa. DACA allowed her daughter, who wants to become a lawyer, to enroll at ASU.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
‘I know what it’s like to feel alone’
About two weeks after the DACA announcement, people were still scrambling to raise money.
Members of Aliento and Trans Queer Pueblo co-hosted a fundraiser at Valley Bar in downtown Phoenix. All the donations would go to the groups’ DACA-renewal pots.
They drank and danced to pop, hip-hop and salsa. They tried not to think about the future.
Edder Diaz Martinez sipped on a cold Hamm’s beer and laughed with his friends. The weekend prior to the fundraiser, he’d spent time with students without legal status at an ASU at a retreat in Prescott.
They talked about how they could support one another in the months to come.
Edder is a member of Undocumented Students for Education Equity at ASU. The group recently met with ASU adminstrators.
“We told them they have to do more,” he said. “They have students who are scared, who don’t know what is going to happen to them.”
Edder said ASU is finally listening. Students received an email from ASU officials saying they wanted any DACA student who is eligible to renew their permit to do so immediately. They told students that private donors would pay their fees and an attorney had volunteered to help answer any questions.
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Edder renewed his permit over the summer. He remembers when he first realized he had to stop being scared.
He had an outstanding warrant on a traffic ticket that came up when he was stopped for cutting across the light rail tracks. He spent two months in the Eloy Detention Center until his mom could help him pay his $12,500 bond.
“It was really sad all the people in there who are so scared,” he said.
Edder was born in Mexico City and brought to the U.S. when he was five. He considers himself an American. When he was released from the detention center, he knew he had to work harder.
He's studying journalism and mass communication now, and earned a scholarship from United We Dream.
Edder said it’s tough balancing his studies, a full-time job and his advocacy for migrants' rights. He said he keeps going because, “I know what it’s like to feel alone."
‘We need you to spread the word’
DACA recipients and supporters react at UFCW Local 99 in Phoenix on Sept. 5, 2017, as they listen to Attorney General Jeff Sessions announce the end of DACA.
On a warm Tuesday night, one week before the Oct. 5 deadline for renewals, Francisco walked into the small downtown Phoenix house that is a headquarters for Trans Queer Pueblo.
He wore the same black T-shirt he wore the day of the announcement.
A young man standing near a wall mural of a monarch butterfly gave an update on the money the group had raised so far to cover DACA renewal fees. He said attorneys are encouraging people to send their renewal paperwork no later than Oct. 2 to ensure it's received by the deadline, just to be safe.
“We need you to spread the word,” he said.
Francisco raised his hand to volunteer with an upcoming fundraiser. After the meeting ended, he spoke with a young woman, a friend he met through the group.
The woman, Reyna Martinez, smiled at Francisco. The preschool teacher received a scholarship to renew her DACA permit.
“I have my son, and I take care of my mom and my little sister,” she said. “There’s no way I could have come up with the money.”
Reyna said she was a little girl when her mother brought her from Mexico to Arizona to escape an abusive relationship.
The day after Session’s announcement, her little boy was listening as she watched the news. He looked at her and asked a question.
“Does that mean they’re going to send you to Mexico?” he said.
“I told him, ‘No, we’re going to be OK,’ ” she said.
But Reyna doesn’t really know if they will be OK.
Soon, the meeting ended, and Francisco said goodbye to his friends.
Francisco Luna plays with his dog, Nini, at his Phoenix home. DACA has allowed him to work, buy a car and help take care of his family.
(Cheryl Evans/The Republic)
A few days have passed and Francisco — just home from his internship at the radio show — sat at his breakfast table.
His partner’s mother is having a garage sale to make a little extra money. Francisco worked on fixing his laptop.
“If I can fix it, I can sell it,” he said.
He’s thinking of everything he can sell if he needs to, if something goes wrong. His DACA permit is expired. He's stopped driving for fear of being pulled over.
After the DACA announcement last month, a friend of Francisco's posted a message on Facebook. She wanted to speak to people who said they wanted to help dreamers.
It’s not enough to post photos and messages on social media saying you stand with dreamers, she wrote.
Then, in all caps, she wrote: “Give money to dacamented folks to renew.”
Her note was shared by friends and strangers. Francisco's friends encouraged him to start his own fundraiser.
“So many people have helped. It's not easy for us right now, so it's good to see people coming together.”
At first, he was embarrassed to ask for help. But he knew he didn’t have the money to renew his permit, and he didn’t have the luxury to wait.
“My DACA expires this September 21,” he wrote on Facebook. “Like many, DACA allowed me to do something for myself. I know that DACA is not for everyone, but that's why you see me organizing. I organized for my love ones and my community. Share the link and anything helps.”
Soon he raised $300, and then the money stopped trickling in. So he turned to Puente, the migrant-rights group in Phoenix.
“They gave me the $200,” he said. “I went right away to mail my renewal.”
The money is only part of what Francisco sees in the message behind the massive fundraising efforts launched after the DACA announcement.
“So many people have helped,” he said. “It’s not easy for us right now, so it’s good to see people coming together.”
He thought back to the day of the announcement, when he worried if they could reach all the DACA recipients sitting at home alone with no one to turn to.
Was there someone out there who gave up on renewing their permit because they didn’t have $495?
Francisco’s dog, a golden Husky mix with one brown and one blue eye, jumped up to give him a kiss.
“I think everything will be OK,” he said.
He called to his puppy, named “Nini.” It’s short for, “ni estudia, ni trabaja.” The Spanish saying means that Nini’s spoiled, Francisco said, smiling as he tosses his dog an ice cube to play with.
There’s another saying reminicisent of the nickname “Nini,” one that some dreamers use: “ni de aquí, ni de allá” — not from here and not from there.
Francisco tinkered with the laptop. The one he’ll sell to make a little extra money, just in case.
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Francisco Luna, 27, was 11 years old when he came from Mexico to Arizona with his family. DACA allows him to work, buy a car and help take care of his family.
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Does a brand new look mean a brand new brand?
Your company obtains a trade mark registration for its logo. Some years later, you modernise your packaging and logo with a fresh new look. Do you have to go through the registration process again? Is there a way around this?
Trade mark law requires you to make genuine use of the mark you have registered. If you do not, then a third party may be able to remove the mark from the register on the grounds of non-use (“non-use revocation”). The law allows a trade mark to be varied from the form in which it was registered, but only to a certain extent. To work out whether use of your new logo will be sufficient to defend against non-use revocation of your old registered logo, we must first consider the differences between the marks. We must then consider whether those differences alter the “distinctive character” (under New Zealand law) or “substantially affect the identity” (under Australian law) of the mark.
Examples of differences which have been found to alter the distinctive character, or substantially affect the identity of a mark include the following:
Splitting the word Goldenbake into two words “golden” and “bake” and representing them one on top of the other, rather than side by side, and in different lettering and colouring compared with the original logo, and without the distinctive rounded rectangular border included in the original logo.[1]
Presenting the words VAPOUR ACTION in a foreign language, using the same imagery and stylisation but different words and using the American spelling of the word “vapor” (i.e. “vapour”) in the mark. Each of these examples was found to alter the distinctive character of the mark.[2]
Obscuring the word “market” in the mark MaltMarket Bar & Kitchen, so that the dominant words in the mark were Malt Bar & Kitchen. This was done by separating the word “market”, reducing its size and inserting it horizontally into the “l” in “Malt”.[3]
One option to avoid the problems associated with a change of stylisation for a logo mark might be to register the words within the logo in plain type at the outset. It is generally established that registration of a word mark allows for use of the words in various special scripts or with embellishments, without the risk of non-use revocation.[4] However, if your stylisation goes too far, then the risk remains. This is particularly risky where the logo includes a figurative element (e.g. an animal image), unrelated to the words present in the logo or the goods and services you are using it upon. Furthermore, if the design of your logo is particularly important to you, registering a stylised logo increases your chances of being able to stop a competitor adopting a similar look and feel. In these cases, both forms are normally registered.
Every new logo will need to be assessed on a case by case basis. If you have recently changed the look of your branding, we recommend Baldwins IP review your current registrations to ensure that they still provide adequate protection.
[1] Goodman Fielder New Zealand Ltd v George Weston Foods (NZ) Ltd IPO T13/2007, 26 March 2007
[2]Cadbury Ireland Ltd’s Registrations IPO T04/2007, 29 January 2007
[3]Tricarico v Dunn Bay Holdings Pty Ltd. [2012] FCA 271
[4]Morny Ltd’s Trade Mark (1951) 68 RPC 55
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Robin Williams, Dead at 63, from an apparent suicide
Published by Alyssa at August 11, 2014
Today marks a tragic day in American pop culture. But, to say that Robin William’s passing only affects the realm of Americana is really an injustice to the icon’s memory. William’s was, as Barack Obama has described him, a “one of a kind.” He was a pioneer of comedy, film, theatre, television, and even humanitarian efforts, as he was a devoted member of Comic Relief for several years in a row.
Robin Williams is best known for many, many roles, ranging from the lighthearted and silly to the deeply touching. There’s Hook, Jumanji, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Birdcage, Dead Poet’s Society, Good Will Hunting, Patch Adams – just to name a few – and a whole slew of voice acting roles such as Genie in Aladdin.
Williams was born in Chicago on July 21, 1951 and studied theater at the Juilliard School before taking his stand-up comedy act to nightclubs. He was cast as Mork, an alien visitor to Earth, for a 1974 episode of television’s “Happy Days.” This was to become a spin-off show called Mork and Mindy and it was a hit.
Williams wasn’t without personal turmoil. He was a recovering addict, having been to rehab at least twice in his lifetime, the most recent time being this summer. Since the discovery of his death, William’s agent has since said that he was struggling recently with severe depression. I can’t help but think of a quote of his I came across some time ago, “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel alone” and wonder, perhaps this is how he felt in the last moments leading him to take his life.
At 63, Williams was found unconscious and unresponsive in his California home which he shares with his third wife. “An investigation into the cause, manner and circumstances of the death is currently underway by the Investigations and Coroner Divisions of the Sheriff’s Office,” the sheriff’s statement said.
The sheriff added, “Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia, but a comprehensive investigation must be completed before a final determination is made. “An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.”
With having been back in rehab so recently, one can only consider that Williams was still struggling with substance abuse, which could have been a contributing factor in his depression as of late. That and, as the saying goes, “The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” Robin Williams was such a bright light; a bigger-than-life talent. He is only one of a select few that could transcend slapstick humor, to become a true philosopher, successfully pulling off both goofy and profound depth.
Williams had a way of combining weighty topics with humor, so as to perhaps make them a little easier to handle. For instance, the comic genius said that “Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘your table is ready.’
He will be deeply missed for the light he was in the world. Good Sir, your table is ready.
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KLPGA to Host 2019 International Qualifying Tournament
Featured July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 Tony
With professional golfers coming from over 10 countries, event expected to facilitate international exchanges among players
‘K Golf’ to be promoted globally by offering of Korean language material and cultural content
PATTAYA, Thailand & SEOUL, South Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 11, 2019
The Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) will host the ‘KLPGA 2019 International Qualifying Tournament’ from August 20 to 23. This year the event will be held at the Phoenix Golf & Country Club in Pattaya, Thailand, in a four-round, 72-hole stroke-play competition.
The International Qualifying Tournament (IQT) is an annual tour event that offers an opportunity for non-Korean golfers to participate in the KLPGA Tour. In its first year, 2015, the event attracted six international golfers; the year after that, it was 20. Last year, the event, held in Malaysia, attracted 50 golfers from ten countries including Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, China, the U.S., Canada, the Philippines, and Hong Kong.
A large field is expected this year as well, with even more benefits being offered to participants, especially international players. Like last year, the total prize money is USD 30,000, and green fees are waived, but unlike last year, the top three players will be eligible for the 2020 KLPGA Tour Qualifying Tournament Stage 3 without having to compete in a preliminary qualifying tournament. Moreover, the top five players will qualify to play on the KLPGA 2020 Dream Tour, and the players finishing the IQT ranked 6th through 10th do not have to compete in the preliminary qualifying tournament for the 2020 Dream Tour and will be eligible for the KLPGA 2020 Jump Tour.
Every year, KLPGA international rookies’ performance is of major interest to golf fans. Last year, Ploychompoo Wirairungrueng (Thailand) won the IQT, finishing at five under par 283 (73, 69, 72, 69). About the Tour she said, “I really appreciate KLPGA for giving me the opportunity to meet and compete with so many excellent international players.”
Genevieve Ling I-Rynn (Malaysia) said, “Since the KLPGA tour is so competitive, I learn a lot from just watching the other players. I decided to join the IQT to continue to play on the KLPGA tour this year.”
As of today, six international players, including Ploychompoo Wirairungrueng (Thailand), Sui Xiang (China), Takabayashi Yumi (Japan), Aratake Rui (Japan), Nishimura Miki (Japan) and Chen Yu Ju (Taiwan) have registered for the KLPGA.
Because of the heightened interest of international players, KLPGA is working to increase the competitiveness of the tour by offering more support to international players. Special services now being offered include transportation to and from tournament venues and the booking of practice rounds. It also plans to redesign its website to be more accommodating to international players. For international players living in Korea, it plans to provide Korean learning materials and cultural content.
A KLPGA official said, “We will do everything we can to make the Tour one of the best, most accommodating, most competitive tours in the world.”
More information on how to apply is available on the official IQT website at http://klpgaiqt.com/.
Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA)
KLPGA, since its founding in 1978 and for the last 41 years, has been promoting its brand and tour players in the interest of Korean ladies professional golf. As the organizer of tour events, it puts forth efforts to host championships and contribute to the popularization of golf and the globalization of Korean ladies professional golfers. This year, it will hold 29 KLPGA Tours, 21 Dream Tours, 16 Jump Tours, and 12 Champions Tours. KLPGA is taking the lead in developing the most advanced golf tour system using an IT-driven K-ranking system and KLPGA Data Center Service. Furthermore, to recruit international players, it has created an online and offline infrastructure for the management of IQT players and I-Tour members, and revised its website dedicated to foreign players, and offered more Korea-related content. Its ultimate goal is to become Global No. 1 tour.
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The Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) will host the KLPGA 2019 International Qualifying Tournament (IQT) from August 20 to 23. The event will be held at the Phoenix Golf & Country Club in Pattaya,Thailand, in a four-round, 72-hole stroke-play competition. Players, Chen Yu Ju (Taiwan), Sui Xiang (China) and Takabayashi Yumi (Japan) have already registered for the KLPGA.(left to right) (Graphic: Business Wire)
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Henry Moore Studios and Gardens
Henry Moore is arguably one of Britain’s most important artists. Even if you’re not familiar with his work, there’s no doubt you will have experienced it at some point, scattered as it is across Britain, and indeed the world. The Henry Moore Studios and Gardens in Hertfordshire is home to an expansive collection of Moore’s works, incorporating around 1,500 art pieces and between 800 and 900 sculptures, including maquettes. Moore himself lived on the site in his former home – Hoglands – and worked prolifically in studio space housed in out buildings. After many years living and working here Moore gradually acquired more of the land – and it is here that you’ll find some of his most impressive and awe-inspiring works, some of them sharing their space with sheep in the outer fields.
Hoglands
We visited the centre before it opens to the public for its summer season on Friday 30th March, and enjoyed a preview of this year’s special exhibition – Out of the Block: Henry Moore Carvings. The retrospective includes some never before seen super-8 film of Moore, containing footage of him choosing marble from a quarry in Italy, and working on one of the sculptures that can be found at the exhibition. Recent additions designed by Hugh Braughton Architects include a visitors’ centre and new corten-clad archive building.
Archive building
Moore’s art was focused on three main areas – Mother & Child, Recline Figure and Internal & External. His work would be compiled through either subtraction (carvings from stone or wood) or addition (adding materials to found objects such as bone). A firm believer in documenting everything he did, Moore was constantly conscious of how his work was being received by the public. The archive houses over one million documents collected by him over his lifetime. Moore worked hard – his days were structured and full – an ethos that undoubtedly led him to create so many pieces. But he would also be sure to break for tea every day at 11am, a tradition that is upheld by the team here still to this day.
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Help wanted: Openings increase in radiology job market
By Kate Madden Yee, AuntMinnie.com staff writer
August 4, 2017 -- It's a good time for a radiologist to find work. There are 14% more new jobs available for radiologists in 2017 compared with 2016, according to the sixth annual workforce survey by the American College of Radiology's Commission on Human Resources.
The growth represents up to 2,370 new job openings for radiologists and shows a significant increase in available work since 2013, wrote a team led by Dr. Edward Bluth from the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans in a paper published online July 29 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
These new jobs are available due to various factors, from the retirement of senior radiologists to an increase in part-timers, according to Bluth and colleagues.
"The improved outlook could be a harbinger of a possible shortage of adequately trained radiologists in the future," wrote the authors, adding that "an increasing number of radiologists are now working part time, and this has implications relative to maintaining an adequate workforce."
Doctor demographics
Bluth's team used the Practice of Radiology Environment Database to identify U.S. radiology practices eligible for the study. Of those invited, 477 responded, for a rate of 26%; the responses represent 11,056 radiologists, or 33% of all practicing radiologists in the U.S.
Dr. Edward Bluth from the Ochsner Clinic Foundation.
Participants were asked to report the number of radiologists currently employed in their practice, the number hired in 2016, and the number they plan to hire in 2017 and 2020. The survey also asked respondents to describe their organization type and to divide their departments between general and subspecialty radiology. Finally, the survey included questions regarding radiologists' gender and age distribution.
Most radiologists are in private practice (52%), while 23% work in academic or university environments, 13% in hospitals, 9% in multispecialty clinics, 3% in corporations, and less than 1% for the government. The bulk of radiologists work full time (84%); those who work part time fall along gender lines, with 10% of male radiologists working part time compared with 30% of female radiologists.
As for gender characteristics of the radiologist population, 21.5% of radiologists are women. Of those who are younger than 45, almost a third (27%) of the radiologists are female.
Most practice leaders are male, at 87%. Of all male radiologists, 15% are practice leaders, compared with 8% of all female radiologists.
"The results of this survey show that females are appropriately represented as leaders of their groups based on the current gender distribution of full-time radiologists," the authors wrote.
Of radiologists in the 56-to-65 age group, 80% work full time. This could lead to a radiologist shortage if this group decides to retire all at once, according to Bluth and colleagues.
"With the issue of burnout becoming more significant among radiologists than in the past, the possibility of increased retirement among senior radiologists is of real concern and must be monitored carefully," the team wrote.
A similar number of radiologists were hired in 2016 compared with the year before: between 1,569 and 2,037, compared with 2015's range of 1,474 to 1,913. Those hired in 2016 were mostly first-time hires (57%), while 43% moved from another job; 95% of first-time hires had fellowship training, the researchers found.
Going forward, the number of available new jobs in 2017 will increase, ranging from 1,826 to 2,370. The largest percentage of hires will be subspecialists from neuroradiology (13%), general interventionists (12%), after-hours radiologists (12%), body imagers (11%), and breast imagers (10%), according to the report.
As for geography, most of the new positions will be in the South (27%) and Midwest (22%), while the fewest number of jobs will be in the New England (4%) and Mid-Atlantic (13%) regions. Most new positions will be in private practice (45%), followed by academic and university practices (31%), multispecialty clinics (12%), and hospitals or corporations (6%).
The authors estimated that 1,123 to 1,458 radiologists will be needed in 2020, although they acknowledged that predicting the job picture for three years out is challenging.
"We have learned ... that our predictions for three years forward are inaccurate in terms of the actual number of openings," they wrote. "Practice leaders seem unable to accurately project their needs that far in advance."
Optimistic picture?
In any case, overall, the survey findings paint an optimistic picture for radiologists seeking work, according to Bluth and colleagues.
"This year's projection is a significant improvement in job availability compared with the approximately 1,239 positions filled in 2011 and the only 1,069 positions that were available in 2013, the worst year for job seekers," they concluded.
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Minoryx Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Khalid Islam As Chairman Of The Board Of Directors
Mataró, Barcelona, Spain, January 27, 2016 – Minoryx Therapeutics, a drug development company specialized in the discovery of new drugs for orphan diseases, today announces the appointment of Dr. Khalid Islam as chairman of the board of directors. Dr. Islam has 27 years experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
Dr. Islam previously served as chairman and CEO of Gentium S.p.A. (a Nasdaq-listed company; 2009-2014) where he led the transition of the loss-making company to cash-flow positive and profitable. Under his leadership Defitelio (defibrotide) was granted marketing authorization in the EU and the company’s value increased from $25M to $1billion in a cash merger with Jazz Pharmaceuticals, plc.
“2016 is an important year for Minoryx as we progress our lead candidate MIN-102 into clinical trials and further develop the SEE-Tx platform,” said Dr. Islam, “I am excited to work with the Minoryx team and board to address the high unmet medical need in orphan diseases for patients who currently have no or few therapeutic options.”
The appointment follows the €19.4M series A fundraising that closed in October 2015. Dr. Khalid Islam succeeds Dr. Nigel Ten Fleming, who has been instrumental in the company’s success so far.
“We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Islam; his extensive experience in managing innovative drug discovery and development companies will be key to the future success of Minoryx,” said Dr. Marc Martinell, CEO and co-founder of Minoryx. “On behalf of the board and company, I would also like to thank Dr. Nigel Ten Fleming for his outstanding contribution to Minoryx Therapeutics’ development in recent years.”
Following the new appointment, Minoryx Therapeutics will move its lead candidate, MIN-102, into clinical stage. MIN-102 targets the most prevalent peroxisomal disorder, X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). MIN-102 is a differentiated PPAR gamma agonist with a superior profile for central nervous system related diseases and excellent in-vivo efficacy.
Minoryx also plans to further develop SEE-Tx, a dedicated platform that relies on proprietary technology and know-how for the identification of a new class of pharmacological chaperones.
About Dr. Islam
Dr. Islam served as chairman and CEO of Gentium S.p.A. (a Nasdaq-listed company; 2009-2014) where he led the transition of the loss-making company to cash-flow positive and profitable. Under his leadership Defitelio (defibrotide) was granted marketing authorization in the EU and the company’s value increased from $25m to $1billion in a cash merger with Jazz Pharmaceuticals, plc. From 1999-2008, he was president and CEO of Arpida AG where he transitioned the early-stage start-up to a SWX-listed company and raised $300M in the IPO and follow-ons. From 1987-1999, he held various positions in HMR & MMD (now Sanofi-Aventis).
From 1977-1987, he worked in academia at Imperial College (University of London) and at Milan University, where he was a contract professor. Dr. Islam is a graduate of Chelsea College and received his PhD from Imperial College, University of London. He holds several patents and has published over 85 articles in leading journals. He is also on the editorial board of Current Drug Discovery and Technologies.
Dr. Islam is currently the chairman of Fennec (FRX.TO; North Carolina) and a member of the board of directors at Karolinska Development (KDEV.ST; Stockholm), Molmed (MLM.MI; Milan), and OxThera (Stockholm). He has previously been a member of the board of directors at Arpida AG (Basel and DC), Rheoscience AS (Copenhagen), PCovery AS (Copenhagen), Adenium AS (Copenhagen) and C10 Pharma AS (Oslo).
About X-ALD
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is the most prevalent peroxisomal disorder. It is caused by mutations on the ABCD1 gene, which codes for a membrane transporter protein. The disease is characterized by the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) leading to a neurodegenerative disorder that is chronically debilitating and life-threatening; where the most affected tissues are the myelin in the central nervous system (CNS) and the adrenal cortex. The CNS related effects lead to two main phenotypes: adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), characterized by progressive motor dysfunction, and cerebral ALD (cALD), characterized by severe neuroinflammation leading to early death. X-ALD is a rare disease that occurs all over the world. Its estimated incidence is 1:17,000 newborns. Although it primarily affects males, heterozygous women also develop the disease later in life. There is no pharmacological treatment available on the market. The only available alternative for cALD patients is a bone marrow transplant. Such an approach does not prevent the development of the AMN form, for which there are no therapies available.
About MIN-102
MIN-102, Minoryx’ candidate for X-ALD, is in the preclinical stage. It is a differentiated PPAR gamma agonist with a superior profile for CNS related diseases with excellent in-vivo efficacy, a comprehensive development plan and early involvement from key opinion leaders. PPAR gamma agonists have shown strong potential in animal models related to the various phenotypes associated with X-ALD. Minoryx’ candidate is the only product in development for potential use across all the main phenotypes. PPAR gamma agonists also showed efficacy in multiple models of neurodegenerative diseases, meaning that MIN-102 also offers a significant potential for indication expansion.
About SEE-Tx
This dedicated platform relies on proprietary technology and know-how for the identification of a new class of pharmacological chaperones that are non-competitive with the natural substrate and with optimized drug-like properties; offering greater potential than previous generations. The company is moving forward with a pipeline of several Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) including Lysosomal Storage Diseases (LSD).
About Minoryx Therapeutics
Minoryx is a drug development company specializing in the discovery of new drugs for orphan diseases. The company targets Inborn Errors of Metabolism; a group of rare diseases of genetic origin with a high unmet medical need. The company’s leading program is a differentiated PPAR gamma agonist (MIN-102) that has multiple CNS indications. Minoryx harnesses its unique mechanism of action for potential use in X-ALD, a genetic disease characterized by progressive neurologic deterioration with no available pharmacological treatment. Minoryx is also working on a new class of compounds: non-competitive pharmacological chaperones; identified through its innovative proprietary platform – SEE-Tx. The Minoryx team is made up of a group of drug discovery and development experts with several decades of experience in biotech and pharma. The company is backed by a syndicate of experienced investors and has support from a network of other organizations. Minoryx was founded in 2011 and has raised €24M including the series A of €19.4M which closed in October 2015.
www.minoryx.com
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Nelson McCausland: If funding of Left causes in NI isn't technically 'dark money', we are still very much in the dark about it
Trust funds that few of us have ever heard of are bankrolling liberal-Left organisations here, says Nelson McCausland
Shots fired at Martin McElkerney’s wake has put INLA funding in the spotlight
By Nelson McCausland
There is a considerable interest in some sections of the media, especially the Left-leaning media, about sources of funding for political parties, political organisations and lobby groups. There has been talk of "dark money" and "secret sources" and the need for greater transparency, so here is a modest contribution to that transparency.
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One of the major sources of funding for lobbying organisations is trust funds and, from time to time, one of them will get into the headlines as a result of a controversial grant.
A good example is the focus there was last year on the grant of £275,000 by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) to Teach na Failte, which works with former prisoners from the Irish National Liberation Army.
This came into the spotlight as a result of INLA funerals, which were seen as paramilitary shows of strength.
However, the JRCT is only one part of the Joseph Rowntree family of trusts.
Alongside the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (JRRT).
Both trust funds have the same trustees, but the difference is that the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust is able to make grants to non-charitable organisations, including political parties and political campaigns.
So, who do the JRRT support both in Great Britain and here in Northern Ireland?
The big political beneficiary in Great Britain is the Liberal Democrats, with grants of £230,000 in 2017 and £301,740 in 2018, as well as a grant in 2016 of £480,000 over five years to the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors and grants of £50,000 to the Scottish Liberal Democrats, £40,000 to the Welsh Liberal Democrats and £75,000 to the Yorkshire & The Humber Liberal Democrats in 2015.
In 2013 the Liberal Democrats were given £960,000 specifically "towards campaigning costs in the lead-up to the next general election in 2015".
Of course, of the 10 trustees, one is a Liberal Democrat peer, another is a Liberal Democrat MP, a third is a Liberal Democrat councillor and a fourth was a Liberal Democrat election candidate.
Other political recipients have included Red Pepper, an independent "radical red and green magazine" founded by the far-Left Socialist Movement, and smaller grants have gone to the Fabian Society and members of the Labour Party and the Green Party in Great Britain. However, the Liberal Democrats are the principal beneficiary.
Turning then to Northern Ireland, there have been only four beneficiaries of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust over the last few years - the Alliance Party, which is a sister party to the Liberal Democrats, Alliance for Choice, the Family Planning Association Northern Ireland (FPA) and the Rainbow Project.
In 2017 the JRRT gave £34,140 to the FPA "to campaign for abortion law reform in Northern Ireland" and, in 2018, they gave the FPA £25,070 "to influence political and legal opinion to achieve abortion law reform in Northern Ireland".
Meanwhile, Alliance for Choice, another pro-abortion group, received £49,800 in 2017.
Of course, those weren't their first pro-abortion grants, because, in 2016, Alliance for Choice received £51,540 "to build a civil society coalition (Trust Women Coalition) to press for abortion law reform in Northern Ireland" and the FPA received £44,452.
That made a total of £96,000 for pro-abortion campaigning in Northern Ireland in one year.
The Rainbow Project, which is an LGBT lobby organisation, received £40,000 in 2016 to campaign for same-sex marriage legislation in Northern Ireland.
That followed a grant of £22,600 in 2015 "to campaign on LGBT issues in the lead-up to the Northern Ireland Assembly elections".
In 2017 the Alliance Party received £20,000 "towards their general election campaign" and that was on top of the £150,000 given to the Alliance Party in 2016, to be spread over five years, though to 2021.
It seems, therefore, that in the key general election year of 2017, Alliance received a total of £50,000.
In that year the total income of the Alliance Party came in at £360,143 - so that £50,000 was a welcome contribution.
It's not what is commonly known as 'dark money', because each grant is recorded on the JRRT website, but most people are certainly in the dark about it.
Just as they are in the dark about the many other similar trusts that fund liberal-Left activism and seek to shape public opinion in Northern Ireland in a Leftward direction.
Clarification:
The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has asked us to point out that it is an entirely distinct entity from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Contrary to what was stated in this article, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust is a company limited by guarantee and, therefore, has no trustees.
Its decisions are taken by its board of directors and there are no individuals that sit on the boards of both the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
There is also no Liberal Democrat MP on the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust’s board of directors, as stated.
We are happy to set the record straight.
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Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings (MP3)
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The astonishing life story from one of Australia's most inspirational athletes.
Dylan Alcott has never let his disability get in the way of what he wanted to achieve. His family treated him no differently to any other kid, and it was the best thing they ever did. Growing up, Dylan always had a positive attitude to life. So when he discovered sport, he’d have a go at anything and could always be found at the centre of the action, giving his best and playing to win. Then he tried wheelchair basketball and tennis and was hooked. Fast forward ten years or so, and the now three-time Paralympic gold medallist, Order of Australia recipient, Grand Slam tennis champion and philanthropist combines elite sport with a love for music (he’s a triple j radio announcer and is famous for his crowd-surfing). But Dylan’s greatest passion is changing the way those with disabilities are perceived, and to inspire young people – whether they have disabilities or are able-bodied – to achieve their dreams. It’s a passion that drives him every day of his life. In Able, Dylan shares his story. It’s the tale of someone who’s proud of who he is, who has a go, does everything with heart and soul, who always sees the upside and never takes himself too seriously. As inspiring, honest and funny as its author, Able proves that for every one thing you can’t do, there are 10,000 things that you can.
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Texas Supreme Court Curbs Same-sex Marriage Benefits
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Lana Shadwick
30 Jun 2017 Austin, TX
The Supreme Court of Texas held that the U.S. Supreme Court opinion recognizing the right of same-sex couples to marry does not automatically entitle them to spousal employment benefits. The unanimous court held that the 2015 opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges did not address the right to tax, insurance, or other benefits–only the right to marry.
These marriage benefits are not “fundamental rights,” and the U.S. Supreme Court did not rule on the issue of whether states and cities must provide the same taxpayer-funded benefits to all persons that are married, the Supreme Court of Texas held on Friday.
Lawyers for the plaintiff taxpayers, Larry Hicks and Jack Pidgeon, have described the case as “the only one of its kind in the nation.”
Those defending the actions by the City of Houston’s first openly gay mayor, Mayor Annise Parker, urged that the U.S. Supreme Court decision answered every question before the Supreme Court of Texas.
Breitbart Texas reported in early March that the Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the taxpayer suit against the City of Houston. The taxpayers argued that subsidizing employment benefits for the spouse of a same-sex couple is illegal. Jonathan Mitchell, a former law clerk for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, argued the case for the plaintiffs. Mitchell has also served as solicitor general for the State of Texas.
Justice Jeffrey Boyd wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court of Texas and stated that while the Obergefell decision must be considered, the Court is constrained because the U.S. Supreme Court did not decide the particular question of benefits. The Texas Supreme Court sent the case back down to the trial court to now determine the issue.
When the case was originally filed, the district court granted a temporary injunction blocking the City from distributing the spousal benefits. The intermediate appellate court reversed the trial court’s injunction. Obergefell was issued before the hearing at the appellate court and was cited by the Court when it reversed the injunction.
The Supreme Court of Texas initially declined to extend its discretionary jurisdiction to hear the case, but reversed itself in late January after the taxpayers filed a motion and asked the Court to reconsider, reported Breitbart Texas. The plaintiff taxpayers urged that Mayor Parker violated the Texas Constitution and state statutes when she gave spousal benefits to gay employees in 2013 and 2014. Parker issued these benefits to employees before the U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling.
Justice John Devine dissented from the Texas Supreme Court’s decision to not hear the case, writing: “Marriage is a fundamental right. Spousal benefits are not.” Devine added, “Thus, the two issues are distinct, with sharply contrasting standards for review.” “(C)laims by same-sex spouses of City employees to employment benefits do not enjoy the benefit of strict scrutiny,” he wrote.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and a very large contingent of Texas state senators and representatives and other Texas conservatives, filed friend of the court briefs supporting the petitioner plaintiffs.
On Friday after the Supreme Court of Texas issued its decision, Equality Texas immediately issued a statement saying, “The Texas Supreme Court’s opinion today in the Pidgeon case clings to unconstitutional notions of ‘separate but equal’ that were long ago laid to rest in this nation.” The organization called on the City of Houston to “appeal this horrendous decision to the United States Supreme Court in order to ensure equality for the marriages of all Texans.”
Equality Texas calls itself “the largest statewide organization dedicated solely to securing full equality for LGBTQ Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.”
Lana Shadwick is a writer and legal analyst for Breitbart Texas. She has served as a prosecutor and associate judge in Texas. Follow her on Twitter @LanaShadwick2.
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Sport and Mental Health
Sally Perkins takes a look at the Top Sports Stars who have opened up about their mental health.
Mental health problems are both the UK and worldwide epidemic. With one British government report finding that 14.7% of people in this country go through mental health problems in the workplace, it is clear that there is a real, widespread problem. And for those who work in sport, the macho environment of some teams and relative lack of institutional support means that it can be even harder to turn up to work as a footballer, rugby player or another sportsperson without experiencing problems. Many sports stars, though, are bravely fighting back through communicating in an open and honest way.
