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Fairest of the Fair excited to be back at Fair
by seymour • 17 July 2018 • Comments Off on Fairest of the Fair excited to be back at Fair
Morgan Rynish, 2018 Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair, will be at the Outagamie County Fair throughout the week. She will be speaking at various events. Rynish was a former exhibitor at the fair and is excited to be back at the fair this year. Pictured (left to right) Amanda Stingle, 2017 Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair, and Rynish. – Submitted photo
Outagamie County fairgoers will have the opportunity to meet the 2018 Fairest of the Fair as they take in this year’s fair.
Morgan Rynish, Pulaski, was crowned the 2018 Outagamie Fairest of the Fair at the Outagamie County Breakfast on June 10. Rynish will be a senior at UW-Eau Claire this fall and will graduate with a degree in elementary education next spring.
Rynish said coming back to the fair and once again being able to share her passion for the fair is one of the reasons she ran for the fairest of the fair.
“I decided to run for fairest of the fair because I was looking for a way to become more involved in the Outagamie County Fair again,” Rynish said. “I have been out of exhibiting for a couple of years now, prior to having shown exhibits for 10 years, and I wanted to showcase the passion and experiences I gained from those 10 years at the fair.”
During her previous years at the fair Rynish was busy participating with many activities at the fair.
“Fair time was always crazy for me because I exhibited so many things,” Rynish said. “In my busiest years, I would show arts and crafts, foods and nutrition, photography, woodworking, dogs, rabbits, poultry, sheep and goats. So I guess you could say I know my way around the fair.”
Rynish said the fair really helps promote cooperation and teamwork across a wide range of people.
“I believe everyone has something to gain from the fair, not just the youth,” Rynish said. “Come fair week, you can walk through the barns and witness everybody, adults and kids alike, working together to reach a common goal. I think the biggest thing anyone can take away from the fair is that feeling of pride and satisfaction when you work hard and work smart to reach a goal or help someone else do the same.”
This year Rynish said she is really looking forward to one of the new events at the fair.
“I am looking forward to bull riding on Thursday night,” Rynish said. “I have never seen anything like this at the fair, so I can’t wait to experience something a little different.”
While at the fair, Rynish said she will be speaking to many people and sharing her experiences.
“I will be walking around the fairgrounds all week speaking at as many events as possible on stage at grandstand entertainment and at animal judging,” Rynish said. “I will be an advocate for the fair as well as the Fairest program.”
Since she began her reign as fairest of the fair, Rynish said she has been to many events.
“I have already participated in the Mackville Nationals Truck and Tractor Pulls, St. Nicholas Country Fest in Freedom, the Manawa Rodeo parade, and the Kickin’ It with the Cows run/walk in De Pere,” Rynish said.
During her time as fairest of the fair, Rynish hopes to gain experience to help her in the future.
“I hope to gain more experiences with speaking in front of large crowds, as well as maintaining professionalism in all circumstances,” Rynish said. “Since in the near future I hope to be an educator, this will help me be even more comfortable when working with students and adults. I can’t wait to see where my reign takes me personally and professionally.”
The Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair program Rynish said wouldn’t be possible without the support of the community.
“I would like to thank the sponsors of the fairest of the fair program: the Outagamie County Dairy Promotions, Outagamie County Farm Bureau and Outagamie County Fair Association,” Rynish said.
Rynish said she does have advice for anyone who wants to run for fairest of the fair.
“Don’t stress about it, which may seem like hard advice to listen to when the time comes,” Rynish said for any future fairest of the fair contestants. “Just be yourself.”
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Creutzfeldt Jakob : Against The Wall with JJink
USDA quarantines 2 farms in mad cow investigation
May 3, 2012 by JJink
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Two farms have been quarantined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the agency continues to investigate last month’s discovery of mad cow disease at a California dairy farm.
Authorities also have launched an investigation at a calf ranch where the initial infected cow was raised 10 years ago, according to a statement released late Wednesday by the USDA.
Last week, the USDA documented the fourth confirmed U.S. case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) — a brain wasting disease affecting cattle — known commonly as mad cow disease, at a rendering facility in central California. USDA officials said the cow was never presented for human consumption and was not a threat.
The farm where the cow was initially discovered has been under quarantine since the discovery, agriculture officials said. Wednesday’s announcement of a second quarantine involves a farm closely associated with the dairy where the sick cow was discovered last month, the USDA said. The agency is still trying to determine if any at-risk cattle are present at either of the two farms.
Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have BSE is thought to be the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The fatal brain disease was blamed for the deaths of 150 people in Britain, where there was an outbreak in the 1980s and 1990s.
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In people, symptoms of the disease include psychiatric and behavioral changes, movement deficits, memory disturbances and cognitive impairments.
BSE can cause infected animals to display nervousness or aggression, difficulty in coordination and standing up, decreased milk production or weight loss.
It is usually transmitted between cows through the practice of recycling bovine carcasses for meat and bone meal protein, which is fed to other cattle.
In this case, the Agricultural Department reported that the cow had a rare form of BSE not likely carried by contaminated feed.
Since 2004, the USDA has removed the brain and the spinal column, the parts suspected of causing mad cow disease in humans, from the food system.
The USDA says that since the discovery of the infected cow, they have identified 10 different feed suppliers that delivered animal feed to the farm. Determining if the cow became sick from feed is an area where investigators are focusing close attention.
Authorities have determined the infected cow gave birth twice. One calf was stillborn and the other was located on a farm outside of California. That cow was subsequently euthanized and tested negative for mad cow disease.
Unlike most other meat-borne illnesses, such as those caused by E.-coli bacteria, cooking does not kill the infectious agent that causes mad cow disease.
Consumers who wish to exercise extra caution can follow the advice presented by the Web-based consumer advocacy group Consumeraffairs.com, which advises the avoidance of brains, neck bones and beef cheeks, bone marrow and cuts of beef that are sold on the bone. The group also says to choose boneless cuts of meat and ground beef only if it has been ground in the store.
“Evidence shows that our systems and safeguards to prevent BSE are working, as are similar actions taken by countries around the world,” said John Clifford, the Agriculture Department’s chief veterinarian.
Last year, 29 cases of BSE were reported worldwide, down 99% from the peak of 37,311 cases in 1992.
“This is directly attributable to the impact and effectiveness of feed bans as a primary control measure for the disease,” he said last month.
The Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.
A second U.S. case was confirmed June 24, 2005, and a third on March 13, 2006.
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Douglas Gayeton
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Douglas Gayeton lived in a restored sixteenth-century convent in Tuscany, studying Italy's "slow living" culture. Gayeton is a multi-media artist who has created award-winning work at the boundaries of traditional and emerging media for National Geographic, PBS, Warner Brothers and Sony. His documentaries include Lost in Italy, a series Gayeton created and directed for the Fine Living Network, and the full-length film Molotov Alva for HBO. His images, which he refers to as "flat film," are exhibited in museums and private collections around the world. Gayeton lives on a farm in Petaluma, California, with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Tuilerie.
“Reno is very lucky to have an organization which makes it possible for native Italian chefs to be here and teach us so many of their wonderful recipes straight from their home country.”
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The AIM Group was founded in 1990 by Naeem Maniar and is one of Ireland’s largest privately owned wholesale and retail businesses.
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The Group’s founder and executive chairman Naeem Maniar controls the business, while it’s Chief Executive Officer, Tom Keogh is responsible for the day to day running of the group.
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Field Studies Southwest
in Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment & Social Justice / Art & Science / Border / Environmental Ethic / Field Work August 4, 2017 August 6, 2017 0 comments
GUEST POST BY ABBY DOCKTER
The Thirty-Thousand-Foot View
When I interviewed Richard Collins, retired Southern Arizona rancher, he asked the first question: “What have you read?”
Specifically, he wanted to know if I was a Sand County Almanac fan or a Monkey Wrench Gang member, and where I fell on the Aldo-Leopold-to-Edward-Abbey scale of ideas about wilderness preservation. “I lean much more towards Leopold and people like Wendell Berry,” he said. “Abbey just wanted it all to himself.” Collins, like the writers he admires, believes there is a way for humans to eat and drink and take up space without wrecking too much. He operated a ranching business for three decades in the Canelo Valley, working first for the Sibold family, then buying some acreage along with grazing permits for surrounding state and federal lands. His background was in epidemiology, which, he said, is the ecology of tiny, disease-causing organisms, so he had a handle on ecological principles. Disease is perhaps the prime example of how humans are part of a broader ecology.
Then an endangered species of fish, the Gila Topminnow, appeared in Collins’ grazing lot. The Fish and Wildlife Service wanted all grazing in the Red Rock Canyon watershed to stop, which would have made Collins’ business a no-go. In many ways, it was a classic conflict between a federal agency and private ranches. But this experience with federal regulation prompted Collins to wonder if there was a way to run his business that also addressed ecological concerns. He and his neighbors formed the Canelo Hills Coalition to see if they could insure the health of the watershed just by adjusting their grazing practices. They brought in George Ruyle, UA’s sustainable rangeland management expert, who set up vegetation surveys. They monitored conditions and put up new fencing and water sources to control where cattle could go in each season. And they were considered successful, says Collins, “by the people who evaluate these things. The federal agencies and the university and my peers in the ranching industry.” Not to say the fish.
Collins reminded me of some of my own family. Retired, but habitually dressed for outdoor work. A busy brain and sturdy opinions. Even his sense of humor and turn of phrase, and the way he pronounced a long period without water “drouth.” But what I liked most about Collins, and so many other people from the Patagonia area that I met during Southwest Field Studies in Writing, was their blend of practicality and idealism. Agriculture is an undertaking with a pretty clear rock bottom. But people around Patagonia think there must be a better way of doing things, and are willing to take a chance to find out.
One evening I wound my way along the Santa Cruz River to talk to Dean Fish, manager at the Santa Fe Ranch Foundation. He situated me immediately: “We’re located about six miles north of the US-Mexico Border, northeast of Nogales, Arizona. The Santa Cruz River bisects the ranch, and so we have what we call uplands on both sides and semi-riparian river valley in the middle. The main ranch is approximately 25 hundred acres of private grazing rangeland and about 65 acres of that is irrigated to provide forage for livestock and wildlife.” He spoke loudly over the hollering goats, and ignored the light rain falling as we sat in front of an adobe wall with peeling whitewash.
Fish is a good communicator, knowledgeable, generous, and extraordinarily nerdy about cattle. Exactly the kind of person you might want at the helm of a foundation that provides not only beef, but also education, a model for management, and even an animal therapy program to the surrounding community. The Santa Fe Ranch Foundation employs people through the Santa Cruz Training Program, which connects developmentally disabled people to opportunities in the county. This ranch is a private business with its own bottom line, but it is operated by people who know how their business fits into something larger. When I asked Fish what principles guide his decisions around here, he talked about “the 30,000-foot view.” From 30,000 feet, this ranch is part of a landscape, these cattle are not the only ones who need the river water, and people who live nearby will always be part of the picture.
I asked Collins and Fish a few of the same questions, and some they answered alike. When asked how they know what to do day-to-day as managers, they both answered, essentially: Go look. Get to know how water moves, how grass responds, how the animals look, and how weather impacts everything. Both Collins and Fish maintained long-term vegetation monitoring programs to make sure they had accurate information for their decision-making. Collins believes “fiction writers and bad movies and songs and all that kind of stuff” that romanticize agricultural life have done real harm to people’s understanding of where their food comes from. But I still find something romantic about this eminently practical, deeply observant experience of a place.
I asked both men what it means for land to be healthy. I am interested in this question both practically and idealistically—the principles that guide decisions, and the practices that create them. I am interested in the 30,000-foot view and the view at the end of a microscope.
Fish said his overarching priority is always to leave the land better than he found it. But he also offered specifics, his picture of ideal rangeland: “I think that healthy land is land that has seen minimal erosion, that has good ground cover and a diversity of plant species on it. And that supports multiple uses: wildlife habitat, livestock grazing, recreation, hunting or camping.”
Collins took longer to answer. He rubbed the back of his neck thoughtfully. “You’re talking about health, and it’s a hard term to get my hands around because it’s so broad and ambiguous.”
“Intentionally so,” I said.
He nodded. “But it does convey the sense that like human health, you have to have all your systems working. At my age they’re beginning to break down a little bit, so I understand. Things fall apart. It has that same sense. But how you evaluate it and describe it is difficult.
“I guess in a nutshell, if you want to summarize my view of land health: It’s got to work for the rancher, got to be able to make a profit. It’s got to work for the health and integrity of the watershed, and that means the plants, the water cycle, and the other animals that are using it, including obviously endangered species. And you’ve got to work very hard to do it. It’s not an easy thing to do.”
“Multiple uses” has a dubious history in the U.S., and there is no hard-and-fast line between use and exploitation. But listening to Collins and Fish, I was imagining an ag industry with these priorities. Imagine for a moment that the economy exists to serve quality of life, and not the other way around.
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Leon Shamroy
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Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA Profession: director of photography, lab technician, mechanical engineer
Distinguished American cinematographer, best known for his lavish color work on epics and musicals of the 1940s and 50s. Shamroy began shooting features films in the late 1920s and, after a seven-year stint with Paramount (1932-39), spent most of his career at 20th Century-Fox. He worked primarily with Henry King and Walter Lang in the 1940s and was influential in the development of Cinemascope in the 50s. (Shamroy photographed the first film to use the new process, "The Robe," in 1953.) He also worked with Otto Preminger on films such as "Daisy Kenyon" (1947), "Porgy and Bess" (1959) and "The Cardinal" (1964).
Man's Paradise (1938) Director
Caprice (1967)
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Disney Traditional
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Saludos Amigos (1942)
The Three Caballeros (1944)
Make Mine Music (1946)
Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
Melody Time (1948)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Cinderella (1950)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
The Sword In the Stone (1963)
The Aristocats (1970)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
The Rescuers (1977)
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Oliver & Company (1988)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Tarzan (1999)
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Home On the Range (2004)
Disney 3D
Dinosaur (2000)
Chicken Little (2005)
The Wild (2006)
Mars Needs Moms (2011)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Zootopia (2016)
Moana (2016)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
The Incredibles (2004)
WALL*E (2008)
Up (2009)
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Finding Dory (2016)
DreamWorks 3D
Antz (1998)
Shark Tale (2004)
Flushed Away (2006)
Bee Movie (2007)
How To Train Your Dragon (2010)
Shrek Forever After (2010)
Megamind (2010)
Puss In Boots (2011)
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
The Croods (2013)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
Zemeckis Motion Capture
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Other 3D
Ice Age (2002)
Hoodwinked! (2005)
Happy Feet (2006)
Monster House (2006)
Open Season (2006)
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Despicable Me (2010)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
Happy Feet Two (2011)
Arthur Christmas (2011)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
The Lorax (2012)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Epic (2013)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
The Lego Movie (2014)
The Book of Life (2014)
Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975)
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
Charlie Brown Features
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Snoopy, Come Home (1972)
Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (1980)
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The Prince of Egypt (1998)
The Road To El Dorado (2000)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
Other Traditional
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Gulliver's Travels (1939)
Mr. Bug Goes To Town (1941)
Animal Farm (1954)
Gay Purr-ee (1962)
The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
Charlotte's Web (1973)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Watership Down (1978)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Plague Dogs (1982)
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
An American Tail (1986)
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
Titan A.E. (2000)
Curious George (2006)
The Secret of Kells (2009)
A Cat In Paris (2010)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Wallace and Gromit
A Grand Day Out (1989)
The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Wallace and Gromit In a Close Shave (1995)
Cracking Contraptions (2002)
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
Other Stop-Motion
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
The Miracle Maker (2000)
Chicken Run (2000)
Corpse Bride (2005)
Coraline (2009)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
Frankenweenie (2012)
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
The Wind Rises (2013)
Other Notable Anime
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (1997)
The End of Evangelion (1997)
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (2001)
The Animatrix (2003)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Tales From Earthsea (2006)
A Letter To Momo (2011)
Partial Animation
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Song of the South (1946)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Tron (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
Enchanted (2007)
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Entries in Airbrushing (1)
Girl Petitions "Seventeen" Magazine to Feature Un-Airbrushed Photos
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Long lean legs, a teeny tiny waist, perfect skin and glossy hair—these are the flawless features commonly found in fashion magazines. But who looks like this? Nobody, because while models have always been made to look beautiful, never before have they been made to look so skinny, so airbrushed and so impossibly perfect—and some say that can be dangerous.
Julia Bluhm, an 8th grader from Waterville, Maine, has recently become a crusader against airbrushed ads. The 14-year-old traveled to New York City Wednesday to lead a protest, which was set up like a mock photo shoot, on the doorstep of the offices of the Hearst Corporation, which owns Seventeen magazine, one of the biggest teen magazines in the fashion industry.
"We want to show Seventeen that we love our body just for who we are and we don't need Photoshop to fix us ... and we can be pretty without—we can take pictures of ourselves and be pretty," Bluhm said.
Her campaign started two weeks ago when she taped herself asking her friends about airbrushed photos during lunch in her middle school cafeteria. That led Bluhm to start a petition on Change.org entitled "Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images of Real Girls", asking the magazine to feature one un-airbrushed photo spread a month. It has over 25,000 signatures from all over the world.
Lynn Grefe, the president of the Eating Disorder Association of America, said she has seen firsthand the negative effects that airbrushed ads can have on young children. Grefe said kids are a "vulnerable population" who look at these ads and think "why don't I look like that." Some develop eating disorders even before they are teenagers.
Youth and beauty have graced magazine covers for decades, but what has made today's images more dangerous is the cutting-edge Photoshopping technology. According to Sara Ziff, a former model and founder of the Model Alliance, in her business, a photo isn't finished until it's fixed.
"Pretty much every image in advertising is going to have some Photoshop and that's not necessarily a terrible thing," Ziff said. "But there are degrees of Photoshopping. You see people whose bodies have been really reshaped to look significantly younger or significantly thinner and I think that's really the source of concern."
Grefe said she is pushing for some controversial legislation that would require warning labels to be put on all images that have been airbrushed, similar, she said, to the tobacco warnings on cigarette packages.
"We're not saying this image is going to kill you, even though eating disorders have the highest death rate of any mental illness," she said. "We want to educate quickly, which means that if a child can read, then the child can see that this is not a real photograph."
In the meantime, Julia Bluhm's protest earned her a meeting with Seventeen magazine's editor-in-chief on Wednesday.
In a statement to Nightline, a spokesperson for Seventeen said, "We're proud of Julia for being so passionate about an issue—it's exactly the kind of attitude we encourage in our readers—so we invited her to our office to meet with editor-in-chief Ann Shoket this morning. They had a great discussion, and we believe that Julia left understanding that Seventeen celebrates girls for being their authentic selves, and that's how we present them. We feature real girls in our pages and there is no other magazine that highlights such a diversity of size, shape, skin tone and ethnicity."
And Bluhm plans on continuing her mission.
"We hope it will be like a baby step to grow into something bigger like maybe it will influence other magazines to do the same thing [on] other pages and maybe even a cover," she said. "That would be really cool."
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 4:29AM by Rebecca Fenton Permalink
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Enemy Of The Good, The
The Glanvilles are an extraordinary family. Edwin is a retired bishop who has lost his faith. Marta, a child of the Warsaw Ghetto, is a controversial anthropologist. Their son, Clement, is a celebrated gay painter traumatised by the death of his twin. Their daughter, Susannah, is a music publicist recovering from an affair with a convicted murderer. Over three remarkable years, the family goes through a sequence of events that causes it to reassess its deepest values and closest relationships.
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'A total page-turner.' Literary Review
'A powerful, hearfelt novel.' The Times
'His best to date...You could truly say all human life was here.' A.N. Wilson, Reader's Digest
'A writer with quite exceptional gifts.' Paul Burston, Time Out
'Our best chronicler of the rewards and pitfalls of present day faith.' - Philip Pullman
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Egypt Station
Paul McCartney must have been curious to know just what he had left in the tank, said Mikael Wood in the Los Angeles Times. If the question motivating his first album in five years was could he, at 76, still craft a full set of songs that measure up as contemporary pop, “the answer, often enough, is yes.” Egypt Station runs nearly an hour, but it feels “more rigorously quality-controlled” than any McCartney album in years, and it’s “consistent with its pleasures: the tuneful guitar crunch, the swelling piano parts, the crisp vocal harmonies that float just so over grooves that somehow bounce and thud at the same time.” Sir Paul wrote or co-wrote every song and played everything from bass to harpsichord, said Tim De Lisle in the Daily Mail (U.K.). Granted, a few tracks should have been edited out. “The good bits, though, are very good”—particularly the piano tunes. “I Don’t Know,” the lead single, is “a classic McCartney ballad, effortlessly elegant, with a twist—raw vulnerability.” ■
September 7, 2018 THE WEEK
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‘The doctor began asking what was in Kevin’s stomach. I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘When we intubated him, a bright lime green slime came shooting out of his mouth.’ My mind went blank.’
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“My husband went in to cardiac arrest while at the gym.
I went into the Y earlier in the morning than Kevin and he was going to drop off our youngest daughter Ivy at our local high school for a cooking class and our oldest daughter Ramona would stay home, sleep in and have some time to herself until we would be home from working out roughly 2 hours later. Kevin came into the workout class I was in and was messing around with me and my girlfriends after he arrived at the Y. He gave me a smooch and said, ‘I would have loved to stay home but I’m here and I’m going for a run.’ I said, ‘I’ll be in by you as soon as I’m done.’ About a half an hour later one of my friends in the class stepped out to use the bathroom and saw a bunch of commotion going on. She went to see what was happening. As soon as she stepped into the workout area where the treadmills are, another friend saw her and said it was Kevin! My friend came and grabbed me in class.
Courtesy of Kevin Carley
All I remember was my girlfriend telling me, ‘Kevin collapsed and had a heart attack.’ I ran into the workout area and saw about 50 people around my husband on a gurney with an oxygen mask on. He was flailing uncontrollably all over the place. I was in absolute shock. He is as healthy, very active 41-year-old man that works out all the time. I had just seen him, joking around with me 30 minutes ago, and now he’s lying on a gurney. Thank God by the time I got in there they had already given him CPR and shocked him with the AED so I didn’t have to see him unconscious and turning blue. Thank God for the immediate action of the people working out, the employees and the first responder so he was only without oxygen for roughly 3-5 minutes, according the people that were in there.
At this point they proceeded to get him into the ambulance and to the hospital. The entire way he was completely combative and mentally was not himself. The nurse in the E.R. told me to wait in the family room and the doctor would be in shortly. Finally, the doctor came in after what seemed like an hour and explained they have no idea what happened, but Kevin had gone into cardiac arrest and because he was without oxygen so long, his brain would not connect with his body. He was so combative they sedated him and were asking me all sorts of questions like did he take drugs, does he have seizures, is he diabetic? All of which were no. They were doing more tests to figure out what was going on, but we could finally go in and see him. I was speechless and felt helpless. Thank God my mom was with me because I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was still slightly flailing; his eyes were rolling in the back of his head and he had a trach down his throat. So many wires and monitors were hooked up to him. (Little did I know the tubes, wires and machines would only get worse.) After other doctors came in to help figure out what happened they decided the best option at this point was to put him in to a medically induced coma for at least 2 days. 24 hours in hypothermia and 24 hours to warm up and see if he would regain his full mental capacity after the loss of oxygen. We would just have to wait and see if he would wake up in 2 days – or it could take longer, it all depended on his body. I was in complete shock and couldn’t believe this was happening.
Kevin was moved from the E.R to the ICU where he would remain in a coma for the next few days. After an hour or so a pulmonologist doctor came in to the family room. He began asking questions about what was in Kevin’s stomach and I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘When we intubated him, a bright lime green slime came shooting out of his mouth.’ My mind went blank. I had no idea what he could have possibly eaten or taken as I wasn’t with him in the morning. Then I remembered he would sometimes take a pre-workout drink before the gym, but I had no idea what that would have to do with any of this. A lot of people take pre-workout shakes and drinks and are perfectly fine. She said they needed to know exactly what he had taken and what was in it. I had our neighbor go to our house and take a picture of the packing and label on the cannister. After a while she came back and said the ingredients in the drink didn’t seem to be the culprit, so they were going to continue to do tests on all his organs and his heart over the next 2 days.
Moving forward 2 days Kevin started waking up earlier than expected. He was still extremely combative, so they had to keep sedating him and would slowly keep trying to wake him up. I can’t imagine how scary that had to be for him to be running on a treadmill one minute and the next thing you know you wake up in a hospital with tubes, wires, needles, machines and people standing over you, telling you to calm down and relax. Eventually about 2 hours later he was alert and awake and could nod his head yes or no if we would ask him questions. He still had the tube in his throat. He was also able to move his arms and legs around as well, which was all a fabulous sign. After the tube came out, he was able to talk and told us the last thing he remembered was being at the Y on the treadmill. He was bruised and scraped from all the flailing and combativeness but otherwise was not in any pain. We were so grateful he was totally himself and that he would be ok.
He remained in the hospital for a total of a week. After more tests and a heart cath, they eventually inserted a permanent AED they felt would be the best option for him, as they still had no answers why he went into cardiac arrest that day. The consensus from the cardiologist(s) and the electrical physiologist who put in his AED, was that his heart was overworked and couldn’t handle the amount of excess caffeine and other stimulants that were in the pre-workout drink he took. They said it was the perfect storm! He was dehydrated, had no electrolytes and no sodium in his body the day of his event. The pre-workout drink put his otherwise extremely healthy heart over the breaking point and into cardiac arrest.
At this point it’s been 8 months since his event and he has had zero incidents with his heart, which is monitored and recorded all the time thanks to his AED. His doctors have told him absolutely no energy/pre-workouts ever again. We are so very blessed, lucky, grateful and thankful that Kevin was where he was that morning and that there were people there who responded so quickly. We’ve been told repeatedly, especially by people in the medical field, how lucky he is and that he’s a walking miracle. Our story could have ended so differently. Sometimes we forget it happened just under a year ago – when we’ll be doing small things, like carving pumpkins with our kids, and we both have overwhelming feelings that we have been so blessed he is still here with us.”
Kevin’s thoughts:
“It was just another day. I was hitting the gym and tackling my day. However, that wasn’t how it turned out. Since my event, I have an internal defibrillator, most importantly, the doctor’s stressed to stay away from all energy drinks, pre-workouts etc. and to watch my caffeine intake. I’m truly blessed in the fact it happened where it did and having not only the correct people to help, but an AED to save my life.
While I was in recovery, friends that came to visit mentioned other stories they had recently heard about energy drinks. Soon, while I was home recovering, I started searching the internet and found out I wasn’t the only one. Several people, healthy people, weren’t as lucky as I was.
As a father of two beautiful daughters and husband to an amazing wife, I am truly blessed to be here writing this and I want people to be aware of the dangers of these drinks. Of course, it’s easy to think you are invincible, until you clinically die and come back. All because of a drink!”
This story was submitted to Love What Matters by Daphne Buxman-Carley and her husband, Kevin Carley. Have you had a similar experience? We’d like to hear your journey. Submit your own story here, and subscribe to our best stories in our free newsletter here.
Read another wife’s emotional story about losing her husband to energy drinks:
‘I woke up to hear him gasping. I thought, ‘Is this actually happening?’ As I watched my husband turn blue to gray, I cried to PLEASE not take him! I begged him not to leave me and the boys.’
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‘I stood there holding my 3-month-old baby boy as she sent me pictures of an ultrasound of the baby growing in her stomach. I was speechless. But I also knew. Deep down I knew.’‘I was home alone one night. I was getting into bed when I took off my bra. That was when I felt it. It literally took my breath when I felt it.’
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Future Ready Schools® Encourages Educators to Speak Up!
FRS Urges District Leaders to Lead Conversations on Technology for Learning
Future Ready Schools® (FRS)—led by the Alliance for Excellent Education—is thrilled to support Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning, which provides an easy way for students, parents, educators, and members of the community to participate in local decisionmaking about technology, as well as contribute to state and national dialogues about education technology.
Since 2003, more than 5 million K–12 education stakeholders have participated in the annual Speak Up research project. Data findings are shared each year with federal, state, and local policymakers to inform education programs, policies and funding. Last year, more than 575 FRS districts participated in the Speak Up 2016 research project resulting in more than 110,000 individual surveys from students, teachers, school administrators, district administrators, librarians, tech leaders and parents. That equals a lot of informative data! This year’s survey is open from October 16, 2017, through January 19, 2018, and we are hoping the number of Future Ready districts increases significantly. See a snapshot of the Future Ready data from Speak Up 2016.
Like FRS, Speak Up is a free service to all U.S. schools and districts. Speak Up provides education leaders with
direct feedback from their staff members, students, and the community on needs and aspirations;
insights on how other school leaders around the country address key digital learning challenges; and
information on how others in the education community leverage technology to transform teaching and learning and prepare students for the future.
When asked about the value of the Speak Up survey, Sara Hall, vice president of digital learning at the Alliance for Excellent Education said, “It is not only important for Future Ready Schools to support districts in building their capacity to plan and implement student-centered learning, we must also ensure that students and educators are the center of local and national conversations about the impacts of technology on teaching and learning. Our partners at Project Tomorrow have done an excellent job over the years to collect, analyze, and publish data on ways students and educators leverage technology for learning in and out of school. Future Ready Schools (FRS) is pleased to find new ways to work together to highlight the work being done in FRS districts to improve the learning experience of all students.”
The Speak Up research project is informed by Project Tomorrow’s partners from education, private industry, and research policy fields. The data is often used by the country’s top education advocates to understand more deeply the changes in education technology implementation at the school and district levels. Through the seven FRS institutes in 2017, participants access Speak Up’s data to better understand how their peers are making progress with personalized learning aligned with the FRS framework.
“District and school leaders use the Speak Up service every year to monitor progress on strategic goals and to identify needs and trends that will guide future plans,” said Dr. Julie Evans, chief executive officer of Project Tomorrow. “We look forward to offering this service and working more closely with Future Ready districts. Speak Up will help district leaders collect feedback on technology and learning from their stakeholders and use that data to inform their work to improve outcomes for all students.”
More information on Speak Up is available at www.tomorrow.org/speakup/.
Cross-posted from Future Ready.
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Horizons Community Board Collection – Emerging 2D Materials for Energy and Electronics Applications
New in 2019, we are delighted to continue a series of post-publication online article collections, led by our Community Board members across both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.
The Community Boards that support both Horizons journals aim to provide a platform for early career researchers to share their experiences and ideas on scientific publishing. Working together and sharing their unique expertise, our Community Board members have recommended several key topics where significant, rapid progress has been made in the last 2 years. They have selected top articles published in the Horizons journals to showcase the most important advances in each topic area.
Emerging 2D Materials for Energy and Electronics Applications
Li Li, Tianyi Ma, and Nan Zhang present the second Horizons Community Board Collection:
“2D nanomaterials, including carbon-based materials, metal, metal oxide (sulfide), and black phosphorus (BP) et al., have aroused extensive interests in energy and electronics applications due to their attractive structure-dependent properties.
In this themed collection, we are compiling some noteworthy articles focused on sensors, lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, photo(electro)catalysis, photodetector, electronics and optoelectronics. As typical 2D carbon materials, graphene and doping graphene exhibit high performance in these fields, as indicated by Li et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00587J) and Chua et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00068E) in their research works published in Materials Horizons. 2D metal and metal sulfide materials as illustrated through the research works of Chen et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00091J) and Li et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00419F) have shown two-dimensional geometric structure together with unique physical properties, which make the material quite a promising candidate for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Lou et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C3MH00077J) provided an effective approach with SnO2 nanosheets to increase the energy density of the integrated electrodes. A review article about 2D BP published by Zhou et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00358C) summarized the recent developments in the study of BP, which covered the state-of-the-art synthesis methods for preparing single-layer or few-layer BP, the recent advances in characterizing its electronic, optical and mechanical properties, and the reported functional devices utilizing such properties. Since these research works show that these emerging 2D materials have excellent performance and prospect, it will be important to see how they enrich the future of energy and electronics applications.
We hope that readers will obtain valuable information from this themed collection.”
Li Li, Tianyi Ma, and Nan Zhang
Nanoscale Horizons Community Board Member Dr Li Li received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 and finished his two-year postdoc work in Cornell University in 2014. His current research interests include advanced nanomaterials fabrication technology and its applications for energy storage/conversion. He was awarded with 2015 TMS Yong Leader Professional Development Award and serves in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale Horizons Community Board and Editorial Board of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions.
Materials Horizons Community Board member Dr Tianyi Ma received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2013 from Nankai University, China. Then he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2013 to 2014 in University of Adelaide, Australia. He was awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2015, and continued independent research on the rational design of nanostructured materials with a large variety of components from carbons, metals, metal oxides, organic polymers, to metal–organic frameworks. He is currently a lecturer in Discipline of Chemistry, University of Newcastle. His current interest lies on the energy and environment related applications of functional materials including catalysis, adsorption and separation, and energy conversion and storage. He authored more than 100 peer review journal articles in this area with an h-index of 39.
Materials Horizons Community Board member Professor Nan Zhang received her PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 2016 at the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University, China. Then she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2016 to 2017 at National University of Singapore. She was supported by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents in 2017 and worked on the optical property optimization of nanostructured metal materials toward the applications in photocatalysis. She is currently a full professor working at College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, China. Her main research interests include the fabrication of carbon-based composites and metal nanostructures with scattering-mediated optical response for solar energy conversion.
We hope you enjoy reading this collection.
See our other Horizons Community Board Collection: Nanobiomedicine here.
Update on the nanoscale journal family, 2019
Here’s a quick update on the nanoscale journal family to let you know how we are doing and what to look out for later in 2019.
Following our first (partial) impact factor last year, we are pleased to announce that our first full impact factor is 9.095*!
Other news from 2019:
Alongside Materials Horizons (impact factor 14.356*), we awarded the first Horizons Outstanding Paper Prizes. These awards will be presented annually.
New Scientific Editors: Yves Dufrêne, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, and Zhiyong Tang
Post-publication online article collections:
Most popular articles published so far in 2019
Horizons Community Board collection: Nanobiomedicine
Horizons Community Board collection: Emerging 2D materials for energy and electronics applications
We are celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year!
Look out for our celebrations at ChinaNANO 2019. In the meantime, why not have a read of these collections highlighting the most highly cited articles published in Nanoscale since we launched in 2009, as well as recent articles by some of our most prolific authors.
Our latest impact factor is 6.970*.
Chunying Chen, Dong Ha Kim, and Umesh Waghmare were appointed as Associate Editors.
We’ve been publishing guest edited online themed collections:
Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, guest edited by Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Qiao Zhang, and Roman Krahne.
Nanocarbons, guest edited by Nianjun Yang, Dai-Wen Pang, and Yasuaki Einaga.
Still to come…10th Anniversary Special Issue in October 2019, guest edited by Chunli Bai, Markus Niederberger, Francesco Stellacci, and Dirk Guldi.
We’ve published our first issues and we are delighted to see such a great response from the community. Thank you for supporting the Royal Society of Chemistry’s first journal to be Gold Open Access from launch!
We’ve collated the Most Popular Articles published in the journal so far in an online article collection.
The journal has been accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and has also been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and the Emerging Sources Index in Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics.
Come and meet us
Members of the Editorial Team will be attending the following conferences in the coming months. Get in touch if you want to arrange a meeting, or just come over and say hello! You can also keep up to date on where the Editorial Team and our Associate Editors will be by following us on Twitter.
RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Group Annual Meeting, 22 July 2019, University of East Anglia, UK.
14th International conference on materials chemistry (MC14), 8 – 11 July 2019, Birmingham, UK.
We will be hosting the RSC Nanoscale Journals Symposium at ChinaNANO, 17 – 19 August 2019, NCNST, China
5th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO 2019), 30 September – 2 October 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Get in touch if you have any feedback on the nanoscale journal family: we would love to hear from you so email us at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.
Nanoscale Horizons Collections
Nanoscale Horizons publishes urgent short reports of exceptionally high quality & innovative nanoscience & nanotechnology. To help you find the research that’s important to you, we’ve brought together all of our most recent and ongoing online article collections. We hope you enjoy reading them!
Ongoing Collections
Check out the online article collections for our sister journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances on this blog page.
Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons Presentation Award at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology
The 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology took place from 9 – 11th May 2019 in Kagoshima, Japan. Nanoscale Horizons was delighted to support a Presentation Award at this event, intended for early career researchers, and we would like to congratulate the two winners!
Professor Shinjiro Takano (University of Tokyo)
Presentation Title: “Development of a Precise Transformation Reaction of Gold Superatoms by Hydride Doping: Chemical Modification of Surface ”
Professor Tetsuya Kambe (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Presentation Title: “Superatom Synthesis from Typical Elements Using Dendrimer Templates”
Both winners received a Royal Society of Chemistry book voucher as well as an invitation to join the Royal Society of Chemistry as Members.
from left; Professor Tatsuya Tsukuda (University of Tokyo, President of the Society of Nano Science and Technology), Professor Shinjiro Takano, Professor Tetsuya Kambe, Dr Hiromitsu Urakami (Royal Society of Chemistry).
Nano Korea 2019
By Michaela Mühlberg.
The 17th International Nanotech Symposium & Exhibition
Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances are delighted to support the Nano Korea 2019 symposium which takes place from 2-5 July 2019!
Meet the Editor: Professor Dong Ha Kim, Associate Editor of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, will be attending Nano Korea 2019.
At Korea’s largest nanoscience and nanotechnology conference, internationally known experts, including industry leaders, will join the four day conference to discuss the most critical technological advances and innovations in the field. The first day of the meeting offers a variety of tutorial sessions followed by talks and poster presentations throughout the rest of the meeting.
The conference programme incorporates symposia covering a broad range of subjects in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which creates an excellent platform to academia and industry delegates to build up national and international collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.
The conference topics will include:
Nanoelectronic devices
1D & 2D Nanomaterials
Hybrid Nano Structural Materials
Nanotechnology for Energy & Environment
Computational Nano Science & Technology for Nanomaterials
… and many others. Find an overview here.
Pre-Registration due 31st May 2019
Full Paper Submission due 19th July 2019
More information available on the conference website: http://sympo.nanokorea.or.kr/2019/eng/main/
Nanoscale Horizons most popular articles published in 2018
We wanted to share with you some of the most popular articles published in Nanoscale Horizons from last year. These articles are some of the most highly cited, most read, or most highly shared articles published in 2018.
Our community have published some fantastic research in Nanoscale Horizons during 2018 and we wanted to make it even easier for you to find the best articles.
Nanoscale Horizons most popular articles, 2018
Here are just a few picks from the collection. We hope you enjoy them.
Review on nanoscale Bi-based photocatalysts
Rongan He, Difa Xu, Bei Cheng, Jiaguo Yu and Wingkei Ho
Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 464-504
Group 6 transition metal dichalcogenide nanomaterials: synthesis, applications and future perspectives
Morasae Samadi, Navid Sarikhani, Mohammad Zirak, Hua Zhang, Hao-Li Zhang and Alireza Z. Moshfegh
Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 90-204
Nanoscale membrane architecture of healthy and pathological red blood cells
Andra C. Dumitru, Mégane A. Poncin, Louise Conrard, Yves F. Dufrêne, Donatienne Tyteca and David Alsteens
MBene (MnB): a new type of 2D metallic ferromagnet with high Curie temperature
Zhou Jiang, Peng Wang, Xue Jiang and Jijun Zhao
A tumor treatment strategy based on biodegradable BSA@ZIF-8 for simultaneously ablating tumors and inhibiting infection
Qiong Wu, Mei Li, Longfei Tan, Jie Yu, Zengzhen Chen, Liuhui Su, Xiangling Ren, Changhui Fu, Jun Ren, Laifeng Li, Feng Cao, Ping Liang, Yu Zhang and Xianwei Meng
For more articles, see the full collection here.
Welcome Yves Dufrene and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral – New Scientific Editors
We are delighted to welcome two new Scientific Editors to the journal: Yves Dufrêne from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Yves Dufrêne
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Professor Yves Dufrêne is a Research Director of the National Fund for Scientific Research and a Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. He obtained his Bioengineering degree and Ph.D at UCL, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory, USA, before returning to UCL. He is interested in nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology, specifically in the development and use of advanced nanoscale techniques for analysing biological systems. His research focuses on studying the nanoscale surface architecture, biophysical properties and molecular interactions of living cells – particularly microbial pathogens – using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The goals are to further understand key cellular functions, like cell adhesion, and to contribute to the development of nanoscopy techniques for the life sciences. He is also an Associate Editor for our sister journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.
Nanoscale antiadhesion properties of sophorolipid-coated surfaces against pathogenic bacteria, Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
Nanoscale membrane architecture of healthy and pathological red blood cells, Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 293-304
Forces between Staphylococcus aureus and human skin, Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, 1, 298-303
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Anna is an Associate Professor at the Institut des Matériaux, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Anna received her BA in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona and went on to receive her PhD in Materials Science from École Polytechnique in France working with Pere Roca i Cabarrocas. She then moved to work with Harry Atwater at Caltech as a postdoctoral fellow, where she also co-founded the company Aonex Technologies. She was also a group leader in the Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich. Anna joined the faculty at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2008. Her research activities are centered on the materials science and engineering of semiconductor nanostructures, specifically nanowires.
Optimizing the yield of A-polar GaAs nanowires to achieve defect-free zinc blende structure and enhanced optical functionality, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 17080-17091
Photophysics behind highly luminescent two-dimensional hybrid perovskite (CH3(CH2)2NH3)2(CH3NH3)2Pb3Br10 thin films, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 6216-6221
Towards higher electron mobility in modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs core shell nanowires, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 7839-7846
Horizons Community Board Collection – Nanobiomedicine
New in 2019, we are delighted to announce a series of post-publication online article collections, led by our Community Board members across both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.
Nanobiomedicine
To kick things off, Chandra Kumar Dixit and Christopher M. Proctor present the first Horizons Community Board Collection:
“Advancements in nanotechnology are impacting biology and medicine. In this themed collection, we are compiling some noteworthy articles in the areas related to targeted delivery, vaccines, diagnostics, wound healing, and self-healing scaffolds & materials. Theranostics, which is a new branch specifically dealing with point-of-care, involves diagnostics and therapy in a single agent. Carbon-based materials are proving to be effective agents in this quest, as indicated by Kapil Patel et al. in their research published in Materials Horizons (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00966J). Anand et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00174J) emphasized in their review article the potential of carbon-based nanomaterials as antimicrobial agents. Scaffolds and matrices based on nanomaterials, as illustrated through the research works of Yu et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00647D), Singh et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01298A), Ooi (DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00373K), and Liu (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00704G) have shown tremendous potential in surgery, wound healing, controlled release skin patches, etc. Given how all of these materials show potential in their respective fields, it will be important to see how these will shape the future of biomedicine. We hope that the readers find this themed collection informative and useful.”
Chandra Kumar Dixit and Christopher M. Proctor
Chandra Kumar Dixit
Nanoscale Horizons Community Board Member, Chandra Kumar Dixit is a Scientist at Qiagen Sciences working in the areas of IVD and nanodiagnostics. He received a BSc degree in Biology from Bundelkhand University, an MSc degree in Biotechnology from CCS University and was awarded a PhD in Biotechnology from Dublin City University in 2012. His postdoctoral training spanned from Dublin City University, Ireland, Technion IIT, Israel, and University of Connecticut, USA, in areas of microfluidic tools, glycobiology, cell biology, disease diagnosis, electrochemistry, prostate cancer, 3D-printed tools for fluidic devices, and novel nanomaterials. He has published over 40 international research papers including reviews, books, and book chapters in the areas of biosensors, conventional and 3D-printed microfluidics, and disease diagnostics, and has won several international fellowships including the Marie-Curie grant.
Christopher M. Proctor
Materials Horizons Community Board member Christopher M. Proctor received a BSc in Interdisciplinary Physics from the University of Michigan in 2008. Following two years as a general scientist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he earned a PhD in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he investigated loss mechanisms in organic photovoltaics (2015). Subsequently, Chris was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Whitaker International to develop implantable bioelectronic devices for treating neurological disorders at the Ecole des Mines de St Etienne. He is now a Research Associate and Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellow at the University of Cambridge where his research is focused on engineering devices and developing materials to enable a seamless connection between electronics and living tissue for applications including epilepsy, cancer and pain management.
Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2018
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We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2018, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.
A message from Professor Harold Craighead, Editorial Board Chair:
I am pleased that Nanoscale Horizons is able to recognize the Outstanding Reviewers for 2018. The quality and impact of our journal depends on the quality and timeliness of reviews. Active researchers have many demands on their time, and providing thoughtful reviews of the work of peers is a significant contribution to the readers of the journal and the scientific community. I want to add my thanks to these outstanding reviewers and also thank all of those who have done reviewed manuscripts for Nanoscale Horizons.
Dr Annette Andrieu-Brunsen, Technical University at Darmstadt, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3047
Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-2955
Professor Dhiraj Bhatia, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1478-6417
Professor Jonas Croissant, University of New Mexico, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0489-9829
Dr Renren Deng, Zhejiang University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8213-6304
Professor Ali Eftekhari, Electrochemical Research Center, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3568-4812
Dr Wee-Jun Ong, Xiamen University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-1934
Professor V. Prasad Shastri, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5125-9678
Dr Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9652-687X
Professor Jianfang Wang, City University of Hong Kong, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2467-8751
We would also like to thank the Nanoscale Horizons board and the nanoscience community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.
Congratulations to the Prize Winners from the Nanoscale Horizons Symposium
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Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
by: Edwidge Danticat (author)
Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti's heroic queen Anacaona.With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to... show more
Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti's heroic queen Anacaona.With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492. The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people.
ASIN: 439499062
Publish date: April 2005
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Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past
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ENTANGLED PASTS: 7 things you should know about the recent pasts of France and Britain, in the wake of the attack on CHARLIE HEBDO.
Prof Charles Forsdick (Leadership Fellow, AHRC Translating Cultures) and Prof Andrew Thompson (Leadership Fellow, AHRC Care for the Future)
1. Charlie Hebdo is part of a long tradition of dissent in France. Its genealogy can be traced back to the satirical press at the time of the French Revolution. In February 2006, Charlie Hebdo shot to global prominence with its depictions of the prophet Mohammed. But since its launch, the anti-establishment magazine has had plenty of other targets in its sights. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in News and tagged leadership fellow on 3rd February 2015 by Christine Boyle.
History in the making
The article below was written by Malcolm Lucard and is cross-posted from the Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine. It includes material from an interview with Prof Andrew Thompson, Leadership Fellow of Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past.
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Malcolm Lucard
Internal records from the ICRC’s archives concerning the conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s shed light on a decisive era for humanitarian action.
In a small room in the basement of ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, historian Andrew Thompson methodically pores through folders full of documents — typewritten mission reports, confidential telegrams and hand-written letters — never before seen by people outside the ICRC.
“It is a process of discovery,” says Thompson, a professor of history at Exeter University in the United Kingdom. “There is a sense of expectation and anticipation not knowing what is going to be there. For a historian, it’s a bit like opening a birthday present, or like going into a candy shop.”
The ‘candy shop’ in this case is the ICRC archives, where Thompson is exploring 40- to 50-year-old records to be released to the public in January 2015 under the ICRC’s policy of making internal documents public in blocks of ten years once 40 years have passed since the events they describe.
This entry was posted in News and tagged History, Humanitarianism, leadership fellow on 27th January 2015 by Christine Boyle.
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The Truth About Bitcoin
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Here is what I love about Bitcoin, other crypto and data-driven currencies. It has finally forced people to think about the concept of money and what money really is.
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An Important Lesson From A Famous Bank Robber
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New Financial Educational Podcast Shares the Secrets of the Rich to Create Monthly Income Streams
New financial educational podcast Cashflow Ninja by leading financial educator M.C. Laubscher shares exclusive insights on how to create monthly income streams and manage and protect your own wealth to survive and prosper in modern Information Age.
NEWTOWN, PA (PRWEB) AUGUST 01, 2016 The recession-hit global economy has greatly threatened the financial security of many. The traditional industrial age mindset of accumulating and saving wealth with Wall Street with the hope of heightened assets in the future is failing many.…
Leadhome: Changing The Home Buying Process In South Africa
Co-Founder of Leadhome, Marcel du Toit, On What it Takes to Solve a Unique Problem, Be a Successful Entrepreneur, and More
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Greg Presents Clancy Consulting Prize for HND Civil Engineering
Article posted on: 25th October 2017
Congratulations to Viorel Fazacas who this year has been awarded the Clancy Consulting Annual Prize for excellence in the HND Civil Engineering course. Viorel has recently completed the HND in Civil Engineering with outstanding grades. His attendance and contribution to the group including student representation has been exceptional. Viorel takes pride in his work and over the last couple of years has been working on residential projects and hopes to get involved with more complex projects in the future.
Clancy Consulting are delighted to join up with City College Norwich in recognising Viorel’s achievements throughout the duration of his course. We recognise the importance of supporting todays’ students for tomorrow’s world and has a longstanding history of sponsoring awards and supporting higher education organisations throughout the UK. Clancy Consulting links up with universities and colleges around the country to recognise the positive impact it can deliver as a national organisation providing local educational support.
Greg Scott, Director of Clancy Consulting’s Norwich office commented: “We are delighted to sponsor the award for ‘Excellence achieved’ in the HND Civil Engineering course delivered by City College Norwich. This is our second year of sponsoring the award for the college and we look forward to working with them in greater depth going forward.”
Clancy Consulting provide a multi-discipline engineering design, building surveying and advisory service across the built environment. Its specialist engineering fields include civil, structural, building services, and geo-environmental. The company works across a diverse range of markets and delivers projects ranging from small appointments for individual clients to large multi-million pound schemes for international organisations.
The Norwich office works on projects across the UK but has been privileged to work on a variety of projects local to Norwich. Recent projects delivered in the Norwich area include:
• Primary Schools – new teaching blocks across Norfolk and Suffolk
• Pre-Planning Services including drainage strategies, flood risk, geo-environmental and
utilities to support master planning for residential and commercial developments.
• University of East Anglia – structural engineering services for alterations and
refurbishment to the existing theatre block.
• Care Homes – civil and structural design services for a new 60 bedroom care home in
Beccles.
• Heritage – Dragon Hall, Norwich – civil and structural services for a new extension.
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So Very Christian
This is the first of probably many posts about the deep felt Christian attitudes of our far right brethren.
Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard Sinclair was gay when they offered to host his service, said his sister, Kathleen Wright. But after his obituary listed his life partner as one of his survivors, she said, it was called off.
"It’s a slap in the face. It’s like, ’Oh, we’re sorry he died, but he’s gay so we can’t help you,"’ she said Friday.
The church’s pastor, the Rev. Gary Simons, said no one knew Sinclair, who was not a church member, was gay until the day before the Thursday service, when staff members putting together his video tribute saw pictures of men "engaging in clear affection, kissing and embracing."
Wright called the church’s claim about the pictures "a bold-faced lie." She said she provided numerous family pictures of Sinclair, including some with his partner, but said none showed men kissing or hugging.
The 5,000-member High Point Church was founded in 2000 by Simons and his wife, April, whose brother is Joel Osteen, well-known pastor of the 38,000-member Lakewood Church in Houston. Now High Point meets in a 432,000-square-foot facility in Arlington, near Dallas.
So much for supporting the troops.
Labels: Christians, Conservatives
Lies and More Lies
To those wing-nuts in the area who don't realize a fact spoonfed to them should be swallowed with caution. Here's some news: Jeri Thompson is not a lawyer. The Trail has more.
It is a measure of how rapid Jeri Kehn Thompson's rise to prominence has been that there has been widespread confusion about a basic fact of her background: whether or not she is a lawyer.
Several major news organizations -- including USA Today, the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, and The Post -- have in recent months referred to Jeri Thompson as both a political consultant and lawyer in articles about Fred Thompson's nascent presidential campaign, in which his wife has taken a leading role.
And supporters of the Thompsons have repeatedly invoked Jeri Thompson's status as an attorney to challenge insinuations that the 40-year-old mother of two is a mere "trophy wife" for the 64-year-old actor and former Tennessee senator. On Fox News last week, host Chris Wallace quoted a letter from a viewer attacking NPR's Juan Williams for having previously used the 'tw' phrase in reference to Thompson: "You chauvinist pig. Jeri Thompson is an intelligent, accomplished woman. She is a lawyer. And she has worked in the public policy arena." Added conservative blogger Ed Morrissey last month: "Anyone with access to Google knows that Mrs. Thompson worked as an attorney and media consultant in DC."
Well, presumptuous as it may be to challenge the holy writ that is Google, the hard fact is that Jeri Thompson is not a lawyer. There is no trace in public records of Thompson holding a license to practice law in D.C. or any of the states in which she has resided. And today, campaign spokeswoman Linda Rozett said conclusively, "Jeri Thompson does not have a law degree."
Never mind!
Labels: Conservatives
Because We Don't Want to Play Anymore
courtesy of This Modern World
Finally doing the right thing ... ignore Fox. Let them blather to their shrinking base of angry white men and women who barely understand English.
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Still Clueless After All These Years
After 3,679 American deaths, 27,104 Americans wounded and 60,000+ Iraqi casualites, Patrick McIlheran almost got it, in an ironic sort of way.
Posting about the news that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article, has recanted his story, McIlheran attempts to use Beauchamp's alleged deceit to question the motives of the (as he calls it) "surrender-now side."
His final sentence of the post, however, was almost a striking condemnation of this entire misbegotten affair and the failure of the McIlherans on the right to honestly view the excursion into Iraq, rather than mouthing platitudes provided to them by this administration. If McIlheran had had the courage, this is what he would have written:
What good can come from the war against the war in Iraq if it's a campaign founded on lies?
That was nearly the first honest thing you've said about Iraq, Paddy! Keep trying.
Labels: Conservatives, Iraq, Patrick McIlheran
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2019 tour dates can be found on the Tour Schedule page.
Bruce was in the studio in March 2019 recording his next album, Crowing Ignites, which is expected to be released on September 20, 2019. Track listing here.
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Eleven all-new Instrumentals
Crowing Ignites, an all-instrumental album, is expected to be released on September 20, 2019. More information on the MEDIA page, first article. Track listing here. Listen to / share “Blind Willie” from Crowing Ignites and pre-order here.
Bruce was interviewed by Vish Khanna on May 10, 2019. Listen here.
Listen to an interview on the CBC program, Day 6. The date of the interview was June 12, 2019.
On October 24, 2018, Bruce appeared on the PBS program, Songs at the Center. It was taped at the Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewwod, Ohio. He played three songs: Forty Years in the Wilderness, If I had a Rocket Launcher and The Gift. The program is 27 minutes long and includes interview segments.You can view the episode here.
Update to the Fox Watson page. Scroll to the bottom of this page.
Photos of Bruce in the studio recording a new instrumental album in San Francisco in March 2019.
Bruce wins Solo Artist of the Year for Bone On Bone at the 2018 Canadian Folk Music Awards.
Information on The Group of Seven Guitar Project, which includes an appearance by Bruce.
Listen to the 1977 Circles in the Stream Tour documentary.
Bruce Cockburn - a view from the Woodpile, contains 120 photos I took at soundchecks, performances and in the studio between 1994 and 2008. It is available at the Apple iBookstore, and in hardcopy at Blurb book publishers.
Bernie Finkelstein's autobiography was released on April 17, 2012.
This site is owned and edited by Daniel Keebler. If you see an error, a broken link or something that you think is incorrect, please let me know. Since 1994 I have received informational support directly from Bruce's record label and management in Toronto (True North Records and Finkelstein Management), with additional support from Rounder Records, Rykodisc Records and Columbia Records in the U.S. and Europe. While True North Records was sold in December 2007, Bruce currently remains with that label. The paper newsletter was first published in February 1994. Ten years later, in December 2003, the last paper issue was published. This site has been on the web since 1996.
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Chinese students' applications to UK universities soar 30 pct
Xinhua Published: 2019-07-11 22:01:33
Applications from Chinese undergraduates to study at British universities have increased by 30 percent since last year, with numbers exceeding those from Northern Ireland for the first time, according to official statistics released Thursday.
Ucas, the university and college admissions service, revealed in its latest report that it had received 19,760 applications from students in China this year, accounting for about three percent of the total. Last year the number of Chinese applicants was 15,240.
A Chinese student [File photo: IC]
For the first time, the Chinese applicants, slightly more than 18,520 from Northern Ireland, has become the fourth largest group after those in England, Scotland and Wales.
It is believed that the real figure will be higher as not all Chinese applications are made via Ucas.
According to the data, non-EU applicants rose to 13 percent of the total, increasing 8 percent compared with last year.
Clare Marchant, Ucas chief executive, said: "The global appeal of UK higher education has never been clearer, with record demographic-beating application rates in England and Wales, and the steep rise in international applications, especially from China."
Welcoming the figures, UK's universities minister Chris Skidmore said: "International students bring huge cultural and economic benefits to the UK. These figures show we are making good progress in our ambition to open up world-leading higher education to anyone who has the potential to benefit from it and I'm confident that we can go even further."
Commentators say that recent tensions between China and the U.S. are further benefitting British universities as Chinese students look at destinations other than America for their studies.
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Tag Archives: Lands Tribunal for Scotland
New Chairman appointed to Scottish Land Court
Sheriff Roderick John MacLeod QC
Sheriff Roderick John MacLeod QC has been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, the Scottish Ministers have announced.
Ministers also appointed Sheriff MacLeod as President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, on the recommendation of the Lord President of the Court of Session.
He succeeds Lord McGhie, who is retiring from both positions.
First Minister Alex Salmond nominated Sheriff MacLeod for appointment as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court on the basis of the recommendation by the independent Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.
Sheriff Roderick John MacLeod QC graduated with an LLB Hons from the University of Edinburgh in 1975.
He became a solicitor in 1979, an Advocate in 1994, was appointed as a Sheriff in 2000 and as a QC in 2013.
He has been the Deputy Chair of the Scottish Land Court since 2006.
This entry was posted in Scottish Land Court and tagged Alex Salmond, Chairman, Her Majesty the Queen, Lands Tribunal for Scotland, Lord McGhie, President, Scottish Land Court, Sheriff Roderick John MacLeod QC on September 16, 2014 by Brian Inkster.
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I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds.
For further study - Philemon 1:1-25
It is true that there is no prophetic passage found in the book of Philemon. However, in this little New Testament book, I find Paul as our example of how to work towards a "crown" that will be given to some at the Judgment Seat of Christ. It is the "Crown of Glory" spoken of in I Peter 1:1-4.
The "Crown of Glory" is given to those who are always ready to step up to "feed the flock", to build them up in the things of the Lord. Peter reveals that we do not serve as "feeders of the flock" for filthy lucre and not by constraint, I Peter 5:2. Peter's exhortation is for us to be an example to the flock.
You know that is what Paul is doing in Philemon. Paul is showing Philemon, by example, how to deal with a former servant of Philemon, the person who stole from him and then fled to Rome, the servant Onesimus.
When Onesimus arrived in Rome, he made contact with Paul and was converted to Christianity. Paul knew the circumstances surrounding the relationship between Philemon and Onesimus, and he is used of the Lord to develop Onesimus into a very profitable brother in the Lord.
Next, Paul having built into the life of the "servant", now wants to build into the life of his former owner, the one who had been violated. Paul writes to Philemon requesting that he take back his former employee, one who could be very profitable to him in the future, verse 11.
Paul is working towards that "Crown of Glory" Peter wrote about, as he works with both Philemon and Onesimus. Paul was ambitious for these crowns, II Corinthians 5:9, because he knew that these crowns would one day be presented back to the Lord Jesus in thanksgiving for what He has done for us, Revelation 4:10.
The "Crown of Glory" is only one of five crowns we can receive at the Judgment Seat of Christ. We receive a "crown incorruptible" for bringing our body under subjection, I Corinthians 9:27. We will be rewarded a "crown of rejoicing" for being a soul winner, I Thessalonians 2:19. There is the "crown of life" for not yielding to temptation, James 1:12. There is also the "crown of righteousness" for loving the appearance of Jesus Christ as the Rapture, II Timothy 4:8.
In Philemon, Paul, by example, helps us to understand how to receive the "Crown of Glory".
PRAYER THOT: Lord help me to work towards attaining all five of the crowns so that I can give them back to you in thanksgiving.
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Stock Grabbing Investor's Attention: Banco Santander Brasil Sa (BSBR)
Typically, the CCI oscillates above and below a zero line. Generally, the RSI is considered to be oversold when it falls below 30 and overbought when it heads above 70. As the earnings date approaches, we can see that insider ownership is now 21.00% shares, and institutional ownership is at 1.20% for Banco Santander, S.A.
Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast Of Lompoc In Santa Barbara County
The epicenter is about 53 miles west of Santa Barbara, 35 miles southwest of Santa Maria and more than 50 miles south of San Luis Obispo. The U.S. Geological Survey had initially recorded a preliminary 4.6-magnitude natural disaster. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, but the shaking was felt throughout Santa Barbara County. We will update this story when new information becomes available.
Callon Petroleum (NYSE:CPE) Earning Somewhat Positive Media Coverage, Study Finds
Therefore 90% are positive. A number of analysts have recently issued reports on CPE shares. The brokerage issued a neutral rating and a $16.00 price objective on the stock. Maryland Management owns 4,948 shares for 0.1% of their portfolio. CV Sciences, Inc.is a life science company. The higher the ROE, the better the company is at generating profits.
Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Eunice, Louisiana
The winning ticket in Wednesday's drawing was sold in Eunice, a small town in Cajun country that straddles Acadia and St. Landry parishes. The owner says they have sold at least two $200,000 dollar scratch off tickets in the past. The winning numbers were 18-22-29-54-57 with a Power Play number of 8. For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site , which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games.
Pope Francis Places Video Call to International Space Station
Nespoli indicated that while he remains perplexed at humankind's role, he feels their main objective is enriching the knowledge around us. "But on the other hand, an interesting thing is that the more we know, the more we realize how little we know".
Attorney gunned down in front yard
Officials said that Pickert's wife was at home when the shooting occurred, and she found his body on the porch 8 a.m. Wednesday. Officers say Pickert's wife was home at the time and found her husband lifeless on their front porch. The businessman had claimed he shot the homeless man, who was inside his warehouse, in self-defense. Pickert helped Harris win the lawsuit and Jungerman was ordered to pay $5.75 million.
Trump Ups his Endorsement of Gillespie for Virginia Governor
Gillespie has to get a fair number of Stewart supporters to win, so he has taken a more hardline stance on several issues, including the removal of Confederate monuments, over the last two months, even as he has kept the president at arm's length.
Hot gangbanger's mugshot could get her sprung
Police described Ponce of as TRG gang member and said two other gang members were in the vehicle. On searching her auto, officers uncovered a lilac handgun (photo included above) which was fully loaded at the time. Another user noted how great Ponce's make-up looked in her booking photo. Another person encouraged her to turn her life around for her children.
Price Target Focus for Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE:XEL)
Xcel Energy Inc now has $25.02 billion valuation. Parallel Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Xcel Energy by 1.6% in the 2nd quarter. Financial Architects, Inc owns 434 shares worth $21,000. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 5.8% on a year-over-year basis. Taking a quick look at analyst opinions, we can see that the current average broker recommendation on shares of Xcel Energy Inc .
Ex-Air Force Officer To Oversee Puerto Rico's Power Restoration
The vehicle maker says it's the first of many solar and energy storage projects going live in Puerto Rico. The resources panel oversees Puerto Rico, a US territory. PREPA filed for bankruptcy in July and has put off badly needed maintenance for years. Whitefish officials say they were willing to work for $2 million up front while the other company that PREPA was considering wanted $25 million.
Ganapathy case: BJP demands removal of KJ George immediately
DySP Ganapathy had died at Madikeri in Karnataka under mysterious circumstances on July 7 previous year. Apart from George, who was earlier the state Home Minister and is now the Bengaluru Development Minister, the police officers booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are Additional Director-General of Police (Intelligence) A.M.
Undocumented Girl With Cerebral Palsy Detained After Surgery May Be Deported
U.S. Representatives Henry Cuellar and Joaquin Castro are questioning the circumstances under which Border Patrol agents were given access to 10-year-old Rosamaria Hernandez's hospital room. Border checkpoints along the southern USA border have always been well known. Global News reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for comment.
£2m Apollo Intensa Emozione track hypercar revealed with 769bhp
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$1.3M auction bid buys Albert Einstein's theory of happiness
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Home > Features > Reviews > Penny Pepper: Lost in Spaces
Award winning writer, poet, performer and rights activist, Penny Pepper presented her highly anticipated, unique one-woman show, Lost in Spaces at the Soho Theatre last Monday. Review by Colin Hambrook
Penny Pepper tells an engaging story of a journey through the Disability Arts Movement in 'Lost in Spaces'
Lost in Spaces interweaves poetry, short story, anecdote and diary extracts against a backdrop of images and music, taking the audience on a chronological journey through the life and times of one of the Disability Arts Movements' superbly talented, sexy superstars.
