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Act of Defiance signs with Metal Blade Records
Published February 26, 2015 | By Ms. A
New band featuring Chris Broderick, Shawn Drover, Henry Derek, and Matt Bachand
Upon exiting the ranks of Megadeth, the world eagerly awaited news as to what was next for Chris Broderick (guitars) and Shawn Drover (drums). The duo are now excited to announce their worldwide signing to Metal Blade Records for their new group ACT OF DEFIANCE, which is rounded out by Henry Derek (ex-Scar The Martyr) on vocals and Matt Bachand (Shadows Fall) on bass. They are currently recording their debut offering with world renowned producer Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall). Look for this album to be released sometime this summer. However, in the meantime, click of the link below for a sneak peek into a rough demo snippet of the track “Throwback.”
“Throwback” Song Snippet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8uFI7cYN3I
Broderick states: “I am so excited to finally be able to announce ACT OF DEFIANCE to the world. Shawn just finished tracking drums the first week of February and his performance and tones are simply incredible. I have started tracking rhythms and leads, as well as working with Henry to get final vocal takes while Matt will record bass at his studio. The final mix and mastering will also be handled by Chris Harris.
“I am also very honored to announce that we have signed with Metal Blade Records. There is not a better label to be on than one where the employees (and owner) still understand and listen to METAL! They have shown a loyalty, backing and drive for their artists that few other labels have. As for our music, I am really enjoying the ability to create what is a killer mix of thrash and modern metal. It has a unique combination ranging from thrash to classical influences. I am very proud of what we have written and hope that you all dig it.“
Drover adds: “Having our new band, ACT OF DEFIANCE, sign with Metal Blade Records is a real thrill for me. I started my musical career with Brian Slagel and the Metal Blade family many years ago, so to come full circle at this point is a real musical home-coming, of sorts. I couldn’t be happier about that.
“What thrills me the most is the fact that myself, Chris Broderick, Henry Derek and Matt Bachand all have in common is that from the get-go, we wanted this band to be 100% PURE Heavy Metal! No compromises, no ulterior motives other than making the best HEAVY METAL music we can. Metal Blade shares this vision, which really puts us all on the same page, musically.“
Bachand states: “I couldn’t be more excited to begin this new adventure with ACT OF DEFIANCE. The positive energy that has collected between the four of us in such a little amount of time has been nothing short of incredible. Writing bass lines is something new for me as well, and I am looking forward to the challenge. All the songs are coming together great and I can’t wait for the world to hear this.“
Derek comments: “I’m extremely honored and excited to be a part of AOD. Everyone has been super cool and supportive, which is always a huge plus. I know this is going to be an awesome musical experience and the fact that I’m embarking on this journey with good people means everything. Cheers.“
Brian Slagel further comments: “I am super excited to welcome ACT OF DEFIANCE to the Metal Blade family. I have known Chris and Shawn over the years and really admired their work. I am honored to be able to work with these two legendary musicians. Really excited to work with all the guys on this exciting new band!“
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Home » Biography » Kristen Bell
Published Date: 23rd March, 2014 @09:03 AM
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$16 million dollars
Name on Birth
Kristen Anne Bell
@IMKristenBell
Charming and beautiful American actress Kristen Bell is best known for playing the title character in cable TV's Veronica Mars for three seasons (2004-07). She made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 2001. Bell landed various television guest appearances and small film parts before appearing in a lead role in the David Mamet film Spartan, after moving to Los Angeles. She worked as the title character on the television series Veronica Mars from September 2004 to May 2007 and gained fame and critical praise. She will also reprise the role in the 2014 film based on the series.
Born on 18 July 1980 in Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA, she was born and raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan in the suburb of Detroit. Her mother, Lorelei is a registered nurse. Her father Tom Bell works as the television news director for CBS Television in Sacramento. When she was two years old, her parents divorced. She has two half sisters- Sara and Jody from her father's second marriage. Bell's parents decided to pull her from the public school system just before her freshman year of high school. After that she attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal Oak, where she took part in the drama and music club. She won the starring role in the school's 1997 production of The Wizard of Oz, as Dorothy Gale during her time at the school and she also appeared in productions of Fiddler on the Roof (1995), Lady Be Good (1996), and Li'l Abner (1998). In the year she graduated, Bell was named the yearbook's "Best Looking Girl" by senior class vote. It was in 1998.
She was asked to reprise the role in the film version, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005), after playing Mary Lane in the "Reefer Madness" stage musical. This actress had much better luck with her subsequent projects although she made her film debut in the little-seen project Pootie Tang. She quickly found stage work after studying at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, including a leading role in the campy off-Broadway musical Reefer Madness. It was eventually turned into a TV-movie also starring Bell. The small screen ended up being her primary medium, and when she landed the title role of a teen-outcast-turned-investigator on Veronica Mars, she had a number of guest appearances and TV-movies under her belt. The show developed a cult following and ran for three seasons on UPN and the CW although Mars didn't fare too well in the ratings, and Bell's portrayal of a high-school gumshoe who's wise beyond her years earned her a great deal of critical respect. With a recurring role on the NBC show Heroes, she followed up that series. She also returned to film with parts in the raunchy comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the romantic fantasy When in Rome.
Talking about her personal life, Bell ended a five-year relationship with former fiancé Kevin Mann in 2007. Bell began dating actor Dax Shepard in late 2007. The couple announced their engagement in January 2010. They decided to delay marriage until the state of California passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage. They co-starred in the 2012 film Hit and Run. Bell asked Shepard to marry her through Twitter after section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act fell on June 26, 2013, which he accepted. Bell and Shepard were married at the Beverly Hills County Clerk's Office on October 17, 2013. They have one daughter born in March 2013, Lincoln Bell Shepard.
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B1A4 - What's Happening?
What's Happening? That's exactly what I would like to know . . .
The colors are great, the song is downright wonderful, the styling . . . is acceptable (I approve of Baro's tattoo, and that's about it). But honestly, this MV is quirky beyond reason. It's fabulous and it's incredibly well done. The boy-girl dolls color inverses are subtle compared to their body language, but still clear and elegant, especially how the members get sucked into color markers after they break down the doors. This MV took me a few views to understand, but it's actually quite deep. The fact that the doll couple are DOLLS, the plastic every-person of society, and that she in particular is washed out color-wise, ties in with the lyrics, they're shallow and ingenuine, and she's a straight up liar. When they're in the rain-y scene room for the bridge, the room's theme is orange, which is as far as you can get from blue, chromatically speaking, just like they are as emotionally distant as they can possibly get from their little blue liar doll. When they break and burst into the room, they're all initially in white, the color of innocence and good intentions. And then they start fighting each other for the girl they shouldn't even want to end up with, so by the end they turn up in blue and pink, right alongside the dolls, since they've given into the shallow, angry, lying ways of the world, and all. Like I said, it's beautifully done.
And it connects perfectly to the song. The transition to the dubstep-ish pre-choruses are beautiful, you literally drop into them. Every movement is timed perfectly, even down to eyeflicks and breaths. The scene cuts are positioned exactly on the melodic arcs of the song. The choreography is brilliant, quirky and narrative, and the boys really make it look effortless. It's a nearly flawless music video, it fits exactly to B1A4's style, and it alludes to many deeper concepts than one would expect upon a single view.
i love it! 9/10: Blissful
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Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
by Jonathan Auxier
In this companion book to Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, the greatest thief in the world returns with one hand (the other having been replaced by a sword), two eyes (albeit covered by a blindfold, to keep his senses sharp), and his faithful cat/horse/human friend Sir Tode. Peter offers protection to a girl who doesn't think she needs it, as she is about to be swept up in an adventure that will determine the fate of her entire world.
Sophie Quire is a talented bookmender and the daughter of a bookseller in the hinterlands city of Bustleburgh, where a grand inquisitor named Prigg is waging war against "nonsense" - magical creatures and artifacts, and especially stories. As Pyre Day approaches, when all the city's storybooks are due to be burned, Sophie comes in possession of a marvelous book that comes to life to answer any question beginning with "Who." The Book of Who is part of a quartet of books, called the Four Questions, that had something to do with the death of her mother when Sophie was a tiny child. As the last Storyguard, it is up to Sophie to reunite the four books before Prigg puts an end to all the magic in her world - which, according to Peter's friend Professor Cake, would spell the end.
But while the girl and her (at first) unwelcome guardians search for the books of What, Where, and When, others are on the scent after them: a brutish mercenary named Torvald Knucklemeat; an unnaturally well-preserved woman named Madame Eldritch, who deals in drugs, poisons, and other oddities; a tuberous man called Taro, grown from a mandrake root; a silver tigress who has sworn to murder the Storyguard who betrayed her mistress; and various other strange and often menacing characters.
Sophie's quest comes to a climax as full of danger, death, and large-scale property damage as anything in young adult literature. The bowstring of suspense is stretched to an unbelievable degree of tension. And the charms of the characters, often endearingly humorous even amid very serious events, makes one care about what will happen. In particular, the clash between the juvenile cuteness of, say, the chivalrous but silly Sir Tode, and the maturity of the material surrounding them (like a description of a towerful of wild beasts "eating and defecating wherever they pleased"), raises up feelings of protectiveness toward the hero characters. And the solution to their problems is elusive; it comes any way but easily, and demands that they grow as characters.
Canadian-American author Auxier is also the author of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award-nominated The Night Gardener and of The Burning Tide, one of the books in the "Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts" series.
A Grimm Warning
by Chris Colfer
In this third installment in the "Land of Stories" series (after The Wishing Spell and The Enchantress Returns), twins Alex and Conner are separated by a barrier that should be sealed forever - the portal between this world and the Land of Stories which their grandma, the Fairy Godmother, sealed between them at the end of their previous adventure. But now there's a chance that barrier may come open again; and although the twins miss each other a lot, that's not good news. As Alex comes into her full power as the Fairy Godmother's heir and experiences her first stirrings of romantic love, Conner and his sixth-grade crush Bree run away from a class trip to Europe in a race to find out whether a warning, hidden in a never-before-read Grimm fairy tale unearthed after 200 years in a time capsule, means grave danger is imminent for the fairy-tale world.
You see, thanks to some quick thinking by Mother Goose, an army of thousands is caught in the middle of a portal to the Land of Stories, thinking they're going to conquer it in the name of Napoleon Bonaparte. What Mother Goose didn't count on, 200 years ago, was that the twins' grandma would begin to die - or, in fairy terms, return to magic - right at the expiration date of the Grand Armee's interdimensional exile. With her dies the magic that keeps the portal closed. And once the French soldiers arrive, they immediately threaten all the kingdoms of the fairy-tale world, including the fairies themselves. Worse yet, they have allied themselves with the most villainous villains in the land, including a certain masked man who claims to wield a weapon guaranteeing the fall of the Happily Ever After Assembly.
Back together again, Conner and Alex must dare much, including trying to make alliances with creatures who have never been friends of the fairies before. Among them are elves whose awesome tree kingdom is seen all to briefly, and the "troblin" queen Trollbella, who tends to carry on one-sided love affairs (hint: she still calls Conner her "Butterboy"). The tale builds up to a climax that threatens to tear the Land of Stories apart.
I continue to enjoy this series by one of the former stars of the TV series "Glee." It's a wholesome, thrilling entertainment that honors the tradition of fairy tales, with the added twist that they are based on true events in an alternate dimension. The dialogue is perky, the characters are well-developed, and the writing bears evidence of an a very intelligent young writer with a rich sense of humor. I particularly enjoyed Conner and Bree's adventure across Europe. The one thing I found disappointing was the way Bree's character seems to be pushed to one side after they land in the Land of Stories; I sensed potential in her, and her relationship with Conner, that went somewhat unfulfilled in the latter part of the book. Nevertheless, the book as a whole takes one on a delightful and well-paced journey; a few bumps in the road, style-wise, may be taken as a sign an ambitious and fearless author is at work. And the ending is a definite hook to draw readers into the remaining books in the series, Beyond the Kingdoms and An Author's Odyssey.
Colfer's other work include several companion books to this series: The Mother Goose Diaries, Queen Red Riding Hood's Guide to Royalty, Trollbella Throws a Party, The Curvy Tree, a picture-book based on a fictitious Grimm fairy tale, and A Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales, in which Colfer retells 35 of his favorite stories. His standalone novels include Struck by Lightning and Stranger Than Fanfiction.
Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
by Stuart Isacoff
The spine of this book has been staring me out of countenance about a decade from the "books about my favorite subject (music) that I've been meaning to read" shelf. The guilt finally became too much for me to bear, so I finally fitted it in between a couple of books borrowed from the public library, which I was going to have to renew anyway. Astoundingly fast, I found myself caught up in the book's compelling historical argument, and in spite of a busy week of long work-days and evening engagements, I knocked it off in about two nights of staying up later than I should have.
The "temperament" of which Stuart Isacoff writes is a system of tuning the strings (or pipes) of a keyboard instrument so that music sounds pleasant and in-tune. If you thought this would be a simple matter of making sure notes a fifth apart are perfectly in tune, rinse and repeat around the whole circle of fifths, you might be a follower of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, whose followers considered the concept of irrational numbers a thought-crime worthy of death. The practical reality, however, is that tuning perfect fifths all the way around the circle results in an out-of-tune octave, and that a tuning system that keeps octaves, fifths, and fourths perfectly in tune excludes music featuring the popular intervals of thirds and sixths.
It would be a much shorter and happier history if it had been ruled by the practical necessity of allowing keyboard players to stay in tune with singers and other instruments without constantly having tuning problems, or by the artistic imperative of composers to explore more complex harmonies and far-flung tonal areas. But for centuries, during the middle ages and straight through the Renaissance, western art music was plagued by conflicts - conflicts between notes that produced "wolf sounds" (ugly intervals), and conflicts between philosophers, scientists, theologians, and music theorists. Some wanted to hold music to sacred ratios that bore witness to divine order in the universe, and that produced perfect consonances, albeit in music of a limited range. Others foresaw that nothing short of equal temperament - with the octave divided into 12 evenly-spaced half-steps, and the small acoustic compromises that entailed - would allow a smooth transition between any two keys, a necessary condition for keyboard instruments to come into their own.
The battle was ideological as well as technological. The mathematics of an equal 12-note tuning were a long time in the finding, not only as a theoretical ratio of powers of the twelfth-root of two, but also as a practical matter of how to produce that tuning on an actual instrument. But as Isacoff shows, the battle was fought on the plane of theory, between intellectual hosts including some of history's greatest minds - many of whom were not known for their ear for music. Sharp words were thrown. Even deadlier weapons, at times, were drawn. Discoveries in other areas were called into evidence, bearing witness to the truth or falsehood of ideas long cherished.
Isacoff relates the battle over temperament to other developments in religion, philosophy, politics, and especially art, drawing a remarkable parallel between the rediscovery of realistic perspective in painting and the slow advance toward equal temperament in music. And while he finally draws an ambiguous conclusion, he makes a pretty convincing case that much of the great art music you and I love could not have been without some approximation of equal temperament.
This review is based on the 2003 revised paperback edition of a book originally published in 2001. Among the changes in the 2003 edition is an added afterword, responding to criticism of the first edition which makes it sound as though the temperament tempest has not yet passed from the teapot. Isacoff is a pianist, composer, lecturer, and writer whose other work includes the 2011 book A Natural History of the Piano.
BBC Radio's Lord of the Rings
During a recent vacation, I beguiled parts of my drive to South Dakota, northern Minnesota, and back to Missouri by listening to the 1981 BBC Radio full-cast dramatization of The Lord of the Rings - the trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien that I have read several times in book form (and reviewed here), and once in a 1979 full-cast recording produced by U.S. National Public Radio (reviewed here), besides viewing not one but two film adaptations. The story needs no more reviewing, but I just wanted to comment on the BBC Radio version a bit, for the record.