Victoria Pendleton
The Olympic cyclist has lots of achievements under her belt these days, but it has not always been rosy for Victoria Pendleton. When she was in her twenties she took to self-harm as a way to manage her negative feelings, and she experienced low moods and similar problems. But talking - and visiting a psychiatrist - really helped her. "There are so many people within the sport who do not feel comfortable talking about their weaknesses, but I cannot help but be honest," she has said.
Marcus Trescothick
The former England cricketer has experienced serious mental health problems including anxiety and depression. He even ended up leaving the team in order to focus on working out his problems, but he is now opened up about what he experienced. "I was cooped up in bed for the best part of a week and it got progressively worse to the point where I thought I have got to get out of here and sort out what is happening to me'," he told Men's Health magazine.
Andy Goram
A former goalkeeper for both Manchester United and Rangers, Andy Goram is no stranger to the world of mental health problems. He visited Alcoholics Anonymous after realising he had a problem with drinking, and he was also diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia in the 1990s. Luckily, schizophrenia therapy and medication choices have developed and become more widely known about in recent decades - and that is in part due to the bravery of people like Goram who decided to go public with their diagnosis.
Sportsmen and women may face more problems than others if they find themselves going through a tough time mentally. But thanks to the courage of those who have decided to speak out, the world of sport is becoming a better place for those who experience issues. And with more and more sportspeople going public about their problems, it is likely that fan acceptance and structural support will just get better and better.
PERKINS, S. (2018) Sport and Mental Health [WWW] Available from: https://www.brianmac.co.uk/articles/article303.htm [Accessed
Sally Perkins is a professional freelance writer with many years' experience across many different areas. She made the move to freelancing from a stressful corporate job and loves the work-life balance it offers her. When not at work, Sally enjoys reading, hiking, spending time with her family and travelling as much as possible.
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These 7 Supersonic Aircraft Show The Future Of Flight
Alex Davies
Since the retirement of the Concorde, a retired turbojet-powered supersonic passenger plane, jet travel hasn't gotten any faster. For most travelers, it's gotten less pleasant.
But there are those who haven't given up on the dream of supersonic flights that cross continents and oceans in half the time it takes today.
Some of these aircraft are only renderings, others are already embarking on test flights. But they all prove that the future of travel is supersonic.
First, let's look at the Concorde
The Concorde, cooperatively built by France and Britain, is the most successful commercial jet to travel at supersonic speeds. The sonic boom it produced led to bans of supersonic flight over land, limiting its economic potential.
The crash of Flight 4590 in 2000 that killed all 100 passengers, nine crew members, and four people on the ground further hurt the aircraft's reputation.
In 2003, Air France and British Airways announced the retirement of the Concorde, citing economic losses.
And don't forget Russia's Tupolev Tu-144
The Soviets had their own supersonic plane: the Tupolev Tu-144. It was the only other commercial aircraft to fly at more than Mach 1.
While its first flight took place in December 1968, three months before that of its Franco-British counterpart, the Tu-144 was the lesser aircraft. Nicknamed the "Konkordski" by the Western media, it was plagued by test flight crashes and poor performance.
It was retired in 1983, after only seven years of service and 103 passenger flights.
Now the future: A concept plane from Lockheed Martin
NASA/Lockheed Martin Corporation
NASA's research mission on supersonic flight solicited this concept, submitted by Lockheed Martin. The engines are placed on top of the plane to reduce the noise that reaches the ground.
The inverted-V at the tail is meant to reduce the effect of the sonic boom by altering the flow of air over the plane. It has not been tested.
A concept from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is conducting research to develop a high speed aircraft that is quiet, safe, economical, and environmentally-friendly.
Working with NASA, it is focusing on " sonic boom modeling," which involves wind tunnel testing of concept planes.
JAXA doesn't give an exact date for completion of this project. Instead, it says that its goal will be met "by the end of the century."
Aerion's Supersonic Business Jet
Aerion is further along than most in the race to return to supersonic flight. It is already working with the FAA to test its Supersonic Business Jet, which it expects to enter the market by the end of the decade.
The jet will hold 8 to 12 passengers, but the technology it uses is scalable to larger aircraft. It will have two "sweet spots," speeds at which it is most efficient: Mach .95 and just below Mach 1.5.
Aerion says it has received letters of intent for about 50 aircraft, which are priced at $80 million.
EADS' ZEHST
The ZEHST, on the other hand, won't be ready until at least 2050, though it aims to run demonstration flights by 2020. It will avoid climate-harming emissions by using electric power and biofuel made from seaweed.
The ZEHST will fly 20 miles above the Earth, which EADS says is so high, the sonic boom will be inaudible from the ground.
Traveling at more than Mach 4, it could cross the Atlantic in an hour and travel from Tokyo to Los Angeles in under two and a half hours.
HyperMach's SonicStar
HyperMach Aerospace Ltd
This small business jet will be powered by a hybrid gas electric turbine engine. HyperMach predicts its "electromagnetic drag reduction technology" will dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the sonic boom.
The SonicStar will have room for 10-20 passengers, and will cruise at Mach 3.8 between 60,000 and 65,000 feet.
HyperMach counts executives and government officials as its potential future customers, but notes the jet could be used to transport luxury cargo or even race horses.
XCOR's Lynx
XCOR Aerospace
XCOR is pioneering the idea of point-to-point space travel: crossing the planet by leaving it altogether. It hopes to make it a reality by 2030, and the first step is getting a "stepping stone vehicle" into space.
The two-seater Lynx will take off and land on a runway like a conventional plane, but will fly outside the atmosphere, fast enough to get from London to Sydney in three and a half hours.
XCOR is booking "up and down" flights in the Lynx for $95,000. Once it has built up a reliable safety record, it will develop and launch a larger spacecraft that will make point-to-point space travel a reality.
Boeing X-51 WaveRider
The X-51 WaveRider is the work of DARPA, NASA, the Air Force, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney. Scramjet technology forces combustion when airflow is faster than the speed of sound, making speeds as high as Mach 20 theoretically possible.
Developed to enable long-range, rapid response military strikes, the X-51 was dropped from a B-52 at 50,000 feet over the Pacific in mid-August. The test flight ended in failure when the aircraft lost control before the engine fired up.
The unsuccessful flight was the second for the WaveRider. In June of last year it rocketed to speed, but crashed when it failed to separate from its booster.
This isn't the only game changer...
Learn more about supersonic flight and how it will revolutionize travel >
See our list of Game Changers: 30 Innovations That Will Change The World >
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Jeff Bezos is the richest person alive — here’s how he makes and spends his billions
Andy Kiersz, Business Insider US
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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, is the richest person alive.
He’s the first person in modern history to accumulate a fortune of over $100 billion.
He spends his $150 billion fortune on real estate across the US, a $65 million Gulfstream Jet, and his space exploration company Blue Origin.
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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of ecommerce giant Amazon, is the wealthiest person alive and the first person in modern history to accumulate a fortune of over $100 billion.
Bezos has an estimated net worth of $150 billion, according to Bloomberg, largely from his holdings in Amazon.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announced on Thursday that they had finalized their divorce, which was originally announced in January. According to a statement from MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff Bezos will retain 75% of the Amazon shares held by the couple, as well as their joint holdings in the Washington Post and space exploration venture Blue Origin after their split.
From real estate to space travel, here’s how Bezos spends his money.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, the source of much of his wealth, on July 5, 1994.
Bezos’ parents were reportedly shocked that he would give up a cushy Wall Street job in order to sell books over the internet.
Jon Erlichman
Source: “The Everything Store” via Business Insider
Bezos’ parents eventually came around and invested about a quarter million dollars in the fledgling company, a stake that would be worth as much as $30 billion today.
Amazon made its initial public offering on May 15, 1997. Since that day, the split-adjusted stock price has increased nearly 93,000%.
Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Yahoo Finance
Source: Yahoo Finance
Amazon’s rise left several early internet competitors in the dust. In the company’s first post-IPO shareholder letter, Bezos mentioned strategic partnerships with several peers like America Online, Prodigy, and Yahoo that have either gone out of business entirely or been purchased by competitors since.
Amazon has steadily grown over the last two decades, and now sells a wide variety of consumer products, electronics, and digital media.
Source: Amazon
Another big recent growth area is Amazon Web Services. As of February 2018, the company’s cloud services was a $17.5 billion business.
Amazon Web Services event
Amazon has also grown through various acquisitions over time. The company’s 2009 purchase of online shoe retailer Zappos for $1.2 billion stood as Amazon’s biggest acquisition for about eight years.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.
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Source: Visual Capitalist
That record was blown out of the water with Amazon’s 2017 purchase of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.
Business Insider/Hayley Peterson
The Whole Foods acquisition has dramatically boosted Amazon’s push into the grocery world. A recent report from OneClickRetail estimates that Amazon now has an 18% share of the US online grocery market.
Amazon’s rise is the primary source of Bezos’ $150 billion fortune. Bezos remains Amazon’s largest stockholder, owning 16% of the ecommerce giant. According to MacKenzie Bezos’ statement on the couple’s divorce, Jeff Bezos will retain 75% of the couple’s Amazon stock holdings, and the voting power of MacKenzie Bezos’ shares.
Source: Forbes
Bezos has made several investments in other companies, both on a personal level and through his venture capital firm Bezos Expeditions.
REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Bezos personally invested in Google in 1998, and his $1 million early investment would likely have made him a billionaire even without his extensive Amazon wealth.
Edgar Su/Reuters
Bezos Expeditions has invested in several startups, including blood testing biotech firm Grail, popular software developer website Stack Overflow, and Business Insider.
Business Insider’s newsroom.
Daniel Goodman
Business Insider was acquired by Axel Springer in 2015. Jeff Bezos is no longer invested.
One of Bezos’ more notable purchases in recent years was his acquisition of The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Since Bezos’ acquisition, the Post has greatly expanded its digital offerings, and readership has exploded.
REUTERS/Stelios Varias
Bezos’ wealth is so massive that, according to Business Insider calculations, spending $88,000 to him is similar to an average American spending $1.
REUTERS/Rex Curry
Bezos is one of the country’s biggest landowners, and he and his family own five homes across the US.
One estate, with two homes on 5.3 acres of land, is located in Medina, WA, not far from Amazon’s Seattle headquarters.
Stephen Brashear/Getty
Business Insider’s Harrison Jacobs recently visited Medina to get a sense of what the haven for Seattle’s mega-wealthy was like.
Harrison Jacobs/Business Insider
Jacobs got a picture of the outside of Bezos’ estate, but tall hedges and a gate blocked any view inside.
Bezos also owns a Spanish-style mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
Dream Homes Magazine
He also owns a ranch in Van Horn, Texas, which serves as a base for his Blue Origin space exploration company.
Bezos purchased a townhouse in Washington, DC in 2016.
Finally, Bezos’ parents own three condos in the Century building at 25 Central Park West in Manhattan.
David Shankbone/Wikipedia Commons
Bezos has traditionally been somewhat frugal with his ground transportation. As recently as 2013, he was still driving a Honda Accord, according to the book “The Everything Store.”
A Honda Accord; not necessarily Bezos’.
However, Bezos also owns a $65 million Gulfstream G650ER private jet.
A Gulfstream G650ER.
Bezos sometimes has a taste for exotic cuisine. The founder of ecommerce startup Woot recounted a breakfast with Bezos shortly after Amazon acquired the company at which the billionaire ordered octopus.
Andrew Toth / Stringer / Getty Images
The founder recounted Bezos explaining similarities between Amazon’s acquisition of Woot and his offbeat breakfast order. “You’re the octopus that I’m having for breakfast,” Bezos said. “When I look at the menu, you’re the thing I don’t understand, the thing I’ve never had. I must have the breakfast octopus.”
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Bezos has not engaged in public philanthropy to the same extent as many of his hyper-billionaire peers like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, who have both pledged to donate the majority of their fortunes to charity.
Bezos has, however, supported Mary’s Place, a Seattle organization that provides shelter and employment training to those who are homeless, and TheDream.US, which supports people who were brought to the US as undocumented immigrants when they were children.
Mary’s Place shelter.
By Ed Murray, via Wikimedia Commons
According to CNBC, Bezos has also donated significant sums to Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the University of Washington Foundation, and Princeton University.
Princeton University, Jeff Bezos’ alma mater.
Facebook/Princeton University
Bezos also supports some more unusual ventures, like the Long Now Foundation, which seeks to build a giant mechanical “10,000 year clock” underground in West Texas.
The cave that for the 10,000 year clock.
10000 year clock
The clock is intended to be a “symbol for long-term thinking,” according to a tweet from Bezos.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Bezos has been fascinated and inspired by NASA and space travel since watching the Apollo moon landings in his childhood. In 2013, Bezos funded and led an expedition to recover one of the rocket engines from the Apollo 12 mission from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
Apollo 12 launches in stormy weather.
Bezos’ most ambitious venture may be Blue Origin, his space exploration company.
Win McNamee / Getty Images
Blue Origin has had several successful test flights of its reusable New Shepard rocket, and is currently developing the larger, mostly reusable New Glenn rocket system, intended to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
In the long term, Bezos intends for Blue Origin to support large-scale human spaceflight, with the goal of colonizing the solar system.
Isaiah J. Downing/Reuters
Bezos told Matthias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider’s parent company Axel Springer, that he considers Blue Origin “the most important work [he’s] doing.”
Indeed, Bezos told Döpfner that he plans to spend his entire fortune on space exploration, saying “I am going to use my financial lottery winnings from Amazon to fund that.”
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Is South Crenshaw High In 'All American' A Real School? Everything Else In The Show Is Based On A True Story
By Taylor Maple
Most of the action surrounding Spencer James on The CW's new teenage football drama All American centers around Spencer's move from South Crenshaw High School in a low income neighborhood of Los Angeles to the wealthy school system of Beverly Hills. It's a culture shock for Spencer, to say the least, but Beverly Hills High offers him a safer educational environment, as well as renewed hopes for football stardom. All American is rooted in reality, so is South Crenshaw High a real school?
Crenshaw is definitely a real southern Los Angeles neighborhood with high schools bearing its name. Crenshaw High School houses grades 9 through 12 in the area, and is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, so that's not a far cry from the South Crenshaw High featured in All American. According to the Los Angeles Times, Daniel Ezra, who plays Spencer in the show, even spent time at Crenshaw High School to become more absorbed the role. So, it's probably safe to say the schools in that area serve as much of the source material for the dramatized school featured on All American.
The story is loosely based on the early football years of former NFL player Spencer Paysinger, according to the same Times report, so viewers can likely trust that nothing is too far-fetched.
Paysinger, who serves as a consulting producer on the show, told the Miami Sun-Sentinel that he was able to attend a school outside his typical neighborhood and community of classmates because of the work his family members did in that district. And, though he had a long commute to Beverly Hills High each day from his home neighborhood, experiencing both worlds was a valuable lesson for him to have. "I think it gives me a good understanding of different ethnicities, different cultures and respecting them for how they were brought up, and hopefully they respect me and how I was brought up,"
He also told Newsday that even though the bones of the story are gleaned from his real life, there are definitely adjustments made for the sake of storytelling. "I trusted [the writers] to take the story I told them and create a compelling story out of it and I felt like they did a great job with that," he said. "Yes, there are some liberties taken within the show, but the roots of what they’re talking about, I definitely dealt with that."
In the show, South Crenshaw is seen as a more weathered high school in a dangerous neighborhood, and even if aspects of it are rooted in real life, it was important to Paysinger not to dismiss his onscreen counterpart's original neighborhood as too unsavory. "One of the first things I mentioned to April [Blair, executive producer] was we can’t disrespect South-Central [Los Angeles],” Paysinger said in the same Los Angeles Times piece linked above. "I didn’t want to disrespect the neighborhood and say Spencer went to Beverly and everything was great. Beverly actually exposed me to a whole new set of problems — rich kid problems."
So, viewers can expect All American's South Crenshaw High School, and all the themes and characters surrounding it, to be truly reminiscent of the real-life neighborhood. Paysinger is not only from that neck of the woods, but he's also helping to tell a story he knows better than anyone, and that's a fantastic sign for the show's authenticity.
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Is 'This Is Us' On Tonight? The Pearsons Are Taking Nov. 6 Off For A Good Reason
By Kelly Schremph
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It's impossible to not fall in love with a show like This Is Us, which means fans from all over gather around the TV every Tuesday night to find out what new way the Pearson family will inevitably make us cry. So when a new episode doesn't air, you better believe viewers are going to take notice, which is why you may find yourself asking if This Is Us is on tonight, on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 6. As it turns out, it's not, and our favorite fictional family is going on a very brief hiatus, but don't worry — it's for a very good reason.
As most of you undoubtedly know by now, Nov. 6 marks the midterm elections, which has caused many TV shows to help spread the word and promote the importance of getting out there to vote. That also means that the majority of the primetime networks will cover the big event as the results begin to unfold. NBC is no exception and will air a new special, titled The Vote: America's Future, that will be broadcast live from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET. Given that This Is Us usually airs at 9 p.m. ET, there's simply no room in the schedule to allow a new episode to air. But given that this delay is due to such an important moment in our country's history, the Pearsons are sure to understand the temporary postponement. They're all pretty great like that.
At the end of last week's episode, the voiceover for the series warned that This Is Us wouldn't be airing a new episode this week. But just in case you were too engrossed in Toby's backstory to pay attention (or were blowing your nose a little too loudly into a tissue — been there!), the official This Is Us Twitter account posted a reminder to fans that the series would be taking a break this Tuesday night. "There's no new #ThisIsUs this week," the tweet read. "But we're here still trying to get over last week's."
However, if you're still looking to get your This Is Us fill for the week, all of the previously aired episodes are currently available to watch on Hulu for those who have an account. That means you can watch as many (or as few) episodes of the series as you would like, as well as revisit some of your favorite moments — and given how lovable this family is prone to be, there's guaranteed to be quite a few.
And then, as fast as the hiatus arrived, it will be over with just as quickly. NBC will return to its regularly scheduled programming the following week, so a brand new episode of This Is Us will debut on Tuesday, Nov. 13. From there, fans will be able to dive deeper into Jack's mysterious past (perhaps even find out more about the woman wearing Jack's necklace in Vietnam) and hopefully learn a few more details about those puzzling flash-forward scenes.
Answers to those questions and many more are sure to be on the horizon, but we'll just have to wait at least a week to get them. Knowing this show, though, it'll be well worth it.
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House Democrats on Gun Legislation
2019-02-26T11:38:38-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/416/20190226113938013_hd.jpgRepresentative Mike Thompson (D-CA) and former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), along with other lawmakers and students, held a news conference on gun control bills slated for a vote the following day. The two bills would expand background checks for gun buyers. Mr. Thompson is chair of the House Democratic Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.
Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA) and former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), along with other lawmakers and students, held a… read more
Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA) and former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), along with other lawmakers and students, held a news conference on gun control bills slated for a vote the following day. The two bills would expand background checks for gun buyers. Mr. Thompson is chair of the House Democratic Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. close
Jason A. Crow U.S. Representative [D] Colorado
Gabrielle Giffords U.S. Representative (Former) [D] Arizona
Lucia "Lucy" K. McBath U.S. Representative [D] Georgia
Mike Thompson U.S. Representative [D] California
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Chronic pain hits 10% of Canadians under 44
Back pain, migraines and other chronic pain hinder about one in 10 Canadians aged 12 to 44, Statistics Canada says.
CBC News · Posted: Dec 15, 2010 10:29 AM ET | Last Updated: December 15, 2010
Wednesday's report focused on a sample of 57,660 respondents, representing 14.6 million Canadians in the younger age range. About one in 10, an estimated 1.5 million people, answered "no" when asked if they were usually free of pain or discomfort.
Among those aged 12 to 44, chronic pain was often associated with back problems, and for females in particular, with migraine headaches.
Regina neurosurgeon Dr. Krishna Kumar treats Don Anderson's chronic pain with a device that sends an electric charge to neutralize pain signals. About 63 per cent of people aged 12 to 44 with chronic pain reported activity limitations at least sometimes. ((CBC))
"One of the contributions of this study is that it demonstrates how chronic pain has implications for people's quality of life," said report author Heather Gilmour, a senior analyst with Statistics Canada in Ottawa.
"For example, chronic pain sufferers were more likely to report activity limitations in all domains of their life, that they needed help with everyday tasks, and that pain not only limited but prevented some of their activities."
The activities included needing help getting dressed, moving around the household, doing housework, running errands or paying bills.
The findings also have job implications since fewer men and women in the chronic pain group said they had gone to work in the week before they were interviewed — 87 per cent of men and 72 per cent of women who were pain-free versus 78 per cent of men and 65 per cent of women in the chronic pain group.
About 63 per cent of people aged 12 to 44 with chronic pain reported experiencing activity limitations "sometimes" or "often," compared with 15 per cent of those who did not have chronic pain.
Coping with pain
Lynn Cooper, 54, has suffered from chronic pain since she severely injured her back when she suddenly had to hold the lid of an antique floor safe 24 years ago.
Since then, the Kitchener, Ont., resident has experienced varying degrees of pain from her waist to her toes, as well as developing fibromyalgia and debilitating migraines that initially lasted a week.
"My life with pain has been a real journey," said Cooper, who volunteers as president of the Canadian Pain Coalition, a non-profit advocacy group.
Lynn Cooper walks and stretches to help relieve chronic pain, which affects one in five Canadians of all ages. ((Canadian Pain Coalition))
Cooper knows from personal experience that coping with chronic pain requires a shift in attitude and change in lifestyle, using strategies such as diet changes, prioritizing and pacing one's day, as well as physiotherapy, massage, acupuncture and appropriate exercises.
People with pain can feel lonely and desperate, Cooper said, adding there is a stigma associated with pain that sees sufferers being unfairly judged as malingerers and drug seekers.
The stigma stems from miscommunication and lack of understanding, but the group has created an online resource to help people with chronic pain to help themselves and promote awareness.
Pain is misunderstood and undertreated, agreed Dr. Mary Lynch, president of the Canadian Pain Society, a companion group of health-care professionals.
Both groups applauded the Statistics Canada report for contributing to research on younger Canadians, noting that overall, studies suggest one in five Canadians suffer chronic pain.
In the Statistics Canada report, about nine per cent of males and 12 per cent of females aged 12 to 44 experienced chronic pain.
Fewer than five per cent in this age group reported arthritis, but among those who did, almost half reported chronic pain.
Seeking health care
Not surprisingly, those with chronic pain were more likely to say they turned to health-care professionals such as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and psychologists, than people who were usually free of pain, including many services that are not covered by public health insurance.
For example, 19 per cent of males and 20 per cent of females with chronic pain consulted with a physiotherapist in the past 12 months compared with seven per cent of males and females who were generally pain-free.
As might be expected, people with chronic pain were less likely than those who were generally pain-free to consider their well-being positively.
More than 95 per cent of younger Canadians who were free of chronic pain described their health as good, very good or excellent compared with 80 per cent of males and 76 per cent of females with chronic pain.
Mood disorders and anxiety were more common among people with chronic pain. About 21 per cent of females with chronic pain had a mood disorder, and 18 per cent had an anxiety disorder.
In comparison, among women who were pain-free, there were six per cent who reported a mood disorder, and six per cent an anxiety disorder.
The data came from 2007-08 Canadian Community Health Survey.
Chronic pain a big issue for seniors: StatsCan
Chronic pain affects 1 in 3 Canadians: poll
Chronic pain at ages 12 to 44, Statistics Canada
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About Protected Areas
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Requirement in the Programme of Work: Goal 4.2 - To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of protected areas management
4.2.2 Implement management effectiveness evaluations of at least 30 percent of each Party’s protected areas by 2010 and of national protected area systems and, as appropriate, ecological networks.
4.2.4 Implement key recommendations arising from site- and system-level management effectiveness evaluations, as an integral part of adaptive management strategies
The following account on management effectiveness is mostly taken from (1) Evaluating effectiveness: A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas 2nd edition, IUCN WCPA and University of Queensland, Gland Switzerland and Brisane Australia, by Hockings, M, S Stolton, F Leverington, N Dudley and J Corrau (2006) and (ii) from the presentations of Jamison Ervin of Nature Conservancy for the Caribbean workshops.
What is Management effectiveness evaluation?
The evaluation of management effectiveness is generally achieved by the assessment of series of criteria (represented by carefully selected indicators) against agreed objectives or standards. Management effectiveness evaluation is defined as the assessment of how well protected areas are being managed – primarily the extent to which management is protecting values and achieving goals and objectives. The term management effectiveness reflects three main ‘themes’ in protected area management:
design issues relating to both individual sites and protected area systems;
adequacy and appropriateness of management systems and processes;
and delivery of protected area objectives including conservation of values.
IUCN-WCPA has developed a management effectiveness evaluation framework which provides a consistent basis for designing evaluation systems for protected areas. Components of the IUCN framework include design of systems and individual protected areas (context and planning), appropriateness of management systems and processes (inputs and processes), and delivery of protected area objectives (outputs and outcomes). These components are divided into six elements, elaborated below, each comprising a number of evaluation indicators to assess management effectiveness.
Assessment needs to be made in the context of the protected area, so first assessments need to gather data on issues relating to the areas values, threats and opportunities, stakeholders, and the management and political context. Management starts with planning of strategies needed to fulfil the vision, goals and objectives of protection and to reduce threats. To put these plans in place and meet management objectives, managers need inputs (resources) of staff, money and equipment. Management activities are implemented according to accepted processes (i.e. best practices); which produce outputs by completing activities outlined in work plans. The end result of management is the achievement of outcomes, i.e. reaching the goals and objectives set for the biological conservation, economic development, social sustainability or cultural heritage of the protected area.
Design and issues
Context: Assessment of importance, threats and policy/cultural environment
The context review, although not an analysis of management, helps managers put their decisions in context and helps prioritise action based on biological, cultural and political information. The context assessment can help managers answer the following questions:
Why is the protected area important?
What are the threats facing the protected area?
Is the government supportive of the protected area?
What is the role and effect of stakeholders on protected area management?
Planning: Assessment of protected area design and planning
The assessment of management planning draws from the findings of the context assessment, Planning involves understanding the direction and objectives of management and deciding on the strategies that are required to achieve these, within the context of the protected area’s status and characteristics. The planning assessment can therefore help managers to answer three questions:
Is the legal status and tenure of the protected area is clear?
How do the protected area’s characteristics (e.g. size and shape) influence management?
Is there an adequate management planning process?
Appropriateness of management systems and processes
Inputs: Assessment of resources needed to carry out protected area management
Allocating funds and staff time and developing infrastructure to fulfil management needs should be linked to and, in large part, directed by planning decisions. Although protected area management plans rarely provide specific commitments of funds and staff, they establish the basis for short-term or annual operational planning in which decisions about allocation of resources (budgets) are made. An assessment of resources allows managers to identify shortfalls in staff, funds and equipment in relation to planned activities. Assessment considers the resources required for effective management, measures these against what is available and looks at the effectiveness of resource use. The assessment thus has to address two important questions:
Has the protected area got the resources needed to meet its management objectives?
Are resources used in the best way?
Processes: Assessment of the way in which management is conducted
The use of the best possible management practices is essential for effective protected area site or system management. Assessment can show if best practice is being applied in day-to-day management and if management practices can be or need to be improved. The process assessment asks:
Are agreed policies and procedures for management in place?
Are the best systems and standards of management being followed?
How can the management practices be improved?
Delivery of protected area objectives
Outputs: Assessment of the implementation of management programmes, actions and services
The results of management activity can be considered in two ways – the outputs and outcomes. First, there are the direct outputs produced by management, which usually consist of a set of products or services (e.g. an area of controlled burn, number of invasive species eradicated, length of track maintained, numbers of guided walks conducted or numbers of anti-poaching patrols). The output assessment looks at what managers and their staff have been doing and whether the targets set in management plans or annual work programmes have been met. An output assessment therefore asks questions such as:
Has the the number number or level of products and services been delivered?
Have planned actions, tasks and strategies been implemented?
Outcomes: Assessment of the extent to which objectives have been achieved
The outcome assessment considers impacts of management on the broad objectives set for the protected area. It looks beyond the implementation of immediate management activities (i.e. the outputs) to the longer term success of the protected area by attempting to answer the question:
Has management resulted in the achievement of the objectives of, and desired outcomes for, the protected area?
Approaches to outcome evaluation ideally involve long-term monitoring of the condition of the biological and cultural resources of the system/site, socio-economic aspects of use and the impacts of the management on local communities. In the final analysis, outcome evaluation is the true test of management effectiveness. Even if other aspects of management are highly effective, a protected area will clearly not be effective if it loses its core values.
Summary of the IUCN-WCPA Framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas and protected area systems
Since the development of WCPA framework in 2000, technical experience increased rapidly resulting in a range of assessment systems based upon the framework. There are now three basic approaches ;
In-depth, evidence based assessments aimed at building monitoring systems and long-term understanding of management in an individual protected area, such as the Enhancing our Heritage system being developed for World Heritage sites.
System-wide peer–based assessment developed specifically for use on a system-wide scale such as the WWF RAPPAM system and the systems developed in Finland, Catalonia (Spain) and New South Wales (Australia).
Scorecard expert–based assessments
There are four major steps in assessing protected area management effectiveness (i) getting started (ii) gathering data (iii) analyzing results and (iv) integrating into capacity assessments
Important considerations for getting started include (i) who – setting up an organizing committee consisting of key agency staff, NGOs, donors and local people, who have detailed knowledge about policies, field level conditions and interagency dynamics as well as organizational, communication, facilitation and analytical skills (ii) Where – the scope of assessment, either an entire system or an individual protected area. (iii) how - gathering information through workshops, direct interviews using questionnaires based on WCPA framework. For example WWF- RAPPM questionnaire contain more than 100 questions and relies on qualitative scoring by workshop participants.
Gathering Data
This includes four parameters of information collection: (i) significance and vulnerability gathering
(ii) Threats and Pressures include : Any human activity that impairs biodiversity; Applies to existing and future threats; scored by extent, severity and permanence (1-64); and can incorporate multiple data sources
(iii) Management elements
Assessment Methodologies: General
(iv) System – wide enabling environment
Analyzing data
This includes (i) management elements (ii) threats and pressures, and (iii) cross–cutting analyses. Management elements in turn consist (a) identifying broad trends, (b) identifying specific weaknesses, (c) identifying themes. Threats and pressures includes (i) analyzing single threat, (ii) comparing threats, (iii) comparing threats across protected areas, and (iv) comparing vulnerability. Cross cutting analysis includes understanding threat and significance, and (ii) understanding the relationship between effectiveness, threat and significance.
Integrating into capacity assessments
Tools and Rresources
1. RAPPAM Ervin, J. (2003). WWF: Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management (RAPPAM) Methodology. WWF, Gland, Switzerland.
The WWF Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management (RAPPAM) methodology provides a country-wide assessment of the effectiveness of protected area management, threats, vulnerabilities and degradation. The RAPPAM methodology is already available in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mongolian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Bahasa Indonesia, Khmer,. For a download of the English version, please visit http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/our_solutions/protection/rappam/index.cfm
2. World Bank/WWF Tracking Tool
Stolton, S., Hockings, M., Dudley, N., MacKinnon, K. and Whitten, T. (2003). Reporting Progress in Protected Areas: A Site-Level Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool. World Bank/WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use.
Commonly referred to as the Tracking Tool, this rapid assessment is being used in all World Bank/WWF Alliance protected area project sites to track changes in effectiveness of management. The system has also been adopted by the Global Environment Facility as the basis for tracking changes in management effectiveness in all GEF protected area project sites. A version of the Tracking Tool has been developed for Marine Protected Areas by the World Bank (see listing under Marine Protected Areas. The Tracking Tool is available in the following languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, English, French, Khmer, Lao, Mongolian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. For a download of the English version, please refer to http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/our_solutions/protection/rappam/tracking_tool/index.cfm
3. WWF/CATIE methodology
Cifuentes, M. and Izurieta Valery, A.A. (1999). Evaluation of Protected Area Management Effectiveness: Analysis of Procedures and Outline for a Manual.
The WWF/CATIE evaluation methodology was developed as a structured, sequential and simple-to-use evaluation methodology, based on a scoring system which was developed to address the special needs of protected areas in Latin America.. Together with the PROARCA-CAPAS methodology, the WWF-CATIE system has been widely applied across Central America. Available in English and Spanish versions. http://www.iucn.org/themes/WCPA/pubs/mgteffectpdfs/PARKSfin_esp.pdf http://www.iucn.org/themes/WCPA/pubs/mgteffectpdfs/Art_Eng.pdfCont.
4. PROARCA-CAPAS scorecard Courrau, J. (1999). Strategy for monitoring and management of protected areas in Central America. USA, PROARCA-CAPAS Program, The Nature Conservancy.
The PROARCA/CAPAS system is based on the ‘scoring model’ to evaluate protected area management developed by TNC in the early 1990’s. The PROARCA/CAPAS methodology includes assessment of 43 indicators in five fields; natural and cultural resources, social, administrative, political/legal, and economic/ financial. Available online at: http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/pubs/mgteffectpdfs/c.america-eng.pdf
5. National Parks and Conservation Association State of the Parks The National Parks Conservation Association’s State of the Parks program aims to provide accurate and timely information on natural and cultural resource conditions and stewardship capacity for selected national parks in the USA. Available online at: http://www.npca.org/across_the_nation/park_pulse/
6. The Nature Conservancy –Conservation Action Planning Low, G. (2003). Landscape-scale Conservation: A Practitioner’s Guide. The Nature Conservancy, USA. TNC has developed an integrated process for planning, implementing and measuring conservation success for its conservation projects. This process is called the “Conservation Action Planning (CAP)” process. The CAP Toolkit and supporting material is available at: http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/cap/CAP_Toolkit.zip/file_view
7. World Heritage Areas Enhancing our Heritage: monitoring and managing for success in natural World Heritage sites. Hockings, M., Stolton, S., Courrau, J.,Dudley, N. and Parrish, J. (2004).The World Heritage Management Effectiveness Workbook: How tobuild monitoring, assessment andreporting systems to improve the management effectiveness of naturalWorld Heritage sites. Revised Edition. University of Queensland, Australia.
