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Vaccination campaign against Polio in Luanda
Here again comes the time for the annual Campaign against Polio in Angola. Angolan government, Ngos, International schools, expats, everybody is called for help in giving the two magic drops of the vaccination directly in the mouth of children age between 0 and 5 years old.
"In these last 14 months - as an Africare official told us - there have been no new cases of the disease in the Country".
That's a good news, but the campaign goes on even this year in order to prevent any new case and, as last year, the Luanda International School has been part of this campaign with more than 50 students, almost 10 teachers and a number of parents.
The Lis group of people has been sent in Rangel, a huge area in Luanda, where more than 38.000 people live in precarious living conditions without electricity, water, roads, stuck in a mountain of mud given the tropical rains of this last few weeks.
The guys have been walking in the street, knocking at the doors, asking to the people about the presence of children and after a while "they were coming to us" said a Lis student involved in the campaign. At the end of the day 800 children have been vaccinated as a matter of a touchable success.
The aim of this campaign held by the WHO (World Health Organization), Africare and African Governments is the eradication of Polio in Africa.
Here's the video of the Polio Vaccination Day in Luanda with Africare shot by Margriet Faber.
Polio Vaccination Day Lis-Africare in Luanda (2012)
Luanda solidarity
It happens sometimes that a group of people, no matter their skin color, their religion, their nationality, gather together around a wish: I want to do something for the others!
Well it happened a couple of days ago, when these people, americans, english, africans, italians, …, went all together in a "barrio" in south Luanda where some 500 people, mostly children, in their best clothes, were waiting their arrival in church, praying and singing and dancing.
Once there, this nice and colourful group of people, did a Christmas exibition, with their children pretending to be Maria and Giuseppe and a number of angels. Then they gave to the local children a present each and they distributed fruits to the others, there was no room in the church for the incredible amount of locals gathered around the church.
It happens that even if a simple wish couldn't change the world, can give some unfogettable two hours of solidarity and communion between people.
Etichette: Angola, Luanda, solidarity
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2 Cotton Tree villagers charged for Israel Perez’s murder
Headline — 10 February 2018 — by Albert J. Ciego
Perez’s body was found in a shallow grave in Harmonyville 9 days after he went missing
HARMONYVILLE, Cayo District, Thurs. Feb. 8, 2018– The search for Israel “Prince” Perez, 27, of St. Matthews, Cayo District, who had been missing since Sunday, January 28, eleven days ago, came to a tragic conclusion at about 6:00 Tuesday morning in Harmonyville, and two Cotton Tree men will be arraigned in court for his murder.
Perez’s body was found in an advanced state of decomposition in a shallow grave (a dugout). There were multiple stab wounds in his chest and upper body.
His hands and feet were tied, and his head was covered with a plastic bag. The body was partially exposed and a stench of decomposition was heavy in the air.
We were informed by the deceased’s brother, Orlando Perez, that the body was found by a friend of the family who lives in Harmonyville, who went to look for the missing man after seeing his car being driven on the road several times over the weekend by persons other than Israel. (Harmonyville is between the villages of Cotton Tree and St. Matthews.)
At the time he saw the vehicle being driven past his house, the family friend did not know that Israel Perez was missing, until he heard it on the news. After the newscast, he told his wife that something was wrong and he believed that Perez was dead, and that he was going to find his body.
On Tuesday morning, he and his son went out to find Perez, and a stench led him to the shallow grave (dugout) about 200 yards from the George Price Highway, where he saw the partially exposed body. He immediately contacted Perez’s family and the police
Perez’s elder brother identified the body as being that of Israel.
In an interview with us, Orlando Perez said that when they arrived on the scene, police were already there, and the area was already cordoned off. An onsite post-mortem exam was carried out, after which the body was taken to Cotton Tree for immediate burial due to the state of decomposition it was in.
He believes that his brother was held captive somewhere before he was murdered.
Perez told us that the last time he saw his brother was Saturday, January 27, which was one day before he had been reported missing. He recounted that his brother had visited his barbershop in Belmopan, as he would normally do before he went home. He left at about 9 p.m. after declining an invitation to go to a nightclub.
According to Orlando Perez, on Monday, January 29, his brother texted him and told him he was in San Pedro Town for a meeting and would remain there until the end of the week. After that, however, Perez disappeared.
Israel Perez’s common-law wife said that she saw him Friday morning, January 26, when he left home to go to work at the Immigration Department, where he had worked as a clerk for the last two years.
His colleagues said that he was friendly and jovial and easy to get along with, and Diana Locke, the Director of Immigration, said that he was well-liked and will be missed.
Since the discovery of Perez’s body, police have made an arrest in connection with the incident which led to his death. Police said that yesterday morning, Wednesday, Cruz Castillo, 34, of Cotton Tree, was arrested and charged with handling stolen goods after police went to his house in the village and found some of Perez’s belongings in the house, and also, Perez’s vehicle was parked in his yard.
Castillo was taken to the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court on the charge, and was remanded until Friday, while police continue the investigation into Perez’s murder.
This morning during a police press brief held at the Racoon Street Police Station, ACP Joseph Myvette, Head of National Crimes Investigation, said that another Cotton Tree man, Stanley Herrera 22, has been arrested, and that he, along with Castillo, was charged for Perez’s murder.
The two men are expected to be arraigned on the capital offense tomorrow, Friday, at the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court.
ACP Myvette said that the motive for the murder is not yet known, but the two men were known to Perez. Myvette said that it is also not yet known when Perez was murdered, and where.
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home > Ngorongoro crater
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The Ngorongoro Conservation Area stretches from the Crater Highlands up to the Serengeti and the northern shore of Lake Eyasi. The Ngorongoro Crater was created by the same volcanic movements which also formed the Great Rift Valley, was once as high as Mount Kilimanjaro. Approximately 3 million years ago Ngorongoro erupted, covering the Serengeti with ash, leaving a large crater in the centre of the mountain. The Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact caldera in the world, with a diameter of about 18 km and an area of 260 km2. The steep crater ridge is more than 600m at its highest point.
The crater floor is an earthly paradise and, with about 30,000 animals, one of the most populous wildlife areas in the world. Because the area is enclosed and the flat crater floor is mainly open grassland, it is easy to manage, with the result that it is a stronghold of endangered species, including the black rhino and the cheetah. There are no giraffes, topi or impala in the crater. These animals find the rocky areas too difficult to use and there is insufficient grass for large herds of antelope. The main prey animals are wildebeest, zebra and buffalo and the main predators are the lions and spotted hyenas. In the open savannah a hunt can be followed quite easily, and is especially interesting as it seems that in Ngorongoro, contrary to what one might expect, the hyenas are the aggressive hunters and the lions are the carrion eaters. Lake Magadi, located in the southwest, is a large shallow soda lake where countless flamingos and other water fowl live alongside the hippopotamuses.
Magnificent as it is, the Ngorongoro Crater is only a small fragment of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and among the areas other attractions are two lesser-known craters, Olmoti and Empakaai. The added attraction of visiting these craters is that you can either walk or drive all the way to the foot of Olmoti, or the rim of Empakaai. Olmoti rises to 3073m at its western rim, which can be reached by walking through bush and grassy tussocks often bedecked with flowers. An additional highlight of the area is the Munge Falls, which flow through a cleft on the Crater’s southern side. The stream cascades down steep cliffs, hundreds of metres into a ravine.
From the edge of the crater the road twists downwards towards the Serengeti through rolling grass plains and acacia forests. About 30 kilometres from the crater, there is a narrow road to the Olduvai Gorge. At the site of the gorge, which is approximately 90 metres deep, there was once a lake. Over the years, the lake was covered with thick layers of volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of early humanity. To be so close to where mankind may have begun is an inspiring experience, especially when you see the famous Laetoli footprints, made by early humans some 3.6 million years ago.
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12-year-old girl arrested for pinching boy's bottom at school
A 12-year-old girl is facing criminal charges after she was arrested for pinching a male schoolmate on the behind. Breana Evans says that it was a joke, but she was suspended from Milwee Middle School in Longwood, Florida, and placed in the back of a squad car, taken to the juvenile justice centre and fingerprinted.
Evans said she was charged with a misdemeanor for battery. “I was by the office and we were just pinching random people, and that's it,” Breana said. Breana was suspended because the act was deemed “socially unacceptable.”
“I can see her being suspended from school. I understand that, but as far as them coming to arrest her the next day, no, that's not the American way,” Breana’s father, Ray Evans, said. Ray Evans said the arrest was “extreme” and “crazy.” Deputies said there isn’t a history between Breana and the student she pinched, but officials' hands are tied because the mother of the boy wanted to press charges, even though the boy didn’t want to.
“I don't get why it's such a big deal. I just pinched the boy's butt. I didn't like hurt him or anything,” Breana said. "All I can say for you, lady, is you need some help I think. Too overprotective," Ray Evans added. Deputies consulted with the State Attorney’s Office, and now Breana will take classes and do community service as part of a 90-day diversion program to have the charge removed from her record upon completion.
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I have traveled all over the world and hold several degrees, have been a photographer in a war zone, and really been around, and I was never more terrorized and abused than during elementary school days in the USA. I have never ever encountered such arrogant foolishness and intellectual nonsense. Much of the problem was that a school of 600 children had no male teachers at all. It was a prison run by women.
Momboleum said...
Okay, but reverse this so that the boy pinched the girl's butt and would there be this hue and cry? If the boy had been the pincher, would his father get away with saying "Get over yourself, lady, my son just pinched your daughter's butt"? Let's apply these things equally to all offenders, shall we?
I think the point that this was inappropriate behavior could have been put across with administrative punishment and much less drama.
C'mon, folks. Shall we get some perspective here?
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Correspondence concerning John Unthank Gift
Identifier: SFHL-SC-232
Contains correspondence concerning the gift of Dr. John Unthank of Limerick, Ireland, of £1,000, to be divided between two concerns: first, to the Ohio, Indiana and Baltimore Yearly Meetings to be applied by them through their Indian committees toward promoting the so-called civilization and Christian instruction of Native Americans; and, secondly£250 each to Indiana and Ohio Yearly Meetings toward establishing boarding schools for the children of members. Samuel Parsons of New York Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) served as agent in distributing the funds.
Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 (Contributor, Person)
Materials are in English.
This collection is available for research use.
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John Unthank, M.D., was a Quaker of Limerick, Ireland. He was the son of Isaac and Mary Unthank, born in 1754 and died in 1840 at the age of 86. In 1811-1812, he placed a sum of £300 in trust, to be used after his death to aid the Indians of North America. In 1834, at the suggestion of Elisha Bates, an Ohio evangelical Quaker who crusaded for social causes including temperance, prison reform, and anti-slavery, this amount was amended to £1,000, to be immediately distributed. New York Yearly Meeting for Sufferings (Orthodox) appointed Samuel Parsons, long-time Clerk, to act as agent in distributing the funds.
Source of acquisition--New York Yearly Meeting. Method of acquisition--Gift of; Date of acquisition--1997.
Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861
Church work with Indians
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Meeting for Sufferings
Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York
Society of Friends -- Education
Society of Friends -- Indian affairs
Society of Friends -- New York (State) -- New York
Unthank, John, 1754-1840
SFHL/FHL/SC. Small Collections
Cite as: Correspondence Concerning John Unthank Gift, SC/232, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/7/resources/6815 Accessed July 16, 2019.
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United States of America beat Netherlands to win Women's World Cup
by Earnest Huff
in Culture
When the final whistle blew on July 7, the Americans basked in the triumph of their victory over the Netherlands with a score of 2-0.
Rapinoe, who has scored five goals including four in the knockout stage of France 2019, pointed out that this kind of support isn't almost good enough, especially since the gap between the men's and women's prize money continues to grow. The U.S. also has Megan Rapinoe, who has scored five goals in the tournament and is expected to play in the match despite suffering a hamstring injury in the match against France. "Obviously not myself, not Ali Krieger, and I suspect not many, if any, of the other players, but I haven't spoken to every one of them about it".
Some couldn't resist referring back to Alex Morgan's tea-sipping goal celebration against England last week. She responded to the criticism Friday, saying it amounts to a double standard.
USA head coach Jill Ellis said: "The Netherlands are a tremendous team, they're European champions, they've got a lot of talented players and a coach who knows what she's doing".
The U.S. defeated Thailand, Chile and Sweden on the way to the knockout stage.
The 2015 tournament won by the United States of America was the Netherlands' first ever World Cup, yet the "Oranje" have enjoyed remarkable success since under the tutelage of Sarina Wiegman. The U.S. was criticized for over-celebrating during the win.
In a statement to Reuters, a Federation Internationale de Football Association spokesperson said: "The scheduling of the different events has gone through a comprehensive consultancy process that has involved all key stakeholders and taken into account different aspects of both the women's and men's global match calendars".
Neymar takes a Massive step to force his move to Barcelona
Arturo Vidal holds no concerns about Barcelona pursuing Neymar as the Brazilian's return to Camp Nou reportedly edges closer . Coach Ernesto Valverde is keen to keep him at the club beyond the end of the transfer window.
Palkot began with "We are here in a sports bar in Lyon, France-" before he was promptly cut off by the crowd's chants of "Fuck Trump!"
Christen Press started in place of Rapinoe against England, and it will be interesting to see if the forward will play the entire game. And Lavelle, if you were putting odds on the 2023 Golden Ball race, would surely be the early favorite. VAR confirmed the foul and Megan Rapinoe took the penalty kick.
The USWNT came into this tournament with one goal and one goal only: to lift the trophy.
The Netherlands battled throughout and goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal kept out the US for an hour with a series of superb saves in front of 57,900 fans at Lyon's Groupama Stadium. Goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal was outstanding, brilliantly thwarting Julie Ertz, Sam Mewis and Alex Morgan - twice - in the first half. If they win, it'll be their fourth time winning the tournament. "We've dug in, looked each other in the eye in the hard moments and gone through things as a team", Rapinoe said. Both times during the SheBelieves Cup.
Before the game, the experienced midfielder called on younger members of the squad to step up in the final, and 24-year old Rose Lavelle drove home the second goal of the game.
Cheers to the Women's National Team on holding it down for the US of A - here's hopin' the men take a cue as they play in their own championship later Sunday.
Maura reveals she fancies Curtis EVEN MORE following dance lesson
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Ryan Murphy releases first look at ‘American Horror Story: 1984’ 7/12/2019
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Maura reveals she fancies Curtis EVEN MORE following dance lesson 7/08/2019
British police travel to U.S. to question Kevin Spacey over assault claims 7/07/2019
Jordyn Woods Hits Back At Claims She 'Never Apologised' To Khloe Kardashian 6/29/2019
Beth Chapman of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Fame Dead at 51 6/27/2019
Roger Federer Breaks Another Record at Wimbledon Championships 2019
Berrettini saved three match points to see off Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/2), 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-3. Serena Williams in action during her third round match against Julia Goerges at Wimbledon on Saturday.
British police travel to U.S. to question Kevin Spacey over assault claims
The " House of Cards " and "American Beauty" star has not faced any formal charges relating to the United Kingdom allegations. Spacey caught a break this week when a man who claimed he was groped by him in a Nantucket bar dropped his civil lawsuit.
Atletico Madrid Enraged Over Griezmann Negotiations With Barcelona
During the last season, the 22-year-old player scored eight goals and made five goal assists in 29 appearances. They had also been negotiating the terms of such an agreement since mid-February.
Former Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi suffers stroke
"Tedy has the complete support of ESPN and we wish him a speedy recovery", the network said in a statement to TheWrap on Friday. He and his family later launched Tedy's Team, a running club that raises money for the American Stroke Association.
Meghan Looked Incredible At Wimbledon Yesterday
Meghan Markle , who recently welcomed her son Archie Harrison with husband Prince Harry , took some time off her maternity leave. She laughed with Wimbledon chairman Philip Brook and his wife, Gill, as they waited for the Swiss heavyweight to appear.
Las Vegas feels California natural disaster
By now, most attractions have since reopened with no damage reported, although we're sure the squirrels are still quite shocked. This morning's temblor, which was felt as far as Los Angeles, was quickly followed by several smaller aftershocks in the area.
Hot and holiday storm chances
While there is a chance of storms late tonight with some models, most models keep us dry so will keep the rain chance out for now. The severe threat looks to be low, but an isolated storm intensifying to produce some small hail can't be ruled out.
Rahul Gandhi officially resigns as Congress president
"As President of the Congress Party, I am responsible for the loss of the 2019 election". Gandhi's letter, which comes 40 days after he submitted his resignation, is significant.
Dolphins' Norton has arm amputated after crash
Alex Camacho said the Ford F250 driven by the 22-year-old Norton crashed into a concrete barrier on State Road 836 near Miami . The 6-foot-3, 314-pound defensive lineman had 84 tackles in three seasons at Miami in college, including five sacks.
Rapinoe expects to be ready for World Cup Final despite "minor strain"
Others criticized the piece and said that Trump never expressed hate toward Rapinoe, but that it was the other way around. Franklin Foer, a journalist for the Atlantic and a soccer aficionado, branded Rapinoe the Muhammad Ali of her generation.
Watchdog releases photos of overcrowding inside Texas migrant detention facilities
Some adults were only receiving bologna sandwiches, causing constipation and in some cases requiring medical attention. The posts threaten to tarnish the Border Patrol's image at one of the most challenging times in its 95-year history.
Former Dallas Cowboys QB Anthony Wright, 45, is shot multiple times
A warrant was issued for the man's arrest for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill. According to ProFootballTalk , Wright entered the league as an undrafted free agent for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Hunt plans £6bn no-deal Brexit war chest 'like the bank bailout'
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Tetris Royale is Coming to Android
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Explainer: What is Solar Eclipse?
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Golden State congratulates Raptors on National Basketball Association title with full-page newspaper ad6/18/2019
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Inconvenient Films - Lithuanian film festival about human rights
Photo: Inconvenientfilms.lt
Author: Vilnius-events.lt
Source: Vilnius-events.lt
Human Rights Documentary Film Festival "Inconvenient Films" is an annual documentary film festival established in 2007. The mission of this non-profit initiative is to raise awareness on human rights issues around the world and to connect them to those that are present in Lithuania. By presenting various documentaries on main human rights topics, inviting filmmakers and activists from all over the world, organizers hope to encourage public debates on human rights issues and ways to solve them. Despite project’s social mission and non-commercial character, "Inconvenient Films" is one of the most popular and most visited film festivals in Lithuania.
"Inconvenient Films" is so far the only film festival of such profile in the Baltic States. More then 60 000 viewers visited festival’s educational screenings since its foundation. Festival organizers are aiming to broaden its audience’s and draw attention to social challenges, global and local human rights issues. It is a space for free thought, sincere discussions about subjects which really matter.
More information: www.inconvenientfilms.lt/en
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Oscars Academy extends invitation to nine Arab filmmakers
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Documenting the undocumented
Oscar nominee ‘Capernaum’ to screen across the Middle East this March
Regional film distributor Empire Entertainment in collaboration with Mooz Films has announced the release of Nadine Labaki's Oscar-nominated film in theaters across the Middle East.
Academy Awards inducts 12 Arab filmmakers as members
The filmmakers are now members of the academy in the categories of writing, directing, acting, documentary, animation and production.
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Colourist Belal Hibri recounts the grading journey for "The Insult", the landmark film that earned Lebanon its very first Oscar nomination.
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'The Insult', Ziad Doueri's tense Beirut-set courtroom thriller, has become the first Lebanese film to be nominated in the Oscars' foreign-language category.
The UAE qualifies to submit feature films to the Oscars
The Dubai International Film Festival has announced that the United Arab Emirates will now be able to submit an entry to The Academy’s foreign language film competition for the 90th Academy Awards following the selection committee being approved this month.
OSN to telecast the Oscars live
OSN will air all of the live action from the star-studded 88th Academy Awards ceremony at the same time as the US. Organised under the theme ‘We All Dream in Gold,’ and hosted by comedian, Chris Rock, OSN will telecast the ceremony live and exclusively across the region on OSN Movies Premiere HD...
Theeb readies for the Oscars
The new year began on a positive note for Arab filmmakers with two nominations for the Oscars. Sanad-funded Jordanian film Theeb is in the race for the Best Foreign Language Film while Palestinian film Ave Maria is vying for the Best Live Action Short Film at this year’s Oscars. Theeb, was...
Theeb shortlisted for Best Foreign-Language Film at the Oscars
Naji Abu Nowar’s Jordanian film Theeb has made it into the Oscars race after being shortlisted among the nine films to be considered for the Best Foreign-Language Film Award in the 88th Academy Awards. The list has been narrowed down from the 80 submissions that were originally considered for...
SANAD funded films vie for the Oscars
Three of the seven Arab films being considered for the Best Foreign Language Film category in the 2016 Academy Awards were funded by SANAD, demonstrating the quality and success of this Abu Dhabi-based initiative to support Arab film making. The SANAD funded Oscar submissions for 2015/16 are: • ...
Jordan nominates Theeb for the Oscars
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OSN to showcase the Oscars
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12 Years a Slave wins the Oscar for Best Picture
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Three Arab films nominated for the Oscars
This year three Arab films have made it to the Academy Awards nominations. Palestinian thriller Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad, is up for Best Foreign Film. The nomination for Assad’s Omar is the second for a Palestinian film, following the nomination for the Director’s Paradise Now in 2006. Omar...
Iran pulls movie from Oscars in US film protest
Iran has announced it will withdraw its film entry, A Cube of Sugar, from the Oscars following the appearance of a US-made anti-Islam film titled Innocence of Muslims on the internet. The latter, made by a group of extremist Christians in the US, allegedly ridicules the Islamic religion. According...
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Q&A With the 17-Year-Old Who Sold an App to Yahoo for $30 Million
Nick D'Aloisio speaks about the development of Summly, how he met Marissa Mayer and his girlfriend's reaction to his new fame.
By Victor Luckerson @VLuckMarch 29, 2013
Elizabeth Renstrom for TIME
After Yahoo Acquires Summly, Is Buying Math the Next Tech Bubble? NPR
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Nick D’Aloisio took a big risk at the end of 2011 when he stopped attending high school regularly to focus on developing a mobile news app powered by a text-summarizing algorithm. This week his bet paid off. Yahooo purchased D’Aloisio’s app, Summly, for a reported $30 million, and now the 17-year-old has a full-time job in the tech giant’s London office. D’Aloisio stopped by the TIME office to discuss his previous apps, how Summly will affect the media landscape, and what his girlfriend thinks about his newfound fame.
How did Summly come about?
I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that’s not relevant. If you could come up with a textual preview, that would give you a snapshot of the full story. I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn’t realize I was 15. They thought it was a UK company with a team. It turned out that they actually liked my age because it demonstrated I was net-native, so I’d only grown up with the Internet. They flew to London about a month later and invested $300,000. That kick-started this whole journey.
What got you interested in app development?
It was the opportunity to be on an equal playing field with the biggest companies and publishers in the world. The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows who’s behind the screen so you can’t tell I’m a 12-year-old. I was very careful not to publicly give my age prior to the investors coming on board because I wanted the idea to be judged on its own merit and not because of the story or because of my age.
Your first app was when you were 12? What was it?
My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a “fingermill”—a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.
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How did Yahoo come into the picture?
We spent about 12 months developing Summly, launched it in November. One or two months after that we began talking to a few companies and investors. The really exciting thing for me with Yahoo is the new CEO, Marissa Mayer. She’s a product person. She’s really keen to take technology and bring it to the mobile phone.
Have you met Marissa Mayer?
I actually first met her at a conference in Munich last year when she was still at Google. That was the very first conference I did. We had conversations [before Yahoo purchased Summly]. I spent a bit of time on campus and got to meet the team. All of them have this big long-term vision of where Yahoo can be. I wouldn’t have joined Yahoo had I not bought 100% into it. In five, ten, 15 years time, I could still see myself being there.
What does an app like Summly mean for the future of media and journalism?
Some people have said, ‘Oh Summly’s trying to dumb down information.’ It’s really quite the opposite. Its intent was to make it easier to discover what you want to read, therefore giving you more time to read in depth. It’s like a film trailer, but for content. It’s actually incentivizing people to read the full story.
There’s been a lot of tension between news aggregators and news publishers lately. How do you think publishers and technology companies can find a balance between old and new media paradigms?
I think they need each other. Some new service launches tomorrow that’s this new media paradigm and people would expect people in the old media to go sue them, but quite frankly they need each other. Summly’s a new paradigm service. What we’re doing is a bit innovative, but we still fundamentally rely on old-media journalism because you need a journalist out in the field to write the original, sourced story. If the sourced story is written poorly, the summary will be poor. We’re still dependent on that original content. If you flip it the other way, the old media also now relies on the newer services and aggregators to distribute their content. There’s a whole generation of younger people who only consume information on their phones. If the old media’s going to continue to thrive with this new platform, services like Summly can really try and help that. It’s going to be a partnership.
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What has this media spectacle been like for you?
Numbing is probably the best word to describe it. It’s a shock to be honest. The only thing I can take from this that I’m genuinely kind of proud that I’ve been getting a lot of tweets where young people are commenting and saying, “This is really inspirational, I want to go and start my own thing.”
Are you going to be going to school and working at Yahoo?
I’m a full-time employee at Yahoo now. I’ll be working out of their London office. I’ll be doing my A-Levels–equivalent of SAT–on the side outside of school.
What will be the nature of your job?
I’m going to be on the mobile team. First things first will be, ‘Let’s get our summarization technology integrated as fast as possible.’ Over the past 18 months, we believe we’ve made ground from a scientific perspective in how we go about approaching this summarization stuff. It’s now our time to bring that to the forefront of mobile consumption.
When was your last day of regular school?
I”ve been visiting on and off, but it was the end of 2011 when I was going to school every day. We launched a product in 2011 that I’d been developing while at school. The [initial] investment had already been made, so for a time I was doing this all at the same time, which was hell. In lessons I was checking my phone and I was phoning people at lunchtime. I was very careful not to tell my friends about it because I didn’t feel it was necessary at that point.They ended up reading online about this when it broke. They flipped. It was like 100 posts on my Facebook wall.
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Do you still have friends that are your age?
Yeah, I see them on the weekends because I still live with my parents.
Do you have a curfew?
To be honest, I didn’t have a curfew before, but my mom is always texting me. She was on the phone this morning making sure I was OK. They’re always texting me and calling and making sure I’m being taken care of.
Are they involved in technology at all?
No, my mom’s a lawyer and my dad works in oil and gas.
How did you gain an interest in tech, then?
I don’t know, it was natural. I got my first Macbook at Fifth Avenue here when I was about 9. I started using it not in a recreational sense but in a creative sense. I started to do movie making. I played with Garage Band. I wanted to create things, but I couldn’t do them with my hands. With a computer, you have the tools a professional at the top of their field would also be using. Think about how many people now upload things to YouTube or have their own blog or are doing apps. There’s a lot of teenagers doing that because they have the toolset.
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What does your girlfriend make of all this?
I’ve been going out with her for about 10 months now. She’s been really supportive. The good thing is with my close friends and my girlfriend and even my family, if I’m with them we’re not talking about this at all. They don’t see it as coming into who I am really. When I’m with them, we’re not wanting to discuss my work. I was on the phone with my girlfriend last night and she wasn’t even talking about any of this. She was talking about how we’re going out next week to this party or something. If my close friends or my girlfriend were massive fans or in technology, it would mean I wouldn’t have any personal normality. Everything would surround Summly, and that would be really hard for me to psychologically handle.
What are your favorite apps?
I like Path. Visually, that’s a really awesome application. Quora I use for a lot of informational stuff. The answers on quora are really high quality. Just started getting into Pinterest for design. I type in a keyword and you get all these curated lists of content, which is really exciting. I’ve been playing with Mailbox, that’s pretty cool from a design perspective. Any app that has really good design, I just download it and start playing with it.
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Fast Food Strikes: Unable to Unionize, Workers Borrow Tactics From ‘Occupy’
By Josh Sanburn @joshsanburnJuly 30, 2013
Employees and supporters demonstrate outside of a Wendy's fast-food restaurant demanding higher pay on Monday in New York City.
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Hundreds of fast food workers in seven cities across the U.S. walked out on their jobs Monday demanding a “living wage,” or double what many are making now. More strikes are expected this week in what’s become one of the biggest pushes to organize the industry’s historically disjointed workforce. And this time they’re using a different playbook.
For decades, fast food employees have essentially been unorganizable in any traditional sense, thanks in part to two factors: extremely high turnover and the industry’s ownership structure.
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The National Restaurant Association estimates that “quick-service restaurants” (a.k.a. fast food) have 75% employee turnover rates, meaning that three-quarters of its workers are completely new, year in and year out. Many fast food restaurants are also owned by franchisees, which can complicate things for workers seeking employer concessions. While often responsible for determining employee wages, franchise owners are still held on a tight leash by the companies themselves in terms of what they can pay. Those factors have largely prevented even the most basic efforts to unionize within the industry, which in turn has kept wages low.
“Industries with the worst conditions and wages, and therefore with the greatest need for unions, rarely have been sites of unionization,” says Peter Rachleff, a labor historian at Macalester College. “Workers just quit and seek other jobs, perhaps with a little better pay, perhaps with slightly less onerous conditions.”
The workers walking out this week are demanding their wages be doubled from the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $15. But they’re going up against a corporate structure that has been able to keep any sorts of unionization efforts from creeping into the workplace for decades.
“It’s very easy for management to intimidate workers under the current structure, to run an aggressive campaign” to discourage unionization, says Richard Hurd, a labor relations professor at Cornell University. “Why put up with management pressure and try to hold out and get union recognition if you know realistically that you’re not going to be there that long?”
This week’s walk-outs seem less about truly unionizing (even though the workers’ efforts have received support from the Service Employees International Union) and more about building public momentum for a higher minimum wage. Instead of taking the traditional route of trying to reach some sort of collective bargaining agreement, they’re betting that an Occupy-style public awareness campaign, based on the idea that their wages are inherently unfair, perpetuate inequality and fail to move them up the economic ladder, will lead to change at either the state or federal level.
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Nelson Lichtenstein, a director at the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says this week’s strikes are similar to those before the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, also called the Wagner Act, which established the right of private employees to organize. Before the law, employees targeted entire industries, like restaurants, saloons or building trades, instead of specific employers to achieve better working conditions.
“In that sense, there’s a return to that,” he says, citing recent protests against wages for Walmart employees. “There, the focus is on Walmart. But I think these walk-outs, because they’re targeting the entire fast food industry, are turning out to have more progress.”
So far, the fast-food strikes have taken place in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Detroit and Flint, Mich. While most of them involve the big fast-food chains like McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s, retail employees have also joined in from Victoria’s Secret, Dollar Tree and Macy’s.
Several studies show that raising the minimum wage would have minimal effects on the industry as a whole. One letter signed by more than 100 economists and published by the University of Massachusetts said that raising the minimum wage to $10.50 would increase the price of a Big Mac by a nickel. Another study shows that doubling the salaries and benefits of all of McDonald’s employees would add 68 cents to each Big Mac.
But a living wage would have more long-lasting effects on the industry than just the price of its menu items. Lichtenstein says it would likely create permanent employment in the industry, meaning more of its workers would stay for two to three years, likely leading to further demands on working conditions.
“From the company’s point of view, if they know their employees are going to be there for three years, then there’s also this informal pressure on the managers to accommodate the workers,” he says, citing the possibility of wage creep and further increased labor costs for employers. “Managers then can’t just move people around all the time. Firing gets more difficult. So they don’t want a permanent workforce.”
In the short-term, however, Lichtenstein says that the tactics the fast food workers are taking to generate public awareness likely won’t lead to a new era of organizing in the industry but could be successful in pushing elected leaders to re-examine the minimum wage.
“Will it create a stable, permanent organization?” he asks. “Probably not. Will it create enough oomph to raise the minimum wage? Maybe.”
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Josh Sanburn is a Time.com writer.
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The 39th Anniversaries – and how to understand the Western Saharan cause for the first time
November 21, 2014 Written by AdalaUK. Posted in Most shared 1 Comment
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Recent political events and anniversaries in Western Sahara, Morocco and Europe are a good starting point for explaining important aspects of the Western Sahara cause for those new to understanding it.
Three weeks ago, on 31 October, Sahrawis remembered the 39th anniversary of the illegal military invasion of Western Sahara by Morocco in 1975. Less than a week later, on 6 November, the King of Morocco marked the 39th anniversary of the Green March, when 300,000 civilian Moroccans marched into Western Sahara, with a speech. He reiterated Morocco’s intention to remain in Western Sahara ‘until the end of time’, labeling any Moroccan who disagreed as a ‘traitor’. With regards to negotiations to resolve the Western Sahara conflict, he explained that the maximum offer Morocco would make was that of autonomy and not independence. Just two months ago, the world watched as the people of Scotland took to the polls to vote on the future of their independence through a referendum; a right which was promised to the Sahrawis in 1991 by the international community and which still remains unrealised.
In his speech, the King also rejected the notion that the conflict was a question of ‘decolonisation’ or that Morocco was a force of ‘occupation’. He also expressed his opposition to widening MINURSO’s mandate to monitor human rights in Western Sahara. (To read all of King Mohammed VI’s speech, which Adala UK rejects, click here). The Sahrawi government rejected the speech as being ‘contrary to international legality’. (To see more, click here).
On the same day, 6 November, human rights violations in the form of the violent suppression of peaceful protests by Moroccan forces in Western Sahara continued unabated. Adala UK received reports of dozens of Saharawis who were injured during peaceful demonstrations in El Aiun. The violent suppression of protests is something that Adala UK has reported on repeatedly in the last year. We continue to urge the Moroccan authorities to respect the Saharawi population’s right to freedom of expression and to refrain from using violence against peaceful protestors.
A few days after the Moroccan King’s speech, as some European countries marked Remembrance Sunday on 9 November, the world remembered the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But this year, the wall that separates the Liberated Territories of Western Sahara from the Occupied Territories is 29 years old, standing for a year longer than the Berlin Wall. This is a wall that separates families but a wall very few of the general public in the West have heard of (see Stefan Simanowitz’ article for more information)
On 14 November, we remembered the 39th anniversary of the Madrid Accords: the internationally illegal agreement of decolonisation signed by Spain to hand Western Sahara over to its neighbours, Morocco and Mauritania. That same weekend, the 39th European Conference for Support and Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) was held in Madrid. Several thousand people took to the streets to coincide with the conference, demonstrating in support of the Sahrawi people’s right to independence.
The widespread press coverage of these protests is significant. Given that Spain has a two-year non-permanent seat in the Security Council from January 2015, we must consider what role Spain (and also Venezuela, who are in the same position) can play in ensuring that a human rights monitoring mandate be incorporated into MINURSO from April 2015 onwards, when the vote next takes place in the Security Council.
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Directed by Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan
Really, I am an enormous Danny Boyle fan but his most acclaimed movie, which is this one, is one I consider to be one of his weakest and is only one that still works out because of its originally.
Danny Boyle is one of the most versatile directors out there. He can do a movie in basically every genre and turn it into something totally unique. This movie however doesn't really fit into one genre. Is it a drama? Is it a crime movie? Is it a romance? It was a bit of all really, which in my opinion was a bit too much for the movie to handle.
The idea of the movie itself is good but the approach and execution of it was often slightly lacking. I just didn't always bought into its concept and the movie always gave me a feeling it could had done so much more with its with its main concept, also to make the movie a bit more credible and interesting at times.
The movie was trying to do too much different stuff in my opinion. The storytelling techniques and the story lines themselves let this 2 hour long movie feel like a 3 hour long one.
And I just don't understand some things about this movie. Why India? Why this main character? And why oh why would a TV program ever literally torture a contestant, just because he happens to know the right answers and why don't they want him to win? As this movie shows, they got more viewers than ever before when he was on and there are over 1.5 billion people living in India, so surely it must had earned them a lot of money and given them a lot of free press.
But clearly, this is not a bad movie. I still liked it more than I didn't, which was mostly due to it that this is simply one original and simply a truly one of a kind movie. You can't really compare this movie to anything else, since it's simply at all times doing its own thing, with its visual style and storytelling.
I believe that it's actually foremost its visual style that still makes this a truly good watch. It's a fast going movie, which in my opinion goes a bit at the expense of the drama and character developments at times but it does add to the movie its overall style. It strengthens its visual style and lets its dynamic camera-work, work out even better.
I also really liked Dev Patel as the main lead. Perhaps he is the most underrated thing about this movie, since I feel he didn't got enough recognition for it at the time.
So it's definitely a good and also original watch but still far from a great movie in my book.
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Eminem wants to see more fighting in the AAF
Former Heisman Trophy victor Johnny Manziel also made his AAF debut in the Express win. Not only is Eminem looking for the AAF to allow brawls, strangely in all caps, the 46-year-old is also lobbying for the league to put a team in his hometown of Detroit , Michigan.
Finch smashes Aussies to costly victory
Suspended superstars Steve Smith and David Warner are still expected to be squeezed into the batting order at the World Cup but assumptions about the latter opening with Finch may have to be revisited. Australian fast bowler Jhye Richardson has dislocated his shoulder and will head home from the Pakistan tour, officials said, as he faces a battle to be fit for the World Cup.
Valspar Championship: Paul Casey retains title with thrilling win in Florida
The tournament was basically a three-player race by the back nine. Donald started the day at 6 under, three shots out of the lead. "I practice that 3-wood shot a lot, I've had good success with it this week. She won when third-round leader Liu Yu missed a 15-foot par putt on the par-4 18th. Lower, who had a two-shot lead going into the final round, missed about a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th in regulation for the victory.
Miami Open 2019: Angelique Kerber Blasts Bianca Andreescu After Match
Andreescu could have had an even easier day's work, but squandered a 4-1 lead in the second set to let Kerber back in to the match before eventually seeing the match out in three sets. Andreescu will face No. 21 seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia in the third round. Then there was the time, 2005 I believe, when I played a pre-Wimbledon exhibition in Liverpool and had a mixed-doubles partner I had never heard of but who I realised straight away was special.
Solskjaer can thank Mourinho's work, claims Van Gaal
Van Gaal's claims seem at odds with the more entertaining football played by United since Solskjaer started a reign that looks set to bring him the manager's job on a permanent basis. Van Gaal walked into the press conference after the FA Cup final in May 2016, trophy in hand, and seemingly everyone in the room, except himself, knew he was about to be sacked.
Receiver Jordy Nelson retiring
He was excellent in Super Bowl XLV, with nine catches for 140 yards and a touchdown in the Packers' win over the Pittsburgh Steelers . He finishes his National Football League career with 72 TDs, 613 catches, and over 8,500 yards receiving.
Texas Tech vs. Buffalo
Now the model has dialed in on MI vs. Texas Tech. Texas Tech dominated the second half and cruised to a 78-58 win over Buffalo in an NCAA tournament second-round game in the West Region on Sunday in Tulsa, Okla. But led by Perkins, who scored their first eight points and 11 of their first 16, they were able to finally find their footing, and climbed back into it with a 19-5 run over the next seven minutes.
Steve McManaman backs Liverpool to win Premier League, Champions League double
The Dutchman has managed to transform the Liverpool backline, and with him in the team, the Reds have looked a meaner outfit. However, Pep Guardiola's side are still involved in three separate competitions and Aldridge believes their hectic schedule gives Liverpool a vital advantage.
Diego Maradona: Lionel Messi Doesn't Have Anything To Prove
In a statement issued on Friday, the football club said that Lionel Messi "did not have the return to worldwide action that he would have wanted, and an injury picked up on Friday night means he will miss Argentina's game against Morocco " on Tuesday, March 26.
Pass Interference, Including Non-Calls, Now Reviewable
National Football League owners approved Tuesday a rule allowing coaches and replay officials to challenge pass interference calls and non-calls, an amendment that likely would have changed the outcome of the NFC championship game and sent the New Orleans Saints , not the Los Angeles Rams , to Super Bowl LIII.
National Football League approves challenges, reviews for missed pass interference calls
The replay booth, in conjunction with the league's officiating office in NY, will initiate those challenges in the final two minutes of each half. The aftermath prompted outrage from Saints fans, coaches and brass, including owner Gayle Benson, who went as far to release a statement on the non-call .
OR vs. Virginia - 3/28/19 NCAA Tournament College Basketball Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Not only is Nigl the only person with a ideal bracket at this point in this year's tournament, he may very well be the only person ever to make 48 correct picks through the first two rounds of March Madness . It's hard to advance. He has the Wolverines beating Texas Tech in the Sweet 16 before losing an Elite Eight matchup against Gonzaga, his eventual national champion.
Brad Keselowski takes NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville
Although Elliott led 49 laps, a late caution sent the field to pit road and Keselowski beat Elliott back to the track. "I felt like we were about as even with him as we could be", Elliott noted. Fubo TV includes Fox Sports 1 and many other sports channels, also offers three days of auto recording via its 72-Hour Lookback feature, and 50 hours of Cloud DVR service for saving up favorites or missed live show or sports viewings.
Mick Schumacher to test for Ferrari and Alfa Romeo
The young German will drive the Ferrari SF90 on the Tuesday before getting a second full day behind the wheel of an F1 vehicle when he switches to the Alfa Romeo for Wednesday's running. To begin with, he is part of the Ferrari Young Driver programme. Mick, 20, will race for Ferrari on the first day of the test event and the next day for Ferrari's partner team Alfa Romeo at the Bahrain International Circuit in April.
Watch Minnesota’s Amir Coffey’s posterizing dunk against Michigan State
The East Regional Sweet 16 matchups between LSU and Michigan State and Duke and Virginia Tech will be televised by CBS with lead announce crew of Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill and Tracy Wolfson on the call. "We felt like we could give it a go with Murph early". "It was helpful. We got to work on things against another really good team". The Grizzlies are the second-most experienced team in the NCAA Tournament (trailing Nevada, who could see the victor of this game) but their overall ...
Conor McGregor Announces Retirement From The UFC & MMA
He wrote: "Hey guys quick announcement, I've chose to retire from the sport formally known as "Mixed Martial Arts". McGregor is a former featherweight and lightweight UFC champion, and most recently fought Khabib Nurmagomedov in October, an event which smashed UFC's pay-per-view records.
Ander Herrera responds to speculation about his Manchester United future
The 29-year-old is happy to play under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at the Theatre of Dreams. Arsenal have now registered their interest in the player, with manager Unai Emery in need of a new midfielder with Aaron Ramsey joining Juventus. All he wants now is to win against Watford next week. I enjoy playing for the biggest club in England, the fans love me, they have treated me phenomenally in the institution and my duty is to listen to them, although I honestly do not know what is going to happen.
Ronaldo Forced Off With Injury During Portugal’s Euro 2020 Qualifier
It was only Ronaldo's second appearance for the national team since the World Cup last summer in Russian Federation. Ronaldo, whose club Juventus visit Ajax Amsterdam in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on April 10, was making only his second Portugal appearance since last year's World Cup.
Auburn knocks Kansas out of the NCAA Tournament, 89-75
They made up one point. "We let those guys get comfortable and that's what led to the big deficit in the first half". Some of these issues have been stuff the Jayhawks have struggled with all season long. "He has all the confidence in us, so that makes us play even better". "We've got some firepower". They were fantastic. We hadn't seen an onslaught like that all year, in the first ten minutes of the game.
Miami Open: Roger Federer beats Filip Krajinovic to reach fourth round
Roger Federer of Switzerland waves to the crowd during a ribbon cutting ceremony on new stadium court at Hard Rock Stadium prior to play in the first round of the Miami Open at Miami Open Tennis Complex. I'm happy I got it out of the way. Federer will meet Serbia's Filip Krajinovic in the third round. "It's always different playing matches than hitting in practice, but I've been able to up my load and how much I'm able to serve".
Rob Gronkowski retires as NFL's most dominant pass catcher of his era
Cheers to all who have been part of this journey, cheers to the past for the incredible memories, and a HUGE cheers to the uncertain of whats next. Last week, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick made a trip to Tuscaloosa for Alabama's pro day.
Ashwin stirs up controversy by `mankading` Buttler
Warne was outraged. "Why do such a disgraceful & low act like that tonight?" Buttler was at the non-striker's end as the Rajasthan Royals chased down Kings XI Punjab's 185, with another 77 runs off 43 balls needed. It is the second time Buttler has been out in that fashion. "We ended on the right side of it but those things are game-changers and batsmen need to be wary of it".
Winx extends win streak to 32 races
The victory means the seven-year-old mare has extended her winning streak to an unprecedented 32 consecutive races, including an unprecedented 24 Group One races. "Just a marvellous horse to work with and we owe it to her to be in this position". Hugh Bowman and Winx found themselves at the back of the field heading into the final 300 meters, before Bowman made his move round the outside of the pack to finish three-and-a-half lengths clear of Brutal and Dreamforce.
Fury to fight Schwarz on June 15
Talk surrounding the two heavyweights" next clash has been relentless, as the pair battled to a memorable, but controversial, draw in December 2018 - a fight which produced one of the most unbelievable moments of 2018 with "The Gypsy King' rising off the canvas after seemingly being knocked clean out.
Patriots officially will open season on Sunday night, not Thursday
At Lambeau Field in Green Bay, the Packers later in the season will host the 200th edition of the grudge match. The Super Bowl champs traditionally host the NFL's Thursday night regular season opener, but the league is doing things a bit differently this year in celebration of their 100th year.
IPL 2019: David Warner reveals he was nervous on his comeback
And come this year, both Warner and Smith would be hoping to make an impact for their respective IPL sides. Sunrisers will be strengthened by the return of David Warner . Now into the final week of his year-long ban from worldwide cricket, Warner was already expected to march into Australia's 15-man World Cup squad. The opening pair of David Warner and Jonny Bairstow established a century-stand for the visitors.