The show lifts off in the 1960s with the moon landing and Penny’s aspirations to be an astronaut: entirely possible in the limitless world of her imagination. Penny describes how it was through her love of words (she was taught to read and write by her father before she went to school) and her love of writing that she came to know herself and to express her refusal to be defined by the tragic but brave stereotypes imposed by a non-disabled world.
Penny’s readings from her diaries, drawn as precious objects from a beautifully ornate, large box in the form of a book, give tremendous value to the act of keeping a diary, as a testament to life’s pleasures and struggles. Penny also talks us through the books that she loved as a child. Heidi and The Secret Garden gripped her imagination, but contained no positive role models for a young disabled girl aching to find a place in the world.
Much of Penny’s storytelling through the show sits within the context of the Disability Movement through the 1980s and 1990s and its strength to empower and inspire disabled people with the Social Model and Art at its foundations. Inspired by the punk movement, the major thread running through the performance is life as an act of defiance.
She tells us about her friend Kay embellishing the side of her shaved head with the words ‘fuck off’. And Penny's poetry mirrors her sense of rebellion: ‘Special breeds/ Special spoon/ Special spunk/ Special sex.’ Penny’s delivery is riveting with the accompaniment of Jo-anne Cox’s cello. The atmosphere changes with just a chord and Penny becomes focused and at her most cogent and powerful as a performer.
The stories give breadth and depth to the poems, although the visuals and recorded music could be reigned-in and given more alignment to the spoken word. For example Penny tells a brilliant story about her pen-relationship with pop star Morrissey. A postcard is emblazoned across the screen showing the musicians famous spiky handwriting: “You write delightfully,” he says, “And yes, I accept the compliments. Believe you me, I need them.” It would have been wonderful to have heard the words read out; to have been given a fuller account of how an emerging pop star came to crave acceptance from a young disabled writer and performer. (I believe this was around the time that The Smiths Meat is Murder album was released in the mid-1980s).
The visuals generally, give a wonderful flavour of Penny's world, with photos of family and friends illustrating changing fashions and attitudes. However, it would help the pacing of the show if Penny could find a simple way of describing the images she uses and linking them more closely to the stories she’s telling. This would provide creative access for visually impaired people, and would also give all of her audience - and especially a younger audience who may not know the references - more engagement. Less is more.
Still in its research and development phase, Lost in Spaces needs more airing. It has undercurrents that cut through so much ignorance. For example Penny reads a couple of extracts from her collection of short story erotica, Desires, re-edited and published by Bejamo Press in 2012 as Desires Reborn. Funny, intelligent and moving, her recital of Girls Wank Too unfolds in a matter of fact telling of how it is for girls when the hormones start to kick in. The context is special school, but it’s a story of girls discovering their sexuality that goes beyond the disability context.
Lost in Spaces is festooned with important bits of history. Penny reminds us that using buses remains a political act for wheelchair-users, given the battles of the Campaign for Accessible Transport and the Direct Action Network in the 80s and 90s. She reminds us how painful and difficult it was growing up without any access to transport, to personal assistance or to work. She reminds us that the key expectation for young physically disabled people during her youth was a life in institutional care.
And of course, with the current closure for new applicants and the planned disposal of the Independent Living Fund, all the implications suggest that as a society we are rapidly making a backward step to a time when disabled people were prisoners in their own homes and in institutions, reliant on families and underpaid, ill-trained care workers for basic care provision.
So, “Come to Cripplegate/ Come to Cripplegate/ Come to Cripplegate Town.” The Ballad of Cripplegate provides a seductive, insistent, double-edged anthem for Lost in Spaces. The words, their rhythm with the striking chords from Jo-anne’s cello leave an indelible mark and an invitation not to be missed.
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Lawyer: Man charged in parents' slayings pleads not guilty
FILE--This March 4, 2019 booking photo released by the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office shows Michael Elijah Walker. Police say the 19-year-old Oklahoma man told his younger brother that he fatally shot their parents because they were communicating with him telepathically and were Satan worshippers. Walker has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in his parents deaths and his attorney Derek Chance says he will seek to have Eli Walker declared mentally incompetent. (Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office via AP)
EDMOND, Okla. — An attorney plans to seek a competency hearing for a 19-year-old Oklahoma murder suspect whose brother told investigators he said he killed their parents because he thought they were Satan worshippers communicating with him telepathically.
Michael Elijah "Eli" Walker was arraigned Wednesday on first-degree murder charges in the March 4 shooting deaths of Michael Logan Walker, 50, and Rachel Walker, 44, at their home in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond.
Walker's attorney, Derek Chance, who entered a not guilty plea on his client's behalf, said he would expect to seek a not guilty by reason of insanity defense if he isn't found incompetent for trial. Chance acknowledged such defenses have rarely succeeded in Oklahoma murder trials.
"He's very mentally ill, and even at this point it's difficult even for us to get through to him in any of our meetings," Chance said.
Michael Logan Walker's sister, Maya Walker, made a brief statement to reporters Tuesday following funeral services for the slain couple, alluding to her nephew's mental difficulties.
"Please see it soon enough before it happens to your family because all of us now in hindsight are realizing the pieces we're putting together now, we didn't recognize," she said.
"We hope and pray for the best possible outcome (and) for Eli, my nephew, to get the best care possible," Walker said.
It has not been revealed whether Walker had been diagnosed with, or was undergoing treatment for, a mental illness.
"We have not confirmed that yet as an official medical diagnosis, not saying it isn't true," police spokeswoman Jenny Wagnon said. "That's something we will likely be asked to do by the DA's office."
Wagnon said two pistols and an AR-15 rifle found in the home shortly after the slayings were purchased by one of the parents but declined to say which parent.
Easy access to guns only slightly increases the risk by the mentally ill of gun violence compared to the overall population, said Dr. William Carpenter Jr., a psychiatric professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
"Sure, violence can be a problem ... gun violence, but with the amount of gun violence in this country it just sticks out a little bit," Carpenter said of violent acts committed by the mentally ill. "Most of the increase relates to before they're diagnosed or treated, or they're not taking their medication at the time the violence occurs."
Wagnon said police were also trying to determine where materials were acquired for four small homemade bombs found in the home and later detonated by a bomb squad.
"We'll be going through phones and computers, looking for receipts to try to find out how they were purchased ... that's part of our investigation," Wagnon said.
Meredith Davis, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the agency is aware of the case and available to assist if asked.
The insanity defense was successful for Christian Costello, 30, who a judge ruled in April 2018 was not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2015 stabbing death of his father, state Labor Commissioner Mark Costello.
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Columns • Jana Riess: Flunking Sainthood • Opinion
Keeping the faith in an age of anxiety
“Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light” cover and author Rachel Marie Stone. Images courtesy of InterVarsity Press
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(RNS) — I don’t know about you, but these days I’m awash with anxiety. Hyperpartisan politics, raising a teenager … it all contributes to an ongoing sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
But faith, as Richard Rohr reminds us, is a relationship of trust between human beings and God, and when I allow anxiety to take the driver’s seat, I am not practicing faith but something else.
So I was particularly interested in reading Rachel Marie Stone’s new memoir, “Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light.” I resonated with a lot of her experiences. How, in an age of anxiety, do we surrender fear to the light?
Religion News Service interviewed Stone about her book. Her responses follow.
RNS: I’m struck by the way your book covers so many themes: anxiety, birth, embodiment, loss. How would you describe it in an elevator pitch?
Rachel Marie Stone: Very briefly, I would sketch it as a memoir of anxiety. It’s also a memoir of living through hard times. And it’s also a memoir of motherhood and hope, or motherhood and fear. But it’s not only a book for mothers.
RNS: You have been dealing with anxiety ever since you were a child. How did that begin?
Stone: I had a lot of big fears I didn’t talk about. Any time my parents would be even five minutes late, I worried so much.
“Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light” by Rachel Marie Stone. Image courtesy of InterVarsity Press
Weirdly, one of my earliest anxieties was that I was very worried about another Holocaust. My mother is Jewish, so I probably knew too much about the Holocaust of WWII when I was really young. I was thinking that there must be something wrong with us Jews that would make people want to get rid of us throughout history.
Also, I was a bit of a hypochondriac. I would notice something on my body and quietly convince myself that it was cancer and that I was going to die. Or I had touched something on the bus that was going to give me AIDS. AIDS is actually a big part of the book. Other people my age have no memory of growing up with a worry about AIDS, but in New York City in 1986, when I was in kindergarten, people would play tag but would tag you with AIDS. And there was a guy in our church, a friend of my dad’s, who died of AIDS.
RNS: How have you coped with anxiety as an adult?
Stone: I’m not taking any anxiety medication now, but I have in the past and it has been very helpful. It’s a really helpful tool for people with anxiety disorders. But I feel like it would be irresponsible for me not to say that they can be habit-forming and they are very powerful substances. Also, they don’t resolve your narrative problem. In people with anxiety, it’s often a story that needs shifting, maybe even more than brain chemicals. The brain chemistry is absolutely real, but there’s reason to be cautious about powerful drugs that doctors prescribe so easily.
What has worked for me are therapy, meditation, breathing and yoga — and changing the narrative.
I’ll give an example that may sound stupid to some people but is real. My cat that I adored just died last month at age 15. Because I do this anxiety thing and worry about things that haven’t happened yet, I told myself long ago that I would absolutely fall apart when he died. That was the story that I imagined. I spent so much time imagining a tragic end, but when the moment came and it was clear that he had reached the end, it was tempting to freak out, but I realized that would make his death all about me. Even the narrative of “I can’t live without him” is still about me and my feelings. There was a lot of comfort in focusing on what I did have then, which was having him still alive. I could give him a death and a good burial, and be faithful to what I needed to do. That’s not to say I wasn’t sad, but often the things that bring us suffering are wrong narratives that we cling to but don’t really serve us.
RNS: I’d like to know how your faith helps you with anxiety, or if it does. But first, tell me about your religious background, because you are Jewish and also writing a Christian book for a Christian publishing house (InterVarsity Press).
Author Rachel Marie Stone. Photo courtesy of InterVarsity Press
Stone: My mom converted to evangelical Christianity before I was born. This is always contentious, because some Jews wouldn’t consider me a Jew, but according to the Talmud, a Jew that’s born a Jew can never not be a Jew. Culturally, it’s impossible for me to think of myself and my mother as anything but Jewish. But the Christian narrative is the one I was raised in and continue to live into. I worship at an Episcopal church now and follow the rhythm of the liturgical year.
RNS: How does your faith figure into living with anxiety?
Stone: I think a lot of the quirks of the specific religious tradition that I was raised in actually made anxiety worse, because in that scenario, God and/or Jesus were always evaluating everything I did or even thought. There was encouragement to remember that “Jesus is always watching you!” Kind of like Jesus was a scary Santa Claus who sees you when you’re sleeping.
Also, even the way that evangelicals will often pray can produce anxiety, like, “Fix this thing, God; fix me; take this bad thing away.” Evangelicals talk about prayer as if it’s all about fixing the bad things. There’s often a subtle or not-subtle implication that if you pray hard enough and believe hard enough, that it’s going to get fixed. That there will be a miracle. I guess that’s comforting for some, but it’s anxiety-producing for others to think that if they just work and pray a little harder, they can fix it.
It feeds into an idea that many people with anxiety already live with: that the act of worrying itself is necessary in order to prevent bad things: “If I worry hard enough about this now, it won’t happen later.” Worrying is almost a protective impulse, like you are inoculating yourself against the pain of it actually happening. But the truth is that we’re almost never prepared for the actual bad things that come out of the blue. What do people say about bad things that happen? They say, “We never saw it coming” or “We never thought it would happen to us.” You can’t prevent it or even alleviate it by thinking your way out of it beforehand.
RNS: What else helps you?
Stone: I have taken a lot of comfort lately from a book that’s co-written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, called “The Book of Joy.” It’s a great resource for those who suffer in their thinking, or are curious about meditation and what Buddhism might offer. It’s a lot about shifting the narrative. So much of getting well, or even living well with anxiety, is shifting the way we tell the story, and also shifting our attention and compassion to others. That can help so, so much.
RNS: What are you hoping readers will take from the book?
Stone: A sense of wonder and respect for what humans are — and what humans can endure. Not because of what I’ve lived through, but because I point to stories and experiences that reveal something essential about existence. I think that essential thing, which we are very good at avoiding in North American culture, is the reality that joy and suffering always go together. We don’t get to the triumphal, glorious moments in life without struggling for them. That’s why I use the metaphor of birth. When a baby takes her first breath, it’s amazingly wonderful. But it took blood and tears and sacrifice to get there.
(The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily represent those of Religion News Service.)
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Senior columnist Jana Riess is the author of many books, including "The Prayer Wheel" (Random House/Convergent, 2018) and "The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church" (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has a PhD in American religious history from Columbia University.
I really enjoyed this interview. I think anxiety becomes a superpower for some people. For those who have to deal with it they know simply confronting it does not make it go away, but avoiding it is debilitating. Because they confront a fear that is larger than the threat on a regular basis when others confront perceived threats it’s those who have learned to live with what scares them who teach the rest of us how to go forward.
Daniel ess says:
keeping the Faith, ya its no different than what a buddist practices, ill go for keeping the commandments God’s perfect law of Love. no more putting the horrible abomination of desolation before the creator.
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Fighting Fascism
Fascism was not inevitable in Italy, perhaps not even likely. The fascists were shut out in the parliamentary election of 1919. In 1921, however, they captured 35 seats, including one for Benito Mussolini; still, they remained a decidedly minority party.
But the following year, the fascists were voting with their feet, marching on Rome, perpetrating violence elsewhere in Italy, and threatening the democratically elected government. Rather than ordering the army to put down the fledgling revolt, King Victor Emmanuel III invited Mussolini, 39, to form a new government. It was the beginning of the end of democracy in Italy for more than 20 years.
Mussolini astutely played on Italians’ fears of political and economic turmoil in the aftermath of World War I, their disappointment with Italy’s share of the spoils of war, and an exaggerated dread of communism. Business and industry leaders and right wing parties supported him.
If neither the king nor Pope Pius XI — who later would call Mussolini “the man whom Providence sent us” — nor fractious Italian political parties could stop the fascists, the burden would fall to others, prominent among them the Rosselli family of Florence.
In "A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of An Italian Mother and her Two Sons, and their Fight against Fascism," bestselling author Caroline Moorehead ably chronicles the struggles of Amelia Rosselli and her sons, Carlo and Nello, against the tyranny that gripped Italy from 1922 to 1943. It was an uneven fight, but one that evinced much courage, sacrifice, and drama.
Amelia was a descendant of Sephardic Jews who had been driven from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. More than 430 years later, Jews were still not safe in Europe. Amelia was a rich and formidable woman, a playwright and a feminist; when her husband had an affair, she sent him packing, much to his dismay. Her eldest son, Aldo, died fighting in World War I. She was devastated, but her sorrows were just beginning.
Born in 1899, Carlo Rosselli became one of Mussolini’s most implacable opponents and was widely thought to be a likely successor to “Il Duce” if the fascist train could be derailed. He spoke well of the Bolsheviks for a time, palavered with Trotsky (they argued), but soon settled on middle-of-the-road democratic socialism.
Carlo and Nello were pursuing academic careers in the early 1920s as the flamboyant Mussolini, who liked to ride around Rome with a lion cub by his side, was tightening his grip on power. The brutal assassination of opposition leader Giacomo Matteotti in 1924 changed all that.
Soon the brothers were founding underground newspapers like Non Mollare (Do Not Give Up), spiriting opposition leaders in Mussolini’s crosshairs out of Italy, and procuring airplanes to drop political leaflets over Italian cities. Soon they would be targets themselves.
Moorehead, who grew up in Italy and speaks Italian, portrays the trials and intrigues of the Rosselli clan in intimate detail: the invisible ink, jailbreaks, coded correspondence, and spies galore. In places, the book reads like a gripping thriller. Elsewhere, the author occasionally can get lost in the weeds and assume the reader is fluent in Italian. Novelistic descriptions of minor players can be excessive, for example: “Dumini was a bland-faced young man, with neatly parted dark hairs and ears that stuck out. He had a small, tidy moustache, but no beard.”
In the main, however, Moorehead hits the mark, bringing creeping fascism, and its impact on average citizens, into sharp focus at a time when its abysmal track record is worth remembering. Mussolini may have made the trains run on time, but he proceeded to bring Italy to its knees before the Italian people finally put an end to his murderous reign.
Before that bloody denouement, Mussolini seemed to many Italians like the answer to their country’s economic and social challenges. Even Winston Churchill admired his “firm hand” in 1927, when the depredations of fascism were clearly apparent. The problem, of course, is when a firm hand becomes an iron fist. The pope and Mussolini came to an accommodation. People found him useful in various ways. For some, riding the tiger seemed like a good idea, at least for a spell, until they discovered what they had to lose.
At his trial, Carlo Rosselli made what the author terms “the most moving speech, long remembered in the annals of anti-fascism:”
“I had a house: they destroyed it. I had a magazine: they suppressed it. I had a university chair: I was forced to give it up. I had, as I have today, ideas, dignity, an ideal: for these I have been sent to prison. I had teachers, friends – Amendola, Matteotti, Gobetti – they killed them.”
Carlo was given 10 months in prison, which actually was a rebuke to Mussolini. But this was fascist Italy in 1927, much admired up north by an obscure German political agitator (he actually was Austrian) named Adolf Hitler: Mussolini stepped in and gave Carlo five years of internal exile on a rocky forbidding island off the coast of Sicily.
The media and the judiciary had been intimidated into acquiescence. Mussolini had become the law. Nonetheless, the Rosselli saga does not end here.
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'Love Sonia' to be screened at United Nations on Int'l Day of Girl Child
Tabrez Noorani's 'Love Sonia' has been invited for a special screening at the United Nations this October.
Inspired by true events, "Love Sonia" is the shocking story of a young Indian village girl whose life is irrevocably changed when she gets entrapped in the global sex trade while trying to save her sister.
It will be screened at the UN on October 11 which is the International Day of the Girl Child.
"It's an honour for us to screen our film 'Love Sonia' for the United Nations. I feel privileged and am looking forward to the screening on the 11th October in New York," Noorani said in a statement.
The screening will be hosted by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime and Indian anti-trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide.
"Art is a powerful advocacy tool to raise awareness and we hope this beautifully acted thoughtful film will move people to take action against the scourge of sex trafficking," said Simone Monasebian, Director of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime.
Survivors of prostitution from Apne Aap supported and consulted the filmmakers by sharing their life stories with them. They showed the red light areas of Kolkata and were on the set during filming.
"The process has resulted in an authentic film about the horrors of sex-trafficking inspired by real life events. Those who see, 'Love Sonia', will understand the cruel dynamics of trafficking in its truest form. Apne Aap hopes that all the countries of the world who see 'Love Sonia' at the UN will come together to end this evil," said Ruchira Gupta, Founder of Apne Aap.
The film stars Freida Pinto, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Richa Chadha, Anupam Kher, Adil Hussain, Sai Tamhankar, Sunny Parwar, Demi Moore and Mark Duplass. The film also marks acting debut of Mrunal Thakur, who is playing the lead character and Riya Sisodiya.
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Manners or a lawsuit?
April 7, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver
Costco has become a great weekend hangout for the entire family. Where else can you spend hours walking indoors where it’s nice and warm in winter, or cool in summer, and get to munch on all kinds of free food samples? Not only do you find great prices, but it has become a social institution as well, a place the odds are good that you’ll bump into someone you know every trip. On Saturdays when my wife goes one direction, mine is to Costco.
It is also a place where some of the strangest behavior is there for all to see, and as this event illustrates, just how much out of touch with reality certain families have become.
Gimme Some of That Pie!
Some weeks ago–and after my 6 course Costco lunch–samples of Progresso Soup, Hormel Chili, Salmon Spread, breath mints, marinated beef and Welch’s Grape Juice (Just what the gastroenterologist recommended) I wandered into the baked goods department, to a demo station with samples of blueberry pie. As the demo lady was cutting up the pie, a small line of about six customers formed, waiting patiently.
Suddenly, a young and incredibly obese boy–whom I would later learn was 9–ran to the front of the line, bumping people out of the way so that he could be at the very front. I was a few feet away, and this example of morbid childhood obesity had no apparent intention of respecting anyone in line. He had a look about him–almost a driven look. You could read it in his face: “Pie!!!! I am going to get a Piece of that Pie!!” He had all the charm of Dracula waiting for a drink.
“Don’t you think it would be nice to wait in line like everyone else?” said a man about 60, and smiled nicely at the boy. This resulted in the kid instantly running away, to his mother. The following scene would have been funny, were it not sad, as mom and son marched right back to the pie station, to the gentleman who suggested her son merely wait his turn.
“What did you say to my boy?” She yelled. “I just told him that he should wait in line like everyone else,” was his calm reply. “You made him cry!” mom screamed. “You should apologize to him!” His answer: “No ma’am, you should apologize for obviously not teaching him manners.” And at that point, the Demo Lady added, “This happens all the time. Parents who just do not teach manners any more. Good for you, sir!”
“I Can Make This Difficult!”
That should have been the end of this episode in bad parenting, but was not. Within less than a minute, the rest of the family caught up with the gentleman, and the entire situation appeared ripe for confrontation. “My name is Willy. Why did you make my nephew cry?” bellowed a short, slight, thirty-something man, standing with the other family members. They were all enormous people, shopping carts filled the stuff that makes Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig a lot of money. If you needed an example of how morbid obesity is a family disease, this was it. But in this family’s case, stupidity was tossed in as part of the bargain. But the way the older gentleman handled it was professional – cool, plain cool.
He first extended his hand, and, as a reflex, Willy shook his hand. “I’m pleased to meet you, Willy! Now, your nephew barged in front of people who were waiting in line for a sample of pie. That’s what happened, and I just told him that he should wait like everyone else. Was that wrong?”
“Any 9 year old kid would go to the front of the line,” answered Willy. “I expect you to apologize to him.” “No, I’m not going to do that, Willy. He needs to learn manners, not to have unacceptable behavior reinforced,” he said, loud enough so that all the family members standing there could hear. “I could become really ugly!” Willy blurted out. “Ah, you’re a nice guy, Willy,” said the older man, and shook his hand again, giving him a warm smile. Willy stood there, now receiving angry looks from his own family members. He was masterfully cheated out of a fight.
During this exchange, I noticed that the boy’s mother was glancing in my direction, and as the older man walked away, she approached me and said, “I know who you are, you’re Dennis Beaver, the lawyer! Can’t we sue that old man??”
“Sue him? For what? For doing your son a favor? For preventing this silly situation from becoming dangerous; Why even dream of suing him? No, ma’am, you’ve got it all wrong. You should have thanked him,” I replied, noticing that Willy was now glaring at me.
The demo lady handed me my sample of pie, and I in turn gave it to the next person in line.
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Questioning Sexuality
The experts agree: let’s talk about sex, baby — but let’s talk about gender and sexuality, too. “I just think that there has to be more focus on giving people permission to talk about what they like, what they don’t like,” Director of Counseling and Psychological Services Norma Ngo said. “I think there’s a lot of...
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All About Options
On any college campus, condoms are one of the many freebies available to students. But what other forms of birth control are available to students to ensure safe sex? At UH, internal and external condoms are available at the Women and Gender Resource Center and LBGT Resource Center on the second floor of the Student...
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Chicago International Television Awards Announces Call For Entries
Honoring TV & commercial productions in over 70 competitive categories
CHICAGO, IL – Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival announce the call for entries for its 52nd Chicago International Television Awards. With over 70 competitive categories, this annual competition celebrates television and commercial productions from around the world. The submission period runs through Friday, March 11, 2016. Entries are accepted via FilmFreeway and WithoutABox. Complete details are at http://ChicagoFilmFestival.com/tv-awards.
At its core, the Television Awards’ mission is to recognize the enormous technical and creative energy behind Television commercials and productions and to highlight their importance in communications, advertising, and entertainment. Specific submission categories include Television Commercial acting, writing, cinematography, animation; Television Production Public Service Announcement campaign, web series, sketch comedy program, main title sequence; Achievements in long- and short- form productions, sound design, effects, and direction. Upon reviewing submissions, the production budget is carefully considered as is the resourceful use of limited funds.
“Television has always been an important part of global culture. It’s fertile ground for innovation,” says Cinema/Chicago’s Competitions Coordinator Sam Flancher. “The Chicago International Television Awards has a tradition of recognizing exciting new voices year after year.”
From innovative distribution approaches to groundbreaking storytelling, the Chicago International Television Awards continue to recognize the talented minds of this ever-evolving medium. For over fifty years, the Television Awards Ceremony presents awards to competition winners and pays tribute to distinguished individuals and companies who have made a memorable mark on the Industry. Commitment to Excellence Awards have been presented to Carol Mendelsohn, Leo Burnett, Tom Burrell, Jesse Spencer, Jay Levine, Joe Pytka, and Tom Skilling, among others.
The 52nd Chicago International Television Awards includes the annual Audience Choice Awards. In partnership with WTTW11 (PBS), audiences are invited to view the most exciting and innovative commercials from the past year and vote for their favorite. Participants will be entered to win two tickets to the Awards Ceremony. This year’s annual Awards Ceremony will take place at Loews Chicago Hotel (455 N Park Dr., Chicago). Complete details about the Audience Choice Awards and Awards Ceremony are to be announced.
The Chicago International Television Awards is supported by Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival. Led by Major Sponsors Sound Investment AV and WTTW11 with Media Partner ReelChicago.com. Evening Partners include Stella Artois.
ABOUT CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION AWARDS
When the Chicago International Film Festival was founded over 50 years ago by Artistic Director Michael Kutza, advertising agency heads Leo Burnett, Fairfax Cone, and Dick Needham suggested that, with budgets and craftsmanship equal to the feature films being screened, the Festival should showcase the art of the television commercial. Five decades later, this simple idea has evolved into an international celebration of the best in television and encompasses television commercials, productions, series, and the innovative realm of online television programming.
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Cinema/Chicago is a not-for-profit arts and education organization dedicated to encouraging better understanding between cultures and to making a positive contribution to the art form of the moving image. The Chicago International Film Festival is one of the year-round programs presented by Cinema/Chicago, which also include its Chicago International Television Awards, CineYouth Festival, International Screenings Program, and Education Program. More information at ChicagoFilmFestival.com.
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New technology is freeing consumers from cable and satellite TV companies like never before
Instead, people can use Hulu or run their HD televisions through their PCs
The younger generation is starting to make the switch from cable TV
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(CNN) -- Blogger Jonathan Strickland cut ties with his cable company a year ago, yet he continues to watch all his favorite TV shows. He has saved nearly $700 over the last year and, most importantly, he tasted the thrill of telling his cable provider to shove it.
"We were having poor service, channels were getting cut back and the prices were going up," said Strickland. Although cable companies often lure new customers with special rates, he said it seemed "the longer you were staying with them, the more you were getting punished."
How has Strickland pulled this off? Mostly through a combination of Netflix and Hulu, the Internet TV service he views on his laptop.
And he's had no regrets.
An onslaught of new technology is freeing people from cable or satellite TV companies like never before by allowing customers to get shows via broadband and other means.
Some people use sites like Hulu, and don't mind with waiting a couple days after the show airs on television to watch. Others figure out elaborate set ups to run their HD televisions through their PCs using applications like Windows Media Center.
It's not mainstream yet and far from a perfect alternative, but little by little a younger generation is starting to take notice and make the switch, technology experts say.
"It's a niche audience now, but it's a concern for cable companies because this is the way things are going," said Lance Ulanoff, editor-in-chief of PCMag.com. "They're going to have to figure out the revenue model.
"Right now, there's tension between what people want and what content providers are willing to deliver."
At a recent visit to Google's Silicon Valley headquarters, comedian Conan O'Brien told the tech-savvy crowd what it already knew: The landscape is changing fast.
"I don't know what television is going to be five years from now. There's a lot of people that think you're just going to experience it through your server," said O'Brien, between taking digs at Jay Leno and Google execs.
"People don't even know how the business is going to change. There might not be network television as we know it."
The former NBC talk-show host, who is moving to cable channel TBS this fall, then added, "Wouldn't that be sweeeeet!"
Joking aside, it's something everyone, from consumers to industry executives, is keeping a close eye on.
The cable and satellite-dish giants already have their share of critics. Facebook pages "I Hate Time Warner Cable," "I Hate Comcast" and "I Hate DirecTV" have sprung up, allowing fans to vent their frustrations.
"I wonder how many more channels on my little line-up they are going to continue removing and want me to keep paying their rising rates," one person wrote.
Another said, "All the providers for TV services suck 'cause they are all trying to suck you in and then up your rates."
Yet before consumers pull the plug on cable or satellite TV, people like Strickland say they should be prepared for the change. Internet TV takes getting used to, and there is a loss of picture quality, he said. And if you want a complete home theater set-up, it's extremely hard to accomplish unless you're an electronics whiz and know how to make end-arounds.
Web TV also may not be ideal if you're a major sports fan, experts say. Most pro leagues, most notably the NFL, have exclusive contracts with networks or cable companies.
"This is the hard part about switching to an online-only consumption model," said Ulanoff of PCMag.com. "There are no guarantees [about what content is available]."
Sites like Major League Baseball and ESPN3 have helped fill some of the void with live streams of games, but their offerings pale in comparison to the many choices on cable. Many World Cup soccer games are available on ESPN3, although some, such as the much-anticipated United States vs. England match, were not.
Blogger Sam Grobart tried going cable-less, but he found himself longing for cable TV for a completely different reason. Quite simply, he missed channel surfing.
"This isn't a post about technology," he wrote on the New York Times blog Gadgetwise. "This is a post about behavior."
Strickland, an admitted "all-around geek," understands that sentiment. Yet he says the DVR has already helped with that mentality, freeing people of the belief that they need to tune in at a specific time on a specific day of the week.
Besides the thrill of ditching his cable bill, convenience has been the other biggest benefit, he says. "I'm going to watch a show when I want to watch it."
Strickland uses Hulu and Netflix's streaming capabilities for most of his shows and movies. He watches about half of the material on his television and the other half on his laptop.
He has used a Roku box for his TV, a cost of about $100, to help stream movies. But since he bought the device, gaming consoles such as Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox have begun offering Netflix's streaming service, making his Roku less necessary.
In the end, Strickland says he's saved at least $55 a month. Perhaps more importantly, he says he has a new level of freedom.
"I realized how much time I was spending watching television, and now I'm doing other things," he said.
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Scarface (1932)
I love the first words you see on the screen but they really date the picture:
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Howard Hughes has become such a mythical figure it's as if the movie were produced by Zorro. Then there's the below-the-title nod to the book on which the movie is based. Obviously Hollywood cared more for words back then.
What's not dated about the picture is the apparent controversy surrounding it. Public Enemy, remember, began with a wordy pronouncment from the studio condemning gangsters in general, a sort of "We're not really glorifying gangsters even though Jimmy Cagney is electrifying" sheepish proclamation.
Scarface takes the opposite tack. In another wordy pronouncement, it condemns gang violence and then demands of the government: "What are you going to do about it?" The controversy even seeps into the film. Halfway through, a newspaper publisher defends his supposed glamorization of mobster Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) by telling a committee in his office that we can't ignore the problem, that it's up to "the people" to do something. "You are the government," the movie tells us earlier. All of this detracts from Camonte's story but alludes to the probable tensions during the making of the picture. Even back then Hollywood, the media, and the government were all pointing fingers at one another about who was or was not perpetuating violence.
Something else not dated? The direction by Howard Hawks. Not all Hollywood cameras were frozen by the introduction of sound. Hawks gives us some nice angles on street signs and plays well with the black-and-white shadows on the walls. A creepy atmosphere is introduced early as a ward boss is gunned down, in silhouette, by a whistling mobster. This nonchalant whistle prefigures all deaths and is probably a rip-off of Peter Lorre's child-murderer in Fritz Lang's M, but it's still effective.
Hawks' visual symbol for murder is the letter "x." Before and after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, seven "x's" in the garage's architecture are shown, representing the seven mob leaders gunned down in cold blood. The last mob boss to get it, Boris Karloff's Gaffney, is bowling and has just thrown a strike (an "x" on the scoresheet). Nice image of the final pin spinning and dropping to represent Gaffney. When Camonte sticks it to his former right-hand man, the original coin-tossing mobster, Guino (George Raft), Guino is standing in the dooryway of room ten, or "X," and as he falls a large shadow of an "x" plays against the wall behind him.
Since this is pre-code Hollywood there's an overt sexuality to the picture, particularly in scenes between Camonte and Poppy (Karen Morley), John Lovo's and Camonte's moll.
Where does the picture fail? In its stated purpose to condemn gang violence. Like Public Enemy, the most dynamic figure is Camonte. He is carefree, brazen, almost child-like in the face of death. Gunned at in a restaurant, he shouts admiringly about the rival mobster's weapons. When he discovers his office has been torn apart, he shouts, almost happy, "Hey lookit! They been here, too!" Everything is an adventure to him. He's a big kid and the world is his candy store. There's no one like him in the movie. Everyone else is comic Italians with accents worse than Chico Marx, or puritanical cops and reporters with maniacal gleams in their eyes.
The movie betrays itself, too, by having Camonte who has been fearless throughout, even in the face of death suddenly turn yella. Crying, fleeing, he is shot down by the police. The camera then holds on a neon advertising sign that Camonte had often commented upon. "The World is Yours," it says, and to Camonte it meant "for the taking." With his death, the you has become pluralized and is directed back at the audience. It's up to you to get rid of the entertaining Camontes of the world and leave behind only tight-assed, bullying cops. Another mixed message from Hollywood.
© 1999 Erik Lundegaard
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The unity of Clinical Research of Banfora is implanted within the Regional hospital of Banfora (Province of Comoé, Region of Waterfalls). It was created to strengthen the facilities of CNRFP. This second station of research comes to help the Clinical Tries Center of Balonghin who was the point of convergence of all the clinical tries of the institution. Finally, the unity of Research of Banfora is an instrument which allows to anticipate the possibilities of modification of the epidemiological facies of malaria in Burkina Faso because of the phenomenon of climate change.
In addition to that, in the Region of Waterfalls, the transmission of the malaria is seasonal with a peak between May and November and a period of low transmission between December and April. In that context, the unity plays the role of focal point of the Demographic Suveillance System activities set up by CNRFP in Banfora. Built on a surface of 414m ², the unity was fitted out according to the international standards. It is a site which has rooms of clinical examinations, room of storage, preparation and administration of products for the investigations, room of post-vaccinal observation, a cold room equipped to preserve organic products at very low temperature (150 - 10 °), and laboratories (biochemistry / haematology and parasitology). In addition to these rooms, a space has been fitted out for the processing of biological samples and the cell culture. At last, two rooms were fitted out for the data management and the archiving. A team of researchers, agents of health and data capture work on place for the smooth running of the unity.
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Windmills "Sierra Nevada"
By Sarah Murphy
Published Dec 15, 2016
Cory Myraas makes music out of British Columbia's Okanagan Valley under the moniker Windmills — a name that conveys his ability to convert energy into songs. His latest is called "Sierra Nevada," and Exclaim! is bringing you the exclusive premiere.
The track takes Myraas's experiences from travelling through Central and South America earlier this year and turns them into a lush, moody, synth-driven tune.
"When I returned from my travels I was re-energized and full of inspiration and instantly began writing and creating," Myraas tells Exclaim! "'Sierra Nevada' is a product of that trip, specifically my time spent in Colombia at the end of it, and was inspired by beauty and heartbreak, high above the Sierra Nevada Mountains, hidden above Minca, Colombia."
You can hear Windmills convert that beautiful energy into an equally beautiful song by giving "Sierra Nevada" a spin in the player below. The track will appear on a 7-inch single due out in 2017.
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Regional Cooperation and Economic Relations with other Countries and Groupings
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In view of the growing economic relations between the GCC Member States and New Zealand, and the desire of the government of New Zealand to develop such relations, the government of New Zealand requested to enter into FTA negotiations with the GCC. New Zealand's request was welcomed and approved by the GCC Financial and Economic Cooperation Committee in June 2006.
Two preparatory meetings between experts from the GCC and New Zealand were held in Riyadh in December 2006 and April 2007, wherein the two sides discussed a mechanism for launching the GCC-New Zealand FTA negotiations and the headlines of the provisions to be incorporated in this agreement. Several rounds of negotiations were held and the initial signing of the Agreement was made in 31st October 2009. The two parties are to review this agreement and prepare it in its final form.
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Charlie Shrem And Why We Need To Change Our Perspective Of Bitcoin
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On Monday, January 27, 2013, Charlie Shrem, the 24 year old CEO of BitInstant and Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was arrested for his role operating a Bitcoin exchange service popular among users of Silk Road. Before being seized and shut down by the United States government in October 2013, Silk Road was a hugely popular online black market which allowed users to buy and sell illegal drugs using Bitcoin as the primary medium of exchange. As described in the Complaint against Mr. Shrem, available here, “[t]he illegal nature of the commerce hosted on Silk Road was readily apparent to anyone visiting the site. The vast majority of the goods for sale consisted of illegal drugs of nearly every variety, openly advertised on the site as such and prominently visible on the home page.”
The Complaint against Mr. Shrem presents the underlying facts in excruciating detail. First, the Complaint makes clear that Shrem was the CEO and Chief Compliance Officer for BitInstant, referred to throughout the Complaint as simply “the Company.” Using his position at BitInstant, the Complaint also makes clear that Shrem helped a third party – Robert M. Faiella, a/k/a BTCKing – acquire Bitcoins for purposes of selling them to his own (Faiella’s) customers on Silk Road. The Complaint also alleges, primarily by quoting email exchanges between Shrem and Faiella, that Shrem knew that the Bitcoins he made available to Faiella would be used for unlawful purposes, and moreover that he circumvented the BitInstant anti-money laundering protocols he was responsible for controlling in order to sell Bitcoins to Faiella without raising any red flags.
Unfortunately, there is nothing new about the Shrem case, and at least as far as the technicalities of the legal case is concerned, not at all surprising. Indeed, given the allegations described above, the actual charges make perfect sense. Count One against Mr. Shrem is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1960, for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. § 1960 proscribes the operation of an “unlicensed money transmitting business,” which is defined as:
”¦a money transmitting business which affects interstate or foreign commerce in any manner or degree and””
(A) is operated without an appropriate money transmitting license in a State where such operation is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony under State law, whether or not the defendant knew that the operation was required to be licensed or that the operation was so punishable;
(B) fails to comply with the money transmitting business registration requirements under section 5330 of title 31, United States Code, or regulations prescribed under such section; or
(C) otherwise involves the transportation or transmission of funds that are known to the defendant to have been derived from a criminal offense or are intended to be used to promote or support unlawful activity;
18 U.S.C. § 1960(b)(1)(A)-(C).
Although BitInstant had registered with FinCEN is required by section (b)(1)(B) and other provisions of federal law, BitInstant was not licensed by any state, and thus the government likely could have brought charges under § 1960(b)(1)(A). However, such a charge would have raised questions about whether BitInstant was required to become licensed and, if so, in which state(s), so the government appears to have taken the easier approach and pursued its case under § 1960(b)(1)(C). The Government’s § 1960 charge against Shrem describes that the Bitcoins Shrem made available to Faiella were “known to Shrem to have been intended to be used to promote and support unlawful activity, to wit, the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business on Silk Road”¦and ultimately narcotics trafficking”¦”
The question of whether a Bitcoin exchange service like BitInstant can be labelled a money transmitting business may one day prove to be an interesting legal question. For now, the basis of the charge is derived from FinCEN’s March 18, 2013 Guidance Document, “Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies.” In FinCEN’s Guidance, FinCEN does not mention Bitcoin by name, but does include a discussion of “De-Centralized Virtual Currencies” which explains as follows:
A final type of convertible virtual currency activity involves a de-centralized convertible virtual currency (1) that has no central repository and no single administrator, and (2) that persons may obtain by their own computing or manufacturing effort.
A person that creates units of this convertible virtual currency and uses it to purchase real or virtual goods and services is a user of the convertible virtual currency and not subject to regulation as a money transmitter. By contrast, a person that creates units of convertible virtual currency and sells those units to another person for real currency or its equivalent is engaged in transmission to another location and is a money transmitter. In addition, a person is an exchanger and a money transmitter if the person accepts such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person and transmits it to another person as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency.
To the extent that Mr. Shrem may ever challenge the § 1960 allegation against him, he may argue that the FinCEN guidance document is not binding or legally enforceable and therefore should not be used in the government’s case against him. He may also argue that the allegation – which turns an exchange service into a transmitter without the presence of a third party recipient of funds – should be dismissed as a matter of law. Whether Shrem will pursue any defenses in court remains to be seen.
Mr. Shrem was also charged for participating with Faiella in a conspiracy to commit money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(A), which provides that “(2) Whoever transports, transmits, or transfers, or attempts to transport, transmit, or transfer a monetary instrument or funds from a place in the United States to or through a place outside the United States or to a place in the United States from or through a place outside the United States ”” (A) with the intent to promote the carrying on of specified unlawful activity” is subject to inter alia a twenty year prison term. This provision of the federal money laundering statute requires an international movement of money, and the government’s complaint therefore alleges that when Faiella ordered Bitcoins from BitInstant, Shrem “filled the orders by causing funds to be transferred to an account that Faiella controlled” at Mt. Gox in Japan. This will be a very difficult allegation for Mr. Shrem to defeat.
Finally, Mr. Shrem – BitInstant’s Chief of Compliance – was also charged with wilfully failing to file suspicious activity reports in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 5318(g) and 5322(a), and 31 C.F.R. § 1022.320. Again, given his position at BitInstant and his understanding of Silk Road, we see this as a very difficult allegation to defeat. Worse, with all of these charges, given Shrem’s sophistication and the manner by which he made use of that sophistication, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines do not play in his favor. Mr. Shrem will likely do real prison time here.
When the news about Mt. Gox broke in May of last year, we wrote not only about the case itself (which was primarily based on Mt. Gox’s alleged deception of its U.S. bank, Wells Fargo), we also discussed the widespread media attention it received. Seemingly within minutes of the government executing the Mt. Gox seizure warrant, the story was picked up by Gawker, CNN, PC World, the Financial Times, and a host of underground websites. We commented at the time as follows: “Tragically for this upstart currency, the mainstream will learn of Bitcoin for the first time as a fringe currency under attack by the federal government. Whether Bitcoin will survive this attack and shed itself of the stigma associated with this seizure is a matter for another day and another article. We certainly hope that it does.”
Those who had never heard of Bitcoin before Charlie Shrem was arrested have certainly heard of it now. Once again, seemingly within minutes following his arrest, the Shrem case was picked up by virtually every major news outlet, from Time, to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, the International Business Times, Reuters, Wired, and literally hundreds of others. If the mainstream had not heard of Bitcoin after the Mt. Gox story broke or after Silk Road was shut down, it has heard about it now, and the context is terrible.
That said, our concerns about this stigma potentially destroying Bitcoin are different today than when we commented last May. Indeed, in the intervening months, we have spoken with (and in many cases, represented) numerous players in the Bitcoin space and educated ourselves about some of the emerging technology. For instance, we attended the North American Bitcoin Conference last week in Miami Beach and had the opportunity to hear Vitalik Buterin speak about Ethereum, described by Wired as: “an online service that lets you build practically anything in the image of bitcoin and run it across a worldwide network of machines. At its core, bitcoin is a way of reliably storing and moving digital objects or pieces of information. Today, it stores and moves money, but Buterin believes the same basic system could give rise to a new breed of social networks, data storage systems and securities markets ”” all operated without the help of a central authority.” In other words, Ethereum borrows the concept of the Bitcoin blockchain, but allows users to interact with one another ways that are far more advanced than a typical Bitcoin transaction. We see Ethereum as a “Web 3.0” of sorts, and Buterin’s lecture in Miami Beach was simply mindblowing. We frankly had no idea that the technology – or even the vision of what the technology might someday be – was as far along as it apparently is.
For Buterin’s discussion, we sat next to Jay Postma with MSB Compliance Inc.. Buterin ended his discussion to a standing ovation, and Jay turned to us and said, “this is the future.” We agree. Our chief concern when the Mt. Gox story broke, and even more so when the Silk Road story broke, was that the stigma could prevent Bitcoin from ever being used on a mass scale. But after hearing Buterin speak, we had to change our perspective in two critical ways. First, we need to stop looking at Bitcoin solely as an underground medium of exchange. It is so much more than that. Yes, it is a medicum of exchange, but it is also a cultural movement and radical technological development based upon the idea that people should be able to communicate directly with one another – in customizable language – with neither the involvement nor interference of anyone. And second, we need to stop looking at Bitcoin as meek and vulnerable to the taint that comes with stories like Mt. Gox, Silk Road, and Charlie Shrem. Bitcoin – as a medium of exchange but much more importantly as a totally radical idea of direct communication – is not going anywhere. We need to embrace it and take it very, very seriously.
The attorneys at Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph, PL have extensive experience in anti-money laundering compliance with a focus on non-bank financial institutions, including all varieties of money services businesses and Bitcoin dealers and exchangers, as well as white collar criminal defense, complex commercial litigation, tax compliance and tax litigation, international trade and corporate transactions. You can reach an attorney by emailing us at contact@fidjlaw.com or by calling us at 305.350.5690.
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GMG 41: Upright Citizens Brigade: Changing The Game
By Bailey Pennick on October 2, 2012
There is a mysterious allure surrounding comedy. It’s an amazing talent to be able to make people laugh, but no one really knows what it takes to keep jokes flowing unless you’re on the inside. The Upright Citizens Brigade—a Chicago comedy troupe originally composed of Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Matt Besser—founded its first improv and comedy theater in New York in 1999, before setting up a branch on the West Coast in 2005. The UCB sometimes seems almost as indefinable as the dedicated talent that puts on sold-out shows seven nights a week. Started as a response to the stifling nature of the brick-wall world of stand-up, as a school as well as a theater, it has transformed into a launching pad for some of today’s biggest names in comedy, including Los Angeles branch veterans Aziz Ansari, Maria Bamford, Doug Benson, Ed Helms, Aubrey Plaza, Paul Scheer and Jenny Slate. It is inclusive and exclusive all at the same time, while continuing to redefine what is funny in a new age of technology. For us outsiders, the question begs: What is the Upright Citizens Brigade really? And where is it going from here?
A Safe Haven
“I never thought that I’d have a theater,” says Matt Besser, as shrieks of laughter echo down the labyrinth-like halls of the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Los Angeles theater. He looks right at home, albeit a little tired, after his weekly improv show ASSSSCAT. “We never planned on having [a theater]; it almost just came out of necessity. So the fact that we have one is a surprise to me.”
When moving to New York from Chicago, the UCB troupe didn’t predict instigating a comedic movement; they just wanted to get their unique brand of sketch-comedy noticed.
“The stand-up clubs were really a bummer. Either they were really expensive or they were really unfriendly to sketch and improv,” says Besser of the UCB’s beginnings. “Our theater came from a selfish place… I think the fact that it’s not just a stand-up club but also a place that has improv, sketch and other shows is what makes the theater great.”
A School of Thought
While freedom of creativity separates the UCB from its comedy troupe predecessors, each of UCB’s performers has one strict principle instilled in their very being as they step onto the stage.
“We teach finding ‘the game’ here, which is essentially what makes a piece funny, whether it’s a single joke or a half-hour show,” explains Besser. “By learning that kind of analysis, an actor working on a scripted show can do the same thing [they learn here]. If I’m going to ad-lib, I’m still going to respect the writer’s ‘game.’”
Neil Campbell, UCBLA’s artistic director, praises the improv school’s teachings—not only as an administrator but also as a graduate of the system. “[The school] gives you a shared vocabulary, training and approach to all types of shows,” says Campbell proudly. “That shared approach is UCB. [The classes] can make you funnier or take what’s funny about you and show it off!”
An Addiction
Highlighting the talent of pupils has given the UCB notable alumni, but what happens when these performers hit the big-time? Besser ensures that once you join, you can never escape the Brigade.
“Well, they don’t really go,” he says with a smirk. “They have so much fun because this isn’t a job, this is just a place to have fun and do your craft. Even if you are in movies, or on a sitcom, you always come back because you need the feeling of a live audience.”
With the theater providing the perfect rush, there is never a shortage of takers looking for a fix. The latest is an incredibly tall and abnormally sweaty comedian named Nick Thune. While getting his start in the solitary world of stand-up, Thune couldn’t resist the UCB. “I really love what happens at UCB and I wanted to have my own show… I literally just called them up and asked.”
Nick’s BIG Talk Show, Thune’s monthly UCB offering, showcases the theater’s commitment to innovative comedy. “I love The Larry Sanders Show and Fernwood 2 Night; I started thinking, I’d love to have a fake talk show live. I bet UCB thought I was going to do stand-up instead,” laughs Thune to himself as he double-fists a beer and tea in the UCB hallway. “I think that [the show] has made me a better actor.” It’s hard to imagine the UCB not rubbing off on Thune when he’s surrounded by world-class comedians like Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show, Breaking Bad), who was a BIG Talk Show guest earlier this month. “I’ve met more of my idols here than anywhere else,” Thune says, in reverence. “UCB creates this sense of community, because we are all in this business together.”
A Supportive Community
“A big part of improv is making each other look good,” says Campbell, when asked about camaraderie. “People are supportive and laugh at each other. I think that all comes back to having to work together onstage. If you can’t do that in real life, you probably can’t do it onstage.”
The endless support of the UCB community is what keeps the theater expanding, at least in LA. “A space for our school is definitely going to happen,” says Besser, addressing new ambitions. “A second theater in LA would be nice, too.” Campbell confirms this goal: “We want to become more of a production entity as well; where it’s just as easy to make a video here as it is to put on a show here.”
The growth into multimedia production only reiterates how much the UCB wants to dominate through innovation and passion. Besser, for one, is still coming to grips with its popularity.
“For better or worse, when I go up on stage, part of my intro is ‘co-founder of UCB.’ When I was a kid, I never dreamed of being a ‘founder.’ It’s a little weird. I’d rather be known as a comedian, but that is my lot.”
While the UCB has moved well past anything that the original foursome could have imagined, it still thrives on that tried-and-true, rebellious desire to perform. And while we might not be able to fully understand all of its inner workings, we’ll always enjoy the show. F
Photo of Upright Citizens Brigade by Liezl Estipona: (L-R) Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser
Photo by Hawkey Photos: (L-R) Chad Carter, Owen Burke, Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer (at computer) in "Facebook"
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Dr. Priti Gupta is a Senior Consultant in Fertility & IVF services. She graduated from Maulana Azad Medical College winning the prestigious Dharamveer Gold Medal for the best student throughout in MBBS. She went on to pursue her post-graduation at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and won the Gold Medal in MD (Gynecology & Obstetrics) in 2002. She passed the membership of Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (MRCOG) at London, UK with flying colors.
She has been a faculty at various national and international conferences, read scientific papers and presented posters. She has written book chapters and is actively involved as a teaching faculty for MRCOG courses.
She has trained at Wayne State Medical University, Detroit, USA in IVF and Reproductive Medicine. She is a decorated roller skating champion at state level and counts cooking, dancing and shopping as her hobbies!
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Dr.(Mrs.) Santosh Gupta She has been practicing Obstetrics & Gynaecology for 40 years. She has helped to deliver more than 7,000 babies in her long and illustrious career. She has been instrumental in guiding many doctor in Delhi and inculcating the value of honesty and hard work in them. She is an inspiration for many who have interacted with her, whether doctors or patients.
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Marijke van Warmerdam -- The Flower Show
Marijke van Warmerdam
Marijke van Warmerdam is internationally renowned for her short films. In the early nineties she made her first non-narrative film loops, which led Daniel Birnbaum to call her the "Loop Guru of the eternally flowing present." Together with her photographs and sculptures these form a consistent body of work. With a typically light touch, the work combines a deceptively naïve approach to the act of seeing with straightforward strategies such as dramatic shifts of scale and rhythm, doubling and reflection to urge us to look with our eyes wide open in order to stress that not everything is what it seems. Nowadays she has developed this retinal openness to themes which deal more explicitly with perception.
Marijke van Warmerdam’s exhibition The Flower Show includes a film loop called Trembling, 2008, which is surrounded by a number of painted film stills. ‘Trembling’ shows nothing but a trembling bunch of white petunias, with a road surface rushing by in the background. The film stills are printed on linen and have white flowers painted on them by the artist in a vigorous and rapid manner. By means of fast Tai-Chi-like movements she has obtained a striking separation between foreground and background. Her apt painterly gesture brings about a doubling that occurs in all sorts of ways in her work. What is special is that in both the Trembling film loop and in the paintings, called Flower and Flowers, white flowers hover in the foreground, while a quieter background image produces a counter-movement. A disturbance of the rhythm or the movement effects a splendid contrast of ‘here’ and ‘there’ in the work.
Van Warmerdam uses the themes of repetition and movement above all as a means of evoking a feeling of lightness and an uninhibited future. These are always in the service of an infectious optimism. At the same time her feel-good art broaches the difference between pure ‘looking’ and the more cerebral ‘seeing’, inviting the viewer to think about what and how he perceives.
Born in Holland in 1959, she has lived and worked in New York and Berlin, and is now based in Amsterdam. Her work has featured in numerous important international exhibitions, including the Sydney, Berlin, Kwangju and Venice Biennials, and Documenta X. She has had retrospective exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Migros Museum in Zurich, ICA in Boston, Muhka in Antwerp, MAC in Marseille, The Fruitmarket in Edinburgh and IKON in Birmingham.
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The Lao Kip is the current currency of Laos. Currently, its code is LAK, and the currency sign is ₭ or ₭N (encoded). Between the years 1945-1946, the Free Kip Government in Vientiane printed a series of paper money in 10, 20, 50 Att denominations. Even 10 kip was issued then, before the French took control and created the French Indochinese Piastre as the currency of Laos. The Royal Kips were introduced in the year 1952. Coins were also circulated.
The Institut d’Emission des Etats du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam, Laos Branch issued notes in two currencies, the kip and piastre, in 1953. They were both made at 1, 5 and 100 denominations. Four years later, the Laos government printed solely kip notes – the notes were of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 denominations. In 1963, 200 and 1000 kip notes were joined and 5000 kip notes were added later in the year 1975. During this time, the banknotes were printed in France.
A year later, another kip was introduced, called the Pathet Lao Kip. Banknotes with the denominations of 1, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 kip were circulated. This time, the notes were printed in China. Pathet Lao kips replaced the Royal kips throughout the country when Pathet Lao’s took over Laos. The exchange rate for the kip was 1 Pathet Lao kip = 20 royal kip.
In 1979, Pathet Lao kips were replaced with Lao PDR (People’s Democratic Republic) kip due to currency reformation. Banknotes were dispatched in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 kip. Added in 1988 were 500 kip banknotes; then by 1000 kip in the year 1992; 2000 and 5000 kip in 1997; 10,000 and 20,000 kip in 2002; and 50,000 kip last January 2006.
Coins were once again circulated in the year 1980’s at denominations of 10, 20 and 50 Att. When the country celebrated its 10th Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 kips were issued. Currently, due to heavy inflation, no coins were dispatched around Laos.
Last November 2010, the government issued a 100,000 kip, commemorating the 450th anniversary of the founding of Vientiane and the 35th celebration of Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
As of February 23, 2011, 1 Lao Kip = 0.00012 U.S. Dollar. When a dollar is to be converted in Lao kip the value is 8056.0000 Lao Kip.
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'He was still alive': Doctor explains the reality of organ harvesting in China (2017)
Investigative Video from The BL - click here
A CHINESE DOCTOR who performed an organ harvesting operation in the 1990s was among the panel of experts who gave evidence at a Dáil committee today.
The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence heard evidence from experts including David Matas and Ethan Gutmann, who have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work investigating organ harvesting in China.
They made a series of recommendations at committee today, including to urge the government to ban ‘organ tourism’ – where citizens travel abroad to receive an organ transplant.
Such bans are already in place in Israel, Taiwan, Italy and Spain. He said that these countries did so out of a sense of “integrity, a highly-developed sense of tragedy, a historical wisdom to know that the big players, [such as] the US the UK, may not interfere in a world tragedy.”
“If you’re going to act, this is the critical moment, this is the critical time,” Gutmann told the committee today.
The committee also heard strong evidence from Dr Enver Tohti, who gave an account of how he was led to perform organ harvesting on a civilian in China.
“Everytime I give this account it seems like a confession,” he said, before beginning.
“‘How do the most respected people in society turn into murderers?’ This is the most-asked question to me.”
He said to understand that, you have to understand Chinese society where, he told committee members, you become a “fully-programmed member of society, ready to fulfil the task ahead without asking questions”.
He compared it to George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: “…but in real-world”.
Dr Tohti said at the beginning of his career as a hospital physician, he noticed several children with scars on their bodies caused by “organ harvesting”.
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In 1995, he said that two chief surgeons told him to assemble a team “for the largest possible surgery” the following morning.
They were brought to a site outside the hospital, and told wait for the gunshots, he told the committee.
After gunshots were heard, we rushed in. An armed officer directed us to the far-right corner, where I can see a civilian-clothed man lying on the ground with a single bullet wound to his right chest.
My chief surgeons ordered and guided me to extract the liver and the two kidneys. The man was alive. He tried to resist my scalpel cut but [was] too weak to avoid my action.
There was bleeding. He was still alive.
Dr Tohti said that at the time, he thought he was carrying out his duty to “eliminate the enemy of the state”.
Organ donations in China are limited as many people believe they will be reincarnated after death and so feel the need to keep a complete body.
Consistently high demand has created incentives for forced donations and illegal sales, with rights groups long-condemning the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners.
Gutmann estimated at committee today that the industry is worth $8-9 billion, and that there are “60,000 transplants to 100,000 transplants per year”.
China says it banned the practice from the beginning of this year.
Article from: https://www.thejournal.ie/organ-harvesting-china-3481690-Jul2017/
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Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Receives 2017 Season ‘Pacesetter Award’
Honored for Continued Growth in International Tonnage
Washington, D.C. (August 6, 2018) – The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority was honored with a 2017 season ‘Pacesetter Award’ on Wednesday July 25, 2018. Accomplishments from their 2017 Navigation Season earned them the Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award from the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Craig H. Middlebrook, Deputy Administrator of the SLSDC presented the award to the Port of Toledo’s team. The Port was one of only six recipients to be honored for the 2017 season.
“This is the 17th award that Toledo and this county has earned.” Deputy Middlebrook summarized the Port’s achievements. “For 2017, your Navigation Season, you handled over 2.6 million metric tons of freight through the Seaway and that’s a 13% increase in cargo tonnage over 2016.”
Pictured Left to Right: Craig H. Middlebrook, Deputy Administrator, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; Joe Cappel, Vice President of Business Development, Toledo – Lucas County Port Authority; Paul L. Toth, President & CEO, Toledo – Lucas County Port Authority; Dr. Arthur Sulzer, Founder, Maritime Academy Charter High School of Philadelphia & Advisory Board Member, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
Established in 1992, the SLSDC Pacesetter Award recognizes U.S. ports who have registered increases in international cargo tonnage shipped through their ports and through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Over the past 25 years, the SLSDC has distributed more than 140 Pacesetter Awards to 14 different Great Lakes/Seaway ports.
In addition to receiving this award, Middlebrook took the opportunity to commend the work the port does all across the board. “You guys are leaders in the system on all fronts, commercially and socially and everywhere else.”
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U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Hands-Free Mooring Technology Fully Operational at all St. Lawrence Seaway Locks
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao Highlights Modernization at St. Lawrence Seaway Locks.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) announced last week that Hands-Free Mooring (HFM) technology is fully deployed throughout the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The new technology revolutionizes the method for locking vessels through the Seaway and is the most important technological advance since the Seaway’s opening in 1959.
MV Federal Caribou Departing Eisenhower Lock.
“This new technology is a significant modernization of the St. Lawrence Seaway’s infrastructure, and will enhance workplace safety, lower operating costs for carriers, and decrease vessel transit times through the locks,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao.
The SLSDC invested $23 million to install HFM technology in the U.S. Snell Lock and the U.S. Eisenhower Lock. The Seaway’s HFM project is the first use of this technology for an inland waterway, and the SLSDC has prepared its workforce with the skills necessary to implement the new system.
“The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation has a long history of implementing technological innovations to improve the safety and efficiency of its operations,” said SLSDC Deputy Administrator Craig H. Middlebrook. “Hands-Free Mooring will dramatically improve the vessel transit experience through the Seaway by enhancing safety and achieving greater efficiencies in freight movement.”
MV Federal Caribou Entering Eisenhower Lock.
The HFM system uses vacuum pads, each of which provides up to 20 tons of holding force. The vacuum pads are mounted on vertical rails inside the lock chamber wall to secure the ship during the lockage process as it is raised or lowered while keeping it a fixed distance from the lock wall. The last step in the lockage operation consists of releasing the vacuum and retracting the pads so that the vessel can sail safely out of the lock.
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The Siege of Gozo, 1551 – A Ballad, now translated into English
This year marks the 467th anniversary of the siege of 1551, Gozo’s greatest tragedy, when many men, women and children, a lot of them unnamed, died either during the attack, or when they were taken into slavery.
The Minister for Gozo Dr Justyne Caruana, welcomed to the Ministry, Josephine Bigeni from the Xaghra Association of New South Wales and Mr John Cremona, nephew of author, Ganninu Cremona who wrote the book, ‘The Siege of Gozo, 1551 – A Ballad.’
This book, which was presented to the Minister, has now been translated into English by Professor Geoffrey Hull who is also of Maltese descent (Maltese of Egypt) from his maternal side.
The Minister congratulated the Association on the publication and said that the book will now be able to be enjoyed by a wider audience
In 1551 the Ottoman force attacked Gozo following an unsuccessful attempt to conquer Malta, resulting in around 5,000 people, who formed the majority of the population of Gozo, being taken into slavery.
The siege ended in 1551 when the Gozitans had to capitulate and open the doors in the Citadel walls because they were no longer able to defend themselves and their families.
To obtain a copy of this book please contact the Association.
Photograph: MGOZ/George Scerri
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Democracy for Women and Democracy for Peace: A War on Two Fronts
One of the most interesting things about transcribing for the Jane Addams’ Papers Project is reading about people’s ideas or dreams of the future. The feeling is analogous to reading a book where you already know the ending. In a letter, post marked, October 3, 1917, Bristow Adams enclosed a writing he wished to have published, called “Naming the War.” Bristow Adams was an American journalist and professor at Cornell University. While studying English and drawing at Stanford University in 1898, Adams established the Stanford Chaparral, one of the first college humor magazines. He took on a variety of jobs after college including forestry, free-lance writing and journalism, and working as vice-president for the H. M. Suter Publishing Company. His many careers helped shape his eventual employment as a professor for Cornell University’s Agricultural department in 1914.
Excerpt of Bristow Adams’ “Naming the War.”
In his article to Jane Addams, Bristow Adams considered how and what the “Great War” should be named. If not named by historians in the future, then what name should be assigned to a war unlike any other? Adams concluded the war should be named the “war for peace.” He echoed the sentiment of many citizens at the time, who believed that this will be the war to end all other wars. Newspapers like The Times Dispatch, printed articles that characterized the overseas conflict as a “good war for a good peace…It is a war for democracy.”
Bristow Adams
The means, however, seemed to contradict the desired result. As described by Adams, peace must be achieved not through “cessation of the fight. It might be argued that to have peace all that would be necessary would be to stop fighting. But that would leave the world no nearer lasting peace.” The “only right way out of the present war is to carry it forward,” according to Adams. America was fighting for the safety of the world against militarism. His words are haunting, given our own contemporary knowledge of this era. Adams regarded the “war for peace” as an opportunity to show “that neither Germany nor any other power would again dream of recourse to the forces of destructive conquest.” This, however, would prove an unachieved reality as America would enter World War II just a few decades later in 1941. But Addams believed that the “safety for democracy” would only be secure through the continuation of war and ultimate victory of the Allied Powers. This same determination, however, was unacceptable when women fought for their right to vote as United States citizens.