Evaluation methodology developed for detailed site level assessment. The Workbook provides guidelines and assessment tools for each element of the WCPA Framework. These tools have been designed to allow specific needs and circumstances of the site to be taken into account and to provide a means for integration of existing monitoring data into the evaluation system. While designed specifically to meet the needs of natural World Heritage sites, the methodology is applicable to any protected area. Available online at: http://www.enhancingheritage.net
8. Marine Protected Areas IUCN/NOAA/WWF Guidebook Pomeroy, R.S., Parks, J.E. and Watson, L.M. (2004). How is your MPA doing? A Guidebook of Natural and Social Indicators for Evaluating Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
The guidebook provides a step-by-step process for planning and evaluating the management effectiveness of MPAs. It lists 42 MPA-specific indicators that MPA managers can choose to use for evaluating their site. The book draws on the work of the MPA Management Effectiveness Initiative, shaped by IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) - Marine and World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF). Available online at: http://www.effectivempa.noaa.gov/guidebook/guidebook.htmlCont.
9. Western Indian Ocean Guidebook Wells, S. and Mangubhai, S. (2004).Assessing Management Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas: A Workbook for the Western Indian Ocean. IUCN Eastern AfricanRegional Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. Available online at: http://www.wiomsa.org/data/content/DOCUMENTS/2005112212511831IUCN%20BOOK%20part%201.pdf
10. World Bank MPA Scorecard Staub, F. and Hatziolos, M.E. (2003).Score Card to Assess Progress inAchieving Management ffectiveness Goals for Marine Protected Areas.The World Bank, Washington, DC,USA.
This marine version of the World Bank/WWF Alliance Tracking Tool was prepared by the World Bank for use in Marine Protected Areas. It is available for download in English, French and Spanish versions from: http://www.icriforum.org/mpa/MPAeffectiveness.html
11. Foundations of Success Foundations of Success (FOS) is a not-for-profit organization committed to working with practitioners to learn how to do conservation better through the process of adaptive management. The FOS website provides information and documentation on adaptive management and evaluation including the results of a comprehensive review of approaches to monitoring and evaluation in a range of fields including conservation. Website: http://fosonline.org/
12. Conservation Measures Partnership The Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) is a partnership of conservation NGOs that seek better ways to design, manage and measure the impacts of their conservation actions. Two products from the CMP relevant to evaluation of management effectiveness are a Taxonomy of Direct Threats and Conservation Actions and a set of Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Both products are available from the CMP website at: www.conservationmeasures.org/CMP/
13. Selected Evaluation Studies Global studies WWF report on management of forest protected areas.Dudley, N., Belukurov, A., Borodin,O., Higgins-Zogib, L., Hockings, M.,Lacerda, L. and Stolton, S. (2004). Are protected areas working: Ananalysis of forest protected areas by WWF. WWF, Gland, Switzerland.
Analysis and report on the results of application of the World Bank/WWF Alliance Tracking Tool in over 200 forest protected areas in 37 countries. http://assets.panda.org/downloads/areprotectedareasworking.pdf
14. Management effectiveness evaluation of Finland’s protected areas Gilligan, B., Dudley, N., Fernandez de Tejada, A. and Toivonen, H. (2005). Management Effectiveness Evaluation of Finland’s Protected Areas. Nature Protection Publications of Metsähallitus. Series A 147. Study used an external team of evaluators who visited many of the protected areas and completed an assessment based around the elements in the IUCN-WCPA Framework combined with a RAPPAM based assessment completed by Agency staff. The report is available in electronic format at http://www.metsa.fi/mee.
15. Evaluation of management effectiveness of protected areas in Catalonia Mallarach, J.M. and Varga, J.V. (Eds) (2004). EI PEIN deu anys després: balanç I perspectives. Diversitas: 50, Universitat de Girona, Girona.
The entire methodology, including the description of all 85 indicators, and a 40 page summary of the findings can be found at the web site of Institució Catalana d’Història Natural at http://www.iec.es/institucio/societats/ICHistoriaNatural/Avaluacioespais.htm
16. ParksWatch ParksWatch is a watchdog and monitoring organization that works through partnerships with in-country NGOs and individuals to conduct on the- ground evaluations of national parks and other protected areas. Results from a series of evaluation studies of protected areas in Latin America are available online on the ParksWatch website at: http://www.parkswatch.org/main.php
17. NSW State of the Parks 2004 Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW). (2005). State of the Parks 2004. Department of Environment and Conservation, Sydney, Australia. http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/sop04/index.htm
18. Marine protected areas in Western Indian Ocean Wells, S.M. (2004). Assessment of management effectiveness in selected marine protected areas in the Western Indian Ocean. IUCN Eastern Africa Regional Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
A Workbook for assessing management effectiveness in MPAs in the WIOhas been developed, based on the workbook and methodology developed for World Heritage sites and using the WCPA/METF Framework. This report provides the results of testing the Workbook at eight pilot sites in Kenya, Tanzania and the Seychelles. Available for download from: http://www.icran.org/pdf/ICRAN_IUCN_ME_study_Eastern_Africa.pdf
19. Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.Parks and Wildlife Service. (2004).State of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area – an evaluation of management effectiveness. Report No. 1, Department of Tourism Parks Heritage and the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania.
This report is the result of a long-term process of monitoring and evaluation established for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area using an outcomes-based evaluation approach integrated into the management cycle for the site. The report is available on CD or can be downloaded from: http://www.parks.tas.gov.au
20. Enhancing our Heritage site reports Reports from project sites (Ecuador: Sangay National Park; Honduras: Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve; India: Kaziranga National Park; India: Keoladeo National Park; Nepal: Royal Chitwan National Park; Seychelles: Aldabra Atoll; South Africa: Greater St Lucia Wetland Park; Uganda: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park; United Republic of Tanzania: Serengeti National Park; Venezuela: Canaima National Park) included in the Enhancing our Heritage project are available from: http://www.enhancingheritage.net
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Poll On Princess Diana's Death
By David Hancock
April 21, 2004 / 6:12 PM / CBS
Earlier this year, the British government launched a formal investigation into the death of Princess Diana. On this side of the Atlantic, just about one-third of Americans say they have been following news on this topic closely, and large majorities think that the car crash was probably an accident.
But those who closely follow the stories are more likely to think that the car crash was planned, and more than half of them think the British Royal Family was involved in it. Regardless of what they think happened, however, Americans overwhelmingly doubt that we will ever find out the truth about Princess Diana's death.
THE ACCIDENT: PLACING BLAME
Now, most Americans think the car crash that killed Princess Diana in August 1997 was probably an accident, but a quarter say it was probably planned. Those who have been following news about Princess Diana's death are more closely divided: half say it was an accident, but two in five think it was probably planned.
CAR CRASH THAT KILLED PRINCESS DIANA WAS:
Probably an accident
Follow Story Closely
Probably planned
Overall, just under one-third of Americans say they have been closely following news about Princess Diana's car crash since she died six and a half years ago, and seven in ten say they have not been following very closely or not at all. Women are more likely than men to still follow the story closely, 37% to 23%.
Large majorities of Americans don't think either the British government or the British Royal Family was involved in the death of Princess Diana.
INVOLVED IN PRINCESS DIANA'S DEATH?
(Among All Respondents)
The British Government
The British Royal Family
Those who think the car crash in Paris was planned, however, are much more likely to blame the British government or the British Royal Family for Princess Diana's death. One in three of those who suspect foul play thinks the British government was involved in Princess Diana's death, and a majority of this group, 55%, thinks the British Royal Family was involved.
(Among Those Who Think Car Crash Was Planned)
WILL WE EVER KNOW THE TRUTH?
Regardless of what they think was involved in Princess Diana's 1997 car crash, three quarters of Americans say we may never find out what really happened. Just 15% think we will eventually know the whole story.
WILL WE EVENTUALLY KNOW THE WHOLE STORY ABOUT PRINCESS DIANA'S DEATH?
Americans hold very similar views on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy: in 1998, 77% of Americans told this Poll that Americans would never know what really happened in November 1963.
This poll was conducted among a nationwide random sample of 1,024 adults, interviewed by telephone March 30-April 1, 2004. The error due to sampling could be plus or minus three percentage points.
For detailed information on how CBS News conducts public opinion surveys, click here.
(c)MMIV, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved
First published on April 21, 2004 / 6:12 PM
David Hancock
David Hancock is a home page editor for CBSNews.com.
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The Transmission Electron Microscope
What is a Transmission Electron Microscope?
Transmission electron microscopes (TEM) are microscopes that use a particle beam of electrons to visualize specimens and generate a highly-magnified image. TEMs can magnify objects up to 2 million times. In order to get a better idea of just how small that is, think of how small a cell is. It is no wonder TEMs have become so valuable within the biological and medical fields.
How Do TEMs Work?
TEMs employ a high voltage electron beam in order to create an image. An electron gun at the top of a TEM emits electrons that travel through the microscope’s vacuum tube. Rather than having a glass lens focusing the light (as in the case of light microscopes), the TEM employs an electromagnetic lens which focuses the electrons into a very fine beam. This beam then passes through the specimen, which is very thin, and the electrons either scatter or hit a fluorescent screen at the bottom of the microscope. An image of the specimen with its assorted parts shown in different shades according to its density appears on the screen. This image can be then studied directly within the TEM or photographed. Figure 1 shows a diagram of a TEM and its basic parts.
Fig. 1 Simplified diagram of a transmission electron microscope. Drawing by Graham Colm, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
What Are the Differences Between a TEM and a Light Microscope?
Although TEMs and light microscopes operate on the same basic principles, there are several differences between the two. The main difference is that TEMs use electrons rather than light in order to magnify images. The power of the light microscope is limited by the wavelength of light and can magnify something up to 2,000 times. Electron microscopes, on the other hand, can produce much more highly magnified images because the beam of electrons has a smaller wavelength which creates images of higher resolution. (Resolution is the degree of sharpness of an image.) Figure 2 compares the magnification of a light microscope to that of a TEM.
Fig. 2 [left] Cotton stem; area in the circle is the phloem tissue. Light microscope x250. Photo by K. Esau. [right] Enlarged image of cotton phloem tissue showing a sieve element (top cell) and a companion cell (bottom cell), TEM x8,000. Photo by J. Thorsch.
How Are TEM Specimens Prepared?
Specimens must be very thin so that electrons are able to pass through the tissue. This may be done by cutting very thin slices of a specimen’s tissue using an ultramicrotome. The tissue must first be put in a chemical solution to preserve the cell structure. The tissue must also be completely dehydrated (all water removed).
Fig. 3 Ultramicrotome. Photo by J. Thorsch. Fig. 4 Microtome grid. Image by Laurie Hannah
Once preserved and dehydrated, tissue samples are placed in hard, clean plastic. The plastic supports the tissue while it is being thinly cut with the ultramicrotome (Fig. 3).
After sections are cut and mounted on grids, (tiny circular disks with openings,) a solution of lead is used to stain the tissue (Fig. 4). The lead provides contrast to the tissue by staining certain cell parts. When placed in the electron microscope, the electrons are scattered by the lead. They do not penetrate the tissue or hit the fluorescent screen, leaving those areas dark.
Esau’s Work With the TEM
Esau started using the TEM in her research in the early 1960s. When she moved to UC Santa Barbara in 1963, the campus purchased a Siemens electron microscope for her. She then received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 1969 for another new microscope which she used for the remainder of her career in Santa Barbara. The TEM significantly improved her understanding of the relationship between plants and viruses. Electron microscopy also aided in clarifying the functioning of sieve elements, the food conducting cells in plants. Without the TEM, much of this research would not have been possible.
Katherine Esau next to her transmission electron microscope. Esau in front of an ultramicrotome.
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What's New: July 2019
A Small Step ...
The upcoming month is perhaps most notable for being the 50th anniversary of the first human mission to the Moon's surface. Apollo 11 was the culmination of an 8-year effort to land humans on the Moon, beginning with President John F. Kennedy’s call for the undertaking in 1961, amid the heightened geopolitics of the Cold War. At that point, there had been one crewed flight into Earth orbit (by the Soviet Union) and only one suborbital flight by the United States. Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo sent astronauts on increasingly challenging flights to Earth orbit, to orbit around the Moon, and – eventually – to the lunar surface. Between 1969 and 1972, six missions landed a total of 12 astronauts on the Moon. Though the missions were not primarily about science, they managed to return a total of 842 lbs. of lunar samples and provided priceless information on the origin and evolution of the Earth and Moon.
The first crewed landing, Apollo 11, was launched on July 16, 1969, and set down in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20. Back in 1969, the Moon was approaching First Quarter phase when the landing occurred; the date was chosen so that the low angle of the rising Sun at the landing site on the eastern portion of the Moon would provide long shadows and a better view of relief on the surface. This year on July 20, the Moon will be a waning gibbous, best seen between midnight and dawn. The landing site will have similar illumination, but this time from the west, with the Sun setting.
With a small backyard telescope, you can find the general area of the "Tranquility Base" landing site, which will be illuminated from about July 9 to the 21st. It is shown in the image above, during the Full Moon of July 16. By searching for it, you, too, can participate in the enterprise of human exploration that goes much further back in time than Apollo.
Here's a final thought. The left image above shows a hominin footprint left in volcanic ash in Tanzania, dated to about 3.7 million years ago. On the right is a hominin footprint left in lunar dust 50 years ago. It is a humbling thought that the lunar footprint, if left undisturbed by rogue meteoroids or human tourists, may last at least a long as the one our distant ancestors made on that plain in the Pleistocene.
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It's Not All About Money
By Elisha Smith on Mar 29 2011 - 4:51pm
Many media outlets have reported Census data showing population shifts from rural areas to urban centers. The trend is more profound in some states than others and, certainly, not all rural communities are shrinking nor are all big cities growing. But, facts are facts.
What that data actually means and how we should respond is not so cut and dried, however. My community has lost population for at least 20 years. Perhaps we won’t see population growth in the foreseeable future either. But I don’t feel like we’re dying. We face stern challenges, no doubt, but what American community – urban or rural – doesn’t?
We’ve added new mainstreet businesses, built new houses and refurbished old ones. We could use more of all of that, but have we taken enough time to assess where this should lead us? The prosperity of my rural community cannot be measured by simply asking if our population has grown. It isn’t all about growth. It’s not all about money either.
It’s about quality schools, economic opportunity, home ownership, employment, recreation, opportunities for advancement and much more. Before we decide that my community’s contraction equals decline and decay, we should measure those other attributes alongside measures of population, productivity and income. Likewise, we should consider factors that are even more difficult to measure – civic participation, community cohesion, cultural activities and, I daresay, happiness.
I’m willing to work hard for the future of rural communities. But I want to make those communities better, not just bigger.
For more information visit: www.cfra.org.
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Contact John Crabtree, johnc@cfra.org or 402.687.2103 x 1010 or Elisha Smith, elishas@cfra.org or 402.687.2103 x 1007 for more information.
The Center for Rural Affairs is a private nonprofit specializing in strengthening small businesses, rural communities, and family farms and ranches.
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U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments: Stop Silencing Syrian Voices! #FreeSyriasNet
This petition made change with 18,278 supporters!
Dlshad Othman started this petition to Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce - BIS Eric Hirschhorn and 10 others
Every day, Syrians are risking their lives to broadcast pictures and videos of the uprising -- but because of U.S. sanctions on Syria, they don't have access to essential technologies that would protect them from being spied on and tracked down by the Syrian government - often with the use of computer viruses. By easing current sanctions, the U.S. can help Syrian activists share information more safely.
Because of U.S. sanctions, Syrian people are denied access to tools important to their online safety and security, such as anti-virus software and automated security updates. Syrians can't make purchases in Apple's App Store for their Apple products and it isn’t even possible to target Syrians with online advertising and PSAs on platforms like Facebook. Widely used products like Java, Yahoo Messenger, and mobile app stores like Google Play, which host important tools such as the Guardian Project's popular anti-censorship tools, do not have essential automatic security updates.
Western governments and private corporations have publicly committed to helping Syrian activists, but the reality described by activists on the ground—and documented recently by the Washington Post —does not always match the rhetoric. Recent statements from the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) have made it clear that it is U.S. Government Policy that these tools should be available. Yet many vital platforms and tools remain inaccessible, because the sanctions are too complex and most companies fear harsh penalties of up to $1m per infractions.
As Syria undergoes unprecedented political upheaval, there is an opportunity for the Departments of Commerce and Treasury to review existing export controls, examining current language and licensure mechanisms, to address the concerns of private companies and reduce the barriers to licensing.
We ask that Commerce and Treasury consider:
• Granting a new general license to provide broader, clearer, and more explicit exemptions on personal communications and security technologies, balancing legitimate concerns over cryptography and financial transactions with the need to protect the safety of at risk populations.
• Streamlining the licensing process for both companies and non-governmental organizations, and offer clearer formal and informal guidance to companies on licensing procedures.
Please join me and other human rights advocates from Syria and across the world in calling on the U.S. Departments of Treasury and Commerce to rise to the challenge.
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Circa 1732-1792. Built around 1760, the Smallwood Retreat House, originally known as Mattawoman Plantation, was the home of American Revolutionary War General William Smallwood, until his death in 1792. During the Revolutionary War, General Smallwood, a two-star general, was the highest ranking military man from the State. No stranger to positions of leadership, he served three one-year terms as the Governor of Maryland beginning in 1785. A lifelong bachelor, Smallwood was a gentleman farmer, who made a sizeable fortune farming tobacco in Southern Maryland. At one time he owned over 5,000 acres. Smallwood had no children, and like Thomas Jefferson and several other patriots, he died in debt. Out of necessity, his home sold at public auction to satisfy his obligations. After the sale, various renters and tenants occupied the property until it fell into ruin. Luckily, in 1934, concerned citizens formed the Smallwood Foundation in an effort to save the house. The restoration began in 1954 and reached completion in 1958. The house was reconstructed and opened to the public in 1958, under the direction of the Smallwood Foundation, Inc. Today, the period furnishings in the building correspond to those listed in the inventory for the property housed at the Maryland Archives. Visit the Smallwood Retreat House and learn more about General Smallwood's life and times. Colonial cooking demonstrations are held the second Sunday of each month. All tours are conducted by costumed docents, who are Smallwood State Park volunteers.
Days/Hours of Operation:
May through September - Open Sundays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Cost: (Park Entry) $3 Maryland residents; $5 non-Maryland residents
Check out our Facebook page at: www.Facebook.com/MDStateParks
Follow us on Twitter at: www.Twitter.com/MDStateParks
2750 Sweden Point Road
Smallwood State Park
Marbury, MD 20658
http://dnr2.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/southern/smallwood.aspx
Source URL: https://www.charlescountymd.gov/locations/smallwood-retreat-house-0
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Malala describes attack, recovery in book excerpt
GREGORY KATZ
Oct 08, 2013, 9:32 AM EDT
(AP Photos/United Nations Foundation, Stuart Ramson, File)
LONDON (AP) — Seven days after the Pakistani Taliban shot her in the head, Malala Yousafzai woke up confused in a place that wasn't home. Her first thought? "Thank God I'm not dead."
Malala, whose campaign for girls' right to education made her a Taliban target, describes the shooting and its aftermath in a book that comes out Tuesday, a day before the anniversary of the assassination attempt.
In an excerpt in The Sunday Times, the now 16-year-old describes riding in a school van with her girlfriends when it was stopped by two men, including the gunman who shot Malala in the left eye socket at close range.
"I woke up on October 16, a week after the shooting," she writes. "The first thing I thought was, 'Thank God I'm not dead.' But I had no idea where I was. I knew I was not in my homeland. The nurses and doctors were speaking English though they all seemed to be from different countries."
She gradually found out that she had been taken from Pakistan to Birmingham, England, for specialist treatment. The book excerpt describes how she gradually regained her sight and her voice and was reunited with her parents.
Malala, who has been mentioned as a possible contender for the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced Friday, also describes her amazement at finding out that some 8,000 people had sent messages of support to the hospital.
"Rehanna, the Muslim chaplain, said millions of people and children around the world had supported me and prayed for me," Malala writes. "Then I realized that people had spared my life. I had been spared for a reason. I realized that what the Taliban had done was make my campaign global."
Malala, who is now residing in the U.K., also described her goal of one day returning to Pakistan despite the risks: "To be torn from the country that you love is not something to wish on anyone," she writes.
The book is titled "I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban."
The teen author can also apparently add Queen Elizabeth II to her long list of admirers. Buckingham Palace officials said Sunday that Malala has been invited to an Oct. 18 reception at the palace that will be hosted by the queen and her husband, Prince Philip.
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President Aquino launches DPWH hotline
by magnolia_eic | Jun 24, 2011 | Headlines, National News | 0 comments
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III launches the Department of Public Works and Highways’ “call center hotline” that aims to promote transparency and improve the DPWH’s complaints and feedback mechanism, during the Chief Executive’s visit to the agency’s
headquarters in Manila Thursday.
The launching of the DPWH 24/7call center hotline 165-02, which is being undertaken in cooperation with Solutions People Innovation (SPi)-Global Inc., a subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), coincides with the commemoration of the
department’s 113th anniversary.
SPi-Global Inc.’s relationship with PLDT ensures that DPWH can provide clients with a highly reliable operating platform, 24/7 connectivity and best-of-breed technology. Aside from the launch, the President, who will be joined by DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson, will also lead awarding ceremonies honoring 25 DPWH retirees and 20 loyalty awardees who have spent 40 years and above in public service with the Department. (PCOO)
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More funding for EU Citizen Support Service
Citizens Advice Scotland is pleased to announce that our network has received £749,480 in funding from the UK Government to provide advice for EU, EEA or Swiss citizens who need assistance when making an application for settled or pre-settled status to remain in the UK after Brexit.
This new funding will help expand our EU Citizen Support service, which has been in place since 1 April and is funded by the Scottish Government. The service is specifically focussed on people who:
have difficulty accessing an android mobile phone
have limited access to the internet
find it difficult to get the evidence needed to apply
are at greater risk due to personal circumstances
have specific immigration or residency issues
CAS Chief Executive Derek Mitchell said,
“Brexit is causing uncertainty for many people in Scotland, but particularly for those who are from these countries. Many have lived here for years and are now having to navigate an application process which can be complex. It is right that they should be given support to do this, and we are pleased to partner with the UK government – as well as with the Scottish government - in delivering this assistance.”
Each of the 59 Citizens Advice Bureaux in Scotland will deliver this service through both telephone and face-to-face advice. They also have access to an android mobile phone to assist people with the application process, as this is one of the main barriers that people face. Information and advice is also available on our website - https://www.cas.org.uk/brexit.
We are in the process of recruiting 14 new dedicated advisers who will help existing project staff provide a national helpline for the project. The helpdesk number is 0800 916 9847. These advisers will also link up with local client groups to increase public awareness of the service.
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Volunteer Spotlight: Amanda Fish and Nathaniel Weschler
This month’s Volunteer Spotlight shines on father-daughter duo Nathaniel Wechsler and Amanda Fish. Nathaniel has been a volunteer advocate for just over 2 years, and encouraged his daughter to become a CASA volunteer last summer. Nathaniel and Amanda agree that “the family who serves together, stays together.”
“CASA has re-ignited the passion I have for helping others,” Amanda said, adding “Volunteering is important because it humbles you. It reminds you that there are people who are suffering, struggling, and that no matter what their circumstances are, they are worthy of attention. It takes you outside of your personal bubble, keeps your eyes open to what is easily ignored, and forces you to be selfless. “
Amanda is currently working with a 2-year-old boy. “When he climbs on my lap and gives me a hug, it feels amazing. He is so trustworthy and innocent- a reminder of why he needs to be protected and advocated for by CASA volunteers.”
Case Supervisor Lindsay Osborn said, “as a social worker, Amanda has had terrific insights into the case, which she has shared with me, the caseworker and resource parents.” She added, “Her CASA child has moved from placement in a relative resource home to his successful reunification with his biological mother in a Mommy and Me program. As this case moves toward closure, I am already hoping to be lucky enough to work with Amanda again. She is a gift to CASA.”
Nathaniel has seen two cases through to completion. His last case, where he advocated on behalf of a 6-year-old boy, lasted 19 months and closed in February with successful kinship legal guardianship.
“Volunteering in general is the gift we give to others and I am grateful for the various people who gave of themselves for me; it is important for me to ‘do unto others as they have unto me,’” Nathaniel said.
With regard to his most recent case, he said, “The last time I was in court, I witnessed the successful conclusion of my case and am confident this child stands a better than average chance of becoming a reasonably healthy adult. CASA has made me appreciate the need for children in distress to know that people care about them.”
“Nathaniel is a true advocate and consistent in his attention to the case,” said Eve Cella, Case Supervisor. “He demonstrated good insight and developed a very communicative relationship with the child and his caretakers. He remained non-judgmental and advocated for the best interest of the child; truly a wonderful volunteer.”
Thank you, Nathaniel and Amanda, for sharing your perceptiveness and enthusiasm with CASA; we appreciate all you do on behalf of vulnerable children in our community.
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Russia Plans to Export 1.5 Million MTs of Agricultural Goods to China in 2018
Apr 5, 2017 Grains (General)Barley, Canola, Flaxseed, Russia, Soybeans
Russia is planning to export 1.5 million tonnes of agricultural products to China in 2018, namely grain legume crops and sunflower oil under the terms of a long-term contract. By 2028, a total export volume will climb to 52 million tonnes, Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev said on Wednesday [29 March 2017]…Full Article: TASS Mar 2017
The bulk of Russian exports will be grains (barley, other cereals), oilseeds (soybeans, canola, flaxseed), and sunflower oil.
In December 2016, freight train services between Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, and Moscow began operations. The Xi’an-Moscow freight train service will take 11 days and follows the previously opened routes of Xi’an-Warsaw and Xi’an-Hamburg.
In October 2016, two new Russian Far East trade corridors with the Chinese provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang were under construction. The Pogranichny-Suifenhe border checkpoint in China’s Heilongjiang Province and Russia’s Primorsky Krai is a major overland trade hub. However, Russia is constructing two international transportation corridors (Primorye 1 and Primorye 2) that will link up with the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin. Both transportation corridors will be administrated by the city of Vladivostok.
In early September 2016, during the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin gave Xi Jinping Russian ice cream as a gift. The majority of Russian ice cream imports enter China via the Quarantine Bureau of Manzhouli, northeastern China.
In March 2016, China’s Minister of Agriculture encouraged Chinese companies should invest in the agriculture sector of Russia’s Far East.
In December 2015, China and Russia signed quarantine inspection agreements on Russian exports of wheat, corn, rice, and soybeans.
In October 2015, China’s Food Conglomerate, COFCO Group, announced plans to construct two warehouses (100,000 MT capacity each) in Russia’s Far East. COFCO was interested in constructing the warehouses in Russia’s Mikhailovsky priority development territory located in southern Primorsky Krai.
In June 2015, China announced it would start the construction of a joint Chinese-Russian livestock agricultural complex in Heilongjiang province. The agricultural complex will developed by China’s Zhongding Dairy Farming and Russia’s Severny Bur, with approximately 100,000 ha of Russian and Chinese land to be used to grow animal feed. Russia’s Primorsky Krai borders China’s Heilongjiang province.
In June 2015, a Zhejiang-based company was granted permission to lease 115,000 hectares of uncultivated land in Russia’s Transbaikal region (i.e. Zabaykalsky Krai). The Chinese company plans to use the land to grow vegetables, wheat, and other agricultural commodities, as well as raise livestock.
In June 2012, the Russia-China Investment Fund (RCIF) was established by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and China Investment Corporation (CIC). The private equity fund initially received US$2 billion from the RDIF and CIC (equal share). The RCIF was tapped to invest 70% of its funds in Russia and CIS countries (i.e. Central Asia), while the remaining 30% would be invested in China.
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, the Sino-Europe Agricultural Development Center is an agricultural research institution formed in part by Wageningen University & Research Center (the Netherlands), International Association of Horticultural Producers (the United Kingdom), and the Sino-Europe Technological Promotion Center (SETPC).
In 2004, the Sino-Russian agricultural joint venture “Armada” was established. The agricultural JV covered an area of 40,000 hectares in Russia’s Primorsky Krai region.
China and Russia Sign Cooperation Agreements on Wheat, Corn, Rice, and Soybeans
China’s Minister of Agriculture Advocates Increased Investments in Russia’s Far East
China’s COFCO Announces Plans to Build Two 100,000 MT Warehouses in Russia’s Far East
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Radio Free Asia: Rights Lawyer Who Criticized President Xi's Indefinite Rule Detained For Subversion
Radio Free Asia
Authorities in the southwestern region of Guangxi have detained a prominent human rights lawyer who spoke out about curbs to China's legal profession and the abolition of term limits by President Xi Jinping.
Chen Jiahong is currently under criminal detention at Guangxi's Yulin Detention Center, on suspicion of "incitement to subvert state power," RFA has learned.
According to fellow Guangxi lawyer Tan Yongpei, Chen's detention came after he posted a video to social media in which he calls for "an assassination commando," and to be "rid of this evil bureaucracy," in an apparent reference to the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Chen also called for a democratic process to work towards constitutional government in China, Tan said.
Human rights lawyer Chen Jiahong (C) is taken into
custody by police, April 29, 2019.
Photo provided by Yong Yongpei
"The police went out and detained him less than an hour and a half after the video was posted," Tan said. "Now that Chen Jiahong has shouted this out in public, the government will deem it to be publicly inciting subversion of state power."
"This crossed a red line for them," he said.
Apparently foreseeing his arrest, Chen had already prepared documents instructing his defense attorneys, and handed them to fellow rights lawyer Lu Siwei to prevent the authorities from insisting that he be represented by a government-appointed attorney.
But Lu was denied permission to visit with Chen when he showed up at the detention center on Thursday, Tan said.
"The state security police took Lu's application, and said they would inform him after they had looked into it," Tan said. "There is an unwritten rule in China that any political prisoners who are a threat to party rule will automatically be denied visits from their lawyers."
"He will only be allowed to visit him after the indictment," he said.
Dozens offer help
Dozens of fellow rights attorneys have already agreed to act on Chen's behalf, or to offer advice on his case, Tan said.
"We will arrange for a lawyer to go to the detention center every month to ask to see [Chen]," Tan said. "We will see how the Yulin authorities react to that; whether or not they allow a meeting with Chen Jiahong."
One of the group of attorneys, who asked to remain anonymous, said Chen had been very outspoken against the ruling Chinese Communist Party in recent years, and that many of his colleagues agree with his views.
"I believe that constitutional government is the only way to protect citizens' right to freedom of expression," the lawyer said. "In detaining Chen Jiahong, the government is trampling the constitution."
"Chen Jiahong was detained for opposing the party and opposing the government, so we should stand by him and defend him," he said. "We're not just defending Chen; we're defending the freedom of speech, and our generation."
Chen's ex-wife Luo Fen said his family has yet to receive any official notification of his detention.
"Someone in the police department told me that the decision to detain Chen Jiahong didn't come from the Yulin police department," Luo said. "It was ordered by the central government, the ministry of public security."
U.S.-based legal scholar Chen Guangcheng said Chen Jiahong has never hesitated to speak out.
"Those who dare to challenge authoritarian rule ... are anathema to the Chinese Communist Party," Chen Guangcheng said. "But if the Chinese people want to solve China's problems, they have to take this step."
"They must solve the problem of how to subvert an anti-human and violent regime," he said.
Call to end targeting
Chen, 53, was among dozens of Chinese attorneys to sign an open letter calling on the Chinese Communist Party to immediately release all detained human rights lawyers in February and March 2018.
In an open letter to China's minister for justice Zhang Jun, dozens of lawyers called on the government to end its targeting of lawyers, especially those who criticize changes to the constitution that paved the way for indefinite rule by President Xi Jinping.
China's embattled legal profession has been targeted with more than 300 detentions, summons, travel bans, and restrictions imposed on rights lawyers and law firm staff since July 2015.
Rights lawyers who accept politically “sensitive” cases, or who are publicly outspoken on behalf of vulnerable groups, have also been prevented from practicing law because their business licenses are being revoked during a newly instituted annual review process.
Lawyers who try to defend clients held on suspicion of crimes ostensibly linked to “state security” concerns are also denied permission to meet with their clients, or replaced by government-appointed lawyers amid threats and pressure on the people who hired them.
Reported by Han Jie for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Ng Yik-tung and Sing Man for the Cantonese Service. Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie.
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Wayne Hancock
Thunderstorms and Neon Signs (1995)
Juke Joint Jumping
She’s My Baby
Cold Lonesome Wind
Locomotive Joe
No Loving Tonight
Friday and Saturday Night
That’s What Daddy Wants (1997)
87 Southbound
Johnny Law
Freight Line Blues
Wild, Free and Reckless (1999)
Kansas City Blues
Drive On
Goin’ Back to Texas
A-Town Blues (2001)
Railroad Blues
Swing Time (2003)
Hoy Hoy Hoy
Tulsa (2006)
Drinkin’ Blues
Goin’ Home Blues
Shootin’ Star From Texas
Ain’t Gonna Worry No More
Lord Take My Pain
Brother Music, Sister Rhythm
Thomas Wayne Hancock III (born May 1, 1965 in Dallas, Texas) better known as Wayne "The Train" Hancock, is an American singer-songwriter. Hancock is known as "The King of Juke Joint Swing," because his sound is unique, as he incorporates jazz, big band, western swing, country and rockabilly, styles of music that he began listening to as a kid. His influences include Jimmie Rodgers, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Hank Thompson, and Hank Snow because they were all in his parents’ record collection.Throughout his childhood, Hancock moved around seven times because his father was a Design Engineer, who taught math at colleges across the country. Shortly after discovering country music, Hancock began writing songs at the age of twelve. Hancock’s vocal style was initially influenced by Hank Williams, and he has been compared to him throughout his career.At eighteen years old, Hancock won the Wrangler Country Showdown contest. The son of a WWII veteran, Hancock joined the United States Marine Corps immediately after winning the contest and was shipped to recruit training. Hancock served in the military for four years. During a six-month deployment at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan, he wrote wrote one of his most well known songs, "Cold Lonesome Wind" from Thunderstorms and Neon Signs.In 1990, Hancock moved to Austin, Texas. In 1994, he met Lubbock, Texas native Joe Ely, a member of the Flatlanders at the Continental Club in, Austin, Texas. Shortly thereafter, Hancock landed a role in Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen’s play, Chippy. Jimmie Dale Gilmore of the Flatlanders originally played Hancock’s character Mr. Jukebox. When Gilmore was unable to do the second run of the play, Ely brought Hancock in, saying "This guy sounds just like Hank Williams, he’d be perfect." From there, Hancock joined the cast and went into the studio to record "Thunderstorms and Neon Signs," for the soundtrack. It was his first recording of the song.Hancock met Grammy award winning producer, pedal steel player, and Lubbock, Texas native, Lloyd Maines when Maines was running sound for Chippy. Maines has produced all of Hancock’s albums, dating back to his 1995 debut, Thunderstorms and Neon Signs, released on Deja Disc Records. The album sold 22,000 copies in the first year. The follow up was Hancock’s sophomore 1997 album, That’s What Daddy Wants released on Ark 21 Records.On his debut 1999 album, Risin’ Outlaw, Hank Williams III, grandson of Hank Williams Sr., covered two songs from Thunderstorms and Neon Signs, the title track, and “Why Don’t You Leave Me Alone.” He also recorded “87 Southbound,” from That’s What Daddy Wants.On April 26, 2014, Hancock was involved in a life threatening motorcycle accident after his bike malfunctioned at 85 mph. Hancock broke eight ribs, fractured four more, cracked his sternum, fractured his elbow, punctured his left lung and wound up with internal damage but survived.