Serena Williams Withdraws From Miami Open Due to Left Knee Injury
World number one Osaka had looked in little danger after winning the first set and moving a break ahead in the second. Last week, she was forced to retire from her third-round match against Garbine Muguruza due to a viral illness while trailing by 3-6, 0-1.
Florida State rallies around Phil Cofer after his father's death
Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton wasn't aware of the death of Phil Cofer's father during his post-game press conference. Tipoff Saturday is scheduled for 6:10 p.m. "Yeah, it was very hard for him and his teammates, and we spent a lot of time last night dealing with it in our own way", Hamilton said. "All the emotions we're feeling - whether it's anger, sadness, helplessness, just bottle it up and give it everything you got on the court so that we can give Phil some hardware to ...
Serena Williams pulls out of Miami Open with knee injury
I'm sure in many years' time we'll look back and say what a great change that was. "It was an incredible experience to play at Hard Rock Stadium this year, and I would like to thank the Miami Open for putting on an unbelievable event". "It wasn't that I had a big head, I just wasn't thinking about everything that was happening". "I think there's a difference between having confidence and getting ahead of yourself", she said.
Maryland Survives After Belmont Blows Late Possession With Brutal Turnover
Belmont's Grayson Murphy fouled Morsell who made his first shot to make it 79-77. The Terrapins' big men will get a major talent Saturday against the No. Ultimately, it was the defense that won the game for the Terps . No strangers to First Round upsets, Maryland's last NCAA Tournament appearance saw them lose to No.
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How to Watch Federer vs Djokovic Wimbledon Final Online in US
Federer has won 20 Grand Slam titles - a record for a male player, Djokovic 15 and Nadal 18. The problem is, I just don't think Djokovic will allow it. He has won four Wimbledon titles in his career. He loves to play very fast. After edging a tense first set by taking the final five points of the tiebreak, Federer was overpowered in a 36-minute second as Nadal, eyeing a first Wimbledon title for nine years, appeared to have wrestled control.
Video obtained of former Seahawk Malik McDowell's police altercation
The video, obtained by TMZ Sports, appears to show McDowell, 23, exchanging words with a Lathrup Village police officer outside a local gas station in February. Three more officers arrive on the scene to subdue McDowell and escort him to a patrol vehicle . The officer was eventually able to subdue McDowell before backup arrived to help put him in handcuffs and lead him to a squad auto .
Daring De Gendt wins, Alaphilippe back in yellow after thrilling finale
This time, he said he was taken out by Michael Woods when the Canadian rider crashed going around a right-hand bend. Pinot climbed to third in the overall standings, 53 seconds back of Alaphilippe. "If I hadn't crashed I could have followed [Pinot and Alaplilippe] and it's a totally different story then". "They've got some real punch", Thomas said.
Serena doesn't disappoint in cut- out Wimbledon dress
It's always hard to tell as you only have mixed doubles at the Grand Slams, so nobody really get a chance to specialise in it or play it a lot. "In those situations I always wanted Jamie to win because he was the older one, like it was the natural order of things, and he is easier to handle".
Halep crushes Serena Williams to win Wimbledon women's singles title
The win marked Halep's second major singles title - she previously won the the French Open in 2018. Halep, trying to become the first Romanian to win at the All England Club , had lost just one set coming into the final (in the second round to Mihaela Buzărnescu) and was putting on her best grass showing since a 2014 semifinal appearance.
Then England team director Andrew Strauss backed Morgan and his plan and could not hide his delight as he watched the win over Australia. Australia had finished second in the group table after winning seven games, only to be out-classed by an England side they had easily defeated in the group stages.
Bouhafsi claims that any deal, for Spurs or Arsenal , would see him return to Etienne on loan for next season. The main obstacle for Arsenal would be Champions League football, both Juve and Spurs can offer that, we cannot and if all three clubs were to meet his personal demands then lack of participation in Europe's premier competition would put us at a severe disadvantage.
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Caitlin’s Legacy of Love
In addition to the NICU Family Lounge, Caitlin’s legacy has helped premature babies and their families in other ways, too. Since its inception in 2006, the foundation has raised nearly $500,000.
Some of the other highlights are:
Donating $50,000 to fund medical research at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles into the devastating intestinal condition called NEC that took Caitlin’s life and the lives of so many other premature babies. The good people at the New Jersey March of Dimes were tremendously helpful in this regard.
Donating $30,000 to purchase an interactive “NICU Knowledge” unit for use at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. NICU Knowledge is a multi-lingual, touch screen, interactive, multimedia teaching tool that educates parents about specialists who work in the NICU, the terms they use, the medical technology and devices employed and dozens of important topics that involve their child’s care. The goal is to allow parents to better understand the medical conditions facing their child and empower them to be their child’s greatest advocate. The unit also has the capability to stream video of a child in the NICU to their parents, grandparents or other family members who can’t be physically present at the hospital.
Donating thousands of dollars to help cover the cost of welcome and emergency-care bags for parents, and support a petty cash fund to address families’ short-term needs. The bags contain an assortment of toiletries and other convenience items to help parents remain comfortable if they unexpectedly find themselves staying overnight on the unit. The petty cash fund, administered by the lead nurse and social worker, will cover the cost of items such as public transportation for families who need assistance getting to and from the hospital.
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McNAMARA, Martin J., of Brockton, passed away peacefully, after a long illness, on February 2, 2019, at the age of 91. Born in Charlestown, Martin grew up and was educated in Boston. He then went on to earn his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Bentley University. He proudly served his country in the United States Army during WWII where he was awarded several commendations including the WWII Victory Medal and the Army of Occupation Medal. Prior to his retirement, Martin worked as a CPA for several years for both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Blue Cross and Blue Shield. In his free time, he had a passion for painting, traveling and old Western movies. A devoted husband, son, brother and friend, Martin will be sorely missed by all who were blessed to have known him. Martin was the husband of the late Helen McNamara. Son of the late Maurice and Karin McNamara. Devoted brother of Margaret Taros of Milton and the late Marie Norris, Anna Parent, Elsa Erickson, Helen “Alice” Gannon and Maurica Nugent. Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend a Visitation Period on Wednesday, February 6th from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM in the Cartwright Funeral Home, 419 No. Main St. (Rt. 28), Randolph. A Funeral Service will be held at 1:00 PM in the Funeral Home. Burial will be private. Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made in his name to the MSPCA-Angell, Attn: Donations, 350 South Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02130.
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Black Man in White World
By Gary Norris Gray BASN Staff Reporter
Wendell Scott
OAKLAND, CA—In 1947 Wendell Scott was awarded fifty dollars in his very first race for placing third driving a borrowed car from a friend. He was hook forever. This was only the beginning of a long hard journey for Mr. Scott. He endured many challenges such as racism, sabotage and drivers who drove carelessly on the track. History records that Wendell Scott was the first Black stock car driver in America. Everyone recognized number 34 his blue and white Chevy. Many drivers stated that Scott was the best driver that they had ever seen. If he had acquired the proper equipment he would have won many more races.
Mr. Scott was born in Danville, Virginia in 1921. He was a quiet man that just knew how to fix cars. His father left the family early in his life so he never had the privilege of male bonding with his dad. This is something most young Black males seek.
At fourteen his mother allowed him to drive the family car. He drove her to church and to the store every weekend. The driving age was eighteen therefore driving underage. He loved it. Wendell‘s I.Q. was very high and this was to be an advantage later in his life.
Mr. Scott became well known as the best moonshine runner in the Danville, Virginia. The Danville police Department relates the story of the day when they tried to catch him on in Fall Creek Run Road. They stated that the police cars had him block on this narrow road. Wendell just threw his car in reverse and drove past both police cars. Driving backward right into his garage. He quickly removed the engine from his car and hung it on a hook before the police arrived. Scott was working on the engine when the police arrived. They arrested him and took him to court. The judge asked both police offices, “How can a man outrun you and then be in the garage working on the engine of the car that you were chasing”? Both officers looked at each other and just shrugged their shoulders. The judge released Scott citing that he could not have taken the motor out of the car that fast.
The new police two-way radio ended Mr. Scott‘s moon shinning days. He could not out run that.
Wendell finally settled down with two jobs. He worked as a car mechanic and a taxi driver.
Just like any other young American, Scott served in the armed forces in World War Two. He drove many jeeps for the famous General Patton. He stated that he had never seen anybody that drove like Scott. General Patton wanted Scott to remain in the Army and his unit but Scott went home to marry his best friend Mary. They had been dating before he left to serve in the armed forces in Europe and the fight for world freedom.
During his racing career his family became his pit crew. These young men and women knew more about cars than most children their age. That was the only way that Scott could race. No one wanted to be on his crew because he was an African American. Another factor was that Scott could not afford to hire a pit crew so his family took all the responsibilities of a stock car racing pit crew.
Scott won 128 Amateur races and was always in the top 100 in every race. He was always in the top ten 25 times in spite of the fact that he was using inferior equipment and run down cars.
On December 1 1963 at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Fla. Scott beat Buck Baker. On this day Scott became the first African American to win a professional NASCAR race. This record still stands today.
When Scott was near the age of 50, he suffered his worst accident ever on the Talladega Super Speedway track. This crash ended his 20-year racing career. Another car ran over his car almost killing him. He suffered broken legs and arms but still wanted to race. His family convinced him to put the steering wheel down. This was and is the spirit of a champion. He overcame the fact that in one race that he clearly won the flagman did not drop the checkered flag a symbol of victory. The flag fell only after racecar champion Buck Baker crossed the finish line. Mr. Scott knew he had won the race and NASCAR officials finally admitted a month later that indeed he was the winner. This happened one month after everybody had gone home and forgotten about the race. This happened to Mr. Scott many times but Wendell just wanted to race and did not care about where he placed when the race was over.
Most African American would like to see another Black driver like the Hall of Famer Wendell Scott take the checker flag.
In 1991 this humble African American race car driver was nominated and initiated into the International Motor Sports Hall of Fame.
Why not rent the movie “Greased Lighting,” starting Richard Pryor as Wendell Scott it is exciting, funny, and educational. A 1977 American Biographical movie with Beau Bridges, Cleavon Little, and Pam Grier
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A Justice Reflects
With Sotomayor's hearings two weeks away, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor tells Walter Isaacson she regrets she wasn't replaced by a woman and says real-life experiences matter.
This week, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was at the Aspen Ideas Festival. On the day before the conference began, she sat down with Aspen Institute CEO and former Time editor Walter Isaacson to talk about the court, the qualities that make a good justice, and the need to preserve the independence of the judiciary.
States where there are partisan elections encourage judges to collect money for their TV ads, and they get a lot of it from lawyers who appear before them in court or from corporations that have cases.
Are you happy that a woman, Sonia Sotomayor, has been nominated to fill the latest vacancy on the Supreme Court?
I should say so. I was disappointed when I stepped down that I wasn’t replaced by a woman. It’s important for people to look around and see that women, who make up slightly more than 50 percent of the population, are represented on the court.
Judge Sotomayor’s supporters say that her background and life story would make her a good addition to the court. Should such things matter in picking a justice?
We’re all creatures of our upbringing. We bring whatever we are as people to a job like the Supreme Court. We have our life experiences. For example, for me it was growing up on a remote ranch in the West. If something broke, you’d have to fix it yourself. The solution didn’t always have to look beautiful, but it had to work. So that made me a little more pragmatic than some other justices. I liked to find solutions that would work.
You were the last elected official to serve on the court. You were the Republican leader in the Arizona state Senate, and you served in all three branches of state government. Was that important to your work on the High Court?
Absolutely. And here’s something I want to emphasize. It’s important for the Supreme Court to have a broader set of life experiences than just people who have served as judges. Judge Sotomayor’s appointment would mean that all nine justices are products of the federal courts of appeals. It used to not be that way. I was from state government. William Rehnquist had never been a judge before he was appointed to the Supreme Court. Lewis Powell had never been a judge. But they had broad real-life experiences, and I thought that helped make them good justices. In years past, you always had people on the court who had not spent their entire career as judges.
Do you think empathy is an important quality for a justice, as President Obama has said?
I’m not quite sure what that means. I have always tried to set aside emotional feelings when deciding a case. When you’re deciding an abstract principle, I don’t think it’s helpful to have an emotional attachment. But you do have to have an understanding of how some rule you make will apply to people in the real world. I think that there should be an awareness of the real-world consequences of the principles of the law you apply.
Does that apply in particular to affirmative-action cases?
On a question like affirmative action, you can’t simply go back and try to ask what the Founders thought.
Are you worried about threats to judicial independence these days?
Very much so. I have hosted four conferences on this issue. We are seeing increasing attacks on judges, who are being accused of being secular or activist or godless.
Do you think it’s a good idea to elect state judges?
Election of judges is a terrible way to go. Originally, most states had appointed judges, like we have on the federal level. President Andrew Jackson, as part of his populist approach, encouraged states to move to elected judges. In today’s climate, that’s an awful thing. States where there are partisan elections encourage judges to collect money for their TV ads, and they get a lot of it from lawyers who appear before them in court or from corporations that have cases.
An example is the recent case of the Massey Coal Co. It had lost a trial and faced a $50 million verdict, which it appealed to the West Virginia Supreme Court. In the meantime, there was an election for one of the five seats on that court. The company spent $3 million to help elect one of the candidates. That candidate won, and then refused to recuse himself from the case and cast the deciding vote to overturn the verdict against the company. The U.S. Supreme Court concluded that this was a violation of the due process clause. I think it’s an example of the problems of state judicial elections.
What’s a better system?
I like the system we had in Arizona, which I helped develop as a state senator. It’s a merit selection system. A bipartisan citizens’ committee considers potential judges and makes three recommendations to the governor for each vacancy. The recommendations include people from each party. The governor gets to choose, or in some cases ask for more options.
What’s the best way to protect an independent judiciary?
It requires civics education for all of our students. Barely a third of our people can name the three branches of government. Half of the states have quit requiring civics classes. We need to restore those classes. I’ve tried to further this by creating a Web site, ourcourts.org, that explains to young students the role of the court system. This summer we are even adding some interactive games to it. Maybe that will help the next generation learn how important an independent judiciary is.
Walter Isaacson is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, D.C., and was previously chairman and CEO of CNN and editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe (April 2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).
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Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Matt Day.
Microsoft imposes new rules on contract workers, requiring 6-month break from access
Posted by Janet I. Tu
Microsoft is imposing new restrictions on those who work for the company through vendors and temp agencies. The new rules limit those workers to 18 months of access to Microsoft buildings and corporate networks, after which they will be required to take a 6-month break from access.
The move could affect tens of thousands of contractors who work at Microsoft in various roles from software development to content provision. (Microsoft has always declined to say how many such “external staff” it uses.)
The move also comes at a time when Microsoft is laying off 18,000 of its full-time employees and is reconsidering how it uses its vendor and temp staff.
The change, outlined in a memo sent Friday by Microsoft’s Global Procurement team to external staffing agencies, says:
The policy change affects US-based external staff (including Agency Temporaries, Vendors and Business Guests) and limits their access to Microsoft buildings and the Microsoft corporate network to a period of 18 months, with a required six-month break before access may be granted again. If your staff does not have Microsoft building or network access, this policy change will not apply to or impact them. The policy went into effect July 1st, 2014…
Currently, most of Microsoft’s contract workers are classified either as “v-dash” — those who are contracted through vendors, or “a-dash” — those who are contracted through temp agencies.
V-dash workers, prior to this policy change, could work indefinitely, until the project they were hired for ends. They could also be hired onto another v-dash position immediately after their last project ends.
So for v-dash workers, the new policy means that, whereas they could work indefinitely before, they will now have to take a 6-month break if their work requires access to Microsoft buildings or its corporate network.
A-dash workers, prior to this policy change, could work up to a year, after which they were required to take a 100-day break.
For a-dash workers, the new policy means that the amount of time they can work continuously has been extended, from a year to 18 months, but the break they are required to take, if their job requires network or building access, is now doubled.
“We’re already aware of the fact that we’re not FTEs [full-time equivalent employees]. We don’t need another reminder,” said one v-dash employee who asked not to be named. “A lot of the contractors are starting to look for new positions. Maybe that’s what they [Microsoft] want. Maybe they just want to make it easier for us to leave on our own.”
Microsoft couched the changes in terms of better protection for its intellectual property and confidential information.
“While network and building access may be required to effectively complete project work, we often have effective means of working together without granting access,” according to the memo sent from the company’s Global Procurement team. “This policy will help our sponsors to make thoughtful decisions regarding network and building access to strengthen protection of Microsoft’s confidential communication.”
Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray said: “The new policy does not affect their [contractors’] work. It affects card key access and access to the Microsoft network. If a v-dash does not require access to the internal Microsoft corporate network or card key access to Microsoft buildings, then they can work on Microsoft projects indefinitely.”
It is unclear how many of these contract workers would be able to work on Microsoft projects without access to the network or buildings — or if that’s even possible. That is something that will be evaluated in the next 18 months under the new policy, Murray said.
He said the new policy was designed, in part, to “help employees make thoughtful choices” about whom they grant network and building access to. “It’s not clear that all of the access to the corporate network that’s currently been granted is absolutely necessary for people to do their work,” Murray said. “It’s more been granted out of habit or out of default.”
He acknowledged that “the company does want to carefully consider the volume of our use of external staff. But this particular policy is focused on protecting our confidential information and intellectual property.”
Another category of external staff — those working for outsourced supply companies such as those providing cafeteria workers and front-desk staff — do not fall under this new policy. Those workers can work year-round without the required 6-month break in access.
Additionally, the new policy also affects any Microsoft employee (FTE) who left the company on or after July 1. Such former employees will now have to take a minimum 6-month break from access before they can begin an assignment as a vendor or temp for the company.
Here’s the memo from the Microsoft Global Procurement team to external staffing agencies. And here’s a memo sent by the company to internal employees who sponsor external staff (such as contractors who work for vendors and temp agencies).
[Update July 20: I asked Microsoft whether the new policy applies to external staff overseas as well. Company spokesman Mark Murray said: “We began this change in the U.S. because that is where our largest presence is, but we do plan to roll out this policy change globally, subject to local law.]
Information in this blog post, originally published July 19, was corrected later that day. A previous version of this post had incorrectly quoted Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray as saying a new policy on external staff’s access to Microsoft buildings and networks was designed, in part, to “help employees make helpful choices” about who is granted access. Murray actually said the new policy was designed, in part, to “help employees make thoughtful choices” about who is granted access.
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Mérieau, Eugénie
Dr. Eugénie Mérieau joined the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Comparative Constitutionalism at the University of Göttingen in 2017.
Eugénie Mérieau studied Law, Political Science, and Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the Universities of Sorbonne, Sciences Po, and the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. In 2017, she completed her PhD on "Thai Constitutionalism and Legal Transplants: a study of Kingship". From 2014 to 2017, she held research and teaching positions at Sciences Po in Paris and Thammasat University in Bangkok and was twice a visitor at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore. She has lived for eight years in Asia where she held several positions including researcher for the King Prajadhipok's Institute under the Thai Parliament and consultant for the Asia-Pacific Office of the International Commission of Jurists.
Eugénie Mérieau's research interests focus on Law and the State, Constitutional transplants and Authoritarian constitutionalism, especially in the Asian context.
Summary of Project:
Dual states and Constitutionalism: Theory from Southeast Asia
The objective of this research project is to develop new insights about the politics of the rule of law based on experiences of constitutionalization in Southeast Asia. Prominent scholars of law have highlighted the dualistic character of the state, contrasting the “normative” (rule of law) state with a “prerogative” (arbitrary) state (Fraenkel 1942), and the legal system that operates in “normal” circumstances versus the legal system that operates in times of “emergency” (Ferejohn and Pasquino 2004). In a similar vein, this research project will theorize the existence of a “deep constitution” embedded in the “visible” constitutional framework that regulates a “deep state” that is in permanent coexistence and competition with the “regular” state.
In order to do this, it will use an in-depth case study of Thailand, currently the only full fledged military dictatorship in the world, as its point of departure. The judicial and military dismissals of almost all elected leaders throughout Thailand’s political history has sparked debate about the existence of a “deep state” opposed to the rise of electoral politics, autonomous from the elected government, and endowed with veto powers over it. In contrast with conventional understandings of the deep state as a shadowy network of security agencies and their operatives, this project approaches the deep state as one that is grounded in law. In the Thai case, the deep state arguably developed out of provisions for martial law that were enacted in 1914, and which have subsequently been built into the modern constitutional order. In order to extend the research beyond Thailand, this project will analyze the emergency or “raison d’état” provisions found in other constitutional systems in Southeast Asia. The analytical implications of the project is that rather than focusing on whether states are liberal or non-liberal, democratic or authoritarian, this approach places states on a continuum, based on the potentialities offered by the emergency provisions found in different constitutional orders.
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WP3 Working Paper - The State - Contesting the Liberal State in Southeast Asia
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Megan Lemley
Leah Levine
Deborah Skolnik
Nancy Weislogel
CLASS YEAR: 2003
VOICE PART: Alto 2
MAJOR: Music & Psychology
CURRENT CITY: New York, NY
JOB: COO, Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Megan Lemley became COO at Brooklyn Youth Chorus in 2017 where she serves as chief business manager and leads the operation of the Chorus' School Programs, Training Divisions, and Performing Ensembles. Megan came to Brooklyn Youth Chorus from The New York Philharmonic. There she first managed the Philharmonic Schools Program before becoming Director of Special Projects where she led a multi-year initiative to attract the next generation of audiences, managed partner relationships for the orchestra's new music festival, and supported strategic decision making across the organization. Prior to joining the Philharmonic, Megan worked as a Strategy Consultant at Accenture in their Communications, Media, Technology practice and began her professional career at The New York Pops as Education Manager.
Megan is a lifelong choral singer having developed her passion for arts management in college as General Manager for the Cornell University Chorus where she currently serves as a member of the Alumnae Advisory Council. She is also a trustee and singer in the chamber choir, Ensemble Companio.
Megan holds a B.A. in Music and Psychology from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in Strategic Management.
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Q&A: UCLA alumna Chauntae Pink discusses starring in play ‘Bulrusher’
By Pauline Yang
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Chauntae Pink plays the character of Vera, a troubled teenager from Alabama, in the Skylight Theatre production of Eisa Davis' "Bulrusher." (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Chauntae Pink’s professional theater career started with an unexpected Facebook message.
After hours of volunteering with Lower Depth Theater Ensemble in Los Angeles, Pink finally got her opportunity to perform onstage when one of the theater’s founders asked her via Facebook to audition for the company’s newest production, “Bulrusher.”
A 2011 alumna of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, Pink debuted last month at the Los Angeles Skylight Theatre in “Bulrusher,” a play written by playwright and actress Eisa Davis and directed by Nataki Garrett, associate artistic director at the CalArts Center for New Performances. The storyline centers around a multiracial orphan who comes of age in a predominantly white town in the 1950s and enters a journey of self-discovery with the help of Vera, a troubled black girl from Birmingham, Alabama.
The Daily Bruin’s Pauline Yang spoke to Pink about her early interest in acting, her involvement in “Bulrusher” and her experiences as an actress, from being a guest star on “2 Broke Girls” to a co-star on “Franklin & Bash.”
Daily Bruin: How did your experiences growing up lead you to choose a career path in acting?
Chauntae Pink: I actually started acting in Atlanta, Georgia during church plays, and I really liked it. From there on, I transferred schools and started going to the School of the Performing Arts in Atlanta, and decided I would major in theater. That’s when I moved to California to major in theater at UCLA, and it just kind of took off from there.
DB: What was your experience at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television like?
CP: It was awesome. I studied restoration and Shakespeare and anything and everything that I could get my hands on.
DB: How did you hear about “Bulrusher?”
CP: I heard about (it) through Lower Depth Theatre. I was actually a huge fan of theirs when they started their company a few years ago. I tried to volunteer for every event they had going on, and I was fortunate enough to do a stage reading with them. It was about a year later that I got a Facebook message from Yvonne (Huff), one of the founders of the company and she asked me to come out and audition for the role of Vera, and I happily accepted and was blessed enough to get the role.
DB: What was it like to be a part of a theater production for “Bulrusher?”
CP: Oh, it was so cool. I hadn’t really done much theater since I graduated UCLA in 2011. It was like a brand new experience and I really appreciated the journey of it because it was so challenging and amazing to work with such a talented cast. It was cool to get to really know my character and have to dig deep and figure out her background and what she’s trying to do in the play. It took a long time and I really appreciated the process.
DB: Can you tell me a little about your character, Vera, in “Bulrusher?”
CP: Vera is a Southern young lady from Alabama. She’s 18 years old, and a bit more on the reserved side. She’s seen some things and been through some things in Birmingham at a time where there was a lot of unrest going on due to the civil rights movement. She was discriminated against … she comes into the “Bulrusher” story having fled Birmingham to escape (her past).
DB: How were you able to relate to your character?
CP: I think everyone knows what it feels like not knowing how to take the pressure of life, and to feel like there are things about yourself that you have to hide. I really feel like it’s a coming-of-age story for Vera because she’s running away from herself, from her past and from her situation.
DB: How would you compare performing in front of a live audience, like in “Bulrusher,” versus performing on television, like in “2 Broke Girls” and “Franklin & Bash?”
CP: Theater and multi-camera shows are really similar in the rehearsal process and, at the end of it, there’s a performance and audience that gets to laugh with you and cry with you. That’s why I love doing shows (like “2 Broke Girls” and “Franklin & Bash”) so much, because it’s like, ‘Ta-da, look at what I did.’ It’s an exchange and that’s the best part about it. It’s like a communion of sorts. The difference is that in theater, the process is a little longer.
DB: In the future, would you want to do more theater, or film and television?
CP: I’m a businessperson, but I’m an artist first. And you do theater for the love of it, the love of the craft. I personally get so much more joy and fulfillment and satisfaction from theater because it has so much more to do with the art, whereas with television, in my personal experience, has a lot more to do with techniques and angles. I want to do film, television, theater, musicals, anything that I can get my hands on that gives me a creative outlet.
Compiled by Pauline Yang, A&E; contributor.
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LGBTQ Intergenerational Group seeks to broaden diversity, perspective of its participants
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The group invites LGBTQ individuals
as well as their family and friends.
Members of the LGBTQ Intergenerational Group that meets at Stockton University’s Manahawkin Instructional Site in Stafford Township are hoping to draw more participants, especially younger individuals. The group, hosted by Stockton’s Center on Successful Aging the second Thursday of every month, from 10 a.m. to noon, is typically attended by three to four couples in their mid-50s to early 70s. While they find comfort in connecting with other like-minded individuals their own age, most of them said they want the group to include a more diverse age range. So far, the group doesn’t consist of enough different generations, which the members believe would help broaden their perspective.
“We know there’s a need in this area (for this type of group) because there’s nothing else here, but we don’t seem to be drawing what we need,” said Gina Maguire, SCOSA program assistant, who noted there are more opportunities available in northern Ocean County and beyond.
The current participants, most of whom declined to provide their identities due to fear of discrimination, said they’d like to share some of their wisdom with younger folk about growing up as an LGBTQ individual in a less accepting time.
Group member Earl Lewis, 64, of Little Egg Harbor, who was recently elected as treasurer for the board of trustees at the senior living community where he resides as an openly gay man, said he was fired from his job at a museum in New York in the late 1990s due to his “inappropriate lifestyle.” Since then, he said, he’s decided to live life as “an open book.”
“I think our life experiences have taught us to either guard our private lives, or, in my case, I have kind of an ‘f-you’ attitude,” he said. “If you don’t like who I am, that’s fine; you don’t have to. But you’re going to know me as I truly am. It’s only a part of who I am, but you’re going to know the whole picture.
“You have no idea how painful it is to be fired for something you have no control over and has no bearing on your ability to do your job. So I wasn’t going to waste my time,” he added.
Other attendees of the group, who had faced similar issues at work, said there are big differences in how older gay people handle these issues compared to younger gay people since the culture has become much more accepted by newer generations. But the younger generations didn’t fight the fight, the members said. They don’t share the history.
Ocean County itself has a history of prejudice, one member noted, referring to the “Freeheld” saga, when Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office police lieutenant Laurel Hester was denied by the Ocean County Board of Freeholders the right to transfer her pension benefits to her domestic partner after being diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2005.
The history of gay rights in New Jersey and across the nation has been a hot topic of discussion at the group's recent meetings. Last week, the members shared their concerns about the upcoming national election and how it could impact the progress of the LGBTQ community as a whole. While most of the members believe they haven’t faced any oppression in the local region, some of them said they’d be wary of putting up a gay flag on their lawn, especially considering the area’s largely conservative outlook.
But the group isn’t just about sharing war stories or discussing politics. It’s also a great place for LGBTQ individuals to talk about new books and movies surrounding the culture as well as to share educational information.
Edith Giberson, who initially started the group in February as part of her master’s degree program in social work at Monmouth University to help further human rights and social justice in the area, noted there are many gaps in LGBTQ healthcare. For instance, she said, the closest assisted-living facilities geared toward LGBTQ individuals are in Philadelphia and the Bronx.
“There’s a lottery to get in, and it’s really difficult. And neither of them are in New Jersey,” noted Maguire, who added that, according to a recent Monmouth University study, many doctor’s offices claim not to have any LGBTQ patients or say they simply treat everybody the same.
“But it’s different,” Maguire stated. “It’s not the same. It’s like being colorblind. It doesn’t work like that. People have been treated poorly because they have a partner instead of a husband or wife. There really is a disparity in care.”
Mostly, however, the members of the group are just looking to share a safe place with other LGBTQ individuals. It’s always safer to talk within “your own community” than to be spouting those thoughts and feelings to a straight audience, one member said. Plus there’s a sense of camaraderie. Some of the members grab lunch together after the meetings or meet up for other outside occasions.
To make it easier for other people to attend, the group expects to hold Saturday meetings in the winter, when the new Bay Avenue Community Center opens in town. LGBTQ individuals and their families and friends are invited to attend.
For more information about the group, visit stockton.edu.
Posted by Seas the Day at Wednesday, September 14, 2016 No comments:
Beach Haven School’s new superintendent getting students involved with local library, knitting
Carl Krushinski, the new superintendent of the Beach Haven School, which opened for its first day of the new school year last Wednesday, is focused on more than just the students’ day-to-day classroom education. He hopes to help foster the district’s already tight-knit bond by getting the children involved in more community-focused projects and outings such as having the students take regular trips to the Beach Haven Public Library.
When Krushinski started as superintendent in July, he was offered an opportunity to be a part of the local library committee, which he said has given him insight into some of the other aspects of town, including the need for the students to become more involved with the facility.
Beach Haven School students will get to interact
with the library's knitting group in the future.
“Over the last three years the prior superintendent didn’t really let the students go to the public library, so one thing that I decided to do this year is give some of the grades actual library time to get a library card and check out books and be a part of all that,” Krushinski stated.
Students in kindergarten through third grade will get to spend time at the library during the regular school day at least once a month, he noted.
Krushinski is also acting with the school board to help restore the school’s own library, which he said used to be more extensive before it was “dismantled a bit” during the last few years. The school board and library committee will be working together over the next three years to rebuild the collection of books.
The superintendent hopes to also join forces with the public library’s local knitting group to encourage more of a connection between the students and the community’s older citizens. An avid knitter himself, Krushinski said the art form is great for improving hand-eye coordination as well as to practice counting. He said he learned how to knit many years ago while working at an elementary school in Plumstead Township, where it was taught to help students with ADHD.
“We found that when they knit, it helps them to focus and keep their hands busy, which I thought was a great idea,” Krushinski stated. “Over the years I’ve wanted to make this more available to students that have never had the opportunity. So now with this local club right down the road, I think we can get something going.
“The way I look at Beach Haven, the community stands behind its school 100 percent. But there’s very little opportunity for people that don’t have children in school anymore to participate. So this, I think, will be a great connection between the kids and some older adults,” he added.
Down the line, Krushinski would like to get the students involved in knitting projects that can be donated to the hospital or a homeless shelter to help cultivate stewardship among the children.
“I think there’s a lot of potential down the road for that,” he said. “It’s a great skill because it’s something the students can do whenever they have some down time, so it gets them away from electronics.”
In the meantime, Krushinski said he is concentrating on moving through the school year and making recommendations as needed. He hopes to maintain a “really positive interaction” with the students and their families as well as the overall community.
“It’s been great so far,” he said. “Everyone has been very informative and helpful. We had a great first day from beginning to end, and everything went extremely well. It’s just one big family.”
Posted by Seas the Day at Tuesday, September 13, 2016 No comments:
Setting the pool heater is just a tap away with a smartphone
It’s no secret that Long Beach Island is one of the best places to spend the dog days of summer. But residents and visitors of the area also know that the cooler weather during the fall season presents its own special outdoor experience, especially if it includes relaxing in a heated pool.
With Pentair’s ScreenLogic interface now offered at Hutchison Fiberglass Pools and Spa in Surf City, the convenience of setting the pool heater to the perfect temperature is just a tap away with a smartphone. The plug-in system allows users with an Apple or Android phone to control a pool’s functions and other outdoor systems from anywhere in the world.
Photo via Hutchison Pools
A pool in Beach Haven is heated up before
vacationers even arrive at the home.
“Anything you want to have outside – pool or garden lights, outdoor speakers – you wire it up to this box and it’s controlled on your iPhone,” said Joe Hutchison, owner of Hutchison Pools. “It’s basically the same system people have in their homes to control their TVs and their lights and everything, only it’s for a pool.”
Hutchison decided to offer the product to customers after seeing it featured at the Pool and Spa Show in Atlantic City in January. Although the product came out a few years ago, he said “it really blew up this year.” It’s especially useful for seasonal homeowners who’d like to have their pool heated up by the time they arrive for a weekend visit, or if residents are coming back from vacation or even just from the store.
“Instead of people who are on their way down and want their heater turned on calling us to do it, now they can do it themselves. So it gives them more control over their system,” Hutchison said. “You can program it to come on and do whatever you want at any time.”
The easy-to-use technology is great for making sure everything’s turned off when rushing out the door, he added. The interface also offers peace of mind since it can be used to make sure everything’s working properly. The program can even check the salt level of the pool, though pool chemicals cannot be monitored.
Email and text message alerts are immediately sent out if there’s a problem so it can be taken care of right away. Hutchison staff work up and down LBI every day and can immediately respond to issues. The company monitors about 200 pools weekly throughout the season.
Using the ScreenLogic interface requires having Pentair’s EasyTouch automation system, which Hutchison’s has been installing in the area for 10 years. The full Pentair package costs about $2,500 altogether and comes with a complete three-year warranty, Hutchison noted.
About 20 to 25 of the plug-ins have been installed by Hutchinson’s this season, and the local business expects to sell more in the future.
“Everybody who has it loves it,” Hutchison stated, noting he and his son, Joey, who also works for the company, both have the systems installed at their homes.
Hutchison said he loves the convenience of operating it by phone instead of through a remote control that requires batteries, which is also an available option.
“You have your phone on you at all times, so it’s nice to be outside when you’re having a big party and just go on your phone and change colors and do stuff like that,” he said. “I even have the remote, and I just don’t use it anymore. It’s all through my iPhone.”
For more information, visit hutchisonfiberglasspools.com or call 609-361-0202.
This article was published in HomeFront.
Posted by Seas the Day at Friday, September 09, 2016 No comments:
Beach Haven’s Essex Avenue beach closed due to severe erosion from Hermine
Photo by Gretchen Coyle
Storm surges eroded the sand up to
the dunes at the Essex Avenue beach.
While Tropical Storm Hermine fortunately didn’t hit Long Beach Island with severely devastating conditions as initially predicted by some weather forecasters, Beach Haven’s recently replenished beaches were impacted by the strong storm surges.
“All the beaches had a good bit of erosion. Maybe about a quarter to an eighth of what they put down was taken back,” said Beach Haven Police Sgt. Tom Medel.
The replenishment work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and state Department of Environmental Protection’s post-Superstorm Sandy project was conducted in Beach Haven by Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. this past May and June.
The borough’s Essex Avenue beach was the most harshly affected by Hermine, with erosion all the way up to the dune fencing. On Monday the local police department closed off the beach entrance due to a 2-foot drop-off.
“We were afraid that somebody was just going to not see it in the dark or low lighting and possibly hurt themselves,” Medel said.
Although street flooding can also be an issue in town during storms, the borough experienced only very minor flooding.
“We got lucky that way,” Medel stated.
If the storm had created a major issue for the town, local emergency personnel were ready for action.
“We dodged a bullet, but we were prepared,” said Jim White, borough council president.
White, along with Bill Tromm, head of Beach Haven’s Emergency Operations Center, attended a briefing on the storm at the Ocean County Sheriff's Department Office of Emergency Management in Berkeley Township Sunday night. The meeting, led by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and DEP Commissioner Bob Martin, was held so state and local officials could discuss the different commodities that were available if necessary.
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Home / Uncategorized / Florida hit-and-run causes chaos on I-4
Two lives were lost and even more were forever changed early this past Sunday morning in a Florida hit-and-run. The incident started as a motorcycle accident which occurred at approximately 4:30 in the morning on Oct. 16, 2011.
A 2007 Ford Explorer was traveling on Interstate 4 between Interstate 95 and State Road 44. It came up behind the motorcycle and stuck it in the back end. The motorcycle rider and 32-year-old female passenger were ejected from the vehicle.
The motorcycle and the passenger skidded across the highway and came to a rest on the shoulder. The motorcycle rider landed in the middle of the highway and was run over by two oncoming vehicles whose drivers were unable to stop in time to avoid the accident victim.
A fifth vehicle was able to take evasive measures, but the speed at which they were taken caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle. It struck a tree along the roadside and burst into flames. All passengers in the car were able to get out on time. The motorcycle rider died at the scene. The passenger later died as a result of the injuries sustained in the accident.
Springfield auto accident attorneys reported that the two vehicles who ran over the victim stopped and remained on the scene to assist with the investigation. The driver of the Ford Explorer fled the scene. A woman was found with the Explorer approximately 5 miles away. Investigators have not confirmed whether she was the driver but reported that she remains a “person of interest.”
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Teaching the Legacy #37- e-Newsletter for Holocaust Educators - The Holocaust in France
Authors: Yad Vashem - The International School for Holocaust Studies .
This issue of "Teaching the Legacy" - The e-newsletter for Holocaust Educators, addresses this subject from several perspectives: A historical review of the Holocaust of the French Jews, and an article about the Jewish resistance, present the highly complex nature of the persecution of the Jews in France during the war; an interview with members of the Alumim association describes the important work of this survivors organization; and another interview with Dora Weinberger, a survivor from France, depicts a personal side of life in occupied France.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2019
Eleven Hundred French Jewish High School Students Celebrate Hanukkah in Jerusalem
Authors: eJewish Philanthropy
Eleven hundred high school seniors from twenty-five Jewish schools across France celebrated the third night of Hanukkah (Thursday, December 18, 2014) in Jerusalem. Participants enjoyed performances by Israeli singer-songwriter Yonatan Razel and IDF Chief Cantor Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, accompanied by the IDF Rabbinate Troupe. Bac Bleu Blanc (“High School Seniors in Blue and White”) is a program run by The Jewish Agency for Israel, with the support of Keren Hayesod-UIA, that brings French Jewish high school seniors to Israel on a one-week educational trip every winter.
In Jerusalem, a School for Ultra-Orthodox Who Don’t Quite Fit In
Authors: Tucker Nati
Rabbi Dov Rozman runs a revolutionary school, Amalenu, for young men, who can’t adapt to the world of yeshiva learning. Quietly, and avoiding controversy, he tailors his program to devote more hours to math and technology than to religious study.
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News about granted funds for stage 4
The Swedish Energy Agency has granted Swedish Electromobility Centre, SEC, funds for Stage 4, which runs from 1 July 2019 and four years to come. This gives us the opportunity to continue the Swedish Electromobility Centres important work to act as a catalyst for new vehicle technology.
Our mission is to continue to contribute to sustainable mobility by developing strategically important knowledge and expertise in the electric and hybrid vehicle area to strengthen and support the Swedish automotive industry. In stage four, we will focus on five thematic areas: system studies and methods, electrical machines, drive systems and charging, energy storage (including fuel cells), electromobility in society and collaboration between vehicles and the electricity grid. The centre will strengthen cross-border research and collaboration between industry and academia. The goal is to make the vehicle fleet more energy efficient with a more gentle environmental impact.
“Starting this year, the SEC is expanding its focus to powerfully including the power grid impact of electric vehicles. It’s very exciting. An electric vehicle fleet of the extent that we will have within the next 10 years has a significant impact not only on energy outlets from the electricity system but also on power balance and, not least, the interaction with renewable electricity production. The SEC takes the overall responsibility that will affect both the charging infrastructure and the grid components as well as the country’s electricity generation ”. – Mats Alaküla, theme manager for Electric machines and fuel.
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China spearheads mobile payment
Updated: Nov 8,2018 11:51 AM english.gov.cn
Premier Li Keqiang and six leaders of major international financial institutions co-chaired the third “1+6” roundtable meeting in Beijing on Nov 6.
At the meeting, one leader raised a query about China’s approach to obtain momentous progress in mobile payment.
Although the fundamental technologies of mobile payment originated from developed countries, China has made unprecedented progress in this field, the Premier said.
“We used to be surrounded by various concerns about the potential risks of mobile payment when it started, but the Chinese government decided to give a go of it, with inclusive and prudent administrative methods,” Premier Li said.
Inclusive and prudent administrative methods, the Premier added, can be compared to crossing the river by feeling the stones. In the meantime, the government will allow the industry to develop with optimum autonomy and help make constant tweaks along the way.
It’s noteworthy that online transactions, compared to cash ones, are way more manageable by virtue of its traceable records. With mobile payment being increasingly widely available in China, substantial convenience has been ushered in transactions.
Apart from inclusive and prudent administrative methods, the bank industry was deterred from a monopoly during China’s development of mobile payment.
Since small enterprises and individual citizens make up the majority of the beneficiary community, mobile payment could also promote inclusive finance and equality, Premier Li said.
China’s thriving digital economy, including mobile payment, drew the attention of many international finance institution leaders.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim fully affirmed China’s innovative application of digital economy to regions in abject poverty.
The rocketing development of e-commerce in Southwest China’s Guizhou province was laudable, Kim said. He found it a remarkable approach to alleviate poverty.
The Premier talked about a couple he met in Guizhou at the meeting: “They couldn’t even make ends meet while working in eastern cities, and now they can earn 30,000 yuan a month by selling local agricultural products to the world on e-commerce platforms after coming back home to Guizhou.”
“The capital market allows local people to acquire more capital and access to the market through e-commerce, which reduces the local poverty rate and reflects the benefits of free trade,” Kim said.
He added that the rapid development of China’s economy has attracted worldwide attention, and what is more astonishing is its commitment to benefit the people in its development.
The World Bank will continue to develop cooperative relations with China and promote China’s experience in these areas, he said.
It is hard to achieve great benefits without combining innovation with the market, Premier Li said, adding that a huge market will be needed for the commercialization and wide adoption of mobile payments, and China is the largest market around the world.
The huge market not only provides abundant business opportunities, but also forces the escalation of technology research and development, he added.
He also emphasized that China is willing to strengthen cooperation in financial technology innovation with developed countries, and strictly protect intellectual property rights (IPR) to create a business environment that is more conducive to innovation and cooperation.
The Premier said cases should be treated individually, while emphasizing the importance of protecting IPRs.
The original innovative IPRs must not be violated, but some knowledge and technology can be made available to the public through an open-source approach, which may expand the market and bring greater benefits to enterprises, Premier Li said.
The Premier also promised that China will definitely strengthen IPR protection to preserve the legitimate rights of original innovative enterprises and promote China’s transformation and upgrading.
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SEAN NA NA
Sean Na Na is the guitar pop project of Sean Tillmann (a.k.a. Har Mar Superstar). It started as a solo outlet for Sean's songs that didn't quite fit with his noise band Calvin Krime in 1998. Since then, the project evolved into a full band with a rotating cast of characters from all over the musical map. The masses really started to take notice when Mary Lou Lord and Sean teamed up on a split EP for Kill Rock Stars in 2000. Family Trees: Or CoPe We Must (2007) is the third full-length outing of the band. The title of the album reflects the familial nature of Sean Na Na's group of friends. FYI: the title is also a blatant drug reference. "CoPe We Must" is actually short for Coke-Peppered Weed Mustache. Childish? Yes. Radical? Indeed.
The album was a labor of love spanning many sessions at The Bubble (Austin, TX), Jackpot! (Portland, OR), and Hangar 1018 (Los Angeles) with Sean producing all of the sessions. When all was ready for mixing, John Goodmanson was enlisted, and the two headed into the Magic Shop (NYC) to put the finishing touches on. The band on this recording is a diverse bunch including long-time collaborator Lucky Jeremy, Tony Bevilacqua (The Distillers, The Drips), Patrick Costello (Dillinger 4), Ben Webster (Attack Formation, Total Sound Group), and Dave Hernandez (The Shins). Maria and Kate Taylor, Greg Dulli (Twilight Singers, Afghan Whigs), and many more friends stopped by the studio to lend an extra voice or hand clap when necessary.
Sean Na Na has an extensive touring history. They have shared the stage with The Strokes, The Hold Steady, Ted Leo, The Rakes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Like, and a long, laundry list of others that most of the band can't remember. The memory loss is most likely due to the fact that the band plays a lot of it's shows historically wasted... which is an extension of their party hard/work hard ethic. It's all for your entertainment. The line-up changes tour to tour, but most of the album's collaborators show up on stage and new members Denver Dalley (Desaparecidos, Statistics) and Justin Chearno (Panthers, Turing Machine) have joined the rotation as well. Most recently Fab from The Strokes joined the band on a worldwide mission to share the Na Na Noise.