Dora Lewis being assisted from jail after five days on a hunger strike, August 1918
A few weeks after Adams’ letter, Jane Addams received word from a woman in New York, whose own right to democracy had yet to be attained. Dora Lewis, a suffragist and member for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, requested Addams’ help in pressuring President Wilson to address the abuse received by jailed suffragists in the Occoquan Workhouse. Lewis was one of several women who petitioned in front of the White House asking President Wilson, ‘When will women have the right to vote?’ The Occoquan Workhouse was established for petty felons, not political offenders. The design of the Workhouse experimented with the idea that open-air and physical labor would reform criminal behavior. The Workhouse became infamous with the imprisonment of militant suffragists, like Alice Paul, who were arrested for protesting outside the White House gates and “obstructing traffic.” Lewis and several others including Ada Louise Kendall and Lavinia Lloyd Dock, were jailed a month or two prior to Paul’s arrest and their charges of abuse were published nationally through the press. Drawing from a letter written by some of the jailed picketers, the Daily Appeal reported the inedible meals given to the women, such as “wormy” cornbread. The article also noted physical abuse by the Superintendent, in which the women could hear a woman being kicked in the cell over from them. Lewis cited these in her letter, as well as indicating the futility of any investigation by the government since the “investigation that was recently held was secret, and held by the very people who appointed the superintendent who was under fire.” Just 15 days after writing this letter, Dora Lewis was jailed again for picketing. Lewis would continue protesting for suffrage, going in and out of jail three more times, until the vote was won in 1920.
The timeliness of this letter, arriving 23 days after Bristow Adams, offered an interesting analysis. The irony of the United States’ war for democracy abroad, when half of its population at home could not vote, is not a new concept. This theme would resurface again in the 1960s-1970s as United States entered the Vietnam War under the premise of ‘containing’ communism and preserving democracy. Jane Addams was straddling the frontiers of the war for democracy abroad and the war for suffrage at home. Bristow Adams’ “war for peace,” expressed a belief that peace and democracy go hand in hand, and he requested Addams help in publishing this article. Dora Lewis appealed to Jane Addams with the hopes that she would back the suffragists’ protests at the hypocrisy of their nation’s democracy. The two letters contribute to a micronarrative of a much larger reality. Jane Addams’ need to balance the democratic idealism of the war with her own position as a disenfranchised woman is representative of the nation’s two democratic war fronts.
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Adams, Bristow, “Bristow Adams to Jane Addams, October 3, 1917,” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed December 13, 2018, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/admin/items/show/15903.
Adams, Bristow, “Naming the War,” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed December 14, 2018, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/admin/items/show/15913.
“Bristow Adams Papers,1853-1970, 1862-1957.” Cornell University. Accessed December 9, 2018. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM03205.html.
“For Peace and Liberty.” The Times Dispatch. December 1, 1917. Accessed December 10, 2018. https://www.newspapers.com/image/168489091/?terms=war%2Bfor%2Bpeace.
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“Martinets Complain of Food They Receive in Jail-Some of it is Wormy.” The Daily Appeal. September 5, 1917.
“Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Dora Lewis of Philadelphia on release from jail after five days of hunger striking.” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 1918. August. Photograph. Accessed December 11, 2018. https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000229/.
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I Have The Bored
CozyTombRez on Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:53 am
I'm such a bum. i woke up at two thirty today. ick.
soooo yeah. im in a sort of sorority/social group thing that's unaffiliated and whatever, and last week we had a party in order to get more members, kinda like a pre-pledge party.
Now these parties can sometimes get a little wild, last semester we had a big half naked/makeout session at one that i was THANKFULLY not present for.
Here's why I'm pissed: At this party last week, my friend Nick met this girl Hannah and they really hit it off. Neither of them are in the group. They started kissing in the middle of a bunch of people (which was really unavoidable considering we were packing forty people in a tiny room.) At the time, most of us thought it was funny.
Then apparently at the next meeting which i was unable to attend, someone made the suggestion that they were uncomfortable and therefore HAnnah and Nick should both be Banned From All Parties. Which is what happened.
I know who's fault this is. We have a guy named Kevin as our secretary, and i love him to death, but he's kind of a power-hungry bitch, and our leader is in New York so i guess his rule is law now.
But i'm angry. We're meeting about it again in an hour because apparently a lot of people were upset by the decision, but he's such a control freak idk if we can change anything.
Re: I Have The Bored
Cowboy Breebop on Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:20 am
That's stupid. Shit like that (people making out at parties) happens all the time. That's why I like not being in a "social group" or anything like that. Groups are great for keeping people together and having a family-like bond, unfortunately when you can rule to "ban" someone from group parties it gets a little nasty.
CozyTombRez on Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:25 am
yeah this is unprecedented. i don't know what his problem is, i think it's mostly because he doesn't like nick or hannah. and now he's saying that people need to put in their input before a decision is made, not after. Umm, hello? Half the group wasn't able to make it to that meeting. You don't make up a rule, make a judgement, and ban people without the whole group knowing about it, ESPECIALLY if you're only the freaking secretary.
AdultCookies on Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:25 am
kevin needs to be slapped silly.
maybe he's just jealous because nobody was making out with him.
i woke up drunk. that's never happened before.
It's a bit disturbing to see that people still enjoy acting like they're in high school long after they've started college. I thought the whole "power trip" thing got kinda left behind at graduation.
mm i've found out that people act more like high school students when they're in college than when they're , you know, in high school.
Well while we're on the topic of stupid college students:
Why is it you own all your own plates, of all shapes and sizes, but you just HAVE to use mine to put your Squash on (which you eat pretty much every night)? It would be one thing if you washed dishes, but you don't. And do you know how hard it is to wash two-day-old squash off a plate when you don't have hot water in the apartment?
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Eh. fuck it, I'm still mad.
my "people from college are stupid" rant would take too long to write.
okay well we're done with the meeting and we voted to let them back. barely.
it was Kevin and Christine being oversensitive twats about it, it was so upsetting my friend Lissa burst into tears and ran out and two people stormed out after her. honestly.
for being a highly liberal, carefree, and nonjudgmental group (most of us are either gay, bi, tran, or just plain weird) we behaved VERY narrow-minded. I'm surprised at the things some of my friends said and it just goes to show that people will surprise you with how mean they can be when confronted with someone they don't understand. Aghg. Fuck.
I know it's a terrible excuse, but when it's something so harmless as making out in front of others (yes, it can be annoying, but it's harmless) shuold this be brought up: NOBODY IS PERFECT. People got angry at me for throwing a shoe at one of my floormates, Hugo, because he kept calling me a hick. It wasn't even like I threw it while trying to hurt him. I just kinda playfully whacked him with it. People got angry because I was "comparing him to George Bush." Um... okay?
Oversensitive is DEFINITELY the right word to use here, Cozy. People need some perspective; they need to step back and realize how small something is in the grand scheme of things.
yeah i agree. lissa brought that point up several times about how WE shouldn't be judging anyone because we have the most awkward, uncomfortable parties known to man.
we had the same problem when we were debating who should be let in and who shouldn't last semester. The basic rule was, if ONE of the sisters is uncomfortable drinking around a person, they are FOR SURE not getting in.
Which was stupid because there are three people in the group who think the rule is: If you don't like them because you haven't tried to get to know them and don't care about anyone but your exclusive group of friends, you are allowed to pretend to be uncomfortable when really you're just conceited.
Sigh... stupid "rules." Again, that's why I"m glad I'm not in a sorority or exclusive group like that. It does look mighty fun (one of my roomies of next year is in a sorority) but the little "rules" like that are things I would have a hard time with. You get one person who's hungry for power or who just wants to act stuck up and it kind of ruins it for everyone. That's why I just call up my pals, have a few beer, and don't worry about making it a group. We call each other Super Friends. But we're not a group.
yeah that's the whole reason i joined this group, it's not a real sorority. it's a joke. we're called the Sponges, we've only been around for 23 years, and the college is doing everything in its power to remove us (which they can't do since we're not an official group). We shouldn't have all these rules, but that's what happened. i guess it's not even about officialness or not, you get a big enough group of people together eventually it becomes a government.
Killian-1 on Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:56 pm
Kevin sounds like he can be nasty.
My group of friends can get really really bitchy sometimes too.
This guy they don't like broke his ankle and they thought it was pretty funny.
I told them they should be ashamed of themselves for doing that and they're mad at me for not joining them.
Apparently I'm "too nice for my own good". WTF is that supposed to mean? I can stand up for myself, unlike the rest of them who just mumble under their breath when somebody criticizes them.
I'm going to rant now.
I find it really annoying when my friends start making out with their girlfriends right in front of us when we're on a night out. I know that it's expected. See, my one friend thinks he's really kick ass and he talks about his girlfriend doing all sorts of stuff to him and he treats her like shit, as if she's a piece of meat. We were at a concert once and he wasn't allowed to go so he phoned her and started blaming her and demanded she walk to his house which is two hours away if you walk.
Some girls I know act really stupid just so guys will like them and it's really annoying because my best friend says that one of them is the smartest girl in her class.
FFS. To make this a lighter post, however...
» got bored at work
» It's raining and I'm very bored
» Bored with comics right now
» Random musing from a bored Phred
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By: Richard B. Kamins
“Dark Nights” is the 3rd recording by Avisahi Cohen’s Triveni, the trumpeter’s trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. The ensemble’s first 2 CDs were recorded on the same day but released 18 months apart. Since that time, Cohen has toured with his sister Anat and brother Yuval in the 3 Cohens plus spent several seasons with the SF Jazz Collective and is now a member of Mark Turner’s Quartet. His trumpet work has continued to develop to the point where his tone and ideas stand out among his contemporaries.
The new CD includes more of the great Trio interplay – the rhythm section’s work is impeccable, supportive and creative. The first sounds one hears on the opening track “Dark Nights, Darker Days” (one of 6 Cohen originals) is the forceful drums and thrumming bass. For this recording, Cohen uses electronic effects on several cuts, added spontaneously right after the completed take. There are moments on this track (and others) where the effects sound guitar-like, especially the Jimi Hendrix-like “wah-wahs”. The effects return on “Betray”, the first of 2 appearances of sister Anat on clarinet. This bluesy track allows everyone to get “down-and-dirty”, with a melody and mood similar to that of John Lennon’s “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” Gerald Clayton makes the group a quintet on “Old Soul”, another atmospheric ballad where the clarinet and trumpet now interact with Clayton’s electric piano work. The pianist sticks around, on acoustic piano this time, to support the trumpeter and guest vocalist Keren Ann on the closing track, “I Fall In Love Too Easily” – the rippling piano lines, the muted trumpet, and the gentle, limpid, vocal make for a gentle experience.
Elsewhere, the trio gives adventurous readings to “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” and “Lush Life”, the latter having a “free” feel at times while the former rises and falls on the forceful bass work of Avital and the glorious brush work of Waits. Cohen and company have fun with Frank Foster’s “Shiny Stockings”, a piece that the trumpeter first played as a young man in Israel in a big band setting. This track plus the Cohen originals “The OC” (dedicated to Ornette Coleman) and “Pablo” are the most playful tunes on the program; the lighter feel (still played with great energy) of these cuts serve as pleasing counterpoint to the blues and darker moods of the other tracks.
“Dark Nights”, recorded in one room with no separation of the musicians, is yet another powerful entry in Avishai Cohen’s growing discography. With his longtime partner Omer Avital (they worked together many years in Third World Love and on several of the bassist’s solo projects) and new-found accomplice Nasheet Waits, the trumpeter makes music that reverberates in one’s heart and soul, making the listener return many times to the deep, soulful, experience.
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When I started this blog series about three weeks ago, I planned to do a couple of quick posts, but other issues got in the way. They're still in the way, but if I don't do this now, I won't get to it, and with Campbell Brown's righteous rant thrusting sexism back into the spotlight, even for a moment, I felt it was a good time to talk about some of these images.
The collection had more sexist than racist images in it. Part of that is no doubt due to the unreasoning, visceral hatred that the right-wing has for Hillary Clinton expressing itself in sexist ways, but it also has a lot to do, I think, with the fact that sexism is still more socially acceptable than racism is now. There's no contest on this, by the way--people who refer to themselves as progressives will say sexist things or buy into sexist memes that would make them blanch if the subject were a man of color.
But the images that came out during this election cycle were largely from right-wingers, so they tended to fall into a few basic categories: 1) Clinton as male/lesbian; 2) Clinton as emasculating woman; 3) Clinton as sexually unattractive (which informs some of the right's love of Sarah Palin); 4) Clinton stepping out of her assigned role as woman. There's also a set that just wishes to visit violence upon her.
In this first set of images, I think we have examples of 1, 3 and 4. I'm assuming that the "Hillary is a Fembot" is meant more to paint her as unfeeling than as a sexually attractive sex doll with guns in her boobs.
I think these two are examples of number 2. The first obviously plays to the group of men who have been divorced, most likely because their wivesgot tired of putting up with their shit. These men feel entitled to a dinner-cooking, house-cleaning, child-rearing fucktoy, and when women decide they'd rather do anything else but stay married, they become bitches. Hillary Clinton would presumably have become bitch-in-chief. The second image could also be a number 4, because it plays into the notion that women don't have anything to say that's worth listening to, since that's the man's job in this world.
And then these are the ones that wish violence on her. There's a sick glee to these images, and I think it comes from the same attitude that the last set comes from. Senator Clinton's success proves to all women who are stuck with inadequate, hateful men that they don't have to be stuck with them. She's become a very powerful person, more powerful than her husband is these days, and that scares the hell out of these men who can't stand the idea of losing their dominance.
That's why Sarah Palin appeals to these men. Her husband is manly, studly, and the impression that comes from every news story that shows he was intimately involved in the day-to-day of her mayoralty and governorship reinforces the idea that she's really just a figurehead, that she takes orders from him.
The collection is still up, and will be through November 1, on the FAU campus in Boca Raton, the Ritter Gallery. I've really only scratched the surface in this series. Go check it out if you're in the area.
Labels: Hillary Clinton, Political Circus, Sarah Palin
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June 13, 2019 Foreign agents work in Iowa to steal research
How would you feel about your tax dollars being spent on research projects that were targeted by foreign governments in an effort to steal U.S. intellectual property?
Taxpayer-funded research has been integral in keeping American medical, defense, information technology and many other products at the forefront of the world’s market.
Our scientists push the envelope to make crucial discoveries and better products, whether it be vaccines, biotechnology or other types of intellectual property. These projects can produce important breakthroughs for many of our industries, our country and the world.
However, American taxpayer-funded research is a constant target for foreign thieves. Though not the only threat, China is by far the most prolific.
Last year, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I held a hearing on China’s non-traditional espionage against the United States. During that hearing, I broached the issue of China’s focus on our research institutions and taxpayer-funded research.
Since then, more information has come to light about the extent to which the Chinese government is trying to steal U.S. intellectual property.
In 2013, Chinese nationals were charged with conspiring to steal research funded by a multi-million dollar National Institutes of Health grant for the benefit of a Chinese governmental entity and a direct competitor of the American university where the research was conducted.
It’s critical that we know who is financially supporting researchers. That way, we can better understand whether they might be more dedicated to securing the interests of a foreign country than to the integrity of American research.
This may not seem like an issue Iowans need to care about, but the fact is that foreign agents looking to steal taxpayer-funded research are operating in our own backyard.
In 2011, Chinese nationals tried to steal genetically modified corn seeds from an Iowa field with the intent to send them back to China. The New York Times reported that they worked for Chinese technology and seed companies. One was arrested and five others were indicted on charges of stealing trade secrets.
Those seeds were the product of years of research and development. The Chinese government has characterized their efforts as “picking flowers in foreign lands to make honey in China.”
Whether in Iowa, or in other parts of the country, we must remind ourselves that there is an ongoing threat to taxpayer-funded research that targets American academic institutions, including the University of Iowa.
Beyond pure research, the Chinese government in particular has tried other avenues to leverage itself in our society to their benefit and our detriment.
Take for instance the Chinese government’s efforts to incorporate itself into our educational system via Confucius Institutes. These institutes are directly funded by the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and are used as propaganda outlets to influence a pro-China view of the world.
The University of Iowa has hosted one on its campus since 2006.
In a Senate intelligence committee hearing last year, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned of China’s aggressive efforts at U.S. colleges and universities and specifically referenced the activities at Confucius Institutes.
Despite concerns, the dean of international programs defended the University of Iowa’s Confucius Institute, citing that the partnership “allows us to make every dollar go further.”
Since that time, the Board of Regents voted to close Iowa’s Confucius Institute in order to save money the university was contributing toward its operating expenses.
However, the university has funds in an endowment from the Chinese government that the institute director has indicated could be used to keep the center open for five more years. The current contract with the Chinese government expires in July.
Foreign threats to taxpayer-funded research are real, aggressive and show no signs of slowing down. That’s why the Senate Finance Committee, which I chair, held a hearing on these threats and what can be done to strengthen the integrity of taxpayer-funded research and preserve the valuable work produced in this country.
Truly free collaboration and exchange of information is only possible when data and sources are credible, and the research process can be trusted. That trust is destroyed when foreign governments interfere in our research for their gain and to the detriment of the United States.
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(Spectator) Melanie McDonagh–Justine Greening should keep out of the C of E’s business in the area of Gender and Identity
There’s no nice way of saying this: Miss Greening should mind her own business. When parliament legislated for gay marriage the then Equalities minister, Maria Miller, went out of her way to make clear that the CofE would not be obliged to conduct gay marriages; indeed just to prove it, she went out of her way to bar it from doing so. End of, people thought at the time, though some wondered why they would need a safeguard. Which didn’t, I have to say, stop some blessings of gay marriage in various CofE churches turning into something indistinguishable from a trad, heterosexual kind of wedding.
It turns out that Anglicans were wrong to think that this was the end of the story. For it’s a short step from Miss Greening’s assertion that ‘people do want to see our major faiths keep up with modern attitudes’ to enabling the church to conduct those marriages and then obliging them to do so. It’s the authoritarian aspect of modern liberalism, outside the church and in it. I remember Yvette Cooper, at the Home Office, saying when civil partnerships were introduced that there was no possibility that this would end up turning into marriage for gay people – but it did. When Harriet Harman introduced the Equality Act it turned out that non-discrimination in the provision of goods and services ended up driving Catholic adoption agencies (which did a manifestly good job) out of business because they were obliged to treat homosexual couples the same as married heterosexuals. They refused, closed up shop, and children needing homes are the poorer for it.
That’s the inevitable progression in liberalism: first toleration, within strict limits, followed swiftly by the marginalisation or proscription of the opposition.
Posted in Anthropology, England / UK, Ethics / Moral Theology, Pastoral Theology, Politics in General, Religion & Culture, Sexuality, Sexuality Debate (in Anglican Communion), Theology, Theology: Scripture
A Daily Telegraph Article about the Letter in Today’s Telegraph about two Church of Englands
The Rev Dr Peter Sanlon, Vicar of St Mark’s Church in Tunbridge Wells, said that a lot of Anglican leaders are concerned “not just about votes at the General Synod regarding sexuality but also votes against the uniqueness of Christ and against urging all ministers to share the gospel with the nation”.
Dr Sanlon, who also helped to organise the letter, added that “increasing numbers of orthodox Anglicans have lost confidence in the archbishops. Clergy like me are in touch with senior leaders of ACNA.”
Dr Ashenden resigned earlier this year after publicly criticising a church that allowed a Koran reading during its service as part of an interfaith project, saying the reading was “a fairly serious error” which he had a duty to speak out about.
A Church of England spokesman said: “As with any debating chamber, Synod often debates controversial issues and members can sometimes disagree strongly with each other. That is the nature of debate. If there is an issue the Chair will intervene. The expectation is that Synod members are courteous at all times both to each other and invited guests.”
Read it all and note you may now find the letter and the full list of signatories there.
Posted in --Civil Unions & Partnerships, Anthropology, Church of England (CoE), Ethics / Moral Theology, Pastoral Theology, Religion & Culture, Sexuality, Sexuality Debate (in Anglican Communion), Theology, Theology: Scripture
(Snakes+Ladders) A homily to remember by Jessica Martin
She turned her eyes towards him for the first time… — & he was looking at her with all the Power & Keenness, which she beleived no other eyes than his, possessed…. — It was a silent, but a very powerful Dialogue; — on his side, Supplication, on her’s acceptance . — Still, a little nearer — and a hand taken and pressed — [and her name, spoken] — bursting forth in the fullness of exquisite feeling — and all Suspense & Indecision were over. — They were re-united. They were restored to all that had been lost.
Only — it wasn’t like that, quite, — was it? Perfect happiness, the same writer observed, even in memory, is not common. Yet how the soul yearns for that moment, for the overplus of bliss that comes when you turn, blinded by tears, and your beloved that you thought lost for ever is there before you speaking your name, and you say, ‘How could it ever have been otherwise? My life has been a dream until now. How was it that I did not know that you were there all the time?’
The dying woman who, in Winchester, in the relentlessly rainy spring of 1817, wrote that scene of fulfilment beyond loss, was of course Jane Austen. We mark the bicentenary of her death this year at the time and place of her dying. Some among you will recognise the encounter as being from the close of her last novel Persuasion, but some will not know it — because she discarded the draft….
Posted in Church of England (CoE), Ministry of the Ordained, Parish Ministry, Preaching / Homiletics, Theology: Scripture
(Fulcrum) Andrew Goddard–Synods, Sexuality and Symbolic and Seismic Shifts
Jayne Ozanne posted on Facebook that what had happened in Synod was “a seismic shift – inclusion is now mainstream!”. Whether or not that is the case and if so what is meant by “inclusion”, or, in the Archbishops’ words, “radical new Christian inclusion in the Church”, remains to be seen. We simply do not know the consequences if her hopes as to where this will lead prove accurate. However, there are signs that if they are realised then this could presage a fundamental realignment in Anglicanism including in England.
On the same day as Jayne’s FB post, Sean Doherty, the proposer of the failed amendment to her motion, posted “Here are two words I have not heard at #synod this weekend: Anglican Communion”. While not strictly true (it was briefly mentioned in relation to the Teaching Document) it does appear the Communion was largely forgotten. That is even more surprising, bordering on denial, given another Synod that took place only a few weeks before – that of ACNA. Although not part of the Anglican Communion, many leaders of Anglican Communion provinces were present and, even more significantly, they consecrated, against the wishes of the Archbishop of Canterbury, an English clergyman, Andy Lines, to serve as a missionary bishop within the British Isles. The symbolic, perhaps seismic, significance of this has it seems yet to sink in. It means we now face the prospect of a growing number of churches in England which, although clearly not part of the Church of England, self-identify as Anglican and have a very credible claim to such a designation as they are served by a bishop recognised by a large number (perhaps even the majority) of Anglicans worldwide. If the CofE continues to appear to be shaped more by its surrounding culture than theology and particularly if its bishops fail to clearly teach the sexual ethic supported by the wider Communion and summed up in the Higton motion then it may be that the ACNA Synod will come to be seen as representing an even more seismic shift than that which some hope and others fear occurred at General Synod.
Posted in - Anglican: Analysis, --Civil Unions & Partnerships, Anthropology, Church of England (CoE), Ethics / Moral Theology, Pastoral Theology, Sexuality, Sexuality Debate (in Anglican Communion), Theology, Theology: Scripture
(TGC) Tim Keller: The Bible and Same-Sex Relationships: A Review Article
A third line of reasoning in these volumes and others like them involves recategorization. In the past, homosexuality was categorized by all Christian churches and theology as sin. However, many now argue that homosexuality should be put in the same category as slavery and segregation. Vines writes, for example, that the Bible supported slavery and that most Christians used to believe that some form of slavery is condoned by the Bible, but we have now come to see that all slavery is wrong. Therefore, just as Christians interpreted the Bible to support segregation and slavery until times changed, so Christians should change their interpretations about homosexuality as history moves forward.
But historians such as Mark Noll (America’s God [Oxford, 2005] and The Civil War as a Theological Crisis [University of North Carolina, 2006]) have shown the 19th-century position some people took that Scripture condoned race-based chattel slavery was highly controversial and never a consensus. Most Protestants in Canada and Britain (and many in the northern U.S. states) condemned it as being wholly against the Bible. Rodney Stark (For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch Hunts, and the End of Slavery, 2003) points out that the Roman Catholic church also came out early against the African slave trade. David L. Chappell, in his history of the civil rights movement (A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, 2003), goes further. He proves that even before the Supreme Court decisions of the mid-1950s, almost no one was promoting the slender and forced biblical justifications for racial superiority and segregation. Even otherwise racist theologians and ministers couldn’t find a basis for white supremacy in the Bible.
So we see that the analogy between the church’s view of slavery and its view of homosexuality breaks down. Up until very recently, all Christian churches and theologians unanimously read the Bible as condemning homosexuality. By contrast, there was never any consensus or even a majority of churches that thought slavery and segregation were supported by the Bible. Chappell shows that even within the segregationist South, efforts to support racial separation from the Bible collapsed within a few years. Does anyone really think that within a few years from now there will be no one willing to defend the traditional view of sexuality from biblical texts? The answer is surely no. This negates the claim that the number, strength, and clarity of those biblical texts supposedly supporting slavery and those texts condemning homosexuality are equal, and equally open to changed interpretations.
Posted in Anthropology, Books, Ethics / Moral Theology, Pastoral Theology, Theology, Theology: Scripture
(CT) Holly Ordway–Why Evangelism Requires Both Logic and Loveliness
As an apologist, I appreciate the value of the imagination in no small part because of the role it played in helping me come to Christian faith. I was once an atheist, and a hostile one, who agreed with the New Atheists that Christianity was not just false but irrational and harmful.
Although I was not interested in apologetic arguments at the time, I had, without knowing it, been experiencing the work of grace through my imagination. As a child, I fell in love with the Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings. At the time, of course, I didn’t know that I was encountering God’s grace through those books. Years later, as an atheist and graduate student, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on fantasy novels and had J. R. R. Tolkien’s great essay “On Fairy-stories”—with its powerful statement of the evangelium, the Good News—at the heart of it. When I became a college professor, I was deeply moved and intrigued by the writings of Christian poets. In time I realized that the faith of these writers was more complex and more interesting than I had thought, and I decided to learn more.
Like C. S. Lewis, I had a two-step conversion. I came to belief in God but then struggled with the idea of the Incarnation. All the evidence pointed toward the Crucifixion and the Resurrection as historical facts, but I found that I was unable to accept the idea of Jesus as God incarnate. At that point, I turned very deliberately to the Chronicles of Narnia: I went looking for Aslan, the lion who is the great Christ-figure of the Chronicles. Through my experience of those stories, my imagination was able to connect with what my reason already knew, and I was able to grasp as a whole person that God could become incarnate. That imaginative experience removed the last stumbling block for my acceptance of Christ.
Posted in Evangelism and Church Growth, Theology: Evangelism & Mission
(SC Featured) Jackie Robinson’s Daughter Narrates the Moving Story of Claire Smith, Sports Journalist soon to be honored at Cooperstown
Posted in America/U.S.A., History, Media, Sports, Women
A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint James the Apostle
O gracious God, we remember before thee this day thy servant and apostle James, first among the Twelve to suffer martyrdom for the Name of Jesus Christ; and we pray that thou wilt pour out upon the leaders of thy Church that spirit of self-denying service by which alone they may have true authority among thy people; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
A 15th-century St James, wearing pilgrim badges on his hat (one of Thomas Becket, I think!). From Stowting, Kent. pic.twitter.com/r4MavFPvF5
— Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) July 25, 2016
A Prayer to Begin the Day from Henry Alford
O Lord Jesus Christ, into whose death we have been baptized: Grant, we beseech thee, that like as thou wast raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we may walk in newness of life; that having been planted in the likeness of thy death, we may be also in the likeness of thy resurrection; for the glory of thy holy name.
And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
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BROADWAY CLOSE UP: A GOOD THING GOING – THE STEPHEN SONDHEIM & HAROLD PRINCE COLLABORATION
THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT. December 4th at Merkin Hall.
To join the wait list, please call the Box Office at 212 501 3330.
Featuring Tony nominee and Emmy Award winner Liz Callaway (original cast of Merrily We Roll Along), Tony nominee Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!), Lewis Cleale (The Book of Mormon), Laura Darrell, Leslie Kritzer, Kevin Massey (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) and Daniel McGrew. With Noah Racey, Director; David Loud, Music Director; and Joseph Thalken, piano.
Music Director David Loud (original cast of Merrily We Roll Along) traces the rise and fall of a musical theater partnership that created some of the most memorable musicals of all time. Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince inspired each other’s best work as they broke new ground with their musicals: Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Together, they tell the story of one of the greatest chapters in American musical history.
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Christopher Hoddinott
Chris is a leading contemporary artist and composer and has studied a Masters in Sonic Art at Hull University Scarborough Campus under Joseph Anderson, Tim Howle and Rob Mackay. He has produced a number of works which have been included in various events including Sonic Arts Expo in 2008.
Chris Studied a BA in Creative Music Technology at Hull University before starting his masters. His interest in electroacoustic music is developing the conceptual abstracts to produce the music. In particular to relation to the ideas of Joseph Beuys, George Maciunas and the Fluxus movement.
The variety works have included sound installations, ambisonic, 5.1 and stereo tape recordings. Chris has written music for the play Mother written by Chris Perkins, and has hosted his own commercial radio show.
www.hodmusic.co.uk
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INSAD
Stress Summit 2017
Watch the replays of the first FREE online
International Stress Awareness Day
STRESS SUMMIT
"SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT ABOUT STRESS"
Hosts
Tom Meyers
Osteopath D.O., Stress Coach, Founder of the 'Reaset Approach', Author and Speaker
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Tom (BE) is an osteopath, stress coach and the founder of the ‘Reaset Approach’, a novel hands-on body-mind and educational approach that combines osteopathic principles with stress management to help the body and mind return to ease. Tom is often invited as a guest speaker with his keynote's: ‘Understanding & Managing Stress’ and ‘Health Matters in times of Digital Transformation.’
In his first book "Futurize Yourself" Tom explores how three questions saved his life, gave him a sense of purpose and why having a sense of purpose matters in a digital transformed and more automated future.
Danielle Sax
Conscious Self-Care Expert, Author, Speaker and Physiotherapist
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Danielle (BE) is an internationally recognized author, speaker and Conscious Self-Care expert, and a mentor to professionals and entrepreneurs who lead powerfully and care deeply, but who have given so much of themselves in their professional and personal lives, that they have sacrificed themselves, their relationships and their well-being in the process.
In her book "Shifting Out of Chronic Stress," Danielle shares how Conscious Self-Care offers a powerful, long-lasting solution. By sharing her authentic story and expertise, she shows you how you, too, like hundreds of others, can move through any challenge or stress masterfully by practising Conscious Self-Care in your daily life.
Speakers
Carole Spiers
Chair of the International Stress Management Association, Stress Consultant, Author and Speaker
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Carole (UK) is an International Motivational Speaker and C-Suite Executive Consultant. Her credibility is rooted in twenty five years' success as CEO of a leading UK Stress Management Consultancy, working with equal success both in the UK and the Gulf.
She is a well-respected authority on building resilience and improving communication skills. Carole is also a sought-after BBC Guest-Broadcaster and the best-selling author of 'Show Stress Who's Boss!' who is regularly called upon by the media for comment. Being Chair of the International Stress Management Association [UK] and Founder of Stress Awareness Day, Carole is also Past President of the London Chapter of the Professional Speaking Association.
Dr. Kathleen Hall
Founder and CEO of The Stress Institute® and the Mindful Living Network®
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Dr. Hall (US) is an international stress expert. Realizing Mindful Living® is an antidote to stress she founded the Mindful Living Network®. She provides research backed, tangible solutions that reduce stress to individuals, corporations and organizations.
Dr. Hall's advice has been featured on most major media including, CNN, CNN International, Huffington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fortune, New York Times, Associated Press and more.
She authored four books: Mindful Living Everyday, Uncommon HOPE , A Life in Balance and Alter Your Life.
Nic Balthazar
Film director, TV/Radio personality Author and Speaker
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Nic Balthazar (BE) is a television and film maker, the writer of three successful novels, and stands at the barricades as an environmental and climate activist.
In 2016 he wrote and directed the film 'Everybody Happy' which is a story that has to do with someone on the verge of depression and / or burnout and this year he made a documentary on stress in children after a recent survey revealed that 38 percent of children in Flanders suffer from psychological problems, 60 percent fearing not to be able to relieve the expectations of their parents, and that almost a quarter of the students are out of stress at school.
Karina Stephens
Award winning Entrepreneur, Author and modern day alchemist
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Karina Stephens (AU) describes herself as a modern day alchemist, a doer, a seer, a lover of animals, a crazy mad entrepreneur, an advocate of all things to do with holistic health and wellbeing.
Karina runs the enRich Virtual Retreat and has written the book The StressLess Revolution in which she shares how to live your best life without getting burnt out, stressed out, maxed out, and checked out. The story is based on her own experience when 4 months after winning the award for best day spa in Australasia she was diagnosed with stage two Adrenal Fatigue and had to step down as managing director of her business and step up as managing director of her own wellness.
Stefan Verra
Body Language Coach, TV personality, Author, Lecturer and Speaker
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Stefan Verra (AT) is one of the most in-demand Body Language Experts in Europe. His talks and stage shows that he brings with humour and great scientific insights, inspire every year more than 50.000 participants in 13 countries on 4 continents.
Doctors and scientists alike endorse his holistic method – he always analyses body language signals together, in context, rather than breaking everything down into individual oversimplified elements. He is a lecturer at leading Universities as well as a successful author and respected TV personality.
Drs. Annita Rogier
Psycholoog, Voorzitter vereniging van erkende stress- en burnout coaches
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Drs. Annita Rogier (BE) is Register Psycholoog Arbeid en Organisatie NIP en heeft de afgelopen 24 jaar effectief meer dan 12.000 loopbaan- en stress en burn-out gesprekken gevoerd en mensen gecoacht met werk-gerelateerde stressklachten en burn-out en organisaties geadviseerd over het verlagen van werkdruk.
Ze schreef een programma voor re-integratie na overspannenheid en burnout: “Weer aan het werk - weerbaar aan het werk” (1996), spreekt op congressen over werkdruk en stress en is de auteur van de bestseller 'Handboek Coachen by Stress en Burnout.'
Dr. Frank King
Doctor of Naturopathy & Chiropractic, Author of "The Healing Revolution" and Homeopath
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If Dr. Frank King’s (US) mission could be summed up in one word, it would be “empowerment.” In 1979, he founded a large, integrative health center. He taught patients in standing-room-only audiences how to care for themselves. He and his team made breakthroughs in contemporary homeopathy, natural products and innovative healing techniques, which led to his founding of King Bio in 1989.
Dr. King is passionate about sharing natural health in a humorous, memorable, down-to-earth way. His words are inspiring, enlightening, and entertaining. His goal is to help end needless suffering, so everyone can live abundant, pain-free, and fulfilling lives.
Dana Ketels
Non-verbal Strategic Profiler, Coach, Speaker and booking agent of the film Destressed
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Dana Ketels (BE) is a body-language expert, coach and trainer. She co-founded Event Mosaic and is founder of Inspire To. Her mission is to make individuals and organisations aware of the impact of body language on their personal and professional lives. She uses it as an effective communication tool to learn people how to deal with challenges in a more healthy way. In addition, with her MAGIC ME model, she also enjoys coaching people to get more out of themselves.
In 2014 she became involved in the Hollywood documentary "Destressed" where she worked together with award winning actor and director Garry Pastore.
Currently, Dana is destressing, sailing the 7 seas with her family.
Cai Graham
Parent, Coach, author and Founder of Peak Parenting
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Johann Ilgenfritz
Founder and CEO of the UK Health Radio and Speaker
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Teresa de Grosbois
Author, Speaker and Chair of the Evolutionary Business Council
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Cai Graham (UK) is a parent, coach, and author of The Teen Toolbox and founder of ‘Peak Parenting’. Cai specialises in supporting families overcoming obstacles; including communication issues, loss and trauma, so that they can enjoy a brighter future. Her mission is to empower parents and teenagers with the tools and techniques they need to cope with the challenges of modern day life.
Her book 'The Teen Toolbox’ provides parents of teenagers with tips, tools and approaches to help them make the transition through life’s tricky stages. She has blended over two decades of motherhood with her background as a therapist and coach to create an online education program, this book, and one-of-a kind luxury retreats for families.
Johann Ilgenfritz (DE), aka “The Curator of Health Expertise” is a cancer survivor, motivational speaker, founder and CEO of the UK Health Radio Network. His mantra is “Good health is a choice”!
Through Johann's vision, UK Health Radio has attained a very clear purpose and this is to inform and animate you to take responsibility for your own health, this does not mean taking your health into your own hands, but to be part of the process of attaining and/or keeping your health freedom. It is all about being informed, being empowered and being healthy!
Teresa (CA) is a 4x Bestselling Author and an International Speaker sought by entrepreneurs and large corporations wanting to better understand how local word of mouth can suddenly turn into epidemic. Specializing in the topics of influence and success, Teresa has a proven track-record in understanding word of mouth epidemics having taken three books to best-seller status in only 8 months.
As the Chair of the Evolutionary Business Council, Teresa leads an international, invitation-only council of speakers and influencers dedicated to teaching the principles of success. Teresa is also the co-founder of the Global Influence Summit.
Prof. Stephen Palmer
President and Fellow of ISMA, Psychologist, Biologist and Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management.
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Prof Stephen Palmer (UK) is President and Fellow of ISMA International. He is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Biologist with a special interest in stress management and wellbeing. His PhD thesis was in stress. He has been a member of ISMA UK (and the former ISTCS) since 1987. Stephen is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management (1987) and the UK’s first visiting Professor of Work-Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University since 2001. He is on the Register of Psychologists in Belgium.
Stephen has authored or edited over 50 books and 225 articles on a range of topics. In 2000, Stephen received the Annual Counselling Psychology Award from the British Psychological Society (BPS), Division of Counselling Psychology. In 2008, he received a Distinguished Award from the BPS's Special Group in Coaching Psychology.
Garry Pastore
Actor, Writer, Producer and Director of the film Destressed
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Garry Pastore (US) has well over 50 roles as actor that he has amassed over a 30 year span and is 2012 SAG AWARD NOMINEE for his work on The Dark Knight Rises.
Garry is also the writer, producer and director of the award winning independent film, DESTRESSED (2014). In this film Gary portrays himself after he’s left with post-traumatic stress following the 9/11 terror attacks, and increasing stresses in his life, which ended up in leaving him hospitalized and dealing with major health and psychological traumas, he sets out to find others who help him put his own problems into perspective.
STRESS SUMMIT 2017 RECAP
In 2018 INTERNATIONAL STRESS AWARENESS DAY will take place on NOVEMBER 7th
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What is "International Stress Awareness Day":
International Stress Awareness Day (INSAD) was established in 1988 by the International Stress Management Association (ISMA) to help provide information on stress, and strategies on how to address it for both companies and individuals. The organization is focused on helping employers and employees help each other by providing comprehensive guides to establishing a program within their organization, and individuals by looking after their health and well-being on a day to day basis.
Why is there a need to 'Speak Up and Speak Out About Stress'?
Stress can be a real killer, both in the workplace and in our day to day lives. Stress serves an essential purpose in human biology, but our modern lives have brought about a surplus of causes that haunt us from day to day. When we are faced with a challenge, or a threat to our well-being, the body experiences stress. Whether you’re dealing with a job that puts you under tremendous pressure, or face struggles in your life or relationship that leave you in a state of constant worry, stress can be a real killer. International Stress Awareness Day was set aside as time to be aware of the stress in our lives and how it affects us.
About ISMA
The International Stress Management Association [ISMAUK] is a registered charity and the lead professional body for workplace and personal Stress Management, Well-being and Performance. We promote sound knowledge and best practice, nationally and internationally.
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Lehrer, LLC Chairman & CEO Honored by UJA-Federation of New York
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On June 13, Lehrer, LLC Chairman and CEO Peter M. Lehrer was honored by UJA-Federation of New York at the 2017 Design and Construction Cocktail Reception, held at the Yale Club. Peter has been a long-standing donor to UJA-Federation, supporting many important causes including fighting poverty, caring for the elderly and people with special needs, health and wellbeing, and strengthening the global community.
While accepting this honor, Peter said, “I often think of my long career in the construction business and what’s important to me and what my legacy will look like. While there have been hundreds of projects all over the country and around the world, buildings are inert. Despite being proud of them, they don’t talk to you. The single most important legacy for me are the people I have met, the relationships formed and the impact it has had on my life and that of others.”
At the reception, generous donors and friends helped to raise more than $600,000 on behalf of UJA-Federation. As the world’s leading local philanthropy, UJA-Federation’s reach extends from New York to Israel to nearly 70 other countries, working with more than 80 core partners and hundreds of non-profits to change the lives of 4.5 million people each year.
The Lehrer, LLC team proudly congratulates Peter on this accomplishment, and warmly thanks our friends and colleagues for their support.
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The Automobile Revolution: France and Italy Collide Over National Interest and Pride
Mina Mitsui June 20, 2019 11:55 pm Leave your thoughts
(Click here to read the original article in Japanese.)
AI, Automobile Revolution, Deng Xiaoping, Emmanuel Macron, EV, FCA, Ford Motor, France and Italy, G.E., Gaetan Toulemonde, Matteo Salvini, National Interest, NIssan, Pride, Renault and Fiat, restructuring of the industry
Renault and Fiat, two European automobile companies with 120 years of history and each having struggled through hard times, are back in the news as Fiat Chrysler proposed a business merger with Renault in May.
But the plan to form one of the world’s largest European-based alliances was scrapped just 10 days after the announcement.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) backed away from the deal when the French government, a principal stockholder in Renault, made one demand after another. At issue were conditions such as not closing factories. Another excuse was Renault’s delay under the auspices of waiting for agreement from its Japanese partner, Nissan Motor Company.
The district of Billancourt, facing the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, is home to the French automobile industry. The workshop built in the 19th century by the Renault brothers became a massive factory that supported the nation’s economic growth in the 1920s. Deng Xiaoping worked there as a 21-year-old exchange student. Even today, the old brick wall carved with the Renault name remains.
Meanwhile in Italy, Fiat was launched onto the world scene from Trino. More recently, it absorbed the United States-based Chrysler to become Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, giving it a more global presence.
Competing National Interests
The French government has faced relentless criticism from financial media around the world for sabotaging the merger with its repeated interference. Surprisingly, however, there does not seem to be any criticism coming from inside France.
Auto industry analyst Gaetan Toulemonde remarked: “There’s no such thing as a merger on equal footing. One will always feed off the other. I was against the merger from the beginning because Fiat was just trying to get Renault’s technology.”
If the tables were turned and Renault was absorbing Fiat, certainly both the government and the people would have been for it.
There is clearly a rivalry at work and the French do not intend to surrender to Italy. Opposition was strong from the early stages of the proposal, as warnings rang out that Renault will come out the loser.
Bilateral Rivalry
A French journalist from a trade paper pointed out that the French government used the lack of agreement from Nissan as an excuse to delay the decision on Renault. “They surmised that if they jumped at the offer, they would be exploited.”
Italy also laid bare a sense of rivalry. When the merger was proposed, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini remarked: “The automobile industry is indispensable to our country’s growth. If necessary, the government will take responsibility and participate in the new company.”
As is often the case, Italy’s relations with France’s Emmanuel Macron administration are strained.
Jobs and National Pride
Globally, the automobile industry is approaching a major turning point as a wave of new technologies in electric vehicles (EV) and automated driving using artificial intelligence (AI) have surged forward. Each company’s ability to invest in research and development and engage in cost cutting will determine its fate.
Meanwhile, the issue is further convoluted as the automobile industry is linked to national pride. As a whirlwind of populism rages, E.U. countries are increasingly sensitive to domestic employment issues at the national level. Even though the European market has leveled off, politicians raise a fuss at job cuts of a few hundred people.
U.S.-based General Electric (G.E.), which has made inroads into France, announced in late May that it would cut over 1,000 jobs in the country. With the closure of a factory of the U.S.-based Ford Motor Co. just two months earlier, distrust in foreign firms is on the rise.
Surviving the Automobile Revolution
The Macron administration was under considerable pressure to put fetters on the FCA and Renault merger proposal. The French government has appealed to the FCA, saying “the door is not closed,” seemingly full of regret.
Renault’s “trump card” is the EV technology it developed with Nissan. FCA, faced with taking great pains to comply with E.U. emissions standards, continues to frantically look for a partner.
Neither FCA nor Renault can survive alone. The breakdown of this recent merger proposal is just one episode in the ongoing drama of the restructuring of the industry.
(Click here to read the article in its original Japanese.)
Author: Mina Mitsui, Paris Bureau Chief, The Sankei Shimbun
Mina Mitsui is chief correspondent of the Sankei Shimbun Paris bureau. She has started her journalistic career at the Yomiuri Shimbun, and was Paris Bureau Chief (2011-2015) and Jerusalem Bureau Chief (2006-2009). She published several books; “Islam in Europe” 2015 Shincho-Sha, (Chinese translation published in Taiwan, 2017).
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anthocyanin
naturally occurring compounds that impart color to fruit, vegetables, and plants. Derived from two Greek words meaning plant and blue, anthocyanins are the pigments that make blueberries blue, raspberries red, and are thought to play a major role in the high antioxidant activity levels observed in red and blue fruits and vegetables. Anthocyanins are also largely responsible for the red coloring of buds and young shoots and the purple and purple-red colors of autumn leaves. Close to 300 anthocyanins have been discovered; known to improve eye sight
counteract the oxidizing (burning) effects of free radicals, harmful molecules that can cause cellular damage throughout the body. Besides leading to heart and coronary artery disease by promoting the buildup of plaque in the walls of blood vessels, oxidation may increase your risk of developing health problems as diverse as cataracts and Alzheimer's disease. And oxidation can cause cellular damage that may eventually result in malignancy. Antioxidants can interrupt this process, potentially conferring protection from cancer. Some scientists believe that, in high enough doses, antioxidants can even reverse the growth of cancers that have already taken hold. The body produces its own antioxidants that combine with free radicals to help keep the oxidation process in check. But a number of scientists believe that the body often cannot produce enough antioxidants on its own, especially when confronted with exposure to environmental contaminants like cigarette smoke and polluted air. They recommend antioxidant supplementsand supplementation has, in fact, become extremely popular. When embarking on a regular supplementation program, however, it's important to keep two points in mind. First, there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that antioxidants in pill form may not provide the same benefits as those obtained from natural foods. Second, just as with many other substances, more of an antioxidant is not always better. Beyond certain levels, some actually become toxic. For instance, The U.S. Institute of Medicine has set an upper daily intake level of 2 grams for vitamin C and 1 gram for alpha-tocopherol (equivalent to about 1,500 IU of natural vitamin E or 1,100 IU of synthetic vitamin E). A high antioxidant level can help improve memory and reduce build-up of bad cholesterol.
B vitamins (and folic acid) - particularly B2 (riboflavin), B6 (pyridoxine), and pantothenic acid - strengthen the immune system and may play a role in fighting the early development of malignant cells. In some studies, people deficient in riboflavin have developed cancer of the esophagus. In laboratory tests, folic acid, another of the B vitamins, has a protective effect against precancerous cells from the colon and cervix; and women with low levels of folic acid are more likely to develop cervical cancer. The B vitamins are available in a variety of foods. Citrus fruits are high in folic acid. Red meat, dairy products, asparagus, and broccoli contain riboflavin. Vitamin B6 comes from white meat chicken and fish, whole grain cereals, egg yolks, potatoes, and bananas. Vitamin B6 also helps brain chemical production which may help the body cope with anxiety and panic
A carotenoid that is stored in the liver, where the body converts it to vitamin A, as needed; found in dark, leafy greens and red, orange and yellow fruits and vegetables. A powerful antioxidant, beta carotene may play a role in slowing the progression of cancer. In population studies, it's related to decreased risk of lung cancer and oral cancers.
important to brain function, especially in enhancing memory, cognitive function, and hand-eye coordination. Evidence continues to mount that boron may reduce either the symptoms or incidence of arthritis.
The most plentiful mineral in the body and one of the most important. The body needs it to build and repair bones and teeth, help nerves function, make muscles contract, clot blood, and allow proper function of the heart. Almost all of the calcium in the body is stored in bone. The rest is found in the blood.
A cancer-causing substance or agent. There are three major stages in cancer development.
Initiation, in which a cancer-causing agent first damages a cell's genetic material.
Promotion, when cells in which initiation has occurred are exposed to chemicals that speed up cell division. Such chemicals cannot initiate cancer themselves: Generally long-term exposure to these promoters is necessary for cancer to develop. Nutritional factors are thought to have their greatest impact on cancer in this stage.
Progression is the final stage of cancer development when cells become fully malignant and acquire the ability to metastasize, or spread, to other parts of the body.
help lower cholesterol, reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer, and help preserve vision. See also Beta Carotene
catechin
A subclass of flavonoids found in grapes and tea. Up to 30% of the dry weight of green tea leaves is catechins. Scientists believe catechins to be one of the important active substances that gives green tea extract its cancer-preventive and possibly curative properties in animal studies. But population studies show no such clear-cut protective effect
required for normal infant development, red and white blood cell maturation, iron transport, bone strength, cholesterol metabolism, myocardial contractility, glucose metabolism, brain development and immune function, among other things. The richest dietary sources of copper include nuts, seeds, legumes, the bran and germ portions of grains, liver, kidneys, shellfish, oysters and crustaceans.
coumarins
A class of widely occurring phenolic compounds, especially abundant in citrus fruits, that may help the enzymes that fend off cancer.
cynarin
stimulates bile secretion creating support for the liver and digestion and positively affects cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood
elegiac acid
a natural organic compound thought to inhibit the start of cancer caused by certain chemicals.
an organic acid. The immune system can benefit and be strengthened by ferulic acid. Ferulic acid is also a natural source for ultraviolet light UV protection. Used for aging, cancer, colds %26 flu, free radical damage, Immune system, muscle health, performance, skin aging, skin cancer, and sun protection
fiber, soluble
aids in controlling high blood cholesterol; eating 3 grams a day can lower cholesterol levels by about 5%25 and protect against heart disease. See also Pectin
a group of compounds with antioxidant properties, are found in carrots, tea, citrus fruits, berries, broccoli, peppers, squash, tomatoes, soybeans, eggplant, and a variety of other fruits and vegetables. Besides their antioxidant activities, flavinoids seem to be able to inhibit the action of certain hormones such as estrogen, and may help prevent hormone-based malignancies such as breast cancer and prostate cancer.
Anthocyanins are naturally occurring compounds that impart color to fruit, vegetables, and plants. Derived from two Greek words meaning plant and blue, anthocyanins are the pigments that make blueberries blue, raspberries red, and are thought to play a major role in the high antioxidant activity levels observed in red and blue fruits and vegetables. Anthocyanins are also largely responsible for the red coloring of buds and young shoots and the purple and purple-red colors of autumn leaves. Close to 300 anthocyanins have been discovered; known to improve eye sight.
coumarins - A class of widely occurring phenolic compounds, especially abundant in citrus fruits, that may help the enzymes that fend off cancer rutin and hesperidin, which may prevent or slow tumor growth
kaempferol is a powerful anticancer agent; Black teas are excellent potential source of quercetin, kaempferol and myricetin in the human diet.
quercitin and myricetin, a flavanoid with antioxidant qualities, which helps eliminate free radicals in the body, inhibits low-density lipoprotein oxidation, protects and regenerates vitamin E and inactivates the harmful effects of chelate metal ions
resveratrol - fights breast, liver, and colon cancers; also anti-inflammatory
is the naturally occurring form of folic acid found in leafy green vegetables and fortified grains. It is also part of a group of vitamins known as B vitamins. See also Vitamin B.
see Folate and Vitamin B
hesperidin
a flavonoid which may prevent or slow tumor growth
indoles
may prevent carcinogens from reaching their intended goal inside of cells. See also sulforaphane.
a necessary mineral for the proper function of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. It is also needed for proper muscle and organ function. About three-fourths of the body's iron is bound to hemoglobin in red blood cells, while the rest is either bound to other proteins (transferrin in blood or ferritin in bone marrow) or stored in other body tissues. When red blood cells die, their iron is released and carried by transferrin to the bone marrow. In the bone marrow, iron is stored and used as needed to make new red blood cells.
kaempferol
Among other functions, it may block carcinogens as well as slow the growth and spread of cancer cells. It also may prevent the conversion of nitrites in the stomach to compounds that become building blocks for carcinogens.
A powerful antioxidant and one of two carotenoids found in the eye. These yellow pigments are believed to filter out harmful blue light and protect against age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in people over 65. Studies show that eating lots of spinach and collard greens - rich in lutein and its carotenoid partner, zeaxanthin - may substantially lower the risk of this irreversible disease. More resistant to cooking than other carotenoids, it's also associated with decreased lung cancer risk.
antioxidant shown to reduce prostate cancer and inhibits other cancer development; red pigment is from carotenoids.
an essential mineral in human nutrition with a wide range of biological functions. Magnesium is involved in over 300 metabolic reactions. It is necessary for every major biological process, including the production of cellular energy and the synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins. It is also important for the electrical stability of cells, the maintenance of membrane integrity, muscle contraction, nerve conduction and the regulation of vascular tone, among other things.
Apart from its uses in rare overt deficiency disorders, manganese might have some efficacy in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis as well as in some with premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Evidence for these benefits is preliminary.
helps lower bad cholesterol and boosts good cholesterol. Believed to lower cholesterol and may assist in reducing heart disease. Like polyunsaturated fat it provides essential fatty acids for healthy skin and the development of body cells.
myricetin
a naturally occurring flavonoid that is found in berries, fruits, vegetables, herbs, tea and wine. Many in vitro studies have demonstrated the antioxidant properties of myricetin. In vitro research also suggest that myricetin in high concentration is capable of modifying LDL cholesterol in a manner that enhances its uptake by white blood cells.
a member of the B-vitamin family. Niacin, via its metabolites, is involved in a wide range of biological processes, including the production of energy, the synthesis of fatty acids, cholesterol and steroids, signal transduction, the regulation of gene expression and the maintenance of genomic integrity.
member of the B-vitamin family, is an essential nutrient in human nutrition. Pantothenic acid is involved in a number of biological reactions, including the production of energy, the catabolism of fatty acids and amino acids, the synthesis of fatty acids, phospholipids, sphingolipids, cholesterol and steroid hormones, and the synthesis of heme and the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. It also appears to be involved in the regulation of gene expression and in signal transduction.
papain
enzyme which aids digestion
soluble fiber important in controlling blood cholesterol. A gelatinous substance, also offsets bile acids. It complements the function of cellulose, encouraging healthy digestion by preventing diarrhea. Pectin comes from apples, bananas, beets, carrots, potatoes, and citrus fruit.
phenolic acids
includes ellagic acid, tannic acid and vanillin. Found in almost all fruits, vegetables and grains, phenolic compounds affect the quality, appeal and stability of foods with antioxidant action, flavor and color. They give wine its characteristic hues, flavors and astringency. Besides scavenging for free radicals, some phenolic compounds appear to interrupt cancer development in other ways. Some also hinder LDL oxidation.
is an essential macromineral in human nutrition and plays pivotal roles in the structure and function of the body. Phosphorus, in its pentavalent phosphate form, is essential for the process of bone mineralization and makes up the structure of bone. Approximately 85%25 of phosphorus in the adult body is in bone. Phosphorus in the form of phospholipids makes up the structure of cellular membranes. Phosphorus also makes up the structure of nucleic acids and nucleotides, including adenosine triphosphate, among other things. Life has been said to be built around phosphorus.
a global term for all the hundreds of chemicals that occur naturally in plants.
helps control the body's fluid balance, helps muscles contract, transmits nerve impulses and aids in heart and kidney function. Potassium regulates water balance and blood pressure in cells together with sodium, calcium, and magnesium.
a flavanoid with antioxidant qualities, which helps eliminate free radicals in the body, inhibits low-density lipoprotein oxidation, protects and regenerates vitamin E and inactivates the harmful effects of chelate metal ions
a natural dietary compound also effecting the immune system and inflammation in the body. Both immune and inflammatory components are thought to be important in the development of plaque buildup in blood vessels, which often leads to heart disease.
an essential nutrient in human nutrition and plays a key role in the production of energy. Riboflavin has antioxidant activity. It may have activity in the prophylaxis of migraine headaches and may have activity against esophageal cancer. It has putative anti-atherosclerotic activity and putative antimalarial activity. See also Vitamin B.
rutin
essential mineral that works closely with vitamin E to produce antioxidants that neutralize the cell-damaging free radicals that can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases of aging. Breast, prostate, skin, lung, and gastrointestinal cancers are all inhibited by selenium. It appears to confer the greatest protection on men, and seems most effective against gastrointestinal cancer. The selenium in our diets comes from fish and shellfish, organ meats, such as liver, and some whole-grain cereals.
one of the most important minerals in the body. It is an electrolyte, which means it carries an electrical charge when it is dissolved in blood. Sodium helps regulate the water balance (the amount of fluid inside and surrounding the cells) and electrolyte balance of the body. Sodium also plays an important role in nerve and muscle functions.
significantly reduced the incidence, multiplicity and rate of development of chemically induced mammary tumors in rats. It has demonstrated an ability to detoxify a number of carcinogens and thus might have the ability to protect against a variety of cancers (by keeping cancer from forming). Abundant in three-day old broccoli sprouts. The levels in three-day old broccoli sprouts are from 10 to 100 times greater than in mature broccoli. Also found in cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cauliflower sprouts, bok choy, kale, collards, arugula, kohlrabi, mustard, turnip, red radish and watercress. See also indoles.
the terpene lactones are thought to be the elements that help improve memory (that is, improve choline uptake in brain synapses), protect the brain from metabolic injury (that is, promote neuroprotection) and reduce the tendency of the blood to clot (that is, inhibit platelet-activating factor)
thiamine
helps the body cells convert carbohydrates into energy. It is also essential for the functioning of the heart, muscles, and nervous system. See also Vitamin B.
Helps eye health (including seeing normally in low light), helps cells and tissues grow and stay healthy
particularly B2 (riboflavin), B6 (pyridoxine), and pantothenic acidstrengthen the immune system and may play a role in fighting the early development of malignant cells. In some studies, people deficient in riboflavin have developed cancer of the esophagus. In laboratory tests, folic acid, another of the B vitamins, has a protective effect against precancerous cells from the colon and cervix; and women with low levels of folic acid are more likely to develop cervical cancer. The B vitamins are available in a variety of foods. Citrus fruits are high in folic acid. Red meat, dairy products, asparagus, and broccoli contain riboflavin. Vitamin B6 comes from white meat chicken and fish, whole grain cereals, egg yolks, potatoes, and bananas. Vitamin B6 also helps brain chemical production which may help the body cope with anxiety and panic. See also Thiamine, Riboflavin, Pantothenic acid, Niacin
fights colds and flus by boosting the immune system. Helps the body absorb iron, promotes healthy gums, and is an antioxidant that helps cells grow and stay healthy
As a powerful antioxidant, vitamin E plays a vital role in protecting the body from many chronic disorders. It may even slow the aging process and guard against damage from secondhand smoke and other pollutants. Circulatory disorders, skin and joint problems, diabetes-related nerve complications, high cholesterol, endometriosis, immune-system function and memory are also believed to benefit from vitamin E. Slow Alzheimer's disease. Prevent or delay cataracts and macular degeneration. Prevent heart disease and related complications. Protect against prostate and other cancers. Retard the aging process and boost immune function. Promote healing of burns, eczema, and other skin problems.
vital for growth and development, sexual maturation and reproduction, dark vision adaptation, olfactory and gustatory activity, insulin storage and release and for a variety of host immune defenses, among other things. Zinc may have immunomodulatory activity. It may also have antioxidant activity. Zinc has putative antiviral, fertility-enhancing and retinoprotective activities.
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement: Not a Moment Too Soon →
Following the controversial Supreme Court decision which awarded the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000, a number of commentators noted the peaceful nature in which Americans across the political spectrum accepted the decision. This equanimity was offered as evidence of the strength and resilience of American democracy. At that time, few raised the question of whether or not the relative silence which greeted what was, at best, a series of questionable decisions in Florida and the Supreme Court, and at worst, election fraud, was, in fact, evidence of the weakness of American democracy. Perhaps accepting the Supreme Court decision so quietly was evidence of a widespread sentiment of powerlessness in the face of a stolen election rather than a stoic acceptance of democratic process. These questions were not really asked in 2000, but they should have been.
In the almost eleven years since that decision, particularly in the three years since the current economic downturn began, powerlessness has been a major and destructive feeling running through much of the electorate. Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008 addressed this feeling of powerlessness, offering words of inspiration and hope to millions after the belligerent style and disastrous politics of the Bush presidency. Unfortunately, many of those same voters again felt powerless after Obama's presidency proved disappointing to many and as the economic crisis continued.
Powerlessness, obviously, has not been restricted to those on the left. The Tea Party movement, despite its corporate backers and links to ambitious and wealthy politicians is, at least in some respects, a movement that reflects the anger and powerlessness felt by many in the face of what they perceive to be powerful and uncaring corporations and governments.
In this context, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems particularly notable. It is not yet entirely clear what the specific goals or demands of the Occupy Wall Street movement are, but that is neither a fair nor reasonable question to ask of a movement that appears to be, to a large degree, organic and genuine. The Occupy Wall Street movement appears to be a legitimate expression of the anger and frustration that many ordinary Americans have felt towards the leaders of the banking and finance sector, and the good treatment they have received from the federal government, despite driving the economy into the ground, causing millions to lose their homes, savings or jobs.
People who ask what the Occupy Wall Street movement wants or why it is appearing now are asking the wrong question. The question which should have been asked a year, or three, ago is why there was no anger towards Wall Street and why what anger existed seemed to be exceeded by ideologically driven anger towards the Democratic administration. The Obama administration has, since its early days, taken the position that almost nothing the banks or finance firms did in the years leading up to the economic collapse is reprehensible enough to make strong regulatory action, let alone criminal persecution, necessary. In this context, it is even more important for ordinary Americans to demonstrate their frustration and anger, even if that is all they can do.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is just beginning. It could lead quickly to concrete legislative change, but that is unlikely. It could also simply disappear after a few weeks, but with increased participation from organized labor, and now a handful of Democratic politicians, that, too, seems unlikely. In between these two outcomes are some other possibilities that are less extreme, but more likely. The Occupy Wall Street may create pressure for a political environment where it is no longer OK to give financial elites a free ride and where rhetoric about small government is properly understood as calling for the wealthy financiers who contributed to the problem in the first place to get richer.
In this regard, Occupy Wall Street can provide both pressure and backup for politicians seeking a more progressive approach to solving the economic problems facing our country. The absence of a movement like Occupy Wall Street is one of the reasons why an economic crisis that, for most Americans, is about unemployment, job insecurity and dwindling savings, was framed by the far right as one that is about public debt and a government that has grown too big.
Occupy Wall Street is still in its embryonic stage, but it is a movement of those who, if not powerless, were certainly voiceless until recently. Just as an observer in late 2000 might have seen the silence with which Americans greeted Bush's appointment as president as evidence of despair and the deep weakness of American democracy, the absence of citizens organizing to call for economic justice in the face of economic pillaging and one sided class warfare could be seen, by 2011, as further evidence of the deep despair running through the American electorate. Perhaps that is beginning to change.
Written by Lincoln Mitchell On October 11, 2011 In US Politics Tagged Supreme Court, George W. Bush, Occupy Wall Street, Barack Obama, Tea Party Source
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Taken together, these developments are leading many Jewish Americans, to ask whether something is changing in this country that has, on balance, been so good to our people for so long. The strong support we have received online and in person from our fellow Americans, including many political, clergy and community leaders has been encouraging, but we still know that anti-Semitism continues to lurk on the sidelines of American politics and have learned just how quickly it can be activated.
It is easy, and necessary, to lay much of this blame on Trump and his right wing supporters, but unfortunately the problem is deeper than that. Countering anti-Semitism, like countering other forms of bigotry, is complicated. For example, just as having a few African American friends does not preclude you from being a racist, strong support for Israel does not preclude a President, other individual, party or movement from being anti-Semitic. In general, discourse about anti-Semitism too frequently gets taken over by discussions of Israel. On the right, support for Israel is viewed as a kind of political get out of jail free card against charges of anti-Semitism, while left-wing criticism of Israel, not always, but too frequently, creates a safe space for anti-Semitism.
The anti-Semitism that motivated the Pittsburgh murderer was not so much about Israel, but drew on older and more powerful anti-Semitic themes about Jews having too much influence, being disloyal to the country where they live and the like. It may be a coincidence, but these are the same themes that the right exploits when they turn George Soros into a bogeyman, repeat the term “globalists,” discuss how “unseen forces” work against “the people” and overstate the impact of American Jews on our financial structures, but it is probably more than coincidence. It is also likely no coincidence that these themes were at the heart of the America First movement in the late 1930s and early 1940s from which Trump has borrowed the slogan for his approach to foreign policy.