BBC Radio's production features Ian Holm, who played hobbit Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's film trilogy of The Lord of the Rings, as Frodo Baggins. The character actor who played Bilbo in the BBC version was John Le Mesurier, whose voice sounded remarkably like the one Holm gave Bilbo in the films. My local public library furnished me with the "U.K. version," with Gerard Murphy as the narrator. Also in the cast was Bill Nighy, who played Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I, in a spot-on performance as Sam Gamgee. A beautiful musical score was provided by film and opera composer Stephen Oliver, the late uncle of comedian John Oliver, and an entire disk of the set I borrowed was devoted to his music.
Of course, it was a condensed version of the trilogy, with many details left out and some of them changed to fit the format. But of all the adaptations I have seen and heard (after Tolkien's original), I strongly feel this was by far the best. It kept the most beautiful lines of dialogue and passages of description; it conveyed the dramatic power of the whole book; it included favorite things that no other adaptation has ever bothered with, such as the Houses of Healing scenes, and the palantir factor in Denethor's motives. It was definitely better, by a long road, than the NPR version, which (unlike this one) preserved the Tom Bombadil passage, but did so badly. And it devotes more time than any of the other versions to the part of the story that happens after Frodo and his companions return to the Shire.
In spite of cheesy sound effects and battle scenes that didn't quite gel, I recommend the BBC Radio version of LOTR before all other adaptations - including, I'm sorry to say, Peter Jackson's film trilogy. It's surprising at times to hear certain words put back into the mouths that originally spoke them, according to Tolkien's canonical text - like Glorfindel the elf, whose part was usurped by Arwen in Jackson's recension of The Fellowship of the Ring, and Treebeard the ent, who actually said the words Jackson has Galadriel say in the opening narration of the trilogy. The fact that the story allows you to forget who Arwen is until she shows up to wed Aragorn is another typical Tolkien touch, for better or worse. It delivers the delicious "Voice of Saruman" scene that was the reason Christopher Lee agreed to be in the films, though it ended up being deleted from the script.
The BBC Radio dramatization, produced and co-directed by Jane Morgan, structures the break between The Two Towers and The Return of the King so that Sam's realization that Frodo is still alive comes closer to being, as it should be, the cliff-hanger ending of the middle volume. And it features Peter Woodthorpe as Gollum, recreating his role from the 1978 animated movie by Ralph Bakshi, which is one of the few but significant counts on which Bakshi's film adaptation was better than Jackson's. Woodthorpe's Gollum is feral, crafty, and psychologically tormented all at the same time, to a degree that leaves Andy Serkis' latter-day portrayal far behind. The Bakshi and BBC Radio versions also share the casting of Michael Graham Cox as Boromir.
Though the actors are not the same, I appreciate both the Bakshi and BBC Radio versions' casting of Aragorn (because he sounded more mature, and could be more credibly described as one who "looks foul but feels fair" than the altogether beautiful Viggo Mortensen in Jackson's trilogy). I might also note that somehow or other, Michael Hordern's voice portrayal of Gandalf for BBC Radio could almost be dubbed over Ian McKellen's latter-day film portrayal without many people noticing. I thought Bernard Mayes was OK in the role in the NPR version, though his Tom Bombadil stank to high heaven (I might add, James Arrington was awful as Frodo in that version, which really killed it for me).
So, once again, BBC set the bar considerably higher than NPR's roughly contemporary radio play. As a complete adaptation of the trilogy, it achieves what Bakshi's blend of live action and animation could not (in case you missed it, Bakshi's film ends at the climax of the Battle for Helm's Deep in a cliff-hanger that was never followed up by the expected conclusion); and its cheap sound effects are easier for a present-day audience to forgive than Bakshi's primitive visual effects. As for Jackson's film trilogy, I maintain this audiobook version compares favorably, on the simple grounds that it does less violence to the source material, and is less patronizing to the audience. And finally, dammit, it had Ian Holm as Frodo. Born too soon to play him in Jackson's film, though not too late to channel Le Mesurier's portrayal of Bilbo (and though it might be argued Elijah Wood was born too late), Holm would have been perfect for the part in any format - as he proved in this production.
Labels: books, movies
In the follow-up to his debut novel Ready Player One, video-game maven and 1980s pop-culture fanatic Ernest Cline delivers a story that fulfills the deepest, darkest wish of every kid who ever made it onto the "Top Scores" screen of an alien-invader-blasting arcade game. It also fulfills the deepest, darkest wish of Zach Lightman, a high school senior from the Portland suburb of Beaverton, Oregon, whose father died at age 19 in an explosion at the local wastewater treatment plant. Among the relics he inherited from the father he never knew are an obsession with movies, books, and games about space invaders, and a secretly embarrassing journal of conspiracy theories suggesting all these films and games are part of a top-secret plan to prepare the world for real close encounters of the nerd kind.
His feelings about his dad's last notebook begin to change, however, when Zach looks out the window of his math classroom one day and sees an alien spacecraft, straight out of his favorite E.T.-slaying computer game, zoom past. At first, he thinks he must be going insane. It is isn't long, though, before he realizes there have been similar sightings around the world. In one incredible day, Zach learns that much of what he has been told all his life was a lie, and the aliens are real, as is their threat to wipe out the human race. And now, most improbable of all, he is among the very few top-scoring players of the companion games Terra Firma and Armada on whom the hopes of mankind depend.
Both games, made by a company called Chaos Terrain, feature realistic graphics and fighting tactics for an alien-invasion scenario in which both sides of the conflict are fought by remote-controlled, unmanned drones. Terra Firma, as the name suggests, spotlights the ground war between humanoid robots and drones shaped like spiders, centipedes, and insects. Armada focuses on the aerospace war, where pilots control their craft from virtual cockpits inside shielded bunkers deep underground. This allows ace pilots like Zach to take control of fresh drones as their previous mounts are shot out from under them. But when Zach and several of his fellow Top 10 Armada players are assembled on the far side of the moon to face the first wave of a massive, and probably unstoppable, tide of mechanized death, he must come to terms with finding his long-lost father, only to lose him again; falling in love with a girl with whom he may never have a chance to kiss a second time; and, most challenging of all, the realization that he must fight against both sides of the war to ensure the survival of the human race.
This is a thrilling, funny, suspenseful, emotionally satisfying romp through the pop culture of the last generation or two, with plenty of explosions and other surprises to keep it lively. When I checked it out of the library before a long road trip, one of the local librarians saw what I was borrowing and enthused about how much fun she had reading it. It didn't hurt that the audiobook edition was read by Wil Wheaton, of "Shut up, Wesley!" fame. Although the main character's narrating voice often did sound a lot like Star Trek's Wesley Crusher, the big surprise was how many of the other characters had convincingly distinctive voices and accents. It became evident Wheaton has more voice-acting talent than I would have expected. This was the perfect book for him to read, and he was the perfect reader for it.
Cline is also a poet, the screenwriter of the film Fanboys, and the author of a non-fiction book titled The Importance of Being Ernest. If the four-year gap between Ready Player One and this book is anything to go by, we should expect something new from him by about 2019. I wonder, though. Will he really keep us waiting that long?
by Jeanne Birdsall
In this second sequel to the National Book Award-winning tale of four sisters The Penderwicks, second-eldest Penderwick girl Skye uneasily assumes the role of S.A.P. (senior available Penderwick) when their father and new stepmother go to England for a honeymoon and eldest sister Rosalind is invited to the Jersey shore. Meantime, Skye, Jane, Batty, their dog, and their musically gifted friend Jeffrey share a two-week getaway along the coast of Maine, where the responsibility of keeping Batty from drowning or blowing up weighs heavily on Skye, especially after their aunt-chaperone badly sprains her ankle.
During their beach vacation, Jane obsesses over how to inject some romance into her series of novels about a life-saving sleuth. As part of her research, she gives her heart to an outwardly beautiful local boy, who turns out to be not so beautiful on he inside. Meantime Batty befriends the boy's little sister, and Jeffrey strikes up a friendship with the musician in the next bungalow over. But things take a serious turn when Jane observes an unsuspected family resemblance between Jeffrey and their neighbor. Their summer getaway develops into an emotionally wrenching, funny, touching, surprising mess.
Surprises there were, even after I spotted the answers to some riddles way ahead of the Penderwick girls. Their family group is growing up. Their relationship dynamics are changing. And some of them are handling this reality better than others. But it's all part of growing up Penderwick, which has so far never failed to be satisfying and entertaining to behold.
This is the third book in what is now a four-book series. Among the other titles are book 2, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, and book 4, The Penderwicks in Spring. Massachusetts-based author Jeanne Birdsall is also an art photographer and the author of several children's picture books.
The Saturdays
by Elizabeth Enright
The four Melendy children - stage-struck Mona, 13; piano prodigy Rush, 12; aspiring artist Miranda ("Randy"), 10 and a half; and easy-going Oliver, 6 - are New York city-dwellers circa 1939. One boring Saturday, they decide to form a club called I.S.A.A.C. (read the book to learn what that stands for), based on pooling their allowances every Saturday - a total of $1.60 - and letting one of them spend it all on him- or herself, turn and turn about. During a succession of Saturdays, each of the children has an adventure that results, sometimes, in a touch of trouble for one and all. Randy goes to a museum to look at pictures, and ends up learning about the fascinating childhood of a deceptively crusty old lady. Rush goes to an opera, and brings home a new member of the family. Mona and Oliver have outings that give the family fits. Together and separately, the kids find new friends, experience wonderful sights and sounds, hear unforgettable stories, and brave perils that threaten their rickety old house.
The Saturdays is a book full of period charm, gentle humor, and friendly characters who seem to take you quickly into their confidence. A richly textured snapshot of early 20th-century urban culture, it has dashes of domestic lyricism and an occasional splash of striking description. It is a pleasant piece of nostalgia that does not get too lost in historical obscurities to speak appealingly to the young readers of today. And it advertises experiences children from places other than New York might like to imagine having even now. The world has changed a lot since the time in which this book is set, but the story has a winsome timelessness, with enough danger and emotional turmoil to avoid coming across as too light and easy. Basically, it's the perfect book for a kid spending a dull, rainy Saturday alone.
The is the first book in the Melendy Quartet, written between 1941 and 1951 by Elizabeth Enright (1909-1968), the author of the Newbery Medal winner Thimble Summer, the Newbery Honor book Gone-Away Lake, and its sequel Return to Gone-Away. Besides this book's sequels The Four-Story Mistake, And Then There Were Five, and Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze, she was also celebrated as a writer of short stories.
The Jewel of the Kalderash
by Marie Rutkoski
In the finale of the Kronos Chronicles trilogy, young thief Neel of the magic fingers becomes king of all the Roma - don't call them gypsies! But little in his experience has prepared him to survive repeated assassination attempts, heal the rivalries between the four Roma clans, and resolve the controversy over what to do with the twin Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, which control safe travel through a worldwide network of wormhole-like rifts. Meanwhile Bohemia's king, Prince Rodolfo - youngest son of the Hapsburg Emperor Karl - plots to put himself on the throne of much of Europe, even if it means murdering his father and two older brothers. John Dee, a magician and spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth I of England, maneuvers himself into a position of great advantage. And our strong-willed heroine Petra, who most unusually has two magical gifts (metal-magic and mind-magic), travels to a country where there is a price on her head, pursuing one desperate hope: that she can persuade the evil sorceress Fiala Broshek to restore her father, whom she has turned into one of Rodolfo's monstrous Gray Men.
These ingredients gel nicely into an adventure that buzzes with intrigue, chills with horror, squeezes the heart with grief, and sizzles with excitement. Author Rutkoski finally makes a virtue of the sometimes annoying aspects of Petra's character, as she knowingly puts herself in a danger that makes one's breath stand still, commits herself to an irrevocable sacrifice, and finds herself carried helplessly into a scene of astounding violence.
This is a story featuring youthful characters - several of them about 14 or 15 years old - but the danger, the carnage, and the truly sickening evil they must face, call for readers of a rather mature fiber. This book will be most successful, also, with thoughtful young readers, who might take an interest in whimsically re-mixed details of authentic 16th-century European history, with the most bizarre, quasi-magical threads in the storyline picked out in brilliant colors. Mystery, humor, espionage, warfare, political rebellion, the do's and don'ts of ruling a kingdom, and the charm of a talking mechanical spider have all their rich possibilities shaken out of them. But there are also some nasty shocks, which the reader will feel right alongside the characters who survive them.
Rutkoski is also the author of the "Winner's" trilogy and The Shadow Society. Judging by the publication dates of her books, she seems to have more teen-friendly fantasy adventures in her. Look out for them.
Bacon-of-the-Sea Melts
Today I made something for dinner entirely using ingredients and utensils that I had acquired for other purposes.
The skillet, sized to allow one to cook up a batch of Hamburger Helper, I mostly bought so I could fry eggs or make pancakes. I intended the spatula mostly for turning eggs or hamburgers. The bowl usually serves the purposes of eating breakfast cereal. Even the fork, usually employed as an eating utensil, did unusual service as a masher and puller-apart of a tinful of smoked herring fillets, like the one pictured here.
As for the ingredients, there were, of course, the kippers, which I meant to serve on crackers as a late-night snack. There was also a tin of tuna, purchased either to make tuna salad sandwiches or to add a bit of protein to a saucepan of macaroni and cheese. I sacrificed two eggs that had been bought with the promise of a morning omelette or a fried egg sandwich; some bread crumbs and powdered tomato bouillon, both bought with the intention of making a crust for fried chicken or pork chops; and the bread, mayo, and sliced kosher dill pickle that had come home from the store as companions to a package of bologna. Even the puddle of vegetable oil I started preheating in the skillet, before doing anything else, was acquired with other things in mind - such as that fried chicken again.
All right, so I started preheating the skillet with some vegetable oil on it. Meanwhile, I spread the mayo on the bread, and arranged a couple pickle slices and half a slice of sharp cheddar on one side of each sandwich-to-be.
Next, I mixed some of the bread crumbs and a little of the tomato bouillon in the bowl, beat in two eggs, and added the canful of tuna, drained. (The cat enjoyed the tuna water in a saucer on the floor.) I started to think two eggs might have been one too many, because the tuna mixture was very thin; so I opened and drained the herring filets, then mangled them with the fork while stirring them into the mixture. I added a bit more of the bread crumbs to get closer to the consistency I wanted - basically, an oily, sticky mush.
I formed the mush into six balls, flattened them into disks a little smaller than my palm, and dropped them onto the hot, oily skillet. As they started to sizzle, it occurred to me that smoked herring should be called the bacon of the sea. It smelled that good.
I turned the patties after a while. When they were nicely brown on both sides, I took them off the heat. I wrapped up three patties for later and made sandwiches out of the other three. I recognized it would have been a good idea to melt the cheese right on the patties while they cooked, but it all ended up in the same place regardless.
At a certain point the thought crossed my mind, while I was scarfing down the second of my three sandwiches, "I'm not sure I'm going to have room for the third sandwich." Then I looked down at my plate and realized it was bare. I was already finishing my third sandwich. So I can verify that not only were they filling, but they were so absorbingly delicious that I lost a bit of time somewhere between the second and third sandwich.
So, there you have it. Bacon of the sea. Sandwiches. With cheese.
Labels: comfort food
204. Hymn on 1 Timothy 2:9-15
This hymn has been more or less commissioned by a local Lutheran pastor who is planning an Advent midweek sermon series based on 1 Timothy 2:9-15, broken up into four segments, each cross-referenced with an appropriate lesson from the Old Testament and another from the New. The varying emphases of the four weeks' messages sum up to the overall idea that we can learn a lot about being Christians from the Biblical portrait of womanhood. The structure I'm trying for is an all-purpose opening stanza, an additional stanza for each installment of the four-week series, and an all-purpose concluding stanza. It's a draft in progress, taking feedback from the pastor in question. The tune is the familiar MUNICH, from the Meiningen Gesangbuch of 1693; to the anglophone ear, it is best known as the tune to W.W. How's 1867 hymn "O Word of God incarnate."
Give heed, all saints, comprising
The Lord's accepted Bride,
To Him who, shame despising,
For Her sake bled and died!
By means of His devising
He knit Her to His side
And now, from death arising,
Presents Her justified.
1 Timothy 2:9-10; Ruth 3:1-13; Ephesians 5:25-27
Behold, what the believing
From womankind can learn!