And the Na Na Noise is…? Sean Na Na, when pressed to find a likeness to their sound the band, would probably say they sound like early Elvis Costello and The Replacements throwing up on tape the morning after an all-night bender.
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NICK BLOOD presents A Tribute to the Musical Life of Nick Patrick Thompson
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Home» 2018 » April 2018 » Commemorative Plaque Placed in Honor of Saidie Patterson
Commemorative Plaque Placed in Honor of Saidie Patterson
On Thursday, March 8th, a commemorative blue plaque was unveiled by the Ulster History Circle on the front wall of Shankill Road Methodist Church, Belfast, Northern Ireland in honour of Ms Saidie Patterson. Ms Patterson was the first recipient of the World Methodist Peace Award in 1977, and a faithful member of the congregation. Blue plaques are much coveted signs of recognition of a person or persons associated with the location where any plaque is placed.
Revd Dr Harold Good (left) and Gillian Kingston (WMC Vice-President)
During the morning’s proceedings, those present were able to see the medallion awarded to Ms Patterson, brought from the Methodist Archives for the occasion. Among those present was the Revd Dr Harold Good, another recipient of the Peace Award (2007).
The plaque was unveiled by Baroness May Blood, who spoke movingly of her old friend, describing her as ‘a feisty (spirited or assertive) wee woman…who had her own ideas about things.’
Gillian Kingston, Vice President of the World Methodist Council, was invited to address the gathering and spoke about the Award, and, in particular, about its significant Irish associations.
The vision for a World Methodist Peace Award came from the Revd Dr Eric Gallagher of the Methodist Church in Ireland. Articulated at the World Methodist Council meeting in Dublin in 1976, and taken forward by Dr Stanley Leyland, it was decided that the first award should be to an Irish person. Two other Irish persons have received the award: the late Gordon Wilson of Enniskillen for his amazing faith and irenic attitude following the murder of his daughter, and the Revd Dr Harold Good for his peace diplomacy both in Ireland and in other parts of the world.
The Methodist Church in Ireland nominated one of the co-recipients of the 2017 Peace Award, OPCEMI (the Methodist Church in Italy), on the basis of that church’s prophetic and courageous work among refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea and landing on Italian shores.
The Vice President commented that ‘this was an excellent event where the local Methodist community and the World Methodist Council intersected and we were able to celebrate the courage, creativity and consistency of an individual.’
About Saidie Patterson:
Born in 1904, and one of a number of children, Saidie Patterson experienced tragedy early in her life when her mother died in childbirth, the family being unable to afford a doctor’s fee. When Saidie was 14, she started work in Ewart’s linen mill and, from the start, she fought for better working conditions. In 1940, she called for unionization of the workforce and, when this was refused, called a strike which lasted seven weeks. By the end of that year, wages had increased and holiday pay had been introduced.
When the period known as ‘The Troubles’ started in Northern Ireland in the late 1960’s, Saidie Patterson was at the forefront of those trying to bring peace and reconciliation across community boundaries; she played an important role in the work of the Peace People. For this, she received the first World Methodist Peace Award. Within hours of receiving the Award, she got the news that a great-nephew had been killed in a sectarian attack.
Saidie Patterson once famously remarked that the Lord has given each of us two ears and one mouth and these should be used in that proportion!
She died in 1985.
British Methodist Leaders Issue Statement on Recent Violence on Gaza-Israel Border
Wesley House Cambridge Partners with Africa University
The Principal, The Revd Dr Jane Leach (left) is pictured…
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I've been sick in bed all day, so now that I've risen from the dead, I present a random rundown of today's happenings:
Imams spur cartoon violence: Nat Hentoff writes that the most egregious cartoons featuring Mohammed——"Muhammad as a demonic pedophile; Muhammad with a pig snout; a Muslim at prayer raped by a dog"—wasn't among the 12 that ran in the Danish newspaper. "Imams in Denmark toured the Middle East with these additional cartoons... to show, they said, the degree of hatred in Denmark of Muslims," which is why cartoons that ran in September are sparking worldwide riots in February.
Worth a veto? Bush has never used his veto powers, but he's threatened to take the maiden voyage by blocking emergency legislation that would prevent a company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates from taking over port security duties at key American ports. Politicians of both parties, from Michael Bloomberg and Bill Frist to New York's Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Peter King, have expressed alarm at allowing port security to be run by a company based in Dubai, the "logistical hub" (and major source of financing) of the 9/11 hijackers. A little investigation couldn't hurt, but why's Bush so adamant? Could the White House's ties to the company have something to do with it?
A lightbulb moment: A bright idea via WorldChanging: a Long Island science teacher is leading his class in providing every kid in America with a compact fluorescent light bulb. If they succeed, they'll help us save $2.3 billion in energy costs. Who can fork over the dough needed? Why, Oprah, of course (and those who watch her). Send her a letter requesting her show features "Mr. Luna's Bright Idea."
TNT-eating fungi? From NewScientist: "When explosives are used for mining or demolition, some may fail to detonate and get lost in the rubble. [Inventor Robert] Riggs reckons the remedy could be to mix pellets of dormant fungal spores in with the explosive charge before inserting the wick into the explosive package. The dry spores lie dormant while the explosives are in storage and, if the charge detonates as intended, will get blown to smithereens. But if the explosive fails to detonate, water from the air should migrate down the wick and into the charge. The spores should then germinate and devour the charge, rendering it harmless."
The O'Reilly Faker: In a longstanding feud with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof challenged O'Reilly to demonstrate his "traditional values" by assessing the horror in Darfur first hand so he could use his "talents for an important cause." Through his readers, Kristof has raised over $725,000 for the trip. But O'Reilly calls Kristof's efforts a "gimmick" and says he won't go: "I do three hours of daily news analysis on TV and radio. There's no way I can go to Africa."
Heretofore unsung: Two funny things about the new Scooter Libby Defense Trust website. 1. In the banner, Libby uses a quote from Dick Cheney to vouch for his competence and talent. 2. The site heaps praise on the Indicted One thusly: "Since September 11, 2001, Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been one of the unsung heroes in fighting the war on terror..."
At least Cheney didn't shoot you? Or did he? Make your own, customized CNN story on Cheney's hunting mishap at igotshotbydickcheney.com. (Via Siva, who also got shot by Cheney.)
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Tag: FBI director’s speech
5:45 PM 10/22/2017 – FBI director’s speech
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FBI director’s speech targets mobile devices, access: ‘This is a huge, huge problem’
In a wide-ranging speech to hundreds of police leaders from across the globe, Wray also touted the FBI’s partnerships with local and federal law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism and violentcrime. “The threats that we face keep accumulating …
Sunday October 22nd, 2017 at 5:46 PM
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PHILADELPHIA — The FBI hasn’t been able to retrieve data from more than half of the mobile devices it tried to access in less than a year, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sunday, turning up the heat on a debate between technology companies and law enforcement officials trying to recover encrypted communications.
In the first 11 months of the fiscal year, federal agents were unable to access the content of more than 6,900 mobile devices, Wray said in a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia.
“To put it mildly, this is a huge, huge problem,” Wray said. “It impacts investigations across the board — narcotics, human trafficking, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, gangs, organized crime, child exploitation.”
The FBI and other law enforcement officials have long complained about being unable to unlock and recover evidence from cellphones and other devices seized from suspects even if they have a warrant, while technology companies have insisted they must protect customers’ digital privacy.
The long-simmering debate was on display in 2016, when the Justice Department tried to force Apple to unlock an encrypted cellphone used by a gunman in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. The department eventually relented after the FBI said it paid an unidentified vendor who provided a tool to unlock the phone and no longer needed Apple’s assistance, avoiding a court showdown.
The Justice Department under President Donald Trump has suggested it will be aggressive in seeking access to encrypted information from technology companies. But in a recent speech, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein stopped short of saying exactly what action it might take.
“I get it, there’s a balance that needs to be struck between encryption and the importance of giving us the tools we need to keep the public safe,” Wray said.
In a wide-ranging speech to hundreds of police leaders from across the globe, Wray also touted the FBI’s partnerships with local and federal law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism and violent crime.
“The threats that we face keep accumulating, they are complex, they are varied,” Wray said, describing threats from foreign terror organizations and homegrown extremists.
Wray also decried a potential “blind spot” for intelligence gathering if Congress doesn’t reauthorize an intelligence surveillance law set to expire at the end of the year. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the government to collect information about militants, people suspected of cybercrimes or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other foreign targets outside the United States.
Intelligence and law enforcement officials say the act is vital to national security.
A section of the act permits the government, under the oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, to target non-Americans outside the United States.
“If it doesn’t get renewed or reauthorized, essentially in the form that it already is, we’re about to get another blind spot,” Wray said.
The story was written by Michael Balsamo of the Associated Press. Writer Sadie Gurman in Washington contributed to this report.
Lindsey Graham: The Trump administration has ‘a blind spot on Russia I still can’t figure out’ – Business Insider
Sunday October 22nd, 2017 at 12:54 PM
Russia Helping Trump – Google News
Lindsey Graham: The Trump administration has ‘a blind spot on Russia I still can’t figure out’
“I think that the Trump administration is slow when it comes to Russia,” Graham said when asked why he thought the administration had not yet implemented the new sanctions against Russiathat Trump signed into law on August 2. “They have a blind spot …
11:23 AM 10/22/2017 – What is the “Khazarian Mafia (KM)”? – Trump Investigations Report
What is the “Khazarian Mafia (KM)”?
“Khazarian Mafia (KM) against America and many Middle East …” – Khazarian Mafia has Gone Mad, Follows the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror Kashmir Watch
Khazarian Mafia has Gone Mad, Follows the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror
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Sunday October 22nd, 2017 at 11:24 AM
World Bank offers to boost Libya’s ailing economy
Libyan Express–Oct 2, 2017
Second the World bank owned by the Zionists Khazarian mafia (the ones responsible for destroying Libya) never help anyone, they just create …
Jews against other Jews
Jerusalem Post Israel News–Feb 16, 2017
The antisemitic conspiracy films floating about YouTube have names like “The House of Rothschild: Khazarian Mafia Pretending to Be Jews” or …
Robert Fulford: Inside the mind of Alex Jones, your classic American …
National Post–Jun 24, 2017
The Khazarian mafia is said to be making plans that will eventually lead to World War III. Recently a well-known conspiracy monger found …
SOS, USA
Aporrea–Oct 1, 2017
La Mafia Khazaria Rothschild, luego de muchos intentos, finalmente logro enterrar sus garras en 1914, cuando crearon la Reserva Federal …
Khazarain Mafia has Gone Mad, Follows the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror
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By Sajjad Shaukat
Renowned historians agree that besides other causes, major cause of the French Revolution of 1789 was the class distinction between the privileged and the unprivileged, which rapidly increased under the reign of King Louis XVI who had continued the policy of taking out international loans, and the debt drove the country to near bankruptcy, leading to the Revolution.
They opine, “The French Revolution began because the people of France wanted to end the monarchy and aristocracy…The people signed the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which declared that all estates are equal…all men are born equal under the law…the Revolution cherished the genuine aspirations of people such as liberty, equality and justice, which became the inspiration of people not only in France, but also in Europe and from there to the whole world.”
But, this enthusiasm died, when France witnessed the era of Reign of Terror from September 1793 to July 1794. The Reign of Terror was essentially created by the radical leader of the revolution Maximilien de Robespierre.
According to a researcher, “The guillotine became the preferred method of executions and became known as “The National Razor.” Joseph Guillotine, a doctor, suggested its use for all executions, because it was a quick, painless death…The device was a large timber frame with a space at the bottom for the neck of the prisoner. At the top of the machine is a large angled blade. Once the prisoner is secured, the blade is dropped, severing the head and bringing about immediate death.”
During the Reign of Terror, the revolutionaries executed many high ranking members of France’s elite class through the guillotine which also included King Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, Louis Philippe II, Madame Roland, and the Girondins.
The Reign of Terror was controlled by the Committee of Public Safety-the Jacobins. Robospierre ran the country and got an army of 800,000. It was the biggest army ever, in Europe, up to that time. Researchers say, “Between 20,000 and 40,000 people were executed. At their trials, they could not speak in their own defense. The victims were clergy, aristocracy, and common people. Anyone who disagreed with the Jacobins was a threat to the Republic.”
Robespierre even executed some of his fellow leaders like Danton and others who were beheaded in 1794. The Reign of Terror ended when several of the main instigators, including Robespierre and Saint-Just, were beheaded. However, the French Revolution had started to murder itself.
Regarding the Reign of Terror, David Thomsan writes, “The Terror was not an instrument of class war, and 70 percent of its victims belonged to the peasantry and laboring classes.”
According to Indian historian, V. D. Mahajin, “The Reign of Terror has been described as martial law gone mad…On 10 November [1793], Madam Roland was executed. When she mounted to the scaffold, she exclaimed: Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!”
By taking advantage of the Reign of Terror and unrest in the country, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French General seized the power through a coup and became head of the government as the First Consul. He later proclaimed himself Emperor of France. Quite opposite to the ideas of the French Revolution, Napoleon ruled over France by establishing a dictatorship, a monarchy and an aristocracy. He also militarized France and engaged the country in several wars.
If we take cognizance of the bloody aftermath of the French Revolution, we need to know that in the modern era, Khazarain Mafia has also gone mad and follows the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror in its worst form. This Mafia has refined the tactics of the guillotine and tortured to deaths millions of people, belonging to various nations. If guillotine resulted into quick death of persons, Kazarian Mafia’s techniques have been eliminating the human beings not only through mass murder, but also through perennial pain which may also be equated with slow poison.
As regards the historical background of the Kazarian Mafia and its connections with Israel and Zionist Jews, various writers of the Veterans Today, including Senior Auditor Gordon Duff have already exposed its evil-designs.
In this respect, under the titles, “The Hidden History of the Incredibly Evil Khazarian Mafia” and “Khazarians Then, Khazarians Now”, Preston James and Mike Harris wrote on the VT, “The curtain is now being pulled back to fully expose the Khazarian Mafia and its evil plan to infiltrate, tyrannize the whole world and eradicate all Abrahamic Religions and allow only their Babylonian Talmudism also known as Luciferianism, Satanism or ancient Baal worship…the Khazarian Mafia (KM), the World’s largest Organized Crime Syndicate that the Khazarian oligarchy morphed into by their deployment of Babylonian Money-Magick…It has been exceedingly difficult to reconstruct this hidden secret history of the KM…We have done the best we can to reconstruct it…It was Mike Harris that connected the dots and made the actual discovery of the presence of the Khazarian Mafia’s secret history and blood oath to take revenge on Russia for helping Americans win the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, and their blood oath of revenge against America and Americans for winning these wars and sustaining the Union. At the Syrian Conference on Combating Terrorism and Religious Extremism December 1, 2014—in his Keynote address, Veterans Today Senor Editor and Director Gordon Duff disclosed publicly for the first time ever that World Terrorism is actually due to a large International Organized Crime Syndicate associated with Israel…And the shock-waves from his historic speech in Damascus continue to reverberate around the world even to this very day. And now Gordon Duff has asked President Putin to release Russian Intel which will expose about 300 traitors in Congress for their serious serial felonies and statutory espionage on behalf of the Khazarian Mafia (KM) against America and many Middle East nations. We now know that the Khazarian Mafia (KM) is waging a secret war against America and Americans by the use of False-flag Gladio-style terrorism, and via the illegal and Unconstitutional Federal Reserve System, the IRS, the FBI, FEMA, Homeland Security and the TSA. We know for certain that the KM was responsible for deploying an inside-job, Gladio-style False-flag attack on America on 9-11-01, as well as the Murrah Building Bombing on April 19, 1995….Khazarians develop into a nation ruled by an evil king, who had ancient Babylonian black arts, occult oligarchs serving as his court…The leaders of the surrounding nations, especially Russia, have had so many years of complaints by their citizens that, as a group, they deliver an ultimatum to the Khazarian king…he must choose one of the three Abrahamic religions for his people…Islam, Christianity and Judaism. The Khazarian king chose Judaism, and promised to stay within the requirements laid out by the surrounding confederacy of nations led by the Russian czar. Despite his agreement and promise, the Khazarian king and his inner circle of oligarchs kept practicing ancient Babylonian black-magic, also known as Secret Satanism…Sadly, the Khazarians continued their evil ways, robbing and murdering those from surrounding countries who traveled through Khazaria. Khazarian robbers often attempted to assume their identities after they murdered these visitors, and became masters of disguises and false identities—a practice they have continued even to this very day, along with their child-sacrifice occult ceremonies, which are actually ancient Baal Worship…The Khazarian leaders had a well-developed spy network through which they obtained prior warning and escaped from Khazaria to European nations to the west, taking their vast fortune with them in gold and silver. They laid low and regrouped, while assuming new identities…To accomplish their invasion, they hired Oliver Cromwell to murder King Charles 1, and make England safe for banking again. This began the English Civil Wars which raged for nearly a decade, resulting in regicide of the royal family and hundreds of the genuine English nobility. This is how the City of London was set up as the banking capital of Europe and launched the beginning of the British Empire. The Khazarian Mafia (KM) decides to infiltrate and hijack all World Banking using Babylonian Black-Magick, also known as Babylonian Money-Magick or the secret art of making money from nothing also using the power of pernicious usury to accumulate interest…The Rothschild banksters regroup and continue their covert attempts to install their own Babylonian money-magick bank inside America. In 1913, the Rothschild KM was able to establish a beachhead by bribing crooked, treasonous members of Congress to pass the illegal, Unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act on Christmas Eve without a required quorum. The Act was then signed by a crooked, bought off President, who was a traitor to America, like the members of Congress who voted for it. The KM put an illegal, unconstitutional tax system in place, in order to make sure that Americans would have to pay for high-level USG spending, approved by a bought-off, crooked Congress and Presidential puppets, put in place by corrupt KM campaign finance…It is easy for the KM to garner enough money to elect anyone they want, because when you control a bank that is a secret major counterfeiter, you have all the money made for you that you desire…they also bribed members of Congress to approve the Internal Revenue Service, which is their private collection agency incorporated in Puerto Rico…The Bolsheviks, at the direction of the Rothschild KM, raped, tortured and mass-murdered approximately 100 million Russians, including women, children and infants. Some of the torture and bloodletting was so extreme, we are not going to mention it here in this article…They called this racially-paranoid mass Judaic delusion of world conquest, “World Zionism”, which is really a form of covert Babylonian Talmudism or Luciferianism…It is important to realize that the Rothschild KM took Germany down to nothing after WWI, created a vacuum for Fascism, and then rebuilt it, creating Naziism and installing Hitler as a counter-force to their Russian Bolshevism…Hitler became a problem for the KM when he broke free and begin acting in the interests of the German people and the free people of the world, and developed his own banking system free of the Rothschilds…We see the same thing today with the Khazarian war against Islam, because Islam forbids usury. That is why Israel is so vocal and aggressive about destroying the Islamic people of the world…The KM expected this to be a large WWII and when they supported both sides, this could be used to industrialize the whole world and maximize their bankster money-power…After WWII was finished, the Rothschild KM deployed the Cold War, and used this as an excuse to bring Nazi scientists and mind-kontrol experts to America under Operation Paperclip. This allowed them to set up a worldwide spying and espionage system that far exceeded any of their prior efforts…Under this new system, they continue to infiltrate and hijack all American institutions, including the various American church systems, Freemasonry (especially the Scottish Rite and York Rite), the US military, US Intel, and most private defense contractors, the Judiciary and most agencies of the USG, including most State governments, and both major political parties as well…The Rothschild KM was able to use their self mis-labelled, so-called “holocaust” to serve as a mind-kontrol trigger to thwart and resist any criticism of their Zionist ways.”
As a matter of fact, Jews are owners of the many big cartels of the US in particular and the world in general. Based in the US, they have been running the major multinational corporations, arms factories, five star hotels, oil companies, liquor business, banks, film industry, print and electronic media on international level. Having influence on the financial institutes like World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Jews have direct and indirect hold on the global economy. Thus, by dominating the American internal policies Khazarian Jewish Mafia has moulded country’s foreign policy for their own interests and those of Israel. By changing America into a corporate industry, they have converted the world into a corporate industry.
It is notable that after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US emerged as the sole superpower in the unipolar world. In consultation with his Zionist-advisers, American former President Bush, (The Senior) replaced the old bipolar order with the New World Order (NWO), with the US acting as a kind of global policeman to protect the political, economic and religious interests of the Khazarian Mafia.
In the unipolar world, even the United Nations system became an instrument of the US policy to establish American hegemony in the world. The Third World—Muslim countries were compelled to realign their domestic policies according to Washington’s dictates. In order to obtain the hidden agenda of the Khazarian Jewish Mafia, the US imposed its sudden terms of globalization such as free markets, privatization and de-nationalization etc. on the ill-prepared developing countries and the Muslim countries, which left behind shattered nations and a global financial crisis and increased poverty in most of these countries, which resulted into painful deaths of many persons due to diseases and lack of medical treatment. It further widened the gap between the poor and the rich countries or G-7 countries. The Khazarian Mafia has continued to drive the project of globalization.
Besides, America’s child-killing sanctions against Iraq and Iran; late action to curb ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, support to Israel’s aggressive occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, with vetoing any effective action by the UN to curb the Israeli state terrorism greatly annoyed the Muslims all over the world.
When President George W. Bush became the US president, he and the neo-conservatives crossed all the limits in securing the political, economic and religious interests of Israel and the Khazarian Mafia at the cost of Muslims and patriot Americans.
Once Henry Kissinger stated “legitimacy is not natural or automatic, but created.” Under the cover of the false flag operation of the 9/11, the US President Bush orchestrated the drama of global war on terror.
Bush who used the words, “crusade against the evil-doers” adding to the perception that the ongoing ‘different war’ against terrorism is actually a war against the Islamic countries also warned the world to choose sides by saying, “either you are with us or with terrorists.” It was due to employment of pressure-diplomacy on the weak states—Muslim countries like Pakistan, Indonesia, Libya etc., including almost all the Arab states joined Bush anti-terrorism war. By manipulating the 9/11 carnage, Bush also got the sympathies of almost all the major Western countries including NATO states which also joined the fake global war on terror.
During the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq (By the US-British-led forces) and after occupation, the brutal tactics of the US-led NATO like heavy air bombardment and ground shelling by the sophisticated war machinery, including special military operations and extra-judicial assassinations killed several innocent persons. Particularly, the US military strategic warlords who preferred to create a paralyzing effect of ‘shock and awe’ displayed the terrible inferno of destruction in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In case of Iraq, many of the Iraqis including some members of the former Interim Governing Council were shocked at the violence in Fallujah. Even the US weekly, ‘Newsweek’ admitted in its publication of April 19/April 26, 2004 that the US forces “used very heavy hand in Fallujah where more than 400 people were killed. Four members of the [former] Governing Council resigned in a protest against America’s crackdown in Fallujah…according to doctors figure of the deaths was impossible to check and it is more than 400…an airstrike dropped a 500 pound bomb. Arab language TV claimed that the bomb killed more than a score of civilians at prayer.”
Like Afghanistan, American soldiers also massacred several wounded people and civilians in Iraq. In November, 2004, a number of world’s televised channels including those of America showed footage of a US marine who was shooting and killing an already captive and wounded Iraqi prisoner at close range in a mosque in Fallujah where civilians had taken shelter.
Nobody can deny the fact that these were the worst examples of the US-led state terrorism or use of abnormal force.
It is of particular attention that the US-led troops, assisted by CIA have carried out indiscriminate mass round-ups in catching up suspected Muslim men and women in Afghanistan and Iraq, including some Arab countries without evidence. Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and Indian secret agency RAW have helped the CIA officials in arresting the Muslim men, having beard and ladies, wearing scarves. Besides Guantanamo Bay and Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, CIA torture cells were present in several Islamic countries and were also set up in ships where US secret agencies and military personnel employed various methods of torture on the militants and suspected persons like physical violence and even murder. American notorious private military firm Blackwater also eliminated countless Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In March, 2013, an investigative report by the British Guardian/BBC disclosed that acting under the direction of the top US officials; the CIA utilized a global network of secret prisons, foreign intelligence agents and torture centers in various Islamic countries including Belgium, Thailand etc. where torture was conducted directly by American intelligence operatives.
The report also mentioned atrocities of the US-backed entities, carried out in Bagram Airbase (Afghanistan), Guantanamo and Iraq—unleashed a deadly sectarian militia which terrorized the Sunni community and germinated a civil war between Sunnis and Shias, and claimed tens of thousands of lives.
It revealed, “At the height of that sectarian conflict, 3,000 bodies a month were strewn on the streets of Iraq. Rounding up Sunnis in American pickup trucks, the captives were thrown into secret prisons established in libraries, airports, and ministries. Anti-occupation politicians, human rights activists, and journalists were murdered. The purpose was also to terrorize ordinary Iraqis who opposed the US occupation.”
In this regard, the report focuses on the role of retired Colonel James Steele who worked with the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. David Petraeus who also served as President Obama’s CIA director. Steele sent regular memos to Donald Rumsfeld who forwarded them to Vice-President Dick Cheney and President George Bush, while, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died and millions were displaced as a result of the chaos and brutal practices.
In this connection, some latest reports suggest that more than 3 million people including civilians died in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan which was not attacked, but was, deliberately, destabilized by CIA, RAW and Mossad, as the latter is the only nuclear country in the Islamic World.
Following his predecessor, President Barack Obama also continued the ruthless killings of the Muslims to complete the unfinished agenda of the Khazarian Mafia.
Apart from air strikes on funerals, marriage-ceremonies and mosques in Afghanistan, he converted Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen etc. into concentration camps. As part of the US double game, CIA which created Al-Qaeda and then Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS and ISIL), including Al-Qaeda’s Al-Nusra Front and Syrian rebel groups in fighting against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iraqi regime is responsible for the mass murder of more than 2 million Muslims and Christians who were killed in civil wars—ground and aerial strikes of the US-led Western countries—suicide attacks and bomb blasts, conducted by Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Besides, during the phony global war on terror, in these countries and Afghanistan and Iraq, especially in Syria, millions of Muslims became homeless. The plight of refugees—countless deaths, particularly of children due to lack of medical treatment and starvation has shocked the peace-loving people of the international community.
President Obama had also broken all the record of human rights violations by extrajudicial killings of the innocent people through illegal CIA-operated drone attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen etc. in general and Pakistan in particular.
It is mentionable that through the war against terrorism, President Bush and President Obama provided a golden chance to Israel and India to accelerate the systematic genocide of the Palestinians and Kashmiris by equating the wars of liberation in the controlled territories of Palestine and Kashmir with terrorism. Their forces have been employing military terrorism such as curfews, crackdowns, sieges, massacre and targeted killings to maintain alien rule on these territories.
It is noteworthy that a number of investigative reports after lab-verification verified that since 1948, Israel used the banned chemical and radiological materials against the Palestinians, Egyptians and Syrians, and during various phases of the Palestinian Intifada, which resulted in to severe convulsions, the burning sensation, the difficulty to breathe, the vomiting and pain found in relation to the victims—mostly women and children, a majority of whom died in the long run. In 2006, during the war against Lebanon, Israel used banned chemical weapons like phosphorous bombs in Lebanon and Gaza, which killed 286 Palestinians and injured 4,200.
Notably, the main purpose of occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq by the US-led forces was to possess energy resources of Central Asia and Iraq. In case of the Middle East, we can see the resources of natural gas reserves in the whole Persian Gulf region. Hence, the motives of the CIA-led Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in financing with billions of dollars to the opposition rebel groups and ISIL in Syria was to occupy the natural gas and oil of the region.
Many analysts say that Russia supplies Europe with a quarter of the gas. America and its European allies which are involved in the Syrian war want to end European dependence on Russia. American President Obama had openly said to reduce Europe’s reliance on Russian gas.
In this context, F. William Engdahl wrote, “Today the US-backed wars in Ukraine and in Syria are but two fronts in the same strategic war to cripple Russia and China and to rupture any Eurasian counter-pole to a US-controlled New World Order. In each, control of energy pipelines, this time primarily of natural gas pipelines—from Russia to the EU via Ukraine and from Iran and Syria to the EU via Syria—is the strategic goal.”
It is worth-mentioning that according to the retired NATO Secretary General Wesley Clark, a memo from the Office of the US Secretary of Defense just a few weeks after 9/11 revealed plans to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years, starting with Iraq and moving on to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. In an interview, Clark said that this strategy is fundamentally about control of the region’s vast oil and gas resources.
Similarly, when during the regime of the then President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan initiated the construction of Gwadar deep-seaport in Balochistan province in March 2002 with Chinese assistance, sirens went off in the capitals of some European countries, especially the US, India and Israel which took it as a threat to their global and regional plans.
Located on the southwestern coast of Pakistan, Balochistan’s Gwadar seaport is close to the Strait of Hormuz from where more than 17 million barrels of oil passes every day. Its ideal location among South Asia, the oil-rich Middle East, and oil and gas-resourced Central Asia has further increased its strategic significance. Besides, Balochistan’s abundant mineral resources irritate the eyes of Washington, New Delhi and Tel Aviv who intend to weaken Pakistan for their collective aims.
Based in Afghanistan, CIA, Mossad and RAW which are well-penetrated in the ISIS and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) including their linked terror outfits and Baloch separatist groups are using their terrorists to destabilize Tibetan regions of China, Iranian Sistan-Baluchistan and Pakistan’s Balochistan by arranging the subversive activities. In this connection, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is their special target.
Machiavelli advises the rulers to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act upon the traits of goat inwardly. He also suggests them foreign adventures and the use of terror to obtain their goals. In his sense, a good ruler should be a good opportunist and hypocrite. While echoing Machiavelli, Morgenthau points out that sometimes, rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud, falsehood and even murder to fulfill their selfish aims.
Indicating dual policy, Morgenthau, and Palmer and Perkins opine, “Just as power became the instrument of ambitious nationalism and state’s leaders, it has now become the tool of ideologies. The true nature of the policy is concealed by ideological justifications and rationalization.”
Although in the present world of social media and Internet, such a sinister politics has been replaced by modern trends such as fair-dealings, reconciliation and economic development, yet by following the old strategies, Khazarain Mafia has been practicing the most horrible form of colonialism and neo-colonialism, while employing ruthless techniques of terrorism by assisting the militant groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS which conducted various terrorism-related attacks in the US, Europe and other Western countries, including Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, Philippines etc., and some African countries. Thus, they massacred thousands of persons which also include Christians.
It is also of particular attention that on September 25, 2016, at the UN General Assembly, while indicating the unjust global order, Pope Francis condemned the global financial institutions, calling on them to ensure that countries “are not subjected to oppressive lending systems which, far from promoting progress, subject people to mechanisms which generate greater poverty, exclusion and dependence.”
Earlier, addressing the US Congress, Pope Francis said, “No religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism…We must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism. A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetual in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system…Every life is sacred.”
Taking note of America’s non-acceptance of the Syrian refugees, Francis reminded the law-makers by remarking that the United States “is part of a larger whole on America in the Americas, where immigration is a deeply rooted part of history…We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.”
While calling for an end to the arms trade by arms dealers, Francis explained, “Deadly weapons for money are being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society…Money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood.”
He further added, “If politics must truly be at the service of human person, it follows that it cannot be slave to economy and finance.”
Meanwhile, since September 2015, when Russian-led coalition of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon-based Hezbollah started successful military operations against the CIA-supported rebels and mercenaries after their failure to topple Assad’s government, proving links of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, several false flag terror assaults in Europe and the US, were, in fact, arranged by Mossad in connivance with some CIA operatives and ISIS terrorists to increase anti-Muslim phenomena in the West—now, more resentment is found against the US-led West, and even the moderate Muslims are likely to join the militants. Another aim, especially of Mossad is to radicalize the Muslims against the Western Christians and the latter against the former.
The pro-Israeli President Donald Trump who manipulated these terror assaults, continues his anti-Muslim policies. Being a capitalist, President Donald Trump is blindly pursuing the goals of the Khazarain Mafia. Like Napoleon Bonaparte, he is a staunch warrior, as his policy war-like strategy regarding Afghanistan and North Korea show. Taking note of Trump’s contradictory approach and emotional statements, some Americans call him a sick man. In fact, like the revolutionaries of the French Revolution, President Trump has also gone mad.
Now, Russian-led coalition has almost defeated the ISIS and its linked militants groups in Syria and Iraq, who are on flee.
While, implementing secret strategy of the Khazarain Mafi, besides supporting the fanatic Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, American extremist President Donald Trump is also backing the Indian leader of the fanatic party BJP and the fundamentalist Prime Minister Narindra Modi against China and Pakistan in accordance with anti-China, anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim agenda. President Trump is leading the clandestine Indo-Israeli nexus as part of the invisible war of the Khazarian Mafia.
Nonetheless, according to an estimate, more than 8 million Muslims (Excluding the missing persons) have been killed during war on terror and in various terror related attacks by the terrorist groups. The figure of their fatalities is more than 6 or 7 million, which has, exaggeratedly been claimed by the Jews in connection with the Holocaust. While, the fake war on terror shows no end, American President Trump is likely to accelerate the massacre of the Muslims, Christians and military personnel of the US-led West in Syria, Afghanistan etc., and other vulnerable countries by furhter motivating the terrorist outfits like ISIS to target the Muslims and Christians through more acts of terrorism.
If not checked in time by the peace-loving Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Buddhists, the rigid and racist policies of the President Donald Trump who is completing the unfinished agenda of the Khazarain Mafi could culminate into civil war in the US who is already facing multiple internal crises which are owing to the prolonged war on terror (And in Afghanistan). While the world has already been radicalized on religious lines, this cabal can bring about a major war between the Muslim and the Christian worlds. The most dangerous aspect is that this conspiracy of the Khazarain Mafi may culminate into nuclear war between America and Russia, which will envelope the entire world and take it to the state of nature.
Returning to our earlier discussion, we can, undoubtedly, conclude that like the radicals of the French revolution, Khazarain Mafia has gone mad and follows the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution in its worst form.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email: <a href=”mailto:sajjad_logic_pak@hotmail.com”>sajjad_logic_pak@hotmail.com</a>
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This shooting was done by a lone-wolf, who coincidently is now dead. Move along! There’s nothing to see here! Speaking of hear – did you hear about Harvey Weinstein?
And, many of you might continue along with, “…and disregards the rest.” Which, as most of us now know, is from Paul Simon’s song ‘The Boxer’ from their ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ album. Hopefully Mr. Simon won’t mind, but “troubled waters” is also an excellent description of life in The United States of America today.
I recently read an article by Rush Limbaugh entitled, “We’re Paralyzed By Stupidity” and, might I humbly add, apathy can also be seen as one of our major paralyzing problems. But, jokingly, who really gives an RA!
Well, let me tell you who does, our elected officials aka: our politicians. They are counting on you not giving an RA! They are counting on your limited attention span. They also know that you will believe almost anything you see, hear, or read from the authorities and their complicit mainstream media.
Does anyone else see how they, meaning the aforementioned authorities like the FBI, needed anything to stop the 24/7 conversations about their bumbled, oft time contradictory handling, of the Las Vegas Terrorist Attack, so they gave us the old – Look over there, a squirrel! and, this particular squirrel’s name is Harvey Weinstein.
The timing of their replacement 24/7 news cycle of Harvey the Squirrel has been nothing more than a distraction. Everyone knew for years, both inside and outside Hollywood, that Harvey Weinstein was/is a suspected rapist; just as everyone knows that Bill Clinton was/is a suspected rapist;. Interestingly, I read an article the other day about rape allegations and, to give context to the article, it included an image of the two of them, both smiling that same arrogant rapist smile; as the thought came to me that there could not be two more qualified men-in-power-rapists to put in a picture for that article, with the possible exception of Kim Jung-un, that is.
Las Vegas’ Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo could be seen actually crying during a recent press conference; and to many this might be seen as a display of empathy, as he went teary-eyed for the victims. But, to the more discerning eye, he was crying because he has been thrust into this untenable position between relaying the events based on the actual evidence and the false narrative he is being told to repeat by the FBI, all in an attempt to cover up what really happened on the night of October 1st. Most of the information he is presenting as fact doesn’t actually make sense to anyone (who might still be paying attention, that is); but, more importantly, his explanations aren’t making sense to his own LVMPD investigators assigned to the case. Sheriff Lombardo has a reputation of being an honest, responsible public official, and like any man of integrity, he is beside himself with the conflicting emotions of being forced to explain the FBI’s alternate reality on the world’s stage, where they are basically telling him that his evidence be damned!
To better understand the Feds complete circle of influence, first we have Special Agent Aaron Rouse, who heads up ‘The Las Vegas Terrorist Attack’ investigation for the FBI; but, certainly, we will never find a file folder with those words written on the tab anywhere near an FBI office. Agent Rouse reports directly to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whose wife is a dear friend of Virginia Governor Terry McCauliffe, who just happens to be best buds with Hillary and Bill Clinton. And, McCabe has been charged with keeping the lid on (I meant running) the entire investigation from the secure distance of his office in Washington, DC. He, and his best buds, only goal is to stay-on-track with their crazy Paddock, the lone-wolf-single-shooter theory, long enough for at least one of their gun control bills in congress to gain enough popular support to be passed, possibly even enough support for a Presidential override.
Yes! Their lone-gunman-theory is all about gun control, which, as you know, has little to do with actual guns and everything to do with regulated control. Their latest ‘never-let-a-good-crisis-go-to-waste’ is really about everyone who legally owns guns, anyone who can now be looked upon as a potential Stephen Paddock just waiting for their meds to kick in and crack up, and who will eventually go up on some rooftop overlooking a crowd, and, and… and the government must protect us from the likes of all such crazy-gun-owning people. Their Second Amendment be damned! By the way, if you or anyone you know believes that criminals will obey any of their gun control laws, then you (hypothetically, that is) might be included in that special kind of stupidity that Rush’s earlier article was referring to.
Meanwhile, the tag-team of Rouse and McCabe had been forced into an almost full time job of ignoring and/or destroying most of the on-scene-evidence which kept coming in from literally thousands of witnesses, many of whom would prove that this was a multiple shooter terrorist attack. Thankfully, Harvey the Squirrel, came to the rescue just in the nick of time, because as an example, now no one knows or even cares what happened to the hotel guard, Jesus Campo. He was the one, who you might recall, was shot at some point in time, before or after crazy Paddock began shooting. Can’t you just image if he was getting ready to tell Sean Hannity from Fox News that it was a middle-Eastern man who shot him. And, to make sure there was no chance of that happening, POOF! Just like that, Campo was gone!
But, seriously, there has been much irrefutable evidence from eye witnesses who, like all good citizens, turned in their cellphones to the authorities, only to find that upon their return – everything – including all pictures or video evidence that might contradict the official narrative, was erased. There is also proof-positive evidence from many independent sources including a forensic acoustic analysis which confirm in great detail the existence of the harmonics of gun fire from at least one additional shooter at approximately half the distance (200-225 yards) from Paddock on the 32nd floor at about 400 yards.
And then, along came witness Rocky Palermo who was reportedly shot in the pelvis by another gunman at ground level at the concert. The Palermo family might want to advise their son not to walk the streets of Washington, DC at night, which as Seth Rich found out, can be very dangerous. Or, they might also advise him not to drive his car alone at night, especially if he has one of those new fan-dangled-cars with the computer controls which could possibly be driven remotely from say, a drone, as Michael Hastings also found out, but unfortunately too late.
By the way, it is important that you understand that the LVMPD heroic first responders and front-line investigators have little control over the Feds attempt to persist in their alternate reality of a lone gunman. The local law enforcement officers are trying to do their job to the best of their ability, as they find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. There is a substantial amount of forensic evidence that there were multiple shooters – one closer – and now at least one on the ground. But, none of these leads are being pursued by over a hundred FBI agents who reportedly are working the Las Vegas case. The American people demand answers. Fifty-eight innocent people were killed and hundreds shot, and if citizen journalists like myself do not keep this story alive, it too will simply disappear.
And again, we will never hear any of this from the left-wing radical ideologues in the mainstream media, who care nothing about facts, truth, evidence. Nothing – because journalism in America is dead. The MSM are as complicit in this crime-cover-up as if their fingers were on multiple triggers as were all the Las Vegas shooters themselves.
Multiple shooters you say? Erase all that from your foolish minds, ears and video evidence. This shooting was done by a lone-wolf, who coincidently is now dead. Move along! There’s nothing to see here! Speaking of hear – did you hear about Harvey Weinstein?
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Dec 4, 2008 20:37:26 GMT -5
Post by Nester the Lark on Dec 4, 2008 20:37:26 GMT -5
I'm sure you've all heard of Ghostbusters: The Video Game by now. (I thought we had a thread around here for it, but I can't find it.) I've only followed it loosely because even tho I'm interested in it, I've been a bit confused about the Wii version. Well, here's a GamesRadar article that compares the Wii version against the PS3/360 version. Surprisingly, they're quite fond of the motion control in the Wii version:
Rather than feeling tacked on as so many Wii games do, the motion controls here do a decent job of approximating both the proton gun and throwing out a trap. Capturing a ghost in the stream kicks off a mini-game where the roving phantasm attempts to escape from the beam. Keep the gun trained on your suspect spirit until it is stunned and then toss out the trap. Getting used to the controls took no time at all, and even at the early stage they felt sharp and responsive.
Over on the PS3, the much better looking version of the game offered limited motion support via Sixaxis but we'd be lying if we said it compared to the Wii controls. They're not even close. To their credit, the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions were smooth and responsive with the standard analog stick/button controls, but pushing an analog stick doesn't really compare to actually waving around a virtual proton pack.
Here's a quick breakdown of other differences/similarities, based on what I've heard:
The graphics, obviously. The Wii version looks cartoonish, while the PS3/360 version is more realistic.
Both games have the same basic story and the same dialog (with the original cast).
The levels have the same general layout, but the Wii version is a bit simpler and more straightforward, and the environments are not as destructible.
The Wii version allows two-player co-op in the story mode; the PS3/360 version does not.
The Wii version features connectivity with the DS in that you can use it as a PKE Meter. (Cool!)
I don't have a problem with cartoonish graphics (otherwise I couldn't explain half of the games in my colloction ), but in this case, it bothers me on a matter of principal. The fact that they had to toon-up (so to speak) the graphics for the Wii obviously has nothing to do with technology. It was because the developers felt it catered to the Wii's demographic, and frankly, I find that condescending.
But other than that, the Wii version has some cool things going for it. And as a fan of the movies, it'll be great to see (or hear) the cast back together again. So, maybe I should pay a bit closer attention to it.
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Dec 6, 2008 3:45:56 GMT -5
Post by Da Robot on Dec 6, 2008 3:45:56 GMT -5
Odd, I'm heard contradictory statements to what you said Nester, from what I'm heard the PS3/360 have online co-op and the DS being used as a PKE device was just a rumor proven to be false.
But be happy that the Wii version is better than the PS2 version, as the PS2 version is just a port of the Wii (not the other way around!) and will have features (that's what I'm heard from the developers) say are not possible to do on the PS2.
Maybe this will make it up for you.
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Post by kirbychu on Dec 6, 2008 9:36:48 GMT -5
You know, I've been looking forward to this game for a while... but I just can't decide what console to get it on. Playing first-person games with a controller is difficult for me, which makes me want the Wii version... but then, though I usually love cartoony graphics, I'd like the game to have a look that's more in line with the movies. Plus, I'm an achievement whore. DILEMMA!
And the only trailer I've seen talks about an "all-new story", but features nothing but clips and scenarios from the old movies. Huh?!
Dec 6, 2008 3:45:56 GMT -5 Da Robot said:
Aw. See? I haven't been keeping up. Sorry for the false info.
I'm sad to hear the PKE Meter thing was false. However, the article I linked to states that only the Wii version has co-op:
Where the PS3/Xbox 360 and Wii versions diverge again is in the multiplayer aspect. Fighting ghosts sometimes requires a team effort, and if you're playing solo the AI will jump in to help you out. Oddly, only the Wii version offers co-op play. The PS3/Xbox 360 versions will have multiplayer, but will not offer co-op.
It's on the third page.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Dec 14, 2008 16:52:04 GMT -5
Post by Nester the Lark on Dec 14, 2008 16:52:04 GMT -5
Game reactor has a 10 minute preview showing nothing but gameplay.
I have admit, I think the game looks a lot better in motion than it does in screenshots.
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Dec 24, 2008 2:17:57 GMT -5
Post by Game Guru on Dec 24, 2008 2:17:57 GMT -5
If they were going to just toon the Wii version up, they should made it look exactly like the Real Ghostbusters cartoon.
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Jan 1, 2009 23:21:52 GMT -5
Post by Saim on Jan 1, 2009 23:21:52 GMT -5
Bloody Viacom and their copyright claims!
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Feb 12, 2009 19:58:12 GMT -5
Post by Nester the Lark on Feb 12, 2009 19:58:12 GMT -5
MTV Multiplayer Blog has an interview with Atari producer Todd Slepian about the differences between the Wii and PS360 version of the game.
Other than the gameplay mechanics, the story is basically the same as the other versions. The game shares the same dialogue, so the voices of the movie’s cast — Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and William Atherton — are included as well. “A lot of the audio is shared [with the other versions], and there are some similar cutscenes and dialogue, but there are a lot of differences,” Slepian said. “The level layout is different, some enemies are different and the look and feel of the game is different. I really feel you’ll get a different experience between the Wii and next-gen.”