Many Jews saw these themes emerging during the 2016 campaign, but they were not broadly acknowledged. Supporters of Trump cited his support for Israel and his daughter’s marriage to Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, and her subsequent conversion to Judaism, as if this constituted unshakable proof that Trump could not be anti-Semitic. The absurdity of these claims notwithstanding, they were to be expected.
Sadly, it was equally predictable that anti-Semitism was left off of so many statements, Tweets and comments about Trump’s bigotry during the campaign and Trump’s presidency. There are reasons for that. None of them are good. It is important to call out bigotry in all forms, even when it is inconvenient. Many of the people who didn’t always mention anti-Semitism in this context were Jews uncomfortable with listing our concerns next to what most people thought were graver threats to other groups. However, most were not Jewish. Some may not have recognized the anti-Jewish elements of Trump’s campaign and his self-proclaimed nationalism, but others may have thought Jews were overreacting or speaking from a position of privilege, so chose not to mention it.
It feels wrong to look at mass killing in Pittsburgh on a quiet Shabbat morning through the lens of the President and the current political climate. Had this event occurred at any other time in the last half century or so, the only mention of the President, any other one than Trump, would have been to praise his appropriately eloquent speech condemning the killings, but things are different in America now. The President indeed made some appropriate remarks, but then he and his supporters pivoted quickly to suggesting the problem was there was no armed guard in the Synagogue. Morever, rather than Trump and his supporters looking at what words and deeds from the Trump movement, might have contributed to an atmosphere where this could have occurred, we got the same angry and nonsensical pledges of Trump’s philo-Semitism.
We don’t know what will happen next. This might be an isolated incident, but we know that in the last two years there has been a rise in anti-Semitic activity in the US, the worst mass killing of Jews in American history and a President who has toyed with anti-Semitic themes and associated with anti-Semites. It is possible that America can still be a welcoming place for Jews. I sure hope that is what happens, but Jewish history tells us that this can change quickly.
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Quickie Book Reviews: Le Freak
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny by Nile Rodgers
Nile Rodgers is best known for being the co-founder of Chic, but he authored a fun memoir titled Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny. You've heard all of his disco funk hits on the radio, at weddings, and in commercials. Rodgers played guitar, but he created the infectious bass line from Good Times. The kids today might know Rodgers from his guitar licks on Get Lucky by Daft Punk.You might have heard it the first time in Rapper's Delight (like I did), but Rodgers' riffs have been lifted and ripped off more times than anyone could count. When disco's popularity fizzled out after the Disco Sucks phase swept America, Rodgers' band Chic was done. But he remained a steady forced as a producer. Rodgers produced hits for some of the biggest stars in the 1980s... Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna, INXS, Duran Duran, and the B-52s.
The first part of the book delves into Rodgers' strange childhood that was split between NYC and LA. His mom was a teenager when she birthed him and his step-father was a white/Jewish junkie that hung around the 1950s jazz scene. He paints pictures of a strange yet normal to him childhood that includes watching lots of television at all hours while surrounded by passed out junkies, who nodded off while visiting his mom and step-dad.
Rodgers had some amazing coincidental experiences while he lived in LA with his grandmother. As a teenager cleaned planes at a private airport in the Valley and met Frank Sinatra. In another story, while going to see some music at a talent show, he met some hippies and they invited him to a party in the Hollywood Hills that was thrown by Timothy Leary and fueled by Owsley's acid. Rodgers got a mega-dose and stayed up in the Hills for a couple of days while he partied and huge put with all these random hippies.
By the late 60s as teenager, an all hippied-out Rodgers lived in the Village in NYC. He spent time at various crash pads with heiresses and even hung out with the Black Panthers. All the while, he constantly played guitar. When the 1970s hit, Rodgers formed a band with his bass-playing buddy Bernard Edwards. They created a special technique to writing songs in Chic that involved a "deep hidden meaning." That was the key to his success during the peak of the disco years. He used it with Chic and later on used it as a blueprint for the artists he produced in the 1980s.
Rodgers told some interesting stories involving Madonna and David Bowie. The story about meeting Bowie itself is a classic. Rodgers was partying hard with Billy Idol when they went to a club in NYC. In the corner, Bowie sat by himself. A shitfaced Billy Idol screamed, "Bloody hell, that's David Fucking Bowie!" Then he ran to the bath and puked his guts out.
Rodgers was an admitted alkie and cokehead. The 70s and 80s were coke-fueled. I could only imagine how crazy those Chic sessions were. He got sober, which he admitted helped save his life because things had gotten out of control. The music industry, especially in the 70s-80s destroyed many creative people that couldn't handle the influx of money, fame, and drugs. And when the money and fame started to fizzle out, the drugs and booze got more intense. Rodgers is one of the rare survivors and he lived to tell his tale.
Quick read. I think I finished Le Freak in two settings. I probably could have read it all in one sitting, but I took time out to play different shit on YouTube that I looked up after Rodgers would reference one of his inspirations or a track he produced.
Read more quickie reviews of books I read in 2017.
Tags 2017 Books, Funk, Music, Nile Rodgers, Quickie Book Reviews
Quickie Book Reviews: Kicking and Dreaming
Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll by Ann and Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross
The sisters who founded the band Heart, Ann and Nancy Wilson, had a book on the New York Times best seller list. It's essentially the oral history of Heart told in chronological order with both sisters swapping back and forth telling their story in Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll.
The sisters were military brats. Their grandfather was a General in the Marines and their father was a Major. They lived all over the U.S. and spent significant time in Taiwan and in Camp Lejuene, North Carolina. There were three sisters in the family and they were all musical in different ways. Heart was formed by the two youngest sisters -- Ann and Nancy. They looked different and each of them resembled their parents. Ann was the husky brunette and Ann was the waif blonde. They both shared a love of music and bonded with each other while constantly moving around. The family eventually settled in the Seattle suburbs where the two sisters went to high school.
As the story goes, Ann fell in love with a draft dodger who was holed up in Canada. She went to go live with him in a hippie commune outside of Vancouver. During those rough, but magical months, she penned several songs that would become huge hits later on in her career. She had formed a band that played in various clubs in Vancouver and begged her younger sister to skip college and join her. Nancy left school and moved up to Canada. She was an instant hit with the band, and they started to make a name for themselves in Vancouver. They got involved in a shady club owner and promoter, but eventually found a decent manager who got them on the road to Montreal, where they had a local hit... The Magic Man.
During the early 70s, Ann and Nancy dealt with tons of sleazy dirtbags that hover around the music industry. A frisky DJ/station manager was the inspiration behind Ann Wilson writing the hit Barracuda. She would later explain how angry she got when Sarah Palin adopted the song during the 2008 campaign, because Palin missed the entire point of the song and just thought it would be cool to be associated with awesome song with a catchy hook and be known as a barracuda.
After the Vietnam War ended, the band could return to the U.S. Like many bands in that era, Heart got involved in a bad record deal. Despite some big radio hits, they didn't reap the financial benefits. As a result, they had to compromise artistically on the next couple. They landed some smash hits in the mid 80s, but the Wilson sisters dd not write them.
Heart had a minor resurgence in the 1980s courtesy of MTV. That's the Heart I remember as a kid. Lots of hair and leather.
I forgot that Nancy Wilson was married to Cameron Crowe. Yes, William Miller from Almost Famous married a rock star! Nancy married the young music journalist that worked for Rolling Stone when he was still in high school. Wilson and Crowe had an intimate relationship that began with him making mix tapes for her. During their marriage, Nancy Wilson assisted Crowe as a copy editor. She read every script he ever wrote and was the first person to see his screenplays as soon as he finished them. They would go through script line-by-line together. Definitely a team effort. Nancy put the rockstar life on hold while she raised a family. Meanwhile, in the early 90s, Ann became the prominent elder for the growing tribe of Seattle musicians. During the height of the grunge era, Ann's house in Seattle became a special place where musicians could hang out and jam out.
Kicking and Dreaming is an oral history of Heart, but Charles R. Cross also got a writing credit. You might recognize Cross's name from numerous books he penned about Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, and the "grunge" scene.
Kicking and Dreaming: The Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll was one of the first books I read in 2017. When I got back from a 2-week trip to NYC, I was holed up with the flu a couple of days. I read the book during that downtime. As per usual, I spent some time deep diving on YouTube and checking out vintage Heart songs from earlier in their career. I also re-watched Singles by Cameron Crowe.
Tags 2017 Books, Cameron Crowe, Grunge, Heart, Music, Quickie Book Reviews, Seattle
Quickie Book Reviews: The Sun and The Moon and The Rolling Stones
The Sun and The Moon and The Rolling Stones by Rich Cohen
Rich Cohen got one of my dream assignments. Rolling Stone (ahem, Jann Wenner) sent Cohen on the road with the Rolling Stones to cover their tour. The bulk of Cohen's book focuses on a tour he embarked with in 1994 that included getting a behind-the-scenes glimpse at their practices/rehearsals leading up to their massive tour through North America.
The Sun and The Moon and The Rolling Stones title originates from an actual quote from Keith Richards when he was talking to Cohen, who was 26-years old at the time he landed the assignment to tail the Stones. Richards told Cohen that the Stones existed his whole life and as far as he was concerned it always been, "The sun and the moon and The Rolling Stones."
If you dig the Stones, then Cohen's book is a nice and hazy walk down memory lane. Cohen gets a lot of candid quotes from Jagger and Richards at a time when they smoothed over their antagonism for each other and got the show back on the road... even after the shit that Richards wrote in his epic book, Life, that said some pretty nasty shit about Jagger.
Sometimes the sentences would get too rambling (this coming from me, of course), but Cohen packs lot of into into his chapters. And the Keith Richards idol worship is out of hand. I mean, Cohen has the hugest man-crush on Richards it definitely slants his view of the Stones' universe, like dismissing Brian Jones as a total druggie.
Supposedly Charlie Watts took a liking to Cohen during his time with the band. That's super rare according to Richards, who remarked that Watts generally hated all journalists -- especially music journalists -- but for some reason he really liked Cohen. Too bad Cohen did not delve a little deeper into the story of Watts. Volumes of books have been written on the Stones, especially Mick Jagger. Even Keith Richards and Bill Wyman penned memoirs. But Watts never really said much.
Cohen wrote from Rolling Stone mag for many years. He later on collaborated with Jagger and Martin Scorsese on the HBO series Vinyl. This was a solid book, but it is nowhere close to the best books ever written about the Stones such as Life by Richards, or books by Stanley Booth and Robert Greenfield.
I read The Sun and The Moon and The Rolling Stones in two or three sittings over a weekend, while cranking various albums (from the peak years with Mick Taylor)... Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, and Exile on Main Street... The holy trinity of Stones' albums.
Tags 2017 Books, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Music, Quickie Book Reviews, Rolling Stone Magazine, Rolling Stones
Quickie Book Reviews: Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me
Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life by Steven Hyden
Steven Hyden gives you a quick look at a dozen or so intense rivalries in pop music. The major one -- Beatles vs. Rolling Stone -- is included, but he barely broke the surface of the intense competition the two behemoths had in the 60s that spilled over into the 1970s. Hyden kicks off Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me with a rivalry between 90s British bands -- Oasis and Blur. It was good timing for me considering I just watched the Oasis documentary. Each chapter is essentially its own essay as Hyden touches on a different rivalry. Some of the rivalries worthy of its own chapters...
Beatles vs. Stones
Blur vs. Oasis
Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam
Prince vs. Michael Jackson
White Stripes vs. Black Keys
Taylor Swift vs. Kanye
Clapton vs. Hendrix
Sinead O'Connor vs. Miley Cyrus
Roger Waters vs. Rest of Pink Floyd
Smashing Pumpkins vs. Pavement
Neil Young vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd
Biggie vs Tupac
Toby Keith vs. Dixie Chicks
Dr. Dre vs. Easy E
Dave Mustaine vs. Metallica
David Lee Roth vs. Van Halen brothers
Madonna vs Cyndi Lauper
Britney vs. Christina
Interesting class division between Oasis/Blur and their approach to creating music. The Cobain/Vedder pissing match could be its own book. And a movie. The Black Keys/Jack White drama was worth a chuckle or more, especially the so-called email chain that revealed how deep the rivalry ran -- so deep it spilled over into selecting Nashville private schools in Nashville for their kids. The Mustaine/Metallica drunken bout references the Lars/Mustaine confrontation in the amazing documentary Some Kind of Monster. The Clapton chapter inspired me to buy his memoir. And the Waters/Floyd stuff is kind of sad, especially considering what happened to Syd Barrett. That could be its own documentary (with salty subject like in the awesome doc on The Eagles).
Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me is the first book I've read from Steve Hyden, the former music editor and writer at Grantland, so his style/tone was somewhat familiar. If you dig Chuck Klosterman's musings, then you're in the same ballpark as Hyden's nostalgia-drenched approach to music writing. The structure of this book (rivalry per chapter) consisted of 16 chapters. I skipped around and skimmed a few, but read a chapter or two at a time during the mornings at the local diner. Definitely wasted unknown time deep diving on YouTube with many of the artists that Hyden referenced.
Tags 2017 Books, Books, Music, Nirvana, Quickie Book Reviews, Rolling Stones, The Beatles
NYE, Umbrellas, Raining Cats and Dogs
Happy New Year. I faded 2016.
Here's what went down at the stroke of Midnight. Indoor rain at MSG. Raining cats and dogs onto Phish.
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The MDDF Defender
The Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) newsletter.
MDDF Mobilizes to Support Baltimore’s 2012 Star-Spangled Sailabration
By CPT (MDDF) Stephen Rice
Maryland Defense Force Public Affairs
From June 13 to June 19 the Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) supported the commemoration of the bicentennial of The Star-Spangled Banner and the War of 1812 in Baltimore, Maryland. This important national event helped to kick-off a three year series of activities that are designed to commemorate the writing of our National Anthem and our nation’s struggle for independence. Although a number of government agencies and volunteer organizations played critical roles in the event’s success, Sailabration was principally spearheaded by the U.S. Navy and the City of Baltimore.
The Sailabration festivities brought an estimated 500,000 visitors to Baltimore City to participate in the celebration. In addition, several thousand sailors and Marines visited Baltimore traveling from home ports around the world. Many of the sailors and Marines arrived on the more than 40 ships that paraded up the Chesapeake Bay and docked in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for the special commemoration. Planning for the MDDF participation in the Sailabration event was conducted by Col. (MDDF) David Thaler.
During the opening ceremony, MDDF military escorts and ushers under the leadership of Col. David Thaler (MDDF) and Command Sgt. Maj. (MDDF) Ronald Scott helped to ensure that the dignitaries and the press were properly seated. Dignitaries in attendance included Maryland Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Rear Adm. Gregory M. Nosal and Brig. Gen. (MDDF) Brian R. Kelm. Music was provided by the U.S. Navy Band.
MDDF trusted agents under the leadership of Col. (MDDF) Walter Coryell worked to ensure that civilian visitors were safely transported to Locust Point where many of the “grey hull ships” were docked. At least one MDDF trusted agent was posted on each visitor shuttle bus between the Baltimore Ravens M&T Bank Stadium and the Locust Point harbor site. Over the six day celebration the trusted agents helped to ensure the safety of over 8,000 visitors.
The MDDF 10th Medical Regiment under the leadership of Col. (MDDF) Walter Hettinger erected and operated two medical tents during Sailabration. A Mobile Medical tent was located at the Baltimore Inner Harbor and another was located at Ft. McHenry. The 10th Medical Regiment was augmented by the MDDF Linguistics Unit which was under the leadership of Col. (MDDF) Stanley Shapiro and Lt. Col. (MDDF) Sierra Braiterman. The Linguistics Unit provided skilled interpreters for international visitors that were not native English speakers. Over the course of the six day event the 10th Medical Regiment successfully treated 103 patients for an assortment of medical issues.
In order to support MDDF field units and the Baltimore City and U.S. Navy operations centers, a MDDF operations center was established in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore. The MDDF operations center was located at the Polish National Alliance headquarters and executed its mission under Col. (MDDF) Raymond Bocelli. Supporting the Sailabration communications network was the MDDF Communications Unit under the direction of Col. (MDDF) Henry Clark. In addition, a recruiting booth for the MDDF was coordinated by Capt. (MDDF) Bryan Fischer.
In supporting the Sailabration mission, MDDF personnel contributed over 4,400 man hours to the success of this event. Nearly 200 MDDF personnel participated in Sailabration which helped to save the U.S. Navy, the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore well over $250,000. At the conclusion of Sailabration MDDF Commander Brig. Gen. (MDDF) Brian R. Kelm commented that he “could not be more proud of my MDDF soldiers as they have completely exceeded my expectations.”
The Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) is the State’s uniformed volunteer military unit providing professional and technical assistance to the Maryland Military Department. Established in 1917, the MDDF consists of nearly 450 personnel who perform legal, engineering, finance, medical, chaplain, field support and ceremonial services for the State of Maryland. For more information: www.mddf.maryland.gov
Posted by Brian F. Payton at 8:39 PM
MDDF Command Staff Colonel Receives Meritorious Service Award
On June 14, 2012 Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) Col. David S. Thaler will receive the Meritorious Service Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Col. (MDDF) Thaler is a member of the 121st Engineer Regiment of the Maryland Defense Force and President of D.S. Thaler & Associates, Inc. D.S. Thaler & Associates is a civil and environmental engineering, surveying, landscape architecture and land planning firm that was founded by Col. (MDDF) Thaler over 35 years ago.
As a practitioner, he has designed hundreds of residential, commercial and industrial land development projects throughout the Mid-Atlantic. His firm has created many innovative designs and he invented the “Super Silt Fence” technique which has become an international standard. Col. (MDDF) Thaler’s specialty is managing large, difficult and environmentally complex projects.
Thaler has been an advocate and educator for the land use industry for several years. He has published more than 200 articles and four books on engineering and development topics. In addition, Col. (MDDF) Thaler previously taught storm water engineering at Lehigh University. Most recently he taught at the University of Maryland School of Architecture and at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business. Currently, he presents a program entitled “Thaler on Land Use” at the University of Baltimore School of Law where he serves as a Visiting Scholar.
Col. (MDDF) Thaler has also been very involved in civic affairs. He is a past president of the Maryland Society of Professional Engineers and was the founding president of the Land Development Council of Maryland. Thaler is a fellow of both the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Society of Professional Engineers. He is also the recipient of many other honors and lifetime achievement awards.
As an engineer within the MDDF, Col. Thaler formed a partnership between the MDDF and the Maryland Society of Professional Engineers. This initiative is called the Maryland Engineering Emergency Response Team. It provides volunteer professional engineering services to support the Maryland National Guard in times of emergency.
Brig. Gen. (MDDF) Brian R. Kelm, the commanding general of the MDDF commented that “Col. Thaler is special in that he is both very technically proficient and he knows how to lead. He is a wonderful asset to the MDDF.“
The Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) is the State’s uniformed volunteer military unit providing professional and technical assistance to the Maryland Military Department. Established in 1917, the MDDF consists of nearly 450 personnel who perform legal, engineering, finance, medical, chaplain, field support and ceremonial services for the State of Maryland. For more information: www.mddf.maryland.gov.
Posted by Paul Swenson at 11:11 AM
Maryland Defense Force Participates in Operation STAT Disaster Drill
By COL (MDDF) H. Wayne Nelson, LTC (MDDF) Elizabeth Austin
On April 20, 2012 Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) personnel worked side by side with Maryland National Guard ambulance units, local police units, emergency medical technicians, nurses, nursing students, the Maryland State Funeral Directors Association disaster response team and public health professionals in response to a simulated earthquake at Towson University. This field training exercise called Operation STAT was a mass casualty calamity drill designed to practice a coordinated agency response and to introduce Towson University nursing students to disaster triage.
Operation STAT is in its fourth year and it gave MDDF personnel the opportunity to work beside community partners to enhance interagency cooperation, planning, command and control in a disaster situation. The MDDF 10th Medical Regiment contributed 35 personnel and provided operational leadership. There were 37 MDDF personnel from other units including the Finance Corps, Judge Advocate Corps, the Military Support Unit and the Operations and Training Unit. Towson University provided 546 student “victims” who were treated during the exercise.
Many of the student victims were moulaged with fake blood, bruises, broken bones, impalements and abrasions. This created a sense of realism for the exercise which lasted just under four hours. The MDDF 10th Medical Regiment provided medical, nursing and mental health personnel on site to coach student nurses in the treatment of the injured. The 10th Medical Regiment commander, Col. (MDDF) Walter Hettinger noted that, “It is a nice refresher course for immediate trauma stabilization.”
Other MDDF units provided operational support for the exercise through treatment area set-up, the tracking of supplies, the tracking of patients, radio communication, incident command support and public affairs. Lt. Col. Charles Kohler, Public Affairs Officer of the Maryland National Guard enthusiastically commented that “Everybody is learning, everybody!” Brig. Gen. (MDDF) Brian R. Kelm, the commanding general of the MDDF noted that “the moulage, the expected scenarios and even some unexpected injects were all accomplished in an exemplary manner. Bravo Zulu!”
The Maryland Defense Force (MDDF) is the State’s uniformed volunteer military unit providing professional and technical assistance to the Maryland Military Department. Established in 1917, the MDDF consists of nearly 450 personnel who perform legal, engineering, finance, medical, chaplain, field support and ceremonial services for the State of Maryland. For more information: http://mddf.maryland.gov/.
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Miguel Andujar to have shoulder surgery, likely out for season
5/15/19 9:30 PM Field Level Media
Miguel Andujar injured his right shoulder on a slide back to third base in March. (AP) ()
The New York Yankees are losing Miguel Andujar, probably for the season, after the third baseman decided to have the injured labrum in his right shoulder surgically repaired, the team announced Wednesday.
Andujar, a 24-year-old who has played in only 12 games this season because of two stints on the injured list related to the ailment, will have the operation Monday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Christopher Ahmad will perform the procedure.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the recovery would "probably" end the third-year player's season. The New York Post quoted Dr. Steven Struhl, an orthopedic surgeon at NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, as calling surgery "the most reliable option. With an elite athlete, there's at least a 75-80 percent chance he comes back to his previous level, and I believe he will. The fact he's young is a good thing."
Stuhl said Andujar could need from six to 12 months to recover. He said Andujar could have held off on the surgery, but that while there would have been "no harm in rehabbing more ... you're pushing back his return if you wind up performing surgery."
Andujar hit .128 with no homers and one RBI this year. In 2018, Andujar hit .297 with 27 home runs and 92 RBIs in 149 games, and he finished second in the American League Rookie of the Year voting.
Andujar, who sustained a partial tear of the labrum in his right shoulder when he dived into third base in the third game of the season on March 31, returned from his first stint on the injured list on May 4 and played nine games before going back on the IL.
Boone said Tuesday the latest MRI exam on Andujar's shoulder looked "about identical" to the image after his original injury.
The injury likely means continued playing time for fourth-year infielder Gio Urshela, who is hitting .330 with two home runs and 15 RBIs in 94 at-bats in filling in for Andujar.
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Weekly Briefing: Geneva Talks, Iranian War Games, and Trump's New National Security Advisor
Randa Slim, Alex Vatanka, Paul Salem, Antoun Issa
In this week's Monday Briefing, contributors Randa Slim, Alex Vatanka, Paul Salem, and Antoun Issa provide analysis on recent and upcoming events including the next round of Syria talks in Geneva, Iranian war games directed at President Trump, the appointment of a new U.S. National Security Advisor to replace Michael Flynn, and Israeli PM Netanyahu's trip to Australia.
Russia, Iran Not Committed to Geneva Talks on Syria
Randa Slim, Director of the Initiative for Track II Dialogues
Intra-Syrian talks are set to begin tomorrow in Geneva. According to the office of the U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, the talks will focus on governance issues (in lieu of political transition), constitutional amendments and elections. No one, including the U.N. convener, holds high hopes for these talks. Russia and Iran, the two countries that have influence over the Syrian regime, are still not committed to the political process. Despite their officials’ statements to the contrary, their actions on the ground in Syria are pushing for a political solution to be concluded on Assad’s terms.
As his negotiators are talking in Geneva, the Syrian regime and its backers are creating faits accomplis on the ground through bombings, sieges, and sectarian re-engineering of regime-controlled areas. Assad still talks of regaining control over every inch of the Syrian territory. However, his manpower shortage and his allies’ lukewarm support for his grandiose plans will eventually force him to live with a ‘useful’ and pliant Syria that can stay under his control for the foreseeable future.
As a result, the Geneva political process is gradually being hollowed out of its substance. Still, the international community will strive to keep the process alive primarily as a place holder. While the political arrangements to shape conflict settlement in Syria can no longer be decided by Syrians alone, a political process will be needed to legitimize any deal to be reached among foreign powers fighting in Syria—primarily Iran, Turkey and Russia. When that time comes, a Syria that is reconciled with itself on the basis of an inclusive political process will not be the end product.
Iranian War Games Directed at Trump
Alex Vatanka, Senior Fellow
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (I.R.G.C.) conducted its latest war games this week. Named the Great Prophet 11, the military drills included all the usual panoply to be expected. From the I.R.G.C. touting its capacity to wage warfare in urban terrain to testing of drones, missiles and artillery firepower, the two-day war games had it all.
It would be obvious to conclude the United States is the primary audience of this muscular display. After all, the I.R.G.C. has much at stake in any effort to be able to shape American calculations. The drills come at a time when the U.S. Congress is deliberating eight new sanction bills against Iran, including one that would designate the entire I.R.G.C. a terrorist entity. President Donald Trump, unlike Obama, is by some accounts seriously open to such efforts by members of the Congress.
But while the I.R.G.C.’s trepidations about U.S. policy toward Iran are real, its inordinate military showmanship is also a cue to the Iranian people. The message is simple, and it claims that only the I.R.G.C. can defend Iran from external threats. As has been the case in previous years, the I.R.G.C. constantly strives to shore up its credentials as the vanguard of Iran. The trouble for the I.R.G.C. is that many Iranians are openly incredulous about such claims. They see I.R.G.C.’s brinkmanship at home and abroad—including its adventurist military interventions in Iraq and Syria—to be the reason behind resurgent international pressure on Iran.
McMaster Brings Strategic Depth to the White House
Paul Salem, Vice President for Policy and Research
President Donald Trump’s choice of an experienced warrior and deep strategic thinker, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, for National Security Advisor is a great leap forward from the ideological and erratic Michael Flynn and completes a very strong national security team. McMaster has a powerful presence, but whether he will be able to maintain the president’s ear and dominate the national security narrative in the face of reckless right-wing ideologues like Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka is yet to be seen.
And if the White House is to move beyond simplistic passions and executive orders and develop coherent strategy on the three-dimensional chessboard of the Middle East, McMaster will have to grapple with many contradictions: how to square Trump’s predilection for working with Russia while Moscow is allied with American adversaries in Iran and Hezbollah? How to contain and push back on Iran without getting into a shooting war and while working with its allies against ISIS in Iraq? How to push ISIS out of Raqqa while keeping the Turks and Kurds from coming to blows? And beyond the kinetic war against ISIS and al-Qaeda, how to bring back stability to failed states like Syria, Libya and Yemen, where terrorist groups thrive?
It’s been a long time since a man of McMaster’s stature and intellect held this office, but the challenges he faces in wrestling with an ideological White House and mercurial president, as well as a Middle East fraught with conflicts and contradictions, will greatly test his mettle.
Netanyahu’s Contentious Trip Down Under
Antoun Issa, Senior Editor
Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Israeli prime minister to visit Australia today, despite decades of steadfast Australian support for the Jewish state. As often with Netanyahu’s international trips, his visit to Australia was contentious before it began, with more than 60 prominent Australians publishing an open letter opposing his visit and protests planned throughout his stay. The Israeli PM hasn’t shied away from controversy either, engaging in a public spat with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over the latter’s call for recognition of a Palestinian state.
Despite the hurdles, Netanyahu can expect bipartisan support from Australia’s ruling conservative government and opposition Labor Party. Australia has traditionally been one of Israel’s greatest supporters, generally voting alongside it at the U.N. Strong support among Australia’s leading political parties for the Jewish state—despite vocal public opposition to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians—stems from two key factors: the strength of Australia’s pro-Israel lobby, and Australia’s alliance with the United States.
For Netanyahu, the trip to a loyal friend in Australia helps to combat the perception of his international isolation. Donald Trump’s victory has emboldened Netanyahu to seek to change the narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after years of acrimony with the Obama administration and growing condemnation from Europe. The current diplomatic offensive, which has also taken him to Washington and London, is an attempt to do just that, while demonstrating that he has important friends in the world who will receive him.
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Oracle System Provides Smooth Sailing
for Busy New York/New Jersey Seaport
he Port of New York/New Jersey is the busiest one on the eastern seaboard, with more than 4,500 ships calling last year. It attracts every conceivable type of vessel, from modern container ships, car carriers, and tankers to the old-fashioned bulk-cargo ships and passenger liners. Managing the flow of traffic through the port, which involves more than 75 shipping companies, is extremely complex. Assigning longshoremen to load and unload the ships each day also requires extensive coordination, since the workers provide services across companies and their hiring is governed by elaborate rules for seniority and skill sets, fixed by the labor contract companies have with the International Longshoremen's Union. Managing the deployment of the longshoremen and the administration of fringe benefits is the responsibility of the New York Shipping Association (NYSA). With a main office in the World Trade Center in New York City, NYSA represents all the companies that call at the port. Member companies look to NYSA as their central processing and record-keeping bureau for administering the benefits and responsibilities of their labor contracts.
TRIMMING THE SAILS
ver the past three years, NYSA set itself a monumental task: to migrate its entire mainframe applications portfolio, consisting of 40 application systems and more than 2,000 online and batch programs developed over the past 27 years in MVS/CICS/VSAM/COBOL, to the Oracle RDBMS running under AIX on IBM RS/6000s. The goal is to convert operations from legacy systems that are expensive and cumbersome to maintain, and to reap the benefits of moving to relational-database technology for superior data management, shortened development time, and ease of use. To date, NYSA's two most mission-critical applications have made the move to Oracle. The first tracks the vessels moving in and out of the port, and the second deploys the longshoremen to the various piers to load and unload the ships.
The rationale for conversion at NYSA will be familiar to many companies who have moved off their mainframes to minicomputers and PC-based systems. "Our two mainframes are more than ten years old," says Philip Krey, manager of database administration and applications development at NYSA. "Management decided they were too costly to maintain and not very efficient, so we decided to downsize. On the mainframe, for example, it could take us two to three weeks to develop a program. Relational-database technology would let us do the same task in about a week and enable us to respond to simple ad hoc requests in a matter of hours instead of days. So we looked at the various options and decided that Oracle best suited our needs."
NYSA's pilot project was an Oracle version of the company's mainframe tonnage system, a complex suite of 75 interlinked programs that track the vessels moving through the port as well as tracking the various commodities on the ships and their assessment rates. The system also makes it possible for management to perform statistical analyses on the ships and the cargo for financial reports. The tonnage system is critical, because it's how NYSA gets its revenue.
"We picked this as our pilot, because we knew if the system could do that, it could do anything else we could throw at it," says Krey. The pilot was entirely successful, and by November 1993, NYSA implemented an associationwide production version of the system.
CALLING ALL HANDS
ext in line for conversion was NYSA's most mission-critical application: a contention system that deploys some 3,000 longshoremen with the appropriate skill sets to the various piers in the port, based on the types of vessels that require loading and unloading each day. "This system consists of more than 100 very complex programs that have to be sensitive to the hiring rules of the labor contract, includingseniority and skill sets," says Krey. "It also provides the Waterfront Commission, a bistate policing agency, with the ability to monitor the hiring practices throughout the port."
All told, the system has many crucial components. For example, the Prior Day Ordering/Telephonic Hiring System (PDO/THS) lets hiring agents---sitting at an ASCII-character-based terminal or PC at central headquarters or anywhere up and down the docks---enter a request for longshoremen who match certain skill sets and presents the agents with a pool of candidates. Agents then order the number of dock workers needed to their pier for the next day at a specific start time. There are various daily sessions during which different types of hiring take place, such as same-day hiring for absentees, volunteer hiring to fill extra labor needs, and next-day hiring of lists and gangs (groups of people with related skills, ordered as a unit). All this has to interface with NYSA's Availability System, which indicates when a worker is on vacation, sick, or otherwise unable to work. A longshoreman can also be extended to work additional days, in which case the hiring agents have to update the system so that the individual does not appear in the pool of available candidates. Onscreen forms, developed in Oracle Forms (now Developer/2000), present the lists to the users, where they can check off the names of workers with the proper skill sets for hiring. These hiring sessions are controlled by a procedure incorporated into each program that checks a master runtime table for valid times of program execution.
The longshoremen call in to the Telephonic Hiring Center to obtain job information for the next day or to obtain shape credit for the day if they do not have a job. Shape credit is used in other application systems to determine eligibility for various fringe benefits, such as guaranteed-annual-income payments or a holiday payment. The PDO/THS Telephonic Call-In System eliminated the need for the old-fashioned shape-up centers, where the longshoremen would report each morning to obtain a job for the day. It also increased productivity, because the longshoremen know their job information the night before and report directly to the pier.
All ordering programs query the Availability System to make sure that individuals will not appear in the pool of candidates if they are unavailable for any reason. NYSA's Vacation Scheduling System also has to pass information to the Availability System so that the PDO/THS system does not allow a vacationing individual to appear in the pool of candidates to be hired. Additionally, an extensive logging procedure in all programs creates an audit trail for all online adds and updates---essential for tracking changes made to the data. The system maintains audit trails as stored procedures, which are called by programs as needed. Another procedure allows users to view the audit trail by simply pressing a function key.
"You begin to see the complexity of our systems as well as the unique requirements that are incorporated in them," says Krey. "We also have to keep the mainframe and Oracle versions in total sync. Because some of the related applications are still on the mainframe and need PDO data, we have to reverse-bridge the day's transactions to the mainframe each night. Since most of our applications talk to one another and are dependent on shared information, this bridging and reverse-bridging will continue until we're done with the conversion. Keeping all the data in sync on both platforms gives a whole new definition to the term smoke and mirrors!"
DOWN TO BRASS TACKS
It took NYSA some time to develop a methodology for the conversion and to build a foundation for it. This meant ensuring a consistent look and feel across all applications, developing naming conventions for tables and programs, and remapping the function keys on the terminals to perform specific operations. NYSA developed stored procedures to eliminate redundant code, to reduce development time, and to ensure consistent results across all programs. Based on their applications portfolio, their business requirements, and the makeup of their approximately 250 users (they are spread out over the World Trade Center, the New York/New Jersey waterfronts, and a variety of other locations in the bistate area), NYSA decided to implement a centralized strategy for the new Oracle system. Reliability requirements were high. "The system had to be available seven days a week, from 6 a.m. to midnight, and we could allow for no more than a 30-minute outage during a system-component failure," explains Blase Fagone, manager of technical services. "AIX RS/6000 facilities fit in with Oracle's recovery components quite well, and we configured the system with redundant hardware and switching capabilities to handle just about any type of failure."
oday the system sits on two Model R24 RS/6000s. There are 72 gigabytes of 933 Direct Access Storage Device (DASD), two 5-gigabyte tape drives, sixteen 3480 tape drives, and two 2,200-line-per-minute printers attached to both RS/6000s. Expansion plans include upgrading the DASD capacity to 96 gigabytes. The network consists primarily of ASCII-character-based terminals, with certain users accessing the Oracle applications via terminal emulation over NYSA's Novell local-area network (LAN). All applications are logically separated into separate instances, providing easier maintenance and a smooth expansion path in case NYSA decides to distribute any more services in the future.
"We used Oracle's RDBMS, SQL*Forms and SQL*ReportWriter [now components of Developer/2000], and SQL*Plus to build our applications, and we used SQL*Menu [now also a component of Developer/2000], with its role facilities, to control access to the system," says Fagone. "After logging into AIX and supplying a password, users are presented with a master menu, which contains only those applications they have authorization to access. When users select an application, the system takes a path through SQL*Net to the database instance that contains that particular application."
nce there, users are presented with a main menu that provides access to the individual programs within that application. Users remain within the main-menu-to-program environment and return to the master menu only when they are required to move onto another application. When users require data from other application instances, the system accesses the data via Oracle's database-link facilities. "This access methodology provides us with a great deal of security and prevents users from getting anywhere near the $-prompt," Fagone says. "It also allows us to bring up a mission-critical instance by itself if the need arises and thus facilitates maintenance work on all of the instances. We've implemented a distributed model on a centralized platform in order to maintain the integrity, recoverability, and change-management benefits associated with centralized control and at the same time retain the flexibility to distribute processes and/or applications if and when that is appropriate."
Converting to Oracle meant a steep learning curve initially for in-house programmers, although computer-based training in the Oracle toolset helped get them up to speed in relational-database technology.
Even so, Krey reports better than a 50 percent increase in development productivity, faster online processing, and a significant improvement in user-friendliness as a consequence of the menu-driven and zoom capabilities of the system. Users now have pick lists from which to choose workers, with record-locking capability and faster transaction time---even with as many as 200 simultaneous users on the system. "Management also benefits from the new system, since we can now supply reports to executives in a matter of hours rather than weeks," says Krey. "We can more easily translate data into Lotus spreadsheets, for example, for efficient financial management, where executives can do all the slicing and dicing they want."
NYSA also has implemented an extensive hands-on training program, complete with a user manual and a keyboard template, to educate the user community, and has developed a demonstration system to use as both a training tool and a way to show off the new system.
MAINFRAME TO THE DRY DOCK
At press time, NYSA was in the process of implementing Payroll Reporting and nearing completion of converting its Guaranteed Annual Income and Pension Payments systems to Oracle. The Payroll Reporting System, consisting of 100 programs, enables NYSA to consolidate payroll information across the various companies for each worker. The Guaranteed Annual Income System provides individuals with their guaranteed pay if there was not enough work for them on a given day. And the new version of Pension Payments will include an electronic-funds-transfer system to enable NYSA to make deposits directly to a retiree's bank account.
"The migration is in full swing, with multiple applications being converted simultaneously," says Krey. "If all goes as scheduled, the majority of the applications will be migrated by the first quarter of 1996 and the conversion will be concluded with a mainframe garage sale at the end of the year."
Michael Miley is a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California. You can reach him via e-mail at mikemiley@aol.com.
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Improving Health Literacy Could Improve Healthcare; Save an Estimated $73 Billion A Year.
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations
In October, pink starts to appear on shelves and in the media. Breast Cancer Awareness Month (sometimes dubbed “Pinktober”) is an incredibly successful campaign. But it’s not the only public health initiative in October. This month is alsoHealth Literacy Month, a less well known but vitally important campaign and concept.
Health Literacy for Patients
It’s still a relatively new concept, but in brief, health literacy is the idea that both health and literacy are essential resources for everyday living. It is defined as “the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions.” In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) outlined three basic levels of health literacy: functional, conceptual, and empowerment.
Functional health literacy is the ability to read. If you’re reading this article, you’re also able to read medical consent forms, appointment schedules, doctors’ notes, and the labels and instructions on medicine. Count yourself lucky – 32 million American adults cannot read. That’s 14 percent of our population. An additional 21 percent of American adults read below a 5th grade level, leaving them woefully underprepared for sometimes complex written instructions from doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.
Conceptual literacy refers to the skills developed over our lifetime to seek out, understand, evaluate, and use health information and concepts. Conceptual literacy helps us enjoy a better quality of life, make informed choices about our healthcare, and reduce health risks.
Health literacy empowers individuals to understand their rights as patients and navigate the healthcare system at large. Health literate people are informed consumers with regard to the health risks of products and services. They understand options offered by health care providers. A group of educated, health literate people can come together to improve health for all through political action, advocacy, or social movements.
Also included in health literacy? Numeracy skills. Just choosing a health plan requires math to calculate premiums, copays, and deductibles, and to factor all three into your budget. Understanding a nutrition label requires math skills, as do calculating cholesterol levels and measuring medication. For people with diabetes, math is a factor each time they use insulin as they take into account their current blood sugar and/or the carbohydrates they’ve ingested.
Improving Health Literacy
According to the Institute of Medicine, 90 million Americans lack proper health literacy skills. At a time when healthcare costs are still rising, it’s estimated that a health literate society could save $73 billion in excess spending. The health benefits on an individual level could be astonishing.
For starters, we must work as a nation to improve our literacy rate – we have not improved in ten years. But there are organizations, like the American Library Association, working towards greater literacy. Learn more about their work here.
Providers play a vital role in improving health literacy as well. First providers must learn communication techniques, such as plain speech (providing the most important information first, breaking down complex information into smaller, understandable pieces, using the active voice, and generally foregoing technical terms in favor of simple language, and explaining technical terms when necessary.)
Cultural competence is part of provider literacy, too. Cultural beliefs, values, attitudes, and traditions all play a role in a patient’s feelings about healthcare and treatments. Understanding a patient’s culture can help providers create better health outcomes.
Next week, I’ll dive into October’s important cause-celebre, Breast Cancer Awareness. But I do hope that you’ll spare some time to learn about the foundation of good health, health literacy. It’s what allows us to make good use of this month’s awareness information! You can learn more about health literacy and ways to improve your own skills in the links below.
CDC: Learn About Health Literacy
Institute of Medicine: Health Literacy
For a deep dive into health literacy, look over this WHO white paper. It was prepared for a global conference, but illuminates the benefits and challenges to health literacy.
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Proposed rule regarding Home Health and Conditions of Participation
Medicare and Medicaid Program: Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies
This proposed rule would revise the current conditions of participation (CoPs) that home health agencies (HHAs) must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The proposed requirements would focus on the care delivered to patients by home health agencies, reflect an interdisciplinary view of patient care, allow home health agencies greater flexibility in meeting quality care standards, and eliminate unnecessary procedural requirements. These changes are an integral part of our overall effort to achieve broad-based, measurable improvements in the quality of care furnished through the Medicare and Medicaid programs, while at the same time eliminating unnecessary procedural burdens on providers.
To be assured consideration, comments must be received at one of the addresses provided below, no later than 5 p.m. on December 8, 2014.
Under our proposal, the HHA CoPs would continue to be set forth in regulations under 42 CFR part 484. However, since many of the current requirements in part 484 would be revised, consolidated with other requirements, or eliminated, this proposed rule would make extensive changes in the current organizational scheme. The most significant change would be grouping together all CoPs directly related to patient care and place them near the beginning of part 484. Regulations concerning the organization and administration of a HHA would follow in a separate subpart titled “Organizational Environment.” This format would be better in keeping with the patient-centered orientation of these regulations, and would reinforce our view that patient assessment, care planning, and quality assessment and performance improvement efforts are central to the delivery of high quality care.
B. Proposed Subpart A, General Provisions
We propose to reorganize this section to clarify the basis and scope of this part. Specifically, § 484.1 would set out the statutory authority for these regulations. Part 484 is based on sections 1861(o) and 1891 of the Act, which establish the conditions that a HHA must meet in order to participate in the Medicare program. Part 484 is also based on section 1861(z) of the Act, which specifies the institutional planning standards that HHAs must meet. These provisions serve as the basis for survey activities for the purposes of determining whether an agency meets the requirements for participation in Medicare. Currently, § 484.1(a)(3) refers to section 1895 of the Act, which serves as the basis for the establishment of a prospective payment system for home health services covered under Medicare. This section of the Act is already cited at § 484.200 as the basis for subpart E of this part, Prospective Payment System for Home Health Agencies, therefore, we propose to delete § 484.1(a)(3).
At § 484.2, we propose to clarify some of the definitions for terms used in the HHA CoPs. The definition for “branch office” would be modified by adding the requirement that the parent agency offer more than the sharing of services; specifically, that it provide supervision and administrative control of branches on a daily basis to the extent that the branch depends upon the parent agency's supervision and administrative functions in order to meet the CoPs, and could not do so as an independent entity. The supervision and administrative control would have to assure that the quality and scope of items and services provided was of the highest practicable level for all patients, so as to meet their medical, nursing, and rehabilitative needs. Though the definition would no longer require the branch office to be “sufficiently close,” the parent agency would have to be available to meet the needs of any situation and respond to issues that could arise with respect to patient care or administration of the agency. A violation of a CoP in one branch office would apply to the entire HHA.
We also propose minor changes in the language of the current definitions for “clinical note,” “parent home health agency,” “proprietary agency,” and “subdivision.” These changes would achieve greater clarity within these definitions and achieve consistency with the other definitions contained in this section.
We also propose to eliminate current definitions of the terms “bylaws” and “supervision.” We believe the meanings of these terms are self-evident, and would provide sub-regulatory guidance on them in the future, should there be a need for such guidance. We are proposing to eliminate the definition for “home health agency” because its definition is set out by statute at section 1861(o) of the Act. We propose to delete the term “progress notes” because notations in the clinical record and more typically referred to as “clinical notes,” a term that is well defined and understood in the HHA industry.
We propose to delete the term “subunit” because the distinction between the requirements that the parent HHA and a subunit must meet are minor. Currently, a subunit must be able, independently, to meet the CoPs. The distinction between a “subunit” of a HHA and an independent HHA is that a “subunit” may share the same governing body, administrator, and group of professional personnel with its parent HHA. In practice, the requirement that a “subunit” must independently meet the CoPs renders this distinction moot, and we believe that an entity operating for all intents and purposes as a distinct HHA should be treated as such. Therefore, upon finalization of this rule, existing subunits, which already operate under their own provider number, would be considered distinct HHAs and would be required to independently meet all CoPs without sharing a governing body or administrator. We propose to delete the requirements for the group of professional personnel; therefore it would no long matter if this group was shared among HHAs. Based on state-specific laws and regulations, this federal regulatory change would permit a subunit to apply to become a branch of its existing parent HHA if the parent provided “. . . direct support and administrative control” of the branch. The state survey agency and CMS Regional Office are responsible for approving a HHA's application for a branch office, in accordance with current CMS guidance as set out in various survey and certification lettersand section 2182.4B of the State Operations Manual. No new subunits would be approved upon implementation of this regulation, only “branch offices.”
Finally, we propose to add definitions for the terms “in advance,” “quality indicator,” “representative,” “supervised practical training,” and “verbal order.” We would add a definition for the term “quality indicator” because the use of quality indicators is central to a HHA's successful implementation of a quality assessment and performance improvement program. HHAs already have numerous quality indicators available to them through the OASIS. The OASIS data set provides empirical data to measure the quality of care a Medicare patient receives from an HHA, including care delivery, patient outcomes, and potentially avoidable events. The data are able to demonstrate trends across time. The OASIS data and the measures calculated from that data are indicators of quality that can be used for internal quality improvement efforts, in the survey process, and in the consumer decision-making process. However, the HHA quality indicators would not be limited to data gathered by the OASIS instrument or even measures calculated by CMS. HHAs may also identify quality indicators from outside sources such as research projects, collaborative QIO endeavors, and accrediting bodies, to name a few.
We propose to define the term “representative” in a patient-centered manner that enables patients to choose their representatives, if they wish to do so. We believe that the patient receiving services should be involved in the person-centered care planning process, and recognize that there are times when patients may want to involve other people in that process to assist in making decisions. Likewise, patients may also choose to designate another person to make all decisions on the patient's behalf. We believe that defining a “representative” in a manner that recognizes patient choice, both in who the representative is and in the role that the representative will play, would be beneficial to patients. We also propose to explicitly recognize legal guardians in situations where the patient has one. If a HHA has reason to believe that the representative is not acting in accordance with what the patient would want, is making decisions that could cause harm to the patient, or otherwise cannot perform the required functions of a representative, we would expect the HHA to make referrals and/or reports to the appropriate agencies and authorities to assure the health and safety of the patient.
We would define the term “verbal orders” to mean those physician orders that are delivered verbally (meaning spoken), by the physician, to a nurse or other qualified medical personnel, and recorded in the plan of care. “In advance” and “supervised practical training” would be defined to provide clarity for clinical care purposes.
As discussed in detail in section III.D.4 of this preamble, we are proposing modifications to the current personnel qualifications requirements. Therefore, we would not retain the provisions of current § 484.4, “Personnel qualifications,” under proposed subpart A, General Provisions. These modifications would be set forth under proposed § 484.80, “Home health aide services,” and proposed § 484.115, “Personnel qualifications.”Show citation box
We are also proposing to retain the current definitions of “primary home health agency,” “public agency,” and “summary report” without change.
Proposed Subpart B, Patient Care
1. Release of Patient Identifiable Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) Information (Proposed § 484.40)
At § 484.40, we propose to recodify the current requirements of § 484.11, which require an HHA and its agents to ensure the confidentiality of all patient-identifiable information in the clinical record, including the OASIS data.
2. Reporting OASIS Information (Proposed § 484.45)
In this CoP, we propose to include most of the current requirements of § 484.20, which relate to the electronic reporting of the OASIS data. We propose to replace the current requirement that an HHA transmit data using electronic communications software that provides a direct telephone connection from the HHA to the state agency or CMS OASIS contractor. This requirement does not reflect current technology; therefore, we believe that it is no longer appropriate. Instead, we propose to add a requirement that the OASIS data be transmitted in accordance with current CMS transmission policy, which currently requires HHAs to transmit data using electronic communications software that complies with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS 140-2, issued May 25, 2001).
3. Patient Rights (Proposed § 484.50)
At § 484.50, we propose to re-designate and modify the patient rights provisions that are found at current § 484.10. Section 1891(a)(1) of the Act states a HHA must protect and promote the rights of each individual under its care. Currently, the patient rights provisions are organized into the following six standards: (1) Notice of rights; (2) Exercise of rights and respect for property and person; (3) Right to be informed and to participate in planning care and treatment; (4) Confidentiality of medical records; (5) Patient liability for payment; and (6) the Home Health hotline.
In this rule, we propose to reorganize patient rights under six standards: (1) Notice of rights; (2) Exercise of rights; (3) Rights of the patient; (4) Transfer and discharge; (5) Investigation of complaints; and (6) Accessibility. While the proposed patient rights provisions retain much of the basic focus of the current provisions, we believe our proposal presents a clearer and more organized view of our expectation of how HHAs should promote patient rights by focusing on ensuring patient safety and improving patient outcomes.
The current “Notice of rights” standard states only that the HHA must provide written notice of the patient's rights in advance of furnishing care, and that the HHA must maintain documentation demonstrating compliance. In proposed § 484.50(a), we state that each patient and patient representative (if the patient has one), has the right to be informed of his or her rights in a language and manner the individual understands. More specifically, under proposed § 484.50(a)(1), we propose that the HHA provide the patient and patient's representative with verbal notice of the patient's rights in the primary or preferred language of the patient or representative, and in a manner that the individual can understand, during the initial evaluation visit, and in advance of care being furnished by the HHA. The patient's representative, who could be a family member or friend who accompanies the patient, may act as a liaison between the patient and the HHA to help the patient communicate, understand, remember, and cope with the interactions that take place during the visit, and explain any instructions to the patient that are delivered by the HHA staff. The representative would not need to be the patient's legal representative.
If a patient is unable to effectively communicate directly with HHA staff, then the HHA may effectively communicate patient rights information to the patient's representative. Communications with the representative would be required to bein the representative's primary or preferred language and in a manner that he or she can understand. Whether communicating with a patient or representative, HHA staff would be required to provide language assistance services or auxiliary aids and services at no cost, and provide notice of the availability of assistance, when necessary, to ensure effective communication between patients, representatives, and HHA staff. We note that the requirement to provide assistance and aids already exists as part of relevant statutes (for example, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) and the regulations that implement these statutes (see 45 CFR parts 480, 405, and 490), and that HHAs agree to abide by these regulations as part of the provider agreement that they sign in order to participate in Medicare (see 42 CFR part 489). Compliance with the existing statutes, regulations, and sub-regulatory guidance documents would satisfy the intent of this proposed provision.
If the patient or representative prefers using an interpreter of his or her own, he or she may do so. The HHA must ensure that the communication via the interpreter of choice is effective. HHAs may wish to document the offer and refusal of a professional interpreter in the patient's clinical record as evidence of compliance with the requirements of this section. A professional interpreter is not considered to be a patient's representative. Rather, it is the professional interpreter's role to pass information from the HHA to the patient.
We also propose to require that the patient be provided a written copy of the patient rights information. This could be provided in English or in the patient's primary or preferred language for present or future reference. The written information would be required to be provided in alternate formats free of charge for persons with disabilities, when necessary, to ensure effective communication. In addition, written notice would be required to be understandable to persons who have limited English proficiency. Furthermore, HHAs would be required to inform patients of the availability of the services and instruct patients how to access those services.
While we propose these requirements under the authority of sections 1861(o) and 1891 of the Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 also apply to HHAs, as well as other health care providers. Our proposed requirement has been designed to be compatible with guidance related to title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) guidance related to Title VI, “Guidance to Federal Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons” (August 8, 2003, 68 FR 47311) applies to those entities that receive federal financial assistance from HHS, including HHAs that participate in Medicare and Medicaid. This guidance may assist HHAs in ensuring that patient rights information is provided in a language and manner the patient understands.
Proposed § 484.50(a)(2) would require the HHA to provide each patient with specific business contact information for the HHA's administrator so that patients and caregivers could report complaints and specific patient rights violations to the HHA administrator, and so that patients and caregivers can ask questions about the care being provided.
We are also proposing at § 484.50(a)(3) that the HHA provide a copy of the OASIS privacy notice to all patients from whom the OASIS data are collected at the same time that the general notice of rights is provided to the patient. The OASIS privacy notice would inform the patient why the OASIS information was being collected and describe the rights of the patient regarding the collection of this information. The OASIS privacy notice is available in English and Spanish, and can be found at http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/OASIS/Regulations.html. Use of the OASIS Privacy Notice is required by the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, and must be used, in addition to other notices that may be required by other privacy laws and regulations. There is additional discussion of the use of the OASIS Privacy Notice in the Dec. 23, 2005 rule (70 FR 76199, 76201), where we referred to a variety of provisions governing the privacy and security of the Federal automated information systems.
Finally, at § 484.50(a)(4), we would require that the HHA obtain the patient's or representative's signature confirming that he or she has received a copy of the notice of rights and responsibilities.
The current standard at § 484.10(b) sets out requirements for the exercise of patient rights and respect for property and person as one standard. We have stressed the importance of these two individual concepts by proposing to separate the requirements into 2 standards at § 484.50(b), “Exercise of rights” and at § 484.50(c), “Rights of the patient.” Under proposed § 484.50(b), in the event that a patient was declared incompetent under state law by a court of proper jurisdiction, the rights of that patient could be exercised by the person appointed by the state Court. If a state court had not made a declaration, any representative, as chosen by the patient, could exercise the rights of the patient in accordance with the patient's preferences. In situations where a patient has been adjudged to lack legal capacity under state law by a court of proper jurisdiction, the patient would be allowed to exercise his or her rights to the extent allowed by the court order. We propose these provisions in recognition of the complexities of representation. There are many circumstances under which representatives may be used, and the extent of such representation varies from one patient to another. Some patients may require total representation because they are unable to communicate and advocate for themselves. Others may be able to participate in their care to a certain degree and require representation as a supportive mechanism. Still other patients may wish to hand off decision-making and advocacy responsibilities to another person even though these patients are fully capable of fulfilling this role themselves. Our goal is to provide guidance to HHAs regarding how to address these situations and intricacies in the most patient-centered, patient-directed way possible. We specifically seek public comment on ways to assure that patient choice is respected and upheld, while also balancing the need to assure patient safety.
Proposed § 484.50(c) would set forth the explicit rights of each home health patient. At § 484.50(c)(1), we propose that the patient would have a right to have his or her property and person treated with respect. At § 484.50(c)(2), we propose that the patient would have a right to be free from verbal, mental, sexual and physical abuse, including injuries of unknown source, neglect, and misappropriation of property. If an injury of unknown source is identified, we would expect the HHA to investigate the injury in order to determine its cause and take action to prevent further injuries related to that source. Under proposed § 484.50(c)(3), the patient would have a right to make complaints to the HHA regarding treatment or care that was (or failed to be) furnished which the patient and/or their family believe was inappropriate. Under proposed § 484.50(c)(4), patients and their representatives would also have the right to participate in, be informed about, and consent or refuse care.Moreover, each patient would have the right to participate in and be informed about the patient-specific comprehensive assessment, including an assessment of the patient's goals and care preferences. We expect that this assessment would focus on goals and preferences that are specific to the delivery of home health care. Additionally, each patient would have the right to participate in and be informed about the care that the HHA will furnish based on the needs identified during the comprehensive assessment, establishing and revising that plan, the disciplines that will furnish care, the frequency of visits, identifying expected outcomes of care, and any factors that could impact treatment effectiveness. In accordance with proposed § 484.50(c)(4)(iii), each patient would also have the right to receive a copy of his or her individualized HHA plan of care to be kept in his or her home, including all updated plans of care, as described in proposed § 484.60. HHAs would be required at § 484.50(c)(4)(viii) to inform the patient about any changes in the care to be furnished in advance of those changes being made in the patient's plan of care. In addition to being involved in the care planning process, we would add a requirement at § 484.50(c)(5) that patients have the right to receive all of the services outlined in the plan of care. Additionally, we propose to retain the current requirements from current § 484.10(d), which concern the patient's right to the confidentiality of his or her clinical records, under proposed § 484.50(c)(6). In order to maintain confidentiality within the patient's home, as we are proposing at § 484.50(c)(4)(iii), we would expect an HHA to educate a patient and family about how to store the copy of the patient's plan of care in the patient's home.
Proposed § 484.50(c)(7), would retain the requirements of the current standard at § 484.10(e), Patient liability for payment. Patients would be informed about which services would be covered, which services might or might not be covered, and the patient's liability for payment. This patient liability requirement would be related to the home health advance beneficiary notice (ABN) and home health change of care notices; therefore, we propose to reference the current requirements at § 411.408(d)(2) and § 411.408(f). HHAs would be required to comply with all ABN requirements, including restrictions related to who may receive the ABN on the patient's behalf.
In accordance with the requirements of the Medicare provider agreement, HHAs must not discriminate against Medicare beneficiaries, and if a participating HHA accepts non-Medicare patients at any given level of acuity, it must also accept Medicare beneficiaries at a similar level of acuity as a condition of participating in the Medicare program. HHAs that provide services to non-Medicare patients while refusing services to Medicare patients in similar situations risk having their provider agreements terminated, in accordance with § 489.53(a)(2).
At proposed § 484.50(c)(8), we would retain the basic concept of the requirement at current § 484.10(e) regarding patient payment liabilities. A patient would have the right to receive proper written notice, in advance of a specific service being furnished, if the HHA believes that the service may be non-covered care; or in advance of the HHA reducing or terminating on-going care. We propose to revise this current requirement by cross-referencing the regulations regarding expedited reviews, found at 42 CFR part 405, subpart J. These requirements protect patients from unexpected bills for usually covered care, which may not be covered by Medicare in a particular instance, and ensures patient access to the expedited review process.
We would retain the current standard found at § 484.10(f), regarding the home health hotline at proposed § 484.50(c)(9). The home health hotline provides an important avenue for patients to register complaints against, or pose questions about, an HHA. Patients would still retain the right to be informed of the availability of the toll-free home health hotline in their state, including the telephone number and the hours of operation. The patients would be advised that the purpose of the hotline was to receive complaints or questions about local HHAs. Additionally, under § 484.50(c)(10), patients would be advised of the names, addresses, and telephone numbers for relevant Federally and State-funded consumer information, consumer protection, and advocacy agencies. HHAs should select agencies that have a public service mission and provide assistance free of charge, such as area Agencies on Aging, Aging and Disability Resource Centers, legal service programs, State Health Insurance Programs, and Adult Protective Services. HHAs would have the discretion to select, for inclusion in the list, those local agencies and organizations that are likely to be most appropriate for the needs of each HHA's unique patient population.
We also propose at § 484.50(c)(11), that patients have the right to be free from discrimination or reprisal for exercising their rights, whether by voicing grievances to the HHA or to an outside entity, such as those advocacy and protection agencies described above. Examples of discrimination or reprisal may include a reduction of current services or a complete discontinuation of services and discharge from the HHA.
Finally, we propose at § 484.50(c)(12) that patients have the right to be informed of their right to access auxiliary aids and language services, and to be provided instruction on how to access these services. We believe that making auxiliary aids and language services available to patients, to facilitate an understanding of their rights and to facilitate the provision of care throughout the care planning and care delivery process will improve the quality and effectiveness of the care that is delivered, and will improve the patient's experience of care as a whole.
We propose to add a new standard at § 484.50(d), which would mandate that all patients and representatives (if any), have the right to be informed of the HHA's policies governing admission, transfer, and discharge. This proposed standard would list the criteria by which an HHA could discharge or transfer a patient. The proposed criteria are designed to help prevent the untimely discharge of home health patients and ensure that patients are discharged or transferred only under appropriate circumstances. This proposed standard would require that the HHA inform its patients of its policies governing admission, transfer, and discharge in advance of the HHA providing care. Under this proposed standard, an HHA could only transfer, discharge, or terminate care for the following reasons: (1) When the HHA could no longer meet the patient's needs, based on the patient's acuity; (2) when the patient or payer could no longer pay for the services provided by the HHA; (3) when the physician and HHA agreed that the patient no longer needed HHA services because the patient's health and safety had improved or stabilized sufficiently; (4) when the patient refused HHA services or otherwise elected to be transferred or discharged (including if the patient elected the Medicare hospice benefit); (5) when there was cause; (6) when a patient died; or (7) when the HHA ceased to operate.
In accordance with the requirements of proposed § 484.50(d)(1), if the care needs of a patient exceeded the HHA's ability to provide services, the HHAwould be required to ensure that the patient received a safe and appropriate transfer to another care entity better suited to meeting the patient's needs. There are no regulations in the current CoPs that address these issues. However, this provision is consistent with the decision in Lutwin v. Thompson 361 F.3d 146 (2nd Cir. 2004) regarding the provision of notice when services are reduced or terminated.
Likewise, although current CMS guidance (100, Chapter 7, Section 10.10, Discharge Issues) allows discharge for cause, there are no regulations in the current CoPs that address these issues. We are proposing to add § 484.50(d)(5) to permit discharge for cause if the patient's (or other persons in the patient's home) behavior is so disruptive, abusive, or uncooperative that the delivery of care to the patient or the ability of the HHA to operate effectively and safely is seriously impaired. Before discharging a patient for cause, the HHA would be required to advise the patient, the representative (if any), the physician who is responsible for the home health plan of care, and the patient's primary care practitioner or other health care professional who will be responsible for providing care and services to the patient after discharge from the HHA (if any) that a discharge for cause was being considered, make efforts to resolve the problem(s) presented by the patient's behavior or by other person(s) in the home (as applicable), or situation (such as a dangerous animal being loose in the home), document the problem(s) and efforts made to resolve the problem(s), and enter this documentation into its clinical records. Additionally, we propose that the HHA would be required to provide the patient and representative (if any), with contact information for other agencies or providers who may be able to provide care following the discharge. It would be incumbent upon the HHA to take all reasonable steps to resolve safety and noncompliance issues prior to taking steps to discharge a patient.
Given the vulnerability of home health patients and in the interest of patient safety, we propose a standard at § 484.50(e), “Investigation of complaints,” that would expand upon the current complaint investigation requirements at § 484.10(b)(5). Proposed § 484.50(e)(1)(i) would require the HHA to investigate complaints made by patients, representatives, caregivers, and families regarding treatment or care that is (or fails to be) furnished, is furnished inconsistently, or is furnished inappropriately. In addition, HHAs would be required to investigate allegations of mistreatment, neglect, or verbal, mental, psychosocial, sexual, and physical abuse, including injuries of unknown source, and/or misappropriation of patient property by anyone furnishing services on behalf of the HHA. This requirement would clarify that all patient complaints should be investigated by HHAs. Proposed § 484.50(e)(1)(ii) would require the HHA to document both the existence and the resolution of the complaint, while § 484.50(e)(1)(iii) would require the HHA to take immediate action to prevent further potential abuse while the complaint was being investigated. We believe that HHAs should be permitted the flexibility to establish their own policies and procedures for documenting and resolving complaints, and we would expect HHAs to consistently adhere to these policies and procedures.
Proposed § 484.50(e)(2) would require any HHA staff, regardless of whether they are employed directly or obtained under arrangements with another entity, to immediately report to the HHA administrator or other appropriate authorities any incidences of mistreatment, neglect, or abuse, and/or any misappropriation of patient property, which they have noticed during the normal course of providing services to patients. Since HHA staff is in a unique position to recognize signs of patient abuse in the home, this proposed requirement would serve to further ensure the health and safety of home health patients. “Appropriate authorities” may include, but are not limited to, state and local law enforcement, health care ombudsmen, and State survey agencies.
To address effective communication with patients who are LEP or have disabilities, we are proposing a new standard at § 484.50(f), “Accessibility.” We propose that information that is provided to patients would be provided in plain language, and in a manner that is both accessible and timely to the individual. For people with disabilities, providing access includes the use of accessible Web sites and the provision of auxiliary aids and services, such as qualified interpreters and alternate formats. For persons with LEP, providing access includes providing oral interpretation and written translations.