As Ruth, her need perceiving,
Told Boaz her concern,
Redemption thus receiving,
So we to Christ shall turn:
Washed, clothed, anointed, cleaving
To Him who will not spurn.
1 Timothy 2:11-12; Luke 1:26-28; Lamentations 3:25-26
Behold, the bliss afforded
To them who meekly wait!
While precedents are thwarted
And subtle minds debate,
Her simple "Yes" accorded
To Mary's virgin state
The right to be recorded
Our Bridegroom's fleshly gate!
1 Timothy 2:13-15a; Genesis 4:1-15; Galatians 4:4-5
Behold, how in childbearing
Believing Eve felt mirth;
And God, through childbirth swearing
To ransom all the earth,
His only Son not sparing,
Brought life and light to birth,
With ev'ry mother sharing
A sign of priceless worth!
1 Timothy 2:15; Proverbs 31:10-31; 1 Corinthians 11:7-12
Behold, what gifts amazing
The Author of all good
Bestowed, while angels, gazing,
But partly understood!
And now, Her station raising
As but the Bridegroom could,
He comes, already praising
Her faithful womanhood!
O Christ, who have impressed us
With Your redemptive mark—
In holy splendor dressed us,
Saved through baptism's ark—
Cast all that e'er distressed us,
Our sins, into the dark—
As known and loved confessed us—
Your Bride salutes You! Hark!
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Stan Robinson Is Wicked Smart
And a writer I admire, which makes interviews with him -- like this one at BLDGBLOG -- a real pleasure to read.
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Latest Supernatural Interviews
Talked a few days ago with Jim Beaver (aka Bobby Singer) and visual FX supervisor Ivan Hayden. Look for the results in issue #3, I think. Or maybe #4.
Also, we note in passing the 10,000th hit on this blog. Thanks, everybody!
The Nightshift Code
From PlayFirst Games, purveyors of such popular titles as Diner Dash and Mystery Case Files, comes The Nightshift Code, "a mysterious and sometimes dangerous journey from an ancient history museum in Chicago all the way to a secret location in the Greek Isles."
This is my first foray into casual gaming, and it comes thanks to Matt Schlanger and the fine folks at Black Hammer Productions. If you've done a lot of casual gaming, however, TNC will play differently because we tried to build in more story to go along with the puzzles. It's part comic book, part puzzle game, and lots of fun. You can play the Mac demo here and the PC demo here.
Edit: I think this is probably the first thing I ever wrote that has a Forbes press release associated with it...
If you happen to be in or near Bangor, Maine, on Tuesday, January 22 at 6:30pm, stop by the Bangor Public Library. I'll be giving a talk about Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair as part of the Library's Penobscot Reads series of programs. Hope to see you all there...
Logorrhea Podcast and Promotion
John Klima, esteemed editor of this swell anthology, has cooked up a most ingenious and engaging bit of publicity. The way it works is that each writer in the book reprints the bit of Jeff VanderMeer's story that deals with his or her word (Jeff having written a story, "Appogiatura," that uses all of the words in VanderFashion). Ideally, this piques your interest enough to go check out a podcast of the whole book, broken out into twenty parts, one for each story. That podcast is here, and well worth checking out (as Mediabistro notes). Also I'm supposed to say a little bit about how I decided which word to use, which I will do forthwith.
I was originally going to use two words for my Logorrhea story, sacrilegious and semaphore. Those were the two words that bracketed the four-year hiatus the national spelling bee went on during World War II. As I worked on the story, the sacrilegious bits didn't seem to work as well, so I pared it down to semaphore. I stuck with the war theme, though, and although I never really meant to, I got sort of self-reflexive in writing a story about the spelling bee hiatus and its effect on a particular family.
And here's Jeff's own VanderSemaphore:
When Truewill Mashburn turned eighteen, he left the US with forged documents and passed himself off as a thirty-something ESE teacher at a Costa Rican university. He’d always looked older than his age and at six-four with sandy blond hair and a Viking’s eyes and chin, people usually believed what he said. By the time he left Latin America at the age of twenty-two and headed for Europe, he’d hitchhiked through twelve countries, been a missionary, a doctor’s aide, and a bank teller.
Now twenty-five, Mashburn found himself living in an abandoned semaphore tower on the banks of a Central Asian river that eventually wound its way down to the ruins of old Smaragdine and the tired modern city that surrounded it.
He’d read about the semaphore towers while hanging out in a Tashkent library. They’d once been vital in Smaragdine’s epic battles against the dreaded Turk. Now they were just free apartments ripe for the taking, in Mashburn’s eyes.
Mashburn took the book—The Myth of the Green Tablet—and headed south. By the time he found the towers, he was ready to settle down awhile anyway, having been hassled at half a dozen borders. He could fish in the river, exchange some of his limited cash for food in the nearby village, read the book he’d stolen, or just hang out with the locals smoking dope. A few times a week, the village women walked past, giggling and talking about him. He couldn’t understand them, but he knew what they were saying.
It should have been perfect, but an odd sense of responsibility began to grow inside him with each day he lived there. He felt it in his chest every time he walked up the three stories of crumbling stone steps to stare at the tower a half-mile downriver that doubled his own.
The book was to blame, even though the author seemed contemptuous of the subject. On some level, the more Mashburn read about the fascinating history of Smaragdine, the more he couldn’t help but feel an obligation to continue its ancient fight against the Turk. It didn’t make sense, and yet it did.
Mashburn decided to become the true keeper of the tower. He removed the weeds inside and along the circular fringe. He did his best with his limited knowledge of drywall to repair the worst areas. He began to wear his tattered army surplus jacket all the time. He bought a pair of old binoculars from a villager. He even assigned himself guard duty, more often at dusk than during the day.
At night, the tower looked less ruined and it was easier to imagine he was back in Time and that he might need to use the tower’s windmill-like semaphore spokes to warn of some danger.
Then, too, Mashburn saw many strange things the longer he stood watch at night. Fish that bellowed at him from the water. Debris and bodies from some battle that had taken place many countries upriver. A man in a motorboat who looked vaguely American in a leather jacket and dark shades, a gun holster on his exposed ankle. Something was happening, Mashburn was certain. He just didn’t know what.
One moonlit night just before dawn, he saw the most curious thing of all: a river cruise ship with several smaller boats pursuing it. When they caught up, what looked like a band of circus performers jumped on board: a couple of women dressed like caliphs, a snake charmer, a mime, and a fire-eater, among others. The battle raged as Mashburn looked on with mouth open.
By the time the conflict had subsided, far to the south of his position, he couldn’t tell who had won, only that the boats remained empty and most of the river cruise crew was walking around on deck again.
Sometimes Mashburn felt prematurely old from all of his travels, but in that moment, he felt both dumbfounded and oddly blessed.
By midmorning, he had the semaphore spokes turning for the first time in two centuries and he was sending his message out across the water. He didn’t care if the next station was manned or not. That wasn’t the point.
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254 posts and columns on SEC
HP Is Negotiating to Settle Bribery Charges
The allegations stem from a deal with a Russian government agency.
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Anna Prior, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 19, 2013 at 2:25 pm PT
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged a former senior portfolio manager at Microsoft Corp., along with his friend and business partner, with insider trading.
Justice Department Investigating Dell Sales to Syria
Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 10, 2013 at 5:30 am PT
The U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating possible sales of Dell computers to the Syrian government, the company said in documents released Monday.
Unpacking Twitter’s Secret IPO Memos With the SEC
Yoree Koh, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 7, 2013 at 8:00 pm PT
Twitter has released secret correspondence with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the months leading up to its initial public offering. These memos were kept out of view until today.
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Are You A Closet Confederate?
You're Confederate ... But Don't Know It?
by Charley Reese
Most of the political problems in this country won't be settled until more folks realize the South was right.
I know that goes against the P.C. edicts, but the fact is that on the subject of the constitutional republic, the Confederate leaders were right and the Northern Republicans were wrong.
Many people today even argue the Confederate positions without realizing it.
For example, if you argue for strict construction of the Constitution, you are arguing the Confederate position; when you oppose pork-barrel spending, you are arguing the Confederate position; and when you oppose protective tariffs, you are arguing the Confederate position. But that's not all.
When you argue for the Bill of Rights, you are arguing the Confederate position, and when you argue that the Constitution limits the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, you are arguing the Confederate position.
One of the things that gets lost when you adopt the politically correct oversimplification that the War Between the States was a Civil War all about slavery is a whole treasure load of American political history.
It was not a civil war. A civil war is when two or more factions contend for control of one government. At no time did the South intend or attempt to overthrow the government of the United States. The Southern states simply withdrew from what they correctly viewed as a voluntary union. They formed their own union and adopted their own constitution.
The U.S. government remained intact. There were just fewer states, but everything else remained as exactly as it was. You can be sure that, with as much bitterness and hatred of the South that there was in the North, the Northerners would have tried Confederates for treason if there had been any grounds. There weren't, and the South's worst enemy knew that.
Abraham Lincoln's invasion of the South was entirely without any constitutional authority. And it's as plain as an elephant in a tea party that Lincoln did not seek to preserve the Union to end slavery. All you have to do is read his first inaugural address. What Lincoln didn't want to lose was tax revenue generated by the South.
As Northern states gained a majority in both houses, they began to use the South as a cash cow. Here's how it worked: Most Southerners who exported cotton bartered the cotton in Europe for goods. When the protective tariffs were imposed, that meant Southerners had to pay them. To make matters worse, the North would then use the revenue for pork-barrel projects in its states. The South was faced with either paying high tariffs and receiving no benefits from the revenue or buying artificially high-priced Northern goods.
Southerners opposed pork-barrel spending. Their correct view was that, because the federal government was merely the agent of all the states, whatever money it spent should be of equal benefit. Their position on public lands was that they belonged to all the people and the federal government had no authority to give the lands away to private interests.
Northerners had announced they would not be bound by the Constitution. What you had was the rise of modern nationalism fighting the original republic founded by the American Revolution.
So, regardless of where you were born, you may be a Southerner philosophically.
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Freedom fighter Safiya Bukhari and a voice for political prisoners
Herb Boyd | 9/18/2015, 1:12 p.m.
Safiya Bukhari
She was in the store shopping when two of her comrades entered the store and what next happened was clouded in gunfire that led to a death and a wounding of her two comrades by the storeowners. Bukhari was arrested and soon the FBI was on the scene.
“My bail was set at $1 million for each of the five counts against me,” she wrote. Her trial lasted one day and she was sentenced to 40 years for armed robbery.
“Long before her arrest,” Whitehorn explained, “Safiya had developed massive fibroid tumors. In prison, her condition worsening, she received frighteningly little medical care. In late 1976, Safiya escaped.” Two months later she was recaptured and returned to the prison in Goochland, Va. By then her condition was so severe that she had to have a hysterectomy.
In 1983, after eight years and eight months in prison—the last four in which she deliberately tamped down her political voice so not to alienate “the Left”—she was granted parole and released. She rejoined her mother and daughter and secured employment in the Bronx office of the Legal Aid Society.
Between 1984 and 1998, Whitehorn recalled, Bukhari was unstinting in her involvement in the plight of political prisoners. She visited prisoners, “wrote to them, and always accepted their collect phone calls. She communicated their needs and ideas to the outside world, and she wrote and spoke on their behalf.”
Through these efforts, eventually, with the help of other activists, including the late Herman Ferguson and the still incarcerated Jalil Muntaqim, she created the Jericho Movement. “The name Jericho was used to conjure up the image of massive resistance that would succeed in bringing down the walls of prisoners, freeing the more than 100 political prisoners behind bars at that time,” Whitehorn observed.
Her work on behalf of political prisoners was wide-ranging, through forums, pamphlets, books, lectures and even a weekly radio show she conducted on WBAI with Sally O’Brien. Associated with this endeavor was her role in establishing the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition.
“In the early years of this century, Safiya’s health deteriorated,” Whitehorn wrote. “Not many of us knew how badly she suffered from a variety of ailments connected with hypertension. A week after the death of her mother in 2003, Safiya died of pulmonary embolism to the lungs. Her death at the age of 53 was mourned by leftists and progressives across the globe.”
The power of Bukhari’s legacy resonates from “The War Before,” and testimonies by Bukhari’s daughter, Wonda Jones, Angela Davis and Mumia Abu-Jamal bracket Whitehorn’s superb editing of the essays, articles and speeches by Bukhari.
At the close of one of the many documents included in the book, Bukhari stated, “The issue of political prisoners is part of that movement that we are building, and in building that movement we must understand that this is not a separate issue. It is an integral part of that movement. It can’t be put in front of the movement and it can’t be an afterthought. It must be woven into the very fiber.”
Woven into the fiber in the same way, Bukhari was an inextricable part of that tapestry for total liberation of the world’s political prisoners.
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T-levels and the Skills Plan: how the NEU will fight for the education of all young people
27 March 2017 by Janet Clark
Last July, the government announced the Skills Plan, a radical overhaul of technical (previously known as vocational) education.
In the Spring Budget, Phillip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced £500m to fully implement the Skills Plan by 2022. Whether this will be enough money is the subject of another blog. For now, I want to explain more about what is in store for further education over the next six years, and how this will impact the choices made by young people.
With the Skills Plan, the government accepted all the recommendations made by the Independent Panel on Technical Education which, Chaired by Lord Sainsbury, concluded a review of the sector last year. Upon implementation of the Skills Plan, young people will choose between two distinct pathways at the age of 16: academic or technical. The technical education route will be college- and employment- (ie apprenticeship) based and will prepare individuals for skilled employment which requires technical knowledge and practical skills.
Young people choosing the technical education pathway will need to select one of the following 15 routes:
Agriculture, Environmental and Animal Care
Business and Administrative
Creative and Design
Legal, Finance and Accounting
Protective Services*
Sales, Marketing and Procurement*
Social Care*
Transport and Logistics*
* Routes primarily delivered through apprenticeships
The full programme for each route will consist of a technical qualification, English and maths, digital skills and a significant work placement. Branded ‘T-levels’ over the past few days, the government envisages that this new system will raise the status of technical education, giving it long-awaited parity of esteem with academic A-levels. Bridging courses will also be available to make it possible to move between the two pathways. So far so good.
Read a little deeper into the government’s plans however, and there is reason to be a little wary of the Skills Plan. As with the apprenticeship reforms, employers will be at the heart of the system. The Institute for Apprenticeships (to be up and running in April this year) will have its remit expanded to become the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education from 2018. This organisation will be responsible for designing new level 2 and level 3 qualifications for the 15 technical education routes, and is currently convening employer-led panels to oversee this process.
ATL has long argued that employers should not be the primary consideration when developing skills (or indeed any) education programmes or qualifications. While employers’ skills requirements are an important factor, the needs of learners must be central. Furthermore, it is vital that the expertise of the FE workforce feeds into developing any new skills education systems.
I recently wrote a blog on ATL’s successes in securing workforce representation at each level of the Area Review process, as well as greater transparency around decision-making. The National Education Union, with its huge membership and greater resources, will be able to build on this success and be even more influential in ensuring that, with the Skills Plan, the pendulum for designing technical education does not swing too far in favour of employers.
Similarly, the National Education Union will have a crucial role to play in ensuring that learners have a genuine choice to make at the age of 16. The Skills Plan emphasises the government’s commitment to the EBacc as the curriculum to be taken by most (the target is 90 percent) students at Key Stage 4. With seven academic subjects forming the core of the EBacc, this means that the vast majority of young people will have limited, if any, opportunity to experience technical education in secondary school. How will this support young people in making an informed choice about whether their future lies in an academic or a technical route?
As a union that represents all education sectors, ATL is uniquely able to understand the opportunities and challenges faced by children and young people throughout their educational lives. The NEU will have an even greater presence at the Department for Education - that is now responsible for schools, colleges and universities. This will give us a much better chance of persuading government of the steps it needs to take to ensure that all young people have the information they need to make genuine choices when it comes to decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
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CS Lewis Experience
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C.S. Lewis Experience
Come and see the birth place of one of the most famous writers – C.S Lewis, creator of Narnia, who was born in Belfast. Ireland both north and south had a profound influence on his life and work. Discover with us how the landscapes, traditions and heritage of Northern Ireland help to shape some of the most all inspiring stories ever written.