I asked Slepian since the story was the same if he thought the game would appeal to hardcore gamers or “Ghostbusters” fans who are planning to play the Xbox 360 or PS3 versions. “Well, I think the Wii is geared more towards the younger casual player,” he explained, “but if you really play the game, there’s something for both the casual and hardcore gamer. I think it definitely has appeal to both [audiences].”
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Mar 20, 2009 21:54:06 GMT -5
Post by Nester the Lark on Mar 20, 2009 21:54:06 GMT -5
Apparently, Sigourney Weaver was originally offered the role of Dana Barrett in the new Ghostbusters game, but she turned it down. Then she changed her mind when she heard that Bill Murray was on board, but by then, the game was too far into development for that kind of modification.
So this time, Peter Vankman has a new love interest played by Alyssa Milano. Here's a video inteview of her talking about taking on the part.
I'm glad to see the humor from the movies is still intact!
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Apr 10, 2009 22:37:06 GMT -5
Post by Nester the Lark on Apr 10, 2009 22:37:06 GMT -5
Here's a whole ton of updates on the Ghostbusters game!
First of all, GameTrailers has a 3-part walkthrough of the first level.
Part 3 (This part seems to have disappeared since I watched it, but maybe it was because there were technical difficulties part way thru.)
IGN has a video interview with Dan Akroyd that's pretty cool.
And MTV Multiplayer blog has even more comments from Dan Akroyd regarding his involvement, how the game relates to the movies, and what the status is of an actual third movie.
EDIT: Here's another bit from a Newsweek interview that I thought was worth adding:
Summers: Who got the best digital makeover? You? Ernie Hudson? Slimer?
Aykroyd: Honestly, I love the way we look in the Wii platform, because it resembles the animation that was done in "The Incredibles." Anybody who looks like an Incredible is automatically a superhero.
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4-HIT RUSH!
Here is a new trailer specifically for the Wii version of the game, and it looks generally awesome.
It's a little weird seeing the Columbia Pictures logo with the "Sony Pictures" tag attached to a game for the Wii.
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game May 6, 2009 17:50:07 GMT -5
Post by Savage Adam on May 6, 2009 17:50:07 GMT -5
Looks like Xbox and Wii might not get the game after all...
So hey, I tweet sometimes. @e107combo is the man to follow.
Post by kirbychu on May 6, 2009 18:17:42 GMT -5
Not very good at reading, huh?
It's coming out for PS2 and 3 earlier than it is for Wii and 360 in Europe only. Even then, Europe is still getting the Wii and 360 versions, just later.
Eh, someone else gave me that link, and I didn't have the time to read through it.
Still, this kinda sucks.
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Grassroots Economic Organizing: Catalyzing worker co-ops and the solidarity economy
About GEO
Solidarity Economy Roads
Chapter 6 - The Road of Transformational Action and Social Change
Luis Razeto Migliaro
Translated by Matt Noyes
(Thanks to Emi Do and Leo Sammallahti – MN)
[Readers may be surprised to find Razeto challenging here the basic political and strategic orientation that has guided many in their work in social and political movements. Razeto starts with an analysis of two perennial sources of transformational energy: the “impoverished and untenable” situation of those who are marginalized and subordinate in the existing order, and the profound dissatisfaction of those better situated who nonetheless hope for a better society in which higher values and ideas are made real. Challenging the wide-spread notion of “system change,” the idea that “the existing social order – understood as a “system” – must be replaced by a different one: a new type of society,” Razeto critiques the focus on conquest of power, and the emphasis on politics as the “proper arena for the application of forces tending to the construction of a better society.” Instead, Razeto identifies a new form of transformational action centered on the social economy, a “distinctively creative process” carried out from the bottom up that “permanently introduces new realities into the existing reality, and testifies to other ways of doing things and organizing that are possible and better,” solidarity economy. - MN]
The Road of Transformational Action and Social Change
The motives for transformational action
A fifth road to solidarity economy starts with “social conscience” that expresses itself in action or struggle for a change of social structures.
A great quantity of human intelligence has been engaged in elaborating projects for a “new society” and in identifying the means and strategies for their realization. A great many social and political organizations propose to effect transformations in society or build new social relations, to which end they launch an infinity of actions and struggles, involving multitudes of people.
Transformational thought and action have been present throughout history and it can be affirmed that in every epoch and society there have been groups and movements that find themselves maladjusted to the existing state of things and full of desire for a better society, one that is more just, free, egalitarian, and fraternal. In any human society there exists a transformational energy generating tensions, quests, actions, and conflicts that energize society, disrupting the complacency of the established order and orienting human experience along new trajectories. It is important to understand the origin of this energy and the forms in which it manifests.
In general terms, social transformational energy is born of two elements which, upon meeting and uniting, catalyze social movement and action. On one side, energy comes from those who find themselves in an impoverished and untenable situation in the existing order, without access to the sources of power and wealth, excluded, marginalized, or subordinated. The established order does not favor them, impedes their growth and progress, allows them very little space and recognition, and keeps them in poverty. They can not be contented with this situation because they aspire to more. A contained energy emerges in them, one of protest and rebellion, which springs from feelings, interests, and growing awareness of the social or structural causes of their desperate situation.
The other source of transformational energy resides in people or groups who do not experience marginalization or injustice in their own flesh but find themselves motivated by ideas and values of a higher order; ideas and values not yet present in the established order that they want to see embodied in human and social relations. The confrontation between reality as it is and the ideas and values that tell them how it should be reveals a gap which produces a feeling of dissatisfaction leading them to conceive of change as possible and appropriate in order for humans to better realize themselves and perfect their quality of life. 1 It is quest that can be characterized as idealistic, but is not necessarily utopian or unrealizable.
Thus, transformational energy exerts pressure for change and social transformation from below, that is from out of the experience of those who do not live the level and quality of life that the existing order permits to some, and also from above, from the desire for better modes and conditions of life than those which society has achieved.
The two energies tend to find and reinforce each other. They draw close spontaneously, needing each other in order to achieve their respective purposes. The sectors affected negatively by the existing social order find ideas and projects that lend coherence and rationality to their own aspirations and struggles in those who search for change out of idealist motives; the latter find in their counterparts the bases and social forces in which to root their transformational projects, make them concrete, and lend them social force.
The principal transformational energies of the modern epoch have been oriented towards altering the reigning, capitalist, “economic system.” The capitalist system is criticized for the structure of values which it demands and disseminates among people and throughout society (utilitarianism, individualism, consumerism, etc.) as well as the disintegrating effects that it has on social organization (division into social classes, regressive distribution of wealth, exploitation of labor, etc.), effects that derive from the concentration of property and the subordination of labor to capital.
Nonetheless, and paradoxically, the action and organization of those who seek a transformation that is basically economic have ended up channeled into the political arena. Two things explain this paradox. First, the project of economic organization that is to be substituted for capitalism has been based on the idea that the State – the political institution par excellence – should expand its economic functions and roles, with the aim of replacing private capital as the subject of the ownership of the means of production and as organizer, director, and regulator of the key economic decisions and activities.
The other reason lies in the fact that the goal has been to carry out structural or systemic change that affects economic organization in its totality, a goal that seems to be achievable only through the action of a powerful macro-social subject that can be controlled by those who initiate it (at least theoretically). In modern societies, the only reality that would meet these conditions would be the State, the entity around which practically all political life is concentrated and articulated.
To be sure, this has not been the only orientation of transformational energy in the modern epoch, but it must be recognized as the primary form, the form which has managed to draw to itself the greatest proportion of energies, organizations, initiatives, and activities tending towards social transformation. It has also been the only orientation that has been able to show tangible and patent effects in the realm of organization of society as a whole. Other orientations, which have centered on cultural activities and pursued social change starting from personal transformation, or those that have developed in the economic terrain as such, in the form of enterprises or organizations that don’t operate with a capitalist logic (for example, co-operatives and self-managed organizations), have garnered smaller proportions of social transformational energy and achieved more limited gains which have appeared precarious, unstable and reversible.
The break up and collapse of the Socialist States has affected at its roots the project of social transformation centered on the State, and the social transformational energies that had been channeled in that direction find themselves objectively to be lacking a project. Which raises the question, what social project can now orient transformational energies and actions, and, going to the root of the problem, guide our reflections on the mode of conceiving and realizing social change?
There are two aspects of the problem which we should distinguish analytically. One question regards the contents of the project: the values, relations, behaviors, and structures that we wish to promote or implement. The other concerns how we conceive of and structure action and the process of transformation.
Today, reflection on the new social project, on the modes which processes of change can assume, on the structures of transformational action and on the organizational alternatives which can promote it, is of great importance, for two reasons. First, because social change continues to be necessary, perhaps now more than before, due to the magnitude of poverty, the exacerbation of social inequalities, and the tremendous schism, occurring between societies and within them, between those who are in the vanguard of the dynamic processes and those who remain excluded or marginalized. It is due also to the diffusion of individualistic, consumerist, and materialistic behaviors that limit and distort human development. Second, because although the practical manifestations of the transformational energies that these realities and reasons constantly generate in great quantities can be diminished, the energies remain latent. Because they do not currently find adequate channels, suitable channels that orient and focus them in a constructive and efficient manner, the resulting frustration can give rise to anomic behaviors that can only have negative consequences for society.
It is in the search for a new and higher organization of these transformational energies that solidarity economy offers alternatives and hope, as much in respect to the contents that the process of transformation can push forward as in respect to the modes of transformational action and organization employed. We begin the analysis with this second aspect.
An inadequate mode of understanding the project and process of social transformation
The most important transformational projects in the modern epoch have started from the idea that change has to be global, that is, that the existing social order – understood as a “system” – must be replaced by a different one: a new type of society. Consequently, the project is to construct a determinate “model” of society. A global project of this type projects, with more or less realism, the “way society should be” in each realm: in the economy, politics, culture, social relations, forms of property, etc.
In some cases the formulation of the project for the society to be built is founded on an ethical, philosophical, or doctrinal conception: an understanding of what is just, natural, necessary, rational, and so on. The project itself arises from an intellectual elaboration and has little to do at the outset with the particular and concrete characteristics of the real, actual subjects who are called to make it a material reality. On the contrary, it tends to postulate that the change agents – people, social groups or classes, organizations, etc. – have been formed in the framework of the established “system” such that they are marked by the characteristics and relations needed in order to function in it. But, it is thought, to the degree that these subjects become aware of their situation and conditioning and decide to act in opposition to the dominant structures they can convert themselves into adequate instruments or means for the realization of the project of transformation. What makes them important is more than anything their power, the energies they are able deploy to achieve the desired object. To what degree they can “make the project their own” is also important, whether they do so because it corresponds to their interests or because they can be persuaded that this is the case. In effect, if a subject does not make the project their own it will be difficult for them to correctly align their forces. The tasks of the organizer or intellectual agent which flow from this conception of social change consist primarily of conscientization, organization, and mobilization of the subjects, who are seen as the project’s instruments or bearers.
In other cases, the point of departure for determining the global model of society to be built is a particular experience or organization in which, it is believed, the ideal project for all of society is contained in miniature. It can be a type of enterprise, a political party, church, association, even a particular type of person. It is supposed that the values and principles, the modes of thinking and acting, the relations and structures, etc. that characterize the organization are the ideal modes that need to be established throughout society. It follows that the transformational task consists of diffusing and expanding the organization’s ways of being, its particular values, behaviors, and organizational forms, through the multiplication of similar organizations, or even, in an extreme version of this conception of change, through the progressive absorption of other people, groups, activities, or social spaces.
So, whether the starting point is a certain ethical and doctrinal conception or a particular organizational experience, since the project of transformation is global, i.e., implies a reordering or restructuring of all of society (also known as “system change”), it leads to the necessity of conquering positions of power from which it would be possible to exercise influence over society in all its aspects. In modern and contemporary societies the privileged center of such power is the State; and if it does not at the moment have the power required, the task is to develop its power and make it grow so that the State can be in a position to realize the desired global changes. This is why when we think of realizing a “model of society” the necessary transformational action unfolds in the terrain of politics, oriented towards the conquest of power.
Now, conceiving of social change as a process of construction of a global model of society and trying to achieve it through the use of power presents very serious problems, problems that have to do with something essential: the consistency between what one intends to achieve and what it is possible to achieve through action carried out in this way. Moreover, this way of conceiving change leads inevitably to frustration of transformational energies because, while relevant social and historical effects can be obtained, the results that are achieved through this action do not correspond to the objectives being pursued. It is crucial to understand in depth why this is so.
To begin with it should be mentioned that any project for a global society is utopian and unrealizable. The project can not be realized – take practical concrete form in society – because it is not possible to configure reality as a whole to match a model that someone has previously elaborated, nor can reality be made to fit a particular model of organization some group has built somewhere on a small scale. There will always be other ways of thinking, other forces, other organizations working towards goals that are different from those of the project one wishes to implant, forces of opposition which have concrete effects. The most to which one could aspire, following this approach, would be to put in place for a historically brief time something like a deformed caricature of the ideal sought, which could only be done at the cost of maintaining a continuous domineering force – ideological, political, or military – controlled by one group that imposes itself on the others.
The entire history of society has proven this point and will continue to prove it. What is odd is that such approaches are considered to be realistic and efficient. True, they are capable of accumulating around them certain forces and mobilizing real social energies, but this efficiency proves to be illusory because though those forces may have impact and be capable of generating meaningful actions and accomplishments, the project itself fails to be realized. A reality is constructed but it is substantially and essentially different from what was intended.
One element which is sought as the effective medium or instrument for realizing the project, once introduced into the transformational process, inevitably steers it away from its objectives, radically deforming it: power. In effect, to change and reorganize all of society in line with a model or previously defined project it is necessary that the bearers and executors of the project in question hold and make use of immense power. But the possession of so much power implies its accumulation, which can only be accomplished through the dispossession of others of their own capacity for decision-making. If, as we saw in the previous chapter, power is the capacity to make others act in conformity with one’s own will, its inevitable first result is the creation of social relations of domination and subordination. But aren’t we seeking to replace social relations of domination and subordination? What kind of project of social change aims to establish relations of domination and concentration of power? Someone could reply that the concentration of power is only carried out as a means to later dissolve it. But any logic of concentration of power results in... concentration of power. Power does not dissolve itself. With power grows the ambition of those who have it while the powerless are dispossessed, losing even the capacity and aptitude for its exercise.
What is worse, the process of accumulation of power begins by taking power away from the very subjects – people and organizations – who we want to involve as actors in the project of transformation. In effect, they are only regarded as loyal and effective executors of the global project to the extent that they act in conformity with the plans, orders, or directives of those in charge. The putative transformers of society are obliged to begin by organizing themselves into a hierarchy in which the many will delegate to a few leaders the power to make principal decisions relative to their own action. Embedded in a logic of accumulation of power, those on top demand obedience and loyalty from their subordinates, and those below, in addition to subordinating themselves vis-à-vis their superiors, demand submission from and seek to exercise maximum control over the groups that are meant to be molded into instruments of the great social project. What kind of liberation, what kind of egalitarian society, what kind of fraternity or justice can be built this way?
The struggle for power as a path and strategy for realizing social change is, in short, ethically wrong and not conducive to the objective of global transformation in accordance with a predefined model of society. Innumerable experiences of this type demonstrate that the end does not justify the means used to reach it. Moreover, the end itself is not only unrealizable but highly questionable from an ethical point of view. In order for one or more social subjects, themselves unavoidably part of society, to consider themselves the bearers of a global project according to which all of society should be restructured, they must assume from the start that they are the exclusive possessors of truth and righteousness.
If, on the contrary, we start from the premise that truth and values find themselves distributed in society, that no-one possesses all of them, that all subjects individual and organized have legitimate ideas, values, interests, and aspirations that have a right to exist, that social homogeneity is an impoverishment of human experience while diversity, differentiation, and pluralism constitute its enrichment and are products of human creative liberty, then a road is opened to a new and distinct mode of understanding and acting for social change.
For a new structure of transformational action
A first question to analyze refers to the domain of the social organization out of which effective transformational action can be launched and, in relation to this, the importance which should be assigned to political action. With respect to this point it is essential that we fundamentally reconsider the widely-held conviction that political society is the proper arena for the application of forces tending to the construction of a better society.
Having privileged the political for at least two centuries it is time to weigh the results. What has been gained? The answer is clear: the result of so much effort, so many struggles, so much energy applied, is society as it is today. As it is! Yes, the best we have achieved is society as it is.
Obviously, the current state of society is not exclusively the effect or responsibility of those seeking social change; it is also the product of those who have opposed them and combated their efforts, as well as those who simply had different perspectives. But the people who have sought social change should recognize that even in the conditions in which we they had to act, with the adversaries they had, and the forces they faced, the best they could accomplish with the ideas, analysis, plans, actions, and methods that they practiced for so long, is reality as it exists today.
Of course this is a very unsatisfactory result. But can we at least say that we have gotten nearer to the reality we desire? Are we closer to achieving it? If we don’t change our ways of thinking and acting, on what basis can we hope for greater gains in the future? Let us look more closely at the results obtained; they show, at least partially, the effect of transformational action.
The most obvious and important fact is nothing other than the unheard of growth of the State and the greatest centralization of power that has ever been seen in history. However different and even opposed their ideologies and programs may be, no matter which political forces have been in power the State has grown. Often they cancel each other out and the State, notwithstanding the formal concentration of power that it represents, becomes incapable of adopting decisions that could have a profound impact on social and economic structures. Thus, it is no contradiction if power is concentrated in a State that is at the same time incapable of having a transformational impact on reality.
While the political struggle unfolds in a limited arena, the situation of the popular sectors remains the same, inequalities tend to continue, attempts to change the structure end up revealing themselves to be ephemeral and superficial in their results.
It becomes necessary, then, to investigate why politics has proven to be an inadequate arena for transformational action. Politics is two things: the struggle for power (to conquer and maintain it) and the action of organizing and reorganizing. It starts with what exists: political forces must base themselves in the given reality and consider existing interests and forces as bases and pillars of their struggle for power. Political organization that is not functional for the existing forces can not gain access to positions of power; likewise the conservation of positions won is contingent upon acting in conformity with given interests and realities. This is why in politics the space for utopia and for the new is very limited.
Moreover, the action of governance consists of ordering, organizing, or reorganizing the elements of the given reality. Politics organizes that which exists: it does not create new realities.
The only thing that can profoundly change reality as it exists is creating and establishing in practice – in the given, existing conditions – new realities which call into question the existing reality and, through their presence, lead to its restructuring. Creative activity is the principal and decisive transformational activity, capable of introducing effective historical innovations.
Can creativity exist in politics? Is innovation possible in this arena of social life? Certainly, but it presupposes a specifically creative type of activity which we can call, simply, culture. Creative activity in politics is certainly not the quest for power, the call to partisans to engage in demonstrations and political action, but rather a work of the intelligence, the imagination, and the will placed in dynamic tension by the search for the true, the beautiful, the just. It supposes a force concentrated in cultural spaces, a constant and exclusive dedication. Those who practice creative activity within their own political organizations are not, it seems, the ones who achieve positions of power, simply because they do not dedicate themselves to achieving it; if they were to seek power, that task too would require constant and concentrated dedication, leading them to neglect truly creative activity.
Does this mean that those who seek profound social transformation should leave politics to one side? Definitely not. Our argument aims to show that politics is neither the central nor the priority activity for those hoping to construct a better society. Politics is and should be, in the framework of a project of social transformation, a subordinated activity.
The sphere of activity that transformational action must privilege is found in the spaces of civil society, where we encounter the principal activities that are creative of new realities.
We understand by “civil society” the ensemble of economic, social, cultural, scientific, religious, and other activities carried out by people, associations, communities, intermediate organizations, businesses, and institutions that do not fall under the direct guidance and responsibility of the State. In these spaces, transformational activity takes place as a vast and multi-faceted creative process.
When we think about historical transformation from the standpoint of civil society a new mode of transformational action appears. It is not about imposing on society a whole preexisting model already present in particular realities or ideally anticipated in an ideological model. It is not about the subject-bearer of the project accumulating enough forces and power to be able to realize it from the top down. This historical transformation is about a different type of action, democratic by definition (inherently non-authoritarian), that realizes its transformational objective in and through the very act of being and doing in a different way, because it contributes something distinctively new to society.
The principal activity consists of constructing new realities in which problems generated by the necessity of change (injustices, oppressions, inequalities, etc.) disappear and the values that one wishes to infuse into human and social relations are present in a manner that is consistent and central.
Solidarity economy opens a new channel for transformational energy
When groups that aspire to profound social change find themselves disoriented; when projects that have guided struggles for a better society have been crushed; when so much struggle and so much effort oriented according to the logic of politics and power have proven to be precarious and insufficient even as a process of profound social change becomes ever more necessary and urgent, when a new mode of transformational action becomes recognizable in its contents and forms, at that point searches guided by the perspective of solidarity economy lead to an original road and a new hope that draw many to them.
We are not so bold as to claim that this is the only possible road, the only way to channel aspirations for a society better than that which exists; but we can say without a doubt that it constitutes a real and concrete path of social transformation, as fully coherent with the changes currently needed as it is with the forms of a new transformational action of the type we have intuited.
It is also coherent with the objective that has been uppermost in most social struggles, the goal of constructing a new type of economy, different from the capitalist economy which is criticized for its exploitation and subordination of labor, division of social classes, extremely unequal distribution of wealth, and exaggerated individualism and consumerism. The solidarity economy is exactly that: an economic project centered on the construction and development of new economic forms and structures at the level of production, distribution, consumption, and development.
It is coherent, too, with the values that have guided ventures and projects of social change for all of modern history: freedom, justice, brotherhood, participation. The solidarity economy crafts these values in daily life, in action. It is not derailed by supposed shortcuts that would delay its realization until the objectives of political power have been achieved and changes that are supposedly total have become possible.
Solidarity economy offers coherent channels for the motivations that generate transformational energies, and space and opportunities for growth and participation by social sectors that have been neglected and demoted in the established social and economic order. In it those who aspire to make their ideas and values concrete and infused them in social life and order find space to realize all of their creative contributions. Grounded in the same process, which is at once ideal and practical, they find in each other that which each separately lacked and needed in order to realize their goals.
Solidarity economy is coherent with the intent to construct horizontal human relations. Rather than establish links of power, the capacities of each person and each group are developed such that the actors assume growing control of the conditions of their existence. Power and control over necessary resources are not centralized but socially disseminated.
It is also coherent with a structure of transformational action which privileges the sphere of civil society over political society, such that the result of transformation turns out to be truly democratic and participatory. Solidarity economy unfolds preferentially in civil society and proceeds from the social base itself organized to address people’s needs and make the economy conform to their ways of thinking, feeling, valuing, relating and acting.
It is a matter, finally, of a distinctively creative process that permanently introduces new realities into the existing reality, and that testifies to other ways of doing things and organizing that are possible and better. Solidarity economy is made up of organizations and activities created by their protagonists, in ways that are always original because they respond to their particular problems and circumstances and utilize the means and resources at their disposition or that they create for themselves. The potential of solidarity economy is consequently vast and profound. It unfolds at the level of the most radical and intense of transformational activities, being itself a great project of social change.
The dimensions, scope, and perspective of solidarity economy remain emergent, like an embryo. It is difficult to know now where the process that has been initiated will take us. In any case, it is preferable not to know with certainty the goal that has to be reached. Better to walk in fact in the direction that one chooses, than to go along convinced that one is advancing toward a clearly defined objective while one is in fact going in the opposite direction, as has happened so many times in the politics of this 20th century. For now, we can say that the direction, the contents, the forms and projections of the project emerging from solidarity economy are the very ones revealed to us as we examine each of the various solidarity economy roads. We will return to this theme after we have covered them all.
1 Wherever “man” (el hombre) is used to designate humankind, gender neutral nouns and pronouns have been substituted. - MN
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Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction
The purpose of reproduction is reproduce, and the survival of a species depends on its reproductive success. For all living organisms there are two types of reproduction: asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction. In asexual reproduction only one organism is needed to reproduce, while in sexual reproduction you need a male and female.
In asexual reproduction (completed by unicellular organisms and some plants) chromosomes stay the same. The offspring are clones of the parent, and only require mitosis, so that cells can replicate. While in sexual reproduction the offspring receive 23 chromosomes from each parent, and involves meiosis. A difference between asexual and sexual reproduction is that in sexual reproduction the genetic material is split evenly to the offspring. In asexual reproduction there is no generic variability, due to its single source of genetic material. A lack of sexual reproduction compromises an organisms ability to adapt to an environment because they do not benefit from the benefits of sexual reproduction[1].
Mitosis vs. Meiosis
Mitosis: The process of Mitosis is the duplication of a cell. During the life of a cell, 90% is spent in a phase called interphase, while the other 10% is actually spent performing mitosis.
Meiosis: Meiosis is the process of cell division that results haploid cells. A haploid cell contains only contains a single set of chromosomes. During fertilization each parent gives a single haploid, resulting in a diploid cell (which contains a full set of chromosomes) [2].
Mitosis is used by unicellular (such as bacteria) and single celled organisms to reproduce; it is also used for the organic growth of tissues, fibers, and membranes. Meiosis is useful for sexual reproduction of organisms. The male and female sex cells, e.g. the sperm and egg, fertilize to create a new, organism.[3]
Giant Clam Reproduction:
Giant Clams have both male and female reproductive organs, but are not entirely believed to be asexual. Giant clams release eggs and sperm into the water, where the eggs will generally be fertilised by the sperm from another giant clam. Giant clams are able to release more than 500 million eggs at a time. Once fertilised, the eggs of the Giant Clam float around in the water for around 12 hours while the larvae hatches out. The giant clam larvae than begins to produce a shell and with just a few days, it is developed enough to find somewhere to settle on the sea floor. Giant Clams settle in one spot their entire life, and can live over 100 years! [4]
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Transitioning from basic science to clinical care, 2nd-year WVU medical students earn white coats
School of Medicine Friday, March 22, 2019
As they marked a symbolic day in their medical journey, 109 students in West Virginia University School of Medicine’s Class of 2021 received their white coats in Morgantown on Saturday, March 23, marking their transition from basic science to clinical care.
“There are many aspects of being a physician – few of which have to do with your wardrobe, but many of which encompass what this white coat represents – care, compassion and responsibility for yourself as a clinician and for your patients as their advocates,” Clay Marsh, M.D., vice president and executive dean of WVU Health Sciences, said.
For the School’s annual John W. Traubert White Coat Ceremony, each coat is sponsored by an alumnus of the school, and a note of encouragement from the sponsor is placed in a pocket of the coat for the student.
“Being a student in our medical program means that you’re connected not only to your cohort but to a Mountaineer family of alumni who can offer both support and advice during your education and beyond,” Norman Ferrari, M.D., vice dean for education and academic affairs and chair of the WVU Department of Medical Education. “The words of wisdom are special not only to the students who read them but their mentors who once were in their very shoes.”
At WVU, the first White Coat Ceremony was held Jan. 26, 1996. Its tradition differs from the conventional concept in that it honors second-year students and marks the transition from basic sciences to clinical sciences, from reading about illness and disease to diagnosing it, and from learning about treatments to prescribing them. The ceremony stresses the importance of the doctor-patient relationship and the relevance of the white coat as a cloak of compassion.
Five students in the class are legacy students.
Alexandar Battin, son of John Battin, M.D., residency Class of 1999
Morgan Bush, daughter of Stephen Bush, M.D., Class of 1982
Timothy Ferrebee, son of Michael Ferrebee, M.D., Class of 1998
Reena Razdan, daughter of Dolly Razdan, M.D., Class of 1988
Samuel Umstot, son of Richard Umstot, M.D., Class of 1986
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation designed the White Coat Ceremony in 1993 to welcome entering medical students and help them to establish a psychological contract for the practice of medicine. The event emphasizes the importance of compassionate care for the patient as well as scientific proficiency. It has since been established at medical schools across the country.
WVU’s ceremony was named for John W. Traubert, M.D., former associate dean for student and curricular affairs at the WVU School of Medicine, who practiced family medicine in Wellsburg before joining the WVU faculty as founding chair of the Department of Family Practice, now the Department of Family Medicine.
For more information on the School of Medicine, visit medicine.wvu.edu.
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Editors: Profile stories of three students are available online
Jane Tuttle, a Paden City native with undergraduate degrees in professional writing and biology, will attend classes on the WVU Charleston Campus next year.
Bridgeport native Brooke Cottrill hopes to specialize in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Sundas Lateef of Morgantown was inspired to become a physician by watching her mother interact with patients and community members.
Ashlee Seldomridge, an alumnus of the School of Medicine’s Exercise Physiology program, completed a fellowship at the National Cancer Institute before joining the M.D. program.
CONTACT: Cassie Thomas, WVU School of Medicine
304.293.3412; cassie.thomas@hsc.wvu.edu
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U.S. ethanol exports totaled 162.3 million gallons (mg) in April, according to government data released this morning and analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). This represents a 25% drop from the near-record export volume recorded in March, but still tallied as the fourth-largest monthly export volume in six years. Brazil was the leading destination for U.S. ethanol exports for the sixth straight month, receiving 61.0 mg (38% of total exports), although shipments to the country scaled back by 36% from March.
Canada received 27.6 mg of U.S. ethanol in April, up 13% from March and a six-month high (17% market share). U.S. ethanol exports also flourished in several previously tepid markets in April, including Oman (12.6 mg, up 254% from March) and the Netherlands (11.4 mg, up 583%). The U.S. also continued modest export growth in India with a 4% gain over March with 12.3 mg. As predicted, China stepped completely out of the market for the first time in six months, as implementation of the additional 15% import duty shut out U.S. product. Year-to-date exports stood at 684.3 mg through April—44% stronger than the first four months of 2017—implying a record annualized export volume of 2.05 billion gallons.
Shipments of U.S. undenatured fuel ethanol slipped to 113.1 mg, receding 10% from March volumes. Brazil was the top destination for undenatured fuel ethanol at 60.9 mg. while Oman took in a record volume of 12.6 mg of U.S. undenatured product. Undenatured exports to India expanded 4% to 12.3 mg, while the United Arab Emirates (7.8 mg), the Philippines (4.8 mg), South Korea (3.8 mg), Jamaica (3.5 mg), and Peru (2.4 mg) re-entered the market after a quiet March.
April exports of U.S. denatured fuel ethanol dropped 43% from the prior month to 46.1 mg as nine of the top 10 customers in March significantly scaled back. Canada was the exception with a 9% jump to 25.8 mg of denatured fuel imports, reflecting three straight months of growth. Five countries accounted for the remaining 44% of U.S. denatured fuel exports, including the Netherlands (9.2 mg, up from zero imports), Colombia (3.9 mg), South Korea (3.2 mg), Peru (2.8 mg), and Switzerland (1.0 mg).
Overseas sales of denatured and undenatured ethanol for non-fuel, non-beverage purposes collectively shrank 65% to 2.4 mg and 0.8 mg, respectively. The bulk of denatured non-fuel product shipped to Canada (1.8 mg) and South Korea (0.5 mg), while Japan was the leading market for non-fuel undenatured ethanol (0.6 mg).
There were no U.S. imports on record in April. Only 1.6 mg of Brazilian ethanol has been imported thus far in 2018, according to the monthly data.
U.S. exports of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS)—the animal feed co-product generated by dry mill ethanol plants—rallied in April to a six-month high of 997,633 metric tons (mt), up 10%. Shipments to top customer Mexico (representing 18% of total exports) swelled by 20% over March to 182,642 mg. Trade with our largest consistent Asian markets of Vietnam (116,842 mt, up 3%), South Korea (96,673 mt, down 6%), and Thailand (88,790 mt, down 11%) fluctuated within typical ranges. Meanwhile Turkey nearly doubled its March imports with 82,723 mt of U.S. DDGS entering the country, representing a six-month high. Year-to-date exports stand at 3.64 million mt, implying an annualized export total of 10.9 million mt.
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A trademark is any word, name, symbol or device or combination thereof an entity usesor intends to use to identify and distinguish the entity’s goods from those of others, and to indicate the source of the goods. A service mark is the same thing except it identifies a source of services. The term ‘mark’ is used to collectively refer to trademarks and service marks.
How are trademark rights obtained?
Trademark rights are obtained by using the mark in commerce. A trademark that is used without a federal registration may include the TM indicator to denote that the user is claiming common law trademark rights. Similarly, the SM indicator can be used for a service mark that is not federally registered. Federally registered trademarks use the ® symbol to denote that a federal registration has been obtained.
What is a federal registration?
A federal registration is obtained from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Washington, D.C. The federal registration includes a description of the mark, the owner of the mark, and identifies the goods/services with which the mark is used. Goods and services are divided into several classes, depending on the type of goods/services being described.
Why pursue a federal registration of my mark?
The use of a mark without a federal registration provides only limited geographical coverage, may lead to the loss or limitation of trademark rights, and may increase exposure to potential liability for infringing the trademark rights of others.
A first user of a mark, who obtains a federal registration, is afforded nationwide protection for the mark when it is used in conjunction with the goods/services identified in the registration even if use is not nationwide.
A federally registered mark provides constructive notice to others that the registrant has rights in the mark.
A federally registered mark provides a presumption of the mark’s ownership and validity.
A federally registered mark can be used to establish rights in a worldwide web domain name, should a dispute arise.
Trademark Rights Procurement Summary
Trademark rights begin accruing once a mark is used in conjunction with services or goods. However, there are several considerations at various stages of the life of a trademark. These stages include: A) selection of the mark; B) trademark search and opinion; C) use of the mark; D) preparation and filing of U.S. trademark registration application; E) filing of foreign application(s); F) prosecution and issuance; and G) trademark registration maintenance. Below is an outline of each of the stages.
A. Selection of the Mark
A trademark is any word, name, symbol or device or combination thereof an entity uses or intends to use to identify and distinguish the entity’s goods from those of others, and to indicate the source of the goods. A service mark is the same thing except it identifies a source of services. The term ‘mark’ is used to collectively refer to trademarks and service marks.
To be effective, a mark must distinguish the source of the goods/services from others providing the same or similar goods/services (i.e., provide a source-identifying function). To this extent, a mark that generically describes the corresponding goods/services cannot provide a source-identifying function (e.g., “fresh organics” has been held to be generic with respect to “organic fruits and vegetables”). If a mark is generic, no trademark rights can ever be obtained.
Additionally, marks that are descriptive of the goods/services may not effectively provide a source-identifying function (e.g., “brief sheets” has been held to be descriptive of printed instructional pamphlets). For descriptive marks, “secondary meaning” must be shown in order to obtain trademark rights. In other words, despite being descriptive, when used, the mark must bring to mind the source when used in conjunction with the goods/services. Evidence of secondary meaning includes extensive advertising, revenues, long period of exclusive use (e.g., five years), polls indicating the public’s recognition of the mark, unsolicited press, etc.
Marks that are suggestive, fanciful, or arbitrary with respect to the corresponding goods/services automatically provide a source-identifying function.
B. Trademark Search and Opinion
A trademark search for prior users of similar marks is always recommended. Such users may have superior rights in the candidate mark. Additionally, use of a mark may infringe on the rights of a prior user.
An Internet search is a good preliminary option for identifying uses of the mark or similar terms as the mark. Regardless, a trademark search conducted before using a new mark in commerce or applying for a federal registration is always advantageous. A professional search company that specializes in such searches is the best option. Generally, the search includes a database search for the mark and variations of the mark in (1) the United States Patent and Trademark Office records, (2) the Internet, (3) commercial databases, (4) state registers, and (5) common law usage (e.g., newspaper articles).
C. Use of the Mark
In order to preserve trademark rights, several options should be considered when the mark is used. These include:
When used in a sentence, always use the mark as an adjective, never as a noun
Make the mark stand out from other text (e.g., font size, color, all caps, bold, etc.).
For an unregistered mark, use “TM” or “SM” next to the first/each use of the mark.
For a registered mark, use “®” next to the first/each use of the mark.
D. Preparation and Filing of U.S. Trademark Registration Application
In general, there are two types of applications:
1. A bona fide intent-to-use (ITU) application for a mark that is not currently being used, but which use is intended in the near future; and
2. An actual use application for a mark that is currently being used in commerce.
In either case, to federally register a mark, the mark must be used “in commerce”. This use is defined as commercial use that Congress can regulate. For goods, this use can occur when the goods are shipped across state lines. For services, this use can occur when the services are provided in more than one state or to individuals from more than one state.
For an actual use trademark application, proof of use of the mark is submitted with the application. For an ITU application, proof of the use is submitted after the application by filing an Allegation/Statement of Use.
Each trademark application requires a description of goods/services. The USPTO will classify these goods/services into an International class based on the type of goods/services listed. When sufficiently different goods/services are listed, the USPTO will classify them in multiple classes. Each class requires payment of a separate filing fee.
E. Filing of Foreign Registration Application(s)
A U.S. Federal Trademark Registration does not create any rights in foreign countries. Accordingly, foreign rights can only be obtained by use of the mark in the foreign countries and/or with the filing of foreign trademark registration applications. Priority to an earlier U.S. trademark application can be claimed if the foreign trademark application is filed within six (6) months of the U.S. trademark application. Various foreign affiliates are used to handle foreign filings.
The U.S. is a member of the Madrid protocol, which enables a single international application to be filed and prosecuted. The international application designates the desired nation(s) and/or region(s), such as the European Community, each of which requires a separate filing fee. The application is analyzed once to ensure that it meets all formal requirements before being provided to each designated nation/region, which determines whether registration is appropriate in view of local requirements (e.g., likelihood of confusion).
F. Prosecution and Issuance
Approximately 6-12 months after the application is submitted, it will be reviewed by an Examining Attorney at the USPTO. The Examining Attorney may send an “Office Action” letter in which the application is “rejected” or “objected to”. When an office action is received, a copy is forwarded for review. The letter will also identify the date by which a response must be filed. Subsequently, options for proceeding and the relative costs for each option are discussed.
The cost of the response can vary greatly depending on the objections/rejections presented by the Examining Attorney. In general, preparation of a response that requires arguments against a holding of descriptiveness/genericness and/or a likelihood of confusion with another mark is more expensive.
In some instances, further prosecution may be necessary, such as an appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Costs vary, and an estimate can be given based on the situation.
Once the Examining Attorney approves the application, the mark is published in the Official Gazette of the USPTO for public review. During a 30‑day period following publication, third parties are given an opportunity to oppose issuance of the registration, by initiating an “opposition proceeding”. Assuming no opposition occurs, a registration (for actual use application) or a notice of allowance (for ITU application) for the mark will issue.
If an ITU application was filed, an Allegation/Statement of Use must be filed (once the mark is in use in commerce) to obtain federal registration. The Allegation/Statement of Use includes proof that the mark is being used in conjunction with the goods/services. Once a Statement of Use has been filed and accepted by the Examining Attorney, registration for the mark will issue. If filed after the application has been allowed, a request for an Extension of Time is strongly recommended in order to ensure that any deficiencies can be corrected.
G. Trademark Registration Maintenance
After five (5) years of registration and after every ten (10) years of registration, the owner of a federal trademark registration must file an Affidavit of Use (commonly called a Section 8 affidavit) to maintain the federal registration. Failure to file this affidavit will result in abandonment of the registration.
In addition, after five (5) years of continuous use of a registered mark, the owner may be able to file an Affidavit of Incontestability (commonly called a Section 15 affidavit) that affords additional rights to the owner. Incontestability status for a mark extinguishes most grounds for cancellation of the registration.
These two affidavits are frequently combined into one filing.
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Alan Chin--Photographer
July 9, 2019 scott carrier
A suicide car bomb in Baghdad's downtown Tahrir Square killed at least 5 and wounded at least 31.
PHOTOGRAPH by ALAN CHIN
I worked with photographer Alan Chin covering the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in November of 2001, but then I didn’t see him again until recently, at his apartment in New York City. I wanted to know what he’d learned from being a war correspondent.
Here are a some links to look at more of his work:
www.instagram.com/alanschin/
@alanschin on Twitter
www.muckrack.com/alan-chin
Attacks on World Trade Center
Balkh, Afghanistan
Northern Alliance soldiers wait in a snowstorm while their commanders negotiate the surrender of a group of Taliban still holding out in Balkh, Afghanistan.
Seberghan, Afghanistan
Thousands of Taliban soldiers were transported to a prison in Seberghan controlled by Northern Alliance general Abdul-Rashid Dostum.
At least a thousand of those prisoners died en route to prison, either suffocated in overcrowded trucks or helplessly massacred by vengeful Northern Alliance soldiers.
A car bomb, a white Mercedes, exploded next to a primary school in the Yarmouk neighborhood, targeting US vehicles that were carrying an embassy official. 2 US soldiers and 8 Iraqi civilians were wounded. 2 Iraqi police and an Iraqi 12-year old girl, ATHRA ZUGHAYR, were killed. She was the daughter of the school guard; the family lives on site; here her sister (with child) learns the bad news.
Iraqis ride a head of Saddam Hussein being dragged by a truck. They are also beating it with shoes, which is considered to be the most insulting gesture in Iraqi society.
Remains of suicide bomber who killed 15 people in front of Iraqi Army base, of potential recruits awaiting entry.
Let's Talk About Not Going To War
June 23, 2019 scott carrier
For the solstice, the sun tunnels in the West Desert of Utah.
Stories about going to war come from the top down, from media corporations that manufacture consent for war among the people. Stories about not going to war move from the bottom up, starting in conversations between family and friends, people speaking out for no money but just because they feel obligated to speak. In this approach there’s a shift in context where fear is taken out of the narrative—we are not being attacked, maybe these people are not our enemy. Maybe the real enemy is our government and our media that are being controlled by the military industrial complex. I believe bottom up stories can break apart the power structure coming down from above, so this is one of them.
Scott Carrier and William J. Astore on the house raft in Woods Hole Harbor.
Dreamers by Joe Frank
May 30, 2019 scott carrier
photo by Michal Story
Trump’s threats to go to war with Iran made me feel powerless and lonely because I’m afraid there’s nothing to stop it. I tried to produce an anti-war story, but then realized this one by Joe is much better.
Link to Joe’s website
Link to the original broadcast on Unfictional
Getting Into Cars With Strangers
May 7, 2019 scott carrier
This is maybe what you’d call a pilot episode for a series that would be separate from Home of the Brave. I don’t have a title for it yet, but it would involve traveling around the world by taxi, or ride share, or just hiring drivers who can function as guides and translators. I think this is the best way to travel, but it’s expensive, so the series would need a big sponsor. Western Sound, a new podcast company in Los Angeles, sponsored this test run of the idea.
Here are some links to the music used in this story:
Ray Charles, Sweet Sixteen Bars from the album The Best of Ray Charles, Atlantic SD 1543
Greg Allen Jones, Monticello Rose and Boll Weevil from the album Crossing the Willamette
The Mountain Goats, Love, Love, Love from the album The Sunset Tree
A very good place for crawfish jambalaya, New Orleans.
One of the buildings in New Orleans that was flooded after Katrina broke the levee.
Gulf Shore
One of the places in Florida where there are no taxis or ride share drivers.
Some Spring Time Stories
April 16, 2019 scott carrier
I just got back from speaking at two radio conferences in Europe. I saw the leaves come out on the trees along the canals in Amsterdam. I woke up in Ireland next to a pasture with four wooly alpacas, one just a baby. I spent days talking about how podcasting works from the bottom up, forming a lattice of connections that reach around the skin of the earth. This is better than the top-down fear-mongering of the corporate media. I said these things with confidence, because of you. I get letters from every continent including Antartica and they all sound like they were written by the same person...because we’re all in the same lattice.
For more music by the Mermen click here.
The Pacific Northwest Trail
March 14, 2019 scott carrier
This is a story I produced last summer for The New Yorker Radio Hour. It’s about a controversy over one of the newest long-distance hiking trails in the United States. It was a difficult story to cover and explain, but I had excellent help from the NYRH producers and editors. I’d like to work for them again.
Ron Strickland, father of the Pacific Northwest Trail.
The PNT crosses the Kootenai River Valley, north of Sandpoint, Idaho.
Warriors Zulu Nation Honduras
A day inside the gang-ridden community of Chamelecon, Honduras.
The ceiba tree in the park where the rap battle took place. Chamelecon, Honduras.
The playing field under the tree.
Rapper 23 is “Yosie,” who reads history for inspiration.
February 4, 2019 scott carrier
Honduras Part One: A New Caravan
January 20, 2019 scott carrier
Some of the new caravan before departing from the bus station in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. January 14, 2019.
A single mom with kids waiting to leave from the bus station in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. January 14, 2019.
He said he was too old to walk all the way to the United States, but would accompany the caravan to the border with Guatemala. January 14, 2019.
December 22, 2018 scott carrier
Ruth Pena and her daughter, from El Salvador, at the beach in Tijuana. That’s the border wall in the background.
The outfield at the ball park in Tijuana.
Near second base at the ball park in Tijuana.
Scar from eight bullets on the thigh of one of the Honduran men.
Leaving the ball park.
Standing in line for breakfast outside the ball park.
Inside one of the Evangelical refuges in the hills surrounding Tijuana.
Outside one of the Evangelical refuges in the hills surrounding Tijuana.
Across the Desert
A sticker on one of the steel columns of the border wall south of Las Cruces, NM.
Another sticker on the wall,south of Las Cruces.
Katie Davis and Molly Molloy at the wall south of Las Cruces.
Casa del Migrante
December 4, 2018 scott carrier
At Casa del Migrante in Juarez, the wrists of Estela Magdalena Simon Esteban, 23 years old, and her three-year-old daughter, Zaida. These numbers are their place in line to apply for political asylum at the El Paso port of entry. Photo by Julian Cardona.
