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R. Kelly Arrested On Sex Crimes Charges
American authorities have arrested R. Kelly and slammed 13 counts of sex crimes and obstruction of justice on him, media reports said.
The Associated Press reported that the famous R&B singer was taken into custody at about 7:00 p.m. local time in Chicago. He had previously been facing charges of sexual abuse by state authorities in Illinois.
Joseph Fitzpatrick, a spokesperson for the United States Attorney’s Office, said R. Kelly was arrested after being indicted on Thursday in a federal court for the Northern District of Illinois.
“The counts include child porn, enticement of a minor and obstruction of justice,” Mr Fitzpatrick said according to the AP, adding that further details would be released Friday.
The arrest came a few months after R. Kelly, 52, was charged in February on 10 counts of sex crimes involving four women, three of whom were minors when the alleged abuse occurred.
R. Kelly, whose real name is Robert Kelly, pleaded not guilty to those charges and was released on bail. It was not immediately clear when he would be arraigned in court for the latest charges.
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Thrash Metal band, Havok, releases new album
Posted on March 28, 2017 by SLV Claw
March 2017 is a busy month for music, especially Denver Thrash Metal band, Havok.
Havok, formed in 2005, released their first album in 2009, with subsequent albums released in 2011, and 2013. Havok, despite close inspiration from bands such as Anthrax, Megadeth, and D.R.I., retains a unique identity, mixing the iconic sound of ‘80s Thrash Metal with 21st century production technology, and well-crafted concept albums, tackling topics such as war’s impact on the psyche of its survivors, suicide and depression, imprisonment, and, with their 2013 album called Unnatural Selection, the United States in the 21st century. With track names like I am the State, and Under the Gun, it was immediately clear that Havok had something to say about the current state of America. [“I find it hard to believe ‘some things are better left unsaid’. Is this the land of the free? Democracy is dead.”] The album, while not as much of a critical hit as 2011’s Time is Up, was still successful, and a widely respected album, leaving Havok’s fans salivating for more, predicting the two-years-one-album pattern to continue, delivering another album for them in 2015.
But as ‘15, came, and went, Havok’s biennial-album streak was broken, and some fans began to fear for the worst. What was the hold-up? Creative stagnation? Hostility within the band? Did they sell out?! Even worse, in August 2016, the band underwent a major management contract dispute, resulting in their ejection from a major tour with Megadeth. Fans were getting worried, until December 20th when the band announced their next album, Conformicide.
On March 10th, the album was released, to excellent critical reception. The album opens with a 60-second unplugged intro, before the drums kick in, and the album is in full swing before you can say “Wait a second!”. Listening to it for the first time, the very first thing that caught my attention was the production quality. It sounds amazing. I cannot remember the last time that I could hear the vibrations of a guitar’s strings jumping back into place after being plucked, but Conformicide does just that. It holds its top-notch quality throughout the album.
The bass has a much greater presence than most albums, and this bass is given plenty of chances to shine, the hip-hop beat inspired bass riff of F.P.C. being a prime example. That said, the bass is not the only versatile aspect of the playing, as the drumming is completely unique for every song. It is the versatility of the instruments that produces its distinctly ‘wonky’ sound; a mix of unconventional bass-emphasis, contrast between the razor-precision of the lead guitar, and the ‘wobbly’ tuning of the rhythm guitar, and the raw atmosphere of the album unforgettable, without any styling-overhauls.
Where the album starts to lose me a little bit is the vocals. The singer, David Sanchez, has a distinctly scratchy voice, that he utilizes in different ways. Sometimes, the gruffness enhances the atmosphere of unrelenting aggression perfectly. Other times, it degrades to nails-on-a-chalkboard screamo, completely ruining otherwise good songs. This issue afflicts the album on a track-to-track basis, so I have found myself shunning the tracks that decay into a mess of screeching and 300 BPM solos, without letting them detract from the tracks that hit the perfect sweet-spot between speed and melody. I do not think that this album will win-over naysayers of metal, and there will be people who complain that it is ‘not fast enough,’ but I recommend a listen for anyone whose interest was piqued by this article. Just remember to skip over a track if it overwhelms your senses. One listener’s pleasure is another’s pain, and this album is about picking and choosing which songs you ‘feel.’
Written by Jonathon Rose
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Six graphs showing the state of the UK economy a year after Brexit referendum
June 22, 2017 5.53am EDT • Updated June 23, 2017 7.33am EDT
Agelos Delis, Aston University
Agelos Delis
Lecturer in Economics, Aston University
Agelos Delis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Aston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK.
What’s happened a year on? via shutterstock.com
It has been a year since British voters went to the polls and voted by a narrow margin to leave the European Union. The Brexit referendum triggered a heated debate about the potential economic effects of Brexit. But what has actually happened to the UK economy in the year since the Brexit vote? These six graphs help explain.
Overall, the UK economy performed relatively well in terms of GDP growth during the second half of 2016 following the referendum. However, more recently there have been indications of a slowdown in economic activity in the UK.
The pound
The British currency was one of the economic variables that was most affected by the decision of the British electorate to leave the EU. Sterling has depreciated by a significant amount, around 15%, since last year as international markets reacted to the announcement of Brexit. A standard explanation is that markets expect lower volumes for future UK-EU international trade and also that longer term projections for future UK growth could be revised downwards.
The depreciation of the pound has contributed to a significant rise in the price of imports into the UK. British consumers are now having to pay a much higher price for foreign products. As a result, inflation increased from 0.5% in June 2016 to 1% in September and 2.9% in May 2017, the highest in four years. This is likely to affect both businesses that import products, and consumers.
The rise in inflation also raises challenging questions for members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which sets UK interest rates, and has a target to keep inflation below 2%. The MPC could tighten monetary policy by raising interest rates in order to reduce inflation, but this will probably hurt households and potentially GDP growth. Alternatively, it could decide to ignore inflation for the moment and lower interest rates even further. Or do nothing. In June 2017, members of the MPC remained divided over whether it is the right time to raise interest rates.
Average earnings
In the labour market, the most notable change has been a drop in real weekly earnings since the end of 2016. Average weekly wages (excluding bonuses) fell from £461 in June 2016 to £459 in December 2016 and £458 in April 2017. This is the result of weak nominal wage growth (closely related to the UK’s productivity puzzle), combined with the steady rise of inflation. Real wages have fallen in the UK and people are beginning to feel the pinch.
Household savings
The drop in average earnings could have serious consequences for future UK GDP growth. This is both because household savings have steadily depleted in recent years, and recent UK GDP growth was driven by consumer spending. If consumers have less in their pay packet each month, the economy could slow further.
The households savings ratio attempts to present a picture of how much money households save as part of their income. When the savings ratio is very small, it implies that households have fewer savings relative to their disposable income. In 2016, the ratio was at 5.2%, its lowest level since records began in 1963.
One potential positive effect of the pound’s devaluation could have been an improvement in the UK’s trade balance – but that has not yet materialised. Standard economic theory predicts that currency devaluation will reduce a country’s imports (which become relatively more expensive), increase exports (relatively cheaper) and so improve the trade balance.
The UK’s trade deficit was around £30 billion at the time of the referendum in June 2016. Since then, although exports have risen by 12%, imports have risen at the slightly faster pace of 12.7%. As a result, the UK’s trade deficit had worsened to £35 billion by the end of March 2017.
A trade deficit is not a problem per se, but a devaluation could have brought a sizeable increase in the export sector and helped to boost employment and wages. There are a number of reasons for why this did not happen, with one being that UK exporters have not reduced the prices of goods sold abroad in foreign currency, and so just increased their profits per unit sold.
The UK economy performed relatively well until the end of 2016, but there are signs that 2017 is going to be a challenging year. There is some evidence – although early – that the economy is slowing down. Bloomberg’s Brexit Barometer, an index tracking the impact of Brexit on the economy, has fallen in recent months, but does not put the economy in a “worse state” than before the referendum.
Of particular interest is going to be how households will react to the rise of inflation and the erosion of their real income given that their savings are at historically low levels. And don’t forget the increasing uncertainty that Brexit negotiations and tactics will bring to the economies of both the UK and EU.
Correction: The graph regarding trade balance has been updated with corrected figures. The accompanying text originally stated that the UK trade deficit was around £175 billion at the time of the referendum, and had worsened to £197 billion at the end of March 2017. This has been corrected to £30 billion and £35 billion respectively.
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Still ‘bitter and bloody’: How George Hall’s namesake continues to silence voters
Posted on Oct 11 2018 - 5:50am by Isabel Spafford
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Sandwiched between paragraphs outlining James Zachariah George’s biography, the George Hall contextualization plaque says, “George was most responsible for crafting the ‘Mississippi Plan,’ a program of voter intimidation, violent repression and riot aimed at returning his state to white Democratic rule.”
The plaque goes on to say this repression was “bitter and bloody,” and that the constitution of 1890, spearheaded by George, “effectively reduced the number of qualified black Mississippi voters from 147,205 to 8,615.”
Contextualization Plaque Outside George Hall. October 8, 2018. Photo by Mckenzie Richmond
These facts are true and important. But they are not sufficient.
Taken on its own, keeping people from voting does not seem that brutal. Many of us choose not to vote, despite having the right. George claimed black suffrage was dangerous to black and white Mississippians alike.
This type of revisionist history, making voter suppression seem benevolent, is overwhelming.
“Mississippi History,” a 1930s textbook, gives an account of the 1875 election so outrageous that it would be comical if it weren’t so disturbing.
According to this book, the “native white citizens” wanted to choose a legislature that would represent them, but a “negro militia” kept them from the polls. The Ku Klux Klan was sent out to “permit an honest election.”
In reality, George’s Mississippi Plan was designed to intimidate black voters. White democrats flooded polling places in 1875, threatening and attacking black voters if they persisted in attempting to vote.
“They said they would carry the county or kill every n—er. They would carry it if they had to wade in blood,” said J.L. Edmonds, a black school teacher in Clay County who watched as many of his fellow voters were shot and killed in 1875.
Voter suppression was not a bureaucratic inconvenience; it was a campaign of terror designed to prevent the black population — 55 percent of Mississippi’s population in 1875 — from jeopardizing white domination.
In the state constitution of 1890, George made the voter suppression of 1875 into law. It included many provisions specifically targeting black voters — such as poll taxes, literacy tests and a list of disenfranchising crimes — specifically targeting black voters, but incorporated a grandfather clause to ensure the rights of poor white voters.
This outright suppression carried on well into the 20th century. Gus Courts, co-founder of the Belzoni branch of the NAACP, recalls in Timothy B. Tyson’s 2017 book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” that he rallied a group to vote in 1955 despite being told “the first Negro who put his foot on the courthouse lawn would be killed.”
When the group arrived at the courthouse, after a series of ludicrous questions, their ballots were rejected. Despite its significant black population, not a single black vote was counted that year in Humphreys County, and the 22 black people registered to vote there were regularly threatened and attacked. Later that year, Courts fled the state, calling himself a “refugee of Mississippi terror.”
After the Voting Rights Act of 1965, people across the country worked to overturn the system that men like George put in place 75 years before. The poll tax and literacy tests were prohibited, and security forces were sent to polling sites to allow the black population to vote.
However, even now, voter suppression and intimidation keep Mississippi elections from being truly representative.
Charles Taylor, a Jackson-based community organizer and political data manager, confirmed this idea that the state uses tactics to limit voting among low-income and black populations.
Disenfranchising crimes, Taylor said, is a voter suppression tactic tracing back to emancipation. While there are only 22 disenfranchising crimes in Mississippi, this list disproportionately targets black communities. This is reminiscent of post-emancipation vagrancy laws, used to legally subjugate liberated slaves.
To this day, according to Rethink Mississippi, while 37 percent of the state’s population is black, 61.4 percent of prisoners in Mississippi are black. Being in prison is not considered a valid reason to vote absentee in Mississippi.
Mississippi requires a photo ID to vote, another powerful modern tactic to keep people away from the polls. Black people are statistically less likely than white people to have a valid driver’s license, and while the state offers voter ID cards, obtaining one requires a birth certificate, which itself requires a photo ID.
George’s actions continue to influence our elections. The dehumanizing violence he endorsed is grandfathered into our culture and policy. The longevity of this legacy is visible in his namesake building on our campus.
“Ole Miss has been a manifestation of this state for a very long time,” Taylor said. “Just as subtle as the buildings are, in terms of the students going into the buildings, and they don’t know the origins of it. I think sometimes the state can be just as subtle with its oppression and its racism.”
One of the most powerful things we can do to combat this system — in the days of Gus Courts and now — is vote.
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Note To Ken Ham: Jesus Wasn’t An American Either
Posted in General, tagged atheism, bible, creationists, fundies, humour, ken ham, religion, science, secularism on Wednesday, January 20, 2016| 15 Comments »
I couldn't resist, so my War On Christmas starts early this year. Or Easter; it could be The War On Easter…
Will There Be a National Darwin Day?
by Ken Ham on January 19, 2016
Will there be a National Jesus Day (AKA "Christmas")?
By Daz on the twenty-fifth day of Runcible, in the Year Of The Bewildered Three-Toed Sloth; Fifty-Third Olympiad.
Will Darwin Day be honored as a national holiday here in America? Well, a resolution was reintroduced to the US House of Representatives recently to recognize Charles Darwin's birthday (February 12, 2016) as a national holiday because of many absurd reasons. There has since been an additional resolution from a Democratic Senator that would show Congressional support for the Darwin Day distinction.
Will Jesus Day be treated as an excuse to make petty complaints about people who say "Happy holidays" and such like trivialities over there in Yankeeland? Well, judging by past experience it will be because of many absurd reasons. There continues to be much idiotic, over-pious and self-aggrandising support for putting Jesus Day on a pedestal of pettiness.
Now, some of the reasons listed nationally for celebrating Darwin, who of course was not an American, include the following:
• Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by the mechanism of natural selection, together with the monumental amount of scientific evidence he compiled to support it, provides humanity with a logical and intellectually compelling explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.
Now, some of the reasons usually touted for celebrating Jesus, who of course was not an American, include the following:
• The Biblical theory of the origins of life, together with the heaps of anecdotes used to support it, provides humanity with an easy and morally compelling explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.
• It has been the human curiosity and ingenuity exemplified by Darwin that has promoted new scientific discoveries that have helped humanity solve many problems and improve living conditions.
• It has been the human capacity to treat conjecture as proven fact and our ability to believe any old shit so long as it's contained in a holy book exemplified by creationists that has held so-called "progress" in check and preserved our lovely conservative, nay prudish, status quo for lo! these many millennia.
• The teaching of creationism in some public schools compromises the scientific and academic integrity of the United States education systems.
• The teaching of Darwinism in some public schools compromises the moral and religious integrity of the United States education systems.
• Charles Darwin is a worthy symbol of scientific advancement on which to focus and around which to build a global celebration of science and humanity intended to promote a common bond among all of Earth's peoples.
• Jesus is a worthy symbol of moral advancement on which to focus and around which to build a global celebration of moral reactionism intended to promote a fear of God and Hell among all of Earth's peoples.
These are terrible reasons to make Darwin Day a national holiday. Putting aside the fact that Darwin was not an American, Darwinian evolution has no confirmation in observational science. What we see in the world is consistent with God's Word, not evolutionary ideas about the past, and much of what we observe actually contradicts evolutionary ideas.
These are terrible reasons to make Jesus Day a national holiday. Putting aside the fact that Jesus was not an American, the Biblical genesis has no confirmation in observational science. What we see in the world is consistent with ideas built upon Darwin's theory, not creationist ideas about the past, and much of what we observe actually contradicts Genesis.
Darwin isn't a great example of "human curiosity and ingenuity"—he was compelled to come up with a way to explain life without God because he rejected God. Although AiG doesn't lobby for it because creation would probably be poorly represented by teachers, mandating that creation be taught alongside evolution doesn't compromise "scientific and academic integrity"—if done properly, it promotes critical thinking and inspires a desire to learn more about God's creation.
The Bible and it's authors are not a great example of "human curiosity and ingenuity"—they were compelled to come up with a way to explain life without any concept of empirical research. Although AiG claims not to lobby for it for, it creationism is far too often promoted by teachers. Mandating that creationism be taught alongside evolution doesn't merely compromise scientific and academic integrity—it sets light to it, ploughs the ashes into the oozing mud of mythology and salts the ground of intellectual curiosity so that nothing may grow there except the faith-born marsh-weeds of dogma and superstition.
And Darwin isn't a "worthy symbol" of the promotion of "a common bond among all of Earth's peoples." He was racist and his ideas were racist! Choosing Darwin as the symbol of "scientific advancement" instead of many more worthy and less controversial figures like Newton, Mendel, or Pasteur seems to be nothing more than an attempt to push the anti-God religion of secularism on the nearly half of Americans who believe in a Creator.
And Jesus isn't a "worthy symbol" of the promotion of "a common bond among all of Earth's peoples." He, in his guise as his own father, was, as described, a morally bankrupt, cruel tyrant who killed millions and continues to hold the entire human race responsible for the "sins" (mere transgressions against his personal taste) of our distant putative ancestors. That said, choosing Darwin as the symbol of scientific advancement instead of also celebrating many other worthy figures like Newton, Mendel (whose findings, by providing the first hint of the nature of the mechanism of inheritance, did much to bolster Darwin's theory), or Pasteur seems silly. Let's have more days devoted to scientists and the sciences, instead of the saints, assassinations and battles we're usually saddled with.
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This proposed new holiday only emphasizes how anti-God our society has become. Christian holidays like Christmas or Easter have been secularized to the point where Nativity scenes and crosses are being taken out of public places, yet a secular figure whose ideas on the origin of life are a major tenet of the secular religion of humanism can be publicly applauded and celebrated. It's not really Darwin who's being celebrated on Darwin Day, it's an anti-God religion and its foundation of evolution and millions of years that's being celebrated. Actually, the intolerant secularists (intolerant of Christianity in particular) are now wanting more and more to impose their anti-God religion on the culture.
This insistence that Jesus Day be celebrated only in ways approved of by them only goes to show how petty the Christian Right has become. Still, if Christian holidays like Christmas or Easter are as definitely religious as they would have us believe, then it is obviously quite right that Nativity scenes and crosses are being taken out of public governmental spaces, since it is stated quite clearly in the First Amendment that "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa." And, as a completely separate issue, a person whose ideas on the origin of life are the backbone of the biological sciences should be publicly applauded and celebrated by all. It's not really Jesus who the Christian Right celebrate on Jesus Day, it's an anti-science, reactionary dogma and its twin foundations of Iron Age mythology and petty egotism. Actually, the intolerant Christians are still wanting more and more to impose their anti-scientific, anti-human religion on the culture.
On the home page of the International Darwin Day website (a website that promotes the celebration of Darwin around the world) scrolls several phrases: "Let's celebrate intellectual bravery … perpetual curiosity … hunger for truth … Let's celebrate Darwin Day." It should be more like "let's celebrate man's fallible ideas being trusted over God's infallible Word!" This is really a worship of man, a worship of the god of self.
On the home pages of far too many creationist and fundamentalist sites it's easy to find several phrases: "Let's celebrate Christian morality … God's love for humanity … hunger for truth … Let's Keep Jesus in Jesus Day." It should be more like "Let's celebrate human-kind's fallible ideas being trusted over observable fact!" This is really a worship of gullibility, a worship of inhumanity, cruelty and the right of religious folk to impose their immoral "morality" on the rest of society by means of secular law and dogmatic, intransigent custom.
Darwin Day is a day that celebrates the legacy of a man who elevated his own fallible ideas over God's Word. Darwin took the things he observed—natural selection and adaptation—and leapt to the conclusion that these small, observable changes within a kind could lead to huge, unobserved (and still unobserved!) changes between kinds. But his ideas still have no observational corroboration. What we see in nature is kinds that reproduce according to their kinds with only limited amounts of variation within the kind. We do see common designs in all of creation but that is explained by a common Designer, not common descent. This is consistent with God's Word, not Darwin's imaginations about the past.
Jesus Day is a day that celebrates the legacy of the apocalyptic mythology and moral musings of the priestly cast of a minor Iron Age kingdom. They took the things they observed—the results of natural selection and adaptation—and leapt to the conclusion that these things must have been created by a huge, vengeful, cruel and all-powerful bogey-man in the sky. But their ideas still have no observational corroboration. What we see in nature is that small changes accumulate over generations to the point where, after millions of years, the end-result is that huge changes have occurred. We do see common designs in all of creation nature but that is explained by a common ancestry, not an extremely uncommon unseen, and unevidenced designer. This is consistent with Darwin's theory, not the Bible's authors' imagineering about clay dolls, taking snakes and world-covering floods.
This February 12, I encourage you to celebrate the truth of God's unchanging Word. Use "Darwin Day" as a springboard for conversations with your friends and family about the flaws of evolution and show them how observational science confirms God's Word from the beginning. And then challenge people that the history in the Bible—starting with Genesis—is true, and that's why the gospel based in that history is true.
Next Jesus Day, I encourage you to celebrate whatever and however the hell you want to. Use "Jesus Day" as a time to spend time with your friends and family no matter how much the Ken Hams of this world would like to see you spending it on your knees, kow-towing to a non-existent, ghostly tyrant. And then challenge people that the history in the Bible—starting with Genesis—is a crock of watery cow-dung, and that's why the gospel based in that history is laughable.
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Thanks for stopping by, and please, for the love of all that's good, do not offer to pray for me,
This item was written with the assistance of AiG's research team.
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Bonaparte’s Retreat: The Evolution Of A Song
Posted in General, tagged bonaparte's retreat, evolution, music on Wednesday, January 6, 2016| 9 Comments »
The origins of the tune known as Bonaparte's Retreat are somewhat hazy, which is often the way with traditional folk, country and blues songs. One theory is that it originates from an old Irish tune named The Eagle's Whistle. Another places it with a Scottish piper who served at Waterloo, presumably celebrating the eponymous defeat, while yet another places it, played at a slower tempo, with Irish musicians bemoaning the same event. (It's not that they would be particularly pro-Napoleon so much as anti-English.) There's a tune named The Dunmore Lasses and another entitled The Bonny Bunch Of Roses, both of which may stem from various evolutions of the song; or which may be merely similar—nobody really knows, although the origin is almost definitely Celtic. By the time of the American civil war, however, forty-five years after Waterloo, the tune—or at least a tune—going by the title Bonaparte's Retreat is noted as having been played on both sides of the Atlantic.
The first version to be recorded, though, is known. Fiddle-player A. A. Gray, from Tallapoosa, Georgia, recorded a version on Okeh in 1924:
It was recorded several times during the pre-war years, with my favourite probably being Luther Strong's version, recorded for the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, by the great folklorist Alan Lomax:
And then someone put words to it, and things, to my mind, got kind of strange…
Here's Pee wee King, as quoted in the liner-notes to the 1949 disc of Bear Family's wonderful Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music series:
So we were rehearsing some square dance numbers with a boy from Texas [Lee A. Bedford], and he showed us a recording of a Texas square dance tune called 'Bonaparte's Retreat,' which had a sort of Cajun beat. It was a folk tune in the public domain, so Redd Stewart and I put a bridge or middle to it, wrote some words, and reshaped the whole song.
Two things to take note of here: firstly, the "boo-waah" swoop of the steel guitar behind the start of each line of the chorus, and secondly the "bridge or middle," as King called it—the part of the tune that sounds vaguely middle-eastern ("All the world was bright as I held her on that night…") (and to which the opening line of Bill Haley's 1956 Teenager's Mother bears a rather suspicious resemblance). Anyways, it's a nice enough little ditty. Enjoy:
King's version didn't do particularly well until Kay Starr picked it up and made a faintly jazzy pop version (not unusual in those days, when songs were routinely repackaged to fit several genres) which became a hit. I'm not particularly fond of Starr's version, but Gene Krupa made a blinder, so here's that instead:
(The vocalist on Krupa's version, Bobby Soots, was a sometime hillbilly singer who Krupa had hired to sing big-band jazz versons of hillbilly/country songs. It's all part of that repackaging thing I mentioned. But I digress…)
Notice how the tune is evolving. It's why I consider the evolution of the song a little strange—though not in a bad way. That understated swoop of the steel guitar in Pee Wee King's version, which forms no part of the tune the song is nominally based upon, has, in Krupa's (and Starr's), and almost any version thereafter, been brought forward in the mix, until instead of being a feature of the backing, it is now a major part of the tune itself. But it gets stranger yet…
By the late '50s, early '60s, although the original, no-lyrics (unlyricked?), fiddle tune was being played now and again by folk, bluegrass and mountain-music artists, it was pretty much unheard of by anyone outside those circles—but plenty knew the Pee Wee King song, or versions thereof, and instrumental versions of that begin to appear. Not many, what with a ten-year-old hit being old enough to be un-hip, but not yet old enough to be considered a classic, but a few. My favourite, I think, is this 1961 version, by German trad-jazz band, the Spree City Stompers:
So, we've started with an instrumental, carried on through a re-arrangement with lyrics, and ended with an instrumental. We should have come full-circle, but we're definitely not back where we started. There are now two different versions of the song and the later one, though these days old enough to be just as "traditional" as the the older, bears little, if any, resemblance to it. Both though, somewhat paradoxically, are indubitably Bonaparte's Retreat. And for whatever reason, that tickles me.
I didn't really set out to make a point with this; rather I just wanted to share what I thought was a kind of interesting chain of changes. If I did, though, I would hark right back to my opening paragraph, where I mentioned how Bonaparte's Retreat itself, like many traditional melodies and songs, had itself evolved from one or more sources. At one time, there were, quite possibly, two or more versions of, for instance, The Eagle's Whistle, which, to the casual listener, bore little resemblance to one another but, to the dedicated historian of music, might have had obvious similarites. If so, it's highly possible that The Eagle's Whistle (as is the way with many old Celtic tunes) has spawned many songs just as seemingly unrelated to the original as that Spree City Stompers number is.
And that, Gentle Reader, is evolution in action.
That's the end of the essay-proper, but—having listed to far too many versions whilst researching this—I have to share my personal least- and most-liked.
First my least-liked. Remember that gentle swoop on the steel guitar. This is what it's like when, seemingly, rescored for a bloody fog-horn. Ridiculous! (And on Hickory, a country label, to boot. Doubly ridiculous!)
And you knew there had to be a rockabilly version somewhere, right? Eddie Cochran never, to my knowledge, recorded Bonaparte's Retreat. If he had, though, it would have sounded just like Darrel Higham's:
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Democracy in 2020
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I was at first surprised that Bernie Sanders’s recent proposal to allow formerly and currently incarcerated people to vote was as controversial as it was. One of my takeaways from the 2018 midterms—and American politics since 2016 more broadly—was that voting rights were something all Democrats agreed on. On the one hand, gubernatorial races in Florida and Georgia revealed that Republicans rely on subverting such rights as much as ever. But on the other hand, the Florida ballot initiative to re-enfranchise people with felony convictions showed that even in swing states, it is possible to win major advances for democratic participation. It was therefore somewhat strange that not only Pete Buttigeig (perhaps desperate to show that he knows what “red state” Americans believe), but also would-be “progressive” former prosecutor Kamala Harris and even Elizabeth Warren pushed back on the proposal. Minor candidate Eric Swalwell’s first major campaign success appears to be having popularized the retort that the Boston Marathon bomber shouldn’t be allowed to vote. In a race where many Democratic candidates have already adopted what had once been Sanders’s most radical proposals, such as Medicare for All, perhaps his opponents are struggling to find new ways to differentiate themselves from him. Or perhaps there is a real aversion to expanding democratic rights in such a way. David Runciman came face-to-face with this sort of aversion after proposing extending the vote to children in the UK, and so it would be no surprise that the feeling is even stronger in heavily incarcerated America.
This discussion over felon enfranchisement provides a good opportunity to look at where the Democratic 2020 contenders stand on how to strengthen democracy in Trump’s America. Nearly all the Democratic candidates have supported measures such as automatic voter registration, creating a federal election holiday, allowing felons to vote after leaving prison, and granting statehood to Washington DC. Though the candidates may choose to emphasize one over another, it seems safe to say that all are opposed to partisan gerrymandering, the Citizen’s United decision (though many are still happy to take donations from PACs), and Trump’s corrupt dealings and unaccountable demeanor. So when it comes to enhancing democracy, where do they differ?
Though she balked at Sanders’s proposal, Elizabeth Warren has nonetheless led the pack in supporting pro-majoritarian moves such as abolishing the filibuster and “packing” the Supreme Court, both of which Sanders has rejected. When it comes to “procedural extremism,” Warren may in fact be the more radical candidate between the two. Both, of course, have been strong defenders of social democracy, and thanks to them Americans may actually begin to understand what social rights and social equality have to do with democracy in the first place. Though Sanders did much of the work to put social rights to healthcare and education on the national agenda in 2016, Warren’s recent proposals to eliminate student loan debt, put a tax on wealth, and provide universal childcare are the most concrete statements in this campaign of how to maintain l’égalité des conditions. Other candidates have attempted to follow suit with their own versions of social rights, though few have made as many headlines. Cory Booker, for example, has offered to give each child a “baby bond” to close the wealth gap, while lesser-known candidates like entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Oprah star Marianne Williamson have supported a universal basic income (thanks to Matt Jackson for pointing out this feature of Williamson’s campaign, which I had mostly ignored). The fault line between advocates of enhanced social rights and more conservative Democrats like Amy Klobuchar and Joe Biden (as well as candidates like Buttigeig and Beto O’Rourke, who are hard to pin down on any issue but who have not been major advocates of expanded social programs) might in fact be the major democratic divide in the race.
One unique proposal in this race comes from Washington governor Jay Inslee, who alone in the field has dedicated his campaign to the issue of climate change. Many Democrats have voiced support for the “Green New Deal,” but aside from Inslee, few have made it a major campaign issue, not even Sanders or Warren. Inslee’s call for a “Climate Conservation Corps,” inspired of course by Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, is not just climate policy, but also a jobs guarantee and a national service program designed to bring Americans of different backgrounds to work together.
It is also worth mentioning briefly the form of the different candidates’ campaigns. Having organized a major grassroots campaign in 2016, and being the most committed of the current candidates to movement building, Sanders has the largest network of mobilized supporters. His organization Our Revolution comes closest among American politicians to the movement networks of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! or Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France insoumise. So far, however, we have seen few truly innovative methods of communicating with the public. Warren’s Medium posts and O’Rourke’s bizarre travel diaries are a far cry from Donald Trump’s tweets, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram, or François Ruffin’s Youtube channel.
Finally, one striking feature of this race is that there are relatively few calls for radical experiments in democratic participation. Unlike in French and European politics more broadly, no one is talking about referenda, citizens’ assemblies, or tirage au sort. Most Democrats will readily acknowledge that America is going through a crisis of democracy, but there is little question about the basic form that democratic representation ought to take. Of course, Americans already participate in referenda all the time, and “town halls” have survived as a form of democratic discourse since Tocqueville’s time. But the crise de la représentation that has been sweeping Europe has apparently not reached our shores. The Tocquevillian explanation for this difference is that American democracy is inherently more participative than its counterparts in Europe. The conservative explanation is that Americans love their Constitution (Electoral College and all) and have no desire to change. My explanation, though, is that Rosanvallon is not assigned reading for the American political and journalistic classes!
Tags: Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, Elizabeth Warren, 2020 Election, Green New Deal, Jay Inslee, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigeig, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar
Dan Gordon says:
12 May 2019 at 16 h 26 min
Excellent essay. I especially like part near end which compares with Europe–absence of calls for radical experiments in democratic participation.
One part I didn’t digest with the same degree of appreciation:
“Both, of course, have been strong defenders of social democracy, and thanks to them Americans may actually begin to understand what social rights and social equality have to do with democracy in the first place.”
This separation of the author from “Americans” in a knowing way is worth a discussion.
Jacob seems to presuppose that “social” and “democracy” are a natural fit. But given that the site is named after Tocqueville (and one could also bring up Arendt), one could reply that the two concepts are at odds.
On a purely scholarly plane, the history of the word “social”–particularly, how it serves to forward a particular agenda while insulating the agenda from criticism–is important. Perhaps no word in the modern lexicon has the same capacity to suggest the pre-existence of a consensus that is beyond question. I believe the first dictionary to include the word “social” was Diderot’s Encyclopedia. The term was meant to substitute for theological ethics while avoiding the problem of what any substitute ultimately rests on. Keith Baker and others have written about this. A contemporary example would be that we all know “justice” is debatable but somehow when we speak of “social justice” we are reluctant to contest the usage–everyone allegedly agrees there is such a thing.
Again, a fine article which reads easily and raises fundamental questions about democracy.
Jacob Hamburger says:
Thanks for reading, Dan. I’m not sure I implied that “social” and “democracy” are natural or inherent fits, or that non-social-democratic points of view are illegitimate. In any case, that’s not really the issue for Sanders and Warren, neither of whom are in a position to presume any sort of supremacy for the notions of social rights. What they’re both doing is putting forward a political program that asserts these things as necessary for preserving American democracy in the current moment. I don’t actually know how much the word “social” figures into their own vocabularies, except that Sanders calls himself a “democratic socialist”—this term for him doesn’t seem to go too far beyond what I’ve just described, though.
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Visual art student wins international film festival award
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LAWRENCE – A film created by University of Kansas visual art student Olivia Hernández was the overall winner of the Short Film Work-in-Progress category from the CreActive International Open Film Festival in Bangladesh.
Hernández’s film, “material girl hallelujah,” is an original video created in response to her original sound recording of her mother and cousins singing hymns in a one-room church founded by her great-great-grandfather in the mountains of Virginia. It was selected as a festival award winner out of more than 4,000 submissions from 105 countries.
“To receive an award for my modest attempts at art-making feels like a cosmic ‘thumbs up’ from the universe and encourages me to continue making work that reflects my taste and interests,” Hernández said. “It is incredible that my work has traveled from my computer to a film jury a world away and been found worthy of an award.”
Hernández, a senior from Miami, credits the KU Department of Visual Art’s flexibility and resources for her growth and development as an artist. Expanded media is naturally an interdisciplinary field, and Hernández finds the lack of boundaries in space, materials and process really exciting.
“Olivia is one of the hardest workers, brightest intellectuals and conscientious community members I have worked with here at KU,” said Benjamin Rosenthal, assistant professor of visual art and expanded media artist. “Her academic and studio work is ambitious and perpetually challenges the expectations of the department and the limits of her abilities.”
Her work is an exploration of opposing concepts: real and digital, ecstasy and despair, public and private, mechanical and organic. Hernández says her award-winning film is a “reflection of my own balancing act of internal oppositions.”
“I’m both rediscovering and asking a lot of myself through my art process, and my work is inspired by the answers I’m uncovering,” Hernández said.
Rosenthal knows that the conversations Hernández engages with around gender, religion and politics extend beyond her own work. He added, “These ideas are sophisticated and extend into the larger cultural concerns of the field of expanded media as a whole.”
CreActive International Open Film Festival (IOFF) is an initiative to explore the film with no border. International juries from different countries will score the films along with audiences online. Films will be screened in the live and/or online festival event. IOFF is one of the “Top 100 Best Reviewed Festival” in the world.
The Department of Visual Art is one of four departments in the School of the Arts. As part of the KU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the School of the Arts offers fresh possibilities for collaboration between the arts and the humanities, sciences, social sciences, international and interdisciplinary studies.
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2015 (Oct-Dec) News Releases
TWU Drama presents 'Seven' Oct. 14-18
DENTON— A powerful docudrama on seven women’s fight to be heard opens the Texas Woman’s University Drama Program’s 2015-16 season. Seven runs Oct. 14-18 in the Redbud Theater Complex. Written by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith and Susan Yankowitz, Seven is based on interviews with seven women’s rights activists whose efforts have brought about major changes in their home countries of Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala and Cambodia. The play bears witness to their determined fight to rescue girls from human trafficking, to give a voice to the disenfranchised, for the right to an education, for peace and labor equality, and to protect women from domestic violence.
The women depicted in the play are part of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, a non-governmental organization that identifies, trains and empowers women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe. More information about the organization is available at www.vitalvoices.org.
TWU Drama Program director Patrick Bynane said that in selecting productions for the drama season, he purposefully chooses plays that, like Seven, speak to the university’s mission.
“Given TWU’s unique and powerful mission to ignite potential, purpose and a pioneering spirit, it seemed only natural for TWU Drama to produce this exciting work,” he said. “The stories these women tell are a reminder to us all that inspiring leadership really can make the world a better place.”
Bynane will direct the production. The cast includes Kayla Harris, Selena Flores, Isabell Moon, Jordan Desmarais, Alle Mims, Krystalyn Lasater, Natalie Beech, Asiyah Martin, Terrence Benard and Jake Defoore. TWU guest artists, faculty, staff and students will share design responsibilities. Technical director Michael Stephens will serve as the set designer, and assistant professor Rhonda Gorman will work as the costume designer. Undergraduate students Chelsea Reeves is in charge of sound and projection design. Bronwynne Smith is the properties designer, and the lighting design is by Nikki Deshea. Chelsea Taylor serves stage manager, with Andrea McKinney and Riley Payne as assistant stage managers. Graduate student DeAmber Houston-Dailey is both assistant director and choreographer.
Seven runs Oct. 14-18 in the Redbud Theater Complex, located on the north side of Hubbard Hall on TWU’s Denton campus. Performances are at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14; 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15; 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors. In an effort to provide all members of the community with an opportunity to attend a theatrical production, TWU Drama offers a “pay what you can” option at the 2 p.m. Saturday performance. This option does not apply to tickets purchased online.
To reserve tickets or for more information, visit www.twu.edu/theatre or call the TWU Box Office at (940) 898-2020.
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Q&A: Artificial intelligence expert Raquel Urtasun on the complicated future of transportation
She’s leading Uber’s charge into the controversial world of self-driving cars
By Jason McBride | July 5, 2017
By Jason McBride | 07/05/2017
Photograph by Erin Leydon
You’re heading up Uber’s multimillion-dollar AI initiative, which seeks to develop self-driving cars. Why is this project important?
It’s fascinating scientifically but also sociologically: self-driving cars will change the way we live for the better. I don’t believe in owning a car. Ninety-five per cent of the time, they’re parked, wasting space. Instead, we could have bigger parks, easier commutes and an improved environment.
It all sounds great, but there’s also the counter-argument: that by making it so easy for people to get around in cars, there will be many more of them on the road, which means more congestion and emissions, less use of public transportation and increased obesity. Did you ever see the movie Wall-E?
Yeah, I love that movie. Well, first of all, you could have a hybrid system where you have trains for longer distances and then, at the end mile, cars that drive people to their homes. And the other thing to consider is sharing. It shouldn’t be one person per car. The prediction is that only 10 per cent of the current number of cars will be needed.
You’ve said that Toronto has been at the forefront of AI research for the past two decades or so. Why is that?
Geoff Hinton, who’s a professor at U of T, is basically the godfather of AI. And a lot of the really well-known AI experts were either students or did their post-docs in Toronto. What’s different now is that AI is really starting to work well, so we’re seeing a plethora of applications.
Which is why Uber opened up their first international research hub here.
For the local talent, yes. And it was the reason to create the Vector Institute, which is the new AI initiative based in the MaRS building near U of T.
Growing up in Pamplona, Spain, were you really into computers?
No, though I loved video games, especially Super Mario. I played basketball a lot, and later soccer. I also loved algorithms—they were like little puzzles to me.
Were your parents into computers?
Not at all. Dad worked at a supermarket and Mom stayed at home. They didn’t go to university. I pursued electrical engineering in undergrad and became interested in how to teach computers to understand the world as we do. That turned into a PhD in computer science in Switzerland, then fellowships at MIT and Berkeley. I was a professor in Chicago for nearly five years, and then I decided to come to U of T.
Did you have reservations about taking the Uber job given the recent controversy surrounding the company?
I had very good conversations with the CEO, Travis Kalanick [who has since stepped down], about some of the controversies and the company’s practices. I’ve been convinced that the problems are in the past.
And I guess hiring you was a good signal of that?
Yes, and Uber has a lot of women in leadership roles. The diversity could be better, but for the tech sector, it’s pretty good. In my experience, sexism is everywhere. Often, the media interview female professors but then remove our titles, or delete us outright, leaving the men in. But I decided long ago to stay strong and lead by example.
You say that Uber’s controversies are in the past, but the company is currently being accused of stealing Google’s research on LIDAR, the laser technology sensor used to guide self-driving cars. That must be a distraction.
I can’t comment on an ongoing lawsuit, but my research isn’t really related to LIDAR anyway. I’m working on creating the car’s brain—how it perceives and predicts. It’s early. So far, our cars require a human safety driver because the technology is not yet good enough.
How soon will we have self-driving cars in Toronto?
At full scale, 10 years at least, but we might see self-driving cars on a small number of routes with good driving conditions sooner.
Is there one thing in your life that you wish you had a robot for?
My dad has had quite a few health issues. My brother’s taking care of him in Spain right now. I wish we had personal robots that could take the load off my brother.
The fear of AI becoming so refined, so perfected, as to create sentient beings, Terminator-style—that’s science fiction, right?
Yes. So far, our algorithms are quite dumb. Robots are meant to perform a single task at a time. They don’t have consciousness. I’m not worried about creating sentient creatures. We should focus on solving the big, important issues. Hopefully we’ll get there by the time the Terminator arrives.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Topics: AI Artificial Intelligence Autonomous cars Geoff HInton Q&A Raquel Urtasun Self-driving cars Uber
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Ocean Measurements from Space in 2025
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Law & Order—The Inevitable Response To “Black Lives Matter”
Outraged Americans are set to protest February 16 outside the National Football League’s New York City headquarters against the Super Bowl halftime show put on by Beyoncé Knowles, featuring her new song, “Formation” [Anti-Beyonce forces to protest outside NFL offices Tuesday, by Howard Gensler, Philly, February 14, 2016]
The song’s video pushes an explicitly anti-police message. The first scene: Beyoncé on top of a New Orleans Police Department car partially submerged in water, an obvious homage to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. There are the usual stereotypical gyrations until the end of the video, when white police surrender to a dancing black youth—symbolizing whites caving to the mobs of Black Lives Matter.
But the Super Bowl performance was even more provocative.
Beyoncé’s backup dancers held up a sign championing Mario Woods, a man killed by police after he advanced toward them with a knife. [The Black Lives Matter protest that you missed from Beyoncé’s halftime show dancers, by Yanan Wang, Washington Post, February 9, 2016]. It also showcased a deliberate homage to the criminal Black Panther Party.:
Beyoncé's back-up dancers were dressed in all black, with black berets and afros — reminiscent of the way members of the Black Panther Party dressed in the 1960s…
Asked whether a political message belongs at the Super Bowl by CNN's Carol Costello, Black Lives Matter activist Erika Totten said Beyoncé's message accomplished exactly what the movement is supposed to.
"I think [the message] absolutely belongs in the Super Bowl," Totten said. "Our goal is to disrupt the status quo and bring the message wherever the message may not be heard."
Meanwhile, "Black Lives Matter" activist Deray McKesson, who is running for mayor in Baltimore, hailed the star's performance, tweeting "At its core, she is reminding us that economic justice is a key component to liberation work"
[Beyonce gets political at Super Bowl, pays tribute to 'Black Lives Matter', By Deena Zaru, CNN, February 8, 2016]
McKesson, one of the leading advocates of the Black Lives Matter movement, is one of only 10 people Beyoncé follows on Twitter. She has more than 14 million followers but has only Tweeted eight times since she joined in 2009. Thus, when she finally Tweets out her endorsement of McKesson, expect it to be a front-page story.
The alliance of pop culture royalty with Black Lives Matter is especially troubling when the city of Baltimore is one vote away from more riots. The hung jury in the case of Officer William Porter, the first of six officers to be tried in the death of Freddie Gray, was only one vote away from acquitting him [Jury in Officer Porter trial was one vote from acquittal on most serious charge, by Kevin Rector, Baltimore Sun, January 15, 2015].
Baltimore residents are threatening future violence. Murshaun Young, a budding black entrepreneur in the city, told the Washington Post if nothing changes, extensive violence and destruction is on the way:
“I’m going to be honest with you,” he says. “The day they burned that CVS down, I told the CNN reporter, I told him: ‘The stuff they’re doing right now is minuscule. It’s a fraction of what people are actually capable of doing.’ So, I don’t know. Like, if they get slapped in the face again? I’m pretty sure they’re going to react”
[Seven months after Freddie Gray’s death, ‘ain’t nothing changed out here’, by Paul Duggan, Washington Post, December 8, 2015]
As there are many more trials to go, black rage will continue to rise. And right now, pop culture and the corporate Main Stream Media seem to be giving their blessing to these dangerous emotions. Mayoral candidate McKessen can be counted on to stoke the flames.
The “Ferguson Effect” has police around the country terrified of interfering with black crime for fear of becoming the next Darren Wilson.
And most politicians—especially Republicans—seem to be completely unaware of the potential for a violent eruption in cities around the country.
One person who does understand: former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He came out hard against the Beyoncé video:
“This is football, not Hollywood, and I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers who are the people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive,” he said during an appearance on the Fox News channel. “And what we should be doing in the African American community, and all communities, is build up respect for police officers. And focus on the fact that when something does go wrong, okay. We’ll work on that. But the vast majority of police officers risk their lives to keep us safe”
[Rudy Giuliani: Beyoncé’s halftime show was an ‘outrageous’ affront to police, by Niraj Chokshi, Washington Post, February 8, 2016]
And there’s one another Republican politician ideally placed to make this into a major issue—Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump.
While Conservatism Inc. amuses itself talking about ethanol subsidies and Eminent Domain, Trump continues to promote a pro-police message. And it’s resonating among cops who have been attacked relentlessly by the MSM, the Obama Administration, and the Black Lives Matter movement [Donald Trump Says 'Police Are The Most Mistreated People' In America, by Nick Wing, Huffington Post, January 14, 2016].
Recently, Trump endorsed the death penalty for anyone who kills a police officer [Donald Trump wants the death penalty for those who kill police officers, by Jenna Johnson, Washington Post, December 10, 2015].
He also promised police they would be treated differently by the White House if Donald Trump is President.
[Trump said], "You're not recognized properly. You will be recognized properly if I win."
He says they won't need to be as fearful of he wins.
"Remember that," he tells them. "You know what you're going through. You know you speak a little bit rough to somebody and all of a sudden you end up fighting for your job. Not going to happen anymore."
He was introduced by Police Chief Nick Willard, who says that he's concerned about the "national narrative" on law enforcement.
[Trump says he'd recognize police 'properly', WREX, February 4, 2016]
Trump seems to be adopting the same kind of message that Richard Nixon used to such great effect—Law and Order.
Meanwhile, the black community, rich and poor, seem to be consolidating behind a message of burning down their own cities.
The stage is set for a historic realignment of the political landscape. Donald Trump will line up with the police, and the Democratic Party (with candidates like Deray McKesson) will become the explicitly anti-white party.
An acquittal of the police officers in Baltimore could be the spark that sets off the conflagration. The next trial is currently scheduled to begin March 7. [Decisions Ahead This Week In Gray Related Trials, by Robert Lang, WBAL, February 15, 2015]
Pop stars like Beyoncé who are trying to be edgy should stop playing with fire. The more black entertainers tell their followers to get in formation, the more white Americans will get behind men who stand up to this slow-motion racial insurrection.
Paul Kersey[Email him] is the author of the blog SBPDL, and has published the books SBPDL Year One, Hollywood in Blackface and Escape From Detroit, Opiate of America: College Football in Black and White and Second City Confidential: The Black Experience in Chicagoland. His latest book is The Tragic City: Birmingham 1963-2 013.
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Home / News / SEAN PAUL & MAJOR LAZER RELEASE NEW SONG “TIP PON IT”
SEAN PAUL & MAJOR LAZER RELEASE NEW SONG “TIP PON IT”
RJ Frometa April 20, 2018 News Leave a comment 322 Views
International superstar Sean Paul reveals the video for his brand new Major Lazer produced single “Tip On It” via Island Records. The video, shot on location in Paris, was directed by legendary French artist and director Alex Courtes (Daft Punk, Kylie Minogue, The White Stripes).
“Tip On It” comes hot on the heels of Sean’s latest smash single “Mad Love” featuring David Guetta and rising Mexican / American pop star Becky G.
Sean Paul, who was recently presented with a plaque from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for his massive success including selling a staggering 26 million records, has been enjoying an unbroken string of massive hit singles for the past two years – most recently with the single Body featuring mega-stars Migos which was the follow up to the worldwide hit No Lie featuring Dua Lipa. Add Tek Weh Yuh Heart with Tory Lanez, and the Clean Bandit collaboration Rockabye, which spent nine weeks at number one in the UK charts and, of course, his Grammy nominated Number 1 Billboard, global smash with Sia on Cheap Thrills, and it is fair to say that the reggae superstar has rarely been away from the higher reaches of the charts.
Sean Paul is without doubt one of the most instantly recognizable voices in music and he has continued his remarkable strike rate over the last year with a string of hits. In 2002 “Dutty Rock” (fuelled by the massive hit singles “Gimme The Light “ and “Get Busy”) went double Platinum in US & UK while 2006’s “Temperature” reached 4x platinum in U.S. Over the span of his career, Sean Paul has worked with some of the world’s biggest artists including Beyonce, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, Sia, Kelly Rowland, Enrique Iglesias and 2 Chainz and has also partnered with reggae and dancehall acts such as Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley, Chi Chi Ching, Mr. Vegas, Beenie Man, Ding Dong, Future Fambo, and Tami Chynn. Aside from being a top-notch performer, Sean Paul is a much sought after music producer and has created music with a number of top Jamaican artists.
Sean Paul will be taking his wildly acclaimed live show on tour in Europe this summer, stay tuned for tour dates.
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10/31/1999 00-69336 DPR Monthly Bulletin - Vol. XXII, No. 5 - CEIRPP, DPR bulletin (September-October 1999) - DPR publication 1999/10/31
10/31/1999 DPR/Chron/1999/10 Chronological Review of Events/October 1999 - DPR review 1999/10/31
S/1999/1105 Mideast situation/Lebanon - Khiam Detention Camp - Statement by Syrian FM - Note verbale from Syria 1999/10/29
S/1999/1102 Nuclear-weapon-free-zone in the Middle East - Final Declaration of the Conference on Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Bank Treaty - Letter from Japan 1999/10/28
10/27/1999 A/AC.183/SR.247 CEIRPP meeting - Summary record 1999/10/27
10/27/1999 GA/PAL/811 CEIRPP meeting - Press release 1999/10/27
10/26/1999 A/RES/54/9 Cooperation between UN and LAS - GA resolution 1999/10/26
10/26/1999 A/54/501 Financed activities - UNCTAD - SecGen report (excerpts) 1999/10/26
10/26/1999 GA/9642 Cooperation with LAS - General Assembly debate - Press release (excerpts) 1999/10/26
10/26/1999 GA/DIS/3153 Nuclear proliferation in the Middle East - First Cttee debate - Press release (excerpts) 1999/10/26
10/26/1999 A/C.1/54/PV.16 Nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East - First Cttee debate - Verbatim record (excerpts) 1999/10/26
10/26/1999 A/54/PV.39 UN cooperation with LAS - GA debate - Verbatim record (excerpts) 1999/10/26
10/25/1999 A/C.3/54/SR.22 Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination - Third Cttee debate - Summary record (excerpts) 1999/10/25
10/25/1999 A/54/495 Mideast situation - SecGen's report under A/RES/53/37 and 53/38 1999/10/25
10/25/1999 GA/SHC/3536 Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination - GA Third Committee debate - Press release (excerpts) 1999/10/25
10/25/1999 A/54/PV.38 UN cooperation with OIC - GA debate - Verbatim record (excerpts) 1999/10/25
10/25/1999 A/RES/54/7 Cooperation between UN and OIC - GA resolution 1999/10/25
10/21/1999 A/C.1/54/L.7 Nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Mideast - GA draft resolution 1999/10/21
10/21/1999 A/C.1/54/L.8 Nuclear proliferation in the Middle East - GA draft resolution 1999/10/21
S/1999/1081 Mideast situation\Palestine question - Letter from Palestine 1999/10/21
10/21/1999 A/C.1/54/L.7/Rev.1 Nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Mideast - GA draft resolution/Revision 1999/10/21
10/19/1999 A/54/477 UNRWA Working Group on Finance - Report 1999/10/19
10/18/1999 PAL/1871 Assistance to the Palestinian people - Larsen's statement at the donors meeting - Press release 1999/10/18
S/1999/1063 Mideast situation/Palestine question - Final documents of meeting of FMs/Heads of Delegation - Letter from South Africa (excerpts) 1999/10/18
10/14/1999 A/C.3/54/SR.12 Women - Third Cttee debate - Summary record (excerpts) 1999/10/14
10/13/1999 A/54/459 Nuclear proliferation in the Middle East - SecGen report/annex 1999/10/13
10/13/1999 GA/SPD/163 Sp. Cttee on Israeli Practices - GA Fourth Cttee debate - Press release 1999/10/13
S/1999/1050 Palestine question/Mideast situation/Peace process (Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum) - SecGen report 1999/10/12
10/07/1999 GA/9615/Corr. General Assembly general debate - Bahrain/Israel statements - Press release/Corr. 1999/10/07
10/05/1999 Protocol - Safe Passage Protocol - non-UN document 1999/10/05
S/1999/1023 Mideast situation/Lebanon - Letter from Lebanon 1999/10/04
10/01/1999 GOV/1999/51-GC(43)/17/Add.1/Corr.1 Application of IAEA safeguards in the Middle East - Report by Director-General - Addendum/Correction 1999/10/01
10/01/1999 GA/9620 General Assembly general debate - Israel/Lao People's Democratic Rep./Mauritania/Syria statements - Press release (excerpts) 1999/10/01
10/01/1999 A/54/PV.21 Mideast situation/Palestine question/Golan - GA debate - Verbatim record (excerpts) 1999/10/01
10/01/1999 GC(43)/RES/23 Application of IAEA safeguards in the Middle East - Resolution 1999/10/01
10/01/1999 GC(43)/DEC/13 Israeli nuclear capabilities and threat - General Conference decision 1999/10/01
10/01/1999 A/54/426 Human rights situation in the OPT/Torture - CHR Special Rapporteurs's report (excerpts) 1999/10/01
10/01/1999 A/54/13/Add.1 UNRWA - Annual report of the Commissioner-General/Addendum 1999/10/01
10/01/1999 A/54/430 Protection of children affected by armed conflict 1999/10/01
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Photo tour | Access, map
Gerasa in present-day Jerash is one of the largest and best-preserved late antique cities in the Middle East. Magnificent colonnaded streets and plazas, triumphal gates, two imposing temple complexes and amphitheaters, the remains of numerous early Byzantine churches and Umayyad buildings in the hilly landscape along a wadi, make Gerasa one of Jordan's favourite destinations.
History, chronology
Informative photo tour in 3 parts
Hadrian's Arch, Hippodrome, South Gate, West Souk, Zeus Temple, South Theatre, Oval Plaza
Cardo Maximus, Macellum, Nymphaeum, Propylaeum Church, Propylaeum, Sanctuary of Artemis
Northern area, Cosmas & Damian Church, Theodore Church, Fountain Court, Cathedral
Great Eastern Baths
One of the largest and best preserved ancient bathing complexes in the Orient. On the eastern bank of Wadi Jerash, outside of the fenced archaeological site.
Sculpture findings
Spectacular findings in the Great Eastern Baths. Information, photos, video interview with archaeologist Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Weber-Karyotakis.
Jerash: History, Chronology
Jerash is the Arabic version of Gerasa, which in turn was a Hellenized form of the original Semitic name Garshu.
Jerash-Gerasa is located in a fluvial valley in the middle of a green hilly landscape with fertile soils. The agricultural use of the area was already a basis of prosperity in ancient times. Another lucrative source of income was the iron ore mines in the northern Ajloun mountains. Gerasa also maintained prosperity through ceramic manufacture and its trade during the Byzantine period. Thus, a small settlement developed into the magnificent Greek-Roman city complex of the 2nd century AD, to which almost twenty Byzantine churches were added by 600 AD, and then numerous Umayyad buildings in the 7th century.
Ancient Gerasa is divided in two by the Jerash Wadi. On the east side used to live most of the inhabitants, while the west side was the religious, administrative and economic center. This western part of the city has remained so authentically preserved, because it was abandoned by the inhabitants after the severe earthquake of 747 AD, and for ten centuries, hardly any structural or other interventions were done there.
Jerash - Chronology
7th millennium BC
The earliest verifiable settlement - piles of Neolithic flint tools were found east of the Hippodrome and the Hadrian Arch.
About 2500 BC
Dolmen and a village from the early Bronze Age in the northeast of the valley
3rd century BC
First historically documented mention of Garshu, as its original Semitic name was, during the reign of Ptolemaios II Philadelphos (ruled 285 - 246 BC), when the place was a Ptolemaic stronghold.
2nd century BC
When the Seleucid Antiochos IV (ruled 175 - 164) reigned the area, the place was renamed in Antioch on the Chrysorhoas. Chrysorhoas = gold river, was the name of today's Wadi Jerash.
63 BC
With the conquests under the general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106 - 48 BC), Rome and then the Eastern Roman Empire also gained power in Transjordan for several centuries. Antioch on the Chrysorhoas is renamed Gerasa, the Hellenized version of the ancient Semitic name Garshu, and becomes part of the Roman Provincia Syria. Pompeius recognized the (relative) autonomy of a number of Hellenized cities, which later formed a community of interests, known as the Decapolis (a term that only emerged 100 years later) and to which the city of Gerasa belonged as well.
2nd century AD
Gerasa became prosperous particularly through agriculture on the fertile soils of the surrounding area, and iron ore mining in the hilly region of Ajloun. Like other Decapolis cities, Gerasa benefited from the expansion policy of the Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98 - 117 AD), who sealed the end of the Nabataean kingdom in 106 AD, incorporating it into the Provincia Arabia. In the following years, new trade routes emerged, such as the Via Nova Traiana, completed in the year 114, a 430 km long north-south connection between Bostra in the Hauran region, the capital of the new Provincia Arabia, and Ayla on the Gulf of Aqaba.
In 129/130, Emperor Hadrian stayed in Gerasa, and probably also conferred honorary rights on the city. In the following decades the building activity increased strongly. The street grid with a main axis in north-south direction (slightly tilted) crossed by east-west axes, originated about 170 AD, during the city's heyday. At the turn of the 3rd century, Gerasa could have reached up to 25,000 inhabitants.
3rd / 4th century
Turbulent times began in the 3rd century, and the building activity in Gerasa stopped to a large extent. The Roman Empire was shaken by internal struggles, and in its Eastern regions it was confronted, time and again, with military clashes with the Sasanian Empire (Persia).
From 390 to the Mid-4th century, the city wall -started between 50 and 75 AD- was fortified and extended. It used to enclose the ancient Gerasa on both banks of the Wadi Jerash, and was 3460 m long.
5th / 6th century
In the Byzantine Era, Christian sacred buildings were built throughout Jordan, but nowhere as splendid and numerous as in Gerasa, however older buildings were exploited for this purpose. The oldest church is the so-called cathedral, built 450-455 AD. Most of the church buildings in Gerasa date from the 6th century. The archaeologists have found a total of 19.
In 614 Gerasa was conquered by the Sassanids until they were defeated by the troops of the Byzantine ruler Heraclius in 629.
With the victory of the Muslim army in the Battle of Yarmouk in 636, the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Era ended in Transjordan, announcing the dawn of an Islamic Era.
Although there was some destruction in Gerasa during the conquests, it was a plague outbreak that most affected the city.