What was the story that happened in Belfast about which he said ‘The rest of my life is about nothing else.'
What was the story that unfolded at his boyhood home that so dramatically affected the rest of Lewis’s life?
What are the images that find their way into Lewis’s Narnia? Where did those images come from? What does he say about them? And how does he use them in his writing?
Join us and walk in the footsteps of Lewis. Participate in an unforgettable journey to discover the places, stories and inspirations for many of his greatest works.
The C.S Lewis Experience is a series of coach tours designed specifically to cover the life and works of C.S Lewis and answer those intriguing questions about his life and writing. The live commentary throughout the tour highlights the locations and their significance in Lewis’s published work.
Authentic Ulster can provide tours that are entirely suited to your group. The tour locations visited in Belfast will cover all those that are of particular significance to Lewis and his writing. For groups wishing to devote a bit more time, the additional locations in County Antrim and County Down will be included.
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Short Tour
A half-day tour (approximately 3 hours) that will take you on a stimulating journey around Belfast to the locations in which Lewis grew up.
A coffee stop and lunch option can be included.
This tour is scheduled across a morning and afternoon and will introduce you to the influences which shaped Lewis’s early life. A light lunch and/or an evening meal at the 400 year old Crawfordsburn Inn which has a historical link with C.S. Lewis is an option on this tour. After a pleasant meal, while remaining at the Inn, a short presentation can be provided on the significance of Crawfordsburn in the life of C.S. Lewis. A short walk after the visit will provide an opportunity to stop at Silverhill, the home of Lewis’s lifelong friend Arthur Greeves.
University Group Study Tours
University or other study group tours can be arranged to cover a much wider range of visits. These are typically arranged over a number of days depending on the group, its specific interests and the time available. A sample itinerary might include:
Introduction to Lewis, his family and associated locations in central Belfast.
East Belfast.
The North Antrim Coast and the holiday letters of Lewis’s mother, Flora.
County Down including Crawfordsburn, Bangor, Killyleagh and the Kingdom of Mourne.
This itinerary can be expanded to include a 3 day visit to Oxford forming a very comprehensive C.S Lewis study tour.
Customised Tours
Authentic Ulster can work with and advise any group that has specific interests and assist with the design of an itinerary to suit needs, interests, time available and budget.
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Sandy Smith is a director with Heritage Experience. Prior to the company being established, Sandy enjoyed several other fascinating posts since graduating from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1973.
After joining Goodyear International he took a lecturing post at the University of Ulster until 1988 when he moved to the Department for Education as an inspector of schools and colleges. In 2002 he became joint Director General with the International Fund for Ireland and in 2010 he joined the Board of Enterprise Northern Ireland which he chaired from 2011 until 2013.
Across his career Sandy has sustained a passionate interest in the life and work of Belfast-born author C S Lewis. In 2005, in conjunction with Belfast City Council, he developed and led the highly successful lecture tour “In the Footsteps of Lewis”. This has proved to be a successful tour and participants from all over the world have been enthralled as Sandy conducts the tour of locations in central and east Belfast that have a link to C S Lewis and his family. The tours have been extended to meet the needs and interests of University groups mainly from the US to include the North Antrim coast and also County Down for which Lewis had a particular affection.
Get in touch with Sandy at sandy.smith@authenticulster.com to begin your C.S Lewis Experience.
Watch our short C.S.Lewis film >
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What specifically is naked news
News channels have undergone plenty of change during the last number of years. Some news programs have gone onto changing their formats, look and have brought in more appealing, intelligent and witty news presenters to acheive more viewership and garner more revenues. The conventional weather girl of the news channels has always created the image of a very beautiful, attractive and sensual woman delivering the weather report. Naked News has gotten this element of sensuality one step further and has naked women dishing out the weather report!
Naked News calls itself a program which has “nothing to hide”. This web subscription program carries a complete and full television newscast. This program is arranged in Toronto and it is aired daily each episode being of twenty five minutes. The highlight in this show is that the female or male anchors either read the news completely naked or they strip while they read their specified segments, such as weather, sports, entertainment, current affairs etc. It has been noted that regardless of the news presenters gender, the viewership of Naked News remains predominantly male.
Naked News made its debut in 2000 as a subscription based web news service that boasted of an all female cast. The very first anchor of Naked News was Victoria Sinclair who, at that time was the sole anchor for the show and presented all the segments including weather, sports, entertainment etc. Since the show became popular, the numbers of anchors increased and presently includes eight female presenters and additionally have guest anchors featuring at the same time. Devoid of marketing gimmick or strategy, this website became popular only through word of mouth marketing, soon becoming a frequented web destination.
This website received almost six million hits within a month during its initial days. An enormous contributor to its popularity was its free viewership as the site was supported entirely by advertising. Post 2002, only one of the news segments could be seen totally free and after 2004, the site became a paid one. Again in 2008 two segments on the show could be viewed free of charge.
Naked News launched Naked New Japan in 2006, in colaboration with eGalaxy and Sunrise Corp. eGalaxy was the owner of Naked News and Sunrise Corp was a seller of services and goods over the web. Naked News Japans presenters do not strip completely, because of the stringent broadcasting norms of the nation. However, the producers hope that they will have the ability to show more down the road. The Naked News expansion mode continued together with the launch of Naked News Italia in 2008.
Naked news presenters happen to be extremely popular and have been featured in a number of television shows such as The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and The View etc. They have also made several appearances on Entertainment Tonight and ET Insider. These presenters have also been featured in several newspapers and magazines such as Playboy and TV Guide.
To become a member of Naked News one has to be above eighteen years of age and gain access to a daily feed of features, news and reports which are gathered all around the globe.
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Natural line enhancement
We've been over this already: lines and extensions are not the same thing. Once again, the USAC News Brief instructs applicants: "Provide the number of lines, including the number of extensions." The explanation following that instruction make things a little clearer, but not much.
What USAC wants to say is: "Include all the incoming lines on a bill, not just the billed telephone number." I've never heard a phone company call an incoming line of any sort an "extension." In telecomese, "extension" means an internal line connected to a phone system, not an external line. In the case of Centrex, it's not confusing, but otherwise it's going to be the wrong number.
It brings up an interesting question, though. In the traditional world, you either had a bunch of phone lines (POTS or Centrex) or a PRI. (What's a PRI, you ask? It's an Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) Primary Rate Interface, a T-1 channelized into 24 channels, meaning up to 24 simultaneous calls. You can associate as many phone numbers as you wanted to that trunk by buying blocks of DID (Direct Inward Dialing) numbers. You have to have your own PBX to distribute the calls coming in over the PRI.)
Determining the number of lines was straightforward. In the case of POTS or Centrex, you put down the total number of lines on the bill. (Tip for figuring out the total number: Most bills have a dizzying array of different types of lines, but there is frequently only one line for "SLC" or "Subscriber Line Charge", sometimes called "FCC SLC" or "FCC line charge" or some other misleading name to make you think it's some kind of tax, when in fact the FCC's involvement is to set the maximum amount that can charged; the phone company is keeping 100% of that money. So if you find that line on the bill, it will typically show you how many lines there are total.) In the case of PRI, you put down the number of channels you're using (almost always 24). Don't put down the number of DIDs.
Along comes VoIP. There is an architecture analogous to the PRI, called SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunks. You need a PBX to use SIP trunks, and you buy a certain number of trunks (simultaneous calls), so it's easy to determine the number of "lines" (though in reality it's only one line with a bunch of conversations crammed into it, but that's kind of true for PRIs, too). And vendors offer another service that looks just like regular Centrex: you get as many phone jacks as you want, and you can connect them to regular phone lines; the provider installs a router in your building converting those phone calls to VoIP. If you want, you can have IP phones in your building, in which case the provider router doesn't have to convert calls, it just routes the IP packets from your phone. Like with Centrex, you pay a certain amount per phone each month. And like with Centrex, all call processing takes place on service provider equipment.
In all of those scenarios, it's clear how many "lines" you have. Either the number of SIP trunks if you have a PBX or the number of phones if you are using the Centrex-like setup.
But there is a new option on the scene that makes the number of lines fuzzy. It's just like the scenario above, where you have VoIP phones connected to a service provider who handles all the calls. The difference is that the service provider charges you for simultaneous calls. This can be an attractive option for schools, since they typically have hundreds of phones in classrooms which get used very rarely. So a school with 200 phones can probably get by with 12 simultaneous calls, which is a lot cheaper.
But how many lines do you have? I mean, each and every phone, when you pick up the handset, interacts directly with the service provider to set up the call. So our hypothetical school has 200 lines. But if 12 people are on the phone, the 13th person can't make a call. So is that 12 lines? Adding to the confusion is that the limit of 12 calls is a setting in the service provider's software. In reality, the 13th call does reach the service provider's switch, which makes the decision that the school is over it's limit, and gives back a busy signal.
So you'd think 12 lines, but the only difference between a school paying $30/month for each phone set and the school paying $600/month for 12 simultaneous calls is a software setting and maybe once or twice a month someone is the unlucky 13th caller and gets a busy signal.
I guess the right answer in that case really is 200 lines, even though they can't all make calls at the same time. So now the USAC guidance is right.
I've got your Item 21 right here
Much as I like to grumble, I also like to herald improvements, and yesterday I learned of one. While I was knee-deep in last-minute Form 470 nonsense, a colleague in the office said she tested the online Item 21 Attachment tool, and she is able to create the attachments before the Form 471 is submitted.
To normal humans, this is completely unimportant, but as I've said before, I found it frustrating that we couldn't even start the attachments before the 471 was done. Perhaps my protestations did not fall on deaf ears.
Why is it important? Convenience aside, I have always considered it best practice to complete the Item 21 Attachments before submitting the Form 471, because every now and then you catch an error while doing the attachment, and you can fix the 471 before submitting.
It's been a while since I went on a linguistic rant, and I've got a curmudgeonly persona to maintain here, so I need to whine about something. To wit:
The term "Item 21 Attachment" is just ungainly. It is not an attachment to Item 21 exactly, although Item 21 is the place on the form where you identify the number of the attachment. I think it should be a "Block 5 Attachment" or a "Form 471 attachment." (OK, really I think it should be part of the Form 471, not an attachment: the forms should be as complicated as they have to be to make clear the complexity of the program, and it just seems a little sleazy that somehow they're getting away with information collection without creating a form and going through OMB and all by calling it an attachment. But back to my original rant.)
But the real nettle in my shoe is that since "Item 21 Attachments" takes too long to say, people who spend too much time with this program commonly call them "Item 21s." OK, first off, that's like deciding "CD players" is too wordy, and calling them "CDs"; the meaning is lost. If you want to drop part of "Item 21 Attachment," drop "Item 21" and just call them "Attachments." It's not like there are any other attachments in the E-Rate program. I mean, it's like not wanting to say "flat-screen TV" and just calling it a "flat-screen." What's that? People do? Oh, our society is just falling apart. (I was going to use "trash collector" and "trash," but decided that was too disrespectful to our sanitation engineers, and in NJ, you do not want to cross those guys.)
In addition, it should be "Items 21" not "Item 21s." It's like people talking about Form 470s; it should be Forms 470. (And don't get me started on people who put apostrophes and make it Form 470's, unless you're making a possessive like "this Form 471's Item 21 Attachments.") Maybe it's just because of all the Downton Abbey I'm watching, but if we're going to misabbreviate, let's at least do it in a way that sounds proper. Of course, it's not really any more proper, since it is neither the "Item" nor the "21" that is being made plural, it's the "attachment," but we dropped that part of the name, so we're screwed. But "Items 21" still sounds more like something the Dowager Countess would say.
Not timely, but getting there
So Wednesday the FCC denied 23 appeals because they were filed late. I'm not saying that any of the appeals should be granted, and I agree the FCC has to put its foot down at some point. I just find it amusing that only 2 of the 23 appeals was decided within 90 days, as required by FCC regulation.
Let's make a new rule: the FCC cannot deny appeals for being filed late if the decision is filed too late.
Snarkiness aside, these appeals actually follow the trend of more timely appeal decisions from the FCC. The vast majority of the appeals were from 2011, which is much quicker turnaround than I'm used to.
Confirmed: 2-in-5 Rule Fails Again
Just a little tidbit from the latest USAC Board meeting in DC (courtesy of Funds for Learning): "The SLD reported to the Board that they anticipate the final FY2011 P2 threshold to be 87%...." Given the FCC's willingness to upend the funding landscape willy-nilly, I'm surprised the SLD is even making estimates any more.
As you might expect, I find this to be cause for griping:
First, the obligatory "can the 2-in-5 Rule" rant. Once again, Priority Two funding will not reach 80-90% of applicants. And it's the same 80-90% each year. That's 7 straight years of failure. Absent bizarre rollover gymnastics, the 2-in-5 Rule is totally ineffective in spreading the P2 wealth. Worse, the 2-in-5 Rule is harmful.
The second half of the sentence I quoted in the opening: SLD "did not make an official recommendation to drop the threshold below its current 90% level.." So here we are, more than halfway through the year, and we still haven't even moved the denial threshold below 90%. So far from my dream of setting the P2 threshold before the start of the funding year.
So what should the FCC do right now? Well, it's a little late, but they should set the denial threshold for FY 2011 at 90%. That would allow applicants with discounts less than 90% to fling up repeat P2 requests for 2012. Then set the denial threshold for 2012 right now. Be conservative, set it at 88%. See how that goes, and gradually the FCC will be able to set the denial threshold when they release the Eligible Services List. Imagine.
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Patty Hillkirk has worked with at-risk youth for over 30 years. An alumna of Penn State University, Patty also has three years of therapeutic training with the Pennsylvania Gestalt Center. She established a private psychotherapy practice in 1990, specializing in work with trauma survivors and people with special needs. Patty’s work in the HIV/AIDS community started in 1986 as a volunteer with the Red Cross and then as a therapist with adults living with HIV/AIDS.
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Patty is the founder of Camp Dreamcatcher, a fun, safe, and therapeutic escape for children and teens infected by and coping with HIV/AIDS. Inspired to create Camp Dreamcatcher after watching a “60 Minutes” segment about a summer camp for children coping with HIV/AIDS in New York, Patty’s dream was to create a therapeutic and loving community to embrace children impacted by the disease. Due to her leadership and dedication, what started as a one-week camp in 1996 now serves more than 400 HIV/AIDS impacted youth each year and delivers HIV/AIDS outreach and education to over 6,000 students and community members. Programs include an educational camp session, weekend Retreats, Camper Reunion Events, a Mentoring Program, a holiday Adopt-a-Family program and a Teen Speaker’s Bureau. The community she has built was featured in the film “Tiny Tears,” which was screened at both the United Nations and The Cannes Film Festival. Patty’s work makes all services provided by Camp Dreamcatcher free to participants.
Hundreds of counselors, medical personnel, professionals, and community members volunteer throughout the year with Camp Dreamcatcher, and over the past 18 years, the volunteers have provided 157,000 hours of service to children coping with HIV/AIDS. All of the services provided by the organization are free and children benefiting from the programs come from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York. Patty is married and resides in Kennett Square. She serves as a member of the Kennett Lions Club Morning Branch and volunteers with the YMCA as a coach for her son’s basketball team.
2013 Pennsylvania State University College of Health and Human Development Alumni Recognition Award
Received the College of Health and Human Development Alumni Award for professional excellence and exemplary voluntary community involvement in a health and human development field. Presented a speech titled “Catching a Dream: My Journey Helping HIV/AIDS-Impacted Youth,” as part of the Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series, which was established by the Board of Directors of the College of Health and Human Development Alumni Society.
2011 West Chester University’s Woman of the Year Award
Recipient of the first Woman of the Year Award which recognizes a woman who displays leadership and service qualities worthy of special recognition. It is awarded for distinguished and exceptional achievements in her profession and/or volunteer activities that have positively impacted women and/or girls.