4. Comprehensive Assessment of Patients (Proposed § 484.55)
We propose to retain the majority of the substantive requirements of current § 484.55, with significant reorganization. We propose to retain the requirement that each patient be required to receive a patient-specific comprehensive assessment. We also propose to retain the requirement that, for Medicare beneficiaries, the HHA would be required to verify the patient's eligibility for the Medicare home health benefit, including the patient's homebound status, at the specified timeframes. Furthermore, we propose to retain all requirements related to the initial assessment visit at standard (a), as well as the completion of the comprehensive assessment requirements at standard (b).
We propose to establish a new standard (c), “Content of the comprehensive assessment,” that would incorporate much of the content currently set forth in the introductory paragraph of the CoP, the drug regimen review currently set forth in standard (c), and the incorporation of the OASIS data items requirement currently set forth at standard (e). We also propose new content requirements, such as an assessment of psychosocial and cognitive status, which we believe would provide for a more holistic patient assessment. We propose to require that the comprehensive assessment must accurately reflect the patient's status, and would assess or identify (as applicable) the following:
The patient's current health, psychosocial, functional, and cognitive status;
The patient's strengths, goals, and care preferences, including the patient's progress toward achievement of the goals identified by the patient and the measurable outcomes identified by the HHA;
The patient's continuing need for home care;
The patient's medical, nursing, rehabilitative, social, and discharge planning needs;
A review of all medications the patient is currently using;
The patient's primary caregiver(s), if any, and other available supports; and
The patient's representative (if any).
The assessment would also be required to incorporate items from the information collection set out in the OASIS data set, using the language and groupings of the OASIS items, as specified by the Secretary.
We propose to retain the majority of the content of the requirements of current § 484.55(d), with one change. Currently § 418.55(d)(2) generally requires that an update of the comprehensive assessment must be completed within 48 hours of a patient returning home after a hospital admission. This fixed requirement does not allow ordering physicians to modify the time frame for the HHA to resumeits care. We believe that it is in the best interest of patients to allow for more physician discretion so that physicians can tailor the resumption of home health care to the specific needs of a patient. Therefore, we propose to revise § 484.55(d)(2) to allow for a physician-ordered resumption of care date as an alternative to the fixed 48 hour time frame.
5. Care planning, Coordination of Services, and Quality of Care (Proposed § 484.60)
Current regulations concerning the plan of care are set forth at § 484.18, “Acceptance of patients, plan of care, and medical supervision.” We propose to revise that requirement, as well as current § 484.14(g), “Coordination of patient services,” by creating a new condition of participation, “Care planning, coordination of services, and quality of care” at § 484.60. This section would specify that the HHA would have to provide the patient a plan of care that would set out the care and services necessary to meet the patient-specific needs identified in the comprehensive assessment, and the outcomes that the HHA anticipates would occur as a result of developing the individualized plan of care and subsequently implementing its elements. We propose five standards under this CoP, which we believe reflect and encourage the interdisciplinary approach to home health care delivery. We would reorganize the current standards to place the events in the care planning process in sequential order: (1) Plan of care at § 484.60(a); (2) conformance with physician orders at § 484.60(b); (3) review and revision of the plan of care at § 484.60(c); (4) coordination of care at § 484.60(d); and (5) discharge or transfer summary at § 484.60(e).
In this CoP, we propose to require that patients be accepted for treatment on the basis of a reasonable expectation that the patient's medical, nursing, rehabilitative, and social needs could be met adequately by the agency in the patient's place of residence. Each patient would receive an individualized written plan of care which would specify the care and services necessary to meet the patient's needs, including the patient and caregiver education and training that the HHA will provide, specific to the patient's care needs. A copy of this individualized plan would be provided to each patient and representative (if any), in accordance with the proposed patient rights requirements at § 484.50(c)(4)(iii). We believe that providing each patient with a copy of his or her plan of care will improve HHA-patient communications and enable patients to more thoroughly understand the care that they are to receive. We also believe that part of providing this information is teaching patients and their families how to protect the information in order to ensure their right to a confidential record, as would be required in proposed § 484.50(c)(6). The individualized plan of care would be revised or added to at intervals as necessary to continue to meet patient care needs.
We also propose that the plan of care include the patient-specific measurable outcomes which the HHA anticipates would result from its implementation. As described in proposed § 484.50(c)(4), the patient has the right to participate in his or her care planning, including the establishment of goals and outcomes of care. We would expect the plan of care to be reflective of the improvement, maintenance, and/or prevention goals and outcomes specific to each patient's condition. As noted in a recent update to the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual (CR 8458, http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Transmittals/Downloads/R179BP.pdf), consistent with the settlement agreement in the case of Jimmo v. Sebelius, maintenance of the patient's current condition and prevention or slowing of further deterioration of the patient's condition may both warrant the use of skilled care provided under the Medicare home health benefit. All services furnished by the HHA for all purposes would be provided in accordance with accepted standards of practice.
Under proposed § 484.60(a)(1), Plan of care, we propose that all home health services furnished to patients would follow an individualized written plan of care, setting out, among other things, the frequency and duration of therapeutic interventions. The plan would be established, periodically reviewed, and signed by a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, or podiatric medicine acting within the boundaries of all applicable state laws and regulations. An evidence and outcome-based approach to patient care that can be understood by the patient and caregivers, with specificity of orders and adherence to best practice interventions, would provide a basis for the development of the optimal plan of care and goals. Patients participating in the shared decision-making model, where there is a mutually respectful exchange that recognizes the individuality of the patient and a process in which responsibility is divided among the patient, physician, and agency acting on physician orders, will better understand the goals of treatment. These patients are more likely to actively participate in the treatment process and achieve better treatment outcomes. (“A typology of preferences for participation in healthcare decision making,”http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1637042) The shared decision making model has been embraced in literature (“Decision-making in the physician-patient encounter: revisiting the shared treatment decision-making model”, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953699001458;“Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship,” JAMA (1992).; “Physician Recommendations and Patient Autonomy: Finding a Balance between Physician Power and Patient Choice,”http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=710110), and the Institute of Medicine has recommended including it in medical school curricula as a mechanism to improve care (Institute of Medicine, “Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula” (2004)) (See alsobrown.edu/.../Mod2SharedDecMaking/Teachingmats/Handout1SDMDefined.doc). This standard would require that each patient's home health services be furnished under a written, patient-specific plan of care that would identify patient-specific measurable outcomes and goals selected jointly by the HHA and the patient.
We are soliciting public comments regarding methods to engage patients and the physicians who are responsible for their plans of care in the care planning and management process. Specifically, we are interested in ways to maximize the level of involvement of the physician who is most involved in the patient's care prior to admission to the home health agency, and who is responsible for overall treatment of the condition(s) that led to the need for home health care. We believe that the continual involvement of physicians may facilitate better transitions of care, improve patient outcomes, and reduce acute care admissions by clearly establishing (and updating) treatment goals and plans, and effectively delivering care that meets those goals. We are also interested in ways to facilitate communication between the HHA and other physicians and practitioners (such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants) who may be furnishing care for issues that are not directly connected to the issues being addressed by the HHA. Additionally, we are interested in waysto facilitate communication with those physicians and practitioners who will be responsible for managing the patient's care after the patient is discharged from the HHA. We believe that actively soliciting input from these clinicians may help improve the transitions into and out of home health care.
The individualized plan of care would be required to include all pertinent diagnoses; the patient's mental, psychosocial, and cognitive status; the types of services, supplies, and equipment required; the frequency and duration of visits to be made; prognosis; rehabilitation potential; functional limitations; activities permitted; nutritional requirements; all medications and treatments; safety measures to protect against injury; patient and caregiver education and training to facilitate timely discharge or referral; patient-specific measurable outcomes/goals; and any additional interventions/orders the HHA or physician chose to include. We note that it is important for HHAs to consider the social determinants that may contribute to poor health outcomes, as many current approaches to prevention, treatment, and disease control are limited to an individual's diagnosis and related risk factors. There is often a lack of awareness and/or assessment of the factors that may enhance or create a barrier to good health outcomes. Factors such as low income, lack of access to a primary care practitioner, poor nutrition due either to poor choices and/or lack of availability of healthy and affordable food items (for example, “food deserts”), and other environmental, social, and/or emotional issues may affect compliance and/or adherence with medical care and treatment. The HHA staff must be aware of the social and/or economic circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age, as well as what are in place for their overall health care. This contributes to the HHAs ability to identify state, local, and/or federal resources the patient may need in order to design a holistic plan of care that may result in improved health outcomes, care, and treatment results. For example, if an elderly, low income, insulin dependent diabetic patient is not able to afford regular meals, the home health agency staff may refer to local resources such as a food bank, meals on wheels, or other resource. Diabetic patients must have regular meals for blood sugar control. Lack of awareness and intervention related to this factor may result in a poor outcome for the patient. The Underserved Populations (UP) Network provides resources, tools, and webinars for agencies via http://www.homehealthquality.org/UP.aspxfocused on improving outcomes.
In order to implement the individualized physician-prescribed plan of care, agencies often develop a discipline-oriented plan, wherein each specific service being provided (for example, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology) sets out findings, treatment goals, and interventions planned in order to achieve those goals in compliance with the physician's orders.
If HHA services are initiated following a patient's hospital discharge, we propose to require that the HHA must include an assessment of the patient's level of risk for hospital emergency department visits and hospital re-admission. In order to establish the patient's risk level, we believe that HHAs would identify the patient's specific risk factors. We propose that HHAs would be required to include in the patient's individualized plan of care all appropriate interventions that are necessary to address and mitigate those identified risk factors that contribute to the HHA's establishment of a particular risk level for a patient. Resources to assist HHAs in assessing re-hospitalization risks are available at http://www.homehealthquality.org.
Proposed § 484.60(b), “Conformance with physician orders,” would provide that drugs, services, and treatments be administered only as ordered by the physician who is responsible for the home health plan of care, a requirement that is currently set forth at § 484.18(c). This proposed standard also would reflect the vaccination policies of the final rule with comment period published in the Federal Register on October 2, 2002 (67 FR 61808), also set forth at § 484.18(c). That rule provided an exception from the physician order requirement for the administration of influenza and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines. The current requirement allows influenza and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines to be administered based on a HHA policy developed in consultation with a physician, and after an assessment for contraindications. We propose to retain this requirement at § 484.60(b)(2). Proposed § 484.60(b)(4) would maintain the requirement that only personnel authorized by applicable state laws and regulations and the HHA's internal policies, may accept verbal orders from physicians. We would maintain the intent of the current requirement at § 484.18(c) by proposing at § 484.60(b)(5) that a registered nurse (RN) or other qualified practitioner who is licensed to practice by the state must document the order in writing in the patient's clinical record, with a signature, time, and date. As described in the definitions section, for purposes of this rule, verbal orders are those physician orders that are spoken to qualified medical personnel. Verbal orders would also have to be recorded in the patient's plan of care. Reliance on a HHA to maintain physician orders in written form would protect patients by ensuring that the plan of care incorporated all services and treatments ordered by the physician who is responsible for the home health plan of care. If a physician faxed orders or otherwise transmitted them through other electronic methods from his or her office, those orders would be required to be included in the patient's clinical record and plan of care. The proposed rule would provide an opportunity for an HHA to establish policies defining who is authorized to accept physicians' verbal orders. The categories of practitioners identified as being authorized to accept physicians' verbal orders by the HHA would be required to be consistent with state requirements.
We would also require, under proposed § 484.60(b)(5), that verbal orders be authenticated, dated, and timed by the physician according to the HHA's internal policies and applicable state laws and regulations. Many states in their licensure requirements, and HHAs in their policies, have established timeframes for physician countersignature of verbal orders in accordance with the agency's risk tolerance, legal liability, and logistical concerns. Although timeframes may vary, we support state requirements and HHA flexibility in this regard, and do not propose a separate timeframe requirement for physician countersignature for verbal orders for HHA providers. In addition to all applicable state requirements and agency policies, HHAs should also be aware of CMS payment reimbursement requirements, which state that a final claim for each episode of care may not be submitted until all orders are signed.
Under proposed § 484.60(c), “Review and revision of the plan of care,” we propose that the individualized plan of care be reviewed and revised by the physician who is responsible for the HHA plan of care and the HHA as frequently as the patient's condition or needs requires, but no less frequently than once every 60 days, beginning with the start of care date. While the provision would require review and revision at least every 60 days, weexpect that physicians and agency staff would communicate more frequently if a patient's condition warranted it. To ensure patient health and safety, we propose that the HHA promptly alert the physician who is responsible for the HHA plan of care to any changes in the patient's condition or needs that would suggest that measurable outcomes are not being achieved and/or that the HHA should alter the plan. At § 484.60(c)(2), we propose to require that the HHA revise the plan of care, as necessary, to reflect current information from the patient's updated comprehensive assessment, and to record the patient's progress towards meeting the patient-specific measurable outcomes and goals selected by the HHA and patient, as specified in the plan of care. It would be the HHA's responsibility to make certain that all aspects of the revised plan of care were implemented.
Furthermore, we propose that it would be the HHA's responsibility to notify the patient, representative (if any), caregivers, and the physician who is responsible for the HHA plan of care, when the individualized plan of care is updated due to a significant change in the patient's health status. We also propose that, when the HHA makes updates related to plans for the patient's discharge, the HHA would communicate these changes with the patient and representative, caregivers, the physician who is responsible for the HHA plan of care, and the patient's primary care practitioner or other health care professional who will be responsible for providing care and services (if any) to the patient after discharge from the HHA. We believe that communicating with the patient and those who will be continuing to furnish services to the patient after home health services are discontinued regarding changes related to plans for discharge prior to the discharge would allow time for important discussions, preparations, and coordination activities. We note that the patient's primary care practitioner or other health care professional who will be responsible for providing care and services to the patient after discharge from the HHA may be a specialist, a nurse practitioner, a physician assistant, or another type of medical service. In proposed § 484.60(d), “Coordination of care,” we propose to require that the HHA must integrate services, whether services are provided directly or under arrangement, to assure the identification of patient needs and factors that could affect patient safety and treatment effectiveness, the coordination of care provided by all disciplines, and communication with the physician. The proposed standard at § 484.60(d)(2) would also require the HHA to coordinate care delivery to meet each patient's needs, and to involve the patient, representative (if any), and caregiver(s), as appropriate, in the coordination of care activities. It is our goal to support and foster collaboration and communication among the professional disciplines responsible for caring for a patient. It would be the agency's responsibility to determine the degree of coordination necessary to meet the needs of the patient, and to develop an approach that best implemented the coordination of the patient's care. It would also be the agency's responsibility to determine the most appropriate and effective way to provide evidence during a survey that these care coordination activities were occurring on a continual basis for every patient, and that the agency was assessing the impact of care coordination activities on patient care utilizing the HHA's quality assessment and performance improvement program, if appropriate.
Finally, under proposed § 484.60(d)(3), we propose that the HHA ensure that each patient and caregiver, where applicable, receive ongoing training and education from the HHA regarding the care and services identified in the plan of care that the patient and caregiver are expected to implement. This proposed requirement is consistent with those in the current payment-related regulations at § 409.42(c)(1). Ongoing patient training and education includes all periods of time that the patient is receiving care from an HHA, from admission through the day of discharge. The training would include educating the patient about his or her post HHA discharge care duties and the need (as appropriate) to follow-up with the patient's primary care practitioner or other health care professional who will be responsible for providing care and services to the patient after discharge from the HHA. The HHA would be required to ensure that each patient and caregiver receives any training necessary to achieve the patient-specific measurable outcomes outlined in the plan of care, which are necessary for a timely discharge from the HHA. Each skilled professional would be expected to be responsible for educating the patient and/or caregiver about the care and services as appropriate to the discipline.
Under Medicare's home health benefit, when applicable, HHAs are expected to provide education and training to their patients. For instance, HHAs are expected to provide education and training to help insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients and other diabetic patients self-manage their diabetes. Many homebound patients with diabetes require short-term management for skilled observation, assessment, teaching, and training activities. If the patient is unable to learn to self-manage, including self-administer medication, the HHA would be expected to provide the teaching and training to a care-giver or family member. We also encourage HHAs to take advantage of the help and support available from organizations that teach innovative techniques associated with diabetes self-management training (DSMT). Collaborating with these organizations may allow HHAs to achieve greater success in enabling patients and/or their caregivers to better achieve self-management, and may provide the HHAs with innovative care suggestions regarding their patients.
At § 484.60(e), Discharge or transfer summary, we propose that HHAs would compile a discharge or transfer summary for each discharged or transferred patient. The summary would be required to include the following:
The initial reason for referral to the HHA,
A brief description of the patient's HHA care,
A description of the patient's clinical, mental, psychosocial, cognitive, and functional status at the start of care,
A list of all services provided by the HHA to the patient,
The start and end dates of HHA care,
A description of the patient's clinical, mental, psychosocial, cognitive, and functional status at the end of care,
The patient's most recent drug profile,
Any recommendations for follow-up care,
The patient's current individualized plan of care, and
Any additional documentation that will assist in post-discharge or transfer continuity of care, or that is requested by the receiving practitioner or facility.
We propose to include these elements in the discharge or transfer summary to provide the clear and comprehensive summary that is necessary for effective and efficient follow-up care planning and implementation as the patient transitions from HHA services to another appropriate health care setting.
6. Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) (Proposed § 484.65)
Beginning with the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report entitled “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” the focus in health care changed from an incident-based, after-the-fact quality improvement focus to a pre-emptive, proactive quality assessment and performance improvement focus. CMS evaluated and responded to the recommendations in the IOM report through a coordinated effort called, “Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact.” As part of our effort to reduce medical errors, and improve the quality of health care in all settings, we propose to replace two current HHA CoPs, § 484.16, “Group of professional personnel,” and § 484.52, “Evaluation of the agency's program,” with a single, new CoP, at § 484.65, “Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement” (QAPI). Overall, this proposed QAPI CoP is consistent with the QAPI program requirements for end stage renal disease facilities (§ 494.110), hospitals (§ 482.21), hospices (§ 418.58), organ procurement organizations (§ 486.348), and transplant centers (§ 482.96).
We believe that the proposed QAPI CoP would provide an opportunity for HHAs to develop a program that would enable them to identify areas for improvement which would help to ensure quality care and patient safety. In addition, we are emphasizing that the HHA would be required to take actions to prevent and reduce medical errors as part of their overall QAPI program. We have organized this new CoP into the following five standards: (1) Program scope; (2) Program data; (3) Program activities; (4) Performance improvement projects; and (5) Executive responsibilities.
The current CoPs rely on a problem-oriented, external, after the fact (occurrence) approach to resolve patient care issues. The proposed QAPI CoP would require proactive performance monitoring through an effective, ongoing, agency-wide, data-driven QAPI program that is under the supervision of the home health agency governing body.
In proposed § 484.65(a), “Program scope,” we propose that this data-driven QAPI program would be capable of showing measurable improvement in indicators for which there was evidence that the improvement led to improved health outcomes (for example, reduced hospitalizations and readmissions), safety, and quality of care for patients. The HHA would also have to measure, analyze, and track quality indicators, including adverse patient events, as well as other indicators of performance so that the agency could adequately assess its processes, services, and operations.
We propose, at § 484.65(b), “Program data,” that a HHA's QAPI program utilize quality indicator data, including measures derived from the OASIS (CMS provided reports), where applicable, and other relevant data, to assess the quality of care provided to patients, and identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement. Quality assessment efforts, including data collection, should focus on high priority safety and health conditions, and other goals identified by a HHA. The tools, collected data, and associated quality measures would be used by the HHA to monitor the effectiveness and safety of its services, as well as the quality of its care. In addition, the HHA would use the quality measures that are calculated based on the data collected to identify opportunities for improvement. We also propose that the HHA's governing body would be responsible for approving the frequency of, and level of detail to be used in data collection. This level of flexibility would allow HHAs to establish data collection and analysis policies and procedures that reflect currently accepted standards and practices.
At § 484.65(c), Program Activities, we would require a HHA's QAPI program activities to focus on high risk, high volume, or problem-prone areas of service, and to consider the incidence, prevalence, and severity of problems in those areas. We also propose that the HHA immediately correct any identified problems that directly or potentially threaten the health and safety of patients. Additionally, the HHA's QAPI activities would have to track incidents and adverse patient events, as well as analyze those events, so that preventive actions and mechanisms could be implemented by the HHA. We also propose that after steps have been taken to improve an area of concern, the HHA would continue to monitor the area in order to assure that improvements were sustained over time.
Proposed § 484.65(d), Performance improvement projects, would require that the HHA's performance improvement projects, conducted at least annually, reflect the scope, complexity, and past performance of the HHA's services and operations. An agency would need to focus on those areas of past performance which have proven to be problematic for the HHA over time or areas where there was clear evidence of poor patient outcomes, as well as areas of high-risk and high-volume. High-risk and high-volume areas will vary based on a HHA's patient population and other unique characteristics. For example, wound care could be a high-risk area for a HHA because the HHA does not perform the care very often, and thus may not be up-to-date on the latest techniques. Likewise, wound care could be a high-volume area for another HHA with a large number of patients requiring wound care services, increasing the likelihood of a problem occurring due to the sheer number of wound care visits that would occur. Data gathered either through the OASIS data set or through other measurement data collection tools, and subsequent analysis of the data, would be used to identify these areas. Within this standard, we also propose that the HHA document the QAPI projects undertaken, the reasons for conducting these projects, and the measurable progress achieved.
Finally, under proposed § 484.65(e), “Executive responsibilities,” we would require that the HHA's governing body assume responsibility for the agency's QAPI program. This subsection would require that the governing body assume the overall responsibility for ensuring that the QAPI program reflected the complexity of the HHA and its services, involved all services (including those provided under contract or arrangement), focused on indicators related to improved outcomes, and took actions that addressed the HHA's performance across the spectrum of care, including the prevention and reduction of medical errors. In the opening paragraph of § 484.65 we also propose to require the HHA to maintain documentary evidence of its QAPI program and to demonstrate its operation to CMS during the survey process.
The governing body would be required to define, implement, and maintain a program for quality improvement and patient safety that was ongoing and agency-wide. The governing body would be required not only to ensure that performance improvement efforts were prioritized, but that they were also evaluated for effectiveness. We note that it is the governing body which would be ultimately responsible for establishing the HHA's expectations for patient safety through an agency-wide QAPI program. Therefore, we propose that the governing body establish clear expectations for patient safety. We also propose that the governing body would appropriately address any findings of fraud or waste in order to assure thatresources are appropriately used for patient care activities and that patients are receiving the right care to meet their needs.
We believe small and mid-size HHAs would be able to effectively implement this condition as easily as larger HHAs. The proposed QAPI CoP would provide HHAs with enough flexibility to implement the quality assessment and performance improvement process without inordinate expenditure of capital or human resources. An HHA could also use outside resources to assist in development and support of its QAPI program. Each HHA's QAPI program should be individualized to reflect the size, scope, and complexity of its services and patient population. Therefore, we do not believe there is a need to differentiate our expectations for QAPI between small-to-mid-size HHAs and larger HHAs.
We have also chosen not to be prescriptive in this requirement because every HHA is different, and mandating “a one-size-fits-all,” process-oriented quality assessment and performance improvement program would not be beneficial to the patients or the HHA. Each HHA would be expected to conduct its QAPI program in a way that best meets its needs and the needs of that HHA's patients. HHAs would be able to utilize data from the OASIS data set through the risk-adjusted outcome-based quality improvement (OBQI), outcome-based quality management (OBQM), and process based quality improvement (PBQI) reports. Case-mix-adjusted outcome reports give agencies a “snapshot” of their individual agency's performance. The OASIS data set provides much of the necessary data items for CMS and HHAs to measure outcomes, potentially avoidable events, and patient/agency risk adjustment factors and for CMS to generate OBQI, OBQM, and PBQI reports. (The Outcome-Based Quality Improvement (OBQI) Manual (September 2002) and CASPER Reporting Application are located in the download section of CMS' HHQI OASIS OBQI Web page at http://www.cms.gov/HomeHealthQualityInits/16_HHQIOASISOBQI.asp#TopOfPage and http://www.cms.gov/HomeHealthQualityInits/18_HHQIOASISOBQM.asp#TopOfPage. The PBQI Manual (May 2010) is located in the “downloads” section of CMS'OASIS PBQI/Process Measures Web page section at http://www.cms.gov/HomeHealthQualityInits/15_PBQIProcessMeasures.asp#TopOfPage). The OBQI, OBQM, and PBQI reports can be used to assess the quality of care at HHAs and provide information to assist them in ongoing quality improvement.
In addition to these resources, there are other existing resources already in place through http://www.homehealthquality.org that support issues addressed in this proposed CoP. The Home Health Quality Initiative (HHQI) is part of the Quality Improvement Organization program established by CMS. Established in 2007, its goal is to improve the quality of home care services patients receive as measured by improvement in selected publicly reported and other clinical measures. Participation in the HHQI is free to all Medicare-participating HHAs. Participating HHAs have access to many resources that may aide in their QAPI efforts, such as best practice intervention packages that offer practical applications of quality improvement strategies to improve performance, individualized data reports via a secure online portal to assist with measuring progress, networking and educational opportunities via webinars scheduled at least monthly, and prompt assistance to address needs and questions. In particular, the HHQI provides resources related to falls prevention, flu and pneumonia vaccinations, oral medication management, and patient self-management.
Through the survey process, we intend to assess whether HHAs have all of the components of a QAPI program in place. Surveyors would expect HHAs to demonstrate, with the objective data from the OASIS data set and other sources available to the HHA, that improvements had taken place with respect to actual care outcomes, processes of care, patient satisfaction levels and/or other quality indicators. Additionally, surveyors would expect the HHA to demonstrate that all disciplines are involved in its QAPI program, consistent with the requirements of proposed § 484.75(c), below.
We believe that physician involvement in efforts to improve the outcome of patient care is vital and, as previously noted, we have addressed this issue by proposing the physician involvement requirement at proposed § 484.60, “Care planning, coordination of services, and quality of care.” We have also addressed this issue by requiring all HHA skilled professionals, which would include physicians employed by or under contract with the HHA, to participate in the HHA's QAPI program (see proposed § 484.75). Likewise, we encourage each HHA to consider the voluntary input of physicians who are not employed by or under contract with the HHA in designing, implementing, and evaluating its QAPI program. Physicians not employed by or under contract with the HHA may be in a unique position to provide a HHA's management and care delivery team with structured feedback and insight on ways that performance could be improved. We believe it would be overly burdensome and beyond the scope of these regulations to require non-employee and non-contract physicians to participate in specific QAPI activities. However, in developing an effective QAPI program, HHAs have found that including a physician in the planning and organization phase has helped to focus and refine the QAPI program.
7. Infection Prevention and Control (Proposed § 484.70)
In the current HHA CoPs, there is no requirement for an HHA-wide infection control program; however the current regulation at § 484.12(c) states that the HHA and its staff must comply with accepted professional standards and principles that apply to professionals furnishing services in an HHA. Infection control practices are part of accepted professional standards and principles, and thus should not be new to HHAs. We are proposing to establish a new CoP at § 484.70, “Infection prevention and control,” because we believe that it is appropriate to address this important issue as a distinct part of the regulatory process. We would organize this new condition under the following three standards: (1) Prevention, (2) control, and (3) education.
The effects of infectious and communicable diseases on patient health are significant. In response to this issue, the health care industry developed guidelines and recommendations for managing infection control programs that include health care settings. (“Requirements for infrastructure and essential activities of infection control and epidemiology in out-of-hospital settings: A Consensus Panel report” Association of Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), American Journal of Infection Control 27 (1999)) Additionally, accreditation organizations such as the Joint Commission responded to the issue of infection control by designing new infection control standards for, among others, home care providers. Other accrediting bodies have also chosen to include infection control requirements in their home care standards as well. Because of the negative impact onpatient health and safety posed by infectious and communicable diseases, and the significant amount of attention generated by this issue, we believe that HHAs need to address infection prevention and control in a more comprehensive manner.
We recognize that a HHA cannot be entirely responsible for the maintenance of a completely infection-free environment in an individual's home (where there are variables beyond the control of the HHA). However, by following “current best practices” (for example, following the standard precaution of wearing gloves when handling blood or blood products) in implementing the plan of care, the potential risks of infectious and communicable diseases can be greatly reduced for patients, families, and staff. We propose in § 484.70(a) that HHAs follow infection prevention and control best practices, which include the use of standard precautions, to curb the spread of disease.
Under proposed standard § 484.70(b), “Control,” we would expect the HHA to maintain a coordinated agency-wide program for the surveillance, identification, prevention, control, and investigation of infectious and communicable diseases. (Also see “Definitions for Surveillance of Infections in Home Health Care,” February 2008, http://www.apic.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Search&section=Surveillance_Definitions&template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentFileID=9898.) Many states have rules requiring reporting of certain communicable diseases to the department of health. In turn, the department of health typically conducts investigations. We would expect HHAs to work in conjunction with their respective health departments, who work in conjunction with the CDC, when developing and implementing their programs.
Additionally, under this proposal, the program would be expected to be an integral part of the agency's QAPI program. As part of the QAPI program, the infection prevention and control program would identify infectious and communicable disease problems that affect the provision of home health services, track patterns and trends, establish a corrective plan, and monitor for improvement and effectiveness of corresponding interventions.
Because infection prevention and control education is crucial to preventing the spread of communicable diseases, we are proposing an education standard within this CoP at § 484.70(c). HHAs would be expected to provide education on “current best practices” to staff, patients, and caregivers. This could be accomplished through in-service training for staff, and through the use of printed material, instructional videos, and in-home demonstration for patients and their families/caregivers. The training provided to patients and caregivers should be specific to their individual needs, such as safe practices for performing assisted monitoring of blood glucose as part of typical diabetes management. (See Infection Prevention during Blood Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Administration at http://www.cdc.gov/injectionsafety/blood-glucose-monitoring.html). The exact content and frequency of staff, patient, and caregiver education would be left to the discretion of individual HHAs, as established in their policies and procedures.
The proposed condition would allow the HHA flexibility in meeting its prevention, control, and education standards. For example, the amount of staff education time needed for infection control would depend on both staff experience and the patient population. While we would expect “current best practices” to be followed, we are not proposing any specific approaches to meeting this requirement; readers should visit the CDC Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/settings/outpatient-care-guidelines.html for more information about core infection control practices that apply to all outpatient health care settings.
We believe that this proposed infection control CoP follows, and is consistent with, the functions of infection control as defined in the APIC/SHEA Consensus Panel report. The report recommended that health care providers intervene directly to prevent infections; obtain and manage critical data and information, including surveillance for infections; develop and recommend policies and procedures; and educate and train health care workers, patients, and nonmedical caregivers. Further, we believe that the three-pronged approach of prevention, control, and education, as outlined in the proposed standards under this CoP, would accomplish the three principal goals of infection control as presented in the Consensus Panel report. These three goals are: (1) Protect the patient; (2) protect the health care worker (and others in the health care environment); and (3) accomplish the previous two goals in a manner that is timely, efficient, and cost-effective whenever possible. By maintaining an effective infection prevention and control program that is also an integral part of a QAPI program, a HHA would provide clear evidence of its efforts to minimize the spread of infectious and communicable diseases.
8. Skilled Professional Services (Proposed § 484.75)
This proposed new condition would consolidate and revise current conditions at § 484.30, “Skilled nursing services”; § 484.32, “Therapy services”; and § 484.34, “Medical social services”; and set forth the requirements for skilled professional services. Instead of specifically identifying tasks, we would broadly describe the expectations of the skilled professionals who participate in the interdisciplinary team approach to home health care delivery. Specifically, we would reduce the regulation's focus on administrative agency process requirements and shift the focus to outcomes of care. Skilled professionals, within this context, would provide services to HHA patients directly as employees of the HHA or under a contractual agreement. We propose that skilled professionals actively participate in the coordination of all aspects of care where appropriate. By doing so, they would become more aware of the need to function as part of an interdisciplinary team.
We have organized this proposed condition into three areas: (1) Provision of services by skilled professionals; (2) responsibilities of skilled professionals; and (3) supervision of skilled professional assistants. Skilled professional services, as proposed in § 484.75(a), include physician services, skilled nursing services, physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, occupational therapy, and medical social work services. This is consistent with the description of the home health services under the hospital insurance benefits at part 409, subpart E. Provision of services by skilled professionals, as proposed in § 484.75(b), would specify that skilled professional services may only be provided by health care professionals who meet the appropriate criteria spelled out in proposed § 484.115, “Personnel qualifications,” and who practice according to the HHA's policies and procedures.
We propose in § 484.75(b), “Responsibilities of skilled professionals,” that skilled professionals who provide services to HHA patients directly, or under arrangement, participate in coordinating all aspects of care, including:
Assuming responsibility for the ongoing interdisciplinary assessment and development of the individualized plan of care in partnership with the patient, representative (if any), and caregiver(s);
Providing services that are ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care;
Providing patient, caregiver, and family counseling;
Providing patient and caregiver education;
Preparing clinical notes;
Communicating with the physician who is responsible for the home health plan of care and other health care practitioners (as appropriate) related to the current home health plan of care; and
Participating in the HHA's quality assessment and performance improvement program and HHA-sponsored in-service training.
We believe that an interdisciplinary approach is crucial for meeting the needs of home health patients.
In addition to the requirements for licensed professional services described above, we propose to include a requirement governing the supervision of skilled professional assistants at § 484.75(c). This would require a RN identified by the HHA to supervise the care provided by nurses such as licensed vocational nurses and licensed practical nurses. We also propose that all rehabilitative therapy assistant services would be provided under the supervision of a physical therapist (PT) or occupational therapist (OT) who meets the appropriate requirements of § 484.115. Furthermore, we believe that it is essential for all medical social services to be provided under the overall supervision of a MSW-prepared social worker who meets the requirements of § 484.115.
9. Home Health Aide Services (Proposed § 484.80)
Section 1891(a)(3)(D) of the Act requires the Secretary to establish minimum standards for home health aide training and competency evaluation programs. Section 1861(m)(4) of the Act requires Medicare-covered home health aide services to be furnished only by individuals who have successfully completed a training program approved by the Secretary. Currently, the CoP concerning home health aide services is set forth at § 484.36. In this rule, we propose to retain the current requirements while making clarifying and organizational changes to § 484.36. As part of our reorganization, this revised condition would be re-located at proposed § 484.80.
We also propose to incorporate into this new CoP the provisions concerning the qualification requirements for becoming a home health aide, currently located at § 484.4. In this proposed rule, these requirements would now be organized as nine standards under proposed § 484.80: (1) Home health aide qualifications; (2) content and duration of home health aide classroom and supervised practical training; (3) competency evaluation; (4) in-service training; (5) qualifications for instructors conducting classroom and supervised practical training; (6) eligible training and competency evaluation organizations; (7) home health aide assignments and duties; (8) supervision of home health aides; and (9) individuals furnishing Medicaid personal care aide-only services under a Medicaid personal care benefit.
As noted above, provisions concerning the qualifications for home health aides are set forth at current § 484.4, Personnel qualifications. We believe these specific qualifications would be more appropriately located in the section covering home health aide services. At proposed § 484.80(a)(1), we would specify the necessary requirements for an individual to be considered a qualified home health aide. A qualified home health aide would be an individual who has successfully completed one of the following: (1) A training and competency evaluation program that meets the requirements described in § 484.80(b) and § 484.80(c); or (2) a competency evaluation program that meets the requirements described in § 484.80(c); or (3) a nurse aide training and competency evaluation program that is approved by the state as meeting the requirements of § 483.151 through § 483.154 (State review and approval of nurse aide training and competency evaluation programs) and is currently listed in good standing on the state nurse aide registry; or (4) a state licensure program that meets the requirements described in § 484.80(b) and § 484.80(c).
In light of the high turnover rate within the home health aide work force, we believe that flexibility in qualification requirements would enable HHAs to recruit qualified aides from a wider pool of employee prospects. While the duties of nurse aides and home health aides are quite similar, the main difference is the environment in which the aides perform the services. An agency's internal policies and procedures would govern the home health aide orientation training to reflect the differences in duties, and the environments in which the duties are performed. HHAs would be free to add additional aide training requirements as desired in order to address any specialized needs within the HHA's patient population (for example, additional skills related to dealing with pediatric patients for HHAs that have pediatric programs).
Under proposed § 484.80(a)(2), we would retain the intent of the current requirement at § 484.4, and specify when a home health aide is deemed to have completed a program (as specified in proposed § 484.80(a)(1) above). This determination would be based on whether, since the most recent completion of a program, there was a period of 24 months or greater since completion of the last home health aide training during which none of the services furnished by the aide were for compensation. We would also stipulate that, if there had been a 24-month or greater lapse in furnishing services, the aide would need to complete another program before the home health aide can provide services, as specified in § 484.80(a)(1).
In this rule, we propose to retain the requirements for content and duration of training from current § 484.36(a). However, we have clarified this section. We propose, at § 484.80(b), to set forth the requirements for training content and its duration, training methods (classroom and practical), and training documentation. Proposed § 484.80(b)(1) and (2) regarding home health aide classroom and practical training instructor and duration requirements would be the same as in the current rule. The current regulation at § 484.36(a) contains provisions regarding qualifications for instructors of home health aide training and specifies which organizations are eligible to provide training. We would retain and reorganize these two provisions into two separate standards at § 484.80(e) and § 484.80(f), respectively. In addition, we would remove the definition for “supervised practical training” which appears in the current standard, and move it to a more appropriate place under § 484.2, Definitions.
The current requirement at § 484.36(a)(1)(i) requires that “communication skills” be part of the content of training for home health aides. Since home health aides are members of the interdisciplinary team and often visit a patient multiple times each week, they are in a position to observe changes in a patient's status and note the needs that are crucial and relevant to future treatment decisions for that patient. As such, home health aides should be able to report and document these changes in an appropriate manner to ensure that observations of a patient's status are described accurately to ensure optimal care. Therefore, in this proposed rule,we would require at § 484.80(b)(3)(i) that communication skills include the aide's ability to read, write, and verbally report clinical information to patients, representatives, and caregivers, as well as to other HHA staff. The intent of this proposed change is to ensure that home health aides would be able to communicate effectively with patients, caregivers, and HHA staff. We would not specify the primary language for employees of HHAs because we recognize that many languages may exist within a community. However, we believe that it is important that the HHA attempt to match patients with staff relative to their abilities to communicate with one another.
We propose to add a new skill requirement related to recognizing and reporting changes in skin condition, including pressure ulcers. Home health aides are often the staff members who have the most frequent in-person contact with patients, and are therefore more likely to be in a position to notice changes in skin condition and early stage pressure ulcers. Early identification and reporting by home health aides would enable early intervention by the HHA to treat and reverse such changes. We believe that this early intervention would be beneficial to patients.
At § 484.80(b)(4), we propose to retain the current provision at § 484.36(a)(3) with minor revisions. This provision would require the HHA to maintain documentation that the requirements for content and duration of home health aide classroom and supervised practical training have been met. Similarly, we propose to retain the HHA documentation requirement currently set out at § 484.36(b)(5), which requires the HHA to document that the requirements for both the competency evaluation and in-service training have been met. However, as noted above, we are now proposing to reorganize the current standard at § 484.36(b) into two separate standards, § 484.80(c) Competency evaluation, and § 484.80(d) In-service training. Therefore, we propose to incorporate a documentation provision, which would require the HHA to document that the requirements of the standard have been met.
We propose to address various requirements for the competency evaluation of home health aides in § 484.80(c). We propose to retain the requirement currently found at § 484.36(b)(1), which states that an individual may furnish home health aide services on behalf of an HHA only after the successful completion of a competency evaluation program as described in that section.
As noted in the previous section, we propose to better define the term “communication skills,” and would now require communication training as part of the home health aide training program (§ 484.80(b)(3)(i)). We also propose to include this skill among the subject areas which would be evaluated by observation of the home health aide performing the tasks.
An effective way to assess aide competency is by observing the performance of the aide with a patient. Direct observation of the aide providing services to a patient would provide assurance that the aide has knowledge and understanding of the task at hand. We believe it would be acceptable to conduct aide training on a mannequin, and to conduct a competency evaluation on a “pseudo-patient.” However, the pseudo-patient for the competency evaluation would have to be an individual, such as another aide or volunteer, whose age is representative of the primary population served by the HHA. The following skills would be evaluated: Communication skills, reading and recording vital signs, personal hygiene techniques, safe transfer techniques, and normal range of motion and positioning criteria (specified under paragraphs (b)(3)(i), (b)(3)(iii), (b)(3)(ix), (b)(3)(x), and (b)(3)(xi)). The skills would be evaluated by observing the aide's performance carrying out the task with a patient or volunteer. The task would be required to be carried out to completion to assure that the aide was capable of performing tasks thoroughly, correctly, and independently. In accordance with proposed § 484.80(c)(2), the competency evaluation described in this paragraph may be offered by any organization, except an HHA that has been subject to certain corrective actions as described in proposed paragraph (f) of this section.
Section 484.80(c)(3) would maintain the current requirement that a RN must perform the competency evaluation. In addition to the RN, we are now proposing that the competency evaluation be done in consultation with other skilled professionals, as appropriate, since we believe it is essential that a home health aide's competency be demonstrated in each specific task performed. However, we continue to believe that it is necessary that a RN actually perform the competency evaluation. Since we depend upon a RN to provide the foundation of home health aide training, it is necessary to use a RN to evaluate the skills learned in that training.
This rationale for the use of a RN in performing the competency evaluation is also the basis for the proposed change to the current regulation at § 484.36(b)(4)(i), which requires that if a home health aide is going to perform a task for which he or she was rated “unsatisfactory,” it must be performed under the supervision of a licensed nurse (either a licensed practical nurse or a RN) until he or she achieves an evaluation of “satisfactory.” We would modify this requirement at § 484.80(c)(4) by requiring that the task be performed under the supervision of a RN, not a licensed practical nurse.
In the current rule, at § 484.36(b), the provisions regarding in-service training and competency evaluations of home health aides are combined. We believe that these requirements should be separated into two standards: Competency evaluation, as discussed above, at proposed § 484.80(c), and in-service training at proposed § 484.80(d). Creating two standards would emphasize the importance of each of these areas. We would retain 12 as the minimum number of hours of in-service training required for a 12-month period. The training could occur while an aide was furnishing care to a patient. We continue to believe that requiring 12 hours of training in a 12-month period would not place an unreasonable burden on the resources of the organization furnishing the training. Using the 12-month period would allow HHAs considerable flexibility in scheduling and in providing training. We would expect that the start dates for the 12-month in-service training period would be the aides' dates of hire or calendar year, as defined by the HHA.
The proposed requirements for the home health aide competency evaluation discussed above, when coupled with this proposed requirement for in-service training, as well as ongoing aide supervision (as proposed in § 484.80(h)), would provide an environment conducive to safe and appropriate patient care. Further, by continuing to emphasize ongoing in-service training, HHAs would have the opportunity to develop programs that would promote aide understanding of selective aspects of care and advance aide competency in general. Proposed § 484.80(b) would set forth the elements that must comprise home health aide classroom and supervised practical training, thus suggesting that those elements of training should form a basis for ongoing in-service training. Because each HHA is unique and serves various populations, the proposed standard would allow a HHA to tailor its in-service training to the unique needs of the population it serves.
We would retain the requirements in this proposed rule that aide in-servicetraining could be offered by any organization, and that the training would be required to be supervised by a RN. We propose to relocate the requirement that the RN possess a minimum of 2 years of nursing experience, of which at least 1 year is in home health care, to standard (e), Qualifications for instructors conducting classroom and supervised practical training. We continue to believe that RNs with nursing experience in the home health field should be the principal instructors in the basic training of home health aides, since this is the foundation of an aide's education in patient care. Supplemental education, such as in-service training, could be adequately handled by qualified RNs who may not possess as much experience. For some basic aide training, however, individuals other than a RN may be able to provide instruction. When other individuals provide instruction to home health aides, classroom and practical training would be required to be under the general supervision of a RN who possessed a minimum of 2 years nursing experience, at least 1 year of which would have to be in home health care.
We propose to retain the current requirements at § 484.36(a)(2)(i) regarding organizations that offer aide training (generally, HHAs), with some revision and reorganization under a new standard at § 484.80(f), “Eligible training and competency evaluation organizations.” We propose to retain the current requirement that home health aide training may be provided by any organization, except an organization that falls under one of the exceptions specified in the regulation. These exceptions include, but are not limited to, agencies that have been found out of compliance with the home health aide requirements any time in the last 2 years, agencies that permitted an unqualified individual to function as a home health aide, and agencies that have been found to have compliance deficiencies that endangered patient health and safety. When selecting an outside organization to provide aide training, we encourage HHAs to select organizations with demonstrated knowledge and experience related to the subject matter(s) being taught.
We propose, at § 484.80(g), Home health aide assignments and duties, to set forth aide responsibilities and duties, and are retaining most of current § 484.36(c), Assignment and duties of the home health aide. However, we would make revisions to further support an interdisciplinary approach to care (as typified here and in § 484.60, Care planning, coordination of services, and quality of care).
Proposed § 484.80(g)(1) would provide that the home health aide would be assigned to a specific patient by the RN or other appropriate skilled professional (that is, physical therapist, speech-language pathologist, or occupational therapist). This proposed revision reflects an interdisciplinary team approach by adding the opportunity for additional skilled professionals to designate home health aide assignments. To the extent possible, we believe that there should be consistent assignment of aides to patients in order to facilitate continuity of care and communication. Currently, under § 484.36(c)(1), an appropriate skilled professional responsible for the supervision of the home health aide may provide only written patient care instructions for the home health aide. A RN is solely responsible for the assignments of home health aides to specific patients. However, we believe, for example, that if a patient is receiving physical therapy services, then the appropriate skilled professional (for example, a physical therapist) should be allowed to assign an aide to this patient. This is consistent with the current requirement at § 484.36(c) which require that the written patient care instructions for the home health aide be prepared by the appropriate professional responsible for the supervision of that home health aide. The ability to assess patients and take into account the many aspects of the patient's functioning would allow the RN or other skilled professional to identify patient needs, and match the skills of a particular home health aide to those needs.
Proposed § 484.80(g)(2) would require that the home health aide provide services that are ordered by the physician in the plan of care, that the home health aide is permitted to perform under state law, and that are consistent with the home health aide training. Home health aides could not furnish services outside of their scope of practice as defined by local and state laws, and the HHA's internal policies. In § 484.80(g)(3), we propose to retain the inclusive listing of duties for home health aides currently under § 484.36(c)(2).
At § 484.80(g)(4), we propose a requirement that home health aides be members of the interdisciplinary team, must report changes in the patient's condition to a RN or other appropriate skilled professional, and must complete appropriate records in compliance with the HHA's policies and procedures. As part of the interdisciplinary team, home health aides would be required to communicate to a RN or qualified therapist observations and experiences when caring for patients. Home health aides may observe changes in patient needs that are crucial to future treatment decisions, and these changes should be reported to the appropriate HHA professional in order to implement effective and appropriate changes in care. Under proposed § 484.80(g)(4), our intention is to reflect an interdisciplinary approach to care. In this case, the provision would emphasize the home health aide's role as a member of the interdisciplinary team. Because an aide may be the member of the home health team who is most often in the home with the patient, the aide may be the one most likely to note changes in a patient's condition. As observation skills are a required content area in aide training (see § 484.80(b)(3)(ii)), we would expect that aides be taught to identify any changes that may need to be reported to the RN or other skilled professional.
On-going home health aide supervision, as described in proposed § 484.80(h), “Supervision of home health aides,” is a necessary component of quality care for HHAs, and ensures that services provided by home health aides are in accordance with the agency's policies and procedures and in accordance with state and federal law. In this proposed standard, we would differentiate the aide supervision requirements based on the skill level of the care required by the patient. In proposed § 484.80(h)(1), we propose that if a patient is receiving skilled care, the home health aide supervisor (RN or therapist) must make an onsite visit to the patient's home no less frequently than every 14 days. The home health aide would not have to be present during this visit. If a potential deficiency in home health aide service was noted by the home health aide supervisor, then the supervisor would have to make an on-site visit to the location where the patient was receiving care in order to observe and assess the home health aide while he or she is performing care. In addition to the regularly scheduled 14-day supervision visits and the as-needed observation visits, HHAs would be required to make an annual on-site visit to a patient's home to observe and assess each home health aide while he or she is performing patient care activities. The HHA would be required to observe each home health aide with at least one patient, and would be allowed to increase the number of home health aide-patient interaction observations as necessary to assure a full assessment ofthe aide's patient care knowledge and skills.
In proposed § 484.80(h)(2), we would require that if home health aide services are provided to a patient who is not receiving skilled care, the RN must make an on-site visit to the location where the patient is receiving care no less frequently than every 60 days in order to observe and assess each home health aide while he or she is performing care.
Irrespective of the 14-day and 60-day requirements, the agency would be responsible for maintaining appropriate supervision of a home health aide, and could utilize more frequent supervision at its discretion (for example, when a home health aide learns new skills). The HHA would also be expected to increase supervisory oversight for those home health aides for whom a request for supervision had been made either by the patient, representative, caregiver, or a family member.
At proposed § 484.80(h)(3), we would require that if a deficiency in home health aide services was verified by the home health aide supervisor during an on-site visit, then the agency would have to conduct, and the home health aide would have to complete, a competency evaluation in accordance with paragraph (c) of this section. This proposed requirement would allow agencies to re-teach and reassess important home health aide skills to ensure that the home health aide provided safe and effective care to all patients at all times.
We also propose to add a new paragraph at § 484.80(h)(4) to ensure that home health aide supervision visits focus on the aide's ability to demonstrate initial and continued satisfactory performance in meeting essential criteria. Supervision visits would be required to assess the home health aide's success in following the patient's plan of care; completing tasks assigned to the home health aide; communicating with the patient, representative (if any), caregivers, and family; demonstrating competency with assigned tasks; complying with infection prevention and control policies and procedures; reporting changes in the patient's condition; and honoring patient rights.
We would not set forth a specific requirement relative to the method of documenting the supervisory visit, but we expect that the HHA would develop a method of documentation that best fit its needs. Proposed § 484.80(h)(5) would retain, with minor revisions, the current requirements found under § 484.36(d)(4) as they relate to the HHA's responsibilities for home health aides who are furnishing services under arrangement (that is, the aides are not employees of the HHA). The HHA would be required to ensure the quality of home health aide services, supervise aides as proposed in this section, and ensure that aides have met the training and competency evaluation requirements of this proposed part.
At proposed § 484.80(i), Individuals furnishing Medicaid personal care aide-only services under a Medicaid personal care benefit, we propose to retain the requirements at current § 484.36(e), with some minor clarifying revisions. Under this provision, a Medicare-certified HHA that provides personal care aide services to Medicaid patients under a State Medicaid personal care benefit would be required to determine and ensure the competency of individuals for those Medicaid-approved services performed. Placing this requirement within the HHA CoPs would afford protections to all individuals served in that setting, regardless of payer source. The requirements are designed to protect the patient, and are consistent with § 440.167(a), which states that patients receiving personal care services in their home are required to have a physician's authorization in accordance with a plan of treatment or a service plan approved by the state. Changes in the overall language of this provision would be made for the sake of clarity. In addition, the reference to § 440.170 in the current regulation at § 484.36(e)(2) is incorrect; it should read § 440.167. Therefore, we propose to make the necessary correction.
Proposed Subpart C, Organizational Environment
1. Compliance With Federal, State, and Local Laws and Regulations Related to Health and Safety of Patients (Proposed § 484.100)
Provisions concerning compliance with federal, state, and local laws are presently located at current § 484.12, “Condition of Participation: Compliance with Federal, State and local laws, disclosure and ownership information, and accepted professional standards and principles.” We propose to retain most of the provisions contained in this condition with minor changes, which are discussed below. This proposed condition would now be set forth at § 484.100.
We propose to incorporate the standard at current § 484.12(a) into the general opening statement of the condition at § 484.100. At proposed § 484.100(a), we would continue to require HHAs to comply with the requirements of part 420, subpart C by disclosing the names and addresses of all persons with an ownership or controlling interest, the name and address of each officer, director, agent, or managing employee, and the name and address of the entity responsible for the management of the HHA along with the names and addresses of the CEO and chairperson of the board of that entity. Section 1126(b) of the Act, codified in regulations at § 420.201 of our rules, specifies that the term “managing employee” means an individual, including a general manager, business manager, administrator, or director, who exercises operational or managerial control over the entity, or who directly or indirectly conducts the day-to-day operations of the entity. Accordingly, for purposes of this rule, “director” would refer to a corporate director and not a medical director or nursing director. Section 420.201 defines an “agent” as any person who has been delegated the authority to obligate or act on behalf of a provider. In this rule, we would intend an “officer” to be any person who is responsible for the overall management of the operation of the HHA; we also would require that the HHA provide information on all individuals who are officers of the HHA under the law of the state in which the HHA is incorporated. Because the business address of an agency is self-explanatory, the additional address we would request in the standard would refer to a residential address for all individuals to whom the rule applies. A Post Office Box address would not be considered a business or residential address and would not be satisfactory for purposes of compliance with this proposed requirement.
We propose to remove the provisions regarding state licensure from current paragraph § 484.12(a) and incorporate them into the proposed state licensure standard at § 484.100(b). Under the provisions of proposed § 484.100(b), a HHA, its branches, and its staff would be licensed, certified, or registered, as applicable, by the state licensing authority if the state had established licensure requirements. In addition, the Act at § 1861(o)(4) requires that a HHA, which would include a branch, must be licensed, or approved as meeting the standards established for licensing, in any state in which state or local law provides for the licensing or other approval of HHAs and their subsidiaries. If a state requires a HHA to have a license, then we would require that the provider be in compliance with that state's law or regulation. In addition, state licensure requirements are enforced at the state level and wouldbe subject to state jurisdiction. Therefore, the provisions of this proposed rule would not affect providers that have been granted waivers of state requirements.
State surveyors are not, and have never been, responsible for citing HHAs for violating the rules of regulatory bodies other than the State or CMS. When a HHA is found to be out of compliance with a federal, state, or local law by another regulatory agency with jurisdiction and authority to cite noncompliance (for example, OSHA or the Department of Justice), CMS decides whether that violation should also constitute a violation of the HHA CoPs. Both the title of this proposed CoP and its introductory paragraph would refer to only those federal, state, and local laws and regulations which were “related to the health and safety of patients.” We would cite agencies when the violation of federal, state, or local laws or regulations could potentially affect the health and safety of the HHA's patients, and the rights and well-being of patients.
Finally, we propose to move the current requirements at § 484.14(j), Laboratory services, to § 484.100(c). Because this standard covers compliance with a federal regulation, we believe that it would be better suited under this proposed CoP governing compliance with federal, state, and local laws rather than under its current location at the end of the CoP covering organization, services, and administration of an HHA. Section 484.100(c) would require that HHAs engaged in certain types of lab testing, with an appliance that has been approved for that purpose by the Food and Drug Administration, conduct testing in compliance with the requirements of 42 CFR part 493(Laboratory Requirements).
This section would also prohibit HHAs from substituting their own self-administered testing equipment, such as glucometers, in lieu of a patient's self-administered testing equipment when assisting a patient in administering the test. We propose this requirement to ensure that patients have access to their test results on their own equipment that is maintained in their home. This would allow patients to track their results over time and better understand the impact of their behaviors and choices upon their test results. Such understanding is an important step in fostering patient independence and positive patient outcomes. Agencies may use their own self-administered testing equipment as a complement to a patient's self-administered testing equipment when assisting a patient in administering the test when there is reason to believe that the patient's self-administered testing equipment is inaccurate. In this situation, we would expect the HHA to assist the patient in obtaining accurate testing equipment for future use. Agencies may also use their own self-administered testing equipment for a short, defined period of time when the patient has not yet obtained his or her own testing equipment, such as in the days immediately following physician orders to obtain the testing equipment when a patient may not have the time and resources immediately available to complete the process. We would expect the HHA to use available resources to assist the patient in obtaining his or her own testing equipment as quickly as possible.
In addition, this section would provide that if the HHA chose to refer specimens for laboratory testing, the referral laboratory would have to be certified in accordance with the applicable requirements of part 493. The laboratory services standard is a federal requirement in accordance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). We are not proposing to alter the intent or meaning of this provision.
2. Organization and Administration of Services (Proposed § 484.105)
This proposed CoP on organization and administration of services would revise current regulations at § 484.14, “Organization, services, and administration.” As previously discussed, the current regulation at § 484.14(g), “Coordination of patient services,” would be relocated and revised under proposed § 484.60. In addition, the current regulations found at § 484.38, “Qualifying to furnish outpatient physical therapy or speech pathology services,” would be relocated to § 484.105. The proposed new condition would simplify the structure of the current requirements, and focus on both essential organizational structures and performance expectations for the administration of HHA operations. With the diffusion of home health organization and management structures (currently, there are 2,660 branches distributed among 1,301 parent HHAs nationwide), this proposed rule would help to ensure accountability by assisting agencies in setting performance expectations that we believe would lead to a higher level of quality for patients. The overall goal of the proposed condition is to produce a clear, accountable organization, management, and administration of a HHA's resources to attain and maintain the highest practicable functional capacity for each patient's medical, nursing, and rehabilitative needs, as indicated in the plan of care. Attaining and maintaining the highest practicable functional capacity for each patient is the primary goal of HHA services based on the premise that the role of the HHA is to assist each patient in overcoming any deficits that lead to his or her need for home health services. HHAs provide services, supplies, and education to patients, making every effort to encourage and support patient autonomy, self-care, self-management, and ultimately discharge from the HHA.
Under the current requirements found at § 484.14(b), we would expect the governing body to be able to assess the HHA's financial needs and to assume responsibility for effectively managing its financial resources. We would maintain the intent of this requirement, at proposed § 484.105(a), “Governing body,” and would expand the responsibilities of the governing body to assume full legal authority and responsibility for the agency's overall management and operation, the provision of all home health services, the review of the budget and operational plans, and the agency's quality assessment and performance improvement program, in addition to responsibility for the agency's fiscal operations, as retained from the current regulations.
Proposed § 484.105(b), “Administrator,” would describe the role of the administrator and provisions for when the administrator is not available. We propose that the administrator be appointed by the governing body, be responsible for all day to day operations of the HHA, and be responsible for ensuring that a skilled professional as described in § 484.75 is available during all operating hours. The current State Operations Manual (Pub 100-7, Appendix B, http://cms.hhs.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Manuals/downloads/som107ap_b_hha.pdf) describes the concept of being available during operating hours as being on the premises of the HHA or by reachable via telecommunications. HHA management would have discretion to structure the implementation of this concept to suit the organization's needs. In addition, the current State Operations Manual also describes the concept of “operating hours” as all hours that staff from the agency is providing services to patients. Because HHAs are already familiar with these concepts, we are not proposing to change our interpretations.
While we would expect the administrator to be available during all operating hours to take an active role inthe daily operations of the HHA, we recognize that there are times when the administrator cannot be available. We propose that, any time when the administrator is not available, a pre-designated person, who is authorized in writing by the administrator and governing body, would assume the same responsibilities and obligations as the administrator, including the responsibility to be available during all operating hours. The pre-designated person may be the same skilled professional described above. We note that, in addition to this requirement, we also propose personnel requirements for the administrator at § 484.115(a). The administrator, and the pre-designated person, would be required to meet these personnel requirements.
In addition to the overall management of the HHA by the governing body and the administrator, we propose a new clinical manager role at § 484.105(c). The clinical manager would be a qualified licensed physician or registered nurse, identified by the HHA, who is responsible for the oversight of all personnel and all patient care services provided by the HHA, whether directly or under arrangement, to meet patient care needs. The supervision of HHA personnel would include assigning personnel, developing personnel qualifications, and developing personnel policies. Oversight of the services provided to patients would include, but would not be limited to, assigning clinicians to patients; coordinating care provided to patients by the various patient care disciplines; coordinating referrals within the HHA; assuring that patient needs are continually assessed; and assuring that patient plans of care are developed, implemented, and updated. We believe that the clinical manager role is essential for managing the complex, interdisciplinary care of home health patients, and that the responsibilities included in this new standard are not currently fulfilled. Six of the 20 most frequently cited survey deficiencies center on the need for patient care coordination and implementation, including the most frequently cited deficiency related to ensuring that each patient has a written and updated plan of care. These frequent deficiency citations indicate that patient care is not being sufficiently planned, coordinated, and implemented to ensure the highest quality care for all HHA patients at all times. We believe that having a designated clinical manager will address this need while assuring that agency personnel standards are upheld.
In § 484.105(d), we propose a new standard, Parent-branch relationship. As discussed previously in the “Definitions” section of this preamble, we would change the definition of “branch” in § 484.2 to define a branch office as a location or site from which a HHA provides services within a portion of the total geographic area served by the parent agency. We would delete the portion of the definition referring to a branch location that is “sufficiently close” to the parent agency, because section 506(a)(1) of the Medicare, Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-554) (BIPA) mandated that neither time nor distance between a parent office of the HHA and a branch office shall be the sole determinant of a HHA's branch office status. However, both time and distance can still be considered as factors in conjunction with other considerations.
We believe that the focus should be on the ability of the parent HHA to demonstrate that it can monitor all services provided in its entire service area, furnished by any branch offices, to ensure compliance with the CoPs. The decision to approve a branch is based on the HHA's ability to assure that the quality and scope of items and services provided to all patients from the branch meets each patient's medical, nursing, and rehabilitative needs. Thus, we would expect that the lines of authority and professional and administrative control be clearly delineated in the HHA's organizational structure and in practice. The HHA parent should be aware of the staffing, patient census and any issues/matters affecting the operation of the branch. Furthermore, the administrator of the HHA must be able to maintain an ongoing liaison with the branch to ensure that staff is competent and able to provide appropriate, adequate, effective and efficient patient care so as to ensure that any clinical and/or other emergencies are immediately addressed and resolved. The HHA parent must be able to monitor branch activities (clinical and administrative) and the management of services, as well as personnel and administrative issues, including providing ongoing in-service training to ensure that all staff is competent to provide care and services. The HHA parent is responsible for any contracted arrangements with other individuals or organizations, even when the contracted services are used exclusively by the branch. We would also expect the HHA to be able to demonstrate its ability to ensure that patients being served by all offices consistently receive all necessary and appropriate care and services described in the plans of care. As part of the decision-making process, we will also consider an HHA's past compliance history and all relevant state issues and recommendations. These and other considerations in governing parent-branch relationships were previously included in a Survey and Certification memorandum (Requests for Home Health Agency Branch Office Approval and the Use of a Reciprocal Agreement, S&C-02-30, issued May 10, 2002), and will inform future CMS subregulatory guidance on this topic.
We provide guidance for approving a branch office in § 2182.4B of the State Operations Manual. In addition, we assign identification numbers to every existing branch of a parent HHA and subunit. The identification system is implemented nationally, and uniquely identifies every branch of every HHA certified to participate in the Medicare home health program. It also links the parent to the branch. The branch identification number is also required on the OASIS assessments. This allows a HHA access to outcome reports that help it differentiate and monitor the quality of care delivered down to the branch level. (We note that although this information is available to HHAs, information is not broken down by branch when generating Home Health Compare results that are available to the general public.) Through this method of monitoring how services are furnished by its branches, the parent HHA can strengthen the parent-branch relationship and further ensure the quality of care delivered to its patients. We would also add to our regulations the requirement that HHAs report their branch locations to the state survey agency at the time of a HHA's initial certification request, at each survey, and at the time any proposed additions or deletions were made. This proposed rule would eliminate the “subunit” designation. An existing subunit currently operates under a distinct Medicare provider number and would be considered to be a distinct HHA upon implementation of this final rule, with its own governing body and administrator that is not shared with another HHA. Depending on state-specific laws and regulations, this regulatory change may allow a subunit to apply to become a branch office of a parent HHA if the parent could provide “. . . direct support and administrative control of the branch.”
In accordance with section 1861(m) of the Act, a HHA may provide its services directly and/or under arrangement withanother agency or organization. The agency providing services under arrangement may not have been denied Medicare enrollment; been terminated from Medicare, another Federal health care program, or Medicaid; had its Medicare or Medicaid billing privileges revoked; or been debarred from participating in any government program. Therefore, the current requirement at § 484.14(h) governing services under arrangement would be retained with a minor revision in the proposed standard at § 484.105(e), Services under arrangement. We propose to require that the primary HHA have a written agreement with another agency, with an organization, or with an individual, that it has contracted with to provide services to its patients, which stipulates that the primary HHA would maintain overall responsibility for all HHA care provided to a patient in accordance with the patient's plan of care, whether the care is provided directly or under arrangement. If the primary HHA chooses to furnish some services under arrangement, then it retains management, service oversight, and financial responsibility for all services that are provided to the patient by its contracted entities. All services provided by contracted entities would be authorized by the primary HHA, and furnished in a safe and effective manner by qualified personnel. In addition to this revision, we would correct a typographical error in the cross-reference citation for the United States Code.