Estela Magdalena Simon Esteban and her three-year old daughter, Zaida, at Casa del Migrante in Juarez, Chihuahua. After her husband crossed to the US without documents, a man made constant attempts of sexual assault against Estela and she decided to leave her town, Playa Grande, Guatemala. Now she seeks to apply for political asylum to reunite with her husband in Salisbury, Maryland. Photo by Julian Cardona.
Juana Machenaquenich, 34, at Casa del Migrante. She was forced to leave Guatemala because several men were constantly trying to rape her 16-year-old daughter, Andrea Patricia. With Andrea and her two-year-old daughter Zuly Raquel (pictured) she will try to cross the border to reunite with her husband who lives undocumented near Washington D.C. Photo by Julian Cardona.
A girl plays in a courtyard of Casa del Migrante behind Juana Machenaquenich and her two-year-old daughter Zuly Raquel. Many of the migrants or refugees from Central America are now coming to the United States with their children. Photo by Julian Cardona.
No Solution
November 14, 2018 scott carrier
Immigrants crossing the border near Agua Prieta, Sonora, 2005. Photo by Julian Cardona.
Welcome to Season Two of Home of the Brave. This is the first of a series about the US/Mexico border and the present immigration situation. For background, I replay an interview with Charles Bowden recorded just a couple hundred yards from the barbed wire fence separating the two countries in the spring of 2005.
Migrants from Mexico crossing into the United States at the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Sasabe, Arizona, 2005. Photo by Julian Cardona.
The best place for books by Charles Bowden is Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City. They ship all over the world.
End of Season One: A Walk On the Beach
I need to take a break so let's call this the end of season one. And I'd like to play the second story I produced for the show, an interview with Alex Chadwick.
Thank you very much for your support. I'm going to turn off the subscription service (Pay Pal), but you can still donate and buy tee-shirts, tote bags, and patches. I hope to be back soon.
Music: Slow Bicycle by Mum.
Rumble Strip: It's a Podcast
Erica Heilman produces Rumble Strip from her home in Calais, Vermont. I like it because I never know what she's going to do next. This is a satire about modern life in America.
Lick the Crickets by Larry Massett
Collage by Charles Hope
From following the news lately I feel like I don't know who to believe or who to trust, like I don't know what's going on or why and things are only going to get worse and there's nothing I can do about it. In times like this maybe surrealistic poetry and Dada make more sense than realism.
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Todd Ryan
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Send e-mail to Todd Ryan
Ph.D., Univ. of Iowa (1999)
M.A., Univ. of Iowa (1999)
B.S., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana (1989)
Professor Ryan graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in computer science in 1989, and from the University of Iowa with a Ph. D. in philosophy in 1999.
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Bullying in the workplace in the news
Bullying in the workplace has been very much in the news in UK today Monday 22nd February 10.
According to the BBC, on Sunday, the National Bullying Helpline's chief executive, Christine Pratt, contacted the BBC to say a small number of people who had worked at Number 10 had contacted the charity, but insisted they had "absolutely not" accused Mr Brown personally of bullying. The story has run all day in the media.
Bullying at work is when someone tries to intimidate another worker, often in front of colleagues. It is usually, though not always, done to someone in a less senior position. It is similar to harassment, which is where someone's behaviour is offensive. For example, making sexual comments, or abusing someone's race, religion or sexual orientation.
At jml Training and Consultancy we provide courses for companies and organizations. If you would like more information please visit our website Page "Bullying in the workplace - What is workplace bullying?" http://www.jml-training.com/What_is_bullying_in_the_workplace.htm and "Bullying in the Workplace" http://www.jml-training.com/Bullying_in_the_workplace.htm
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By admin Performance, Politics, Refugees
Center for Political Beauty
The Zentrum für Politische Schönheit is, by far, one of the most visible groups doing performance work with high media impact. This summer, as a tribute to those who die crossing the Mediterranean hoping to reach Europe, they dug up the grass on the lawn in front of the Bundeskanzleramt (the Office of the Federal Chancellor) into 100 graves. The Queen of England was about to make her regular visit to give “The Queen’s Lecture” at the Technical University of Berlin, and Germany was enjoying a summer of rainy, British weather to boot. As the German newspaper Bild noted, the lawn was quickly green again. I went to look a few days later, having missed the demonstration, and indeed – the grass had already sprouted. A metaphor for the short memories of the German elite, or a tribute to the ethereal nature of political performance?
The Zentrum has continued to make headlines for its next project: setting up floating rescue stations in the Mediterranean for refugees who find themselves stranded. First articulated as a project to build a fictional bridge from North Africa to the Mediterranean, the ZPS produced this glossy video in the spirit of campaign advertisements:
According to an article in Der Tagesspiegel, the ZPS is also soliciting money to install at least one rescue platform by October 1st. Getty Images has posted a before shot of the preparations taking place off the coast of Sicily, which you can see here.
The name “Political Beauty” is certainly accurate – the images and glossy video of the ZPS’s projects have a sophisticated aesthetic composed of satire and privileged resistance. But it raises the question in the context of an ongoing humanitarian crisis: what kind of a weapon can art be? Are these kinds of projects the brief blips of a group of young, bright, performance artists, who may turn their attention randomly to a variety of causes as it strikes their fancy? That modernist German poet Rilke, so much a favorite of the artistic adolescent, said, a century or more ago, that “Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism.” But if we focus on the “political,” our critical tools might become far more adept: what is the political reach of a glossy video about an industrialized superhighway when the practical reality of this Aktion is merely one float on the edge of Sicily?
That question is by no means merely rhetorical; it is an open one. In the face of this kind of humanitarian crisis, where images of suffering are now our daily bread, any attempt to understand efficacy will need an understanding of both the political and the aesthetic.
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This episode is brought to you by Focusrite, the Interface Company who makes interfaces for recording podcasts, music, or any audio. If you are a new podcaster looking to start a show, or an experienced podcaster looking to level up your audio quality, I highly recommend you check them out! https://focusrite.com/
Dr. Stephanie L. Knight is dean of the Simmons School of Education and Human Development. She is a nationally recognized education leader, researcher, and professor dedicated to bringing the results of evidence-based research to elementary, secondary, undergraduate and graduate education.
Knight began her education career as a classroom teacher of Spanish and French in Texas, Saudi Arabia and Pennsylvania. She received her doctorate in curriculum and instruction at the University of Houston before beginning a 20-year tenure at Texas A&M University, where she was professor of educational psychology and teaching, learning and culture. In addition, she held the Houston Endowment, Inc. Chair in Urban Education at Texas A&M, received the University Distinguished Teaching Award and was named a University Faculty Fellow. Knight joined Pennsylvania State University in 2009 as professor of educational psychology, where she taught courses on educational psychology; intelligence and creativity; integrated teaching methods for special education and English Language Learners; and research methods in teacher education. In 2013 she became associate dean at Penn State, leading the College of Education’s undergraduate and graduate studies programs.
Her areas of research expertise include the relationships between instructional strategies, classroom processes, learning environments and student outcomes, particularly in U.S. urban and international settings; preservice and inservice teacher professional development; and the use of observational techniques to study classroom processes. She has published her research in hundreds of books, book chapters and journal articles and presented at numerous professional conferences.
In addition, Knight has directed university and national research centers, including serving as associate director of research into practice for the National Science Foundation Information Technology in Science Center for Teaching and Learning; director of evaluation and assessment for the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement in Washington, D.C.; executive director of the Houston School-University Research Collaborative at University of Houston; and director of the Center for Collaborative Learning Communities at Texas A&M. She was co-editor of the American Educational Research Journal: Teaching, Learning, and Human Development from 2004-2006, a publication of the American Educational Research Association; recently completed a five-year term as Lead Editor for the Journal of Teacher Education, the primary publication of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education; and also recently served as associate editor, Review of Educational Research, a publication of the American Educational Research Association ranked highest among education research journals.
Knight received her B.A. in romance languages and literature at the University of Kentucky, her M.A. and certification in secondary education at Lehigh University, and her doctorate in Educational Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Houston.
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The Board of Directors of the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care consists of five individuals with demonstrated experience and expertise in organizational, and business management, grants, as well as in-depth knowledge of health care issues.
Beverley H. Johnson, BSN, FAAN is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care (IPFCC) in Bethesda, MD. She has provided technical assistance and consultation for advancing the practice of patient- and family-centered care and creating effective partnerships with patients and families to over 300 hospitals, health systems, federal, state, provincial agencies, military treatment facilities, and community organizations.
Bev served on the inaugural Advisory Board for the American College of Physicians’ Center for Patient Partnership in Healthcare. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) and has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). She also serves on the Selection Committee for the American Hospital Quest for Quality Prize.
Bev is a past recipient of the Lloyd Bentsen Award and the Humanitarian Award from Pediatric Nursing. In 2007, she received The Gravens Award for leadership in promoting optimal environments and developmental care for high-risk infants and their families, and The Changemaker Award by the Board for the Center for Health Care Design. In 2008, the National Perinatal Association presented Bev with the Stanley L. Graven Award. More recently, she was a recipient of a Dorland Health 2011 People Award. In 2017, she was recognized by the American College of Physicians with the Edward R. Loveland Memorial Award.
Elizabeth Crocker, MEd, serves as Vice President of the IPFCC Board. Liz is an experienced businessperson and is the founder and owner of Canada’s oldest children’s bookstore and the former owner of a network of stores specializing in environmentally sound products. In addition, she has been a Clinical Teaching Associate with the Learning Resource Centre at Dalhousie University working as a Simulated Patient with medical students. She has created and directed a large Child Life Department, served as Treasurer and President of the Board of the Association for the Care of Children’s Health, and was President of the Canadian Institute for Child Health. Liz has been a hospital trustee and now serves on the board of a hospital foundation. Liz is also a Board Member of the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council.
In the past, Liz has been a broadcaster and journalist, worked in the political arena, and mentored young entrepreneurs. Along with Bev Johnson, she co-authored Privileged Presence, which is now in its second edition. She is the lead author of a new book, Transforming Memories, Sharing Spontaneous Writing Using Loaded Words. Liz is a fun-loving grandmother to three children.
Terri L. Shelton, PhD, is the Treasurer. Terri is Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement and the Carol Jenkins Mattocks Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has published more than 60 articles and received more than $20 million in grants. Terri has 25 years of clinical experience, including initiatives that build the capacity of families, service providers, researchers, teachers, and communities to ensure the health and well-being of youth, families, and communities. Terri's work includes engaging partnerships that bridge research, policy, and evidence-based practice. She is co-author of the text Assessing Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the monograph, Family-Centered Care for Children Needing Specialized Developmental Services.
William E. Schwab, MD serves as Secretary of the IPFCC Board. Bill is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. In addition to being an active clinician and teacher, he has served as Director of Clinical Operations for the DFM, as director of its Madison Family Medicine Residency Program, and as director of a state-funded initiative to address the shortage of physicians practicing in small communities. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation, the group practice organization for the more than 1300 medical school faculty clinicians at the University of Wisconsin.
A nationally recognized leader in patient- and family-centered care as well as in medical education about the care of children and adults with chronic illness and disabilities, Bill is a frequent speaker and consultant to health systems, medical schools, and community agencies around the country. He has been the principle investigator for the National Medical Home Autism Initiative, funded by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and the PI of a project funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to enhance development screening by family physicians. He has been the recipient of the Humanism in Medicine Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine jointly with the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the Educator of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians, and the Baldwin E. Lloyd, MD, Clinical Teacher of the Year Award from the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine.
Bill has been on the teaching faculty of more than 30 intensive seminars presented by IPFCC on advancing patient- and family-centered care in medical education, community services, ambulatory health care, and hospitals.
Nancy DiVenere, BA, is a Member-at-Large of the Board of Directors. Nancy is co-founder and past president of Parent to Parent USA, a non-profit committed to promoting access, quality, and leadership in parent to parent support nationally. Nancy is also the founder and former Executive Director (1987-2004) of Parent to Parent of Vermont, a statewide organization promoting health and well-being for families with children and young adults with special needs. During her tenure, Nancy served as adjunct faculty in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, developed curriculum on family-centered care, prepared and supported Family Faculty in teaching roles, and conducted seminars for medical students and pediatric residents. She also served as Family Faculty for the University's Interdisciplinary Leadership Education for Health Professional Program. Nancy is a consultant to Vermont Children's Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Council, and a recipient of the 1998 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leadership Award.
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Bonita Reema, Aranha (2015) Estimation of Taurine in Animal based Food and Validation of the Modified Technique. [Student Project Report] (Submitted)
Bonita Reema, Aranha (2014) Taurine as a Biofunctional and a Nutraceutical compound. Masters thesis, University of Mysuru.
Daniel, V. A. and Desai, B. L. M. and Narayanaswamy, D. and Kurien, S. and Swaminathan, M. and Parpia, H. A. B. (1970) Improvement of protein value of poor wheat diet by supplementation with limiting amino acids. Nutrition Reports International, 1. pp. 169-174.
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Daniel, V. A. and Doraiswamy, T. R. and Venkat Rao, S. and Swaminathan, M. and Parpia, H. A. B. (1968) The effect of supplementing a poor wheat diet with L-lysine and DL-threonine on the digestibility coefficient, biological value and net utilization of proteins and nitrogen retention in children. Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, 5. pp. 134-141.
Daniel, V. A. and Venkat Rao, S. and Swaminathan, M. and Parpia, H. A. B. (1968) Amino acid supplementation of protein. III. The effect of supplementing rice and wheat and diets based on them with L-lysine and DL-threonine on the nutritive value of their proteins. Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, 5 (4). pp. 278-282.
Desai, B. L. M. and Kurien, S. and Daniel, V. A. and Narayanaswamy, D. and Swaminathan, M. and Parpia, H. A. B. (1970) Improvement of protein value of poor rice diet by supplementation with limiting essential amino acids. Nutrition Reports International, 1. pp. 113-118.
Desai, B. L. M. and Narayanaswamy, D. and Daniel, V. A. and Swaminathan, M. and Parpia, H. A. B. (1970) Improvement of protein value of ragi (Eleusine coracana) diet by supplementation with limiting amino acids. Nutrition Reports International, 2 (4). pp. 185-191.
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Divyashri, G. (2017) Gamma-aminobutyric acid, a potent neurotransmitter from lactic acid bacteria: Fermentative and Bioactivity studies. Doctoral thesis, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research.
Divyashri, G. and Prapulla, S. G. (2015) Mass transfer characterization of gamma-aminobutyric acid production by Enterococcus faecium CFR 3003: encapsulation improves its survival under simulated gastro-intestinal conditions. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 38 (3). pp. 569-574.
Drishya, P. (2018) Investigation of free amino acids in tea samples. [Student Project Report] (Submitted)
Gopalakrishna, A. G. and Prabhakar, J. V. (1994) Antioxidant efficacy of amino acids in methyl linoleate at different relative humidities. Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 71 (6). 645-647, 12 ref..
Gupta, Veer Bala and Indi, S. S. and Rao, K. S. J. (2008) Studies on the role of amino acid stereospecificity in amyloid beta aggregation. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 34 (1). pp. 35-43. ISSN 0895-8696
Jaimee, George and Prakash, M. Halami (2017) Conjugal transfer of aac(6′)Ie-aph(2″)Ia gene from native species and mechanism of regulation and cross resistance in Enterococcus faecalis MCC3063 by real time-PCR. Microbial Pathogenesis, 110. pp. 546-553.
Kadkol, S. B. and Lahiry, N. L. (1962) Amino acid composition of defatted fish flour from oil sardine (Clupea longiceps). Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 21D. pp. 387-388.
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Khurshida, Singamayum (2013) Investigation on Arginine Rich Food Sources and their Health Benefits. Masters thesis, University of Mysore.
Krishnamurthy, K. and Swaminathan, M. (1955) Quantitative determination of amino acids by circular paper chromatography. Analytical Chemistry, 27. pp. 1396-1399.
Krishnamurthy, K. and Swaminathan, M. (1955) A procedure for the quantitative determination of amino acids by circular paper chromatography. Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 14C (3). pp. 79-80.
Krishnaswamy, P. R. and Ananthaswamy, H. N. and Rajagopal Rao, D. (1965) Rosen's ninhydrin method for amino acid analysis. Analytical Biochemistry, 11. pp. 582-584.
Madhavi, D. L. and Srinivasan, K. S. and Kadkol, S. B. and Baliga, B. R. (1982) Essential amino acid content of buffalo meat. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 19 (5). 214-215, 6 ref..
Meena, Lakshman. and Raghavendra Rao, M. R. (1981) Excretion of lysine by Micrococcus glutamicus. Journal of Biosciences, 3. pp. 51-55.
Mr., Ramesha (2011) Preparation and Characterization of Boc-Amino acids and Amino Acid Methyl esters. [Student Project Report]
Nagabhushanam, A. and Srinivasan, K. S. and Srinivasan, N. (1962) Amino-acid composition of tender and mature field bean (Dolichos lablab). Indian Journal of Medical Research, 50. pp. 916-919.
Nand, K. and Rehana, F. and Rao, D. V. and Joseph, R. and Rao, T. N. R. (1971) Microbial production of amino acid. I. Survey of microorganisms. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 8 (4). 167-170, 27 ref..
Narayanaswamy, D. and Desai, B. L. M. and Daniel, V. A. and Kurien, S. and Swaminathan, M. and Parpia, H. A. B. (1970) Improvement of protein value of poor kaffir corn (Sorghum vulgare) diet by supplementation with limiting amino acids. Nutrition Report International, 1. pp. 297-303. (In Press)
Panemangalore, M. and Guttikar, M. N. and Narayana Rao, M. and Swaminathan, M. (1970) Sequence in which essential amino acids become limiting for growth of rats fed rations containing cottonseed meal. Journal of Science of Food and Agriculture, 21. pp. 437-438.
Parpia, H. A. B. and Swaminathan, M. (1972) Supplementation of cereals and cereal diets with grain legumes and limiting amino acids. Proceedings of the International Congress of Nutrition, Mexico,, 4. pp. 139-148.
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All things perfect and poisonous
Notions of cinema.
Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls...
Where does one begin? Peaches Does Herself is a German concert movie of Peaches. Written by, Directed by and starring Peaches. But how does one describe this experience?
Normally, I skip the Face the Music program of films at SIFF each year, but Peaches Does Herself was described as the queerest film in the festival. As it turns out, I knew exactly one Peaches song prior and still know little to nothing about her, but it didn't matter. I enjoyed the music and most of all, I loved her persona. Her sexuality was on display and was not only unapologetic, but read as loud as if it were a billboard with "fuck normalcy and judgement, this is who I am" in bright pink neon.
To give an overall impression of the film, I've decided just to lay out what happens along with stills. I suspect that is the best I can do for readers to decide whether this is something they should seek out. The film begins in Peaches' bedroom and after the dancers climb through a giant vulva in her bed a very pink clad orgy ensues.
Then there are confrontations and several more numbers that lead to Peaches having an operation that enhances her breasts and gives her a huge penis. And then, Peaches finds love.
So Peaches gets married married, but it doesn't last. Finally Peaches is alone with an exploded penis and popped boobs. But during this narrative of sorts are some great songs, pretty boys, girls, girly boys, gently girls, dancing, the Naked Cowgirl, giant vulvas, and so much more.
And the only song I knew by Peaches before only appears as she bikes away into the streets of Berlin, singing "Huh? What? Right. Uhh.... Fuck the pain away... Fuck the pain away..."
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Labels: Peaches, Peaches Does Herself, SIFF2013
Grrrls in front
I cannot write about The Punk Singer like it is just another SIFF documentary. I always try to look at cinema analytically, but this movie became personal and by the end, I was cheering for all that Kathleen Hanna has done and will do.
There was a period of time when music meant something. In the 80s, I was crazy about Duran Duran which took me to Bowie, The Culture Club... Later Guns n' Roses were huge and I had a metal phase, but after high school, I didn't connect with music the way I did at 15. In college, what spoke loudest was cinema. And this totally makes sense. It was the beginning of the New Queer Cinema and while those movies didn't make it up to Anchorage until years later, the impact on cinema was immediate. It wasn't until probably 1995 when I was finally seeing the movies by Gus Van Sant, Gregg Araki, Todd Haynes, and so on, but it was still in the movies where I was finding the stories that spoke to me. The cinema is where my adult identity was formed.
But this all happened in the absence female voices and narratives. The Punk Singer makes me want to go back and time and discover the Riot Grrrl bands during college, instead of hearing about the movement years later and pick up and move to Seattle then, instead of in 20004. However, what was most surprising was the strong identification with Kathleen Hanna. She is only two years older and the series of events that brought about Bikini Kill felt like a parallel universe. About the time I settled into the film as an observer, the narrative progressed to describing Hanna's neurological issues that again, were familiar in that I had personally experienced most of them, although my neurological symptoms began years before Hanna became ill.
So this isn't much of a movie essay and more of a personal one where I second guess my life choices. I understand the need to save face by quitting music before anyone really can see just how sick you are. Seems I've been avoiding forming relationships in an effort to maintain the appearance of health. I don't much like to admit to the bad days that are nearly equal in number to good ones. Had one today that began with an inability to wake up followed by an entire day of not being able to think clearly or motivate myself to do much more than reading news headlines. Maybe tomorrow, my head will feel clear and my old self will return.
So to wrap this up, The Punk Singer was a moving portrait of the figure at the center of the Riot Grrrl punk movement of the 90s. The movie really is very clear on how feminist these bands were and the cultural response. And while these bands are no more, there is still a need for women's voices to loudly call out misogyny is all of its forms and tell the men to move to the back.
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Labels: Bikini Kill, Kathleen Hanna, Riot Grrrl, SIFF2013, The Punk Singer
Key of Life
I love Japanese cinema. And probably in part due to the Seattle International Film Festival, I discovered that contemporary, non-genre cinema from Japan can be amazing and film festivals are the only places to find these films. Sure some Japanese movies make it to the theaters each year, but these tend to be horror movies or Anime. We don't get many opportunities to see the other types of movies that are made in Japan.
Key of Life is surprising because it really shouldn't be good. Any plot synopsis that essentially claims it's like Trading Places in Japan, except Dan Aykroyd has amnesia, does not sound promising. So I honestly don't know how director Kenji Uchida pulled this off.
There are three characters, Kanae is a successful and very detail oriented business women who decides to get married. So she puts her wedding day on her calendar and informs friends, family and colleagues of the impending date. The only problem is that she hasn't met the groom just yet. But she's given herself 4 weeks to meet him and another 4 weeks to get to know him. Sakurai's acting career hasn't exactly taken off. He lives in a dingy apartment and is behind on his rent and has no prospects for making money, so he attempts to hang himself. Although this doesn't have the intended consequences and so he goes to the public bath. And finally, Kondo enters the picture. He is an assassin and because of his line of work, is extremely meticulous, but also necessarily socially isolated. Kondo unknowingly enters Sakurai's life when at the public bath, cleaning up after a job, he slips on a bar of soap and is knocked unconscious His locker key lands in Sakurai's hand and they switch lives when Kondo wakes in the hospital with no memory of who he is and only has the contents of Sakurai's locker to inform him about his identity.
The movie that unfolds is somewhat predictable, at least at first, but is also very smart in the way it uses genre. Sasato Sakai, plays Sakurai as if Key of Life is a farce. The comedy is very exaggerated in many of his scenes, but Teruyiki Kagawa plays Kondo very straight. Although, he has no memory of being an assassin, he enters Kakurai's life as if he is in a noir mystery that he must get to the bottom of. And so Kondo goes to work figuring out the sad realities of Sakurai's existence, even finding the rope that was used in the suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Sakurai is attempting to fill Kondo's shoes as an assassin and eventually needs help getting out of his new found life of crime.
Having some experience with Asian farces, I was concerned at the onset of Key of Life, but by the end, I was won over. The characters are extremely likable, and plot has some surprise twists and turns, and I loved the romantic turn at the end. It looks like Film Movement is distributing this film, so maybe there is a chance of Key of Life finding an audience in the states.
Labels: Key of Life, SIFF2013
The James Franco Gay Bar movie
The short film, In Their Room: London from director Travis Mathews is an experimental film simply observing gay men in the privacy of their own rooms. It shows probably 10 men grooming, sleeping, dressing, undressing, searching the internet for hook-ups, showering, even using the toilet.
I don't really have much to say about this film. It gives a glimpse into a diverse array of lives. But really, those lives aren't all that diverse. Mostly white and mostly bearded, engaging in very similar activities. I guess this makes a few men stand out. Like the man pictured above, surrounded by images of Morrissey as he applies make-up, the elderly cross-dresser, and the black man do stand very separate from the others, despite the fact that they are all engaged in very similar activities. Perhaps in privacy we reveal our shared, humanity as many engage in the grooming rituals dictated by a shared culture?
The most frustrating aspect of In Their Room: London was the lack of time devoted to any one individual. This may reveal my frustration with the male gaze, but I wanted more time with each individual. I wanted more than an often silent snapshot of these lives, one can find that in a photo essay, but a documentary portrait. I wanted to know each man and see the world through his eyes, not just gaze upon him. In that way, In Their Room may be a revealing project, but one with certain frustrating imposed limitations.
INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. is also very much an experimental film long referred to as the James Franco Gay Bar project. Franco collaborated with director Travis Mathews conceiving of a film exploring the 40 minutes of film cut from Friedkin's Cruising. Those 40 minutes were filmed in an actual New York City gay leatherman's bar and included shots of un-simulated gay sex. Initially, this project was about an attempt to recreate, or re-imagine that lost footage.
INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. not at all that film. Introduced by director Travis Mathews, he was clear to explain that imagining that lost footage was only the starting point for this film. It is instead a film about straight actors comfort with playing gay male roles. And the film is an intellectually fascinating examination of masculinity and homophobia.
The film focuses on James Franco's friend, Val Lauren, who has agreed to play Al Pacino's role in this project. Val voices his concerns about the project immediately. He doesn't understand his friend's interest in it, but agrees to it because he trusts Franco. We follow along as Val discusses the project, shares reservations, and generally bonds with the other actors on set who are equally in the dark about what is expected.
Really, the actors didn't seem to have much to fear. Travis hired plenty of gay men who donned leather and looked the part of men in a 70s leather bar, but probably didn't go to the extremes that Friedkin's cast might have witnessed. Mostly, the guys were expected to dance with each other as more explicit activity happened around them. In a few cases, one of the presumably straight actors would be asked to use a wooden paddle on a man, but they're limits were totally respected concerning any sexual interactions on the set. Really, the film was more interested in watching how the guys maintained a professional demeanor at times when they were not entirely comfortable with real gay sex happening. And the outcome was surprising.
Val was obviously uncomfortable, even when not in character, but by the end, he was obviously not only more comfortable with the project in general, but specifically more at ease with the gay men in the cast. He even approaches a couple that had sex on camera to let them know that their scene was beautiful in the way you could see the love they feel for one another.
INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. is not a film for everyone as it is neither documentary or a work of fiction, but rather an acting project that is most interested in the new world that young actors are in today. What the film seems to be asking is just how comfortable men are today with gay roles and acting with out gay men. And this film suggests that while not everyone started out totally okay with the gays, the men were quick to adapt. Our culture seems to be changing right infront of us and that is what this film captures.
An aside. I still hope that those lost 40 minutes of Cruising are unearthed. Actually, I've never seen Friendkin's film, but am eager to today. Cruising undeniably casts the gay leatherman's culture in a very homophobic light, but today, I see the film, especially the unseen footage, as historically important. Today, the gay leather bars are all but gone. Thanks to the AIDS epidemic and the migration away from bar culture in general due to grindr, the leather scene is quickly disappearing. I should have bought a drink in a leather bar back in 1998 when I had the chance.
Labels: GLBT, In Their Room London, INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR., James Franco, leather, SIFF2013, Travis Mathews
SIFF 2013: Concussion
The simplicity of the plot synopsis, does not do justice to the film's emotional complexity. Abby, played masterfully by Robin Weigert, is overwhelmed by a sense of isolation and alienation despite living a good life with a family that she loves. At the beginning of the film, Abby is losing her temper with her two children as her wife of 20 years is trying to get Abby to the emergency room with as little drama as possible. Kate chastises Abby for shouting at the kids. Abby, holding ice to her head with blood matted in her hair after taking a softball to the head, is very relatable in her anger and marital dissatisfaction. From that moment forward, Abby begins a journey to discover what is missing and this takes her into a world of high class, lesbian call girls.
Concussion is about an emotional reality of long-term relationships that doesn't often find a voice in this culture. Following in the footsteps of The Kids are All Right (2010), Abby and Kate are another upper class, lesbian couple with problems in their relationship that are universal to any relationship that spans two decades. The problems of the decline of lust and passion can erode the bond of any relationship and as talk of 'lesbian bed death' has hinted at, this need for sexual variety is probably even stronger for women than for the sex that sexual wandering has been attributed to.
This is a wonderful film with so many unexpected moments and emotional truths buried within, that without such a strong lead actor, Robin Weigert, likely would not succede. She conveys so much without the need for dialog. She can simply convey the feeling of emptiness when going about her daily chores. This really is an examination of depression, mid-life crisis, and relationship turmoil that hopefully will find an audience. It has been picked up for distribution by RADiUS, an arm of the Weinstein Corporation, so watch for this in the fall.
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Labels: concussion, GLBT, Lesbian, marriage, SIFF2013
Every new technology is expensive, and sooner or later every new technology gets into bed with lechery.
The Seattle Independent Film Festival has landed, again. I don't have the time or money to attend this year, but just cannot stay away. And I started off my festival with a Peter Greenaway film, Goltzius and the Pelican Company.
If I were forced to pick just one film as my favorite, it would be Peter Greenaway's 1996 motion picture, with the emphasis strongly on picture, The Pillow Book. After I assumed that his other works would similarly resonate, but was so very, very wrong. Since, I've developed a bit of a love/hate relationship with Greenaway's cinema having been completely confounded by a few, respecting others, completely disgusted and repulsed by one, occassionally bored, but then completely charmed and delighted by the previous film seen at SIFF in 2009, Rembrandt's J'Accuse. I wasn't sure I was up for the Greenaway gamble, but when a pair of free tickets landed in my lap, I couldn't stay away.
With Goltzius and the Pelican Company, Peter Greenaway has liberally embellished the story of Hendrick Goltzius's voyage to Italy in 1590. In this bit of revisionism, Goltzius and his entourage of artists, craftsmen, and players accompanied by their wives, pay a visit to the Margrave of Alsace. There a bargan is made. In exchange for entertaining the Margrave's court with a collection of bawdy Biblical stories, Goltzius would receive the funds for a printing press and be able to create an illustrated version of the Old Testament and the works of Ovid. What follows is the performance of a series of biblical tales that embody six sexual taboos: voyeurism, incest, adultery, corruption of youth, prostitution, and finally necrophilia.
So much about Goltzius and the Pelican Company is familiar to Greenaway disciples. It has neo-classical sensibilities, but it is completely modern in message and execution. As with its predecessors, sets are elaborately constructed and carefully framed, with most shots perfectly symmetrical. This is layered with scrolling text, framed images, titles, creating a absorbing and often overwhelming amont of contectual information to digest. This constant barrage of imagery is so classically beautiful, that I tend to forgive it for not being completley digestible upon first viewing. I've grown to expect to only get an outline of the work in a first viewing, but find I am so taken by the sound and look of Greenaway's cinematic canvas, that I don't mind never feeling that I have delved much beyond the surface meanings of his texts. The surface is sure a lovely to gaze upon.
But it is easy to descern that there is much below Goltzius's surface. As the players act out the biblical stories, the impact on the court and Margrave put into motion a series of events that equal the immorality and lack of decency. By the end, Lott's seduction at the hands of his daughters is one of the least provocative theatrical presentations. Once the scholars and law makers start to collide in their interpretations and debates about the truths behind Goltzius and companies liberal interpretations of the biblical tales... well, things get really interesting.
One final note on this work. I've long appreciated the classical beauty of Peter Greenaway's compositions, but while the movies are often very erotic, I have never found the films to be. Something is different with Goltzius and the Pelican Company. There is something very erotic and seductive about this film. Maybe that says more about this viewer, than the film, but I'm suspicious that it might be due to the decision to include not just full frontal nudity and simulated sex, but nudity from actors with erections. For this reason, I do not expect this film to find distribution, so catch it at a festival before it is buried deep somewhere.
Labels: Goltzius and the Pelican Company, Greenaway, SIFF2013
The vampire's kiss
Recent cinematic incarnations of the vampire are completely infatuated with the romance of the mythologies of immortal being that's only vulnerability is daylight, but all but forgotten is the inherent horror of an unliving creature with an all encompassing thirst for human blood. Kiss of the Damned enriches the eroticism with a healthy serving of horror. Xan Cassavetes pays homage to of the vampire movie of long ago. From the opening shots of something primal and hungry rushing through the night, until the screen is splashed in red in a sequence that has more in common with the B-movie or the erotic horror movies of Europe during the 1970s than the blood sucker that have become all too common place at the movies.
The scales began to tip away from the horrific in the 1980s, with Anne Rice. In her novels, the emphasis was placed on the homo-eroticism inherent in the vampire's kiss, which seemed more often to result in the gift of immortality and enduring companionship (domestic partnership?), then a frightfully alluring promise of death. At the time of the novels, the AIDS epidemic was raging in gay communities and fundamentalists pointed the epidemic as evidence of judgement from the almighty, so it isn't surprising that parallels were drawn between the world of Rice's gay vamps and the mysterious gay cancer.
Then as Lestat and Louis faded from the cultual consciousness, the Twilight series arrived. Except the overt homoeroticism was replaced with chastity. Bella was seduced by the teenaged vampire, but Edward refrained from giving in to Bella's desire and thus they abstained from not just the sexual act, but also Edward did not drink from her. Well, they abstained from both until marriage when one act necessitated that Bella be granted the dark gift of immortality to prevent the permanence of her human death in the bizarrely sexless erotic world of Twilight.
So the vampire of old has become either a tragic story of gay life or a romanticized fantasy of teenage lust and abstinence. In either, gone is the inherent the horror of an undead thirst for blood. Kiss of the Damned capitalizes the horror of the vampires erotic allure.
Djuna is staying at a summer estate, a vampire safe house of sorts, when she attracts the eye of a young writer. This culminates in some late night movie rentals, where as things start getting really exciting, Djuna pushes Paulo away with little explanation except something about a rare medical condition. You know the one. It is evident by her pale complexion and the tendency to burst into flames if caught out in the daylight.
But Paulo will not stay away. In one of the most erotic moments of the film, Djuna refuses to unlatch her door and so must resort to attempting to devour each other through that three inch gap. And so, Djuna gives up fighting the inevitable consummation, but takes extreme precautions, asking Paulo to chain her up so she will not be able to feed upon him during coitus. And the next time they wake, Paulo is also a vampire.
But the new vampire NRE is quickly diminished by the arrival of Mimi, Djuna's sister. Unlike Djuna, Mimi has absolutely no qualms about feeding on humans. Mimi goes out every night to lure very eager and willing victims into offering their flesh, but she is really only after their blood. Mimi in not exactly the role model Djuna wants around while she is still teaching Paulo the ways of ethical vampirism. And thus, there is plenty of conflict and virgin blood to keep things exciting. Kiss of the Damned provides numerous sexy vampires in anachronistic clothes with European accents and places primary emphasis on what has always been central to the appeal of vampires. They are mysterious creatures of the night with the power to allure helpless human victims to their untimely death. This is why the vampire is both a creature of horror and that of romance novels. Xan Cassavetes got the tone exactly right, bringing to (un)life a gothic and bloody S&M fantasy. I approve.
Labels: Kiss of the Damned
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Resources Articles Contributing Authors Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations, Political Philosophy, and Islamic Political Thought, from Georgetown University in May 2000. He founded the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Delaware and was its first Director from 2007-2010.
Dr. Khan is a Fellow with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. He was a Senior Nonresident Fellow with the Brookings Institution [2003-2008] and a Fellow of the Alwaleed Center at Georgetown University[2006-2007]. He has been the President, Vice President and General Secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists.
He is the author of American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (Amana, 2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (Praeger, 2004), Islamic Democratic Discourse (Lexington Books, 2006) and Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (University of Utah Press, 2007).
Dr. Khan frequently comments on BBC, CNN International, FOX and VOA TV, Bridges TV, NPR and other radio and TV networks. His political commentaries appear regularly in newspapers in over 20 countries. He has lectured in North America, East Asia, Middle East and Europe . Dr. Khan is from Hyderabadin India. He is married to Reshma and has a son Rumi, and a daughter Ruhi.
His articles on Islam and American Muslims can be read at www.ijtihad.org and his commentaries on global politics can be read at www.Glocaleye.org.
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Carol Archer | J’can Diaspora forging political identity at home and abroad
Published:Sunday | June 23, 2019 | 12:13 AM
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Rudolph Brown
The week of June 17, 2019, witnessed the eighth assembly of the Jamaica Diaspora conference. According to the reports in our local newspapers, many conference attendees expressed concerns about the conference being one of “much talk, policy inaction, and political polarisation.” It is unfortunate that after 19 years, since the inception of the Diaspora Conference, the attendees seem to have such level of trepidation.
In 2017, the Migration Policy Institute, a leading research Centre for analysis of immigrant data, revealed that between 1980 and 2000, the Caribbean immigrant population in the United States increased by more than 50 per cent every 10 years (54 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively) to reach 2.9 million in 2000. In 2010, the Caribbean population grew by only 26 per cent, to 3.7 million, and slowed to an 18 per cent growth, or 4.4 million, in 2017. Jamaicans represent the largest group of the non-Hispanic Caribbean in the United States in general and New York City in particular. Haitians represent the second-largest grouping of non-Hispanic Caribbean.
In the 1990 US decennial census, there were approximately 100,000 Jamaica-born nationals living in New York City (Archer, 1999). According to the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, in 2017, there were 175,000 Jamaican born nationals living in New York City. This represents 5.6 per cent of the total immigrant population in New York City. Based on historical data, it is safe to conclude that the bulk of the population lived in the neighbourhoods in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, followed by Southeast Queens in neighbourhoods such as Springfield Garden and Rosedale and Northeast Bronx in the Baychester community.
The Migration Policy Institute revealed that the median age of Caribbean immigrants in the United States was 49 years, compared to 45 years for all immigrants and 36 years for the US born. Most immigrants from the Dominican Republic (78 per cent), Trinidad and Tobago (77 per cent), and Jamaica and Haiti (76 per cent each) were of working age.
The bulk of the Caribbean-born population, including Jamaicans, were employed in the service industries such as the healthcare sector. The average annual income of Jamaica-born immigrants living in New York City for 2017 was $47,000. Trinidadians earned more by comparison – $61,000. Immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Haiti earned the lowest average annual income at $41,000. The income profile for Jamaicans has not changed significantly since the 2010 census.
Jamaicans who settled in New York City during the 1980-1990 period amassed enough wealth, along with their African American counterparts, to move into the neighbourhoods once occupied by working and middle-class whites. Unfortunately, these Jamaicans were unable to forge an identity that allowed them to be political and economic powerhouses.
On arrival in New York City, most Jamaicans, while maintaining their racial and national identity, adopted a “Caribbean” or West Indian identity to differentiate themselves from native-born African Americans (Archer 1999). In fact, in the 1970s, the term “West Indian” was most widely used by Jamaicans to distinguish between them and those from the non English speaking Caribbean (Archer, 1999).
Bryce-Laporte, a noted Caribbean scholar in New York City, argues that Jamaicans and other immigrants from the region as a means of “surviving” used the term West Indian or Caribbean. Without this separate and distinct identity, Jamaicans and other Caribbean immigrants would have dissolved into the marginalised African American or black population.
My research on the relationship between the Caribbean immigrant and African American communities from as far back as the 1920s discovered that there was infighting between the two groups. Allegedly, African Americans were of the view that more Caribbean registered voters would change the political dynamics of racial politics in New York as back then, African Americans were more conservative and leaned toward the Republican Party while most Jamaicans and Caribbean immigrants aligned with the Democratic Party. The local political organisations in New York City encouraged the conflict within the communities of African ancestries while actively registering immigrants from Europe to join the dominant Democratic Party.
In the Caribbean and African American communities, this political infighting along ethnic, racial, and regional lines, although subtle at times, is still obvious in 2019, and issues related to the national politics of Jamaica remained outside of the New York City political arena. Currently, it is difficult for Jamaican leaders and the Jamaican population in New York City to forge a political identity around issues of nationalism as the Irish did with the state of Ireland or the Jews did with Israel. The Jamaicans will have to rely on their African racial identity or Caribbean identity to become the political force influencing policies in the US and in Jamaica.
The prospects of a Jamaican political powerhouse in New York City become more daunting as the Caribbean community, in general, and the Jamaican community, in particular, exhibits low levels of political participation. Even with the spike in political participation during the Obama era and the encouragement of Jamaica’s Ambassador to the US, Audrey Marks, for Jamaicans to became naturalised citizens and register to vote, participation among Jamaicans and Caribbean immigrants remains lower than their Hispanic, Asian, and European counterparts. The social and cultural organisations used to introduce other immigrant groups to New York’s political process have failed to play an active role in the city’s political system. In other words, the social and cultural capital of the Jamaican and Caribbean communities has not fully translated into political capital in New York City.
Some Jamaicans have direct access to elected officials in New York at the city, state, and national levels. However, community-based organisations serving the Jamaican or Caribbean community positioned to advance the political agendas of the community are limited or non-existent.
The political organisation that comes closest to addressing the racial, national, ethnic, and regional identities of Jamaicans and Caribbean immigrants is The Progressive Democrats of Central Brooklyn, founded in 1987 by former New York City Council Member Una S.T. Clarke. The founding name of the organisation was The Caribbean American Political Association. The name changed after Clarke’s election to city council. This change was necessary to embrace the wider community of people of African ancestry.
Clarke, and subsequently, her daughter, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, were able to forge a political agenda for Jamaicans in New York City and Jamaica by navigating the national, racial, ethnic, and regional identities around such issues as healthcare, education, and economic development. These issues are important to her New York constituents and to Jamaica. Unfortunately, no Jamaican has emerged on the New York political landscape with the tenacity and the all-encompassing political agenda of the Clarkes.
The next US census will start in 2020. This will result in the redrawing of the political boundaries for the congressional and city council districts and may influence the opportunity for Jamaica- or Caribbean-born candidates to win political office.
A relevant question flowing from this is whether it is useful for Jamaica, given its size and economic situation, to have political representatives based on a narrowly defined national or a Pan-Caribbean identity.
Regardless of ethnic, racial, national, or regional identity, it is necessary for someone to emerge from the Jamaican or Caribbean community to reignite the soul of the largest Jamaican diaspora in New York City, the United States, and the world.
- Carol Archer is an associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Technology, Jamaica, and served on the campaign committees to elect Una Clarke to the New York City Council and Yvette Clarke to the US Congress. Email feedback to columns@gleanerjm.com.
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Service Nation, Part I: Time Magazine Announces Public Service Campaign.
Jim Lindgren, July 23, 2008
from: Time
[UPDATE: For some of Service Nation's response, see the update below.] A relatively new group, Service Nation, is planning to kick off a campaign with a Summit for “National Service” on September 11. Time Magazine has signed on to promote the effort. The website trumpets its training of “Change Agents” in cooperation with “Change, Inc.” Its blog is called ChangeWire. Does this theme sound familiar?
The website makes it clear that it is not just calling for individuals to get involved, but it is calling for a new National Service Act that will involve the government in transforming American society:
To begin this journey, Service Nation will unite leaders from every sector of American society with hundreds of thousands of citizens in a national campaign to call on the next President and Congress to enact a new era of service and citizenship in America, an era in which all Americans will work together to try and solve our greatest and most persistent societal challenges. This campaign will launch with a Service Nation Summit, Sept. 11-12 in New York City, and build with a national grassroots movement aimed at inspiring widespread public support for a new and transformational National Service Act that will encourage all Americans to step forward and take the lead in bridging our divides, strengthening our communities, and building a more vibrant democracy.
The five co-chairs of the Service Nation Summit include Obama aide Caroline Kennedy, Vartan Gregorian (President of the Carnegie Corporation and former Democratic donor), Rick Stengel (Managing Editor of TIME Magazine and former speechwriter for Bill Bradley), Bill Novelli (CEO of AARP and former donor to both Republican and Democratic candidates, including John McCain in 1999), and Alma Powell (Chair of America's Promise Alliance and wife of Colin Powell). Gregorian and Novelli were not originally listed as co-chairs when the Summit was first announced.
The 64 members of the Leadership Counsel include three [two] potential Democratic Vice Presidential candidates: Bill Richardson, Sam Nunn, Jennifer Granholm – as well as one potential Republican Vice Presidential candidate: Rob Portman.
What is this National Service Act that Service Nation favors?
Charles Rangel’s National Service Act, which is [suppoorted by some segments of the movement and is now] languishing before Congress, provides for a universal draft with two years [service] for virtually all persons aged 18-42, with no deferment for college. The purpose of Rangel’s bill is:
“To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security . . . .”
Here is how the civilian service is described in the bill (sec 102(b)):
a civilian capacity that, as determined by the President, promotes the national defense, including national or community service and service related to homeland security.
Note the interpretation of community service as promoting national defense, just as in Barack Obama’s July 2, 2008 speech, a juxtaposition that confused most bloggers. Under Rangel’s bill, if one is selected for induction into the military, one may choose instead to do civilian service. With unintentional irony the bill calls this mandatory service “Voluntary Service.”
Sec. 103(e) Voluntary Service — A person subject to induction under this title may--
(1) volunteer to perform national service in lieu of being inducted; or
(2) request permission to be inducted at a time other than the time at which the person is otherwise called for induction.