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Vic Chesnutt, "At the Cut"
Sunday, 08 November 2009 05:20 Lucas Schleicher Reviews - Albums and Singles
Spilling over with trembling strings and thunderous crescendos, "Coward" foreshadows the electric energy that is to be found throughout Vic Chesnutt's newest record. With members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion, and Fugazi once again contributing, At the Cut is populated by giant melodies, quiet meditations, and intense studies on mortality and memory. But, for all its bombast, At the Cut is probably most notable for Chesnutt's unwavering honesty and cathartic power. Because of these qualities it has quickly become one of my favorite and most played records this year.
Reviews and presss releases of At the Cut like to concentrate on the various references Chesnutt makes throughout the record. There are, admittedly, a lot of them and on the cover of the album Vic himself appears resigned among numerous paintings, as though he were an exhibit at a museum. Some writers have been quick to point out that he references no less than W.H. Auden, Frank Norris, Philip Guston, Victor Hugo, Franz Kafka, and William Shakespeare, and that's in just one or two songs. Impressive as that may be, Vic's literary and artistic interests aren't what make his record great. In fact, with the exception of Auden, his songwriting and lyrics are unlike anything produced by any one of those artists. If the album cover suggests anything about the music at all, it's that Chesnutt's personal life is the subject of this record, not the influences that might've helped foster it.
The places where At the Cut is most unadorned are the places where it is most powerful and affecting. Whether blithely describing his history with death ("Flirted With You All My Life") or an encounter with his grandmother in the kitchen ("Granny"), Chesnutt impresses the most when he lets mundane images and ideas into his music. Those are the images that have stuck with me the most and they remind me how talented someone must be to sing about them without sounding either trite or banal. The final lines of the album could've been delivered in so many shrill and unappealing ways, but when Vic sings, "She said / 'You are the light of my life / and the beat of my heart,'" there isn't a doubt in my mind that he feels those words as deeply as anyone can. And he wants his listeners to feel them, too, without cringing or second-guessing the motives.
But, Chesnutt writes in myriad ways, so for every mention of dentures and friendship there are at least one or two psycho-analytic lines of poetry and an equal number of vague symbols or potentially mystifying scenes. In response, Vic's band dances their way through various styles of music, matching his twists and turns with jazz-like funeral dirges, the kind of rock 'n' roll expected from Bob Dylan in the mid '60s, and orchestrated blues. On first listen, Chesnutt's electric songs are the real show-stealers. Both "Chinaberry Tree" and "Philip Guston," along with the opening "Coward," put the electric guitar in the spotlight. In "Chinaberry Tree" the guitar rips across Chesnutt’s vocals like a lightning strike, and in "Philip Guston" it chugs and totters like it belongs in an Einstürzende Neubauten song. But, the more quietly intense songs like "Chain" and "We Hovered with Short Wings" have their own gravity, which is concocted with a combination of atmosphere and patient development. Although not as immediate, repeat listens reveal them to be of equal potency. Vic and company weave their way through these approaches with an even hand, favoring neither, but obviously seeking to inject every one of them with intensity and cathartic energy.
That cathartic energy plays a role equal with to Chesnutt's narrative and lyrical honesty. I cannot listen to At the Cut and passively digest it; the record forces us to feel the record along with Vic, so that when he sings about his mother dying or about deseperation and rejecting empty ritual, associated memories, emotions, and ideas simultaneously emerge without anyone having to mention them. There are a few musicians that aim for and achieve this effect. It is among the greatest and highest accomplishments any songwriter and lyricist can achieve in popular music. Vic Chesnutt reaches such heights on At the Cut and he does it almost effortlessly, as if that was what he was born to do. This is easily one of Vic Chesnutt's best records, and a standout album in a year filled with superb music.
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YaleDonald Lovegrove2014-05-31T16:14:53-07:00
Located at the southern entrance to the spectacular Fraser Canyon, the town of Yale is one of southwestern British Columbia’s oldest and most historic communities, having been the bustling steamship navigation capital during the Gold Rush.
Founded as a Hudson’s Bay fort in 1848, Yale rose to prominence as the inland terminus of the Fraser River sternwheelers and a waystation for those travelling up and down the Fraser River.
Explorer Simon Fraser himself camped here in the summer of 1808, after his horrendous trip down the river that now bears his name.
Like many towns in British Columbia, Yale’s fortunes followed that of the Gold Rush. In 1858 gold was discovered on a gravel bar just 2 miles south of Yale on the Fraser River. This place was soon known as Hill’s Bar named after the prospector who found gold there. The discovery of gold caused a massive influx of people to pour into the region from all over the world, the majority of which came from the California Gold Rush of 1849. At the height of Gold Fever in 1858, this town boasted 20,000 residents.
In 1862 the government paid for a road that started in Yale and went for 400 miles to gold mining town called Barkerville. The narrow, steep, rocky road was called the Cariboo Wagon Road – today’s modern highway follows much of the old road. During the period of railway construction in the 1880’s Yale became the main supply centre for all the work in the Cascade Division of British Columbia. The railway that now passes right through the middle of Yale in front of the museum and church is the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Today the residents of Yale number only 200. Though the gold ran out, Yale continued prospering, as it still does today as a forestry and service centre.
Historic Yale is only a 15-minute drive north from Hope on the Trans-Canada Highway 1. The site is right beside the highway as it goes through Yale. Even if you’re going east via Highway 3, it’s a convenient side trip.
Location: Yale is located on the Trans-Canada Highway 1, on the bank of the Fraser River, 16 miles (26 km) north of Hope. To the north of Yale are the communities of Spuzzum and Boston Bar.
An historic 1868 heritage home houses the Yale Museum, with exhibits and archives dating back to the times of the gold rush, the Cariboo Wagon Road and the railway construction.
Step into the past when you visit the Church of St. John the Divine, the oldest church in British Columbia, built in 1863 to serve the fortune seekers of the Gold Rush community.
Walking Tour: A guided walking tour of the historic town explores one of the west’s largest and most colourful Gold Rush towns. The original Fort Yale, founded in 1847, was located on Front Street, where monuments and plaques commemorating the Cariboo Wagon Road and Barnard’s Express are located. Down on the waterfront, look for the old rings embedded in the rocks to moor the old sternwheelers at the riverboat landing situated here between 1858 and 1885.
Yale Pioneer Cemetery: Meet the earliest residents and pioneers of Yale at the historic graveyard, located off Highway 1 south of town overlooking the banks of the Fraser River. Headstones at the pioneer cemetery date back to 1862.
Hiking: Hikers can head out on the 5-km Spirit Caves Trail for a three-hour hike with rewarding views of the Fraser River Canyon entrance and the Cascade Mountains. The Spirit Caves produce an eerie whistling sound when strong winds blow through the caves. The trailhead is located opposite the old Pioneer Cemetery on Highway 1. East of Yale, also on Highway 1, is the trailhead for the strenuous 5-km Mount Lincoln Trail, a steep trail leading to the summit of Mount Lincoln.
Hill’s Bar: Just south of Yale is Hill’s Bar, the site of the first gold discovery in British Columbia in 1858. Have a go at Gold Panning – there could still be gold in the area! Hill’s Bar is renowned for the rebellion triggered by a squabble between two local magistrates, over contempt of their respective official dignities, after an inebriated Hill’s Bar prospector assualted the local black barber. The conflict escalated and posed a threat to the newly-minted British authority on the British Columbia mainland. Governor Douglas mobilized his troops, backed up by Marines stationed at Fort Langley. Accompanying the Royal Engineers to Yale was Justice Matthew Baillie Begbie, who convened court, determined that the whole matter was overblown, and fined McGowan for assault. Both magistrates were dismissed from their posts, and the bloodless war became known as Ned McGowan’s War.
Between Yale and Boston Bar, to the north on the Trans Canada Highway, is one of the most spectacular sights in British Columbia: Hell’s Gate, a narrowing of the Fraser River where the water churns through in a tremendous maelstrom. It’s an awesome sight to behold, and certainly a “hellish” experience for the more than 2 million spawning salmon that must pass through this part of the Fraser River every year.
For a closer look at the fury of Hell’s Gate, ride the Hell’s Gate Airtram across to the other side of the river. Restaurants, gift shops and an interpretive centre await those daring enough to make the trip.
Golf: Golfers must head south to Hope for thee Hope Golf & Country Club, a semi-private, 9-hole golf course on Golf Course Road offering superb mountain views in all directions. 18 holes, par 72, 6,317 yards. Golf Vacations in British Columbia.
Historic Emory Creek Provincial Park has a small campground situated at the former townsite of Emory City, which was a tiny but bustling trading settlement in the mid-1800s. When the Canadian Pacific Railway decided that nearby Yale would be its major centre, Emory was left to ‘sigh and die.’ Conveniently located beside Hwy 1 and the Fraser River, 12 kilometres south of Yale, this park fills up quickly in summer. As with most B.C. provincial parks, this is an excellent area for hiking, mountain biking and camping.
Alexandra Bridge Provincial Park, about 22km north of Yale, provides an interesting place to stop in the Fraser Canyon. An interpretative display gives visitors an idea of the canyon’s history.
Circle Tours: See the best of the area on a driving Circle Tour. Head north out of Vancouver for the scenic Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island Circle Tour, or stay on the intensely scenic Sea to Sky Highway, passing through the magical winter resort town of Whistler and Coast Mountains Circle Tour. To explore the rural farmlands and forests of the fertile Fraser Valley, take the Fraser Valley Circle Tour, travelling outbound on the scenic route north of the historic Fraser River, returning westwards along the Trans Canada Highway 1 to Vancouver. Circle Tours in British Columbia.
Donald Lovegrove2019-01-15T14:26:14-07:00
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Markus Breitschmid’s Book Included in Swiss National Archive
Professor of Architecture Markus Breitschmid’s German-language book Der Bauende Geist. Friedrich Nietzsche und die Architektur has been included in the permanent collection of the National Archive of Switzerland.
Published as a book by Quart Verlag in the year 2001 and originally submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the Technische Universitat Berlin in December 1999, Der Bauende Geist. Friedrich Nietzsche und die Architektur, was the first book that studied systematically the “turn” of Nietzschean aesthetics towards the architectonic. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is arguably the world’s most influential philosopher of the past 150 years, and his influence on modernity and postmodernity cannot be overestimated. Breitschmid’s book has been the basis for subsequent books and dissertations in various countries and languages dealing with Nietzsche’s ideas on architecture and his influence on architects. It has become a reference text and is also used as a textbook in various academic disciplines. The book had already been listed as a seminal text by the Institute of Philosophy in Karlsruhe (Germany) in 2005.
The Swiss National Archive, officially named the Swiss Federal Archives, located in the capital city of Berne, is the Swiss Confederation’s institution for lasting information preservation. The archive appraises, secures, describes and provides access to archive-worthy records of the Swiss Confederation. The National Archive establishes independently the legal, political, social and historical importance of documents. Founded in 1798, the archive holds records dating back to the 14th century.
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Christian US Soccer Star Jaelene Hinkle Withdraws from Team after 'Gay Pride' Jerseys Introduced
By Edwin Kee ( [email protected] ) Jun 16, 2017 08:24 AM EDT Comment
24-year old Jaelene Hinkle stood up for her Christian faith by skipping matches in the month of June that will see the US soccer team wear Gay Pride jerseys. The New American
Is being a Christian in this day and age a whole lot more challenging compared to the times of the early church? That really depends, but it does seem as though persecution in the early church was a whole lot more compared to simple heckles or being socially ostracized today. Jaelene Hinkle is a Christian, and she decided to put her foot down to defend the values of her Christian faith by withdrawing herself from the US soccer team. The reason behind this? It is not political, but basically, both men’s and women’s national teams are said to feature rainbow-colored jerseys for the entire month of June in order to support the homosexual “Gay Pride” month.
Jaelene Hinkle did not personally specify the reasons behind her action, which would result in her sitting out of a couple of “friendly” competitions this month against Scandinavian countries Sweden and Norway. “Personal reasons” are all that we are able to work with, but Hinkle has exhibited a tendency to be outspoken about her faith in the past, as well as sharing her biblical views where same-sex marriage is concerned.
Hinkle also did tweet the scripture verse Colossians 3:23, where it mentioned that “whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.” Apart from that, her Twitter tagline continued to underline her viewpoint, which reads, “If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection.”
She has certainly shared her views about same-sex marriage in the past. In fact, it was in 2015 that Hinkle used Instagram to showcase a “gay pride” logo which has been transformed to showcase a cross. She commented on that modified logo, “Jesus didn't come to save those who already believed in Him. He came so that the lost, rejected, and abandoned men and women would find Him and believe.” That was the day that the US Supreme Court announced a favorable ruling when it comes to same-sex marriage.
Hinkle is definitely going to trust in the Word of God 100 per cent, saying, “I believe with every fiber in my body that what was written 2,000 years ago in the Bible is undoubtedly true. It's not a fictional book. It's not a pick and choose what you want to believe. You either believe it, or you don't. This world may change, but Christ and His Word NEVER will.”
Hinkle's outspoken behavior, as well as the way she expresses her faith, would certainly put her to be at odds with the rest of the US soccer team, which has teamed up with the pro-homosexual group You Can Play. The latter group’s mission is “to ensure the safety and inclusion of all in sports — its homosexual activist bent is revealed in the prominent tagline on the website: “LGBTQ athletes. Allies. Teaming up for respect.”
As Christians, we all know that we are to love the sinner but hate the sin. Homosexuality as a lifestyle is a very difficult topic to navigate, but we all know what God’s Word says about this lifestyle. While those who advocate or support such a lifestyle champion their rights to be heard, they trample on the rights to be objected to, throwing words such as “bigots” and “homophobic” freely. Where is all of the love that is supposedly being championed?
Assuming the table is turned, where the US soccer team wears a jersey that proclaims the only definition of marriage is that between a man and a woman, would pro-LGBT advocates pull out from the team as well in a dignified manner, or would they froth at their mouth and act otherwise?
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No Affidavit of Merit Needed for Malicious Use of Process Claim Against Attorney
Posted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Jan 13, 2016 in Appellate Division, Judges | 0 comments
Perez v. Zagami, LLC, 443 N.J. Super. 359 (App. Div. 2016). Plaintiff Perez and defendant Zagami have a lengthy history of litigation against each other, including one case that went to the Supreme Court, as discussed here. This latest case involved a claim of malicious use of process regarding an underlying defamation case. In response to Perez’s complaint, Zagami sought dismissal on the grounds that the defamatory statements were privileged as based on advice of counsel. Perez then amended his complaint to name Zagami’s lawyers in the prior action, the Nash Law Firm, LLC and two attorneys at that firm (together, “Nash”).
After the case had gone to the Appellate Division once, and was thereafter returned to the Law Division, Nash moved to dismiss the complaint on the grounds that Perez had failed to provide an affidavit of merit, which Nash contended was required by the Affidavit of Merit statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-27. Nash argued that this was in fact a “disguised” professional negligence or malpractice case, and that Perez had to establish the applicable standard of care and deviations from that standard via expert testimony, thus mandating an affidavit of merit. The Law Division denied the motion. On appeal, the Appellate Division affirmed in an opinion by Judge Currier.
After analyzing the elements of malicious use of process, Judge Currier observed that the key to the claim lay in its requirement that malice be shown. The claim “is not the alleged negligence of the attorney in doing his work; rather, it goes to the attorney’s intentions and motive in doing the work.” A determination as to what Nash’s purpose was did not require an affidavit of merit, but rather would be “discovered through interrogatories and depositions.” Since the issues here did not depend on proof of a deviation from a standard of care, the claim “lies beyond the purview of the affidavit of merit statute.” Accordingly, the Law Division’s decision was affirmed.
The Appellate Division’s decision appears correct. The Affidavit of Merit statute applies where there is a negligence or professional malpractice case that entails a standard of care. That was not so here.
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Ireland among best for attracting top workers – and losing its own
Ireland ranks 12th in the world for its ability to attract, retain, train and educate skilled workers, according to a new survey ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Ireland features ahead of Germany, Canada and France, but falls behind the UK, the US, and most of the Nordic countries, according to the Adecco group’s Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI).