We propose to move the current standard at § 484.14(a), “Services furnished,” to § 484.105(f)(1). According to section 1861(o) of the Act, for purposes of participation in the Medicare program, a HHA is defined as being “primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing services and other therapeutic services,” without reference to the services being provided on a part-time or intermittent basis as provided in the current regulation. Although certain payment-related requirements make reference to the intermittent nature of HHA services, the phrase “part-time or intermittent” is not used in the statutory definition of an HHA. In order to more closely align with the statutory definition, we propose to delete it from this standard. However, the use of the term “part-time or intermittent” would continue to exist under the coverage and eligibility requirements for home health services.
As stated in proposed § 484.105(f)(1), skilled nursing and one of the therapeutic services must be made available on a visiting basis in the patient's home. At least one service would be required to be provided directly by the HHA. This is a current requirement and would be retained. Other services could be offered under arrangement with another agency or organization. It should be noted that while HHAs may provide other services such as continuous nursing care either directly or under arrangement, those additional services might not be eligible for coverage under the Medicare program.
Additionally, we propose to retain the requirements of current § 484.12(c), “Compliance with accepted professional standards and principles,” at § 484.105(f)(2). We would continue to require that HHAs furnish all services in accordance with accepted professional standards of practice. We would also propose to require that all HHA services be provided in accordance with current clinical practice guidelines. We believe that this addition is necessary to ensure that HHA patients receive care that is based on clinical evidence, where available, and up-to-date medical practices.
Within this proposed CoP, we are moving current § 484.38, “Qualifying to furnish outpatient physical therapy or speech pathology services,” to § 484.105(g). We believe that this requirement would be more appropriately codified as a standard (now titled “Outpatient physical therapy or speech-language pathology services”) following the “Services furnished” standard under this proposed CoP. We propose to make no other changes to this standard.
Finally, we propose to retain the “Institutional planning” standard currently located at § 484.14(i) and as required for HHAs under § 1861(z) of the Act. We would retain this standard at § 484.105(h) without any revisions.
3. Clinical Records (Proposed § 484.110)
In this section of the preamble we describe: (A) Changes to the conditions of participation related to clinical record requirements; and (B) the HHS policy priority to accelerate interoperable health information exchange including through the use of certified electronic health record technology.
(A) Changes to the conditions of participation related to clinical record requirements. This proposed section would retain, with some additional clarification, many of the long-standing clinical record requirements currently found at § 484.48. In this condition, we propose to retain only those process requirements which provide essential patient health and safety protection.
The primary requirement under the proposed clinical records CoP would be that a clinical record containing pertinent past and current relevant information would be maintained for every patient who was accepted by the HHA to receive home health services. We propose to add the requirement that the information contained in the clinical record would need to be accurate, adhere to current clinical record documentation standards of practice, and be available to the physician who is responsible for the home health plan of care and appropriate HHA staff. The information could be maintained electronically. The clinical record would be required to exhibit consistency between the diagnosed condition, the plan of care, and the actual care furnished to the patient. Consistency would be reflected in the appropriate link between patient assessment information and the services and treatments ordered and furnished in the plan of care. In light of the decentralized nature of HHAs (that is, patient care is not furnished in a single location), we believe that members of the interdisciplinary team must have access to patient information in order to provide quality services. Many HHAs maintain electronic records, and we recognize that this technological change in home health care industry can provide all members of the interdisciplinary team access to important patient care information on an ongoing basis.
Proposed § 484.110(a), “Contents of clinical record,” contains several elements that are part of the current clinical record requirement. We propose to retain the requirement that the record include clinical notes, plans of care, physician orders, and a discharge summary. To give HHAs flexibility in maintaining clinical records, we propose to no longer specifically require that the name of physician and drug, dietary, treatment, and activity orders be included in a dedicated part of the clinical record, since these items would already have been made part of the plan of care, and thus would already be included in the clinical record. We also propose to add requirements to this standard that reflect our outcome-oriented approach to patient care. Specifically, at proposed § 484.110(a), we would require that the clinical record include: (1) The patient's current comprehensive assessment, including all of the assessments from the most recent home health admission, clinical visit notes, and individualized plans of care; (2) all interventions, including medication administration, treatments,services, and responses to those interventions, which would be dated and timed in accordance with the requirements of proposed § 484.110(b); (3) goals in the patient's plan of care and the progress toward achieving the goals; (4) contact information for the patient and representative (if any); (5) contact information for the primary care practitioner or other health care professional who will be responsible for providing care and services to the patient after discharge from the HHA; and (6) a discharge or transfer summary note that would be sent to the patient's primary care practitioner or other health care professional who will be responsible for providing care and services to the patient after discharge from the HHA within 7 calendar days, or, if the patient is discharged to a facility for further care, to the receiving facility within 2 calendar days of the patient's discharge or transfer. We believe that these timeframes are necessary to assure that providers assuming responsibility for the care of discharged patients have timely information about the patient's recent care, services, and medications. We request public comment regarding these timeframes. Specifically, we would like to know if these timeframes are adequate to assure a smooth transition of care. We would also like to know whether current HHA record systems are capable of producing a discharge summary in a shorter period of time, such as the same day that a patient is discharged.
We believe that these requirements are the minimum necessary for a meaningful clinical record, and that they would still provide the HHA with flexibility in maintaining the clinical record while ensuring that the record contains information necessary for providing high quality patient care. HHAs may choose to maintain additional information in the record which reflects activity pertinent to the patient and his or her care.
We propose to add a new standard at § 484.110(b) to require authentication of clinical records. We would require that all entries be legible, clear, complete, and appropriately authenticated, dated, and timed. Appropriate authentication refers to the process of identifying the person who has made an entry into the clinical record and that person's acknowledgement, by a signature and a title, or use of an electronic identifier, that he/she is responsible for the content, accuracy, and completeness of the entry. Authentication for every entry would be required to include a signature and a title, or a secured computer entry by a unique identifier, of a primary author who had reviewed and approved the entry. This provision would allow HHAs to establish clear policies about clinical record entries and corrections. It is preferred that the original clinician make any necessary corrections to his or her entries to ensure continuity and consistency within the clinical record. In cases where the original clinician is unable to correct his or her entry, we would expect to see documentation of communication with the original clinician regarding modifications to the original entry. We believe it is important to retain flexibility to accommodate the variation in types of documentation and decision making used throughout the industry, and the need to allow HHAs to innovate and improve documentation, including using electronic record formats, without unnecessary restrictions.
Under proposed § 484.110(c), we would revise the current requirements under § 484.48(a), “Retention of records.” With proposed § 484.110(c)(1), we would revise the provision regarding the timing of the 5-year clinical record retention period. We do not believe that the current provision, which predicates the beginning of the 5-year retention period on when the cost report is filed with the intermediary, ensures patient safety. Therefore, we have simplified the provision to now require that clinical records be retained for 5 years after the discharge of the patient, unless state law stipulates a longer period of time. In addition to these proposed clinical record retention requirements, HHAs would be expected to continue to comply with other Medicare or Medicaid record requirements for payment purposes.
We would continue to require, in § 484.110(c)(2), that HHA policies provide for retention of records even if the HHA discontinues operations. However, we also propose that the HHA would be required to notify the state agency as to where the agency's clinical records would be maintained. We also propose at § 484.110(d) to incorporate into this condition the requirement under current § 484.48(b), “Protection of records,” relative to the safeguarding of information. At proposed § 484.110(d), we would require that clinical records, their contents, and the information contained therein, be safeguarded against loss or unauthorized use. We believe that the requirement under current § 484.48(b), concerning the release of clinical record information, is best incorporated into the proposed standard at § 484.50(e), Right to confidentiality of clinical records, as noted earlier in this preamble.
Finally, under this clinical records condition, we would add a new standard at § 484.110(e), Retrieval of clinical records. We propose that a patient's clinical records (whether hard copy or electronic) be made readily available to a patient or appropriately authorized individuals or entities upon request. The provision of clinical records to those outside of the HHA would be required to be in compliance with the rules regarding personal health information set out at 45 CFR parts 160and 164.
We note that 45 CFR 164.512 provides for certain “disclosures required by law” without the permission of the patient. We believe that this standard is necessary for two main reasons. First, we believe that the prompt retrieval of patient records is essential to assuring communication, continuity and quality of care within the HHA, as well as between the HHA and other health care entities furnishing care to the patient. Second, in order to enable state surveyors to effectively assess HHA compliance with these regulations, and to enable the quality improvement organizations to fulfill their role in the beneficiary complaint process, timely retrieval of clinical records is essential.
(B) HHS Policy Priority to Accelerate Interoperable Health Information Exchange, including Use of Certified Electronic Health Record Technology.
HHS believes all patients, their families, and their healthcare providers should have consistent and timely access to their health information in a standardized format that can be securely exchanged between the patient, providers, and others involved in the patient's care. (cite: HHS August 2013 Statement, “Principles and Strategies for Accelerating Health Information Exchange.”) The Department is committed to accelerating health information exchange (HIE) through the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other types of health information technology (HIT) across the broader care continuum through a number of initiatives including: (1) Alignment of incentives and payment adjustments to encourage provider adoption and optimization of HIT and HIE services through Medicare and Medicaid payment policies, (2) adoption of common standards and certification requirements for interoperable HIT, (3) support for privacy and security of patient information across all HIE-focused initiatives, and (4) governance of health information networks. These initiatives are designed to improve care delivery and coordination across the entire care continuum and encourage HIE among all health care providers,including professionals and hospitals eligible for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs and those who are not eligible for the EHR Incentive Programs. To increase flexibility in the regulatory certification structure established by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and expand HIT certification, ONC has proposed a voluntary 2015 Edition EHR Certification rule (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-02-26/pdf/2014-03959.pdf) to more easily accommodate HIT certification for technology used by other types of health care settings where individual or institutional health care providers are not typically eligible for incentive payments under the EHR Incentive Programs, such as home health agencies, and other long-term and post-acute care and behavioral health settings.
We believe that HIE and the use of certified EHRs by home health agencies (and other providers ineligible for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive programs) can effectively and efficiently help providers improve internal care delivery practices, support management of patient care across the continuum, and enable the reporting of electronically specified clinical quality measures (eCQMs). More information on the identification of EHR certification criteria and development of standards applicable to home health agencies can be found at the following locations:
http://healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/standards-and-certification-regulations
http://www.healthit.gov/facas/FACAS/health-it-policy-committee/hitpc-workgroups/certificationadoption
http://wiki.siframework.org/LCC+LTPAC+Care+Transition+SWG
http://wiki.siframework.org/Longitudinal+Coordination+of+Care
In 2012, ONC sought public comment on whether it should focus any certification efforts towards the health IT used by health care providers that are ineligible to receive incentives under the EHR Incentive Programs. In the regulations establishing the 2014 Edition of health IT standards and EHR certification criteria (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-09-04/pdf/2012-20982.pdf), ONC concluded, “. . . that it makes good policy sense to support interoperability and the secure electronic exchange of health information between all health care settings. We believe the adoption of EHR technology certified to a minimal amount of certification criteria adopted by the Secretary can support this goal. To this end, we encourage EHR technology developers to certify EHR Modules to the transitions of care certification criteria (§ 170.314(b)(1) and § 170.314(b)(2)) as well as any other certification criteria that may make it more effective and efficient for EPs, EHs, and CAHs to electronically exchange health information with health care providers in other health care settings. The adoption of EHR technology certified to these certification criteria can facilitate the secure electronic exchange of health information.” ONC has also published, “Certification Guidance for EHR Technology Developers Serving Health Care Providers Ineligible for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Payments” (http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/generalcertexchangeguidance_final_9-9-13.pdf).
In 2013, the Department of HHS requested information on how to accelerate interoperable health information exchange including with long-term and post-acute care providers. The public offered several recommendations for the use of EHR certification and the expansion of the ONC HIT Certification Program (See http://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/acceleratinghieprinciples_strategy.pdf. See page 5 for a summary of these recommendations). Among the suggested recommendations from the public was to make certified EHR technology available to long-term and post-acute providers (and other providers not eligible for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs).
In the fall of 2013, ONC requested that the HIT Policy Committee (a Federal advisory committee established under the HITECH legislation and responsible for advising the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on the development, harmonization, and recognition of standards, implementation specifications, and EHR certification criteria) to begin exploring the expansion of certification under the ONC HIT Certification Program, particularly focusing on EHR certification for the long-term and post-acute care and behavioral health care settings. The Certification/Adoption Workgroup of the HIT Policy Committee is expected to present its recommendations to the HIT Policy Committee in the spring of 2014. The full Health IT Policy Committee will make recommendations to the ONC in summer 2014.
As noted, the ONC publishes rules for health IT standards and EHR certification criteria. A key standard adopted in the 2014 Edition Final Rule was the HL7 Consolidated CDA (CCDA) standard. The CCDA is now the single standard permitted for certification and the representation of summary care records. This standard is used for the exchange of Summary Care Records at times of transition in care (for example, discharge) and making available clinical information to patients.
Activities have been undertaken to update the CCDA. The Standards and Interoperability Framework, Longitudinal Coordination of Care (S&I LCC WG) has worked to address gaps in the CCDA to better support the interoperable exchange of documents and content needed at times of transitions in care and referrals in care, and for the exchange of care plans, including the home health plan of care. The S&I LCC WG is a public/private collaboration. Members of this workgroup included representatives of the National Association of Home Care, Home Care Technology Association of America, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and many other clinicians, researchers, vendors, and government representatives. The updates to the CCDA were balloted by HL7 in the fall 2013, and comments have been reconciled. HL7 is expected to publish the CCDAr2 in spring 2014.
On February 26, 2014 ONC published the proposed rule for the 2015 Edition of Health IT standards and EHR certification criteria. The ONC 2015 Edition proposed rule proposes an updated version for the CCDA, the CCDA® Release 2 (CCDAr2). The CCDAr2 includes enhancements to more completely support interoperability for documents needed at times of transitions and referral in care and care plans, including the home health plan of care. The CCDAr2 includes new sections for: Goals; Health Concerns; Health Status Evaluation/Outcomes; Mental Status; Nutrition; Physical Findings of Skin; and many other entries.
We encourage home health providers to use, and their health IT vendors to develop, ONC-certified HIT/EHR technology to support interoperable health information exchange with physicians, hospitals, other LTPAC providers, and with their patients. We anticipate that the use of certified HIT/EHR technology will help improve quality and coordination of care, and reduce costs.
4. Personnel Qualifications (Proposed § 484.115)
Currently, provisions concerning the qualifications of HHA personnel are located at § 484.4. This section provides very specific credentialing requirements that all staff are required to meet. While we are retaining most of these current personnel qualification requirements,we propose revisions to the organization of the “Personnel qualifications” CoP. Many other provider types cross-reference the HHA personnel requirements, and we are proposing conforming amendments accordingly.
Under our proposed reorganization of part 484, personnel qualifications would be located at § 484.115. Personnel qualifications would be set out as general qualification requirements (which would cover all personnel), and personnel qualifications when state licensing laws or state certification or registration requirements exist (which would cover the additional requirements to practice under and in accordance with state laws, and which would cover all personnel where applicable). The proposed personnel qualifications CoP is discussed in detail below.
This proposed standard would consist of all personnel qualifications found under current § 484.4, with the exception of those for public health nurses. Except as noted below, we propose to retain the current personnel qualifications for the following professions: Administrator, audiologist, home health aide, licensed practical nurse, occupational therapist, occupational therapy assistant, physical therapist, physical therapist assistant, physician, registered nurse, social work assistant, and social worker.
We propose to delete the current qualification category for public health nurses because public health nurses are RNs, and the qualifications for RN are already included in this section. We also propose to replace the term “practical (vocational) nurse,” currently found in § 484.4, with the more widely used and accepted term, “licensed practical nurse.” The proposed qualifications for a licensed practical nurse would be a person who has completed a practical nursing program, and who furnishes services under the supervision of a qualified registered nurse. Currently, the requirements for the supervision of licensed practical nurses, occupational therapy assistants and physical therapist assistants, and social work assistants are found under § 484.30, § 484.32, and § 484.34, respectively. We propose to retain these supervision requirements and relocate them under the applicable profession's qualifications and as described in this proposed standard.
We also propose to revise the current personnel qualifications for HHA administrators. Our intent with this provision is to give HHAs flexibility. Therefore, with this provision we would expand the qualifications by which an individual could meet the requirement for an administrator. Specifically, proposed § 484.115(a) would set forth the requirements that a HHA administrator would be required to be a licensed physician, or hold an undergraduate degree, or be a registered nurse. We also propose that an administrator would have at least 1 year of supervisory or administrative experience in home health care or a related health care program. The possession of an undergraduate degree would be a new option for establishing the qualifications of an administrator that does not exist in the current regulations. We believe that this new option will give HHAs additional flexibility in selecting an appropriate administrator. However, we do not believe it is necessary to specify which undergraduate degree would be necessary to qualify for this option. Rather, we propose that the HHA's governing body would specify which undergraduate degree an HHA administrator would have to possess. In the absence of state requirements, we are not proposing to add financial management training as a requirement for HHA administrators at this time since HHAs often employ or consult a chief financial officer and billing staff, and the provision may place an additional burden on current HHAs. We specifically ask for comments on this proposal.
At § 484.105(a), the governing body would be responsible for appointing a qualified administrator, subject to the proposed requirements at § 484.115(a). If the governing body believed additional qualifications were required for an administrator, it could include these in its hiring criteria.
At § 484.115(k) and (l), we propose to retain the current requirements for both social work assistants and social workers, respectively. Currently, a qualified social worker is an individual who has a master's degree in social work (MSW) from an accredited school of social work and who has 1 year of social work experience in a health care setting. A qualified social work assistant is currently a person who has a baccalaureate degree in social work, psychology, sociology, or other field related to social work, and who has at least 1 year of social work experience in a health care setting. A social work assistant is also considered to be qualified under the current home health CoPs if he or she has 2 years of appropriate experience as a social work assistant and has achieved a satisfactory grade on a proficiency examination conducted, approved, or sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service. However, determinations of proficiency do not apply with respect to persons initially licensed by a state or seeking initial qualification as a social work assistant after December 31, 1977. We believe that these current personnel requirements adequately meet the needs of HHA patients. We propose to clarify the requirement for a social worker by amending the regulation to state that those who hold a doctoral degree in social work would also meet the qualification requirements.
Finally, we propose to revise the personnel qualifications for speech-language pathologists (SLP) in order to more closely align the regulatory requirements with those set forth in section 1861(ll) of the Act. We propose that a qualified SLP is an individual who has a master's or doctoral degree in speech-language pathology, and who is licensed as a speech-language pathologist by the State in which he or she furnishes such services. To the extent of our knowledge, all states license SLPs; therefore all SLPs would be covered by this option. We believe that deferring to the states to establish specific SLP requirements would allow all appropriate SLPs to provide services to beneficiaries. Should a state choose to not offer licensure at some point in the future, we propose a second, more specific, option for qualification. In that circumstance, we would require that a SLP has successfully completed 350 clock hours of supervised clinical practicum (or is in the process of accumulating supervised clinical experience); performed not less than nine months of supervised full-time speech-language pathology services after obtaining a master's or doctoral degree in speech-language pathology or a related field; and successfully completed a national examination in speech-language pathology approved by the Secretary. These specific requirements are set forth in the Act, and we believe that they are appropriate for inclusion in the regulations as well.
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/10/09/2014-23895/medicare-and-medicaid-program-conditions-of-participation-for-home-health-agencies
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The Wyman Aliya
August 11, 2008 Wyman Institute Events Comments Off on The Wyman Aliya
By Dr. Rafael Medoff
Jerusalem Post – August 11, 2008
Moshe Gadaf had never before seen an actual airplane. Neither had his friend, Ami Farradah. The wide-eyed eight-year-olds stared in awe at the enormous Trans-European Belgian plane that the IAF had brought to the desolate stretch of the Sudanese-Ethiopian border.
The date was January 6, 1985, and the Gadaf and Farradah families were among the thousands of Ethiopian Jews who had made the perilous journey, by foot, to the site across the border from which they were to be airlifted to Israel. They had no way of knowing that leaks to the news media had just prompted the Sudanese government to suspend the operation.
In their frantic rush to fill one last plane and depart before the Sudanese military could interfere, the Israelis shut the doors to the aircraft after Moshe and Ami’s parents and siblings had boarded – but before the two boys themselves got on. The stunned children watched in horror as the plane carrying their families disappeared over the dusky East African horizon, not knowing when – or if – they would ever see them again.
But that very week, halfway across the world, a guest on NBC Television’s Today program was discussing a book that would change Moshe and Ami’s lives forever.
GROWING UP in New England in the 1930s and 1940s, David S. Wyman knew only a few Jews and very little about Judaism, aside from what he learned in Sunday School about the Israelites of biblical times. The son of a milkman and grandson of two Protestant ministers, Wyman earned his PhD in history at Harvard. His dissertation examined the Roosevelt administration’s policies toward German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s, a radical topic for the time. In those days, most Americans still regarded FDR as an icon and assumed he must have done whatever was possible to aid Europe’s Jews. Wyman was going where no scholar had gone before.
“I didn’t have any personal reason to choose that topic,” he remarked later. “I was looking for something that nobody had yet written about. I guess it was what you call bashert [“meant”]. Considering where it led me, sometimes I think that I didn’t choose the subject, it chose me.”
It led him to more than four decades of researching, writing and teaching about America’s response to the Holocaust and the lessons to be learned from it. To his surprise, it would also lead him into the heart of a struggle to ensure that another persecuted Jewish community would not be abandoned.
His dissertation was published in 1968 as Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941. It described how a combination of anti-foreigner sentiment, anti-Semitism, the Great Depression and the Roosevelt administration’s tight immigration policies kept most European Jewish refugees far from America’s shores.
Paper Walls led to an offer from a major publisher, Pantheon, to publish a sequel that would cover the Holocaust years. More than a decade of research and writing ensued, culminating in the publication, in late 1984, of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945
By that time, it was not the first scholarly study of the subject, but reviewers agreed it was by far the best. Wyman had accessed many archives that had not been open to earlier researchers, and the result was a series of significant new discoveries about the Roosevelt administration’s behavior.
One was the revelation that the State Department actively obstructed rescue of Jews and immigration to the United States. In his public lectures, Wyman would often unfurl, accordion-like, the 120-cm.-long form that a would-be immigrant was required to fill out just to be considered for a quota space.
Abandonment also revealed not only that US planes could have reached Auschwitz and bombed it, but that they actually did repeatedly hit oil factories adjacent to the gas-chamber area. He showed how the State Department not only ignored Europe’s Jews, but actually sabotaged opportunities to rescue them. He documented the role of the Bergson Group, the Jewish activists whose rallies, newspaper ads and lobbying in Washington helped pressure FDR to create the War Refugee Board. Most of all, he demonstrated that many more Jews could have been saved, by showing how the board, despite its late creation (January 1944), did save more than 200,000 lives.
Published in November 1984, The Abandonment of the Jews immediately attracted widespread attention from the news media. The New York Times alone published a feature story, a profile of Wyman and two reviews of the book, all within the first seven weeks after its release. Appearances on major talk shows followed. In early January, the same week that the airlifts of Ethiopian Jews were halted, Wyman was interviewed by Jane Pauley on the Today show. Later that month, it was Nightline with Ted Koppel, and not long after that, he appeared on Larry King Live
Wyman’s impeccable scholarship, dignified manner and genuine anguish at the plight of Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust left a deep impression on those who heard or met him. “I am convinced that had there been more Christians like [David Wyman] in the 1930s and 1940s, the history of this period would have been very different,” Prof. Deborah Lipstadt wrote to a friend at the time. “He strikes me as one of the tzadikei umot ha’olam [righteous of the nations].”
MEANWHILE, CONDITIONS were deteriorating in the makeshift refugee camp in Sudan where Moshe, Ami and the others were stranded. “There was very little food and no doctors,” Moshe recalls. “Many people became sick, and some died. The few people who had money were victimized by local robbers. As the weeks dragged on, we began to fear that we were going to die there.”
In early February 1985, Jewish activists arrived in Washington to lobby for US intervention on behalf of the refugees.
Los Angeles Jewish publisher Phil Blazer, his assistant Hal Sloane and Nate Shapiro, head of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews, met with State Department officials who told them that an American airlift was not feasible. “Reminds me of the excuses that the Bergson Group ran into when they asked the State Department to help the Jews in Europe,” says author and editor Miriam Chaikin, who worked in Bergson’s Manhattan headquarters from 1940 to 1948.
Like Bergson, Blazer and Shapiro turned to Congress, where they immediately found a friendly reception – in part because of the impact of The Abandonment of the Jews. Several weeks earlier, Jewish organizations had distributed copies of the book to every member of Congress.
A number of members of Congress attended Rep. Stephen Solarz’s private book party for Wyman near Washington. “They had either read the book or read about it, and it made them feel more strongly than ever that the United States should not repeat the mistakes of the past,” Solarz explained. “The Abandonment of the Jews made the rescue of beleaguered Jewish communities a moral imperative from which our country could not turn away.”
At about the same time, an Ethiopian Jewry caucus was created in the House of Representatives under the leadership of Solarz and Tom Lantos, himself a Holocaust survivor. On the Senate side, the key figures were Rudy Boschwitz and Alan Cranston. In mid-February, Cranston’s aides drafted a letter to president Ronald Reagan and vice president George H.W. Bush, urging the US to intervene on behalf of the refugees stranded in Sudan. In less than two days, all 100 senators had signed the letter.
On February 22, the day after the Cranston letter was delivered to the White House, Blazer and Sloane met with vice president Bush, his senior aides Craig Fuller and Dodd Gregg, and Marshall Breger, the White House liaison to the Jewish community. Blazer presented Bush with a copy of The Abandonment of the Jews. “Mr. Vice President, we can do now what we didn’t do then,” he pleaded.
The Jewish activists were not the only ones who saw the link between the book and the refugee crisis. “By one of those amazing and fortunate coincidences of history, it was just at that time that David Wyman’s book was gaining nationwide public attention,” said John Miller, then a freshman Republican congressman. “There were feature stories about it in the newspapers, and he was on radio and television shows. It seemed like everyone was talking about Wyman’s book. It was must reading. And I read it. The powerful impact that The Abandonment of the Jews had on me became a major reason that I took a special interest in the plight of the Ethiopian Jews.”
Learning that Bush was scheduled to visit Sudan on diplomatic business in March, Miller went to see him. “I spoke to the vice president and his top aides,” he said. “I gave them a copy of the book, and I told them that this was a chance to write a very different history than the history of America’s response to the Holocaust.”
Sudan might refuse to let the Israelis land on its soil, “but Sudan would not be able to say no to the United States – if our government insisted,” Miller contended.
Nobody knows exactly what Bush told Sudanese president Jafar Numairy when they met the following week, but the results spoke for themselves. On March 22, a fleet of US Air Force C-130 Hercules transport planes airlifted Moshe, Ami and 800 other refugees from Sudan to Israel.
“My memories of the flight are a blur,” says Ami. “I remember how the plane was so crowded that we all had to sit on the floor. I was too young to know whether the soldiers taking us were Israelis or Americans. All I knew was that I would finally get to see my mother and brothers and sisters again.”
Congressman Miller said that he later spoke with Bush about the airlift, and the vice president “confirmed that his staff members had read Abandonment and discussed it with him, and that was a major influence in his decision to order the airlift.” Bush subsequently sent Wyman a handwritten note of thanks, which is still proudly displayed in Wyman’s home in western Massachusetts.
Later that year, in a speech in New York City, the vice president referred to the persecution of Jews in Ethiopia and the Soviet Union and vowed, “Never again will the cries of abandoned Jews go unheard by the United States government.”
ONE OF the deputy commanders at the Ramon air force base in the Negev where the US planes landed in 1985, was a young captain named Amir Eshel. Today Maj.-Gen. Eshel is head of the IAF’s Planning Branch and widely considered a likely future commander of the air force.
“The secrecy surrounding the operation was extraordinary,” he said. “Even the commanders on the base did not know about it until the very last minute. The sight of those American planes coming in over the horizon was unforgettable.”
Recently, Wyman visited Israel for the first time in more than 20 years. Hearing of his arrival, Eshel asked Haim Hecht, the television director and Kol Rega radio show host, to arrange a meeting. Hecht, knowing of Wyman’s interest in meeting immigrants from the 1985 airlift, asked Moshe Gadaf and Ami Farradah to be part of it.
Eshel hosted the get-together at an air force base in the center of the country. In addition to Wyman, Hecht, Gadaf and Farradah, the participants included Prof. Bat-Ami Zucker, author of several books about America’s response to the Holocaust; and Dr. Rebecca Kook, Astra Temko and Nili Kook, the daughters and widow of Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson), leader of the 1940s Holocaust rescue advocates.
There was hardly a dry eye in the room as the gathering began with an emotional embrace among Wyman, Gadaf and Farradah. They repeatedly thanked the American historian for authoring the book that helped save their lives. Wyman presented them, and Eshel, with inscribed copies.
Eshel had a surprise for his American guest. It was he who, in 2003, conceived and personally led the fly-by by IAF planes above the Auschwitz site. He told Wyman that the idea came to him as a result of reading the Hebrew edition of The Abandonment of the Jews. “The lessons from your book form the foundation of my entire concept of why there should be a State of Israel and an Israel Air Force,” he said.
Eshel revealed that every cadet who trains to become an officer in the air force is required to view Hecht’s documentary, One Flight for Us, which focuses on the flyby and includes an interview with Wyman about the bombing issue. Eshel also recalled that prime minister Ariel Sharon, in his last Knesset speech before his stroke, spoke about One Flight for Us and read excerpts from The Abandonment of the Jews
At the conclusion of his remarks, Eshel gave the professor an inscribed photograph of the fly-by.
Hecht was moved to offer a toast. He noted the historical significance of bringing together the Kooks, Wyman, Eshel and the two young Ethiopians. “Your father and husband, Peter Bergson, was the symbol of trying to prevent the abandonment of the Jews,” he began. “You, Professor Wyman, told the story of what Bergson tried to do and how Roosevelt abandoned the Jews. But you, Moshe and Ami, are the living proof that the Jews will never again be abandoned as they were during the Holocaust. And, you Maj.-Gen. Eshel, are the Jewish people’s guarantee of ‘never again.'”
MANY OF the waves of immigration to the Land of Israel have acquired individual names, ranging from less imaginative terms such as “First Aliya” and “Second Aliya” to the more colorful “Aliya of the 300 French and English Rabbis” in 1211, or the “Aliya of the Perushim,” students of the Vilna Gaon who came from Lithuania in the early 1800s.
One aliya is even connected by name to the individual most responsible for making it happen – the “Grabski Aliya,” named after a Polish finance minister whose economic restrictions compelled many Polish Jews to emigrate in the 1920s.
Perhaps one day the Zionist lexicon will also include the “Wyman Aliya,” and Israeli schoolchildren will learn the unique and compelling story of the American Christian historian whose chronicle of the abandonment of the Jews helped ensure that they would not be abandoned again.
The writer is director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. www.WymanInstitute.org
See the article on JPost.com here
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Manchester United vs. Southampton - Football Match Report
Manchester United's Romelu Lukaku celebrates scoring his side's third goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Southampton at Old Trafford, in Manchester, England, Saturday, March 2, 2019.
Solange’s New Album Just Dropped & Twitter Can’t Handle It
I'm bringing home w me everywhere I go yalll and I ain't running from shit no more. The album, originally slated for an autumn 2018 release, was written and executive produced by Solange . Y'all! I'm filled w so much joy right now! Wow! Your love lifts me up so high. In the lead-up to When I Get Home's release, Solange set up a hotline on rapper Mike Jones' number (281-330-8004), in which you could hear a snippet of songs.
Spotify launches in India with new features and curated playlists
Spotify will directly compete against Gaana, Saavn, Wynk, and Amazon Prime Music . However, the court has allowed Spotify to launch for now, according to The Times of India . "We are extremely excited to be the launch partners for Spotify in India!" However, Indian residents are getting much more than that. For the first time, it lets users stream "every song" on demand.
Jonas Brothers Are Back, New Single Drops Tonight (Watch Teaser Video)
The Jonas Brothers are back in our lives, and fans are losing their minds over the reunion as well as the boys " new single " Sucker' . Get keen, and power up the corner of your brain dedicated to the fact there's actually a bonus Jonas brother too young to have been included in the original act.
Jussie Smollett 'attackers' issue apology
Their attorney released the following statement to CBS 2's Charlie De Mar Thursday night. "They understand how it has impacted people across the nation, particularly minority communities and especially those who have been victims of hate crimes themselves", said Gloria Schmidt, an attorney for the brothers Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo .
Disney's 14-Acre Star Wars Land Serves Vegan Meatballs
With the attractions still being under construction, there's a long wait for those hoping to get their first look at the fully realized experience, though a cast and crew event debuted first looks at the costumes to be worn by the cast members in those corners of the parks, with images of the outfits making their way online.
Katherine Helmond Dead: Who's the Boss? and Soap Star Was 89
She nabbed four actress Emmy nominations for the role. She was married twice and is survived by her husband, David Christian . Katherine Marie Helmond was born in 1929 and got her start as an actress on the NY stage in the 1950s, where she ran a summer theatre in the Catskills and taught acting.
Michael Jackson's Estate Sues, but HBO Will Air Documentary
The estate had then too slammed the film and condemned the director for not speaking with anyone from the late singer's family before making it. " Leaving Neverland isn't a documentary, it is the kind of tabloid character assassination Michael Jackson endured in life, and now in death".
As Pak Claims Indian Pilot In Custody, Calls To Follow Geneva Convention
There is outrage in India over how the pilot who went missing has been treated in Pakistan . The rising tension between two nuclear-armed nations India and Pakistan is heating up. The Third Geneva Convention (Geneva III) is the source of law related to PoWs. In 2006, the ICRC put out a consultation paper on the issue, noting that the Conventions signed in 1949 did not make any provision for modern social media technology .
André Previn Dies: Four-Time Oscar-Winning Composer Was 89
Previn died on Thursday at his home in New York City, according to the New York Times . Previn holds the Oscar record for most music nominations in one year: In 1961, he scored Elmer Gantry and Bells Are Ringing , and also was nominated for the song " Faraway Part of Town " from the film Pepe .
Kylie Jenner 'Accuses' Travis Scott Of Cheating As He Cancels Tour Date
But, we're told on Wednesday he flew back from the East Coast to surprise Kylie and Stormi . TMZ is reporting the couple's issues stems from the fact that Kylie believes Travis cheated on her and made a decision to confront him about it.
Woman spends $30,000 on surgery to look like Meghan Markle
Since announcing her pregnancy in October, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has parlayed her new royal style into regal maternity style. However, Meghan has now reportedly bought a house in Los Angeles with the hopes of spending a large amount of time there once the baby arrives and so, will be closer to Priyanka too.
The Division 2 details free post-launch content, Year 1 Pass
Ubisoft has revealed The Division 2's Year 1 roadmap and all the content you can expect to hit the game after release. GET A GLIMPSE OF TOM CLANCY'S THE DIVISION 2 ENDGAME Test your skills by completing one Invaded Mission once it becomes available in the beta, and try out the new Agent Specializations: Survivalist, Sharpshooter, and Demolitionist .
Respawn's Jedi Fallen Order Will Appear At Star Wars Celebration in April
Mark it in your calendars, folks! According to the tweet, the reveal will take place during a panel featuring new details ahead of the game's fall 2019 release. Expectations are pretty high for Respawn's spin on the Star Wars universe, and today we're learning when we'll finally get to see the game in action.
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas arrive in India
The bride-to-be Ishita Kumar also posted some pictures on her Instagram stories. Isn't it romantic? Vanity Fair Oscars After Party: From Fixing Her Husband's Hair to Sticking Their Tongues Out, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas' PDA Steals the Show - See Pics ! The beaming couple were the picture of marital bliss as they held hands and gazed adoringly at one another while taking photographs alongside their families.
New 'Game of Thrones' cast photos have fans freaking out
The Night King's ( Vladimir Furdik in Season 6) army is heading south, and a battle appears to be imminent. Check out the familiar faces of Daenerys ( Emilia Clarke ), Jon Snow ( Kit Harington ), Sansa Stark ( Sophie Turner ) Arya Stark ( Maisie Williams ) and everyone's favorite, Brienne of Tarth ( Gwendoline Christie ).
Jonas Brothers reunite for new 'Sucker' single, 'Carpool Karaoke'
The video came hours after the trio announced on Thursday morning that they are reuniting: After over five years apart, the band will drop their new song, " Sucker ", at midnight on Friday. "We've kept this secret now for nearly seven, eight months". The Jonas Brothers made their home on the Disney Channel , starring in a slew of projects like the " Camp Rock " movies alongside frequent collaborator Demi Lovato and their own series, " Jonas ", which ran for two seasons on the network.
Second-Ever Case of Semi-Identical Twins Identified
A pair of Australian twins are among the rarest humans ever documented, a study released Thursday reveals. The first set of semi-identical twins was identified in 2007 in the USA, when they were infants; this is the first time semi-identical twins have been identified in the womb, according to the report .
What time does Fortnite Season 8 start?
As it happens, the entire map ended up covered in snow and new additions such as a hoverboard and Sneaky Snowman came forth. You can check out the Fortnite Season 8 cinematic trailer below along with the Battle Pass overview video, which details what else players can get in the latest pass.
'Captain Marvel' Director Says The Film Is A Feminist And Humanist Movie
That's just what it's like. "Me, a Marvel movie?" Co-director Anna Boden also weighed in on the situation, explaining, "It was always in the script and it's not an uncommon thing for women to hear". "You're being let in". At the end of dinner, he had said nothing about it, and I was like, 'Well, aren't you gonna tell me some piece of advice?' He's like, 'No.
Netflix changed the ending of The Notebook and fans are extremely confused
Fans looking for a good cry on Netflix may have been disappointed if they live in the U.K. Viewers of the streaming service in that country found that The Notebook ending had been altered, depriving them of the waterworks that the film was known for.
Proud of My Baby Bro: PC Congratulates Siddharth Chopra on Roka
At the time, Priyanka shared a gallery of photos from the bash, including a group picture of her and Nick with her mother Madhu, Siddharth, and Nick's parents Denise and Kevin, Sr . Chopra wrote. "I wish you both the best for the future!" Priyanka and her American singer husband Nick Jonas flew down to Delhi on Wednesday morning and she even shared a picture from the flight on Instagram.
The Division 2's Roadmap And DLC Pass Outlined
The developers are planning on releasing a Year 1 Pass for the game, which will give players early access to content and exclusive cosmetic items, however, it doesn't seem like people will be completely restricted. Episode 2: Pentagon: The Last Castle , releasing in Autumn 2019, will have additional main missions, with players storming the Pentagon and unveil the secrets that hide beneath one of America's most iconic locations.
Luke Perry Hospitalized After Reportedly Suffering a Stroke
We know the call came into the fire department for someone suffering a stroke, and Luke was transported to a nearby hospital. Perry is now playing Archie's dad on the CW's " Riverdale ", and previously played Dylan McKay on " Beverly Hills, 90210 ".
Ariana Grande to play Manchester, 2 years after arena bombing
The high security follows an attack at the Manchester Arena following one of her concerts which left 23 people dead on May 22, 2017. The bombing happened in May 2017 at the Manchester Arena. Mark Fletcher, chief executive of Manchester Pride, said: "This year marks a big change for the festival as it continues to evolve". The show will be produced by Live Nation and The Sweetener World Tour kicks off March 18 in Albany, New York and will cross North America through June before she ...
Bond 25: Rami Malek Reportedly In Talks To Be The Villain
No details have yet been revealed about the character that Malek would play - though the report suggests that it could be a blind man, which would continue the tradition of Bond villains who come with distinctive physical traits. The trade mag has heard that Billy Magnussen , who worked with current director Cary Fukunaga on Netflix's Maniac is the top choice for the part, though there's no offer in place just yet.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine has been renewed for a seventh season
Season seven will be the second season of the police sitcom to air on NBC , after it saved the series from cancellation following five seasons at Fox . This will mark the second season of the series on NBC and the seventh season it has been on the air. Dan Goor, Michael Schur , Luke Del Tredici and David Miner are executive producers.
New X-Men Dark Phoenix Trailer Arrives
In the first trailer that released a few months ago, we saw that after a mission in space went haywire, Jean came back as a changed person and now the X-Men have to band together to save Jean from herself. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is almost killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. The trailer begins with Jean sobbing as she says, "Why did you make me do that?" Moving forward, X-Men will now be integrated into Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe and will fall ...
Bradley Cooper's girlfriend Irina Shayk has unfollowed Lady Gaga on Instagram
As per the Us Weekly report, a source told the outlet that Irina is not at all anxious about people speculating that Gaga and Cooper are involved romantically as she knows the truth. However, The Sun reports that a few days before the big performance at the awards show, Irina, perhaps sick and exhausted of seeing people begging her man and Gaga to get married in real life, unfollowed her! I mean, look, I've had my arm around Tony Bennett for three years touring the world.
‘Making A Murderer’s Steven Avery Wins Appeal, Could Have Second Trial
Now, the defence team have had a major success in their bid to prove the two are not the perpetrators of the horrific crime. THE CONVICTED murderer at the centre of the hit Netflix true crime documentary series Making A Murder is set to have his case re-examined by a Wisconsin court.
Warner Musics behaviour to harm artists: Spotify
Undertakings given in court were accepted and Justice Kathawalla directed Spotify to file it's reply within 3 weeks and then Warner Music to file rejoinder within a week thereafter. This is about Warner/Chappell's catalogue of songs, rather than Warner Music's catalogue of recordings. In its filing, Spotify explained that Warner Chappel owns a fractional shares in many songs, and Spotify can not launch without a deal with Warner in India , as "WCM's refusal to grant a voluntary ...
'It's always been about money' - Michael Jackson's family slam documentary
They say they assumed accusers would resurface, most likely this year for the 10th anniversary of the King of Pop's death. Following the release of Surviving R. If you haven't seen the trailer for Leaving Neverland , you can watch it here . In a statement, it also accused Robson and Safechuck, of being "two perjurers", in reference to sworn statements they gave while Jackson was alive stating he had not molested them.
Marvel Disney Plus Series Connects To MCU Confirms Feige
Marvel Studios ' chief Kevin Feige was also present at the Oscars ceremony, and he expressed happiness over the fact that the Academy is finally acknowledging the power of superhero and comic series movies. The bad news is we'll have to wait until at least this summer, after Spider-Man: Far From Home arrives in theaters. As we inch closer to the release of Avengers: Endgame , the fan theories are piling up, as are the expectations.
Selma Blair reveals she cried tears of relief after MS diagnosis
Once that diagnosis did come, though, Blair "cried with some relief" after years of "giving it everything to seem normal". "He got in touch with me and we began conversations". "It's interesting to put it out there, to be here to say, 'This is what my particular case looks like right now, '" the " Legally Blonde " actress told Robin Roberts .
Jordyn Woods Allegedly 'Broke Down' When Confronting Khloe Kardashian
First, in response to Kylie Jenner's BFF's teaser clip for her sit-down with Jada Pinkett-Smith, Larsa Pippen , a longtime friend of the Kardashians , took to the comments section below a post by blog Hollywood Unlocked to share her opinion.
BritBox: ITV and BBC join forces to launch British competitor to Netflix
The BBC, home to crime drama Luther, and ITV, maker of Love Island and I'm A Celebrity, are in the "concluding phase of talks" to create a rival to Netflix. Talks regarding the launch of BritBox are now in the "concluding phase". Both broadcasters have impressive back catalogues - think McMafia and Doctor Who (BBC) or Broadchurch and Inspector Morse (ITV) - but quality boxsets are no guarantee of commercial success.
Kate and wills have a kickabout in Northern Ireland
The Duke and Duchess met with Northern Ireland goalkeeping legend Pat Jennings and global boss Michael O'Neill. Kate joked with a group of students that her 5-year-old son, Prince George , is now learning to play football, practicing at home and telling her: "Mummy, you're so rubbish".
What Terrence Howard reportedly told Jussie Smollett
Smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence, particularly when there has been an investigation like this one where information, both true and false, has been repeatedly leaked", his attorneys said in a statement (via CNN ). Smollett, according to prosecutors, had previously bought drugs off from one of the brothers and knew them because they had appeared on Empire as extras.
Jennifer Esposito Clarifies Her Bradley Cooper ''Ha'' Comment
Before the singer delivered an intimate performance with Irina's hubby, Bradley Cooper , 44, she got the boot from Irina's social media says The Sun . " Gaga is unbothered with her Oscar , Grammys, critics choice, Bafta, golden globe.... awards♀️", one fan wrote. "It's not that she dislikes Gaga or is jealous of her, but she's sick of the constant stories about her 'close" relationship to Bradley'.
Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige Says No Character Is 'Invulnerable'
Speaking to Collider ahead of the release of Captain Marvel , Feige elaborated on the thinking behind that. But it was a spoiler, because if you knew before Infinity War came out that the next movie was called Endgame , then you know that there wasn't an ending to Infinity War .
Warning to parents about unsafe Momo Challenge that targeting children
Officials warned parents about the "Momo" challenge past year. Jessica Edwards first heard about the Momo Challenge Tuesday morning from her sister. "Flagged videos are manually reviewed 24/7 and any videos that don't belong in the app are removed". Children allegedly receive threats from an anonymous number associated with a picture of "Momo" - an alien-like woman with bulging eyes, an eerie stretched smile, and straggly hair.
Spotify launches in India, to take on JioSaavn, Apple Music, Amazon Music
A yearly Spotify subscription costs Rs 1,189 (that's about Rs 99 a month) and a monthly one comes at Rs 119 (that is Re 1 cheaper than a monthly Apple Music plan). On Monday, the India launch hit a snag after Warner Music Group (WMG), filed an injunction against Spotify in an Indian court after licensing negotiations fell apart.
Ariana Grande is now the most followed woman on Instagram
Move over, Selena Gomez: Pop star Ariana Grande is now the most-followed woman on the photo-sharing platform Instagram. The 25-year-old singer nabbed the crown from the " Wolves " singer sometime in the afternoon when Grande's follower number hit 146,286,173 compared to Gomez' at 146,267,801, according to E! "Again.
Rami Malek fell off the Academy Awards stage after accepting his Oscar
But he likely sealed the deal - even despite the much-maligned prosthetic teeth he wears in the film - with his preening, foot-stomping recreation of Mercury's electric performance at Live Aid in 1985, which audiences loved. At the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, Gaga lent help to her fellow Oscar nominee when she noticed that his bowtie was crooked, as reported by Refinery29.
Kelly Visits Chicago McDonald's After Release On Bail
In fresh reports , R Kelly's van was driving down the road before allegedly stopping to pick up a mystery woman on the street before picking up two other women who were reported to be his girlfriend's Jocelyn Savage and Azriel Clary .
Emma Thompson Reportedly Exits 'Luck' Feature at Skydance Animation Over Lasseter Hire
According to a new story from The Hollywood Reporter , Oscar victor Emma Thompson had already begun recording voiceover work for " Luck ", an animated feature that centers around a dispute between two different organizations: one representing good luck , and one representing bad.
Rotten Tomatoes making changes to deter early review trolling
The "Want to See" metric monitored the percentage of fans with an interest in seeing certain films. It likely won't affect " Captain Marvel ", either. However, besides "eliminating confusion", changing the "want to see" score to a raw number emphasizes how many people actually are interested in seeing a film - without shining a spotlight on how many aren't.
Oscars 2019: India-based 'Period. End of Sentence.' wins documentary short subject
She then added, "I can't believe that a film about menstruation just won an Oscar ". The 25-minute film, which can be streamed on Netflix , looks at how low-priced sanitary pads were introduced in the village of Kathikhera in Hapur , Uttar Pradesh .
Mark Hollis dead: Talk Talk frontman death confirmed by manager
Talk Talk experienced a mild resurgence stateside in 2003 after California rock band No Doubt covered " It's My Life ". 'He knew how to create a depth of feeling with sound and space like no other. He later admitted he wanted to focus on his family. "Maybe others are capable of doing it, but I can't go on tour and be a good dad at the same time", he said at the time.
She is glowing! Meghan can't help looking down at her baby bump
It's usually royal tradition that godparents are never close family members, since those adults will likely already have a major role in the child's life due to their proximity to its parents. Both Prince Harry and Meghan Markle know what it's like to work hard, with Markle's established Hollywood career to her credit and Prince Harry's military experience.
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FSS likely to launch ‘comprehensive audit’ of KRX
By Jung Min-kyung
The nation’s financial watchdog plans to launch a “comprehensive audit” on bourse operator the Korea Exchange (KRX) by the year-end, local reports said Wednesday.
If carried out, the in-depth audit will mark the first such inspection of KRX in nine years.
FSS headquarters in Yeouido, western Seoul. (Yonhap)
The news comes amid the Financial Supervisory Service’s ongoing audit of local brokerages and financial institutions, following its decision to revive the comprehensive audit, which was abolished in 2015. The audit allows authorities to inspect records and financial statements without boundaries.
The FSS had originally planned to carry out an inspection in the first quarter, but the plan was apparently pushed back after talks with the Financial Services Commission -- the nation’s top financial regulator.
“During the talks held at the start of the year, the FSC insisted on pushing back the discussion (on the KRX audit) and we were unable to decide on details such as the scope of inspections,” an FSS official was quoted as saying. “But we plan to carry out an audit by the year-end,” the official added.
The FSC gave a more toned-down response saying that “it is not against” the FSS’ plans to launch the KRX audit this year.
A spokesperson of the bourse operator who requested anonymity told The Korea Herald that there are apprehensions that the audit will take place within this year.
“The KRX is no longer a public institution, which will make it difficult for FSS to conduct a comprehensive audit,” the official said.
“Also, the FSC doesn’t seem to be too keen on an in-depth audit of KRX.”
Since the KRX was removed from the list of public institutions in 2015, the nation’s financial watchdog has to get approval of the FSC, which oversees key operations of the bourse operator. Public institutions are subject to regular reviews by the state auditor and are kept under close watch over their management and fund usage.
Industry watchers are also raising the possibility of a partial audit instead of a comprehensive one.
Prosecutors raided the KRX in March on suspicions that it was a complicit in an alleged accounting fraud by Samsung BioLogics.
The Samsung subsidiary was accused of breaking accounting rules to inflate the value of its subsidiary, Samsung Bioepis, ahead of its initial public offering in 2016.
The FSS is currently running both partial and comprehensive audits on a slew of financial institutions here -- a plan announced and adopted by the Moon Jae-in administration -- which has been fueling concerns of excessive probes that could limit growth of the financial sector.
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The Pervocracy
Sex. Feminism. BDSM. And some very, very naughty words.
Cosmocking: April '13!
Yellow cover! Kim Kardashian! I don't know what's going on with her... lower garment! I think Cosmo's stylists are getting pretty desperate to make the 35,000-year-old concept of "wearing clothes" seem fresh and new every month! Go ahead and trace a line from the center of Kim's cleavage to the center of her neck and explain what kind of skeletal structure that implies! Also please note that her arms are different lengths!
(I think what's going on here is that they've Photoshopped away all creases and features on her neck, which makes the side of her neck look like the front. And they posed her with both arms behind her so that her chest would stick out, but then her right arm looked wrong or wasn't visible, so they pasted on a replacement arm. Which would explain the surreal way her hand is interacting with her thighs.)
"I loved reading 'Can Sex Make You Skinnier?' The next time I had an intense carb craving, I marched right into my bedroom and pounced on my sleeping, unsuspecting boyfriend. I'm thankful for my new weapon in battling bulge, and my boyfriend is too! Thanks, Cosmo!" --Sarah A., Nashville, Tenn.
I'm not, like, an expert in forensic writing analysis or anything, but I think Cosmo's letters page is fake. Just a hunch here.
Also I would prefer to not eroticize "pouncing" on "unsuspecting" people, but if I point out every time Cosmo does that, we'll be here all day.
Four tiny bottles, each with a secret code name, sit on a shiny table in front of Kim Kardashian, awaiting inspection. Inside the vial are versions of her latest fragrance, Glam, which is being tweaked to appeal to Japanese consumers. [...] She waves each test strip in front of her perfect, pert nose. Opulence is too heavy for Asian tastes, she proclaims. Sequins? Too soft. "I don't even smell Glitzy any more," she says, before settling on her choice: Geisha Garden.
Kim Kardashian, cross-cultural marketing genius.
Within hookup culture on college campuses, dating is one of the most radical, nonconformist things you can do.
Oh, for fuck's sake. Yes, young people have casual sex. No, the entire population between ages 16 and 26 is not subsumed into this boogeyman "hookup culture" where they're all like "what is this Earth thing you call 'love'?" I would really like the media to get over this particular obsession already and move on to telling us that eating caramel leads to Satanism, or something.
Because our ancestors spoke with their bodies rather than language, we learn more from gestures than words when first meeting someone. If he's facing you directly, you have his full attention.
I don't think we needed to invoke grunting cavemen to explain the concept of "people look at things they're interested in."
...I would also like to explain to Cosmo that all language is produced by the body.
Make him feel like a piece of meat: "It's a huge turn-on to hear a woman objectify me," 30-year-old Christopher says. "It seems simple, but it's so powerful." Take his words to heart and don't be afraid to tell your guy everything you like about his body or what he does that drives you crazy. He'll be obsessed.
That's not what objectification means. That's not making him feel like a piece of meat. That's just sexual compliments. Yeah, sure, it's easy to say "I don't know what those ladies are complaining about, you can objectify me anytime" if you think it means your girlfriend tells you you have sexy abs.
Objectification is focusing on a person's usefulness to you with total disregard for their desires. In the context of compliments, it's not saying "You turn me on." It's saying "You turn me on, and whether you want to turn me on is utterly irrelevant."
Saying "nice ass" to a person who's deliberately wiggling their ass at you is a compliment; saying "nice ass" to a person who's just walking by is objectification. "I want to sleep with her" is expressing desire; "I'd hit it" is objectification. "You're sexy" is nice to say on a date because it's a compliment; "you're sexy" is hideously undermining to say at a business meeting because it's objectification.
Q: My guy constantly asks me for cash to pay the bills. He's going through a rough time and I don't mind helping out, but how can I stop this from being a regular thing?
A: The fact that he's asking you for financial help--a tough thing for many guys to do--is a sign that he trusts you.
He Said He Wasn't Ready For Kids [...] One month, I realized I'd forgotten to take my birth control pill... for five days. I asked Matt if he thought this was a sign. "I don't think it's time yet," he said. Three months later, the same thing happened.
Oh shit, I already used my "this will not end well" image.
(In seriousness, sabotaging birth control is a horrible thing to do, both to your partner and your potential child. It's really not a cutesy-wootsey "tee hee, whoopsy daisy, hint hint" thing to do. It's pretty highly correlated with domestic violence.)
The Man-Child Meter
[selected items from a big boring list of stuff like "he's a man-child if he only eats pizza" and "he's a real man if he has nice wineglasses"]
Man-Child: Invites you over to watch a movie, then texts you to pick up a six-pack on the way
Getting There: Attempts to go down on you (he's trying!)
Yep, He's A Man: Reaches for a condom before you have to ask
1. What's wrong with asking someone to bring beer? I guess it's a little demanding, but "hey, honey, I'm out of beer over here, you want to bring some with you?" is really not that out of line if you like to have a beer with your movie.
2. How do you "attempt" to go down on a person? Was he licking her knee?
"No, sweetie, not there."
"Okay, how about here? Is this your clitoris now?"
"Sweetie, that's my elbow."
3. I guess this does rank higher than "just going ahead and having unprotected sex unless you stop him," but... significantly lower than "actually discussing protection before 0.4 seconds prior to intercourse."
Many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride. I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive. Stop worrying about how your breath's going to smell, whether there's beurre blanc on your face, or whether ordering the braised pork belly will make you look fat. [...] It's all about the enjoyment of the moment and the company and the food. And if you can be yourself slurping spicy peanut noodles in front of another person, you may have a keeper.
This issue has an article by Anthony Bourdain! What the heck is he doing here? Anyway, it's awesome. And not just because he writes with actual voice instead of "frenemy's va-jay-jay sexcapades" Cosmo-diction. It's awesome because this is the only article in this magazine full of anatomically detailed sex talk that is actually about pleasure.
A Cosmo writer could have written "have fun eating, because men like it when you're not self-conscious, and it'll totally improve your mood!" But it took an outside voice to say "have fun eating, because food is awesome."
Posted by Cliff Pervocracy at 3:08 PM
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Dagnyy March 14, 2013 at 3:24 PM
I actually don't like that food article because, holy shit Cosmo, I even eat wrong! I hate getting food on my face, and have a thing about people looking at me when I'm chewing. I really don't enjoy eating with people. It's easy to say "shut up and enjoy the damn food" when you're not the one with weird issues.
I am too neurotic for the world. Thanks, Cosmo. :(
Cliff Pervocracy March 14, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Yeah, it does fall into the "more pleasant prescriptivism, instead of actual freedom" thing. :/ I just liked it because even that feels like a breath of fresh air after 150 pages of really miserable prescriptivism.
Dagnyy, i just wanted to let you know you are not the only one who hates it when others watch you eat. I have the hardest time with that, too, and it can make one feel pretty alienated since people like to gather together for food. Esp when they notice and comment on how i'm not eating. Hope it helps to know you're not alone.
BiLikesSciFi March 14, 2013 at 3:25 PM
Why is it KimK chose a stereotyped name for an Asian perfume when the other names had NOTHING similar to the one she selected?
FFS her nose isn't "perfect, pert" either. And yes, good call on the photoshopping. It looks terrible.
Jahanere Ocarina August 4, 2013 at 5:11 PM
I noticed that too. Seemed really weird to me. Was it already named and no-one told her, and this was some kind of test or something?
Every time I see Kim Kardashian, Kanye's "Gold Digger" starts playing in my head.
How do you forget birth control for five days? Was the person being held hostage? Seriously. I have been on it since I was 17. At one point, my life got hectic, I missed a day, was late another day, so I went and got on the effing ring.
Humans. Humans.
I have an absolutely terrible memory for medications and do things like that all the time.
The difference is that I would disclose it to my boyfriend with a "so we're going to use condoms for the rest of the month and I'm going to take a pregnancy test," not a "nudge nudge, must be a sign!"
I'm wondering how you forget for five days and there not be BLOOD EVERYWHERE. Because that was what reminded me that I forgot within two days.
This is why I'm on the implant now.
Cassie March 14, 2013 at 5:37 PM
Yeah, I got an IUD because that's about the only form of birth control that I trust myself not to fuck up somehow.
zhinxy March 14, 2013 at 7:40 PM
...Huh. Not to jump down your throat but - I'm a humorless feminist and all - that seems a little shamy.
Seriously, I'm not exactly a fan of hers and don't know why she's famous, but you have to admit she was doing pretty damn well financially apart from any of her partners, up to and including Kanye?
She was. But now she makes even more money. She will be able to market this relationship to the highest bidder. Those baby pics are going to be worth so much money.
But I am a cynic. Maybe she will keep it all on the DL and not let her mom run the show anymore.
I'm trying to figure that one out, too. I can see forgetting one day, maybe 2 in a row. But five days in a row seriously smacks of "accidentally on purpose," especially since it's pretty much impossible to ignore the fact that your vagina is BLEEDING.
I think Kim has plenty of money and Kanye has plenty of money, to the point where it's basically irrelevant, and who knows, maybe they like each other.
elodierose March 17, 2013 at 8:29 PM
It makes me sad that even in a feminist space there are still people who want to judge another woman they have never met based on some gossip they've heard about the way she conducts her relationships and finances.
artbalthazar April 12, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Um, I completely understand how a person could forget to take their bc pill for five days...cause I've done it (a couple times, which is why I've got a ring up in there now). It's because I'm a person who relies HEAVILY on routine to remember things like, oh, showering and eating regularly and all of those little maintenance things that aren't "events" in my day, but need to be done anyway. When my schedule gets disrupted or something "big" happens (life event, lots of stress, etc. ), those maintenance things fall by the wayside. And taking a birth control pill isn't something that's mediated or influenced by other people (like showering and eating at regular intervals are), so it's perfectly possible for me to go to take my pill, look at the package and go "shit, I've missed three of these buggers". And then go to my partner "we're using condoms for the rest of the month" or alternatively "so you know that sex we had yesterday? I'm going to buy some Plan B".
sinister agent March 14, 2013 at 3:37 PM
Just on the offchance that anyone I know is reading, if you try to jump me while I'm sleeping, sex or no sex, I'm very likely to panic and strangle you with the lamp cord, brain you with a glass of water, or otherwise defend myself with anything that happens to be within range. So there's that, for a start.
Oh wait it's female on male? THAT MUST BE OKAY THEN EL OH EL TEE HEE.
misspiggy March 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM
This made me laugh so much I lost the ability to breathe for a little while.
Hershele Ostropoler March 14, 2013 at 9:08 PM
Leaving aside that, as Cliff noted, the letters page is of questionable veracity, this is one of those things that works differently in long-term relationships. Not that getting consent is something that can ever be skipped, but more subtle ways of initiating/negotiating sex develop; after an aspect of that process being the same every time for two or three years, you start to take it for granted and assume you'll be told if it's changed.
Hershele Ostropoler March 18, 2013 at 12:18 AM
So I want to walk this back a little bit, at least to clarify that the fact that you (or, I) can construct a narrative around the specific incident that makes it acceptable doesn't mean the general notion it promotes is ok.
I was prompted to add this by something I read somewhere else but Cliff actually addressed that idea in December.
ozymandias March 14, 2013 at 4:02 PM
I feel like the Anthony Bourdain article, in the context of the rest of the magazine, reads as "enjoy your food! BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE REALLY SKINNY IF YOU LIKE FOOD AND YOU'RE FAT YOU'RE A HORRIBLE FATASS TURN TO PAGE 155 FOR DIET TIPS." It's not enough to be thin; you have to be effortlessly thin.
I think "attempt to go down on" possibly means "really terrible oral sex you don't tell him is horrible because you have to preserve his precious manly ego."
I'm confused by "hookup culture" because half the time it seems to mean "casual sex" and the other half the time it seems to mean "hang out, become friends, have sex, get in a relationship, without having any formal dates." I am confused about why the latter is _bad_. I mean, I'm broke, I can't afford a dinner-and-movie date, and it's way easier to get to know someone as friends than it is to get to know them on a formal date where everyone's on their best behavior.
Irene March 14, 2013 at 4:23 PM
Yeah, me too. The Dirty Normal just had a post based on a NYT article about this very thing, and I expressed similar confusion there. IIRC, the NYT comments had many other people expressing bafflement, because how is this even a new thing? There've been articles about the demise of Formal Dating since at least the 1960s.
I have been out of college for a few years, so that may be why it's odd to me. When I was in college, people often casually dated. People formally dated. Hell, people just had sex sometimes and then would randomly decide they were dating. Half the fun of your early 20s is learning the type of relationships you are willing to have
Dee March 14, 2013 at 5:09 PM
Presumably, Cosmo says sex without Formal Dates is bad because it's the Formal Dates (and the money people spend on restaurants, flashy clothes, gifts etc for such dates) that put money in the pockets of Cosmo's sponsors. /cynical
aebhel March 14, 2013 at 6:59 PM
The latter is how I met my husband. And the two people I dated before him. And...actually, now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever had a relationship that started by formally dating. The whole business sounds horribly awkward and pressuring to me.
Neurite March 15, 2013 at 12:24 AM
I don't get why the latter is bad or the former is bad. I mean, what's wrong with casual sex? As long as everyone involved is happy with it?
ozymandias March 16, 2013 at 2:05 AM
I'm pro-casual-sex, but I can understand why people would be unhappy if suddenly the only option on the menu is casual sex. (Just like people'd be unhappy if the only option were romantic relationships.) Good thing that's... not the case? At all?
Neurite March 16, 2013 at 2:41 AM
Hoshit, I hadn't caught the name of the author of the post I replied to! I've read enough of ozymandias' stuff by now to know better than to think ze's condemning casual sex wholesale. Oops. My apologies.
"I'm confused by "hookup culture" because half the time it seems to mean "casual sex" and the other half the time it seems to mean "hang out, become friends, have sex, get in a relationship, without having any formal dates." I am confused about why the latter is _bad_."