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Speaker and Christian advocate Autumn Miles (2nd from left) is the author of the upcoming book, “I Am Rahab,” inspired by her survival as a domestic abuse victim. (Photo Courtesy of Billy Hallowell)
‘The Most Shocking Thing’ This Woman Found After Polling Pastors
By Billy Hallowell | August 3, 2018
Author, speaker and Christian advocate Autumn Miles is on a mission to reach people who have been abused, misunderstood and abandoned. Much of her work in this arena — efforts that started well before the #MeToo era took the world by storm — were sparked by her own experience as a survivor of domestic abuse.
“When I was in high school, I met my high school sweetheart,” she recently told PureFlix.com’s “Pure Talk.” “He was abusive.”
Miles, author of the upcoming book, “I Am Rahab,” explained that she ended up marrying him, but eventually took her husband’s abuse to their church. Miles feared for her safety — and her life — so she filed for divorce. Her church responded by kicking her out.
In the end, Miles said that the traumatizing situation motivated her to help other women in similar situations find freedom, as she sought to “shed a light on [spousal] abuse in the church.”
“God really released me, gave me freedom,” she said. “I wanted to reach all the Autumns in the world who were misunderstood, who weren’t listened to.”
Watch Miles share her story below:
Miles has since shared her personal journey through books, media and speaking appearances, launching ministry efforts aimed at helping women find themselves amid turmoil.
Among other projects, she partnered with LifeWay Research to explore how pastors and churches cope with domestic violence, surveying 1,000 preachers to discern their views on the matter. The results were stunning.
“The most shocking thing — and the thing that really drove my passion to speak out all the more is that out of 1,000 pastors polled, only 30 percent of pastors had ... a victim come forward in three years,” she said. “With statistics like 1 in 4 women struggle with domestic violence and 1 in 7 men … there is a chasm between what pastors think and what domestic violence victims perceive.”
It’s quite possible that many victims don’t see churches as a safe place to go for help, Miles added. Other results from the LifeWay survey underscore this disconnect, though, as pastors seem more than willing to help.
In fact, 97 percent of preachers said they see their churches as safe havens for domestic violence victims, though only 52 percent had a current plan in place to help the afflicted. Clearly, there’s a need to help churches think deeper about these issues.
“Pastors need to speak out more. Victims need to know that there are amazing pastors who want to help them,” Miles said, underscoring the need for churches to think more holistically. “Pastors are amazing but they’re not superpowers. You need to have domestic violence professionals in your area that you have talked to.”
Miles said that it’s essential to bridge the gap between pastors, churches and a hurting community of victims in need of assistance.
Appealing to her own story, Miles explained that there are uphill battles when it comes to helping people who have been abused: mainly, helping them escape patterns of abuse that unfortunately become normative in their lives.
“I had to get in the scripture myself,” she said, noting that she had to rely on God to discover His plan for her life. “We have to help [victims] retrain their mind and point them to the truth of God’s Word, because that’s what saved my life.”
This article was originally published on Pure Flix Insider. Visit Pure Flix for access to thousands of faith and family friendly movies and TV shows. You can get a free, one-month trial here.
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Cigna Expands its Presenting Sponsorship with runDisney
Lauren Moyer, 215-761-3647
Lauren.Moyer@cigna.com
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Cigna returns as the presenting sponsor of the 2015 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend for the seventh consecutive year
Expanded, multi-year agreement also includes presenting sponsorship of the Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. & ANAHEIM, Calif., October 16, 2014 - Cigna (NYSE:CI) has expanded its sponsorship with runDisney through a multi-year agreement to serve as the presenting sponsor of the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend and Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend.
"Cigna and runDisney share a commitment to inspire healthy living and active lifestyles across all ages and fitness levels," said Lisa Bacus, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Cigna. "runDisney's stature as one of the most respected race series in the nation gives Cigna and our customers and employees the opportunity to showcase our passion for community service. At the same time, we've been able to share inspiring personal stories of the customers, military veterans and so many others who have been part of our runDisney teams."
For Cigna employees, runDisney events have become an opportunity to come together to serve as guides for athletes with disabilities and raise money for non-profit organizations they support. For many employees, it has also represented a milestone in their own healthy lifestyle journey.
"After suffering a stroke at age 32, I vowed to myself, my wife and my newborn daughter that I would make changes to maintain a healthy lifestyle," said Peter Chuchro, a Cigna employee who was one of three employees who earned entry into the 2014 Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend. "Finishing my first-ever marathon symbolized how far I'd come as well as a promise kept to myself and my family."
Among the initiatives Cigna launched at the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend, Cigna sponsored athletes from Achilles International, an organization that provides athletic opportunities for people with disabilities, including military veterans and children with autism.
"After being diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease at the age of 14, I never imagined I would be able to run, let alone finish a race," said Jodi Stout, Cigna long-term disability customer and Achilles International athlete. "Thanks to the Cigna customer referral program and Achilles, I completed the Disney Family Fun Run 5K with the help of a Cigna employee who guided me throughout the race. Crossing the finish line gave me a sense of accomplishment and inspired me to pursue more races in the future."
Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend, which attracts more than 100,000 participants and spectators from all over the world, is one of the largest events held in Central Florida and is among the largest marathon race weekends in the United States. Runners of all ages and skill levels take part in a variety of family-friendly events and races, including Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge (running the half marathon and the full marathon on consecutive days), Walt Disney World Marathon, Walt Disney World Half Marathon, Walt Disney World 10K, Dopey Challenge (running the 5K, 10K, half marathon and full marathon on consecutive days), Family Fun Run 5K and runDisney Kid's Races.
Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) is a global health service company dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and sense of security. All products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, including Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Life Insurance Company of North America and Cigna Life Insurance Company of New York. Such products and services include an integrated suite of health services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits, and other related products including group life, accident and disability insurance. Cigna maintains sales capability in 30 countries and jurisdictions, and has approximately 85 million customer relationships throughout the world. To learn more about Cigna®, including links to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, visit www.cigna.com.
About runDisney
runDisney, one of the largest race organizers in the nation, hosts a series of nine event weekends providing runners unique opportunities to run various distances through Disney theme parks. Race participants earn Disney-themed medals, experience legendary Disney entertainment and guest service and ultimately celebrate their accomplishments with a Disney vacation. The original event in the series, the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend presented by Cigna, takes place in January followed by the Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend presented by Children's Miracle Network Hospitals in February, Expedition Everest Challenge in May, the Twilight Zone™ Tower of Terror 10-Miler in October and the Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend in November. Disneyland hosts the Star Wars Half Marathon Weekend presented by Sierra Nevada Corporation in January, the Tinker Bell Half Marathon Weekend presented by PANDORA Jewelry in May, the Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend presented by Cigna during Labor Day Weekend and the Avengers Super Heroes Half Marathon Weekend in November. More than 163,900 running enthusiasts participate in runDisney events each year. For more information, visit www.runDisney.com and follow us on Facebook (runDisney), Twitter @runDisney and Instagram.
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BRYANT PARK KICKS OFF 16TH SEASON OF YOGA CLASSES MAY 24
05/24/18 through 09/20/18
Upper Terrace Map
24-05-2018 12:00:00 20-09-2018 12:00:00 America/New_York BRYANT PARK KICKS OFF 16TH SEASON OF YOGA CLASSES MAY 24 Bryant Park’s yoga classes, believed to be the largest regularly scheduled outdoor series of its kind in the world, begin a new season Thursday, May 24. The twice-weekly classes will be held Tuesday mornings on the Upper Terrace 10 AM-11 AM, and Thursday evenings on the Lawn 6 PM-7PM. All classes are free and open to the public. The 2018 yoga season is made possible by the generosity of KeVita®, a leading manufacturer of fermented probiotic and kombucha beverages. A supporting sponsor, Gaiam, a yoga, fitness and wellness brand, will donate 1,200 yoga mats for participants to use throughout the season. Both partners will also participate in the Bryant Park Frequent Yogi loyalty program, rewarding returning attendees for their dedication. Bryant Park’s yoga classes draw thousands of participants throughout the warm weather months, making it one of the park’s most-attended activities. The Thursday evening class has drawn over 1,500 people during a single session. This year on select Tuesday mornings, Bryant Park introduces post-class yoga workshops on topics including self-care, meditation, and alignment with instructors from the Gaiam Wellness Studio, located in Lord & Taylor on 5th Avenue in NYC. About KeVita KeVita is a leader in fermented probiotic and kombucha beverages with three refreshingly accessible product lines and billions of live probiotics in every bottle. With over two-dozen flavors of Sparkling Probiotic Drink, Master Brew Kombucha and Apple Cider Vinegar Tonic, all KeVita drinks are USDA Certified Organic, non-GMO Project Verified, gluten-free and vegan. Crafted since 2009, KeVita has grown from a kitchen in Ojai, California to over 20,000 retail locations across North America. KeVita uses only the highest quality ingredients and pairs age-old techniques with modern technology to provide the finest quality, flavor, and functionality in the market. This commitment to quality continues through their advocacy for rigorous testing and transparency in fermented beverage labeling. Learn more at KeVita.com. About GAIAM With a 20+ year heritage, GAIAM is dedicated to making yoga, fitness, and wellness accessible to all through a wide distribution network that consists of approximately 38,000 retail doors, 19,000 stores-within-stores, 5,000 category management locations, e-commerce, and a mobile platform that features Yoga Studio, the leading paid yoga app for Apple, mobile, and tablet devices with over 2 million downloads to date. Learn more at Gaiam.com About Bryant Park Corporation Bryant Park Corporation (BPC), a private not-for-profit company, was founded in 1980 to renovate, finance and operate Bryant Park. BPC is funded by income from events, concessions and corporate sponsors, as well as an assessment on neighboring properties, and does not accept government or philanthropic funds. In addition to providing security and sanitation services, and tending the park’s lush lawn and gardens, BPC provides public amenities and activities, including movable chairs and tables, café umbrellas, restrooms, restaurants and food kiosks, and scores of exciting events throughout the year. Learn more at bryantpark.org. http://www.cityguideny.com/eventinfo.cfm?id=304124 Bryant Park Bryant Park
Bryant Park’s yoga classes, believed to be the largest regularly scheduled outdoor series of its kind in the world, begin a new season Thursday, May 24. The twice-weekly classes will be held Tuesday mornings on the Upper Terrace 10 AM-11 AM, and Thursday evenings on the Lawn 6 PM-7PM. All classes are free and open to the public.
The 2018 yoga season is made possible by the generosity of KeVita®, a leading manufacturer of fermented probiotic and kombucha beverages. A supporting sponsor, Gaiam, a yoga, fitness and wellness brand, will donate 1,200 yoga mats for participants to use throughout the season. Both partners will also participate in the Bryant Park Frequent Yogi loyalty program, rewarding returning attendees for their dedication. Bryant Park’s yoga classes draw thousands of participants throughout the warm weather months, making it one of the park’s most-attended activities. The Thursday evening class has drawn over 1,500 people during a single session.
This year on select Tuesday mornings, Bryant Park introduces post-class yoga workshops on topics including self-care, meditation, and alignment with instructors from the Gaiam Wellness Studio, located in Lord & Taylor on 5th Avenue in NYC.
About KeVita KeVita is a leader in fermented probiotic and kombucha beverages with three refreshingly accessible product lines and billions of live probiotics in every bottle. With over two-dozen flavors of Sparkling Probiotic Drink, Master Brew Kombucha and Apple Cider Vinegar Tonic, all KeVita drinks are USDA Certified Organic, non-GMO Project Verified, gluten-free and vegan. Crafted since 2009, KeVita has grown from a kitchen in Ojai, California to over 20,000 retail locations across North America. KeVita uses only the highest quality ingredients and pairs age-old techniques with modern technology to provide the finest quality, flavor, and functionality in the market. This commitment to quality continues through their advocacy for rigorous testing and transparency in fermented beverage labeling. Learn more at KeVita.com. About GAIAM With a 20+ year heritage, GAIAM is dedicated to making yoga, fitness, and wellness accessible to all through a wide distribution network that consists of approximately 38,000 retail doors, 19,000 stores-within-stores, 5,000 category management locations, e-commerce, and a mobile platform that features Yoga Studio, the leading paid yoga app for Apple, mobile, and tablet devices with over 2 million downloads to date. Learn more at Gaiam.com About Bryant Park Corporation Bryant Park Corporation (BPC), a private not-for-profit company, was founded in 1980 to renovate, finance and operate Bryant Park. BPC is funded by income from events, concessions and corporate sponsors, as well as an assessment on neighboring properties, and does not accept government or philanthropic funds. In addition to providing security and sanitation services, and tending the park’s lush lawn and gardens, BPC provides public amenities and activities, including movable chairs and tables, café umbrellas, restrooms, restaurants and food kiosks, and scores of exciting events throughout the year. Learn more at bryantpark.org.
Upcoming Events at Bryant Park
Yoga in Bryant Park - 05/30/19 - 08/29/19
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival - 06/17/19 - 08/12/19
106.7 LITE FM’s Broadway in Bryant Park With Beetlejuice, Chicago, Come From Away, Jersey Boys & Waitress - 07/18/19
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Some question Epps' dual roles
The Epps-led ACA gave the Walnut Grove facility at perfect score after it was called a 'cesspool' by a federal judge
Some question Epps' dual roles The Epps-led ACA gave the Walnut Grove facility at perfect score after it was called a 'cesspool' by a federal judge Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/10/04/question-epps-dual-roles/16658759/
Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger Published 11:00 p.m. CT Oct. 4, 2014 | Updated 10:23 p.m. CT Oct. 4, 2014
Chris Epps, the nation’s longest-serving corrections commissioner, also heads two national correctional organizations.(Photo: BPK)
A federal judge in 2012 called the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility "a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions."
Before the next year ended, the prison scored a perfect 100 from the American Corrections Association.
"I am extremely proud to have this private facility achieve a perfect score under new management," Epps said on Nov. 22, 2013. "Achieving 100 percent in both categories of standards is very difficult. This validates the professionalism and care that Management & Training Corp. has brought to Walnut Grove."
He remains president of the organization that awarded the 100 score, ACA.
Jody Owens, managing attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mississippi office, had praise for the work Epps did heading a task force that brought reforms state officials are hoping will save the state $266 million in prison expenses.
"It's one of Epps' more significant contributions," said Owens, who served on the task force. "It recognizes the state has been wrong in sentencing and rehabilitation."
But he questioned the perfect score given Walnut Grove and others. "It's kind of sad what Epps has done, but it just shows you the rubber-stamping process."
The violence and other problems in the prisons are "being overlooked when these grades are passed out," he said. "It makes you question the integrity of the process."
Corrections officer Berl Goff, who was brought in to help clean up the private prison, said he was stunned to learn the facility had received a 93 in 2009 from the ACA. A Justice Department probe concluded some staff had sex with minors who were inmates, brutally beat youths and turned a blind eye to inmates possessing shanks.
"Explain to me how a federal investigation from 2009 and 2010 showed it to be the most egregious prison," yet ACA, headed by Epps, gave the facility a 93, he said.
"There's no conflict of interest?" Goff asked. "C'mon."
The Clarion-Ledger asked Epps for an interview, but, in a rare response from him, he turned down that request, insisting instead the newspaper submit all questions in writing. In his written response, Epps denied conflict, saying the ACA is a peer-review procedure.
"Experts from other states conduct the audits," he said. "MDOC was already attaining 100 percent scores in years prior to me becoming ACA president in 2013."
He's right.
In May 2003, ACA gave the State Penitentiary at Parchman a perfect 100, and the state relied on that accreditation as proof conditions didn't violate the Eighth Amendment.
Before the month ended, a federal judge rejected that claim, concluding conditions inside the prison's Unit 32 were horrific and that ACA accreditation did not prove conditions were constitutional. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.
"ACA accreditors reviewed Parchman's written policies, but not their actual practices," said Margaret Winter, associate director of the ACLU National Prison Project.
These days, Epps is riding high in the corrections world.
The same man who started in 1982 as a correctional officer at Parchman's Unit 29 to augment his pay as a Delta teacher is now president of the ACA and the Association of State Correctional Administrators — the first person to simultaneously head both. Just three years ago, he won the award as the Outstanding Corrections Commissioner in the Nation, awarded by the ASCA. He has even talked of running for political office.
"Part of my motivation for my career is to be of service to my state and my fellow man as well as my God," he said in a 2009 radio interview. "I think that the calling to elected office, for the right purposes, is one of the highest callings a person can have."
Former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove said Mississippi is fortunate to have someone who understands the system of corrections like Epps does. "Fourteen years ago when I appointed Chris to be the head of the Department of Corrections, we had no doubt he would make a great commissioner. Time has proven all of us to be correct."
André de Gruy, director of the Capital Defense Counsel in Jackson, praised Epps after serving with him this year on the task force aimed at reducing the prison population. The newly enacted law gives judges more flexibility to impose alternative sentences, including ordering treatment for drug users. More than three-fourths of prisoners are addicted.
But Epps faces challenges in the year to come.
He has had to repeatedly return to lawmakers for millions more to cover budget deficits because of increasing numbers of inmates. But with that population falling from 22,008 in January to 19,972 last month, lawmakers may be less inclined to cover any budget deficit.
House Corrections Committee Chairman Tommy Taylor has experience in corrections. For more than a decade, he worked as the warden of the Bolivar County Regional Correctional Facility.
Asked what he thought about Epps' service heading the agency, he replied that he believes the Department of Corrections "has the capability of being the number one correctional agency in the state. You have some very dedicated employees there."
Regardless of whether something goes right or wrong, he said, "it all falls back on the leader of the organization."
And lately, there's been more wrong than right.
On April 4, 2013, court monitors at Walnut Grove prison reported that "assaults involving weapons continue to occur at alarming levels" and that assaults needed to be reduced by at least half to constitute "reasonably safe living conditions."
On Nov. 4, 2013 — weeks before Walnut Grove scored 100 — monitors found the prison was in partial compliance with both the "reasonably safe living conditions" and "sufficient numbers of adequately trained staff."
Forty days after Epps gushed over the perfect score, three pods at Walnut Grove exploded with violence on New Year's Eve, and at least 16 inmates were treated at the hospital for injuries.
On Aug. 6, attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center and ACLU representing inmates at the prison told a federal court that changes are needed now to prevent the "ongoing, substantial risk of serious injury — including death — from the extraordinarily dangerous conditions at Walnut Grove."
In documents, they described "a major escalation in inmate-on-inmate violence over the past several months at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, and in the last seven months alone there have been two riots during which the Mississippi Department of Corrections lost control of the facility and 25 inmates were seriously wounded."
Celeste McDonald, vice president for MTC's corporate communications, disagreed with the attorneys' assessment. She said the staff responded immediately to the New Year's Eve violence and that the incident was under control in an hour.
"In July, an incident occurred in one of the housing units where nine offenders were injured, taken to the hospital and released," she said. "No inmates in either incident were seriously wounded. Since (the) July 10 incident, there has only been one offender on offender assault at the Walnut Grove facility."
Court monitors said despite injuries to 16 inmates that included "wounds, lacerations and fractures," MTC recorded the New Year's Eve riot as "a single fight/assault. Even with that exception, the rate (of violence) has increased since June 2013."
As a result of the riot, seven officers were either fired or resigned. The reasons, according to monitors: "Passing contraband to inmates, refusing a vehicle search, failure to report known violations, fraternization (with inmates) and drug possession."
And on Sept. 25, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit against East Mississippi Correctional Facility, charging that conditions at the private prison, where 70 percent of the inmates are mentally ill, are "barbaric."
Contact Jerry Mitchell at jmitchell@jackson.gannett.com or (601) 961-7064. Follow @jmitchellnews on Twitter.
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Oberlin College administrators and students just learned that actions have consequences: Ted Diadiun
In this Nov. 22, 2017 file photo, pedestrians pass the storefront of Gibson's Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio. On Thursday, June 13, 2019, a jury awarded the owners of the bakery $33 million in punitive damages in its lawsuit against Oberlin College. The same jury awarded David Gibson and son, Allyn, $11 million in compensatory damages the prior week. The market owners claimed student protests ruined their business. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)
By Ted Diadiun, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND -- All you really need to know about Oberlin College is encompassed in the introduction to 50 demands covered in 14 pages that were sent to the school’s board and president by a group of black students in late 2015.
Replete with the “isms” of liberalspeak, the document called the institution unethical, saying it “functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy,” and demanded such things as hirings, firings, promotions, renamed buildings, black-only “safe spaces,” and a wide variety of increased financial commitments from the school, including an $8.20-per-hour stipend to be paid to black leaders for their time spent in campus activism.
"These are not polite requests, but concrete and unmalleable demands,” the students wrote, threatening “a full and forceful response” if the demands were not met (which they were not, as then-president Marvin Krislov declined to take them seriously).
The document was signed by more than 700 students.
This at a place that is already a bastion of left-wing ideology and safe spaces – where the official sexual misconduct policy totals 65 pages.
So it should not have surprised anyone when, a year later, the campus exploded in righteous fury after a local shopkeeper tried to stop a student from shoplifting.
What is surprising was what happened afterward, when a jury finally put up a stop sign in front of the immature and entitled leftists who inhabit one of Ohio’s most expensive colleges.
You are likely familiar with the well-publicized specifics: A 19-year-old student tried to buy some wine with a fake ID in Gibson’s Bakery, an Oberlin fixture for more than 130 years, and was turned away by the shopkeeper. As the student tried to leave, the shopkeeper noticed a couple of bottles stashed under the young man’s shirt, and tried to stop him, pursuing him outside the store. When police arrived, the shopkeeper was on the ground, being punched and kicked by the thief and two friends.
The students were black. The shopkeeper was white. So, naturally, this had to be a case of racial profiling, and the Oberlin students hit the streets, spiraling a simple case of shoplifting into a national story.
Protesters massed in front of the store, accusing the store’s owners of racism and urging a boycott in an attempt to put Gibson’s out of business. Some of the college administrators encouraged the students’ efforts by offering support and advice, allowing them to print their signs on college equipment, providing pizza and gloves for the protesters, and suspending purchases from the bakery.
All this despite the fact that there was never much question about the facts of the case – all three students admitted their guilt in court."
Gibson’s, already hard-hit financially from the more than 1,000 items owners say had been shoplifted during the previous year, and in danger of going under because of the boycott, sued the college for libel, defamation and a number of other charges. Earlier this month, a jury took note of the outrageous attack against Gibson’s by the college and its students, and awarded the bakery $11 million in compensatory damages – later tacking on another $33 million in punitive damages (likely to be reduced to $22 million per an Ohio law that limits punitive damages).
Whether or not the award holds up under appeal, that jury has provided a teaching moment for every student (and administrator) at the college: Fairness counts, and actions have consequences.
Before we turn to other matters, however, it is also instructive to consider how this incident was approached by a couple of the nation’s high-profile newspapers – news sources whose objectivity we need to evaluate as we sort through the reporting that will help us decide what direction the country should go over the next 17 months.
The Washington Post, in its featured Morning Mix, led off this way:
“On Nov. 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump clinched the presidency, a student at Oberlin College went to a local bakery and convenience store, hoping to leave with a few bottles of wine ... instead (he) ran from the store, chased by an employee.”
The ensuing events, the story said, became “a proxy war in a larger fight over free speech, racial sensitivity and town-gown relations.”
Nine paragraphs into the story, with the angst over Trump’s election, the price tag for free speech, accusations of racism, and the sensitivity of Oberlin students firmly established, we finally find out that, well, the student was hoping to “leave” without actually paying for the wine, the shopkeeper was trying to protect his property, and as a result the protesters tried to put his place out of business.
Over at The New York Times, the shopkeeper had the thief in a chokehold and his friends “intervened” (no mention of what police found when they got there), and the issue was grave concern over free speech.
In the story, prominent First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams termed the jury award “a double-barreled threat to free speech on campus,” and Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, was quoted as saying that Oberlin was merely doing what President Donald Trump recently mandated – “protecting the First Amendment rights of their students.”
While it is heartening to see that the Times is finally getting on board with the right to free expression on the nation’s campuses after years of unconcern while conservative speakers have been disinvited, assaulted and shouted down, it’s unfortunate that the cause they chose is the mob bullying of a shopkeeper trying to protect his property.
There are a lot of ways to tell a news story, but only one good way to read one: with skepticism and the knowledge of what bias the news source brings to the telling.
Ted Diadiun is a member of the editorial board of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.
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Mark Padmore & Paul Lewis
Music at Oxford present world class tenor and pianist performing Schubert Die Schone Mullerin Op 25.
Simon Tavener May 30, 2011
I felt slightly guilty at not having enjoyed this concert as much as the majority of my fellow audience members in the Sheldonian. There is no doubting that we had witnessed a very polished, professional, musically-literate performance, but I was left slightly detached from Padmore's very intense, introspective interpretation.
Muller's tale of a young miller and his romantic troubles inspired a beautiful setting by Schubert – and it is Paul Lewis's lucid playing that will remain with me long after the singing has faded from my memory. He has a lightness, sensitivity and clarity to his technique that allows more detail to emerge than I have ever heard before. It was a joy to hear the piano part truly given the prominence that Schubert's writing deserves – without once failing to support Padmore completely.
Mark Padmore has a wonderful tenor sound and is able to create a wide range of colours throughout his range. He is also clearly a very talented linguist and he has an obvious affinity with the German text of the songs. He was at his best in the closing songs of the cycle where his intensity and voice combined to produce a very moving conclusion to the evening.
For me, I want to be taken on a journey through a song cycle – seeing how the central figure progresses along their emotional path. Padmore's interpretation has the feel of someone looking back on the events portrayed in Muller's text rather than living them. There are the moments where the setting and the words are crying out for a more youthful and joyous response from the singer. Padmore has the facility to convey this sort of sound but chose to portray the miller as more neurotic than joyous. As a result the emotional roller-coaster was rather flattened out – insufficient early highs to really move me when the troughs were reached. It is also quite a slow reading of the score – coming in at 75 minutes – some 10 minutes longer than other interpretations.
I cannot find fault with the quality of the performances – both are excellent musicians and this was clearly demonstrated. I just did not connect with their view of the central character and as a result was not as engaged as I have been with other versions. Having said that, there were more than enough people on their feet at the end to show that my view is very much a minority one.
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Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks ICE Arresting Illegal Immigrants At Courthouses
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
By Hank Berrien
On Thursday, a federal judge blocked ICE agents from arresting illegal immigrants in Massachusetts if the immigrants are inside the courthouse, entering it or exiting it. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, stated in her preliminary injunction that the court “ORDERS that Defendants” ICE and the acting Director Matthew T. Albence and ICE’s Todd M. Lyons in Boston along with the federal Department of Homeland Security stop any 'civil immigration actions inside courthouses,'” according to the Boston Herald.
Near the end of April, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins and Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced they were filing a lawsuit targeting ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, Homeland Security’s Acting Secretary, Albence, and Todd M. Lyons, the Acting Field Office Director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Rollins boasted “it would be my honor” to face arrest from federal agents for her opposition to ICE. She attacked ICE for arresting illegal immigrants near or in courthouses, saying, “That is an assault on our justice system. Not one person in our Commonwealth is safer because of that practice. ICE’s policy is undermining the work of the justice system as a whole. Prosecutors are forced to abandon cases because many victims and witnesses are deterred from appearing in court. The policy also makes it more difficult to obtain defendants appearance in court.”
As The Boston Herald reported, on the same day Rollins and Ryan announced their lawsuit, ICE arrested two illegal immigrants in two Suffolk, Massachusetts, courthouses, one linked to MS-13 and other to the 18th Street gang.
Shortly after that, in May, President Trump spoke of Rollins and Ryan, saying, “These are people that probably don't mind crime; they don’t mind what’s going on. You look at MS-13, they say in the world there’s nothing more evil. These are some very, very bad people. To try and protect them, I don’t think so … They are protecting people that in many cases, and certainly not in all cases, but in many cases are very dangerous people and you say why? What are they doing this for? What's the game?”
The lawsuit from Rollins and Ryan stated:
For the last two years, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) have patrolled Massachusetts state courthouses—including courtrooms, hallways, clerk’s offices, parking lots and front steps— following, arresting, and detaining those they believe violated federal civil, not criminal, law. In the face of widespread opposition to this practice, ICE has not only refused to stop it, but has issued a formal Directive authorizing such civil courthouse arrests.
ICE’s Directive, and its widespread practice of conducting civil arrests in state courthouses, are unprecedented in American history. Indeed, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court have long recognized a privilege against civil arrests for those attending court on official business—a privilege that traces its roots back to English common law, and rests on the common-sense principle that the judicial system cannot function if parties and witnesses fear that their appearance in court will be used as a trap.
The Daily Mail noted, “Under Talwani's ruling, immigration authorities can still arrest people on civil immigration violations if the person is already in state or federal custody, like when a defendant is brought from a jail to a court hearing. It also doesn't prevent ICE from making criminal arrests.”
Read More: Barack Obama Donald Trump Illegal Immigration Massachusetts
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MasterCard takes on Rugby World Cup scammers
NZ country manager assures international fans their money and details will be safe
Hamish Barwick (Computerworld)
International credit card provider MasterCard has claimed it has sufficient card security measures in place at stadiums around the country, allaying the potential concerns of Rugby Union fans travelling to New Zealand for the sport’s world cup in September.
Concerns about the MasterCard’s plans to install its PayPass contactless payment technology at Eden Park Stadium in Auckland and Westpac Stadium in Wellington were raised last week with Massey University senior lecturer in banking, Claire Matthews, warning New Zealanders would be unlikely to warm to the technology, as the country has one of the highest adoption rates of EFTPOS in the world.
The international sporting competition will mark the first time the stadiums have moved from cash-only payment to electronic payment systems. However, only MasterCard’s PayPass-enabled cards will be valid for cashless purchase at the stadiums.
In responding to the lecturer’s concerns, MasterCard NZ country manager, Albert Naffah, told Computerworld Australia that by installing the terminals at, it would be reduce the amount of cash needed by patrons.
"The use of PayPass will be an opportunity for us to showcase the technology because we don’t have the penetration of PayPass in the New Zealand market yet but we’re confident that we will be catching up pretty quickly,” he said.
For visitors who did not have a credit card, there would be MasterCard prepaid cards available which could be topped up at local banks to a limit of $1000 and used one time only.
Naffah also said ANZ would be installing new ATMs as an option for local and overseas visitors who preferred to withdraw cash.
All cards issued in Australia or New Zealand by MasterCard must meet the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) standard. EMV is the global standard used by card providers for integrated circuit (IC) debit and credit cards used in point of sale terminals and ATMs.
"We also have an extra layer of protection over the top of that which is a MasterCard zero liability rule, which ensures that even if an authorised transaction is undertaken on a card that the cardholder is protected from that fraud," he said. "[Customers] will never be liable for it.”
MasterCard intends to boost security of all card-based transactions under a five-year plan to be initiated in July 2011. Under the plan, online merchants would be required to offer the company’s SecureCode authentication for all transactions over $200 by April 2013.
“This means the cardholder has to enter details in order to identify themselves,” Naffah said.
The card company also plans to increase the availability of PayPass to speed up transactions.
According to Naffah, the card company was keen to move payments into the smartphone space through near-field-communications technology, currently being trialled by competitor, VISA.
He also said Australia and New Zealand have some of the lowest levels of card payment fraud in the world. However, Naffah said the company was "not resting on its laurels" and was keen to explore new security measures.
Follow Hamish Barwick on Twitter: @HamishBarwick
Follow Computerworld Australia on Twitter: @ComputerworldAU
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Robocalls make scammers more efficient and dangerous
One scammer can contact thousands of victims in just seconds
Scammers are always looking for ways to make their criminal enterprises more efficient, and one way they do that is with robocalls.
Instead of a solitary scammer dialing up potential victims, getting into his pitch, only to have the target hang up, technology can make thousands of calls and play a recording when someone answers. Most people are going to hang up, but the few who respond are connected to a person who then tries to reel them in. It makes the scam a lot more efficient and dangerous.
“A robocall, as a technology, is used to screen out the first set of victims,” Jan Volzke, a vice president at Hiya, told ConsumerAffairs.
Hiya is a free call-blocking app, available for the iPhone and Android platforms. It was recently spun off as an independent company by Whitepages.
If you have a phone, you've probably gotten a robocall. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says if you get a robocall from someone trying to sell you something, and you haven't agreed in writing to allow them to call, then the call is illegal.
In the case of scammers who are operating offshore, they don't really care that it's illegal. They have raked in millions of dollars with schemes like the business loan pitch. The recorded greeting says something like “congratulations, your business has been approved for a $250,000 loan.”
If you stay on the phone long enough to talk to a live person, that person will try to get information from you that can be used to steal your identity.
“There is another very similar scam in which you are notified of winning something, like a cruise,” Volzke said. “Once you are connected to a live operator, you are told that in order to get the free cruise tickets, you must pay a port fee of about $50 to $500. So this scam doesn't just collect information, but also a payment for a ticket you will never receive.”
IRS scam
Then there is the IRS roboscam, which is growing by leaps and bounds. The recorded pitch might try to scare you, threatening you with prosecution over unpaid taxes. Or it might take a different tact, telling you that you have a bigger refund coming. The objective is the same, to trick the victim into talking to a live person and revealing bank account or other sensitive information.
Even though they are illegal, robocalls are increasing at a rapid rate, primarily because they make money.
“When we have a combination of automation tools at very low cost and a very attractive target, then we have what we call a toxic cocktail in place, that lures in a lot of criminals,” Volzke said.
Volzke describes the Hiya app sort of like anti-virus for phones. He says the company has done a lot of analysis of what phone numbers do and how they behave in order to conclude whether a particular phone number is engaged in a positive or negative, or at least unwanted, behavior.
For example, if a phone number is identified as one that makes 5,000 phone calls in a second to 5,000 different phone numbers, this is probably not a good sign and it's a number that should be blocked.