In the Wikipedia entry on Rangel’s statute is this intriguing statement:
The Universal National Service Act of 2007 is primarily sponsored by Congressman Charles Rangel of New York. Advocates for National Service include Senator Chris Dodd, Time Magazine Editor Rick Stengel, and NationalServiceAct.com writer Jason Blindauer.
This is the same Rick Stengel who is a co-chair of the Service Nation Summit and the same Jason Blindauer, whose organization is listed as one of the 100 members of Service Nation’s organizing committee and is one of the leaders of the movement for a National Service Act.
The Americans for a National Service Act (ANSA), for which Blindauer is listed as the “Coordinator,” indicates that it is part of Service Nation’s campaign. His organization’s website gives some idea about what the goals of Service Nation are:
Service Nation Campaign
Service Nation is a 16-month non-partisan grassroots and grass top political campaign intent on pushing the issue of National Service to the forefront of American life and convincing the next President and Congress to put into law a Voluntary National Service Act by September of 2009.
The secondary goal of Service Nation is to set America on a trajectory to become a nation of universal national service by 2020.
Who is Service Nation?
At the top, Service Nation is comprised of [here 17 people are listed, the last three of which are] Caroline Kennedy, Samantha Power, and TIME Magazine Editor Rick Stengel. The Campaign also includes many active and retired general/flag grade military officers.
At its nerve center Service Nation is coordinated by Alan Khazei and the hard-working and talented people of “Be The Change.” Its nerve endings are 92 different organizations from across the country including
Americans for a National Service Act.
At its roots, military, civil service, and social service veterans who have proven through action their dedication to serving America carry the message of Service Nation.
The last and most important component of Service Nation is YOU.
What are the policy objectives of Service Nation?
Currently, less than 4 million Americans are involved in full-time service, and less than 1/3 of us are involved in part-time service. The main policy objective of Service Nation is to engage an additional 5 million Americans in service by 2012.
So the main policy objective is a large increase in service by 2012 and the secondary goal is universal (ie, mandatory) national service for all young Americans by 2020. The ultimate goal then of Service Nation is universal service such as required in Rangel’s bill, but most likely for one year rather than two.
Here are Service Nation’s more specific goals as laid out in Powerpoint slides on their website (number 13 is mandatory universal service for both men and women):
Engage 1 million Americans in full-time service, leveraging an additional 100 million volunteers each year.
1. Enroll one million Americans annually in a revitalized and expanded AmeriCorps national service program. Create new corps focused on education, public health, disaster relief, and energy conservation.
2. Send 100,000 Americans overseas each year through the Peace Corps, Volunteers for Prosperity and Global Service Fellowships.
3. Engage students in service learning opportunities by expanding Learn and Serve America to reach 3 million students.
4. Engage teenagers in a “Summer of Service” to address problems in their own backyard.
5. Provide opportunities to returning war veterans who want to continue to serve their country through a civilian service opportunity at home or abroad.
6. Make permanent the Citizen Corps and engage 500,000 Americans.
7. Create a new initiative of “Encore Service Careers” for baby-boomers and seniors.
8. Offer new support and performance standards for 400 volunteer centers.
9. Create the permanent National Service Council to play a similar role as the National Security Council and National Economic Council.
Create a Democratic Renewal in our Nation.
10. Establish a U.S. Public Service Academy.
11. Convene new Citizen Congresses.
12. Create regular Youth Constitutional Conventions at the National Constitution Center.
13. Launch a debate about why and how America should become a nation of universal national service by 2020: debating baby bond, lottery draft, new GI Bill, etc.
Foster Social Entrepreneurship
14. Create a Social Investment Fund to create a research and development (R&D) arm and growth capital market for the social sector. The fund would provide the financial infrastructure and leverage needed to identify and support promising innovations in the social sector, test their impact, and take them to scale.
15. Offer social entrepreneur fellowships to graduates of national service programs who have identified a need and a creative solution to meeting that need in order to bring their program model to fruition.
16. Create an office of "Social Innovation and Results" in the White House.
This is a breathtaking set of proposals that would create a bureaucracy that indeed might be “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as our military. It would be much larger than the military. Note the founding of a new National Service Academy like the existing military academies.
Service Nation’s short-term goal may be a staggering increase in voluntary national service and the federal bureaucracy, but the ultimate goal of Service Nation is a universal draft by the year 2020, as they openly disclose.
1. In response to my posts, Service Nation has now scrubbed its list of goals (quoted above) from its website. You can still read the first 13 of Service Nation's goals on the website of one of its members (but see below).
Number 13 was: "Launch a debate about why and how America should become a nation of universal national service by 2020 . . . ."
Note that the debate is not over WHETHER it should become a nation of universal national service, but only WHY and HOW it should become one.
2. Ilya Somin has already posted on Service Nation's denial that it favors mandatory universal national service, including quoting a FAQ from their website on the issue.
As I wrote above and Ilya repeated, I don't see how a national community service program can be both universal and voluntary.
And, of course, several other countries do have programs of "universal national service" either for men or for both sexes. To my knowledge (I might be wrong), none of these systems are voluntary.
One of the advantages of blogging is that I was able to quote all of Service Nation's main goals verbatim from their website, so people could see for themselves both what they said in their own words and why I interpreted them to have as a goal mandatory service.
One has to recognize that even some universal service programs characterized as "voluntary" by their proponents are fully mandatory, as I showed regarding Rangel's plan. And Service Nation did not describe its goal in item 13 as voluntary. Proponents of mandatory universal service programs rarely describe their own proposals as "mandatory," since that word rightly carries a stigma.
Despite Service Nation's vigorous claims of having been misunderstood and of favoring only voluntary service, their email to me did not even mention item 13 or their own expressed 2020 goal. Since all of their other goals seem to be intended to be enacted in sweeping 2009 legislation or executive acts, if they intended only voluntary programs, I don't understand why they would want to wait a decade or so by setting a deadline of 2020."
I hope to get more clarification of their position next week.
3. I wrote above:
The Americans for a National Service Act (ANSA), for which Blindauer is listed as the "Coordinator," indicates that it is part of Service Nation's campaign. His organization's website gives some idea about what the goals of Service Nation are . . . ."
In an email, Tim Zimmerman responded:
We have many partners, with many different views on service. Jason is a great guy, a valued member of our coalition, and a veteran of the Iraq War who knows more than most about the meaning of service. But all facts, goals, and beliefs attributed to ServiceNation really should come from the ServiceNation website at http://www.servicenation.org.
I cited the site of Americans for a National Service Act, coordinated by Jason Blindauer, for several reasons. As noted above, he was mentioned by Wikipedia along with the co-chair of Service Nation's Summit, Rick Stengel (of TIME). Second, ANSA is a significant player in the movement for a National Service Act in its own right. Third, ANSA, a "valued member" of Service Nation, had the most extensive discussion of Service Nation's views on the web. Fourth, the information I quoted was Blindauer's (or ANSA's) description of the Service Nation movement; it was the best source anywhere for the centrality of Alan Khazei to Service Nation, a fact that I learned from ANSA's site and that I definitely wanted to include.
Fifth, if an organization is being accused of being excessively restrictive of human freedom, it might be best not to respond by arguing that "all facts, goals, and beliefs attributed to ServiceNation really should come from the ServiceNation website . . . ."
Such an approach would be the end of journalism. If someone were doing a profile of Barack Obama, couldn't they include information provided by Obama's friends? What I quoted about Service Nation from Blindauer's site was a description of Service Nation that could have been written by a journalist. Since Zimmerman calls him "a great guy, a valued member of our coalition," and since Zimmerman does not suggest that Blindauer's description is in any way incorrect, it seems odd to complain that I quote (presumably fair) descriptions of Service Nation from one of its valued members. I think it entirely proper to quote members who know the organization about what the organization is and who is involved, especially when that information is not at all inconsistent with what is on Service Nation's website.
Last, because Service Nation has scrubbed its website of its list of goals, unfortunately Blindauer's ANSA website, which still lists Service Nation's first 13 goals above, is at the moment the best place on the web to see what the goals of Service Nation actually are — unless Service Nation has significantly changed direction in response to my expose, which is unlikely but not impossible.
4. In an email Tim Zimmerman argues that Service Nation does not support Charles Rangel's bill for mandatory universal service. In the post above, I didn't say that they did (because I couldn't tell for sure in part because Service Nation was not advocating universal service in 2009, but rather by 2020). I was describing various strands in the movement. Also, Rangel's bill (quoted above) shows that in the movement for universal service, sometimes what is explicitly defined as "voluntary service" is fully mandatory.
In an email, Tim Zimmerman contrasted his view with Rangel's bill:
We do not support mandatory national service or a universal draft. And nowhere on our web site, or in any public utterance by Alan Khazei, has this been said. Rather, we support the idea of voluntary community and national service. We are working to both inspire more Americans to volunteer their time and to encourage our leaders to create service opportunities for every American who wants to volunteer their time in their community, or chooses to serve his or her country for a year in AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, or some other national service program.
Related Posts (on one page):
Service Nation States that It Does Not Support Mandatory National Service:
McCain's Time Magazine Essay on Patriotism Touches on Service.--
McCain Campaign “studying options for national service.”--
Why Mandatory National Service is Unconstitutional under the Thirteenth Amendment:
The Mainstreaming of Forced Labor:
Service Nation, Part III: Mandatory Community Service is a Basic Assault on Anglo-American Liberty.--
Service Nation, Part II: The Goals of Its Leader.--
Source: http://volokh.com/posts/1216794178.shtml
Post by way of: http://www.strike-the-root.com/
Labels: current events, police state, social engineering, society and culture
Saladin July 27, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Ironic that goal 13 effectively destroys the 13th amendment.
kenny's sideshow July 27, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Saladin,
Involuntary servitude was often a point brought up during the draft years of the Vietnam War and looks like it could be again.
A Farewell to Arms
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Civil Practice Act of the state of California : including amendments of 1868, with notes and references, to the decisions of the Supreme Court, general laws germain to the Practice Act, and standard forms applicable thereto; and an appendix, containing the acts concerning forcible entries and unlawful detainers, and the rules of the Supreme Court, and of the District courts of the city and county of San Francisco, edited by Charles H. Parker
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The California Practice Act : being an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the courts of justice in this state", passed April 29, 1851 : also, "An act concerning the courts of justice of this state, and judicial officers", passed May 19, 1853, and also, "An act concerning forcible entries and unlawful detainers," passed April 22, 1850
The California Practice Act : being an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the courts of justice in this state", passed April 29, 1851, and amended May 18, 1853; May 18, 1854; April 28, May 4, and May 7, 1855; February 20, 1857; March 24, and April 15, 1858; February 21, March 28, April 2, and April 12, 1859; April 28, 1860. Also "An act concerning the courts of justice of this state, and judicial officers", passed May 19, 1853; and also, "An act concerning forcible entries and unlawful detainers", passed April 22, 1850
The California Practice Act : being an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the courts of justice in this state," passed April 29, 1851, and amended May 18, 1853; May 18, 1854; April 28, May 4, and May 7, 1855; Feb. 20, 1857; March 24, and April 15, 1858 : also "An act concerning the courts of justice of this state, and judicial officiers," passed May 19, 1853 : and also, "An act concerning forcible entries and unlawful detainers," passed April 22, 1850
The California Practice Act : being an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the courts of justice in this state," passed April 29, 1851, and amended May 18, 1853; May 18, 1854; April 28, May 4, and May 7, 1855; Feb. 20, 1857; March 24, and April 15, 1858; also "An act concerning the courts of justice of this state, and judicial officiers," passed May 19, 1853; and also, "An act concerning forcible entries and unlawful detainers," passed April 22, 1850
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The Practice Act of California : entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in the courts of justice in this state," as passed April 29, and amended May 18, 1853, May 18, 1854, April 28, May 4 and May 7, 1855 : with notes, appendix, and index, by Henry J. Labatt
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HIE Takes Shape in the States
by Mark Frisse, MD; Janet Marchibroda; and Emily Welebob, RN
Local factors shape state and regional health information exchange, but as differing models
develop, common defining principles are emerging.
The exchange of health information across traditional institutional boundaries is inevitable. Nearly every stakeholder group—hospitals, clinical laboratories, physicians, employers, health plans, quality improvement organizations, and public health agencies—is expressing a desire to participate in data exchange in the belief that broader availability of clinically relevant information and a wider array of interoperable IT can both improve care and increase choice among patients and healthcare professionals.
Although inevitable, health information exchange (HIE) won’t come easily. Creating data networks is difficult because of a tradition of competition, a lack of trust, large and expensive information systems that do not communicate with one another, competing priorities, relatively little penetration of clinical systems in ambulatory care settings, and insufficient financial incentives. Equally daunting are the unresolved issues surrounding data ownership, information security, privacy, confidentiality, and liability.
Over the past two years a significant amount of activity has taken place at both the federal and state levels aimed at facilitating collaboration and solving these issues.1 Most recently, Michael Leavitt, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, established and will chair a 17-member federal advisory commission on health information technology called the American Health Information Community.2 The department also issued requests for proposals addressing pressing challenges that must be addressed to create a national health information network.3
No Single Approach
Federal initiatives, however, will not be sufficient to realize public aspirations. Consistent with Leavitt’s maxim of “national standards, neighborhood solutions,” state and local government and community leaders are beginning to collaborate and develop consensus among diverse stakeholders on the vision, goals, and plans required to foster better care through timely and appropriate regional information exchange.
Perspectives on how to achieve effective and timely exchange of clinical data vary widely. Some stakeholders believe exchange implies the creation of a large centralized database vulnerable to intrusion and privacy violation; others believe incremental approaches building upon set relationships are sufficient; still others believe such activities should initially focus on health plans and large care delivery organizations.
Clearly, there is no standard solution that is widely accepted. Indeed, early experience suggests that successful efforts often differ in their initial approaches, their convening groups, and their core organizational approach. Where the latter is concerned, some efforts build on administrative transactions infrastructures, others respond to legislation, and still others create entities independent of legislation or existing collaborations.
Growing in tandem with these initiatives is the need to understand how various approaches will affect patient care. Classifying emerging exchange models also helps identify new challenges and opportunities for HIM professionals and healthcare providers, because whether a data-sharing initiative is local, regional, or statewide, common issues arise that require the skill and leadership of these professionals.
Starting Points and Initial Approaches
State, regional, and community-based organizations often have an acute issue—a “burning platform” that fosters the development of a guiding coalition to address healthcare challenges through IT and data sharing. Examples of such acute issues include employer concerns over high cost and low quality healthcare; provider concerns over Medicaid reimbursement; care of the uninsured; public distress over high insurance premiums and high administrative costs; inadequate or unnecessary care; and inappropriate use of emergency departments and other costly settings and technologies.
Conveners. Conveners begin with a set of identified problems or capabilities and grow awareness and organization as their efforts evolve. Such networks can also be thought of as awareness or education organizations. Examples of conveners include:
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, a neutral agency that collects, analyzes, and disseminates healthcare information and supports health policy development, technology planning and implementation, and improved decision making in the allocation and financing of healthcare
North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, a nonprofit organization that champions the adoption of IT to improve healthcare, operating in many venues as a promoter, catalyst, and innovator in demonstration projects, educational sessions, collaborative efforts, and IT initiatives
Administrative Transactions. States or regions having a strong framework for administrative transactions have by virtue of their function created a means by which diverse stakeholders can share resources to lower individual and overall operational costs. Such efforts provide models for similar initiatives in the clinical arena, either built upon the administrative transaction entity or operated in parallel of administrative transactions. Examples of organizations beginning with administrative transactions are:
New England Healthcare Electronic Data Interchange Network, a Massachusetts-based group that designed and implemented secure electronic commerce for reducing administrative costs
Utah Health Information Network, a coalition including the Utah state government that created a secure, electronic network to exchange administrative health data and electronic commerce
Legislative. Where a long-standing convener or widely adopted administrative transaction organization is not available, legislation can provide incentives to bring together diverse groups for planning and implementation. Many of these initiatives involve university medical centers as the foci for initial planning. States with legislative-driven organizations include:
Kentucky, where the governor signed legislation to create a statewide electronic health information network and establish an academic research partnership to investigate ways that IT can improve healthcare
Oregon, where the state legislative assembly created the Oregon Health Policy Commission to develop and oversee state health policy and planning
New Entity Formation. In some instances, either state government or state healthcare leaders have created new organizations to plan and develop regional data exchanges. Examples include:
California Regional Health Information Organization, a collaborative, statewide effort that brings together stakeholders to develop governance, operational processes, technology, and financing models for HIE
Indiana Health Information Exchange, one of the earliest and most successful initiatives and a strong collaborator with others both on business models and technologies, focuses on clinical connectivity
Volunteer eHealth Initiative, a three-county initiative in southwest Tennessee, focuses on clinical connectivity infrastructure
West Virginia eHealth Initiative, a statewide working group studying implementation of electronic health record technology
Incubation Model. In other states, established groups have expanded their roles to “incubate” the governance, information sharing, and funding models. These public-private collaborations work to build momentum and focus efforts until alternative plans are made. Examples include:
CareSpark, serving 16 central Appalachian counties, proposes to develop a secure network that allows physician offices, hospitals, public health departments, pharmacies, laboratories, and imaging centers to communicate electronically. The effort focuses on the clinical infrastructure and the “last mile” of office and consumer connectivity.
Delaware Health Information Network, created by an act of the general assembly, provides the organizational infrastructure to advance the creation of statewide health information and electronic data interchange network.
Department of Health and Hospitals and Louisiana Health Care Review are in the early stages of convening stakeholders from across the state to shape a vision and plan for health IT and exchange.
Five Emerging Models
Examples of State and Regional HIE Initiatives
Initiative Description
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
www.mahealthdata.org The consortium is a neutral agency that collects, analyzes, and disseminates healthcare information and supports health policy development, technology planning and implementation, and improved decision making in the allocation and financing of healthcare.
North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. NCHICA is a nonprofit organization that champions the adoption of IT to improve healthcare. Its members include leading organizations in healthcare, research, and IT. NCHICA operates in many venues as a promoter, catalyst, and innovator. It leads demonstration projects, hosts educational sessions, fosters collaborative efforts, and supports initiatives that promote HIT.
Administrative Transactions
New England Healthcare Electronic Data Interchange Network
www.nehen.net NEHEN designed and implemented secure electronic commerce for reducing administrative costs. The network electronically processes transactions dealing with eligibility, claims status, specialty care referrals, and referral authorizations and inquiries.
www.uhin.com UHIN is an electronic commerce coalition, which includes the state government, that has created a secure, electronic network to exchange administrative health data and electronic commerce statewide.
www.lrc.ky.gov/record/05rs/SB2.htm Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher, MD, signed legislation to create a statewide electronic health information network and establish an academic research partnership between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to investigate IT uses to improve healthcare.
egov.oregon.gov/DAS/OHPPR The Oregon legislative assembly passed House Bill 3653, creating the Oregon Health Policy Commission to develop and oversee health policy and planning for the state.
New Entity Formation
California Regional Health Information
www.calrhio.org CalRHIO is a statewide initiative begun by Health Technology Center with support from California Health Care Foundation. It is a collaborative effort to support the use of IT and the creation of secure HIE. CalRHIO serves as an umbrella organization that brings together healthcare stakeholders to develop governance, operational processes, technology, and financing models.
Indiana Health Information Exchange
www.ihie.com IHIE is the result of a multiyear effort in regional data sharing initiated by the Regenstrief Institute and several regional hospitals and clinics. It is one of the earliest and most successful initiatives and a strong collaborator with others both on business models and technologies. It focuses on clinical connectivity.
www.volunteer-ehealth.org A three-county initiative in southwest Tennessee with strong leadership by the governor is one of the five state and regional demonstration projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The effort focuses on clinical connectivity infrastructure.
www.wvehi.org A statewide working group is studying implementation of electronic health record (EHR) technology. The effort is at the planning phase.
Incubation Model
CareSpark (central Appalachian)
www.carespark.com The central Appalachian region served by CareSpark includes 16 counties in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee, as well as areas of adjacent counties in western North Carolina and southeastern Kentucky. The initiative proposes to develop a secure network that allows physician offices, hospitals, public health departments, pharmacies, laboratories, and imaging centers to communicate electronically in order to improve patient care. It focuses on the clinical infrastructure and the “last mile” of office and consumer connectivity.
Delaware Health Information Network
www.dhin.org
www.state.de.us/dhcc DHIN, a public-private collaborative, was created by an act of the general assembly and signed into law in 1997 to advance the creation of statewide health information and electronic data interchange network for public and private use. DHIN functions from the direction of the Delaware Health Care Commission.
www.dhh.state.la.us, www.lhcr.org The Department of Health and Hospitals and the Louisiana Health Care Review are bringing together healthcare stakeholders from across the state to shape a vision and plan for health IT and exchange. The effort is at the planning stage.
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
www.maehc.org The collaborative will establish and operate broad connectivity within three communities in Massachusetts. These communities will help to achieve universal adoption of EHRs across the state.
Minnesota e-Health Initiative
www.health.state.mn.us/e-health The Minnesota Department of Health and Minnesota e-Health Initiative steering committee will make recommendations to the Minnesota legislature on issues related to EHRs.
New Mexico Medical Review Association
www.nmmra.org NMMRA and various healthcare stakeholders are developing an approach for a regional health information organization.
www.uhfnyc.org The United Hospital Fund, in conjunction with eHealth Initiative, brings together key organizations to stimulate information sharing and shape a strategic vision for health IT.
Emerging Principles
A number of initiatives are under way to develop a systematic review of state and regional efforts. Notable groups include eHealth Initiative’s Connecting Communities for Better Health program (in cooperation with the Health Resources and Services Administration), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Resource Center, and eHealth Initiative’s State Health Information Technology Policy Program. An early assessment of this work suggests the emergence of several principles in the foundation of data exchange networks.
Approach for Organizing Work. IT adoption and HIE will require local and regional collaboration—statewide, one-size-fits-all approach will not work. Leadership must be largely local, but it must foster a regional, a state, and a national dialogue where required.
Role of the State. State government must play a visible leadership role by raising awareness of the need for IT to address healthcare challenges and by creating legislation to remove unnecessary barriers to patient-focused data exchange. As employers and Medicaid administrators, state governments are often the largest purchasers of healthcare within their states. Accordingly, their approach to health IT will create a de facto standard approach. By virtue of their size and influence, it is essential that states understand their influence and develop infrastructures that support all citizens and all healthcare markets. Because of this influence, states must assist in the adoption of standards and through various mechanisms create means of financing health IT and healthcare transformation.
Organization and Governance Attributes. To the extent possible, state and regional initiatives must be convened by a trusted, neutral party representing a broad view of public healthcare interests. Although attempting to involve every stakeholder initially is not practical, an approach to ensure widespread future involvement—particularly of consumers and employers—is essential. The initial group must arrive at shared vision and goals that include explicit value statements for each stakeholder. This must be followed by a practical plan that ensures a high degree of coordination and collaboration.
Financing and Sustainability. Under current reimbursement mechanisms, the sources of community value in regional exchanges are limited. Some examples include secure provider communications; measurable improvements in management of chronic disease; lower medical care expenditures; lower pharmaceutical expenditures; better reporting of public health and quality data; and coordination of pay-for-performance programs. Not all of these options will be attractive to all regions, either because of disagreement over their management or the presence of one or more organizations that claim to already provide a specific service without employing a regional exchange. There is strong movement to phase out rewards for acquisition and use and phase in rewards for performance.4
Technologies. Many major technical issues remain unresolved. These include the final architecture for a national health information network; standards for allergies and other key clinical issues; common and practical means of ensuring privacy and security; and mechanisms to ensure accurate identification and linking of information from a specific patient into a common clinical record. In many instances, the technical issues raise new policy and legal issues. Many groups are addressing these issues both through deliberation and through the construction of prototype systems.5 Examples include the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Connecting for Health Initiative led by the Markle Foundation with additional support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Growing federal, state, and regional interest in HIE is the result of a clearer understanding of the extent to which our nation suffers the consequences of a highly fragmented healthcare delivery system. By beginning now to develop interoperable systems that enable greater exchange in a secure way, new ways of empowering consumers and healthcare professionals will emerge, for an infrastructure is just that—a means of enabling new opportunity and a greater good, which hopefully will yield future benefits far in excess of initial costs. Just as the developers of electric generators or interstate highways could not anticipate the ways in which electrical devices and automobiles would transform US culture, the developers of a national health information infrastructure can see enough good ahead to commit but cannot foresee every long-term opportunity or potential that this infrastructure will enable.
These initiatives, played out at the local and regional level, will only succeed if HIM professionals bring to bear their expertise in the secure management of patient information. Without such expertise, these efforts will fail. With concerted effort, they will succeed and may initiate a new era in healthcare delivery. The ultimate beneficiary of such an era will be the patients who manage and navigate the healthcare systems. And lest we forget, these patients include us.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “HHS Releases Report on Nationwide Health Information Exchange.” News release. June 3, 2005. Available online at www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20050603.html.
HHS, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. “American Health Information Community (AHIC).” Available online at www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic.html.
HHS, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. “Contracts and Requests for Proposals.” Available online at www.hhs.gov/healthit/contracts.html.
eHealth Initiative, Working Group for Financing and Incentives. “Parallel Pathways for Quality Healthcare: A Framework for Aligning Incentives with Quality and Health Information Technology.” May 2005. Available online at www.ehealthinitiative.org.
Connecting for Health. “Prototype for a Nationwide Health Information Exchange Launched by Connecting for Health.” News release. June 1, 2005. Available online at www.connectingforhealth.org/news/pressrelease_060105.html.
Mark Frisse (mark.frisse@vanderbilt.edu) is director of regional initiatives at the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health in Nashville, TN. Janet M. Marchibroda is CEO and Emily Welebob is program director of state and regional initiatives at eHealth Initiative and Foundation, Washington, DC.
Frisse, Mark, Janet Marchibroda, and Emily Welebob. "HIE Takes Shape in the States." Journal of AHIMA 76, no.8 (September 2005): 24-30.
Language of Health Data Exchange
Interoperability: What it Means, Why it Matters
EHR and Interoperability: Reaching the Tipping Point
Steering Group: Key Themes and Guiding Principles
National HealthKey Collaborative: Securing the Exchange and Use of Electronic Health Information to Improve the Nation's Health
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Hearing on Declaratory Judgment Set for Thursday, Nov 14 at 9 a.m. in Manchester
A judge in Hillsborough County Superior Court will conduct a hearing and rule on DHHS’s request for dismissal of the complaint filed by individuals and families re: Step 2 of Medicaid managed care. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, November 14 starting at 9:00 a.m. at the Hillsborough County Superior Court North, at 300 Chesnut Street in Manchester. Please plan to arrive early, by 8:15 or 8:30 a.m., so that you have time to get through metal detectors at the Court - the hearing starts promptly at 9:00 a.m. Click here for map.
Click here to go to the CSNI website to read more about the Complaint filed and subsequent news.
Click here to go to New Hampshire Challenge website to read latest issue which includes several pieces on this and other topics of possible interest to families.
Stu Wallace, one of the plaintiffs who is a family member and guardian, discussed why he is involved in the complaint. When managed care was introduced as an option by the legislature, he didn’t think that DD would be in any way affected. The law seemed to be about acute health care for those using Medicaid. Wallace says that the current DD care system was put together by families and individuals, and this is not what the bill was about. The plaintiffs feel the commissioner and the state have exceeded their authority by including DD in this current plan, as Step 2. According to Wallace, they have expanded the law beyond its original intent – which is NOT something that state agencies should to – that belongs with courts and legislators. It’s not a question of wrong or right; it is a question of an agency or commission exceeding its authority.
At last month’s Statewide Video Conference, plaintiffs and attorneys gathered with more than 100 families from across the state for an update on the complaint. At that meeting, attorneys told the group that the Attorney General’s office replied in September with a request for dismissal saying: “Until it is known what the State has decided to do about DD/ABD/long-term care, interpretation of the statute is not ripe for judicial review.” At the November 14th hearing, the judge will hear from both sides and decide whether to further consider the original complaint against DHHS.
A solid representation from families and individuals at the hearing would help show the Judge the impact of including people with developmental disabilities and acquired brain disorders in managed care. The hearing takes place on Thursday, November 14 starting at 9:00 a.m. at the Hillsborough County Superior Court North, at 300 Chesnut Street in Manchester.
Click here to read a copy of the actual complaint filed.
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A 2003 report by archaeologists indicates a possibility that grapes were mixed with rice to produce mixed fermented drinks in China in the early years of the seventh millennium BC. Pottery jars from the Neolithic site of Jiahu, Henan, contained traces of tartaric acid and other organic compounds commonly found in wine. However, other fruits indigenous to the region, such as hawthorn, cannot be ruled out.[27][28] If these drinks, which seem to be the precursors of rice wine, included grapes rather than other fruits, they would have been any of the several dozen indigenous wild species in China, rather than Vitis vinifera, which was introduced there 6000 years later.[27]
Various types of cook-tops are used as well. They carry the same variations of fuel types as the ovens mentioned above. Cook-tops are used to heat vessels placed on top of the heat source, such as a sauté pan, sauce pot, frying pan, or pressure cooker. These pieces of equipment can use either a moist or dry cooking method and include methods such as steaming, simmering, boiling, and poaching for moist methods, while the dry methods include sautéing, pan frying, and deep-frying.[93]
Peasant foods have been described as being the diet of peasants, that is, tenant or poorer farmers and their farm workers,[53] and by extension, of other cash-poor people. They may use ingredients, such as offal and less-tender cuts of meat, which are not as marketable as a cash crop. Characteristic recipes often consist of hearty one-dish meals, in which chunks of meat and various vegetables are eaten in a savory broth, with bread or other staple food. Sausages are also amenable to varied readily available ingredients, and they themselves tend to contain offal and grains.
Finger food is food meant to be eaten directly using the hands, in contrast to food eaten with a knife and fork, spoon, chopsticks, or other utensils.[17] In some cultures, food is almost always eaten with the hands; for example, Ethiopian cuisine is eaten by rolling various dishes up in injera bread.[18] Foods considered street foods are frequently, though not exclusively, finger foods.
In the context of wine production, terroir is a concept that encompasses the varieties of grapes used, elevation and shape of the vineyard, type and chemistry of soil, climate and seasonal conditions, and the local yeast cultures.[72] The range of possible combinations of these factors can result in great differences among wines, influencing the fermentation, finishing, and aging processes as well. Many wineries use growing and production methods that preserve or accentuate the aroma and taste influences of their unique terroir.[73] However, flavor differences are less desirable for producers of mass-market table wine or other cheaper wines, where consistency takes precedence. Such producers try to minimize differences in sources of grapes through production techniques such as micro-oxygenation, tannin filtration, cross-flow filtration, thin-film evaporation, and spinning cones.[74]
Edible animal material, including muscle, offal, milk, eggs and egg whites, contains substantial amounts of protein. Almost all vegetable matter (in particular legumes and seeds) also includes proteins, although generally in smaller amounts. Mushrooms have high protein content. Any of these may be sources of essential amino acids. When proteins are heated they become denatured (unfolded) and change texture. In many cases, this causes the structure of the material to become softer or more friable – meat becomes cooked and is more friable and less flexible. In some cases, proteins can form more rigid structures, such as the coagulation of albumen in egg whites. The formation of a relatively rigid but flexible matrix from egg white provides an important component in baking cakes, and also underpins many desserts based on meringue.
"Seasonal" here refers to the times of year when the harvest or the flavour of a given type food is at its peak. This is usually the time when the item is harvested, with some exceptions; an example being sweet potatoes which are best eaten quite a while after harvest. It also appeals to people who prefer a low carbon diet that reduces the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from food consumption (Food miles).
On the local level, a butcher may commonly break down larger animal meat into smaller manageable cuts, and pre-wrap them for commercial sale or wrap them to order in butcher paper. In addition, fish and seafood may be fabricated into smaller cuts by a fish monger. However, fish butchery may be done on board a fishing vessel and quick-frozen for preservation of quality.[85]
Rising food prices in those years have been linked with social unrest around the world, including rioting in Bangladesh and Mexico,[122] and the Arab Spring.[123] Food prices worldwide increased in 2008.[124][125] One cause of rising food prices is wealthier Asian consumers are westernizing their diets, and farmers and nations of the third world are struggling to keep up the pace. The past five years have seen rapid growth in the contribution of Asian nations to the global fluid and powdered milk manufacturing industry, which in 2008 accounted for more than 30% of production, while China alone accounts for more than 10% of both production and consumption in the global fruit and vegetable processing and preserving industry.[126]
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In 1994, over 100 countries became signatories to the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in a dramatic increase in trade liberalization. This included an agreement to reduce subsidies paid to farmers, underpinned by the WTO enforcement of agricultural subsidy, tariffs, import quotas, and settlement of trade disputes that cannot be bilaterally resolved.[113] Where trade barriers are raised on the disputed grounds of public health and safety, the WTO refer the dispute to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was founded in 1962 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization. Trade liberalization has greatly affected world food trade.[114]
While many foods can be eaten raw, many also undergo some form of preparation for reasons of safety, palatability, texture, or flavor. At the simplest level this may involve washing, cutting, trimming, or adding other foods or ingredients, such as spices. It may also involve mixing, heating or cooling, pressure cooking, fermentation, or combination with other food. In a home, most food preparation takes place in a kitchen. Some preparation is done to enhance the taste or aesthetic appeal; other preparation may help to preserve the food; others may be involved in cultural identity. A meal is made up of food which is prepared to be eaten at a specific time and place.[83]
In a human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and Richard Peto in 1981, diet was estimated to cause a large percentage of cancers.[31] Studies suggest that around 32% of cancer deaths may be avoidable by changes to the diet.[32] Some of these cancers may be caused by carcinogens in food generated during the cooking process, although it is often difficult to identify the specific components in diet that serve to increase cancer risk. Many foods, such as beef steak and broccoli, contain low concentrations of both carcinogens and anticarcinogens.[33]
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The Mayo Clinic Diet is generally safe for most adults. It does encourage unlimited amounts of vegetables and fruits. For most people, eating lots of fruits and vegetables is a good thing — these foods provide your body with important nutrients and fiber. However, if you aren't used to having fiber in your diet, you may experience minor, temporary changes in digestion, such as intestinal gas, as your body adjusts to this new way of eating.
The World Bank reported that the European Union was the top food importer in 2005, followed at a distance by the US and Japan. Britain's need for food was especially well illustrated in World War II. Despite the implementation of food rationing, Britain remained dependent on food imports and the result was a long term engagement in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Many cultures hold some food preferences and some food taboos. Dietary choices can also define cultures and play a role in religion. For example, only kosher foods are permitted by Judaism, halal foods by Islam, and in Hinduism beef is restricted.[148] In addition, the dietary choices of different countries or regions have different characteristics. This is highly related to a culture's cuisine.
Wine has been produced for thousands of years, which makes it no small feat that its popularity is still on the rise. The F&W guide to wine puts everything you need to know in one place, whether you are interested in buying, tasting, pairing or learning about wines. If your goal is to better understand what you’re drinking, check out features like our Wine 101 series, which covers the history of wine regions and popular varietals, or our blog series, Dear Decantress, which helps you tackle the basics of tasting and talking about wine. Trying out new wines is one of the joys of traveling, so the F&W editors have also curated lists of their favorite places to drink wine across the globe. These include top producer picks, so you can visit amazing wines at the source.
Some cultures and religions have restrictions concerning what foods are acceptable in their diet. For example, only Kosher foods are permitted by Judaism, and Halal foods by Islam. Although Buddhists are generally vegetarians, the practice varies and meat-eating may be permitted depending on the sects.[2] In Hinduism, vegetarianism is the ideal. Jains are strictly vegetarian and consumption of roots is not permitted.
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Hey, World Court: Bug off!
By Michelle Malkin • July 16, 2008 01:15 PM
They just won’t stop meddling with our sovereignty. The weenies on the World Court are leaning on their friend President Bush to stop the execution of five illegal alien Death Row inmates. You’ll recall that in March, our Supreme Court sided with the state of Texas in upholding US sovereignty and rejecting the World Court/Bush view that individual US states should submit to international law and overturn the will of the people on the death penalty.
What part of “No” don’t they understand?
The World Court ordered the United States on Wednesday to do all it could to halt the imminent executions of five Mexicans until the court makes a final judgment in a dispute over suspects’ rights.
The row, which has strained relations between the neighbors, centers on the fact that the United States failed to inform 51 of its citizens sentenced to die in U.S. jails of their right to consular assistance.
One of the five Mexicans on death row, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas.
In 2004, the World Court ruled in favor of Mexico, finding the United States had violated international law, and ordered it to review the 51 cases to see whether the lack of consular assistance had prejudiced the outcome of their trials.
A year later, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered Texas to review Medellin’s case but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that Bush had no authority to do so, leading Texas to schedule Medellin’s execution for August.
“The court indicates that the United States of America shall take all measures necessary to ensure that five Mexican nationals are not executed pending its final judgment,” Judge Rosalyn Higgins said.
Mexico has asked the World Court or International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an interpretation of its 2004 ruling, given U.S. assertions that its federal states have a large degree of legal autonomy and it cannot compel them to review the cases.
What will the White House do? Remember, President Bush stood with the World Court against America.
And where would our two presidential candidates stand on this case?
Not hard to guess.
Former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz, who successfully argued the case, provided good background on the fight here:
In Medellín v. Texas, the issue was not simply whether U.S. judges should consult foreign law to guide their decision-making; instead, the central question before the U.S. Supreme Court was whether the United Nations’ World Court has the legal authority to bind the courts of the United States. In other words, the issue was whether decisions of the World Court are superior to those of the Supreme Court, and whether Americans will be governed by the decisions of foreign judges in The Hague.
Thankfully, by a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court got this one right.
The case began fifteen years ago, when two teenage girls were brutally gang-raped and murdered in northwest Houston, just a few blocks from where I attended church as a child. All six gang members were caught, convicted, and unanimously sentenced to death (except for one who was too young to be eligible for capital punishment). Now approaching two decades after this horrific crime, only one gang member has so far had his sentence carried out.
Another of the gang members, Jose Ernesto Medellín, has seen his case become an international cause célèbre, making it all the way to the World Court and twice to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Last week, in a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected all of Medellín’s claims and paved the way for the victims’ grieving families to finally see justice. But the issues in Medellín v. Texas extend well beyond this one confessed murderer.
Medellin argued that the U.S. Supreme Court was bound by the World Court, and that the World Court had already decided he deserved a new trial. By a vote of 6-3, the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically concluded that the World Court has no such authority. That decision was correct because the Constitution doesn’t grant foreign courts any authority over U.S. courts, and it was critical to preserving our Nation’s fundamental sovereignty.
How on earth did this Texas murder case get to the World Court? Well, in 2003, the nation of Mexico sued the United States in the International Court of Justice (the formal name of the World Court), which is the judicial arm of the United Nations. And, in 2004, the World Court ruled for Mexico.
Mexico’s suit was filed on behalf of 51 Mexican nationals, including Medellín, all of whom were convicted murderers on death row throughout the United States. Our southern neighbor argued, correctly, that these Mexican nationals had a right under the Vienna Convention on Consular Affairs (a treaty ratified by the United States in 1969) to contact their local Mexican consulates for assistance. As a result — even though the suit raised no questions concerning the proven guilt of these 51 murderers — Mexico sought to have all of their convictions annulled.
The problem was that most of the 51, including Medellín, had failed to raise any Vienna Convention claims at trial, and the usual rule in American criminal law is that if you fail to raise a claim at trial, that claim is forfeited.
Not overly concerned with the usual rules of criminal law in the United States, the World Court agreed with Mexico across the board and issued a remarkable ruling: it “ordered” the United States to reconsider the convictions and death sentences of all 51 convicted murderers.
The World Court ruling was unprecedented. In over 200 years of our Nation’s history, no foreign tribunal has ever before asserted the authority to bind U.S. courts, much less to reopen final criminal convictions. And, armed with the decision of the World Court, Medellín argued that American courts had no option but to obey.
Fortunately, the United States Supreme Court disagreed. In an opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court held that the World Court decision cannot be enforced in U.S. courts.
The Supreme Court’s decision was a victory for the State of Texas, but, even more importantly, it was a victory for the American people. Medellín’s argument — which three Justices on the Court would have largely adopted — would fundamentally undermine the sovereignty of our Nation.
The United States Constitution vests sovereignty in the Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the President, the fifty States, and ultimately, in We the People. Had Medellín prevailed, American sovereignty and independence would have been gravely undermined.
If Medellín had prevailed, it would have elevated the World Court above the Supreme Court of the United States, given that foreign court binding authority, and made its far-away judges the final arbiters of the law that governs American citizens.
Nobody disputes that the United States should comply with treaty obligations, and both the federal and state governments have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure foreign nationals are notified of their rights under the Vienna Convention. But that is not a reason to disturb the convictions of unquestionably guilty murderers.
Jose Ernesto Medellín voluntarily confessed, in writing, and bragged about raping and killing these young girls as they pleaded for their lives. A jury of his peers unanimously sentenced him to death, and the families of the girls he murdered have waited far too long to see that sentence carried out.
How much longer will they have to wait?
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Sanctions as Feckless Disapproval
July 31, 2017 Paul Pillar 1 Comment
by Paul Pillar
The recent bill imposing sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea, which President Trump is signing in the face of the veto-proof majorities by which Congress passed the measure, partly reflects the peculiar relationships Trump has with both Russia and Congress. But the bill is consistent with, and puts in stark relief, a larger problem of Congress habitually using economic sanctions against foreign states as an expression of disapproval that is poorly designed to achieve any U.S. foreign policy objectives. Sanctions get used less often as a genuine instrument of foreign policy than as an instrument for elected politicians to register with domestic audiences their dislike for unpopular foreign regimes.
The lack of care in designing an effective policy instrument is underscored by how the current bill lumps together in a single piece of legislation sanctions against three very different countries that pose different policy challenges. One of the targets, Russia, is a major power with diverse interests that intersect with U.S. interests in different regions. New sanctions against Russia collide immediately with the economic interests of U.S. allies in Europe. The biggest feature of recent relations with Iran has been the conclusion of an agreement that ensures that the Iranian nuclear program stays peaceful, with partial relief from previously imposed sanctions being the quid pro quo for Iran submitting to special nuclear restrictions. North Korea is ruled by a thuggish family regime that already has nuclear weapons and mainly for that reason is widely seen as a security threat.
Russia got most of the attention in the debate on the sanctions bill, which is unsurprising in view of the controversial nature of Trump’s relationship with Russia. Sometimes it seemed that the sanctions against Iran and North Korea were just going along for the ride. (Senator Bernie Sanders was an exception in casting one of the lonely votes against the bill, saying he supported the sanctions on Russia but considered the sanctions against Iran to be ill advised.)
The new bill gives the president less leeway in issuing waivers or removing sanctions than most other sanctions legislation has given. The reason, of course, has to do with distrust of Trump regarding his relationship with Russia. Although the desire of Congress to put Trump on a short leash is understandable, such restrictions make it even less likely that the resulting sanctions can be used as a flexible instrument of policy. Waiver provisions in other sanctions legislation have been a tacit recognition of the conflict between policy effectiveness and the desire of members of Congress to make a simple statement of disapproval of certain regimes.
Requirements for Sanctions to Work
Occasionally a partial economic embargo is intended to deprive the targeted country directly of the wherewithal to do whatever it is that we don’t want it to do—for example, depriving it of material or technology that could be used in an unconventional weapons program. More often, economic sanctions are instead supposed to inflict pain that will give the targeted regime an incentive to change its policy and to decide to stop what we don’t want it to do. To the extent that public discourse addresses the issue of sanctions’ effectiveness, the focus usually is on how much particular sanctions can be expected to hurt, and on related questions such as whether other states will join with the United States in inflicting the pain. Those questions matter, but they fall short of addressing several other fundamental requirements for sanctions to be effective.
First, there must be some specific, well-defined piece of behavior by the targeted state that we want to change. Simply berating the state’s policies as malign or aggressive or something else is not enough. General castigation means that even a state that wanted to cooperate would not know what it was expected to do. Moreover, a specific change in behavior means that what matters are actions in the future, not the past. Punishment for past misdeeds may seem like just retribution, but it cannot become an effective policy instrument unless the policy objective is framed in terms of a commitment to refrain from similar deeds in the future.
A second requirement is that the desired policy change on the part of the targeted state must be feasible, in the political as well as practical sense of feasibility, taking into account all the reasons that state has for doing what it is doing and all the incentives that may be pushing it in directions other than the one we favor. If decision-makers in the targeted state consider some action they are taking as vital for their security, even a large amount of inflicted pain through sanctions is unlikely to bring about any policy changes. Failure to take this perspective has been common in the push to sanction Iran. Ballistic missiles, for example, figure in much of the talk about sanctioning Iran, but it’s simply unrealistic to expect even a heavily punished Iran—which fell victim to Iraq’s missiles in the war of the 1980s, sees some regional rivals well-armed with ballistic missiles, and is even further behind those rivals in air power—ever to halt its missile development.
A third requirement is to provide a clear way out of sanctions. Along with the clarity must come assurance. For sanctions to work, decision-makers in the targeted state must not only be convinced that sanctions will continue as long as their own policies do not change but also be convinced that sanctions will be lifted if their policy does change.
It is this third requirement that is most conspicuous by its absence in much discussion in Congress and elsewhere about sanctions. It is a shortcoming with respect to all three of the states targeted in the newest legislation.