I wasn't even aware the latter was, like, its own thing that doesn't count as dating. That's pretty much exactly how I got with my current boyfriend (although for us it went "have sex with him and his boyfriend, hang out, become friends, they break up, have sex with him, get in a relationship" -- watch Cosmo's head explode.)
Dm7 March 14, 2013 at 4:18 PM
This issue left me with a particularly sour taste in my mouth.
Good thing I have some Satanic Caramel to sweeten things up a bit.
Does it have cute little candied horns? :D
>sabotaging birth control is a horrible thing to do, both to your partner and your potential child. It's really not a cutesy-wootsey "tee hee, whoopsy daisy, hint hint" thing to do. It's pretty highly correlated with domestic violence.
Was that meant to read as being as victim-blamey as it did to me? I'd assume not, but I can't figure out how else to read it.
Sabotaging birth control is highly correlated with committing domestic violence.
perversecowgirl March 15, 2013 at 1:03 AM
^...As in, sabotaging birth control is a thing abusive/violent people often do to their partners in order to further enmesh them in the abusive relationship. NOT that one party sabotages the birth control and the other one beats the crap out of them for it.
Just in case Cliff's wording was still vague.
"Man-Child: Invites you over to watch a movie, then texts you to pick up a six-pack on the way."
I genuinely don't understand what's wrong with this. Unless they assume he's expecting you to pay for it? But I don't see what unfair splitting of costs has to do with beer specifically. I suppose it does make marginally more sense if Cosmo is operating under the weird assumption that women don't drink beer (which I have never understood) and therefore he's the only one who'll be drinking it. (Which, by the way, if I'm bringing beer then yes, I do expect to be sharing it tyvm.) But even if the hypothetical 'you' in this scenario doesn't like beer, it's still not that big a deal? Asking someone to pick up something you're out of on the way to theirs is perfectly normal, so long as you pay them back. Maybe they think only man-children drink beer at all. In which case I'm clearly a woman-child.
(I am definitely overthinking this. I should really just accept that Cosmo writers live in a bizarre and terrible alternate universe and not even bother questioning this.)
Actually, I asked a guy to bring over some beer one night on his way over. He did and when I went to pay him back, he was flabbergasted. In our late twenties, and I was the first female he had dated who chipped in.
When I date someone, I tend to make sure I always have their favorite beverage on hand. It cuts down on trips to the store, and gets me brownie points.
I think Ms Kardashian up there is wearing a 50s-style bikini or undergarment with a cardigan, as far as I can tell.
Either that or spanx have now become clothing...
Yeah, I think what is going on here is "we're sticking her into a thinly-veiled 'control garment', because she's not a size zero and ewww there might be some tummy sticking out otherwise!"
I kinda thought she was pregnant, and fairly far along, so unless that photo has been brewing in their weird, proportionless, rubbery-limbed vat of evil for a while, they have airbrushed out more stomach than was left in. Which is about twelve new kinds of horrible, none of which are surprising because Cosmo.
flightless March 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM
Wait so, what's THE SEX MOVE[tm]? Are we pulling on his toes again this month?
Mark Z. March 14, 2013 at 7:52 PM
Throw your gun at him!
I'd love to see Cosmo's take on Not Sounding Ridiculous during dirty talk...
She said weapon. She correlated sex with weapon. Like every stereotypical women ever. She's not having sex because she's horny, she's having sex because she thinks she's fat. Sex is like a treadmill to her.
Everyone currently in college complains about hookup culture making it hard for them to date. Dating culture is making it hard for me to hookup! When I gave in and started looking for an SO is when I started getting more action. But no SO, haha. Maybe it works backwards.
I'm not sure what the problem is with the real man having a condom. Real men do carry condoms. It means, "I'm serious about safe sex, and I'm not buying this stupid spontaneous sex bullshit." Being the only one to bring condoms is a let-down for me.
Can't believe Cosmo actually did an article about liking something. And not just liking shopping or makeup (cus we really only do those to please teh menz) but actual food. Food! The whole time I was reading that part, I was expecting you to end it with, "...which is what they could've said. Instead they went with this..."
-Eva
minuteye March 14, 2013 at 10:00 PM
I don't think the issue is so much "he brought a condom", that's a good thing! It's more that the article seems to be presenting the ideal situation as "okay, now we're going to have intercourse, oh look! he's going to wear a condom! Yay!", sort of implying that A) you should never talk about sex, but just try to communicate everything through passive-aggressiveness and body-language; and B) asking your sex partner to wear a condom is an unpleasant and awkward thing that you have to try and sneak in at the last minute, rather than a totally normal request.
Dunno, that was just my reading of it.
Anna March 14, 2013 at 8:24 PM
While it's nice to have a "have fun eating, because food is awesome" article, I can't say I like his phrasing. For instance, "I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating" seems to be pretty casually dismissive of anyone who has issues related to food and body image, and reads to me as "just get over it", which... yeah, no. Not helpful.
Yeah, I was just about to post about this myself, as someone with a history of disordered eating, hearing someone say "I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating" is fucking horrible.
TO be honest, I expect that shit from Cosmo though, I just which Cliff had been a bit more critical of that bit.
LBT March 16, 2013 at 9:13 PM
RE: safaraz
Yeah. Fellow ED guy here, and though eating with other people massively helps me (I'm apparently a minority in that), sometimes, dammit, food is just hard. I will eat slow, or weirdly, and dammit, even with the social assistance, a steak is WAY harder for me to eat than... I dunno. Lentil stew.
I can't 'just enjoy' my food, a lot of the time. So yeah, that rubbed me the wrong way too.
Mintythings March 17, 2013 at 4:26 PM
I agree, it's very dismissive. I didn't like the "eating should be a submissive experience" part much, either. Like, do we really need there to be a One True Way to enjoy food, Mr. Bourdain?
Laura Bird March 30, 2013 at 2:17 PM
Yeah, a man telling women to "enjoy eating" in a women's magazine that promotes eating disorders... that's just part of the pattern of promoting eating disorders. I will not enjoy food just because this self-entitled guy tells me to. If i can't eat properly and worry about my weight, this article is not going to help me, it will only make things worse.
Considering the critical stance Cosmocking usually takes, I am pretty disappointed Cliff is giving this Bourdain guy a pass, whoever the hell he is (I assume he is big in the kink world, which apparently excuses him for talking about food being a "submissive" act and women NEEDING to stop fretting about food like the silly women they are...)
Lameballs, Pervocracy. The article is problematic to say the least.
Kai April 3, 2013 at 8:56 AM
I totally don't want my eating to be a submissive experience. I think that's a bit like saying 'sex should be a submissive experience, people who can't just go with the flow and let me spank them, really annoy me'. I can enjoy eating in some circumstances, and I'm happy to hear how the author feels about their own experience of food, but telling the readers that they 'should' 'just' do anything is a bit rubbish. Well, very rubbish.
@ Laura Bird - Just to clarify, to the best of my knowledge, Bourdain has never been involved in the kink world. He was a chef for many years and now makes a living off of being a food personality, mainly through writing, though he did have a Food Network show for a while.
I suspect that his use of the word "submissive" is more informed by his experience feeding *people* and watching them be picky and squeamish than by notions of How Women Are Supposed To Act. I think he really does just want people to enjoy food, because he really enjoys food.
theLaplaceDemon March 14, 2013 at 8:57 PM
Re: The cover. I think they were trying to go for the infamous "boobs and butt" comic pose, but no amount of Photoshop could actually make a picture of a real person do that.
Also, DEAR COSMO: Not too long ago, I was one of the mysterious creatures you know as College Students. Because of this, I feel qualified to act as ambassador and explain their strange and foreign cultures too you.
Are you sitting down?
College Students, despite many popular misconceptions, have highly varied mating behavior. This includes "we're kinda sorta friends and kinda sorta dating and very definitely sleeping together" and "casual sex," as well as "Capital-D-Dates" and "Serious Relationships." I in fact partook in all of these mating behaviors, and witnessed others do the same. And I'm pretty sure no one sawing dating as radical. Just sayin', you might want to check your sources on that one.
Is cunnilingus ... difficult? Fun fact: the first person I had any sort of sex with claims I was the first partner to get her off orally (I hate that formulation, but you know what I mean). Slight grain of salt, since she hadn't had a lot of partners, but I really think that says less about me than about my predecessors.
I wouldn't say I'm good, I think I'm average, but if someone is so bad at it that the word "trying" applies, either they really don't care if they're good at it, or there's some kind of neuro-atypicality or physical difficulty going on there.
cunfyoozion March 14, 2013 at 10:07 PM
As to somebody being so bad that "trying" applies: maybe all their previous sex partners have been brainwashed to believe that they must moan and squirm when someone is giving them oral, whether or it's an ego, because anything else would crush the precious ego? Maybe that's giving too much credit, but I can think of a sex-act or two that I found unpleasant and frustrating with my first partner, because he refused to give any form of useful feedback.
Huh. I think "people can be radically different in how they function sexually" definitely applies here, so "it's not that difficult" may be a bit flippant. (Though I'm sure that's not how it was intended.) Different people need different things to get them to orgasm, and for a good number of people, the amount of pressure, or speed/frequency of stimulation, or duration of stimulation that is required can be pretty demanding on a tongue (and/or neck muscles, and/or ability to breathe).
And that's not even getting into "you cannot directly touch my clit, I am hypersensitive and it hurts and kills my arousal" vs. "focused direct stimulation of my clit is absolutely necessary for orgasm", or "some penetration needs to be added to get anywhere" vs. "please no penetration", or... there are plenty of situation where figuring out how to do right by your partner can indeed be difficult, and the word "trying" could apply. Asking for feedback is usually a good idea, but sometimes the person doesn't exactly know what works for them, and trying is almost a necessary part of the process.
Of course, that would probably be described as "trying to get a partner off by going down on them". "Trying to go down on them" does, as Cliff said, sound a bit like they're failing to even start the process, instead getting sidetracked at the elbow.
I think there's more to it than you think. The first partner I had who went down on me loved giving oral sex but was way more interested in doing what turned him on than doing what got me off. The first time I got oral from someone who deliberately experimented to see what kind of stimulation worked for me and then did that was a revelation. (Reader, I married him.)
Elin I. March 15, 2013 at 10:57 AM
I read it more like "moves into a position where he can give you oral sex; success equals you not stopping him". I think it's that thing Cosmo-readers and their partners do instead of asking or offering to do things.
UntrustUs March 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM
As a person who has difficulty getting off, the word "trying" could be applied during any sexual activity I participate in. However, I like to think that I'm "Experiencing" rather than trying. Because the merit of sexual enjoyment doesn't have to be based on finishing. Trying to go down on me, aka going down on me, feels good, because it feels good, and not necessarily because I come. It makes me wonder how much sexual enjoyment people are losing out on with the idea of finishing on their minds all the time.
Allison March 15, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Oh no! My boyfriend is a man-child because he occasionally asks me to bring beer/wine when I come over. But it's okay, because I'm a woman-child who does the same thing. Reciprocity~~~
Mori April 1, 2013 at 1:43 PM
My guess is that while beer seems to be designated 'man-child' in Cosmo's eyes, wine is probably designated 'real man' what with being a sophisticated adult drink and all, so maybe it cancels out for your boyfriend? Mind you, with the way Cosmo writes about men, you would expect that they think ALL men are too un-sophisticated to drink wine. Sigh...
Cosmo would probably be amazed by a woman who would want their boyfriend to bring beer in return because they couldn't imagine a woman drinking beer. Gender stereotypes, what are they?! :O
Emily March 16, 2013 at 12:44 AM
Yeah... my partner recently got back from active duty in Afghanistan. Attacking him in his sleep is one of the worst things I can think of to do to him.
Jamie March 18, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Oh god. No kidding! Not at all sexy morning activity (also, possibly dangerous depending on his level of trauma)
It's not as screwy if read as initiating sex with a half-awake partner BY FIRST WAKING THEM UP. (And as a lazy person with a high sex drive, sex does make up most of my exercise.)
Although I assume Cosmo doesn't worry about me exercising because I'm skinny. Heck, my doctor doesn't. Because really, what's a family history of heart attacks in your 50s if you look good?
"Geisha Garden, for all your feminine pixelization needs."
(Warning: incoming pet peeve. Heavy sarcasm detected.)
"If he's facing you directly, you have his full attention."
Because of course, all humans have exactly the same body language. So, if I should happen to be facing towards and looking at the subject of discussion instead of the person I'm talking to, it's not because that's how I am and how I feel comfortable! No, it's because my full attention is on that boxed TV sitting on the shelf, not the person whose questions about the TV I'm trying to answer. I should definitely be fired for not looking perky enough!
(Sarcasm has passed; resuming normal commenting.)
Saying "I want to sleep with her"... I'm not really sure how that feels less objectifying than "I'd hit it". Except maybe for the latter using "it". But then that phrase has always thrown me; there's a part of my mind that associates it with beating someone with a hockey stick, and I just can't imagine how it would even be seen as related to sex.
I'm not sure I even get this idea of submissiveness to eating, there's not even an active agent there. Unless it's the cook. And then I think that most of the really good food I've had in my life was cooked by one of my parents. Eeew.
I think you're supposed to submit to the flavour or something.
I think the key word, so to speak, is "with." It's the difference between mutually fulfilling sex and sex that's centered on one person's fulfillment.
Because if it's not that, they come across as equally objectifying to me too.
Well, simply wanting to sleep with a person is just sexual desire, and it can be objectifying, but it can also be "I totally respect her, and I'm physically attracted to her, and if she happens to feel the same way about me, I would be quite happy to sleep with her."
"I want to sleep with her" doesn't rule out objectification, but it doesn't necessarily imply it either.
Can "I would tap that even if I got mana burn" still be an okay joke though?
Well, it'd be a dated one, since they've gotten rid of mana burn.
I freely admit I stared at Kim's breasts for a full 120 seconds, trying to (a) figure out how those could possibly be real, and (b) resolve it with other pictures of her that I have tried to avoid seeing.
My final conclusion is that those are the type of completely unreal pneumatic breasts (or breasteses, according to Oprah) I usually see on women in brightly colored spandex with strategic (and equally unrealistic) cutouts in comic books.
Even porn stars with implants don't have breasts that look like that.
That right arm just looks weird.
The panty type thing she's wearing is probably the lower half of a swimsuit. Two-pieces like that are becoming popular, mainly for women who actually want to swim without worrying that their nearly non-existent bikini bottom will come off if they actually get in the water.
Anneli March 21, 2013 at 5:22 AM
I'd say be a bit careful with the mocking of Kim's body and how much Photoshop that's involved. There's a fine line between photoshop-mocking and body snark here. She looks like a full-busted lady to me. There's a lot of women just having big breasts, without implants. And it's rather difficult to say how they would be positioned naturally, because she is wearing a bra and a cardigan.
Kim is a full-busted woman. I'm also a full-busted woman. But do you see the line of the cleavage and the lines of the edges of the little cardigan? I guarantee you that it's Photoshopped.
Also, Cosmo has a well-established reputation for Photoshopping their covers. I'd be surprised to see one that didn't look, at the very least, air-brushed.
Ara March 28, 2013 at 1:26 AM
Awww, now I have to go find a copy of this magazine somewhere so that I can read the Anthony Bourdain article!
Come back, Cliff! I miss your posts :(
I'm sure I'd trust Cosmo to tell me how to talk dirty without sounding ridiculous...
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shines May 1, 2013 at 1:50 PM
I read the Anthony Bourdain paragraph in the context of the previous 'Man-Child Meter' post, so I viewed it as a paragraph about eating someone out, not food. Surprisingly good advice! =)
Alice May 1, 2013 at 10:37 PM
Something is missing from this picture. Namely, her widely reported-on and very famous baby bump.
This skeeves me out on so many levels. Is her pregnancy - and therefore, child - so inconvenient to Cosmo that they just airbrushed the bump away? Did they use a photo of her they already had on hand, because, you know, "big belly = bad", whether it's the belly of a naturally large woman or a pregnant woman?
You can't take a woman who, for better or worse, is world-famous, and pretend she's not pregnant for the sake of a 'good' photograph. It's insulting to her; it's insulting to the child; it's insulting to pregnant women everywhere: and what kind of message does it send to Cosmo's younger readers?
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Philosophy and Psychology for the 21st Century
nationalism, protectionism, selection and discrimination
US president Obama warned against "a crude sort of nationalism’ taking root." He, like many other smart and responsible humans, fails to understand human nature. The tendency to prefer small groups and to protect boundaries that separate our group from others is an innate feature of humans and is not going to disappear. Obama stated:“We are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism, or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them, and I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is doing to be defined by what we have in common, as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.” The beginning of his big mistake is the suggestion that ethnic identity and tribalism are recent constructs, add-ons that can be changed. Ethnic identity and tribalism are innate and create societies rather than the society creates ethnic identity and tribalism. I review the basic truths in my book Human Nature:
Selection, Discrimination
The fantasy of egalitarian democracy is out of step with nature and the reality of human behavior. We have recognized that group membership is all important to humans. You recognize familiar humans who speak and act like yourself as members of your group. In a crowd you notice humans who display small differences in speech, costume and behavior. Most often these small differences are the basis for shunning or ignoring the “strange” humans. In the most rigid groups, everyone wears the same costume, repeats the same polite language, with the same intonation and behaves in a predictable, ritualistic manner.
We have recognized that racial and ethnic boundaries exist but obvious boundaries are not required for discrimination. The ideal of an egalitarian society is to recognize the merit of individuals; to allow social mobility based on learning and achievement; and to protect individual expressions by social policy and law, but human nature does not change. Group preferences and boundaries that separate groups can always be identified.
Every group, large or small, invents selection processes to sort humans by age, gender, appearance, ancestry, intelligence, aptitudes, skills, accomplishment and other variables. You can invent rules against sorting, but selection will continue because it is natural and important. In every human life, every day, a selection process is at work. Discrimination refers to noticing differences and making choices based on evaluating differences. One of the trends in neuroscience involves understanding how decisions are made. You could argue that detecting and responding to differences is a universal strategy in animal brains. Humans are good at detecting differences and make millisecond decisions that have a lasting influence on their subsequent decision-making procedures. The kind and degree of difference is always in flux and depends on prior learning, context and social status.
Discrimination is a deeply embedded property of the human mind that is expressed in almost every human behavior we might consider. However, discrimination as a popular topic is often a misinterpretation of the normal activity of noticing and acting on differences. In popular debates, discrimination is treated as an aberration. Terms that end in “ism” and “ist” are often used to describe discriminating people in a derogatory manner. Thus anyone with a different ancestry who disagrees with you becomes a racist. This is not to argue that noticing differences is always positive. It is to argue that humans base a lot of their decisions on noticing differences. In a positive mode, the description “a discriminating shopper” identifies human who notices differences in design and quality of manufacture, choosing high-quality products rather than cheap ones.
Every creature who is hatched or born on planet earth faces a series of tough tests to find out if he or she has the right stuff to survive. Nature is not kind to individuals who do not make the grade. Animal populations consist of healthy, smart members because everyone else died or was eaten.
Humans have an unusual ability to protect their young, sick and disabled members so that strong, healthy members increasingly devote more of their time, money and energy helping the less fortunate. This altruistic option in human groups, however, does not alter the tough and persistent competition among humans for resources, mates, money, prestige and security. In every aspect of human life, there is a selection process operating. The selection of members for special status or privilege involves tests to find out who has the right stuff. Humans are constantly evaluating each other. Humans quickly notice differences in appearance and behavior, automatically sorting the people they meet into convenient categories. Humans respond strongly to physical characteristics and react negatively to others who differ in appearance, size, shape sex or color.
Humans are built to respond differently to different characteristics. This discriminatory tendency is innate, not a matter of choice or learning. The details may be learned but the tendency is innate and is not going to disappear. There is an odd discrepancy between the realities of rigorous, persistent selection processes in nature and the pretense that everyone has the same ability and should have the same opportunity to succeed at any endeavor they fancy. The Miss America pageant is not egalitarian and only one young beauty is selected from thousands of beautiful young woman who enter beauty contests in their own states. The athletes who compete in Olympic Games are selected from a large population of athletes in the home countries. These highly selected individuals from over 200 countries compete to discover who is best in the world. Only one in each sport will win a gold medal. The selection of one from many is basic to human society. Many-to-one is the rule of hierarchy and every society generates a hierarchal distribution of rights and privileges, even societies based on the principle of equal opportunity for all.
The term Homophily describes the tendency of humans to associate with others similar to themselves. The preference bias is innate but its expression is influenced by many variables such as ethnic origins, age, gender, level of education and by exposures to others with different backgrounds. Currarinia et al found, for example, that in American high schools: "Asians exhibit the least preference bias, valuing friendships with other types as much as friendships with Asians, whereas Blacks and Hispanics value friendships with other types 55% and 65% as much as same-type friendships, respectively, and Whites fall in between, valuing other-type friendships 75% as much as friendships with Whites. Meetings are significantly more biased in large schools (>1,000 students) than in small schools (<1,000 students), and biases in preferences exhibit some significant variation with the median household income levels in the counties surrounding the schools."[i]
An ideal civil society attempts to reduce negative discrimination, struggling against the innate tendency. The idealists who seek a permanent solution for discrimination will be disappointed. Racial and ethnic boundaries, at least in the ideal model, are undesirable and are suppressed by social policy, law and the good will of citizens. All societal constructs are ephemeral and only change local circumstances briefly. We would like to believe that in Canada selection processes employed in business and education are fair and not discriminatory. There is an important distinction between discrimination before the fact of performance and after the fact of performance.
If an individual is judged before he or she has a chance to take the test - that is unfair. If discrimination occurs after the tests based on performance measurements, then that is fair and necessary for a society to operate.
The third possibility is that the test is unfair. Many debates arise when the fairness and appropriateness of tests is questioned. Schools generally have established tests and standards that sort students by intelligence, aptitude and accomplishment. IQ tests sort student by sampling their mental skills, which means sampling aspects of their brain function with specific tests of cognitive ability.
Well-educated humans know about the distribution of qualities, characteristics, goods and privileges in human populations. Biologists understand that the distribution of observable characteristic follows the distribution of genes in a population. A "normal distribution” is a bell-shaped curve, with most scores in the middle range and a few at each end, or "tail," of the distribution. A standard deviation is a measure of distance from the mean or average value; one standard deviation below the mean is at the 16th percentile; one standard deviation above the mean is at the 84th percentile-- this is a big difference. Two standard deviations from the mean mark the 2nd and 98th percentiles (a bigger difference). Three standard deviations from the mean mark the bottom and top thousandth of a distribution. In medicine, the distribution concept is valuable and is used in daily practice to evaluate test results and to make prognostications.
The main idea is that all human characteristics are distributed and, no matter what human feature you are considering, you will find some individuals with more and some with less. In medicine, two standard deviations from the mean on a test result is described as "normal" on the assumption that 98% of the population cannot be abnormal. This assumption is often reasonable, but may be misleading if the distribution of a characteristic is skewed in a given population.
From Human Nature by Stephen Gislason
[i] Sergio Currarinia, Matthew O. Jackson, and Paolo Pind. Identifying the roles of race-based choice and chance in high school friendship network formation. PNAS March 16, 2010 vol. 107 no. 11 4857-4861
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Intelligence is expressed in the ability to learn. Smart people learn faster and learn more than not so smart people. Intelligence is manifest in the ability to acquire complicated skills and excel in performance by practice and progressive improvement. Competent people are smart people who have the discipline to practice and improve their performance. In demanding, professional environments the nicest people tend to be the smartest and most competent. There are exceptions.
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Cannabis: Expert Report Details Health Effects -- Good and Bad
StonedThe growing acceptance, accessibility, and use of cannabis and its derivatives have raised important public health concerns ; 22 million Americans older than 12 years report current cannabis use ― the majority for recreational purposes. Twenty-eight states and Washington, DC, have legalized marijuana for medical use, and eight states and the District of Columbia allow recreational use.
The movement in Canada to legalize both medicinal and recreational use of cannabis was in part an attempt to eliminate the illegal trafficking of the drug. With criminal penalties in place, the police, courts and prisons at great cost were unsuccessful in suppressing the market for the drug. Other arguments for governments gaining the revenue that criminal organizations received were persuasive.
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There are host of well-known environment groups that an educated individual can support, join and contribute. Political action is always required and is always frustrating. Effective political lobbyists have insights into human nature, communication skills and a good understanding of political processes. Climate changes require intelligent, responsible politicians to act quickly and decisively to avert looming disasters. They are in short supply.
The University College London established the Policy Commission on the Communication of Climate Science. They wrote:” The Commission explored the role of climate scientists in contributing to public and policy discourse and decision-making on climate change, including how highly complex scientific research which deals with high levels of uncertainty and unpredictability can be effectively engaged with public and policy dialogue. The Commission also examined the insights that scientific research and professional pr…
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Amazon Launches AmazonSmile – A Simple, Automatic Way For Customers To Support Their Favorite Charitable Organizations
Amazon will donate a percentage of the purchase price for millions of products each time customers shop at smile.amazon.com
Customers can choose from nearly a million charitable organizations
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2013-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today launched AmazonSmile, a new program that makes it easy for customers to support their favorite charitable organizations every time they shop. Customers who visit AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com) will find the exact same Amazon they know and love. They’ll enjoy the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience – with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to their favorite charitable organization. There is no cap on the total donation amount and customers can choose from nearly one million organizations around the country.
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“AmazonSmile allows us to reach millions of existing and new supporters who can help us find cures for cancer and save children,” said Richard Shadyac Jr., CEO of ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “At St. Jude, we’re leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer while ensuring no family ever receives a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food. Working with AmazonSmile gives us a new way to support our mission that’s simple for both us and our supporters.”
“Amazon and charity: water are both known for disrupting the status quo and this program is the kind of innovation that could change the way our supporters help us bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations,” said charity: water founder and CEO, Scott Harrison. “AmazonSmile will make charitable giving easier, which is a big win for our supporters, and, most importantly, the 800 million people on the planet who don’t have clean and safe drinking water.”
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A new TV series about Prince Charles is set to air in the UK. ITV has commissioned programmes focusing on his life as Duke of Cornwall.
The shows are being made to mark Charles’ 50th year as a working Duke of Cornwall. The title traditionally passes to the eldest son of a monarch on their accession and Charles took on the role on the day his mother became Queen. However his active involvement in the Duchy, which provides an income of around £20 million every year for the prince, began half a century ago.
Programme makers have followed him and his work at the duchy for the past year and the two hour long shows that have come from that include exclusive interviews with Prince Charles. Viewers will also see him as he takes on the day to day work involved in running the duchy which covers more than 130, 000 acres of land and an estate including farms and industrial estates as well as high profile areas like the model village of Poundbury in Dorset.
Charles’ role as Duke of Cornwall and custodian of the estate will be showcased in the programmes while his focus on the environment and local communities will also come under the spotlight.
Bill Lyons, Executive Producer of the programmes, said ‘’ “It’s rare to have access to an untold story but that’s exactly what we discovered in the Duchy of Cornwall. These films will reveal just how much HRH The Prince of Wales has invested – personally and emotionally – into what has been his lifetime’s endeavour.”
The programmes have been made for ITV by BBC Studios and have the working title of ‘Inside The Duchy’.
The Duchy of Cornwall was first established as an estate by Edward III in order to provide an income for the heir to the throne. It automatically passes to the eldest surviving son of a monarch on their accession. Prince Charles is the longest serving Duke of Cornwall in history.
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Cherry Picked - Psychologist and neuroscientist to direct KU autism research and training center
Psychologist and neuroscientist to direct KU autism research and training center
OVERLAND PARK — Today, Matthew W. Mosconi assumes the directorship of the Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training, or K-CART.
K-CART has headquarters at the University of Kansas Edwards campus and is allied with the Center for Child Health and Development at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Mosconi, associate professor of clinical child psychology and associate scientist at KU’s Life Span Institute, brings a new dimension to K-CART’s research agenda through his focus on identifying the brain mechanisms that cause the development of behavioral and cognitive issues characteristic of Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD.
He has also examined brain-behavior linkages related to single gene conditions like Fragile X Syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders. This work seeks to determine the physiological mechanisms in different forms of autism so that biologically based tests can be developed for early identification and so that new targets for treatment can be identified.
As director of clinical/translational research for K-CART since 2016, he established a monthly lecture series that provides a research forum for clinicians and researchers from KU, KU Medical Center and Children’s Mercy Hospital who represent multiple disciplines and who are focused on work with individuals with ASD. The series also hosts guest lecturers from across the country who are leaders in their fields.
"Dr. Mosconi is among the elite biobehavioral scientists in the field of autism,” said John Colombo, director of the Life Span Institute and professor of psychology. “His work emphasizes sensorimotor development and repetitive behaviors in autism. He uses psychophysiological and electrophysiology methods in his work. Both of these characteristics are consistent with and complement the history of autism research at KU and the existing community of KU autism scholars."
Mosconi joins Kathryn Ellerbeck, M.D., MPH, FAAP, who directs the Center for Child Health and Development at KU Medical Center and serves as the co-director of K-CART.
Mosconi completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill before conducting his postdoctoral training in developmental cognitive neuroscience and pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He moved on to the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2011, where he also served as director of research for its Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders.
In 2015, he joined KU as associate professor of psychology and applied behavioral science and associate scientist in the Life Span Institute. He then served as director of clinical/translational research for K-CART beginning in 2016.
Mosconi’s research has been supported by National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, Autism Speaks, the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation and the Once Upon A Time Foundation. He has published in multiple high-impact journals, including JAMA Psychiatry, the Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Molecular Autism, NeuroImage and Biological Psychiatry.
Mosconi serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. He was the recipient of the International Society for Autism Research 2014 Young Investigator Award.
Mosconi succeeds K-CART Director Debra Kamps, who is retiring. During her tenure, Kamps helped raise the profile of autism research conducted at KU. She was the first director for K-CART, which was established in 2008 with private and public funds. Under her leadership, 12 KU Discovery Grants were awarded to 16 KU scientists, stimulating new research initiatives and leading to externally funded grants.
She also established a resource center for families at the KU Edwards campus. Further, the Autism Connections video series was developed, the Beyond the Diagnosis annual professional/parent conference was initiated and the statewide Autism Training Program expanded.
Kamps also is a senior scientist at the Life Span Institute and the associate director of the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, another Life Span Institute affiliated research center, at the Children’s Campus of Kansas City in Kansas City, Kansas.
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We are proud and privileged to have a new school building which offers students all the very best that a modern school can.
Our new school building was opened in 2006 through a PFI / Local Authority scheme costing £25 million. The PFI contract means the maintenance of the building will be of the highest standard for the next 25 years. This guarantees that for many generations of schoolchildren, our school will be 'as new'. What a wonderful environment in which to educate our young people, both today and into the future.
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Personality: Jamon K. Phenix
Spotlight on VUU Student Government Association president
3/1/2019, 6 a.m.
Jamon K. Phenix
“Richmond has a history of segregation and bigotry. And if we don’t take a stand to start and continue an honest dialogue that would hurt but is necessary, then we will never receive full equality and justice. We will never eradicate institutional racism.”
Jamon K. Phenix, president of Virginia Union University’s Student Government Association, takes this position as a student leader and one of the gatekeepers of his university.
The 21-year-old Atlanta native is a senior studying history and political science. Upon graduation, he wants to attend law school at either Howard University or the University of Richmond to become a civil rights attorney.
In representing the SGA, Mr. Phenix found himself in the media spotlight last week when he wrote a letter to Gov. Ralph S. Northam asking him to delay a visit to the VUU campus planned for a chapel service on “Faith, Identity and Social Justice” that was to honor the Richmond 34, VUU students arrested in Feb. 22, 1960, for protesting at the whites-only lunch counter at the former Thalhimer’s department store in Downtown.
Gov. Northam has come under continued criticism and calls to resign after the public disclosure that his 1984 medical school yearbook page featured a photograph of a person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe.
While Gov. Northam first apologized for appearing in the photo he subsequently said neither person in the photo was him. But he acknowledged wearing blackface later in 1984 as a 25-year-old medical resident in San Antonio, Texas, to impersonate Michael Jackson during a dance competition.
The governor has refused to step down from office and planned to use his attendance at the VUU event on Feb. 21 to launch his “reconciliation tour.”
Because of the letter, Gov. Northam announced the evening before the event that he would bow out.
“I respect the wishes of the student body,” Gov. Northam wrote on Twitter. “In lieu of my attendance, I will host the Richmond 34 at the Executive Mansion … to honor their bravery and courage.”
“We invited Gov. Northam to a roundtable event where he could speak, answer our questions and have an honest dialogue about race and reconciliation,” Mr. Phenix says, although no date for such a meeting has been set. “That would give the Gov. Northam an opportunity to have a dialogue and answer questions versus being a part of an audience.”
Civil rights and social justice are important to Mr. Phenix.
“I grew up just down the street from Dr. Martin Luther King’s first home. I was always reminded by my grandparents that you always are to treat people with compassion and love as well as forgiveness,” Mr. Phenix says.
But he said as he grew older, he discovered those concepts were missing from the world. That led him to want to pursue a legal career and to fight for social equity, criminal justice and the right for all people to become productive citizens. He says he chose to attend VUU because it resembled his values and vision and could help shape him as a student leader.
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Conservation of the Agile Frog — the Rarest Amphibian in the British Isles?
L. Racca
In Jersey, the agile frog (Rana dalmatina) has declined to a single small population that is displaying erratic breeding success. Survival of eggs from hatching to metamorphosis can vary from 0 to 20% per year. This gives rise to pulses in recruitment which are reflected in the age structures of adult frogs. Variations in recruitment — and the resulting population fluctuations — may be related to the predatory invertebrates in the breeding pools, which in turn are related to hydroperiod. Microsatellite DNA analyses were employed to evaluate genetic problems within the Jersey population of frogs. Samples collected from frog populations from mainland Europe were also been used, to compare the DNA profiles of frogs from Jersey and France. An indication of the level of population management that is likely to be needed in the future emerged from the genetic analyses and the analysis of field data. Captive breeding will have an essential role in the long term conservation of Rana dalmatina in Jersey.
agile frog; conservation; ecology; Jersey; microsatellite DNA; population dynamics; Rana dalmatina
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Beat the heat indoors with the latest games and tech
April 17, 2016 by Nathan Beach
Summer can be a great time to check out all the new video games and technology that will be released. (Gabe Cerritos / The Signpost)
Summer is fast approaching, and with it comes several new releases of games and technology. Here are a few items to look forward to as the semester comes to an end.
On the gaming side of things, there are quite a few games being released. For starters, “LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens” comes out for all systems on June 28.
This game is the LEGO version of the movie and is sure to bring a the tongue-in-cheek moments that LEGO games have become known for. It will run from $30 to $70, depending on the system.
Do you love fighting monsters in outer space? Well, “Doom” — the revamped version of the classic first game of the same title — is coming out for all systems on May 13.
If the quality of play from the game conventions is any indication, then it should be pretty exciting. The game will also have a collector’s edition running for $120.
The controversial and aesthetically pleasing “Overwatch” will be released May 24. This game will run around $40 for the PC and $60 for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 (PS4).
If you’re more of a handheld gamer or have a Nintendo 3DS, then “Kirby: Planet Robobot” comes out on June 10.
The game looks to be fun for the whole family as Kirby gains an ability to control robots to save the day. The new Kirby game will run at $40.
If you can’t quite wait for summer, and you want to procrastinate studying for finals, there are several games out now that might hit the spot.
“Dark Souls III” is the latest installment in the notorious franchise known for being frustratingly difficult. This game runs about $60 for the PS4 and Steam.
“Ratchet & Clank,” is also out and is priced at $40. The highly anticipated “Star Fox Zero” for the Wii U is available and priced at $60.
For those looking to purchase some new technology, you’re in luck as several companies have announced new electronics that will be coming out later this year.
Intel, the makers of processors used in computers, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that they have made a hoverboard that turns into a robot.
Dubbed the Hoverbutler, it’s not only a personal transport but an android as well. It will have the ability to show facial expressions and video. It will also come with arms to do simple tasks. There is no word yet on the price, but it will be out mid to late 2016.
Speaking of robots, one is set to be released in May that can convert any room into a movie theatre. This robot, called the Tipron, is equipped to project movies, YouTube or other video clips on any flat surface up to 80 inches. However, this robot comes with a steep price tag ranging from $1000 – $2000.
For those who are into the music scene, Sony has released the PS-HX500 Turntable. This nifty device will play vinyl records and convert them into digital copies. It allows those with records to save their songs and listen to them on the go. The cost is just shy of $600 and is available to buy now.
These are just a few of the new technologies to look forward to this summer. So if you find yourself sick of the heat, there’s no shame in spending some time indoors with a new game, gadget — or robot.
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Headline : Cabinet approves transgender bill
The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved a bill which provides a mechanism for social, economic and educational empowerment of transgenders by defining their identity and rights to prohibit discrimination against them.
The bill will benefit large number of transgender persons, mitigate the stigma, discrimination and abuse against this marginalised section and bring them into the mainstream of the society, an official statement said.
This will lead to inclusiveness and make them productive members of the society, it said.
"The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal to introduce the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019. The Bill will introduced in the ensuing session of the Parliament. The Bill provides a mechanism for their social, economic and educational empowerment," the statement said.
Passage of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, which aims at empowering the community by defining and protecting their rights, is one of the priorities of the Social Justice and Empowerment ministry in the first 100 days agenda of the second term of the Narendra Modi government, an official source said.
The bill will bring greater accountability on the part of the central government, state governments and UTs for issues concerning transgender persons, besides making all the stakeholders also responsive and accountable for upholding the principles underlying the Bill.
The bill was passed by Lok Sabha in December 2018.
The draft bill without any new amendments was approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday, sources in the ministry said.
According to the bill, a transgender is a person whose "gender does not match with the gender assigned to that person at birth and includes trans-man or trans-woman (whether or not such person has undergone Sex Reassignment Surgery or hormone therapy or laser therapy or such other therapy), person with intersex variations, gender- queer and person having such socio-cultural identities as kinner, hijra, aravani and jogta."
Going by the bill, a person would have the right to choose to be identified as a man, woman or transgender, irrespective of sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy. It also requires transgender persons to go through a district magistrate and "district screening committee" to get certified as a transperson.
The committee would comprise a medical officer, a psychologist or psychiatrist, a district welfare officer, a government official, and a transgender person. The bill prohibits discrimination against a transgender person in areas such as education, employment, and healthcare. It directs the central and state governments to provide welfare schemes in these areas.
Offences like compelling a transgender person to beg, denial of access to a public place, physical and sexual abuse, etc. would attract up to two years' imprisonment and a fine.
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Vayechi 5770: Groundhogs and Brothers.
In this week’s portion, the last of Genesis, We enter the scene 17 years later. Jacob is dying, and performs some tasks he has not yet done. First he has Joseph promise to bury him in the cave of Machpelah back in Canaan. Jacob also blesses Joseph's sons as though they are his own. Finally, he gathers all of his sons together, says a little something about them and dies. The brothers, who are still agitated, try to make sure Joseph won’t get even with them, but Joseph re assures them. The Parshat ends with the death of Joseph after he sees three generations of his family.
One of my favorite movies is Groundhog Day with Bill Murray and Andie McDowell. The story is of a cranky, spoiled weatherman sent to cover the festivities in Pauxtawney PA on Groundhog Day. However, he keeps waking up on the same Feb 2, remembering everything from the previous day. No matter what he does, he keeps reliving the day over until he gets it right, and wins the heart of the Andie McDowell character.
I can’t help thinking of Groundhog Day when I think of Genesis. The whole book has a theme which everyone keeps getting wrong, which strings together almost every story. It is not till the very last chapters that Jacob and sons finally get it right. With that, the book concludes.
In every major story in Genesis there is always a story of the preferred son, which always leads to a disaster from other sons. To review:
[Genesis 4:1-8] Abel's sacrifice was accepted and Cain’s wasn't. Cain killed his younger brother.
[Gen. 21] Isaac is accepted to continue the covenant and Ishmael isn’t. Ishmael makes sport of his little bother, and gets himself and his mom banished.
[Gen. 25:27-34, Gen. 27] Jacob cons the blessing and birthright out of his brother and father. Esau vows to murder him, but Jacob flees to his uncle Laban in Padan-Aram.
[Gen. 37]Joseph is the spoiled favorite of his father to the detriment of his other sons. Joseph gets sold into slavery. But after almost losing several sons in this last exchange, Jacob changes. He no longer follows the pattern.
As we have seen in both the Abraham and Isaac stories, Abraham and Isaac prefer their older child, Ishmael and Esau, to their younger. But by the end of each story it is the younger child that receives the blessing. But in our potion Jacob intentionally blesses the younger before the older [Gen. 48:13-19]. He places his hand on the wrong grandkids for the blessing, and Joseph, disturbed by this interjects that he is doing it wrong. But Jacob says, I imagine with an understanding smile, "I know, my son I know"[Gen. 48:19]
When all of his sons are finally together, he does not pick out one specific son to say is better than the rest. Instead, he gives a comment about each one, not accord to their status or birthright, but to their temperament and merit. Some like Judah, who redeemed himself after initial errors of judgment in how he dealt with Tamar and Joseph, are praised as a lions' cub [Gen 49:8-12]. Some like Rueben who made serious lapses in judgment and temper, are blessed for past performance, but are cursed for the future.
All of this leads to one particular concept- Jacob treated his sons as people who made choices, instead of treating them according to things not in their control, like their birth order or mother.
The Talmud says of Jacob [Taanit 5a] that "Jacob didn’t die," that he lived on in his seed, which are his children. But the Ishbitzer Rebbe says that seed is a little different. That in his last seventeen years, when all of his children more or less got along, he had a taste of heaven in this world, and thus was spared the transition between this world and the next, that transition being death. That taste of heaven is reflected in this address to his sons. They are no longer honored by birthright but by merit, and thus sense of equality which brings harmony occurs.
Why does the text not end then with the death of Jacob, but with the death of Joseph? There is still one unresolved issue. Did Joseph reveal himself to his brothers did not yet forgive them? The brothers did not admit their wrongs to Joseph, they simply said that their brother was killed by an animal, [Gen. 44:20,44:28,42:13] which both Joseph and his brothers knew to be false. This lie continues until Jacob’s death when the brothers fretted about their fate. Then they apologized, but by that time Joseph had indeed forgiven. They live together as peacefully as brothers can until Joseph’s death, when the story ends. This is different than the relationship of Jacob and Esau or Isaac and Ishmael. They do get together only bury their respective father after death, and one meeting between Jacob and Esau. Once again we have closure of a pattern- brothers live together peacefully.
In the last chapter, after the death of their father, the brothers, though indirectly, finally apologize to Joseph, and this time Joseph speaks "to their heart” and accepts fully the apology. Rashi believes that Joseph said them additionally "how can one candle extinguish ten candles?" All were different and unique sources of spiritual illumination, and all were needed to increase the light. There is not one special candle: every candle counts.
Joseph was 39 when his brothers first approached him in Egypt and 56 when his father died. Joseph dies at age 110, enough to see three generations of his sons. In that last 54 years he lived peacefully, enjoying family life, and playing with the grandkids. The strain of the families of the past resolved. With that ending, our first book of the Torah ends.
To summarize all of the above, I can only think of one song:
Hine ma tov u'ma-naim shevet achim gam yachad.
How good it is for brothers to live together!
Vayishlach 5770: Dinah's Rape and the Missing Halakah
I lied a few weeks ago. I had mentioned that I was not going to write about myself nor write over 1000 words, yet this week requires me to break both of those. We read many stories this week, starting with Jacob wrestling with an angel, and then the meeting with Esau, and a genealogy of Esau. Yet, in the middle is a story which had both fascinated and plagued me for all eight years I've been writing
1. And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
2. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.[Genesis 34]
My story isn't Dinah's but it is close. I was sexually assaulted by five of my fellow seventh graders when I was 13 as some kind of prank. Thirty years later, I'm still trying to make sense of what happened. As I've written before, it was only a kiss, but being pinned down against your will and being kissed on the cheek is not your normal kiss. As I've learned since then, trauma is trauma, violation is violation. It is not just the physical act as much as the emotional and mental component. Some thing, anything done against one's will is wrong, is rape.
In talking to many who either have had my experience and even a few in law enforcement who have had to deal with the victims, I've learned something. the reaction of Jacob to the rape of her daughter is rather common.
5. And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field; and Jacob held his peace until they came.[Genesis 34]
He does nothing, he is described as holding his peace. He did not even show he was upset by this. After Simeon and Levi do take things into their own hands and slaughter all the males of the rapist's town, including the rapist Jacob still cant talk about Dinah:
30. And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have brought trouble on me to make me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and thePerizzites ; and I being few in number, they shall gather together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.[Genesis 34]
Recently, I've had a chance to think about this again. I began to think about Jacob's silence, remembering a rather disturbing discussion a few years ago where I heard many people appalled at a former policeman's comment that getting a testimony from a parent or relative of a rape victim is near impossible. All too often they do as Jacob did and say it was noting, or don't even acknowledge that the victim actually did anything. If they do it is often in the same way as the rapist himself will rationalize the act: Dinah asked for it. Even theMidrash says she asked for it.
R. Berekiah said in R. Levi's name: This may be compared to one who was holding a pound of meat in his hand, and as soon as he exposed it a bird swooped down and snatched it away. Similarly, AND DINAH THE DAUGHTER OF LEAH WENT OUT, and forthwith, ANDSHECHEM THE SON OF HAMOR SAW HER.[Genesis Rabbah LXXX:6]
In some cases, family believe she asked for it so much she is likened to a prostitute. Indeed one Midrash even says "Like mother like daughter". Leah sold the mandrakes in order to have sex with Jacob, and thus her daughter acted like a harlot. [Gen Rabbah LXXX:1] But Her brothers Simeon and Levi's response, while violent and arguably barbaric, was in refutation of this. They respond to their father "Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?" rejecting that she was. She was family and needed protection ans much as any other family member. Their slaughter ofShechem brought their father's ire against them at the end if Jacob's life, referring to them as "instruments of cruelty" [Gen 49:5] when they did not buythier father's position in protecting a sibling.
There is too many silent voices in the narrative. There is the voice of Dinah, who never speaks. There is a rabbinic interpretation that she married Job, and thus in her own bitterness she told Job to curse God and get it over with. [Job 2:9] There is also the relatively silent voice of Jacob, who only complains about international relations and not his daughter. For many years I've wondered something else. There is an abundance of words by the rabbis, yet besides the financial support issues of a rape victim, the victim is ignored. Talmud attributes a rape as the same thing as minor civil damages in the courts, needing only a court of three. [Sanhedrin 2a] Where is there a guide to heal? The text is strangely silent.
Why it was silent has bothered me. From my own experience I think I know part of the answer. I've been healing for thirty years now, along the way making some very bad steps and mistakes in the healing. In college I dated someone who was raped by a family member. Apparently she kept taking out her pain out on her lovers and abusing them to get even. Yet when I finally realized what she was doing, and broke off the relationship, I found out something else. I was suddenly and totally alone. No one believed me that she abused people, or more specifically me. I was the one in the wrong in my friends opinion, and I was squeezed out of their lives. The last semester of college is one of the most distasteful time in my life. Without my friends of four years, I felt totally alone, and blaming myself for this disaster.
There a silence I've only noted in the past few hours, though it has been there for weeks -- my own. With Sweetie in my life, I'm having a healthier, happier life than I have ever known. Writing today, I realized something about myself. I want to protect her from this part of me, from the damaged part of me. I've never told Sweetie this, because somewhere deep inside I didn't want her to think it's something she did wrong. Instead I instinctively hide inside of me my terror, and panic. I'm sure I'm not the only one who hides their pain from a trusted loved one in silence.
Over and over again there is this nagging silence. There is of course another silence. Most of the current research estimates one six boys will be sexually assaulted in some way before their 18th birthday. Yet until very recently, this was the biggest silence of all, so much so this may be an underestimate. Women can be thought of victims, but men are not allowed in any form to be a victim, particularly around sexuality. To do so is a sense of weakness that family friends and one's individual identity cannot handle, The weak excuses thrown at Dinah, do not work with men the same way they work with women. In men to be sexually assaulted by a woman is almost a fantasy initiation. To be sexually assaulted by a man is to question the survivor's sexual orientation. To bring any of this to the surface is so counter to what society expects of a man, gay or straight there is a horrible silence.
Even the rabbis are caught by this silence, and my 8-year search for Dinah's Halakah, the Halakah of the survivor is a fruitless search. They too did not want to admit such things, and bought the old lines, as shown by Midrash that rapists, and families of rape and abuse victims have used for thousands of years to silence the issue. They go further and intellectualize it, and make it more about commodities than healing the soul. The silence is understandable from them, though not forgivable.
I have found a large component of the Halakah of the survivor by the way. Knowing that the Rabbis were incapable of doing something about it, I moved from the classical sources to my own experience. I've felt the bitterness of the wife of Job, whether she was Dinah or not. She, became so bitter because she could not express what she needed to. There is only one way out of this, and it is mind bogglingly hard to do: find some people you can trust, people who can empathize, and tell them. This is not easy as trust is one of the most shattered things of all in such cases. Walking that path to healing is the only one that works: the silence must be broken, the grief must spill out. It is a difficult path. There will be many who will fail in such trust, many friendships destroyed, as I know too personally. Every time I write about this, I have that fear myself, How many people will now shun me for not being strong enough to subdue four boys who each outweighed me, and one girl's peck on my cheek. How many, in not knowing what to say to me about my experience, in their own discomfort will never talk to me again? How many will say something crass and demeaning? I cannot know, but I have learned it is not good to be silent, it is not good for man to be alone.
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NASCAR Cup Xfinity Camping World Truck IndyCar Formula 1
Denny Hamlin cruises to 2nd Daytona 500 victory in 4 years
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By JENNA FRYER
AP Auto Racing Writer
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Denny Hamlin came to the Daytona 500 determined to honor his late car owner with a victory.
He delivered with a storybook tribute for Joe Gibbs Racing.
Hamlin won NASCAR's biggest race for the second time in four years Sunday, leading JGR in a 1-2-3 sweep of the podium in overtime. The race and the season have been dedicated to J.D. Gibbs, Joe Gibbs' eldest son who died last month after battling a degenerative neurological disease.
J.D. Gibbs helped his father start the race team, ran it while Joe Gibbs was coaching the Washington Redskins, was a tire changer on the team's first Daytona 500 victory and the one who discovered Hamlin during a test session at Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina. Hamlin was hired to drive the No. 11 - the number J.D. Gibbs used when he played football - and J.D. Gibbs' name is on the Toyota.
When Hamlin stopped his car along the frontstretch to collect the checkered flag, he immediately credited J.D. Gibbs.
"The whole family, they did so much for me over the course of my career, and this one is for J.D," Hamlin said. "We are desperately going to miss him the rest of our lives. His legacy still lives on through Joe Gibbs Racing and proud to do this for them."
Hamlin was met in victory lane by the entire Gibbs family, including J.D.'s widow and four sons.
"He meant a lot to me and it's hard for me not getting choked up because I've been choked up about 100 times about it," Hamlin said. "Just to have Melissa (Gibbs) and all the kids here, it's just crazy."
Joe Gibbs, the Hall of Fame NFL coach with three Super Bowl victories, ranked the tribute win to his son first in his career accomplishments. J.D. Gibbs encouraged his father to move the team from a crowded-Chevrolet camp to become Toyota's flagship team in 2008 and the Daytona 500 victory was the 100th for JGR in a Camry.
"It is the most emotional and biggest win I've ever had in my life, in anything," Gibbs said. "It was the most important night in my occupational life. I know J.D. and everybody in my family was emotional."
Kyle Busch and Erik Jones finished second and third as JGR became the second team in NASCAR history to sweep the Daytona 500 podium. Hendrick Motorsports did it in 1997 with Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte and Ricky Craven.
Busch, now winless in 14 Daytona 500s, was initially openly disappointed in falling short.
"He's got two, I've got none, and that's just the way it goes sometimes," Busch said.
But he reiterated the JGR and Toyota goal of working together to win the race and noted he didn't have much of a shot at beating Hamlin because the field had been decimated by a flurry of late accidents.
"Was trying to make sure one of us gets to victory lane, first and foremost," Busch said. "There wasn't enough cars out there running at the end. I don't know how it would have played out."
The Cup Series slogged through three uninspiring exhibition races during Speedweeks to cause concern over a potentially disappointing main event. Jim France, who took over as chairman of NASCAR last August, used the pre-race driver meeting to ask the drivers to liven up the activity. Hamlin and Chase Elliott were the rare drivers to use the bottom lane in the exhibition races while the rest of the field ran single-file along the top.
"I hope a few of you drivers out there will get down on the bottom with Denny and Chase and put on a good show today," France told the field.
The drivers obeyed and delivered an action-packed and wreck-filled running of "The Great American Race."
There was an accident on pit road, a 21-car crash, 12 cautions and five wrecks in the final 20 laps of regulation. The race was stopped twice for cleanup totaling nearly 40 minutes in the final stretch. During the second red-flag, one of NASCAR's track-drying trucks broke down while cleaning oil off the racing surface.
Hamlin and Busch alternated as the leaders during the handful of late restarts, and the final rush to the checkered flag was a push to hold off Ford driver and reigning NASCAR champion Joey Logano. The Ford camp went 1-2-3 in both of Thursday's qualifying races and was favored to win the Daytona 500.
Logano, who started his career at JGR, settled for fourth and also took a moment to honor J.D. Gibbs.
"I'm not a Gibbs driver but for what J.D. has done for my career is the reason why I'm sitting here today," Logano said. "As bad as I want to win it, it is pretty cool to think that the first race after his passing, to see those guys one, two, three, it just says he's up there watching and maybe gave (those) guys a little extra boost there at the end."
Michael McDowell was fifth in a Ford but aggravated Logano by not working with him in the two-lap overtime sprint to the finish.
"I just told him that my team doesn't pay me to push Joey Logano to a win," McDowell said.
Ty Dillon was sixth in the highest-finishing Chevrolet.
The race featured eight drivers making their Daytona 500 debuts and rookie Ryan Preece, a short track racer from New England, was best in class with an eighth-place finish. Ross Chastain, the eighth-generation watermelon farmer who lost his main ride for this year when the FBI raided his sponsor right before Christmas, finished 10th,
Jamie McMurray, the 2010 winner, led six laps and was in the mix until he was collected in one of the late accidents. He finished 22nd in his final race before retirement.
William Byron and Alex Bowman were the youngest front row in race history but had little to show for it after the race. Bowman finished 11th and Byron, the pole-sitter, was 21st.
Hamlin last year suffered through his first winless season in the Cup Series and made a crew chief change during the offseason. When he won the 500 in 2016 it was his debut race with crew chief Mike Wheeler, and this victory came in his first race with Chris Gabehart.
Hamlin's first Daytona 500 victory was in a photo finish against Martin Truex Jr. and the celebration was a blur. This one, he said, he will enjoy.
"I think I was so dumbfounded about everything that happened the first time with the photo finish and everything," Hamlin said. "This one lets me soak it in a little bit more. I'm going to have a terrible hangover tomorrow, but I'm going to enjoy it the rest of my life."
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St Mary's Stadium
Title: St Mary's Stadium
Subject: 2009–10 Southampton F.C. season, 2012–13 Chelsea F.C. season, 2011–12 Millwall F.C. season, South Coast derby, Hampshire/Selected article/8
Collection: Buildings and Structures in Southampton, Football League Venues, Football Venues in England, Premier League Venues, Southampton F.C., Sport in Southampton, Sports Venues Completed in 2001, Sports Venues in Hampshire, Visitor Attractions in Southampton
Former names
The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium
Britannia Rd, Southampton, England
Southampton F.C.
32,505[1]
32,363 (v Coventry City, 28 April 2012)
Field size
112 by 74 yards (102 m × 68 m)
Broke ground
£32 million
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St Mary's Stadium in Southampton, England, has been the home stadium of Premier League club, Southampton F.C. since 2001. The stadium has a capacity of 32,505 and is currently the largest football stadium in the South of England (excluding London).
The Ted Bates statue 5
Notable matches 6
Non-footballing use 7
Folklore and local legends 8
Facts and figures 9
Since the 1980s, when Southampton regularly challenged the best sides in the English league (particularly in 1984 when they were league runners-up), there had been talk of the club relocating to a new stadium to replace The Dell due to the old stadium's cramped location which made it unsuitable for major expansion work.
When the Taylor Report on 29 January 1990 required all First and Second Division clubs to have all-seater stadiums by August 1994, Southampton's directors initially decided to upgrade The Dell into an all-seater stadium (which was completed in 1993) but speculation about relocation continued, especially as an all-seater Dell had a capacity of just over 15,000; despite this, Southampton continued to defy the odds and survive in the new FA Premier League after 1992.
After a lengthy and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to build a new 25,000 seater stadium and leisure complex at Stoneham, on the outskirts of Southampton, the city council offered the club the chance to build a new ground on the disused gas work site in the heart of the city, about one and half miles from The Dell.
The move was cited as the club returning home, because the club was formed by members of the nearby St. Mary's Church, as the football team of St. Mary's Church Young Men's Association before becoming Southampton St. Mary's F.C., and eventually Southampton F.C.
Construction started in December 1999 and was completed at the end of July 2001, with work on the stadium itself and improvements to local infrastructure cost a total of £32 million.
The Saints have been in residence since August 2001 when they moved from The Dell, which for the final years of its life, held just over 15,000 spectators – less than half the size of the new stadium. The first match was played on 1 August 2001 against RCD Espanyol, with the Spanish side winning 4–3.
The first competitive hat trick at the stadium was scored by Stafford Browne for Aldershot Town in a 3–1 victory over Havant & Waterlooville in the Hampshire Senior Cup final on 1 May 2002.[2]
Front Facade
The stadium is a complete bowl, with all stands of equal height. There are two large screens at either end that can be seen from any seat.
The stadium has four stands, which are named after the areas of Southampton they face. The main (east) stand is the Itchen Stand, and faces the River Itchen. The opposite stand is called the Kingsland Stand. Behind the south goal is the Chapel Stand, and to the north is the Northam Stand.
At the rear of the Chapel, Kingsland and Northam Stands, there is a continuous, translucent 'panel' that is designed to allow light to access the pitch. A large section of the roof at the Chapel Stand, at the southern end of the stadium is also translucent, for the same reason
At the rear of the Itchen Stand, there are 42 executive boxes, and a police control room. The stand also houses the club's offices, changing rooms, press facilities and corporate hospitality suites. The four main hospitality suites are named after some of Saints' greatest players:
Terry Paine
Mick Channon
Bobby Stokes
Matt Le Tissier
The Northam Stand is home to the majority of the more vocal supporters, as well as visiting fans. Visitors can be given up to 4,250 seats (15 per cent of the capacity) for cup games, and up to 3,200 for league matches.
Panorama of St Mary's Stadium during Southampton v. Colchester United in 2009
The official ground name at opening was 'The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium'. Initially the club wanted the ground to be named purely after the sponsors, but fan pressure influenced the decision to include a non-commercial title. In 2006 the new sponsor Flybe.com did not choose to purchase the naming rights to the stadium, meaning it reverted to the name 'St Mary's Stadium'.
The ground has an all-seated capacity of 32,505, including the press and directors boxes. Because of the segregation between home and away fans in the Northam Stand, it is unlikely the full capacity will ever be reached for a competitive match.
The current record attendance was for the Football League Championship match between Southampton and Coventry City on 28 April 2012, when 32,363 spectators attended. The lowest league record was Southampton versus Sheffield United, when just 13,257 attended.[3]
When the club had lower league position this had a negative impact on attendances, although the visit of Exeter City on Boxing Day, 2009 in a League One fixture, attracted an attendance of 30,890.[4] During the 2009–10 League One campaign, attendances increased significantly, attracting 29,901 against Milton Keynes Dons in the Football League Trophy and then, just 4 days later, 31,385 in a South Coast derby against Portsmouth in the FA Cup. The overall average attendance for the league season was 20,982, a near 3,000 improvement on the previous season despite being a league lower. During the 2010–11 League One campaign the lowest attendance was 18,623 against Yeovil, while the highest was 31,653 against Walsall.[5]
All stands, apart from the Itchen stand, can be built upon and expanded. Overall this would give an approximate capacity of around 50,000, and would cost a similar amount to how much it cost to build the stadium in the first place, which was approximately £32,000,000.
The Ted Bates statue
On 17 March 2007, the £102,000 statue to commemorate club stalwart Ted Bates was unveiled, outside the front of the Itchen Stand. Almost immediately, the statue was widely condemned by supporters due to it being out of proportion, and not an accurate likeness of the former club President. The 11-foot statue was made by sculptor Ian Brennan.
Former chairman, Leon Crouch stated that he would help fund a replacement or remedial work, in association with the Ted Bates Trust, who were overseeing the collection of funds, commission and erection of the statue. The statue was removed less than a week after its unveiling. The replacement statue, by sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn, was unveiled on 22 March 2008.[6]
Notable matches
The St Mary's Stadium has hosted one full England international match, a 2–2 draw between England and Macedonia in October 2002. David Beckham and Steven Gerrard scored for England. There has also been an international between Japan and Nigeria.
The stadium first hosted European football in September 2003, when the Saints faced Romanian side Steaua Bucharest in the first round of the UEFA Cup. The game ended in a 1–1 draw.
The stadium hosted an England under-21 match on 5 February 2008, when England played Republic of Ireland, England winning 3–0, it also hosted another England under-21 friendly on 5 June 2011 against Norway, which England won 2–0.
Between Monday 1 June and Friday 5 June 2015, St. Mary's Stadium hosted a world record breaking match for the longest continuous football game ever played. Players from Southampton based charity Testlands Support Project played for 102 hours straight, beating the previous record of 101 hours. [7]
Non-footballing use
As is common for modern day stadia, St Mary's is also used as a conference facility, with hospitality suites available for this purpose most days of the week.
In the Northam Stand the Saints Study Support Centre – a club run initiative to help school children outside of class – can be found, along with the offices of Southampton City Training, a quasi-council run organisation which helps young people get vocational training.
It is also used as a prom setting for many local schools of Southampton, including St. Anne's and St. George's.
The stadium has also held film premieres for movies such as Casino Royale, as well as music concerts by Elton John in 2005 and Bon Jovi in 2006. There was a tribute to Elvis Presley in August 2007 and Southampton fan Craig David played at St Mary's on 25 October 2007, although neither in the main bowl of the stadium. Bon Jovi returned to St Mary's on 11 June 2008.[8]
Additionally, St Mary's also houses the head office of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance since its founding in 2007.[9]
St Mary's was one of the seventeen venues short-listed for use in the 2015 Rugby World Cup but was not selected for the final list.[10]
Folklore and local legends
According to local legend, during construction of the stadium, a group of Portsmouth F.C. supporters buried their team's shirt under the Northam Stand end of the pitch and cast a curse that caused the team's initial losing streak at the new stadium. Pagan witch Ceridwen Dragonoak Connelly performed a Celtic ceremony to lift the curse just prior to the team's first win.[11][12]
Average attendance:[13]
2014–15: 30,652 (Premier League)
2011–12: 26,419 (The Championship)
2010–11: 22,160 (League One)
Record attendance:
32,363 v Coventry City, Championship 28 April 2012
Biggest Saints win at St Mary's
8–0 v Sunderland, Premier League 18 October 2014[14]
Biggest Saints defeat at St Mary's
0–4 v Manchester United, FA Cup 12 March 2005
Highest scoring games at St Mary's
8–0 v Sunderland, Premier League 18 October 2014
6–1 v Tranmere Rovers, League Cup 2 October 2002
6-1 v Aston Villa, Premier League 16 May 2015 [15]
4–3 v Norwich City, Premier League 30 April 2005
3–4 v Leeds United, Championship 19 November 2005
5–2 v Yeovil Town, League Cup 23 August 2006
4–3 v Birmingham City, Championship 29 November 2006
5–2 v Barnsley, Championship 17 February 2007
2–5 v Lazio, Friendly 28 July 2007
4-3 v Burnley, FA Cup 4 January 2014
^ "Premier League Handbook Season 2014/15" (PDF).
^ http://www.theshots.co.uk/uploads/documents/Aldershot12803Pages1.XLS
^ Gibb, Ian (4 February 2009). "Southampton 1 Sheffield Utd 2: Snowball fight puts Blades in the mood for victory". Daily Mail (London).
^ "Southampton vs Exeter City".
^ "Southampton Results and Attendances 2010–11".
^ "Second Ted Bates statue unveiled". BC News. 22 March 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2008.
^ "Southampton footballers set new world record for longest match". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^ "Bon Jovi Announce Tour". Archived from the original (www.bonjovi.com) on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 5 November 2007.