“The immediate benefit you receive is that when you get a phone call, we will provide you with the intelligence we have about the phone call at the instant you receive it,” Volzke said.
Mark Huffman has been a consumer news reporter for ConsumerAffairs since 2004. He covers real estate, gas prices and the economy and has reported extensively on negative-option sales. He was previously an Associated Press reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for Westwoood One Radio Networks and Marketwatch. Read Full Bio→
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Corning Holds Grand Opening Ceremony for Life Sciences Manufacturing and Distribution Facility in China
Corning Holds Grand Opening Ceremony for Life Scie
WUJIANG, China | Corning Incorporated | November 09, 2011
Corning expands capacity to serve world’s fastest growing Life Sciences market
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced the official opening of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing and distribution facility for Corning Life Sciences in China’s Yangtze River Delta. The grand opening ceremony was held just over a year after Corning’s Board of Directors approved the approximately $40 million (USD) capital expenditure plan in July 2010.
The facility, located in the Wujiang Economic Development Zone, combines labware manufacturing capacity with a full-service distribution center. This combination will enable Corning to provide customers in China its broad portfolio of cost-competitive labware solutions with high levels of service. In doing so, Corning is well positioned to support the growth of the life sciences market in China, which is expected to exceed 20% annually through 2015.
“Today’s official opening represents another milestone for Corning in China. It reinforces our strategy to locate facilities in growth regions,” said Eric S. Musser, chief executive officer of Corning Greater China. “With the opening of this facility, Corning is one of the first U.S. manufacturers of locally produced labware products with improved market access and local distribution in China. It further reflects our commitment to grow with the customers and to support the country’s life sciences industry through a combination of strategic investments, innovative technologies, and leadership.”
“The lab consumable market in China is growing significantly as the country’s pharmaceutical industry and the region’s research and development spending continue to grow and flourish,” said Lydia A. Kenton, vice president and general manager of Corning Life Sciences Base Business. “As a leading developer, manufacturer and global supplier of scientific laboratory products for more than 90 years, Corning is well positioned in China to provide a full range of innovative solutions that improve productivity and enable breakthrough discoveries by using its unique expertise in the combined fields of optics, materials science, surfaces, and biology.”
Douglas L. Lohse, general manager, Corning Life Sciences Greater China, hosted the grand opening celebration. Leaders from the Chinese government, employees, and customers attended the ceremony. Corning Life Sciences continually brings new and innovative laboratory technologies to researchers worldwide and helps customers succeed by providing innovative, high-quality products and services in the areas of Life Sciences and chemistry, surface modification, and characterization science.
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.
Media Relations Contact – U.K.:
Joanna M. Allen
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Corning to Acquire Majority of BD Discovery Labware
Corning to Acquire Majority of BD Discovery Labwar
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CORNING, N.Y. | Corning Incorporated | 2012년 4월 10일
Acquisition will broaden life sciences consumables product portfolio
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX) to acquire the majority of its Discovery Labware unit for approximately $730 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be completed later this year, subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of regulatory approvals.
“The Discovery Labware unit’s extensive product portfolio and established dealer network will significantly improve Corning Life Sciences’ offerings to customers and is a critical part of Corning’s long-term growth strategy,” Wendell P. Weeks, chairman, chief executive officer and president, said. “With sales of approximately $235 million, the acquisition will expand Corning Life Sciences’ annual revenues by 40% and catapult the segment toward its goal of being a $1 billion business by 2014. And, the acquisition provides added momentum for Corning to achieve our $10 billion revenue target in the next few years,” he added. Corning expects to reach this revenue goal through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions.
When complete, the acquisition will augment Corning’s global market access and enhance its broad portfolio of life sciences products in the areas of drug-discovery tools, bioprocess solutions, and laboratory research instruments. Corning will integrate four of the Discovery Labware unit’s main product platforms: plastic consumable labware (including tubes, pipettes, Petri dishes, tissue culture dishes, and flasks); liquid-handling products; cell-based assays and cell cultureware; and ADME research into the Corning Life Sciences business segment upon closing of the acquisition.
“We are extremely excited and proud to add these talented people, proven research ability and established and well-respected products to Corning Life Sciences,” Dr. Richard M. Eglen, vice president and life sciences general manager, said. “We have a history of successfully integrating businesses into our organization and we see multiple synergies that are possible once the acquisition is complete. We look forward to bringing these two dynamic organizations together, and providing a more comprehensive line of products and services to customers worldwide.”
James B. Flaws, vice chairman and chief financial officer, said Corning will use a portion of its domestic cash balances to fund the transaction. “We plan to continue our current share repurchase activity and maintain our ability to provide additional shareholder distributions in the future, should the board of directors choose to do so,” he remarked. The company projects that the transaction will be slightly accretive in 2013. “We expect this to grow to $0.05 per share, excluding purchased intangibles amortization, when full integration into our existing business is complete by 2016,” Flaws said.
“Life Sciences is an attractive growth industry and has low capital intensity. We expect this acquisition to provide a stable stream of incremental cash flow to Corning as we become a more balanced company,” Flaws concluded.
The Discovery Labware unit, headquartered in Billerica, Mass., has operations in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and the United Kingdom, and extensive dealer networks in Asia, Europe and North America.
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy, and metrology.
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It's Not Feminism That's Ruining Romance: A Fresh Spin on Dating
Samhita Mukhopadhyay talks about her new book, the shift in women's traditional roles, and what straight people can learn from the queer community when it comes to dating expectations.
Noelle de la Paz Nov 17, 2011 10:00AM EST
In her new book “Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life,” Feministing.com Executive Editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay takes everything you may have read in “Cosmo” or seen on “The Bachelor” and tosses it out the window, but not without first breaking it down with candor and a sense of humor. So much more than a dating book, this is a how-to manual for today’s smart, progressive, self-aware woman, as in: how to undo the damage done by traditional dating advice, challenge gender expectations and deepen our understanding of radical love.
Responding to the barrage of conflicting messages about what women should want from relationships and how they should go about getting it, “Outdated” points a finger at obsolete notions about men and women’s innate differences, debunks popular dating myths, and reveals how feminism is not killing romance; rather, with awareness and persistence, it can only help our relationships.
Colorlines.com talked with her about finding her voice, the shift in women’s traditional roles, and what straight people can learn from the queer community when it comes to dating expectations.
The genre of self-help dating books and magazine columns is very popular in mainstream media. Why did you, as a feminist of color, decide this was an important discussion to have?
I think that a lot of self-help books actually might be in the mainstream, but I do feel like a lot of people of color are drawn to self-help sections of bookstores as well. If anything there’s this assumption that self-help sections are a little bit more “lowbrow” so it really impacts not just necessarily mainstream audiences but more audiences that may not be considered super hip, or the most media savvy, or may not have a ton of access to other types of resources and support structures, that are drawn to the self-help section of the bookstore.
And also people that have experienced trauma, it’s a really personal thing, it’s a much more private experience than coming out and talking to a friend about something, or seeking help which is often expensive. So I just felt like there was this silent ticking bomb of bad information that was reaching really vulnerable populations.
Could you talk a little bit about your process in deciding to write this book, and actually writing it. What challenges did you come across?
Writing a book is really hard. But something that I guess I haven’t really spoken about is that as a woman of color first generation immigrant, a South Asian immigrant, I grew up in a predominantly middle class to working class white suburban town, and I wasn’t a particularly good student. That isn’t really what’s understood as the Asian American or South Asian American experience. So I had really internalized this belief that I was not intelligent, because my peers within my ethnic community were incredibly successful academically and I didn’t have that same kind of success.
I took a really derivative path to finding my voice. Many years of Women’s Studies education and having really amazing mentors over the years helped me cultivate my voice, but the rubber kind of hit the road in the book writing process. I had to face my demons that I had really internalized this belief that I wasn’t intelligent and that I didn’t have something smart to say. Overcoming that was probably the biggest obstacle in writing a book or even being a woman of color public intellectual, of saying, “What I have to say has legitimacy” despite the fact that I am internalizing the [idea] that I am not legitimate.
We’ve recently looked at how there’s a whole industry devoted to telling women, especially women of color, that they’re doing something wrong. This idea of women being blamed is also something that comes up in your book. How does your book flip that idea on its head?
Part of the [reason] that women are blamed for declining relationships is because up until this moment in history, or even in the last thirty years, it was just assumed that men could do whatever they wanted and women had to compensate for that and they were the people that held family together. There was this inordinate amount of pressure on women to remedy any marital problems, to make sure there’s food on the dinner table so that the family is communicating in the evening, to make sure of any kind of religious education or any kind of cultural education. All of that has directly tied into it the identity of being a woman in the family.
And so we have this huge demographic shift where that is not necessarily the role that women play. They may play that role but they’re also playing a variety of other roles and deserve the equality and freedom to express all of those roles to their heart’s desire. So I think that recognizing how it’s a social pressure really shifts how we look at the family unit and also shifts the focus to how are men involved in creating relationships, in supporting family structures, in maintaining tradition. What is their role in it and how do we shift the focus? Do we abandon a normative family structure? We are in a completely new place right now so how do we move forward? That’s the main question that I’m asking.
When we think about what other voices to consider, how important is it that our understanding of heterosexual dating be informed by the evolving discourse on LGBT issues?
So, I’m trained as an academic feminist, which I think is pretty clear throughout the book. I reference a lot of academic work that I define. I use a lot of academic terms which I feel really capture this experience of what I see as coming out of queer theory. And what I saw in queer theory was this tremendous potential of de-centering what we understand as normal when it comes to sexuality, and applying that to the way that we’re dating as straight people, because I felt like that was the missing link. That all of this advice was hindering on the belief that all men act one way and all women act another way. These kind of stereotypes become that much more more exaggerated when it’s like: all black women act this way and all black men act this way, and all Asian men act this way and Asian women act this way–stereotypes that reproduce themselves over and over.
I do think looking at the way that the gay rights movement has shifted the focus from what’s considered a normal relationship and what’s considered an acceptable and suitable partner has marginally shifted what’s acceptable. But the question really is, has it exaggerated the heteronormative structure because there’s such a deep resistance to this “threat to the American family”? Has it almost become exaggerated now, if you look at this overemphasis on white weddings–even through reality television, we are in this fantasy, exaggerated, obsessed, consumed culture–or is the next ten to twenty years as most of us in our 30s and 20s are going to see gay marriage become legal, is it actually going to shift the conversation to include a broader spectrum of sexual and relationship experiences?
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Italian government sees hope of survival
Sep 30, 2013 at 12:01 AM Sep 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM
ROME (AP) - The Italian government's chances of survival rose on Monday as some of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's longtime loyalists vowed they would not support his attempt to bring down the fragile coalition.
ROME (AP) � The Italian government's chances of survival rose on Monday as some of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's longtime loyalists vowed they would not support his attempt to bring down the fragile coalition.
Berlusconi demanded last weekend that the five ministers from his political party quit Premier Enrico Letta's government. He asked them to resign in a show of solidarity ahead of a Senate vote to strip him of his seat because of his tax-fraud conviction.
The ministers, some of them reluctantly, bowed to Berlusconi's demand, plunging the country into political uncertainty. Letta called a confidence vote in Parliament for Wednesday to determine the five-month-old administration's future.
The prospect of the government collapsing worried investors, who sold off the country's stocks and bonds early Monday. There are fears the country would suffer weeks or months of political uncertainty that could derail its attempts to get the economy back on track. Memories are still fresh of this year's inconclusive elections, which left politicians squabbling for two months before Letta's unusual left-right coalition was cobbled together in April.
Letta wants to press ahead with reforms needed to bring the economy, the eurozone's third-largest, out of recession and reduce public debt, which is forecast to near 130 percent of GDP this year.
An unstable Italian economy could, some argued, revive the European financial crisis, which had lain dormant for months.
But such fears eased somewhat as a split emerged in Berlusconi's party over whether to pull the plug on the government.
At least four of the ministers who quit have said they are considering giving their support to Letta in Parliament. There were also signs of a challenge to Berlusconi's leadership from his political heir, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano. Alfano was reportedly worried about the political repercussions � for himself and the Freedom People party � of bringing down the government in the middle of a recession for no better reason than to defend Berlusconi in his personal judicial woes.
Dissent among Berlusconi's aides also was fueled by a decision by many senators in Berlusconi's party to quit in protest if a Senate committee later this week votes to strip him of his seat because of his conviction.
"I have expressed strong opposition to our lawmakers' decision to resign," said just-resigned Reforms Minister Gaetano Quagliariello, a longtime Berlusconi stalwart who appeared to be shaping up as as a to be the leader of an influential, disenchanted faction in the media mogul's leadership ranks.
In an interview with one of Berlusconi's networks, Quagliariello urged his center-right colleagues to avoid "the risk of a crisis that would explode for the country and not be understood by our electorate." He said it would be "folly" if his own party bring down Letta's government.
Further easing concerns about government collapse, a top leader in Letta's center-left Democratic Party said the government might avoid a make-or-break confidence vote. Instead, it might seek Parliament's approval on specific motions, likely tied to key economic measures and electoral reform that could serve to calm jittery markets.
"It's very likely that what will happen is that individual motions will be voted on" in confidence votes not formally tied to the government' survival, said Dario Franceschini, minister of parliamentary relations.
Should Letta's government fall, the president has said he will make dissolving Parliament his last resort. That means several weeks could go by while the president sees if another coalition can be cobbled together, possibly with moderates defecting from Berlusconi's ranks. That should earn the government enough time to pass a key budget law by mid-October. The law is needed to bring the deficit back within EU limits and avoid sanctions by the European Union.
By the end of the day, the Milan stock index was down 1.2 percent, half as much as it had dropped earlier. The 10-year bond yield � a measure of investor wariness � was unchanged, having been sharply higher in the morning.
Analysts say that even in the event of a government collapse, financial markets are unlikely to panic. That's mainly thanks to the European Central Bank's promise made 13 months ago to buy the government bonds of heavily indebted countries, if they agree to cut their deficits and debt levels. That means Italy has a backstop from the central bank's theoretically unlimited financial power � even if bond investors were to lose faith and start selling Italy's government bonds, the ECB could step in.
Still, while financial markets are "accustomed to dysfunctional and unstable Italian politics, the latest bout of renewed tensions is unwelcome at a time when Italy remains entrenched in a severe and prolonged economic turndown," said Raj Badiani, an analyst at IHS Global Insight.
Letta's office said that the premier received a call in the afternoon from German Chancellor Angela Merket, wishing him "political stability for Italy and continuity in the government's work."
The Italian uncertainty is unlikely to seriously threaten the eurozone, for now. The continent's debt crisis has been subdued since the ECB made its promise last year to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro.
The eurozone economy is also "less fragile than it was six months ago," economist Christian Schulz from Berenberg Bank wrote in a note to investors. "That reduces the risk that contagion could again spread like wildfire across the eurozone."
That holds, however, only so long as the political turmoil does not prevent Italy from being able to agree to the deficit reductions that would be required to get the ECB's help in the bond markets.
McHugh contributed from Frankfurt, Germany
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State OK's Vectren plan to raise bills, upgrade grid
Your Vectren bill is about to increase again.
State OK's Vectren plan to raise bills, upgrade grid Your Vectren bill is about to increase again. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2017/09/20/state-oks-vectren-plan-raise-bills-upgrade-grid/686728001/
John T. Martin, Courier & Press Published 4:51 p.m. CT Sept. 20, 2017
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Vectren on Wednesday received a state agency's approval to upgrade and modernize its electrical grid, involving hundreds of projects and seven years of annual rate increases starting in 2018.
The plan was originally presented as costing $516 million. The total was reduced to $446 million in a settlement with the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor and a group of industrial customers.
Starting next year, a typical residential customer will see electric bill increases of $1 to $2 per month. By the end of the seven years, the impact will be $16 to $17 per month.
The impact on industrial customers is too complex to generalize, according to Vectren officials.
Projects will include replacing underground cables, inspecting poles and modernizing equipment across Vectren's service area. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission stamped its approval Wednesday. In August, the IURC approved a separate Vectren proposal for two solar farms in the Evansville area.
The Evansville-based company delivers electricity to about 145,000 customers in seven Southwest Indiana counties.
"This is basic blocking and tackling," said Chase Kelley, vice president for marketing and communications. "A lot of this grid modernization work isn't shiny objects, or some alleged gold-plating of the system. This is basic work we need to do to deliver the reliable power customers have come to expect. This was a long process on looking at our assets, when they age, when they need to be replaced, and asking are they past their useful life. We're going to take the next seven years and make those necessary upgrades."
Vectren officials said the upgrades will lessen the risk of unplanned power outages and lead to faster outrage restoration. In all, the seven-year plan has more than 800 projects.
The utility's settlement, reducing the total cost from $516 million to $446 million, removed smart metering technology from the seven-year plan. Vectren officials said they will still pursue that technology sometime in the future.
Two, 2-megawatt solar farms each will have about 8,000 ground-mounted panels on 5-7 acres. One of them will be near Oak Hill Cemetery on Morgan Avenue, in a partnership with the City of Evansville. The other is on U.S. 41 near North Junior-Senior High School.
"Adding this partnership to our existing wind energy agreements continues Vectren's plan toward creating a more balanced energy mix for our electric generation portfolio," CEO Carl Chapman said.
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Legends of the Ball
By MARTIN TSAI
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Steven Soderbergh was unceremoniously fired from “Moneyball” about two years ago after revising an alleged grand slam of a screenplay from Steven Zaillian into a quasi-documentary that would devote 10 percent to interviews of real-life figures and another 10 to “reenactments of real events as remembered by the people playing themselves.” Those who read his script confirmed it was that bad, although we’d like to give Mr. Soderbergh the benefit of the doubt after seeing what he did with “Erin Brockovich.” At the very least, this biopic about Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane starring Brad Pitt could have been inspired and fun in Mr. Soderbergh’s hands. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said about the final score achieved by his late-inning relief, Bennett Miller.
Essentially, screenwriters Mr. Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin have fashioned the film into another “Jerry Maguire.” But Mr. Miller’s earnest sensibility and solemn style — as exemplified by the Oscar Best Picture nominee “Capote” — here make “Moneyball” one long seventh-inning stretch. As Mr. Beane, Mr. Pitt is subdued for some unbeknownst reason. One almost wishes he could summon up the kind of energy it takes Jerry Maguire to jump on Oprah Winfrey’s couch. As Peter Brand, the thinly-veiled Paul DePodesta character, Jonah Hill also mysteriously fails to at least turn this into a buddy flick.
To the filmmakers’ credit, you can leave the theater with a good grasp on how sabermetrics works and why it revolutionized Major League Baseball. But their biggest mistake in the end was to not make “Moneyball” about sabermetrics. Messrs. Zaillian and Sorkin turned an anticlimactic end to the A’s 20-game win streak into an opportunity for some sort of uplifting personal epiphany for Mr. Beane: It’s fine that the team loses, because in the process he learns the importance of being a better dad to Casey (Kerris Dorsey), who serenades him with song at a guitar shop in an especially cringe-worthy scene. “Moneyball” ultimately leaves you with goose bumps all over, except not the good kind you get from a rousing crowd-pleaser.
Opens on Sept. 23 in the United States and on Nov. 25 in Britain.
Directed by Bennett Miller; written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, based on a story by Stan Chervin and the book by Michael Lewis; director of photography, Wally Pfister; edited by Christopher Tellefsen; music by Mychael Danna; production design by Jess Gonchor; costumes by Kasia Walicka Maimone; produced by Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt; released by Columbia Pictures. Running time: 2 hours 13 minutes. This film is rated PG-13 by M.P.A.A. and 12A by B.B.F.C.
WITH: Brad Pitt (Billy Beane), Jonah Hill (Peter Brand), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Art Howe), Robin Wright (Sharon), Chris Pratt (Scott Hatteberg), Stephen Bishop (David Justice) and Reed Thompson (young Billy).
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RBRM: Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky & Mike
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One of the most legendary groups in pop/ R&B history will return to the stage this Spring—with an explosive new twist: New Edition’s Ronnie DeVoe, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell, and Michael Bivins are joining forces once again as RBRM. The iconic, multi-platinum performers are set to embark on the RBRM- 4 The Love Of It Tour this Spring, with dates just announced throughout the U.S.
Playing to sold out arenas nationwide, the Grammy Award winners first made their debut as RBRM last Fall, winning praise from press and fans alike. Now RBRM is back again for 2019—with an all-new lineup of performances.
Showcasing the pop/ R&B trailblazers as never before, RBRM-4 The Love Of It brings the artists’ legendary 41-year careers to life in a whole new way. The record-shattering catalogue of hits audiences know and love from New Edition, BBD, and their individual solo acts are remixed, reimagined, and reinvigorated on stage, giving fans a fresh take on their timeless favorites.
Over the past four decades, Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike have left an indelible mark not only on the music industry— but on millions of fans around the world. Their standout vocals, dynamic choreography, and unstoppable stage presence helped New Edition become one of the most successful touring groups of all time. More than that, by pioneering the Boy Band craze, they created a classic sound and style that forever changed the landscape of popular music.
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Final 2019 election results: education divide explains the Coalition's upset victory
By Adrian Beaumont
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 2:31 AM UTC
At the May 18 election, the size of the lower house was expanded from 150 to 151 seats. The Coalition parties won 77 seats (up one since the 2016 election), Labor 68 (down one) and the crossbench six (up one). The Coalition government holds a three-seat majority.
Owing to redistributions and the loss of Wentworth to independent Kerryn Phelps at an October 2018 byelection, the Coalition notionally had 73 seats before the election, a one-seat advantage over Labor. Using this measure, the Coalition gained a net four seats in the election.
The Coalition gained the Queensland seats of Herbert and Longman, the Tasmanian seats of Braddon and Bass, and the New South Wales seat of Lindsay. Labor’s only offsetting gain was the NSW seat of Gilmore. Corangamite and Dunkley are not counted as Labor gains as they were redistributed into notional Labor seats.
Four of the six pre-election crossbenchers easily held their seats – Adam Bandt (Melbourne), Andrew Wilkie (Clark), Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo) and Bob Katter (Kennedy). The Liberals narrowly regained Wentworth from Phelps, but independent Zali Steggall thrashed Tony Abbott 57%-43% in Warringah. In Indi, independent Helen Haines succeeded retiring independent Cathy McGowan, defeating the Liberals by 51.4%-48.6%.
The Coalition easily defeated independent challengers in Cowper and Farrer.
While Bandt was re-elected, the Greens went backwards in their other inner-Melbourne target seats of Wills and Cooper. Only in Kooyong did the Greens manage to beat Labor into second.
The final primary votes were 41.4% Coalition (down 0.6%), 33.3% Labor (down 1.4%), 10.4% Greens (up 0.2%), 3.4% United Australia Party (UAP) and 3.1% One Nation (up 1.8%).
The final two-party vote was 51.5% for the Coalition to 48.5% for Labor, a 1.2% swing in the Coalition’s favour from the 2016 election. It is the first pro-government swing since the 2004 election.
It was expected the Coalition would do better once the 15 “non-classic” seats were included; these are seats where the final two candidates were not Coalition and Labor. However, 11 of these seats swung to Labor, including a 9.0% swing in Warringah and a 7.9% swing in Wentworth. Eight non-classics were inner-city electorates that tended to swing to Labor.
The table below shows the number of seats in each state and territory, the Coalition’s number of seats, the Coalition’s percentage of seats, the gains for the Coalition compared to the redistribution, the Coalition’s two-party vote, the swing to the Coalition in two-party terms, and the number of Labor seats.
Final seats won and votes cast in the House for each state and nationally.
Four of the six states recorded swings to the Coalition in the range from 0.9% to 1.6%. Victoria was the only state that swung to Labor, by 1.3%. Queensland had a 4.3% swing to the Coalition, far larger than any other state. Labor did well to win a majority of NSW seats despite losing the two-party vote convincingly.
Official turnout in the election was 91.9%, up 0.9% from 2016. Analyst Ben Raue says 96.8% of eligible voters were enrolled, the highest ever. That means effective turnout was 89.0% of the population, up 2.6%.
Education divide explains Coalition’s win
Not only did Steggall thump Abbott in Warringah, the electorate’s 9.0% swing to Labor on a two-party basis was the largest swing to Labor in the country. Abbott’s two-party vote percentage of 52.1% was by far the lowest for a conservative candidate against Labor since Warringah’s creation in 1922; the next lowest was 59.5% in 2007.
While Abbott did badly, other divisive Coalition MPs performed well. Barnaby Joyce won 54.8% of the primary vote in New England and gained a 1.2% two-party swing against Labor. Peter Dutton had a 3.0% two-party swing to him in Dickson, and George Christensen had a massive 11.2% two-party swing to him in Dawson, the second-largest for the Coalition nationally.
According to the 2016 census, 42% of those aged 16 and over in Warringah had at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 22% in Australia overall. Just 13.5% had at least a bachelor’s degree in New England, 19% in Dickson and 12% in Dawson.
In Victoria, which swung to Labor, 24.3% of the population had at least a bachelor’s degree in 2016, the highest of any state in the nation.
The Grattan Institute has charted swings to Labor and the Coalition, taking into account wealth and tertiary education. Only polling booths in the top-income quintile swung to Labor; the other four income quintiles swung to the Coalition.
Areas with low levels of tertiary education swung strongly to the Coalition in NSW and Queensland, but less so in Victoria. There were solid swings to Labor in areas with high levels of tertiary education.
Some of the swings are explained by contrary swings in 2016, when the Coalition under Malcolm Turnbull performed relatively worse in lower-educated areas and better in higher-educated areas. However, Queensland’s 58.4% two-party vote for the Coalition was 1.4% better than at the 2013 election, even though the national result is 2.0% worse. The large swings to the Coalition in regional Queensland are probably partly due to the Adani coal mine issue.
Morrison’s appeal to lower-educated voters
Since becoming prime minister, Scott Morrison’s Newspoll ratings have been roughly neutral, with about as many people saying they are satisfied with him as those dissatisfied. After Morrison became leader, I suggested on my personal website that the Coalition would struggle with educated voters, and this occurred in the election. However, Morrison’s appeal to those with a lower level of education more than compensated.
In my opinion, the most important reason for the Coalition’s upset victory was that Morrison was both liked and trusted by lower-educated voters, while they neither liked nor trusted Labor leader Bill Shorten.
Earlier this month, The Guardian published a long report on the social media “death tax” scare campaign. While this and other Coalition scare campaigns may have had an impact on the result, they did so by playing into lower-educated voters’ distrust of Shorten. Had these voters trusted Shorten, such scare campaigns would have had less influence.
Labor also ran scare campaign ads attacking Morrison for deals with Clive Palmer and Pauline Hanson. But I believe these ads failed to resonate because lower-educated voters liked Morrison better.
I think Morrison won support from the lower-educated because they are sceptical of “inner-city elites”. The Coalition leader emphasised his non-elite attributes during the campaign, such as by playing sport and going to church. Turnbull was perceived as a member of the elite, which could explain swings to Labor in lower-educated areas in 2016.
Parallels can be drawn to the 2017 election in the UK. Labour performed far better than expected in the election, reducing the Conservatives to a minority government when they were expected to win easily. Labour had adopted a pro-Brexit position, which may have sent a message to lower-educated voters that they could support the party.
This offers an option for Australian Labor to try to win back support from lower-educated voters: adopt a hardline immigration policy. Votes that Labor would lose to the Greens by doing this would likely be returned as preferences.
See also my similar article on how Donald Trump won the US 2016 presidential election.
The problem with the polls
The table below shows all national polls released in the final week compared to the election result. A poll estimate within 1% of the actual result is in bold.
Federal polls compared with election results, 2019. Author provided
The polls did well on the One Nation and UAP votes, and were a little low on the Greens. The major source of error was that Labor’s vote was overstated and the Coalition’s was understated. Only Ipsos had Labor’s vote right, but it overstated the Greens vote by about three points – a common occurrence for Ipsos.
No poll since July 2018 had given the Coalition a primary vote of at least 40%. In the election, the Coalition parties received 41.4% of the vote.
As I said in my post-election write-up, it is likely that polls oversampled educated voters.
Seat polls during the campaign were almost all from YouGov Galaxy, which conducts Newspoll. The Poll Bludger says these polls were, like the national polls, biased against the Coalition.
Analyst Peter Brent has calculated the two-party vote for all election-day and early votes. The gap between election day and early votes increased to 5.0% in 2019 from 4.6% in 2016. This does not imply that polls missed because of a dramatic late swing to the Coalition in the final days; it is much more likely the polls have been wrong for a long time.
Boris Johnson very likely to be Britain’s next PM, and left wins Danish election
I wrote for The Poll Bludger on June 14 that, after winning the support of 114 of the 313 Conservative MPs in the first round of voting, Boris Johnson is virtually assured of becoming the next British PM. Polls suggest he will boost the Conservative vote.
I also wrote on my personal website on June 6 about the left’s win in the Danish election. Also covered: a new Israeli election, the German Greens’ surge, and the left gaining a seat in the May 4 Tasmanian upper house periodical elections.
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Iowa's Wake-Up Call
I’m excited to be here this morning--and to participate in the Iowa Education Summit with Governor Branstad and so many distinguished educators, school leaders, district administrators, lawmakers, and parents all committed to giving Iowa’s children a world-class education.
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The Unfinished Work of Education Reform
It is a real pleasure to be able to join you today. And it also pleased me to see that this year's convention was being held here in Houston. Now, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but it's not because I'm in love with Houston's hot and humid summers. I've got plenty of that in DC. But it's because Houston has something in common with what's going on in Washington DC.
Partnering for Education Reform
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Department Officials Meet with Florida Representatives to Learn About Progress Made in Implementing Race to the Top Plan
A team of leaders from the U.S. Department of Education’s Implementation and Support Unit (ISU) travelled to Tallahassee to meet with representatives from the Florida’s Race to the Top team today for an on-site program review.
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Three States and D.C. Receive Funding to Turn Around Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that three states and the District of Columbia will receive funding to turn around their persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. The funds are part of $546 million available to states for the SIG program in fiscal year 2010.
U.S. Department of Education Releases 2011 Application for Promise Neighborhoods Program, Includes New Implementation Grants and Second Round of Planning Grants
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Maine to Receive $2 Million to Turn Around Its Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Maine will receive $2 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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Obama Administration Announces Proposed Requirements for Race to the Top-Early Learning Grants
The Obama Administration published today proposed competition criteria for the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge, and invited public input through 5 p.m. EDT on Monday July, 11 2011.
U.S. Department of Education Releases Case Studies on Labor-Management Collaboration
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Five States Receive Funding to Turn Around Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that five states will receive funding to turn around their persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.
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Michael Staniak
Michael Staniak was born in Melbourne in 1982 where he currently lives and works.
He obtained a BFA and a MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, as well as a BA in Digital Media Communications from the Middle Tennessee State University.
Staniak creates the paintings mostly by hand - he builds up texture with uneven layers of plaster and then paints the surface in a range of ways - his paintings bear an uncanny resemblance to flat digital prints. Indeed, one must view the works up close to perceive any texture or depth, and as such, they behave like contemporary trompe l'oeil paintings that baffle the senses. Some paintings do however utilize digital methods of output and in so doing create a dialogue between the two modes of production. His works explore a new aesthetic in painting, one which is influenced by digital technologies, including touch pads, smart phones, personal computing and the Internet.
In addition to Staniak's identification with an art-historical heritage that includes cave paintings, ancient marble reliefs, minimalism and drip paintings, he also adds to the legacy of Southern California's Finish Fetish artists of the 1960s and 1970s and the Light and Space artists of the same era.
Staniak was the protagonist of personal exhibitions at the Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence (2018); Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art in St. Louis, St. Louis (2015); Annarunna Gallery, Naples (2015); Artereal Gallery, Sydney (2014).
Among the group exhibitions we mention the exhibitions at the galleries: Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (2018); Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Mexico (2018); Homeostatis Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil; The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn (2017); Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2016); Blain Southern, Berlin (2015); The Moving Museum, Istanbul (2014); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2014); Horton Gallery, New York (2013); Northern Territory Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012).
In 2017, the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis published a monograph of his work, titled IMG_, which was then reported in numerous publications, including Artforum, Flashart Italy, Vault, Australia and Leap Beijing.
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Exmouth chosen to enter Britain in Bloom
PUBLISHED: 10:00 23 November 2015
Exmouth will be going up against the best-presented towns in the country next year, after it was selected to enter Britain in Bloom.
The town has been chosen for the national contest after winning gold in the South West in Bloom competition this summer - the fifth year in a row it has achieved that feat.
The last time Exmouth competed in Britain in Bloom, in 2008, it won in the large coastal town category, so there is a winning pedigree to live up to. Exmouth in Bloom chairman Ann Wheeler said: “It is an honour, because there are only about half a dozen towns in the coastal category from around Britain.
“Just to be nominated is fantastic. It’s not something you enter yourself, you are just picked, so it’s rather nice.”
Reacting to the news, Exmouth mayor Maddy Chapman said: “It will be wonderful. I’m sure Exmouth in Bloom will do us proud – they’re very good.
“The town will be well behind them.”
Ann says Exmouth in Bloom is not planning to make any changes to its usual operations for the national contest.
It will enter South West in Bloom as usual, and those judges will be visiting the town in July, with Britain in Bloom judges then visiting around a month later.
Ann said: “The things we are doing and the council do are meant to last all summer anyway, so we will be doing much the same.
“We have obviously done something right this year and need to carry on doing it next year.”
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Testimony and Public Comment
Written Testimony of Chiraag Bains to the House on H.R. 1, the For the People Act
Not since the aftermath of the Watergate scandal has Congress introduced so bold a proposal to enhance our democracy.
Chiraag Bains
Thank you, Chairperson Lofgren, Ranking Member Davis, and all members of the Committee, for the opportunity to testify in support of H.R. 1, the For the People Act—the boldest and most comprehensive proposal to strengthen our democracy since the aftermath of Watergate.
Demos Director of Legal Strategies Chiraag Bains testifies in support of H.R. 1, the For the People Act
My name is Chiraag Bains, and I am Director of Legal Strategies for Demos. Demos is a public policy and advocacy organization working for an America where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy. Our name—meaning “the people”—is the root word of democracy, and it reminds us that, in America, the true source of our greatness is the diversity of our people.
We at Demos stand in strong support of the For the People Act, a visionary bill that can transform our democracy by addressing the deep political, racial, and economic inequalities that hold us back.