Gerasa continued existing, and was able to maintain certain prosperity through ceramic manufacture and its trade, among other things. Until the first half of the 8th century, numerous buildings were repurposed and new Umayyad buildings arose.
After the devastating earthquake of 747, the inhabitants abandoned the city. Medieval sources describe Gerasa as deserted.
The German traveler Ulrich Jasper Seetzen visited Gerasa and expressed his enthusiasm about the ruins.
On the orders of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Circassian people are settled in Gerasa, who used elements and materials from the ancient buildings to build their houses in the east of the city. But the part on the western bank of the river remained almost unoccupied and therefore well preserved.
The systematic archaeological research of Gerasa began with several years of Anglo-American excavations under the direction of Carl Hermann Kraeling.
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John, Elector of Saxony
John the Steadfeast, Elector of Saxony
Occupations Politician
Countries Germany
A.K.A. John of Saxony, John the Steadfast, John the Constant
Birth June 30, 1468 (Meissen, Meissen, Saxony, Germany)
Death August 16, 1532 (Schweinitz, Jessen, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt)
Mother: Elisabeth of BavariaElectress of Saxony
Father: ErnestElector of Saxony
Siblings: Frederick IIIElector of SaxonyErnest II of SaxonyAdalbert III of Saxony
Spouse: Sophie of MecklenburgMargaret of Anhalt-Köthen
Children: John Frederick IElector of SaxonyMaria of SaxonyDuchess of PomeraniaJohn ErnestDuke of Saxe-Coburg
Johann (30 June 1468 – 16 August 1532), known as Johann the Steadfast or Johann the Constant, was Elector of Saxony from 1525 until 1532. He was a member of the House of Wettin.
Born in Meissen, he was the fifth of the seven children of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and Elisabeth of Bavaria.
From 1486 onward he was the heir presumptive of his childless brother Frederick the Wise; when he died in 1525, Johann inherited the title of Elector. As his nickname "The Steadfast" indicates, he resolutely continued the policies of his brother toward protecting the progress of the Protestant Reformation. In 1527 the Lutheran Church was established as the state church in Ernestine Saxony, with the Elector as Chief Bishop. He was a leader of the Schmalkaldic League of Protestant states formed in 1530 to protect the Reformation. As his nickname betrayed, he had the same positive attitude as his brother to the Reformation. His steadfastness and his courage to stand to his confession probably brought him the most fame with his contemporaries. Christian beliefs were also the basis of his political decisions, which were regarded as very just. In political matters, however, he often hesitated. In his collaboration with Landgrave Philip of Hesse, with whom he was closely connected by virtue of his common denomination, Philip was the driving force and spoke out more for an aggressive foreign policy. John, on the other hand, was particularly concerned with the question of whether to defend himself as a Protestant against the Emperor.
As the patron of Martin Luther, Johann maintained a very close, almost friendly relationship with the leading theologian of the Protestants. Luther also often expressed a positive opinion about John. Especially for his behavior at the Augsburg Diet in 1530, he praised him very much: "I am sure that the Elector Johann of Saxony had the Holy Spirit. In Augsburg he proved this admirably by his confession. John said, "Tell my scholars that they are doing what is right, praise and honor God, and take no regard for me or my country." By his insistence on the Protestant profession of faith, he is even to dismiss the Protestant theologians that behave too compliantly to the emperor.
In 1527 the Evangelical-Lutheran League was founded, whose bishop was the elector. In 1529 he belonged to the princely representatives of the Protestant minority (protestation) at the Reichstag in Speyer.
In the almost 40 years that governed Johann as a duke over Kursachsen, he was often concealed by the person of his brother Friedrich, who, as the eldest of sex and the bearer of the kurhut, decisively determined the policy of the Saxons. Even in our time Johann is wrongly in the history and politics of Kursachsen at the beginning of the Reformation mostly in the background and finds in contrast to his brother Friedrich and his son and successor Johann Friedrich little attention in research and literature.
The Evangelical Church in Germany honors its significance for the Reformation, however, with a memorial day in the Evangelische Namenkalender on 16 August.
Guldengroschen of Saxony, c. 1508-1525. The obverse shows Johann's older brother, Frederick, while on the reverse, Johann is portrayed face to face with George, Duke of Saxony.
He died in Schweinitz. After his death he was, like his brother Frederick, buried in the famous Castle Church in Wittenberg with a grave by Hans Vischer. He was succeeded by his eldest son Johann Frederick.
Marriage and children
In Torgau on 1 March 1500 Johann married firstly Sophie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, daughter of Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg. They had one son:
Johann Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b. Torgau, 30 June 1503 – d. Weimar, 3 March 1554).
In Torgau on 13 November 1513 Johann married secondly Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen. They had four children:
Maria (b. Weimar, 15 December 1515 – d. Wolgast, 7 January 1583), married on 27 February 1536 to Duke Philip I of Pomerania-Wolgast
Margaret (b. Zwickau, 25 April 1518 – d. Liestal, Switzerland, 10 March 1545), married on 10 June 1536 to Hans Buser, Freiherr of Liestal.
John (b. and d. Weimar, 26 September 1519)
John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (b. Coburg, 10 May 1521 – d. Coburg, 8 February 1553).
Ancestors of John, Elector of Saxony
16. Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia
8. Frederick I, Elector of Saxony
17. Catherine of Henneberg-Schleusingen
4. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony
18. Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
9. Catherine of Brunswick
19. Sofie of Pomerania-Wolgast
2. Ernest, Elector of Saxony
20. Leopold III, Duke of Austria
10. Ernest, Duke of Austria
21. Viridis Visconti
5. Margaret of Austria
22. Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia
11. Cymburgis of Masovia
23. Alexandra of Lithuania
1. Johann, Elector of Saxony
24. John II, Duke of Bavaria
12. Ernest, Duke of Bavaria
25. Catherine of Gorizia
6. Albert III, Duke of Bavaria
26. Bernabò Visconti
13. Elisabetta Visconti
27. Beatrice della Scala
3. Elisabeth of Bavaria
28. Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
14. Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
29. Agnes of Brunswick
7. Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck
30. Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen
15. Elisabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen
31. ?either his 1st wife, Miroslawa of Holstein-Plön,
or his 2nd wife, Margaret of Jülich
Biography Marriage and children Ancestry
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Preview: "Johannesburg" from Art21 Season 9
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See the creative processes of artists David Goldblatt, Nicholas Hlobo, Zanele Muholi, and Robin Rhode in "Johannesburg"—the first of three new episodes from Season 9 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series. "Johannesburg" premiered September 21, 2018.
Feat. Creative Growth Art Center, Katy Grannan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, & Stephanie Syjuco.
Featuring Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Olafur Eliasson, Hiwa K, and Susan Philipsz.
Featuring artists David Goldblatt, Nicholas Hlobo, Zanele Muholi, and Robin Rhode.
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An Open Letter To ‘True Detective’ Creator Nic Pizzolatto
Dustin Rowles 03.27.14 5 years ago 78 Comments
I’m not a huge fan of the open letter conceit except in an ironic sense, but by addressing you specifically, Mr. Pizzolatto, I’m hoping that you’ll stumble across this as you’re writing your script for season two of True Detective and keep these thoughts in mind. Let me just preface this by saying that I was a little disappointed in the season finale earlier this month, but this is not a criticism. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It’s a celebration of the entire series.
See, the reason why I was a little disappointed in the finale is that I’m one of those “theory guys.” I jumped down deep into a rabbit hole and ultimately ended up creating expectations for the series finale that couldn’t probably be fulfilled. Among the theories I wrote about was the Five Horsemen theory, which turned out not to be entirely wrong, just not really the focus in the end. I actually do this sort of thing for several shows, notably Breaking Bad and Mad Men, because like True Detective, they’re smart, profound, and deep enough with subtext, allusion, and symbolism that they lend themselves to this kind of theorizing.
But here’s the thing: I get the sense that, in the beginning, you were having a lot of fun with the way the Internet was creating all of these theories, about Carcosa, and The Yellow King, and the Spaghetti Monster, and how we were overthinking the sh*t out of it. But as the series neared the end, I think you got a little hesitant about it, maybe a little worried, concerned that it would all backfire on you. This is why, I think, you pointed to the piece written by Uproxx’s own Andrew Roberts about how the point of the show was the characters, and not the mystery. The week before the finale, you also told Dan Harmon that you were contemplating leaving the country if the finale tanked. That wasn’t necessary.
Harmon was right in that interview to say that there’s “no way” for the True Detective finale to go wrong because, no matter what happened, we had an amazing, mind-blowing ride through seven episodes.
Some will say that chasing theories can be harmful, but I want to say this: For seven episodes of True Detective, I’ve rarely had more fun experiencing a television show. I learned so much about Robert Chambers, The King in Yellow, about H.P. Lovecraft, and Cthulhu. I learned about satanic cults, and I learned about the culture of Louisiana, and I read an amazing piece by Ethan Brown on the Jeff Davis 8 that rocked my worldview (a piece that will soon be expanded into a book). Like many on the Internet, I might have gotten carried away, but in getting carried away, I learned more about literature, and movies, Louisiana, and filmmaking, that it didn’t matter in the end that I was a little disappointed in the finale. True Detective was like a really f**king awesome college course taught by yourself, McConaughey, Harrelson, and Cary Fukunaga. And there were even boobs. Best. College Course. Ever.
I could say the same thing for Mad Men and Breaking Bad, too. Like True Detective, they allowed us to use those liberal arts degrees that have sat dormant. All that literature we read and studied finally seemed to be useful, because it allowed us to make connections within those shows. Those connections didn’t always line up correctly in the end, but that was hardly the point. Instead of watching television, we get to experience it now. We engage with it. I learned more about Sergio Leone from Vince Gilligan and Breaking Bad than I learned in all my college film courses. When you can bring literature, and movies, and color theory, and archetypes, and cultural allusions to bear on television show, it brings so much more to the experience. It makes it more challenging, and ultimately more rewarding. This is why television is so great now, because it asks us to f**king think.
It’s been close to a month since the True Detective finale, and already my disappointment in the finale has waned. This is what I remember most about the series: Matthew McConaughey’s amazing performance, that incredible tracking shot, Carcosa, the Yellow King, Patton Oswalt’s obsession with the series, and everything I learned about Louisiana, and about gothic literature. But mostly, what I remember is what a goddamn blast I had watching the series, and staying up at nights thinking about it, and getting dozens and dozens of emails from other people who couldn’t sleep because they were working on their own theories.
So that’s what I want to say, as you prepare for season two: Don’t hold back. Don’t worry that the viewers are going to take something that you wrote and turn it into something else. Don’t worry that we’ll make the wrong connections. Don’t hesitate to get heavy with literary references (although, it’d be nice if you referred to something better than The King in Yellow because that was kind of an impenetrable, boring mess). We’re probably going to chase theories no matter what you do, as long as the show is good enough, smart enough, and deep enough to lend itself to it. It’s OK if the finale falls flat. We’re not going to blame you for that, we’re going to celebrate you for continuing to raise the level of television, and for continuing to make it so engaging for us at home.
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Google needs Workio
Last week, almost lost in the now-normal insanity of the news cycle, the New York Times ran a damning story about sexual misconduct by senior executives at Google. While the headline focused on Andy Rubin, father of Android, the rest of the story lays out a pattern of high-ranking male executives having ‘consensual’ relationships with subordinates, often as extramarital affairs.
Along with Andy Rubin, the NYT story names Sergey Brin (Google’s co-founder), Eric Schmidt (former CEO and later Chairman of Google), David Drummond (now Chief Legal Officer at Alphabet, Google’s parent company), Richard DeVaul (director at Google X), and Amit Singhal (former SVP of search at Google). Their misdemeanours are varied and extensive, and you should read the detailed and well-reported article for the full, depressing stories.
The theme that comes out of all of the stories in the article is the minimal negative consequences for the men involved.
Andy Rubin received a huge payoff and a glowing reference from Larry Page (who is also named in the story as having had a ‘consensual’ relationship with Marissa Meyer, one of Google’s early employees). According to the New York Times, Rubin was asked to resign due to his sexual misconduct, as was Amit Singhal (who received a generous payoff too). David Drummond remains at Alphabet, while his former lover and mother of his child Jennifer Blakely was moved out of the legal department and left Google altogether a year after their relationship came to light. Richard DeVaul remains at Google X despite inviting a job candidate – not even a Google employee! – to Burning Man in 2013 and pressuring her into inappropriate physical contact.
All this is pretty shocking, especially given Google’s outward appearance of being a ‘great place to work’. The company regularly tops polls as such. If this kind of activity is part of normal operations at a company that is so well regarded, we can only imagine how bad things are at other employers.
This is why Google (and the world) needs Workio.
Hearing the voices of employees is difficult at the best of times. In scenarios such as those described above, where junior employees are routinely targeted for inappropriate sexual relationships by senior executives, we cannot expect those junior employees to raise issues within the corporate confines of a people operations team that is clearly unwilling or incapable of protecting them from abuses of power within their company.
Workio’s model anonymously gathers data about the experience of workers compared to their preferences, and factors in relative importance of different factors for employees. We provide breakdowns of our company culture data by gender, age, ethnic background, seniority, tenure, team or department, and physical location while always maintaining the anonymity of individual employees.
For example, our data would uncover areas of a company where women in junior positions feel that relationships with the people they work with are overly friendly, or not as formal as they would prefer, which could be warning signs of inappropriate behaviour to be addressed.
Our approach also provides insight into general culture experience of these different groups, which can be used as a diagnostic to understand why women might be self-selecting out of a company culture, which appears to be a significant driver of the gender pay gap in the UK and the US.
If a culture is antagonistic to particular groups then it is bound to push them out, which means those groups will be less well represented in more senior ranks as they do not stick around to gain promotions into senior positions over time.
Google need better information about what is happening in their own company, although the tenor of the approach at the top of the company regarding senior-junior workplace relationships means it is tough to believe they are willing to take a clear view of their culture and to make a fundamental change.
However, if they really do want to change, Workio could help. We hope they’ll give us a call.
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13 Apr — 29 Jun 2019 at the Buchmann Galerie in Lugano, Switzerland
Martin Disler. Courtesy of Buchmann Galerie
The exhibition space Buchmann Lugano presents Saturday April 13 starting from 5 pm the solo show by the Swiss artist Martin Disler (1949-1996). The gallery, since 2012 curates the Estate of Disler and presents on this occasion a selection of works on paper and pottery.
Born in 1949 in Seewen, he began to exhibit in Switzerland and abroad since the 1970s. His first solo show at the Kunsthalle Basel in 1980 entitled Invasion durch eine falsche Sprache, marks a turning point in the artist's career. The same year he took part at the Venice Art Biennale, in 1982 at Documenta 7 in Kassel and in 1984 in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York gaining popularity internationally.
Martin Disler, self-taught artist, driven by an incessant and frenetic creativity, has investigated themes such as death and life, frequently represented in an almost obsessive way. A gestural painting, sometimes impulsive, others more controlled and soft, characterizes his entire work.
He lived in New York, Amsterdam, Milan, Zurich, Lugano and Les Planchettes. Disappeared at only 47 years old, he leaves behind a rich artistic production including: sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints, poems and writings, preserved today in his archive in Basel.
Currently, Die Umgebung der Liebe created in 1981 for the Stuttgarter Kunstverein, and acquired in 2006 by the Gottfried Keller Stiftung, is now exhibited for the first time in its entirety at the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur (until 26 May 2019).
Tony Cragg's Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden has recently opened a Disler’s exhibition of bronze sculptures by the Häutung und Tanz group, made in 1991/92 in the Besso atelier at that time and merged into the sub-foundries, (until 16 June 2019).
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Review: Kung Fu
March 27, 2014 ~ wgc107
Kung Fu, the latest play from David Henry Hwang, scores big points on fluid action and amazingly choreographed martial arts, but the script still leaves a viewer wanting for more.
The play follows Bruce Lee (Cole Horibe) in his early days as a childhood martial arts star in Hong Kong through his struggles in trying to make it in the mainstream American media. Along the way, we meet the most seminal figures in his life, wife Linda (Phoebe Strole), father Hoi-Chuen (Francis Jue), and son Brandon (Bradley Fong).
More so than an average play, there needs to be an aura of credibility for the main character’s martial arts ability, and Horibe certainly possesses it. His martial arts skill, along with all of the other cast members, is at a high level, and the scenes are choreographed so well, you’d think that you were watching an old Hong Kong action film. There are plenty of action scenes throughout the play and all of them are thoroughly enjoyable. These scenes, in and of themselves, make the production a worthwhile show.
But the script has some serious issues. To start, there is an utter lack of chemistry between Linda and Bruce. With the way the play is written, I’m not actually sure what she sees in him. On their first date, Bruce spends all of his time talking about his favorite topic: Himself. And yet, she completely falls for him, which comes off more as puzzling and forced. While we all know that they ended up together, the play doesn’t really sell the idea of why, instead preferring to fast forward to their abrupt marriage. That dooms their storyline from the start.
Later in the play, Linda is forced to take a job during the night hours to keep up with a near impossible mortgage now that Bruce is out of work. Instead of taking jobs that would bring in steady income, Bruce turns them down because he’s not willing to kowtow to Hollywood’s stereotypes of Asians. While it’s certainly a noble cause in some respect, in letting his ego get in the way, he forces misery on Linda rather than letting his friends know that he’s in financial trouble.
We all get that Lee is being portrayed as an egomaniac (and by many accounts, he was) and this is far from a reverential look at Lee, but why does Linda put up with this? She did in real life. And, in real life, she must have had good reason. That reason is never revealed to us in the script.
This makes Linda’s character one of the least dynamic, uninteresting characters I’ve encountered. While I do think Strole does an admirable job as Linda with what she’s given to work with, the reality is, she’s not given too much other than being an obedient wife. Surely, there must be more to her.
The other relationship that is explored is cause for some pause, as well. Bruce carries a lot of anger with him because of his strained relationship with his father. While a disorderly relationship with a parental figure can certainly be a driving force (especially among Chinese families), the play doesn’t really convey why Bruce took his hatred of his father to such an extreme.
While his father seems to follow the prototypical strict patriarch we’ve come to know about Asian parents, he’s never seen physically abusing Bruce or neglecting him in any way. If anything, he’s fairly supportive as far as Chinese fathers go, paying for his martial arts training and sending him to elite educational institutions. Initially, his father throws up some resistance to the idea of Bruce becoming an actor and wants him to return to China, but is that really a reason not to attend your father’s funeral?
While this could have been the actual reason, I didn’t find it to be particularly believable. Perhaps more exploration into their relationship would’ve yielded more believable results. As it stands, their relationship was more of a caricature and it comes off as a recycled storyline we’ve seen in every play exploring the dynamics of an Asian family.
Then again, no one really watches Kung Fu movies for the plot lines, and maybe that’s how we should treat this play. I can’t remember what the plot of Enter the Dragon was, but I can certainly remember Bruce Lee making short work of O’Hara. If you enjoy martial arts and theater, this production is worth your time.
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Sean Carroll & Tim Blais: Physics Conundrums and the Big Picture
Posted on Wednesday, Jul 26, 2017 12:32PM Sunday, December 30, 2018 by S. Abbas Raza
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The G20’s Misguided Globalism
Posted on Wednesday, Jul 26, 2017 12:29PM Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Robin Varghese
Dani Rodrik in Project Syndicate:
The G20 has its origins in two ideas, one relevant and important, the other false and distracting. The relevant and important idea is that developing and emerging market economies such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and China have become too significant to be excluded from discussions about global governance. While the G7 has not been replaced – its last summit was held in May in Sicily – G20 meetings are an occasion to expand and broaden the dialogue.
The G20 was created in 1999, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. Developed countries initially treated it as an outreach forum, where they would help developing economies raise financial and monetary management to the developed world’s standards. Over time, developing countries found their own voice and have played a larger role in crafting the group’s agenda. In any case, the 2008 global financial crisis emanating from the United States, and the subsequent eurozone debacle, made a mockery of the idea that developed countries had much useful knowledge to impart on these matters.
The second, less useful idea underpinning the G20 is that solving the pressing problems of the world economy requires ever more intense cooperation and coordination at the global level. The analogy frequently invoked is that the world economy is a “global commons”: either all countries do their share to contribute to its upkeep, or they will all suffer the consequences.
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
Kate Raworth in Aeon:
'Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, the bestselling board game that has taught generations of children to buy up property, stack it with hotels, and charge fellow players sky-high rents for the privilege of accidentally landing there.
The game’s little-known inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would no doubt have made herself go directly to jail if she’d lived to know just how influential today’s twisted version of her game has turned out to be. Why? Because it encourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those she intended to champion.
Born in 1866, Magie was an outspoken rebel against the norms and politics of her times. She was unmarried into her 40s, independent and proud of it, and made her point with a publicity stunt. Taking out a newspaper advertisement, she offered herself as a ‘young woman American slave’ for sale to the highest bidder. Her aim, she told shocked readers, was to highlight the subordinate position of women in society. ‘We are not machines,’ she said. ‘Girls have minds, desires, hopes and ambition.’
In addition to confronting gender politics, Magie decided to take on the capitalist system of property ownership – this time not through a publicity stunt but in the form of a board game. The inspiration began with a book that her father, the anti-monopolist politician James Magie, had handed to her. In the pages of Henry George’s classic, Progress and Poverty (1879), she encountered his conviction that ‘the equal right of all men to use the land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air – it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence’.
Girls behind the lens: Zaatari refugee camp
Global Extreme Poverty
Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina over at Our World in Data:
The most important conclusion from the evidence presented in this entry is that extreme poverty, as measured by consumption, has been going down around the world in the last two centuries. But why should we care? Is it not the case that poor people might have less consumption but enjoy their lives just as much—or even more—than people with much higher consumption levels?
One way to find out is to simply ask. Subjective views are an important way of measuring welfare.
This is what the Gallup Organization did. The Gallup World Poll asked people around the world what they thought about their standard of living—not only about their income. The following chart compares the answers of people in different countries with the average income in those countries. It shows that, broadly speaking, people living in poorer countries tend to be less satisfied with their living standards.
Dissatisfaction with standard of living vs GDP per capita
This suggests that economic prosperity is not a vain, unimportant goal but rather a means for a better life. The correlation between rising incomes and higher self-reported life satisfaction is shown in our entry on happiness.
This is more than a technical point about how to measure welfare. It is an assertion that matters for how we understand and interpret development.
First, the smooth relationship between income and subjective well-being highlights the difficulties that arise from using a fixed threshold above which people are abruptly considered to be non-poor. In reality, subjective well-being does not suddenly improve above any given poverty line. This makes using a fixed poverty line to define destitution as a binary ‘yes/no’ problematic. Therefore, while the International Poverty Line is useful for understanding the changes in living conditions of the very poorest of the world, we must also take into account higher poverty lines reflecting the fact that living conditions at higher thresholds can still be destitute.
And second, the fact that people with very low incomes tend to be dissatisfied with their living standards shows that it would be incorrect to take a romantic view on what ‘life in poverty’ is like. As the data shows, there is just no empirical evidence that would suggest that living with very low consumption levels is romantic.
Chocolate Can Protect Our Brains
Posted on Wednesday, Jul 26, 2017 5:54AM Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Azra Raza
Sheherzad Preisler in OliveOilTimes:
A research team based at Italy’s University of L’Aquila have published a new study that says cocoa beans contain high concentrations of flavanols, which are naturally-occurring compounds that can protect our brains. The team, whose findings were published in Frontiers in Nutrition, reviewed current scientific literature in the hopes of finding out if the sustained concentrations of cocoa flavanols found in regular chocolate-eaters had any effect on the brain. What the team found was a breadth of trials in which participants that regularly consumed chocolate processed visual information better and had improved “working memories.” Furthermore, women who consumed cocoa after a sleepless night saw a reversal of negative side effects that come from sleep deprivation, such as compromised task performance. This could be great for those who work particularly stressful jobs that compromise one’s sleep as well as those with recurring sleep issues.
Diets such as the Mediterranean diet encourage the consumption of chocolate in moderation, and this study further supports such suggestions. However, the results should be taken with a grain of salt: the positive effects from cocoa flavanols differed based on the variety of the mental tests. For young adults who were in good health, they needed a very intense cognition test to expose cocoa’s immediate benefits. Most research on this subject to date generally involves elderly populations who have consumed cocoa flavanols from anywhere between five days and three months. For this population, daily consumption of cocoa flavanols had the most positive profound effect on their cognition, improving their verbal fluency, processing speed, and attention span. The benefits were most noticeable in subjects whose cognitive abilities had minor damage or whose memories had previously begun to decline.
Two people drive drunk at night: one kills a pedestrian, one doesn’t. Does the unlucky killer deserve more blame or not?
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 25, 2017 5:16PM Sunday, December 30, 2018 by S. Abbas Raza
Robert J Hartman in Aeon:
There is a contradiction in our ordinary ideas about moral responsibility. Let’s explore it by considering two examples. Killer, our first character, is at a party and drives home drunk. At a certain point in her journey, she swerves, hits the curb, and kills a pedestrian who was on the curb. Merely Reckless, our second character, is in every way exactly like Killer but, when she swerves and hits a curb, she kills no one. There wasn’t a pedestrian on the curb for her to kill. The difference between Killer and Merely Reckless is a matter of luck.
Does Killer deserve more blame – that is, resentment and indignation – than Merely Reckless? Or, do Killer and Merely Reckless deserve the same degree of blame? We feel a pull to answer ‘yes’ to both questions. Let’s consider why.
On the one hand, we believe that Killer deserves more blame than Merely Reckless, because it’s only Killer who causes the death of a pedestrian. Plausibly, a person can deserve extra blame for a bad result of her action that she reasonably could have been expected to foresee, and causing the death of a pedestrian by driving drunk is that kind of bad consequence. So, even though they deserve an equal degree of blame for their callous and reckless driving, Killer deserves more blame overall, because only Killer’s foreseeable moral risk turns out badly.
On the other hand, we believe that Killer and Merely Reckless must deserve the same degree of blame, because luck is the only difference between them, and luck, most of us think, cannot affect the praise and blame a person deserves. It would be unfair for Killer to deserve more blame due merely to what happened to her, because moral judgment is about a person and not what happens to her. So, they must deserve the same degree of blame.
In summary, our commonsense ideas about moral responsibility imply the contradiction that Killer and Merely Reckless do and do not deserve the same amount of resentment and indignation. More generally, our commonsense ideas about moral responsibility have the paradoxical implication that luck in results can and cannot affect how much praise and blame a person deserves.
Nevertheless, the vexation runs deeper. Luck clearly affects the results of actions but, less obviously, as I’ll demonstrate, luck can also affect actions themselves.
10,000 Hours With Claude Shannon: How A Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni in The Mission:
For the last five years, we lived with one of the most brilliant people on the planet.
See, we just published the biography of Dr. Claude Shannon. He’s the most important genius you’ve never heard of, a man whose intellect was on par with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton.
We spent five years with him. It’s not an exaggeration to say that, during that period, we spent more time with the deceased Claude Shannon than we have with many of our living friends. He became something like the roommate in the spare bedroom of our minds, the guy who was always hanging around and occupying our head space.
Yes, we were the ones telling his story, but in telling it, he affected us, too. Geniuses have a unique way of engaging with the world, and if you spend enough time examining their habits, you discover the behaviors behind their brilliance. Whether or not we intended it to, understanding Claude Shannon’s life gave us lessons on how to better live our own.
That’s what follows in this essay. It’s the good stuff our roommate left behind.
Sean Carroll: Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function
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‘Make It So’: ‘Star Trek’ and Its Debt to Revolutionary Socialism
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 25, 2017 1:33PM Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Robin Varghese
A.M. Gittlitz in the NYT:
Gorky was a fan of the Cosmism of Nikolai Fyodorov and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a scientific and mystical philosophy proposing space exploration and human immortality. When Lenin died four years after meeting with Wells, the futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky’s line “Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live Forever!” became not only a state slogan, but also a scientific goal. These Biocosmist-Immortalists, as they were known, believed that socialist scientists, freed from the constraints of the capitalist profit motive, would discover how to abolish death and bring back their comrades. Lenin’s corpse remains preserved for the occasion.
Bogdanov died in the course of his blood-sharing experiments, and other futurist dreams were sidelined by the industrial and militarist priorities that led up to World War II. In the postwar period, however, scientists inspired by Cosmism launched Sputnik. The satellite’s faint blinking in the night sky signaled an era of immense human potential to escape all limitations natural and political, with the equal probability of destroying everything in a matter of hours.
Feeding on this tension, science fiction and futurism entered their “golden age” by the 1950s and ’60s, both predicting the bright future that would replace the Cold War. Technological advances would automate society; the necessity of work would fade away. Industrial wealth would be distributed as a universal basic income, and an age of leisure and vitality would follow. Humans would continue to voyage into space, creating off-Earth colonies and perhaps making new, extraterrestrial friends in the process. In a rare 1966 collaboration across the Iron Curtain, the astronomer Carl Sagan co-wrote “Intelligent Life in the Universe” with Iosif Shklovosky. This work of astrobiological optimism proposed that humans attempt to contact their galactic neighbors.
criticizing rorty’s critics
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 25, 2017 9:29AM Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Morgan Meis
María Pía Lara at the LARB:
Why then was Rorty ever considered a relativist? Here is one answer: Throughout his career, Rorty was against prescriptions, against thinking that he could provide us with universal foundations or discoveries. Instead, he sought to recover the successes of labor unions and other leftist organizations. This included younger leftists, who engaged in social disobedience, after seeing anticommunism being used as an excuse to destroy innocent people in southeast Asia. Rorty maintained that the killing of civilians and soldiers in Vietnam was morally indefensible and that the war had ended up degrading the morals of the United States. Moreover, he claimed, that the political effectiveness of the antiwar movements would give hope to future generations.
Rorty often cited the contributions of pragmatists like John Dewey or William James, whose essays he compared to Walt Whitman’s poetry, because they were aware that it is in the making of something — a movement, a concept, a turn of a phrase to describe our world — rather than in finding “truths,” that we articulate social and political changes for the better. He observed that both writers believed that “democracy” and “the project of America” was “a political construction” and could be taken as “convertible,” that is, “equivalent” terms.
What does Jane Austen mean to you?
Geoff Dyer and many others at the TLS:
We did Emma for A Level, so it was one of the first serious novels I ever read. In a sense, then, Jane Austen is literature to me. She was not just one of the first novelists I read but also the oldest, i.e. earliest. You can start further back, of course, but romping through Tom Jones feels like a bit of a waste of olde time in the way that Persuasion never does. I associate reading Austen with a consciousness of the gap between my limited life experience – swilling beer, basically – and the expanded grasp of the psychological subtleties and nuances of situations and relationships that her books gradually revealed. But I’m conscious also of a different kind of gap: that between the riches afforded by the novels and the tedium of the criticism served up alongside them. Macmillan Casebooks – anthologies of critical essays – were the default educational tools even though most of the pieces in the one on Emma are complete dross. The process whereby “doing English” morphed into “doing criticism” began with Austen and continued all the way through university. Was this a purposeful deterrent? George Steiner is right: the best critical essay on Jane Austen is Middlemarch.
Whereas my head is full of Shakespeare, only a few lines from Austen have stayed with me – the very ones, predictably, that had us smirking at school: “Anne had always found such a style of intercourse highly imprudent” (Persuasion), or Mr Elton “making violent love” to Emma in a carriage.
was Billy Budd black?
Philip Hoare at The New Statesman:
Was Billy Budd, the Handsome Sailor at the heart of the book, black? Scholars such as John Bryant believe that there is internal evidence in the manuscript of the book – found in a bread tin after Melville’s death in 1891 and not published until 1924 – that the author had played with the idea of making his hero a man of African heritage. Billy is loved by all the crew and is described as blond and blue-eyed later in the story. Yet the sensuous descriptions of the Liverpool sailor and the Greenwich veteran elide to create a counterfactual version in which Billy becomes a black star at the centre of his constellation of shipmates.
Indeed, some critics – most notably, Cassandra Pybus at the University of Sydney – have suggested that another 19th-century anti-hero was a person of colour. In Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, two years before Melville’s visit, Heathcliff is described as a “regular black”, an orphan found in the Liverpool docks – an intriguing notion explored in Andrea Arnold’s brilliant 2011 film adaptation.
Melville witnessed great changes in the fortunes of black Americans. Moby-Dick is an allegory of the struggle against slavery in the run-up to the American Civil War; the Melville scholar Robert K Wallace believes that the writer heard the fugitive slave-turned-emancipationist Frederick Douglass speak in the 1840s and that they may have even met.
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 25, 2017 9:19AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Jim Culleny
Tinfoil
o aluminium roll,
o silver scroll
confined in
this cupboard,
bound in cardboard,
restrained behind
a jagged blade that tears
lengths away to mute
the bowls and
jars of the fridge —
o small,
spare life.
I would free it, the tinfoil. I’d lift it from its cabinet and make
a river of it, a smooth, grey sheen released through the house.
At the summit of the stairs, the source would spurt up
from Gougane Barra, setting a mountain stream to gush, and I’d lift it
and give it a push, I’d let the bright waters of the Lee flow down
the slope, to run a silver ribbon through the hall. Under the bridge
of a couch, I’d watch shadows of salmon and brown trout swim in
and out of riverweed. On a moonlit night, a man might stand there
with his son, the light of their torches poaching the waters. If the child
whispered “Oh look, the river’s smooth as tin foil!” his father
would hush him quickly, finger to lip, and turn to choose a hook.
The waters would surge onwards, swirling under doors to the city
-kitchen. Where gulls screech and shriek high, I would thrust swifter
currents that’d make islands of table legs and riverbanks of walls.
I’d give the river a voice to hum through the culverts that run under
cupboards, making of itself a lilting city song, its waters speckled
with gloom-shadows of mullet. I would put a single seal there,
lost, and make a red-haired girl the only person who’d see him.
I would tug that river back, then, the weight of all its stories
dragging after it, and haul it in loud armfuls all the way back to me.
Shrunken,
crumpled,
torn, I’d
fold it, then,
and close
it back in
its press
by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
from Oighear
publisher: Coiscéim, Dublin, 2017
Translation: 2017, Doireann Ní Ghríofa
First published on Poetry International, 2017
The New Science of Daydreaming
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 25, 2017 5:47AM Sunday, December 30, 2018 by Azra Raza
Michael Harris in Discover:
“I’m sorry, Julie, but it’s just a fact — people are terrified of being in their heads,” I say. “I read this study where subjects chose to give themselves electric shocks rather than be alone with their own thoughts.” It’s the summer of 2015 and the University of British Columbia’s half-vacated grounds droop with bloom. Julie — an old friend I’ve run into on campus — gives me a skeptical side-eye and says she’s perfectly capable of being alone with her thoughts. Proving her point, she wanders out of the rose garden in search of caffeine. I glower at the plants. The study was a real one. It was published in 2014 in Science and was authored by University of Virginia professor Timothy D. Wilson and his team. Their research revealed that, left in our own company, most of us start to lose it after six to 15 minutes. The shocks are preferable, despite the pain, because anything — anything — is better than what the human brain starts getting up to when left to its own devices.
Or so we assume.
What the brain in fact gets up to in the absence of antagonizing external stimuli (buzzing phones, chirping people) is daydreaming. I am purposefully making it sound benign. Daydreaming is such a soft term. And yet it refers to a state of mind that most of us — myself included — have learned to suppress like a dirty thought. Perhaps we suppress it out of fear that daydreaming is related to the sin of idle hands. From at least medieval times onward, there’s been a steady campaign against idleness, that instigator of evil. Today, in the spaces where I used to daydream, those interstitial moments on a bus, in the shower, or out on a walk, I’m hounded by a guilt and quiet desperation — a panicked need to block my mind from wandering too long on its own. The mind must be put to use.
England’s Mental Health Experiment: It makes economic sense
Benedict Carey in The New York Times:
England is in the midst of a unique national experiment, the world’s most ambitious effort to treat depression, anxiety and other common mental illnesses.
The rapidly growing initiative, which has gotten little publicity outside the country, offers virtually open-ended talk therapy free of charge at clinics throughout the country: in remote farming villages, industrial suburbs, isolated immigrant communities and high-end enclaves. The goal is to eventually create a system of primary care for mental health not just for England but for all of Britain. At a time when many nations are debating large-scale reforms to mental health care, researchers and policy makers are looking hard at England’s experience, sizing up both its popularity and its limitations. Mental health care systems vary widely across the Western world, but none have gone nearly so far to provide open-ended access to talk therapies backed by hard evidence. Experts say the English program is the first broad real-world test of treatments that have been studied mostly in carefully controlled lab conditions. The demand in the first several years has been so strong it has strained the program’s resources. According to the latest figures, the program now screens nearly a million people a year, and the number of adults in England who have recently received some mental health treatment has jumped to one in three from one in four and is expected to continue to grow. Mental health professionals also say the program has gone a long way to shrink the stigma of psychotherapy in a nation culturally steeped in stoicism. “You now actually hear young people say, ‘I might go and get some therapy for this,’” said Dr. Tim Kendall, the clinical director for mental health for the National Health Service. “You’d never, ever hear people in this country say that out in public before.”
The enormous amount of data collected through the program has shown the importance of a quick response after a person’s initial call and of a triage-like screening system in deciding a course of treatment. It will potentially help researchers and policy makers around the world to determine which reforms can work — and which most likely will not. “It’s not just that they’re enhancing access to care, but that they’re being accountable for the care that’s delivered,” said Karen Cohen, chief executive of the Canadian Psychological Association, which has been advocating a similar system in Canada. “That is what makes the effort so innovative and extraordinary.”
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Our Vision & Strategy
Joe Crawford
The Prayer of a Lifetime — Answered!
I have long hoped for an opportunity to be a part of getting the Bible into the hands of a people group that had never had one in their own language. That prayer was finally answered this month. This is how it happened.
We at Amazon Vision Ministries received an invitation by the chief of a Mayorunan tribe deep in the west Amazon Basin to come to their village. This resulted from working sixteen years in the West Basin among the Ribeirinho people and sharing the good things of God’s Grace – the gospel, medicine, dental care and more. AVM is a trusted organization and has been open to ministry to the Indigenous.
The invitation came when one of our teams were in the area of the Mayoruna tribes and met the Chief’s son. He invited us back to the village to build relationships and teach stories from God’s Word. We began to pray for God’s direction.
The plans involved creating the right team, making the right preparations, and deciding on strategy. Understanding cultural mores, making practical logistical decisions such as transportation by small float plane into the area, preparing for safety concerns and packing well were all part of the careful planning. All this was done over the span of a year and the team of five from four US states met at the airport in Bogota Colombia. From there the adventure began as we flew into Leticia, Colombia, crossed over into Tabatinga, Brazil, then by boat taxi to Benjamin Constant. It was at this point that we were to be flown into the village two and a half hours into the basin jungle. But God’s plans differed from ours.
To our disappointment the news came just a few days before our departure – we would not be allowed into the Mayorunan tribe protected within the indigenous area. We soon discovered there were multiple reasons why not. Trust had been broken by others (foreigners) who had made promises that were not kept, and there were complicated issues with FUNAI, the government agency assigned the responsibility to protect and provide for the indigenous peoples. A meeting was set up for us to attend with the hopes of reversing the news.
The first meeting was not encouraging. We traveled by “fast boat” from Tabatinga to Benjamin Constant to catch another “fast boat” through small tributaries into the interior town of Atalaia do Norte. To our surprise, we were met by a representative of FUNAI. The new acquaintance was to serve as translator and mediator for our meeting with the Mayoruna.
Greetings were given and our appreciation for their willingness to meet with us expressed. Their frustration, suspicion and lack of trust was shared openly and honestly. (This is a story in itself for another time.) It was an insightful three-hour discussion which was translated in three languages, English, Portuguese, and Mayorunan, with leaders representing four groups, FUNAI, the Mayoruna, the Matses and our team. There were multiple issues; our hope of forming a meaningful relationship with the Mayoruna and delivering the Bible translated in their own language, a Bible they had never seen or held, was weighing in the balance and seemed to be fading fast.
We held to this hope – the Chief himself had traveled two days and two nights by canoe to meet with us personally. In addition, his brother and one of his six sons joined him. We had the opportunity to speak face-to-face, offer our regret for the broken promises and confusion that others had left behind and ask which ways we might truly be helpful.
The Chief spoke and made a simple yet life-and-death request – could we provide powdered anti-venom for snake bites that too often take the life of his people. We learned from those sitting among us that it could be purchased in Leticia, Columbia. We promised two vials and made a quiet commitment among ourselves to do everything we could to double the quantity. We made plans to return in three days to continue the conversation and deliver the anti-venom. As the meeting concluded and we headed back, the following reflections lingered: the transparency of our conversation, the willingness to learn from one another and seek to help in ways that would not harm, and finally – their willingness to meet with us again and continue the discussion.
Three days later we made the same river trek back to Atalaia do Norte. We were met by our FUNAI mediator again. This time the Chief brought his wife and three sons along with other leaders. We were hopeful.
I greeted the Chief telling him we had a couple of gifts – the first of which I would ask the leader of our team to give him. He remained seated as she placed 4 vials of anti-venom in his hands. His face lit up and to our surprise he stood and reached out to her with a warm embrace.
I then told him we had five Bibles in his language – the Word of God – the God who loved him and his people so much that He gave his own son to die for their sin and reconcile them to Himself. The mediator who had served as one of our translators interrupted and said with firmness, “We are here to talk about projects, ways you may help the people - put your Bibles away and let’s talk business.” Preaching the Gospel to the indigenous is illegal unless otherwise requested by the tribal leader. The FUNAI representative was doing his job and enforcing the law. There was nothing we could do but sit with their Bibles on our laps.
We sorted through options of how we might best serve this Mayorunan tribe. It was settled when the Chief spoke and invited the team to his village. The time was set for spring of 2019. They offered to teach us the traditional ways of their culture and their day-to-day life and work. They wanted to build relationships and asked if we would like to assist them in rebuilding their maloca (communal home) and share the Word of God at night around the fire. We agreed and put what was communicated in writing, signed by all parties.
We had been drinking strong, (very strong) sugared coffee. I explained our “toasting” tradition. They soon understood and our toasting turned into a moment of trust, fellowship and celebration!
Then it happened! One of the sons of the Chief stood and said, please give us the Bibles. And to our utter amazement the mediator said, “Can I have one?” Our quick reply, “of course!” They took the Bibles and became enthralled reading God’s Word! They would not put them down!
What an amazing moment to see the faces of an indigenous tribe who saw for the first time and held in their hand the Word of God. God had answered my prayer of a lifetime. He had answered the prayer of our team, as well as the prayers of those of you who have prayed for us. He answered in a much greater way than we could have ever imagined. You see, instead of spending our time in one village, we met with leaders that influenced eleven Mayorunan tribes, as well as the Matses and Ticuna people and set up a platform for ministry in the city of Atalaia.
This article hardly does justice to our experience. But the point is clear. Getting the Bible in the language of the people – to the people – is the commission of our Lord and the history of our Christian faith. This was a unique privilege the Lord granted as a part of AVM at work in the basin since 2002.
Yes, it was taxing. The travel was challenging (especially the emergency landing on our trip home), spiritual battles of various sorts, the bugs and bites, the heat and rain, different food items, the language barrier, but isn’t the Christian faith about facing our challenges with purpose and faith?
Such mission involvement presses spiritual growth, to love those who are different in so many ways, to move outside of our comfort zone (one of our greatest spiritual battles as western Christians), and to trust the Lord at a deeper level for safety, effectiveness in ministry and with those back home whom we love and miss. As scripture says:
“Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!” – Hebrews 12:1-3 MSG
I want to thank all of you who were a part of this great accomplishment. It took each of us to see the miraculous work of translation and delivery of God’s Word to an ancient indigenous people. My heart is deeply grateful.
We were invited back next spring for a unique six-day opportunity in this Mayorunan village. A new set of challenges filled with excitement – “we’d better get on with it”.
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Battleground Florida: Both parties prepare for 2020 fight
By: ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press
Updated: Jun 17, 2019 - 7:55 AM
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump's early strength in Florida on the night of the 2016 election was the first sign that he was about to score an upset victory. In an otherwise bleak 2018 for the GOP, the state was again a bright spot for Republicans who won the governor's mansion and flipped a Senate seat.
But as another campaign heats up, Democrats aren't ceding the Sunshine State.
Though the state has trended, by the narrowest of margins, toward Republicans in recent elections, both parties are mobilizing for a fierce and expensive battle in Florida.
Democratic candidates, including early front-runner Joe Biden, have visited the state to tap donors and connect with voters, and will come to Miami later this month for their first round of debates.
Trump returns on Tuesday for his latest reelection announcement. In anticipation, a Democratic super political action committee, Priorities USA, is beginning a six-figure digital advertising effort to "help cut through his noise and give voters a look at the truth about Trump's policies."
The attention is a recognition that, despite its expensive media markets and polarized politics, neither party can ignore Florida.
For Trump, there are few ways for him to remain in the White House without keeping Florida's 29 electoral votes. For Democrats, a win here would validate the party's emphasis on building diverse coalitions, not to mention all but obliterate Trump's reelection prospects.
Florida Democrats say it's wrong to interpret recent election results as the state slipping away.
"I don't think we're red. I don't think we're purple. I think we're simply unorganized," said former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor who lost by fewer than 33,000 votes.
Gillum's race was one of several in recent years decided by a tiny sliver of the electorate, leaving the state a veritable graveyard of broken Democratic dreams.
Earlier this year, he launched Forward Florida, a political group meant to help Democrats retake the state in 2020, to keep Florida from being left by the wayside as Democrats try to sort out how the Trump-era political realignment has remade the presidential map.
While both parties seem convinced of the importance of the upper Midwest, fresh questions are being raised over whether the path to the White House must still run through other long-standing battlegrounds and whether others might be emerging. The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA revealed last month that its polling shows Ohio, an erstwhile swing state, now appears safer for Trump than deep-red Texas.
Still, Florida remains a key target for both parties, and Democrats have a lot of ground to make up.
Republicans have maintained an uninterrupted presence in the state since 2014, and have trained 3,000 local organizers it calls fellows, who can amplify, or in some cases replace, the voter registration and turnout work of its paid field staff.
"This is something that can't be made up with a few checks by a failed gubernatorial candidate," said RNC spokesman Rick Gorka.
Taking a page from the GOP's playbook, progressive group For Our Future has been organizing in the state continuously since 2016, trying to keep Democratic voters engaged between elections. "When you lose within the margins continuously the way that we did, I think that's an indicator that this state can still be won, but we need to do more work," said Justin Myers, the organization's CEO. "And that work comes from real on-the-ground organizing in the communities that matter."
Trump has made more visits to Florida as president than to any other state, in part because he maintains a number of private golf clubs here. But advisers also said he has an affinity for the state's avid Trump fans who have attended some of his most raucous rallies.
It's for those reasons that in February 2017 he chose Florida to announce his bid for reelection earlier than any American leader and now 28 months later he's returning to the state Tuesday to do it one more time.
Trump has boasted that as many as 100,000 people have tried to enter the 20,000-person Amway Center in Orlando, and the campaign has announced an outdoor "45 fest" for the overflow crowd.
The president has used the power of his office to pay special attention to Florida. During a campaign rally in Panama City Beach last month, Trump promised voters new disaster relief funding for the hurricane-hit portion of the state and additional funding for a bridge project if he was re-elected.
A string of both public and private polling has some in the president's orbit acknowledging that carrying Florida will not be simple. Surveys by Priorities USA found that in Florida, like nationally, Trump gets high marks on the economy. But voters also believe the president cares more about the wealthy than about the average American.
AP Votecast's survey of 2018 voters in the state found them roughly evenly divided on approval of Trump. And the Trump campaign's own recent internal polls showed him trailing Democrats in early head-to-head matchups.
Most of the Democratic candidate focus on the state has been on its well-heeled donors or with an eye toward its delegate-rich primary in March, set for two weeks after Super Tuesday.
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, hailed the state last month as "one of the most remarkably diverse places in the country."
"I'm making sure that we reach out not only to the many different parts of the Latino community here, to the black community, but to people of all ages and all backgrounds," he said.
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Vikram Mehta
"Vikram is a unique candidate for this prestigious award as he is one of those rare individuals who has achieved success on a global stage, as a corporate executive and as an entrepreneur in the ICT industry. This combined with his passion for giving back to the Australian community and helping aspiring Australian entrepreneurs and students learn about what it takes to succeed on a global scale.
In summary - there are 3 reasons I think Vikram makes an exceptional candidate to receive this high honor: Professional achievement in the global ICT industry; Passionate about helping Australian tech entrepreneurs succeed globally; and Personal humility and generosity in giving back to Australia.“ - Raj Dalal, CEO, BigInsights
Vikram joined Pacific Venture Advisors in April 2015 and before that he was at Kaazing as Chief Executive Officer.
Previously he was Vice President IBM System Networking, a division created as a result of IBM’s acquisition of Blade Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE). Under his leadership the System Networking Division became one of the fastest growing and most profitable businesses at IBM.
IBM acquired BLADE in 2010 marking the company’s re- entry into the fast growing and highly profitable data center networking industry after an eleven+ year absence. BLADE was amongst the best acquisitions in IBM’s recent history and a strategic move that redefined the competitive landscape in the data center infrastructure business.
BLADE’s principal investors realised greater than 11x return on their original investment in BLADE.
Vikram was Founder, President and CEO of BLADE and the driving force behind the company’s growth and rapid global expansion. At the time of its acquisition by IBM (according to Gartner Group), BLADE was amongst the fastest growing companies in enterprise data center networking and the second largest Data Center Ethernet vendor in the world.
BLADE provided mission critical systems-connectivity solutions to more than 300 of the Fortune 500 companies including the world’s largest stock exchanges, retailers, manufacturers, telecommunications service providers, financial institutions, airlines, federal and state governments, etc. The company attracted partners such as HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, NEC, Netezza, Teradata, SGI, Avnet, and many of the world’s leading technology resellers.
While the Global Financial Crisis saw many technology companies struggle, under Vikram’s stewardship BLADE achieved strong revenue growth, gross margin expansion, and customer diversification. In the summer of 2009 he successfully raised capital as part of a Series B financing round led by new investors at a 5x increase in valuation over the Series A round in 2006.
He led BLADE’s expansion from modest operations in Silicon Valley (California) with highly concentrated domestic sales, to sales of the company’s product in over 100 countries and design, development and manufacturing operations in Ottawa (Canada), Santa Clara (USA), Raleigh (USA), Wuxi (China), Shen Zhen (China) Penang (Malaysia), Bucharest (Romania), and Bengaluru (India).
Vikram brings over 25 years of technology industry experience to Kaazing. He brokered the spin out of Nortel’s Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU), establishing BLADE as an independent company in February 2006 with funding from the Private Equity investors.
Vikram came to Nortel in 2000 through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems and there he laid the foundation for what became Nortel’s BSSBU. Vikram was General Manager of Nortel’s BSSBU. Previously, he spent 12 years at Hewlett- Packard in various management and executive positions in several countries across the Asia Pacific region and the US His last position at HP was General Manager, Enterprise Servers, Americas Super Region (a billion dollar plus business).
Over the years, Vikram has developed invaluable experience being on both sides of M&A transactions, often in different parts of the world. He has orchestrated two successful spinouts from multi-billion dollar corporations (Nortel & IBM) and played a key role in the successful integration of acquired businesses. He has a proven track record in delivering on commitments and exceeding the expectations of investors, while building a sustainable business with loyal customers and motivated employees.
Vikram is recognised by employees, investors and customers for his leadership qualities, drive, attention to detail, multi-country experience, and consistently delivering on commitments. He has a straight-talking and transparent management style, strong deal making abilities, an uncanny ability to breakdown the most complex problems into simple and actionable tasks, and a relentless passion for delighting customers.
In 2009, Vikram won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® award in the “Emerging” category for Northern California, and was subsequently honored as a National Finalist Winner and inducted into the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame.
Vikram has been a frequent speaker at industry events and is often quoted by media and analysts. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology.
Vikram is of Indian origin, an Australian citizen, and Permanent Resident of USA. Prior to moving to USA, he has lived and worked in India, Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong and has extensive experience doing business and raising capital in complex markets like China, Japan, South East Asia, and South Korea. He resides in California.
Vikram servers as a Director of the AISUSA Foundation and is a TiE Charter Member.
Meet Vikram Mehta, winner of the 2014 Advance Global Australian ICT Award.
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Music Review | Ian Tyson's "Carnero Vaquero"
The legendary cowboy crooner still makes quite an impact.
Tom Wilmes
Credit: Hesh Photo
Ian Tyson
Carnero Vaquero
Stony Plain Records;
iantyson.com
“It’s a little early to tell, but I think this album is creating quite an impact—certainly more than my last two or three,” Ian Tyson says from the road, where the 81-year-old Western-music icon is playing to packed houses and debuting lots of material from his new album, Carnero Vaquero. “Of course, I have my voice back now. If you’re a singer, that’s quite an important aspect of the whole thing.”
Tyson suffered an accident in 2007 that ravaged his throat, leaving his voice sounding torn and damaged. After a successful throat surgery and intense rehabilitation, his voice has regained its clear tone and nuance.
Tyson puts his rejuvenated instrument to good use on Carnero Vaquero, his 13th album with Edmonton-based Stony Plain Records. The album features five new Tyson originals, along with fresh takes on traditional tunes such as “Doney Gal,” which Tyson originally recorded in the early ’60s during his folk-music days as Ian & Sylvia.
Tyson recorded the album in a century-old stone building on his ranch, just south of Calgary in Alberta, where he runs a yearling operation. The building is about a mile down a gravel road from his ranch house, and is where Tyson goes to write and practice when he’s not touring.
“That old house has a sound of its own,” he says. “I had a feeling it would help provide a consistent sound and attitude for the album.”
He also enlisted the talents of pianist Catherine Marx, who’s played with everyone from Reba McEntire and Merle Haggard to Ray Charles and Linda Ronstadt, to add tonal color and flourish to the arrangements.
“She’s a minimalist, but everything she plays is just right,” says Tyson. “She sets a real vibe, and that’s a pretty elusive thing—you either get it or you don’t.”
Carnero Vaquero isa stylistically diverse album, with songs that range from tender ballads like “Doney Gal” and “Darcy Farrow” to the loping “Colorado Horses” and upbeat tunes like “Will James” and “Jughound Ronnie.” It’s also consistently engaging and entertaining, and stands up to repeat listens. If there’s a unifying theme, it’s found in songs like “Cottonwood Canyon” and “Wolves No Longer Sing,” written with pal Tom Russell, that turn an observant eye to the changing West as only Tyson can. It’s a theme that many of Tyson’s longtime fans and citizens of the West will appreciate.
“My music is for them—we like to think of it as music for grownups who live in the country,” Tyson says. “I hope people derive some joy from it. I’m just really happy to be able to be able to give them this music at this point in time.”
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OpinionColumnistsLeonard Levitt
By Len Levitt @LenLevitt
A new NYPD scandal arrives right on time
Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who killed a 45-year-old man in Astoria, Queens on April 6, 2016. Photo Credit: iStock
Updated April 12, 2016 8:43 AM
Not since the darkest days of the 1970s — when the Knapp Commission investigated corruption in the NYPD, and when Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy fired his executive staff — has the department experienced a week like last week.
Three chiefs and a deputy inspector were transferred, two had their guns and badges taken, and a Harlem restaurant owner linked to one of the chiefs was indicted by the feds in a corruption scandal now veering toward City Hall.
The media have focused on former Chief of Department Philip Banks, who retired in late 2014. Once considered Commissioner Bill Bratton’s heir apparent, Banks has a relationship with Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association and the alleged target of a federal investigation. Questions have been raised about Banks’ relationship with developer Jona Rechnitz and fellow Brooklyn businessman Jeremy Reichberg. Both have donated to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
News reports have cited a private trip Banks took with Rechnitz to Israel in 2014, where Banks held a news conference and appeared in uniform at the Wailing Wall. Police sources say Banks, who paid for his plane ticket and stayed at Rechnitz’s home, was briefed by an Intelligence Division analyst before the trip. He met with some mayors, and the former head of the Mossad, Israel’s equivalent of the CIA.
Department spokesman Steve Davis did not return a call seeking comment on whether the meetings were sanctioned by the NYPD.
The transfers come amid a federal-city probe into possible illegal payments and gifts to police officials by the Brooklyn businessmen.
The NYPD is second to none with its history of corruption. Scandals appear every 20 or so years and this one seems right on time. Nearly 25 years ago, the Mollen Commission on corruption found that a third of the night shift of the 30th Precinct in West Harlem engaged in drug dealing. Twenty years before that, the Knapp Commission found that corruption ran through the NYPD all the way up to the commissioner’s office.
As for Banks and the transferred brass, there is no direct indication as yet that any of them committed a crime. Still, as their names keep appearing negatively in the news, the officers may not have much time left as police officers.
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WATCH: Andrea speaks to the BBC about Brexit.
Andrea spoke on the BBC's 'Politics Live' program on the subject of Brexit.
She discussed the Political meddling of the European Court of Justice, and her belief that Theresa May was wrong to cancel the scheduled vote on her withdrawal agreement.
Andrea said "If anything, it would have given the EU a bloody nose and showed them the UK will not accept this deal".
Watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-46529962/andrea-jenkyns-on-br…
Delivering the right Brexit
I am committed to standing up for the referendum result.
60% of Morley and Outwood, 58% of Yorkshire, and 52% of the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU - Overall, by a majority of 1.3 million people.
We must respect the will of the people and leave the EU in full.
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On Monday evening, I chaired the event “Towards a Western Islam”.
Andrea Jenkyns Conservative Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood
Promoted by Will Grover on behalf of Andrea Jenkyns, both of 62 Queen Street, Morley, LS27 9BP
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Live-Action Ajin Film Slated for September 30, 2017
posted on 2016-12-16 14:15 EST
The official website for the upcoming live-action film based on Gamon Sakurai's Ajin - Demi-Human manga revealed that the film will open on September 30, 2017 in Toho theaters.
Katsuyuki Motohiro (Psycho-Pass, Space Travelers, Bayside Shakedown) is directing the film, and Takeru Satoh (live-action Rurouni Kenshin films' Kenshin Himura, seen right) will play main character Kei Nagai. The live-action film project has invited the action filming team of the live-action Rurouni Kenshin films to work on the project.
The film's setting will be Tokyo in 2017. In the film, Kei is a medical intern, with his age changed to match Satoh's.
In the original manga's story, an immortal first appeared on an African battlefield 17 years ago. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student named Kei Nagai is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.
Sakurai launched the manga in Kodansha's good! Afternoon magazine in 2012. Vertical is publishing the manga in North America, and Crunchyroll is posting new chapters as Kodansha publishes them in Japan.
The manga already inspired a 3D CG anime film trilogy, two television anime seasons, and three original anime DVDs by Polygon Pictures. The second season premiered in Japan on October 7, and is currently running.
Thanks to Gwyn Campbell for the news tip.
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Talks on Tap! California Plants: A Tour Through Our Iconic Flora
Join us at 7Sisters Brewing for our next "Talks on Tap" event, where experts, nerds, and other people-in-the-know tell us all about a fascinating topic while we sip beer!
Join Matt Ritter, botany professor and author of the new book California Plants, for a visual tour and celebration of California’s iconic native flora. There are more than 5,000 native species in California—one in five of which are now rare or endangered. Professor Ritter’s talk will feature the state’s special plants and where to see them this spring.
Dr. Matt Ritter is a botany professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, where he studies California’s native plants and cultivated trees. He’s the author of several books, including the funniest and best-selling guide to California’s urban forest, A Californian’s Guide to the Trees among Us. www.mattritter.net
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Which Queensland state seats could Pauline Hanson's One Nation win?