Regarding Russia, interfering in American elections is a sanctionable offense, but missing so far is any formula for translating this issue into a specific commitment about future behavior that can be part of a way out of sanctions. Iranian policy-makers could be excused for believing, based on listening to rhetoric in Washington, that their country will forever be sanctioned by the United States no matter what policies Iran follows, as long as the Islamic Republic exists. As for North Korea, regardless of how repugnant it is to do business of any sort with the Kim regime, positive assurances as well as negative incentives will be necessary if there is to be any hope of achieving something like a freeze in the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran nuclear agreement, demonstrates how sanctions can contribute to a positive result when all three of those requirements are met. First, what Iran was expected to do was highly specific. There was only one issue—the nuclear program—and it was operationalized in terms of well-defined limits and requirements concerning uranium enrichment and the like. Second, it was feasible to expect Iran to accept those requirements and limits, because being a non-nuclear weapons state integrated into the international community clearly represents a better future for Iran than being a nuclear-armed pariah. Third, the JCPOA itself, as an agreement incorporating sanctions-lifting requirements on the other parties, was a form of assurance that Iranian compliance would not just be met with unrelenting punishment.
Other Influences on Effectiveness
The larger context that other policies of sanctioning states create also can affect the efficacy of sanctions by shaping the target state’s perception of what is fair and equitable. Russians are inclined to ask, in response to punishment for supporting ethnic separatism in eastern Ukraine, what about Kosovo? Or, if forcible annexation of territory in Crimea is to be condemned, what about Israel annexing the Golan Heights? Iranians who are castigated for supposedly destabilizing behavior in a place such as Syria will ask, why do we get that label when we are supporting a longstanding incumbent government and others are the ones stoking rebellion? Or, why do we get criticized for policies toward Yemen when the Saudis and Emiratis are responsible for far more death and destruction through their military intervention in that land?
Then there is the usual talk about regime change, which some senior members of the Trump administration have indulged in regarding both Iran and North Korea. Nothing else can better kill a sanctioned regime’s incentive to cooperate, because the message of such talk is that the regime itself is to be killed at the first opportunity, cooperation or no cooperation.
Libya already set a very unfortunate precedent, where Muammar Qaddafi complied with Western demands to end the sponsorship of terrorism and the development of unconventional weapons in return for being freed from his pariah status, only to have the West help to overthrow and kill him at the first opportunity. The North Koreans have taken explicit notice of that experience and say that they do not intend to repeat what they consider to be Qaddafi’s mistake.
Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Analysis, Iraq Donald Trump, Iran, JCPOA, Libya, Muammar Qaddafi, North Korea, nuclear deal, Paul Pilar, Russia, Sanctions
Paul Pillar
Paul R. Pillar is Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Studies of Georgetown University and an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy. He retired in 2005 from a 28-year career in the U.S. intelligence community. His senior positions included National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, Deputy Chief of the DCI Counterterrorist Center, and Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence. He is a Vietnam War veteran and a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Pillar's degrees are from Dartmouth College, Oxford University, and Princeton University. His books include Negotiating Peace (1983), Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (2001), Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy (2011), and Why America Misunderstands the World (2016).
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All of the “reasons” for sanctions assume that might is right and that the USA is some sort of benign schoolmaster disciplining those of his underlings who deserve it. There is NO valid reason for the USA to act in this way. The alleged Russian “interference in US elections” is NOT based on any evidence and the USA is the grand champion of this behavior.
“North Korea is ruled by a thuggish family regime that already has nuclear weapons and mainly for that reason is widely seen as a security threat.” What a biased statement from a worse than thuggish country which has made NO effort this century to try negotiations started in the Clinton years and constantly desired by the DPRK. Short- memories in the USA refuse to notice that the ruination of the North Koreans came from USA actions in the Korean War. The North Koreans remember it. The present situation is exacerbated by US threats and refusal to talk.
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U15 Season Details
The Football Association of Ireland can confirm that 24 teams will compete in the very first SSE Airtricity Under 15 National League.
The teams will participate in a shortened 2017 season – kicking off on the week ending August 20 – before a review process takes place ahead of the full season starting in March 2018.
The U15 League will be the entry level to elite football on the player pathway that already includes the SSE Airtricity Under 17 League, Under 19 League, First Division and Premier Division.
FAI High Performance Director Ruud Dokter welcomed the introduction of the U15 League, saying: “Having the Under 15 League in place further develops the pathway to elite football for the country’s most talented footballers.
“This now means that the very best Under 15 players throughout the country will now play against the highest quality opposition, thus enhancing their development as they progress to top level senior football.
“I would like to congratulate each of the schoolboy clubs and Leagues who successfully applied to forge partnerships with SSE Airtricity League clubs.
“I would also like to thank those who have been unsuccessful in their applications. The Working Group will continue to be available to work with these clubs on their future development plans.”
In addition to the 20 existing SSE Airtricity League clubs, the U15 League will be made up of three schoolboy Leagues – Kerry Schoolboys League, Mayo League, Monaghan/Cavan Partnership – and St Kevin’s Boys.
St Kevin’s Boys will compete in the shortened season after agreeing to work towards creating a partnership with Bohemian FC, which will allow St Kevin’s Boys to join existing partnerships into the National Leagues.
Eight clubs have already committed to partnerships with schoolboy clubs or Leagues, including Bohemians (NDSL), Bray Wanderers (St Joseph’s Boys), Drogheda United (Drogheda Schoolboys, Home Farm, NECSL Schoolboys), Dundalk (Malahide United), Galway United (Galway FA and Schoolboys), Shamrock Rovers (Corduff United, Kildare Schoolboys), St Patrick’s Athletic (Belvedere, Cherry Orchard, Crumlin United), and UCD (Mount Merrion).
The truncated season will consist of four groups of six teams and the fixture list will be released ahead of the official League launch next month.
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No: 60, 27 February 2018, Press Release Regarding The Attack Perpetrated Against Iraqi Turkmen Front’s Office Located At Kirkuk’s Musalla District
We are concerned about the rocket attack perpetrated yesterday (February 26th) by unidentified persons against Iraqi Turkmen Front’s office located at Kirkuk’s Musalla District where Turkmens are densely populated.
We strongly condemn this heinous attack and note the fact that after the attack Counter Terrorism Service and Federal Police units were rapidly deployed to the district and took necessary measures as a proper course of action.
It is consoling that there were no casualties during yesterday’s attack against the Turkmens, who have been subjected to systematic assaults in the recent period.
We expect that the perpetrators and instigators of the assaults that caused death or injury of dozens of Turkmens during the last four months be brought to justice and called to account for as soon as possible. We will follow this matter closely. We reiterate our call upon the relevant authorities to take the necessary measures without delay to prevent the recurrence of these incidents that target the social peace in Kirkuk, and to ensure the safety of the Turkmen community, one of the main components of Iraq. Turkmens are not alone and we are fully determined to protect their rights.
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Forbes & Wallace, Springfield, Mass
January 23, 2016 January 27, 2015 by Derek Strahan
Looking south on Main Street from the corner of Harrison Ave., around 1910. Photo from Views and Facts of Springfield, Mass. (1910).
The same scene in 2014:
The Forbes & Wallace department store was established in Springfield in 1874 at the corner of Main and Vernon Streets (today Boland Way), and by the turn of the last century it had become a major shopping destination in downtown Springfield. At some point after the first photo was taken, the building was demolished and replaced by a much larger department store building, seen in the photo in this article from the Springfield Republican. However, with increasing competition from suburban shopping malls, the store closed in 1976 and the building was demolished in 1982. It was replaced by Monarch Place, which was completed in 1987 and is the tallest building in the city.
The original Forbes & Wallace building may be long gone, but its neighbor to the south, the Haynes Hotel, survives to this day. The hotel was built in 1865, and for many years was one of the city’s premier hotels. It was used as a hotel until 1943, when it was converted into commercial and office spaces. Today, the building is on the National Register of Historic Places, and although it is now surrounded by tall, modern skyscrapers, it still looks much the same as it did when it was completed 150 years ago.
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I look forward to reblogging this on my site, transcribingmemory.com. My grandmother’s diaries from the 30s and 40s are from Forbes and Wallace, which encouraged the search. Thanks for this resource!
I have a beautiful weather mate original fur lined coat from Forbes & Wallace.It is an original left by an elder we lost.Looks brand new.Is there any of these stores still around?
Derek Strahan
No, Forbes & Wallace has been out of business since the 1970s. The coat would have to be at least 40 years old, though, so I’m sure there are vintage clothing stores around that would be interested in buying it.
Lawrence Bourdeau
Does anyone remember the name of the restaurant in Forbes and Wallace?
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The enabling legislation for the initiative in P.A. 294 of 2000 (Family Independence Agency), P.A. 297 of 2000 (Education), and P.A. 296 of 2000 (Community Health) states that the 0-3 funds shall be used for grants to support community-based, collaborative secondary prevention services.
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Is the glass ceiling a mind-set issue?
Published by Maya Hu-Chan at April 29, 2014
Contrary to what you may have heard, the fabled glass ceiling that holds women back from top jobs - is still alive and well. A 2013 Harvard Law Review report noted that, although there has been progress in both the public and private sectors across the world towards balancing the gender gap in the boardroom, progress remains uneven.
By Maya Hu-Chan
Contrary to what you may have heard, the fabled glass ceiling that holds women back from top jobs – is still alive and well.
A 2013 Harvard Law Review report noted that, although there has been progress in both the public and private sectors across the world towards balancing the gender gap in the boardroom, progress remains uneven.
Progress is most impressive in Western Europe where the highest year-on-year increase in female board directors was recorded in 2013. However the US and Canada reported only marginal growth and the issue has not yet made significant progress in India or Japan.
In China, legislative efforts to increase representation of women on boards of public and private companies has begun to bear fruit with over 50 cities adopting local rules regarding the selection of women to senior positions.
This is all encouraging. However quotas, targets and legislation alone aren’t enough to shatter the glass ceiling. After working with leaders worldwide for over 20 years, even if all the barriers keeping women from bursting through the glass ceiling were to magically disappear, the final obstacle to be overcome might be the mind-set of the women themselves.
There is no doubt that women contribute differently in the workplace at different stages in their lives. Naturally, many women need to take a break from work, even if only a brief one, to have children. Equally, for many – particularly for professional women working in the West – child bearing years often limit how many hours women can work, as they deal with the high cost of childcare or just a choice to spend more time with their children, especially when they are young.
However as children grow up and head off to make a life of their own, women often find that they can spend increasing amounts of time on their careers – much as they did before they had children – and contribute just as well as any of their male colleagues.
So if it isn’t necessarily about biology, why is it that women still lag so far behind in the boardroom?
Could it be that women hold themselves back or lack the confidence to live up to their own potential?
Not too long ago, I spoke at a global leadership event for women. It was part of a six-month program for up-and-coming female executives and, like many conferences centered on women, the agenda included topics on ambition, self-marketing and work-life balance.
If women still need to be reminded that being ambitious is okay and balancing your career and home life is possible then perhaps it explains why women are often not getting a seat in the boardroom?
Can you imagine any man having to be educated that ambition is a good thing?
The trouble is, ambition hasn’t traditionally been seen as a positive attribute for women. Society has long since seen the accomplishments of women like Indira Ghandi and Margaret Thatcher who inspired a generation of women to reach for the very top, yet it seems we still have a long way to go until all women assume the kind of confidence and ambition that most men see as a birth right.
This confidence gap can be seen in the way some female business graduates approach their first job. A recent study at Carnegie Mallon University in the U.S. tracked graduates of similar academic performance to see how they fared in the world of work. After one year most of the females had accepted their first job offer – while the males had played several employers off against each other, were more confident in their own worth and, as a result, were earning around $7,000 more than their female classmates.
Sallie Krawcheck, Business Leader of 85 Broads, has also noted this disparity between men and women on the issue of asking for a pay raise: “I often relate how…some good number of my male direct reports would come into my office toward the end of every year, telling me how much they felt they deserved in a bonus payment. I never had a woman initiate a similar conversation.”
And yet there is ample evidence to show that a quiet confidence in your own value pays dividends.
I have a coaching client who is Asian and in her early 40s. She works for a global retail giant and has been handpicked by her company for leadership development. ‘Ah’, you say, ‘part of a focus on female development?’ Yes, but her performance speaks for itself – she is the #1 performer in the business globally, irrespective of gender.
So, is my client shattering the glass ceiling because of a conscious effort by her employer to increase their percentage of senior females – or simply because she’s great at her job?
Of course, things are not always this simple. There are plenty of examples demonstrating that the world of business can still be a fundamentally patriarchal place. Sometimes these are as overt as the still-common practice of specifying a required age range, marital status or gender in vacancy adverts in Asia, other times more subtle behaviour such as the perpetuation of business golf days and other affinity groups which enable males to talk business in exclusive group environments.
However despite these outdated practices, it is encouraging to see that in the majority of cases, it is the individual approach by a female professional which determines her level of success.
I have another coaching client who is the CTO in a US-based global life sciences company. She was promoted from the position of lab director to be VP of Research & Development – putting her in charge of three, male fellow lab directors. This could have resulted in conflict but her confidence in her own ability, coupled with high levels of emotional intelligence, allowed her to build the trust and support of her former colleagues. Her performance is outstanding and she’s set for further promotions.
She is the mother of two teenagers and, crucially, has a strong support network in the shape of her partner (who also works) and family which allows her to balance global travel and business commitments with time with her family. She also takes good care of herself and her relationship – seeing all of the parts of her life as having equal value.
Her self-belief plays a major part in her professional success.
Twenty years’ experience as a global leadership coach has taught me that those women who have well-placed confidence in their own potential and value tend to achieve their goals – and in many cases surpass them by some distance. My suggestions for ambitious, female would-be leaders, are to:
Be authentic. Know who you are and what you’re capable of. If you’re a family-oriented person as well as a talented professional, be proud of it, it’s part of what makes you great at what you do
Do your best work – so that your employer judges you on performance, not gender
Bring people along with you – at work and at home so that you build support around you. It’s important to find a life partner that supports you, not suppresses you.
Live with your choices. Don’t beat yourself up! Ignore society’s opinions and focus on being who you are at your best.
Don’t settle. Value yourself and what you have to offer and fight to achieve it – whether it’s a coveted role, being heard or landing a pay raise.
And remember: the glass ceiling is only there if you choose to see it.
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Mark Twain Letters
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was quite simply an institution, and in many ways still is. Taking his pen name from a boat man's cry, he was never more serious than when he was being comic. Find out about one of America's greatest satirists through his letters.
Writers such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound, were collectively known as the Modernists. They were also in close contact with one another. Find out more about their social circles.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft Correspondence
Creator of the terrifying Cthulhu mythos, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a.k.a. the Sage of Providence, was often less than wise in his divisive opinions. But he was an inveterate letter writer and throughout his life he cultivated a loyal network of correspondents, many of whom were pioneers of weird fiction too. Explore his network.
From Gascoyne-Cecil, Edward Christian David, Lord To Dobree, Bonamy (1959)
From Sharp, Clifford To West, ( ) (1915)
From Yeats, George To MacGreevy, Thomas (1943)
From Clemens, Samuel L. To Mayo, Mary B. (1896)
From Palmer, William W., 2nd Earl of Selborne To Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst (nee Borthwick) (1912)
From Silvers, L. Fred To Clemens, Samuel L. (1902)
From Mr John Cook (Cooke; of Gallowhill; of Ogle. ) To Cullen, Dr William (1783)
From Tobin, Patrick J. To Lyng, Murtagh J. (1901)
From Parlane, Mr Alexander or James? To Cullen, Dr William (1776)
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In the U.S. there are spouses and children of U.S. citizens (immediate relatives) and legal residents who are in the United States are not eligible to apply for lawful permanent resident (LPR) status while in the United States due to their illegal entry. Under prior law, these immediate relatives must travel abroad to obtain an immigrant visa from the Department of State (DOS) to return to the United States to request admission as an LPR (Lawful Permanent Resident), and, must request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a waiver of inadmissibility as a result of their unlawful presence in the United States.
Without such a waiver the applicant would not be able to return to the U.S. for a period of not less than 3 years. In other words, under the prior regulations, these immediate relatives and spouse and child of a Lawful Permanent resident cannot apply for the waiver in the United Sates and would not receive their Green Card until after their immigrant visa interviews abroad. As a result of their unlawful presence in the U.S., these relatives had to remain outside of the United States, separated from their spouses, parents, or children, while USCIS adjudicates their waiver applications. In some cases, waiver application processing took well over one year, prolonging the separation of these immediate relatives from their U.S. citizen spouses, parents, and children.
The new provisional unlawful presence waiver (I-601A) process facilitates the issuance of immigrant visa for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and spouse and children of Lawful Permanent Residents, who are otherwise admissible to the United States except for the 3-year and 10-year unlawful presence bars, which are triggered upon departure from the United States.
The waiver process allows eligible immediate relatives to apply for a provisional unlawful presence waiver while they are still in the United States and before they leave to attend their immigrant visa interview abroad.
Once abroad the process take only 3 weeks. You may remain in your country for up to 4 weeks to visit family and take care of business.
Entering the U.S. is simple and about 30 days later you receive the Green Card in the mail.
Aliens in removal (deportation) proceedings
Aliens in removal proceedings are allowed to participate in this new provisional unlawful presence waiver process if their removal proceedings are administratively closed and have not been re-calendared at the time of filing the Form I-601A. Aliens whose removal proceedings are terminated or dismissed are covered in the general population of aliens who are eligible to apply for a provisional unlawful presence waiver.
Aliens who have already been ordered deported or removed.
If you have been ordered Deported or Removed, you will also qualify. However you will need to apply for 2 different waivers, one for being ordered deported (i-212) and the other for having remained in the U.S. illegally.(I-601A)
Interesting to note that Apsan Law Offices, LLC, had over 200 cases approved last year.
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USCIS to Allow Additional Applicants for Provisional Waiver Process
Rule to Extend Process to All Individuals Who Are Statutorily Eligible for the Waiver
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a final rule expanding the existing provisional waiver process to allow certain individuals who are family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (LPRs), and who are statutorily eligible for immigrant visas, to more easily navigate the immigration process. The provisional waiver process promotes family unity by reducing the time that eligible individuals are separated from their family members while they complete immigration processing abroad, while also improving administrative efficiency.
This final rule builds on a process established in 2013 to support family unity. Under that process, certain immediate relatives of U.S. citizens can apply for provisional waivers of the unlawful presence ground of inadmissibility, based on the extreme hardship their U.S. citizen spouses or parents would suffer if the waiver were not granted. The rule announced today, which goes into effect on Aug. 29, 2016, expands eligibility for the provisional waiver process to all individuals who are statutorily eligible for the waiver of the unlawful presence ground of inadmissibility. USCIS expects to update its Policy Manual to provide guidance on how USCIS makes “extreme hardship” determinations in the coming weeks.
Until now, only immediate relatives of U.S. citizens were eligible to seek such provisional waivers before departing the United States for the processing of their immigrant visas. Those eligible for the provisional waiver process under the 2013 rule are only a subset of those eligible for the waiver under the statute. This regulation expands eligibility for the process to all individuals who are statutorily eligible for the waiver.
To qualify for a provisional waiver, applicants must establish that their U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident spouses or parents would experience “extreme hardship” if the applicants are not allowed to return to the United States.
The final rule also makes changes to Form I-601A, Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver. These changes will go into effect along with the final rule. The updated form will be posted on USCIS’ website at uscis.gov/i-601a on August 29, 2016.
Applicants should not submit a request for a provisional waiver under the expanded guidelines until the final rule takes effect on Aug. 29, 2016. If you do so before that date, USCIS may deny the application.
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In the Pre-Renascence era, the practice of medicine became an accepted and recognized profession. Many doctors realized that midwives and healers were taking a big chunk of their bread and butter. Midwives were draining doctors financially as the two classes were small and competed. The doctors, though competitors amongst themselves, decided that they should become united. They decided fight and act for their survival as doctors. So they went to the Catholic Church and accused the midwives and healers of being witches that had pacts with the Devil. Their movement worked. Doctor succeeded in putting the midwives out of business. The profession called medicine flourished.
On the other hand, the practice of law follows an adversarial system that lawsuits truly like paper wars. Of course, a civilized “white shoe” war. Be that as it may, lawyers are not only hostile to each other when they are handling cases against each other, but also when they are on the same side. Suppose two lawyers practice immigration law. They are competitors. Nothing wrong about that. Fair competition is healthy. However, the share of information amongst lawyers is much harder. For example, exchange of information amongst doctors who have been united essentially since the Middle-Ages. Science is passed from one doctor to another with pleasure. Back to the example of the two immigration lawyers. These two immigration lawyers most likely will bad mouth each other, steal clients from each other and use any ethical (sometimes unethical) and legal means in order to undermine the other colleague.
I used the particular example of immigration lawyers intentionally. Most are familiar with the infamous notaries that practice immigration law and divorces without a degree or a license of any kind. Sometimes they are called “notarios” a Spanish word that only adds to confuse potential immigration clients especially from Latin America because a “notario” in Latin America is the equivalent of a lawyer, but a notary in the United States is a mere certifier (or verifier) of signatures. Therefore, the unauthorized practice of law (“UPL”) and the “notario” business is thriving. Meanwhile, the legal profession is being hurt. To the lawyer the “notario” is the witch that should be hunted. Needless to say, I am not suggesting that lawyers should unite and burn all “notarios” at the stake as in the Middle-Ages.
However, lawyers tend to be ultra-formalistic. If they do meet to discuss problems related to unauthorized practice law or “notarios” they speak in lengths, relate to the statistics of the harm being done by notario fraud, speak of Ethics and morals. However, in the end, little is accomplished. Most lawyers are too busy to care. Others do not care. In addition, law form small political groups that hate each other and care more about the pedigree of the speaker than about what is being spoken. For example, a lawyer is a partner in a big law firm will speak about a theme and be praised for it. Most lawyers will agree with him whatever the subject because he has achieved some type of professional recognition and due to his knowledge. In the end, few actions will be taken.
Recently, in New Jersey, the crime of unauthorized practice of law was approved to become a crime of a higher degree. This accomplished absolutely nothing. This will not deter anyone. A practice can only be deterred if it is enforced. To be enforced, a law needs incentives. The incentives are mostly pecuniary. The law hits the offender where it hurts: the pockets. For example, laws which the punishment is tied up with steep fines and revocation of licenses tend to be enforced. These laws generate income to the municipality or the state and the goal of the law is generally accomplished. Otherwise, the law is on the books and is rarely enforced. For example, the use of air fresheners dangling from the rearview mirror is a civil infraction due to obstruction, but almost nobody knows about it because the fine is merely $50. Parking tickets generate more money than that. I have seldom met anyone who never received a parking ticket. The law works because the court makes money. There are quotas for tickets given. Some may criticize it, but the law is enforced.
The unauthorized practice of law under N.J.S.A. 2C:21-22 does not have any type of punishment via fines. It is just a crime of the third degree. It does not even address jail, though it address restitution if the client was “harmed.” It is the textbook example of a law gone bad, written bad, and not enforceable. Of course, in extreme cases it has been generally associated with egregious cases of fraud. However, the routine UPL will not be punished and will continue to hurt lawyers financially. Lawyers who devoted years of their lives in law school, passing the bar exam and the developing their craft. I know for a fact that some “notarios” charge more than lawyers and have more clients than some lawyers would wish to have. Thus, the legal profession needs to heal itself from this wound, which is truly more like a chronic illness which has the cure but the patient refuses to take the medicine.
Most attorneys I know are able to solve complex problems, but on a personal level are powerless to solve their own problems. They lose objectivity. I think that uniting lawyers against what harms their profession is pretty much like that lawyer who solves everyone’s problems, but his/her own. There is much talk and no action. There is a fervent hope that the class (as a whole) will unite and act to protect itself. There is a wish that the law profession regains their once reputable and admired position. Until the sixties, attorneys were seen as highly reputable and above suspicion. It was a profession that one could be proud of. Nowadays, the bar (no pun intended) has become much lower. This is, in part, because lawyer are letting the work which only trusted to be done by them slip away and be done by others without a single credential. The problem is not that there too many lawyers.
Moreover, the legal profession is one of the few that self regulates against itself, not pro. It also over-self regulates. For example, it is always finding a way to punish attorney advertisement or the way attorneys displays their recognition awards. However, the self-regulating authorities have done nothing to criminalize the advertisement of “notarios” who blatantly practice law without having a license and therefore are outside their jurisdiction to regulate. Talk about a loophole. That is more like a rabbit hole. I can firmly debate that if there is a profession that has sabotaged itself the once majestic occupation of being a lawyer. The legal profession should understand that, in our modern age, it devours itself like a self-cannibal. The profession must unite and protect itself not in appearance, but in existence. There lays two crucial distinctions that may mean the beginning or the end of some activity that, more often than not, brings justice to someone.
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The Greek philosopher of Ephesus ( 500 BCE), is best known for his doctrines that “there is nothing permanent except change.”
Not so with the Republican Party. As the world transforms, and a new group of significantly less agile leaders took the reign of power of the Republican Party it struggles to comprehend the new realities of the changing social structure of America and has failed to adapt.
A look at Abraham Lincoln , Republican, should provide some guidance for the lost crowd.
It was the 4th of July 1858. Abraham Lincoln advocated that the many immigrants who had recently arrived in the United States could nonetheless feel a sense of connection with Declaration of Independence. In his words:
"We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. “ *
Forward, 123 years , during a primary debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, both past presidents spoke with empathy for immigrants living in the United States when asked if the U.S. should permit the children of undocumented immigrants to go to public schools.
In 2005, George W. Bush’s opiniom as to immigration was rejected outright by mainstream Republicans. Instead, in the fall of 2005, notwithstanding the President’s resistance, House Republicans passed a bill compelling the arrest, deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Many republicans have made clear their belief that all these non-white arrivals should “to go home,”
But it seems that modern republicans cannot make up their minds on what to do about immigration. Listen to statements made by leading republicans :
Secretary Gutierrez chief executive of Kellogg and President George W. Bush’s
commerce secretary discusses Immigration and the Future of the Republican Party (VIDEO)
» “[The issue of immigration] has been around far too long…. A comprehensive approach is long overdue.” - Speaker of the House John Boehner, 11/8/12
“Immigrants come with new skills and new ideas. They fill a critical part in our labor market. They work hard for a better life.” - President George W. Bush, 12/4/12
» “Immigration is an important part of our country's success and if policies are reformed, can be part of restoring and sustaining our greatness as a nation.” - Former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, 9/13/12
» “This country needs comprehensive immigration reform. I don't care whether it is the person who will crawl across the desert to make five dollars... or Sergey Brin, who comes here from Russia and founds Google. At both ends of the spectrum, America has always been able to attract the most ambitious people.” - Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, 2009
» “I am still convinced that the overwhelming majority of our people just want what my parents had – a chance.” - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio 12/5/12
Congressman Paul Ryan “We have a broken immigration system and, if anything, what we see in Boston is that we have to fix and modernize our immigration system for lots of reasons.”
In June 27, 2013 following two weeks of contested debate with the addition of beefed-up border security measures backed by Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.), the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill on Thursday by a 68-32 vote. However then House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that it would not take up the Senate bill. And so the bill died.
But let’s see who were the (14) Republicans that voted for the bill:
♣ Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
♣ Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.)
♣ Jeff Chiesa (R-N.J.)
♣ Susan Collins (R-Maine)
♣ Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)
♣ Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
♣ Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
♣ Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)
♣ Dean Heller (R-Nev.)
♣ John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
♣ Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)
♣ John McCain (R-Ariz.)
♣ Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
♣ Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
Republicans just can’t make up their minds. It’s no wonder that the Republican Party is in total chaos.
*Quoted in Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remain America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992) 86-87.
WASHINGTON— The intense political fight that would affect millions of people who are in the United States illegally arrives to the Supreme Court on Monday.
The court will decide the destiny of Obama executive orders that would protect more than 4 million people from deportation and allow them the right to hold a job. With this decision, millions of people would not only be able to work legally in the U.S., but also would have the ability to obtain a social security card and even be able to travel out of the U.S.
Roberto Silva, a Brazilian immigrant, living in the U.S. for more than 15 years states that "I need a social security card and a work permit in order to take care of my wife and 3 children born in the U.S. My youngest is autistic and requires special schooling that I cannot afford. We are fighting a losing battle with the amount of money I earn. My wife also can’t work and has to take care of our children. Our lives are in constant stress, Silva said.
The executive order pronounced by President Barack Obama in November 2014 applies to parents of children that are citizens or are legal permanent residents. The order would also expand the president's 2012 program called “DACA.”s. More than 700,000 young people have taken advantage of the program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Texas and 25 other states sued to prevent the new plans soon as soon as they were announced, Federal courts have decided in their favor. The programs barely commenced when it was stopped suddenly. Now its up to the Supreme Court to make the final decision on a crucial immigration problem.
House Republicans say that Obama is asserting the power "to decree that millions of individuals may live, work and receive benefits in this country even though federal statutes plainly prohibit them from doing so."
The administration and immigration advocates, on the other hand, say the immigration orders are neither unprecedented nor even unusual. Instead, they say, that Obama's executive order build on past efforts by both the Democratic and Republican administrations to use discretion in deciding whom to deport.
Moses Apsan, immigration attorney and past president of the Federal Bar Association, stated that “ the debate has taken on a heavy partisan complexion, Republicans repeated describe Obama recklessly abusing his executive powers. This opinion is untrue, as Obama not only act lawfully, but the order was what our country needed. The illegal immigration issue has thwarted Congress for decades, and there’s no indication that lawmakers will be able to settle on a realistic plan anytime soon. This delay has had a human toll: Living with fear, immigrants are prone to be exploited Even if they are victims of a crime, they are less prone to ask police for assistance. Obama’s executive orders would give these immigrants; those that entered as children, as well as the parents of lawful US residents the facility to come out of the shadows and truly live the American Dream.
Federal Judge ends Mississippi Ban on Adoption by Same-Sex Couples
April 2, 2016, 3:48 am
A federal on Thursday ended Mississippi's restraint on adoption by same-sex couples, saying it violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
The order by U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan came in response to a lawsuit filed in August 2015 on behalf of four legally wedded same-sex couples, two of whom are raising children, as well as the Campaign for Southern Equality and the Family Equality Council.
The plaintiffs argued that legally united couples were discriminated by the Mississippi restriction on adoption by same-sex couples. Same sex marriage was legalized in the state in 2014.
The lawsuit came barely weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that same sex marriage bans are unconstitutional across the country.
In his order, Judge Jordan followed the opinion by the Supreme Court that ended the same-sex marriage bans.
The judge stated that it appears "highly unlikely that the same court that held a state cannot ban gay marriage because it would deny benefits - expressly including the right to adopt - would then conclude that married gay couples can be denied that very same benefit."
September 21, 2015, 7:35 pm
It was not until Trump decided to run for president did the Republican Party lose traction in its' race to the Whitehouse.
Immigration and the 11 million undocumented people living in the United States have been propelled it to the front position of American republican politics
As soon as Donald Trump launched his campaign for president he began emitting repulsive rhetoric about "Mexican rapists" and making minorities his patsy in a disgraceful appeal to the Republican Party's racist base. His apparent purpose is to destroy American families and American-born children of immigrants. His solution of mass deportation and ending birthright says it all.
Throught history "ethnic cleansing" has bee part of the human experience. Trump's solution to the "immigrant problem" is version of ethnic cleansing in the ilk of Hitler's 25 demands
"All financial interests in or in any way affecting German newspapers shall be forbidden to non-Germans by law, and we demand that the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-Germans from the Reich.
Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk, and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands shall be dissolved"
While shifting the republican's base from policy issues to immigration may have catapulted Trump to number one in the polls, it created a backlash from the millions of Americans with an undocumented immigrant family member.
Even as we speak President Obama is intervening with plans to help the 8.8 million legal immigrants in the country to become American citizens though an organized push to make all eligible Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card Holders). Obama's "Stand Stronger" Citizenship Awareness Campaign is intended as a comprehensive effort to change their immigration status so that they can fight back against the GOP hate in the voting booths.
Imagine the effect of 8 million new voters in the next decade, and some 5.4 million of them Latino? It will be all over for the republicans as no republican will ever live in the White house again.
The whiplash republicans are feeling is due to the frightening thoughts of millions of new citizens. Republicans recognize that Latinos vote for Democratic candidates in much higher numbers (2-1) than they vote for GOP candidates. 5 million new Latino vote could permanent keep republicans out of the white house.
Court Orders Prompt Release of Immigrant Children from Family Detention
Washington, D.C. - The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council (Council) welcome a decision released Friday evening by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Flores v. Lynch, No. 85-04544 (C.D.Ca.), which ruled that children should generally be released from detention within five days—preferably to a parent, including a parent with whom they were apprehended. The government must implement the Court’s ruling by October 23, 2015.
“There is no denying that the government has breached the Flores settlement agreement. The status quo is unacceptable, and the government must take immediate and dramatic steps to end family detention,” said Victor Nieblas Pradis, AILA President. “Our CARA Project* staff and volunteers submitted numerous declarations to the Court showing how the government is still detaining accompanied minors in secure, unlicensed facilities. It can no longer hide from the American people the ugly truth of how it treats children fleeing persecution,” said Nieblas. “Just as striking is how the Court condemned the ‘deplorable’ conditions in temporary border jails. They do not meet even minimal standards for safe and sanitary conditions,” said Nieblas.
“This decision will bolster our efforts to end the inhumane practice of detaining children and their mothers,” according to Melissa Crow, Legal Director of the American Immigration Council. “The Court chastised the government for ‘unnecessarily dragging their feet’ in releasing children from family detention facilities and for repeating the same arguments they had raised in earlier briefing, which she had already rejected. Judge Gee also scoffed at government warnings that the swift release of children and mothers could spur another mass migration of Central American families, characterizing them as ‘speculative at best, and, at worse, fear mongering.’” Crow added, “Although the Court gives the government some latitude to exceed the five-day limit ‘in the event of an emergency or influx of minors into the United States,’ the decision emphasizes that this should be the exception, not the rule. It’s time for the government to stop making excuses and harming innocent children and their mothers.”
“AILA and the Council will be watching every step the government takes. We expect it to follow this federal court’s order with no less zeal than it did obeying the Texas district court’s DAPA decision,” said Nieblas, referring to the extraordinary efforts the government made to comply with the injunction against the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents process and the planned expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process.
The recent ruling in Flores follows from a July 24, 2015, decision, in which the Court concluded that the government was in violation of the terms of the original Flores settlement, which was intended to ensure the proper care of children in immigration custody. In July, the Court had ordered the government to release children subject to the settlement agreement, but gave the government an opportunity to respond to the Court’s ordered remedy. The government’s response fell far short.
Press inquiries, please contact:
George Tzamaras, American Immigration Lawyers Association, 202-507-7649, gtzamaras@aila.org
Wendy Feliz, American Immigration Council, 202-507-7524, wfeliz@immcouncil.org
*CARA is a pro bono project serving the mothers and children detained in Karnes City and Dilley, Texas. The partners in this project are CLINIC, the American Immigration Council, RAICES, and AILA.
For certain individuals , military service opens a path to citizenship
Like many immigrants, the path to U.S. citizenship is a long and arduous one. Not so for those immigrants that join the military. For these few the path to citizenship has been expedited though special rule of the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) for members of the military. Special rules of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) empowers the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to expedite the application and naturalization process for existing members of the U.S. armed forces and newly discharged members.
Generally, qualifying military service includes service with one of the following military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, certain sections of the National Guard and the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve. Additionally, spouses of members of the U.S. armed forces who are or will be deployed may be eligible for expedited naturalization. Other sections of the law also permit certain spouses to complete the naturalization process abroad.
A member of the U.S. armed forces must meet the requirements and qualifications to become a citizen of the United States. He or she must demonstrate:
Knowledge of the English language
Knowledge of U.S. government and history (civics), and
Attachment to the United States by taking an Oath of Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution
Following is information about the U.S. Military and becoming a U.S. citizen.
Citizenship for Military Members & Dependents (USCIS)
The Army's New Recruitment Program for Persons with Temporary Visas (2-23-09)
MILITARY ACCESSIONS VITAL TO NATIONAL INTEREST (MAVNI) RECRUITMENT PILOT
Learn More About Army's Pilot Program for Recruiting Nonimmigrants with Strategic Language Skills
Naturalization Information for Military Personnel (USCIS)
USCIS LAUNCHES TOLL-FREE MILITARY HELP LINE (8-13-07
USCIS Fact Sheet: Military Naturalizations (5-24-07)
INS Memo - Implementation of Executive Order 13269 (7-17-02)
Qualified members of the U.S. armed forces are exempt from other naturalization requirements, including residence and physical presence in the United States. These exceptions are listed in Sections 328 and 329 of the INA.
Does Sen. Bernie Sanders have Dual Citizenship with Israel?
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent who is running for president as a Democrat, became upset when an NPR host inferred that he holds a dual citizenship with the United States and Israel.
"Senator, you have dual citizenship with Israel," NPR host Diane Rehm said during a discussion Wednesday.
Sanders immediately responded, saying, "No, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American. I don't know where that question came from."
Dual nationality is the simultaneous possession of two citizenships. The Supreme Court of the United States has stated that dual nationality is "a status long recognized in the law" and that "a person may have and exercise rights of nationality in two countries and be subject to the responsibilities of both. The mere fact that he asserts the rights of one citizenship does not without more mean that he renounces the other", Kawakita v. U.S., 343 U.S. 717 (1952). (The Consulate General does not have Supreme Court cases on file; interested parties may wish to consult with local law school libraries.) The concepts discussed in this leaflet apply also to persons who have more than two nationalities.
How is Dual Citizenship acquired?
Dual nationality results from the fact that there is no uniform rule of international law relating to the acquisition of nationality. Each country has its own laws on the subject, and its nationality is conferred upon individuals on the basis of its own independent domestic policy. Individuals may have dual nationality not by choice but by automatic operation of these different and sometimes conflicting laws.
The laws of the United States, no less than those of other countries, contribute to the situation because they provide for acquisition of U.S. citizenship by birth in the United States and also by birth abroad to an American, regardless of the other nationalities which a person might acquire at birth. For example, a child born abroad to U.S. citizens may acquire at birth not only American citizenship but also the nationality of the country in which it was born. Similarly, a child born in the United States to foreigners may acquire at birth both U.S. citizenship and a foreign nationality.
The laws of some countries provide for automatic acquisition of citizenship after birth -- for example, by marriage. In addition, some countries do not recognize naturalization in a foreign state as grounds for loss of citizenship. A person from one of those countries who is naturalized in the United States keeps the nationality of the country of origin despite the fact that one of the requirements for U.S. naturalization is a renunciation of other nationalities.
Current law and policy regarding Dual citizenship
The current nationality laws of the United States do not specifically refer to dual nationality. The automatic acquisition or retention of a foreign nationality does not affect U.S. citizenship; however, under limited circumstances, the acquisition of a foreign nationality upon one's own application or the application of a duly authorized agent may cause loss of U.S. citizenship under Section 349 (a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [8 U.S.C. 1481 (a)(1)].
In order for loss of nationality to occur under Section 349 (a)(1), it must be established that the naturalization was obtained voluntarily by a person eighteen years of age or older with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship. Such an intention may be shown by the person's statements or conduct, Vance v. Terrazas, 444 U.S. 252 (1980), but as discussed below in most cases it is assumed that Americans who are naturalized in other countries intend to keep their U.S. citizenship. As a result, they have both nationalities.
United States law does not contain any provisions requiring U.S. citizens who are born with dual nationality to choose one nationality or the other when they become adults, Mandoli v. Acheson, 344 U.S. 133 (1952).
While recognizing the existence of dual nationality and permitting Americans to have other nationalities, the U.S. Government does not endorse dual nationality as a matter of policy because of the problems which it may cause. Claims of other countries upon dual-national U.S. citizens often place them in situations where their obligations to one country are in conflict with the laws of the other. In addition, their dual nationality may hamper efforts to provide diplomatic and consular protections to them when they are abroad.
Allegiance to which country?
It generally is considered that while dual nationals are in the country of which they are citizens that country has a predominant claim on them.
As with Americans who possess only U.S. citizenship, dual national U.S. citizens owe allegiance to the United States and are obliged to obey its laws and regulations. Such persons usually have certain obligations to the other country as well. Although failure to fulfill such obligations may have no adverse effect on dual nationals while in the United States because the other country would have few means to force compliance under those circumstances, dual nationals might be forced to comply with those obligations or pay a penalty if they go to the country of their other citizenship. In cases where dual nationals encounter difficulty in a foreign country of which they are citizens, the ability of U.S. Foreign Service posts to provide assistance may be quite limited since many foreign countries may not recognize a dual national's claim to U.S. citizenship.
Which passport to use when you enter a country?
Section 215 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1185) requires U.S. citizens to use U.S. passports when entering or leaving the United States unless one of the exceptions listed in Section 53.2 of Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations applies. (One of these exceptions permits a child under the age of 12, who is included in the foreign passport of a parent who has no claim to U.S. citizenship, to enter the United States without a U.S. passport, provided the child presents evidence of his/her U.S. citizenship when entering the United States.) Dual nationals may be required by the other country of which they are citizens to enter or leave that country using its passport, but do not endanger their U.S. citizenship by complying with such a requirement.
How to give up dual nationality?
Most countries have laws which specify how a citizen may lose or divest citizenship. Generally, persons who do not wish to maintain dual nationality may renounce the citizenship which they do not want. Information on renouncing a foreign nationality may be obtained from the foreign country's Embassies and Consulates or from the appropriate governmental agency in that country.
Americans may renounce their U.S. citizenship abroad pursuant to Section 349 (a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [8 U.S.C. 1481 (a)(5)]. Information on renouncing U.S. citizenship may be obtained from U.S. Embassies and Consulates and the office of Citizens Consular Services, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20520.
Furthermore, an American citizen who is naturalized as a citizen of another country voluntarily and with intent to abandon his/her allegiance to the United States may so indicate their intent and thereby lose U.S. citizenship. See below for further information.
For further information on dual nationality, see Marjorie M. Whiteman's Digest of International Law (Department of State Publication 8290, released September 1967), Volume 8, pages 64-84.
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Gulbarga Parliamentary Constituency 2014, Gulbarga Lok sabha Constituency Details, Political News Gulbarga, Karnataka Lok Sabha Elections 2014 News Updates, Karnataka Parliamentary Constituency details 2014,Gulbarga MP, Issues Political Analysis 2014:
Spread over the district of Gulbarga is the Parliamentary constituency by the same name. The Gulbarga Lok Sabha seat is one of the 28 representing the state of Karnataka in the Indian Parliament. The Gulbarga Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 5) consists of 1,543,771 number of electorates in totality, of these 778,102 are males and 765,669 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests. Created before the second Lok Sabha elections of 1957, Gulbarga is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes.
Out of the eight Assembly segments which comprise this constituency, only Gulbarga Rural and Chitapur are reserved for candidates from the marginalised sections of society.
Afzalpur
Jevargi
Gurmitkal
Chitapur (SC)
Gulbarga Rural (SC)
Gulbarga Dakshin
Gulbarga Uttar
About Gulbarga:
The city of Gulbarga is the administrative headquarters of this district. The historic legacy of the Gulbarga district, which was in the hands of various kingdoms from the ancient period, dates back to the 6th century, when the control of this region was in the hands of the Rashtrakuta king. In the 14th century, this region of Gulbarga was made the capital of the Bahamani Sultans, after a revolt took place against the Delhi Sultanate. Economically backward as this district is, it is being funded under the Government of India’s special schemes such as the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme.
Present Political Scenario:
Only a matter what would be the victory margin for Congress
BJP has re-nominated ex animal husbandry minister, Revu Naik Belamagi for this SC reserved constituency. Not only had he lost this seat in the 2009 LS elections when Karnataka (unlike India) was in a strong BJP wave, but also he had lost the assembly elections in May last year.
Congress has the towering Dalit leader and union Railway minister, Mallikarjun Kharge, re-contesting the seat and the only question now is what would be Congress’s victory margin – by all counts it could be closer to a lakh.
Mallikarjun Kharge
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Kucharski, Linda and Vienneau, Glen (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 1 Oct 1969, p. 32. Date of Event: 30 Aug 1969 Miss Linda Kucharski of Elm Tree Rd. Grimsby became the bride of Mr. Glen Vienneau on August 30, 1969 at St.Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Grimsby. The bride's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Nick Kucharski of Elm Tree Rd. Grimsby and the groom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. E. Vienneau of ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 1 Oct 1969, p. 32. Date of Event: 30 Aug 1969 Miss Linda Kucharski of Elm Tree Rd. Grimsby became the bride of Mr. Glen Vienneau on August 30, 1969 at St.Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Grimsby. The bride's parents are Mr. ...
Horne, Susan Mary and Bennett, Keith (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 9 Oct 1968, . Date of Event: 28 Sept 1968 On Saturday, September 28 at 2 p.m. in Calvary Gospel Church, Beamsville, Susan Mary Horne, daughter of Mrs. Eileen Horne and the late Mr. Arthur Horne, became the bride of Mr. Keith Bennett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bennett, of Grimsby. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 9 Oct 1968, . Date of Event: 28 Sept 1968 On Saturday, September 28 at 2 p.m. in Calvary Gospel Church, Beamsville, Susan Mary Horne, daughter of Mrs. Eileen Horne and the late Mr. Arthur Horne, became the bride of ...
McGregor, William Donald and Fleming, Susan Gail (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 22 Apr 1965, . Date of Event: 10 Apr 1965 St. John's Presbyterian Church Grimsby was the scene of the wedding on April 10th of Susan Gail, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fleming, and William Donald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGregor, Grimsby. The Rev. Russell T. Hall officiated at the double ring ceremony...Attending the bride...were ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 22 Apr 1965, . Date of Event: 10 Apr 1965 St. John's Presbyterian Church Grimsby was the scene of the wedding on April 10th of Susan Gail, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fleming, and William Donald, son of Mr. ...