^ http://www.hiow-airambulance.org.uk/page.cfm/about-us
^ "RWC 2015 venues and schedule announced". Official RWC 2015 Site. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
^ "Saints lift curse of St Mary's". The Telegraph. 25 November 2001. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
^ O'Leary, Michael (2011). Hampshire and Isle of Wight Folk Tales. The History Press.
^ Football League official statistics
^ "Southampton 8 – 0 Sunderland". BBC Sport. 18 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/matchday/matches/2014-2015/epl.html/southampton-vs-aston-villa
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Daniela Muscatello and Vaishali Sengar drop off comfort pouches in the Medical Daycare Unit. Sengar and her team collected enough donations to fill 350 pouches for cancer patients. (Photo by Yuri Markarov)
Vaishali Sengar, a patient safety specialist at St. Michael’s, has assembled “comfort pouches” for women undergoing cancer treatment with the help of colleagues from across the hospital.
Sengar said she has friends who assembled and donated comfort pouches at cancer centres across the city in years past, and was inspired to bring the initiative to St. Michael’s.
She approached the Medical Daycare Unit with the idea, and said they were eager to be a part of the intitiative.
In October, Sengar, in collaboration with the Medical Daycare Unit staff, began collecting donations of $30 or $45 for small and large pouches, respectively. Each pouch is filled with items to help make chemotherapy treatment more comfortable: lip balm, fuzzy socks, crossword puzzles and mints and candies.
Her goal was to raise enough money to purchase and fill 75 pouches. When she posted about the initiative on social media, it was immediately clear her colleagues were on board to help her achieve it.
Starting this month, nearly 350 pouches will be delivered to patients.
“So many people in the St. Mike’s community wanted to help, and within the first day the donations were pouring in from staff,” she said. “I was completely overwhelmed.”
Daniela Muscatello, an applications specialist in the IT department, was one of those people. She said as soon as she heard about the initiative, she rallied her co-workers and collected enough donations to purchase 10 pouches on behalf of the department.
A similar initiative to assemble comfort pouches for hemodialysis patients is being led by Julie Saccone, a former communications adviser at St. Michael’s. For more information or to contribute, contact stylebyjewls@gmail.com.
“We aren’t physically located in the hospital, so for me, helping patients in this way was an opportunity for us to stay connected to the front lines and remind ourselves what’s going on where we work,” she said.
In addition to the IT Department, the Pharmacy Department was one of the biggest contributors to the initiative.
“Everyone, whether you see patients every day or not, can relate to the idea of being cold or scared or nervous, and even having a few little things to help with that can make a huge difference,” said Rayna Giobbe, business manager in the Pharmacy Department. “I’m so proud to be able to give back through such a beautiful initiative.”
Sengar said she also received generous donations from nurses across the hospital, in addition to those from the physicians, social workers and other staff from Medical Daycare.
“These packages will show that staff from all departments care about what these women are going through,” she said. “It’s something to give them a boost, especially for people who are here over the holidays.”
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21st Century Fox, Disney shareholders approve merger
In two separate meetings conducted Friday (July 27), shareholders for 21st Century Fox and Disney have approved the proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets by Disney. The deal, first proposed ...
By Barry Walsh
In two separate meetings conducted Friday (July 27), shareholders for 21st Century Fox and Disney have approved the proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets by Disney.
The deal, first proposed in December of last year, recently received the greenlight from the U.S. Department of Justice, on the condition that Fox’s regional sports networks wouldn’t be among the assets purchased by Disney.
In the months leading up to the shareholder meetings, the plot thickened with Comcast also launching a bid for the assets, which include Fox’s film and television studios; a stable of cable networks including FX, National Geographic and Star India among others; and Fox’s stakes in European satcaster Sky and Hulu as well as a 50% stake in Endemol Shine Group. After a brief bidding war that saw Disney up its bid to US$71.3 billion, Comcast dropped out of the running earlier this month.
According to a statement from the two companies issued Friday morning, under the agreement, 21st Century Fox stockholders may elect to receive $38 per share in either cash or shares of New Disney, a new holding company that will become the parent of both Disney and 21st Century Fox.
“Combining the 21CF businesses with Disney and establishing new ‘Fox’ will unlock significant value for our shareholders,” said Rupert Murdoch (pictured), executive chairman, 21st Century Fox, in a statement. “We are grateful to our shareholders for approving this transaction. I want to thank all of our executives and colleagues for their enormous contributions in building 21st Century Fox over the past decades. With their help, we expect the enlarged Disney and new ‘Fox’ companies will be pre-eminent in the entertainment and media industries.”
“We’re incredibly pleased that shareholders of both companies have granted approval for us to move forward, and are confident in our ability to create significant long-term value through this acquisition of Fox’s premier assets,” said Robert A. Iger, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company. “We remain grateful to Rupert Murdoch and to the rest of the 21st Century Fox board for entrusting us with the future of these extraordinary businesses, and look forward to welcoming 21st Century Fox’s stellar talent to Disney and ultimately integrating our businesses to provide consumers around the world with more appealing content and entertainment options.”
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This is the final version of the digipak. After getting feedback from my teacher, I have added the following details:
- I sharpened the opacity on the barcode to 100%. I did this because in every example I found, the barcode is sharp.
- I added some bonus tracks to the track listing. As this is a compilation album, it is important to add new unreleased tracks or new versions of songs in order for there to be a reason to buy it, as all the other tracks are on previous albums. The names for these tracks are "BORN", "DIRT" and "THE FIELDS" I like these names as they fit in really with the other grungy titles of their songs, and therefore also fit well with the genre.
-I made the "BMTH" on the spine a lot smaller and put it after the band name as this is much more common that it being before. I also added the SONY logos. and a catalogue number.
- On the front cover, I added a sticker that says "Featuring 3 Exclusive New Tracks" as this will draw attention to the new content and therefore attract the audience to buy the Digipak. I did this in a dark bluey/grey colour as I wanted it to stand out from the black and white colour scheme but also flow well altogether as a whole.
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Lagrange Points and Trojan Orbits
Gravitational balance and stable configurations in rotating reference frames
Author: Watsisname
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When two masses move in a circular orbit about each other, five points of gravitational equilibrium are generated, which move along with them. A particle placed at one of these points will have a very small acceleration, as if gravity was in some way cancelled out. More strangely still, it can be possible to place a particle in a stable orbit around some of these points, despite there being no mass there to attract it!
These five special locations are known as the Lagrange Points, discovered by Leonhard Euler and Joseph-Louis Lagrange in the 18th century. Not only are they of special interest in celestial mechanics, they also have important applications for space missions and the placing of satellites. We even find asteroids caught around some of the Lagrange points: so called “Trojan asteroids”.
Why do these points exist? To investigate, we will again use the concept of a potential, as we saw in the discussion of Mercury’s orbital precession. As a reminder, in physics a “potential” is an imagined landscape of hills and valleys that describes how an object reacts to forces. We can think of an orbit as being the motion of a particle trapped in a valley of a potential. This time however, we will generate the potential in a somewhat unusual way: we will adopt a frame of reference which is rotating. There are pros and cons to this approach. One one hand, motion in a rotating frame of reference is not very intuitive, and we will need to invoke “non-inertial” forces to understand them. On the other hand, doing it this way will make life a lot simpler, as then the masses and the Lagrange points themselves will appear stationary. Motions around the Lagrange points will also be much easier to visualize and interpret.
But, seeing as how much I myself struggled when I was learning about non-inertial forces in rotating frames of reference, I think a quick digression into that subject would be a good idea.
Frames of Reference and Non-Inertial Forces
Most of us are comfortable with physics in “inertial” frames. An inertial frame is one in which objects subjected to no forces will move in straight lines with constant speed due to inertia. In other words, an inertial frame is one in which the “law of inertia”, or Newton’s First law, is valid. But what if we put ourselves on a turn table, and try rolling a ball back and forth to each another? We will discover it is quite hard — the ball will seem to be deflected by some mysterious force.
Someone watching from the side will still say the ball moves in a straight line relative to the ground. It is us on the spinning turn-table that accounts for the weird trajectory we see. However, we can be just as valid in saying that the ball is deflected by something. We may invoke new forces, unique to our rotating frame. There is a centrifugal force which tends to fling things away from the axis of rotation, and a Coriolis force which tends to make moving objects turn and follow curling paths. We all have felt centrifugal force whenever riding in a car going around a turn. And many are probably familiar with how Coriolis forces on the spinning Earth causes air currents to deflect, and explains the rotation of hurricanes. These forces are sometimes said to be “fictitious”, in the sense that there is no real physical interaction responsible for them. They are simply consequences of being in a strange frame of reference. But when we are in that reference frame, they seem totally real.
I have found no more wonderful a demonstration and explanation of these fictitious or non-inertial forces than in this film put together by University of Toronto physicists in 1960. If you have not seen this, it is an absolute must watch. Or if you’re in a hurry:
-The first 13 minutes build the ideas of different frames of reference.
-13:25 to 17:00 looks at non-inertial (accelerated) frames.
-17:04 is a beautiful example of motion in a rotating frame. This segment is extremely relevant to the physics we will be looking at here.
The Generalized Potential for Two Masses
Here we go! Let’s imagine two masses in orbit around each other, and examine the forces and the potential they produce. For starters, and for symmetry, let’s first let the two masses be equal. We will also “lock them in place”, so that (for now) there are no non-inertial forces. What does the potential look like for this system?
For any point in space there will be a gravitational force. Actually two of them: one from each of the masses. The gravitational force from each is given by
where r with a hat over it means “in the direction from the mass to the point in question”, since force is a vector, like an arrow, which has magnitude and direction. The minus sign in front flips it around so that it points to the mass.
In terms of the potential (the landscape whose steepness describes the force), this becomes
This expression lacks any vectors, since each point is assigned only a magnitude (a height in the landscape). What does this landscape look like? Below I plot it for the two equal masses, 1 unit apart along the x axis, fixed in place and centered around the origin. Darker/redder colors indicate more negative values of the potential. Around each mass is a bottomless hole. Drop a ball into this landscape, and it will fall into the hole associated with the nearest mass.
As FFT has said earlier, the steepness of the potential (how closely packed the contour lines are) relates to the magnitude of the force at that point. On a topographic map, close lines means steep terrain. A ball on steeper terrain will accelerate down the hill faster, and likewise a particle on a steep region of a potential will experience greater force.
To help see how the potential and the force/acceleration are connected, below I’ll plot the exact same situation in terms of the acceleration. I’ll plot on a log scale, so that details at very small accelerations are visible (whereas on a linear plot they would be overwhelmed by the very large accelerations close to the masses). Here, darker blues represent greater acceleration.
Unsurprisingly, near the origin the acceleration drops to zero. There the gravitational force due to the mass at the left exactly cancels the force due to the mass on the right. We can also see a hint of this from the potential. This location is a “saddle point”, where the landscape rises up if we move along the y axis, but drops down if we move along the x axis. Trying to balance an object here would be very difficult, with a tendency for it to “roll off”.
The Co-Rotating Frame: how do non-inertial forces modify the potential?
Now let’s set these two equal masses into a circular orbit around each other, and place ourselves into a rotating frame of reference, such that the masses appear to stay still. What new forces appear, and how do they affect the potential and the motions?
The first new force this will introduce is centrifugal. This force acts to fling things away from the center of rotation of the system, about which our frame is rotating with angular velocity Ω (meaning the speed at which the angle is changing). We can find the angular velocity of the frame by using Kepler’s Third Law:
where R is the separation distance between the two masses M1 and M2. With the frame rotating at this angular speed, the centrifugal force is
where r is the distance from the point of interest to the center of mass of the system about which the frame is rotating. The r-hat in this equation tells us the centrifugal force is directed away from the axis of rotation, as it should be. The strength of the force also grows in proportion to the distance from the center of the frame, and also with the square of the angular speed that the frame is rotating.
In terms of the potential, the centrifugal force adds a new term to it, with magnitude
Let’s see what this looks like now, again for the two equal masses. Now the masses are orbiting in a circle, and we are in a frame which rotates with them.
There they are! Five points where the net force is zero! One is in the exact center as before, where the gravitational forces cancel and the centrifugal force is zero since it is at the center of rotation. This is the L1 Lagrange point, in the case of the two masses being equal.
Two new points are added on either side of the masses. These are L2 and L3. Here the centrifugal force is exactly equal and opposite to the sum of the gravitational forces. In the potential they also look like saddles, and are unstable.
Finally, two new points are added above and below. These are L4 and L5, where again the centrifugal and combined gravitational forces cancel.
You might notice that the inclusion of centrifugal force makes the potential drop down again at large distances, whereas with gravitation alone, it rose upward. This is because if you start out far away from the center, and match your speed to rotate along with the system, then you are moving quite fast, and have far too much angular momentum to be in a circular orbit. Your side-ways speed will carry you off to larger distances. On the other hand, if you start out too close, then you have too little speed to be in orbit and so you drop closer in.
Let’s do something fun! Earlier I said that L4 and L5 are stable points about which we can place something in orbit. So let me just drop in a particle very close to the L4 point, and….
Wait, what? Why did it spiral away?
Well, I had lied a little bit. L4 and L5 are not always stable. And you might have noticed that the potential at these points looks like the top of a hill. Not the bottom of a valley! (Lighter colors instead of darker). How could there possibly be stable orbits around them? (Actually I did not understand this until now. I had suffered the misconception that L4 and L5 are shaped like valleys, until I started working through this in detail!)
L4 and L5 are the tops of hills, not the bottoms of valleys. So of course an object placed near them will slide away. But once it does, a new non-inertial or “fictitious” force takes hold:
The Coriolis Force:
This is the force which causes the deflection of the puck seen in the demonstration in the above video with the turn table. It is a velocity dependent force, and it always acts at right angles to the velocity. This means it will cause a moving object to turn, but not change speed. The Coriolis force is given by
The cross (X) product between Ω and v means that the direction of the force is given by the right hand rule, and then we flip the direction 180° because of the minus sign in front. So if the frame of reference is rotating counter-clockwise, then the force on a particle moving upward will be to the right. That is, it will deflect trajectories clockwise. This is also why high pressure systems (air flow away from center) spin clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and why low pressure systems (air flow toward the center) spin counter-clockwise.
Because the Coriolis force is velocity dependent, it is impossible to define a potential for it. If we move faster, the force will be stronger, and we’ll take a different path, with a different change in potential energy. So there is not a unique landscape that we can use to model motions subject to this force. Instead, we can model the general potential with just gravitation and centrifugal force, and to simulate motions we can include the effect of Coriolis force by direct computation on the computer. This is how I generated the above plot.
In the case of the masses of M1 and M2 being equal, the particle dropped near L4 slides down the potential hill, and then as it speeds up, the Coriolis force whisks it around in a growing spiral. There are no stable orbits around any of the Lagrange points in this scenario.
In order for L4 and L5 to be stable, one of the masses must be at least 24.96 times the mass of the other. Understanding why this is the case (or why this number in particular) is hard, and requires a careful analysis of the equations of motion. If any readers are interested in the mathematical details, I can refer you to some suggested reading at the end. But for our purposes, let’s just take it as an established fact. What we can do is look at more examples of the potential where we vary the mass ratio, check what happens visually, and see if we can qualitatively make sense of it.
The generalized potential for a 10:1 mass ratio:
Let’s set the mass of one object to be 1/10th the mass of the other.
The acceleration plot is particularly illuminating. The Lagrange points are starting to look a lot like their commonly-shown configuration, with L4 and L5 leading/lagging the secondary mass by 60°. This 10:1 ratio is often used in figures that portray the Lagrange points for the Sun and Earth. Which is an exaggeration of truth, because Earth is of course much less than 1/10th the mass of the Sun! But it strikes a nice balance, giving an idea of the shape of the potential for the Sun and planet. Using the true mass ratio of Sun and Earth would be quite unhelpful for visualizing it, as the Sun’s influence dominates the landscape.
While we’re at the 10:1 ratio, let’s drop in another particle near L4:
Once again it spirals away. 10:1 is still too small of a ratio of masses, when we need ~25:1 at least. But we can see that we’re going in the right direction! The spiral is a bit tighter, and the particle wraps around the L4 point completely before dropping down and hitting the smaller mass. (Oops.)
Finally, let’s increase the ratio to match the Sun and Jupiter. That is 1047:1 — definitely enough for L4 and L5 to be stable. And since this is a real situation with specific masses and distances, I’ll add in units. The potential is in terms of energy, here shown in gigajoules per kilogram. Distances are in AU.
It’s pretty hard to see the details here (again why most figures online show 10:1 instead of the real thing). Even the log-scale acceleration plot isn’t terribly useful. But we can at least see that the potential in this case has a crescent ridge along Jupiter’s orbit, with Jupiter making a small depression around itself. The L1, L2, and L3 points still exist and are saddle-shaped, but they are not visible in this plot scale. Similarly, L4 and L5 are still separate hills along the crescent, but we can’t distinguish them from one another.
Let’s zoom in to the area around L4, and drop in a particle again.
Here I said “WOW!” I had no idea that the orbits around Lagrange points look like this. But they do — spiraling about in these crazy elongated paths. I was extremely surprised and excited when the computer output this trajectory. These orbits are known as “Trojan orbits”. As mentioned before, they have enormous astrophysical significance, and in fact many asteroids are caught in them, especially around Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points. One has also been found in a Trojan orbit of Earth!
Here is an even larger one (starting farther away from the L4 point), with an overview including the Sun and Jupiter but without the mess of the potential.
As a sanity check, I went to the literature. Check out Figure 3 from this paper “Horseshoe and Trojan orbits associated with Jupiter and Saturn”, by Everhart, 1973. A very close match!
How can we explain this behaviour, qualitatively?
As before, when the particle slides down the potential hill from the Lagrange point, Coriolis force whisks it aside, turning it clockwise. But soon it is turned so much that it rises back up the potential hill, at a location farther along the orbit — either closer to or farther from Jupiter. As it rises up the hill it slows down again, the Coriolis force weakens, and the arc shrinks. Then the process repeats — falling down the well, getting deflected to the side by Coriolis, and so on.
But the shape of this potential hill is a like a very broad crescent. Farther away from the Lagrange point, it gets thinner, and a little less high. This means the particle has an easier and easier time rising back up to the top of the “ridge”. Finally it reaches a point where it is able to cross over the ridge, and the process repeats on the other side! It is the Coriolis force that keeps the particle circulating around near the top of this potential hill — with the hill itself being generated by gravity and centrifugal force.
For larger deviations from the L4/L5 points, the particle will spiral along more and more elongated paths. Once the departure gets too large, it can even cross over to the other side of the Sun-Jupiter line. Now we have Horseshoe orbits! Some asteroids are known to be caught in these orbits as well. 🙂
One other thing to add real quick, and then this will be the last for a while. I wanted to show that it is also possible to orbit around the unstable Lagrange points (L1 for example), but the orbit is extremely delicate and will fall apart if not carefully maintained.
Here it is For Jupiter’s L1 point. The particle starts out a little bit closer to Jupiter than the L1 point, and with an initial velocity downward. Coriolis force deflects its path clockwise, and with the initial position and velocity tuned “just right”, it ends up circulating in an oval. For the values I chose, it completed about an orbit and a half before falling apart.
To give an idea of the timing involved, this path is plotted over 12.5 years, and the first orbit took about 5.5 years. Plenty of time for a spacecraft trying to follow this course to make necessary adjustments to stay on it. This has actually been done with missions to Earth’s L1 and L2 points. Here is the path the LISA Pathfinder used to get to and orbit around the Earth-Sun L1 point. Again some maintenance is required to follow this orbit.
Concluding Remarks & Suggested Reading
I think I will end it here, as I think this has covered all (and more!) that I had hoped to go through. I myself have learned an enormous amount while working through this, and came across many surprises and previous misconceptions. I did not know for example that L4 and L5 are actually repulsive, and that the stability of orbits around them depends on the Coriolis force. Nor did I really have a sense of what Trojan orbits really look like or why they behave as they do. This was extremely exciting to work through and discover, and I hope you all find this an interesting and enjoyable exercise as I did.
References & Further reading:
An excellent, more technical treatment of Lagrange points, including deriving them and calculating their stability, can be found here. (written by Neil Cornish of Montana State University).
Another good one can be found here from Tipler’s Modern Physics text.
For those interested in a broader scale of classical or celestial mechanics, including deriving equations of motion in non-inertial frames of reference, I can highly recommend the text “Classical Mechanics” by John Taylor.
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John Buzbee, a US diplomat who served in Mideast, dies at 50
In his photo provided by the family, taken April 16, 2014, John Buzbee is seen at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Buzbee, a veteran Foreign Service officer who served across the Middle East, including two stints in Iraq in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion, died Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, from complications from metastatic colon cancer. He was 50. (Family Photo via AP)
WASHINGTON — John Buzbee, a veteran Foreign Service officer who served across the Middle East, including two stints in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, has died from complications from metastatic colon cancer. He was 50.
Buzbee served in Iraq during the effort to rebuild that nation after the ouster of Saddam Hussein — first in Tikrit, under the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2004, and later as a political officer in Baghdad in 2008 and 2009.
In Tikrit, he worked closely with local Iraqi officials, visiting schools and promoting democracy, economic and education efforts as the U.S. sought to rebuild the devastated country before a violent insurgency took hold. He remained optimistic about the long-term chances for democracy in the Middle East despite the region's troubles in recent years.
"He loved serving people," said Ambassador Stuart Jones, Buzbee's longtime friend and colleague, who served with him in Iraq, Egypt and Washington. Jones most recently served as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
"The question with him was always, 'How do we make people's lives better?' It was something that animated the work he did," Jones said.
Buzbee, who died Thursday, started his career as a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles and Kansas City, covering police and city hall. But a longtime fascination with the Middle East prompted him to change careers in his early 30s.
After earning a degree in Arab Studies and studying Arabic at Georgetown University, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service, working in U.S. embassies and consulates throughout the Middle East and in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department in Washington over the next 16 turbulent years.
Buzbee served as a political officer and vice consul in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; an economic officer in both Cairo and Jerusalem; and a cultural affairs officer in Cairo. In later years, he served in Washington as deputy director for Syria in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs; as a senior adviser in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; as a researcher at the Foreign Service Institute; and as an adviser in the office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs.
He also worked on Balkans issues in the Bureau of European Affairs as the deputy director for South Central Europe.
"He was so passionate about public service and about helping our country get back on its feet," said Raed al-Jabbouri, the current governor of Tikrit. "He's someone I called a friend."
Robert Ford, former ambassador to Syria, described Buzbee as "unflappable" as they grappled with the escalating war there.
"John Buzbee was a real gentleman, which is about the highest compliment I can give somebody," Ford said.
Buzbee was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer five years ago. On his personal blog, "Sunny Days and Ice Cream," he wrote, "my odds of celebrating my 50th (birthday) were no better than the odds of ice cream surviving a sunny afternoon on the Potomac."
He took a medical retirement from the Foreign Service in January 2016. A few months later, he turned 50, reflecting on the milestone in his blog:
"Between the time in hospital beds and chemotherapy lounge chairs, I've also traveled around the world with my daughters, hiked in the Scottish highlands, kayaked in California, snorkeled down to a shipwreck in the Caribbean, climbed up Buddhist temples in Thailand and Moorish castles in Spain, watched a thousand innings of baseball, drank a hundred bottles of wine (or maybe a few more, but who's counting), worked, played, ate, drank, made merry, and piloted that boat down the Potomac and through a Naval firing range that was, according to the insistent man on the radio, in hot status that afternoon. (Long story that.)"
Buzbee was born in Olathe, Kansas, in 1966, and moved in high school to Hutchinson, Kansas, where his father was editor and publisher of The Hutchinson News. He earned political science and journalism degrees from the University of Kansas and later graduated from Georgetown University with a Master of Arts in Arab Studies.
He is survived by his wife, Sally Buzbee, bureau chief and a vice president of The Associated Press in Washington; his two daughters, Emma and Meg; his parents, Richard and Marie Buzbee of Hutchinson, Kansas; and his brothers, Bill Buzbee of Half Moon Bay, California, and Jim Buzbee of Centennial, Colorado, and their families.
He was preceded in death by his daughter, Anne Marie Buzbee; and his brother, Bob Buzbee.
He was a passionate and loyal baseball fan of the Kansas City Royals and the Washington Nationals. He had a sarcastic sense of humor, reflected in the satirical newspapers he started in high school and college.
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FRC did not follow due process Over Stanbic IBTC — CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has condemned in strong terms recent sanctions approved by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, against the board and management of Stanbic IBTC Holding, SIBTCH, saying the council did not follow due process. The FRCN had, amongst others, sacked four directors of Stanbic IBTC, including its Chairman, Mr. Atedo Peterside, for alleged infractions, while also calling for the withdrawal of its financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2014.
After a careful review of the issues, apart from bluntly turning down FRCN’s request to take disciplinary action against StanbicIBTC, the CBN also advised the board of the embattled bank to discountenance the FRCN’s sanctions. The CBN said: “In the light of the foregoing facts, which clearly show that FRCN did not follow due process, the bank regrets to inform you that it is unable to accede to your request to take disciplinary action against SIBTCH. Indeed, the CBN does not see any reason to advise/compel SIBTCH to obey the sanctions metted to it by the FRCN.”
The letter was addressed to the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, FRCN, and was entitled: Re: Regulatory Decision in the Matter of Financial Statements of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc for Years ended 31st December 2013 and 2014. The CBN letter with reference number: GVD/GOV/CON/DGF/93/113, also read in part: “We are seriously concerned that such a drastic regulatory decision could be taken on an entity under the regulation and supervision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) without any form of consultation with the bank, especially as the CBN is responsible for promoting safe, stable and sound financial system. Yet, such a regulatory decision and the manner of the announcement is not only capable of eroding investors’ confidence but also inimical to the financial system stability.” To underscore the implications of FRCN’s action on Nigeria’s financial system stability, the CBN further noted: “Indeed, the FRC’s action has already precipitated a fall in the value of the shares of Stanbic IBTC by about 18 per cent since the announcement of the Regulatory Decision.”
The CBN in a 13-point observation faulting the FRCN’s actions also observed as follows:
lContrary to the allegation of the FRCN that Stanbic IBTC (SIBTC) did not obtain approval from the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) for the payment of affiliate software license, our review revealed that the bank actually obtained the necessary approval from NOTAP to pay affiliate software license from the Standard Bank South Africa (SBSA), for a period of three years covering June 2012 to May 30, 2015. The remittance from June 2015 to date is still awaiting approval from NOTAP.
With regards to the allegation of non-disclosure of intangible assets in SIBTC’s 2013 and 2014 financials, we note that the bank adequately recognised the software as an intangible asset in its 2011 financials and sufficiently disclosed the disposal of the software in the 2012 financials. Consequently, the said software could not have been reported as an intangible asset in the succeeding years 2013 and 2014.
With respect to the allegation of lumping several expense items under “Others”, we are of the view that the items were not material enough to appear as line items in the Income Statement and that the non-disclosure of the items did not materially affect the true and fair view of the financial statements.
We agree with FRCN that SIBTC erred in the classification of some line items. However, the identified misclassifications did not understate or overstate its assets and liabilities, neither did it increase nor decrease its income or expenditure, such as would have caused a material misrepresentation of the financials.
SIBTC used its judgment to capture the donation of M275 million under “Others” because it was of the opinion that it was not a charitable donation but a mandatory contribution towards the victims of terrorism in the country. For the avoidance of doubt, this contribution was agreed at a Bankers’ Committee Meeting, with the share for each bank clearly spelt out. Therefore, we agree with SIBTC’ s position, as presented.
Contrary to FRCN’s conclusions, our review of lAS 37 and lAS 32.19 indicate that SIBTC had an obligation to accrue the relevant provisions toward the settlement of the franchise and management fees as agreed between it and SBSA.
Without prejudice to the foregoing financial issues, the CBN is concerned about the apparent failure of the FRCN to follow due process as laid down by its own FRCN Act and Regulations, in arriving at the Regulatory Decision. In this regard, the bank wishes to make the following observations:
ln conducting investigation into possible breaches of the FRCN Act and/ or the Regulations, the FRCN is required to give the Entity concerned sixty (60) days from the service of Final Notice to restate its accounts where both the Panel and Entity agree on the need for restatement. In this case, our understanding is that FRCN called a meeting with the board of SIBTCH at 11.00 a.m on the 26th October 2015. But rather than holding the meeting, FRCN went ahead to convene a press conference at 8a.m on the same day to announce its sanctions against SIBTCH. Our review further indicates that both FRCN and SIBTCH did not agree on a need for restatement of the accounts before the sanctions were announced.
According to the FRCN Act, an entity is only punishable under the Act upon conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction. Yet, in issuing the Final Notice, the FRCN had already meted out some punishments to the affected entity, without any conviction by a court.
While FRCN may, following approval of the minister, review applicable fines, there is no power for compounding offences and imposing penalty in lieu of conviction as was done in this case.
Both the FRCN Act and the Regulations provide for the outcome of the investigation to be made known to a registered professional or a public interest entity and a right of appeal to the Technical and Oversight Committee before resorting to prosecution. In this case, however, there is no evidence that time was allowed to elapse for the appeal process before the imposition of sanction.
The Regulation provides that if the Entity fails to accept FRC’ s position at the end of a Notice period, the Council shall institute legal action against the entity, rather than mete out sanctions. Yet, in this case, sanctions have been meted out without evidence that legal action has been fully exhausted.
*A combined reading of both the Act and the Regulations shows that there are three types of sanctions that may be imposed for contraventions by Entities.
*These are: lmposition of monetary penalty/fine; Imprisonment for a term of years; Deregistration of a professional or issuance of a Warning Notice.
*There is however, no authority for suspension of registration of a professional as was done in this case.
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AKA: 君に届け (Japanese)
Length: Television series, 12 episodes, 24 minutes each
Distributor: Licensed by NIS America
Content Rating: 15+ (dialogue, suggestive themes)
Related Series: Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You) Season 2
Also Recommended: Boys Be, His and Her Circumstances
Notes: Based on the manga by Karuho Shiina, currently running in Shueisha's shoujo magazine Bessatsu Margaret.
Due to NIS America's packaging scheme, the reviewer initially reviewed each half of the first season as separate seasons, and the second season as a "third season" (which doesn't exist as of this point). The labeling has been modified to prevent confusion.
Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You) Season 1 Part 1
Sawako Kuronuma is a social outcast among her classmates, until she catches the eye of Shota Kazehaya, one of the most popular boys in the school. He helps her win social acceptance despite obstacles put in her path by a jealous rival, but what are his true feelings about Sawako? And what about Sawako's toward him?
Because she looks a little strange (especially around the eyes), Sawako is called "Sadako" by her classmates, after the evil little-girl ghost in The Ring. And they are actually afraid of her. Kazehaya, by being a popular guy and by very publicly accepting her, does a lot to turn this around; and with a little extra coaxing from him (and some classwork assistance from her), her classmates begin to warm to her.
The present author was himself not terribly popular in high school (it happens to guys too), but Sawako seems to me to be a bit over the top. She gushes with gratitude for the slightest consideration, giving people presents for simply being civil to her; and it made me want to sla-; uh, I'm sorry, it made me want to patiently explain to her that desperation is not an effective strategy for winning friends. She's also incredibly naive, missing nuances of human behavior that would even be obvious to Belldandy; at least Bell could tell when people were being cruel or abusive to her, while Sawako seems to have trouble recognizing it. She's voiced by Mamiko Noto, who's made a career of doing these sweet-but-wimpy kinds of characters (Shimako in Maria Watches Over Us, Rimone in Simoun), but in some of those series at least the character does finally grow a little bit of a spine; but Sadako (now I'm doing it) has a long way to go. (As you might expect, my favorite Mamiko Noto performance was one where she does a character 180 degrees away from this stereotype- Reiri, in Princess Resurrection.)
The rest of the cast is kind of a mixed bag. Kazehaya is consistently a nice guy. Sawako picks up two friends who become her best girl-pals (and her protectors), Chizuru Yoshida and Ayane Yano. Chizuru is your standard-issue aggressive female. Ayane, on the other hand, I found much more intriguing; in this first half of the season there's just one hint- in a phone call she answers- that her personal life might be rather complex. She's also pretty perceptive, and catches on to something about a character that no one else has realized just yet. Another character I really did like is Ryu, Kazehaya's buddy, a taciturn fellow who's terrible at remembering names. He and Chizuru have something going on, but she, at least, is not ready to admit they have any kind of relationship (though she apparently feels comfortable enough with him to casually invite herself and her friends up to his room, which is above the restaurant he works in.)
As for the bad characters, there's a coach who's the requisite Annoying Male, and then there's the chief villainess, the two-faced Ume Kurumizawa, who pretends to be friendly and cheerful while quietly manipulating things behind the scenes to suit her own purposes.
Besides Sawako's personality, the art is the other major problem the series has. The backgrounds are gorgeous, but the characters often aren't. Sawako herself seems to be rendered in simplified SD form over half the time. Chizuru and Ayane are realistically done a very few times in the show, but are mostly rendered much closer to SD as well, when they aren't actually SD. But Kazehaya, Ryu, and Kurumizawa (DON'T CALL HER UME!) receive much more consistently realistic renderings, for some reason.
Overall, I can't be very hostile to this series, since I've been in a similar place to Sawako, and some of this is exactly right; for example, Sawako's take on cell phones. I can also readily believe that being "adopted" by a popular person would be effective against this sort of ostracism. A few tweaks might have made this an exceptionally good show.
A rather slight series, but one with some potential. If Sawako's personality had been turned down a notch or two, I would have gone 4 stars. — Allen Moody
Recommended Audience: Aside from one or two off-color remarks, there's absolutely nothing objectionable here. Mid-teen and up.
Version(s) Viewed: Digital source
Review Status: Full (12/12)
Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You) Season 1 Part 1 © 2009 Karuho Shiina / Shueisha, DNDP, VAP, Production I.G.
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Call to prayer from global cultural monument
ISTANBUL (CWN): For the first time in 85 years the Muslim call to prayer was heard from the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The building was completed in 537 as the basilica of the Patriarch of Constantinople, but with the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, it became a mosque until 1931.
In 1935, it reopened as a museum under the president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
On July 1, a prayer call from inside the building was broadcast on television, the Anadolu Agency reported.
The Greek government expressed concern, saying that a monument of global cultural heritage is not compatible with a functioning religious centre.
China to diversify Congo economy
BEIJING (SE): Beijing released plans to work with the Republic of Congo in Central Africa to accelerate industrialisation to diversify its economy, which is heavily-dependent on oil, Xinhua reported on June 4.
China will put money into the development of a special economic zone in Pointe Noir, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, said at meeting with the president of the Congo, Sassou Nguesso.
Xi said that China is looking to expand its partnership with the Congo in the areas of agriculture and aviation, as well as exchanges in culture, education, youth development, media and other areas.
It also wants to give a legal guarantee for bilateral trade, investment and people-to-people exchanges.
Filipino journalist shot
SURIGAO (UCAN): A 41-year-old journalist, Saturnino Estanio Jr., from the Radio Mindanao Network, was shot three times by two men riding on a motor cycle in Surigao City on July 4 and his 12-year-old son, Anjover, took one bullet.
Although the wounds did not prove fatal, InPeace Mindanao said in a statement that the authorities had promised to carry out an investigation, but it hopes that this time around it will keep its promise and actually do it.
Estanio has exposed the illegal activities of mining companies and paramilitary groups around Surigao City on his radio programme.
Priest running for public office suspended
JAKARTA (UCAN): Father Rantinus Manalu, who is known for his anti-corruption campaigns and support for marginalised farmers, was suspended by Bishop Ludovicus Manullang in Indonesia when he announced his intention to run for public office in local elections next year.
“His priestly jurisdiction will be revoked,” the bishop said on July 4.
Father Manalu declared his candidacy after 30,000 people endorsed him in a petition, exceeding the minimum requirement of 22,000 signatures.
He said he hopes his priestly status would be reinstated if he loses the election or after his term ends.
“I consider this suspension as something legitimate,” Father Manalu said.
Crowning statue
SAN MATEO (SE): The coronation of an image of Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu, a venerated shrine in San Mateo, Rizal, The Philippines, has been approved by Pope Francis and will take place at a date yet to be decided.
The proclamation recognises the deeply-rooted and fervent devotion of the people to the Virgin Mary, as manifested by favours sought and received, CBCP News reported.
Other canonically crowned images include Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage (Antipolo 1926), Marikina’s Patroness and Our Lady of the Abandoned, both 2005.
In addition there is Our Lady of Naval (1907); Our Lady of Peñafrancia (1924); Our Lady of Manaoag (1926); and the Santo Niño de Cebu (1964).
Guilty and not guilty in Vatileaks trial
VATICAN (SE): A Spanish priest charged in the latest round of Vatileaks, Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and an Italian, Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, who has a three-week-old son, was given a 10-month suspended sentence for leaking confidential documents.
Vatican Radio reported that two Italian journalists, Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, who wrote best-selling books based on the leaked documents, were cleared by the Vatican court, as it has no jurisdiction over them.
An assistant to the Spanish priest, Nicola Maio, was declared not guilty.
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Chesterton CP/AP
Parish-level Unit
Total Population 1801 to 1961: Population grew from 112 in 1801 to 131 in 1961.
Occupational Structure in 1881:
Here we are presenting statistics for a historical unit, which may have changed its boundaries significantly during the period covered.
Ancient Parish
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 249.
Chesterton CP/AP, Huntingdonshire
We know of no alternate names.
This unit was associated with the following other units:
Nature of association
Other unit involved
was succeeded by CHESTERTON EP Ecclesiastical Parish F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 249.
HUNTINGDONSHIRE Ancient County F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 249.
PETERBOROUGH PLU/RegD Poor Law Union/Reg. District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 249.
NORMAN CROSS Hundred Ancient District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 249.
NORMAN CROSS RD Local Government District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 249.
PETERBOROUGH RSD Sanitary District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 249.
STILTON Registration sub-District 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
This unit was affected by the following changes:
Type of change
Area transferred
28 Sep 1956 was reduced to enlarge CASTOR CP/AP Area: 3 acres. 1961 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Intercensal Changes of Boundary (between 8th April, 1951 and 23rd April, 1961)', for 'LAA, CP'.; M. of H. and Local Government Declaration under Section 145 of the LGA, 1933 (Alteration of watercourses)
28 Sep 1956 was enlarged by gaining part of CASTOR CP/AP Area: 1 acres. 1961 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Intercensal Changes of Boundary (between 8th April, 1951 and 23rd April, 1961)', for 'LAA, CP'.; M. of H. and Local Government Declaration under Section 145 of the LGA, 1933 (Alteration of watercourses)
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Chesterton CP/AP through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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The Pat Ryan Report
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Clear Minds, Not Politics Needed in Middle East
The unrest and violence that has erupted in more than a dozen countries across North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia has refocused Americans’ attention on two different but not disconnected historical movements in the Muslim world. The first is the campaign of terror launched by Osama bin Laden and an alliance of militant Islamic warriors who have sought to expel the West from Muslim lands, oust pro-Western dictators and unify those lands as a single Islamic nation for over 15 years. This movement, initially supported by America and its allies when it was used to dislodge the Soviet Union from Afghanistan in the 1980s, metastasized into the Al Qaeda terror groups that eventually attacked the United States on 9/11. The toll in American blood and treasure has been over 10,000 lives and trillions of dollars in damages and the cost of U.S. led wars.
Dear Mr. Obama
I am writing to share with you my great concern about the Defense Authorization Act, just passed by Congress and signed by you, which permits indefinite detention of American citizens.
The Central Role of Saudi Arabia to U.S. Middle East Interests
This year will long be remembered and analyzed by scholars and students for the so-called “Arab Spring” sweeping the Arab world from North Africa across to the Arabian Peninsula. Simmering tensions in a dozen countries boiled over in protests and revolts toppling several regimes – Tunisia, Egypt and Libya – and pushing others to the brink. In the Persian Gulf Iran is playing an outsized role, threatening the neighborhood: sponsoring terrorism, building nuclear weapons, and dominating the scene in Iraq as America is shown the door by Baghdad. Meanwhile, 44 years of conflict and occupation in Israel-Palestine shows no signs of a solution. Indeed the threat of an American veto to a Palestinian statehood bid in the United Nations illuminates Washington’s dilemma of balancing interests versus America’s principles.
At the Tipping Point in the Arab World
The throngs of Egyptians who have taken to the streets in the Arab world’s most populous country are shaking the foundations of regimes across North Africa and the Middle East with scant hope America will emerge from this new crisis with a winning hand, much less breaking even.
Images of Humanity and a Night of Triumph
The images are from another place and time, grainy, black and white photos among an archive of American experiences from “back in the day” and they appear in my mind when I think about the word “polio.” One of these ancient photos is of a warehouse-sized room filled with row after row of capsules each containing a person, like some strange 1950s era sci-fi movie. Dozens of nurses in old-style uniforms and caps are buzzing around the tubes. The capsules have viewing windows, access ports, gauges and dials and at one end a pressurized seal where each patient’s head extends outside the tube. The scores of tubes in the image are iron-lungs, the much feared last resort treatment for the thousands and thousands of Americans afflicted with polio who, because of paralysis, were unable to breath on their own. Their lives were extended through the pumps that provided negative air pressure, taking over the function of their ineffective diaphragms.
America’s Global Indifference and Looming Challenges
Indifference to global developments is not a new phenomenon in America’s public life. In recounting the story of the Council on Foreign Relations, Colorado College political scientist David Hendrickson, writing in “Foreign Affairs,” noted the relative ignorance among officials and the public about the world. Of the former he said the U.S. State Department, in the wake of World War I, lacked the “detailed knowledge of European conditions that would be required for redrawing, as fairly as could be done, the map of the world.” Of the citizenry of the day, he said “American domestic opinion was returning with a vengeance, to the insular habits that had long characterized it,” citing as evidence the “Philadelphia Record’s” comment in 1928 that, “The American people don’t give a hoot in a rainbarrel who controls north China.”
Coffee and Steel
I did go to Brooklyn Technical High School but it didn’t stick. In other words I am not a rocket scientist although I am able to operate our K-Cup coffee machine. However, when Fareed Zakaria, on his tremendous show GPS on CNN, talks about the Nobel Prize in Physics (Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for […]
Political Pandering – “Tennessee No Evil”
Jon Stewart on the Daily Show continued coverage of the New York City Islamic Center controversy last night (“Tennessee No Evil”) taking his examination of the controversy from the Park 51 Center (the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”) in Manhattan, two blocks from the WTC, to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, “18,000 blocks” from the WTC.
Political Pandering Ad Nauseum, A Special Comment
“They came first for the Communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up..”
Political Pandering Column Postscript
This week I wrote about politicians’ pandering to voters over possible fears of Islam — opposing mosques and Islamic community centers in Tennessee and New York City. It is a hot topic and the controversies continue even though the primary elections talked about in the column are over. Today on CNN’s show “Fareed Zakaria: GPS” […]
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East Coast Gaming Congress 2007
Hundreds of gaming industry professionals are expected to attend this year's East Coast Gaming Congress being held April 30 and May 1, 2007, in Atlantic City at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
This year, the Congress begins on April 30, with a golf outing at Atlantic City Country Club sponsored by Harrah's Entertainment. Following the outing, a cocktail reception will be held at the 40/40 Club.
The East Coast Gaming Congress has assembled an unprecedented roster of experienced leaders in the gaming industry from government, Wall Street and other disciplines. At the conference, attendees will hear top Wall Street analysts discuss issues and trends impacting casinos, racinos and gaming markets. In addition, they will learn what the top CEOs of the largest Native American casino companies feel about the increasing impact of Indian gaming on the industry. Attendees will also hear from top industry executives as they weigh in on topics such as the expansion and progress in Atlantic City, the convergence of gaming and leisure, and the state of gaming around the world.
"Gaming is growing faster than most would have predicted, and has quickly become a major facet of the entertainment industry," states Michael Pollock of Spectrum Gaming Group, one of the organizers of the event. "The East Coast Gaming Congress is committed to keeping pace with the industry's growth by serving as the premier forum to ask questions, chart the future and grapple with the complex issues facing the entire East Coast."
Since its formation 11 years ago, the congress has included more than 300 speakers, including current and former New Jersey governors, various elected state officials (including Michigan regulators), high-ranking gaming industry executives, and many more.
The following is the detailed agenda for the substantive portion of this year's conference, including sponsors and scheduled speakers:
8:30 Welcome
Honorable Robert W. Levy, Sr. Mayor, City of Atlantic City Linda Kassekert Chair, New Jersey Casino Control Commission Honorable Jeff Van Drew Chair, Tourism and Gaming Committee, New Jersey Assembly
9:00-9:45 Show Me The Money
Sponsored by Deloitte and Touche USA LLP Lawrence Klatzkin, Jefferies & Co. John Kempf, Barclays Capital Adam Steinberg, Morgan Joseph Andrew Zarnett, Deutsche Bank
9:45-10:30 The New Power of Indian Gaming
Sponsored by WMS and Gaming Laboratories International James F. Allen, CEO Seminole Gaming Mitchell Etess, President & CEO Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino John A. O'Brien, President Foxwoods Resort Casino
11:00-11:45 Gaming and Leisure Trends
Sponsored by Jefferies & Company Gary Loveman, Chairman, President and CEO, Harrah's Entertainment Peter Yesawich, Chairman and CEO, Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell
11:45-12:30 The New Atlantic City
Sponsored by Casino Reinvestment Development Authority & Drexel University Hospitality/Gaming Program Kevin DeSanctis, President & CEO, Revel Entertainment Group Daniel R. Lee, Chairman & CEO, Pinnacle Entertainment Diane Legreide, Director, Atlantic City Projects, New Jersey Office of Economic Growth
2:00-4:00 The Gaming Industry Big Picture
Sponsored by South Jersey Transportation Authority and International Game Technology Peter M. Carlino, Chairman & CEO, Penn National Gaming Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., President & CEO, American Gaming Association James Perry, President & CEO, Trump Entertainment Resorts Keith E. Smith, President & COO, Boyd Gaming Corporation
The East Coast Gaming Congress is organized and produced by Spectrum Gaming Group, Vibrant Development, Cooper Levenson Attorneys at Law, and SOSH Architects.
For more information, readers can consult the conference web page at www.eastcoastgamingcongress.com.
East Coast Gaming Congress ready for attendees is republished from GamingMeets.com.
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Episode 56: Shayne Lee
May 24, 2018 Uncategorizedunregistered
Shayne Lee is a professor of sociology at the University of Houston and the author of four books: Tyler Perry’s America: Inside His Films; Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture; Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace; and T.D. Jakes: America’s New Preacher. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, ABC, and Fox, while also providing commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Atlantic, Huffington Post, U.S.A. Today, CNN.com, Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other periodicals.
For full show notes, go to: thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/56
Episode 55: Heidi Matthews
Heidi Matthews is an assistant professor of international law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Her recent work on the #MeToo movement and women’s sexual agency has caused considerable controversy in all the best ways.
Episode 54: Peter Bagge
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Episode 53: Swami Prem Niren
Swami Prem Niren, also known as Philip Toelkes, was the chief counsel for the Rajneesh spiritual organization and for its leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho. Niren is featured in the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country, which covers the dramatic conflict in the 1980s between the Rajneesh community in Oregon and local, state, and federal governments. Niren now works as a counselor at his own practice, Niren Conscious Coaching. He is working on a book about his time with Osho.
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Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
Partial Differential Eq.
Fourier Transforms
What is Condensed Matter?
Lattices, bases and unit cells
Bravais lattices and symmetry
Typical structure types of crystals
Diffraction theory
Lattice vibrations
Dispersion relations
Phonon spectroscopy
H field and B field
Diamagnetism and paramagnetism
Paramagnetism and conduction electrons
Collective magnetism: ferromagnetism and its relatives
The other side of e-mag: Ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics
Structure Determination
Scanned probe microscopies
Plane groups, space groups
X-ray and neutron sources
Diffraction of disordered structures
Small-angle scattering
Point defects, defect equilibria, diffusion
Dislocations and their motion, material strength
Quasicrystals
Types of phase transition
Order of phase transitions
A hint of Landau theory
Tracking transitions experimentally
The structures and morphologies of interest in condensed phases span a size range of about seven orders of magnitude, from atomic bond lengths $\mathrm{(10^{-10}\,m)}$ to thick layers deposited as coatings on engineering materials $\mathrm{(10^{-3}\,m)}$. In order to map a plane on the surface or within the specimen, we need to receive rays from the source which interact with different points in the specimen plane. If two points are too close together, the spherical waves emitted from these points interfere and we won't be able to resolve these points. If the wavelength is comparable to or larger than the structures investigated, the structures will not be imaged but rather cause scattering (i.e. diffraction or diffuse scattering). Since visible light has wavelengths of the order of $\mathrm{10^{-7}\,m}$, it can only be used to image structures near the top end of the morphology scale.
This limitation is known as the diffraction limit. It puts a lower limit on the size of structures that can be resolved using rays of a given wavelength, even if an optical system could be devised that is flawless and doesn't introduce any artefacts. The distance $d$ between two points on the sample surface that can be resolved as distinct is given by $$d=\frac{\lambda}{2n\sin\vartheta}\qquad,$$ where the refractive index, $n$, determines the resolving power of the (otherwise presumed ideal) instrument. In addition, the viewing angle $\vartheta$ also affects resolution via the numerical aperture, $n\sin\vartheta$, i.e. best results can be achieved when looking head on at the feature under study. This relationship can be derived by considering two overlapping Airy discs and the interference of the spherical waves emanating from two separate point sources. This is equivalent to the problem of using a telescope to resolve two stars in close proximity of each other.
In principle, we can extend the size range of resolvable structures by moving down the electromagnetic spectrum, towards the ultraviolet or even x-rays. The x-rays generated by a copper anode have a wavelength of about $\mathrm{1.5\times 10^{-10}\,m}$, comparable to the bond lengths in solids. Therefore, structures of tens of nanometres would be large enough to be reproduced by microscopy.
Alternatively, we can use sub-atomic particles, which have wave properties according to the wave-particle duality principle of quantum mechanics. This means that electron rays can be used for microscopy. For electrons, as for any quantum particle, we can calculate the de Broglie wavelength from the electron's momentum $$\lambda=\frac{h}{m_ev}=\frac{h}{\sqrt{2m_eeU}}\qquad,$$ using an accelerating voltage, $U$, to adjust the velocity and therefore the wavelength of the electrons: $$E_{kin}=\frac{1}{2}m_0v^2=eU=E_{el}\qquad.$$ A relativistic correction of the formula may be necessary at high voltages if the velocity becomes close to that of light.
Exercise. What is the wavelength of electrons accelerated using a voltage of 10kV?
The wavelength is $$\begin{eqnarray} \lambda&=&\frac{h}{\sqrt{2m_eeU}}\\\ &=&\mathrm{\frac{6.63\times 10^{-34}\,J\,s}{\sqrt{2\cdot 9.11\times 10^{-31}\,kg\cdot 1.60\times 10^{-19}C\cdot 10\,kV}}}\\\ &=&\mathrm{12.3\,pm} \end{eqnarray}$$ Therefore, the wavelength is well below the atomic scale for voltages in the kV range, and electron microscopy isn't diffraction limited. The accelerating voltage is chosen instead according to the absorptivity of the sample.
Image © Gringer via Wikimedia.
Image © Tomia via Wikimedia.
A transmission electron microscope (Fig. right) is essentially optically analogous to an optical microscope (Fig. left) using visible light. Of course various components have to be reworked in order to cope with the much shorter wavelength and the fact that electrons are charged particles as well as waves. The most obvious difference in the optical design is that the TEM has an upside-down optical path compared to the standard design of optical microscopes.
The wave source is an electron gun at the top rather than a lamp or mirror at the bottom. The electron gun typically is a lanthanum boride or tungsten filament which releases electrons by thermionic emission when heated.
Electrons are then accelerated downward by passing through a mesh capacitor, i.e. two wire meshes having different electrical potential, creating an electric field to accelerate the electrons in the downward direction. The potential difference is the accelerating voltage (of the order of hundreds of kV), which determines the de Broglie wavelength of the electrons as seen above.
Like the optical microscope, the TEM has a condensor or beam conditioning optic, which ensures that the area of interest on the sample is uniformly illuminated. Like all focusing elements in the TEM, this has to be realised by electrical and/or magnetic fields as conventional glass lenses would just absorb the electron beam rather than refract it. As in the optical microscope, the imaging optics comes in two pieces, the objective and ocular lenses, the latter magnifying an intermediate image created by the former.
An important difference is the method of perceiving the image generated. Since we lack a sensory organ to 'see' electrons, a fluorescent screen is used to generate a visible pattern by exciting dye molecules when hit by electrons. This is usually recorded with a CCD camera and viewed on a computer, although it is possible (and was common in early TEM instruments) to view the fluorescent screen through a pair of binoculars built into the base of the microscope.
In an optical microscope, the sample is placed in the beam by putting it on a glass microscope slide and positioning it manually. Since the whole beam path of the TEM must be in ultra-high vacuum to prevent the electrons from scattering with air molecules, the sample stage includes a transfer chamber in which the sample is placed and which is evacuated before the sample can be transferred into the main chamber. Sample positioning, which has to be much more precise than in an optical microscope because of the higher resolution, is by means of positioning stages based on stepper motors or piezo-devices.
Electron optics
As seen above, the wavelength of the electron can be adjusted via the accelerating voltage, $U$. At the same time, a voltage bias can also be used to focus the beam in an optical element. Effectively, a shaped capacitor acts in the same way on an electron beam as a glass lens does on a beam of visible light.
We can calculate what is effectively the refractive index of a capacitor by considering Snell's law and apply it to the situation of an electron beam in a capacitor. The analogy is clear when considering the refraction of an electron beam when it enters a mesh capacitor at an angle with the normal and when it leaves the capacitor again, in the same way a beam of visible light gets refracted when entering and again when leaving a sheet of glass under an angled exposure. The electric field affects only the forward component of the electron velocity, i.e. the lateral components are the same: $$v_{x,1}=v_{x,2}\qquad.$$ However, the forward component, $v_y$, of the velocity is changed by the electric field because the charged electron has to fly either in the direction of the electric field or against it.
In optics, Snell's law establishes that the sines of the incident and refracted angle have the same ratio as the (phase) velocities of the rays in the two media on either side of the refracting interface. Since the electron velocity is determined by the accelerating voltage via the kinetic energy of the electron, the velocity ratio can be replaced by the ratio of the square roots of the potentials of the two capacitor meshes: $$\frac{\sin\alpha_1}{\sin\alpha_2}=\frac{v_{x,1}/v_1}{v_{x,2}/v_2}=\frac{v_2}{v_1}=\sqrt{\frac{U_2}{U_1}}\qquad.$$ In visible optics, the refractive index is the ratio of the actual speed of light in the material and the speed of light in vacuum. Therefore, the refractive index of electron optics is the square root of the accelerating voltage: $$n=\sqrt{U}$$
This can be exploited to build focusing optics for electron microscopes: An electrical immersion lens, i.e. a lens that focuses the beam onto a point in the sample plane, can be realised by a circular mesh electrode nested inside another, together forming the shape of a convex lens. The refractive index of the lens is then given by $$n=\sqrt{\frac{U_2}{U_1}}\qquad.$$ The focal length of such a simple convex lens is, according to geometrical optics, given by: $$\frac{1}{f}=\left(\sqrt{\frac{U_2}{U_i}}-1\right)\left(\frac{1}{r_1}+\frac{1}{r_2}\right)\qquad,$$ where $r_1$ and $r_2$ are the radii of curvature of the two meshes. By adjusting the potential difference between the two meshes, the focal length of the lens can be adjusted conveniently.
In practice, electrical electron lenses have a somewhat more complex cylindrical geometry because such a simple lens would also change the forward velocity of the electrons and thus their wavelength - changing the focus would therefore change the resolution simultaneously.
In addition to electrical electron lenses, there are also magnetic electron lenses based on the fact that charges are deflected if travelling through a magnetic field (Lenz's law - right hand rule). This is more often used to deflect a beam rather than to refract it, i.e. in cases where an electron beam is used to scan a region of the sample.
Different modes of operation of a TEM
Image © Yeong-Her Wang et al., National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
The simplest mode of operation of a TEM is bright field microscopy. This means that the image is simply a map of the shadow cast by structures in the sample due to their ability to absorb electrons. If there is no sample in the beam, the full primary beam hits the detector, resulting in a uniformly lit, bright image. This is also the most common mode of operation both of TEMs and of optical microscopes.
Alternatively, a small disc (the patch stop) can be inserted in the path of the direct beam. As a result, only rays away from the centre of the focusing element reach the sample. If they are transmitted through the sample without interaction, they will not reach the detector as they hit the sample at an angle off the normal and are discarded by the ocular aperture. If there is no sample in the beam, the result is a uniformly dark image. If a sample is present, rays that scatter within the sample may be diverted towards the detector and therefore contribute to the dark field image. Dark-field microscopy therefore highlights structures that are more likely to scatter electron rays, such as grain boundaries or other boundaries within an inhomogeneous sample. Dark-field microscopy is also sometimes used in optical microscopy to emphasise boundaries of regions with different refractive index. Of course the scattered rays are also contained in the bright-field image, but since they are a minority of the rays reaching the detector, the specific information they carry is lost in the image. On the other hand, this explains why dark-field images are much noisier - most incident electrons (or photons) are discarded by the patch stop.
Image © Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
A variation of dark-field imaging is microscopy using phase contrast. Here, the fact that the wavelength of two rays from the same source is different if they travel through media of different refractive index is exploited. When the two rays interfere after passing through parts of the specimen that have different refractive index, dark and light patterns emerge dependent on whether the rays interfere constructively or destructively. This can be used to visualise information that would not be visible in a bright-field image since regions of the sample may differ in refractive index while absorbing similar amounts of the incident beam.
In high-resolution TEM, i.e. TEM with very high acceleration voltages and therefore low wavelengths, phase contrast can be exploited as diffraction contrast, where the incident wave interferes with the electron waves diffracted by the crystalline structure of the specimen. This technique is able to deliver atomic resolution, e.g. grain boundaries may be visualised using HRTEM. The Fig. shows a HRTEM image of a palladium crystal consisting of several grains with different orientiations along with the electron diffraction pattern recorded simultaneously (insert left).
Resolution, statistics and sample preparation
Image © Markus Drechsler, Universität Bayreuth.
Maximising resolution isn't always practical or even desirable since there is a trade-off between resolution and statistics. The big attraction of microscopy is that we can see what the specimen actually looks like at a certain level of structural detail. However, as we can take only so many images in the available time, we can never be certain that we won't miss an important feature either because it is rare enough that we don't sample it or because its size is such that it is too large or too small to be noticeable at the level of magnification used. This is a case of sample bias - we can only see features of the size we're looking for. It is therefore important to vary the magnification during any microscopy session and to sample a good range of locations within each specimen. Feature recognition algorithms can help remove some of this bias by drawing attention to features which may not be striking to the human eye.
Scattering techniques avoid these pitfalls of sample bias and limited statistical significance, alas at the price of requiring a model of the structure in order to interpret the scattering patterns. Therefore, microscopy and scattering are often used in conjunction: A structural model is developed based on microscopic analysis, and scattering patterns are analysed using that model to provide the necessary statistics.
The need to have samples that are thin enough to permit an electron beam to be partially transmitted makes sample preparation for TEM non-trivial. Typically, samples have to be 100nm thin at most. For specimens containing heavier elements such as transition metals, only a few tens of nm are feasible. While soft materials such as polymers or biological specimens can be sliced using an ultramicrotome (essentially a suitably stabilised knife blade) after embedding in a harder matrix, harder inorganic materials have to be ground and polished or etched to the required thickness. This can cause artefacts due to selective abrasion or dissolution. Focused ion beam (FIB) sources utilise a beam of heavy ions (e.g. gallium ions) to drill two parallel trenches into the specimen, leaving a thin free-standing section ready to be lifted off. This is particularly useful for hard materials, where a microtome would not be useable, or where a very precisely defined area within the specimen is to be analysed.
Image by Ricce via Wikimedia.
TEM samples are placed in the electron beam on a copper mesh, ensuring that any electrons absorbed by the sample can be conducted away quickly to avoid the sample being charged up during exposure.
While the TEM is modelled on the optics of a classical optical microscope, there are other ways of utilising an electron beam to produce images of the structure of a material. These use a scanning mechanism similar to that used in a cathode-ray tube monitor (those clunky old TV or computer monitors built until the early 2000s...) and are more sensitive to the surface of a specimen.
Department of Physics, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, Wales
Adran Ffiseg, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, Cymru
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SA Academic Wins CIC Thesis Award
June 2016, Volume 14-3
A young, local stewardship officer who came up with a unique approach of looking at how attitudes and beliefs about hunting can be used as a basis for strategies to improve the social legitimacy of hunting, has been recognized with a prestigious, international thesis award. Dr Wentzel Coetzer was awarded the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation’s (CIC) Young Opinion Research Award for 2016 at the CIC’s 63rdGeneral Assembly in Brussels, Belgium.
The Young Opinion (YO) Working Group of the CIC focuses on creating a global network of young scientists by supporting those whose research projects contribute to the sustainable use of wildlife for the benefit of natural heritage conservation. To qualify for the award, students of masters or doctoral programs had to submit a summary of their research project, explaining the aim, methods and conclusions of the project. “The quality of this year’s submissions was outstanding and addressed the three pillars of sustainable wildlife management”, said CIC YO Vice-President Denis Slobodyan during the award ceremony.
Coetzer’s thesis formed part of his doctorate at the Department of Agriculture and Game Management at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in 2015. Coetzer, who had worked at NMMU as a contract lecturer for five years, said he is honored and overjoyed by this prestigious award. He is currently the Biodiversity Stewardship Facilitator for the Greater Kromme Stewardship (GKS) initiative that is managed by Conservation Outcomes. The initiative offers private landowners in the area the opportunity to play an important role in the conservation of the region’s natural heritage.
According to Coetzer, who grew up on a farm near Thornhill, conservation formed part of his daily life from a very young age and is embedded in his DNA.“Having to decide what to study after matric, was a toss-up between mathematics and conservation. When I heard that the only career with a degree in mathematics is that of a statistician, the choice was easy – conservation it was,” said Coetzer.
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THE AMERIDREAM CHARITY TO BECOME AMERIDREAM, INCORPORATED
-- New Name Reflects Organization’s Diversified Focus --
Gaithersburg, MD (February 4, 2003) The nation’s largest non-profit provider of down payment assistance to low- and moderate-income homebuyers, The AmeriDream Charity, Inc., today announced it has officially changed its name to AmeriDream, Incorporated. Founded in 1999 with the launch of The AmeriDream Downpayment Gift Program, AmeriDream has expanded to include a range of programs dedicated to the central mission of the organization: to expand homeownership opportunities for underserved groups.
“While our mission remains the same, we feel we can better reflect the diversity of the programs we offer by changing our name at this time,” said AmeriDream CEO Ann Ashburn. “We will continue to operate the Downpayment Gift Program, which has helped more than 95,000 families nationwide become homeowners since 1999. In addition, we are developing new programs every day, each committed to making homeownership a reality for every American.”
AmeriDream also operates The AmeriDream Redevelopment Program, which renovates and rehabilitates distressed properties and returns them to the market at prices affordable to low- and moderate-income homebuyers. Thus far, AmeriDream has spent more than $8 million to rehabilitate properties and return them to the market at affordable prices. With redevelopment projects currently in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and Florida, AmeriDream plans to expand its redevelopment operations across the country in the future.
“Our longstanding commitment to charitable work in every community remains as strong as ever,” Ashburn said. Through its Community Link Program, established in 2000, AmeriDream has given more than $1.5 million in charitable contributions to non-profit organizations across the country, including the Victims Rights Foundation, Habitat for Humanity and Children’s Hospital. Other charitable giving includes donations to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, and the establishment of the Arab American Relief Fund in partnership with the Arab American Institute, which assisted the victims of hate crimes following the September 11th terrorist attacks.
The mission of AmeriDream, Inc., headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD, is to expand homeownership opportunities for underserved groups and promote the value of homeownership as the foundation for building strong communities and individual prosperity. AmeriDream, Inc. is a non-profit, publicly supported organization that is tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). AmeriDream, Inc. meets the requirements for a charitable organization, as referenced in the HUD Handbook 4155.1 REV-4, CHG-1 Section 2-10 for FHA insured loans. In addition to The AmeriDream Downpayment Gift Program, AmeriDream also operates The AmeriDream Redevelopment Program in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and Florida, and the Community Link Program nationwide. Through the Redevelopment Program, AmeriDream has spent more than $8 million to rehabilitate properties and return them to the market at affordable prices. Through Community Link, AmeriDream has donated more than $1.5 million to a range of community organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, and the Victims Rights Foundation.
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