By Matt Martino
Updated December 02, 2016 14:48:13
Photo: Could One Nation one day hold the balance of power in Queensland? (ABC News: Ross Nerdal)
Related Story: Barrie Cassidy: One Nation's impact runs deep
Related Story: Who elected the One Nation, Xenophon and Lambie senators?
Map: QLD
The rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Queensland has given state politicians cause for concern.
In the July federal election, the right-wing, anti-immigration party polled 5.52 per cent of the Queensland vote in the House of Representatives, despite fielding candidates in only 12 of 30 electorates, and 9.19 per cent of the vote in the Senate.
The Liberal National Party in Queensland is clearly rattled by these results, with fears that One Nation could take up to 11 seats. A recent Newspoll showed the party's support in the state has almost doubled to 10 per cent.
So which state seats are vulnerable to a One Nation takeover? We've analysed polling booth data from the federal election to find out.
'Heartland' seats
In candid remarks to Victorian Liberal president Michael Kroger, which were picked up by a hot mic, Queensland LNP Senator George Brandis raised fears about the rise of One Nation in his state.
"The thing that's alarming everyone is, as you would expect, the sudden spike in One Nation, which is now at about 16 per cent," he said.
"One Nation, as you know, their strength is in heartland National Party seats and heartland Labor Party seats, the old industrial seats around Ipswich and western Brisbane."
The senator's fears are well-founded: the Queensland electorate with the strongest support for One Nation at the 2016 election, based on Senate polling booth data, was the seat of Lockyer, west of Brisbane.
External Link: Polling booths with high support for One Nation.
The party attracted 27.7 per cent support in polling booths in the seat, behind the LNP's 30.2 per cent, putting it well within striking distance of a seat that Senator Hanson herself almost won at the 2015 state election.
ABC election analyst Antony Green said "any party which polls in double figures has done relatively well".
There are a number of Queensland state divisions, 33 of the 89 current divisions to be exact, where One Nation polled in the double digits — the graph below shows the top 10.
External Link: One Nation's proportion of the vote in Queensland state divisions.
Seven of the top 10 electorates for One Nation support are held by LNP members, and while this should be concerning for the party, it doesn't tell the full story.
The graph below shows the 10 divisions with the smallest margins between One Nation's vote and the primary vote leader.
External Link: Smallest margins between One Nation and the Senate vote leader in each division.
LNP-held Lockyer is still on top, but the only other LNP division in the top 10 of this list is Hervey Bay.
Six are currently held by Labor and two are held by Katter's Australia Party.
A bit of perspective
Of all these divisions, it seems Lockyer and Mirani are the most likely candidates for One Nation victory.
However, whilst the double-digit support of One Nation has begun to unnerve the Queensland political establishment, with memories of the party's haul of 11 seats at the 1998 election, a comparison with the electoral results in that year paints a very different picture.
External Link: One Nation's primary vote in seats it won in 1998.
In each of the seats which One Nation won in that year, the party's primary vote is much higher than the current best performer.
One Nation polled 18.8 per cent at the 2016 election in the division of Maryborough, but polled more than double that at 42.6 per cent in 1998 to win the seat.
The return of full preferential voting in Queensland could also prove a challenge: in 1998, One Nation won five of its 11 seats without meeting the two-party preferred threshold of 50 per cent.
Full preferential voting could see more preferences flow to One Nation's opponents, especially if that opponent is a left-wing party.
Furthermore, the party captured 22.7 per cent of the statewide vote in 1998, which is more than double the current opinion polls.
The next election in Queensland is due in 2018.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, federal-elections, elections, qld, australia
First posted December 02, 2016 06:21:41
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A creation myth explaining the origins of Karl Wirsum might become paradigmatic for the whole Chicago Imagist school. The artist himself has noted that he and Bugs Bunny share the same year of birth (1939), as if that coincidental bit of chronology explains his predilection for cartoon characters in an ever-expanding repertory of bizarre hybrids drawn from popular culture and personal invention. Wirsum’s decision to become an artist was made while he was recovering from a skull fracture; he was five years old. After studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he, along with Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, and others, participated in the sensational first “Hairy Who” exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, a storefront exhibition space on Chicago’s South Side in 1966. The rest is history.
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This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself King of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886, and while he was not the first king to claim to rule all of the English, his rule represents the start of the first unbroken line of kings to rule the whole of England, the House of Wessex.[1]
The seven main Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms to be unified as the early Kingdom of England
Arguments are made for a few different kings deemed to control enough Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to be deemed the first king of England. For example, Offa of Mercia and Egbert of Wessex are sometimes described as kings of England by popular writers, but it is no longer the majority view of historians that their wide dominions are part of a process leading to a unified England. Historian Simon Keynes states, for example, that "Offa was driven by a lust for power, not a vision of English unity; and what he left was a reputation, not a legacy."[2] This refers to a period in the late 8th century when Offa achieved a dominance over many of the kingdoms of southern England, but this did not survive his death in 796.[3][4]
In 829 Egbert of Wessex conquered Mercia, but he soon lost control of it. It was not until the late 9th century that one kingdom, Wessex, had become the dominant Anglo-Saxon kingdom. Its king, Alfred the Great, was overlord of western Mercia and used the title King of the Angles and Saxons, but he never ruled eastern and northern England, which was then known as the Danelaw, having earlier been conquered by the Danes from Scandinavia. His son Edward the Elder conquered the eastern Danelaw, but Edward's son Æthelstan became the first king to rule the whole of England when he conquered Northumbria in 927, and he is regarded by some modern historians as the first true king of England.[3][4] The title "King of the English" or Rex Anglorum in Latin, was first used to describe Æthelstan in one of his charters in 928.
The Principality of Wales was incorporated into the Kingdom of England under the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284, and in 1301 King Edward I invested his eldest son, the future King Edward II, as Prince of Wales. Since that time, except for King Edward III, the eldest sons of all English monarchs have borne this title.
After the death of Queen Elizabeth I without issue, in 1603, King James VI of Scotland also became James I of England, joining the crowns of England and Scotland in personal union. By royal proclamation, James styled himself "King of Great Britain", but no such kingdom was actually created until 1707, when England and Scotland united to form the new Kingdom of Great Britain, with a single British parliament sitting at Westminster, during the reign of Queen Anne.
1 House of Wessex
2 House of Denmark
3 House of Wessex (restored, first time)
4 House of Denmark (restored)
5 House of Wessex (restored, second time)
6 House of Godwin
6.1 Disputed claimant (House of Wessex)
7 House of Normandy
8 House of Blois
9 House of Anjou
10 House of Plantagenet
10.1 House of Lancaster
10.2 House of York
10.3 House of Lancaster (restored)
10.4 House of York (restored)
11 House of Tudor
12 House of Stuart
13 Interregnum
14 House of Stuart (restored)
15 Acts of Union
16 Timeline of English monarchs
House of Wessex[edit]
For earlier monarchs of Wessex, see List of monarchs of Wessex.
Main article: House of Wessex
Alfred the Great
26 October 899
Son of Æthelwulf of Wessex
and Osburh Ealhswith
5 children 26 October 899
Aged about 50 Son of Æthelwulf of Wessex
Treaty of Wedmore [5]
Edward the Elder
17 July 924
(24 years, 266 days) c. 874
Son of Alfred
and Ealhswith (1) Ecgwynn
c. 893
(2) Ælfflæd
(3) Eadgifu
4 children 17 July 924
Aged about 50 Son of Alfred [8]
There is some evidence that Ælfweard of Wessex may have been king in 924, between his father Edward the Elder and his brother Æthelstan, although he was not crowned. A 12th-century list of kings gives him a reign length of four weeks, though one manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says he died only 16 days after his father.[9] However, that he ruled is not accepted by all historians. Also, it is unclear whether—if Ælfweard was declared king—it was over the whole kingdom or of Wessex only. One interpretation of the ambiguous evidence is that when Edward died, Ælfweard was declared king in Wessex and Æthelstan in Mercia.[4]
Ælfweard
c. 17 July 924
2 August 924[10]
(16 days) Does not appear c. 901[11]
Son of Edward the Elder
and Ælfflæd[11] Does not appear Unmarried?
No children 2 August 924[4]
Aged about 23[i] Son of Edward the Elder
Æthelstan
King of the Anglo-Saxons (924–927)
King of the English (927–939)
(14–15 years) 894
and Ecgwynn Does not appear Unmarried 27 October 939
Aged about 45 Son of Edward the Elder [13]
Edmund I
26 May 946
(6 years, 212 days) c. 921
and Eadgifu of Kent (1) Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
2 sons
(2) Æthelflæd of Damerham
No children 26 May 946
Pucklechurch
Killed in a brawl aged about 25 Son of Edward the Elder [15]
Eadred
23 November 955
and Eadgifu of Kent Does not appear Unmarried 23 November 955
Eadwig
1 October 959
Son of Edmund I
and Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury Ælfgifu
No verified children 1 October 959
Aged about 19 Son of Edmund I [21]
Edgar the Peaceful
8 July 975
and Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury (1) Æthelflæd
(2) Ælfthryth
2 sons 8 July 975
Aged 31 Son of Edmund I [24]
Edward the Martyr
18 March 978
Son of Edgar the Peaceful
and Æthelflæd Does not appear Unmarried 18 March 978
Murdered aged about 16 Son of Edgar the Peaceful [27]
(1st reign)[ii]
Æthelred
Æthelred the Unready
(34–35 years) c. 968
and Ælfthryth (1) Ælfgifu of York
(2) Emma of Normandy
3 children 23 April 1016
Aged about 48 Son of Edgar the Peaceful [30]
House of Denmark[edit]
Main article: House of Knýtlinga
England came under the control of Sweyn Forkbeard, a Danish king, after an invasion in 1013, during which Æthelred abandoned the throne and went into exile in Normandy.
Sweyn
Sweyn Forkbeard
(41 days) c. 960
Son of Harald Bluetooth
and Gyrid Olafsdottir of Sweden (1) Gunhild of Wenden
(2) Sigrid the Haughty
c. 1000
1 daughter 3 February 1014
Aged about 54 Right of conquest [32]
House of Wessex (restored, first time)[edit]
Following the death of Sweyn Forkbeard, Æthelred the Unready returned from exile and was again proclaimed king on 3 February 1014. His son succeeded him after being chosen king by the citizens of London and a part of the Witan,[35] despite ongoing Danish efforts to wrest the crown from the West Saxons.
(2nd reign)
(2 years, 81 days) c. 968
Edmund Ironside
(222 days) c. 990
Son of Æthelred
and Ælfgifu of York Edith of East Anglia
2 children 30 November 1016
Aged 26 Son of Æthelred [35]
House of Denmark (restored)[edit]
Following the decisive Battle of Assandun on 18 October 1016, King Edmund signed a treaty with Cnut (Canute) under which all of England except for Wessex would be controlled by Cnut.[38] Upon Edmund's death just over a month later on 30 November, Cnut ruled the whole kingdom as its sole king for almost twenty years.
Canute
Cnut the Great
(19 years, 26 days) c. 995
Son of Sweyn Forkbeard
and Gunhilda of Poland (1) Ælfgifu of Northampton
Aged about 40 Son of Sweyn
Treaty of Deerhurst [39]
Harold Harefoot
17 March 1040[iii]
(4 years, 127 days) c. 1016
Son of Canute
and Ælfgifu of Northampton Ælfgifu?
1 son? 17 March 1040
Aged about 24 Son of Canute [42]
Harthacnut
(2 years, 84 days) 1018
and Emma of Normandy Does not appear Unmarried 8 June 1042
House of Wessex (restored, second time)[edit]
After Harthacnut, there was a brief Saxon Restoration between 1042 and 1066.
Edward the Confessor
(23 years, 212 days) c. 1003
and Emma of Normandy Edith of Wessex
No children 5 January 1066
Aged about 63 Son of Æthelred [47]
House of Godwin[edit]
Harold Godwinson
(282 days) c. 1022
Son of Godwin of Wessex
and Gytha Thorkelsdóttir (1) Edith Swannesha
(2) Ealdgyth
2 sons 14 October 1066
Died in battle aged 44 Supposedly named heir by Edward the Confessor
Elected by the Witenagemot [48]
Disputed claimant (House of Wessex)[edit]
After King Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings, the Witan elected Edgar Atheling as king, but by then the Normans controlled the country and Edgar never ruled. He submitted to King William the Conqueror.
(Title disputed)
Edgar Ætheling
17 December 1066[iv]
(64 days) c. 1051
Son of Edward the Exile
and Agatha Does not appear Unmarried c. 1126
Aged about 75 Grandson of Edmund Ironside
House of Normandy[edit]
Main article: House of Normandy
In 1066, several rival claimants to the English throne emerged. Among them were Harold Godwinson, recognised as king by the Witenagemot after the death of Edward the Confessor, as well as Harald Hardrada, King of Norway who claimed to be the rightful heir of Harthacnut, and Duke William II of Normandy, vassal to the King of France, and first cousin once-removed of Edward the Confessor. Harald and William both invaded separately in 1066. Godwinson successfully repelled the invasion by Hardrada, but ultimately lost the throne of England in the Norman conquest of England.
After the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, William the Conqueror made permanent the recent removal of the capital from Winchester to London. Following the death of Harold Godwinson at Hastings, the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot elected as king Edgar the Ætheling, the son of Edward the Exile and grandson of Edmund Ironside. The young monarch was unable to resist the invaders and was never crowned. William was crowned King William I of England on Christmas Day 1066, in Westminster Abbey, and is today known as William the Conqueror, William the Bastard or William I.
William I
William the Conqueror[51]
Falaise Castle
Son of Robert the Magnificent
and Herleva Matilda of Flanders
9 children 9 September 1087
Aged about 59[v] Supposedly named heir in 1052 by Edward the Confessor
First cousin once removed of Edward the Confessor
Right of conquest [52]
William II
William Rufus
26 September 1087[a]
Son of William the Conqueror
and Matilda of Flanders Does not appear Unmarried 2 August 1100
Shot with an arrow aged 44 Son of William I
Granted the Kingdom of England over elder brother Robert Curthose [54]
Henry I
Henry Beauclerc
5 August 1100[b]
(35 years, 119 days) September 1068
and Matilda of Flanders (1) Matilda of Scotland
(2) Adeliza of Louvain
No children 1 December 1135
Saint-Denis-en-Lyons
Aged 67[vi] Son of William I
Seizure of the Crown (from Robert Curthose) [56]
House of Blois[edit]
Main article: House of Blois
Henry I left no legitimate male heirs, his son William Adelin having died in the White Ship disaster. This ended the direct Norman line of kings in England. Henry named his eldest daughter, the dowager Empress Matilda as his heir. Before naming Matilda as heir, he had been in negotiations to name his nephew Stephen of Blois as his heir. When Henry died, Stephen invaded England, and in a coup d'etat had himself crowned instead of Matilda. The period which followed is known as The Anarchy, as parties supporting each side fought in open warfare both in Britain and on the continent for the better part of two decades.
Stephen of Blois
22 December 1135[c]
Son of Stephen II of Blois
and Adela of Normandy Matilda of Boulogne
6 children 25 October 1154
Dover Castle
Aged about 58 Grandson of William I
Appointment / usurpation [55]
Disputed claimants
Empress Matilda was declared heir presumptive by her father, Henry I, after the death of her brother on the White Ship, and acknowledged as such by the barons. Upon Henry I's death, the throne was seized by Matilda's cousin, Stephen of Blois. During the ensuing Anarchy, Matilda controlled England for a few months in 1141—the first woman to do so—but was never crowned and is rarely listed as a monarch of England.[vii]
Empress Matilda
(209 days) 7 February 1102
Sutton Courtenay
Daughter of Henry I
and Edith of Scotland (1) Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire
(2) Geoffrey Plantagenet
Le Mans Cathedral
3 sons 10 September 1167
Aged 65 Daughter of Henry I
Seizure of the Crown [58]
Count Eustace IV of Boulogne (c. 1130 – 17 August 1153) was appointed co-king of England by his father, King Stephen, on 6 April 1152, in order to guarantee his succession to the throne (as was the custom in France, but not in England). The Pope and the Church would not agree to this, and Eustace was not crowned. Eustace died the next year aged 23, during his father's lifetime, and so never became king in his own right.[59]
House of Anjou[edit]
Main article: Angevin kings of England
King Stephen came to an agreement with Matilda in November 1153 with the signing of the Treaty of Wallingford, where Stephen recognised Henry, son of Matilda and her second husband Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, as the designated heir. The royal house descended from Matilda and Geoffrey is widely known by two names, the House of Anjou (after Geoffrey's title as Count of Anjou) or the House of Plantagenet, after his sobriquet. Some historians prefer to group the subsequent kings into two groups, before and after the loss of the bulk of their French possessions, although they are not different royal houses.
The Angevins ruled over the Angevin Empire during the 12th and 13th centuries, an area stretching from the Pyrenees to Ireland. They did not regard England as their primary home until most of their continental domains were lost by John. Though the Angevin dynasty was short-lived, their male line descendants included the House of Plantagenet, the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
The Angevins formulated England's royal coat of arms, which usually showed other kingdoms held or claimed by them or their successors, although without representation of Ireland for quite some time. Dieu et mon droit has generally been used as the motto of English monarchs since being adopted by Edward III,[60] but it was first used as a battle cry by Richard I in 1198 at the Battle of Gisors, when he defeated the forces of Philip II of France, after which, he made it his motto.[60][61]
Henry Curtmantle
19 December 1154[d]
(34 years, 200 days) 5 March 1133
Son of Geoffrey V of Anjou
and Matilda Eleanor of Aquitaine
Bordeaux Cathedral
8 children 6 July 1189
Aged 56[viii] Grandson of Henry I
Treaty of Wallingford [62]
Richard the Lionheart
3 September 1189[e]
(9 years, 216 days)
Beaumont Palace
Son of Henry II
and Eleanor of Aquitaine Berengaria of Navarre
No children 6 April 1199
Châlus
Shot by a quarrel aged 41[ix] Son of Henry II
Primogeniture [64]
John Lackland
27 May 1199[f]
(17 years, 146 days) 24 December 1166
and Eleanor of Aquitaine (1) Isabel of Gloucester
Marlborough Castle
(2) Isabella of Angoulême
Newark-on-Trent
Aged 49[x] Son of Henry II
Proximity of blood [65]
Henry II named his son, another Henry (1155–1183), as co-ruler with him. But this was a Norman custom of designating an heir, and the younger Henry did not outlive his father and rule in his own right, so he is not counted as a monarch on lists of kings.
Disputed claimant
Louis VIII of France briefly won about half of England over to his side from 1216 to 1217 at the conclusion of the First Barons' War against King John. On marching into London he was openly received by the rebel barons and citizens of London and proclaimed (though not crowned) king at St Paul's cathedral. Many nobles, including Alexander II of Scotland for his English possessions, gathered to give homage to him. However, in signing the Treaty of Lambeth in 1217, Louis conceded that he had never been the legitimate king of England.
Louis VIII the Lion
(1 year) 5 September 1187
Son of Philip II of France
and Isabella of Hainault Blanche of Castile
Port-Mort
13 children 8 November 1226
Montpensier
Aged 39 Right of conquest
House of Plantagenet[edit]
Main article: House of Plantagenet
The House of Plantagenet takes its name from Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, husband of the Empress Matilda and father of Henry II. The name Plantagenet itself was unknown as a family name per se until Richard of York adopted it as his family name in the 15th century. It has since been retroactively applied to English monarchs from Henry II onward. It is common among modern historians to refer to Henry II and his sons as the "Angevins" due to their vast continental Empire, and most of the Angevin kings before John spent more time in their continental possessions than in England.
It is from the time of Henry III, after the loss of most of the family's continental possessions, that the Plantagenet kings became more English in nature. The Houses of Lancaster and York are cadet branches of the House of Plantagenet.
Henry of Winchester
28 October 1216[g]
(56 years, 20 days) 1 October 1207
Winchester Castle
Son of John
and Isabella of Angoulême Eleanor of Provence
Aged 65 Son of John
Edward Longshanks
20 November 1272[h]
(34 years, 230 days) 17 June 1239
Son of Henry III
and Eleanor of Provence (1) Eleanor of Castile
Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas
(2) Margaret of France
Burgh by Sands
Aged 68 Son of Henry III
Edward of Caernarfon
8 July 1307[i]
(19 years, 197 days) 25 April 1284
Son of Edward I
and Eleanor of Castile Isabella of France
Boulogne Cathedral
4 children 21 September 1327
Murdered aged 43[xi] Son of Edward I
25 January 1327[j]
(50 years, 148 days)
Son of Edward II
and Isabella of France Philippa of Hainault
14 children 21 June 1377
Sheen Palace
Aged 64 Son of Edward II
22 June 1377[k]
(22 years, 100 days) 6 January 1367
Son of Edward the Black Prince
and Joan of Kent (1) Anne of Bohemia
(2) Isabella of Valois
No children 14 February 1400
Pontefract Castle
Aged 33 Grandson of Edward III
House of Lancaster[edit]
Main article: House of Lancaster
This house descended from Edward III's third surviving son, John of Gaunt. Henry IV seized power from Richard II (and also displaced the next in line to the throne, Edmund Mortimer (then aged 7), a descendant of Edward III's second son, Lionel of Antwerp).
Henry of Bolingbroke
30 September 1399[l]
(13 years, 172 days) 3 April 1367
Bolingbroke Castle
Son of John of Gaunt
and Blanche of Lancaster (1) Mary de Bohun
(2) Joanna of Navarre
No children 20 March 1413
Aged 45 Grandson / heir male of Edward III
Usurpation / agnatic primogeniture [76]
21 March 1413[m]
(9 years, 164 days) 16 September 1386
Monmouth Castle
Son of Henry IV
and Mary de Bohun Catherine of Valois
Troyes Cathedral
1 son 31 August 1422
Aged 36 Son of Henry IV
Agnatic primogeniture [78]
(1st reign)
1 September 1422[n]
(38 years, 185 days) 6 December 1421
Son of Henry V
and Catherine of Valois Margaret of Anjou
Titchfield Abbey
1 son 21 May 1471
Allegedly murdered aged 49 Son of Henry V
House of York[edit]
Main article: House of York
The House of York inherited its name from the fourth surviving son of Edward III, Edmund of Langley, first Duke of York, and claimed the right to the throne through Edward III's second surviving son, Lionel of Antwerp.
The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) saw the throne pass back and forth between the rival houses of Lancaster and York.
4 March 1461[o]
(9 years, 214 days) 28 April 1442
Son of Richard of York
and Cecily Neville Elizabeth Woodville
Grafton Regis
10 children 9 April 1483
Aged 40 Great-great-grandson / heir general of Edward III
Seizure of the Crown
Cognatic primogeniture [82]
House of Lancaster (restored)[edit]
(191 days) 6 December 1421
House of York (restored)[edit]
25 June 1483[xii]
(78 days) 2 November 1470
Son of Edward IV
and Elizabeth Woodville Does not appear Unmarried Disappeared mid-1483
Allegedly murdered aged 12 Son of Edward IV
26 June 1483[p]
(2 years, 58 days) 2 October 1452
and Cecily Neville Anne Neville
Bosworth Field
Killed in battle aged 32[xiii] Great-great-grandson of Edward III
Titulus Regius [85]
House of Tudor[edit]
Main articles: House of Tudor and Tudor period
The Tudors descended in the female line from John Beaufort, one of the illegitimate children of John of Gaunt (third surviving son of Edward III), by Gaunt's long-term mistress Katherine Swynford. Those descended from English monarchs only through an illegitimate child would normally have no claim on the throne, but the situation was complicated when Gaunt and Swynford eventually married in 1396 (25 years after John Beaufort's birth). In view of the marriage, the church retroactively declared the Beauforts legitimate via a papal bull the same year.[87] Parliament did the same in an Act in 1397.[88] A subsequent proclamation by John of Gaunt's legitimate son, King Henry IV, also recognised the Beauforts' legitimacy, but declared them ineligible ever to inherit the throne.[89] Nevertheless, the Beauforts remained closely allied with Gaunt's other descendants, the Royal House of Lancaster.
John Beaufort's granddaughter Lady Margaret Beaufort was married to Edmund Tudor. Tudor was the son of Welsh courtier Owain Tudur (anglicised to Owen Tudor) and Catherine of Valois, the widow of the Lancastrian King Henry V. Edmund Tudor and his siblings were either illegitimate, or the product of a secret marriage, and owed their fortunes to the goodwill of their legitimate half-brother King Henry VI. When the House of Lancaster fell from power, the Tudors followed.
By the late 15th century, the Tudors were the last hope for the Lancaster supporters. Edmund Tudor's son became king as Henry VII after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, winning the Wars of the Roses. King Henry married Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, thereby uniting the Lancastrian and York lineages. (See family tree.)
With Henry VIII's break from the Roman Catholic Church, the monarch became the Supreme Head of the Church of England and of the Church of Ireland. Elizabeth I's title became the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
22 August 1485[q]
(23 years, 243 days) 28 January 1457
Pembroke Castle
Son of Edmund Tudor
and Margaret Beaufort Elizabeth of York
Richmond Palace
Aged 52 Great-great-great-grandson of Edward III
22 April 1509[r]
Greenwich Palace
Son of Henry VII
and Elizabeth of York (1) Catherine of Aragon
1 daughter
(2) Anne Boleyn
25 January 1533[xiv]
(3) Jane Seymour
Whitehall Palace
3 further marriages
No more children 28 January 1547
Aged 55 Son of Henry VII
28 January 1547[s]
(6 years, 160 days) 12 October 1537
Son of Henry VIII
and Jane Seymour Does not appear Unmarried 6 July 1553
Aged 15 Son of Henry VIII
Edward VI named Lady Jane Grey as his heir in his will, overruling the order of succession laid down by Parliament in the Third Succession Act. Four days after his death on 6 July 1553, Jane was proclaimed queen—the first of three Tudor women to be proclaimed queen regnant. Nine days after the proclamation, on 19 July, the Privy Council switched allegiance and proclaimed Edward VI's Catholic half-sister Mary queen. Jane was executed for treason in 1554, aged 16.
(Overthrown after 9 days) October 1537
Bradgate Park
Daughter of the 1st Duke of Suffolk
and Frances Brandon Guildford Dudley
Executed aged 16 Great-granddaughter of Henry VII
Devise for the Succession [94]
Mary I
19 July 1553[t]
(5 years, 122 days) 18 February 1516
Daughter of Henry VIII
and Catherine of Aragon Philip II of Spain
No children 17 November 1558
Aged 42 Daughter of Henry VIII
Third Succession Act [96]
(Jure uxoris)
25 July 1554[xv]
(4 years, 116 days) 21 May 1527
Son of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire
and Isabella of Portugal Mary I of England
3 other marriages
Aged 71 Husband of Mary I
Act for the Marriage of Queen Mary to Philip of Spain N/A
Under the terms of the marriage treaty between Philip I of Naples (Philip II of Spain from 15 January 1556) and Queen Mary I, Philip was to enjoy Mary's titles and honours for as long as their marriage should last. All official documents, including Acts of Parliament, were to be dated with both their names, and Parliament was to be called under the joint authority of the couple. An Act of Parliament gave him the title of king and stated that he "shall aid her Highness … in the happy administration of her Grace's realms and dominions"[97] (although elsewhere the Act stated that Mary was to be "sole queen"). Nonetheless, Philip was to co-reign with his wife.[98]
As the new King of England could not read English, it was ordered that a note of all matters of state should be made in Latin or Spanish.[98][99][100] Coins were minted showing the heads of both Mary and Philip, and the coat of arms of England (pictured right) was impaled with Philip's to denote their joint reign.[101][102] Acts which made it high treason to deny Philip's royal authority were passed in England (see Treason Act 1554) and Ireland.[103] In 1555, Pope Paul IV issued a papal bull recognising Philip and Mary as rightful King and Queen of Ireland.
Main article: Elizabethan era
17 November 1558[u]
(44 years, 128 days) 7 September 1533
and Anne Boleyn Does not appear Unmarried 24 March 1603
Third Succession Act [104]
House of Stuart[edit]
Main articles: House of Stuart, Stuart period, Jacobean era, and Caroline era
Following the death of Elizabeth I in 1603 without issue, her first cousin twice removed, King James VI of Scotland, succeeded to the English throne as James I in the Union of the Crowns. James was descended from the Tudors through his great-grandmother, Margaret Tudor, the eldest daughter of Henry VII and wife of James IV of Scotland. In 1604, he adopted the title King of Great Britain. However, the two parliaments remained separate until the Acts of Union 1707.[105]
24 March 1603[v]
(22 years, 4 days) 19 June 1566
Son of Lord Darnley
and Mary I of Scotland Anne of Denmark
7 children 27 March 1625
Theobalds House
Aged 58 Great-great-grandson / heir general of Henry VII [106]
27 March 1625[w]
(23 years, 310 days) 19 November 1600
Dunfermline Palace
Son of James I
and Anne of Denmark Henrietta Maria of France
St Augustine's Abbey
9 children 30 January 1649
Executed aged 48 Son of James I
Cognatic primogeniture [107]
Interregnum[edit]
Main articles: Commonwealth of England and Interregnum (1649–1660)
No monarch reigned between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Between 1649 and 1653, there was no single English head of state, as England was ruled directly by the Rump Parliament with the English Council of State acting as executive power during a period known as the Commonwealth of England. After a coup d'etat in 1653, Oliver Cromwell forcibly took control of England from Parliament. He dissolved the Rump Parliament at the head of a military force and England entered a period known as The Protectorate, under Cromwell's direct control with the title Lord Protector.
While not officially monarchs, the holder of the office of Lord Protector passed from Oliver Cromwell to his son Richard. Richard lacked both the ability to rule and confidence of the Army, and he was forcibly removed by the English Committee of Safety under the leadership of Charles Fleetwood in May 1659. England again lacked any single head of state during several months of conflict between Fleetwood's party and that of George Monck. Monck took control of the country in December 1659, and after almost a year of anarchy, the monarchy was formally restored when Charles II returned from France to accept the throne of England. This was following the Declaration of Breda and an invitation to reclaim the throne from the Convention Parliament of 1660.
Lords Protector
3 September 1658[108]
Huntingdon[108]
Son of Robert Cromwell
and Elizabeth Steward[109] Elizabeth Bourchier
St Giles[110]
9 children[108] 3 September 1658
Aged 59[108]
Richard Cromwell
7 May 1659[111]
(247 days) 4 October 1626
Son of Oliver Cromwell
and Elizabeth Bourchier[111] Dorothy Maijor
9 children[111] 12 July 1712
House of Stuart (restored)[edit]
Main article: Restoration (England)
After the Monarchy was restored, England came under the rule of Charles II, whose reign was relatively peaceful domestically, given the tumultuous time of the Interregnum years. Tensions still existed between Catholics and Protestants. With the ascension of Charles's brother, the openly Catholic James II, England was again sent into a period of political turmoil.
James II was ousted by Parliament less than three years after ascending to the throne, replaced by his daughter Mary II and her husband (also his nephew) William III during the Glorious Revolution. While James and his descendants would continue to claim the throne, all Catholics (such as James and his son Charles) were barred from the throne by the Act of Settlement 1701, enacted by Anne, another of James's Protestant daughters. After the Acts of Union 1707, England as a sovereign state ceased to exist, replaced by the new Kingdom of Great Britain.
(Recognised by Royalists in 1649)
29 May 1660[x]
(24 years, 254 days) 29 May 1630
Son of Charles I
and Henrietta Maria of France Catherine of Braganza
No children 6 February 1685
Aged 54 Son of Charles I
Cognatic primogeniture
English Restoration [113]
6 February 1685[y]
(Overthrown after 3 years, 321 days) 14 October 1633
and Henrietta Maria of France (1) Anne Hyde
(2) Mary of Modena
Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Mary II
13 February 1689[z]
Daughter of James II
and Anne Hyde William III of England
No children 28 December 1694
Aged 32 Daughter of James II
Offered the Crown by Parliament [116]
William of Orange
(13 years, 24 days) 4 November 1650
Son of William II of Orange
and Mary of England Mary II of England
No children 8 March 1702
Aged 51 Grandson of Charles I
8 March 1702[aa]
(5 years, 55 days)
(Queen of Great Britain until
1 August 1714)
(12 years, 147 days) 6 February 1665
and Anne Hyde George of Denmark
No surviving children 1 August 1714
Bill of Rights 1689 [119]
After the Acts of Union 1707
See List of British monarchs.
Acts of Union[edit]
The Acts of Union 1707 were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed during 1706 and 1707 by the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland to put into effect the Treaty of Union agreed on 22 July 1706. The Acts joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland (previously separate sovereign states, with separate legislatures but with the same monarch) into the Kingdom of Great Britain.[120]
England, Scotland, and Ireland had shared a monarch for more than a hundred years, since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English and Irish thrones from his first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I. Although described as a Union of Crowns, until 1707 there were in fact two separate Crowns resting on the same head. There had been attempts in 1606, 1667, and 1689, to unite England and Scotland by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early eighteenth century that the idea had the support of both political establishments behind it, albeit for rather different reasons.
Timeline of English monarchs[edit]
Titles[edit]
Main article: Style of the British sovereign
The standard title for all monarchs from Æthelstan until the time of King John was Rex Anglorum ("King of the English"). In addition, many of the pre-Norman kings assumed extra titles, as follows:
Æthelstan: Rex totius Britanniae ("King of the Whole of Britain")
Edmund the Magnificent: Rex Britanniæ ("King of Britain") and Rex Anglorum cæterarumque gentium gobernator et rector ("King of the English and of other peoples governor and director")
Eadred: Regis qui regimina regnorum Angulsaxna, Norþhymbra, Paganorum, Brettonumque ("Reigning over the governments of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons, Northumbrians, Pagans, and British")
Eadwig the Fair: Rex nutu Dei Angulsæxna et Northanhumbrorum imperator paganorum gubernator Breotonumque propugnator ("King by the will of God, Emperor of the Anglo-Saxons and Northumbrians, governor of the pagans, commander of the British")
Edgar the Peaceful: Totius Albionis finitimorumque regum basileus ("King of all Albion and its neighbouring realms")
Canute: Rex Anglorum totiusque Brittannice orbis gubernator et rector ("King of the English and of all the British sphere governor and ruler") and Brytannie totius Anglorum monarchus ("Monarch of all the English of Britain")
In the Norman period Rex Anglorum remained standard, with occasional use of Rex Anglie ("King of England"). The Empress Matilda styled herself Domina Anglorum ("Lady of the English").
From the time of King John onwards all other titles were eschewed in favour of Rex or Regina Anglie.
In 1604 James I, who had inherited the English throne the previous year, adopted the title (now usually rendered in English rather than Latin) King of Great Britain. The English and Scottish parliaments, however, did not recognise this title until the Acts of Union of 1707 under Queen Anne (who was Queen of Great Britain rather than king).[xvi]
Alternative successions of the English crown
Bretwalda
Demise of the Crown
English monarchs' family tree
Family tree of English and British monarchs
Heptarchy
List of English consorts
List of British monarchs
List of Irish monarchs
List of monarchs of the British Isles by cause of death
List of monarchs of Wessex, AD 519 to 927
Lists of monarchs in the British Isles
List of rulers of the United Kingdom and predecessor states
List of rulers of Wales
List of Scottish monarchs
Line of succession to the British throne, a list of people
Mnemonic verses of monarchs in England
Succession to the British throne, a historical overview and current rules
List of legendary kings of Britain
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^ Æthelred was forced to go into exile in mid-1013, following Danish attacks, but was invited back following Sweyn Forkbeard's death in 1014.[29]
^ Harold was only recognised as Regent until 1037, when was recognised as king.[41].
^ After reigning for approximately 9 weeks, Edgar Atheling submitted to William the Conqueror, who had gained control of the area to the south and immediate west of London.[49]
^ William I is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Étienne (French: Abbaye aux Hommes) in France.
^ Henry I is buried at Reading Abbey.
^ Matilda is not listed as a monarch of England in many genealogies within texts, including Carpenter, David (2003). A Struggle for Mastery. p. 533. ; Warren, W.L. (1973). Henry II. p. 176. ; and Gillingham, John (1984). The Angevin Empire. p. x. .
^ Henry II is buried at Fontevraud Abbey.
^ Richard II was buried at Rouen Cathedral. His body currently lies at Fontevraud Abbey.
^ John is buried at Worcester Cathedral.
^ The date of Edward II's death is disputed by historian Ian Mortimer, who argues that he may not have been murdered, but held imprisoned in Europe for several more years.[70]
^ Edward V was deposed by Richard III, who usurped the throne on the grounds that Edward was illegitimate. He was never crowned.[83]
^ The body of Richard III was exhumed and reburied in Leicester Cathedral in 2015.
^ Edward Hall and Raphael Holinshed both record an earlier secret wedding between Henry and Anne, which was conducted in Dover on 15 November 1532.
^ Philip was not meant to be a mere consort; rather, the status of Mary I's husband was envisioned as that of a co-monarch during her reign. (See Act for the Marriage of Queen Mary to Philip of Spain.) However the extent of his authority and his status are ambiguous. The Act says that Philip shall have the title of king and "shall aid her Highness ... in the happy administration of her Grace's realms and dominions", but elsewhere says that Mary shall be the sole Queen.
^ After the personal union of the crowns, James was the first to style himself King of Great Britain, but the title was rejected by the English Parliament and had no basis in law. The Parliament of Scotland also opposed it.[121] (See also Union Flag.)
^ William II was crowned on 26 September 1087.
^ Henry I was crowned on 5 August 1100.
^ Stephen was crowned on 22 December 1135.
^ Henry II was crowned on 19 December 1154 with his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
^ Richard I was crowned on 3 September 1189.
^ John was crowned on 27 May 1199.
^ Henry III was crowned on 28 October 1216.
^ Edward I was crowned on 19 August 1274 with Queen Eleanor.
^ Edward II was crowned on 25 February 1308 with Queen Isabella.
^ Edward III was crowned on 1 February 1327.
^ Richard II was crowned on 16 July 1377.
^ Henry IV was crowned on 13 October 1399.
^ Henry V was crowned on 9 April 1413.
^ Henry VI was crowned on 6 November 1429.
^ Edward IV was crowned on 28 June 1461.
^ Richard III was crowned on 6 July 1483 with Queen Anne.
^ Henry VII was crowned on 30 October 1485.
^ Henry VIII was crowned on 24 June 1509 with Queen Catherine.
^ Edward VI was crowned on 20 February 1547.
^ Mary I was crowned on 1 October 1553.
^ Elizabeth I was crowned on 15 January 1559.
^ James I was crowned on 25 July 1603 with Queen Anne.
^ Charles I was crowned on 2 February 1626.
^ Charles II was crowned on 23 April 1661.
^ James II was crowned on 23 April 1685 with Mary of Modena.
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A Shared Foresight for ASEAN
“Comrades.”
This is how I would describe my fellow ASEAN Minister counterparts at the 17th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology, which took place in the capital city of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw, during the season of Deepavali.
There has been incremental progress by the ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology (ASEAN COST), which is headed by MOSTI on behalf of Malaysia, since my first participation as a Minister in 2015. We adopted the ASEAN Plan of Action on STI 2016 – 2025, the same year the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was established.
Then last year, a follow up Implementation Plan was adopted at the 9th Informal ASEAN Meeting on S&T in Cambodia. Some immediate plans are to increase collaboration in research, create an ASEAN talent mobility platform, establish smart partnerships among science, technology and innovation (STI) enterprises and promote STI enculturation in ASEAN.
A fortnight ago in the latest meeting, Malaysia was the third member state after Thailand and the Philippines to accede to the ASEAN STI Partnership Contributions. One million USD (RM 4.24 million) would be available for international collaboration in five research priority areas, namely:
Medical and Health Sciences,
Engineering and Technology,
ICT,
Biotechnology and,
Agriculture and Forestry.
The boost in international research funding for ASEAN comes at the same time where local Public Higher Learning Institutions are allocated RM 400 million in Budget 2018, up from RM 235 million the previous year.
We also revealed our decision to endorse the ASEAN Declaration on Innovation, which would be adopted by ASEAN Leaders during the 31st ASEAN Summit that would be held in about a week’s time. This is more than a reaffirmation of the cooperation of Member States in STI. I see this as recognition that “innovation” is no longer only affiliated with science and technology, but as a mean to drive regional growth and competitiveness.
This applies to providing holistic policies that foster entrepreneurship, realising opportunities arising from disruptive technologies and to achieve United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in solving societal problems together.
Despite keeping a good momentum in our STI agenda, like comrades, fellow Ministers spoke truthfully, most of the time off the cuff, at the official meeting about the challenges we face in our respective countries in advancing in science and technology.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, as advocated by the World Economic Forum since early 2016, has been deliberated with much fanfare in international forums across the globe, including in Malaysia. Is ASEAN as an entity, ready to address the impact of an unstoppable technological revolution on our economy?
According to the World Bank in 2016, the combined economies of ASEAN is worth USD$ 2.56 trillion in nominal GDP, making us one of the largest economic powers in the world. While most of us are aware of these developments, what concerns us is that most of the Member States are said to still be rooted in the Second Industrial Revolution where economies depend on mass production, or in the early stage of the Third.
With my counterparts who are Ministers in-charge of science, technology and innovation in their respective countries at the 17th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology. Photo credit: asean.org
The lesser-developed Member States are reliant on mass production of textiles and clothing, while others are manufacturers of electrical and electric products, and automotive parts. The majority of ASEAN is still dependent on the West, though now increasingly on China, for foreign direct investment and technology imports for our economic progress.
Critics have said that our overreliance on foreign contributions have caused us to neglect our own development in science, technology and innovation. We would be caught in the middle-income trap due to our lack of investment in STI, with the exception of Singapore that spends over two per cent of its GPD on research and development.
There are many aspects of ASEAN to be addressed for us to remain relevant and be competitive on the global stage, but as a MOSTI Minister I would like to broadly share two concerns that might impede ASEAN from fully reaping the benefits of the new economy.
Firstly, we should not underestimate the impact of automation on jobs. According to the International Labour Organisation, 56 per cent of the workers in five ASEAN countries, namely Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia (or equivalent to 137 million workers), especially in textile, restaurants, retail and manufacturing, are at risk of losing their jobs to automation an robotics. Job losses in the automotive and auto parts industry are as high as 60 to 70 per cent.
Secondly, while existing ASEAN institutional frameworks are promoting trade in the form of goods, moving forward, we need to look into liberating trade in the digital economy such as services and e-commerce.
Malaysia has demonstrated leadership in this area by realising the world’s first Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) this year, together with Alibaba Group. On Friday our Prime Minister and Founder/ Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma flagged off almost 2,000 export-ready small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that would join the DFTZ.
With this, Malaysia is expected to become the regional hub for e-commerce and a major trans-shipment hub. The Prime Minister has urged SMEs to not just sell to their villages alone, but make the world their market by becoming part of the DFTZ.
MOSTI has been part of the effort in setting up the ASEAN Talent Mobility Platform since 2015 that facilitate the mobility of scientists in ASEAN and with partner countries. But in the face of automation we need to substantially level-up our respective scientific and technological capabilities in strategic focus areas of the suggested Fourth Industrial Revolution and promote labour mobility as a whole.
In view of the increasing popularity of digital labour for jobs that require little social interactions, ASEAN Member States would need to look into labour laws and regulations when digital cross border transactions occur.
With the many uncertainties ASEAN faces in the new economy, during the ASEAN 2050 Forum organised by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia last week, Malaysia has proposed to lead an ASEAN Foresight Alliance, where a single vision would be shared by 10 countries, or the current population of over 630 million, toward 2050.
At the ASEAN 2050 Forum at Marriott Hotel, Putrajaya, on 2/11/2017. Photo credit: Mustafa
While I stand that ASEAN holds a bright future for all of us, to lead a regional foresight movement, Malaysia needs to first be prepared in terms of STI governance, businesses’ innovation capabilities and the competencies of our research institutes.
Speaking at the forum. Photo credit: Mustafa
We have already initiated our own national level foresight plan, called the National Transformation 2050. I am convinced that a regional vision would better prepare us for the unprecedented challenges ahead. One day, perhaps beyond my lifetime, I dream that our TN50 generation would be discussing about having a global vision, that is, one foresight plan for the whole world! That is when we have achieved the ultimate goal – world peace.
After all, as the President of Academy of Sciences Malaysia Prof Datuk Dr Asma Ismail correctly said at the forum,
“Diversity is our greatest strength.”
Prof Datuk Dr Asma Ismail, President of Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Photo credit: Mustafa
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1664 2016-03-01 10:33:30 17.8749 ABMag r-Sloan PS1_GPC1
11405 AT 2016baq 2 11:09:25.786 +29:34:24.82 UGC 6198 0.034787 SNHunt, ASAS-SN ASAS-SN, CRTS, SNHunt SNHunt313 Other - Other, ASASSN-1 - Brutus Y Y 17.7 V-crts-CRTS 2016-03-12 08:19:43 Drake
1543 2016-03-14 14:27:03 brojonat J. S. Brown, for the ASAS-SN team ASAS-SN 11:09:25.757 +29:34:23.61 2016-03-13 10:33:36 16.9 V-Johnson 3 PSN UGC 06198 0.034787 ASASSN-16db ASAS-SN
1729 2016-03-13 10:33:36 16.9 VegaMag V-Johnson ASASSN-1_Brutus 270 ASASSN
1728 2016-03-08 08:52:48 17.9 VegaMag V-Johnson ASASSN-1_Brutus 270 ASASSN [Last non detection]
1483 2016-03-12 22:38:02 ajd Nikolay Mishevskiy, on behalf of CRTS SNHunt 11:09:25.786 +29:34:24.82 2016-03-12 08:19:43 17.7 V-crts-CRTS 1 1 PSN UGC 6198 0.034787 SNHunt313 CRTS, SNHunt
1665 2016-03-12 08:19:43 17.7 22 VegaMag V-crts-CRTS Other_Other Images taken with 1.5m MLS telescope. Seen in four 30 sec exposures.
tns_2016baq_atrep_1483.png Graphics 2016-03-13 00:07:10 NikAstro
11406 AT 2016bar 1 12:07:07.300 +53:40:06.30 MCG +09-20-097 0.0589 XTSS XTSS-16A Other - Other Y Y 19.9 B-Johnson 2016-03-05 16:47:59 Wang
1484 2016-03-13 02:26:12 xwang Hubiao Niu (XAO), Shuguo Ma (XAO), Xiaofeng Wang, Wenxiong Li (THU), Ali Esamdin, Lu Ma,Jinzhong Liu (XAO) XTSS 12:07:07.300 +53:40:06.30 2016-03-05 16:47:59 19.9 B-Johnson 2 PSN MCG +09-20-097 0.0589 XTSS-16A This supernova candidate was discovered during the XAO (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory) and THU (Tsinghua University) Supernova Survey (XTSS), using the Nanshan 1.0-m telescope of XAO, China.
1667 2016-03-05 16:47:59 19.9 0.1 VegaMag B-Johnson Other_Other 60 Hubiao Niu The discovery is made with the Nanshan 1.0-m primary focus telescope of XAO, China.
1666 2015-03-19 18:00:00 21 VegaMag B-Johnson Other_Other 120 Hubiao Niu [Last non detection]
11408 AT 2016bat 1 08:23:25.210 +04:02:09.60 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bak PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.1787 w-PS1 2016-03-04 07:04:06 Young
1486 2016-03-13 19:20:34 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 08:23:25.210 +04:02:09.60 2016-03-04 07:04:06 21.1787 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bak Pan-STARRS1
1670 2016-03-04 07:04:06 21.1787 ABMag w-PS1 PS1_GPC1
11410 AT 2016bav 1 12:20:34.198 -04:03:39.07 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16ban PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.7424 w-PS1 2016-03-10 09:49:43 Young
1488 2016-03-14 01:32:12 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 12:20:34.198 -04:03:39.07 2016-03-10 09:49:43 21.7424 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16ban Pan-STARRS1
11411 AT 2016baw 1 12:31:45.873 -04:43:47.58 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bao PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.3796 w-PS1 2016-03-10 09:51:57 Young
1489 2016-03-14 01:32:15 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 12:31:45.873 -04:43:47.58 2016-03-10 09:51:57 21.3796 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bao Pan-STARRS1
11412 AT 2016bax 1 12:43:19.760 -06:14:49.00 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bap PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.551 w-PS1 2016-03-10 09:54:08 Young
1490 2016-03-14 01:32:17 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 12:43:19.760 -06:14:49.00 2016-03-10 09:54:08 20.551 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bap Pan-STARRS1
1675 2016-03-10 09:54:08 20.551 ABMag w-PS1 PS1_GPC1
11413 AT 2016bay 1 12:44:39.216 -07:08:19.59 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16baq PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.6326 w-PS1 2016-03-10 09:54:08 Young
1491 2016-03-14 01:32:19 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 12:44:39.216 -07:08:19.59 2016-03-10 09:54:08 21.6326 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16baq Pan-STARRS1
11414 AT 2016baz 1 13:23:43.388 -05:46:51.41 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bas PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.6014 w-PS1 2016-03-10 11:18:19 Young
1492 2016-03-14 01:32:21 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 13:23:43.388 -05:46:51.41 2016-03-10 11:18:19 21.6014 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bas Pan-STARRS1
11415 AT 2016bba 1 13:51:52.357 -00:41:11.55 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bat PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.9442 w-PS1 2016-03-10 11:05:08 Young
1493 2016-03-14 01:32:23 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 13:51:52.357 -00:41:11.55 2016-03-10 11:05:08 20.9442 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bat Pan-STARRS1
11416 AT 2016bbb 1 15:20:53.200 -26:11:24.34 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bau PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.2117 w-PS1 2016-03-10 14:04:52 Young
1494 2016-03-14 01:32:27 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 15:20:53.200 -26:11:24.34 2016-03-10 14:04:52 19.2117 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bau Pan-STARRS1
11417 AT 2016bbc 1 10:12:30.665 +19:46:59.39 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bav PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.1611 w-PS1 2016-03-11 07:03:05 Young
1495 2016-03-14 01:32:29 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 10:12:30.665 +19:46:59.39 2016-03-11 07:03:05 20.1611 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bav Pan-STARRS1
11418 AT 2016bbd 1 14:01:40.090 -04:10:09.92 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16baw PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.1166 w-PS1 2016-03-11 12:27:57 Young
1496 2016-03-14 01:32:31 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 14:01:40.090 -04:10:09.92 2016-03-11 12:27:57 21.1166 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16baw Pan-STARRS1
11419 AT 2016bbe 1 06:57:31.425 -23:55:18.73 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bax PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.0372 i-Sloan 2016-02-25 07:37:21 Young
1497 2016-03-14 01:32:33 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 06:57:31.425 -23:55:18.73 2016-02-25 07:37:21 20.0372 i-Sloan 1 PSN PS16bax Pan-STARRS1
1682 2016-02-25 07:37:21 20.0372 ABMag i-Sloan PS1_GPC1
11420 AT 2016bbf 4 09:15:29.537 -09:25:31.40 Pan-STARRS1, ZTF Pan-STARRS1, ZTF PS16bay PS1 - GPC1, P48 - ZTF-Cam Y Y 18.8703 i-Sloan 2016-02-25 09:54:02 Young
26416 2018-12-16 11:07:37 ZTF_AMPEL_NEW J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, M. Giomi, J. van Santen (HU Berlin), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron, S. Schulze (Weizmann) on behalf of ZTF ZTF 09:15:29.554 -09:25:31.36 2018-11-28 11:06:59 20.0073 r-ZTF 4 PSN ZTF18acrxoqx ZTF
46162 2018-12-12 11:08:02 19.8374 0.174515 20.261 ABMag g-ZTF P48_ZTF-Cam 30
46160 2018-12-09 13:40:35 20.0073 0.305698 19.5367 ABMag r-ZTF P48_ZTF-Cam 30
46161 2018-12-09 11:30:00 19.4577 0.156229 19.9278 ABMag g-ZTF P48_ZTF-Cam 30
26044 2018-12-09 16:32:52 ZTF_AMPEL_NEW J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, M. Giomi, J. van Santen (HU Berlin), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron, S. Schulze (Weizmann) on behalf of ZTF ZTF 09:15:29.527 -09:25:31.33 2018-11-28 11:06:59 19.4577 g-ZTF 2 PSN ZTF18acrxoqx ZTF
1498 2016-03-14 01:32:36 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 09:15:29.537 -09:25:31.40 2016-02-25 09:54:02 18.8703 i-Sloan 1 PSN PS16bay Pan-STARRS1
11421 AT 2016bbg 1 10:49:47.694 +24:28:29.26 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16baz PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 18.6041 r-Sloan 2016-02-26 13:03:47 Young
1499 2016-03-14 01:32:39 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 10:49:47.694 +24:28:29.26 2016-02-26 13:03:47 18.6041 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS16baz Pan-STARRS1
11422 AT 2016bbh 1 16:55:32.258 +31:34:30.67 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbb PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.231 r-Sloan 2016-02-27 13:47:54 Young
1500 2016-03-14 01:32:42 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 16:55:32.258 +31:34:30.67 2016-02-27 13:47:54 20.231 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS16bbb Pan-STARRS1
1685 2016-02-27 13:47:54 20.231 ABMag r-Sloan PS1_GPC1
11423 AT 2016bbi 1 10:55:34.273 +02:04:47.06 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbc PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.0091 r-Sloan 2016-02-28 09:25:43 Young
1501 2016-03-14 01:32:44 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 10:55:34.273 +02:04:47.06 2016-02-28 09:25:43 20.0091 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS16bbc Pan-STARRS1
11424 AT 2016bbj 1 09:01:20.242 -16:53:38.11 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbd PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.3123 r-Sloan 2016-02-29 08:35:57 Young
1502 2016-03-14 01:32:47 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 09:01:20.242 -16:53:38.11 2016-02-29 08:35:57 20.3123 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS16bbd Pan-STARRS1
11425 AT 2016bbk 1 08:19:38.593 +35:52:48.07 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbe PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.399 w-PS1 2016-03-01 07:59:58 Young
1503 2016-03-14 01:32:49 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 08:19:38.593 +35:52:48.07 2016-03-01 07:59:58 19.399 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbe Pan-STARRS1
11426 AT 2016bbl 1 08:46:17.896 -00:52:50.60 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbf PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.2911 w-PS1 2016-03-02 07:39:55 Young
1504 2016-03-14 01:32:51 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 08:46:17.896 -00:52:50.60 2016-03-02 07:39:55 21.2911 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbf Pan-STARRS1
11427 AT 2016bbm 1 14:19:32.831 +07:53:27.97 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbg PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 18.6333 r-Sloan 2016-03-02 14:19:32 Young
1505 2016-03-14 01:32:53 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 14:19:32.831 +07:53:27.97 2016-03-02 14:19:32 18.6333 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS16bbg Pan-STARRS1
11428 AT 2016bbn 1 14:02:33.657 +08:09:53.06 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbh PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.4299 r-Sloan 2016-03-03 11:55:26 Young
1506 2016-03-14 01:32:55 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 14:02:33.657 +08:09:53.06 2016-03-03 11:55:26 20.4299 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS16bbh Pan-STARRS1
11429 AT 2016bbo 1 14:24:09.577 +15:59:28.33 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbi PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.4667 z-Sloan 2016-03-02 15:50:04 Young
1507 2016-03-14 01:32:57 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 14:24:09.577 +15:59:28.33 2016-03-02 15:50:04 19.4667 z-Sloan 1 PSN PS16bbi Pan-STARRS1
1692 2016-03-02 15:50:04 19.4667 ABMag z-Sloan PS1_GPC1
11430 AT 2016bbp 1 13:24:15.308 -15:41:30.53 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbj PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.9196 w-PS1 2016-03-04 12:51:41 Young
1508 2016-03-14 01:33:00 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 13:24:15.308 -15:41:30.53 2016-03-04 12:51:41 20.9196 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbj Pan-STARRS1
11431 AT 2016bbq 1 13:27:46.152 -11:46:11.59 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbk PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.4919 w-PS1 2016-03-04 12:53:32 Young
1509 2016-03-14 01:33:03 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 13:27:46.152 -11:46:11.59 2016-03-04 12:53:32 21.4919 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbk Pan-STARRS1
11432 AT 2016bbr 1 13:15:07.015 -17:37:49.81 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbm PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.8299 w-PS1 2016-03-06 11:20:11 Young
1510 2016-03-14 01:33:06 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 13:15:07.015 -17:37:49.81 2016-03-06 11:20:11 20.8299 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbm Pan-STARRS1
11433 AT 2016bbs 1 15:56:02.220 -04:35:29.53 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbn PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.3797 w-PS1 2016-03-05 14:25:01 Young
1511 2016-03-14 01:33:08 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 15:56:02.220 -04:35:29.53 2016-03-05 14:25:01 21.3797 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbn Pan-STARRS1
11434 AT 2016bbt 1 13:57:07.747 -08:16:55.30 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbp PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.3854 w-PS1 2016-03-06 12:35:00 Young
1512 2016-03-14 01:33:10 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 13:57:07.747 -08:16:55.30 2016-03-06 12:35:00 21.3854 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbp Pan-STARRS1
11435 AT 2016bbu 1 14:11:55.396 -00:41:43.96 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbq PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.896 w-PS1 2016-03-06 14:17:44 Young
1513 2016-03-14 01:33:13 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 14:11:55.396 -00:41:43.96 2016-03-06 14:17:44 19.896 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbq Pan-STARRS1
11436 AT 2016bbv 1 16:10:35.376 -07:40:19.19 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbs PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.5183 w-PS1 2016-03-09 15:00:23 Young
1514 2016-03-14 01:33:16 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 16:10:35.376 -07:40:19.19 2016-03-09 15:00:23 19.5183 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbs Pan-STARRS1
11437 AT 2016bbw 1 10:42:27.627 +12:30:15.24 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbt PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.4887 w-PS1 2016-03-10 07:32:52 Young
1515 2016-03-14 01:33:19 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 10:42:27.627 +12:30:15.24 2016-03-10 07:32:52 20.4887 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbt Pan-STARRS1
11438 AT 2016bbx 1 10:45:31.114 +12:45:25.80 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS16bbu PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.114 w-PS1 2016-03-10 07:32:52 Young
1516 2016-03-14 01:33:22 David Young K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) Pan-STARRS1 10:45:31.114 +12:45:25.80 2016-03-10 07:32:52 21.114 w-PS1 1 PSN PS16bbu Pan-STARRS1
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HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
History (Loudon Wainwright III album)
History: is a compilation album by Grime rapper Jme, released on 13 February 2011. It was released independently on Boy Better Know Records. It charted at number 162 on the UK Albums Chart.
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HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (usually shortened to HIStory) is the ninth overall studio album and his fifth under Epic Records by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on June 16, 1995 by Epic Records. This is Jackson's first album on his own label, MJJ Productions, and consists of two discs: the first disc (HIStory Begins) is a compilation of some of his greatest hits from 1979 onward, while the second disc (HIStory Continues) is a studio album composed entirely of new material. The majority of the second disc's tracks were written and produced by Jackson, often in conjunction with collaborators.
HIStory was Jackson's return to releasing music following the accusation of child sexual abuse in August 1993. Many of the 15 songs pertain to the accusations and Jackson's mistreatment in the media, specifically the tabloids. The songs' themes include environmental awareness, isolation, greed, suicide and injustice.
HIStory is Jackson's most controversial album. Jackson was accused of using anti-Semitic lyrics in "They Don't Care About Us". Jackson stated that he did not mean any offense and on multiple occasions denied anti-Semitism. The dispute regarding the lyrics ended with Jackson re-recording them. R. Kelly was accused of plagiarizing one of the album's songs, "You Are Not Alone". In 2007 a judge ruled that the song was plagiarized and the song was subsequently banned from radio stations in Belgium.