The bill would strengthen voting rights by expanding access to the polls, modernizing voter registration, requiring independent redistricting, and protecting voters from aggressive purging—including by correcting the Supreme Court’s wrongheaded 5-4 decision in Demos’ case against Ohio’s use-it-or-lose-it system, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute. It would commit to restoring the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, the evisceration of which in Shelby v. Holder has unleashed restrictive voting laws across the country, and make findings related to structural democracy reforms like DC statehood and voting rights in the territories. The legislation would also curtail the corrupting role of big money in politics, which drowns out the voices of everyday people, and promote more equitable ways to finance federal campaigns. It incorporates the Government By the People Act, which Demos has long supported and which would amplify the voices of small-dollar donors and allow more candidates of color and low-income candidates to run on the issues that matter to their constituents. And the bill would put new ethics restrictions in place for federal officials at a time when we badly need them.
It is fitting that the For the People Act address both voting rights and the role of big money in politics in the same legislative package, because they are truly two sides of the same coin. Whether Americans of all races are fighting for access to the ballot box or to curb the outsized influence of a tiny slice of wealthy donors over who runs for office and who wins elections, the fight is essentially to become a full member of society with an equal say over the decisions that affect our lives.
Voter suppression—sometimes through blatantly racist maneuvers, sometimes through sophisticated, ostensibly race-neutral tactics—poses an existential threat to our democracy. We must put a stop to these practices and protect the fundamental right to vote. The vote lacks its full meaning, however, if voters cannot cast their ballots for candidates who reflect the priorities of everyday Americans. For generations, communities of color and working-class people have gone unseen by politicians who court rich individual donors and corporate interests. The high cost of running for office has also been a barrier to entry for candidates of color, resulting in a political class that is disproportionately white. Moreover, the combination of voter suppression and big money in politics has serious racial equity consequences. The problems that are most pressing for people of color—economic inequality, education disparities, police abuse, to name a few—are sidelined, neglected, and in some cases, made worse.
In short, our democracy faces substantial and complicated challenges. It will take a big legislative package to address them. H.R. 1, the For the People Act, has the range and depth to help us build the truly inclusive democracy that Americans deserve.
I. Voting Rights
A. Voting rights are under attack, and we must fully restore the Voting Rights Act.
When it passed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965, Congress took a major step toward fulfilling the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment that no citizen would be denied the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”1 The centerpiece of the Act was a provision requiring certain states and other jurisdictions to get approval from the federal government before making any changes to their voting practices and procedures. This “preclearance” protection applied to jurisdictions with a history of voting discrimination and helped to protect the right to vote for marginalized populations. Five years ago, in Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down the formula used to determine what jurisdictions were subject to preclearance, declaring that “[o]ur country has changed” and voting discrimination was no longer a major concern. In a 5-4 decision split along ideological lines, the Court stripped voters in nine states and dozens of counties and municipalities of the protection Congress had put in place.2
Since Shelby County, at least 23 states have implemented new restrictions on voting, including onerous ID measures, cuts to early voting, and polling place closures.3 By 2018, 34 states had some form of voter ID law on their books; 17 of those requested photo IDs,4 to which roughly 11 percent of the American population does not have access.5 That 11 percent is disproportionately comprised of voters of color, seniors, or low-income citizens.
We know these restrictive laws keep voters of color from full participation in our democracy. Recent survey research shows that black and Latino voters are three times as likely as white voters to encounter hurdles when trying to vote. They are more likely to be unable to take time off from work to go to the polls, be told that they do not have a proper form of ID, discover that their name is not on the list of registered voters, and be harassed or bothered at the polls.6
The following cases studies provide evidence that voter suppression is on the rise:
North Carolina’s photo ID law—passed as part of a larger package slashing strong elections reforms, including early voting and same-day registration, immediately after the Supreme Court decided Shelby County—had both the intent and effect of disenfranchising black voters. Court documents showed that legislators had requested from county officials information as to which demographic groups had access to which IDs, and that only those IDs whites had greater access to made it into the list of approved forms of voter ID. As the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals noted, legislators there “target[ed] African-Americans with almost surgical precision.”7 Because the full protections of the VRA haven’t yet been restored, North Carolina attempted once again to create the electorate of its choosing through a new photo ID law that it passed in the lame-duck period after the 2018 election. Restoration of the VRA could have prevented this.
On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated protections for voters of color in Shelby v. Holder, the Texas legislature introduced the country’s most antagonistic ID bill against black and brown voters, demanding as a prerequisite to voting one of several photo IDs that hundreds of thousands of Texas voters lack. The Fifth Circuit upheld the lower court’s finding that the law—which permitted a voter to cast a ballot after showing a gun permit but not a state university-issued ID—had a discriminatory effect on voters of color. Rather than scrap the law altogether, Texas legislators reworked the legislation to keep many provisions in place, which the appellate court upheld for the 2018 election.
Many have called Georgia “ground zero” for vote suppression, and with good reason. For years, former State Secretary Brian Kemp, now Governor, targeted for removal from voter registration rolls individuals who had missed just a couple of federal elections. As a result, hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters have been cut from the rolls and, unless they re-registered, were precluded from voting in 2018. Right before the midterm, moreover, the Secretary of State’s office placed 53,000 voter registration applications—70 percent of which belonged to black voters—in “pending” status. Georgia’s “Exact Match” law, which requires information from voter registration applications to match up exactly with other state agency records, enabled elections officials to avoid processing records with even slight mis-matches (such as the omission of a hyphen).8 More often than not, county and agency error is to blame for the mismatches.9 Had it not been for a successful lawsuit filed by advocacy groups,10 tens of thousands of Georgians would have lost their right to vote in the 2018 midterm elections. Litigation helps restore rights on a case-by-case basis, but comprehensive reform, as provided for in the For the People Act, would prevent much of this illegal behavior from occurring in the first place.
Because of these ongoing attempts to suppress the vote, particularly for voters of color, Demos calls for full restoration of the Voting Rights Act’s protections, and we applaud H.R. 1’s inclusion of Subtitle A in Title II reaffirming Congress’s commitment to restore the Voting Rights Act.
B. Voter purges and intimidation are, increasingly, used as suppressive tactics against voters of color.
1. Voter purges
Over the past several years, handfuls of states have made voter registration—already a burdensome requirement—even more restrictive. Examples from Dēmos’ litigation in Ohio, Indiana, and Texas show how purges exclude voters of color from the political process.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court considered Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, a case challenging Ohio’s practice of using non-voting to initiate a voter purge process. Overturning the Sixth Circuit’s decision, the Court held that practices like Ohio’s do not violate the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) prohibition on roll-maintenance programs or activities that “result in the removal of the name of any person” from the registration rolls “by reason of the person’s failure to vote.”11
Members of Congress made clear during Supreme Court briefing that Section 8 of the NVRA was designed to prevent purge practices like Ohio’s.12 H.R. 1 would amend Section 8 of the NVRA to address the Husted decision and prohibit states from initiating a purge procedure based on non-voting—a metric that simply does not reliably indicate that a voter has moved, and the use of which disproportionately targets, removes, and disenfranchises traditionally marginalized persons from the registration rolls.
As numerous amici in Husted explained, barriers to voting such as transportation issues, inflexible work schedules, care-giving responsibilities, illnesses, inaccessible polling locations, and language access problems can disproportionately prevent persons of color, housing-insecure individuals, persons with disabilities, low-income individuals, older voters, and persons with limited English proficiency from making it to the polls to vote.13 Using a person’s failure to vote to initiate a removal process will therefore disproportionately target such groups and result in their subsequent removal from the registration rolls. This was borne out in an analysis of the number of infrequent voters purged in Hamilton County, Ohio from 2012 through 2015, which found that “African-American-majority neighborhoods in downtown Cincinnati had 10 percent of their voters removed due to inactivity, compared to only four percent of voters in a suburban, majority-white neighborhood.”14
In 2017, Indiana adopted a law requiring elections officials to purge voters on Crosscheck’s list of “Potential Double Registrants” without first notifying them or offering a chance to correct or verify Crosscheck’s information. Crosscheck, the brainchild of former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, purports to identify people who register and vote in multiple states. But its formula for matching voter registration records across more than half the states is fundamentally flawed, resulting in millions of people being falsely flagged as double registrants. According to a 2008 study,15 finding different people with identical first names, last names, and date of birth—the only criteria Crosscheck uses to flag duplicate registrations, even when other information conflicts—is surprisingly common. What is not surprising is that Crosscheck is wrong an estimated 99 percent of the time.[fn value="16"]Sharad Goel et al., One Person, One Vote: Estimating the Prevalence of Double Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections (Oct. 24, 2017), available at https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/morse/files/1p1v.pdf. Once voters have been flagged under this flawed formula, they are then subjected to scrutiny and can be purged from the voter rolls.
In a major win for Indiana voters, U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted Demos’ motion for a preliminary injunction in Common Cause v. Lawson and blocked the law. Had it gone into effect, though, many voters would not have learned they’d been purged until they showed up at the polls. But voters in Ohio don’t have the same protection as Hoosiers do. And the problem with the Supreme Court’s holding in Husted is that now any state can adopt these sorts of practices, without strong legislation prohibiting them.
Just last week, Demos and its partners filed a lawsuit and an emergency motion to stop Texas from discriminating against voters of color and purging naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote from the voter rolls. David Whitley, Texas’s Secretary of State, recently made highly publicized accusations that 95,000 non-citizens may be registered to vote and that 58,000 may have actually voted in the state’s elections, based on DMV records. That claim is false. It is based on data the state knows is flawed, and it ignores the reality that many people who were lawfully in the country when they applied for a driver’s license or state ID, years ago, have now become naturalized citizens—entitled to full voting rights under our Constitution.
That did not stop Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from issuing a reckless “VOTER FRAUD ALERT” and President Donald Trump tweeting about voter fraud and calling it “just the tip of the iceberg.” Moreover, the Secretary has encouraged county election officials to send notices to these individuals and, if they don’t respond with documentary proof of citizenship within 30 days, purge them from the voting rolls.
These heedless accusations have left thousands of naturalized citizens outraged and fearful that their hard-won right to vote is in jeopardy. Nivien Saleh, a Harris County voter and one of our clients, gained her citizenship in January 2018, after living lawfully in the U.S. under a student visa and then an H1B visa since 1997. In a declaration filed with the court, Ms. Saleh describes her experience voting for the first time in the March 2018 Texas primaries as “the culmination of many years of hard work” and “an experience I will always remember.” Finding herself wrongly accused of unlawfully registering to vote has left Ms. Saleh “apprehensive, insulted and angry.” She explains, “I have worked hard to be a productive, law-abiding citizen,” and says that the Secretary’s false accusation “disturbs me deeply.”
Attempts to purge eligible voters from the rolls—as we’ve seen recently in Ohio, Indiana, and Texas—undo the work that goes into registering eligible citizens. Numerous states have noted that “voter inactivity is a poor measure to identify ineligible voters” and that “[t]here is no pressing need for States to target nonvoters,” as much more credible evidence exists to determine if a voter has become ineligible.17 Amending Section 8 of the NVRA to prevent states from using non-voting alone to initiate removal procedures would uphold the NVRA’s expressed purposes of increasing the number of citizens registered to vote, increasing participation, and “ensure that accurate and current voter registration rolls are maintained.”18 It would also help prevent qualified voters from being removed from the registration rolls and becoming disenfranchised.
If Congress is committed to voter registration reform, then it must also preserve those registrations through protections against aggressive attempts to remove them from the rolls. H.R. 1 takes a holistic approach to registration and appropriately includes Title I, Subtitle A, Part 4 on conditions for removal on the basis of interstate cross-checks and Title II, Subtitle F with a section on saving voters from purging.
2. Intimidation at the polling place
In our 2012 report Bullies at the Ballot Box,19 Demos and Common Cause highlighted the impact that illegal interference and intimidation can have on eligible voters at the polls. Organizers affiliated with True the Vote, for example, have claimed that their goal is to train one million poll watchers to challenge and confront other Americans as they go to the polls. They say they want to make the experience of voting “like driving and seeing the police following you.”20 There is a real danger that voters will face overzealous volunteers who take the law into their own hands to target voters they deem suspect.
Even in states with clear legal boundaries for challengers and poll watchers, too often these boundaries are crossed. Laws intended to ensure voting integrity are instead used to make it harder for eligible citizens to vote—particularly those in communities of color. Moreover, the laws of many states fall short when it comes to preventing improper voter caging and challenges. This should concern anyone who wants a fair election with a legitimate result that reflects the choices of all eligible Americans. There is no place for bullies at the ballot box, and government has a responsibility to protect voters from illegal interference and intimidation.
Clear rules can help prevent interference with voter rights. That’s why Subtitles C and D from Title I of H.R. 1 on preventing caging and voter intimidation are key provisions for the improvement and safeguarding of our elections.
C. Registration continues to be a barrier to participation.
Registration is still the number-one barrier to participation in our democracy. Fifty to 60 million eligible voters, disproportionately people of color, remain unregistered. Demos has worked for years to enforce the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to ensure that every eligible American, when conducting a transaction at a motor vehicle office or public assistance agency, gets the opportunity to register to vote. We estimate that our NVRA compliance work across nearly two dozen states has resulted in more than 3 million new voter registration applications being submitted through public assistance agencies under Section 7 of the NVRA alone.21
Millions of United States citizens find elections more accessible because of the NVRA, but significant hurdles remain. In the November 2016 general election, nearly 1 in 5 (18 percent) people who were eligible but did not vote cited registration issues as their main reason for not casting a ballot.22 We are proud of the work we have done to ensure compliance with the NVRA, but we know that states can and should do much more when it comes to registering eligible voters.
That’s why we have conducted research on and advocated for reforms such as same-day registration (SDR) and automatic voter registration (AVR), both of which increase registration rates and boost participation—particularly among voters of color and youth. SDR increases turnout by upwards of 10 percentage points,23 and AVR is expected to increase participation significantly as well. Due to the efforts of Demos and other advocates, 17 states and the District of Columbia now have SDR.
While some states have moved to restrict access to the ballot box, others are taking appropriate steps to adopt measures like online, same-day, and automatic voter registration. Yet more can and should be done to ensure that all Americans, no matter where they live, have access to the kinds of registration reform that H.R. 1 addresses.
With voter registration modernization—including online, automatic, and same-day voter registration, as required by H.R. 1’s Title I, Subtitle A—low-income voters of color will be brought into the system and will have greater access to the ballot. This package of reforms has the potential to shrink and perhaps even eliminate the great registration divide between low- and high-income Americans.
D. The exclusion of over 5 million individuals through felony disenfranchisement laws perpetuates a legacy of racial bias.
Felony disenfranchisement laws in the United States have troubling race and class dimensions that cannot be reconciled with our shared present-day values of equal citizenship and equal dignity. Scholar Ward Elliott has observed that the spread of disenfranchisement laws may have been a response to the abolition of property-holding requirements, which “had served a number of indispensable functions, such as holding down the voting strength of free blacks, women, infants, criminals, mental incompetents, unpropertied immigrants, and transients.”24 After Reconstruction, states in the South began to tailor their disenfranchisement laws to cover crimes for which black citizens were most frequently prosecuted, “as part of a larger effort to disfranchise African American voters and to restore the Democratic Party to political dominance.”25 Over time, states stopped distinguishing between kinds of crimes, instead imposing blanket disenfranchisement for all felony convictions.
Although states have repudiated discriminatory barriers to voting such as poll taxes and literacy tests, criminal disenfranchisement laws have persisted. And they continue to have a disproportionate racial impact due to the pervasive racial bias in the criminal justice system. As we noted in a letter that Demos and 19 other national organizations wrote in support of a New Mexico bill to end felony disenfranchisement,26 African Americans and Latinos make up 32 percent of the U.S. population but in 2015 comprised 56 percent of all incarcerated persons in the country.27 This is because individuals of color are prosecuted and sentenced at much higher rates than whites for comparable behavior. For example, in a national survey on drug use, it was reported that “African Americans and whites use drugs at similar rates, but the imprisonment rate of African Americans for drug charges is almost six times that of whites.”28 African Americans “represent 12.5 percent of illicit drug users, but 29 percent of those arrested for drug offense and 33 percent of those incarcerated in state facilities for drug offenses.”29
Because people of color are policed, prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated for crimes at disproportionately higher rates than whites, they lose their right to vote at disproportionately higher rates too. As a result, the electorate is disproportionately white. Communities of color experience reduced political power and the underrepresentation of their interests in government. Ending felony disenfranchisement, therefore, would help restore equality and equity to the democratic process. It would also aid with reentry and promote public safety.30
As such, we applaud the inclusion of Title I, Subtitle E, the Democracy Restoration Act, in the For the People Act.31
II. Money in Politics
The struggle for fair and equal access to the ballot continues, and our nation has taken some tragic steps backwards in recent years. But even when we win full and equal voting rights, our work will not be complete. As Demos has explained elsewhere,32 there is another substantial barrier to fair and equal representation for people of color as well as working-class Americans of all races: the role of big money in determining who runs for office, who wins elections, and what issues are prioritized in Washington, D.C. and state capitals. Overcoming the barrier of big money to equal representation is part of the unfinished business of the civil rights struggle.
Now the biggest barrier to people of color (as well as all low-income Americans) is not the all-white primary33 but rather the “wealth primary,”34 through which the wealthy, white donor class filters the candidate pool before anyone has the chance to cast a single vote. These wealthy donors act as gatekeepers up and down the ballot. The biggest spenders do not always win their races, but raising millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars is currently a prerequisite to compete for federal office. If you want to run for president these days, you need a billionaire or two willing to fund a Super PAC dedicated to your cause. If you want to run for Congress, you typically need hundreds of people willing and able to write $2,000 or $5,000 checks. To match the average 2014 U.S. Senate winner, you would need to raise $3,300 every single day for six years.35
While occasionally candidates with broad national appeal are able to raise tens of millions of dollars from a broad network of online small donors, the vast majority rely on large donors to reach the threshold amount they need to compete. One study of 2014 competitive congressional races found, for example, that “[o]nly two of 50 candidates in these competitive races raised less than 70 percent of their individual funds from large donors, while seven relied on big donors for more than 95 percent of their individual contributions.”36
The role of big money in restricting alternatives is one big reason why more than 90 percent of elected officials are white, only two percent of members of Congress have ever had working-class backgrounds, and tens of millions of Americans choose to stay home each Election Day.
Over more than two centuries of Court cases and constitutional amendments, the American people have decided that access to the ballot should not depend upon race, geography or wealth. In a democracy, the size of your wallet isn’t supposed to determine the strength of your voice. Under “one person, one vote,” each American must have an equal say over the decisions that affect our lives.
Unfortunately, rich and powerful corporations have far greater say than the rest of us. They use their wealth to amplify their own voices and drown out those of middle- and working-class Americans. This donor class is overwhelming wealthy, white, and male—deeply unrepresentative of the United States in 2019—and it tends to support the election of disproportionately wealthy, white, and male public officials. At the same time, these donor-gatekeepers’ interests diverge sharply from those of everyday people, particularly people of color, and yet they routinely win out in the arenas of legislative debate. In short, our big-money political system actively undermines racial equity and gives us public policy out of step with the needs and preferences of the American public.
The For the People Act would help curb the influence of big money in our elections and advance racial equity. Particularly through the small-donor match and democracy voucher pilot program in Title V of the bill, the Act would lower barriers to entry for candidates of color, amplify the influence of people of color and low-income individuals so that they can be heard alongside those of special interests, and promote more equitable public policy.
A. The donor class is overwhelmingly white, rich, and male.
A history of racial subordination and ongoing racial discrimination has compounded to produce a striking racial wealth gap in America. The Forbes 400 billionaires have as much wealth as the entire black population and a quarter of the Latino population combined. The median white household owns $140,500 in wealth, compared to just $3,400 for black households and $6,300 for Latino households.37 Put another way, the top 1 percent are more than 90 percent white; the top 10 percent are 85-90 percent white.38 These are the groups that dominate political giving in America.39
Just 25 people pumped more than $600 million into the 2016 elections through political action committees, Super PACs, and direct contributions to candidates and parties.40 Less than 1 percent of the population provides the majority of the funds that determine who runs for office, who wins elections, and what issues get attention from our elected officials.41
Election donors, and especially the mega-donors driving campaigns, are overwhelming white. Ninety-two percent of federal election donors in 2014 and 91 percent of donors in 2012 were white. The numbers are even more skewed among large donors. Ninety-four percent of those giving more than $5,000 in 2014 and 93 percent in 2012 were white. Men make up slightly less than half of the population, but comprised 63 percent of federal election donors in 2012 and 66 percent of donors in 2014. The pool of donors who give more than $1,000 has less gender diversity, with men making up 65 percent of donors giving more than $5,000.42
B. Our big-money political system is a barrier to entry for candidates of color.
By comparison to white Americans, people of color lack access to networks of wealthy friends, associates, and business interests, making it difficult for them to raise the funds needed to be viable candidates. And when candidates of color do run, they raise less money than their white counterparts. A study of more than 3,000 candidates running in more than 2,000 state legislative races in 2006 found that adjusting for factors such as incumbency, partisanship, and district income, “non-white candidates raise an average of 47 percent less compared to white candidates when all other mitigating factors are controlled.”43 In the South, candidates of color raised nearly 64 percent less than white candidates.44 Other studies show that business interests across a host of fields—manufacturing, retail, finance, insurance, real estate, and energy—give more to white candidates.45 White candidates are also far more likely to be in a position to self-fund their campaigns.46
The candidate with the most money does not always win—just an overwhelming majority of the time. In a typical cycle, 90 percent or more of candidates who raise the most money prevail.[fn value="47"]More than 90% of the biggest campaign fundraisers and spenders routinely win elected office. Money does not always win the day, but raising more money certainly gives a candidate a better chance to win. See Center for Responsive Politics, Money Wins Presidency and 9 of 10 Congressional Races in Priciest U.S. Election Ever (Nov. 5, 2008), http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/11/money-wins-white-house-and/; Wesley Lowery, 91% of the time the better financed candidate wins. Don’t act surprised, Washington Post (April 4, 2014). In this way, our big-money political system disproportionately excludes people of color from serving in elected office. It should be no surprise, then, that 90 percent of Americans’ elected officials are white, even though 37 percent of us are people of color.48
C. The wealthy, white donor class sets the agenda in Washington and state capitals across the country.
The wealthy, white donor class has markedly different policy preferences from the general public, and particularly from people of color. For example, on economic policy, polls show that people of color support the role of government in reducing inequality at significantly higher rates (67 percent) than do whites (53 percent) and those earning at least $100,000 (53 percent).49 People of color are also much more likely to list job creation as a priority over holding down the deficit, whereas whites and the wealthy are more likely to say the opposite:
The preference gap plays out on issues beyond the economy, and in some cases touches directly upon issues of racial equity. For example, a majority of whites believe that “blacks and other minorities receive equal treatment as whites in the criminal justice system” as do half of those making more than $100,000 per year.50 Yet only 41 percent of those making less than $50,000 believe this, and only 26 percent of people of color.51 And, when asked what is most important to help them achieve the American dream, wealthy and white respondents listed lower taxes as their first priority, whereas people of color listed access to an affordable college education as their top choice.52
The clear differential in policy preferences between the wealthiest Americans and people of color on critical issues means that when Congress focuses on the priorities and preferences of the wealthy, it enacts policies that cater far more to the interests of white households and ignores the priorities of the diverse and vibrant communities of color throughout the United States.
Not only that, studies show that the government is sharply more responsive to the preferences of the wealthy than to those of the average voter. Princeton political scientist Martin Gilens’s groundbreaking work has shown that when the preferences of the top 10 percent of income earners diverge from the rest of us, that 10 percent trumps the 90 percent.53 Another scholar, Larry Bartels, found that “the preferences of people in the bottom third of the income distribution have no apparent impact on the behavior of their elected officials.”54
D. Our big-money political system has resulted in social and economic policy that is contrary to the interests of people of color.
Because of the overwhelming influence of money in elections—with wealthy candidates running to represent wealthy people’s wants—the interests of everyday Americans, including people of color and low-income individuals, get overlooked or quashed. To take just two examples:
Minimum wage. The federal minimum wage has stagnated for years. It has held steady at $7.25 since 2009 and has been dropping in value due to inflation and rising costs. As Pew Research found, ”today’s real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. And what wage gains there have been have mostly flowed to the highest-paid tier of workers.”55 Recent polling, though, indicates that Americans on both sides of the aisle—74 percent (including 58 percent of Republicans)—favor raising the minimum wage.56 Support is especially robust among people of color, but a living wage is not a priority for affluent individuals, with only 40 percent supporting a minimum wage that ensures a family with a full-time worker will not live in poverty.57
The Subprime Lending Crisis and Recovery. Deregulation of large financial institutions led to the subprime housing crisis, which caused borrowers of color to lose between $164 billion and $213 billion from 2000 to 2008—the largest loss of wealth for communities of color in American history.58 Following the financial crisis, the federal government bailed out large banks rather than homeowners who found themselves underwater because of the deceptive and aggressive marketing practices of lenders. Lobbyists for the banking industry successfully eliminated a key provision from the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to write down mortgages on a primary residence to the current fair market value of the property.59 The banks won this and other victories despite the desire of vast majorities of Americans for greater regulation.60
E. The For the People Act would help curb the racially exclusionary nature of our big-money political system by amplifying the voices of everyday Americans.
Congress has repeatedly recognized and attempted to rein in the influence of powerful monied interests in elections. Time and again, however, the Supreme Court has invalidated common-sense protections under the First Amendment, on the misguided theory that all money is speech and that the government’s only legitimate interest in regulating campaign finance is to combat the reality or appearance of quid pro quo bribery. The Supreme Court has struck down:
Limits on how much personal wealth candidates can spend on their own campaigns61
Limits on total candidate spending62
Limits on contributions to or spending by individuals or groups supposedly not connected to candidates’ campaigns 63
Limits on contributions to ballot initiatives64
Bans on corporate spending on ballot initiatives65
Strict contribution limits set at levels that average Americans can afford to give66
Bans on direct spending through so-called “independent expenditures” by corporations and unions to influence candidate elections67
Limits on the total amount one wealthy donor can contribute to candidates, parties, and political committees.68
The result is that millionaires, billionaires, and corporations can use their wealth to amplify their voices and drown out the voices of average Americans. This allows them to translate their economic might into political power, distorting our democracy and making a mockery of the one person, one vote principle. And because people understand this, rulings like Citizens United have reduced the public’s confidence in our system and the people who serve within it. In fact, 85 percent of Americans think we need to “fundamentally change” or “completely rebuild” our system for funding campaigns.69
A promising and constitutional means of fundamentally changing our system exists: public funding of public election campaigns (often referred to as “public financing” for short). Public financing amplifies the voices of ordinary Americans, including people of color, so that elected officials listen to and work for all of their constituents, not just the privileged few.
The For the People Act contains two public financing programs for candidates for the presidency or Congress: (1) a six-to-one match on small dollar donations, up to $200, for candidates who raise 1,000 such contributions or $50,000 in such contributions, and (2) a pilot program of “My Voice” vouchers that would provide eligible voters with $25 to contribute to congressional candidates. These programs have the potential to curb candidates’ reliance on big money, enable more candidates of color to run for office, and avert the corruption and policy distortion that results from our current campaign finance system.
While large donors are overwhelmingly white, there appears to be significant racial diversity among small donors. Research on New York City’s small-donor match program, which provides a six-to-one match on donations up to $175, shows that donors giving $10 or less live in neighborhoods that are more racially diverse than the city as a whole. These donors live in neighborhoods where people of color comprise 62 percent of the population, versus 56 percent of the population of the city overall.70 A similar analysis concluded that small contributors come from a much more diverse range of neighborhoods than large donors and “there can be little doubt that bringing more small donors into the system in New York City equates to a greater diversity in neighborhood experience in the donor pool.”71 In Arizona, meanwhile, the state’s public financing system more than tripled the number of contributors to gubernatorial campaigns between 1998 and 2002 and increased the economic, racial, and geographic diversity of contributors.72 Candidates participating in Arizona’s “clean elections” system raised twice the proportion of their contributions from heavily Latino zip codes than did privately-funded candidates.73
Public financing programs can also produce policy outcomes that better reflect the public’s preferences, including priorities for communities of color that otherwise would go unrealized. Connecticut is a case in point.74 A paid sick leave proposal was bottled up in the Connecticut legislature until the state passed a “fair elections” system that enabled candidates to run for office without depending upon wealthy donors and special interests. Following this change, Connecticut became the first state in the nation to guarantee paid sick leave.75 Because the public financing programs in H.R. 1 could have similar salutary racial justice impacts, Demos strongly supports these provisions.
Not since the aftermath of the Watergate scandal has Congress introduced so bold a proposal to enhance our democracy. The For the People Act would make voting more accessible and combat voter suppression efforts, blunt the distorting influence of big money in politics, and advance racial equity. For too long, our system of government has catered to special interests at the expense of the working families and to the detriment of communities of color. Demos strongly supports the For the People Act and looks forward to seeing it signed into law.
1. U.S. Const. amend. XV.
2. Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013).
3. Eric Badner, Discriminatory Voter Laws Have Surged in Last 5 Years, Federal Commission Finds, CNN Politics, September 12, 2018, available at https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/12/politics/voting-rights-federal-commission-election/index.html.
4. National Conference of State Legislatures, Voter Identification Requirements – Voter ID Laws, available at http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx. Of the 17 states requesting photo ID to vote, 7 of those have strict requirements, meaning that, unless a voter produces ID at the polls or at an elections office within a prescribed period of time post-election, that vote will not be counted. Additionally, one of the biggest problems with voter photo ID laws is that, even if they are not strict, they often produce much confusion. For example, even though Texas’s strict voter photo ID law was not in place for the 2016 or 2018 elections, many would-be voters reported confusion as to what documentation they needed to vote. Many stayed home. Poll workers too were confused about the requirements, leading to long lines and disenfranchisement. See Jessica Huseman, Texas Voter ID Law Led to Fears and Failures in 2016 Election, ProPublica, May 2, 2017, available at https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-voter-id-law-led-to-fears-and-failures-in-2016-election.
5. See Keesha Gaskins and Sundeep Iyer, The Challenge of Obtaining Voter Identification, Brennan Center for Justice (July 18, 2012), available at https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/challenge-obtaining-voter-identification; Sari Horwitz, Getting a Photo ID So You Can Vote Is Easy. Unless You’re Poor, Black, Latino or Elderly, Wash. Post, May 23, 2016, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a-photo-id-so-you-can-vote-is-easy-unless-youre-poor-black-latino-or-elderly/2016/05/23/8d5474ec-20f0-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html?utm_term=.9911008ca3b1.
6. Alex Vandermaas-Peeler et al., American Democracy in Crisis: The Challenges of Voter Knowledge, Participation, and Polarization, Pubic Religion Research Institute (July 17, 2018), https://www.prri.org/research/American-democracy-in-crisis-voters-midterms-trump-election-2018/.
7. Adam Liptak and Michael Wines, The Challenge of Obtaining Voter Identification, N.Y. Times, May 15, 2017, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws-supreme-court-north-carolina.html
8. Miriam Valverde, Georgia’s “Exact Match” Law and the Abrams-Kemp Governor’s Election, Explained, Vox (Oct. 19, 2018), available at https://www.politifact.com/georgia/article/2018/oct/19/georgias-exact-match-law-and-its-impact-voters-gov/.
9. Id.
10. See Complaint, Ga. Coalition for the People’s Agenda v. Kemp, available at https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Georgia-exact-match-complaint-.pdf.
11. Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, 138 S. Ct. 1833, 1841-46 (2018); see also 52 U.S.C. § 20507(b)(2).
12. Brief of Certain Members of the Congressional Black Caucus as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Case No. 16-980 (U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 22, 2017).
13. See generally, e.g., Brief of Amici Curiae National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Ohio State Conference of the NAACP in Support of Respondents, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Case No. 16-980 (U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 22, 2017) (“NAACP Br.”); Brief of National Disability Rights Network, Disability Rights Ohio, AARP, AFL-CIO, SEIU, Democracy Initiative, National Coalition for the Homeless, Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, and Miami Valley Voter Protection Coalition as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Case No. 16-980 (U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 22, 2017); Brief of Asian Americans Advancing Justice I AAJC, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and Seventeen Other Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Case No. 16-980 (U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 22, 2017); see also Brief of Current and Former Ohio Elections Officials as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Case No. 16-980, at 5-6 (U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 22, 2017) (“Election Official Br.”).
14. NAACP Br., supra note 13, at 18 (referencing Andy Sullivan & Grant Smith, Use it or Lose it: Occasional Ohio Voters May Be Shut Out in November, Reuters (June 2, 2016), http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-votingrightsohio-insight/use-it-or-lose-it-occasional-ohio-voters-may-be-shut-outin-november-idUSKCN0YO19D.
15. Michael P. McDonald and Justin Levitt, Seeing Double Voting: An Extension of the Birthday Problem, 7 Election L.J. 111 (2008), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=997888.
17. Brief for the States of New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington, and the District of Columbia, as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, Case No. 16-980, at 11-12 (U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 22, 2017); see also Election Official Br., supra note 13, at 2 (“Ohio elections officials implement other mechanisms that do in fact protect against ineligible voters staying on the rolls, while at the same time ensuring that eligible voters remain registered. And, if the State wanted to further increase the accuracy of the voting rolls, there are other more targeted measures that could be adopted without disenfranchising duly registered Ohioans. By contrast, abstaining from casting a ballot has nothing to do with an Ohio voter’s eligibility to vote.”); see also id. at 9-11 (discussing other methods of roll maintenance that are already, and could be, used).
18. 52 U.S.C. § 20501(b)(1)-(2), (4).
19. Liz Kennedy et al., Dēmos & Common Cause, Bullies at the Ballot Box (2012), available at https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/BulliesAtTheBallotBox-Final.pdf.
20. Id. at 1.
21. Laura Williamson, Pamela Cataldo & Brenda Wright, Dēmos, Toward a More Representative Electorate: The Progress and Potential of Voter Registration through Public Assistance Agencies (2018), available at https://www.Dēmos.org/publication/toward-more-representative-electorate-progress-and-potential-voter-registration-through-.
22. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, November 2016 Voting and Registration Supplement. Reasons cited for not voting include “did not meet registration deadlines,” “did not know where or how to register,” and “did not meet residency requirements/did not live here long enough.”
23. Demos, Same Day Registration, https://www.Demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Sdr-Factsheet-Final_1.pdf.
24. Ward E.Y. Elliott, The Rise of Guardian Democracy 43 (1974).
25. Pippa Holloway, “A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote”: Disenfranchisement for Larceny in the South, 1874- 1890, 75 J. S. Hist. 931, 931 (2009).