The presence of large tech companies with a global reach such as Apple, Facebook and LinkedIn in basing their European headquarters here led to Dublin being ranked 10th out of 46 capital cities for global talent competitiveness, ahead of cities including London, New York and Berlin.
The report says Ireland’s status as a European tech hub bodes well for its ability to reap the benefits of technology.
However, the report, carried out by HR firm Adecco, business school INSEAD and the Human Capital Leadership Institute, warns that while Ireland is a magnet for foreign talent, it lags behind in formal education and in “preventing the brain drain of its own top workers”.
“This year’s Global Talent Competitiveness Index demonstrates Ireland’s success in building a robust talent infrastructure, capable of both attracting and retaining highly skilled talent from across the world,” said John L Marshall, CEO of Adecco Group UK & Ireland.
“This is greatly facilitated by Ireland’s phenomenal success in positioning itself as a European tech hub and securing a steady stream of foreign direct investment. The first ever global ranking of cities shows that Dublin, ranked 10th ahead of London and New York, has the potential to further boost Ireland’s attractiveness to highly skilled workers.
“That said, the report also demonstrates the need to continue to invest in home-grown talent, to ensure the next generation of Irish professionals are equipped to compete in the global marketplace and face challenges of the future.”
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Finance Minister Michael Noonan are leading the Irish delegation to Davos this year where the IDA is hosting a series of bilateral meetings with investors.
The world leaders meet as the World Economic Forum has warned rising income inequality and the polarisation of societies pose a risk to the global economy and could result in the rolling back of globalisation.
In a report launched today, Oxfam says eight men own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorer half of the world’s population.
“A fundamental change in the way we manage our economies is required so they benefit everyone, not just a fortunate few,” said Oxfam Ireland chief Jim Clarken. “We need a global economy for the 99pc not just the 1pc.”
The most talked about Davos guest is Chinese President Xi Jinping who is attending for the first time.
Mr Jinping will lead an 80-strong delegation of business executives and billionaires to the annual gathering where he is expected to speak out against the protectionist policies espoused by Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States.
Many world leaders are not attending this year’s forum. French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have all cancelled.
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AFTER ACCUSATIONS OF BACKROOM DEALS HRC FINALLY JOINS ACTIVISTS AGAINST DADT
On May 10th I posted a blog article chastising President Obama for not taking any visible action to end the DADT policy despite overwhelming public support to repeal it and his numerous and clearly stated intentions to do just that when he was elected.
Two days later, on May 12th, I posted another story about the new study published by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that said the President does, indeed, have the authority to end DADT on his own authority.
The study said that the Commander-In-Chief already has the statutory authority to halt military separations under 10 U.S.C. § 12305, a law which Congress titled, “Authority of President to suspend certain laws relating to promotion, retirement, and separation.”
More importantly, the study also said that the provisions of the "stop-loss" law, which are granted by Congress, give the President authority to "suspend laws relating to separation when a national emergency has strained personnel requirements.” This is something that can be done immediately by the President alone.
So, given the fact that it has been almost a full month since this new information was made public, why hasn't Obama issued that order?
Well, according to a video piece (see below) posted at The Daily Beast by award winning gay journalist Jason Bellini, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and other "mainstream" gay rights organizations had reached an agreement with the White House to support delaying action on the DADT repeal until some of the other pressing GLBT rights legislation has been passed. To lend credence to this has been the HRC's somewhat milquetoast efforts to hold the administration's feet to the fire to get this repeal accomplished as promised.
Of course HRC immediately issued a statement denying that any deal was made. But despite that denial, many people in the gay community, especially the newest and youngest activists and activist organizations felt that there might be some truth to the accusation because blogs and websites burned up the internet with condemnations and accusations against HRC for not truly representing the goals of the now more fervent, in-the-street, activist movement.
In response to this growing maelstrom, HRC President Joe Solmonese finally came out and publicly called on President Obama to at least suspend DADT to stop the unwarranted and unwise discharges of sorely needed military personnel.
Gay News Net reported yesterday that when Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball last night asked Solmonese whether he believes Obama has the authority to sign such an order and whether he should do so, Solmonese said, "Yes he can and yes I do." Matthews repeated the question, asking "Do you think he should?" Salmonese confirmed, "Yes I do."
Solmonese also said that Obama should sign the executive order immediately to halt further firings like that of Lt. Dan Choi, a West Point graduate who speaks Arabic. "The president has the opportunity to stop that from happening," Solmonese said. "We've asked him to do that and pressed him to do that and hope that he will."
If, in fact, the HRC did reach some kind of agreement to delay an all-out push for the repeal of DADT, I'm absolutely positive that there were no sinister, underlying motivations. I'm sure that they thought that strategy would be the most effective in securing all of the rights we're seeking. It's possible that they didn't even know about the recently revealed Presidential powers that Obama has to effect this change completely on his own authority.
Whatever reasons were behind HRC's past inaction, I'm glad to see them now using their substantial political capital to pressure Obama to suspend the firings. They're a good organization that has done a whole lot in advancing our causes in towns, cities, states and municipalities throughout the country. So let's not, as the saying goes, "throw the baby out with the bath water."
One thing for sure at this point - it is now almost impossible for the President and his administration to ignore the importance of immediate action on DADT. We're all watching Mr. President.
Below is Jason Bellini's video piece referred to above:
Posted by Steve Krotz at 12:23 PM 3 comments
Labels: DADT, gays in military, HRC, lgbt rights, military discharges, palm center, President Barack Obama, stop loss, white house
PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS JUNE GAY PRIDE MONTH
I'm a couple of days late with this but I didn't want to let it go by without a comment.
Lately, many in the GLBT community have been expressing growing dissatisfaction with President Obama's seeming non-action on many of the issues we consider to be of paramount importance to our community. I myself have expressed my own frustrations over this in several of my more recent posts.
Although these feelings certainly do seem to be justified considering the high expectations for action that were fueled by Obama's many strong and positive statements about ending DOMA, DADT, anti-gay discrimination in the workplace and housing, passing hate crimes legislation, etc., etc.. Let's not forget that in just six short months, he has appointed more openly gay professionals to high level, high profile management and advisory positions throughout the government and his own administration than any president before him. He is also the first president to endorse and speakout for an end to anti-gay discrimination throughout the world.
Yes, he hasn't moved as fast as we wanted him to but I think it's important to recognize the impact that the words a President speaks to us and to the rest of the world have not just on policies but on the thoughts and beliefs of tens and hundreds of millions of people.
It's easy to dismiss what someone says by loudly protesting that they're "just words." But what makes a difference is what the specific words are and who says them. Entire armies have been moved to against-all-odds victories and whole civilizations have been built on nothing more than words. The reality is that, like it or not, words are what change everything.
On Monday, President Obama issued the following proclamation declaring June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Obama Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans.
LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society. There are many well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and business communities. LGBT Americans also mobilized the Nation to respond to the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic and have played a vital role in broadening this country's response to the HIV pandemic.
Due in no small part to the determination and dedication of the LGBT rights movement, more LGBT Americans are living their lives openly today than ever before. I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration. These individuals embody the best qualities we seek in public servants, and across my Administration -- in both the White House and the Federal agencies -- openly LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism.
The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress, but there is more work to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect.
My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic by both reducing the number of HIV infections and providing care and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS across the United States.
These issues affect not only the LGBT community, but also our entire Nation. As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.
Obama is the first President to ever even acknowledge our transgender brothers and sisters in a national/international speech. That's important.
Thanks to Towelroad.com for the text of the proclamation.
Labels: Barack Obama, DADT, DOMA, GLBT RIGHTS, proclamation
EXCELLENT ARGUMENTS AGAINST BIGOTED LIES & DISTORTIONS
I ran across the following video, titled "Talking Equality," at the Feast Of Fools website. It was posted by FOF member Wesley from California and it's an excellent repudiation of the lies and gross distortions that the fanatic right-wing keeps trying to ram down people's throats.
Take a few minutes and watch this. It's definitely worth your time and it will give you some excellent talking points whenever someone tries to use those idiotic arguments around you.
BTW - I had some trouble getting this mounted so if the video doesn't play, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSTv7Xao93I
Labels: bestiality, bill o'reilly, gay marriage, GLBT, hardball, HRC, Maggie Gallagher, pedophilia, polygamy, religious right, right wing, Same-sex Marriage
COLLEGE PRESIDENT CLAIMS GLBT PROTECTION AN "ACCIDENT"
This has to be one of the most bizarre and disgusting attempts by a college president to take back a GLBT student non-discrimination protection - ever.
It all started when Andrew Doherty, a gay employee of Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, PA who was legally married in Massachusetts, was denied health insurance for his spouse. His union filed a grievance on his behalf referring to the schools own non-discrimination policy that has been published on the school's website as well as in its catalog and student handbook. The statements published in all of the school's materials clearly say that the school will not discriminate against individuals based on their “sexual orientation” and “union membership.”
Well, in response to that grievance, newly appointed President Daniel J. Obara (pictured above) decided that the only way to handle the situation was to declare that the policy was an "accident" and shouldn't have included sexual orientation as a protected class.
The only problem with this absurd claim is that the policy has been used as a recruitment tool and touted as an incentive to join the college staff since it was adopted in 2000 - NINE YEARS AGO!
Obara at first tried to claim that the original policy wasn't supposed to include "sexual orientation" and then accused "the one who is not here anymore" of slipping it in without his "informed approval." But, of course, there's a real problem with those claims as well.
LezGetReal.com has reported that "the one who is not here anymore," who turned out to be the schools now-retired affirmative action officer, Mary Stubbs said that she was not happy about being rolled under the bus and has publicly stated that any revisions to the catalog and website she proposed would have been forwarded for review to the public relations staff and others, including the then vice president for academic affairs and student services - the one, the only - Dr. Daniel Obara.
“I would never take it upon myself to change a statement in the college, and anyone who told you that ought to know better,” Ms Stubbs said. “Of course not — not without having it approved.”
Asked about Stubbs' statement, Obara was forced to admit that the proposed wording change might have crossed his desk and that he may have signed off on it without noticing it.
Give me a break! He's either grossly incompetent or a pathological liar.
Doherty, who has been an employee for nearly five years, said it doesn’t make sense, “why now after nine years? How many institutions do you know that are taking people out of a non-discrimination policy?”
None of this seems to bother Obara though. He's clearly a member of the infamous Reagan/Bush/Cheney/Rove cabal - if history doesn't suit your purposes, well then - just ignore it or rewrite it.
Obara chose to rewrite it and has ordered the IT Department to remove all references to sexual orientation from the college's non-discrimination language, including the college’s Web site and all printed materials. No small undertaking - not a cheap one either. When all is said and done and court costs and legal fees are paid (because he WILL LOSE his case) and all of the materials are rounded up and disposed of and then reprinted and redistributed, it will probably cost the college in the neighborhood of tens of thousands of dollars - at least. This at a time when virtually all educational institutions are already desperately strapped for cash.
Obviously Obara believes that personal ideology is far more important than sound, intelligent and compassionate academic leadership.
I totally agree with Zemanta of LGR:
"You know if I were Mr. Doherty or any other gay facility member or student at Westmoreland County Community College, I’d be telling my attorney... to look into suing the school for false representation… because the original non-discrimination policy was the only reason I came to WCCC in the first place."
This joker has to be one of the biggest bozos in the entire country!
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Labels: Andrew Doherty, Daniel J. Obara, discrimination, employee benefits, nondiscrimination policy, Westmoreland County Community College
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H3188: To eliminate the separate work participation rate requirements for 2-parent families under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families [0 comments]
Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to eliminate the separate work participation rate requirements for two-parent families.
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H2557: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase and extend the alternative motor vehicle credit for certain flexible fuel hybrid vehicles [0 comments]
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify new flexible fuel hybrid motor vehicles for the alternative motor vehicle tax credit through December 31, 2016, subject to a phaseout for vehicles sold after 2011. Defines "new flexible fuel hybrid motor vehicle" as a qualified hybrid motor vehicle which is capable of operating on an alternative fuel, on gasoline, and on any blend thereof, and which is certified by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to have achieved a certain level of city fuel economy using E-85 ethanol fuel.
H834: To provide permanent relief from the marriage penalty under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 [0 comments]
Makes provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 that eliminate the marriage penalty in the standard deduction, the 15-percent tax bracket, and the earned income tax credit, permanent.
H824: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to classify ethanol and biodiesel refining property as 7-year property for purposes of the accelerated cost recovery system [0 comments]
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow accelerated cost recovery (i.e., a seven-year recovery period) for ethanol or biodiesel refining property. Defines "ethanol or biodiesel refining property" as property used to produce biodiesel and property used to produce ethanol other than from petroleum, natural gas, or coal (including lignite).
H793: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the renewable electricity production credit [0 comments]
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for producing electricity from certain renewable resources; and (2) redefine "Indian coal production facility" for purposes of the credit as a facility that produces Indian coal (thus eliminating certain requirements for and limits on the tax credit for electricity produced by such facility).
H244: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income for certain education and training expenses, and for other purposes [0 comments]
Technology Retraining and Investment Now Act for the 21st Century - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50 percent of the information and communications technology education and training program expenses of individuals and employees, up to $4,000 in a taxable year. Increases the allowable amount of such credit to $5,000 for expenses for a program operated: (1) in an empowerment zone, enterprise community, or renewal community; (2) in a school district in which at least 50 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced-cost lunches; (3) in an federally-declared disaster area; (4) in certain rural areas receiving federal assistance; (5) in an Indian tribal jurisdiction; (6) by an employer with 200 or fewer employees during a specified period; or (7) for a disabled individual.
Defines "information technology education and training program expenses" to include: (1) course work; (2) certification testing; (3) apprenticeship programs registered by the Department of Labor; and (4) other expenses essential to assessing skill acquisition.
Redefines "eligible educational institution" to include a commercial information and communications technology training provider.
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H2825: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 326 South Main Street in Princeton, Illinois, as the "Owen Lovejoy Princeton Post Office Building" [0 comments]
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 326 South Main Street in Princeton, Illinois, as the "Owen Lovejoy Princeton Post Office Building."
HR57: Congratulating Illinois State University as it celebrates its sesquicentennial [0 comments]
Congratulates Illinois State University as it celebrates its sesquicentennial.
H243: To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the payment of Combat-Related Special Compensation to members of the Armed Forces retired for disability with less than 20 years of active military service who were awarded the Purple Heart [0 comments]
Authorizes the payment of special compensation to members of the Armed Forces retired due to disability with less than 20 years of active service who were awarded the Purple Heart. States that such payments shall be made without regard to special rules applicable to other disability retirees which require offsetting reductions.
H5688: To provide for a program of targeted extended unemployment compensation, and for other purposes [0 comments]
Provides for federal-state agreements under which a state will make targeted extended unemployment compensation payments, for any week of unemployment beginning in the individual's eligibility period, to individuals who: (1) have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under such state law; (2) have no rights to compensation (including both regular and extended compensation) with respect to a week under such law or any other state or federal unemployment compensation law (and are not paid or entitled to be paid such additional compensation); and (3) are not receiving compensation for such week under the unemployment compensation law of Canada.
Declares that such period of eligibility shall consist of any week which begins between April 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009. Denies eligibility to an individual unless his or her benefit year ends on or after July 1, 2007.
Specifies criteria for Tier-1, Tier-2, and Tier-3 periods of increasing unemployment in a state for purposes of calculating payments under this Act. Prescribes formulas for crediting amounts to recipient accounts for each period.
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ENGBiovalley Investments S.p.A., founded in 2014, on the basis of the consolidated industrial experience of the founder and majority shareholder, focuses the management of its investments on the following long-term objective:
support for the development of micro, small and medium enterprises operating in BioHighTech in the Alpe Adria area and in particular in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. The same Region has, in fact, identified the Smart Health sector as one of the five regional strategies of intelligent specialization (S3-Smart Specialization Strategy). Biovalley Investments S.p.A. has been actively involved since its establishment in the development of this project on behalf of CBM, which has been delegated by the FVG Region to manage the regional cluster in the health sector.