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History is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, released on September 21, 1992 on Charisma Records. The album was recorded following the death of Wainwright's father, Loudon Wainwright Jr.. Regarding his father's death and its influence on History, Wainwright stated that:
The album featured deeply personal compositions, with a musical style that ranges from talking blues ("Talking New Bob Dylan") to almost pure country rock ("So Many Songs") and modern folk ("The Picture", "Men").
History is often regarded as a breakthrough in Wainwright's career. Allmusic call the album "his masterpiece", and both Bruce Springsteen and Bob Geldof cited it as their favourite album of the year.
The final track, "A Handful of Dust" is an adaptation of a song written by his father.
"Hitting You" is the fourth song of Wainwright's career dedicated to his daughter Martha Wainwright, and "A Father and a Son" is directed to his son Rufus Wainwright.
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Original Dragon's Den panellist and Yo! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe has advice for speakers and interviewees
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Simon Woodroffe was the dragon who didn't want to breathe fire. Chris Morvan met him and found he had advice for both public speakers and candidates at interview:
'Know your subject, know the background, but stop thinking about what you're going to say. It's the same when you go into any presentation or meeting.'
Here on the third floor of Fortis Guernsey's seafront office block there is a familiar face ploughing wearily but good-naturedly through an afternoon of media interviews. A businessman? Certainly. A highly successful one. But Simon Woodroffe doesn't look like millions of businessmen around the world. Sure, he's wearing a suit, but it's a medium shade of blue and has a satin collar. There are overlapping, jeans-style seams down the sides of the trousers. Wacky, decidedly unconventional shirt, and I don't know if you've ever seen purple socks, but I have, because he's wearing some.
And then there are the sideburns, which slink down his cheeks into points, like knives.
It all adds up to this: he's a rock'n'roller at heart. The freedom to wear what he likes, to bend the rules that bind the average nine-to-fiver, comes from his success and the fact that he is an entrepreneur - a maverick. This is the man who dreamed up the Yo! brand, the first manifestation of which was the Yo! Sushi chain of restaurants and which now includes Yotels - with their small airline/ship-style cabins rather than conventional rooms.
It is a way of thinking that is truly, to use an overworked word, innovative - and it has earned him an OBE.
Despite that, Woodroffe is best known to most of us as one of the original panel on Dragons' Den, the top-rated TV programme on which hopefuls with business ideas pitch them to five millionaires in the hope of getting them to invest in the company.
Woodroffe was born into a nomadic army family, which traipsed around the world according to where his father was posted next. Young Simon escaped much of this through being sent to an English public school, which he left, aged 16 and with two O levels, at the end of the 1960s. 'That focused my mind,' he says self-deprecatingly of his lack of qualifications. 'I was variously a bus conductor, a roadie and a stage designer.' The latter was his first serious business. 'We did very well. We worked with bands from Motorhead to the Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, The Faces, Elton...' He trails off. 'There were very few people doing it at the time [the 1970s and 80s] because in those days there was rock'n'roll and showbusiness, and never the twain should meet.'
Another overused word that springs to mind is entrepreneur. Is that how he thinks of himself? 'A classic entrepreneur,' he says firmly. 'I didn't come from money - I didn't come from poverty either, but certainly not from money. There is something that drives all of us and I was going to be a millionaire by the time I was 20, but I was having a good time at that age, so I put it off first till I was 30 and then till I was 40. Then I thought "I'm running out of time, so I'd better do something about it." Then I came up with the idea of Yo! Sushi after talking to a guy called Mr Uahara, who told me I should do a sushi bar with conveyor belts and girls in black PVC miniskirts. Two years later we opened, and I'm making it sound easy, but it was quite a struggle. I always knew I had the vision for it and that I would find people to make the whole thing work, but I lacked two fundamental things: I didn't have a track record in the restaurant business and I didn't have any real money. I put in the last £150,000 that was left after my divorce. Rationally, I knew it was a very high risk, but emotionally I knew it would work. At that level I think you often do things because you believe in them.'
Woodroffe actually turned down Dragons' Den at the first time of asking. 'We were scared of it,' he says candidly. 'A programme in which you had to invest between £300,000 and £500,000 of your own money? That actually turned out not to be the case, but it sounded like paying to be on TV and throwing your money away.' When he says 'we' he means himself and other entrepreneurs, many of whom knew each other through their shared interests and lifestyle, bumping into one another at awards ceremonies and the like.
The pilot episode went ahead without him, but then the producers approached him again, concerned that one of the dragons wasn't suitable. The format of the show had settled down and it was a less alarming proposition, so this time he said yes.
What, I wondered, was the best deal he did through the show?
He smiles. 'I made more money out of the first two series than anyone else - and what I made was... zero. You don't do Dragons' Den to get great investments. What I would say to the people walking up the stairs is "Don't think there are five people up there waiting to make money out of you: there are five people there thinking they're on a TV show and they're going to give a performance." The one that I'm best known for is the truffle farm, but like a lot of those investments, nothing ever really happened. The young man thought he could inject fungi and make truffles, which I later found out was the holy grail in that business, but it turned out that he didn't have the formula and it didn't actually work. What you don't see on the show is that a presentation can take up to an hour and a half, rather than the couple of minutes you do see, and while the other dragons were saying "It's never going to work," I was saying "I know, but I'm going to make a fortune out of truffle-hunting clothing and merchandise: big trousers you can put the truffles in, secret service glasses, special truffle-hunting torches... people are going to be going clubbing in truffle-hunting gear."'
Devotees of the show will know that it is set in a disused warehouse, but again, things are not what they seem, as Woodroffe reveals:
'For the first two series they used a lovely old warehouse in north London, and all the features you saw were real, but for the third series they couldn't use it, for some reason, so they recreated it in a studio in east London.'
The people pitching their ideas are kept two floors below, and Woodroffe says he felt sorry for them. 'They had to climb two sets of quite steep stairs, so by the time they got up there they were out of breath and also terrified, especially on the first series, because they didn't know what they were walking into. You hear the word "jeopardy" in TV companies a lot, because they like to create it, the possibility that someone could fail, because it makes good TV. It's a very intimidating thing, especially if you're not used to speaking in public. But the advice I would give is don't prepare anything. Know your subject, know the background, but stop thinking about what you're going to say. It's the same when you go into any presentation or meeting where you're trying to raise money in real life. Do your preparation, but be yourself. It's much better to do something from the heart than if you do some prepared speech. It's the same in anything: just think "I'm going to be myself and if they don't like me, who cares?" And when your brain relaxes enough, natural things come out and you can be spontaneous.'
He stayed for only two series and still feels he was slightly out of place. 'I wasn't prepared to be a horrible, nasty dragon. They always said to me that I was the nice one,' he says, suggesting that the programme-makers would have preferred him to join in the criticism and occasional savaging of one of the hapless applicants when his or her bizarre idea was exposed as unworkable. 'The real reason was that I couldn't do the next series because I had speaking engagements and other things, but I'm actually glad I didn't do it. It stood me in good stead, but it's become a bit of a cartoon of itself now.'
Nowadays he spends much of his time on the Yotels - there's one at Heathrow, another at Gatwick and a third coming soon at Amsterdam's Schipol airport. He stayed at the Gatwick one the night before this trip - in one of the economy rooms, rather than a luxury one. Now, he could just be saying this for effect, but you get the impression it is the kind of thing he would do, when he follows it up with this: 'The holy grail of retail is to give to ordinary people what rich people have. To do that you have to have a quantum leap, and in this case that leap is the size. They're designed by people who do the designs for luxury aeroplanes.'
Japanese food has nothing to do with it. 'Yo! is into a number of things at the moment. There's the radio thing I'm doing, RadiYo!; there's a publishing business, Yo! How, which is mainly my own stuff at the moment. We're doing Yo! Home, residential property, and Yo! Zone, the spa, is on its way.'
A version of this interview appeared in Business Active magazine. Adapted and used by permission of The Digital Works.
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‘Post-Fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise’
Gavin Stamp
St Paul’s Cathedral from St Martin’s-le-Grand (c. 1795), Thomas Girtin. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Cities are fragile things. They can burn: Rome in 64 AD (possibly thanks to the Emperor Nero); Constantinople in 1203 (courtesy of the Fourth Crusade); Lisbon in 1755 (because of the earthquake); Moscow in 1812 (thanks to Napoleon); Hamburg in 1842; Chicago in 1871; San Francisco in 1906… But in terms of devastation, few urban conflagrations can compare with the Great Fire of London, whose 350th anniversary is being marked this year. The fire, which famously began on 2 September 1666 in Pudding Lane, lasted for five days and incinerated 13,200 houses, mostly constructed of timber, rendering some 70,000–80,000 people homeless. It also destroyed most major public buildings, many livery companies’ halls, dozens of churches, and London’s great medieval cathedral.
The Great Fire was a social and economic catastrophe from which many thought London might never recover. It came but a year after another disaster, the outbreak of the Great Plague that killed a quarter of the capital’s population. But the city recovered, although it took half a century for the replacement cathedral and the 51 churches selected for rebuilding to be completed. And today, the things that seem most interesting about the fire are its architectural and urban consequences. It was the Great Fire that allowed the scientist Christopher Wren to emerge as an architect, responsible for designing the new St Paul’s Cathedral as well as, with others – notably Robert Hooke – the many rebuilt City churches, the survivors of which remain among the most delightful and yet underappreciated historic buildings in London.
Sometimes, when cities are destroyed, the opportunity is taken to replan them, ideally as an improvement – as happened with Lisbon after the earthquake, or, less convincingly, with Le Havre after it was bombed during the Second World War. Happily, that was not what happened in London, although it remains the subject of regretful myth that ideal plans for rebuilding were rejected because of the conservatism of the City. It is certainly true that, just a few days after the fire, several gentlemen amateurs presented Charles II with their plans – inspired by Paris and Rome – for laying out new patterns of long straight streets and squares on the devastated areas. Wren got in first, soon followed by John Evelyn, Robert Hooke and a few others. None of these schemes was considered for more than a couple of days as none was practical. To have replanned the City of London would have required a detailed survey to establish property rights, as a basis for compensation and the transfer of plots. This did not exist, and would have taken much time when the City merchants were anxious to rebuild their premises as soon as possible.
Sir Christopher Wren’s plan for rebuilding the City of London following the Great Fire of 1666 RIBA Collections
With Wren’s plan, the myth – of lost opportunity – is tenacious. But it was never seriously considered, never put before Parliament, and Wren himself soon put it away and never referred to it again. And the truth is that it was a crude and naive concept. Although the streets radiating from the Piazza del Popolo were his inspiration, Wren in 1666 had not only built very little but had never been to Rome. Topography and the sites of existing buildings were cheerfully ignored, save those of St Paul’s, the Royal Exchange and the Custom House, and the pattern of straight lines with a few radiating streets would surely have been boring. ‘That the King had to give up the plan immediately is but one of the numerous expressions of the failure of Absolutism in England,’ noted Steen Eiler Rasmussen in that great book, London: The Unique City (1934). ‘From our point of view the rejection of Wren’s plan is not a fault but rather a new triumph for what might be called the idea of London.’
Just as the new cathedral designed by Wren was a compromise – between Renaissance classicism and the medieval, between his ideal conception and the demands of the Dean and Chapter – so the rebuilding of the City of London was too. The old street plan, with its winding streets and narrow alleys, was retained, though with improvements. But the King’s proclamation, made as soon as 13 September, and the subsequent Building Acts, made sure that the new city which would arise would be better, more orderly and – most important – less flammable than the old. Houses were to be of brick and stone, with no external woodwork; streets were widened, obstacles eliminated, and the heights of houses determined by their location.
Post-Fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise. If the City today is at all enjoyable as a place to visit and work in, despite rebuilding since the Second World War and the frenetic redevelopments of recent years, it is because the scale, intimacy and intricacy of the medieval street pattern still survives in parts: in, for instance, the areas around Carter Lane and Bow Lane, south of Cornhill and around Leadenhall Market. And in considering the wisdom of abandoning the abstract, arrogant plans of Wren and the others, it is instructive to look at later plans for the City of London. Following the bombing of the Second World War (which razed a smaller area than the Great Fire), the proposals made by Charles Holden and William Holford in 1947 retained most of the old street pattern but mutilated it by cutting through new roads for fast traffic.
What is most depressing, however, is the vision the Royal Academy Planning Committee offered in 1942. Edwin Lutyens, Albert Richardson, Curtis Green, and other old classicists who should have known better proposed a London of roundabouts and long axial vistas. With an exaggerated reverence for Wren, they even suggested a formal setting for, and a new axial approach to St Paul’s, forgetting the picturesque pleasure of the west front of the cathedral opening up along the oblique, curving approach of Ludgate Hill. As Osbert Lancaster observed, the new London ‘will be not unlike what the new Nuremberg might have been had the Führer enjoyed the inestimable advantage of the advice and guidance of the late Sir Aston Webb’.
It would seem that the mature Wren knew better, and designed St Paul’s to fit into the old street pattern, which allowed only close-up views at low level and distant prospects over the rooftops. Nicholas Hawksmoor also grasped this when he made a design for a piazza around St Paul’s. Although a domed baptistery was placed axially in front, the oblique approach of Ludgate Hill was retained while the churchyard itself was to be left as a roughly symmetrical but irregular shape, surrounded by arcaded buildings. It was, again, a brilliant compromise between the classical and the medieval, the formal and what would later be described as the picturesque. And the acceptance of compromise is what also characterises the later contribution to London by England’s greatest (perhaps only good?) town planner, the still underrated John Nash. Because of existing streets and buildings, and property values, Nash’s new Regent Street had to curve and bend, making it an exemplar of the urban picturesque and so much more interesting and enjoyable than, say, the tedious boulevards of Paris imposed by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann. It is London’s glory that creative compromise has so often triumphed.
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“The overall goal of the Life Skills program is for each individual to be able to do daily living skills as independently as possible,” said Shanikka DeCosta, who has worked with Life Skills for 10 years at the Downtown location.
Each participant has an individualized plan of skills to learn or improve upon based on their personal goals. In order to reach the participants’ goals, communication is very important can vary for each person. DeCosta says that it can be a challenge but the staff find different ways to communicate with each participant.
“We create communication boards with pictures so they can tap on the images to help better communicate their needs,” said DeCosta.
At Life Skills-Westside, Ina Martin, who supervises program activities, primarily uses sign language.
“We use sign language because a lot of the participants are autistic,” said Martin. “It has really helped us to break through in communicating with a lot of them.”
The staff provides a comfortable learning environment for the participants. Because there are fewer participants in the Life Skills program, it makes it easier to create a one-to-one atmosphere between participants and staff members.
“I love the individuals, I love coming to work,” said Martin. “Even though I do the same thing every day, the individuals help make the experience different every day.”
Much of the staff feels their greatest reward is in what they’re able to give to the participants.
“To see participant’s progress is the best feeling in the world [and] knowing that you were a part of that,” said Williams.
Grace Murray, who also works in Life Skills-Downtown, enjoys helping contribute to the participants’ growth. “What I like about Life Skills is teaching participants things they didn’t know and watching them excel,” she said.
Over the years DeCosta has come to appreciate the ability to help others. “It’s a good feeling to know that they’ve grown,” she said. “When a person has the right tools they’re able to communicate better and reach their goals.”
Life Skills is a growth experience for the staff as well. Working in the program has helped the staff improve their own communication skills.
“While we teach, we learn from them,” said Markita Williams.
“I’ve learned that in Life Skills, this is a place of new adventures,” said Murray. “I love the challenges I have to deal with on a daily basis and Life Skills is the place to be if you ask me.”
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Listeria death in Victoria
by AIA Team | Feb 24, 2019 | Food hygiene |
Listeria the cause of death in Melbourne
A private hospital has been confirmed as the location where the consumption of foods is linked to an outbreak of a listeria and a death of an elderly resident. A catering company, I Cook Foods, has been ordered to suspend its operations while an investigation is completed to locate the source of the infection.
A notification was issued by the Acting Chief Health Officer, Dr Brett Sutton on this matter. Dr Sutton is urging affected businesses and community to dispose of foods provided by the identified catering company during a defined time period. The government has identified groups like Meals on Wheels, aged care facilities and private hospitals as target groups. Supplies for these organisations have potentially been affected and their customers are susceptible to being contaminated by listeria.
Who is at risk?
Listeriosis is an illness caused by eating food contaminated by Listeria monocytogenes. It is usually present in soil and water, but generally comes into contact with humans through food. Its common symptoms are chills, muscle aches, nausea and diarrhoea. The most at risk members of the population from being affected are elderly people and pregnant women.
Antibiotics are required to be administered by intravenous methods and should be considered in consultation with a local doctor. Victorian health department and other related areas of government are advising of the importance of educating people about safe food handling and storage.
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Report: Ex-Anchorage cop suing city interfered with Alaska National Guard investigation
Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage
A once-confidential report on a botched Anchorage police investigation of drug dealing and sexual assault involving Alaska National Guard members is at the heart of a former police lieutenant’s wrongful termination lawsuit, which went to trial in Anchorage last week.
It’s what many involved hope will be the final chapter in a story of uninvestigated rape allegations, unfollowed tips on possible connections to a Mexican drug cartel, alleged plans to fly drugs in Guard aircraft, and years of internal police department strife that led to all of it finally being revealed publicly.
Anchorage Police Department headquarters (Staff photo)
Former police Lt. Anthony Henry is suing the city of Anchorage for wrongful termination. Henry says the city retaliated against him for sticking up for an officer with a medical condition and that his firing was unjust.
Lawyers for the city — which has paid out millions in recent years defending itself in employment lawsuits and losing — say the police department was right to fire Henry for interfering with a criminal investigation and then lying about it.
A key piece of evidence in the trial, which started last Monday, is a 97-page document known as the “Brown Report.”
Lawyers for both Henry and the city — adversaries in the lawsuit — agreed with each other that they wanted to keep it sealed. But the Anchorage Daily News and TV station KTUU joined to intervene to make it public. A judge ordered the Brown Report redacted and released.
The Brown Report is named for its author, the man hired as an independent investigator in the Alaska National Guard matter: retired Lt. Col. Rick Brown, formerly with the Pennsylvania state police. Brown concluded that Henry gave confidential information from detectives in his unit investigating the Guard to the general in charge of the Guard, who was his friend. And this hurt the investigation, according to the report.
The Brown Report also says Henry failed to be honest and forthcoming with his superiors about what he’d done, and Brown also concluded that Henry lied to him in interviews about having meetings with Alaska National Guard commander.
Henry’s attorney said he simply misremembered dates when asked about the meetings years after they happened.
The report also faulted then-Police Chief Mark Mew, saying Mew failed to initiate an internal affairs investigation of Henry at the time. Mew was suspended for two weeks as a result in a move kept secret from the public.
The former police chief appeared in court to testify.
“It’ll be good to finally put all this behind us,” Mew said outside the courtroom, waiting to be called to the witness stand.
Inside, the trial was just getting started.
Henry wore a dark blue suit and sat at the plaintiff’s table under the bright lights in federal court Monday. His lead attorney, Meg Simonian, began by telling the jury she would “pull back a dark curtain at the APD and their lawyers at City Hall.”
Simonian said commanders at the police department, including a deputy chief, were out to get Henry because he objected to how the department had treated a fellow officer diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The police commanders were more concerned with protecting their power in the face of Henry’s complaints, Simionan told the jurors. They fabricated problems and smeared Henry to justify his firing, she said. Douglas Parker, hired by Anchorage, told the jury the officer diagnosed with M.S. was also visiting a girlfriend while clocked in on city time.
“They castigated him, humiliated him and publicly destroyed him. That’s why we’re here,” Simonian said. “Tony Henry did what we hope our kids will do on the playground, helping the kid being bullied. And the municipality and Anchorage Police Department did what we hope our kids won’t do. They circled around the bully.”
Parker said the case is simple, because of the allegations in the report.
“In that report, Lt. Col. Brown concluded he had been lied to in the investigation, and that’s something police officers can’t do and keep their jobs,” Parker told the jurors.
Henry had interfered with an investigation of “big drug activity” implicating some “serious dudes in the Lower 48 or farther south,” Parker said.
The Brown Report
According to the Brown Report — commissioned by the city and including interviews with officers Henry says are out to get him — this is what the internal investigation found:
It was 2010, the last week of February, and officers with the police department’s Special Assignments Unit were surveilling a drug deal in the parking lot of the Debarr Road Costco in Anchorage. They stopped one of the cars and arrested a man who was the boyfriend of an Alaska National Guard recruiter. The officers also seized 56 grams of cocaine and 20 grams of marijuana.
Ninety-seven-page, double-sided printout of the Brown Report (Staff photo)
When the man offered information and asked for a deal, he revealed his source. The officers went to the source, who eventually admitted to being involved with a larger drug ring in Anchorage. Both men said they could get pounds of marijuana and large amounts of cocaine. One also said he’d used Guard vehicles to transport drugs.
Lt. Henry was in charge of the Special Assignments Unit at the time, and the officers told him they had two confidential informants within the Alaska National Guard.
Henry insisted they tell the Guard commander, Maj. Gen. Tom Katkus. That’s according to interviews with the police officers in the Brown Report.
Henry’s argument was — and still is — that drug dealing affected military readiness, and he thought Katkus needed to know immediately, even though Katkus could’ve become a target in the investigation.
The Brown Report says officers working on the larger, related drug case were forced to make arrests before they were ready, because they believed their investigation had been compromised. They executed search warrants at known drug houses around Anchorage with connections to the drug cartel La Familia, seizing five pounds of methamphetamine, a half-kilogram of cocaine and $181,000.
There was another source inside the Guard feeding information to the police and, later, the news media. That person’s tips to the same officers investigating the drug dealing included information about sexual assaults. The Brown Report describes an allegation of a sexual assault in a recruiter’s office.
Henry ordered one of the officers to disclose that person’s name and called Katkus to tell him.
The Brown Report says Henry then ordered the officers to “cease investigation of all alleged illegal activities involving AKNG recruiters and General Katkus.”
“One AKNG sexual assault victim in particular,” the report says, “was deterred from reporting the sexual assault committed on her to the APD when she learned that AKNG command ordered (redacted) to breach her confidentiality while APD personnel was in the room.”
Henry blamed one of the officers for talking to another police officer who was also a Guard member.
But the Brown Report indicates Brown wasn’t buying that. The report’s recommendations included action against Henry and Chief Mew.
“These disclosures of confidential APD information to unauthorized personnel negatively impacted at least one AKNG sexual assault victim, the public, APD operations, APD employees, and family members of APD employees.”
An FBI special agent Brown interviewed said Henry’s disclosure to Katkus “blew him away.”
“(He) related any squared away police officer, regardless of whether they were a detective or not, should have known better than to compromise their informant,” the report says.
Brown also recommended forwarding the case information to state prosecutors to consider possible criminal charges. Henry was never charged. Katkus testified in the trial that there had never been a coverup and denied key points in the Brown Report about his communications with Henry.
No harm, no foul
Henry, suing the city over his firing, is not the one on trial at the federal courthouse. But his attorney, Meg Simonian, vigorously defended him in an interview just outside the courtroom.
Anchorage City Hall (Staff photo)
Simonian noted that Henry’s grievances had been recognized as valid by the municipality’s Office of Equal Opportunity. Brown’s investigation and report came several years after the events surrounding the drug and sexual assault investigations, long after the fact because the police department was still retaliating against Henry, she said.
“He got on the wrong side of the deputy chief at the time, who wielded a lot of power, and it just started a campaign of retaliation against him that culminated in the sham investigation that is the Rick Brown Report,” Simonian said.
Henry was a 23-year veteran cop with an unblemished record until all of this, Simonian said, adding that she thought it was unfortunate the report was released publicly.
Simonian called the Brown Report “incredibly flawed” and vowed to pick it apart in the trial.
Simonian said it would’ve been “perfectly appropriate” for Henry to tell Maj. Gen. Katkus, the head of the Alaska National Guard, about the investigation, because Katkus had worked counter-drug investigations and was a former Anchorage police officer.
“And that was the allegation, that somehow that happened and messed up some investigation. But no investigation existed then that was messed up,” Simonian said.
The only investigation was the one related to the drug house busts, Simonian said, adding that she planned to call an FBI agent to the witness stand to testify about how successful the operation had been.
That was the real investigation, Simonian said. The one Henry’s officers complained to Brown about was trumped up to get Henry fired.
“This made up investigation that not a single police report, audio, memo, email, phone record supports existed,” Simonian said.
As for the sexual assault investigation, Simonian said there were some problems identified in the Brown Report, but a subsequent investigation did not find a cover up of widespread sexual assault in the Alaska National Guard. She said a man spreading reports of sexual assault, to the police and news media, was unreliable.
Henry talking to Katkus “didn’t affect anything,” Simonian said.
The case did affect Katkus, and then-Gov. Sean Parnell, who had appointed him. Parnell ultimately asked Katkus to resign.
Parnell first heard about issues in the Guard in 2010 and said he was told by commanders that the Guard was dealing with them. He had made fighting violence against women a focus of his administration, but Parnell’s bid for reelection never recovered from the scandal.
APD’s losing record
It is yet to be seen if the jurors think the facts are on Henry’s side. But in recent labor lawsuits, the city has a losing record.
In one related to Henry and Anchorage police, a state Superior Court judge in July of 2017 ordered the city to pay two former police detectives a total of $2.7 million after the city lost a discrimination case.
In a twist, Henry was supposed to be the city’s star witness against allegations that police commanders were harassing the two men with frivolous internal investigations. But according to a judge’s order, in which he admonished the city attorneys, the judge wrote that the police department had delayed its investigation of Henry so he could testify against the police officers, wrote Judge Frank Pfiffner.
“…The citizens of Anchorage could very well conclude the (Municipality of Anchorage) and its lawyers, were more interested in winning the lawsuit than protecting the citizens of Anchorage from sexual assault and illegal drug dealing by members of the Alaska National Guard and police misconduct relating thereto,” Pfiffner wrote.
The judge compared tactics by both sides to trench warfare in World War I.
Simonian, Henry’s attorney, described a similar “war of attrition” between Henry’s side and the city’s hired lawyers.
“It’s pretty shocking that our city would spend those kind of resources on very expensive attorneys to continue a fight like this,” Simonian said. “They fought us every step of the way … And I think they thought we would give up, but we didn’t.”
Doug Parker, the lead attorney representing Anchorage, declined to comment.
The trial is expected to continue into November.
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Ohio hair ball is 125 pounds and counting
By Sheridan Hendrix shendrix@dispatch.com
What’s 4 feet tall, 125 pounds and is covered in hair?
No, it’s not Cousin Itt of the Addams Family. It’s Hoss, the giant ball of human hair.
Hoss, named after Dan Blocker’s character from “Bonanza,” is an oblong shape and is, well, hairy. Hundreds of people have donated their hair to its creation, so its exterior is an ever-changing mess of different colors and textures.
The hair ball was created by Steve Warden, a hairstylist from Cambridge, Ohio, who began crafting it after years of conversations with his four children.
“When my kids were younger, they would always say, ‘Dad, you should make a hair ball and get it in the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not book,’ ” Warden said.
So in 2013, with his children all grown and moved out of the house, Warden decided it was time to give it a shot.
Warden started collecting his clients’ hair at his salon, Blockers. When he’d finish a cut, Warden would sweep their hair into a chute he installed in the floor that was connected to a trashcan in the salon’s basement. Above the chute was a little sign that read “Future Hair Ball Hair.”
Warden said none of his clients seemed to be concerned with the collection; most people were just curious.
After a few months of haircuts, it was time to start construction.
It started small. Warden would take some hair and wad it into a ball using glue to make it stick. (Gorilla Wood Glue is the only thing that works, Warden said.)
He would let the ball dry for a week and then add more on top. Warden continued this process for months until the ball was as big as a basketball. From there, Warden used a combination of liquid glue and spray adhesive to attach the hair. Hairspray is used for touch ups.
Finally, the ball at an enormous weight of 97 pounds, Warden reached out to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not to donate his masterpiece last year.
Kurtis Moellmann, exhibit and interactive coordinator for Ripley’s, said Warden’s hair ball has quickly become one of the company’s most popular items.
It’s so popular that Moellmann began taking it with him to different oddities expos across the country. In each city, Moellmann brings along a pair of scissors and a can of glue so people can donate their hair to the cause.
“The first day I did it, I cut about 200 people’s hair,” Moellman said. “It was a huge hit.”
Warden has not, in fact, created the world’s largest ball of human hair. That honor goes to Henry Coffer, a barber from Charleston, Mo., who claimed the title in 2008 with a 167 pound ball of hair, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Coffer, who was 77 years old at the time, had collected his clients’ hair for more than 50 years.
But at its current weight of 125 pounds, Hoss is still impressive.
Warden and his creation were reunited this weekend at the Oddities & Curiosities Expo at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, where Warden cut people’s hair for eight hours Saturday to add to the ball.
Hundreds of people passed by the Ripley’s booth, which featured a number of other collected oddities. Emotions from onlookers ranged from awe to disgust. But it’s safe to say Hoss piqued the interest of many.
Helen Drosak was cautiously eyeing the hair ball when Warden walked up to her and asked, “Would you like to donate to the giant hair ball?”
“Why not?” the 69-year-old Clintonville resident replied. “I have enough to spare.”
Warden snipped a lock of her graying brown curls and his friend, Ryan Girdwood, glued it to the ball.
Aiden Deibler had planned on growing out his hair this summer, but after seeing Hoss at the expo, the 10-year-old changed his mind.
Aiden and his mom, Aubrey, were in town from Pittsburgh to help a friend who was performing at the expo. Aubrey also donated a snippet of her ombre orange hair to the ball. Girdwood glued the mother and son’s hair next to each other.
“I donated to a big ball of hair,” Aiden said. “It’s pretty cool and pretty weird at the same time.”
Warden knows it’s all a little weird, but that’s OK. He doesn’t mind. To him, the hair ball is a legacy of sorts.
Warden, who currently has two grandkids, bought 12 copies of the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not book he’s featured in for any other grandchildren he might have. Inside is a note to each of them.
“When I die, my grandkids can see this and know I did something,” Warden said. “They can say, ‘That was our crazy grandpa.’ ”
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120 days of Sodom
By: Marquis de Sade
Narrated by: Paul Spera
"The 120 Days of Sodom" is "the most impure tale that has ever been told since our world began". It was written by the Marquis de Sade, a french noble man, in the space of 37 days, while imprisoned in the famous parisian Bastille. Fearing confiscation, the Marquis de Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François, had to write it on a continuous roll of paper, made up of small pieces glued together. The original manuscript is now on display in Paris, and is the third most expensive kept in France, insured for 12 million euros.
By Adam Gough on 20-07-18
Philosophy in the Bedroom
Narrated by: Paul Spera, Tiffany Hofstetter
Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
"Philosophy in the Bedroom" ("La philosophie dans le boudoir") was written in 1795 by the Marquis de Sade, while imprisoned in the Bastille. It is a work of erotism, laced with socio-political subversion. The main characters are libertines, who decided to give a young maiden their own brand of sex education. They explain to her that pleasure is the most important goal of all, and then proceed with affirming that she will not be able to feel "true pleasure" without pain.
Best Of Marquis de Sade. 120 Days of Sodom / Philosophy in the Boudoir / Justine or the Misfortune of Virtue
Discover an abridged version of Marquis de Sade most famous and outrageous masterpieces: "Philosophy in the Bedroom" ("La philosophie dans le boudoir"), "Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue", and "The 120 Days of Sodom".
By Cleon W. on 17-12-17
Justine, or The Misfortunes of the Virtue
"Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue", is an early work by the Marquis de Sade. It is a novella, written in two weeks while he was imprisoned in the famous Bastille. Unlike some of his other works, it is not just a catalogue of sadism. It is meant to bring new life to an old genre, which had the reader accustomed to see virtue eventually triumph after trials only meant to bring out its value. Sade would have none of that in Justine: in her quest for virtue, the main character keeps falling into terrible situations, which humiliate her and present her with sexual lessons hidden under the mask of virtue.
By: James Fenimore Cooper
Length: 24 mins
"The Last of the Mohicans" is a historical novel set during the Seven Years' War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. It is striking, suspenseful and fast-paced, and has been widely considered the first Great American Novel. James Fenimore Cooper's classic follows an intrepid group of frontiersmen and Native Americans as they navigate the rugged terrain of both the landscape and their racial differences, striving together to deliver Colonel Munro's two daughters to safety.
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https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2014-04-18/under-the-skin/
Rated R, 108 min. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Krystof Hádek, Jeremy McWilliams, Jessica Mance.
REVIEWED By Marc Savlov, Fri., April 18, 2014
Scarlett Johansson is occasionally nude: That’s all a sizable percentage of moviegoers need know about Under the Skin. They’re in for a surprise, which is like saying Hal 9000 is just another computer. Easily the most unique science fiction film I’ve come across in years, Under the Skin defies, shatters, and ultimately consumes genre boundaries like a randy wolf tonguing the raw marrow out of a particularly toothsome bone. However, Jonathan Glazer’s near-wordless film isn’t specifically or essentially a sci-fi picture. Although the film’s title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber’s 2000 novel, this is Glazer’s most hyperstylized and unnerving film since Ben Kingsley got on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director’s utterly self-assured feature debut, Sexy Beast. Up until that point Glazer was known primarily as the go-to savant for cutting- and bleeding-edge music videos and TV adverts. It was plainly evident, even then, that this guy had an eye for arresting compositions and a feverish sense of the outré and uncanny.
But back to the naked and the dead: Johansson is an emotional blank as an alien on the prowl for earthmen, although Mars Needs Women this isn’t. In fact, the film never fully acknowledges that her impassively eroticized, nameless character is strictly out-of-this-world (other than in the obvious, male-gaze way) at all. Co-written by the director and Walter Campbell, the script barely lets the audience in on anything, much less motives and meanings, which (un)naturally comprises at least half the shuddersome fun. Johansson’s sexy beast is very much the archetypal other, a heady and deadly brew of voluptuous, fuck-me-booted come-hithers and vacant unknowability. In a way, this role mirrors her breathtaking vocal performance in Spike Jonze’s Her, another recent film that played with our innermost desires and uppermost fears regarding an altogether different alien species: technology. Under the Skin can be viewed on many levels, not the least of which is as though one were experiencing our world from the viewpoint of the thing.
What makes Under the Skin such a mind-blower has everything to do with Johansson’s chillingly unempathetic turn as the, well, whatever she is, coupled with cinematographer Daniel Landin’s disorienting, hallucinogenic visuals. Johnnie Burn’s sound design – one jagged, anxious frisson stretched to the point of collapse – is in itself well worthy of an Oscar nod. Add to that the sublime, unsettling score by avant-weird composer Mica Levi (aka Micachu) and some startling visuals work from UK effects house One of Us (Cloud Atlas, The Tree of Life) and you have a cinematic happening near-guaranteed to get under your skin and into your head for far longer than is comfortable. Like staring into the mirror while on a bad trip, you don’t so much watch this film as this film watches you.
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Off the Desk:
What's good for business is good for...UT athletics? Maybe it was a slip of the tongue or maybe it was just a statement of a rather obvious fact. On May 14, Darrell K. Royal, the patron saint of UT football and a $44,000-per-year special assistant to the president at UT, testified before the Senate Education Committee. Royal said that if a bill requiring UT athletes to meet the same academic standards as other UT students becomes law, UT would be "out of the athletic business." What? A UT official is admitting the athletic department is actually a business? And all this time, we thought they were competing for the love of the game... -- R.B.
Give Rep. Mike Krusee (R-Round Rock) credit. For the second consecutive session, he has introduced legislation at the lege aimed at putting a lock on the revolving door between the Legislature and the lobby. But his peers in the House don't share his enthusiasm. Even though Krusee's bill exempted everyone who was elected to the Legislature before Sept 1, 1997, his bill died in the State Affairs Committee. Krusee's aide, Mark Borskey, said that despite the fact that the bill was watered down with exemptions, it was attacked in committee as being unfair to legislators. Borskey said his boss is undaunted. "We'll be back," he warned... -- R.B.
The University of Texas nearly flunked recycling this semester, mustering a grade of D-minus on a "Buy Recycled Report Card" released last week by the Recycling Coalition of a Texas. In its first annual report card, the coalition ranked 118 state agencies and universities based on their compliance with a Texas law requiring them to spend at least 8% of their procurement budget on recycled products. Those who failed altogether included F-meisters Southwest Texas State University, the state Savings & Loan Dept., the Youth Commission, and the Dept. of Insurance. The A-plus crowd included the General Land Office, Public Utility Commission, and the Texas Cancer Council... -- A.S.
Hispanics and Zuniga
Just to prove a point, about 30 Hispanic Eastside activists and business types filed onto the city council dais Tuesday evening to say that, contrary to popular belief, they are not "undecided" or "confused" about which candidate they're supporting in the Place 5 race. "We hereby endorse Manuel Zuniga," pronounced Mike Rivera, an engineer and city Planning Commission member. "There is not now, nor has there ever been, any measurable support for Bill Spelman in the Latino community."
With that, other speakers -- several of whom had supported either Bobbie Enriquez or Gus Peña the first time around -- had their say about why they're supporting Zuniga in the run-off against Spelman. For one, they said, the sheer number of Hispanic residents in Austin justifies having not just one but two Latino councilmembers.
"If we are 30% of the population now and are predicted to exceed that in the 21st century as the fastest-growing ethnic group in Texas, why are we limited to one seat?" asked Ray Ramirez, a Peña supporter who decided to join the Zuniga team.
Susana Almanza, a leader of People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER), said that after meeting personally with Zuniga she decided "that he has an understanding that the environment includes not only nature-kind, but humankind, and that the two cannot be separated." From the business end of things, Diana Valera, owner of Mexico Tipico, lamented the number of times she and other East Austin boosters have to organize against "inappropriate zoning and the location of more industrial facilities" in the neighborhood.
And so it went, with Zuniga sitting apart from the crowd, looking slightly humbled by this display of support from the group, many of whom he hadn't had much to do with until he solicited their vote. He rose from his seat and walked solemnly to the speakers' podium, the place reserved for citizens who speak at council meetings. Someone quipped that he had only three minutes to speak and everyone laughed.
He talked about how hard he's worked for the endorsement of the Hispanic community and how happy he was about the turn-out at Tuesday's event. "I feel great," he said, and then stopped, suddenly, because he was getting choked up. He paused for several seconds as he struggled to compose himself. He then thanked the group and said he hopes he can prove himself worthy of their support. With that, he turned and walked out of council chambers, on to his next engagement.
Spelman strategist Mark Yznaga, after being informed of comments made at the press conference, summed up things this way: "Bill has support from people all over Austin who are Hispanic. The Hispanic community is as diverse as any other community, and I don't think a small group of people speaks for the entire Hispanic population." -- A.S.
Stalking the Internet
Proposed legislation now in the Texas House that would bring the state into compliance with federal anti-stalking laws may have an effect on a new website that provides free access to information about the state's millions of
licensed drivers and car owners.
State Rep. Tom "D.H." Uher (D-Bay City) this week was considering tacking on a rider to Senate Bill 1069 that could tighten the reins on the Dallas-based Public Link Corp. website, according to a Uher staff member. SB 1069, authored by Sen. Mike Moncrief (D-Ft. Worth), relates to the release and use of certain personal information from motor vehicle records. The bill, designed to bring Texas in conformance with the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994, already passed in the Texas Senate.
Word first surfaced last week on Internet newsgroups about the Public Link website at http://www.publiclink.com. The site includes a free, searchable database of over 17 million Texas drivers and 16 million Texas license plates. In the case of drivers' licenses, people can conduct searches through the site's "TexasDriverLink" by last name, thus accessing any licensed driver's home address, license number, weight, birth date, racial ethnicity, sex, weight, hair color, and eye color. The site's "Texas TagLink" allows people to search another database by plate number and provides the owner's name and address.
Public Link and others are legally able to disseminate information obtained from the Texas Dept. of Public Safety (DPS), said Sherri Deatheridge Green, DPS spokesperson. The database of drivers license info costs $1,600 and weekly updates are available for $57 thereafter.
The Chronicle made several attempts to contact Public Link by e-mail and phone, but had not gotten a response by press time. The person listed as the site's technical, administrative, and billing contact is not included in Public Link's online database. -- R.U.S.
Speed School
There are generally two types of kids who go to summer school -- those who bombed a class the first time out, and those trying to burn through some courses and gain enough credits to apply to a top-notch university. And it takes more to graduate from high school now -- 22 credits for a basic diploma, and 26 for advanced status. Formerly, summer school lasted six weeks, and only one semester's credit could be earned. Reportedly responding to parent and student demand to be able to earn more graduation credits, AISD summer school has been split into two, 17-day "semesters," allowing students to get credit for a full year in a course -- even honors credit. So, how does a teacher stuff 18 weeks of instruction in a subject into a mere 17 days? Um, very carefully.
It's cheerfully termed "curriculum compacting," and it means that teachers are going to have to breeze through only the very basics in a subject -- if they go even that far. This is much to the chagrin of some teachers, who resent having this new thing sprung on them, and feel it's a slap in their professional faces to ask them to amputate their lessons. What does the new summer school say about AISD's curriculum -- that it's so lame it can be boiled down into 17 days (14 or 15, actually, when you take exams into account)? "I think it's a valid concern," said AISD board president Kathy Rider, whose own child is, nonetheless, going to be a test subject in the new experiment.
But AISD seems to be trying to ensure that students aren't left out to dry. Mary Thomas, a district administrator overseeing the program, emphasizes that prospective summer school students must have parent approval and must have met with a counselor to discuss courses. In addition to the perennial government, economics, history, and mathematics offerings, fine arts courses and English as a second language will be available. Instruction will be offered at Crockett and Reagan High Schools, and Lamar Middle School. Summer school is not available in the Eanes, Hays, or Pflugerville school districts this year, so many of those students needing a summer class will seek out AISD. Thomas said AISD summer school enrollment could go as high as 2,000. -- R.A.
Bill Bombs in House
When the vote finally came, it was accompanied by the familiar sound of cascading whistles. Mimicking the sound of bombs falling, House members often let loose a whistle when they know a bill or an amendment is doomed to fail. And there were plenty of falling-bomb whistles in the House chamber when Rep. Arlene Wohlgemuth (R-Burleson) asked for, and got, a special order vote that would have allowed her bill outlawing same-sex marriages to bypass committee and come directly to the House floor for a vote.
Wohlgemuth's bill was a litmus test for the social conservatives. But her chances of getting a vote on the bill were doomed from the outset, thanks in large part to Rep. Glen Maxey (D-Austin), who was prepared to attach several hundred amendments to the bill. Maxey's motive rang loud and clear; the threat of the amendment avalanche and a long floor debate over the same-sex marriage issue would doom dozens of other bills that were waiting for the House's attention.
Rep. Mark Stiles (D-Beaumont), the burly chairman of the powerful House Calendars Committee, gave an angry speech against Wohlgemuth's effort to bring the bill to the floor. "This is about the process," bellowed a red-faced Stiles. The House agreed, and the special order vote bombed, with 122 of 151 members voting against bringing the bill to the floor. It appears unlikely that the same-sex marriage bill will come up again this session, as Maxey is armed and ready with enough amendments to keep the House tied up for a day or more. -- R.B.
Austin Humane Society's Summer Kids' Series
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Candidates for governor weigh in on botched execution
Five Arizona Republican governor candidates reacted with stunned emotion Wednesday to news that the execution of convicted murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took two hours. But neither they, nor Democrat candidate Fred DuVal went so far as to suggest the state should eliminate the death penalty.
Candidates for governor weigh in on botched execution Five Arizona Republican governor candidates reacted with stunned emotion Wednesday to news that the execution of convicted murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took two hours. But neither they, nor Democrat candidate Fred DuVal went so far as to suggest the state should eliminate the death penalty. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1mH1EOM
Alia Beard Rau, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 9:47 p.m. MT July 23, 2014 | Updated 1:09 p.m. MT July 24, 2014
Joseph Wood(Photo: Arizona Department of Corrections)
Five Arizona Republican governor candidates reacted with stunned emotion Wednesday to news that the execution of convicted murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took two hours.
None of the candidates said the state should eliminate the death penalty.
Gov. Jan Brewer has directed the Arizona Department of Corrections to review the execution process.
Five Arizona GOP governor candidates reacted with stunned emotion Wednesday to news that the execution of convicted murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood took two hours. But neither they, nor Democrat candidate Fred DuVal, went so far as to suggest the state should eliminate the death penalty.
The next governor will have a say in the future of executions in Arizona, including the authority to sign or veto any legislation changing or eliminating the state's death-penalty laws. Bills introduced in recent years by Democrats to eliminate the death penalty have not been granted hearings or votes by Republican leadership.
Gov. Jan Brewer Wednesday directed the Arizona Department of Corrections to review the execution process.
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Five of the six Republican candidates for governor were at The Arizona Republic participating in an endorsement interview with the newspaper's editorial board when news of the botched execution broke.
"It shouldn't take us two hours to execute someone," Secretary of State Ken Bennett said quietly. "I don't know how to kill people very well, but I'll find out and we'll figure out how to do it better."
Former GoDaddy executive Christine Jones said the death penalty is not a theoretical discussion for her. She assisted with a death-penalty case as a law clerk with the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office.
"It went from being a concept and a theory that you would do to the most heinous crimes to a young man named Lamar Barnwell who walked into court every single day and said, 'Good morning, Ms. Jones,'" she said. "These are human beings. If we cannot conduct capital punishment in a manner in which we are assured will be constitutionally appropriate, which would be without unreasonable pain and suffering, then we ought not do it at all."
Barnwell was convicted of a 1992 shooting at a Los Angeles tire shop in which four people were shot in the head. A police officer reported responding to the shop and, while looking through a fence, seeing Barnwell shooting two of the people.
Jones clarified that she would not support abolishing the death penalty.
"There are crimes, and in Mr. Barnwell's case he rose to that level, that can only be addressed appropriately by the death penalty," she said. "One day, I suppose, I'll get a letter and it will say he has exhausted all his remedies and all his appeals and on this day and at this appointed time he will be put to death. It's excruciating."
Jones said Arizona should review all current death-row cases to see if there may be new evidence, such as through more modern DNA testing.
"If it were a delay of a week or a month or a year, would that be such a big deal? God forbid you would ever execute someone who hadn't committed the crime."
Former California Congressman Frank Riggs said the governor should halt executions until the state can find a "proven, humane way to do capital punishment."
He said he supports capital punishment for "certain premeditated and heinous crimes when the physical evidence is convincing."
Former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith said the state needs to immediately address the problem.
"It shows the system is broken when we are spending more time debating the best way (to execute) as opposed to the crimes and the victims," he said. "We need to get back to talking about the real issues in capital cases as opposed to botched executions."
State Treasurer Doug Ducey said he supports the death penalty for the most heinous crimes.
"But we can certainly do better ... than taking two hours," he said. "I would want to consult with medical experts for how to do that."
When asked later to address the issue, DuVal, the lone Democrat candidate, issued a statement.
"While I support the death penalty, I'm disturbed at the extended length of today's execution," he said. "I support Governor Brewer's call for a full review to get to the bottom of what happened."
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas did not to attend the editorial board interviews.
12 News political reporter Brahm Resnik takes you inside Arizona's political scene, including Andy Thomas' effort to move the border.
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Timeline - U.S. executions
Lethal injection is introduced in the U.S., carried out using a three-drug combination of an anesthetic thiopental, a drug to cause paralysis and a drug to stop the heart. Thiopental is a drug that predates the 1938 U.S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which created the Food and Drug Administration. For the next 30 years, until 2010, executions are carried out with a sequence of drugs beginning with the thiopental.
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Donald Eugene Harding was executed by gas chamber, the first Arizona execution in 29 years. Harding's body convulsed, and he gasped and choked for 10 minutes. Outcry over his death led to legislation to switch to lethal injection from the gas chamber. Arizona voters approved the change by a large margin.
John George Brewer was the first Arizona inmate to be executed using lethal injection.
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May 2007: Robert Comer is executed using a catheter in the femoral artery.
September 2007: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear cases of two Kentucky death-row inmates who argued lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
October 2007: The execution of Jeffrey Landrigan, who killed a man in Phoenix in 1989, was stayed while the Supreme Court pondered the Kentucky case. Landrigan's attorneys filed a similar case in U.S. District Court in Phoenix on behal fof other death-row inmates.
Spring: A federal judge in Tennessee and a state judge in Ohio ruled that the risk of an agonizing or painful death was too great because of the three-chemical procedure
April 16, 2008: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled states could use lethal injections for execution, unless there was "significant risk" that those being executed would suffer excruciating pain. That opened the door to challenges of the drug protocols used to execute inmates.
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June 15, 2008: Attorneys for Jeffrey Landrigan filed a petition in Maricopa County Superior Court arguing that Arizona's lethal-injection procedure is too complex and risky to pass constitutional muster. The Arizona protocol prescribed injecting three drugs in close succession: sodium thiopental to induce unconsciousness, pancuronium bromide to paralyze the condemned person, and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
July 2008: The Arizona Republic found the surgeon involved in Comer's execution, Dr. Alan Doerhoff was banned from taking part in lethal-injetion executions in his home state of Missouri less than a year prior because of questions about his standards and competence.
March 17, 2009: The Arizona Supreme Court refuses the state's request for a death warrant to execute Daniel Wayne Cook, saying his execution and that of Landrigan should not move ahead until the courts could evaluate Arizona's execution methods in the wake of the Baze case.
July 2, 2009: A federal judge rules that Arizona's lethal-injection procedure is constitutional and meets the test established by the U.S. Supreme Court.
October 7, 2009: A Maricopa County Superior Court judge rejects Landrigan's argument that Arizona's lethal-injection procedure is unconstitutional, clearing the way for the state to resume lethal-injection executions
April 8, 2010: The Arizona Supreme Court refuses to reconsider Landrigan's case, which had been appealed following the Superior Court ruling against him.
October 2010: Landrigan is executed by lethal injection. His attorneys wanted assurances Arizona's thiopental had been lawfully obtained and would be effective, so as not to constitute cruel and unusual punishment. The state resisted disclosing the information. The Republic, however, learned the drug had come from Britain.
January: Hospira, the only sodium thiopental manufacturer in the U.S. ceases production after Italy says it will only license manufacturer if their drugs aren't used in executions.
July: The last day Arizona executioners can purchase pentobarbital. Lundbeck, its Danish manufacturer establishes distribution controls to keep U.S. prisons from using it for executions and insists on making those controls part of the deal when it sells the drug to an American firm named Akorn Inc.
Midazolam first appears when Florida carries out an execution using it as part of a three-drug protocol. According to reports, inmate William Happ blinked repeatedly and shook his head from side to side before dying. In most lethal injections with thiopental and pentobarbital, the condemned merely loses consciousness.
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Dennis McGuire was executed on Jan. 19, 2014, in Ohio with a lethal injection of midazolam and hydromorphone. It took 20 minutes or more for him to die, witnesses say, as he gasped loudly, snorted and made choking sounds. In 1994, McGuire raped and murdered a pregnant woman.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
Clayton Lockett was given a lethal injection of midazolam and two other drugs in Oklahoma on April, 29, 2014. He didn't die for more than 40 minutes, prison documents show. He began "writhing and bucking," an eyewitness wrote, and he tried to sit up. Finally, an apparent heart attack killed him. In 1999, Lockett blasted a 19-year-old woman with a sawed-off shotgun, then watched as two accomplices buried her while she was still alive.
Joseph Rudolph Wood was injected with a cocktail of midazolam and hydromorphone, a narcotic, in Arizona on July 23, 2014. Witnesses said he gasped and snorted convulsively for nearly two hours before finally dying, even though he was injected with 15 doses of the execution-drug cocktail. Wood, 55, was sentenced to death for the 1989 murders of his ex-girlfriend and her father.
U.S. Supreme Court justices hear arguments on April 29, 2015, on whether midazolam, a Valium-like drug at the center of controversial executions in Arizona and Oklahoma, violates the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Nebraska abolishes the death penalty on May 27, 2015, becoming the the first traditionally conservative U.S. state to eliminate capital punishment since North Dakota in 1973.
Senators in the one-house Legislature vote 30-19 to override Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican who supports the death penalty. The landmark veto-override vote is backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who the death penalty.
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Balfour Beatty appointed to new £800 million Southern Construction Framework
Balfour Beatty has been appointed to the new Southern Construction Framework which will provide it with access to a share of a total of £800 million of construction work in the public sector in the South West.
The framework is administered by Devon County Council in the South West and is open to any public body in southern England including universities, schools, health trusts, local authorities, emergency services and museums. It is OJEU compliant, removing the need for individual procurement processes and reducing the costs of bringing projects to completion. It has been designed to provide tangible community benefits such as the engagement of local businesses, graduates, trainees and apprentices.
Balfour Beatty is one of ten contractors appointed to Lot 1 for work in the South West and the company’s place on the framework runs for four years from September 2015.
Projects awarded through the framework will be valued at between £1m and £50m.
Martyn Osborne, Balfour Beatty Managing Director for Wales and the West, said: “Balfour Beatty has a wealth of experience of delivering public projects in the South West and through this appointment we will continue to offer value, innovation and long term benefits for our customers. We are committed to supporting communities through our strong local supply chains and through our offer to young people, working in partnership with local schools and colleges, to provide great career opportunities and apprenticeships in construction.”
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1. Balfour Beatty is one of the UK’s leading infrastructure framework providers with a portfolio currently including the SCAPE framework, where it is the sole framework provider on this national civil engineering and infrastructure framework for public works valued at up to £1.5bn over four years. Other frameworks Balfour Beatty is on include the £4bn Education Funding Agency Framework, the £400m National Capital Works Framework and the £250m Regional Defence Framework for Capital Works Projects for East Midlands and Eastern England for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). Balfour Beatty is the only national construction company on all three UK health frameworks (P21+, Designed for Life Wales 3 and Health Framework Scotland), delivering £2bn worth of work over the past 10 years.
With offices throughout the UK and Ireland, we deliver a locally-focused service with the support of our national network of expertise and resources.
Balfour Beatty’s UK and Ireland construction business employs over 9,000 people.
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Balfour Beatty completes £63 million Rossall Coastal Defence Scheme
The scheme forms part of the largest single investment in coastal flood defence by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces that it has successfully completed the £63 million Rossall coastal defence scheme for Wyre Council in partnership with the Environment Agency.
The scheme will protect the town’s tramway, hospital and schools whilst reducing flood risk to 7,500 nearby residential properties through two kilometres of sea defences.
To successfully complete the Rossall project, over 10,000 specially manufactured precast concrete units were lifted into position, alongside 86,342 tonnes of rock underlayer and 241,000 tonnes of rock armour sourced from 12 quarries across the north of the UK.
The successful delivery of the scheme means the coastline now features a promenade lined with artwork and a poetry trail, as well as a new ecology park designed by British sculptor Stephen Broadbent. Known as Larkholme Grasslands, the park has been created on a Biological Heritage site which features rare species of flora and fauna. A lagoon area behind the new defences offers additional flood storage and a new habitat for rich and diverse wildlife.
Dean Banks, Balfour Beatty Chief Executive Officer for UK Construction Services, said: “We are delighted that the local community and visitors to the Fylde coast can now fully experience the extensive benefits of the Rossall scheme, which will protect thousands of nearby properties from the risk of flooding and offer a captivating promenade for people of all ages to enjoy.
“The project’s success is a testament to the skills and collaborative working relationship between the fully integrated delivery team, with Wyre Council and the Environment Agency.”
Sir James Bevan, Environment Agency chief executive, said: “This is one of the biggest investments ever in a coastal flood scheme. It will reduce flood risk to 7,500 homes, create new green space and benefit the local economy, including by using locally sourced materials. It’s a great example of partnership: by working together the Environment Agency, Wyre Council, our other partners and the local community have helped create an even better place for people and wildlife”.
Councillor Roger Berry, Neighbourhood Services and Community Safety Portfolio Holder at Wyre Council comments: “I’d like to thank all our partners for helping us to deliver the new sea defences. The completed scheme will not only protect our residents, their homes and our businesses and infrastructure, but also has provided us with a visually stunning promenade for walkers and cyclists. Locals and visitors alike will be able to enjoy the magnificent coastline, whilst the grasslands will give a contrasting green and natural landscape.”
Throughout the project lifecycle, the scheme has provided 85 work opportunities for local people, as well as numerous engagement events with local schools. The project has placed great importance on earn and learn initiatives with eight members of the workforce completing NVQs, two graduates and three trainees.
The Rossall scheme forms part of the Fylde Peninsula Coastal Programme, encompassing the Fairhaven to Church Scar Coastal Protection Scheme in Lytham and the Anchorsholme Coastal Protection Scheme in Blackpool which was recently completed by Balfour Beatty.
Image: Rossall Coastal Defence Scheme
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Our main geographies are the UK & Ireland, US and Far East. Over the last 100 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including the London Olympics’ Aquatic Centre, Hong Kong’s first Zero Carbon building, the National Museum of the Marine Corps in the US and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
Balfour Beatty has a long and proud history working in the North and Midlands, delivering innovative infrastructure and build projects and supporting growth across the region. The company has proven expertise across multiple sectors including highways, education, flood & coastal defence, and of working with local authorities through the Scape National Civil Engineering and Infrastructure framework along with other regional and national frameworks.
Our portfolio of current projects includes the delivery of two contracts for HS2 worth a combined total of c.£2.5billion, The University of Manchester’s £287m Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD), representing one of the largest capital developments ever undertaken by a UK higher education institution, and sections of the Manchester Smart Motorways scheme for Highways England. We are also delivering an £85m automotive research facility for the University of Warwick in Coventry, and the New Cross Student Development in Manchester which will feature 274 student apartments.
Completed projects include the £50m ‘Diamond’ building at the University of Sheffield, the £14m mechanical and electrical services for the new National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and a £22.5m new teaching and lecture space at Sheffield Hallam University. Balfour Beatty has also recently completed the £27m Anchorsholme coastal defence scheme on behalf of Blackpool Council, and the Gateshead District Energy Centre, one of the North East region’s first energy centres, which will generate and supply heat and power for homes, businesses and public buildings across Gateshead Town Centre.
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Job Layoffs
University of Baltimore rolls out furlough plan amid declining enrollment
By Talia Richman
The University of Baltimore has cut nearly 400 employees’ salaries to help mitigate the impact of significant fiscal challenges facing the school amid declining enrollment.
Faced with falling enrollment, the University of Baltimore has cut nearly 400 employees’ salaries to save money.
The school made the cuts by furloughing workers — requiring them to take time off without pay — as part of a larger effort to reduce costs that includes a hiring freeze, out-of-state travel restrictions and limits on departmental spending.
The university announced the furlough plan at the start of the fall semester. It requires both faculty and staff members to take a certain number of unpaid days off, based on their salary level. Those making between $80,000 and $100,000, for example, must take six furlough days reducing their pay by 2.3 percent.
“Everybody is upset that we’re having furloughs,” said Stephanie Gibson, vice president of the University Faculty Senate. “Nobody wants to see the university suffer in a way that’s irreparable, but people are irritated and angry that we’re having to give up pay.”
Members of the school’s executive team — including university President Kurt Schmoke, and other high-ranking officials — also took a voluntary pay cut, ranging from 5 percent to 15 percent.
Enrollment at the university has dropped by about 15 percent in the last five years. University officials largely attribute the shift to fewer college-ready students in Baltimore and a big drop in law school applications, mirroring nationwide trends.