26. See Demos, Letter of Support for HB 57 to End Felony Disenfranchisement in New Mexico (Jan. 28, 2019), available at https://www.Demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/National%20Org%20Letter%20to%20NMHJC%20on%20HB57%2020190128.pdf.
27. NAACP, Criminal Justice Fact Sheet, available at https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/.
28. Id. (emphasis added).
30. Cristopher Uggen & Jeff Manza, Voting and Subsequent Crime and Arrest: Evidence from a Community Sample, 36 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 193, 197 (2004-2005).
31. See also Alex Ewald, Dēmos, Punishing at the Polls (2003), available at https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/FD_-_Punishing_at_the_Polls.pdf.
32. See David Callahan & J. Mijin Cha, Demos, Stacked Deck: How the Dominance of Politics by the Affluent & Business Undermines Economic Mobility in America 5 (2013) (“Stacked Deck I”), available at http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/imce/StackedDeck_1.pdf; Adam Lioz, Demos, Stacked Deck: How the Racial Bias in Our Big Money Political System Undermines Our Democracy and Our Economy (2015) (“Stacked Deck II”), available at http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/StackedDeck2_1.pdf. This testimony draws upon original research presented in these two reports.
33. Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944).
34. See Jamin Raskin & John Bonifaz, Equal Protection and the Wealth Primary, 111 Yale L. & Pol. Rev. 273 (1993), available at https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylpr/vol11/iss2/3/.
35. Adam Lioz & Karen Shanton, The Money Chase: Moving From Big Money Dominance in the 2014 Midterms to a Small Donor Democracy (2015), available at https://www.demos.org/publication/money-chase-moving-big-money-dominance-2014-midterms-small-donor-democracy.
37. Chuck Collins, New Study Shows Wealth Inequality Hits Communities of Color Hardest, yes! (Jan. 29, 2019), https://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/new-study-shows-wealth-inequality-hits-communities-of-color-hardest-20190129.
38. Lioz, Stacked Deck II, supra note 32, at 4.
39. Both 2016 presidential candidates relied on the very wealthy. Millionaires make up 3 percent of the adult population, but 42 percent of the money Hillary Clinton raised and 27 percent of the money Donald Trump raised came from millionaires. A third of money raised by both candidates came from Americans with a net worth between $300,000 and $1,000,000. Sean McElwee, Brian Schaffner & Jesse Rhodes, Demos, Whose Voice, Whose Choice? 1-2 (2016), available at https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Whose%20Voice%20Whose%20Choice_2.pdf.
40. “Top Individual Contributors: All Federal Contributors,” Center for Responsive Politics, available at https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topindivs.php.
41. “Donor Demographics,” Center for Responsive Politics, available at https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/donordemographics.php.
42. McElwee, Schaffner & Rhodes, Whose Voice, Whose Choice?, at 10-18.
43. Laura Merrifield Albright, Not Simply Black and White: The Relationship between Race/Ethnicity and Campaign Finance in State Legislative Elections (Aug. 4, 2014), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2475889.
45. Lioz, Stacked Deck II, supra note 32, at 29.
49. Id. at 15.
50. July 2013 Washington Post-ABC News Poll – National Politics, Trayvon Martin, Health Care, Wash. Post (July 26, 2013), http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/07/22/National-Politics/Polling/question_11458.xml?uuid=xlqfYvLnEeKEZFflevhikA#.
52. Post-Miller Center Poll: American Dream and Financial Security, Wash. Post (Nov. 25, 2013), http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/09/28/National-Politics/Polling/question_11899.xml?uuid=zM932CiSEeOKs7WqzJ4RZQ.
53. Martin Gilens, Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America 234 (2014).
54. Larry Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age 285 (2008).
55. Drew DeSilver, For Most U.S. Workers, Real Wages Have Barely Budged in Decades, Pew Research, Aug. 7, 2018, available at http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/
56. Niv Elis, Poll: Bipartisan Majority Supports Raising Minimum Wage, The Hill (June 1, 2017), available at https://thehill.com/homenews/335837-poll-bipartisan-majority-supports-raising-minimum-wage.
58. Paul Taylor et. al, Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics, Pew Research Center (2011), http://ehub29.webhostinghub.com/~busine87/assignments/business_statistics_-_wealt.pdf.
59. Arianna Huffington, Lobbyists on a Roll: Gutting Reform on Banking, Energy, and Health Care, Huffington Post (June 25, 2009), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/lobbyists-on-a-roll-gutti_b_220521.html; Alex Ulam, Why a Mortgage Cramdown Bill Is Still the Best Bet to Save the Economy, The Nation (Oct. 20, 2011), http://www.thenation.com/article/164096/why-mortgage-cramdown-bill-still-best-bet-save-economy#.
60. Jim Lardner, Americans Agree on Regulating Wall Street, U.S. News (Sept. 16, 2013), available at https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/09/16/poll-shows-americans-want-more-wall-street-regulation-five-years-after-the-financial-crisis (“Regulating financial services and products is seen as either ‘important’ or ‘very important’ by more than 90 percent of voters….”).
61. Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 53 (1976).
62. Id. at 55-56; Randall v. Sorrell, 548 U.S. 230, 240-46 (2006).
63. Buckley, 424 U.S. at 43-51.
Citizens Against Rent Control v. Berkeley, 454 U.S. 290, 296-99 (1981).
65. First Nat’l Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765, 790-95 (1979).
66. Randall, 548 U.S. at 248-53.
67. Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 558 U.S. 310 (2010); see also SpeechNow.org v. Fed. Elec. Comm’n, 599 F.3d 686 (D.C. Cir. 2010), cert. denied, Keating v. Federal Election Comm’n, 131 S. Ct. 553 (2010) (striking down limits on contributions to groups that make independent expenditures to influence elections).
68. McCutcheon et al. v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 572 U.S. 185 (2014).
69. Nicholas Confessore and Megan Thee-Brenan, Poll Shows Americans Favor an Overhaul of Campaign Financing, N.Y. Times (June 2, 2015), https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/politics/poll-shows-americans-favor-overhaul-of-campaign-financing.html?_r=1.
70. Public Campaign preliminary analysis of donor demographics and small donor impact in New York City elections conducted in the spring of 2013, using contribution data from 2009 and American Community Survey 2007-2013 five-year averages.
71. Michael J. Malbin et al., Small Donors, Big Democracy: New York City’s Matching Funds As A Model for the Nation and States, 11 Election L.J. 3, 13 (2012).
72. Clean Elections Institute, Reclaiming Democracy in Arizona: How Clean Elections Has Expanded the Universe of Campaign Contributors 3 (2004), available at http://www.followthemoney.org/assets/press/Reports/200409301.pdf.
73. Nancy Watzman, All Over the Map: Small Donors Bring Diversity to Arizona’s Elections, Public Campaign 1-2 (2008), available at http://www.washclean.org/Library/AOTM_AZ08_Rpt.pdf.
74. J. Mijin Cha & Miles Rapoport, Dēmos, Fresh Start: The Impact of Public Campaign Financing in Connecticut (2013), available at https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/FreshStart_PublicFinancingCT_0.pdf.
75. Chad Garland, Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill to Require Paid Sick Leave, L.A. Times (Sept. 10, 2014), http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-brown-paid-sick-leave-20140911-story.html.
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If you have had an accident at work causing you to suffer from an injury and it was not your fault, you may be entitled to make a personal injury claim for compensation.
Your employer is responsible for your health and safety in the workplace and must take all reasonable precautions to ensure you do not get injured.
The type of injuries you can claim for are quite wide ranging – they include the obvious slips and trips, but also injuries such as repetitive strain injury and stress where your employer hasn’t done everything possible to prevent these from happening.
“For a successful accident at work claim, you need to be able to prove that your injury, illness or disease was caused by your employer’s negligence. As experienced lawyers we can help you put together your evidence and build a compelling case. Each accident at work claim is different – for some, your employers (or at least, their insurers) will want to settle before the claim goes to court. For others, the claim can be very drawn out. We do everything possible to ensure that your claim is dealt with quickly and with the minimum fuss and stress to you.”
Our lawyers are experienced in a wide range of claims from minor injuries to permanent disabilities and even fatalities.
Your employer’s duties
As set out on in our employer’s liability section below, your employer has a number of duties towards you in the workplace. These include:
Providing the necessarily tools and machinery for you to do your job
Providing the proper safety equipment – including safety wear such as goggles, high vis jackets, dust masks, safety boots, hard hats and ear defenders
Providing training so employees who have to lift heavy objects know how to do this safely
Ensuring all equipment is kept in a safe condition
Ensuring the workplace is tidy and safe
If you work at a desk, ensuring your environment is adjusted to minimise the likelihood of strain injuries
If you are working at a height, your employer has specific duties to ensure your safety
These are just a few examples. Your employer has many responsibilities towards you (and towards contractors and visitors) to keep you safe from injury.
Like all personal injury claims, there are strict time limits for claiming compensation. Generally you must bring your claim within 3 years from knowing about your injury. However, we advise you to speak to us straight away if you believe that you have a claim.
How much compensation will I receive?
Compensation for an accident at work depends on what the injury is and how severe it is. The compensation will differ for injuries where you stand a good chance of making a full recovery and injuries where you are likely to experience permanent symptoms.
Some examples of successful accident at work compensation pay outs include:
Claimant sustained a back injury at work – £40,000 compensation
Claimant fell from machinery after inadequate training causing a lower back injury – £32,000 compensation
Inadequately maintained safety equipment led to back injury – £20,000 compensation
Office chair with wheels and no arms slid away as the claimant stood up, floor was dirty – claimant sustained a back injury – £18,000 compensation
No lifting/handing training given – claimant suffered back injury – £16,000 compensation
Object fell on claimant – claimant partially to blame (was not wearing hard hat) – £12,000 compensation
Claimant suffered injury while trying to break up a fight between children in the playground – £11,000 compensation
Claimant injured while making a delivery due to another’s incompetence – £10,000 compensation
Claimant slipped on a loose stone and fell – then tripped on loose lino flooring – £8,500 compensation
Claimant was struck in the mouth by a post when working on the roof – £8,000 compensation
Claimant injured her knee after falling on loose carpet – £6,500 compensation
Please note that we have rounded these amounts to the nearest £500.
If you’ve had an accident at work, you may find the following websites useful.
Health and safety executive (HSE) guide to your employer’s duties
HSE guide to your duties as an employee
Citizens’ Advice Bureau guide to accidents at work
Information about Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (following an accident at work)
Here, we look in more detail at how employers are liable to their employees for accidents at work.
Employers may be liable to their employees:
(1) For breach of statutory duty; and/or (2) On the basis of common law negligence.
Regarding (2), there are a number of statutes that place duties on employers, such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
Employers can sometimes be liable under both (1) and (2). It is also possible that employers can be vicariously liable for the acts of their employees that cause injury, where the employee was acting in the course of their employment and the injury was caused by a tort.
Employers can face both civil and criminal action in some cases, such as for breach of Health and Safety Regulations.
Accidents at work: Employers’ duty of care
Employers have a duty of care to take reasonable care of their employees’ health and safety in the course of their employment. What is ‘reasonable care’ in this context? An employer has a duty to exercise due care and skill in four ways – they must provide:
competent staff,
adequate plant and equipment,
a safe system of work, and
safe premises (Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co v English [1938] AC 57).
These are each considered below:
1. The duty to provide competent staff
As noted above, an employer will be vicariously liable for the negligence of any employee that leads to another employee sustaining an injury. Employers can also be personally liable, under their common law duty of care.
The duty to provide competent staff means that an employer has a duty to take reasonable care to provide competent fellow workers.
When considering whether an employer has taken reasonable care, the court will often look at the knowledge the employer has or should have about the employee’s competence and experience.
The case of Hudson v Ridge Manufacturing Co [1957] 2 QB 348 involved an employee who, over the course of four years, had fooled around at work, including tripping up a number of people. The employee tripped up the Claimant and the Claimant sustained an injury to his wrist. The employer knew of the employee’s conduct and did nothing to prevent, so were held liable for failing to take proper care of the Claimant’s safety.
There have however been other cases where such practical jokes did not result in the employer being liable. For example, in Smith v Crossley Bros (1951) 95 Sol Jo 655; Coddington v International Harvester Co of Great Britain (1969) 113 SJ 265, the employers were not held liable as the Court found that they could not have reasonably foreseen the actions that caused the Claimant to sustain their injury.
Useful cases to review:
Smith v Crossley Bros (1951) Current Law Year Book (1947-51) 6831 – apprentices, larking about with a compressed air pipe, succeeded in injuring one of their number – the Court of Appeal said that they were acting outside the scope of their employment and therefore the employers were not liable.
Hudson v Ridge Manufacturing [1957] 2 All ER 229 – the Claimant’s injury had been sustained as a result of the employers’ failure to take proper steps to put an end to the fellow workman’s conduct, to see that it would not happen again and, if it did happen again, to remove the source of it.
Harrison v Michelin Tyre Co [1985] 1 All ER 919 – “Held, that the test for determining vicarious liability was whether a reasonable man would say either that the employee’s act was part and parcel of his employment (in the sense of being incidental to it) even though it was unauthorised or prohibited by the employer, in which case the employer was liable, or that it was so divergent from his employment as to be plainly alien to it and wholly distinguish from it, in which case the employer was not liable.”
Accidents at work: employers’ duty to provide adequate plant and equipment
‘Plant’ in this case has a very wide meaning – it may be a simple office chair or a complex piece of machinery. Plant means anything that is used in the course of work. Employers can be liable where an injury is sustained as a result of, for example:
Failing to provide plant/equipment needed to carry out the job
Providing plant or equipment that turns out to be unsafe/inadequate
Failing to properly maintain and renew plant/equipment
It is no excuse if an employer makes it a particular employee’s job to provide or maintain the plant/equipment as they will be vicariously liable if the employee fails in that duty.
The duty of care here is supplemented by statute – the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (1998) (SI 1998/2306).
The duty to provide adequate plant and equipment also includes safety and protective equipment like safety gloves, goggles and shoes – and the common law duty here is extended by the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 (SI 1992/2966).
If the question is of whether the plant/equipment has been properly maintained, the court will look at current best practice, which inevitably differs depending on what plant or equipment is involved. The following matters may be relevant:
Service/inspection records
Reports that detail breakdown, defects or difficulties with operation
Replaced parts that have become worn out, or replacement of the equipment
What was done to remedy defective or old equipment (e.g. replacement, repair)
What is reasonable in all cases really depends on the type of equipment involved – items that are subject to ordinary day-to-day wear and tear need less maintenance than items that are, for example, crucial pieces of safety equipment.
Of note, if the employee suffers from an injury that results from a latent (hidden/not obvious) defect in the equipment, they in addition may be able to rely on the provisions of the Employer’s Liability (Defective Equipment) Act 1969 which makes the employer strictly liable. At Section 1(1) the Act states:
(1) Where after the commencement of this Act –
(a) an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer’s business; and
(b) the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party (whether identified or not), the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer (whether or not he is liable in respect of the injury apart from this subsection), but without prejudice to the law relating to contributory negligence and to any remedy by way of contribution or in contract or otherwise which is available to the employer in respect of the injury.
Accidents at work: employers’ duty to provide a safe system of work
Providing a safe system of work is quite a wide duty and whether it has been met depends on a lot of factors that will be different each time. A system of work includes things like, how the work is carried out, the instructions that are provided, how the building and equipment within it is laid out, what precautions are taken to ensure the safety of workers, and what notices and warnings are displayed.
As well as providing a safe system of work, the employer also has a duty to ensure that this system is complied with. It is possible for example that employees may become careless over time, particularly where the work is repetitive or monotonous (see e.g. General Cleaning Contractors Ltd v Christmas [1953] AC 180).
Accidents at work: Employers’ duty to provide safe premises
Employers must take reasonable care to provide a safe place for the employee to work. This duty is supplemented by the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 (SI 1992/2004).
Providing a safe place to work includes any place that the employee is working temporarily, even if it is under the control of a third party.
The standard of care that an employer must take is explained by the judgement in Stokes v Guest Keen and Nettlefold Bolts & Nuts Ltd [1969] 1 WLR 1776:
(1) that an employer did not fall below a proper standard if he followed a recognised practice, unless it was clearly bad, but he must keep abreast of developing knowledge, and not be too slow to apply it; that an employer with greater than average knowledge of special risks might be obliged to take more than the average precautions; and that he should weigh the risk in terms of the likelihood of injury occurring and its possible consequences against the effectiveness, expense and inconvenience of the precautions;
(2) that where a medical officer was delegated a task requiring medical skill and was expected to give his advice partly on medical and partly on economic and administrative considerations, the special standards normally applicable to a doctor only applied to the medical aspect and the economic and other objects would be covered by more general principles; and
(3) that in the circumstances the doctor had been negligent in failing to institute six-monthly medical examinations of workers exposed to the risk of scrotal cancer and in failing to issue a notice calling attention to the risk, describing the symptoms and recommending reference to a doctor; and that GKN were liable for that negligence. (Paris v Stepney BC [1951] A.C. 367 followed; Morris v West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co Ltd [1956] A.C. 552 followed Cavanagh v Ulster Weaving Co Ltd [1960] A.C. 145 followed and dicta of Devlin, J. in Graham v. Cooperative Wholesale Society [1957] C.L.Y. 1403 followed.)
Section 16 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 authorises ACOPS – Approved Codes of Practice – which state what is current good practice for particular trades, reflecting the consensus in each relevant industries. There are also guidance notes issued by the Health and Safety Executive which, although not binding, do provide a good indication of what is considered to be good practice. Where an employer does not follow such guidance, it will be very hard for them to argue that the risk in question was not foreseen.
Another point is that employers must take into account the potential gravity and likelihood of an injury. The employer then needs to consider what measures will be needed and what cost is involved. In Stokes v Guest Keen and Nettlefold Bolts & Nuts Ltd [1969] 1 WLR 1776 it is explained that an employer:
“..must weigh up the risk in terms of the likelihood of injury occurring and the potential consequences if it does; and he must balance against this the probable effectiveness of the precautions that can be taken to meet it and the expense and inconvenience they involve.”
The duty of care is owed to employees individually, which means that if a particular employees have special needs, these must be catered for (see Paris v Stepney Borough Council [1951] AC 367 – in which the employer was held to be negligent for failing to provide goggles to a one-eyed workman, despite not needing to provide goggles to its fully-sighted employees).
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Lefty vs. Tiger might be cotton candy, but where's the harm in that?
There can't be any harm in letting Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson play their money match on television. In fact, it might be fun.
Lefty vs. Tiger might be cotton candy, but where's the harm in that? There can't be any harm in letting Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson play their money match on television. In fact, it might be fun. Check out this story on desertsun.com: https://desert.sn/2L4gzqK
Report: Tiger, Phil to face off for $10 million
Larry Bohannan, The Desert Sun Published 10:18 a.m. PT July 10, 2018
The Battle at BIGHORN, July, 2002. From left, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, R.D. Hubbard, Sergio Garcia and Lee Trevino.(Photo: Courtesy of BIGHORN)
Ever since word slipped out last week about a potential $10 million made-for-television match between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, pundits on social media have been asking the same question: Why?
As in, why are Woods and Mickelson interested in doing this at all? Why didn’t they do this 10 years ago when both golfers were in the winner’s circle more often? Why does it have to be for $10 million?
But more importantly, what exactly is the point of such a match? What would it prove? What would be the point?
To all of these criticisms I have one question in return: Why not?
Why not have Tiger and Phil do something that is basically a play for television ratings? Why expect such a match to shake up the world golf rankings or end world hunger? Why not have something that is frankly just fun to watch with no real strings attached?
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The idea that such a match would have to have “a purpose” is particularly intriguing to me. What was the purpose of having Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus play in the Skins Game in the 1980s? Well, maybe the purpose was to show that if you put Palmer and Nicklaus in a pairing in a quirky format, you could get more viewers than the U.S. Open. People forget that in many years, the Skins Game did outdraw one or two of the majors in viewership, and in one year it outdrew all four men’s majors.
Or what was the point when Woods faced David Duval in a television match in 1999? Was the question of Woods’ greatness really determined that night? Was Woods suddenly not so great when he lost to Sergio Garcia in a similar match the next year at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert?
Made-for-television events are just that, made for television. They are entertainment for the masses. If the match is played and Mickelson wins, no one will believe Mickelson is now magically better than Woods over the last two decades. If Woods wins, no one will say “see, I told you he was better.” It’s just a televised golf match, not a referendum on Woods or Mickelson or golf in general.
Yes, I would have loved to have seen this match in 2005. But it didn’t happen then, and if it happens now, that would be fine. Woods remains the biggest draw in televised golf, and Mickelson might be the only other golfer who can still move a ratings needle a bit. Maybe this isn’t a $49.95 pay-per-view event with a full undercard, but if you put it on ABC or ESPN or Golf Channel, people will watch. If you get a 3.5 rating, it might be worth the money for advertisers and sponsors.
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As the PGA Tour continues its long season full of 72-hole stroke-play events with 36-hole cuts, with tournaments looking suspiciously like most of the other tournaments, it might be nice to have a one-on-one event, or maybe a two-on-two team event, once or twice a year just to break up the monotony of a long season. No, it can’t be like the original Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf, which came before Facebook and Twitter. A match then could be taped six months in advance and by the time it was shown on television, only about a dozen people knew the result.
There is no reason for a Mickelson vs. Woods match to mean anything other than a little entertainment for golf fans. The world is full of events that are serious and meaningful and important. There is nothing wrong with having a little cotton candy in our golf lives.
Larry Bohannan is The Desert Sun golf writer. He can be reached at (760) 778-4633 or larry.bohannan@desertsun.com. Follow him on Facebook or on Twitter at Larry_Bohannan.
Larry Bohannan. (Photo: Richard Lui/The Desert Sun)
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Snyder pardons, shortens sentences of 61 Michigan offenders
Gov. Rick Snyder has agreed to pardon or commute 61 offenders in Michigan, including the lead plaintiff in a Detroit class-action lawsuit
Snyder pardons, shortens sentences of 61 Michigan offenders Gov. Rick Snyder has agreed to pardon or commute 61 offenders in Michigan, including the lead plaintiff in a Detroit class-action lawsuit Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/12/21/snyder-pardons-61-michigan-offenders/2392959002/
Mark Hicks, Sarah Rahal and Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit News Published 7:44 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2018 | Updated 11:23 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2018
Sam Hamama (center), speaks about his ICE detention with his son Chris Hamama (left) and daughter Britany Hamama outside the Rosa Parks Federal Building in Detroit on Wednesday, December, 19, 2018.(Photo: Max Ortiz, The Detroit News)Buy Photo
The lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit seeking the release of some 1,400 detained Iraqi Americans is one of 61 offenders in Michigan that Gov. Rick Snyder has agreed to pardon or commute, his office announced Friday.
In one of his last major moves before leaving office, the term-limited governor completed reviewing recommendations for commutations and pardons.
Among those on the list is Usama “Sam” Hamama of West Bloomfield, the lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit Hamama v. Adducci, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan.
The case sought to end the detention of some 1,400 Iraqis nationally, including 114 initially from Metro Detroit, who had been swept up in Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids for deportation in June 2017.
Hamama, 56, came to the U.S. at age 11 and hasn't lived in Iraq for 40 years. He had 1988 convictions for felony assault, felony firearm and carrying a pistol in a motor vehicle.
Hamama flashed an unloaded gun at another driver during a road confrontation and served two years in prison. At the time of the incident, the crime was not a deportable offense. Later, the government issued a removal order for him but did not try to send him back.
He was arrested again in a raid on June 11, 2017,following President Donald Trump's executive order barring admission into the United States of nationals from seven countries, then including Iraq.
He had been detained for eight months in St. Clair County by ICE officials until posting a $100,000 bond in February.
This isn't the first time he's applied for a pardon, but it's the first time he had hope.
Hamama got word of his pardon late Friday from the governor's office and said it was "the ultimate Christmas gift."
"This gives me a 51 percent chance of staying in this country and at least I can explain to ICE, authorities and others that I'm a decent person and get another chance," Hamama told The Detroit News late Friday. "This means a fresh start for me... a true blessing and the fight is not over."
Snyder's authority to grant clemency is derived from Section 14 of Article V of the Michigan Constitution of 1963, “which provides that the governor shall have power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after convictions for all offenses, except cases of impeachment.”
He shall inform the legislature annually of each reprieve, commutation and pardon granted, stating reasons therefor, it adds.
A commutation reduces a sentence but does not nullify the underlying conviction. A pardon erases a conviction.
Since Snyder took office in 2011, the Michigan Parole Board received more than 4,000 applications for pardons and commutations. Those applications the board determined as having merit were then sent to the governor’s office.
Snyder and his legal staff evaluated the documents along with the parole board and the state Department of Corrections.
“I appreciate the great work done by the state Department of Corrections and by the Michigan Parole Board in the processing of the applications and in the recommendations they provided,” Snyder said in a statement Friday. “I understand the importance and impact my decisions have, which is why I took great time and care in making my decisions.”
Snyder's move gives the parole board jurisdiction over the cases. From here, the parole board will give the final say on when and if individuals serving terms will be released, said Chris Gautz, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.
If offenders are granted release, the soonest they would be walking out of prison would be sometime in early February, he said.
The Detroit News reached out late Friday to the governor's office, requesting further details of the offenders receiving pardons or commutations from Snyder, but additional information was not provided.
None of the individuals pardoned or with sentences commuted were clients for the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic or the WMU Cooley Law School Innocence Project, both which advocate on behalf of falsely convicted individuals.
The innocence project focuses on post-conviction DNA testing applications, while the innocence clinic focuses on non-DNA cases.
Though none of the Innocence Clinic’s applicants were chosen by Snyder, the long list of pardons and commutations were encouraging, said Marla Mitchell-Cichon, director of the WMU Cooley Law School Innocence Project.
The commutations and pardons, she said, are not unusual for an outgoing governor, especially for Snyder, who “has been a strong supporter of criminal justice reform.”
“It’s a very important responsibility,” Mitchell-Cichon said. “They would have had a significant amount of information about the individuals they were going to pardon or commute.”
Mark Osler, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota and former assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit who studies sentencing and clemency, said Friday that Snyder “seems to have given this a fair amount of consideration."
Some on the list, he added, likely provided they were “people who had good clean prison records who moved toward rehabilitation.”
In Hamama's class action suit, the ACLU had argued that if the detainees were repatriated to Iraq, they would face torture or death for their Christian faith and some for having served in the U.S. military.
After U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith granted two motions on Nov. 20 to release the roughly 100 detainees, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that he lacked authority to grant them bond hearings and release.
"I will never drop out of the class action suit. The suit explained to (Snyder) how desperate we are," he said. "I’ll keep fighting for human rights because the moment we stop, someone will try to take away what matters most, our freedoms."
The list of offenders affected by Snyder's decision also includes Abner Hines, who was sentenced in 1975 out of Wayne County to two life terms for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery, state records show.
Hines, who was in his 20s at the time, did not shoot a business owner like a companion but faced sentencing years before the Michigan Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the state’s practice of charging accessories to a murder with the same offense as the person who did the actual killing.
His attorney, Tim Doman, had initiated the commutation request. The Michigan Parole Board scheduled a public hearing in June to consider it, state corrections officials reported.
Doman had not received advance notice about the decision and said he was "pleasantly surprised" to learn about it Friday.
"As an attorney, I think it's hard to imagine a higher point in my career. I think that the fact he spent nearly 50 years behind bars is an injustice. We’re ecstatic Gov. Snyder has commuted his sentence."
Doman was planning to visit his client, whom he said has long had the support of the slaying victims' family in being released.
Hines' family also is planning a trip, says his sister, Verna Hines.
News of Snyder's decision comes a month after the Detroit native turned 65 and a day before the anniversary of his mother's death, Verna Hines said.
"We have supported him because he has done all the right things to turn his life around. I'm so very proud of him," she said in an interview with The Detroit News late Friday. "I've watched the transformation — how he turned into a scholar and mentor."
Snyder also moved to reduce the life sentence of Melissa Chapman, who has spent 30 years in prison for first-degree murder in Genesee County. She was present when a boyfriend killed another man in 1987 and admits that she helped him get rid of the body. But Chapman said her boyfriend had threatened to kill her.
Snyder commuted the sentences of others serving life terms for murder, including Demetrius Favors, 72, who has been in prison for 51 years.
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Cycling Star to ride in Tour de Yorkshire Cycletta Ride
Published: 11:39 Friday 27 March 2015
The daughter of Beryl Burton, one of cycling’s biggest stars, is set to ride in the Tour de Yorkshire Ride Cycletta, a mass participation cycle ride for women along the route of the Tour de Yorkshire.
Denise Burton-Cole, the daughter of famous Yorkshire cyclist Beryl Burton, will take on the 50km sportive on Sunday 3rd May, which is being organised by the UK’s largest mass-participation sports event company, Human Race.
Denise, also a top female cyclist, rode alongside her mother for Great Britain in the 1972 World Championship and won bronze in the 1975 World Individual Pursuit Championship.
Denise grew up watching how passionate her mother was about cycling and fell in love with the sport. Joining her in riding the Maserati Tour de Yorkshire Ride Cycletta will be her daughter, Anna.
Beryl Burton, who rode mainly for the Morley Cycling Club before moving to the Knaresborough Cycling Club, won around 100 National Championships and set a women’s record in the 12-hour time-trials which beat the men’s record for two years. She features in the British Cycling Hall of Fame and because of her unrivalled achievements in the sport received an MBE and an OBE.
Denise Burton-Cole said: “I am absolutely delighted to be taking part in this event. It is fantastic for Yorkshire to have an international cycle race and for a mass participation women’s event to run alongside it on the last day is terrific. I can’t wait to be part of it.”
Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said: “It is great to have Denise in the Tour de Yorkshire Cycletta Ride. Denise was inspired by her mother to take up cycling and went on to become a medal winner and now Denise is inspiring other women to take up the sport.”
It is hoped that the Tour de Yorkshire will continue the legacy set by the Grandest ever Grand Départ of the Tour de France in July 2014 and continue to inspire more people to get into cycling and attract more visitors to the county.
Nearly 300 women have already signed up for to ride in the Maserati Tour de Yorkshire Cycletta Ride on Sunday 3rd May. More information about the event and how to enter can be found here: letour.yorkshire.com/tour-de-yorkshire/sportive
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Peabody Energy (BTU) Pops On Earnings Despite Q3 Losses
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| Thursday, 17 October 2013 05:26 (EST)
Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) , the second-largest US-based coal miner and producer with a market cap of $4.77 billion, released its earnings statement for the third quarter on Thursday that showed the company losing money. Shares rallied all the same however, on adjusted profits as well as forward guidance that beat expectations.
For the recently-ended period, Peabody reported losses of $26.1 million, or $0.10 per share on revenue of $1.8 billion, versus the prior-year period during which the company netted $42.9 million or $0.16 per share on revenue that was 13 percent higher. On an adjusted basis however, the company ended up earning $0.05 per share, against analyst expectations of a $0.04 per share loss on revenue of $1.78 billion, a result that delighted investors, sending the stock much higher even before the opening bell.
Peabody’s business is primarily in metallurgical coal, as well as thermal coal for use in electricity generation. Generally speaking, steel demand has declined, sending prices tumbling and causing a reduction in demand for the company’s metallurgical coal products, while utilities in the US have been switching over to natural gas where prices have been more favorable. The coal miner’s shares have dipped some 32 percent on the year, though losses have been pared back to some extent during the present quarter.
Coal prices have also been hit by the increasingly widespread negative image it has with regard to public sentiment, and the effect on coal companies in general has been plain to see. Peabody’s competitors such as Walter Energy (WLT) have had a much tougher time of it. At the very least, the company can boast that shipments out of its Australian mines were up 6 percent during Q3 to 9 million tons, against an 8 percent drop in the cost per ton.
Furthermore, Peabody reduced its capital spending target down to $400 million from $450 million, as the company expects continued downward price pressure. Shortly before the closing bell, shares for the company were trading some 3.7 percent higher to $18.55 per.
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IAALS announces leadership transition
Founding executive director retires, welcomes high-profile court reform champion as replacement
IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, announced today that founding executive director, Rebecca Love Kourlis, will retire from her role. She will be replaced by Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Scott Bales, who recently announced his impending retirement from Arizona’s highest court.
Bales will take over leadership in September. IAALS was established in 2006 with a focus on research-based, implementable reform of the American legal system.
“Becky’s single-minded commitment to rebuilding justice in our country has left an indelible mark on the legal landscape. Her leadership on this work so critical to our democracy, has made real change today and illuminated the path forward,” said Ret. Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor, who serves on the IAALS board and chaired the committee tasked with finding Kourlis’ replacement. “It is hard to imagine a better individual to lead the organization into its future than Scott Bales. His deep commitment to access to justice has already transformed Arizona courts in critical ways.”
IAALS was founded by University of Denver Chancellor Emeritus Daniel Ritchie, Denver attorney and bar leader John Moye, business leader and philanthropist Charles C. Gates, and Kourlis, who stepped down from the Colorado Supreme Court to serve as the first executive director. Driven by concern over a legal system increasingly under attack from outside forces—a system that was often failing to deliver justice—the group established IAALS to focus on independent, non-partisan, research-based reform for the nation’s civil justice system.
Kourlis is a native Coloradan who served the state’s judiciary for nearly two decades as a trial court judge and a member of the Colorado Supreme Court before she founded IAALS. She began her career practicing natural resources, water, public lands, oil and gas, and mineral law. Her father, John Love, was Colorado’s 36th Governor.
“When we began this work 13 years ago, I was deeply committed to working toward a system that serves all people, by being accessible, fair, reliable, efficient, and accountable. Justice for all should be more than a pledge: every day it should be closer and closer to a reality,” Kourlis said. “We have accomplished much but there is much more to do to ensure that our courts and the legal profession are truly accessible.”
Under Kourlis’ leadership IAALS has created an awareness of and developed consensus around the scope and sources of problems in our nation’s civil justice system and built support for reform among attorneys, judges and courts. This awareness has led to new state and federal civil case processes that have been implemented across the nation, new tools to help courts, lawyers and judges evolve to meet 21 Century users’ needs and expectations. IAALS has given users of the system a true voice in reform as well as championing the development of a better way for family courts to function, particularly around divorce, with a deeper focus on non-adversarial problem solving and the health of the family. IAALS has also pushed for more effective and meaningful judicial performance evaluation. And has spearheaded a national effort to identify the characteristics and competencies that lawyers need to succeed in the practice of law; and worked with law schools to incorporate them into the curriculum so that graduates are better prepared to meet their clients’ needs when they begin their practice.