In more detail, Biovalley Investments S.p.A. operates through:
minority participation in the risk capital of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. Each individual investment is decided by the administrative body on the basis of the specific characteristics of the target company and its market. The decision is the result of an overall judgement matured after a careful analysis of the credentials of the company and/or of the entrepreneurs and/or of the management, of the approved budgets, of business plans and/or industrial plans, prospects of the market of the goods/services offered by the company. The cumulative investment of Biovalley Investments S.p.A. in the capital of each individual company is minority even considering the co-investment with other financial partners and / or industrial. The indicative duration of each investment will be 5-7 years; the potential interlocutors for the disposals may be industrial and/or financial subjects, Italian and/or foreign;
stable minority shareholding (0.5%) in the risk capital of TBS Group, even after the takeover bid of the Pantheon Group launched in June 2017 through the vehicle Double 2 Spa. In fact, the Trieste office is expected to become a centre of excellence for the research and development activities of the new integrated group, not only in current biomedical technologies, but also for the new frontier of confluence with IT and ICT. TBS is the largest of the companies belonging to BioHighTech.net. The aim of this network is, in fact, above all to accelerate the growth of businesses by implementing industrial synergies between micro and small businesses (which represent the majority of businesses in the network) and the few medium and / or large regional companies (such as TBS Group);
analysis and structuring of business plans and research projects through the provision of highly professional consulting services and experience in the field of biomedical, bioICT, biotech, or in the biohightech sector;
identification and enhancement of possible synergies with innovative business realities in ICT and in particular in the Internet of Things, also related to traditional industrial sectors operating in health and wellness (well being).
The development plans 2018-2021 of BioValley Investments Spa and BioValley Investments Partner Srl provide for the expansion of partnerships, accompanied by investments that are being defined, including, by way of example, with companies located in:
Business Innovation Center (BIC), known as BIC incubators FVG, which currently houses the headquarters of BioValley Investments, and since 1989 has contributed to the creation of more than 220 high-tech companies that now employ over 2,500 workers. The TBS Group itself took its first steps here more than 30 years ago.
Area Science Park, the science park of Trieste, developed on an area of 23,000 square meters of highly specialized laboratories, which places the interaction between research and industry as a driving factor to ensure development and growth. Many of the economic activities born or developed within this scientific institution have entered into the interests and support of BioValley Investments (Tbs Group, O3, Bilimetrix).
Urban Center, which will be built by the City of Trieste with funds POR-FESR 2014-2020 in corso Cavour 2/2 and intended to accomodate micro, small and medium companies of the BioHighTech sector. A project of 4.5 mln € of which 3 mln € for the establishment of 50 companies involved in the development of IoHT (Internet of health things) in the areas of health, welfare and the environment.
Other science and technology parks in the Alps-Adriatic Area.
Business network: BioHighTech-Net
Biovalley Investments S.p.A. is the lead company of the network of companies called BioHighTech-NET and established in Trieste pursuant to and for the purposes of Article 3, paragraphs 4-ter and following of Law April 9, 2009, no. 33, as amended by art. 42 of Decree Law May 31, 2010, no. 78, converted by Law July 30, 2010, no. 122.
The network of companies is a collaboration agreement between companies that allows, while maintaining its independence, autonomy and speciality, to implement projects and shared objectives with a view to increasing the capacity for innovation and competitiveness in international markets.
The network has already been joined by 37 companies from the FVG and Veneto regions that operate in the BioHighTech sector and/or in the services supporting them.
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Media Underreport Major New Threat to Right to Organize
By David Swanson, ILCA Media Coordinator
Part of the Media Blackout series on underreported labor stories
While illegal violations of the right to organize a union — such as the firing of employees who express support for a union — are routinely underreported by the corporate media, the past 60 days have witnessed the underreporting of a serious new threat to the right to organize, a threat raised by the National Labor Relations Board. Nexis searching finds no mention of this story in broadcast media and only a handful of print articles, most of them misleading.
On June 7, the NLRB ruled, 3-2 along party lines, that it would review the legitimacy of the procedure known as card check. Card check is a procedure under which an employer recognizes a union when presented with signed cards in favor of joining a union from over 50 percent of employees. The main alternative to card check is an election, a process overseen by the NLRB which often drags on for years as the company’s lawyers throw up roadblocks and workers lose interest. Companies hold mandatory anti-union meetings and harass workers during many election campaigns. A survey of 400 NLRB election campaigns in the late 1990s found that 36 percent of workers who vote against union representation credit employer pressure with determining their vote. http://www.ustdrc.gov/research/bronfenbrenner.pdf
Card check has been legal since 1935, and the NLRB has repeatedly ruled it so. Card check was once the standard procedure for forming a union and has been relied on increasingly in recent years as the election process that worked fairly well in the 1950s and 1960s has become less of a real alternative, and as formal complaints of discrimination against workers who favor a union have risen to over 10,000 per year. Surveys have found that 42 million employees who are not represented by a union would like to have representation at work. Were the NLRB to rule card check illegal, the right to organize would effectively cease to exist for millions more in America. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020624&s=rogers&c=1
That the right to organize has come under a major new threat ought, in and of itself, to be a major story in the media. But this story is also closely connected to the current presidential campaign, itself the biggest media story at the moment. If the NLRB does not rule on this question before the next presidential term, the outcome of the election could determine the ruling. Senator John Kerry, if elected, would appoint new members to the NLRB. Kerry, during the past 60 days, has visited worksites and written to CEOs in support of card check. On July 16, the day after various parties filed briefs with the NLRB on this matter, hearings were held by a U.S. Senate subcommittee on a bill cosponsored by Kerry called the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would require recognition of a union following submission of cards from over 50 percent of workers. Currently recognition of a union through card check is at the employer’s discretion. Senate subcommittee testimony: http://ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=311
The EFCA was introduced last November by Senator Edward Kennedy and Representative George Miller. It would also provide that either an employer or a union could refer a first-contract negotiation to mediation by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. It would also impose stronger penalties for discrimination against an employee in response to the employee’s organizing efforts.
A Republican bill has also been introduced, one that would eliminate the use of card check. None of this activity is receiving significant media coverage.
While a Nexis search for “Catherine Zeta-Jones” turns up 957 articles during the past 30 days, a search for NLRB and “card check” turns up 55 articles during the past 60 days. Of these, many address particular union organizing drives rather than the NLRB’s general review of card check, several are letters to editors, and several more are repeats of the same articles. The unique articles squarely addressing the issue are few and generally very short in length. This search found no articles at all from most major newspapers, and short articles on inside pages of business sections from a handful of others. While this search found nothing from the New York Times, the Times on July 4 did mention Kerry’s support for card check (without mentioning the NLRB) deep in an article claiming that the U.S. economy is doing well and that Kerry’s health care plan is expensive.
The good news is that both the Associated Press and Reuters produced articles on the NLRB’s decision. The AP article in particular left much to be desired. The lead referred to this as a “case that could force unions to abandon recruiting strategies that allow them to bypass elections in the workplace.” The third sentence read: “The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is representing the dissatisfied workers who complained they were unionized despite their opposition.” A couple of sentences down, the union viewpoint was included in the form of a quote from “David Bonior, chairman of American Rights at Work, a new union-supported advocacy group.” No mention was ever made, in this or any other articles found by Nexis, of who supports the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. A search at MediaTransparency.org shows that the NRTWLDF has received $1,785,000 from the John M. Olin Foundation Inc., a foundation that grew out of a family business manufacturing chemicals and munitions. NRTWLDF has also received $155,000 from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, $35,000 from the Castle Rock Foundation (itself funded by the Adolph Coors Foundation), $25,000 from the Jacqueline Hume Foundation, and $9,500 from the Roe Foundation. One has to wonder why a group that sells itself as fighting for the little guy needs all this money from very big guys.
Bonior’s quote in the AP article was immediately followed by this: “Critics say that the voluntary recognition method allows union organizers to bully workers into signing union authorization cards because companies often grant unlimited access to the workplace.” The critics weren’t identified, but the next and final sentence in the article gives a clue: “‘Employees should be allowed to decide for themselves whether to unionize free of union and employer coercion,’ said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation.” This claim was included despite extensive documentation of employer coercion in the NLRB election process, documentation easily available from the website of Bonior’s group at http://www.americanrightsatwork.org That companies during election drives often do not grant union organizers access to the workplace was not mentioned in the article.
The Reuters article showed up in Nexis as only four sentences, but can be found at CommonDreams.org in a version three times as long. CommonDreams used the headline “Labor Board Ruling Threatens Union Recruiting,” but the Houston Chronicle used “Federal Labor Board Looks Askance at Union Technique,” and stuck the article inside the Business section. The lead read: “A recent decision by federal labor relations overseers jeopardizes a recruiting strategy that unions have used with increasing success to try to stem their declining memberships.” The article presented the issue succinctly and included two quotes from the AFL-CIO. Of course, readers of the Houston Chronicle missed most of that.
The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press provided perhaps the most extensive coverage of any papers, each running an article on the NLRB decision and mentioning it in other articles. The Detroit News ran an article that addressed the issue as if it applied only to the UAW, the union involved in one of the cases under review. The first opinion expressed in the article was: “Critics say workers often are coerced into signing cards and secret ballot elections are a fairer way to determine whether union representation is desired.” The article later quoted the President of the UAW, but referred to him as “lashing out at the decision.” The same article contained quotes from several named sources opposing card check, but only that one in support of it. To its credit, the News later ran a column by the UAW President. But it also ran an editorial — also carried by Copley News service — that began: “Workers should have the right to union representation. But they should also have the right to an election with a secret ballot to make that decision.”
The Free Press began an article with admirable clarity: “The National Labor Relations Board sent a strong signal this week what a second term for President George W. Bush in the White House might look like. In what could be a blow to the United Auto Workers and other unions, the Republican-majority NLRB said it would decide whether to curtail a union’s ability to organize workers though a simplified process known as neutrality and card-check agreements.” But this article presented anti-card check opinions before any in favor. This makes a difference: the version of this article printed by the Richmond Times Dispatch did not include the pro-card check opinion.
The Chicago Tribune was the largest newspaper to report the story, and it began its explanation of card check this way: “The so-called card-check process has become popular among unions as they have sought ways to avoid the regular secret ballot system carried out by the NLRB.” The Tribune included opinions from the AFL-CIO and the two dissenting NLRB members. The Toledo Blade and the Cleveland Plain Dealer also ran articles. And the Fort Wayne News Sentinel published a paragraph.
A column by Robert Novak addressed this topic, and it showed up in Nexis from the Augusta Chronicle, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Novak turned reality upside-down and claimed that “Both Kerry and Edwards have joined Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in urging the National Labor Relations Board to adopt card check instead of secret ballots.” The reader would never guess that what is under consideration by the NLRB is the elimination of card check, a procedure that has been legal for almost 70 years. Novak described card check by making use of the same unnamed “critics” the Associated Press and the Detroit News had used: “Critics say that method results in coercion of workers by union organizers.”
The Chattanooga Times Free Press added an editorial for good measure that began: “Workers at a given company are entitled to form or not to form a union. But it is common sense that if they vote on unionizing, it should be by secret ballot. That would reduce undue pressure either by management or by union backers to vote one way or the other. Sadly, what is obviously the right method is not always used.”
Nexis found no editorials in support of keeping card check legal. Remarkably, Nexis does include 563 articles from the past 60 days mentioning the “liberal media.”
The only in depth reporting found by Nexis, the only articles long enough and clear enough to give a newcomer a good understanding of the card check issue, were from Business Week, which ran one article on the NLRB’s decision and another on the UAW’s use of card check.
To claim that the media’s treatment of the card check story is inadequate and unfair only makes sense if we are talking about the corporate media. The Nexis search also found an article from In These Times magazine that discussed the NLRB decision, the Employee Free Choice Act, and the positions of Kerry and Bush toward union organizing. And the independent media outlets not carried by Nexis have done a fine job. Stories can be found in a Google search from Workday Minnesota, the New Standard, Workers World, Oped News, People’s Weekly World, and many others, including the view from the right in Insight on the News, which ran a column by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Press Associates Incorporated (a news service used by many labor papers) published an article on the ILCA website: http://ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=76 and the ILCA also posted a column from the Center for American Progress: http://ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=100
David Swanson is Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) at http://ILCAonline.org
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Lynne Abbes
Alias: Mrs M.G.Rolley
She grew up in Orinda and started to play tennis at the age of 9 at Orinda Country Club. Lynne remembers playing in national tournaments since she was 10, and ranked in the top ten as a junior player in the USTA.
Lynne is a certified PTR and USPTA Elite Pro 1, member of the ITF International Coaches Commission.
In August 1970, she was named to coach the all-male tennis team at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California. This was the first time a woman was named to coach a men’s NCAA team. She was also hired as coach of the Oakland Aces, a World Team Tennis franchise owned by the Oakland A’s. She also served as Director of Women’s Tennis for the USTA for 16 years.
An aggressive player known for her powerful serve, Abbes retired young in 1968 before the pro tennis era, gaining more renown as a coach.
With over 40 years of teaching and coaching expertise at every level, Lynne has been Director of Tennis at Berkeley Tennis Club, Sleepy Hollow Tennis Club and Moraga Country Club; Director of Women’s Tennis for the United States; coached the Fed Cup, Pan Am Games and National Teams; and was named PTR National Coach of the year. Most recently, she served as the Director of Tennis at La Quinta Resort and PGA WEST, consistently ranked one of the top tennis resorts in the United States.
Currently she is serving as the new director of tennis (since June 1, 2018) for Meadow Swim and Tennis Club.
She is a renowned speaker and writer for Tennis magazine as well as many other publications; Lynne also appeared on the Tennis Channel with her own academy show. Lynne is a Lamorinda native and looks forward to moving back to our community.
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Roy Herburger
City of Elk Grove » City Hall » City Government » City Council » Key to the City » Recipients » Roy Herburger
Roy Herburger has played an integral role in Elk Grove’s political landscape for fifty-six years. Born in Cambridge, Nebraska and raised in Stratton, Colorado, Roy inherited an interest in the newspaper business by working with his mom and dad – owners of the Stratton Press. A graduate from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Roy’s reporting career was put on hold to serve as a navigator, First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force during the late Korean era. In March 1959, he purchased the Elk Grove Citizen and Galt Herald and settled in the south county area. A resident of Elk Grove for over 58 years, Roy has four children, Elizabeth, David, Leah and Vanessa. As Owner, President and Publisher of Herburger Publications, Inc., Roy has reported the comings and goings in the Elk Grove area for five decades – at times being as much a part of the news as being the news reporter. His commitment to many community issues including education, incorporation, and the environment have earned him the respect and recognition of local, regional, and statewide organizations including a park and school named in his honor. His awards are too many to list here, but they are numerous including the California State Fair Star from the Future Farmers of America, and Citizen of the Year for both the cities of Galt and Elk Grove. His commitment to local business is well known. He is a former President of the Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce and the founder of the local Think, Shop, Live Elk Grove campaign. Roy remains closely connected with the Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce and he was nominated for this honor by its Executive Director, Angela Perry. Please join me in extending a most sincere congratulations to our friend, Roy Herburger.
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Downtown Eye Care | The Contact Lens Department
Downtown Eye Care & The Contact Lens Department
We are an ocular health-centred office that has been servicing patients for over 40 years. We offer routine and emergency eye care, and contact lens fittings. Our office is situated adjacent to Downtown Ophthalmologists, which offers our patients an efficient and streamlined connection between professions.
Our goal is to provide you with quality, personalized eye care to maximize your vision and protect your ocular health throughout all stages of life. As your advocate, we will be an active member of your healthcare team to ensure continuity of care.
We strive to communicate effectively and develop a shared understanding of your eye care needs and treatment goals. Your visual welfare is at the core of our practice, and you can expect our guidance during your time with us.
Historically, the Contact Lens Department has successfully managed a wide range of visual challenges such as keratoconus and high prescriptions with both conventional and complex specialty contact lenses. Gordon Taylor and Dr. Neil Haney have merged the Contact Lens Department with Downtown Eye Care to expand its scope of eye care.