“The biggest challenge we have is our fall enrollment targets were not hit,” said Barbara Aughenbaugh, the university’s associate vice president for administration and finance. “We didn’t get as many students as expected, and that’s what the budget was built on.”
With fewer students coming to the Midtown campus, Schmoke said he was faced with trying to close a $4.2 million budget gap.
The furloughs and executive pay cuts are expected to save the university $1.3 million. School officials anticipate the hiring freeze will save another $1.6 million, with an additional $700,000 in savings expected from reducing travel by faculty and staff, catered events and other discretionary expenses.
“I do recognize that we’ve had our challenges, as many other places that are tuition-dependent have,” Schmoke said.
The university’s enrollment decline stands in contrast with most public colleges in the state. Across the University System of Maryland, which includes the University of Baltimore, enrollment has increased consistently in recent years. Between fall 2012 and fall 2016, total enrollment across the system grew by roughly 10 percent.
During that time period, just three of the system’s 11 campuses saw enrollment declines. Coppin State University and the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore — two of the state’s historically black institutions — also saw drops.
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By Talia Richman and Liz Bowie
System officials meet with administrators of the campuses struggling with enrollment to develop strategies to support the school, said USM spokesman Mike Lurie.
“If a financial challenge, or structural deficit, persists over time, actions such as furloughs sometimes become necessary and appropriate,” Lurie said in a statement. “The leadership at both USM and UB value our faculty and staff and the critical work they do, and are deeply aware of the financial burden that furloughs place on everyone impacted.”
The University of Baltimore set its sights on enrolling 6,111 students this year, a target it missed by more than 500 students, according to this fall’s enrollment numbers. The 5,565 student population is only slightly higher than a decade ago.
Unlike other public colleges in the state, the University of Baltimore primarily serves nontraditional college students. The average age of undergraduates is 28 years old; graduate students are generally in their mid-30s.
Aughenbaugh said economic forces affect enrollment and that adult learners are more likely to go back to school during economic downturns to develop new work skills.
“The enrollment patterns are changing,” Aughenbaugh said. “When the economy improves, enrollment tends to go down for graduate students.”
The brunt of the enrollment decline comes from a steep drop at the law school. In the last five years, enrollment there has gone down by more than 30 percent — from 1,112 in 2012 to 732 this fall.
Schmoke said the university has for years been “overly dependent on the law school from a financial point of view.”
Law schools across the country face similar challenges. Enrollment for first-year law students peaked at 52,000 in fall 2010, but subsequently fell to just over 37,000 students in fall 2016, according to the American Bar Association.
“There is a variety of explanations for the decline,” said Barry Currier, managing director of the association’s legal education section, in an email. “Chief among them would be a challenging and changing job market; as well as a disconnect between the cost of earning the J.D. degree — and the debt typically incurred to finance that cost — and salary levels for many entry-level law positions.”
A number of employees are exempt from the University of Baltimore furlough program, including university police and security officers, adjunct faculty, graduate assistants and student wage employees, among others. Those earning less than $55,000 a year also are excluded. The pay reductions affect 388 of 670 employees.
Classes will not be canceled due to furloughs, according to the university’s plan.
“We wanted to make sure we are maintaining all of the academic services that effect the quality of the education for our students,” Schmoke said.
Salary cuts stemming from the required furlough days are being distributed over 19 pay periods. The process began in October and will end on the pay date of June 27, 2018.
The average salary of those in the furlough program is $95,280. Those employees will see a pay cut of roughly $2,200.
“We lessened the per pay period pain,” Aughenbaugh said.
This is not the first time the university has had to cut back in the face of declining enrollment. The university laid off 14 employees and eliminated 12 vacant positions in May 2016 as part of a slew of budget cuts that saved nearly $4 million.
“It’s really unfortunate that we’re at this position again,” Gibson said.
The university has committed to not implementing furloughs next academic year, Schmoke said.
Chris Hart, a university spokesman, said the school does not anticipate needing to adjust tuition this year.
The university is preparing to roll out its a new five-year strategic plan, with the goal of “re-imagining” the school and ensuring its services are in alignment with its mission.
Schmoke said he’s “optimistic” about the future, as the university re-prioritizes which students it’s working to attract.
“We don’t see this as a permanent state of affairs,” he said. “We know these things have cycles and we know that, based on our most recent projections, we’ll be able to stabilize enrollment.”
The plan lays out some of the challenges the school must overcome: brand confusion, intense competition for students and the perception of Baltimore as an unsafe city, among others.
One central goal of the strategic plan is ensuring the university’s long-term financial stability.
“We’re looking for new markets, we’re looking where we can expand online — and expand properly, not just for the purpose of expanding,” Aughenbaugh said. “We’re really looking to where we can grow enrollment in a strategic way.”
Jobs and Workplace
Unemployment and Layoffs
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Rabee Jaber
Rabee Jaber is a Lebanese novelist and journalist born in 1972 in Beirut and studied physics at the American University of Beirut. He is presently editor of Afaaq [Horizons], the weekly cultural supplement of Al-Hayat daily newspaper. He was selected as one of the 39 best young Arab authors under 40 by the Beirut39 Hay Festival project.
His first novel, Master of Darkness, won the Critics Choice Prize in 1992 and since 1995 he has written 17 novels, all much admired by both readers and critics. Youssef al-Inglizi [Youssef the Englishman], published in 2002, was excerpted in Banipal 17, translated for Banipal by Issa J Boullata, as part of a feature on the author's work. For details of the feature please go to Banipal 17.
A review by Sophie Richter-Devroe of Die Reise des Granadiners [The Journey of the Granadan] (2005) by Rabee Jaber, translated into German by Nermin Sherkawi, was publshed in Banipal 25. The French translation of his novel Berytus (Gallimard, 2009) was reviewed in Banipal 35 by Olivia Snaije. Excerpts from The Druze of Belgrade were published in Banipal 41 and 43.
In 2010 his novel America was short-listed for the 2010 IPAF. Two years later his novel The Druze of Belgrade was awarded the 2012 IPAF. And in 2013 his novel "The Birds of the Holiday Inn" was longlisted for the 2013 IPAF.
His novels The Mehlis Report, published in Arabic in 2005, and Confessions have been published in English translation by New Directions, in 2013 and 2016 respectively. Click here to read the review of the former in Banipal 47. Confessions, published in Arabic in 2008, is entered for the 2016 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
Banipal 17 - Summer 2003
Banipal 41 - Celebrating Adonis (2011)
Banipal 45 - Writers from Palestine (2012)
Banipal 43 - Celebrating Denys Johnson-Davies (2012)
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Joshua Images and Notes
Joshua 5:13 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, [Art] thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Joshua 5:14 - And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
Joshua 5:15 - And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy. And Joshua did so.
Bible Survery - Joshua
Hebrew Name - Yehoshua "Yahweh is salvation"
Greek Name - Iesous (Greek form of the Hebrew)
Author - Joshua
Date - From 1451 to 1425 BC Approximately
Theme - The Conquest of Canaan
Types and Shadows - In Joshua Jesus is the captain of the LORD's host
Ancient Rallying Horn
This Carchemish relief reveals how horns were blown.
Summary of The Book of Joshua
The book of Joshua received its name because of the main character of the book which is Joshua, whose name means "Jehovah is salvation". The Greek form of the name of Joshua is actually Jesus and means the same thing as the Hebrew Joshua. The man Joshua makes his first appearance as the commander of the armies of Israel against the Amalekites in the book of Exodus (Exodus 17:8 ff). Joshua was clearly a leader of Israel, he accompanied Moses to the foot of Mount Sinai when Moses went up on the mountain to receive the 10 Commandments, but Joshua did not go up with him (Exodus 24).
The way that Joshua enters the book of Joshua is already as an established leader in. Even Moses commissioned Joshua as the man chosen and conquer the land.
When Moses gave his farewell speech in Deuteronomy 34 Joshua accompanied him to the foot of Mount Sinai
This book is named for its chief character, Joshua, whose name means "Jehovah is salvation." The Greek form of this name is Jesus. The first appearance of Joshua is as the leader of the forces of Israel against Amalek (Exodus 17:8ff). The manner in which he is introduced into the story indicates that he was already well established as a leader. Later, he accompanied Moses to the foot of Mt. Sinai, but did not make the ascent with him (Exodus 24). In Exodus 32-33 he is also found in close association with Moses. No doubt, the years which he spent with Moses greatly influenced his spiritual development. The aspect of his life for which Joshua is most often remembered is his having brought back a positive report from the land of Canaan after serving as one of twelve men sent to spy out the land (Numbers 13). From this it can be seen that the experience and spirit which were Joshua's equipped him well for his duties and responsibilities as the leader, of God's people.
Quick Reference Map
Map of the Conquest of Canaan (Click to Enlarge)
The book may be regarded as consisting of three parts which may be analyzed as follows :
1) The Conquest of Canaan (Joshua 1-12). This includes the preparation for and crossing of the Jordan (Joshua 1-4). After the crossing, they camped at Gilgal. Here they circumcised all the males who were born in the wilderness, as circumcision had not been observed since the departure from Egypt. Gilgal was also the scene of the keeping of the Passover and the cessation of the manna. Joshua 5:13-6:27 tells of the miraculous destruction of Jericho and the salvation of Rahab. The crime and punishment of Achan is discussed in Joshua 7. In Joshua 8, the narrative records the avenging of the defeat which Israel had suffered at the hands of Al because of the sin of Achan. The latter portion of this chapter tells of the setting up of the stones on Mount Ebal. The stratagem of the Gibeonites is the topic of Joshua 9. In Joshua 10 is contained the story of the conquest of Southern Canaan, with the aid of Joshua's long day. Joshua 11-12 describes the conquest of Northern Canaan and give a list of the defeated kings.
2) The Distribution of the Territory (Joshua 13-22). This provides a record of the area which was assigned to the various tribes (13-19), the appointment of the six cities of refuge (Joshua 20) and the forty-eight cities of the Levites (Joshua 21), as well as the departure of the Transjordanic tribes to their home.
3) Joshua's farewell addresses (Joshua 23-24). The first of these is a speech of encouragement and warning. The second recalls the history of Israel, with emphasis on divine interventions on their behalf. At the close of this speech, Joshua issued the famous statement, "choose you this day whom you will serve . . . but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15).
The book closes with an account of the renewal of the covenant and the death of Joshua and Eleazer.
Quick Reference Maps
The Conquest of Canaan
The City of Jericho
The City of Sidon
Philistia
The Twelve Tribes
Joshua Resources
Joshua and the Promised Land
More About the Book of Joshua
Joshua in the Picture Study Bible
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Poor food 'risks health of half the world'
By Robert Pigott Health correspondent
Poor diets are undermining the health of one in three of the world's people, an independent panel of food and agriculture experts has warned.
The report says under-nourishment is stunting the growth of nearly a quarter of children under five.
And by 2030 a third of the population could be overweight or obese.
The report by the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition is being presented to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The panel - which is led by the former President of Ghana John Kufuor and the former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government Sir John Beddington - says two billion people lack the range of vitamins and minerals in their diet needed to keep them healthy.
The result is an increase in heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and other diet-related illnesses that undermines productivity and threatens to overwhelm health services.
These non-infectious, chronic diseases have been associated with the fatty, highly processed diet of the developed world. But most new cases are appearing in developing countries.
The panel has warned that on current trends the situation will get far worse in the next 20 years.
It says only an global effort similar to that used to tackle HIV or malaria will be enough to meet the challenge.
Life-years lost
According to the panel, child and maternal malnutrition, high blood pressure and other diet-related risks each cost more life-years than smoking, air pollution, poor sanitation or unsafe sex.
Great progress has been made in reducing under-nourishment, but 800 million people still experience hunger on a daily basis.
Image caption In China, half the population is projected to be overweight or obese by 2030
Image caption Consumption of processed food is growing in middle income countries
Under nourishment is starkly apparent in the rate of stunting among children.
A quarter of those aged under five have diminished physical and mental capacities. Under-nourished women are giving birth to babies with lifelong impairments.
One of the report's authors, Prof Lawrence Haddad of the International Food Policy Research Institute, cites Guatemala, where more than 40% of children are short for their age.
"It's partly driven by inequality", he says. "People on higher incomes have better food and very low rates of stunting. Low income groups eat a diet based on maize (corn), but they don't get enough vegetables, fruit, dairy food or protein such as that found in chicken."
The Global Panel's Director, Prof Sandy Thomas, says it's a similar story in many low and middle income countries, and poor physical condition leads directly to low productivity.
"One or two African countries have had big successes with agriculture. In Rwanda growing iron-rich beans has helped reduce anaemia among women - but across the world anaemia is decreasing very slowly."
Changing diets
In a foreword to the report, James Wharton, a minister in the UK's Department for International Development says the costs of undernutrition in terms of lost national productivity are significant, with between 3 and 16% of GDP lost annually in Africa and Asia.
Overall the losses have been about 10% of GDP, equivalent to the effect of the global financial crisis on a continuous basis.
Attempts to combat under-nutrition have sometimes focused on increasing calories at the expense of improving overall diet.
Many countries have moved rapidly from widespread under-nutrition to a serious problem with obesity.
In China, where diets have changed rapidly in recent years, half the population is projected to be overweight or obese by 2030.
Globally, estimates suggest that the number of overweight and obese people will have grown from 1.3 billion in 2005, to 3.3 billion - about a third of the population.
Although some problems are alleviated by economic development, diets can, and often are, deteriorating as countries become richer.
The panel reports that although people are eating more fruit and vegetables, the effect is being eclipsed by increasing consumption of low-quality food.
Urbanisation is leading many more people to eat diets dominated by processed food, including street food high in saturated fat and salt, and carrying an increased risk of adulteration and infection.
Prof Haddad says the concentration of people in cities also attracts food companies and supermarkets.
"Highly processed food with long shelf life, high in calories but low in nutritional value, maximises profit," he says. "Supermarket buyers are some of the most powerful determiners of national diet."
Indeed the amount of food in the global diet that has undergone a degree of processing is increasing.
Lower middle income countries are showing the fastest growth for processed foods that contribute calories, sugars, salt and fat - such as biscuits, snack bars and confectionary.
In 2000, upper middle income countries already had a third of the "ultra-processed" food and drinks of the high income countries - such as ice-cream, sugary drinks, and sweet and savoury snacks - but by 2015 it was more than half.
Widespread hunger
The Global Panel predicts a dramatically worsening situation over the next 20 years as the population increases - leaving half the world malnourished.
There will be another two billion mouths to feed in Africa and Asia by 2050. It claims that the best evidence suggests that climate change will also lead to more than half a million additional deaths, most in low and middle income countries.
It says worldwide studies show crop yields to be negatively affected by climate change in the tropical areas where hunger is most widespread, although they acknowledge that yields could increase elsewhere.
One danger suggested in the report is that by 2050 the estimated impact of elevated carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on the zinc content of grains, tubers and legumes could place 138 million more people at new risk of zinc deficiency.
People need to be nourished rather than simply fed says the panel.
That means eating more vegetables, fruit, whole grains, fibre, nuts and seeds, and protein low in saturated fat.
Added sugar, sugary snacks and drinks, excessive salt and processed meat should be reduced.
Babies should be breast fed - where possible - for at least six months.
Some countries have largely succeeded in combining development with a healthy diet.
The panel cites South Korea, which has gone from low to middle to high income levels in the last few decades in a way that has supported the supply of relatively accessible and affordable high quality diets.
Obesity levels have been kept to about 6% of the population.
We live in a world in which hunger and obesity increasingly inhabit the same territory.
While many people acquire incapacitating and life-shortening diseases through poor quality food, under-nourishment is contributing to the death of almost half of the 16,000 children under five who die every day.
Such is the cost of poor diet, that it's estimated that every dollar invested in nutrition brings 16 in return.
The global panel insists that tackling malnutrition is a moral imperative, but says it an economic priority too.
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Re-living history: History teacher a British Royal Navy reenactor
By Nancy White
History teachers do their best to make the past come alive for their students. Derby Academy history teacher Pete Condrick takes it to a whole new level. For 10 weekends a year, Condrick transforms into Lieutenant Peter Condrick of the British Royal Navy, circa the 18th century.
Condrick is a historical re-enactor, a hobby that takes him and about 30 fellow re-enactors to famous Revolutionary War battlefields throughout former colonial America to portray the crew of the HMS Somerset, a British warship stationed in Boston Harbor during the Revolution.
“No one had really researched the British brigade,” and they weren’t represented at the scores of re-enactment events Condrick had attended over the years, “it wasn’t good history not to have the navy presence.”
After spending six months aboard the tall ship, Sloop Providence, Condrick returned to Massachusetts to find his friends and fellow re-enactors had named him master and commander of the His Majesty’s Ship Somerset with a crew of six and three upcoming events. And there his British Royal Navy re-enacting career began.
However, Condrick historical re-enacting career was born out of an early love of history, particularly the Revolutionary War. At the age of 11 he joined the Hingham Militia, where he would wear a historical uniform, carry a musket and march in local parades.
“Those guys taught me a love of history,” he says but his passion for re-enacting couldn’t be contained to sporadic parades.
“At 14 I joined the British army and never looked back,” he quips. As an example of the depth of his interest, he says instead of a car or a new stereo for his 16th birthday, Condrick asked his parents for a musket — a traditional 18th century gift for a boy turning 16.
While continuing his British army re-enactments, he branched out and learned how to sail tall ships. With sailing expertise and a desire to educate people about the British Navy’s influence during the Revolutionary War drove him to trade in his red coat for a navy blue lieutenant’s jacket eight years ago.
“It was the perfect marriage of my two interests,” says Condrick, a former Cohasset resident.
In 2001, the HMS Somerset incorporated as a ship’s company and established bylaws, regulations and a budget. The HMS Somerset was the first British Royal Navy re-enactment company in New England and now is the “flagship of the North American Squadron.” There are five other Royal Navy re-enactment companies in the US. In June 2005, Condrick’s crew joined the other British Navy officers and seamen in Williamsburg.
“It was the first historical re-enactment that was numerically accurate with a one to one ratio,” says Condrick, in 1780 there were about 65 members of the British Royal Navy, almost 225 years later there was again that number in Williamsburg.
Condrick’s crew is comprised of 25 warrants and rated seamen, two officers and four marines. Although they portray a British navy crew in uniforms and in skills, they lack a key element of the British Royal Navy — a ship to call their own. A tight budget is the reason — to replicate the eighteenth century warship would cost over $25 million just to build the hull, says Condrick.
“We’re progressive in the hobby,” says Condrick, which means they try to be as historically accurate as possible. They wear hand-stitched uniforms and try to pick events where the British Navy would have been. It also means they possess the skills members of the British Navy would have possessed. At an event at Fort Tabor, they borrowed ships and landed them on the beach. At a re-enactment of the Battle of Saratoga, they portrayed how the Navy would have moved on a battlefield —“we move very quickly on the field,” he says. The Navy personnel were demolition experts too, so they can demonstrate that skill as well.
Condrick does not take on a British accent, but he does immerse himself in his first lieutenant role during re-enactment.
“We’re not just playing guns, there are controlled explosions,” he says so there are safety concerns, but mostly he just loves getting into the part, “I’m very aware of my eighteenth century command role, I get into it.”
The third HMS Somerset built in 1746 was instrumental in the events leading up to the American Revolution. It served during the French and Indian War as a third-rate ship of the line. She was responsible for the closing of the port of Boston in 1774, and the landing of British troops in Boston and New York. The HMS Somerset III met its end when it ran aground off the tip of Cape Cod while chasing French frigates in 1778.
“The highest compliment a re-enactor can be paid is to be recognized by its British affiliate,” says Condrick and that’s just what happened in 2005. The Captain of the HMS Somerset IV contacted Condrick after stumbling upon the re-enactors website. Condrick invited the Captain and other members of the current HMS Somerset to come to the US to experience a re-enactment.
The British Royal Navy returned the favor by inviting Condrick and six of his crew to come aboard the HMS Somerset IV. They boarded the ship, a Type 23 frigate built in 1994, in London and went underway through the English Channel with the Royal Navy.
“I was an honorary lieutenant in the Royal Navy for six days,” says Condrick with a big smile, “it was amazing.”
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BettingTop10 UK Juventus’ magnificent home record is likely to come under threat when Spurs visit Turin on February 13. The Bianconeri have won 20 of their 24 games this season and 10 of 12 in front of their own fans.
Previewing This Week’s Best Champions League Matches
By: BettingTop10 UK
Juventus’ magnificent home record is likely to come under threat when Spurs visit Turin on February 13. The Bianconeri have won 20 of their 24 games this season and 10 of 12 in front of their own fans.
After a slow start to the season, they’ve hit their stride and warmed up for this game with a straightforward 2-0 win over Fiorentina on February 9. They’ve shipped just a single goal in their last 16 matches and Massimiliano Allegri’s side will be looking to maintain that almost-faultless sequence when they host the North London outfit. Although after beating Real Madrid earlier in the campaign, Spurs will enter the Juventus Stadium with very little to fear. It’s 2/1 for the Serie A side to win and keep a clean sheet once again.
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Manchester City have been handed a seemingly winnable tie against Swiss outfit Basel. Pep Guardiola will be without Leroy Sane, who has failed to recover in time for this fixture. They travel to St Jakob Park for the first leg and have been priced up as 11/8 favourites with NetBet.
PSG and Real Madrid to Serve Up a Fascinating 90 Minutes
PSG were eliminated from the Champions League at this stage last season during a memorable two-legged clash with Barcelona. Boss Unai Emery admitted his side are “more prepared” for this year’s meeting with Real Madrid as they are once again drawn against a La Liga powerhouse. Neymar was rested in last week’s Coupe de France game as PSG prepared for their first leg trip to Santiago Bernabeu and Betfair have made the Brazilian an even-money shot to score during the 90 minutes and he often raises his game accordingly.
Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool are hoping to progress to the quarter-finals but FC Porto stand in the way. The Reds have been excellent entertainment in the competition so far and the deadly Mo Salah is 17/10 to find the net at any time with 888Sport. He’s scored over 20 goals in the Premier League already this season.
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Dancer, Singer, Guitarist
Murcia, Spain
María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Gutiérrez de los Perales Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Hinojosa Rasten
Who Is Charo?
TV Star: 'Ed Sullivan' to 'Chico and the Man' and 'The Love Boat'
Charo Biography
Dancer, Singer, Guitarist (1951–)
Charo is a Spanish-born singer, musician and actress best known for her sassiness, sexy outfits and signature phrase during the 1970s, "Cuchi-cuchi."
Born on January 15, 1951 (though some sources report her birth date as March 13, 1941), in Murcia, Spain, Charo began her career as a musician, singer and dancer. She emerged as a star in America in the 1970s via appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show, The Hollywood Squares, The Tonight Show and The Love Boat. In the 1980s she scaled back her career to focus on her family. The next few decades saw her release several albums featuring her singing and guitar skills, along with a return to TV on shows like The Surreal Life and Dancing with the Stars.
Singer, musician and actress Charo was born Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza on January 15, 1951 (though some sources report that she was born on March 13, 1941), in Murcia, Spain.
Charo started out as a serious musician. As a child, she studied classical guitar and was mentored by one of that field's great performers, Andres Segovia. As a teenager, she was discovered by Latin bandleader and "Rumba King" Xavier Cugat, and she soon joined his orchestra as a singer and dancer. Despite a more than 40-year age difference, Charo and Cugat wed in 1966.
TV Star: 'Ed Sullivan' to 'Chico and the Man' and 'The Love Boat'
Charo appeared with Cugat and alone on The Ed Sullivan Show several times in the late 1960s. In Las Vegas, she initially performed with her husband and later developed her own popular nightclub act.
After making her film debut in Tiger by the Tail (1968), with Tippi Hedren, Charo began to break out on her own through guest appearances on such shows as Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show and The Hollywood Squares. She was also a regular guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Although she was a versatile performer, Charo became best known for her bubbly personality and bombshell looks. She could often be heard uttering her famous catchphrase, "Cuchi-cuchi," which was usually accompanied by a wiggle of the hips. The phrase came from a childhood pet, a dog named Cuchillo.
Near the end of the decade, Charo seemed to be everywhere. On television, she had her own special in 1976 and appeared on the comedy Chico and the Man, with comedian Freddie Prinze, for a season. She went on to a recurring role on The Love Boat that stretched for several years.
Along with her acting, Charo released several records, including La Salsa (1976) and Dance a Little Bit Closer (1978).
Later Albums and TV Career
Charo returned to performing and to her beloved guitar for 1994's Guitar Passion, which did well on the Latin charts. She also attracted a new generation of fans through the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life. And while she remained famous for her humorous stage persona, she was also taken more seriously as a serious performer, receiving positive reviews for her album Charo and Guitar (2005).
Following years of scattered TV appearances, Charo in 2017 was named a contestant on the 24th season of Dancing with the Stars. That year she also appeared in the farcical Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, as the queen of England.
Charo divorced Cugat in 1978 and married Kjell Rasten that same year. Not long after the birth of their son, Shel Joseph, in 1982, they moved to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Focused on her family, she mostly performed locally and owned a restaurant aptly named Charo's.
In February 2019, Rasten died after reportedly shooting himself at their Beverly Hills home. Charo revealed that her husband had been battling depression as a side affect of medications taken for a rare skin disease.
https://www.biography.com/musician/charo
Singer and actress Eartha Kitt is best known for her holiday song "Santa Baby," and for playing Catwoman in the 1960's TV show Batman.
Actress and singer Lena Horne was one of the most popular performers of her time, known for films such as 'Cabin in the Sky' and 'The Wiz' as well as her trademark song, "Stormy Weather."
Ann-Margret is a Swedish-born actress, singer, and dancer who appeared in Viva Las Vegas with Elvis Presley, among others.
Joan Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist who is best known for songs like 'There But for Fortune,' 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' and 'Diamonds and Rust' while serving as a voice for protest movements around the world.
Jennifer Hudson is an Oscar and Grammy-winning actress and singer known for roles in 'Dreamgirls' and 'Sex and the City.'
Claudine Longet
Singer Claudine Longet recorded several albums from 1967 to 1972, also working as an actress. She was charged with manslaughter for the shooting death of her boyfriend in 1976 but was later convicted of criminally negligent homicide.
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress best known for her bombshell curves and film roles during the 1950s and '60s.
Yoko Ono is a multimedia artist who became known worldwide in the 1960s when she married Beatles front man John Lennon.
Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer, best known as one of the most popular salsa performers of all time, recording 23 gold albums.
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Franklin.D.Roosevelt
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FRANKLIN.D.ROOSEVELT PART 1
Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano.
Roosevelt’s parents, who were sixth cousins,both came from wealthy old New York families, the Roosevelts and the Delanos, respectively.
Roosevelt grew up in a wealthy family. His father, James Roosevelt I, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1851, but chose not to practice law after receiving an inheritance from his grandfather, James Roosevelt.
Sara was the dominant influence in Franklin’s early years.She once declared, “My son Franklin is a Delano, not a Roosevelt at all.”James, who was 54 when Franklin was born.
Frequent trips to Europe—he made his first excursion at the age of two and went with his parents every year from the ages of seven to fifteen—helped Roosevelt become conversant in German and French. At age nine he attended public school in Germany.
He learned to ride, shoot, row, and play polo and lawn tennis. He took up golf in his teen years, becoming a skilled long hitter. He learned to sail and when he was 16, his father gave him a sailboat.
Roosevelt attended Groton School, an Episcopal boarding school in Groton, Massachusetts.
Like most of his Groton classmates, Roosevelt went to Harvard College in nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts.Roosevelt was an average student academically.
Roosevelt was undistinguished as a student or athlete, but he became editor-in-chief of The Harvard Crimson daily newspaper, a position that required great ambition, energy, and the ability to manage others.
Roosevelt’s father died in 1900, causing great distress for him.The following year, Roosevelt’s fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States.
Theodore’s vigorous leadership style and reforming zeal made him Franklin’s role model and hero. Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1903 with an A.B. in history.
Roosevelt entered Columbia Law School in 1904, but dropped out in 1907 after passing the New York bar exam. In 1908, he took a job with the prestigious Wall Street firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn, working in the firm’s admiralty law division.
In mid-1902, Franklin began courting his future wife Eleanor Roosevelt, whom he had been acquainted with as a child. Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed, and Eleanor was a niece of Theodore Roosevelt.
On March 17, 1905, Roosevelt married Eleanor in New York City, despite the fierce resistance of his mother. While she did not dislike Eleanor, Sara Roosevelt was very possessive of her son, believing he was too young for marriage.
She and Franklin had six children. Anna James, and Elliott were born in 1906, 1907, and 1910, respectively. The couple’s second son, Franklin, died in infancy in 1909. Another son, also named Franklin, was born in 1914, and the youngest child, John, was born in 1916.
Roosevelt had various extra-marital affairs.
Roosevelt held little passion for the practice of law and confided to friends that he planned to eventually enter politics. Prior to the 1910 elections, the local Democratic Party recruited Roosevelt to run for a seat in the New York State Assembly.
Theodore privately encouraged his cousin’s candidacy despite their differences in partisan affiliation.Roosevelt soon became a popular figure among New York Democrats, though he had not yet become an eloquent speaker.
Roosevelt was elected in the 1912 as Newyork state senate. After the elections, he served as chairman of the Agriculture Committee, and his success with farm and labor bills was a precursor to his New Deal policies twenty years later.
During the 1912 National Democratic Convention, Roosevelt supported presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson and was rewarded with an appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
At the 1920 Democratic Convention he accepted the nomination for vice president, as James M. Cox’s running mate. The pair was soundly defeated by Republican Warren G. Harding in the general election, but the experience gave Roosevelt national exposure.
Roosevelt repaired his relationship with New York’s Democratic political machine. He appeared at the 1924 and 1928 Democratic National Conventions to nominate New York governor Al Smith for president, which increased his national exposure.
After the election, Roosevelt returned to New York City, where he practiced law and served as a vice president of the Fidelity and Deposit Company.
He also sought to build support for a political comeback in the 1922 elections, but his career was derailed by illness.While the Roosevelts were vacationing at Campobello Island in August 1921, Roosevelt fell ill.
Roosevelt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis at the time, Though his mother favored his retirement from public life, Roosevelt was all determined to continue his political career.
Roosevelt maintained contacts with the Democratic Party during the 1920s, and he remained active in New York politics while also establishing contacts in the South, particularly in Georgia.
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
As the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1928 election, Smith in turn asked Roosevelt to run for governor in the state election.
Roosevelt won the party’s gubernatorial nomination by acclamation, and he once again turned to Louis Howe to lead his campaign.
Roosevelt was elected governor by a one-percent margin.Roosevelt’s election as governor of the most populous state immediately made him a contender in the next presidential election. • Upon taking office in January 1929, Roosevelt proposed the construction of a series of hydroelectric power plants.
In October 1929, the Wall Street Crash occurred, and the country began sliding into the Great Depression. While President Hoover and many state governors believed that the economic crisis would subside, Roosevelt saw the seriousness of the situation and established a state employment commission.
He also became the first governor to publicly endorse the idea of unemployment insurance.
He ran on a platform that called for aid to farmers, full employment, unemployment insurance, and old-age pensions and Roosevelt was elected to a second term by a 14% margin.
With the Hoover administration resisting proposals to directly address the economic crisis, Governor Roosevelt proposed an economic relief package and the establishment of the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration to distribute those funds
In 1960, he suffered a heart attack. He was treated by top doctors in India, including his friend Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal.
His health started deteriorating and he died on 7 March 1961 at the age of 74, from a cerebral stroke. At that time he was still in office as the Home Minister of India.
Mr.PRESIDENT MR.PRESIDENT(1933)
As the 1932 presidential election approached, Roosevelt increasingly turned his attention to national politics. He established a campaign team led by Howe and Farley and a “brain trust” of policy advisers.
Roosevelt was elected in November 1932 but, like his predecessors, would not take office until the following March.
In February 1933, Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara, who expressed a “hate for all rulers.” Attempting to shoot Roosevelt.
NEW DEAL POLICY
When Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, the U.S. was at the nadir of the worst depression in its history. A quarter of the workforce was unemployed. Farmers were in deep trouble as prices had fallen by 60%.
Industrial production had fallen by more than half since 1929. Two million people were homeless. By the evening of March 4, 32 of the 48 states – as well as the District of Columbia – had closed their banks.
Historians categorized Roosevelt’s program as “relief, recovery and reform.” Relief was urgently needed by tens of millions of unemployed. Through Roosevelt’s series of radio talks, known as fireside chats, he presented his proposals directly to the American public.
On his second day in office, Roosevelt declared a “bank holiday” and called for a special session of Congress to start March 9, on which date Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act.
When the banks reopened on Monday, March 15, stock prices rose by 15 percent and bank deposits exceeded withdrawals, thus ending the bank panic.
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), under the leadership of Harry Hopkins, was designed to distribute relief to state governments.
The most popular of all New Deal agencies – and Roosevelt’s favorite – was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which hired 250,000 unemployed young men to work on local rural projects.
Roosevelt also expanded a Hoover agency, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, making it a major source of financing for railroads and industry.
Roosevelt also made agricultural relief a high priority and set up the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). The AAA tried to force higher prices for commodities by paying farmers to leave land uncultivated and to cut herds.
Reform of the economy was the goal of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933. It sought to end cutthroat competition by forcing industries to establish rules of operation for all firms within specific industries, such as minimum prices, agreements.
SECOND TERM(1937) JUDICIARY vs ROOSEVELT
The Supreme Court became Roosevelt’s primary domestic focus during his second term after the court overturned many of his programs which saw numerous economic regulations struck down on the basis of freedom of contract.
Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, which would have allowed him to appoint an additional Justice for each incumbent Justice over the age of 70; in 1937, there were six Supreme Court Justices over the age of 70.
Roosevelt did manage to pass some legislation, including the Housing Act of 1937, a second Agricultural Adjustment Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938, which was the last major piece of New Deal legislation. The FLSA outlawed child labor, established a federal minimum wage, and required overtime pay.
ECONOMIC SUCCESS
Government spending increased from 8.0% of gross national product (GNP) under Hoover in 1932 to 10.2% of the GNP in 1936.
The economy grew 58% from 1932 to 1940 in 8 years of peacetime, and then grew 56% from 1940 to 1945 in 5 years of wartime.
Unemployment fell dramatically during Roosevelt’s first term. It increased in 1938 (“a depression within a depression”) but continually declined after 1938.
Total employment during Roosevelt’s term expanded by 18.31 million jobs, with an average annual increase in jobs during his administration of 5.3%
RESULTS WORLD WAR 2
Roosevelt’s third term was dominated by World War II. With his famous Four Freedoms speech in January 1941.In August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill conducted a highly secret bilateral meeting in which they drafted the Atlantic Charter conceptually outlining global wartime and postwar goals.
After the German invasion of Poland, the primary concern of both Roosevelt and his top military staff was on the war in Europe, but Japan also presented foreign policy challenges.
The Japanese believed that the destruction of the United States Asiatic Fleet (stationed in the Philippines) and the United States Pacific Fleet (stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was vital to the conquest of Southeast Asia.
PEARL HARBOUR
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese struck the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor with a surprise attack, knocking out the main American battleship fleet and killing 2,403 American servicemen and civilians.
In a nearly unanimous vote, Congress declared war on Japan. After the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, antiwar sentiment in the United States largely evaporated overnight. On December 11, 1941, Hitler and Mussolini declared war on the United States.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt administration secured the funds needed to continue research and selected General Leslie Groves to oversee the Manhattan Project, which was charged with developing the first nuclear weapons.
Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to jointly pursue the project, and Roosevelt helped ensure that American scientists cooperated with their British counterparts.
Roosevelt coined the term “Four Policemen to refer the “Big Four” Allied powers of World War II, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and China.
ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED NATIONS
In November 1943, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss strategy and post-war plans at the Tehran Conference, where Roosevelt met Stalin for the first time.
Subsequent conferences at Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks established the framework for the post-war international monetary system and the United Nations an intergovernmental organization similar to Wilson’s failed League of Nations.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met for a second time at the February 1945 Yalta Conference. The three leaders agreed to hold a conference in 1945 to establish the United Nations, and they also agreed on the structure of the United Nations Security Council, which would be charged with ensuring international peace and security.
When Roosevelt returned to the United States from the Yalta Conference, many were shocked to see how old, thin and frail he looked.
On the afternoon of April 12, Roosevelt said, “I have a terrific headache.”He then slumped forward in his chair, unconscious, and was carried into his bedroom. The president’s attending cardiologist, Dr. Howard Bruenn, diagnosed the medical emergency as a massive cerebral hemorrhage. At 3:35 p.m. that day, Roosevelt died at the age of 63.
On the morning of April 13, Roosevelt’s body was placed in a flagdraped coffin and loaded onto the presidential train for the trip back to Washington. As was his wish, Roosevelt was buried on April 15 in the Rose Garden of his Springwood estate.
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As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In Paris an individual code named ‘Roland’ has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of Nazi agents. Only he knows the secret of the Thirty-One Kings, one upon which the future of Europe depends. Hannay is dispatched to Paris to find Roland before the Germans overrun the city. On a hazardous journey across the battlefields of France Hannay is joined by old friends and new allies as he confronts a ruthless foe who will stop at nothing to destroy him.
Robert J. Harris was born in Dundee and studied at the University of St. Andrews where he graduated with a first class honours degree in Latin. He is the designer of the bestselling fantasy board game Talisman and has written numerous books, including Leonardo and the Death Machine, Will Shakespeare and the Pirate’s Fire, the popular World Goes Loki children’s series and most recently The Gravedigger’s Club (2017), first in a new series of mysteries starring a young Arthur Conan Doyle. He lives in St. Andrews with his wife, Debbie.
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Brett Kavanaugh Will Not Return to Teach at Harvard
His Harvard Law class in the spring has been canceled.
By Spencer Buell· 10/2/2018, 9:47 a.m.
Harvard University along the Charles River
With an FBI investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct underway, Brett Kavanaugh’s future on the Supreme Court is very much in question right now. But this much is sure: Kavanaugh will not be teaching a class on the court at Harvard next near.
Amid calls for the school to conduct its own investigation, public on-campus demonstrations against the nominee, and a petition signed by hundreds of Harvard Law alumni calling for his position to be rescinded, Kavanaugh has said he will not return in the spring to Harvard Law, where he has taught since 2008.
“Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, so the course will not be offered,” Associate Dean and Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs Catherine Claypoole said in a message to students on Monday evening, as reported by the Harvard Crimson.
He was slated to teach a three-week course called “The Supreme Court Since 2005.”
In case this wasn’t clear, Kavanaugh can in fact keep teaching at colleges even if he is confirmed to the nation’s highest court. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was scheduled this fall to lead a course on the Supreme Court as the college’s Archibald Cox Visiting Professor of Law.
Kavanaugh may have seen this coming. During his emotional testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, he lamented that the scrutiny of his behavior as a young man would have consequences for his professional life.“I loved teaching law. But thanks to what some of you on this side of the committee have unleashed, I may never be able to teach again,” he said Friday.
At this, several Harvard Law students watching the hearing reportedly could be heard as they “applauded” and “burst into cheers.”
Spencer Buell Staff Writer at Boston Magazine @spencerbuell
sbuell@bostonmagazine.com
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Andy Cohen is an Emmy Award-winning host, producer, and author best known as the host and executive producer of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” Bravo’s Late Night, interactive talk show. The series is the only live show in Late Night television and consistently makes headlines with bold interviews viewers don’t see anywhere else. Because of this, “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” has become a nightly destination for some of the biggest names in pop culture including Meryl Streep, Cher, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lawrence, Ryan Reynolds, Mariah Carey and Lady Gaga. He also serves as executive producer of “The Real Housewives” franchise and hosts the network’s highly rated reunion specials.
In Fall of 2015, Cohen launched “Radio Andy,” a personally curated channel on SiriusXM focused on pop culture, celebrities, lifestyle, relationships and the dish on all topics deep and shallow. The channel is a fun, uncensored entertainment and talk destination with celebrity hosts including Cohen, who has daily and weekly shows on air.
In 2016, Cohen also launched his own book imprint Andy Cohen Books and in November became a New York Times best-selling author for a fourth time with the release of his latest book, “Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries” and achieved similar success with “The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look At a Shallow Year” as well as with the hardcover (May 2012) and the paperback (May 2013) versions of his first book, titled, “Most Talkative: Stories from the Frontlines of Pop Culture.”
Cohen is the host and executive producer of “Andy Cohen’s Then & Now,” a Bravo series that explores the nostalgic moments of some of the most significant years in history. “Andy Cohen’s Then & Now” is produced by World of Wonder and Cohen’s Most Talkative Productions. Cohen also hosts the hour-long revival of the iconic relationship show “Love Connection” on Fox. Much like the original version, each episode will feature single men and women in search of romance. When he isn’t in the host seat, Cohen tours the country with Anderson Cooper for “AC2: An Intimate Evening with Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen” where the dynamic duo discuss all topics deep and shallow in front of sold out audiences across the country.
In his ten years as an executive at Bravo he was responsible for an aggressive slate of unscripted series and specials including hits such as "Project Runway,” “Top Chef,” “Queer Eye For the Straight Guy,” "The Millionaire Matchmaker,” the “Million Dollar Listing” franchise, “Being Bobby Brown,” “Shahs of Sunset,” “Flipping Out,” “Top Design,” “Work Out,” “Make Me a Supermodel,” “Blow Out,” “Kathy Griffin My Life On the D List,” “The A List Awards” “The Rachel Zoe Project,” “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” “Bethenny Ever After,” “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover,” and “The Real Housewives” franchises. Cohen started at Bravo in 2004 as Vice President, Original Programming and most recently, Cohen served as Bravo’s Executive Vice President of Development and Talent from November 2011 to January 2014.
Cohen received an Emmy award when season six of “Top Chef” won Outstanding Reality Competition Program at the 2010 primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for 17 additional Emmy Awards as Executive Producer of “Project Greenlight,” “Project Runway,” “Top Chef” and “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.” In 2005, Cohen was awarded a Peabody Award for his role as Executive Producer of the TRIO documentary “The N Word” and another in 2008 as an Executive Producer of “Project Runway.”
Cohen ran Original Programming and Development for the pop culture and arts cable channel TRIO, beginning in July 2000. He was responsible for developing and supervising all of TRIO's original productions including the critically acclaimed original documentaries “Gay Republicans,” “Easy Riders/Raging Bulls,” and “Brilliant, But Cancelled.” He spent ten years (1990-2000) as a producer at CBS News, working on “CBS This Morning” and “48 Hours”.
Born in St. Louis, Cohen is a graduate of Boston University where he received a Bachelor of Sciences in broadcast journalism. Cohen is currently on the board of directors for charity Friends In Deed and resides in New York City. Andy has over three million followers on social media; follow him on Facebook, Twitter (@andy), Instagram (@bravoandy) and Tumblr (therealandycohen.tumblr.com).
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Naomie is an ambitious French expat living in Charleston. She’s a work-hard-play-hard kind of girl who recently launched her e-commerce clothing company “L’ABEYE,” with her friend and now business partner, Ginny Cox. Being a boss comes naturally to Naomie, who’s fiery personality has kept her friends and exs on their toes. After years of being in relationships that were wrong for her, she has finally found her match in her new beau, Metul. She is a girls-girl at heart, and nothing comes above her friends or her family. She is fiercely loyal to her girl gang and will do anything for them in the name of girl power. This year, Naomie’s newfound happiness has helped her calm down and become more understanding and rational. She’s excited for this to be her best year yet, hoping her past doesn’t try to slow her down.
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What's the Use? to Screen at the Cine Las Americas 18th International Film Festival
Our second feature film, What's the Use?, will be making its festival premiere at Cine Las Americas in the Hecho en Tejas section. Cine Las Americas promotes films made by or about Latinos or indigenous people of the Americas. The screening time is 2 p.m., Saturday the 25th of April, at the Marchesa Theater.
What's the Use? is set during one hot July 4th evening in Austin, TX, when a teenage girl heads out to settle her junkie father's financial debts to a dangerous loan shark. This black comedy embraces a very experimental visual style, using film footage shot on the Lomokino hand-cranked 35mm camera, along with digital footage from the Black Magic Cinema Camera and the Canon 7D, as well as reels from the public domain.
The film was shot in one of the hottest summers in Austin, that of the summer of 2011, when record temperatures of over 100 were being set almost daily. More scenes were shot in Las Vegas, NV during July, 2013. The learn more about the early stages of this film, visit an 2011 article in Filmmaker Magazine written by Director Nicole Elmer.
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Railroads’ Role in the U.S. Supply Chain
The Blume Global Team | February 26, 2019
Railroads are a popular way to move raw materials, parts and products around the United States. This railway infrastructure is critical to a healthy, functioning supply chain. In this article, we dig into the facts and figures that explain the role of railways in ensuring the efficient transportation and distribution of goods.
The Amount of Freight Moved in the U.S. Each Year
Railway freight is the second most popular way to move goods, after road transport.
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, this breaks down as follows:
In 2015, the total amount of freight moved domestically in the U.S. was 15.9 billion tons.1
Of that, around 10.8 billion tons was moved by truck, followed by 1.5 billion tons being moved by railway.
Imports and exports by railway accounted for around 144 million tons in 2015.
The amount of freight moved by railway is expected to rise to almost 2 billion tons by 2045.
The total value of domestic shipments in the U.S. in 2015 was almost $15 trillion.
Of that, around $10.9 trillion was transported by truck, with railway transporting almost $445 billion.
Transporting goods by railway is most popular for distances between 250 to 500 miles and 1,000 to 1,500 miles.
Around 600 freight railroads operate in the U.S. and together they earned nearly $75 billion in revenue in 2017.10
Around $1.15 trillion of goods was transported overall as freight between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. in 2017.
Of that, just over $700 billion was moved by truck, followed by almost $180 billion sent by railway.
Pipeline, air freight and vessels rounded out the transportation of goods, each responsible for less than $100 billion worth.
Although transportation of goods by railway is somewhat below the capacities offered by trucks, rail freight still accounts for a fairly substantial portion of supply chain movement.
The Size of the U.S. Rail Freight System
The U.S. freight rail system owns and operates almost 140,000 miles of railway tracks.3 This includes 95,000 miles owned by Class I railroads. A large proportion of goods transported by railway are sent in intermodal shipping containers. Freight railroads moved almost 14.5 million intermodal shipping containers in 2018. Intermodal transport accounts for nearly a quarter of all U.S. freight rail revenue.9
Class I railroads are the main freight rail networks that distribute goods around the U.S. Class I railroads are defined as having revenues of at least $457.9 million in 2015.3
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics:3
The median age of the Class I Railroad locomotive fleet ranged from 16 to 20 years in 2015, compared to 11 to 15 years in 2010.
Class I railroads added more than 12,000 new locomotives between 2000 and 2015.
On average, about 3% of all locomotives are new in any given year.
Although there are only seven Class I railroads in the U.S., together they account for nearly 70% of rail freight mileage and 94% of rail freight revenue.10
Here’s an overview of the six main Class I railroads.11
The Union Pacific (UP) railroad was founded in 1862. It is the largest railroad in North America and operates almost 52,000 miles of track across 23 states. The company has almost 45,000 employees, owns or leases over 8,500 locomotives and primarily ships goods like coal, food, chemicals, agricultural and automobile products.
BNSF Railway
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) was founded in 1849. It operates in almost 30 states and three Canadian provinces. BNSF has 32,500 miles of tracks in its railway network and more than 8,000 locomotives. It specializes in intermodal transportation and is the largest intermodal railway in North America.
CSX Transportation was founded in 1827 and owns 21,000 miles of railroads across 23 states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. Its network reaches nearly two-thirds of the nation’s population. They provide traditional rail freight services and intermodal shipping.
Norfolk Southern Railway
The Norfolk Southern Railway was founded in 1838 and today it is a major carrier automotive products, industrial parts and coal. It operates almost 20,000 miles of track and runs over 4,000 locomotives and over 60,000 railcars. The railroad is a major transportation provider to ports on the east coast, from New York to Florida.
Founded in 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway owns and operates around 15,000 miles of railroads. They provide important rail connections between ports of the east and west coasts, major distribution centers and other railroads. CP primarily carries fossil fuels, automotive products, agriculture and food and shipping containers.
Kansas City Southern
Kansas City Southern mainly operates between the US and Mexico and was started in 1887. Although they only operate around 6,000 miles of track, they provide vital freight services through three subsidiaries: Panama Canal Railway Company, Kansas City Southern Railways Company and Kansas City Southern de Mexico. They specialize in transporting loose goods, food, chemicals, appliances and consumer goods.
The Economic Impact of Railroads Carrying Freight
Railway freight has a significant impact in the U.S. economy.4 It creates high-paying jobs, supports employment across related industries and provides a greater connection to the North American and global marketplaces.
Railroads spend, on average, around $25 billion a year on their networks, mainly on infrastructure and equipment. That’s a rate six times higher than the average American manufacturer.5 According to the Association of American Railroads, “in 2017 alone, major U.S. railroads supported approximately 1.1 million jobs, nearly $219.5 billion in annual economic activity, $71 billion in wages and almost $26 billion in tax revenues.”6
Railroads also haul over a third of all U.S. exports and provide a major boost to worldwide trade. Because the railroads can haul hundreds of truckloads of goods at a time, they also reduce the burden on the highway infrastructure and road systems in the U.S.
According to The Economist, “[American railroads] are universally recognized in the industry as the best in the world.”7 Between 1981 and 2000, the productivity of the freight railway network rose by 172%, while rates decreased by 55%.
There are good reasons to send freight by rail. It’s cost-effective and up to four times more fuel-efficient than sending freight by truck, and that’s better for the environment. A rail freight shipment company transports can move nearly double the quantity of goods they could in 1985, for about the same price.5
Rail Freight Safety and Monitoring
The American Society of Civil Engineers gave top marks to the U.S. rail freight system for safety on the network, while overall U.S. infrastructure only scored a D+.8 Massive infrastructure spending, combined with smart monitors and IoT devices helps to keep railways, locomotives and carriages safe and secure. As a result, there’s been a 28% decrease in the train accident rate over the past 10 years. Railroads today have lower employee injury rates than most other major industries.
Railway freight has a lower environmental impact, too, according to Gorail, “If just 10 percent of the freight shipped by the largest trucks instead moved by rail, annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States would decrease by about 17 million tons—the equivalent of planting 400 million trees.”5
Railroads and railway freight are a vital part of supply chain infrastructure, allowing for efficient, low-cost, environmentally-friendly distribution of goods over large distances.
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https://www.bts.gov/bts-publications/freight-facts-and-figures/freight-facts-figures-2017-chapter-2-freight-moved
https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017-north-american-freight-numbers
https://www.bts.gov/bts-publications/freight-facts-and-figures/freight-facts-figures-2017-chapter-3-freight
https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AAR-Economic-Impact-U.S.-Freight-Railroads.pdf
http://gorail.org/infrastructure/five-reasons-freight-rail-is-an-infrastructure-leader
https://www.aar.org/issue/freight-rail-economic-impact/
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2010/07/22/high-speed-railroading
https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/rail/
https://www.aar.org/issue/freight-rail-intermodal/
https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AAR-Overview-Americas-Freight-Railroads.pdf
https://arcb.com/blog/rail-freight-shipping-class-i-railroads-in-america
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Present family ownership since 1964,1900 Darracq 6½hp Four seater Voiturette
Registration no. BW 64 Chassis no. 50 Engine no. 829
Sold for £ 85,500 (US$ 107,206) inc. premium
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Present family ownership since 1964
1900 Darracq 6½hp Four seater Voiturette
Registration no. BW 64
Chassis no. 50
Engine no. 829
French engineer and entrepreneur Alexandre Darracq established the Gladiator Cycle Co. in 1891, developed it over a five year period and sold out in 1896. He retained his interests in the bicycle industry, shrewdly moving to components manufacture, but was intrigued by the new-fangled horseless carriages. The first successful car built by Société A. Darracq at Suresnes was a horizontal-engined car to the design of Leon Bollée which appeared in 1898. Darracq found this machine to be inefficient and built a car to his own design which appeared in 1900. This was powered by a vertically mounted single cylinder Perfecta engine of 6½hp, sitting in a tubular steel chassis, driving through a three speed gearbox and with shaft final drive, a very advanced feature in its day. The model was first advertised in Autocar magazine in November 1900 priced at £250 and some 1,200 or so examples of this model left the Suresnes factory in the period up to the end of 1901. The new Darracq caused much consternation in the De Dion Bouton camp and there is no doubt that Darracq were a thorn in the side to that expanding company.
This jewel-like voiturette is the oldest Darracq dated by The Veteran Car Club of Great Britain and is recorded in their current List of Cars. It carries four seater coachwork by Carrosserie A.Vedrine.E.Beugniot & Co. of 7 Quai de Seine, Courbevoie, a favoured coachbuilder local to the Darracq factory at Suresnes. Car no. 50 was imported in 1900 via The Automobile Manufacturing Co.Ltd. of 48 and 49 Long Acre, London, WC, and first registered BW 33 with Oxford County Council. That number was lost during a long period off the road and the present similar Oxford number was allocated in the 1960s.
The full history of the car is not recorded but it was acquired in 1964 by the vendors' father from Vincents of Reading, noted coachbuilders, where it shared a stable with a veteran Benz and a Renault. It is believed at that stage the car had been unused for at least 35 years since 1929. A photograph taken upon acquisition in 1964 shows the car to be remarkably complete and original. Its skilled engineer owner embarked on a 2,000 hour full restoration, leaving no stone unturned and carefully retaining originality wherever possible. A full schedule recording that restoration is on file for inspection.
In 1965, in the hands of its restorer, BW 64 completed the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, the first of many complete runs in the present family ownership. On more than one occasion BW 64 has been the first car to cross the Finish Line at Madeira Drive. With a 1900 dating, (VCC Dating Certificate no. 1080), this car enjoys an early start from Hyde Park, a considerable advantage to a more relaxed drive to Brighton.
In 1968 the car completed the VCC London to Edinburgh Rally and, buoyed by this achievement, was taken to Australia in 1970 where it successfully completed the 1,000 mile run from Sydney to Melbourne via Canberra.
BW 64 has stood well the test of time following its restoration 48 years ago. It is attractively liveried in maroon and black and seating is upholstered in black leather. Mechanical condition has always been kept right up to scratch and the car drives well with spritely performance. It is equipped with brass oil lamps front and rear and a bulb horn, carries a VCC dating plate and comes with front and rear tonneau covers as well as fitted covers for the lamps and steering wheel.
The documents file includes much interesting correspondence and history relating to this car and BW 64 comes with a Swansea registration document and a number of spare parts acquired during its restoration. Here is a well restored Brighton runner from one of France's premier pioneer motor manufacturers, coming from long term ownership and with an impeccable history and driving track record and an early starter on the Brighton Run. BW 64 comes with an accepted entry in the 2012 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
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Report says Trump backed a bizarre grassroots campaign to smear Jon Bon Jovi
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Jim Rogash/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump came up short in his effort to buy the Buffalo Bills.
In 2014, Donald Trump lost to Terry Pegula in the bidding for the Buffalo Bills.
A new report says Trump secretly backed a grassroots campaign to smear Jon Bon Jovi in the Buffalo area.
The efforts of the group seemed to work but other factors kept it from helping Trump win the bidding.
In 2014, Terry Pegula, the owner of the Buffalo Sabres, agreed to buy the Buffalo Bills for an NFL-record price, $US1.4 billion. But a new report suggests the more interesting — and perplexing — fight was behind the scenes between the other two bidders, Jon Bon Jovi and then-future President Donald Trump.
According to a story in GQ by Ben Schreckinger, Trump secretly backed a grassroots campaign to turn the people of Buffalo against Bon Jovi’s group, which included investors from Canada, in an effort to “scare them off.”
The former Trump adviser and Buffalo resident Michael Caputo told GQ that he secretly helped lead the campaign. Since he was a known associate of Trump, Caputo recruited local fans to serve as the faces of the group that called themselves “12th Man Thunder,” including a double-amputee cancer survivor, who served as the leader.
“Trump knew he couldn’t outbid the Canadians,” Caputo told GQ. “I had it all set up with neighbourhood guys who lived by the stadium.”
The group rallied against Bon Jovi’s group based on the speculation that they would attempt to move the team to Toronto if they won the bidding. At the time, the Bills were playing one home game each season in Toronto. The group’s antics included “Bon Jovi-Free Zones” in local bars and a “Ban Bon Jovi” movement to rid the area of his group’s music.
While the group did receive widespread attention, including a New York magazine article titled, “Jon Bon Jovi Is the Most Hated Man in Buffalo,” the benefit to Trump’s efforts to buy the team is not clear.
The trust of the late owner Ralph Wilson was expected to accept the highest bid regardless of where the new owner wanted the team to play. Because of that, public sentiment wouldn’t have played a role in deciding who won the bidding. In addition, if Bon Jovi’s ultimate goal was to move the team to Toronto, it is not clear why he would be concerned about people in Buffalo hating him.
But maybe the most perplexing part of all of this is simply that Bon Jovi’s group was never considered the favourite to win the bidding, in large part because NFL rules limited how much his group could bid, and Trump admitted that his bid was not going to compete with Pegula’s bid.
When the first bids were submitted, Pegula’s was reported to be $US1.3 billion, Bon Jovi’s was $US1.1 or $US1.2 billion, and Trump’s was was believed to be $US1.0 billion.
In order for Bon Jovi to have been considered the principal owner, NFL rules stated that he had to contribute at least 30% of the sale price in cash. According to the Toronto Sun, Bon Jovi had an approximate net worth of $US500 million at the time. In order for the group to increase their bid to $US1.4 billion, Bon Jovi would have needed to contribute $US420 million of his own money. It was unlikely that the group would be able to top their bid without pushing Bon Jovi to the background.
As for Trump, he seemed unlikely to up his bid.
Trump told Greta VanSusteren on Fox News at the time, “I’ll be bidding. Many other people will be bidding. And I would say the chances are very, very unlikely because I’m not gonna do something totally stupid. Maybe just a little bit stupid, but not totally stupid.”
The fan group also got into a fight with Texas A&M University which threatened a lawsuit over the use of “12th man” which is trademarked by the school. According to Caputo, the embarrassment of threatening a double-amputee cancer survivor with a lawsuit led to a settlement in which the school gave the group $US25,000 and they changed their name to “Bills Fan Thunder.”
Once Trump submitted his bid to buy the Bills, he was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement and was “forbidden from participating in public outreach efforts related to the sale,” according to GQ. According to Caputo, at that point, Trump said the group was on its own. From GQ:
Charlie Pellien, a Buffalo local who co-founded the group said that keeping a lid on Trump’s involvement was a challenge. “It was all behind the scenes and we weren’t even allowed to mention his name because of the agreement that he signed,” Pellien told me. “I was bursting at the seams to tell people, ‘Hey, this was Donald Trump’s idea.'”
With Trump having removed himself from the picture, Caputo took the gloves off. “We immediately made it far more aggressive and anti-Toronto than the president ever envisioned, mostly because we didn’t have to worry about getting him crossways with the NFL,” he said.
In the end, Bon Jovi was removed from his group in an effort to increase their bid, but they still came up short and Pegula purchased the team. Meanwhile, Trump found a different occupation to fill his time and some in the NFL believed his recent attacks against the league were sparked, at least in part, by his failed bid to buy the Bills.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
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The relationship between Australia and China is crucial for Antarctica
Nengye Liu,
The Conversation UK
Jul. 7, 2016, 7:51 PM
Melting ice shows through at a cliff face at Landsend, on the coast of Cape Denison in Antarctica
Antarctica's early history was marked by national rivalries - think of Britain and Norway racing to the South Pole in 1911. But since the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, collaboration has become more important than competition.