“I can’t imagine a better way to continue working on the issues about which I have cared most deeply throughout my career, issues I’ve been working on in the Arizona courts,” Bales said. “I was attracted by IAALS’ long track record of impartial analysis, practical problem solving and successful implementation.”
Bales has served in private practice, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Policy Development and as Solicitor General for the State of Arizona. He was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2005.
“DU has long valued its partnership with IAALS. The transformative work done by Becky and IAALS is critical to our nation and is a hallmark of the vision of the University,” said DU Chancellor Rebecca Chopp. “We will miss Becky’s leadership but are excited to welcome Scott to the University community. I look forward to IAALS’ continued growth and impact.”
IAALS is a national, independent research center dedicated to facilitating continuous improvement and advancing excellence in the American legal system. Our mission is to forge innovative and practical solutions to problems within the American legal system.
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Brexit financial services deal will be difficult
DISCLAIMER: All opinions in this column reflect the views of the author(s), not of EURACTIV.COM Ltd.
By Mark Boleat | Centre for European Reform
A photograph released 07 August 2017 shows the UK's financial heart, the City of London in London, Britain, 06 July 2017. [Andy Rain/EPA]
The industry has accepted that so-called “passporting” rights will not be possible after Britain leaves the EU. The concept of “equivalence” has been mooted as a solution but even agreeing to that will be difficult, writes Mark Boleat.
Mark Boleat is senior associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform (CER), a London-based think tank. He is also a former Chairman of the City of London’s Policy and Resources Committee.
Negotiations are about to begin on the future relationship between the UK and the EU post-Brexit. Financial services will feature prominently in these negotiations as the industry is strategically important both for the UK and the EU 27.
For the UK, financial services exports to the EU are a major contributor to employment and tax revenue. For the EU, London is an important financial centre providing services to its corporates and governments. But some in the EU are uncomfortable at having its financial centre outside of its jurisdiction, and some EU states, France particularly, are keen to attract business from London. Agreeing a solution will be difficult.
The industry has accepted that passporting will not be possible after Britain leaves the EU, possibly with the benefit of a transitional period. The concept of “equivalence” has been mooted as a solution. The EU allows some financial services to be provided by businesses in jurisdictions based outside the EU if their regulatory regimes are deemed equivalent to those of the EU.
But the equivalence arrangements cover only a fraction of financial services, are at the discretion of the Commission and can be withdrawn at virtually no notice. The industry and the government are agreed that this is not an option. The industry has been promoting the concept of mutual market access – the EU and the UK agreeing to recognise each other’s regulatory regimes, with a disputes mechanism to settle differences. The government has now adopted this as its official position.
What is the prospect of success? Early indications from the EU are not favourable – the concept was immediately dismissed by the Commission and more explicitly by the French government. Michel Barnier has rightly pointed out that no free trade agreement has a significant financial services content. However, that argument is weakened by the fact that the mutual recognition concept was put forward by the EU in the TTIP negotiations with the US.
This does not alter the fact that securing agreement will be difficult, as the concept does not fit into the EU framework. To have any hope of success Britain will have to blur its red lines in other areas such as the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and budget contributions.
But in the meantime the clock is ticking. Financial institutions have no choice but to prepare for a worst-case, no-deal, scenario. Agreement on a transition is helpful but it does not have legal certainty and regardless of any comfort that regulators may offer this may not be sufficient for some customers and therefore for the businesses themselves.
Financial services businesses with cross-border operations have all developed their post-Brexit plans – collectively devoting huge resources to doing so. These are at varying stages of being implemented, depending on the nature of the business and the way that the business is currently organised. Subsidiaries are being established in the EU 27 and some functions are in the process of being transferred. This is generally being done with the minimum of publicity – there is no advantage to a business in seeking publicity for relocating activities as a result of Brexit.
For the most part businesses are doing the minimum necessary. Major location decisions will be taken some years into the future, when the final relationship between the UK and the EU is settled and businesses are able to evaluate effectively the merits of alternative locations.
So what will the effects be? Brexit will not destroy the UK’s financial services sector – the industry will adapt as it always has done and London will continue to be one of the world’s leading international financial centres. But Brexit will result in a smaller proportion of the total market being based in London and the UK, the extent of the reduction depending on the outcome of the negotiations.
A worst-case scenario could mean the loss of 70,000 jobs and some £10 billion annually of tax revenue, according to the most authoritative study by the consultants Oliver Wyman. A best-case scenario – adoption of mutual market access – will mean that the adverse effect will be negligible.
What about the effect on the EU? No single financial centre will come near to supplanting London. Frankfurt, Dublin and Luxembourg, and to a less extent Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam, will gain some business, as will Singapore and particularly New York, which could prove to be the biggest beneficiary of Brexit.
The financial markets in Europe will fragment to some extent, which is likely to result in less efficient markets and therefore a higher cost of financial products, although probably not to the extent that European corporates will die in a ditch to seek to protect London. Financial institutions have in the past seen the benefit of centralising their operations in as few locations as possible. Now the economic benefit of doing so has to be measured against the political risk.
This opinion article is a companion piece for longer paper “Brexit and the financial services industry: the story so far”, published by the Centre for European Reform.
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One response to “Brexit financial services deal will be difficult”
Peter Fletcher says:
I remember similar attitudes being expressed in the 1960’s regarding the British motoring manufacturing industries, second only to the US at that time. It was inconceivable then that in just two decades our mass market vehicle manufacturers would all be annihilated by foreign competition, cars, trucks, buses, tractors and motorcycles all gone. Even the niche manufacturers went through periods of pain to survive with many in the end failing.
Foreign competition is invariably quick to learn what the public and businesses want, are adept at improving and adapting the product to suit plus with improved service capturing the market. IMO it would be the height of conceit and arrogance to believe that this could not happen to our financial service industry here in the UK especially as we may well be giving foreign competition a head start by introducing in part a customer base with which to start the process in various EU financial service centres after Brexit.
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Location of Egypt. Source: CIA World Factbook.
Egypt: Photographer Arrested For Filming Fake Images Of ‘Aleppo Suffering’
December 21, 2016 MINA 0 Comments
By MINA
It was destined to be an iconic image: a small girl holding a teddy bear in a white dress marked by blood splotches with the ruins of Aleppo behind her. But according to authorities, it was also a set-up, shot hundreds of miles away in a different country, with help of a posing child and some paint.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry has revealed on its Facebook page that it arrested a group of five people caught in the act of producing images purportedly depicting scenes of suffering in Aleppo that they had planned to pass off as real pictures from Syria.
The ministry said that the residents of Port Said, a city on the Suez Canal, were caught in the middle of their shoot as the 12-year-old star, Ragd, was posing for 21-year-old Mustafa, who told the authorities that he “normally photographed weddings and ceremonies, but had an idea for something else.”
“In a conversation with them, the suspects revealed that they had shot a series of scenes to be spread on social media, as actual pictures from Aleppo,” said the ministry, which posted a video of the arrest, and interviews with the suspects online.
The stand-in for Aleppo was “the ruins of a house that had been slated for demolition by the authorities some time earlier.” The blood was obtained from a “tin of red paint” that was liberally smeared on the girl, her fake bandages, and her stuffed animal.
The girl herself was known to the photographer beforehand, and came to the session with her mother, the photographer, and three other local men.
Mustafa is being detained in jail for an initial four days, while the others have been set free, and Ragd has been returned to her guardian.
While it is unknown whether Mustafa’s staged photo would have gained social media traction, vivid photographs – some of them fake – have been powerful tools in shaping public opinion since Aleppo was re-captured by Syrian government forces earlier this month.
The most notorious hoax picture, which has been shared thousands of times on Twitter and Facebook, features a girl running through a debris-filled street. The caption reads “Girl running to survive, all her family have been killed. It’s not in Hollywood. This real in Syria.” In fact, the image was cut from a 2014 Lebanese pop video.
Another video, called “Executions have begun in the middle of the street in Aleppo,” which has also been widely shared, depicts supposed government forces allegedly taking out retribution on civilians. In reality, the video dates back from 2012, and contains unverified images.
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Public Release: 16-Jul-2015
A most singular nano-imaging technique
Berkeley Lab's SINGLE provides images of individual nanoparticles in solution
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
IMAGE: SINGLE uses in situ TEM imaging of platinum nanocrystals freely rotating in a graphene liquid cell to determine the 3-D structures of individual colloidal nanoparticles. view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Berkeley Lab
Just as proteins are one of the basic building blocks of biology, nanoparticles can serve as the basic building blocks for next generation materials. In keeping with this parallel between biology and nanotechnology, a proven technique for determining the three dimensional structures of individual proteins has been adapted to determine the 3D structures of individual nanoparticles in solution.
A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a new technique called "SINGLE" that provides the first atomic-scale images of colloidal nanoparticles. SINGLE, which stands for 3D Structure Identification of Nanoparticles by Graphene Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy, has been used to separately reconstruct the 3D structures of two individual platinum nanoparticles in solution.
"Understanding structural details of colloidal nanoparticles is required to bridge our knowledge about their synthesis, growth mechanisms, and physical properties to facilitate their application to renewable energy, catalysis and a great many other fields," says Berkeley Lab director and renowned nanoscience authority Paul Alivisatos, who led this research. "Whereas most structural studies of colloidal nanoparticles are performed in a vacuum after crystal growth is complete, our SINGLE method allows us to determine their 3D structure in a solution, an important step to improving the design of nanoparticles for catalysis and energy research applications."
Alivisatos, who also holds the Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of California Berkeley, and directs the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley (Kavli ENSI), is the corresponding author of a paper detailing this research in the journal Science. The paper is titled "3D Structure of Individual Nanocrystals in Solution by Electron Microscopy." The lead co-authors are Jungwon Park of Harvard University, Hans Elmlund of Australia's Monash University, and and Peter Ercius of Berkeley Lab. Other co-authors are Jong Min Yuk, David Limmer, Qian Chen, Kwanpyo Kim, Sang Hoon Han, David Weitz and Alex Zettl.
Colloidal nanoparticles are clusters of hundreds to thousands of atoms suspended in a solution whose collective chemical and physical properties are determined by the size and shape of the individual nanoparticles. Imaging techniques that are routinely used to analyze the 3D structure of individual crystals in a material can't be applied to suspended nanomaterials because individual particles in a solution are not static. The functionality of proteins are also determined by their size and shape, and scientists who wanted to image 3D protein structures faced a similar problem. The protein imaging problem was solved by a technique called "single-particle cryo-electron microscopy," in which tens of thousands of 2D transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of identical copies of an individual protein or protein complex frozen in random orientations are recorded then computationally combined into high-resolution 3D reconstructions. Alivisatos and his colleagues utilized this concept to create their SINGLE technique.
"In materials science, we cannot assume the nanoparticles in a solution are all identical so we needed to develop a hybrid approach for reconstructing the 3D structures of individual nanoparticles," says co-lead author of the Science paper Peter Ercius, a staff scientist with the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
"SINGLE represents a combination of three technological advancements from TEM imaging in biological and materials science," Ercius says. "These three advancements are the development of a graphene liquid cell that allows TEM imaging of nanoparticles rotating freely in solution, direct electron detectors that can produce movies with millisecond frame-to-frame time resolution of the rotating nanocrystals, and a theory for ab initio single particle 3D reconstruction."
The graphene liquid cell (GLC) that helped make this study possible was also developed at Berkeley Lab under the leadership of Alivisatos. TEM imaging uses a beam of electrons rather than light for illumination and magnification but can only be used in a high vacuum because molecules in the air disrupt the electron beam. Since liquids evaporate in high vacuum, samples in solutions must be hermetically sealed in special solid containers - called cells - with a very thin viewing window before being imaged with TEM. In the past, liquid cells featured silicon-based viewing windows whose thickness limited resolution and perturbed the natural state of the sample materials. The GLC developed at Berkeley lab features a viewing window made from a graphene sheet that is only a single atom thick.
"The GLC provides us with an ultra-thin covering of our nanoparticles while maintaining liquid conditions in the TEM vacuum," Ercius says. "Since the graphene surface of the GLC is inert, it does not adsorb or otherwise perturb the natural state of our nanoparticles."
Working at NCEM's TEAM I, the world's most powerful electron microscope, Ercius, Alivisatos and their colleagues were able to image in situ the translational and rotational motions of individual nanoparticles of platinum that were less than two nanometers in diameter. Platinum nanoparticles were chosen because of their high electron scattering strength and because their detailed atomic structure is important for catalysis.
"Our earlier GLC studies of platinum nanocrystals showed that they grow by aggregation, resulting in complex structures that are not possible to determine by any previously developed method," Ercius says. "Since SINGLE derives its 3D structures from images of individual nanoparticles rotating freely in solution, it enables the analysis of heterogeneous populations of potentially unordered nanoparticles that are synthesized in solution, thereby providing a means to understand the structure and stability of defects at the nanoscale."
The next step for SINGLE is to recover a full 3D atomic resolution density map of colloidal nanoparticles using a more advanced camera installed on TEAM I that can provide 400 frames-per-second and better image quality.
"We plan to image defects in nanoparticles made from different materials, core shell particles, and also alloys made of two different atomic species," Ercius says.
This research was primarily supported by the DOE Office of Science.
A movie of a single rotating Pt nanocrystal showing 2D projected TEM still snapshots in many orientations for ab initio particle reconstruction can be viewed here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0WtYIlRLw4&feature=youtu.be)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world's most urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab's scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes. The University of California manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. For more, visit http://www.lbl.gov.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit the Office of Science website at science.energy.gov/.
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Single Nanocrystal in a Colloid (IMAGE)
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Scaling Up Services in Rural India
Earth Institute adviser delivers recommendations to India's Prime Minister
A young boy, older woman, and young girl carry water from a stagnant pond for their animals in the hills above the village of Ranichauri in the Indian Himalayas (Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh). Image credit: Todd Shapera, Courtesy of Photoshare
The Earth Institute’s Nirupam Bajpai, Senior Development Adviser and Director of the South Asia Program at the Center on Globalization & Sustainable Development, delivered four project reports on scaling up services in rural India to the Indian political and civil service leadership, including India’s President, Prime Minister and Chief Ministers of two Indian states among several other policy makers.
The reports follow a year of intensive needs, costs, and delivery assessment by Earth Institute experts on drinking water, electricity, primary health, and primary education focusing on two Indian states Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
The Earth Institute: Why were the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh chosen as the focus states of this two year project?
Nirupam Bajpai: Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Madhya Pradesh (MP) were selected because they perform poorly in terms of economic and social development and because collectively, they account for roughly one-third of the total national population, of which over 75 percent reside in rural areas. In Year II, we’re working on Rajasthan. Rajasthan, MP and UP are three of the largest states in India, located almost in a continuum from the west to the center and then to the north. MP, Rajasthan and UP constitute 13 percent, 10 percent and 9 percent respectively of the country’s total geographical area.
The Earth Institute: What are some of the essential recommendations of the health and education sector reports?
Nirupam Bajpai: In broad terms, the project reports address two key questions. One: what will it cost in terms of finances and human resources to scale-up state-wide access (in UP and MP) to rural services of safe drinking water, availability of power, primary health, and primary education? Two: what policy, institutional and governance reforms may be necessary so as to ensure proper service delivery?
The reports identify and analyze a comprehensive set of issues in all the four sectors and lay out specific recommendations for the consideration of India’s federal government and the two state governments.
Read the key recommendations for the health sector
Download pdf of health paper
Read the key recommendations for the education sector
Download pdf of education paper
The Earth Institute: Are these recommendations within the means of India’s government to address?
Nirupam Bajpai: Yes, they certainly are within the means of the Government. To the extent feasible, we’ve recommended mobilization of additional funds by cutting unproductive government expenditures relative to GDP rather than by raising revenues relative to GDP. In order for effective delivery of social services, much higher levels of public resources must be invested in the social sectors, especially in the primary health sector by the federal and state governments and there needs to be closer coordination between the federal and the state governments.
For example, relative to the health sector, the education sector has not suffered as much for lack of public spending, though there is certainly room to do much more. In part, this is explained by the role played by the federal government in the primary education sector, especially since 1994. With the initiation of schemes, such as DPEP in 1994 and SSA in 2001, the federal government has helped make available fairly large sums of money to the state governments.
The lack of federal government’s involvement in the health sector relative to the education sector may also be due to the fact that health (public health and sanitation; hospitals and dispensaries) is in the State list per the Indian Constitution, whereas education is in the Concurrent list. Items in the State list are exclusively under the purview of the State Governments. However, the subjects under the Concurrent list are under both the federal and state governments.
The Earth Institute: Is there a plan to implement these recommendations?
Nirupam Bajpai: Well, from what I’ve learned after a presentation of these reports and subsequent discussions with the state governments of UP and MP, they're working on some of our key recommendations and plan to utilize them for policy-making purposes. The state governments also plan to use them for discussions with the Planning Commission of India for seeking higher levels of federal support for raising public investment in the health and education sectors.
The federal government, led by Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, on the other hand is committed to raising social sector investments and so I’m confident that during the next few years and during India’s XI Five-Year-Plan (2007-12), the states will receive substantially higher federal funds in the health and education sectors.
The Earth Institute: You have just completed year one of the two year project “Scaling Up of Services in Rural India.” What happens in year two?
Nirupam Bajpai: As I said earlier, in Year II, we’ve recently begun working on the state of Rajasthan. Additionally, the Indian government has requested the Earth Institute to undertake similar work in two of India’s southern states Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, which we plan to incorporate into this project.
Related News Stories:
7/15/05 -- A Meeting with the Honorable Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh
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Switzerland and Zambia
Living in Zambia
Consulate of Switzerland in Lusaka
supports Swiss representations in safeguarding Switzerland’s interests and in emergencies involving Swiss citizens abroad. In an emergency the representation responsible (embassy or consulate-general) must be contacted immediately.
All consular services and visa issues are provided by the Embassy of Switzerland in Tanzania.
Travel advice for Zambia
Export Promotion Services
Swiss companies in Southern Africa
Location Promotion Activities
The federal government supports Swiss companies at home and abroad by promoting exports and protecting investment.
The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), in conjunction with Swiss embassies and consulates, provide a broad range of services. In recent years this has focused increasingly on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Export promotion, promotion of business location Switzerland, and representation of interests
Switzerland’s approximately 170 embassies and general-consulates offer Swiss and Liechtenstein-based companies:
standardised information and advice
assistance with establishing contacts and arranging access to official bodies abroad
representation of the interests of Swiss companies
interventions with government authorities
In particularly important, traditional and emerging markets, the federal government operates, in collaboration with Switzerland Global Enterprise, Swiss Business Hubs that offer a wide range of services. These hubs currently exist in Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UK and Ireland, and the USA, as well as in Dubai for the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC and in Singapore for Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam.
The services offered by these hubs include:
arranging introductions to business partners
promotion of business location Switzerland
an organisation service for participation in trade fairs
The Swiss Business Hubs are attached to the official representation network of the FDFA.
The supreme objective of export promotion is to overcome existing inhibition thresholds. It also facilitates access to all foreign markets by arranging contacts and providing expert advice for Swiss companies that are capable of becoming exporters and interested in doing so, especially SMEs.
Investment protection
Swiss SMEs are currently carrying out more and more investment abroad. Comprehensive investment protection is extremely important to the Swiss economy. To date, Switzerland has concluded over 120 Investment Protection Agreements with countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. These govern:
the treatment of foreign investment by the host state
the transfer of investment earnings and other payments
compensation in the event of expropriation
the resolution of disputes.
Switzerland’s objectives in concluding these agreements are to improve the legal position of investors and to create a climate favourable to capital investment.
They make it possible to rectify shortcomings outside the area of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Swiss embassies are closely involved in negotiating these agreements.
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Heartland Bank and Trust Company, Bloomington, Illinois, Assumes All of the Deposits of Bank of Illinois, Normal, Illinois
Greg Hernandez
Bank of Illinois, Normal, Illinois, was closed today by the Illinois Department of Financial 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 Heartland Bank and Trust Company, Bloomington, Illinois, to assume all of the deposits of Bank of Illinois.
The two branches of Bank of Illinois will reopen on Saturday as branches of Heartland Bank and Trust Company. Depositors of Bank of Illinois will automatically become depositors of Heartland Bank and Trust Company. 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 Heartland Bank and Trust Company that it has completed systems changes to allow other Heartland Bank and Trust Company branches to process their accounts as well.
This evening and over the weekend, depositors of Bank of Illinois 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, Bank of Illinois had approximately $211.7 million in total assets and $198.5 million in total deposits. Heartland Bank and Trust Company will pay the FDIC a premium of 3.61 percent to assume all of the deposits of Bank of Illinois. In addition to assuming all of the deposits of the failed bank, Heartland Bank and Trust Company agreed to purchase essentially all of the assets.
The FDIC and Heartland Bank and Trust Company entered into a loss-share transaction on $166.6 million of Bank of Illinois's assets. Heartland Bank and Trust Company 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 1-800-760-3641. The phone number will be operational this evening until 9:00 p.m., Central Standard Time (CST); on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., CST; on Sunday from noon to 6:00 p.m., CST; and thereafter from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., CST. Interested parties also can visit the FDIC's Web site at http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/bankofillinois.html.
The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $53.7 million. Heartland Bank and Trust Company's acquisition of all the deposits was the "least costly" resolution for the FDIC's DIF compared to all alternatives. Bank of Illinois is the 24th FDIC-insured institution to fail in the nation this year, and the third in Illinois. The last FDIC-insured institution closed in the state was George Washington Savings Bank, Orland Park, on February 19, 2010.
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Search results: drag
Meet the Fabulous Drag Clowns of London
May 23, 2016 by Ellyn Kail
“It’s not just an act,” says photographer Poem Baker of Tuttii Fruittii and Toni Tits, a pair of drag clown performance artists living in Southeast London.
Fetish Artists, Drag Queens, and Burlesque Stars Photographed Around the World
January 25, 2016 by Ellyn Kail
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When night falls and the suits and ties have all been tucked away, a magical world emerges from the darkness, setting the cities of London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Las Vegas, LA, and San Francisco ablaze as the rest of the world sleeps. This is the realm of the night performer, the drag queen or king, the burlesque dancer, the fetish artist, and now of LA-based photographer Samantha Fielding, who has devoted three years of her life to telling the stories of the world’s most gifted and ingenious underground personalities.
Atmospheric Photos of Bhutan, ‘the Land of the Thunder Dragon’
April 7, 2015 by Ellyn Kail
Base camp in the mountains © David Prince / Offset
Horse wrangler packing maize kernels © David Prince / Offset
Frozen branches with catkin © David Prince / Offset
When New York City-based photographer David Prince embarked on his journey to Bhutan, he left with no fixed ideas about what he would find, preferring instead to immerse himself totally within the lifestyles of the country’s traditional yak farmers, Buddhist monasteries, and the vast Himalayan mountains that enveloped them all.
A Look at the Lives of Three Older Drag Queens in the Last Gay Bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District
December 4, 2014 by Ellyn Kail
Donna adjusts her wig before her number.
Olivia attaches her false eyelash.
For Beautiful by Night, San Francisco-based photographer and filmmaker James Hosking chronicles life in Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the one and only gay bar left standing in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood that decades ago, was renowned for its thriving LGBT community. In tracing the nightly routines of three of its older drag queens— Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande, and Olivia Hart, Hosking traces the rich history and uncertain future of drag in the crime-ridden area.
Cocktail Hour: Singapore Sling with Dragon Fruit
September 5, 2014 by Ellyn Kail
© Food Collection / Offset
To see more of Food Collection’s work, please visit Offset.
Offset is an exclusive category channel partner on Feature Shoot.
Portraits of Page: A Look at ‘80s and ‘90s Drag Life in NYC (NSFW)
June 2, 2014 by Elyssa Goodman
As soon as you see Page, you know there is something special about her. She has the ethereal elegance of Grace Kelly, married with the glittery, gender-bending, art-punk edge of downtown New York in the ‘80s and ‘90s. This was something legendary drag queen Linda Simpson noticed about the transgender performer and documented, along with the rest of the era’s drag scene, with a simple 35 mm point-and-shoot camera. In color, of course. Because if anything was ever colorful, it was drag.
Portraits of Drag Devotees Dressed as Both Genders
April 5, 2013 by Sophie Chapman-Andrews
Last summer, I had the privilege of being a mentor along with Liz Helman, a photographer and picture editor, on the Young Photographers’ Association program. The brief was for the mentees to explore what “home” meant to them. London-based Charley Murrell was one of our group.
Alin Dragulin, Portland
May 8, 2009 by Alison Zavos
Romanian born photographer Alin Dragulin completed a B.A. in Painting from Portland State University. These days, he spends his time between Portland and Los Angeles, specializing in creating images that convey his unique sense of visual humor. This set of photos belongs to an ongoing series documenting the changes that occur when boys enter their teens. These portraits were taken in February 2008, when they were all aged eleven. The next series will be shot in February 2010, when they will be thirteen years old.
Looking back at LGBTQ life, 50 years after Stonewall
July 3, 2019 by Miss Rosen
KARLA JAY, born in Brooklyn in 1947, is a distinguished professor emerita at Pace University, where she taught English and directed the women’s and gender studies program between 1974 and 2009. A pioneer in the field of lesbian and gay studies, she is widely published.
CHELLA MAN is a 20-year-old, deaf, genderqueer, queer artist currently transitioning on testosterone. “Every day left me exhausted as I performed traditional femininity.” Born in Pennsylvania, he moved to New York to study virtual reality programming at The New School, while creating art on the side. His main focus is to educate others on issues regarding being queer and disabled within a safe space.
Fifty years after the Stonewall Rebellion gave birth to the global LGBTQ Movement, generations have continued the fight for freedom and equality — knowing full well the moment we stop fighting is the moment that all hell breaks loose.
Consider the June 28 report of a Black trans woman who disrupted a drag show at the Stonewall Inn during the 50th anniversary celebration to call out how Pride has been co-opted by corporations even through Black trans women are being murdered — and was threatened with police action in an effort to silence her.
It was a cruel but telling episode of history repeating itself, half a century later at the very place where Gay Liberation began. In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, by homeless LGBTQ teens, trans women of color, lesbians, drag queens, and gay men stood up against a police raid, sparking off a multi-night uprising on the streets of New York’s Greenwich Village.
In the aftermath of Stonewall, hundreds of new LGBTQ civil rights organizations took root across the country and around the world, forcing the U.S. government to change their laws. Though the war has not been won, the battles rage on.
Collier Schorr: Stonewall at 50, currently on view at the Alice Austen House in Staten Island, New York, through September 30, honors those doing the work in a series 15 black and white portraits of intergenerational activists including native New Yorker Karla Jay, an early member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Radicalesbians who famously incited the “Lavender Menace Zap” at the Second Congress to Unite Women in 1970.
Here Jay shares her memories and lessons gleaned on the front lines, which we can use to continue to fight in the name of those who did not make it out alive.
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Why There Are 'Too Many' Elephants in Southern Africa, and Not Enough Elsewhere
General Misunderstanding of the Situation:
1) It is a misunderstanding that there are 'too many’ elephants in Africa:
There has been an increase of elephant numbers in only 3 countries (Namibia, Botswana, South Africa) over the last century. In all other African countries the numbers have been decreasing, as are the numbers of elephants in whole of Africa. Additionally, the situation in Namibia is relative: The populations in the north-west of Namibia are stable and self-regulating. Those in the north are growing (due to frontier crossing from Botswana).
2) The complaint about the damaged vegetation (due to high elephant numbers) in southern regions does not have a realistic basis, as the vegetation which the elephants have devastated did not exist during former times when elephants were more numerous in southern Africa. This vegetation just had a chance to develop after the years of extreme hunting (until early 20th century), during the absence of the elephants. Furthermore, forest is not the ideal landscape in every case. Vegetation systems and their cooperation with the various sorts of animals (with various sorts of eating behaviours) have to be much more differentiated. Additionally, or as one aspect of this, elephants do not only destroy landscape, they also create a new one and convey new vegetation and wildlife (distribution of seed in their dung, finding ground water sources and making them available for other species, etc.).
3) Countries with 'too many’ elephants use the terms 'overpopulation’ as an argument for their request for legal trade with ivory and for a commercial exploitation of elephants. So facts are surely verbally exaggerated in some cases.
Special Facts in Southern Countries with Increase of Elephant Numbers:
Botswana:
Maybe a surprising fact: The number of elephants in Botswana has not grown any more since 1996 but has stabilized since then!
Before, elephant numbers have (among others), increased because elephants fled from the wars in Angola and Mozambique to the security of Botswana.
The government of Botswana is conservation-minded and definitely cares for its wildlife areas (keeping in mind its tourism industry).
In Botswana there is few poaching, as there are less ways (streets) towards the areas where elephants live and there are less criminal networks to smuggle the ivory out of the country. (Possibly due to the country’s wealth, coming from diamond business, people are less depending on dangerous possibilities like poaching to get money from.)
(Note: Botswana follows, like Kenya, the ideal of a minimum of human interferance in nature parks and therefore does not fence their wildlife conservation areas and parks.)
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia:
In the a.m. 3 countries there has been less poaching than elsewhere as these countries were white-minority police states the security infrastructures of which are roughly still existing. That means that the national parks and conservation areas are better guarded than those in the rest of Africa.
The economic situation of these countries has generally been stronger than in the other african "elephant countries", and therefore it is realistically possible for them to pay for effective protection measurements in the concerned wildlife areas.
Increase of elephant numbers in South Africa: Elephants moved from Mozambique into South Africa’s Krüger National Park. (Reason: War)
In Zimbabwe, where elephant population had also been increasing in the past, the situation recently changed – there is probably more poaching now than the country admits. Elephants numbers are decreasing again!
Fragmentation of landscape/separation of natural habitats: Wildlife parks and conservatories are fenced in these countries. This means that elephants cannot distribute as they need, cannot move from one location to another, and are depending on what they get within the fenced area. Especially in South Africa and Zimbabwe the wildlife areas (parks and conservatories) are not left to nature, but are managed by humans (they have to, as the areas are fenced) which means that humans are interfering in these ecological systems by changing and limiting natural activities and developments. (In these 2 countries culling had been practiced in the 60s as one of these measures.)
This management does also include the artificial provisioning of water which means that the protected areas are somewhat 'managed like cattle farms'. By this, natural selection and natural living circumstances are avoided.
Fences and water addition are both proven to increase and potentize (!) the numbers of elephants.
(All this is not the case in Botswana, see above.)
Note: The southern african countries slowly move on to the scientifically elaborated and only reasonable solution for the 'elephant problem’ by creating corridors and transfrontier conservation areas (like KAZA and the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park). This needs a lot of political effort and work with all envolved people, authorities as well as residents.
NEW DEVELOPMENT in South Africa: See article below
Why the Number of Elephants is Decreasing in the Rest of the African 'Elephant Countries’:
Elephant populations in Africa where parks and wildlife reserves are not fenced, have either regulated themselves or (more often) have been decimated by poaching.
Countries are themselves or are surrounded by conflict areas where there are a lot of weapons available which are used for ivory poaching in order to fuel ongoing wars. Also there are a lot of people in need (in the countries themselves or in neighbouring countries) who are desperate to do anything (also poaching) in order to earn money and feed their families. Especially during the last few years Asia has become even more eager for ivory, and the business with the 'white gold’ is very profitable and enticing for poor people as well as for those greedy for money.
Governments are not so much concerned about their wildlife treasures. There are many corrupt officials who are involved in illegal ivory business either themselves or benefit from it in some way.
Less money available for the protection of wildlife conservation areas and parks.
No (or less) fencing of national parks and conservation areas. Therefore animals distribute in wider areas and the vegetation is not much affected by elephants. However, there is more human/wildlife confict which elephants always lose.
The population explosion has substantial effect in these areas – there are too many people who occupy more and more land which had been elephant country before. (Although this is valid all over Africa, it has more impact in countries where nature parks are not fenced.)
Land with water has been taken away from wildlife, and more and more productive livestock occupies water sources which formerly belonged to wildlife only.
5/2012 - Birgit Hampl
Too many elephants?
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Elephant_Numbers_South_and_Rest_of_Afric
Interesting Article about Kruger Park, South Africa:
Natural ruses rule out culling for elephants
See article in following link:
http://conservationaction.co.za/recent-articles/no-culling-krugers-elephants/
Since the release of the a.m. articles poaching has risen dramatically in Namibia as well as in South Africa's Kruger National Park.
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The Court of Henry VIII, King of England
Kings and Queens of France and Their Spouses
Also Known As: "Queen of France", "Queen Dowager of France", "Queen Consort of France"
Birthdate: March 18, 1496
Birthplace: Richmond Palace, Richmond, Surrey, England
Death: June 25, 1533 (37)
Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk, England
Place of Burial:
St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York
Wife of Louis de Valois, XII, King of France and Charles Brandon
Mother of Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln; Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk and Lady Eleanor Brandon, Countess of Cumberland
Sister of Margaret Tudor, Queen Consort of Scots; Henry VIII, King of England; Elizabeth Margaret Tudor; Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset; Arthur, Prince of Wales and 1 other; and Katherine Tudor « less
Half sister of Sir Roland Velville, of Beaumaris
Occupation: Princess of England
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Louis de Valois, XII, King of Fr...
Charles Brandon
Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln
Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
Lady Eleanor Brandon, Countess o...
Elizabeth of York
Henry VII of England
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Henry VIII, King of England
Elizabeth Margaret Tudor
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset
Arthur, Prince of Wales
About Mary Tudor, Queen of France
some sources refer to her as Mary Rose Tudor; this is a misnomer.
"Mary Tudor (18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was the fifth daughter of King Henry VII of England and queen consort of France through her marriage to Louis XII. The latter was more than 30 years her senior. Following his death, which occurred less than two months after her coronation as his third wife, she married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. The marriage, which was performed secretly in France, took place without her brother Henry's consent. This necessitated the intervention of Thomas Wolsey and the couple were eventually pardoned by King Henry, although they were forced to pay a large fine."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tudor,_Queen_of_France
http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/tudor_19.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9427161
http://www.nndb.com/people/180/000346139/
http://thepeerage.com/p10148.htm#i101475
1. [S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family."
2. [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 149. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
3. [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family, page 150.
4. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1064. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
Mary Tudor, Queen of France's Timeline
Birth of Mary
Richmond Palace, Richmond, Surrey, England
Birth of Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln
Bath Place, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Birth of Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Birth of Lady Eleanor Brandon, Countess of Cumberland
Surrey, United Kingdom
Death of Mary at Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk, England
Burial of Mary
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