We are privileged to receive referrals from Montreal, Kingston, Ottawa, and beyond. Both Dr. Haney and Mr. Taylor enjoy fitting complex, custom contact lenses, which include specialty soft contact lenses, rigid gas permeable lenses, hybrid lenses (Duette®, SynergEyes®, UltraHealth®), and scleral lenses (Onefit 2.0®, Onefit MED®, Zenlens®, ZenRC®).
Dr. Neil Haney
Dr. Neil Haney spent his early years in Le Pas and Morden, Manitoba before attending high school in Winnipeg. He received his degrees in Biochemistry and Honours Biology from the University of Winnipeg in 2001. Dr. Haney then studied and worked at CancerCare Manitoba and the Institute of Cell Biology, where his research included the study of genetic malformations of the eye during early development.
Dr. Haney received his Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Waterloo in 2008. He completed his Ocular Therapeutics externship at the Parkland State Hospital in Dallas, Texas and gained clinical experience working at full-scope private practices in Calgary and Victoria prior to graduation.
Since then, Dr. Haney has worked with both Ophthalmologists and Opticians to expand his clinical experience with the full scope of patient-centred eye care. He is an active member of the Canadian and Ontario Associations of Optometrists, as well as the Ottawa Society of Optometrists. Dr. Haney has a particular interest in specialty contact lenses.
He loves to travel, and spent a year teaching English in Hiroshima, Japan. Dr. Haney plays recreational soccer throughout the year, so if you run into him at a Footy-Sevens game, be sure to say hi!
Gordon Taylor
Gordon Taylor grew up in Pembroke, the son of an optometrist and a public school music teacher. He attended the University of Waterloo, and then completed his Opticians course. Gord returned to Ottawa and worked for Derouin Opticians for six years, where he developed a keen interest in the new and emerging contact lens technology of the 1970’s.
He caught the attention of Bausch + Lomb, who invited him to join them as the Eastern Ontario sales representative. This allowed Gord to develop lasting relationships with ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians in Ottawa, east to Cornwall, west to Lindsay and north to Pembroke.
Gord has had the privilege of speaking at many conventions during his career, slotted between fishing trips and the occasional world adventure (Greece, Brazil, Italy, and best of all, the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia). Gord also took his private pilot’s license, and belongs to a members-only fish camp in Quebec. (Ask him where, he’ll tell you!)
Gord is slowing down now, but still skis regularly at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks and summers at L’Isle-aux-Allumettes with his wife Rosemary, the kids, and now the grandkids. Gord can still be seen in the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays - come say hi if you’re in the area!
Dr. Connie Chen
Originally from Montreal, Dr. Connie Chen grew up in Whitby, Ontario and moved to the beautiful Ottawa area in 2008. She received her degrees in Biomedical Sciences and Optometry from the University of Waterloo in 2008, graduating on the Dean’s Honours List. During her summers, Dr. Chen had the privilege of working in the research labs of Dr. Joan Wither at Toronto Western Hospital and Dr. Sean Egan at The Hospital for Sick Children.
In 2007, she completed her Ocular Therapeutics externship at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma. At graduation, Dr. Chen was awarded an Alcon Continuing Professional Education Award, the A.W. Cole Award for Clinical Excellence, and Second Prize of the Advanced Medical Optics General Proficiency Awards.
She is an active member of the Canadian and Ontario Associations of Optometrists, as well as the Ottawa Society of Optometrists.
Dr. Chen has a musical background in piano and violin, and holds an ARCT Performers diploma. She has one young son, whose song requests have challenged her to recall her once-impressive repertoire of Disney and musical theatre numbers. During her spare time, she is an avid reader with triple-stacked bookshelves. (The book was better.)
350 Sparks Street, Suite 216
K1R 7S8
Email: info@downtowneyecare.ca
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Home Board of Trustees Minutes Board of Trustees minutes, 2002 Nov. 22 (Executive Session)
Board of Trustees minutes, 2002 Nov. 22 (Executive Session)
C-l-a (pm) (BT 12/14/02)
EXECUTIVE SESSION, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TRUSTEES OF
Purdue Memorial Union November 22, 2002
The Board of Trustees of The Trustees of Purdue University convened in Executive Session in Room 306, Purdue Memorial Union Building, West Lafayette campus, at 12:45 p.m., Friday, November 22, 2002, pursuant to the following notice mailed to each member of the Board by the Secretary on October 28, 2002.
Pursuant to call of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, there will be an executive session of the Board of Trustees of The Trustees of Purdue University convening at 12:30 p.m., Friday, November 22, 2002, Room 306, Purdue Memorial Union Building, West Lafayette campus, for discussion of pending or threatened litigation, to receive information concerning, and to discuss, the status of employees or other persons within the Board's jurisdiction, to discuss evaluation of individual employees and other matters as specified in and permitted by Section 6(a) of Public Law No. 57 of the 1977 Acts of the Indiana General Assembly (IC5-14-1.5-6[b]).
Vice Chairman Townsend called the meeting to order. The following members of the Board were present as follows: J. Timothy McGinley, chairman, Michael J. Birck, Anna C. Dilger, Barbara H. Edmondson, John A. Edwardson, Lewis W. Essex, John D. Hardin, Jr., Mamon M. Powers, Jr. and W. Wayne Townsend. The absence of Trustee Moreau was approved by consent of the Board.
The Trustees discussed a variety of personnel items.
Pursuant to IC 5-14-1.5-6.1(b), it is hereby certified that the Board discussed no subject matter in the Executive Session other than the subjects set forth above and deferred formal action to the public session of the Board.
Purdue Identification Number BOTM20021122ES
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Transcript C-l-a (pm) (BT 12/14/02) EXECUTIVE SESSION, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY Room 306 Purdue Memorial Union November 22, 2002 The Board of Trustees of The Trustees of Purdue University convened in Executive Session in Room 306, Purdue Memorial Union Building, West Lafayette campus, at 12:45 p.m., Friday, November 22, 2002, pursuant to the following notice mailed to each member of the Board by the Secretary on October 28, 2002. Pursuant to call of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, there will be an executive session of the Board of Trustees of The Trustees of Purdue University convening at 12:30 p.m., Friday, November 22, 2002, Room 306, Purdue Memorial Union Building, West Lafayette campus, for discussion of pending or threatened litigation, to receive information concerning, and to discuss, the status of employees or other persons within the Board's jurisdiction, to discuss evaluation of individual employees and other matters as specified in and permitted by Section 6(a) of Public Law No. 57 of the 1977 Acts of the Indiana General Assembly (IC5-14-1.5-6[b]). Vice Chairman Townsend called the meeting to order. The following members of the Board were present as follows: J. Timothy McGinley, chairman, Michael J. Birck, Anna C. Dilger, Barbara H. Edmondson, John A. Edwardson, Lewis W. Essex, John D. Hardin, Jr., Mamon M. Powers, Jr. and W. Wayne Townsend. The absence of Trustee Moreau was approved by consent of the Board. The Trustees discussed a variety of personnel items. Pursuant to IC 5-14-1.5-6.1(b), it is hereby certified that the Board discussed no subject matter in the Executive Session other than the subjects set forth above and deferred formal action to the public session of the Board.
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About M.E./M.Tech Program
A Master of Engineering or Master of Technology or Master of Science in Engineering, can be either an academic or professional master's degree in the field of engineering.
In some countries, the degree is awarded following completion of a curriculum which is career oriented, emphasizing practice as opposed to theory.
Course details in different countries
M.Tech Program in India
M.Tech Program in Australia
M.Tech Program in Canada
M.Tech Program in United Kingdom
M.Tech Program in United States
M.Tech Program in France
M.Tech Program in Germany
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M.Tech in India
In India, a Master of Engineering or Master of Technology or Master of Science in Engineering degree is a postgraduate program in engineering or technology field. This is generally a 2-year (2.5years for MSc Engg ) specialization program in a specific branch of engineering or a technical field. Students typically enter the ME/MTech/MSc Engg/Msc.(Tech) programs after completing a 4-year undergraduate program in engineering resulting in the award of a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology degree, or a 5-year program in Science or Applied Sciences resulting in the award of a Master of Science degree.
The ME/MTech/MSc Engg programs in India are usually structured as an Engineering Research degree, lesser than Ph.D and considered to be parallel to M.Phil. and M.S. degrees in Humanities and Science respectively. MTech and MSc Engg programs in India were started by some well known institutions with the aim of producing Research Engineers who can also get the position of "Technologist" in the Industries and Research Institutes. In electrical engineering, for example, areas of specialization might include: power systems, energy engineering, electrical machines, instrumentation and control, high voltage or power electronics, telecommunications, communication networks, signal processing, microelectronics.
[See the list of all available M.E/M.Tech courses in India]
M.Tech in Australia
In Australia, the Master of Engineering degree is a research degree requiring completion of a thesis. Like the Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), it is considered a lesser degree than Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). It is not to be confused with Master of Engineering Science or Master of Engineering Studies which are coursework master's degrees. Exceptions are Monash University which awards a Master of Engineering Science by either research or coursework, the University of Melbourne which offers a Master of Engineering by coursework, and the University of Tasmania which offer a Master of Engineering Science by research.
The University of Melbourne accepted the first intake of Master of Engineering students in February 2010. The coursework Master of Engineering is offered in 11 specializations, and accepts graduates with three-year degrees in Science and Maths.
The entry requirement is completion of a Bachelor's Degree at or above the second class honours level. Some universities do not offer direct enrollment into Doctor of Philosophy and students must first enroll in a lesser research degree before "upgrading".
[See the list of all available M.E/M.Tech courses in Australia]
M.Tech in Canada
In Canada, the Master of Engineering degree is a graduate degree of typically two years length that involves coursework and a thesis or research paper of significant depth. Entrance to a MEng degree is a 4 year bachelor engineering degree. Some Canadian universities offer a Master of Engineering, or either a Master of Science or Master of Applied Science in engineering, or both. Master of Engineering degrees usually require more coursework and examination and less research, whereas Master of Applied Science degrees require less coursework and more research. However, this is not absolute since some universities only offer a Master of Engineering and some only offer a Master of Science or Master of Applied Science. Some universities differentiate only by the requirement to be resident and therefore assist in teaching/tutoring for a Master of Science Degree.
[See the list of all available M.E/M.Tech courses in Canada]
M.Tech in United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom the MEng degree is the normative university-level qualification taken by people wishing to become chartered engineers registered with ECUK. The MEng degree represents the minimum educational standard required to become a chartered engineer, but there are other equally satisfactory ways to demonstrate this standard such as the completion of a BEng Honours and a subsequent postgraduate diploma or MSc, or by completion of the Engineering Council Postgraduate Diploma.
ECUK's minimum requirement for entry to a recognised MEng course is BBB at A-level, compared to CCC for a BEng Honours course. Universities are free to set higher entry requirements if they wish. Some universities, such as Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial only admit students to study for the MEng degree. (Their courses usually allow a student to leave with a Bachelor's degree after three years, but these shortened degrees are not ECUK-recognised and therefore do not count towards the educational requirements for becoming a chartered engineer.) Other universities, such as the University of Greenwich, University of Surrey and Brunel University, admit students to read for BEng Honours and MEng courses and allow students to change between the two during the early years of the course. The Open University offers the MEng degree as a postgraduate qualification but requires students to complete its course within four years of completing a BEng Honours degree.
The Master of Engineering (MEng) is the highest award for undergraduate studies in engineering. In England, Northern Ireland and Wales this is a four-year course or a 'sandwich' five-year course (with one year spent working in industry). In Scotland, it is a five-year course. The Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) is usually a three-year course (four in Scotland), or can also include a year in industry. Many universities offer the BEng, and may then allow a transfer onto the MEng. The Engineering Council Graduate Diploma is set at the same level as the final year of a British BEng and its Postgraduate Diploma is set at the same level as the final year of a British MEng. The Graduateship in engineering, awarded by the City & Guilds of London Institute (Institution Established in 1878 recognized by Royal Charter n.117 year 1900), is mapped to a British Bachelor of Engineering(Honours) -BEng(Honours)-degree. The Post Graduate Diploma is mapped to a British Master of Engineering (MEng) degree. The Membership in Engineering (MCGI)(NQF at Level 7) is a strategic Management/Chartered professional level and a Post Graduate Diploma, mapped to a British Master's degree, awarded by the City & Guilds of London Institute. This will be supported by a minimum of ten years of seasoned experience (peer reviewed) in areas as the Engineering + a British Bachelor/Graduateship (or by CEng).
Engineers who have been awarded a BEng(Ordinary) or BEng(Honours) and have appropriate training and experience in the work place are able to apply to become an Incorporated Engineer(IEng). If an engineer has studied beyond the BEng for an MSc or has an MEng, they may apply to become a Chartered Engineer (CEng), once they have completed the required amount of post graduate work-based competency training and experience. Competency and training requirements are met over a period of 4–8 years in practice for a total of 8–12 years education, training and professional responsibility. Formal structured post graduate training schemes such as the monitored professional development IMechE enable the Engineer in training to satisfy the requirements for Chartered Engineer faster.
Chartered Engineer and Incorporated Engineer titles awarded by the Engineering Council UK, are broadly equivalent to North American Professional Engineer (PEng / PE) and Professional Technologist (PTech) designations, but with often a far greater geographical recognition.
[See the list of all available M.E/M.Tech courses in UK]
M.Tech in United States
In the United States, the Master of Engineering degree is generally a professional degree offered as a coursework-based alternative to the traditional research-based Master of Science. It is typically a two-year program, entered after the completion of a 4 year Bachelor degree and many universities allow students to choose between the Master of Engineering and the Master of Science. The Master of Engineering degree is offered at many leading universities in the United States and is considered a terminal degree in the field of engineering.
Some M.Eng. degree programs require a scholarly project in addition to coursework. Some Master of Engineering programs require additional courses beyond those required for Master of Science students in order to better prepare students for professional careers. These courses may include topics such as business fundamentals, management and leadership.
[See the list of all available M.E/M.Tech courses in US]
M.Tech in France
In France, two diploma exist for 5 years of study in the field of engineering: the "Master's diploma in Engineering" (diplôme de master en sciences de l'ingénieur) which is usually delivered by Universities, and the Engineer's degree ("diplôme d'ingénieur") which can only be delivered by some Engineering schools, very selective schools which are generally smaller than universities. Both diplomas are at master's degree level.
The "diplome d'ingénieur" usually prepare students for professional careers. Courses always include management, economy or more generally transverse courses. Training periods in industry or in laboratories are also required.
The master in Engineering offers a more focused approach on a field of engineering. A PhD program can be joined by acquiring a master in Engineering or a "Diplôme d'Ingénieur".
[See the list of all available M.E/M.Tech courses in France]
M.Tech in Germany
In Germany, the local engineer's degree (Diplomingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.), a first degree after 5 years of study) was abolished in 2010, and be replaced by postgraduate master's degrees (M.Sc. and M.Eng.).
The first Master of Engineering courses were introduced in Germany in 2000 as result of the Bologna process. This type of master's degree is offered by German Fachhochschulen (Universities of Applied Sciences) universities and is typically a two-year program with application-oriented coursework and an applied research thesis. The entry requirement is the successful completion of aBachelor's Degree, or an equivalent from before the Bologna process, with good marks.
[See the list of all available M.E/M.Tech courses in Germany]
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General Douglas H. Cooper
General Cooper was appointed as the U.S. agent to the Choctaws in 1853 and to the Chickasaws in 1856. He consolidated the two agencies and moved them to Fort Washita. When the Civil War began, Cooper's friend, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, appointed him Choctaw-Chickasaw agent for the Confederacy. As commander of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Confederate mounted riflemen, he saw much action. He later was promoted to commander of the Indian Territory Military District, C.S.A., and was named Superintendent of Indian Affairs by President Davis. He died at Fort Washita in 1879 and is buried in an unmarked grave. **
Located on OK-199, 13 miles east of Madill in Fort Washita Cemetery **
** Information and directions from Oklahoma Historical Society
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