And the relationship between Australia - Antarctica's biggest territorial claimant - and China, the emerging superpower, is among the most crucial of all.
One of Australia's key aims, as set out in its Antarctic Strategy and 20 Year Action Plan, is to strengthen the existing Antarctic Treaty system, by "building and maintaining strong and effective relationships with other Antarctic Treaty nations through international engagement".
As Australia's largest trading partner and a significant player in Antarctica, China is a crucial nation with which to engage if Australia is to meet its objectives. This raises the question of how the two countries might fruitfully cooperate in Antarctica over the next 20 years.
Existing ties
China began its first scientific expedition to Antarctica in 1984. It now has four Antarctic bases, two on Australian-claimed territory.
Australia and China's Antarctic ties have thus been evolving for more than three decades, with a focus on science, logistics and operations. Bilateral relations seem to have strengthened in recent years.
In 2014, President Xi Jinping visited Hobart and signed a memorandum of understandingwith Australia to collaborate in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
Last year, Australia's Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre signed an agreement with its Chinese counterpart, the National Marine Environmental Forecasting Centre, to develop new forecasting methods to aid the challenging task of navigating Antarctic sea ice.
February 2016 saw the inaugural meeting of the China-Australia Joint Committee on Antarctic and Southern Ocean Collaboration, which arose from the 2014 agreement.
But it has not all been smooth sailing. China has strongly opposed Australia's proposal to establish a network of marine protected areas off East Antarctica.
Australia is also concerned about China's presence in Antarctica. For example, a news articleat the time of Xi's 2014 visit suggested that "China may eventually try to overthrow the Antarctic Treaty system underpinning Australia's claim to 43% of the frozen continent", while questions have been asked about the scope of China's mining ambitions on the frozen continent.
The Aurora Australis ship sits among new ice, moored in Horseshoe Harbour, at Mawson Station, Antarctica in this undated file photo supplied by the Australian Antarctic Division
Potential future collaborations
There are several reasons, however, to expect that China and Australia can put aside their diplomatic differences in pursuit of Antarctic science.
First, it seems more likely that China will continue to endorse the Antarctic Treaty than to undermine it. As a rising power, China has growing interests in the Southern Ocean but it has no territorial claim in Antarctica. It would certainly not be at the front of the queue in the ensuing land grab if the treaty were to end.
Realistically, China should therefore continue to support the treaty, under which the seven existing national claims (plus any prospective claim by the United States, which has a research base at the South Pole) are suspended.
This logic is backed up by China's behaviour with regard to the even more politically fraught North Pole. By becoming an observer of the Arctic Council, China has opted to embrace rather than challenge the current Arctic regime, despite the jockeying among Arctic nations over territorial rights.
Second, to maintain Australia's leadership and excellence in Antarctic science, it will need to collaborate with industry and other nations. As an economic powerhouse, China has both the funding and the technology to deliver things like icebreaker ships, a well as a keen interest in Antarctica, which should extend to long-term scientific collaborations.
Third, Australia wants to maintain its leadership in environmental stewardship of Antarctica. One current hurdle seems to be China's opposition to Australia, France and the European Union over the planned marine protected areas off East Antarctica. As the world's largest fishing nation, China's reluctance to support "no-take zones" is hardly surprising.
Nevertheless, this issue could potentially be converted from obstacle to opportunity, perhaps by Australia inviting Chinese scientists to conduct joint scientific research in these areas of the Southern Ocean. This would not only improve understanding of unknown marine ecosystems, but would also be a useful way for Australia to exert diplomatic "soft power".
Finally, Australia has its own economic interests in Antarctica, such as sustainable fishing and tourism. Meanwhile, ever greater numbers of Chinese tourists are venturing abroad, with visits to Australia passing the 1 million mark last year. With Antarctica now also on the radar for China's richer tourists, Australia could not only benefit economically but must also work closely with China to develop regulations that prevent this nascent industry from damaging the Antarctic environment.
All of this means we can reasonably expect Australian-Chinese ties to grow ever closer over the next two decades - even in the world's remotest place.
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Review: The Lexus IS350 Isn't Up To The Carmaker's Standards
Benjamin Zhang
I just spent a weekend behind the wheel of a 2014 Lexus IS350 AWD — the brand's third attempt to dethrone the BMW 3-Series from its perch atop the entry-level luxury car segment.
Make no mistake, in the over two decades since Toyota's luxury brand first hit the U.S. market, it's more than firmly established itself. The top tier of luxury automotive sedans includes three players: Mercedes, BMW, and Lexus. And maybe Audi, if you're young and cool and feeling generous. There no debate: Lexus is the biggest success story in the auto industry, over the last 25 years.
Unfortunately, I found the IS350 AWD to be a disappointment. A mysterious betrayal, even, of that grand legacy.
The gloom didn't set in right away. I was impressed by the IS's stylish, modern interior. The leather-lined interior feel quality, and the hand-stitched accents look very classy. The dash is a marvel behold. It's touch-sensitive climate controls are really cool to use, and the chrome-accented A/C vents are quite elegant.
But then the sadness began to set in.Why the hollow plastic trim pieces? The center console and steering wheel that use plastic components are state-of-the-art, so skimping on the trim cheapened the look of an interior the company clearly wants to exude a premium feel.
Then there's the bump. It's on the left side of the center transmission tunnel (rear- and AWD cars have one of these, to accomodate a drive axle). And it's an uncomfortable bump, awkwardly placed where your feet are supposed to go when you're driving the car. It has to be there, because it's the transfer case for the AWD system. But it seems to be tacked on as an afterthought. Which, for a company that's all about the "Relentless Pursuit of Perfection," is a shocking misstep.
It got worse. Our $47,000 test car lacked an in-car navigation system — a particular shame because the Toyota/Lexus' technology is one of the best in business. A few years ago, such an omission wouldn't have been a big deal. However, when a $23,000 Dodge Dart can be optioned with Chrysler's industry-leading UConnect navigation system, it's hard to understand what Lexus was thinking.
So...cheap plastic. No nav for 47 grand.
The bump.
And that wasn't the end of my sadness.
The IS350 is supposed to be a sport sedan, but when actually being driven, it didn't live up to its billing. Sure, the 3.5-liter 306-horsepower V6 engine, a carryover from the previous generation, feels great — velvety smooth. But when pushed a bit, the AWD version's six-speed autobox can't keep up. It feels reluctant to unleash the engine's full, gutsy potential.
There's an easy fix for this — get the rear-wheel-drive IS350, with an 8-speed transmission. Eight speeds are better than six. No bump. And it's $1,000 cheaper!
The car's interior left me wanting, as did the driving part. But the exterior redeemed the IS350. The third generation features some truly provocative styling cues. Love it or hate it, the looks certainly aren't boring. The bold, swoopy lines offer a refreshing departure from Lexus' typically understated designs. And the IS350, for my money, showcases the carmakers most successful adaption of its controversial "spindle grill" design.
This might all sound like pretty weak praise, but the bottom line is that I hold Lexus to a high standard — a justified BMW-Mercedes standard. And the fact is that just because the IS350 didn't please me all that much over the few days that I tested it doesn't mean it isn't a great bet for long-term ownership. There's every chance that the car will enjoy near bulletproof reliability. Lexus' award-winning customer service experience is a wonder to behold.
You will be very happy 10 years from now if you buy an IS350 today. Competitors, including the BMW 3-Series, will fall by the wayside, and you will end up with a comfortable and reliable sports sedan with great resale value. If you go for the AWD version, you'll be all set for the winter weather.
In the end, the IS350 isn't a car that appeals to a driver's emotions, but rather one that appeals to logic and reason. In a weird way, this is perfectly consistent with Lexus' brand values. The IS350 isn't going to worry you very much. It just isn't likely to excite you in the way it's supposed to.
SEE ALSO: We Spent A Weekend With Infiniti's New Luxury Sedan — Here's How It Stacks Up Against The Competition
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6 Myths About Sexual Assault Highlighted By Susan Brownmiller's Comments On "The Problem Of Consent" — And Why They're Not True
By Suzannah Weiss
The 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape brought sexual assault into the national spotlight as an issue worthy of our attention. But a recent New York Magazine interview with the book's author, Susan Brownmiller, now 80, showed that even an anti-rape activist can harbor some dangerous misconceptions about sexual assault. After reading the interview, Kate Harding, author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture — and What We Can Do About It, went as far as to say that "it's time to let go of a hero." She writes:
Every feminist writing and speaking about rape culture today owes Brownmiller a debt of gratitude. But we also owe it to victims and young people to denounce much of what she has to say on the subject today.
What statement or statements could be so harmful as to prompt those who had once been inspired by the long-time feminist activist to "let go" of their hero? Many of Brownmiller's comments in the interview, such as those on what she termed "the problem of consent," come across as trivializing and victim-blaming. They also highlight a number of misconceptions rampant in popular discourse about sexual assault.
Here's why those myths are wrong.
1. MYTH: Consent Cannot Be Revoked
"It is a little late, after you are both undressed, to say 'I don’t want this,'" Brownmiller says — but It's never too late to revoke consent. If someone continues to engage in a sexual activity after their partner has told them to stop, that is rape. Oddly, when New York Magazine mentioned to Brownmiller that men should respect if a woman wants to stop during a sexual encounter, she responded, "That would be nice. There is not much attention on them, is there?" No, there is not, but there should be. By teaching women that it's too late to revoke consent once you're both undressed, we're teaching men that once their partner's clothes are off, anything goes. Not that sexual assault is always committed by men against women; that's another widespread myth. No matter what the partnering might be, if just one of the participants says they want to stop, then the activity needs to stop. Period.
2. MYTH: Drinking Causes Rape
After following discussions about rape on college campuses, Brownmiller is concerned that college women "don't accept the fact there are predators out there, and that all women have to take special precautions. They think they can drink as much as men, which is crazy because they can't drink as much as men. I find the position 'Don't blame us, we're survivors' to be appalling." But rapists don't suddenly become rapists because someone around them is drunk. They may use alcohol to take advantage of a victim, but that it is not the victim's fault. There are direct consequences of drinking, like getting sick or hungover, but rape is not a side effect of alcohol poisoning. People should be able to make decisions about alcohol without considering rape as a consequence.
3. MYTH: Revealing Clothing Causes Rape
"The slut marches bothered me, too, when they said you can wear whatever you want. Well sure, but you look like a hooker. They say, 'That doesn't matter,' but it matters to the man who wants to rape," she says. But rapists don't decide to become rapists because of what someone is wearing, either. Once again, they have already made the decision, and even if they use the victim's clothing to later argue that "she was asking for it," this does not mean that the clothing led them to rape. People get raped in all sorts of attire. Rapists look for easy, not sexy, targets.
And about that "hooker" comment...
4. MYTH: You Can't Rape a Sex Worker
Brownmiller did not say this directly, but saying that "[looking] like a hooker... matters to the man who wants to rape" edges dangerously close to the myth that sex workers can't be raped. There's a reason that Chicago Sun-Times collumnist Mary Mitchell got into such hot water just last week for arguing that the rape of sex workers should be classified as "theft of services," rather than sexual assault.
The bottom line is that sex workers are people and deserve to have their boundaries respected. Sex becomes rape when it is not consensual, whether money is exchanged or not.
5. MYTH: Domestic Violence Victims Are Being Passive
Brownmiller says she has a similar attitude toward domestic violence victims as she does toward rape victims: "If they can’t get out because they don’t want to reduce their living circumstances, or they don’t want to go, or they are passive people, then I am supposed to respect that. But I don’t. My feeling is 'Get out.'" But domestic abuse victims stay in their homes and relationships for many legitimate reasons. Sometimes, they have nowhere else to go. Oftentimes, their abusers manipulate them into believing that they are not being abused or that their situations will change. Those who are not domestic violence survivors themselves don't understand what it's like to be in that position and have no right to judge victims.
6. MYTH: All Feminists These Days Care About Is Sexual Assault on College Campuses
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Brownmiller says she'd like campus activists to "extend your focus to the larger percentage of women and girls who are in danger of being raped. They are more important than the college kids." Earlier this year, LA Times columnist Meghan Daum made a similar argument, lamenting third-wave feminists' myopic focus on campus rape: "The campus assault meme could also be sparking conversations worth having about gender and power, and the overall state of women in the world." In response, Feministing's Dana Bolger argued that if you think the vision of feminists or anti-sexual-assault activists does not extend beyond college campuses, you're not paying attention:
Student survivors are engaged in work beyond their own campuses. They’re organizing for prison and fossil fuel divestment, working in domestic violence shelters, and getting Title IX ed into middle and high schools. They’re using civil rights law on their campuses in order to imagine new ways of responding to violence outside of them (and all without relying on a violent and unjust prison system to do it). And they’re thinking critically about their own complicity in violence abroad, about how to amplify and support the work that others are doing in their communities around the world.
And besides: There is no "more important" or "less important" when it comes to people who are in danger of or survivors of sexual assault. All victims and survivors deserve help and care.
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MP Asks To See Unpublished Reports On Saudi Strikes In Yemen
Liberal Democrat Tom Brake has tabled a question in parliament following a select committee report into Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign in Yemen.
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(Left) Protesters in Tehran following executions in Saudi Arabia on 3 January 2016 and (right) Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr lies wounded in the back of a police car, following his arrest on 8 July, 2012.
A Liberal Democrat MP, Tom Brake, has tabled a question in parliament asking for the foreign secretary to make public reports his department has received from the Saudi Arabian military regarding the Saudi-led coalition's bombing campaign in Yemen.
The existence of the reports was revealed last week by Philip Dunne, the minister for defence procurement, at the committee on arms exports controls. He said that officials based in Riyadh were receiving reports from the Saudi air force into its raids in Yemen.
Brake's question was tabled the day after the international development select committee published a report concluding that government's claim that Saudi Arabia's campaign has not breached international humanitarian law was "deeply disappointing".
David Cameron's governments have overseen the sale of over £5.6 billion of military licences to Saudi Arabia since 2010, according to research published by Campaign Against Arms Trade. The UK's support for the kingdom has generated overwhelming criticism from campaigners, who accuse them of breaking international law.
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Brake told BuzzFeed News: "After months of evasion, the government is finally opening up about their role in Saudi Arabia's brutal bombing campaign in Yemen, which has been accused of severe breeches of humanitarian law.
"It is clear now they have access to Saudi reports on each strike, and I believe these reports should be fully published. The government has so far claimed they have not breached human rights law by providing arms to Saudi Arabia, and if this is the case they have nothing to hide. For full the sake of full transparency, publishing these documents is clearly the right thing to do."
The foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, has thus far faced down calls for an independent report into the Saudi-led coalition's bombing campaign, despite criticism from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, aka Doctors Without Borders) after a number of the charity's health facilities came under attack from Saudi-led airstrikes and claims from the UN that civilians have been targeted.
Quite apart from these allegations, there is a growing humanitatrian crisis in Yemen due to the bombing – a recent Unicef report has claimed 320,000 children are at risk of severe acute malnutrition, and 1 million children are projected to suffer from moderate acute malnutrition.
Yesterday the international development committee said that Saudi Arabia's internal investigation into the bombing campaign was inadequate, conlcuding: "The failure to hold parties to the conflict to account for their actions appears to have contributed to an 'anything goes' attitude by both sides to this conflict."
Alan White is a news editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
Contact Alan White at alan.white@buzzfeed.com.
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IndieBound Indie Next book lists
IndieBound compiles their monthly Indie Next List from independent bookseller-recommended favorites.
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills” bag. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father’s junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
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Don’t Skip Out on Me
Willy Vlautin
From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He’s spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace can’t shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents. He decides to leave the only loving home he’s known to prove his worth by training to become a boxer. Mr. Reese is holding on to a way of life that is no longer sustainable. He’s a seventy-two-year-old rancher with a bad back. He’s not sure how he’ll keep things going without Horace but he knows the boy must find his own way. Coming down from the mountains of Nevada to the unforgiving desert heat of Tucson, Horace finds a trainer and begins to get fights. His journey to become a champion brings him to boxing rings of Mexico and finally, to the seedy streets of Las Vegas, where Horace learns he can’t change who he is or outrun his destiny. Willy Vlautin writes from America’s soul, chronicling the lives of those who are downtrodden and forgotten with profound tenderness. Don’t Skip Out on Me is a beautiful, wrenching story about one man’s search for identity and belonging that will make you consider those around you differently.
Laura Lippman
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals—and cold-blooded murder. One is playing a long game. But which one? They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through. Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other—dangerous, even lethal, secrets. Then someone dies. Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other’s lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away—or even if they want to. Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them? Something—or someone—has to give. Which one will it be? Inspired by James M. Cain’s masterpieces The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, Sunburn is a tantalizing modern noir from the incomparable Laura Lippman.
Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney
My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
The Sea Beast Takes a Lover
Michael Andreasen
An astonishing fiction debut from a UC Irvine MFA graduate and recent contributor to The New Yorker. Bewitching and playful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. Just because Jenny was born without a head doesn't mean she isn't still annoying to her older brother, and just because the Man of the Future's carefully planned extramarital affair ends in alien abduction and network fame doesn't mean he can't still pine for his absent wife. Romping through the fantastic with big-hearted ease, these stories cut to the core of what it means to navigate family, faith, and longing, whether in the form of a lovesick kraken slowly dragging a ship of sailors into the sea, a small town euthanizing its grandfathers in a time-honored ritual, or a third-grade field trip learning that time travel is even more wondrous--and more perilous--than they might imagine. Andreasen's stories are simultaneously daring and deeply familiar, unfolding in wildly inventive worlds that convey our common yearning for connection and understanding. With a captivating new voice from an incredible author, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover uses the supernatural and extraordinary to expose us at our most human.
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
For fans of A Man Called Ove and the novels of Adriana Trigiani, a charming, delightfully sexy, and bighearted novel starring Auntie Poldi, Sicily’s newest amateur sleuth An Auntie Poldi Adventure On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily, intending to while away the rest of her days with good wine, a view of the sea, and few visitors. But Sicily isn’t quite the tranquil island she thought it would be, and something always seems to get in the way of her relaxation. When her handsome young handyman goes missing—and is discovered murdered—she can’t help but ask questions. Soon there’s an investigation, a smoldering police inspector, a romantic entanglement, one false lead after another, a rooftop showdown, and finally, of course, Poldi herself, slightly tousled but still perfectly poised. This “masterly treat” (Times Literary Supplement) will transport you to the rocky shores of Torre Archirafi, to a Sicily full of quirky characters, scorching days, and velvety nights, alongside a protagonist who’s as fiery as the Sicilian sun.
Minrose Gwin
A few minutes after 9 p.m. on Palm Sunday, April 5, 1936, a massive funnel cloud flashing a giant fireball and roaring like a runaway train careened into the thriving cotton-mill town of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing more than 200 people, not counting an unknown number of black citizens, one-third of Tupelo’s population, who were not included in the official casualty figures. When the tornado hits, Dovey, a local laundress, is flung by the terrifying winds into a nearby lake. Bruised and nearly drowned, she makes her way across Tupelo to find her small family—her hardworking husband, Virgil, her clever sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Dreama, and Promise, Dreama’s beautiful light-skinned three-month-old son. Slowly navigating the broken streets of Tupelo, Dovey stops at the house of the despised McNabb family. Inside, she discovers that the tornado has spared no one, including Jo, the McNabbs’ dutiful teenage daughter, who has suffered a terrible head wound. When Jo later discovers a baby in the wreckage, she is certain that she’s found her baby brother, Tommy, and vows to protect him. During the harrowing hours and days of the chaos that follows, Jo and Dovey will struggle to navigate a landscape of disaster and to battle both the demons and the history that link and haunt them. Drawing on historical events, Minrose Gwin beautifully imagines natural and human destruction in the deep South of the 1930s through the experiences of two remarkable women whose lives are indelibly connected by forces beyond their control. A story of loss, hope, despair, grit, courage, and race, Promise reminds us of the transformative power and promise that come from confronting our most troubled relations with one another.
Matt Young
"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner)--a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq, where the testosterone, danger, and stakes for him and his fellow grunts were dialed up a dozen decibels. With its kaleidoscopic array of literary forms, from interior dialogues to infographics to prose passages that read like poetry, Young's narrative powerfully mirrors the multifaceted nature of his experience. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front lines, and the true, if often misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war. Searing in its honesty, tender in its vulnerability, and brilliantly written, Eat the Apple is a modern war classic in the making and a powerful coming-of-age story that maps the insane geography of our times.
Rosie Colored Glasses
Brianna Wolfson
SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH ROSIE COLORED GLASSES Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosie’s daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willow’s bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosie’s divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosie’s behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed. Rex had removed his Rosie colored glasses long ago, but will Willow do the same? Whimsical, heartbreaking and uplifting, this is a novel about the many ways love can find you. Rosie Colored Glasses triumphs with the most endearing examples of how mothers and fathers and sons and daughters bend for one another.
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
Nova Jacobs
The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down—and protect—before others can get their hands on it. Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives a letter from him by mail. In it, Isaac alludes to a secretive organization that is after his final bombshell equation, and he charges Hazel with safely delivering it to a trusted colleague. But first, she must find where the equation is hidden. While in Los Angeles for Isaac’s funeral, Hazel realizes she’s not the only one searching for his life’s work, and that the equation’s implications have potentially disastrous consequences for the extended Severy family, a group of dysfunctional geniuses unmoored by the sudden death of their patriarch. As agents of an enigmatic company shadow Isaac’s favorite son—a theoretical physicist—and a long-lost cousin mysteriously reappears in Los Angeles, the equation slips further from Hazel’s grasp. She must unravel a series of maddening clues hidden by Isaac inside one of her favorite novels, drawing her ever closer to his mathematical treasure. But when her efforts fall short, she is forced to enlist the help of those with questionable motives.
Registers of Illuminated Villages
Tarfia Faizullah
Somebody is always singing. Songs were not allowed. Mother said, Dance and the bells will sing with you. I slithered. Glass beneath my feet. I locked the door. I did not die. I shaved my head. Until the horns I knew were there were visible. Until the doorknob went silent. —from “100 Bells” Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullah’s highly anticipated second collection, following her award-winning debut, Seam. Faizullah’s new work extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices—elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory. One poem steps down the page like a Slinky; another poem responds to makeup homework completed in the summer of a childhood accident; other poems punctuate the collection with dark meditations on dissociation, discipline, defiance, and destiny; and the near-title poem, “Register of Eliminated Villages,” suggests illuminated texts, one a Qur’an in which the speaker’s name might be found, and the other a register of 397 villages destroyed in northern Iraq. Faizullah is an essential new poet whose work only grows more urgent, beautiful, and—even in its unsparing brutality—full of love.
Speak No Evil
Uzodinma Iweala
In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences. On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer—an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders—and the one person who seems not to judge him. When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed. In the tradition of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Speak No Evil explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. It is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people. As heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala’s second novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake.
The Hush
The only writer in history to win consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel, New York Times bestselling author John Hart returns to the world of his most beloved novel, The Last Child Building on the world first seen in The Last Child (“A magnificent creation” —The Washington Post), John Hart delivers a stunning vision of a secret world, rarely seen. It’s been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon’s life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his exploits; the fascination remains. Living alone on six thousand acres of once-sacred land, Johnny’s only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. They’re not boys anymore, but the bonds remain. What they shared. What they lost. But Jack sees danger in the wild places Johnny calls home; he senses darkness and hunger, an intractable intent. Johnny will discuss none of it, but there are the things he knows, the things he can do. A lesser friend might accept such abilities as a gift, but Jack has felt what moves in the swamp: the cold of it, the unspeakable fear. More than an exploration of friendship, persistence, and forgotten power, The Hush leaves all categories behind, and cements Hart's status as a writer of unique power.
A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son. Traveling into the country, through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet, the man and his son encounter a wide range of human experience. While some townspeople welcome them into their homes, others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. When they press toward the edges of civilization, the landscape grows wilder, and the towns grow farther apart and more blighted by industrial decay. As they approach “Z,” the man must confront a series of questions: What is the purpose of the census? Is he complicit in its mission? And just how will he learn to say good-bye to his son? Mysterious and evocative, Census is a novel about free will, grief, the power of memory, and the ferocity of parental love, from one of our most captivating young writers.
Some Hell
Patrick Nathan
A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide Middle school hasn’t been going well for Colin. His teenage sister teases him mercilessly, his autistic brother lashes out at him, and he has a crush on his best friend, Andy. But after the tragic night when his father commits suicide, none of that matters. Diane, his mother, seeks solace in therapy. Colin is awash in guilt, and casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather, then a predatory science teacher. But nothing helps as much as the strange writing his father kept in a series of notebooks locked in his study. Colin looks for answers there—in fragments about disaster scenarios, the violence of snow, mustangs running wild in the west—but instead finds the writing infecting his worldview. Diane, meanwhile, has a miserable fling with a co-worker, and leans more heavily on Colin for support as things go from bad to worse. But spring is unfolding, and a road trip to Los Angeles gives them a tantalizing glimpse of what the future might hold. In Some Hell, a debut novel of devastating intensity and aching, pointillistic detail, Patrick Nathan shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.
Tomb Song
Julián Herbert
An incandescent new voice from Mexico, for readers of Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, the narrator of Tomb Song is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. His mother, Guadalupe, was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood with his half brothers and sisters, each from a different father, moving from city to city and from one tough neighborhood to the next. Swinging from the present to the past and back again, Tomb Song is not only an affecting coming-of-age story but also a searching and sometimes frenetic portrait of the artist. As he wanders the hospital, from its buzzing upper floors to the haunted depths of the morgue, Julián tells fevered stories of his life as a writer, from a trip with his pregnant wife to a poetry festival in Berlin to a drug-fueled and possibly completely imagined trip to another festival in Cuba. Throughout, he portrays the margins of Mexican society as well as the attitudes, prejudices, contradictions, and occasionally absurd history of a country ravaged by corruption, violence, and dysfunction. Inhabiting the fertile ground between fiction, memoir, and essay, Tomb Song is an electric prose performance, a kaleidoscopic, tender, and often darkly funny exploration of sex, love, and death. Julián Herbert’s English-language debut establishes him as one of the most audacious voices in contemporary letters.
I Found My Tribe
Ruth Fitzmaurice
A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk and When Breath Becomes Air. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband Simon who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other "tribe" are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water, just for kicks. The Tragic Wives' Swimming Club, as they jokingly call themselves, meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way, not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon. Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as Ruth fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husband. As she tells the story of their marriage, from diagnosis to their long-standing precarious situation, Ruth also charts her passion for swimming in the wild Irish Sea--culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary. An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, family, friends, the natural world, and the brightness of life.
The Woman’s Hour
Elaine Weiss
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as well as those seeking the roots of current political fault lines--would be well-served by picking up The Woman's Hour." --Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Figures Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
A Long Way From Home
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece; a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, then takes you to another place altogether. Set in the 1950s in the embers of the British Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this brilliantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history - and the love made and hurt caused along the way.
The Line Becomes a River
Francisco Cantú
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there. Plagued by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the whole story. Searing and unforgettable, The Line Becomes a River makes urgent and personal the violence our border wreaks on both sides of the line.
The Great Alone
Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources. But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves. In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska—a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.
How to Stop Time
“The first rule is that you don’t fall in love,’ he said… ‘There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. If you stick to this you will just about be okay.'" “A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel.” —The Washington Post Named one of the most anticipated books of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, HelloGiggles, and Bustle. Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward--with hope and pain--into the future.
Everything Here Is Beautiful
Mira T. Lee
A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak Two sisters—Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister’s protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. But Lucia impetuously plows ahead, marrying a bighearted, older man only to leave him, suddenly, to have a baby with a young Latino immigrant. She moves her new family from the States to Ecuador and back again, but the bitter constant is that she is, in fact, mentally ill. Lucia lives life on a grand scale, until, inevitably, she crashes to earth. Miranda leaves her own self-contained life in Switzerland to rescue her sister again—but only Lucia can decide whether she wants to be saved. The bonds of sisterly devotion stretch across oceans—but what does it take to break them? Told in alternating points of view, Everything Here Is Beautiful is, at its heart, the story of a young woman’s quest to find fulfillment and a life unconstrained by her illness. But it’s also an unforgettable, gut-wrenching story of the sacrifices we make to truly love someone—and when loyalty to one’s self must prevail over all.
Maggie O'Farrell
An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's bestselling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking. We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her in the hospital for nearly a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a serial killer on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers. Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and a restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty and mysteries of life itself.
Only Killers and Thieves
Paul Howarth
Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel—a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia—reminiscent of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and the novels of Cormac McCarthy. An epic tale of revenge and survival, Only Killers and Thieves is a gripping and utterly transporting debut, bringing to vivid life a colonial Australia that bears a striking resemblance to the American Wild West in its formative years. It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy. Thirsting for vengeance against the man they believe has wronged them—their former Aboriginal stockman—the distraught brothers turn to the ruthless and cunning John Sullivan, the wealthiest landowner in the region and their father’s former employer. Sullivan gathers a posse led by the dangerous and fascinating Inspector Edmund Noone and his Queensland Native Police, an infamous arm of British colonial power charged with the "dispersal" of indigenous Australians to "protect" white settler rights. As they ride across the barren outback in pursuit, their harsh and horrifying journey will have a devastating impact on Tommy, tormenting him for the rest of his life—and will hold enduring consequences for a young country struggling to come into its own. Recreating a period of Australian and British history as evocative and violent as the American frontier era, Only Killers and Thieves is an unforgettable story of family, guilt, empire, race, manhood, and faith that combines the insightfulness of Philipp Meyer’s The Son, the atmospheric beauty of Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist, and the raw storytelling power of Ian McGuire’s The North Water.
Red Clocks
Leni Zumas
Five women. One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivør, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or "mender," who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt. RED CLOCKS is at once a riveting drama, whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy, and a shattering novel of ideas. In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Eileen Myles, Leni Zumas fearlessly explores the contours of female experience, evoking THE HANDMAID'S TALE for a new millennium. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous-even frightening-times.
Eternal Life: A Novel
Dara Horn
What would it really mean to live forever? Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she’s tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever. But as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren—consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering—develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out. Gripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, Eternal Life celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive.
In pursuit of a Russian sleeper cell on American soil, CIA analyst Vivian Miller uncovers a dangerous secret that will threaten her job, her family—and her life. On track for a much-needed promotion, she’s developed a system for identifying Russian agents, seemingly normal people living in plain sight. After accessing the computer of a potential Russian operative, Vivian stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within America’s borders. A few clicks later, everything that matters to her—her job, her husband, even her four children—is threatened. Vivian has vowed to defend her country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But now she’s facing impossible choices. Torn between loyalty and betrayal, allegiance and treason, love and suspicion, who can she trust? Film rights sold to Universal Pictures for Charlize Theron • Rights sold in more than 20 markets Advance praise for Need to Know “An early contender for next year’s Gone Girl.”—GQ (UK) “I raced through this gripping tale of domesticity and deceit. Karen Cleveland deliciously ratchets up the tension at every turn. You won’t be able to put it down until the final, stunning page!”—Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door “Perhaps there will be two or three readers out there who manage to finish the first chapter of this terrific debut and put it down for more than an hour. But they’ll be back. And they’ll devour Need to Know like the rest of us, skipping lunch, losing sleep, turning pages until the end, where we’re all left waiting for more.”—John Grisham, New York Times bestselling author of The Rooster Bar “Prediction: If you read chapter one, you’ll read chapter two. If you read chapter two, you’ll miss dinner, stay up far too late, and feel tired at work tomorrow. This is that kind of book. Superb.”—Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Line “The Russia page-turner that should be on everyone’s list.”—New York Post
Heart Berries
Terese Marie Mailhot
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father—an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist—who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. "Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot is an astounding memoir in essays. Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small... What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined." —Roxane Gay, author of Hunger
Akwaeke Emezi
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born “with one foot on the other side.” Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these alters—now protective, now hedonistic—move into control, Ada’s life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction. Narrated by the selves within Ada, and based in the author’s realities, Freshwater explores the metaphysics of identity and mental health, plunging the reader into the mystery of being and self. Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace, heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice.
Mothers of Sparta
Dawn Davies
If you’re looking for a parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother. This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger. Davies is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies and post-partum depression (after reading “Pie” you might never eat Thanksgiving dessert the same way). She is a divorcee who unexpectedly finds second love. She is a happily married suburban wife who nevertheless makes a mental list of all the men she would have slept with. And she is a parent who finds herself tested in ways she could never imagine. In stories that cut to the quick, Davies explores passion, loss, illness, pain, and joy, told from her singular, gimlet-eyed, hilarious perspective. Mothers of Sparta is not a blow-by-blow of Davies’ life but rather an examination of the exquisite and often painful moments of a life, the moments we look back on and say, That one, that one mattered. Straddling the fence between humor and, well...not humor, Davies has written a book about what it’s like to try to carve a place for oneself in the world, no matter how unyielding the rock can be.
In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
Tom Malmquist
A prize-winning, bestselling debut of love, loss, and family--based on a true story--that's winning readers around the world. When Tom's heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to the hospital, doctors are able to save the baby. But they are helpless to save Karin from what turns out to be acute Leukemia. And in a cruel, fleeting moment Tom gains a daughter but loses his soul-mate. In Every Moment We Are Alive is the story of the year that changes everything, as Tom must reconcile the fury and pain of loss with the overwhelming responsibility of raising his daughter, Livia, alone. By turns tragic and redemptive, meditative and breathless, achingly poignant and darkly funny, this autobiographical novel has been described as 'hypnotic', 'impossible to resist' and 'one of the most powerful books about grief ever written'.
The Unmade World
Steve Yarbrough
Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, The Unmade World is a thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that moves from Poland to California to the Hudson Valley and back to Poland. It covers a decade in the lives of an American journalist and a Polish small businessman turned petty criminal and the wrenching aftermath of an accidental, tragic encounter between these two on a snowy night in 2006 on the outskirts of Krakow. The accident costs the lives of the American journalist Richard Brennan’s wife and daughter, an event that colors the rest of his life. It also leads to a downward spiral for Bogdan Baranowsk, leaving emotional scars as he suffers the seemingly inevitable loss of his business, his home, and his wife. The Unmade World is a story of ordinary, otherwise decent people from various backgrounds and circumstances who must learn how to live with the personal grief, sense of guilt, and the emotional consequences of violence. Along the way, the novel grapples with a spectrum of cultural and political issues. It includes a murder mystery wrapped around the corruption of major college sports, the pressures on immigrants and refugees in both the US and Poland, the fallout of political change, economic upheavals and armed conflicts--including the horrific destruction of Luhansk, Ukraine in 2014. It also references the 2016 presidential campaign, cultural politics in the American university, and the demise of print journalism, etc., though never in a dogmatic or overtly partisan way.
The Mitford Murders
Jessica Fellowes
Set amid the legendary Mitford household, a thrilling Golden Age-style mystery, based on a real unsolved murder, by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey books. It's 1920, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy, an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But then a nurse—Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake—is killed on a train in broad daylight, and Louisa and Nancy find themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret... Based on an unsolved crime and written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey companion books, The Mitford Murders is the perfect new obsession for fans of classic murder mysteries.
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Denis Johnson
Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come. Advance praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden “Mesmerizing . . . psychologically revelatory, spiritually inquisitive, and grimly funny stories . . . Johnson will be remembered and revered as an incisive storyteller fluent in the comedy and tragedy of human confusion and the transcendence of compassion.”—Booklist (starred review) “American literature suffered a serious loss with Johnson’s death. These final stories underscore what we’ll miss. . . . Johnson is best known for his writing about hard-luck cases—alcoholics, thieves, world-weary soldiers. But this final collection ranges up and down the class ladder; for Johnson, a sense of mortality and a struggle to make sense of our lives knew no demographic boundaries.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “An instant classic . . . A masterpiece of deep humanity and astonishing prose . . . It’s filled with Johnson's unparalleled ability to inject humor, profundity, and beauty—often all three—into the dark and the mundane alike. These characters have been pushed toward the edge; through their searches for meaning or clawing just to hold on to life, Johnson is able to articulate what it means to be alive, and to have hope.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Force of Nature
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn’t come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder? “Force of Nature bristles with wit; it crackles with suspense; it radiates atmosphere. An astonishing book from an astonishing writer.” —A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window Select praise for The Dry: "One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read. Every word is near perfect. Read it!" —David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A breathless page-turner ... Ms. Harper has made her own major mark.” —The New York Times
This Will Be My Undoing
Morgan Jerkins
From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she has already established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be”—to live as, to exist as—a black woman today? This is a book about black women, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white, male-dominated world at large. Whether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory.
For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a love story inspired by "one of the most intriguing relationships in history"*--between Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok. Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as "first friend" is an open secret, as are FDR's own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life. From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan's Washington Square, Amy Bloom's new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity. Advance praise for White Houses "Amy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my breath away."--Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife "A novel of the secret, scandalous love of Eleanor Roosevelt and her longtime friend and companion Lorena Hickok, who relates the tale in her own, quite wonderful voice."--Joyce Carol Oates "Lorena Hickok is a woman who found love with another lost soul, Eleanor Roosevelt. And love is what this book is all about: It suffuses every page, so that by the time you reach the end, you are simply stunned by the beauty of the world these two carved out for themselves."--Melanie Benjamin, author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue*
The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a “great new talent.” If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . . Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems. Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock.
The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
Now a New York Times top-ten bestseller. 'A fiendishly clever thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. This one will keep you guessing.' - Anita Shreve, author of The Stars are Fire When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. It’s about a jealous wife, obsessed with her replacement. It’s about a younger woman set to marry the man she loves. The first wife seems like a disaster; her replacement is the perfect woman. You will assume you know the motives, the history, the anatomy of the relationships. You will be wrong. The Wife Between Us is the first collaboration between Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen; a gripping thriller with film rights sold to the creators of The Girl On the Train.
Grist Mill Road
Christopher J. Yates
The highly anticipated new novel from the author whose debut was called “The smart summer thriller you’ve been waiting for...The novel you should be reading tonight” (NPR’s All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the Year by NPR and an Entertainment Weekly Must-List Pick Christopher J. Yates’s cult hit Black Chalk introduced that rare writerly talent: a literary writer who could write a plot with the intricacy of a brilliant mental puzzle, and with characters so absorbing that readers are immediately gripped. Yates’s new book does not disappoint. Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends—Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah—are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again—with even more devastating results.
Neon in Daylight
Hermione Hoby
Three lives collide in New York City in the summer of 2012. An exhilarating debut novel that announces the arrival of a writer who "channels the spirit of Joan Didion and the keen observational eye of Ben Lerner to show us the here and now" (Alexandra Kleeman).
The Job of the Wasp
Fire Sermon
Jamie Quatro
Now, with her debut novel, Fire Sermon, Quatro delivers a startlingly original portrait of an obsession and the complexities of a marriage. Married twenty years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children, Maggie is drawn ineluctably into a passionate affair while still fiercely committed to her husband and family. What begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between writer Maggie and poet James, gradually transforms into an emotional and erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie’s sense of loyalty and morality, drawing her deeper into the darkness of desire. Using an array of narrative techniques and written in spare, elegant prose, Jamie Quatro gives us a compelling account of one woman’s emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual yearnings—unveiling the impulses and contradictions that reside in us all. Fire Sermon is an unflinchingly honest and formally daring debut novel from a writer of enormous talent.
The Afterlives
Thomas Pierce
“Ridiculously good” (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out). Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what--if anything--awaits us on the other side. Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, Annie, find themselves tangling with holograms, psychics, messages from the beyond, and a machine that connects the living and the dead. As Jim and Annie journey through history and fumble through faith, they confront the specter of loss that looms for anyone who dares to fall in love. Funny, fiercely original, and gracefully moving, The Afterlives will haunt you. In a good way.
William A. Noguera
William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation’s largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor’s edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture. After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and was thrown into a rat-infested cell—it was there that he discovered the key to his escape: art. Over the next three decades, Noguera rebelled against conventional prison behavior, and instead forged the code he lives by today—accepting responsibility for his actions, and a self-imposed discipline of rehabilitation. In the process, he has explored his capacity to bring focus and clarity to his artistic vision. Escape Artist exposes the violence, politics and everyday existence within the underbelly of society that is prison life. In an unprecedented narrative, Noguera reveals the emotional and heart-wrenching loss that landed him on death row and the journey he has taken to become an award-winning artist, speaker, and author—a tale of one man’s transformation through tragedy.
The Chalk Man
A riveting and brilliantly plotted psychological suspense, this razor-sharp debut will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending. In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing will ever be the same. In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out his other friends got the same messages, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead. That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago. Expertly alternating between flashbacks and the present day, The Chalk Man is the very best kind of suspense novel, one where every character is wonderfully fleshed out and compelling, where every mystery has a satisfying payoff, and where the twists will shock even the savviest reader.
A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world. When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest – not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.) If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests... A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do. Warning: May contain nuts. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
This Could Hurt
Jillian Medoff
A razor-sharp and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives—a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up in the Air, and Then We Came to the End that captures the emotional complexities of five HR colleagues trying to balance ambition, hope, and fear as their small company is buffeted by economic forces that threaten to upend them. Rosa Guerrero beat the odds as she rose to the top of the corporate world. An attractive woman of a certain age, the longtime chief of human resources at Ellery Consumer Research is still a formidable presence, even if her most vital days are behind her. A leader who wields power with grace and discretion, she has earned the devotion and loyalty of her staff. No one admires Rosa more than her doting lieutenant Leo Smalls, a benefits vice president whose whole world is Ellery. While Rosa is consumed with trying to address the needs of her staff within the ever-constricting limits of the company’s bottom line, her associate director, Rob Hirsch, a middle-aged, happily married father of two, finds himself drawing closer to his "work wife," Lucy Bender, an enterprising single woman searching for something—a romance, a promotion—to fill the vacuum in her personal life. For Kenny Verville, a senior manager with an MBA, Ellery is a temporary stepping-stone to bigger and better places—that is, if his high-powered wife has her way. Compelling, flawed, and heartbreakingly human, these men and women scheme, fall in and out of love, and nurture dreams big and small. As their individual circumstances shift, one thing remains constant—Rosa, the sun around whom they all orbit. When her world begins to crumble, the implications for everyone are profound, and Leo, Rob, Lucy, and Kenny find themselves changed in ways beyond their reckoning. Jillian Medoff explores the inner workings of an American company in all its brilliant, insane, comforting, and terrifying glory. Authentic, razor-sharp, and achingly funny, This Could Hurt is a novel about work, loneliness, love, and loyalty; about sudden reversals and unexpected windfalls; a novel about life.
Sam Graham-Felsen
A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator. "A fierce and brilliant book, comic, poignant, perfectly observed, and blazing with all the urgent fears and longings of adolescence."--Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school--which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely--he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody's more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Mar's a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Dave's own gentrifying block, and he confounds Dave's assumptions about black culture: He's nerdy and neurotic, a Celtics obsessive whose favorite player is the gawky, white Larry Bird. Before long, Mar's coming over to Dave's house every afternoon to watch vintage basketball tapes and plot their hustle to Harvard. But as Dave welcomes his new best friend into his world, he realizes how little he knows about Mar's. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks he's been given--and that Mar has not. Infectiously funny about the highs and lows of adolescence, and sharply honest in the face of injustice, Sam Graham-Felsen's debut is a wildly original take on the American dream. Advance praise for Green "Superb . . . a memorable first novel . . . [Green is replete with] wonderful characters, fully realized and multidimensional."--Booklist (starred review) "[Green] poignantly captures the tumultuous feelings of adolescence against the historical backdrop of a racially segregated city and country."--Library Journal (Editors' Fall Pick) "[A] subtly humorous, surprisingly touching coming-of-age narrative . . . a memorable and moving portrayal of a complicated but deep friendship that just might survive the weight placed on it."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Sujata Massey
1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric new historical mystery with a captivating heroine. Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India’s first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth. Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women’s legal rights especially important to her. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn’t even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women’s quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.
"When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, and motherhood--and the American debut of an immensely talented writer"--
Beneath the Mountain
In Luca D’Andrea’s atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years. New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a reality show about roadies that skyrocketed them to fame. But now Salinger’s left that all behind, to move with his wife, Annelise, and young daughter, Clara, to the remote part of Italy where Annelise grew up—the Alto Adige. Nestled in the Dolomites, this breathtaking, rural region that was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire remains more Austro than Italian. Locals speak a strange, ancient dialect—Ladino—and root for Germany (against Italy) in the world cup. Annelise’s small town—Siebenhoch—is close-knit to say the least and does not take kindly to out-of-towners. When Salinger decides to make a documentary about the mountain rescue group, the mission goes horribly awry, leaving him the only survivor. He blames himself, and so—it seems—does everyone else in Siebenhoch. Spiraling into a deep depression, he begins having terrible, recurrent nightmares. Only his little girl Clara can put a smile on his face. But when he takes Clara to the Bletterbach Gorge—a canyon rich in fossil remains—he accidentally overhears a conversation that gives his life renewed focus. In 1985, three students were murdered there, their bodies savaged, limbs severed and strewn by a killer who was never found. Although Salinger knows this is a tightlipped community, one where he is definitely persona non grata, he becomes obsessed with solving this mystery and is convinced it is all that can keep him sane. And as Salinger unearths the long kept secrets of this small town, one by one, the terrifying truth is eventually revealed about the horrifying crime that marked an entire village. Completely engrossing and deeply atmospheric, Beneath The Mountain is a thriller par excellence. “Can be compared (with no fear of hyperbole) to Stephen King and Jo Nesbø.”—La Repubblica
Two Girls Down
Louisa Luna
As addictive, cinematic, and binge-worthy a narrative as The Wire and The Killing, Two Girls Down introduces Louisa Luna as a thriller writer of immense talent and verve. When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemic, Vega enlists the help of a disgraced former cop, Max Caplan. Cap is a man trying to put the scandal of his past behind him and move on, but Vega needs his help to find the girls, and she will not be denied. With little to go on, Vega and Cap will go to extraordinary lengths to untangle a dangerous web of lies, false leads, and complex relationships to find the girls before time runs out, and they are gone forever.
The Wolves of Winter
Tyrell Johnson
Station Eleven meets The Hunger Games in this ruthless, captivating story of a young woman’s survival in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon after the rest of the world has collapsed. As the old world dies, we all must choose to become predators. Or become prey. The old world has been ravaged by war and disease, and as far as Lynn McBride is concerned, her family could be the last one left on earth. For seven years, the McBrides have eked out a meagre existence in the still, white wilderness of the Yukon. But this is not living. This is survival on the brink. Into this fragile community walk new threats, including the enigmatic fugitive, Jax, who holds secrets about the past and, possibly, keys to a better future. And then there’s Immunity, the pre‑war organization that was supposed to save humankind from the flu. They’re still out there, enforcing order and conducting experiments—but is their work for the good of humankind or is something much more sinister at play? In the face of almost certain extinction, Lynn and her family must learn to hunt as a pack or die alone in the cold. Breakout debut novelist Tyrell Johnson weaves a captivating tale of humanity stretched far beyond its breaking point, of family and the bonds of love forged when everything else is lost. Reminiscent of Station Eleven and The Hunger Games, this is a classic and enthralling post‑apocalyptic adventure and a celebration of the human spirit.
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet’s final frontier? There wouldn’t be another encounter with an unknown this magnificent until Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. Everyone wanted in on the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken along as mess boys, and newspapers across the globe covered the planning’s every stage. And then, the night before the expedition’s flagship set off, Billy Gawronski—a mischievous, first-generation New York City high schooler desperate to escape a dreary future in the family upholstery business—jumped into the Hudson River and snuck aboard. Could he get away with it? From the soda shops of New York’s Lower East Side to the dance halls of sultry Francophone Tahiti, all the way to Antarctica’s blinding white and deadly freeze, Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Stowaway takes you on the unforgettable voyage of a plucky young stowaway who became a Jazz Age celebrity, a mascot for an up-by-your bootstraps era.
Heart Spring Mountain
Robin MacArthur
In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a devastating storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret It’s August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away—while tending bar in New Orleans—Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to look for her. Though the hometown Vale comes back to is not the one she left eight years earlier, she finds herself falling back into the lives of the family she thought she’d long since left behind. As Vale begins her search, the narrative opens up and pitches back and forth in time to follow three generations of women—a farming widow, a back-to-the-land dreamer, and an owl-loving hermit—as they seek love, bear children, and absorb losses. All the while, Vale’s search has her unwittingly careening toward a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined. Written with a striking sense of place, Heart Spring Mountain is an arresting novel about returning home, finding hope in the dark, and of the power of the land—and the stories it harbors—to connect and to heal. It’s also an absorbing exploration of the small fractures that can make families break-and the lasting ties that bind them together.
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Episode 2: Peter Kelly Detwiler - Exploring the relationship between campus energy systems and the local utility provider
February 28, 2017 by David Karlsgodt in Co-generation, Utilities
Peter Kelly Detwiler
Guest: Peter Kelly Detwiler
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This episode was recorded by my friend and podcast collaborator Jason Delambre. Jason is a carbon & energy consultant based in Lexington Kentucky who assists utilities, cities, universities and organizations with sustainability-related projects and goals. Jason recorded this interview in early February 2017 with Boston-based energy consultant Peter Kelly Detwiler. In this interview, Jason and Peter explore the relationship between campus energy systems and the local utility provider, including the impact of demand-side management, peak demand charges and how utilities recoup their capital investments, the impact of co-generation, and the rapid rate of change in how energy is delivered to campuses.
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Dave Karlsgodt 0:03
Welcome to the campus energy and sustainability podcast. In each episode, we will talk with leading campus professionals thought leaders, engineers and innovators addressing the unique challenges and opportunities facing higher ed corporate campuses. Our discussions will range from energy conservation and efficiency, the planning and finance, for building science to social science, from energy systems to food systems. We hope you are ready to learn, share and ultimately accelerate your institution towards solutions. I'm your host, Dave Karlsgodt. I'm a principal at Fovea, an energy, carbon and business planning. Today's show was recorded by my friend and podcast collaborator Jason Delambre. Jason is a carbon and energy consultant based in Lexington, Kentucky. Jason assists utilities, cities, universities and organizations with sustainability related projects and goals. Jason recorded this interview in early February 2017 with Boston-based energy consultant Peter Kelly Detwiler. In this interview, Jason and Peter explore the relationship between campus energy systems and the local utility provider, including the impact of demand side management, peak demand charges, how utilities recoup their capital investments, the impact of co-generation and the rapid rate of change and how energy is delivered to campuses. I hope you enjoy Episode Two of the campus and sustainability podcast.
Jason Delambre 1:28
Peter Kelly Detwiler is an energy consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts, Peter has worked in the energy sector for over 30 years, and been integral to the development of innovative demand side management programs throughout the country. Today, Peter writes energy articles for Forbes, travels the country advising clients on energy procurement, and management practices, and even finds time for the occasional early early morning fishing trip. Peter, welcome to the show.
Peter Kelly Detwiler 1:52
Thank you, Jason.
I really appreciate you taking the time out of your day to talk with us, Peter, we plan to talk a lot about University sustainability on this show. And I've got four questions I'd like to kind of go through and we can kind of dig deeper as it comes up. So with that, let's jump in. And one of my big questions for you is with the rapidly modernizing national and local campus grids, what roles are you seeing demand side management play in between utilities and campuses going forward?
So campuses and universities and colleges represent significant portions of electricity load for a lot of utilities, they can certainly represent 510, 15 or more megawatts in many cases. And so that's, that's a significant portion of utility loads in many jurisdictions of the country. So what we're seeing is, as utilities begin to focus more on integrating the customer in the planning conversation, particularly in certain markets, where there's a real equality now on what's happening on the demand side with a supply side and a focus on making the entire grid more efficient. We're seeing that colleges and universities are being increasingly treated as partners in that conversation. That is, they're invited to become involved in that dialogue in terms of how and when they use electricity. And what does that look like in terms of the context of the economics of the power grid?
Okay, that's great. How are you seeing these opportunities playing out? And what do you seen it as a benefit to the regional grid beyond the campuses borders?
So the first thing is, let's talk about the grid in the beginning. One of them was critical things to understand about the power grid is that it's designed for reliability, it is designed for the maximum hour of peak demand that could possibly be needed. Since we're rolling into Super Bowl season of this week. Oh, yeah, my team happens to be in that again, huh? Anyway, one of the things that I experienced when I worked with the Massachusetts Water Resources authority, probably 10 years ago, when I was discussing demand response with them, as they said to me, do you know when our peak demand is that we have to plan our pipes and our and our whole treatment plan for? And I said, No. And they said, halftime for a really close Super Bowl in which the Patriots are playing. And I said, because everybody's running to the toilets, right? And they said, Absolutely. And in Germany, or sorry, England, there's a classic thing called the steam capital curve, where during a game between Germany and the UK World Cup game, during halftime, the grid peaks, because everybody's running to turn on tea, that same thing wouldn't happen here. Because we don't drink tea, we go to the fridge and grab a beer. But, but essentially, you have to think about sizing for your peak. So in the United States, the hundred hours of peak demand of the 8760 hours of annual demand on our peak, the highest 100 hours, we spend approximately 8% of our total infrastructure costs to meet those last 100 hours. So we can push down that curve. And all those last one hundred hours are highest 100 hours, we can save almost one 12th of our capital costs. So how does that involve the utility? How does it involve every customer on the grid? Well, if they are one of the contributors to that peak demand during those hundred hours. And there are ways of shaping that peak shifting at peak other periods or eliminating it through energy efficiency, through generation on site through other means, like that demand response, etc. Those savings are available to be recouped and paid among the various participants. So one of the things we all focus on as grid planners is how we look at those maximum hours of peak demand and find ways to eliminate them.
Okay. And also this infrastructure you're describing as an aging infrastructure, where a lot of that capital is going to have to be reinvested eventually anyway. So you're saying that universities can have a role and how and that infrastructure is built and dispatched?
Yeah, the American Society of Civil Engineers indicates that we are under investing on an annual basis by 10s of billions of dollars in the grid. If you look at the grid, there are many pieces on the grid transformers and whatnot that are older than I am, which is scandalous, because I'm closing in on 57. So that's pretty bad stuff. So there's a lot of capital investment that has to be made in the relatively near future. And some of those capital investments can be avoided or deferred, if we find ways to become more efficient in our power consumption. And again, particularly reducing peak demand during periods of stress on the grid, which means there are payments that are available, or financial opportunities. So if you look at a typical utility, and almost or college university, any utility in the country, they pay a power bill, and they need to understand the contextual elements of that bill. So the first thing they pay for, or the raw kilowatt hours, somebody somewhere is sending electrons across the grid. And the college university is consuming those electrons, those kilowatt hours energy. So you can reduce the cost of the energy. But you can also, you're also charged based upon what's your period of maximum peak demand during each month, because the utility says, Oh, we emphasize our wires and poles infrastructure to serve you. So the first thing you'll look at is, what is your demand charge on the bill, and in some places in Kentucky, California, New York, markets like that the demand charge, that period of your peak demand for the month that may represent as much as 40 or 45%, of your overall costs. So the first thing you want to look at is what am i spiking in my demand? And what can I do about it? And then you look at how can I reduce my overall kilowatt hour consumption as well, the raw electrons. And if you start to really understand the bill, and the logic of that cost structure that you inhabit, as a college or university, that's where you first started, like learning a language, except it's a lot simpler. But you really need to understand one of the dynamics of that power bill, in order to make sense out of it and know where to focus your energies.
Okay, that's really interesting. And I've heard a little bit that, with this older infrastructure in place that has already been paid off that a lot of states and universities are benefiting from a reduced rate because they're not having to pay that capital return on investment, because these are capital investments have been paid off, I assume, with new infrastructure being planned, that could have an impact on rates going forward beyond just fuel charges and things like that.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of utilities, even though the infrastructure is paid off, they're now thinking about what are those replacement costs, and they need to have the capital in place to to pay for that. And so all things being equal, because of that under investment today, we're likely to see rates rise. As we do, then the question again, becomes, are we going to spend that money and additional physical infrastructure? Or can we make that capital available in the form of savings to the consumers, the colleges and universities and other players, I might also add that in this period, we are undergoing a rapid evolution and some say a revolution of the power grid, where you see solar and electric vehicles and stationary energy storage and other technologies like Smart Lighting, which can reduce the consumption of a light bulb by 75%. There's always new technologies coming onto the grid at the same time, that these massive long term infrastructural investments have to be made. And one of the fears, and I think it's a legitimate fear of the utilities is they make these investments for an infrastructure for demand. And then nobody ends up showing up to the party because the demand simply does not materialize as we infuse is more it into the grid, and we become more efficient at how we use electricity. So let's take an extreme example of one level of demand that's going to be reduced dramatically in the years to come. Nighttime LED lighting, street lighting, right now we light up our roads all night long, from sun set to sunrise, the same illumination all night long, in most places, but not in Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Copenhagen. When the midnight comes along, or one or two in the morning, the lights dim because there are fewer people who need them, that's fewer kilowatt hours being consumed across the system. In a place like Sweden, when you driving a car down the road in the middle of the night, and no one else is on the road, the roads dark except for you. And the road lights up ahead of you, the LED lights have sensors in them in anticipate your speed, you know how fast you're moving down the road. And that use directed electron moves ahead of you down the road. So now, you might only be using two or 3% energy that was used otherwise during the nighttime. So that changes the ability of the utility to recoup revenues because they're not selling the electrons anymore. So again, one of these concerns is in this new world, where there's all these new technologies and ways of thinking about electricity, there's a hesitance, dare I say fear to make these large capital investments, when we don't really know what this world's going to look like in five or 10 years, which, in the old days, five or 10 years, everybody was fairly confident it would look the same nowadays, five or 10 years is hugely different. Five years ago, solar was almost nothing. Now, there's 1.2 million households in this country with solar on them. And the next thing is going to be batteries. And there's already a half a million electric vehicles. Five years is a long time in today's world, and it wasn't 20 years ago.
Jason Delambre 11:49
Well, that's, that's fascinating. And as you've hinted at, and as I've read before, you know, our previous 1940s, 1950s 1960s utilities, we're built around baseload and then having speakers, natural gas speakers and other types of peaking devices to meet that those peaks that you're talking about. But we seem to be suggesting now is, that's kind of going out the window, especially with fracking and natural gas, already changing the paradigm of peaking and natural gas as a baseload power, it just seems like that's going to speed up and escalate from what you're saying right now.
Peter Kelly Detwiler 12:23
Yeah, so there's a lot of dynamics that are unclear how they're going to evolve. One thing we know is that baseload energy consumption, which is principally the domain of industries that run three shifts, that actually is going over to China, we've lost our manufacturing load in this country. So at the same time, we've migrated into more and more of a service economy, which is a daytime economy, which involves computers, and among all the things that involves it'll much more air conditioning. So we become a peak year economy, using more electricity periods of peak demand, then we used to be in the old days. So now the question is, how do we respond to that? How do we shape the grid differently? And what technologies can we bring to mitigate that increase picking at pickiness that we haven't seen before? So this what's what's interesting right now is because there were so many different dynamics, there's fracking, which is lowering the cost of natural gas. But there's LNG technology, which is increasing the demand of gas, there's solar panels, which bill by 30%, in just six months this year, battery storage, which was expected to decline by 50%, over five years, we believe the new batteries coming out of China next year, we're going to be 30% cheaper than they are this year. So there's, there's all these different trends that are slamming into each other with an amazing astonishing rapidity that just did not exist a decade ago, and how all these cards once they're thrown up into the air where they land, which ones are face up, which ones are faced down where the aces lie, nobody really knows how that's quite going to look. But there's, there's an attempt to create a new playing field where the right incentives are put in place for people to do the right things at the right time with the right technologies.
Circling back, that's great context, circling back to universities, if I'm a university facility director, and I'm sitting here with an aging infrastructure, maybe a central plant, I do have maybe some on site generation or at least backup potential. How am I taking advantage of some of these trends that you're seeing out there? How am I looking at them? How am I staging them? What am I looking at in the near term? What am I looking at further out?
that's a that's a good question. So first of all, whenever you're looking at this year, it's imperative to look at it again next year, you can't do a study and say, Okay, I know what the world looks like now put it on the shelf, and forget it. Because essentially, you just looked at a snapshot in a, and we're inhabiting a Motion Picture world with the frames accelerating. But let's say we start with that one frame, the first thing you do is you look at Okay, how am I consuming electricity? And again, in the context of the bill? What is my plant likely to look like in the future? You know, my student body would my demands that are likely to change? And then do I have infrastructure that's due for renewal for replacement, etc? What does that look like? And then the next question is, once I understand my cost structure, and my avoided cost, and what am I need to do, then it's a conversation with your utility, every university and college is large enough that they should be able to get the utility to sit across the table from them, because you consume millions of dollars of power a year, in most cases. So you're a significant enough consumer, that the utility is going to sit down and have the conversation in most cases, and many utilities have incentives for efficiency programs for demand response for interval interoperable, rates, etc. So the first thing you want to find out is, okay, what's available to me? There's one example from your neck of the woods, Glasgow, Kentucky, where the municipality was paying many 10s of percentage of 30 40% for the demand charge. And what did they do? They put batteries in all over behind the meter residential opportunities? Because they saw an ability to reduce costs in a way that made sense. That was their own little ecosystem, economic ecosystem, if you will. But every utility has an economic ecosystem where they know where their avoided costs are and what makes sense to invest in what doesn't, you as a college university have significant leverage, because you're a large consumer. So the question then is, how do I sit across the table from my representative and say, all right, what is available to be now? And what else might I be asking for from my utility? And it's a series of exploratory conversation to say, Look, I know what the rebates are right now out there. But what if I did this? What if I were able to do that? And pretty soon, you know, you might need a consultant, you might have someone on hand who can do it yourself. But if you know what you think your demand charges, your energy charges, your other charges in the bill are going to be then you can turn around you can look at Okay, does it make sense for me to put in solar storage is do I need steam is cogent an opportunity here? What where am I opportunities and alternatives. The good news right now is you are no longer a price taker, you're not a hostage to a cost situation, you cannot change with all the technologies out there, and all the developers and financial entities that are capable of stepping up to the plate and putting money behind these things. It's a completely different world than it was just a little while ago. But it does imply that you have to educate yourself and become an informed consumer.
Well, that's, that's wonderful. And it also sounds like universities could benefit instead of acting, just thinking as a customer maybe put themselves in the place of how the utility is seeing their larger grid and how as a large customer in that grid, they can, from their perspective, being easier customer to work with, thereby hopefully, getting lower rates or these other benefits. One formalized process.
So just just to You're right about that one thing is the most effective negotiators know what they look like from the other side of the table.
That's great. And then as a formal example of that, that's taking place in some higher rates, parts of the country that you have helped pioneer with your work at constellation energy is to demand side management or megawatt development of utility portfolios such as see power, or what internet is working with, to talk a little bit about. I know a lot of campuses out on the west coast and East Coast are taking advantage of some of these along with other industry and utilities. Can you talk about other colleges that should be looking at this at other parts of the country and and how these kinds of things work?
Sure. So demand response typically takes place in a competitive power market, or California, which isn't competitive, but a setup a similar sort of a structure. And what they do is they basically say in addition to the utility demand charge, which is your period of maximum demand, your particular facility, or whatever your meter is, they say, what's just as important for us is, what is your contribution to the hour when the system peak was reached, when everybody was contributing to the system peak. And then so that's your icap charge your installed capacity charge, or your demand charge. And so what companies like see power and internet do is say, we can offer you a demand response program, where let's say the cost of capacity is $50,000. a megawatt year will give you say, 80% of the value of that $40,000. In audio, if you can commit to shaving demand during periods when we call, you know, if that involves some facilities manager in college, and maybe 15 students running around turning lights and air conditioning off and that sort of thing. That's a fool's errand. The good news is today, with the instrumentation that's out there right now, and control systems, is an ability to automate this that didn't exist, just you know, five or 10 years ago, we found a constellation we built a platform called Virtual lot, which then migrated to see power after we bought them. And then they were spun off where customers could see their usage in real time. They could see prices in real time. And they could be curtailed automatically. And I don't know I can all the all the demand response providers now have similar capabilities, because it's absolutely critical that the grid can rely on those curtailment during periods of peak demand, and then customers get paid as consequence.
Yeah, that's wonderful. And I guess one good example, you mentioned Glasgow, Kentucky earlier. And I know you've done some research on that. They've pushed similar kind of programs out because of their relationship with TVA. And they've really tried to push it not only into large commercial, but also commercial and residential. Do you see some good parallels there that maybe universities could draw from, and looking at like a Glasgow situation?
I do. And again, it starts with what Glasgow did. And Billy Ray, I actually interviewed him for Forbes piece a couple years ago, before he enacted that program, and I was really impressed with he has what you see in innovators, which is they see the world and in a really clear way. And he knew exactly what his cost structures were any was very proactive and thinking about how to approach it. And you see this with some of you are more forward thinking colleges and universities that are on the cutting edge. So for example, UCSD out in San Diego University, California, San Diego, where they have a micro grid, other colleges, one of the things that you and I had a chance to work on Jason was the sustainability program for university where we looked at best cases around the country. And I would encourage folks listening to the podcast, to just google efficiency programs, universities, a code generation universities, micro grids, universities, demand response universities, and you'll get a really quick sense of who are some of the leaders in different spaces around the country. And that helps you not have to reinvent the wheel, because you can see what other people did, how they did it, what some of the pitfalls were, and a lot of the advantages. And with today's internet and the ability to email someone or pick up the phone and get that information, you can really short circuit, the learning curve that used to take so darn long, just a short period of time ago. So what Billy Ray did, you know, he put the batteries behind the meter, now we're starting to see universities in California, putting batteries out there, becoming involved with integrating electric vehicles on their campuses, those sorts of things, putting obviously a lot of solar behind the meter to mitigate their energy charges. And so again, there are a lot of technologies, which not only taken individually, but sometimes combined together like solar and storage together is is not just one plus one equals two, it's more like one plus one equals 2.5, because they complement each other in helping to reduce costs. So again, I would advise people, sometimes it's really helpful to get a consultant. But even before you do that, go online and do some basic research and four or five hours, you can inform yourself to the level where if you do hire a consultant, you can have a much more important conversation to be asking much more intelligent questions earlier in the game, then if you don't spend that initial time to understand the context.
Okay, yeah, that is that is all wonderful. So we're coming down to the the end of the 30 minutes here. And let me just ask you a kind of question to wrap this all together. Many people say that with the aging infrastructure, you've mentioned a little bit of that here of our utilities, as well is all of these new technologies coming on, and then also adapt patient issues around climate change, that universities really need to think about how redundancy and adaption to a changing and maybe volatile future would be coming down to them? Would you mind just sort of wrapping this all together into sort of single vision of what you think a university or college should be doing there should be looking at, and how they should be thinking of themselves in this larger world of energy?
Sure. So I start with a couple of premises. One is, universities are that shining city on the hill, and they've always meant to be that. So they're there, they should be exemplars of what society at large, should be thinking about. And they have traditionally had that role, which means a they they need to be leaders. And it's also cost effective for them and practical for them to be leaders because they're mitigating risk that they're otherwise exposed to. So microgrids on campuses where you have the ability to shut off the entire campus from the power grid, in the case of a hurricane sandy or some other outage. Some campuses are now doing that, obviously, the solar in the storage. Second thing, though, is these are unparalleled education opportunities, hands on education opportunities for students, and you put me in touch with somebody at University of Cincinnati, and I can't unfortunately, remember his name right now, who is doing some really amazing things on the campus with new technologies. When they were new, opportunities for upgrades, they got rid of a steam boiler, dirty boiler, for example, and put in a more efficient system. And they had students involved in the process. What's better for a kid coming out of college out of a masters or an undergrad degree than to be able to point to his curriculum, and say, I was involved in a hands on program, building a micro grid, replacing a boiler designing a solar system. One of the people that I work with right now, one of my assignments, I work with a software company, and the best employee in the entire company is probably this guy who graduated a few years ago. And he was responsible for putting solar on his campus up in Maine at College of the Atlantic. By the time we met him, he knew everything about inverters, DC, AC connections, the economics how to size that thing, because he was a practitioner at the ground level, he was unbelievable. And he came straight out of college. These are the kinds of opportunities that not only can we But should we it's an obligation for us to be training the workforce of the future, to know how to do this stuff. If we don't, it's practically criminal in this world that we're evolving into. We can't just look, I love liberal arts. I'm a German major, but I also think it's really important for people to come out of school with some hard skills. And one of the things that people can really be educated with is, how do you actually do this stuff. And I think every college and university should be trying to develop some kind of a program around these physical skills. One Forbes piece I wrote about community college down in the Carolinas, I think North Carolina, and they actually had the transformer on campus that the students could work on. They paid, I think it was 10 or $15,000 a year to go to school for two years. And the starting salary these kids coming out of school was $80,000. a year. Why? Because the utility industry is retiring half of its workforce in the next 10 years. They need students who are literate both in the technology and in it and how these pieces are all combining. And they're way short, that we're going to have to import talent from overseas. And we're not even sure if we can get it there. So as much as anything, I see universities right now fulfilling a super critical role in training the workforce of the future, even while they're pragmatically solving their own problems on campus, and it's an unparalleled opportunity.
That's, that's amazing. So as a facility director at a college or university, I shouldn't just think about my brick and mortar, I shouldn't just think about my piece of the pie. Instead, I should be thinking, How can I align my objectives and goals with the larger mission of the university in college and bring in stakeholders across the entire campus community in what I'm trying to do as a comprehensive solution?
Yeah, there's a there's a unique opportunity. Look, we are moving through a revolution, which is probably unparalleled. It's the sort of second computer the second Machine Age, which involves it with this mandate to decarbonize, so the entire grid is going to transform within the next decade, two decades, it's a trillion dollar transformation. China alone is investing $50 billion a year because they want to own the space. So here's this once in a lifetime chance to be involved in this massive transformation of how we are supply energy in what is arguably the biggest machine and the most complex machine in the world, which is our power grid. So here's this chance for higher education, to not only solve its problems, but also to create this really powerful Educational Foundation and trajectory for students for the next decade to spin off into this emerging energy economy as it evolves. To me. It's one of the most exciting things that I see happening in our economy today. And it's so underdeveloped relative to the potential that wise out there right now.
Well, that is true that I think that is a great, optimistic, forward looking view to stop here. For those of you who are listening, I hope you enjoyed this conversation. There will be more podcasts coming out on sustainable issues with universities and colleges. If you'd like to learn more about Peter Kelly Detwiler, he writes for Forbes, and you can google his name and find it there will also have a link with the podcast. So Peter, thank you for your time today, your expertise is unparalleled in this area. And I'm really glad you took the time to share it with us.
Well, thank you for making the opportunity available.
Absolutely. Thank you, Peter.
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Architecture and poetry
By admin.user On Mar 12, 2010
From May 18 to October 31, 2010, in the foyer of Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) will be hosting the exhibition “Architecture en vers,” which consists of five architectural installations inspired by poetry. These were created by groups of architects and well-known and emerging glass artists. The exhibition is presented as a part of the programme “Montréal, City of Glass 2010,” under the direction of the Board of Montréal Museum Directors.
Last fall, BAnQ asked five designers to take part in this exhibition. Their proposals were expected to describe the creative use of glass, of materials that were both recycled and recyclable, while integrating the verses of a contemporary Quebec poet whose work brings to mind concepts of architectural and literary creativity. Guy Berthiaume, BAnQ Chair and CEO, emphasized that this exhibition would allow the public to discover and rediscover authors and their works and, at the same time, create novel parallels between green architecture and poetry.
The five teams were Inspired by the works of several Quebec poets and novelists: Hélène Dorion, Leonard Cohen, Dany Laferrière, Gilles Vigneault, Gaston Miron, Pierre Nepveu, Jacques Brault, Claude Beausoleil, Stéphane D’Amours, Paul Chamberland, Fulvio Caccia, Michel Beaulieu, Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Hélène Monette and Danny Plour. Each team displayed the full force of its talent and sensitivity in creating unique works that transcend the everyday and usual architectural practice.
The collectives
In collaboration with the Teknograv glass workshop, Atelier Pierre Thibault presents La forêt, an installation that takes a sensitive and poetic approach to our environment and its exploitation. Here, wood is presented as an element in architectural construction, while glass is used as a support to capture the light and reconstruct the words. The verses chosen are those of the author Hélène Dorion, from the collection D’argile et de souffle, published by Éditions Typo in 2002.
Suzanne Bergeron, architect, M.Sc. Urban Design (Amiot Bergeron, architects) reveals her deepest thoughts in a work of glass and shadows that is moving in its simplicity. Rencontre au confluent is a book of glass that is open to the world and creativity – architectural and literary. Here, the designer is not inspired by the poet, but rather, pays homage to him. The viewer is invited to find a parallel with Dany Laferrière’s novel, L’énigme du retour (prix Médicis 2009), published by Éditions du Boréal.
The team of Éric Pelletier, architects has designed a work that is masculine, strong, dark and subtly sensual, a reflection of the poet who inspired it. “A Thousand Kisses Deep / Dans les profondeurs de mille baisers.” by Leonard Cohen, evokes reflections on man and his poetry, but especially on the depth and mystery of rich artistic production. The installation consists of a gigantic glass prism with a rectangular base, which is split in the middle to disclose a silky texture that longs to be touched.
The team of Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, architects is concerned by the question of urban density. The city, when it shows true density, is a viable alternative to urban sprawl and can be perceived from the viewpoint of sustainable development. Produced by assembling several hundred glass jars, the installation Vers tissés serrés sends visitors on a poetic Montreal voyage (Gaston Miron, Pierre Nepveu, Jacques Brault, Claude Beausoleil, Hélène Monette, Stéphane D’Amours, Paul Chamberland, Fulvio Caccia, Michel Beaulieu, Nicole Brossard, France Théoret and Danny Plourde) where each of the elements is distinguised by the poetry it holds inside.
The collective C-M-R, which brings together a multidisciplinary artist (Forent Cousineau), a graduate architect (Alejandro Montero Tergos ecological architecture and building) and a photographer (Cindy Diane Rheault, images ECOterre), was inspired by Grand cerf-volant (Éditions le vent qui vire, 1982) by Gilles Vigneault to design a sculpture that evokes childhood, the earth, and hopes for a better world. Murmures dans la main du temps is an installation whose spiral shape, labyrinthine structure and woven raw material recall a sense of movement and invite the viewer to stroll along to the rhythm of the words of the song by the poet from Natashquan.
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New $180M bridge planned for Kingston, Ont. gets green light
The major infrastructure project has been discussed for nearly 50 years. It will relieve pressure on the ageing La Salle Causeway
by Canadian Manufacturing.com Staff
KINGSTON, Ont.—Three tiers of government have agreed to share the $180 million cost of a new bridge over the Great Cataraqui River at Kingston, Ont.
The long-debated infrastructure project will be the largest in the city’s history and add a third crossing over the river that divides Kingston’s east and west segments. It’s designed to relieve pressure on the century-old La Salle Causeway and speed up travel times. The city’s only other bridge across the Great Cataraqui is at Highway 401, north of downtown.
With the city and province already having committed $60 million to the project, the federal government’s $60 million contribution announced Feb. 21 was the final piece needed to move forward on the bridge. The span is planned for midway between Kingston’s two existing bridges. It will link the northwest side’s John Counter Boulevard with the Gore Road on the eastern side of the Cataraqui.
Earlier estimates placed the cost of the bridge at $120 million. The figure has since increased 50 per cent to $180 million.
Mayor Bryan Paterson said the first step moving forward will be to establish a project management team to ensure the bridge comes in on-time and on-budget. He said the city expects to break ground on the bridge in 2019.
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Vietcombank first Vietnamese bank to open US rep office
Vietcombank, one of Vietnam’s leading banks, has received permission for its US rep office to start functioning in the third quarter.
The final permit for the office in New York City has come from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), the bank said. It had previously obtained approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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First Presidency Message
By President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Second Counselor in the First Presidency
The scriptures give us names of several women who have blessed individuals and generations with their spiritual gifts. Eve, the mother of all living; Sarah; Rebekah; Rachel; Martha; Elisabeth; and Mary, the mother of our Savior, will always be honored and remembered. The scriptures also mention women whose names are unknown to us but who bless our lives through their examples and teachings, like the woman of Samaria whom Jesus met at the well of Sychar (see John 4), the ideal wife and mother described in Proverbs 31, and the faithful woman who was made whole just by touching the Savior’s clothes (see Mark 5:25–34).
As we look at the history of this earth and at the history of the restored Church of Jesus Christ, it becomes obvious that women hold a special place in our Father’s plan for the eternal happiness and well-being of His children.
I hope that my dear sisters throughout the world—grandmothers, mothers, aunts, and friends—never underestimate the power of their influence for good, especially in the lives of our precious children and youth!
President Heber J. Grant (1856–1945) said, “Without the devotion and absolute testimony of the living God in the hearts of our mothers, this Church would die.”1 And the writer of Proverbs said, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).
President Gordon B. Hinckley counseled the women of the Church:
“It is so tremendously important that the women of the Church stand strong and immovable for that which is correct and proper under the plan of the Lord. …
“We call upon the women of the Church to stand together for righteousness. They must begin in their own homes. They can teach it in their classes. They can voice it in their communities.”2
There is a saying that big gates move on small hinges. Sisters, your example in seemingly small things will make a big difference in the lives of our young people. The way you dress and groom yourselves, the way you talk, the way you pray, the way you testify, the way you live every day will make the difference. This includes which TV shows you watch, which music you prefer, and how you use the Internet. If you love to go to the temple, the young people who value your example will also love to go. If you adapt your wardrobe to the temple garment and not the other way around, they will know what you consider important, and they will learn from you.
You are marvelous sisters and great examples. Our youth are blessed by you, and the Lord loves you for that.
An Example of Faith
Let me share some thoughts about Sister Carmen Reich, my mother-in-law, who was truly an elect lady. She embraced the gospel in a most difficult and dark time of her life, and she liberated herself from grief and sorrow.
As a young woman—a widow and the mother of two young girls—she freed herself from a world of old traditions and moved into a world of great spirituality. She embraced the teachings of the gospel, with its intellectual and spiritual power, on a fast track. When the missionaries gave her the Book of Mormon and invited her to read the verses they had marked, she read the whole book within only a few days. She learned things beyond the understanding of her peers because she learned them by the Spirit of God. She was the humblest of the humble, the wisest of the wise, because she was willing and pure enough to believe when God had spoken.
She was baptized on November 7, 1954. Only a few weeks after her baptism, she was asked by the missionary who baptized her to write her testimony. The missionary wanted to use her testimony in his teaching to help others feel the true spirit of conversion. Fortunately, the missionary kept the handwritten original for more than 40 years, and then he returned it to her as a very special and loving gift.
A Testimony Born of the Spirit
Let me share with you parts of her written testimony. Please keep in mind that she wrote these words only a few weeks after hearing about the gospel. Before the missionaries came, she had never heard anything about the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, or Mormons in general. In 1954 there were no temples outside the continental United States, except in Canada and Hawaii.
This is the English translation of Sister Reich’s handwritten testimony:
“Special characteristics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that are not present in other religious communities include, above all, modern revelation given through the Prophet Joseph Smith.
“The Book of Mormon in its clear and pure language is next, with all the instructions and promises for the Church of Jesus Christ; it is truly a second witness, together with the Bible, that Jesus Christ lives.
“Bound together by faith in a personal God, that is, God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Ghost, who facilitates prayer and also influences personally.
“Also, faith in the premortal life, the preexistence, the purpose of our earthly life, and our life after death is so valuable for us and especially interesting and informative. It is clearly laid out, and our lives receive new meaning and direction.
“The Church has given us the Word of Wisdom as a guide to keep body and spirit in the most perfect shape possible to realize our desire and goal. So we keep our bodies healthy and improve them. All this from the knowledge that we will take them up again after death in the same form.
“Totally new to me, of course, is temple work with its many sacred ordinances, having families together forever. All this was given through revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith.”
Carmen Reich, my dear mother-in-law, passed away in 2000 at age 83.
A Unique Feminine Identity
The lives of women in the Church are a powerful witness that spiritual gifts, promises, and blessings of the Lord are given to all those who qualify, “that all may be benefited” (D&C 46:9; see verses 9–26). The doctrines of the restored gospel create a wonderful and “unique feminine identity that encourages women to develop their abilities” as true and literal daughters of God.3Through serving in the Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary organizations—not to mention their private acts of love and service—women have always played and will always play an important part in helping “bring forth and establish the cause of Zion” (D&C 6:6). They care for the poor and the sick; serve proselytizing, welfare, humanitarian, and other missions; teach children, youth, and adults; and contribute to the temporal and spiritual welfare of the Saints in many other ways.
Because their potential for good is so great and their gifts so diverse, women may find themselves in roles that vary with their circumstances in life. Some women, in fact, must fill many roles simultaneously. For this reason, Latter-day Saint women are encouraged to acquire an education and training that will qualify them both for homemaking and raising a righteous family and for earning a living outside the home if the occasion requires.
We are living in a great season for all women in the Church. Sisters, you are an essential part of our Heavenly Father’s plan for eternal happiness; you are endowed with a divine birthright. You are the real builders of nations wherever you live, because strong homes of love and peace will bring security to any nation. I hope you understand that, and I hope the men of the Church understand it too.
What you sisters do today will determine how the principles of the restored gospel can influence the nations of the world tomorrow. It will determine how these heavenly rays of the gospel will light every land in the future.4
Though we often speak of the influence of women on future generations, please do not underestimate the influence you can have today. President David O. McKay (1873–1970) said that the principal reason the Church was organized is “to make life sweet today, to give contentment to the heart today, to bring salvation today. …
“Some of us look forward to a time in the future—salvation and exaltation in the world to come—but today is part of eternity.”5
Blessings beyond Imagining
As you live up to this mission, in whatever life circumstance you find yourself—as a wife, as a mother, as a single mother, as a divorced woman, as a widowed or a single woman—the Lord our God will open up responsibilities and blessings far beyond your ability to imagine.
May I invite you to rise to the great potential within you. But don’t reach beyond your capacity. Don’t set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. Don’t feel guilty or dwell on thoughts of failure. Don’t compare yourself with others. Do the best you can, and the Lord will provide the rest. Have faith and confidence in Him, and you will see miracles happen in your life and the lives of your loved ones. The virtue of your own life will be a light to those who sit in darkness, because you are a living witness of the fulness of the gospel (see D&C 45:28). Wherever you have been planted on this beautiful but often troubled earth of ours, you can be the one to “succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees” (D&C 81:5).
My dear sisters, as you live your daily life with all its blessings and challenges, let me assure you that the Lord loves you. He knows you. He listens to your prayers, and He answers those prayers, wherever on this world you may be. He wants you to succeed in this life and in eternity.
Brethren, I pray that we as priesthood holders—as husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, and friends of these choice women—may see them as the Lord sees them, as daughters of God with limitless potential to influence the world for good.
In the early days of the Restoration, the Lord spoke to Emma Smith through her husband, the Prophet Joseph Smith, giving her instructions and blessings: “[Be] faithful and walk in the paths of virtue before me. … Thou needest not fear. … Thou shalt lay aside the things of this world, and seek for the things of a better. … Lift up thy heart and rejoice. … And a crown of righteousness thou shalt receive” (D&C 25:2, 9, 10, 13, 15).
Of this revelation, the Lord declared, “This is my voice unto all” (verse 16).
Later, the Prophet Joseph Smith told the sisters, “If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.”6
Of these truths I testify, and I extend to you my love and my blessing as an Apostle of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Heber J. Grant, Gospel Standards, comp. G. Homer Durham (1941), 151.
Gordon B. Hinckley, “Standing Strong and Immovable,” Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting, Jan. 10, 2004, 20.
“Women, Roles of: Historical and Sociological Development,” in Daniel H. Ludlow, ed., Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 5 vols. (1992), 4:1574.
See “Hark, All Ye Nations!” Hymns, no. 264.
David O. McKay, Pathways to Happiness, comp. Llewelyn R. McKay (1957), 291–92.
History of the Church, 4:605.
Ideas for Home Teachers
After prayerfully studying this message, share it using a method that encourages the participation of those you teach. Following are some examples:
From the section “An Example of Faith,” read President Uchtdorf’s description of his mother-in-law, Carmen Reich. Then read Sister Reich’s testimony, and discuss the gospel principles she lists. Close by inviting family members to share examples of righteous women who have influenced their lives for good.
Referring to the section “A Unique Feminine Identity,” discuss the characteristics of a righteous woman. Using examples from the article, review ways that women can be righteous influences on others. Conclude by reading from the last section of the article.
Women hold a special place in our Father’s plan for the eternal happiness and well-being of His children.
The lives of women in the Church are a powerful witness that spiritual gifts, promises, and blessings of the Lord are given to all those who qualify, “that all may be benefited.”
Women will always play an important part in helping “bring forth and establish the cause of Zion.”
The virtue of your own life will be a light to those who sit in darkness, because you are a living witness of the fulness of the gospel.
For This Child I Prayed, by Elspeth Young; background © Getty Images
Photo illustrations by Matthew Reier; inset: Bread of Life, by Julie Rogers
Inset: Seed of Faith, by Jay Bryant Ward
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Was D.B. Cooper in The CIA?
Independent investigators working on the infamous D.B. Cooper case believe that the notorious skyjacker may have been connected to the CIA. Filmmaker Thomas Colbert, who is spearheading the multidisciplinary team of researchers, announced the latest findings from the group on Thursday.
Following the discovery of what appears to be a code in a Cooper letter from shortly after the caper, the investigators examined other missives thought to have been written by the elusive skyjacker. In those writings, they discovered what seem to be additional codes that might shed light on Cooper’s identity. “The new decryptions include a dare to agents, directives to apparent partners, and a startling claim that is followed by Rackstraw’s own initials,” Colbert’s team revealed in a press release.
They explain that Cooper apparently indicated that, if caught, he fully expected to be released because he worked for the CIA. Incredibly, this connection to the CIA also tracks with the Colbert team’s prime suspect in the case, Robert Rackstraw, who they contend also worked for the agency in a clandestine fashion. In fact, the group argues that it was this affiliation with the spy agency that led the FBI to ‘conveniently overlook’ Rackstraw as a suspect in the case.
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Anil Sharma's son Utkarsh is a 'Genius' at work
Gadar director racks his brains to conjure quite an intriguing Genius poster
29 May 2017 13:08 IST
Mayur Lookhar
Each time a filmmaker launches their kin, it triggers the talk about nepotism. Well, that debate might start again later. For now, audiences can prepare themselves for the debut of Gadar (2001) director Anil Sharma's son, Utkarsh. The young actor, who played Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel's son in Gadar, is set to make his debut as a leading man with 'Genius'.
Father Anil Sharma is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that his son’s debut makes all the right noise. The makers unveiled the first poster of Genius and to Sharma's credit, it is quite an intriguing one.
The fonts and the style of the title text really catch your attention. Dressed in black suit, Utkarsh is perched on the 'i' and the 's' in the Genius typograph. It is almost easy to miss the ‘at work’ text at the bottom of the poster.
Sharma and his creative team have put some thought into the creation of this poster. The black suit, shoes and the walking stick almost give a Utkarsh a 'Sherlock Holmes' look, except that the Genius in the film is reported to be fighting ‘dil ki ladaai dimaag se’ (fight the heart's battles with his mind).
Viewers will get to see Utkarsh’s true mettle once the film releases, but the actor does possess some credentials. He underwent training at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute for about a year.
“He (Utkarsh) was good in studies and later, he enrolled in an institute in US to study filmmaking. He also trained at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute for about a year. His strength lies in his sincerity and originality with which he thinks of enacting his scenes,” Sharma had told Times of India last year.
The film went on the floors on 22 May.
Anil Sharma
Director, Producer, Story Writer
Utkarsh Sharma
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Chicago showing new approach to sporting events
On the surface, hosting the Big Ten men's basketball tournament appears to be a perfect fit for the city of Chicago: the central location, the United Center, the bevy of tourist hot spots, the hordes of alumni from each school.
That's what made the conference's 2006 decision to snub the Windy City and give Indianapolis the event for five straight years between 2008 and 2012 a major reality check.
Seven years later, with the event returning to the United Center March 14-17 for the first time since 2007, Chicago has a renewed approach.
The four-day tournament — and the $8 million to $12 million of visitor spending that comes with it — will alternate starting this year between Chicago and Indianapolis through 2016. That's when the Big Ten will again take bids on hosting the event in the future, meaning Chicago has this year and 2015 to show its stuff.
"It's going to be a totally different experience (for the Big Ten)," Chicago Sports Commission Executive Director Sam Stark said. "They'll see a buy-in from Chicago that they haven't seen before."
The 2006 pitch, led by the Mayor's Office of Special Events, touted "the Chicago experience" and played up the city as a great sports town. Tourism and restaurants were involved but were a secondary focus.
Now, the city has a detailed game plan to "wow" the conference with ancillary events, ticket sales promotion and facilitating team and fan accommodations to make the conference feel like less of a small fish in a big pond and "give them a reminder of why Chicago is the place to hold this," Mr. Stark said.
More important, the first major, multiday sporting event in the downtown area since the Chicago Sports Commission's birth in late 2011 is an opportunity for the city to add a big notch on its sports hosting belt as it angles to lure events such as NCAA meets, soccer tournaments, auto races and other athletic competitions that will help meet Mayor Rahm Emanuel's goal of increasing the number of tourist visits to Chicago to 50 million by 2020 from about 42 million today.
"We want to show that it's a new environment here," said Mr. Stark, who lured scores of such events as the head of the sports commission in Orlando, Fla., before coming to Chicago. "There's a new organization that's here to help (event organizers), and we're going to show what we can do."
That includes a flurry of events and attractions designed to engage both local and visiting fans, including a basketball court in Daley Plaza open for public use during the week of the tournament, alumni events around the city and the transformation of State Street into a Big Ten "mecca," complete with fight songs playing on street-side speakers.
Such festivities take a page from Indianapolis' 2006 playbook, when the Circle City rolled out things like a Big Ten job fair, a swarm of local volunteers and, most of all, an experienced local sports commission.
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany has lauded Indianapolis for what he calls an "integrated approach" to hosting major events.
Chicago, meanwhile, which faces hurdles like more expensive hotels and the clutter of other events happening in the city, has had to adjust.
The city formed a Big Ten tournament host committee led by Chicago Bulls chairman and United Center co-owner Jerry Reinsdorf and featuring representatives from the Illinois Restaurant Association, local hotels, marketing and public relations firms and the Chicago business community.
Greater North Michigan Avenue Association president John Chikow, for instance, says his group worked directly with downtown hotels that are housing the teams and school officials on "VIP concierge support," helping them put together packages offering dining, shopping and transportation options.
"We're treating this like it's a major convention in Chicago," he said.
Mr. Stark, meanwhile, worked with the Chicago Transit Authority to get an extra bus between the city and the United Center to help shuttle visitors get around, in addition to deploying a fleet of private shuttles from various downtown locations to the arena. The compact setup and "walkability" of Indianapolis was a centerpiece of the city's successful pitch in 2006.
Such moves go a long way with university officials who vote on where to locate the tournament, and so far, the Big Ten has taken notice.
"Chicago has done a great self-assessment," said Brad Traviolia, deputy commissioner for the Big Ten, who has been with the conference since 1997, the year before the inaugural Big Ten tournament. "The attitude used to be, 'We are Chicago — of course you want to come here.' They've realized that they're in competition with other cities for the right to host events."
Part of winning that competition, said Mr. Traviolia, requires creating a "single point of contact" for the conference to work with in providing events and services that the conference doesn't have the staff to manage.
That includes taking the lead on connecting athletic departments with hotels and outreach to fans about what's happening around the city.
Simple value-adders like promoting specific bars as the "official" watering holes for each team's visiting fans, will help impress the conference.
Staging the entire effort costs "in the low-to-mid six figures," which comes partially out of the sports commission's $300,000 annual budget and partially from a handful of sponsors, including BMO Harris Bank, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Toyota and some local small businesses that have chipped in for things such as signage and banners.
One factor the city has in its favor: The Big Ten boasts some of the nation's top teams and players, making the tournament a hot ticket — and giving Chicago four days in the national spotlight.
Hotel reservations in the Chicago metro area for the week of the tournament currently project 75 percent occupancy, according to New York-based hotel consultancy TravelClick Inc. which tracks live booking data for more than 230 Chicago area hotels. That's an 18 percent jump over the same period last year and is tracking well-above typical levels for March.
This year will mark the eighth time the United Center has hosted the tournament since its inception in 1998.
More than 100 Big Ten tournament
banners will dot the downtown area
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Your width is my command
Dennis Rodkin
A rendering of a mansion that could be built on a lot 50 feet wide on Howe Street.
A Lincoln Park developer is offering potential buyers of new mansions on Howe Street a choice of three lot sizes: 25, 30 or 50 feet wide.
"We'll see what people are looking for," said Thomas Moran, the @properties agent for Savane Properties. "Does somebody want to go for the really wide 50 feet, or just do 25 and put in all the highest level of finishes?"
The prices for the homes come in three sizes, too: $3 million, $3.5 million, and $5.7 million.
An entity connected to Savane bought a row of three 19th century homes for a combined $1.82 million in August, according to the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. The three properties, 2033, 2037 and 2039 N. Howe, had two owners. The latter two were side-by-side units in one building that has since been demolished.
Together, the three addresses have eighty feet of frontage on Howe Street; they're the city-standard 125 feet deep.
Savane took out construction permits for 2037 and 2039, according to Chicago Cityscape.
The firm is starting construction only on the home on the 30-foot lot for now, Moran said, a 6,200-square-foot four-bedroom.
That leaves 50 feet of frontage that will be used later for one or two mansions, depending on what buyers want.
"We could have done one monster, 80 feet wide, but people aren't asking for that now," Moran said.
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Browns topple Raiders to end 12-game road losing streak
EditorsNote: fixes fourth graf to "seven road losses last year"
OAKLAND -- The Cleveland Browns can't be called road kill anymore.
Rookie quarterback Brandon Weeden passed for a season-high 364 yards Sunday, and the Browns snapped their 12-game road losing streak with a 20-17 victory over the Oakland Raiders.
Cleveland's road skid ended at the O.co Coliseum, where the slide began Oct. 16, 2011, with a 24-17 loss to the Raiders.
Weeden completed 25 of 36 passes with one touchdown, a 44-yard strike to rookie wide receiver Josh Gordon. Factoring in two interceptions, his passer rating was 88.2. He wasn't around for seven road losses last year, but he understood the importance of ending that streak, as well as winning a road game for the first time in his career and winning back-to-back games for the first time.
"It's big," Weeden said. "Kind of get the monkey off your back. We've been close on the road a couple times against some good teams, and to travel out here, the three-hour time difference, the weather, we were able to find a way to get it done. It's given us confidence moving forward. We still have a young team, and to beat a good team on the road like this can only help us moving forward."
Cleveland (4-8) sent Oakland (3-9) to its fifth straight loss, which is the Raiders' longest skid since a six-game slide in 2007 under Lane Kiffin.
The Raiders were eliminated from playoff contention, but the team's rookie coach, Dennis Allen, had worse news to deal with. His father, former Atlanta Falcon Grady Allen, is seriously ill and in the intensive-care unit at a Dallas-area hospital. Allen left for Texas after the game but expects to be back by Wednesday night to coach the Raiders in their Thursday night home game against the Denver Broncos. Offensive coordinator Greg Knapp will be in charge until Allen returns.
"We got to go back to work and get ready to play for a Thursday night game," Allen said. "Every week is a different week. We're going to get an opportunity to go back out here and play Thursday night. We're going to be ready to play."
Gordon had six catches for a career-high 116 yards and the one touchdown, while teammate Trent Richardson carried the ball 20 times for 72 yards and a score.
Raiders tight end Brandon Myers caught 14 passes, tying Tim Brown's franchise record. He finished with 130 receiving yards and a touchdown. Brown caught 14 passes on Dec. 21, 1997, against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Oakland quarterback Carson Palmer completed 34 of 54 passes for 351 yards and two touchdowns with one interception. His passer rating was 86.3.
"There's nowhere to go but up, unfortunately," Palmer said. "The good thing is we get to play fast. We don't have to think about it for very long. We got to start focusing tonight, we have to start watching tape tonight. See what Denver does, see how much they've changed since the last time we played them. Nothing cures a five-game skid like a win at home on Thursday night against a team like that."
After building a 10-3 halftime lead, the Browns extended their advantage to 13-3 on Phil Dawson's 35-yard field goal with 9:51 left in the third. The Browns appeared ready to take complete control when Weeden connected with wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi for 54 yards to the Raiders' 16. However, the drive stalled at the Oakland 10, and Dawson's 28-yard field-goal attempt was blocked by Raiders defensive tackle Desmond Bryant.
Four plays later, Palmer connected with rookie wide receiver Rod Streater on a 64-yard touchdown pass, cutting Cleveland's lead to 13-10 with 17 seconds left in the third. Streater got behind nickel back Buster Skrine, and Palmer lofted a perfect pass over a leaping Skrine's outstretched hand.
Midway through the fourth, the Raiders marched into Browns territory again and had a first down at the 33. Palmer tried to hit wide receiver Juron Criner deep down the left sideline, and Browns cornerback Sheldon Brown intercepted the pass at the 6.
"Carson threw a few deep balls at me today," Brown said. "On that particular play, I had an opportunity to cover the short field. I lined up in press like I was going to stay down tight. Criner released outside, I bailed out of there. And at that point, I saw Carson throwing the ball, and I just became the receiver and caught it."
Palmer said, "I was trying to take a shot there, go for the touchdown quickly and just didn't put the ball in the right spot, didn't give Juron a chance to make a play on the ball."
Weeden marched the Browns into Oakland territory, hitting Gordon for 11 yards and Benjamin Watson for 22 yards along the way. Weeden gained 3 yards on a fourth-and-inches sneak from the Raiders' 45, giving the Browns a key first down with 4:44 left. On the previous play, Weeden was stopped for no gain on a sneak.
"I had every intention to go for it in that situation, when it's inches," Browns coach Pat Shurmur said. "I thought we had made it on the first, but it's one of those where you can challenge it, but I've been there before. So, used the timeout, discussed it to change the formation, snuck it again."
Weeden's 23-yard pass to tight end Jordan Cameron gave the Browns a first down at the 19. On third-and-1 from the 10, the Raiders were flagged for a neutral-zone infraction. Two plays later, Richardson scored on a 3-yard run, capping a 14-play, 94-yard drive and putting the Browns ahead 20-10 with 3:27 remaining.
"Overall, I think it's probably the biggest drive of the year for us," Weeden said. "We strung together some good plays."
Palmer hit Myers with a 17-yard TD pass with one second remaining, but that was too little, too late.
The Browns took a 3-0 lead on Dawson's 41-yard field goal with 12:59 left in the first half, capping 13-play, 57-yard drive. Weeden's 20-yard strike to Watson gave Cleveland a first down at the Raiders' 28, but the Browns stalled at the 21.
After forcing a Raiders punt, Weeden and the Browns went back to work, starting from their 38. It took them all of two plays and 49 seconds to reach the end zone, Weeden hitting Gordon on a 44-yard touchdown pass.
The drive started with Weeden's 18-yard pass to wide receiver Greg Little. On the next play, Gordon beat Raiders right cornerback Ron Bartell down the left sideline, and Weeden hit him in stride, putting the Browns ahead 10-0 with 10:25 left in the half.
"He was pressed up, kind of gave him a move at the line and just ran around him, on a go route," Gordon said. "The safety wasn't over the top. It was pretty wide open. He just had to throw it at that point. It was a well-executed play."
The Raiders, who were shut out in the first half last week at Cincinnati, finally scored on Sebastian Janikowski's 51-yard field goal with 4:28 remaining in the second quarter.
The Browns quickly drove to the Raiders' 41, but on second-and-6, Weeden tried to hit Gordon deep down the left sideline, and Oakland cornerback Phillip Adams intercepted at the 8.
Janikowski missed wide right on a 61-yard field-goal attempt on the final play of the half.
NOTES: The Browns were hit by news of the suicide Saturday of team employee Eric Eucker, a member of the grounds crew. "This is a terrible tragedy and our heartfelt condolences go out to Eric's family," the Browns said in a statement. "Eric was a good friend and colleague, and an outstanding employee. He will be missed by everyone in the Cleveland Browns' organization." ... Raiders starting running back Darren McFadden and backup Mike Goodson were both inactive due to high ankle sprains, missing their fourth straight games. McFadden and Goodson practiced this week and warmed up before the game but weren't ready to suit up. Allen expects them to play Thursday night against Denver. ... Raiders safeties Matt Giordano and Mike Mitchell, as well as Adams, left the game with concussions. ... Bartell and starting Oakland wide receiver Denarius Moore were benched during the game for poor play. Bartell had to return when Adams was injured. ... Raiders starting defensive tackle Richard Seymour missed his fourth straight game with knee and hamstring injuries. ... Raiders No. 3 quarterback Terrelle Pryor suited up for the first time this year. ... Browns starting free safety Usama Young missed the game with a head injury. Tashaun Gipson started in his place.
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Movie about house music icon Frankie Knuckles to film in Chicago
By By Matt Pais
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Feb 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM
Maybe a movie called "The Warehouse" doesn't capture your interest--it sort of sounds like a gritty, straight-to-DVD action flick starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren.
In reality, it's a film set to shoot in Chicago that will focus on house music icon Frankie Knuckles and the Warehouse, the West Loop club where Knuckles became a star in the late '70s/early '80s and where the house genre got its name. According to a press release, "The Warehouse" will honor both the work of Knuckles (who passed away on March 31, 2014) and the life of the venue's owner Robert Williams. No casting information has been announced, though co-producer Billy Dec (Elston Films, Rockit Ranch), who you may remember has previously had small parts in "Entourage" and "Criminal Minds," also will act in the film, which is being produced by Bob Teitel ("Barbershop"), Randy Crumpton and Joe Shanahan (Metro/Smart Bar/Double Door), a founding member of the Frankie Knuckles Foundation (FKF).
Production of "The Warehouse" begins with a launch party Tuesday, March 31 at the Underground (owned by Dec). Tickets for the event, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting FKF, begin at $20 and include a cocktail/hors d'oeuvres reception from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. As you could probably guess, you can also pay a bit more than that for a VIP table. Either way, tickets are available at TheUndergroundChicago.com.
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Sir David Attenborough, Tearfund urge Coca-Cola and other big brands to act on plastic pollution
Staff writer Tue 14 May 2019 7:22 BST
(Photo: Unsplash/NeonBrand)
The plastic pollution crisis is "one of the most pressing problems of today", Sir David Attenborough has warned in response to an alarming new report revealing the life-threatening impact it is having in developing countries.
Figures in the 'No Time to Waste' report reveal that one person is dying as often as every 30 seconds in developing countries because of diseases linked to plastic pollution and waste.
The problem has escalated in developing countries due to the lack of facilities to properly dispose of plastic, leaving many communities and individuals to dump or burn their rubbish as a means of waste disposal.
The report is a joint collaboration between Fauna & Flora International, of which Sir David is vice-president, Christian development agency Tearfund, the Institute of Development Studies and WasteAid.
It is the first to analyse the impact of plastic pollution and waste on specifically the health of the world's poorest people.
It finds that between 400,000 and a million people are dying each year in developing countries as a result of illnesses and diseases like diarrhoea, malaria and cancer brought on by the uncollected waste and plastic pollution close to people's homes.
Uncollected rubbish affects around two million people worldwide, with the equivalent of a double decker busload of plastic waste being burned or dumped every second in developing countries.
This in turn is damaging the environment by releasing more carbon emissions into the earth's atmosphere, while up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic is flowing into the world's oceans each year, the report says.
Rubbish that builds up in rivers can also cause flooding, resulting in the proliferation of water-borne diseases.
The charities are calling on multinational corporations like Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever to adopt alternatives to single-use plastic and halve the amount they distribute in developing countries by 2025.
"It is high time we turn our attention fully to one of the most pressing problems of today – averting the plastic pollution crisis – not only for the health of our planet, but for the wellbeing of people around the world," said Sir David.
"We need leadership from those who are responsible for introducing plastic to countries where it cannot be adequately managed, and we need international action to support the communities and governments most acutely affected by this crisis."
READ MORE: The problem with plastic and how we can fix it
The publication of the report coincides with the launch of Tearfund's new Rubbish Campaign calling for urgent action from Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever.
Dr Ruth Valerio, Global Advocacy & Influencing Director at Tearfund said: "They sell billions of products in single-use plastic packaging in poorer countries where waste isn't collected, in the full knowledge that people will have no choice but to burn it, discard it in waterways or live among it.
"The CEOs running these multinationals can no longer ignore the human cost of single-use plastic - fundamental changes to business models are urgently required. There is no time to waste."
Elisabeth Whitebread, marine plastics specialist at Fauna & Flora International, said the corporations should commit to a full audit of their supply chains and the life cycle of their plastic products in order to identify where these are contributing to pollution and "bring it to a stop".
Patrick Schröder, Research Fellow at Institute for Development Studies, said the findings of the report showed that the current business model of "take, make, use and dispose" was unsustainable.
He said that businesses, governments and citizens needed to come together to embrace a "circular economy" based on sustainable consumption and production.
"There are a growing number of examples of the circular economy in action – particularly across Africa and Asia – and we need to learn from these initiatives to inform and scale future efforts to tackle this pressing global challenge," he said.
Zoë Lenkiewicz, Head of Programmes and Engagement at WasteAid added that the problem could not be resolved by recycling alone.
"We need systemic change," she said.
One person dies every 30 seconds in developing countries from diseases caused by plastic pollution, according to a report by @Tearfund. @ruthvalerio tells #Sunrise that multi-national companies must "take responsibility" and act.
More on tackling waste: https://t.co/GdxHCp5H09 pic.twitter.com/fqsMVKeU0d
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 14, 2019
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Marquis Series - Cirque Zuma Zuma
Described as an African-style Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Zuma Zuma packs every show with non-stop action and incredible features that keep audiences on the edges of their seats. Comprised of 120 uniquely-talented individuals from across 16 African nations, the non-stop, action-packed Zuma Zuma show features fantastic cirque acrobats who made their North American primetime television debut on America's Got Talent. You'll see African acrobats, jugglers, vocalists and comedy, plus the Limbo and Lion dances.
Marquis Series patrons can purchase individual tickets to each event for $15 for the general public, $10 for students (18 and under) and seniors (55 and older). No charge for Coe College students, faculty and staff. For ticket information, call the Coe College Box Office at 319.399.8600, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday-Friday. Tickets may be purchased online by clicking here, over the phone, or in person at the Box Office. Please note that tickets for "Rural Route Film Festival" will only be available at the door.
The Marquis Series is funded by a gift from the estate of Sarah Marquis in honor of her father, Dr. John A. Marquis, who was president of Coe College from 1909-1920. The purpose of the series is to bring entertainment and educational presentations to the Coe campus for the benefit of the entire community.
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Graduation Weekend
Commencement Speakers
2019 Commencement Speakers
Kip Korir '74 and Karen Korir '02
Sunday, May 12 at 10:00 AM on the Stewart Memorial Library Lawn
Titus “Kip” Korir '74
Titus “Kip” Korir ’74 is from Kericho, Kenya, and graduated from Coe College with a Bachelor of Arts in biology & psychology. After graduation, Kip returned to Kenya and was employed shortly thereafter as an assistant manager at James Finlays Kenya Ltd., a British tea and flower company. During the course of his employment, he was elected chairman of the Kenya Tea Growers Association and director of the Federation of Kenya Employers, where he served for 10 years. He was also nominated to the Local County Legislative Council to represent the tea industry between 1992 and 1997. He served as the director of the Tea Board of Kenya for six years, and was the director of industrial training in the Ministry of Labour for six years. He also sat on the board of directors for a number of schools and colleges.
Kip’s career at James Finlays spanned 34 years and in 2008 he retired as its deputy CEO and director of corporate affairs in charge of 18,000 employees. In 2009, he was awarded the Head of State Commendation medal by the president of the Republic of Kenya for his exemplary community work.
In his retirement, Kip has continued to dedicate his time to serving his local community, including helping found a health care center and build a high school that currently seats 460 students. These facilities were built with the generous donations of local organizations and U.S. donors, many of whom he developed lifelong relationships with during his academic tenure at Coe College.
In his time at Coe, Kip was well known for his outstanding athletic abilities. His remarkable track and field career culminated the day before his graduation when, in a single meet, he won Conference titles in the 440-yard dash, 220-yard dash, javelin and triple jump. On that day he anchored the Coe mile relay team, which won four straight league titles from 1971 through 1974. He also ran a leg on the championship 440-yard relay team for a total of six conference championships in a day. In all, he won 10 individual Midwest Conference titles in four years and ran on six conference-winning relay squads. He held 10 individual school records in 200-yard dash, 440-yard dash, triple jump, and javelin. Kip’s triple jump record of 49 feet, 8 ¾ inches (15.15 meters) and 440-yard dash record of :47.3 still stand 45 years later. In 1987, he was inducted to the Coe College Athletic Hall of Fame.
Kip is married to Linner Korir and together they have six children and 10 grandchildren. Four of his children attended and graduated from Coe College.
Karen Korir '02
Karen Korir ’02 is the daughter of Linner Korir and Titus “Kip” Korir ’74. She is the fourth of their six children and one of the four that graduated from Coe. She graduated cum laude with a major in business administration and went on to earn a Master of Public Administration Aviation degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2005.
After completing her master’s, Karen was employed by the Atlanta International Airport as an aviation planner, and soon after was promoted to aviation facility manager. She managed projects in two domestic concourses as well as the international terminal, and received recognition for her outstanding leadership and commitment to excellence during her time in Atlanta. In 2012, she relocated to the Houston Airport System as the managing aviation planner, where she lead billion-dollar projects in the planning and development of the terminal, landside and support facilities, as well as co-lead the master plans of the systems’ three airports: Bush Intercontinental Airport, Hobby Airport, and Ellington Airport. She was promoted to Chief Aviation Planner in 2015, and now oversees the planning and programming of all airfield, terminal, landside and support facilities for the airport system.
Karen is an Accredited Airport Executive (AAE), having been certified and accredited by the American Association of Airport Executives in 2012. In 2015, she was among Airport Business Magazine’s Top 40 under 40 airport executives, which honors the best and brightest under the age of 40.
Following her parent’s example of professional excellence and giving back to the community, Karen has dedicated much of her time in the last seven years volunteering to serve children with Autism and other special needs through Lakewood Church in Houston. Together with her family, she also supports the health center in their hometown in Kenya.
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Ground cafe music charity nights return
Published: 10:22 Thursday 20 September 2018
For the past three years Ground Coffee shop in the Diamond, Ballymoney, has hosted music nights to raise money for cancer charities - and they are back!
The organisers have been encouraged to organise three evenings again this Autumn on October 9, 16 and 23 from 7.30-9.30pm.
On October 9, local country, folk and blues singer Gerry McLaughlin will bring many of his musical friends to entertain. Gerry has brought many young local musicians to this event in the past and no doubt he will again use the Ground sessions to give an opportunity
to these young musicians.
On October 16, Causeway Traditional musicians will play. In the past this has been a hugely popular evening. Already this year Deirdre Tasker, Heather Montgomery, Alan Wade and David Dunlop have all committed to play and no doubt others will be recruited to provide a range of foot stomping traditional Irish, Scottish music.
Dalriada music department will bring some of the best young musicians in the area to sing and play on October 23. The school has been a supporter of these music evenings since they started three years ago and once again Heather Montgomery and Philip McGavock who run the music department have enthusiastically agreed to bring their pupils to perform.
Admission to the events is free but there will be an opportunity for donations to be made to cancer charities.
“The response to these events in the past three years has been amazing with over £4500 raised for a number of cancer charities,” said one of the organisers. “Many of those who attended demanded that we repeat the events as soon as possible. It wouldn’t be possible to do that on a regular basis but with the goodwill of Ground staff and the musicians we are able to organise the three nights again this year. We also welcome any other musicians in the area to come along and sing a song or play a tune.”
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Home 2018 Ballot Measures Ask The Indy: Breaking down the tax changes in Amendment 73
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Ask The Indy: Breaking down the tax changes in Amendment 73
High earners will pay most of the cost of increased funding for schools
Forest Wilson
Denver teachers marched Oct. 5 to raise awareness of school funding challenges. (Photo by Rachel Lorenz)
A Colorado Independent reader, who wished to remain anonymous, asked how the property tax adjustments in Amendment 73, the school funding measure, would work.
The short answer: It’s complicated. But we’re going to break it down.
Amendment 73, a measure backed by the campaign committee Great Schools, Thriving Communities, is projected to raise $1.6 billion for education in the first year. Most of that money would go directly to school districts for everything from preschool and English Language Acquisition programs to special education classes.
The amount would be a 17 percent increase over the $9.7 billion Colorado schools received in total education funding last year, according to the legislature’s joint budget committee. That nearly $10 billion includes not just state funding, but cash from fees, as well as federal and local funds. The state kicked in about $5 billion of that $10 billion total.
If it passes, the money Amendment 73 raises for schools would come from three groups: Homeowners, who may pay more in property taxes; corporations, which would pay a higher tax rate; and, paying by far the largest share, individuals and joint filers who make more than $150,000 a year. High earners would see their state taxes go up by a certain percentage depending upon their incomes.
Teachers unions support the measure as long-overdue help for struggling schools. They point to studies that show Colorado teachers earn less than their national counterparts and that Colorado’s per-pupil spending falls under the national average. As of Oct. 29, various groups and individuals backing the measure had spent a total of about $1 million promoting the measure.
Conservative and libertarian groups oppose Amendment 73, arguing state spending on education is the highest it’s ever been and that more spending does not necessarily equate to greater academic achievement. Opponents, both groups and individuals, have spent a total of nearly $2 million fighting the measure.
State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, the Republican candidate for governor, has said he is “adamantly opposed” to the amendment, while Democratic nominee Jared Polis has not taken a position.
Related: Where Colorado’s candidates for governor stand on some of the big ballot questions
If you want to know how the amendment would work, keep reading. If you just want the bottom line as a taxpayer, the Colorado School Finance Project has a handy Amendment 73 impact calculator. Plug in your address, home value and individual or joint-filer income and it will provide an estimate of how much more or less you might pay in taxes and how much your local school district will gain.
Anonymous, our inquisitive reader, wanted to know specifically how the property tax changes would work. Here goes:
It’s worth remembering that you don’t pay property taxes based on the current market value of your home, but rather on a percentage of the assessed value (which is based on sales of comparable homes). That percentage is called the assessment rate, and it has historically been adjusted by the state legislature every other year.
This is where things start to get complicated. Back in the early ’80s, the Gallagher Amendment required the majority of property taxes come from nonresidential property. So, the assessment rate for residential property is always set lower than that for nonresidential property — it’s supposed to stay at a 45 to 55 percent ratio. The nonresidential rate was fixed at 29 percent. The residential rate fluctuated to keep the ratio in balance. In 1983, after Gallagher was adopted, the residential assessment rate was 21 percent, which is kind of unbelievable by today’s standards in Colorado. But as housing prices rose, the residential assessment rate was adjusted downward — again to maintain the ratio. The Colorado Fiscal Institute has a great video explaining how this worked. As local tax money to schools dried up, the state backfilled from the general fund.
Things got tougher in 1992 with the passage of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which put limits on how much the state can raise and spend and made any tax increases — including the assessment rate — subject to voter approval. The practical impact is the residential assessment rate, once adjusted downward, can’t be raised again without voter approval. Property tax money, including that for schools and fire and drainage districts, withered.
Amendment 73 seeks to stop the downward ratcheting of the residential assessment rate for school funding by setting it at a fixed 7 percent. For everything else that might reap the benefit of property taxes, the assessment rate will behave as it usually does, adjusted every other year to maintain the ratio, but never increasing.
Last year, the residential assessment rate was 7.2 percent. Next year, it’s projected to drop to 6.1 percent.
So, let’s say you have a $360,000 home which was the typical single-family home value in Denver last year. At last year’s 7.2 percent assessment rate you would have paid property taxes on $25,920, a fraction of the market value. Next year’s projected 6.1 percent assessment rate would have meant you would pay taxes on on $21,960. A fixed 7 percent has you paying taxes on $25,200.
But the assessment rate isn’t the only thing that affects what you will pay in property taxes. There are two other variables in the equation: the market value of your home and your local tax rate.
So, the general answer to whether you will pay higher residential property taxes is the wildly unsatisfying, “it depends.”
And, what you may ask, happens with nonresidential assessment rates? They will be split in two, with the rate for school districts dropping to 24 percent and everything else remaining at the current fixed 29 percent.
Fire districts, also caught in the Gallagher-TABOR bind, are now looking for their own workarounds. More than 50 districts are asking voters to grant them an exemption so they don’t have to keep cutting their budgets.
Colorado has some of the lowest property tax rates in the nation. In 2016, the Tax Foundation, a non-profit educational think-tank, ranked it seventh lowest in terms of its effective property tax rate, which is the percentage of your home’s actual value that you pay in property taxes.
All this said, the financial engine that drives Amendment 73 is not property taxes. No, the big money would come from the increase in income taxes on high earners — an estimated $1.4 billion in 2019.
What’s going to happen to my income taxes?
Colorado currently has a flat tax rate of 4.63 percent. If Amendment 73 passes, new tax brackets would be created for individual or joint household earners making more than $150,000 per year.
Here’s what Amendment 73’s brackets would look :
Graphic obtained from the Colorado Legislative Council
The new tax brackets would affect 8 percent of individual and joint income tax filers, according to the Legislative Council.
Related : Amendment 73: Understanding the tax increase for education on your Colorado ballot
The corporate tax increase would generate another $229 million. That tax would go up from 4.63 percent to 6 percent, according to the Legislative Council. It will be applied to all corporations, except for so-called S-corporations or small, personal corporations.
How much money does education need?
An assessment of all Colorado public schools completed in 2009 showed that there were $13.9 billion in construction needs. Another assessment began in 2016 but is only 7 percent finished. Still, it found a 28 percent increase in construction needs from 2009.
The legislature is required by the Public School Finance Act of 1994 and Amendment 23 of the Colorado constitution to give districts funds based on a set formula that is tied to inflation, the number of pupils and cost of living within the district. But after the Great Recession, lawmakers could not sustain those funding requirements for education and lowered the formula to balance the budget, according to the Legislative Council.
The legislature did not cut actual per pupil funding for education, which has increased every year since it was added, but had schools been fully funded based on formula projections, they would have received an additional $6.6 billion over the past nine years, according to the Colorado School Finance Project.
Linda Gorman, an economist at the Independence Institute, points out that more spending on schools has not been necessarily shown to impact academic achievement.
“Some sort of theoretical cut in what you’d like to spend, is not the same as cutting actual spending,” Gorman said.
Amie Baca-Oehlert, president of the Colorado Education Association, said teachers in Colorado are being forced to work two or more jobs to sustain themselves because of their salaries. Low salaries have contributed to a teacher shortage as well, she said.
“Districts cut things like mental health support, school counselors, social workers, psychologists. Many of them cut things like art, music, and P.E. or afterschool activities like sports. It’s just all over the map the things that have been cut,” she said.
Colorado’s per pupil funding average, projected for fiscal year 2018-2019, is $8,137, according to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee. The national average in 2015 was $11,392, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Spending varies widely by state, with some states spending upwards of $20,000 per student compared to below $7,000 in others.
Colorado had the fourth-lowest average starting salary for teachers in the 2016-2017 year, at $32,980, according to the National Education Association. The average salary for a teacher in Colorado is $52,000, however teachers in the majority of districts earn below the average, according to CDE data.
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Forest is a journalism and political science student at Metro State University. Originally from Washington, he settled in Denver five years ago. Previously, he was a reporter and News Editor for MSU’s student paper — The Metropolitan. He also wrote for Life on Capitol Hill and The Washington Park Profile.
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Victor Proulx November 1, 2018 at 4:37 pm
My you people need an editor.
Tina Griego November 1, 2018 at 4:54 pm
I’m the editor. What did I miss?
Stephanie November 1, 2018 at 9:07 pm
You stated that Walker Stapleton is the democratic gubernatorial candidate when in fact he is the republican candidate
Tina Griego November 2, 2018 at 8:53 am
I read right past that, Stephanie. We’re getting tired eyes over here. Thank you for having our backs. Corrected. Tina
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Comic George Wallace testifies in casino lawsuit
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Comedian George Wallace is telling a Nevada jury he's been hobbled by a leg injury he suffered at the Bellagio and he's seeking $9 million from the Las Vegas Strip resort.
LAS VEGAS (AP) � Comedian George Wallace is telling a Nevada jury he's been hobbled by a leg injury he suffered at the Bellagio and he's seeking $9 million from the Las Vegas Strip resort.
The 61-year-old took the witness stand Thursday to say he can't do things he used to do before he got tangled in loose wires on stage during a performance for a corporate group in December 2007.
Wallace suffered an Achilles tendon injury. His civil lawsuit accuses the Bellagio and its employees of negligence.
Bellagio lawyers cast Wallace as careless and say he voluntarily assumed the risk of injury.
Wallace's close friend, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, was in court for part of the day last Friday but wasn't there for Wallace's testimony.
Wallace has headlined since 2004 at the Flamingo hotel-casino.
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The Housing Market, Young Buyers, and the Growing Dissatisfaction with Democracy (and Capitalism)
By Dustin McKissen, Partner and Co-founder at Clustered Economic Development
Like pizza and cheeseburgers, democracy is something everyone is supposed to love, right?
Turns out, not everyone loves democracy quite as much as they used to. Over the last two years, research has shown that a growing number of young people—those under forty—have lost faith in democracy. Harvard researcher Yascha Mounk released a study in late 2016 that found:
Only nineteen percent of millennials feel it is illegitimate for the military to assume control of a country if an elected government is failing to do its job.
Support for democracy has decreased every year since 2005.
Globally, there are fewer democracies today than there were in the 1990s.
It would be easy to dismiss this data as yet another example of how (allegedly) damaged and dangerous millennials are. However, dismissing the data doesn’t make the data go away. Dismissing the data also doesn’t deal with the fact that a decline in support for democracy is historically tied to the economy.
In his book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, historian Ira Katznelson writes that calls for a dictator to assume control in the United States during the early days of the Depression were relatively common. Walter Lippman, at the time America’s most influential journalist, wrote just prior to Franklin Roosevelt’s inauguration that “a mild species of dictatorship will help us over the roughest spots in the road ahead.” Alfred E. Smith, a popular former presidential candidate and governor of New York, said that in the face of the Depression the nation should wrap the Constitution in a “piece of paper and put it on a shelf” until the crisis had ended.
The 1920s and ’30s show that a rejection of established political values can be the byproduct of the economic system not working for a significant percentage of the population.
The decline in support for democracy over the last twenty or so years isn’t a coincidence, and it’s not a side effect of too many participation trophies, or whatever millennial stereotype one chooses to use. While the range of birth years for millennials has changed several times, the generation was originally defined as those who entered adulthood around the year 2000.
If you entered adulthood around the 2000 (like I did), you have lived your entire adulthood and roughly half your life in an abnormal housing market. Your young adulthood began just as the housing market started to boom. In your mid to late twenties, the market crashed and brought the global economy to its knees. In the aftermath of the crash, developers stopped building, and as a result, your thirties have seen another booming housing market driven by a lack of available homes.
Pre-recession, when the labor market was strong, wildly overpriced homes were purchased with exotic and ultimately toxic financial instruments. Today, housing is often unaffordable because there are just too few homes on the market. During the recession, when homes were cheap, unemployment was high and job security was low.
Housing is about much more than just plywood, shingles, and mortgage insurance.
Our perception about where we live, and why we live there plays a powerful role in our understanding of the world and whether we’ve gotten a fair shake in life. If an entire generation has lived its adulthood in a market where the only time housing was affordable was also the time when the labor market was the worst, a decline in support for existing economic and political systems is inevitable.
Teaching people that democracy and capitalism are the best—and only legitimate—ways to structure a society only goes so far if those values are doing nothing to provide Americans with the basic necessities of life.
That isn’t to say the alternatives to democracy and capitalism are preferable.
What it does say is that the impact of a perpetually distorted and faulty housing market has a bigger impact than just keeping young people living with their parents longer. A lack of affordable housing and NIMBYism is not by any means the only reason for a decline in support for democracy, but given the central role the Great Recession has played in this century’s politics, it’s hard to argue that housing has nothing to do with the data in Mounk’s study.
In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration realized that saving capitalism and democracy might require intervening in the free market. If people don’t have the necessities of life—a safe home, food on their table, a job—they also don’t have a reason to support the system that makes obtaining the necessities so difficult, if not impossible.
The data in Mounk’s research is troubling, but it shouldn’t be surprising. If we want people to believe in the political and economic values that form the foundation of our society, they need to have at least a fair shot at getting the basics we all need to survive the modern world.
Like affordable housing.
Dustin McKissen is a partner and co-founder at Clustered Economic Development. He is also a columnist for VentureBeat, Inc., Entrepreneur Quarterly, and CNBC, and a two-time LinkedIn Top Voice on management and culture. He holds a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Prescott College and a master’s degree in public management from Northern Arizona University.
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Brainwashing in America: A "New Way of Thinking" (Part 4)
In Part 4, it gets pretty complex with how this "new way of thinking" has made its run on society at home.
This piece of serious complexity involves: the Clinton family, Al Gore, Universities, Rescue Mission Planet Earth, Gorbachev Foundation, and the United Nations. Whew! Here we go:
In 1994, President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development took a big step toward that global vision. It met with an influential group of like-minded change agents at the Presidio, the former army base in San Francisco that now houses the Gorbachev Foundation USA and dozens of other UN-related organizations. Its partners included the UN Environmental Program, the EPA, the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, State and Energy, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the American Federation of Teachers, Stanford, Colombia and other major universities, the Sierra Club... and the organizers of the Rescue Mission Planet Earth project.
Their joint report, Education for Sustainability, became a model for sustainable education. Quoting David Orr, author of Earth in Mind, it states:
"One result [of formal] education is that students graduate without knowing how to think in whole systems, how to find connections, how to ask big questions, and how to separate the trivial from the important. Now more than ever, however, we need people who think broadly and who understand systems, connections, patterns and root causes."[12]
Emphasis added to "root causes" that involve far more than ecology. Anything that blocks the general acceptance of the new global ideology is suspect and must be challenged. Traditional beliefs and values rank high on the list of villains to their vision of peace. For example, an international "Declaration on Tolerance," prepared by UNESCO and signed by its member nations, shows one of the major "root causes:"
"Tolerance involves the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism."
"Scientific studies and networking should be undertaken to coordinate the international community's response to this global challenge, including analysis of root causes and effective countermeasures, as well as research and monitoring... ", also, "Promote rational tolerance teaching methods that will address the cultural, social, economic, political and religious sources of intolerance-- major roots of violence and exclusion." Emphasis added here. [13]
The earlier statement from Education for Sustainability stressed the "need" for "people who think broadly and who understand systems, connections, patterns and root causes" from a predetermined perspective. This kind of thinking is -- and always have been -- crucial to brainwashing in totalitarian regimes with a global mission.
A basic goal of UNESCOs worldwide program for "lifelong learning" was summarized in Our Creative Diversity, the 1995 book-sized report from the UN Commission on Culture and Development. Published by UNESCO, it tells us that, "The challenge to humanity is to adopt new ways of thinking, new ways of acting, new ways of organizing itself in society, in short, new ways of living." [14]
This "new way of thinking" has become the standard for mental health in America. (See The UN Plan for Your Mental Health) As head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala helped organize The National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network. Ponder its definition for mental health: "Mental health refers to how a person thinks, feels, and acts when faced with life's situations. It is how people look at themselves, their lives, and the other people in their lives ...and explore choices." [15]
Do you wonder what Dr. Shalala and her network of health planners would consider good thinking? Or bad thinking? This definition doesn't tell us. But Al Gore's 1992 best-seller, Earth in the Balance, helps answer the question: "The fifth major goal of the Global Marshall Plan should be . . . to organize a worldwide education program to promote a more complete understanding of the crisis. In the process, we should actively search for ways to promote a new way of thinking about the current relationship between human civilization and the earth." [16]
Vice-President Gore was referring to an environmental crisis with psychological overtones. As we pointed out in the article on Al Gore's Vision of Global Salvation, he has diagnosed our basic social problem in America and suggested a solution: "...we feel increasingly distant from our roots in the earth...we lost our feeling of connectedness to the rest of nature." [17]
"The richness and diversity of our religious tradition throughout history is a spiritual resource long ignored by people of faith, who are often afraid to open their minds to teachings first offered outside their own system of belief. But the emergence of a civilization in which knowledge moves freely and almost instantaneously throughout the world has. . . spurred a renewed investigation of the wisdom distilled by all faiths. This pan religious perspective may prove especially important where our global civilization's responsibility for the earth is concerned." [18]
Al Gore's "pan religious perspective" has helped lay the foundation for a global environmental ethic. His vision of a "world education program" is nearing reality. It fits right into the United Nations' education system. This "seamless system" of partnerships and governmental agencies around the world has two main goals:
Prepare Human Capital (People) for a Global Workforce (Workforce Development – in this case - Means Life-Long Indoctrination) and bring the "thinking" of the world's human resources into alignment and compliance with the new global standards for Solidarity and Sustainable Development. (For more research look for: UN Plan for Your Community)
In other words, people must learn "to look at themselves" as part of the collective society, not as individuals. Their sense of worth must be based on participation in the community and compliance with the new ideology, not on individual beliefs or independent choices. A continual barrage of classroom "assessments" and surveys must test and track how children and their parents think, "explore choices" and draw conclusions.
To win this battle for the minds of the world, the United Nations and its powerful partners have agreed to put aside integrity and employ any possible means to reach their end. But they must still must operate according to guidelines that demand, at least, a perception of the consent of the masses. Therefore, the means to their end must be both subtle and deceptive, employing all the skills and strategies proven successful in the totalitarian countries of the 20th century. Al Gore summarized the attitude behind this global agenda well:
"Adopting a central organizing principle that one agrees to voluntarily means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, every treaty and alliance, every tactic and strategy, every plan and course of action“ to use, in short, every means to halt the destruction of the environment. . . Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change”, further, “these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary." [19]
Stay tuned in tomorrow for the final Part-5 of Brainwashed in America: "Every Tactic and Strategy..."
[12] Education for Sustainability: An agenda for action, the report from the "National Forum on Partnerships Supporting Education about the Environment," a demonstration project of the President's council on Sustainable Development, held at the Presidio, San Francisco, in the fall of 1994, page 11.
[14] Our Creative Diversity, UNESCO, 1995, p.11.
[15] The National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) at
[16] Al Gore, Earth in the Balance--Ecology and the Human Spirit (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992), page 355.
[17] Ibid., page 1.
[18] Ibid., pages 258-259.
[19] Ibid., page 274.
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Hitler’s Speeches
Adolf Hitler, Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany, September 14, 1930
I read that Hitler delivered about 5,000 major speeches during his lifetime running to many thousands of pages. I am unaware whether a comprehensive listing of his speeches, or any reliable word count, exists. I suspect they do not.
Below I list some major published collections of Hitler’s speeches, both in English and German. Almost all consist of excerpts rather than complete speeches.
In compiling the list I was struck again by the paucity of trustworthy scholarship underlying the Himalaya of words academics, journalists, popular writers, filmmakers and broadcasters have heaped up about Hitler and the Third Reich.
Empirical and intellectual shoddiness and ignorance underpin the entire structure. Whether the subject is Hitler biographies, the Holocaust, Hitler’s speeches, or anything else, empiricism and objectivity are thin on the ground. Possibly the only major area where objectivity obtains to a substantial degree is in strictly battlefield and military accounts of the war.
As Detlef Mühlberger observed in his two-volume collection of excerpts (of all kinds, not just speeches) from the Völkischer Beobachter, the official Party newspaper mentioned below as a major source for Hitler’s published speeches (Hitler’s Voice: The Völkischer Beobachter, 1920–1933, 2004): “The relatively limited published material on the VB and the lack of a content analysis of the paper is astonishing given the undoubted importance of the VB, especially during the Nazi Party’s so-called ‘Period of Struggle’ (Kampfzeit), a term applied by the Nazis to the years 1919–1933.” (p. 18)
And so it goes in every area.
The endless allegations against Germany and the Germans, as well as the maniacal, pervasive rhetoric of hatred and demonization, add to the surreal atmosphere, and contrast sharply with the blasé treatment given to Communism and Communists.
The Nature of Oratory
Adolf Hitler was one of history’s great orators.
Oratory and public speaking are not the same. (See “On Oratory.”)
Public speaking is, and always has been, far more common than oratory. Today it is ubiquitous, while oratory is virtually nonexistent.
William Pierce was a public speaker—and an exceptionally good one. There is great power in (good) public speaking. I was going to link to a couple of his 45-minute speeches, but both have already been yanked from YouTube.[1]
Oratory is not some elaborate discourse treating of an “important” topic in a dignified, formal, or possibly grandiloquent manner reminiscent of stereotypical 19th-century 4th of July orations or contemporary Memorial Day speakers reciting Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
True oratory is the natural ability to speak with extraordinary eloquence and effectiveness to a crowd, regardless of size. In former times routinely, and occasionally still today, the words “eloquence” and “oratory” were synonymous, and used interchangeably.
Unlike William Pierce, both Adolf Hitler and Jonathan Bowden were orators.
Demosthenes, Cicero, Patrick Henry, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay were also orators—not public speakers. This becomes glaringly evident when you pay close attention to the vivid language contemporaries used to describe such men and the mesmerizing effect they had on audiences.
For example, German-American US Senator Carl Schurz (R.-Mo.), who knew colleagues who had heard Henry Clay speak, described him as possessed of “the true oratorical temperament, that force of nervous exaltation that makes the orator feel himself, and appear to others, a superior being, and almost irresistibly transfuses his thoughts, his passions, and his will into the mind and heart of the listener.”
This vital capability of men long dead is obscured for us by our unfamiliarity with oratory, our inattention to detail, images formed in our minds from old paintings and engravings, and stereotypes of stiff 4th of July/Memorial Day speakers such as those mentioned previously. We are seriously misled about why such speakers were considered great.
Orators possess an extraordinary talent to move people, including intellectuals, emotionally, through the power of speech. They are unique and highly unusual human beings.
A psychic and emotional exchange, possibly a fusion, occurs between such speakers and their listeners, which is absent in public speaking. I am tempted to say that orators “channel” in some sense, although I do not want to invoke specific New Age practice or chicanery. As a consequence of all this, oratory is often viewed as a magic art, a black art.
Orator and audience partake in a joint ritual.
The orator, the occasion, the composition and mood of the audience, the subject matter, all contribute to a overall effect of the speech. The audience is transformed into Gustave Le Bon’s crowd by the orator’s stream of speech. It is this crowd that the orator psychically and emotionally interacts with, each feeding off the other.
Does Oratory Translate Well Into Print?
How well does such speech translate to print?
It appears that much must inevitably be lost in the process.
To use an analogy, the relationship of the printed speech to the original declamation is something like the relationship of a printed play to its performance on stage, a printed screenplay to the actual movie, or a television script to the TV telecast.
Novels are written to be read, whereas few people actually read plays, motion picture screenplays, or television scripts. In the same way, few people actually read speeches.
I own a book called A Treasury of the World’s Great Speeches which, interestingly, is made up primarily of excerpts rather than complete speeches. The compiler states that his ideal “is to include selections that read as well as they probably sounded. Even when the speaker lived long before our time, we can recapture him and his moment in history, and share some of the emotions of his original hearers.” (Emphases added.)
Do speeches translate to print better than plays, screenplays, or television scripts?
A lot depends upon the speaker and the speech.
The author of the Treasury calls Edmund Burke’s 1775 speech to the House of Commons on conciliation with the American colonies “the most readable of all speeches” (emphasis added), while noting that “in the whole history of eloquence Burke probably had the finest mind and, on most occasions, the worst delivery.”
Similarly, his introduction to Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist Theodore Parker’s speech indicates that Parker possessed “none of the graces of the orator, nothing to bind his audience to him but an immense sincerity, a transparent courage, and a terrifying arsenal of knowledge.”
Many famous speakers wrote their speeches out in advance. Adolf Hitler did this (I mean he wrote his speeches himself, without relying upon speechwriters), though he was quite capable of speaking extemporaneously with great force, and frequently did.
I have read that Demosthenes was reluctant to speak extemporaneously, declined to comment on subjects he had not previously studied, and elaborately prepared all of his speeches in advance. As a consequence, his orations became the object of careful study by others.
According to the Treasury, “In the classic Greco-Roman centuries distinguished orators wrote out their speeches, memorized them, delivered them with great éclat—and revised them for posterity.”
While such a method appears to bridge the gap between the spoken performance and publication as well as can possibly be done, the downside is that the finished product is not a genuine transcript or record of the address actually delivered.
It is possible that run-of-the-mill speeches transfer to the printed page better than truly outstanding orations, since the latter possess a gravitational force extending well beyond the ideas expressed or the specific words used to articulate them. Such speeches are, in a sense, a form of magical art.
Today when we read a speech by Jonathan Bowden, his voice still rings in our ears, whether or not we have heard the particular speech in question. We intimately associate the printed language with our vivid image of the man speaking—the familiar sound of his voice, his intonations, elocution, verbal pacing, body movements, beliefs, and so forth. The relevant sociocultural context also retains its immediacy.
But this kind of familiarity and intimacy does not exist for readers who have never heard Bowden speak, just as it no longer exists for us when we read great speeches by Patrick Henry, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, or, possibly, Adolf Hitler.
An arresting observation by one person who read translations of portions of Hitler’s speeches was that it was “like reading lyrics from songs without the music.”
For a complex variety of reasons, Hitler’s oratorical mastery is unapparent to most people.
Putting aside the absurd but widespread diabolization and ridicule of Hitler and his oratorical style, it appears that an insurmountable language barrier and radically altered social circumstances make it impossible to objectively comprehend, even when viewing live documentary footage, the profoundly hypnotic, convincing dynamic that suffused his speeches and sp deeply inspired the German people.
As the Chaplin clip vividly demonstrates, manipulative propaganda easily concealed the essence of Hitler’s oratorical power from white non-Germans even at the time.
The necessity of translating from the German, whether published speeches or subtitles on film, interposes a great obstacle.
Translation raises intriguing problems especially pertinent to white people worldwide, who suffer from severe language, and hence psychological and cultural, balkanization. Language barriers among whites have greatly facilitated the cosmopolitan promotion of genocide.
Translations can be good or bad, accurate or inaccurate. Even a non-misleading translation, poorly done, can appear dead on the page, nothing like the original. Some classic books have suffered such a fate.
Following are some of the major published sources for extracts (mostly) from Hitler’s speeches. Again, few complete speeches are available in published form.
Adequate English translations of Hitler’s speeches are extremely hard to come by. Presently, virtually all translations are confined to collections of excerpts rather than complete speeches. The quality of the translations is often very poor.
Following are some of the collections I am aware of.
Norman H. Baynes, ed., The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922–August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages, 2 volumes, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1942).
This 1,980-page work is a collection of representative passages arranged by subject matter. The excerpts are neither complete, self-contained, nor in chronological order (except for the passages in volume 2 on foreign policy, which are in chronological order). Interviews with journalists are also included.
Baynes translated from the German with some difficulty due to what he called a “diffuseness” in National Socialist terminology. Where authorized English translations of excerpts or interviews existed, Baynes relied upon those instead.
A 220-page abridgement is Norman H. Baynes, ed., Speeches of Adolf Hitler: Early Speeches, 1922–1924, and Other Selected Passages (N.Y.: Howard Fertig, 2006).
Raoul de Roussy de Sales, ed. Hitler: My New Order (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941), covers the early years through 1941. Excerpts from newspapers of the era commenting on some of the speeches, as well as introductory background material on each speech, are included.
A somewhat obscure volume is Gordon W. Prange’s Hitler’s Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923–1943 (Washington, DC: American Council on Public Affairs, 1944), a collection of excerpts arranged under twenty topical headings.
A little-known, but ostensibly more definitive collection, at least insofar as the years in power are concerned, is Max Domarus, ed. Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship, trans. Mary Fran Gilbert and Chris Wilcox (Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1990–2004), a 3,330-page, 4-volume set. The collection omits speeches prior to 1931.
Issued originally as a 2-volume German edition in 1962–63, the constituent English volumes are:
Vol. 1: 1932–1934 (1990)
Notorious German fraudster Konrad Kujau used the German-language edition of this work to plagiarize his colossal forgery, The Hitler Diaries, which was sold to the German magazine Stern for 9.3 million DM in the early 1980s. The fraud caused an international sensation.
It has been asserted that Domarus’s collection is considered the most essential and reliable resource for Hitler’s speeches. In fact, the German and English language versions of the work are both highly flawed.
The English translation has been characterized as being of very low quality. Neither version contains a complete collection of complete speeches. Some are mere excerpts, while others are missing altogether. It is often difficult to tell where speeches begin and end, and Domarus insisted upon inserting his own opinions into the middle of speeches.
An 800-page selection of quotes from this set was published as Max Domarus, The Essential Hitler: Speeches and Commentary, ed. Patrick Romane (Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2007). An Amazon.com reviewer noted of this volume that half the book consisted of “hectoring, unilluminating, hate-engorged commentary” by Domarus.
The New Germany Desires Work and Peace: Speeches by Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Leader of The New Germany. With An Introduction by Dr. Joseph Goebbels (Berlin: Liebheit & Thieson, 1933), an authorized English collection of Hitler’s early 1933 speeches.
Liberty, Art, Nationhood (Berlin: M. Muller & Sohn, 1935), 79 pp. Authorized English translation of three addresses delivered at the Seventh National Socialist Congress, Nuremberg, 1935.
Hitler Speeches Online (Published Texts)
Scattered websites have published purported copies of Hitler’s speeches. One key problem is that many of the “speeches” are not complete texts, but excerpts, a fact that is frequently not explained. The original German text is usually not provided for comparative purposes.
For the complete online text of a handful of key Hitler speeches, in both the original German and English translation, see here. The categories included are:
Speeches on the Anniversary of Coming to Power
Speeches on Art
Declarations of War Against the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941) and the United States (December 11, 1941)
The following two works are collections of Hitler’s writings and speeches in the years before he was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.
Eberhard Jäckel and Axel Kuhn, eds. Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen: 1905–1924 [Hitler: Complete Records: 1905–1924] (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1980), 1,312 pages.
Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen is a collection of primary documents that professedly includes all of Hitler’s speeches and writings from 1905 to 1924: every surviving letter, postcard, note and poem written by Hitler.
Co-editor Jäckel is a Left-wing, anti-Hitler Social Democrat. Since the 1960s he has claimed that Hitler intended to exterminate the Jews from 1924 on. A major theme of Jäckel’s writing has been what he sees as the uniqueness and singularity of the Holocaust, which he contends is like no other genocide.
In the late 1970s Jäckel wrote a series of newspaper articles attacking historian David Irving and his magnum opus Hitler’s War. These articles were later turned into a book, David Irving’s Hitler (Port Angeles, Wash. and Brentwood Bay, B.C.: Ben-Simon Publications, 1993).
In the Historikerstreit (Historians’ Dispute) of the late 1980s, Jäckel joined other Left-wing academics and journalists in attacking conservative German historians such as Ernst Nolte, Joachim Fest, and Klaus Hildebrand. Among his polemics was an essay entitled “The Impoverished Practice of Insinuation: The Singular Aspect of National Socialist Crimes Cannot Be Denied,” published in the newspaper Die Zeit.
In April 1981 it was revealed that 76 of the six hundred documents contained in Jäckel’s and Kuhn’s work were forgeries.
Institut für Zeitgeschichte [Institute of Contemporary History], ed. Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen, Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933 [Hitler: Speeches, Writings, Orders, February 1925 to January 1933] (Munich: K.G. Saur, 1992), consisting of six volumes and three supplementary volumes.
The NSDAP published Hitler’s complete speeches in German in the official Party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter. The VB is available on microfilm, but printed in Fraktur, a difficult German typeface to read.
The VB was a major source used by Norman Baynes and Gordon Prange for their wartime collections of extracts from Hitler’s speeches in English, as well as by Eberhard Jäckel and Axel Kuhn for their major work. (On all of which see above.)
The Party’s central publishing house issued miscellaneous collections of Hitler’s speeches—the accredited “author” for each volume of which is “Zentralverlag der NSDAP, ed.” Examples include:
Reden des Führers, 1933–1936 (1936).
Der Parteitag der Freiheit vom 10–16. September 1935: Offizieller Bericht über den Verlauf des Reichsparteitages mit sämtlichen Kongressreden (Munich: F. Eher, 1935).
Parteitag der Freiheit: Reden des Führers und Ausgewählte Kongressreden am Reichsparteitag der NSDAP, 1935 Wehrmachts-Ausgabe (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1935).
Reden des Führers am Parteitag der Freiheit 1935. Sonderausgabe der Luftwaffe (Munich: F. Eher, 1935).
Reden des Führers am Parteitag der Ehre 1936 (Munich: F. Eher, 1936).
Reden des Führers am Parteitag der Arbeit 1937 (Munich: F. Eher, 1937).
Reden des Führers am Parteitag Grossdeutschland 1938 (Munich: F. Eher, 1939).
Der Grossdeutsche Freiheitskampf: Reden Adolf Hitler vom 1. September 1939–15. März 1942, 2 Bd. (Munich: F. Eher, 1941–43).
[1] A 1998 Pierce speech I listened to just a few months ago, here, was removed because YouTube terminated the poster’s account. Although the reason for termination is not stated, YouTube is a subsidiary of Internet media giant Google, a multibillion dollar Jewish corporation. Google and other massive Internet firms interface closely with the ADL, a powerful Jewish censorship/hate group, to determine what content, opinions, and facts the global Internet audience is allowed to post, see, and hear, and what Americans and others worldwide will be forbidden from posting, seeing, and hearing. Later this year Stanford University is hosting a meeting of the “private” ADL, Google, Facebook (a Jewish company possessing enormous amounts of data on private individuals and organizations), and other elite individuals and groups to further extend Web censorship. Though such activities occur entirely in the dark, it is impossible to overstate their social impact. They create an artificial intellectual, cultural, and political environment in which anti-white racism, genocide, totalitarianism, anti-Christian bigotry, and many other evils cannot be opposed or countered, even verbally.
Published: May 30, 2012 | This entry was posted in North American New Right and tagged Adolf Hitler, Andrew Hamilton, articles, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, oratory, originals, rhetoric, William Pierce. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
herrwolf
Posted June 10, 2012 at 4:15 pm | Permalink
http://www.thepaganfront.com/hammer/text.htm
Posted June 2, 2012 at 1:52 pm | Permalink
Youtube actively suppresses (with IP-based blocks) or deletes them. And when I mean actively, it is actively. They are on watch around-the-clock, ready to draw their gun at light speed, and have undoubtedly automatic alert systems which detect keywords in the title of newly uploaded videos.
Earlier today I went to You Tube to play Deutschland über alles for son who loves national anthems. I was greeted by this:
http://www.youtube.com/verify_controversy?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DzfzZdSxkzMw
The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potentially offensive or inappropriate. Viewer discretion is advised.
Some jerk flagged the German national anthem as offensive content, and You Tube went along with it despite the video having 2.7 millions hits and many more Likes than Dislikes. Last time I looked at this video, which was about a year ago, that message wasn’t there, and there were thousands of comments the majority pro-German.
This, I think, is an example of pathological Talmudic hated that is unique to Jews. If you can no longer post a pro-German song written in the 19th century without harassment, I have to wonder how much longer even the mild White content is going to last on that site.
Posted May 31, 2012 at 3:36 pm | Permalink
To Francklin Ryckaert and Tanja
I do not have any problem with criticisms of Hitler. I personally recognize some of his mistakes and approximations, both in in the diplomatic and the violent field. The greatest being having failed to set up a Slavic Anti-Communist Army as soon as 1941 because of bias, hubris, or failure to see the purely ideological nature of the Russian war against Germany. I also agree on the fact he was not a superhuman orator capable of convincing anyone (can such a man really exist?), and actually benefited from favourable conditions in his accession to power.
But as a personal rule of thumb, I regard hostility toward Hitler among White Advocates with a suspicious eye, since it has all too often revealed in my life, after I had scratched the surface, a very serious lack of knowledge on World War Two and the fascist period as a whole… For example, a lot of people in our milieus still think that Hitler wanted to conquer the entire world out of German ultranationalism (thus forgetting his numerous peace proposals and the lack of preparation of his armies in 1939), or that he considered the French or the Spaniards as irremediably mixed with Negroid blood and thus suited for enslavement or “extermination”.
For example you can find on YouTube the complete film “Triumph of the Will” (1.44:27 min.) as well as the complete “The Eternal Jew”(1.01:24 min.). I cannot imagine any speech of Hitler’s that would be more “dangerous” than those two films.
These are actually the least dangerous. The Eternal Jew is a gross, über-simplified and thus defamatory pamphlet originally meant for consumption by the German masses, i.e. the 20-year-old female hairdresser.
I’ve seen it, and it actually calmed down my anti-Semitism instead of reinforcing it.
The Triumph Of The Will is a picturesque, aesthetic and borderline autistic film with a propaganda power which is close to none.
The most dangerous speeches I can fathom are different: more intellectual and more factual, or expressing an interest in peace rather than war. This is the sort of speeches that, once seen, can lead a man with above-average intelligence to ask himself: “I have therefore been lied to in school?”.
As for Hitler’s “charisma”, often a public speaker’s “charisma” is the creation of an artificially controlled environment.
I won’t say you are wrong — most crowds were probably carefully selected before a speech, at least in closed environments.
But this line of reasoning must be carefully manipulated, since its logical extremity is that German enthusiasm for Hitler was forged thanks to the barrel of a gun and tailored video propaganda. A judgement which has been found as untrue by every foreign traveller who went to Germany during the 1933-1939 period, fascist sympathizers or not (such as Natural Geographic journalists), and can be confronted with a single argument: why did he never fear an assassination in public or a revolution? Could you imagine Stalin crossing several towns and cities standing in a convertible, at all times of the year?
If you don’t belong to the Church of Hitler – worshippers, neither the Führer’s “charisma” nor his “genius” impress that much.
The problem is that to reach the head of a State and maintain you there, you need to be a genius. François Mitterrand or George W. Bush were geniuses, undoubtedly, even if they were corrupt, self-serving and hedonistic.
The rest is for subjective appreciation. I do think Hitler was a genius, since he was a complete autodidact, had every symptom of “giftedness” as a child and an adolescent, did revolutionize military tactics (despite the slanders poured on him at the end of the war), and most important of all, was a realist with a perfect understanding of natural laws.
Typing mistake: replace “Natural Geographic” by “National Geographic”.
The documentary I’m referring to is the following
Justin Huber
I’ve tried to read as many Hitler speeches as possible. As the author points out it’s not very easy to find them. At least accurate translations etc. However, I’ve really enjoyed the Hitler speeches I have read. Moreover, I came away believing that he was right. Oratory definitely is a lost art and Hitler was one of the masters.
Posted May 31, 2012 at 2:46 am | Permalink
I’m not very impressed by Hitler’s “charisma” either. Although it’s definitely a matter of personal taste, like another commenter said. Also, public speeches probably made a far greater impression on people in that pre-TV age – the bombastic style of Hitler or Mussolini (especially the latter) was a product of that age, and doesn’t age very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5nCZq_j8w&skipcontrinter=1
Jungleboots
This site has been around for awhile and is one of the best for music, films and all thing 3rd Reich.
http://www.nazi.org.uk/multimedia.htm
You may also want to check out Bill Finck’s Mein Kampf Project at
http://mk.christogenea.org/
Here is the Chancellor’s April 1939 Speech
http://comicism.tripod.com/390428.html
Thanks for posting the link to Hitler’s April 1939 speech. I had never come across it before. As always, I loved it. Hitler is music to the ears of anyone who has ever wanted to tell the political establishment to stick it up their ass.
A question to Andrew Hamilton: are you French? I sensed it when you used the term “diabolization” in this article; though correct on a Greek-English etymologic basis, this is a word only a native French would think about using, since the far more common term in English is “demonization”.
an insurmountable language barrier and radically altered social circumstances make it impossible to objectively comprehend, even when viewing live documentary footage, the profoundly hypnotic, convincing dynamic that suffused his speeches and sp deeply inspired the German people
I don’t think this is the case. When I was in collège, which is the equivalent of junior high school, an excerpt of a Hitler speech was shown on the television set during history class, purposely to show his oratory skills and (because my teacher was a liberal) “how mad he sounded”.
None of my comrades (who were between 12 and 14 years old) laughed at Hitler, mocked him in whispered remarks during the projection, or looked elsewhere out of boredom. In fact, all were captivated, even fascinated, their eyes riveted to the screen, in an admixture of admiration and fear for what they were (including me) seeing then as the “most evil person to have ever lived”.
Everyone of them agreed, at the end, on the fact he had a lot of charisma, and that his charisma was what made him very dangerous and powerful.
What better proof of the perfection of your oratory skills than, 70 years later, still having success with young teenagers, both gifted and dumb?
The distinction between oratory and public speaking does indeed revolve around memorization VS reading. It is impossible to be an orator when you read from a page, or even a prompter. That’s why Barack Obama is not an orator, even if he tries to act like one.
On several occasions, Hitler read from a page instead of declaiming a memorized or improvised speech. That was during official declarations to the Parliament or other formal events, and his tone was totally different than his usual tone. He thus made a clear distinction between oratory and public speaking, and never attempted to mix both.
Adequate English translations of Hitler’s speeches are extremely hard to come by.
Not only hard to come by, but often truncated. For decades, a false version of Hitler’s declaration of war on the USA (11 December 1941) floated, with the Jewish New York Times for origin.
For the rest, I can only agree with you on the fact Hitler’s speeches are totally unknown among large segments of the White Advocacy community.
Who knows, for example, the speech in which Hitler gives the reasons why he decided to invade the Soviet Union?
Here is a video of this speech I just uploaded: http://bayfiles.com/file/blqD/gwtS8s/Hitler_explains_his_reasons_for_invading_Soviet..mp4
If you want more videos of this style, I would be happy to upload them. They were originally created by THELINDGRENN, whose account has been terminated by Youtube in 2011.
The correct link is the following.
Thanks for your perceptive and thoughtful comments and observations.
I am American, not French.
It was instructive to learn of your and your classmates’ reactions to the Hitler speech, although they may have been due, at least in part, to the mixture of “admiration and fear” at listening to “the most evil person to have ever lived” as you describe it.
I’m not certain how common those reactions are among whites today, Germans, or even white nationalists.
There is no question but that Hitler was a true orator–one of the great ones.
Oratory versus public speaking, communicating passionately versus dispassionately (or even boringly), the performance aspects of oration and public speech, the apparent time-, context-, and audience- dependence of oratory, how well it is (or can be) captured in print, and related issues are quite interesting and present subtle philosophical questions.
Regardless of how successfully or unsuccessfully oratory migrates across time, or from speech to print, there is no question but that it is a powerful tool for achieving its objective—mesmerizing, moving, and persuading audiences and lighting fires in the minds of men.
Speakers who possess and exercise the gift are practitioners of a magic art.
I’ve always been surprised how even though there are so many Hitler-related videos on YouTube, the last time I looked, there was only one video of Hitler giving a speech (I believe it’s the one from Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will – not a very substantive speech).
Is it that no one has uploaded videos of speeches given by Hitler? Or is it that YouTube allows all manner of cheesy pseudo-documentaries about Hitler, but not actual footage of the man speaking?
At any rate, if anyone knows where to find videos of Hitler speaking (with English subtitles if possible), I’d be grateful.
A lot did, but they were banned (generally for “inciting hate speech”) and their videos deleted. The best uploader was THELINDGREEN; I had the fortunate time to save some of his works before the deletion of his account in late 2011.
Per your request, I’m currently uploading some speeches’ videos with English subtitles. There will be 3 or 4 in total.
I also have a lot of combat footage in color and high definition from the war, but these videos are still available on Youtube (hint: HCTerrorist) as of now.
Jacques Vendée
Excellent Youtube channel. Thanks for the tip.
Franklin Ryckaert
What is the problem? Go to YouTube, type in : “Hitler speeches”, and you’ll find a lot of them and with English subtitling.
I must say I personally am not smitten by either the contents of these speeches nor by the Führer’s “charisma”, but perhaps that is a matter of personal taste.
I’ve typed in “Hitler speeches” on Youtube as you recommended, and while there seems to be some available under that keyword (but with a non-European IP address only), they are far from the most interesting, and actually seem to be the same one or two duplicated to infinity.
Also, I generally refrain from engaging in personal attacks, but if you find Hitler’s charisma equal or inferior to the one of current politicians, you probably have some bias you need to re-evaluate. Idem if you did not learn anything new about the Nazi Period and the Second World War through Hitler’s speeches.
@ Deviance, May 30, 2012 at 4:17 am.
I don’t know how many of Hitler’s speeches have been recorded, so I don’t know how many might have been banned by YouTube. I know that YouTube is directly or indirectly controlled by Jews, but I still wonder why they allow so much of the Third Reich to be uploaded that might inspire people if it were their policy to prevent that. For example you can find on YouTube the complete film “Triumph of the Will” (1.44:27 min.) as well as the complete “The Eternal Jew”(1.01:24 min.). I cannot imagine any speech of Hitler’s that would be more “dangerous” than those two films.
As for Hitler’s “charisma”, often a public speaker’s “charisma” is the creation of an artificially controlled environment. Collect a crowd already emotionally excited to hear the Great Leader Himself, hang the hall full of symbols, flags etc., conduct impressive ceremonies before the speech begins and even the most banal utterances of a speaker appear almost as divine revelations. Crowds cheer simply because the intonation of the speaker suggests so, often without understanding what he is saying. For an example, go to YouTube : “A Historical Adolf Hitler Speech”. During this speech of 9.52 minutes the crowd cheered / applauded / shouted “Sieg Heil” 16 times, that is on average every 37 seconds. That happened at the end of almost every sentence Hitler spoke. I don’t think that had much to do with the content of his words, his “charisma” or even his gestures. His gestures BTW were practised before in front of a mirror, there was nothing “spontaneous” in them.
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Randall Stewart
Captain, Rockdale Fire Department
"First, I felt total disgust. Then, I felt helpless. What distinguishes firemen is that we're here to rescue complete strangers. There's not a citizen in the county that I wouldn't lay my life down for if need be. I was so proud of the NYC firefighters that paid the ultimate sacrifice."
Oliver Tucker
Rockdale Fire Department
"I was in shock. I couldn't believe what had happened. It definitely had an effect on my decision to become a firefighter."
David Irwin
"We were about to go into court when we heard the news. As a country, there was a loss of innocence and external numbing... I was profoundly sad at the loss of life. There was also rage that people thought so little of us."
Chief, Rockdale County Fire Department
"I was in Macon; I was the training chief for the Macon Fire Department. Once a week, we had a staff meeting and I was preparing for a staff meeting. After we'd all gathered in front of the TV, another plane hit. One of the chiefs said, ‘This is not a mistake. They're trying to do this.' "
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University of Colorado professors, scholars…
University of Colorado professors, scholars helped author federal climate report
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A woman takes photos of flood damage on County Line Road near Longmont on Sept. 13, 2013. A chapter in the 1,600-plus-page federal report on climate change released Friday highlights the 2013 flood in Colorado, which hit Boulder, Larimer and Weld counties the hardest, as an example of what crushing effects climate change-fueled storms could have on transportation networks.
By Cassa Niedringhaus | cniedringhaus@dailycamera.com | Boulder Daily Camera
University of Colorado professors and scholars served as co-authors on several sections of the urgent federal report released Friday afternoon that warns of the worsening effects of global warming.
The more-than-1,600-page National Climate Assessment involved at least 10 co-authors from Colorado universities, including five in the CU system. The report warns that the warming climate already has damaged and will increasingly damage the country’s economic growth, infrastructure and public health, and it examines at a regional level what warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas will mean.
“This is an issue that is going to impact daily lives sooner rather than later, and we’re already seeing some of these impacts based on the higher temperatures,” said Paul Chinowsky, a CU Boulder professor of civil engineering who served as a co-author of one of the report’s chapters.
Chinowsky and several other CU co-authors said the university’s involvement in drafting the report not only demonstrated the strength of its research activities, but it also helped to provide local insight and expertise.
“We have a really strong coalition in Colorado,” said Cecilia Sorensen, the Living Closer Foundation fellow in climate and health science policy at CU Anschutz. Sorensen also is an emergency medical physician and another co-author. “I also think it’s very valuable that the assessment is bringing in local experts. It’s not just relying on people sitting in Washington, D.C., to give assessment reports. It’s asking people living in communities and working in communities, ‘What are the impacts in your region?'”
In one chapter, the report highlights the 2013 flood in Colorado, which hit Boulder, Larimer and Weld counties the hardest, as an example of what crushing effects climate change-fueled storms could have on transportation networks. In an urban environment like New York City, bus networks and walking can accommodate for flooded subway and commuter tunnels, and highways and waterways can accommodate for flooded railways, according to the report. However, in more rural environments, that’s not the case.
“The rural transportation network may lack redundancy, which increases the social and economic dependence on each road and affects agriculture, manufacturing, tourism, and more,” the report states. “Flood events are prolific and exemplify the dependency that rural areas have on their transportation networks.
“This dependence is illustrated by the 2013 flooding … (that) resulted in 485 miles of damaged or destroyed roadways and 1,100 landslide and hillslope failures that cut off many rural towns for weeks.”
Five years after the disaster, predictions from each of nine municipal governments in Boulder County and the county government itself project a total of $486.6 million will have been spent on the disaster recovery.
More broadly, CU co-authors said, the report indicates that climate change in Colorado will lead to, among other things, spikes in hot days on the plains and decreases in cold days in the mountains; hotter summers; quicker deterioration of roads and other infrastructure; reduced snowpack; increased extreme weather events and wildfires; and decreased air quality.
“I hope that it raises awareness so people will take action,” said Ben Livneh, an assistant professor in the CU Boulder department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, and another co-author.
Chinowsky said the current rhetoric in the country about climate change is frustrating.
On Monday, President Donald Trump said he didn’t believe climate change would have the economic effects outlined in the report, and has frequently contradicted findings in the report.
“We are way behind everyone else,” Chinowsky said. “Here, we’re supposed to be one of the most advanced scientific countries in the world, and we’re so far behind in terms of accepting this reality that we live in.”
He said Boulder is being more aggressive in the adaptation and mitigation needed to address climate change, and it serves as an example to other cities. He hopes that, in response to the report, the new Congress pushes for federal action, such as a commission to lay out the country’s priorities in protecting the health and safety of people.
“This is not made up science,” Chinowsky said. “It’s time that we brought this back to the forefront, but I think it’s going to be a fight.”
Beyond that, he said, he hopes the report inspires people to organize grassroots efforts to push their city councils, county commissioners and state representatives to take action, too.
“I think it has to be top-down and bottom-up,” he said.
Cassa Niedringhaus: 303-473-1106, cniedringhaus@dailycamera.com
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Cassa Niedringhaus covers higher education. Prior to joining the Daily Camera, she covered breaking news at the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
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Where are the actual transgender people in Arcade Fire’s new video?
2014-05-20 10:30 am | Last updated 2015-12-10 10:37 pm
The end result is that transgender people are never recognized for who they actually are.
BY KAT HACHE
Last week, indie band Arcade Fire released the music video for the song “We Exist.” The video features Spider Man’s Andrew Garfield as an individual struggling with gender identity. Garfield is shown putting on women’s clothes before heading to a bar where his character is attacked—then quasi-resurrected—following a surreal dance scene in which, admittedly, the actor shines.
When I first saw the video, I had conflicted feelings. I thought that Garfield’s portrayal of a trans woman paralleled some of my own experiences as a trans woman, and I found it relatable, perhaps even uncomfortably so. As his character stood and stared in the mirror, I was transported back to my bedroom when I was 20 years old and struggling with my gender identity. I remembered the same frustrations as I tried to find my way to a reflection that wouldn’t make me want to avert my eyes every time I saw a mirror.
Nevertheless, there were aspects of the video that bothered me, and as I began to see the reactions of other transgender women on Twitter and Facebook, I knew I was not alone.
First, the song itself is not about trans women—it’s about a son telling his father that he is gay. While coming out in this way is as common an experience for trans people as it is for lesbian, gay, bisexual individuals, there is a danger in conflating sexual orientation and gender identity, especially in a video clearly intended to promote tolerance and understanding.
In our society, gender identity and expression are often muddled with sexual orientation. The suggestion that trans people are simply “extra gay” has been used to de-legitimize transgender identities by suggesting that transgender people should just be comfortable with being gay, regardless of whether or not they ever self-identified as such.
In my case, I had to come out twice to my parents and friends (first as bisexual, then as transgender), and I don’t see the two as necessarily related. For a time, I internalized ideas that transgender women should be attracted solely to men in order to be legitimate, which made me question my identity. But that only underscores why the conflation of gender identity and sexual orientation is so harmful.
The question of whether or not the character in the video is intended as a gay man or a transgender woman is an important one for other reasons, as well. For example, if the character in the video was intended to be a transgender woman, would it not stand to reason that an actual transgender woman should be chosen to portray her?
As exemplified by the choice of Jared Leto to portray a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers’ Club, there seems to be a prevalent idea in Hollywood that viable transgender actors and actresses simply do not exist. They are rarely acknowledged as possible casting choices, even for transgender characters. It’s easy to see how this idea could become a self-fulfilling prophecy: If casting directors don’t think there are trans actors capable of playing the role of a trans character, they won’t put out calls for said actors, and as a result, trans actors will remain less famous, if not invisible.
This becomes particularly problematic when you’re casting a video for a song entitled “We Exist.” If so, where?
Even in stories centered on transgender narratives, transgender individuals are often passed over and drowned out by outsider voices incapable of articulating these narratives from the same perspective. The message this sends is that expressing our narratives on our terms is less important than affirming the (usually inaccurate) narratives that non-trans people have created about us. The end result, of course, is that we are never recognized for who we actually are.
As I watched Garfield’s character endure violence at the hands of transphobic individuals only to emerge seemingly reborn before a rapt, cheering audience, I was reminded of the way Jared Leto received accolades and awards for his ”courage” embodying a trans woman in his role in Dallas Buyers’ Club. Yet the very real courage transgender people display every day is hardly ever recognized. If we are depicted in pop culture at all, it is often as tragic victims whose entire lives are reduced to an instance of hateful violence. Viewed through that lens, Andrew Garfield’s performance can begin to feel a bit exploitative.
For trans people, our life is not a performance. We don’t gain awards or recognition for being ourselves and enduring the struggles we face. And the attention that we get for saying that we exist is usually not positive. I have an entire blog dedicated to hateful things people have said about me for daring to be visible as a transgender advocate. I’m not going to dance that away, or wake up reborn in a world where I’m suddenly accepted by everyone around me. I have to fight every day to better not only my standing, but the standing of my entire community, to those who dehumanize us.
I do think that Andrew Garfield gave a good performance, and I appreciate Arcade Fire’s effort. I think it’s good for allies to acknowledge that trans people exist, and that we are people. But in the end, I can’t shake my discomfort with this video.
It comes off hollow when our narratives are used as bait for awards and recognition, especially when it doesn’t translate into more opportunities for transgender actors. It would be nice, for once, if actual transgender people were given a platform to actually say that we exist, on our own terms. It would be wonderful if our experiences were regarded as unique, and not seen as seen as interchangeable with that of cisgender gay men or drag queens. It would be refreshing if there was an acknowledgment that fixing the problems we face is going to take more than pride and proclaiming that we exist.
Because the people who hate us already know that we exist. As it stands, saying so only tends to make us a target. Instead, we need allies and society at large to acknowledge that transphobia exists, and that it kills. We need recognition of the fact that structural intolerance for variance in gender expression very much exists. And we need acknowledgment that sex and gender exist not as rigid binaries, but as spectrums of diversity.
We as trans people have the right not only to exist, but also to thrive and to be recognized as we are. And we deserve to articulate the breadth of our experience with our own voices.
This article was originally featured on Bustle and reposted with permission. Kat Haché is a transgender woman, artist, and writer from East Tennessee. She is passionate about transgender issues and is an ardent feminist. She enjoys retro video games, internet culture, ukulele and coffee in copious amounts. She tweets frequently at @papierhache.
Photo via Arcade Fire/YouTube
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News Newport News
People Express owed Newport News airport twice what had been reported
Reporter Dave Ress follows the money loaned to airline People Express.
Dave RessContact Reporterdress@dailypress.com
People Express Airlines owed Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport almost twice as much in fees as the airport's former executive director asked it to pay.
The startup airline owed the airport nearly $209,000 in passenger facility charges — fees airlines collect and are required by law to turn over to airports — a new review by the Peninsula Airport Commission found. The commission took a new look after the Daily Press asked for information about the unpaid fees.
A bit more than a month after People Express stopped flying, former Executive Director Ken Spirito informed the airline it owed $115,000 in those fees, after telling it to pay the fees or be evicted from the terminal, airport email records show.
In addition to the unpaid passenger fees, the airport also wrote off more than $51,000 in rent, utilities and fees for security badges that People Express never paid, airport commission interim Executive Director Sandy Wanner said in response to a Daily Press question about the company's debts.
Spirito had said those unpaid bills amounted to $18,000 when he evicted People Express from the airport's main terminal in November 2014 and from its offices in the old terminal in January 2015.
Key dates in the Peninsula Airport Commission's dealings with People Express Airlines:
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It is unlikely the money will be repaid, Wanner said.
"There is no one to pursue it against," he said.
Spirito declined to comment.
People Express began flying in June 2014 and stopped in September 2014.
Spirito had formally demanded payment of the passenger fees, without specifying the amount owed, in an email to People Express on Oct. 10, 2014, telling the company it had a month to turn the fees over or be evicted from the terminal.
Less than four months earlier, the Peninsula Airport Commission had agreed to guarantee a $5 million line of credit that TowneBank extended to the airline, which had transferred the full amount to its accounts by the time Spirito asked for the fees.
In 2014 the Peninsula Airport Commission quietly voted to use taxpayer funds to guarantee a $5 million line of credit for the longshot startup People Express Airlines. The airline launched in June 2014, but went out of business within three months, after drawing $4.5 million on the line of credit,...
On Oct. 29, 2014, Spirito asked TowneBank what he would have to do to freeze People Express' bank account and assets. The TowneBank loan officer handling the line of credit said she wasn't sure, adding that "yesterday there was nothing substantial in the accounts."
Spirito then emailed People Express telling the company it owed the airport $115,211, based on its traffic. The passenger facility charge of $4.50 is levied on each passenger boarding an airplane, and airlines are supposed to turn over $4.39 to the airport where the passenger boarded.
In the days that followed, Spirito pressed the commission's lawyer at the time, TowneBank Peninsula board member Herbert V. Kelly Jr., to see if the airport could seize an insurance payment due to People Express from the September tarmac accident that halted its service.
Kelly said there were no legal grounds to do so.
A few days after that, on Nov. 5 2014, the TowneBank loan officer handling the People Express account reported that an insurance check for $50,000 had landed.
With the fees still unpaid, and Kelly's advice that an earlier payment of $650,000 to Vision Airlines, the Nevada firm that actually operated the People Express flights, was not refundable, Spirito forwarded a 2013 newspaper story that said Vision had been charged with grand theft for not paying fees owed a Florida airport to Jim Bourey, who was then the Newport News city manager and airport commission chairman.
"If we pursue with them we will just send them into bankruptcy at this point and get nothing," Bourey replied. In bankruptcy cases, a federal court tallies assets and debts and tries to come up with a plan to pay at least some of what a debtor owes.
The airport repaid an overdue interest payment of $13,993 that People Express owed TowneBank on Dec. 8, 2014. Using a combination of state, local and federal taxpayer money, it paid off the remaining $4.5 million People Express owed TowneBank in April 2015.
It was not until January 2017, after a Daily Press report about the loan payment, that the commission told state officials it had used state taxpayer funds to guarantee and then repay the bulk of People Express' debt to TowneBank. The commission used local taxpayers' funds and a federal grant to cover the rest.
Ress can be reached by phone at 757-247-4535.
Audit could spark airport action; details remain unclear
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The definition of the word Dame in the dictionary is:
“The title of a woman who has been awarded of high ranking or of an empire.”
I chose the name #dametraveler because we wanted to exemplify strength, fearlessness and courage. When a female travels solo, she throws caution to the wind and she trusts the universe to protect her while she uses her instincts to make smart decisions. And so, this is where you come in! We cant wait to see what you have in store for us to share with the world.
Meet Nastasia Yakoub, a former nurse turned full-time traveler, entrepreneur and photographer with an ambition to inspire and empower women.
Born into a strict Chaldean-Middle Eastern household and community where females are expected to embrace a life of marrying young and neglecting any personal ambitions, Nastasia’s mission to represent and empower women stems from a desire to break the mold.
At the age of 20, Nastasia took a leap of faith and moved to Chicago to pursue a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing at Loyola University, supporting herself entirely as she began her new life full of opportunities and challenges. Soon after, Nastasia embarked on her first solo trip to South Africa to volunteer at an orphanage in Cape Town. Her experiences there sparked her love for the world.
Defying cultural norms, Nastasia went from being totally isolated from the world, simply because of her gender, to traveling to over 50+ countries, many of which were solo adventures.
Nastasia started the @dametraveler community in 2014 after noticing a need for a strong female travel community and people strongly resonated with her message. Today, Dame Traveler stands as the first and most well known and respected female travel community on Instagram and has been featured in the Washington Post, Travel Channel, AFAR, Travel & Leisure, VOGUE, Forbes Travel and more.
She has gained loyal readers who admire her passion and creativity through her incredible following online. Today, @dametraveler has reached over 450,000 followers on Instagram and over 100,000 on her personal account, @nastasiaspassport. Needless to say, she’s inspired thousands of women to step outside their comfort zone and see more of the world. Her next endeavor is to expand the Dame Traveler brand outside of web and social.
The birth of Dame Traveler was far from glamorous. Her life quickly and drastically changed as she recovered from a back injury, and was unable to pursue her career in Nursing. Stricken to bed rest, dreaming of adventure, Dame Traveler was born, blossoming to a community of shared love.
She’s passionate about a global community that connects, informs, and inspires women because of her own experiences. She believe in pursuits from the heart.
Experiencing life is a lot different than just living it. An experience tells a story which will be carried on over generations.
Her mission is to make this world a more connected, peaceful, compassionate and loving place. What better way to do that than to travel it?
Thank you for visiting, and don’t be afraid to say hello!
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Get in Touch: nastasiaspassport@gmail.com
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Dem clubs trash mayoral endorsements
Andrew J. Hawkins
Another Upper East Side Democratic club is taking a pass on the mayor's race, citing a lack of sufficient opposition from the candidates to the city's plans to build a marine waste transfer station at East 91st Street.
The East Side Democrats voted not to endorse in the mayor's race Sunday, following on a similar decision by the Lenox Hill Democratic Club last week. Presidents from both clubs said the plan to build the garbage facility weighed heavily on their choices.
The Lenox Hill Democrats were poised to back Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but instead opted to withhold their endorsement. Ms. Quinn is the only mayoral candidate who is a fervent supporter of the East 91st Street facility, which she sees as part of the environmental justice movement. But her rivals, some of whom had voted with Ms. Quinn for the Solid Waste Management Plan that included the transfer station only to later criticize it, had not promised to abandon the plan, East Side Democrats President Betsy Feist said.
"There was not a major candidate that had pledged not to go ahead and build that" facility, Ms. Feist said. "It just led to a decision that the best thing to do was not to endorse."
David Menegon, president of the Lenox Hill Democrats, said Ms. Quinn had the inside track on his group's support, but her support for the garbage station was too much to overlook.
"A lot of people were leaning toward Christine Quinn and her ability to run the city," he said. "But that one issue really prevented people from endorsing her. That's probably the most important issue on the Upper East Side."
Comptroller John Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who had both recently expressed skepticism about the East 91st Street project, also were passed over for endorsements by the clubs. Mr. Menegon noted that both officials voted in favor of the project when they were in the City Council. Former Comptroller Bill Thompson has also voiced uncertainty about the plan, but has not called for its outright reversal.
Only former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota has come out publicly against the proposed facility, vowing to nix the project if elected. But Mr. Lhota is a Republican, and not eligible for endorsement from the two UES Democratic clubs.
The Bloomberg administration is pushing the project forward on the premise that each borough should process at least some of its own garbage. For years, trash transfer stations were concentrated in manufacturing zones in the outer boroughs, subjecting nearby residents to heavy truck traffic and air pollution. But Upper East Siders say the location chosen for the plant is inappropriate because it is too close to a heavily used recreational space. An independent analysis found that the city would save hundreds of millions of dollars by canceling the project and trucking the trash elsewhere to be prepared for shipment to landfills. But the administration has continued to defend the plan in the courts, which have consistently deemed it proper and legal.
"Chris Quinn has been consistent and unequivocal on this issue," said a spokesman for her campaign. "She believes it's every borough's responsibility, not just communities of color, to do their fair share handling municipal waste. While some people in this race flip-flop, pander and duck, Christine Quinn remains firmly committed to a waste management plan for New York City where every community does its part."
As it happens, Ms. Quinn's predecessor as speaker, Gifford Miller, represented the Upper East Side in the council and strongly opposed siting a transfer station there. His position helped poison his relationship with Mayor Michael Bloomberg. When Mr. Miller ran for mayor in 2005, he finished a distant fourth in the Democratic primary, behind Fernando Ferrer, Anthony Weiner and Virginia Fields.
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Media campaign throughout round the world yacht race
Round the World Yacht Race
Challenge 1: Raise £27,000 with a lot of help from friends!
Challenge 2: To sail around the world. Our mission was to arrive home safe, happy, fast and in a podium position. We were very lucky to achieve all of these aims. There is a different video for each of the seven legs, all of which are available on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja3KoixzBbc
Challenge 3: Produce daily logs, media liaison for team and write a book for BP.
“Naomi kept people around the world focused and interested in the BP Explorer campaign. Her efforts resulted in corporate sponsorship and also produced a fantastic record of our circumnavigation.” David Melville, Skipper for BP. The thumbnail image from the top of the mast was taken by fellow crew member Oliver Browett.
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