Mote, Barbara Joanne and Muir, John Gibb (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 16 Jul 1964, . Date of Event: 11 July 1964 Trinity United Church, Grimsby, was the scene of a pretty summer wedding on July 11, when Barbara Joanne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Cyril Mote, 18 Lorne Ave., became the bride of John Gibb Muir, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Muir, 9 Brookside Ave., Grimsby. The Rev. Harry ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 16 Jul 1964, . Date of Event: 11 July 1964 Trinity United Church, Grimsby, was the scene of a pretty summer wedding on July 11, when Barbara Joanne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Cyril Mote, 18 Lorne Ave., became ...
Mason, Charles (Died)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 16 Jul 1964, . Date of Event: 16 July 1961 remembered by wife Annie and family...
Brunton, Elizabeth anne and King, William Frederick Douglas (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 30 Jul 1969, p. 25. Date of Event: 12 Jul 1969 Mr. and Mrs. William Frederick Douglas King were married July 12 in Centennial Park Baptist Church, Grimsby. The bride is the former Elizabeth Anne Brunton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brunton of Grimsby. The groom is the son of Mrs. Joseph Miskow, of Canmore, Alberta and Mr. Richard King ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 30 Jul 1969, p. 25. Date of Event: 12 Jul 1969 Mr. and Mrs. William Frederick Douglas King were married July 12 in Centennial Park Baptist Church, Grimsby. The bride is the former Elizabeth Anne Brunton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ...
Fretz, Pauline and Cuthill, David E. (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 13 Aug 1969, p. 21. Date of Event: 9 Aug 1969 Pauline Fretz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fretz of 13 John Street, Vineland, was married Saturday to David E. Cuthill, of Grimsby, publisher of the Independent. The wedding took place at 2 p.m. on the lawn of the bride's home. A reception followed at the home of Mr. and ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 13 Aug 1969, p. 21. Date of Event: 9 Aug 1969 Pauline Fretz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fretz of 13 John Street, Vineland, was married Saturday to David E. Cuthill, of Grimsby, publisher of the Independent. The wedding took ...
Graham, Bruce and Shestalo, Christine (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 20 Nov 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Graham were married recently at Our Lady of Enunciation Church, Hull, Quebec. The bride is the former Christine Shestalo of Hull. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D.K. Graham, Grimsby....
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 20 Nov 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Graham were married recently at Our Lady of Enunciation Church, Hull, Quebec. The bride is the former Christine Shestalo of Hull. The groom is the son ...
Latter, Pauline and Valk, John (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 26 Feb 1969, p. 16. Date of Event: 1 Feb 1969 A pretty wedding took place at Trinity United Church, Grimsby, Feb. 1, when Pauline Latter became the bride of John Valk. The bride, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Latter, Grimsby, is a graduate of Grimsby Secondary School. The groom, who is a wholesale florist in Grimsby, is the ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 26 Feb 1969, p. 16. Date of Event: 1 Feb 1969 A pretty wedding took place at Trinity United Church, Grimsby, Feb. 1, when Pauline Latter became the bride of John Valk. The bride, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy ...
Marabella, Margaret Rose and Warriner, John Kenneth (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 11 Mar 1965, p. 65. Date of Event: 6 Mar 1965 A quiet wedding was solemnized in Park Road United Church, Grimsby Beach, Ont., on Saturday, March 6, 1965 at 4 p.m. With Rev. Allison Dempsey officiating, Margaret Rose, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Marabella, of Thorold, Ont., was united in marriage to John Kenneth, youngest son of Mr. ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 11 Mar 1965, p. 65. Date of Event: 6 Mar 1965 A quiet wedding was solemnized in Park Road United Church, Grimsby Beach, Ont., on Saturday, March 6, 1965 at 4 p.m. With Rev. Allison Dempsey officiating, Margaret Rose, only daughter ...
Heineman, Charles William and Westland, Mary Ruth (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 20 May 1965, . Date of Event: 24 Apr 1965 Mary Ruth Westland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Westland of Grimsby, and Charles William Heinemann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Heinemann of Surrey, England, exchanged marriage vows in a double ring ceremony in St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Grimsby, on April 24th, Archdeacon J. Homer Ferris ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 20 May 1965, . Date of Event: 24 Apr 1965 Mary Ruth Westland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Westland of Grimsby, and Charles William Heinemann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Heinemann of Surrey, England, exchanged marriage vows in ...
Van Keulen, Wilma and Termorshuizen, Ernest (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 20 Aug 1969, Miss Wilma Van Keulen of 62 Le Roy Dr. became the bride of Mr. Ernest Termorshuizen in a wedding ceremony held recently at Mountainview Christian Reformed Church. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Van Keulen of Grimsby was given away by her father. She is employed by ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 20 Aug 1969, Miss Wilma Van Keulen of 62 Le Roy Dr. became the bride of Mr. Ernest Termorshuizen in a wedding ceremony held recently at Mountainview Christian Reformed Church. The bride, daughter ...
Shaw, Christine Linda and McNiven, Robert Lewis (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 12 Nov 1969, . Date of Event: 11 Oct 1969 Marriage vows were exchanged between Christine Linda Shaw and Robert Lewis McNiven on Oct. 11, at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church with Father Ben Vanco officiating. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Joseph Shaw of Grimsby, and the groom is the son of Mrs. Betty McNiven ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 12 Nov 1969, . Date of Event: 11 Oct 1969 Marriage vows were exchanged between Christine Linda Shaw and Robert Lewis McNiven on Oct. 11, at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church with Father Ben Vanco officiating. The bride is the ...
Colpitts, Lesley and Tillotson, Sandra (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 16 Jul 1964, Rev. Roland Glendinning officiated at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Lesley Colpitts at Grimsby Baptist Church. The bride is the former Miss Sandra Tillotson....
Holden, Denise Cheryl and Stefanik, Roger (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 30 Jul 1969, Stouffville's United Church was recently the scene of the wedding of Denise Cheryl Holden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holden of Stouffville and Roger Stefanik, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stefanik of 11 Glenwood Ave., Grimsby...Diane McCallum, sister of the bride, of Rexdale, Ont., was the matron ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 30 Jul 1969, Stouffville's United Church was recently the scene of the wedding of Denise Cheryl Holden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holden of Stouffville and Roger Stefanik, son of Mr. and ...
Salter, William T. and Lindsay, Maureen Helen (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 6 Nov 1968, Marriage vows were exchanged recently between Maureen Helen Lindsay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lindsay of Grimsby and William T. Salter D.V.M. BSc., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Salter of Weston, Ont. The double ring cememony was held in St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Hamilton. The bride was ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 6 Nov 1968, Marriage vows were exchanged recently between Maureen Helen Lindsay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lindsay of Grimsby and William T. Salter D.V.M. BSc., son of Mr. and Mrs. William ...
Kudrinko, Ross and Udell, Susan Jane (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 21 Aug 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Kudrinko were married recently in Holy Rosary Church, Thorold. The bride is the former Miss Susan Jane Udell, daughter of Mrs. Douglas Udell of Grimsby and the late Mr. Udell. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Kudrinko of Thorold....
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 21 Aug 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Kudrinko were married recently in Holy Rosary Church, Thorold. The bride is the former Miss Susan Jane Udell, daughter of Mrs. Douglas Udell of Grimsby and ...
Getz, Sandra Jean and Cahill, Ted Francis (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 27 Sep 1967, . Date of Event: 9 Sept 1967 St. Joseph's church, Grimsby, was the scene of a quiet fall wedding September 9, when Father Michael O'Rielly officiated as Miss Sandra Jean Getz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Getz, North Tonawanda, New York, became the bride of Ted Francis Cahill, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Delbert Cahill, ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 27 Sep 1967, . Date of Event: 9 Sept 1967 St. Joseph's church, Grimsby, was the scene of a quiet fall wedding September 9, when Father Michael O'Rielly officiated as Miss Sandra Jean Getz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur ...
Verbeek, Dirk and Slaa, Elizabeth Maria (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 11 Aug 1960, . Date of Event: 6 Aug 1960 The wedding was solemnized in Fifty United Church, Winona, on Saturday, August 6, when Elizabeth Maria, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Slaa, Grimsby, became the bride of Dirk Verbeek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Verbeek, R.R. 2, Hamilton...Bridal attendants were Mrs. Nickolas Van Roon, Grimsby and ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 11 Aug 1960, . Date of Event: 6 Aug 1960 The wedding was solemnized in Fifty United Church, Winona, on Saturday, August 6, when Elizabeth Maria, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Slaa, Grimsby, became the bride of Dirk Verbeek, ...
Buchar, Michael John and Dunsmore, Mariane Donna (Married)
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 11 Aug 1960, . Date of Event: 30 Jul 1960 Baskets of pink gladioli and ferns formed the setting for the wedding on Saturday, July 30th, at First Baptist Church, Beamsville, of Mariane Donna, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dunsmore, Beamsville, and Michael John Buchar, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Buchar of Grimsby...As matron of ...
appeared in Grimsby Independent, 11 Aug 1960, . Date of Event: 30 Jul 1960 Baskets of pink gladioli and ferns formed the setting for the wedding on Saturday, July 30th, at First Baptist Church, Beamsville, of Mariane Donna, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ...
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Mylan Receives Tentative Approval for "TLD" Under PEPFAR
Mylan's TLD is the first fixed-dose combination of its kind to be offered to patients being treated for HIV/AIDS
TLD is comprised of Dolutegravir, Lamivudine and Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Tablets, 50 mg/300 mg/300 mg
HERTFORDSHIRE, England and PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Mylan N.V. (NASDAQ, TASE: MYL), a leading global pharmaceutical company, today announced receipt of tentative approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for its New Drug Application for Dolutegravir, Lamivudine and Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Tablets, 50 mg/300 mg/300 mg (TDF-3TC-DTG or "TLD"). TLD, an antiretroviral (ARV) fixed-dose combination, will be available in developing countries as a first-line regimen for people being treated for HIV/AIDS. Mylan's TLD combines molecules from three originator medicines - ViiV Healthcare's Tivicay® (via a license through the Medicines Patent Pool) and Epivir® and Gilead Science's Viread®.
Mylan President Rajiv Malik commented, "Our innovative TLD is a new medicine that will be available specifically to patients in the developing world being treated for HIV/AIDS. We know the challenges they face accessing high quality, affordable ARVs. That's why our scientists worked diligently to develop a medicine that combines three of the leading first-line regimens into a new, smaller tablet that patients have to take only once each day."
In July 2017, the WHO recommended national programs evaluate using DTG as a first-line therapy. The recommendation is based on the medicine's improved tolerability, higher antiretroviral efficacy, lower rates of treatment discontinuation, a higher genetic barrier to resistance and fewer drug interactions than other ARV drugs. Additionally, both the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the European AIDS Clinical Society include DTG as a preferred medicine on their HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines.
Globally, Mylan supplies life-saving ARVs to nearly 50% of patients being treated for HIV/AIDS in more than 100 developing countries. The company's comprehensive ARV portfolio includes 14 APIs and 50 finished dosage forms in first-line, second-line and pediatric formulations.
Mylan is a global pharmaceutical company committed to setting new standards in healthcare. Working together around the world to provide 7 billion people access to high quality medicine, we innovate to satisfy unmet needs; make reliability and service excellence a habit; do what's right, not what's easy; and impact the future through passionate global leadership. We offer a growing portfolio of more than 7,500 marketed products around the world, including antiretroviral therapies on which approximately 50% of people being treated for HIV/AIDS in the developing world depend. We market our products in more than 165 countries and territories. We are one of the world's largest producers of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Every member of our more than 35,000-strong workforce is dedicated to creating better health for a better world, one person at a time. Learn more at Mylan.com.
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(Washington, D.C.) – The Netherlands will open a consulate general in Atlanta to strengthen the economic ties between Georgia and the surrounding states, and the Netherlands. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced the plans for the new diplomatic post during his official visit with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on July 2. The consulate will service Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia.
“The economic ties between the Netherlands and the United States are strong. Atlanta is a natural home for a new Dutch representation to further strengthen our partnership with the US. Atlanta is in many ways a gateway to the United States, while the Netherlands is a gateway to Europe. And much like Atlanta, the Netherlands is a hub for smart logistics, financial technology, and cybersecurity,” said Sigrid Kaag, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation.
Atlanta and the Netherlands already enjoy a strong economic relationship. Atlanta-based companies, like Coca-Cola Enterprises and UPS, have offices in the Netherlands. And Dutch businesses, like KLM and VanderLande Industries, thrive in the Atlanta area.
Through the centuries, the Netherlands and US economic partnership has created jobs, sound investments, and promising opportunities. The Netherlands is a fixture in the top five of the largest foreign investors in the United States, and maintains its place as the No. 1 destination for American investments. The US has a $30 billion trade surplus with the Netherlands, as it exports $59.3 billion to the Netherlands and imports $29 billion from the Netherlands. Top US exporters to the Netherlands include Texas, California, Louisiana, Illinois and Washington.
Trade and investments between the Netherlands and the five states that fall under the Atlanta Consulate General support an estimated 80,000 American jobs. Exports to the Netherlands is $3.7 billion.
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North Carolina 16,000 $930 million $1.75 billion
South Carolina 8,000 $302 million $908 million
Alabama 7,700 $212 million $700 million
A date for the opening of the Atlanta Consulate General has not been set. The Netherlands also has consulates general in Chicago, New York, Miami, and San Francisco, as well as an embassy in Washington, D.C.
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By Bill Brotherton
“I Call Him “Mr. President: Stories of Golf, Fishing, and Life with My Friend George H. W. Bush”
By Ken Raynor with Michael Patrick Shiels
Skyhorse Publishers (Available at Amazon.com and local bookstores)
Ken Raynor, the head professional at Cape Arundel Golf Club in Kennebunkport, Maine, for 38 years, tells the story of how he and President George H. W. Bush became best buddies during Bush’s annual summer golf outings at the seaside town’s course. It’s a fascinating, highly entertaining story of friendship between Raynor, “the president’s pro” aka ”Secretary of Swing,” and the leader of the free world that will appeal to non-golfers as well as players of all stripes.
Raynor and writer Michael Patrick Shiels share personal tales, many of them hilarious, of the pro’s interactions with our 41st president in Maine at the Bushes’ 26-room oceanside home on Walker’s Point, in Washington, DC, at the White House, and on golf and fishing excursions. Raynor helped the president greet world leaders and celebrities at Cape Arundel.
The focus here is about friendship, rather than the typical concentration on golf or politics one expects from books such as this.
Raynor, who points out that golfers have defeated non-golfers in 16 of 18 presidential elections since the second world war (Truman and Carter being the exceptions), delights in sharing tales of Bush’s lightning-fast rounds of golf (18 holes in less than two hours were normal), the president’s joy in playing practical jokes on guests (Gen. Brent Snowcroft, his national security adviser, fell for the exploding golf ball gag) and how Bush was always inviting guests to their Maine estate without telling his wife, Barbara, who would often have to entertain strangers while George was late returning home from a day of fishing.
Best of all are Raynor’s heartfelt tales of the good times he and wife Anne spent with George and “Bar,” who always insisted they sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom when visiting our nation’s capital. The Bushes often visited the Raynor family’s Kennebunkport home for relaxed dinners and conversations.
Bush’s philosophy that “You learn a lot about a guy, playing 18 holes or standing in a river all day in your waders casting side-by-side” is pretty solid. He and Raynor have a special bond that’s clearly evident on these pages, and your views of Bush’s character might change after reading this.
Rhode Island PGA pro Brad Faxon shares stories of playing golf with Bush in Maine and spending time with him at an MGA banquet where Bush received a Ouimet Award for lifetime contributions to golf.
Manchester-by-the-Sea resident Eddie Carbone, who was championship director of last year’s US Senior Open at Salem Country Club and former executive director of the NEPGA, gets a shoutout. Carbone tasked Raynor with getting Bush to the NEPGA hospitality tent at the 1999 Ryder Cup at The Country Club in Brookline. He delivered.
(Note: Before the second edition goes to press, a few errors should be corrected. Matt Young was a Red Sox pitcher not a second baseman, and the proper spelling is caddie. Mere quibbles by a veteran copy editor.)
Raynor’s proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust and Portland Mercy Hospital’s “Gary’s House” via the Gary Pike George H. W. Bush Cape Arundel Golf Classic.
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What I Heard Last Night
If one of the talking points Mitt Romney has about Barack Obama is that his presidency has disappointed us, I must say the Mittster’s nomination acceptance speech last night at the Republican National Convention did not differentiate him from the incumbent. I was not blown away by his rhetoric, his message or by his delivery. And, for sure, I was not provided an inkling as to how he would achieve his five point goals. Yes, they were lofty. But without specifics, it’s like my saying I would like a body as trim and buff as Paul Ryan’s. Unless I’m specifically willing to devote time to the exercise regimen Ryan endures each morning, it’s just not happening.
You might already have read analyses about the speech, so I’ll try to keep my take to a minimum of what I jotted down as Romney was smiling that awkward smile of his as he soaked up the love, if not the respect, of the conventioneers, who, honestly, seemed less enthusiastic than those I’ve seen at other party gatherings.
First, I couldn’t believe Mitt said, “If you ask Ann and I...” I’m picky about grammar. The correct phrase is, “If you ask Ann and me ...”, “me” being the object of the verb “ask.” “I” cannot be the object of a verb. I suppose Romney might want to reconsider any suggestion to downgrade or eliminate the Department of Education.
Second, Romney said Republicans “united” behind Obama when he assumed office. What distant Bizarro world has he lived in since January 20, 2009? The only union Republicans made was with themselves in their effort to, in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s words, make Obama a one-term president.
Third, Romney soft-pedaled the troubles Obama inherited from George Bush. He barely acknowledged Bush’s legacy—two wars, a failed economy, a rising deficit.
Fourth, he suggested the best feeling Americans had for Obama “was the day you voted for him,” ignoring the euphoria we all felt when we heard Osama bin Laden had been killed, on orders from a Democratic president.
Fifth, saying that Obama’s lack of business experience made him unqualified to be president, especially compared to his business background, Romney ignored the fact that some of our greatest or most important presidents were similarly inexperienced (FDR, JFK, Nixon, Reagan, Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt) or were failures in business (Truman, Lincoln, Jefferson).
Sixth, Romney criticized Obama’s attacks on his record at Bain Capital, saying the president didn’t understand not every business succeeds. Fair enough. I would expect then, Romney would drop any future references to Solyndra, the solar energy company that received a $500 million federal investment but wound up filing for bankruptcy a year ago tomorrow. As Romney said, not every company succeeds.
Seventh, “As president, I’ll protect the sanctity of life,” Romney said to wild cheering. But what did he mean by that? Would he continue to defend a woman’s right to an abortion in cases of rape, incest or risk to her life? Would he work to outlaw contraception, as his running mate Ryan advocates? Would he support legislation to criminalize women and their doctors for abortions? Would he support legislation to extend rights to the unborn, from the moment of conception? Would he reject embryonic stem cell research? Would he reject federal funding for Planned Parenthood?
Eighth, Mocking Obama’s promise “to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet,” Romney said, “My promise is to help you and your family.” His promise is a good one, but in denigrating Obama’s, he projects his disdain for the realities of climate change and pollution. It is indisputable sea levels are rising, that the world’s air and water are getting dirtier. To ignore the long-term implications is evidence Romney is living in a dream world of the 1950s.
Ninth, Romney resurrected Reagan’s question as to whether we are better off today than four years ago. To someone currently unemployed or in danger of losing their home, the answer is obvious. But let’s look at the trends. Unemployment is slightly higher, 8.3% compared to 7.6% when Obama took the oath of office. But the trendline points down and would be lower if not for the massive layoffs of state and local government workers. Job creation is up. The Dow Jones Industrial Index was 8,281 the morning of January 20, 2009. NASDAQ was 1,529. The S&P 500 was 850. This morning they were, respectively, 13,000; 3,049; and 1,399. Gas prices are almost double what they were, despite the highest level of U.S. oil production. Housing prices seem to be creeping back up, but too many homes remain under water (and I’m not referring to Hurricane Isaac).
To sum up, economic statistics and trends can support Obama or Romney, which is why so many pundits believe Romney must make himself more likable, and Obama less likable, for the GOP to retake the Oval Office. Which brings up a most interesting question NBC’s Brian Williams asked Tom Brokaw last night—why is it that after six years of running for the presidency, Mitt Romney remains an unknown to much of the electorate? Brokaw didn’t have an answer.
An example of how much of a blank slate Romney is could be observed in the weird Clint Eastwood segment of last night’s convention. Eastwood said he never thought it was a good idea for an attorney to be president, an obvious reference to Obama’s Harvard Law School degree. The crowd laughed and cheered. I guess Eastwood and his live audience didn’t read Romney’s resume—he, too, is a Harvard Law School graduate, class of 1975.
Chinese Fortune: Jon Huntsman Jr., the former governor or Utah and ex-Ambassador to China, was asked by Stephen Colbert to say in Mandarin what he really thinks of Romney. Here’s a translation: "All right! Let me put it this way. I think that two months from now Governor Romney will have a lot of success."
But as Nathan pointed out on http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4158, “Unfortunately for Romney, the election's slightly more than two months away.”
Foreign Language: Finally, here’s another example of dumbness on the airwaves. Stephen A. Smith, an ESPN talk-radio host, said yesterday he would gladly learn Spanish if he knew he would be sent to Brazil to cover the 2016 Summer Olympics. His co-host, producer or anyone else listening in didn’t tell him Spanish would do him little good in Rio de Janeiro as Brazilians speak Portuguese.
Labels: abortion, Bain Capital, Bizarro, Brian Williams, China, climate change, ESPN, George Bush, Harvard, Jon Huntsman, Obama, Osama bin Laden, Paul Ryan, Romney, Solyndra, Stephen A. Smith, Tom Brokaw
What I'd Like to Hear
Not wanting to dim the afterglow of Ellie and Donny’s wedding, I have avoided watching almost all of the Republican National Convention. I expect, however, I will tune in to listen to Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech tonight.
For the Mittster to win the election, pundits have said, he must cut into the advantage Barack Obama has with two key constituencies—women and blacks. Accordingly, they have been pressing the point that an improved economy, which only the Mittster can deliver, would be the best tonic for what ails these two demographics.
So I wonder, under a Romney presidency ...
... would women who could not afford traditional medical care still be able to receive screenings and treatments at Planned Parenthood, or will Republicans cause the clinics to shut down by defunding them?
... would anyone with a pre-condition still be eligible for health care insurance or would Republicans turn the clock back on one of the key provisions of Obamacare?
... would unemployed children still living at home through age 26 be covered by their parents’ health care insurance or will Republicans deny them coverage that was extended under Obamacare?
... would our streets and homes be safer if Republicans ended grants to states to hire policemen and firemen?
... would children and their families in poverty be better off under Republican plans to reduce spending on social welfare programs? Would they be better off if block grants are given to the states which have their own budgetary problems and are looking for ways to cut expenses?
... would a Romney administration fight for women to receive equal pay for equal work as men?
... would they be better off if there were fewer Pell grants for their children’s higher education?
... would they be better off if there were fewer regulations to protect our food supply, our drug industry, our natural resources and parklands from exploitation and pollution?
... would they be better off if programs supporting the arts and culture were curtailed or sharply reduced?
I suspect the answer to all these questions, and more, would be a resounding “NO.” But let’s give Mitt the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps tonight I will hear him enumerate beyond platitudes and generalities his specific vision for America. Perhaps he will provide specifics about what his administration would cut to achieve a reduction in our national debt. Perhaps he will offer specific solutions to regenerate our industries, to reinvigorate investments in our infrastructure, to expand opportunities for the underemployed, to assist those whose homes have depleted in value.
I suspect we will get more of the same “America’s best days are ahead” from him. More “trust me.” I’d like to trust him, but so far his campaign has lied about things Obama didn’t say or do. Even after the lies have been pointed out to them, Romney and Paul Ryan have continued to lie.
If he wins and both houses of Congress swing Republican, would he have the backbone to stand up to the extreme wing of his party? I doubt it. He could score a lot of points with me if he would say tonight a woman has the right to an abortion if she is raped, or becomes pregnant through incest, or the pregnancy puts her life in danger. That would take courage. He’s said that in interviews. Now let’s hear him say that before the convention delegates. I doubt he has the courage to do so. Prove me wrong, Mitt.
Labels: abortion, blacks, equal pay, Mitt Romney, Obama, Obamacare, Paul Ryan, Pell grants, Republican National Convention, women
Hava Negila—Let Us Rejoice
I wore socks to Ellie and Donny’s wedding Sunday.
We danced the hora to Jewish and Israeli music, though not to the traditional melody of Hava Negila. By coincidence, after Gilda and I returned home from the wedding weekend at West Point’s Thayer Hotel, I opened an email from my cousin Herb. It contained a 10-minute video on the history of Hava Negila, a tune that has become a mainstay of many a singer’s repertoire and the background music for ice skaters and gymnasts, the most recent being Olympian Aly Raisman’s gold medal floor exercise program. Give a look, as old Jewish men used to say: http://vimeo.com/43425677
Allowing for an understandable amount of parental pride, believe me the bride was beautiful, the groom was handsome, the ceremony on an embankment overlooking the Hudson River, under a chupah stitched by Donny’s mother, with vows lovingly authored by Ellie and Donny, was joyous, spectacular and spiritual, the food was delicious, the music romantic and sassy, and the feeling of community, from Donny’s family and friends and from our family and friends, palpable. As Gilda referenced Hillary Clinton in her remarks, it truly takes a village to raise a child. We have been fortunate to have had loving helpers craft the woman Ellie has grown into, and that Donny’s family and friends molded him into the mensch he is.
Hava Negila means "let us rejoice." The afterglow still warms Gilda’s and my heart.
Labels: Aly Raisman, Donny, Ellie, Hava Negila, Hillary Clinton, Hudson River, It takes a village, Thayer Hotel, Wedding, West Point
Brook(s) No Evil
To the list of one-issue voters (e.g., supporters of Israel, pro-choice or anti-abortion champions, environmental advocates), David Brooks of The NY Times wants to add another—Medicare cost containers. He wants you to cast a vote for the candidate who “can slow the explosion of entitlement spending (Medicare) so we can devote more resources toward our future.” He reluctantly, it seemed to me, believes it would be Mitt Romney, unless Barack Obama can come up with a credible alternative plan (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/opinion/brooks-guide-for-the-perplexed.html?_r=1&hp).
I applaud his willingness to cross party lines in the latter case, but regret his narrow-minded argument. Though it’s true spending on Medicare (Medicaid and Social Security, as well) must be contained, Republican budgets with their no-new-taxes foundation fail to balance for at least 10 years, during which time Romney-Ryan and their acolytes will have gutted all investment in our future—investments in education, in infrastructure, in the arts, in parks and recreation, in support for the disadvantaged, in women’s health, in the environment. In short, in everything but the military (perhaps they realize they’ll need a strong armed forces not to defend us from outside attack but from a revolt from within. Just kidding, I hope.)
Simply put, a vote for Romney-Ryan is a vote into the past, a vote to solidify the polarization of our society economically, socially and educationally, though not politically, as that has already been achieved (a rather ignominious, but nevertheless accurate, descriptor).
Obama is not the perfect candidate, but at least he plausibly addresses our needs for the future. By focusing just on Medicare, Brooks fails to see the dangers lurking in a Romney presidency. He’s like the Naderites who cast an absurd ballot for Ralph Nader in 2000, thereby condemning the country to the tragedy of George W. Bush, whose mess Obama has had to clean up, with no assistance from Bush’s Republican mates.
The headline of Brooks’ column was “Guide for the Perplexed.” What is perplexing is how a normally astute and reasoned commentator could be so narrow-focused when Medicare is but one challenge facing the country.
Akin for More: Speaking of one challenge, it’s easy to focus on and deplore Todd Akin’s misguided and ill-informed views of rape, women and their reproductive systems. It’s easy to dismiss them as an aberration, not just by Akin but also by any other Republican who shares those ideas.
The true measure of Akin and the problem or benefit Republicans have being associated with him, depending on one’s political point of view, is his advocacy of other extreme positions including, according to Sean Sullivan of The Washington Post, an end to federal support for the National School Lunch Program, his comparing federal student loans to stage 3 cancer, and his belief that civil rights should be re-litigated.
Akin is a deeply religious man. That appeals to many Missouri voters. But his reactionary positions on social welfare issues, not just abortion, demonstrate he has very little compassion for his fellow man, woman or child.
Money Votes: Campaign finance is one of the big stories this election season, what with all the “soft” money going into funds, especially conservative leaning ones, that do not have to disclose their donors. Coupled with Romney out-muscling Obama for the third month in a row in raking in millions of dollars in disclosed campaign contributions, the GOP looks like it is winning the vote among those willing to put their money on the line.
But for those who missed an intriguing story in Tuesday’s NY Times, here’s a different read of the political winds. Under the headline, “Investors in Health Care Seem to Bet on Incumbent,” the article revealed how companies with a stake in the future of Obamacare have made acquisitions based on their belief the president would be re-elected
(http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/investors-in-health-care-seem-to-bet-on-incumbent/).
Labels: abortion, campaign finance, David Brooks, George W. Bush, Israel, Medicare, Missouri, NY Times, Obama, Obamacare, Ralph Nader, rape, Romney, school lunch, Sean Sullivan, Todd Akin, Washington Post
What If ...
I don’t normally watch Hardball with Chris Matthews, but the Yankees game hadn’t started yet and I had a few minutes to kill while doing the dishes last night. I tuned in at the end of Hardball, in time to hear Matthews describe what would happen if Romney-Ryan were elected. If you vote for Mitt Romney you get the “March of the Clowns,” said Matthews, enumerating the likes of Bachman, Trump and other extreme politicos who would shape a list of regressive disasters known to most intelligent observers and already delineated by your faithful correspondent back in January. I’ll spare you the details, but here’s a link in case you don’t remember what I wrote: http://nosocksneededanymore.blogspot.com/2012/01/america-of-our-past-and-future.html.
What prompted Matthews’ outrage Monday was the Todd Akins affair. For anyone not familiar with this ultra-conservative Republican congressman running to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) of Missouri, he espoused Sunday, before partially recanting, a theory that when a woman is “legitimately” raped, her body “has ways to try to shut the whole thing (meaning, pregnancy) down,” thus negating the need for an abortion. Akins opposes all abortions.
Beyond the repulsiveness of what Akin said about rape and his utter failure to comprehend and empathize with women who are attacked sexually, Akin has performed a public service. He is proof-positive this election is about more than just the economy. Social issues, the right to an abortion being one of them, are very much at stake.
Akin exposed a basic belief among many Republicans, that there be no exceptions for abortions. It’s all part of the Republican war on women that includes shutting down Planned Parenthood, requiring invasive gynecological ultrasounds before legal abortions, and efforts to ban contraception. Though Romney said yesterday he would permit abortions in the case of rape or danger to the health of a mother, in the past he has supported a total ban. It’s another flip-flop, another example of not knowing what we’d get should Romney win.
What’s more, a draft of the Republican Party platform to be adopted next week calls for a constitutional amendment banning all forms of abortion, according to CNN (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/gop-platform-abortion_n_1815021.html). Will Romney finesse that total ban out of the platform, or simply ignore it during the campaign, much as he has sidestepped specifics about his economic recovery plan and his taxes?
His presumptive running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan, in linked to Akins. As Eugene Robinson pointed out in The Washington Post, “Last year, Akin co-sponsored a bill in the House that would have narrowed the exception that allows Medicaid funds to pay for abortions for women who are raped. The proposed measure would have permitted the use of funds only to end pregnancies resulting from ‘forcible rape.’ Paul Ryan, now Mitt Romney’s running mate, was another co-sponsor of the measure, which ultimately failed.
“The statutory rape of a child by an adult would not fit the definition the House Republicans tried to impose; nor would the rape of a woman who was drugged, say, or who had limited mental capacity. Never mind the fact that, as far as criminal law is concerned, rape is rape. Never mind the fact that all rape, by its very nature, is ‘forcible.’
“Akin’s assertion about ‘legitimate’ rape is really nothing but an attempt to blame the victim. It stems from the view that the only true victim is a woman who is raped while violently resisting a ski-masked assailant who came in through the bedroom window. Anything short of that, she must have been asking for it.”
Robinson also noted, “Akin, by the way, is a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.”
Hey, Chris Matthews—no need to send in the clowns. They’re already here.
Labels: abortion, Bachman, Claire McCaskill, Eugene Robinson, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Missouri, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Planned Parenthood, rape, Republicans, Todd Akin, Trump, Washington Post
Fat, Fareed, Fear of Fractions, An Honest Face
Dieting Secret: Lost a few more ounces of fat today. Perhaps I should consider writing a how-to diet book. My first bit of advice—start with a high metabolism rate!
Pit Stop: Fareed Zakaria, the renowned foreign affairs journalist, recently made news himself by violating professional standards (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/business/media/scandal-threatens-fareed-zakarias-image-as-media-star.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1345474868-A8fm9PZAQn2i/+0DuUu7Sg), but I will always link him to an action I never witnessed by any public speaker in four decades of reporting.
About six years ago Zakaria was featured at the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) annual conference. To the Grand Poobahs of retailing he pontificated on the state of the world and America’s standing within it. After a speech of about 40 minutes, the audience expected a question and answer period. But before the first query could be launched, Zakaria requested their indulgence. He asked for a momentary delay. He had to run off-stage to the bathroom. An embarrassed giggle rippled through the audience. Several minutes later he returned to applause, having proven beyond a doubt that those we see on TV and read in print have no fewer human needs than the rest of us.
Fear of Fractions: Some years ago the Securities and Exchange Commission made the stock market shift the share valuation model to dollars and cents from listings based on numbers and fractions. It made it easier for the Average Joe and Jane to figure out what a stock bought and sold for. Of course, most stocks are traded these days by computers for large institutions. No matter. The new system makes it easier to understand when Brian Williams and other talking heads report the day’s activity.
Now, a new study in the July Journal of Commerce by faculty at the Carlson School of Management, first brought to my attention by The Lempert Report, indicates our collective fear of fractions and our inability to process changes in percentages may be costing consumers money during their trips to retail stores. Faced with two different sales promotions—percentage off or a bonus pack buy—consumers will more frequently choose getting more of a product over paying less for a standard size of a product. This could lead retailers and consumer package goods (CPG) companies to camouflage price increases.
As Phil Lempert reported, “Retailers and CPG continue to mask everyday price increases with smaller package sizes, fractional ounce content and uneven dollar amounts that shoppers find hard to compute. While everyday prices rise—and they will again due to the Midwest drought and other weather challenges—stores and brands push more promotions to convey value and retain shopper trips. When they price promote, they find that distraction works to their benefit because, frankly, shoppers aren't great at math,” specifically knowing how to calculate percentage changes.
Bottom line: Before you go supermarket shopping, you might want to brush up on your math skills.
The antipathy toward percentages might also explain why Mitt Romney has difficulty selling the public on his effective tax rate. Instead of emphasizing his rate, a comparatively low 13.9% vs. a higher rate most middle income households pay, Romney might want to stress his actual tax payment. Sure, it will imply he makes tons of money, but most people already know that. It’s the percentage he pays that is getting him in trouble.
An Honest Face: I just found out I’m more honest than the average bald man. According to a study by Honest Tea, bearded fellows can be trusted 96% of the time compared to just 85% of bald men.
This finding comes from one of the more unusual field studies. As noted on its study Web site, “This summer, Honest Tea conducted experiments in 30 cities to test people's honesty. We set up unmanned pop-up stores and asked people to pay $1 per bottle on the honor system. Data was collected and we compiled our findings into the National Honesty Index (http://thenationalhonestyindex.com/).
I’m not really a beachgoer, so it was comforting to know they’re only honest 91% of the time. I’m no longer a biker (pedal powered or motorized), so I was glad to see they didn’t cheat just 92% of the time. But I was troubled that suburbanites and those who wear hats, both categories of which I include myself in, both registered meager 90% honesty rates. And I was particularly depressed to see Brooklyn, the borough of my youth, now home to our daughter and soon-to-be son-in-law, recorded a dismal 61% honesty rating.
Labels: Brian Williams, Carlson School of Management, diet, Freed Zakaria, Honest Tea, Journal of Commerce, Lempert Report, Retail Industry Leaders Association, Romney, Securities and Exchange Commission
Countdown to Sunday
The countdown has begun. One week until Ellie’s wedding. I’ve lost about a pound and a half in the last week, though I must admit I didn’t follow the diet I said I would. I ate pasta and other carbs, but no bread. I got my pre-wedding haircut, my suit’s all cleaned and pressed, haven’t decided on the shoes yet, and Ellie still has to hand me her pre-selected tie. I’m not sure who will be more relieved when this is all over, me or the UPS man who seems to be making daily deliveries to our porch.
Last time one of our children married, wedding attire was more casual. Six years ago, Dan and Allison left it to everyone’s sensibilities how to dress. I seem to recall one of Dan’s friends came in shorts (in his defense, it was 90+ degrees and 90+% humidity). Most people, including yours truly, wore a shirt and slacks. No tie. Anyway, I bring this up because of an article in today’s NY Times Styles section about men wearing shorts, not just to bum around in but also in more formal situations, such as work (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/fashion/mens-shorts-regain-fashion-status.html?ref=style).
I love wearing shorts, usually cargo shorts with a 7” inseam. But let me state unequivocally, short of being on Bermuda where knee high socks are part of the outfit, there is no way wearing shorts to the office, or a formal wedding, is acceptable, no matter how many designers include them in their runway shows. I have legs people would die for, that is, if you’re a woman. Few men have legs skinnier than mine. They may be acceptably revealed on the ball field, or some other casual venue, but not anywhere formal.
On the subject of acceptable public displays, another Styles section article commented on celebrity and non-celebrity moms working off their baby fat (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/fashion/in-celebrity-climate-from-bump-to-paunch-pudgy-moms-cant-get-a-break.html?ref=style).
Way back when Dan was born almost 34 years ago, we had a friend whose doctor advised her she would get pregnant only if she added five pounds to her zero-size frame. Reluctantly, she followed his prescription. She delivered a boy, decided to keep the weight on to conceive again, and after the second delivery crunched her way back to size zero within weeks. She proudly told Gilda she was doing 100 sit-ups within a week of the second baby’s arrival.
We lost track of that family over the years, though I did run into them in Manhattan several years ago. Though now middle age, she was still sporting that zero figure.
Lest you think all I do is read The Times, here’s an interesting piece from The Washington Post on Janesville, Wis., home to the would-be vice president, Rep. Paul Ryan. Would he be good for his home town? Read and see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/could-paul-ryans-ideas-help-his-struggling-home-town/2012/08/17/5a857dea-e729-11e1-a3d2-2a05679928ef_story.html/?wprss=rss_MobileOpinionsSectionFront&wpmk=MK0000200.
Here’s another Washington Post article on the controversy surrounding President Obama’s comments on who is responsible for building a business: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-i-built--with-government-help/2012/08/17/ecc86b24-e885-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_story.html.
Labels: Bermuda, Janesville, NY Times, Paul Ryan, shorts, UPS, Washington Post, Wedding, Wisconsin
More Summer Musings
How Did They Know? How did the brain trust at Modern Baking magazine know to send me an online subscription solicitation? I hadn’t baked bread in more than 15 years but had just recently taken up the practice. Two breads down and lo and behold, the subscription solicitation arrives in my email inbox, even before my planned blog on my new pursuit. Big Brother is definitely watching. Maybe Modern Baking has access to my supermarket purchases. The honchos there would have seen my purchases of flour, yeast, non fat dry milk and deduced I was baking up a storm.
I stopped baking bread when I started following the Atkins diet of no or reduced carbohydrates. I didn’t do it to lose weight, but rather to control my triglycerides and cholesterol. They’re much better now, thank you, so I dusted off the Welbilt bread machine and began mixing the ingredients several times a week before going to bed. The smell of fresh cooked whole wheat bread permeating the house is quite stimulating in the morning.
But it also can be enlarging. Aside from the bread, I haven’t changed my eating habits over the last fortnight, so I’m left with bread as the reason I’ve added a few not-so-well-placed pounds. Less than two weeks till Ellie’s wedding, so I think I might resist making any more bread for a while.
Early Bird Special: Today I might have officially become a retired senior citizen. To lose those few pounds around my waist, I not only unplugged the bread machine but also decided to forego eating carbs. No bread. No cereal. No chips. No rice. No pasta. No potatoes. No pizza. Lots of hunger.
By 4 pm today I was in deep need of an early bird special dinner. As Gilda had an evening appointment, I was on my own, which meant I could attack the leftover chicken scarpiello at my whim. My whim meant 5 o’clock. After polishing off a double portion (even with some potatoes), I was still hungry, so I ate some almonds and cashews. I’m still hungry. How will I make it to a normal bed time? What’s more, when I go to bed hungry I tend to hallucinate. I’m not optimistic about this diet. I’m not optimistic about really getting older and becoming a devotee of early bird specials. I hope my daughter appreciates the extreme sacrifice I am making for her.
Bird’s Eye View: Driving home last Thursday night from the theater (an enthralling production of Dogfight at Second Stage, highly recommended), I saw a column of scaffolding rising at the end of 8th Avenue. I knew it wasn’t a new Apple store popping up. I assumed good ol’ Christopher Columbus’ statue at his eponymous circle was in need of some pointing or other minor repair.
I was wrong. As the accompanying article reveals, ordinary citizens will get to see what previously only New York’s pigeons could appreciate—face to face encounters with the Great Navigator (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/arts/design/in-columbus-circle-tatzu-nishi-to-build-living-room.html?_r=1).
Cosmo Girl: Yesterday I finally finished an article from the the week prior’s New York Times Sunday magazine on the international proliferation of Cosmopolitan. Today, news came its signature editor, Helen Gurley Brown, died.
Here’s one incomparable line from her obituary on The Times Web site: “She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger.” (To read the rest of the obit click this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/business/media/helen-gurley-brown-who-gave-cosmopolitan-its-purr-is-dead-at-90.html?pagewanted=1&ref=arts)
Youthful Enthusiasm: In Paul Ryan’s introductory remarks with Mitt Romney Sunday aboard the USS Wisconsin, the Republican vice presidential hopeful delivered some good and bad news. He started with the bad news—Barack Obama was still president. Then he went on to say the good news was “on November 6 he won’t be any longer.”
Maybe it was the excitement of the moment, but for the record, regardless of who wins the November election, Obama’s first term as president of the United States will not end until around noon on January 20, 2013.
Softball Update: I’m a bad student of the game. I haven’t learned my lesson—when pitching, don’t let the other team hit the ball directly at your fielders!
We lost again yesterday, another blowout, 11-1, to a team that began the day with the same 3-10 record. Thirteen errors in the first six innings of a seven inning game. I think they had six legitimate hits. I don’t like losing, but I really hate giving a game away. I’m also embarrassed to say I lost my cool after the fourth or fifth error in the second inning. I apologized to the player I criticized, but the damage was done. They’re trying, but from my vantage, they’re really trying my fortitude.
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Labels: Atkins diet, baking bread, cholesterol, Cosmo Girl, Cosmopolitan, early bird specials, Helen Gurley Brown, Mitt Romney, Modern Baking, NY Times, Obama, Paul Ryan, softball, triglycerides
Bravo, Mitt, But the Tail Now Wags the Dog
Let’s give Mitt Romney some deserved high-fives. On several levels, his selection of Congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate showed some strategic maneuvering and has altered the presidential campaign.
First, by announcing Saturday morning, Romney avoided a hammering in many “liberal newspaper” Sunday Op-Ed sections. The New York Times, for example, contained no commentary, not even an editorial, on the choice of Ryan in its Sunday Review section. But for a stinging rebuke of Romney’s tax plan, and Ryan’s pre-selection budget plan, read David Firestone’s analysis: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/romneys-tax-plan-defies-the-rules-of-math.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Like Romney, Ryan is a numbers man. There’s little empathy Joe Six-Pack will be able to take away from either man. They supposedly are economic policy wonks, but there’s little little agreement they understand the anguish their plans would have on Americans who earn less than $200,000 a year. Moreover, media reports paint Ryan as a no compromise kind of guy, hardly the type Romney can say will help him instill a new working atmosphere in Congress.
Romney-Ryan are the closest thing to “buddies on the campaign trail” since Clinton-Gore.
I wonder, in vetting Ryan, how many years of tax returns did Romney’s team peruse? According to The Times the other day, when he was under veep consideration in 2008, Romney provided 23 years’ worth of returns to John McCain. I wonder, when running for Congress, how many years of tax returns has Ryan made available to the public? Will Romney now feel pressure to unseal more tax filings (keep in mind, he has yet to submit his full 2011 return).
Until now, Romney has chosen to run a “trust me” candidacy. Trust me I’ll be better than Obama. Trust me I’ll reduce the deficit. Trust me I’ll lower taxes without increasing the deficit. Trust me I’ll spend more on the military. Trust me I’ll improve the economy. Trust me health care will be reformed, just not under Obamacare. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Just don’t ask for details on how all this will be done, what programs would be cut to balance the budget.
By selecting Ryan, Romney has put some meat on his bare-boned promises. Ryan’s budget has specifics, though not everything spelled out. Basically, by choosing Ryan, the tail now wags the Romney dog. Romney will have little leeway in being seen as a strict advocate of Ryan’s plan to cut support programs for the underclass and middle class, change Medicare, reduce education grants and food stamps. Romney has officially embraced class warfare, for as he’s stripping support programs away he is advocating lower taxes for the rich.
The net effect—the debate no longer is on Obama’s stewardship of the economy. The debate has shifted to the budget and how Romney-Ryan’s plan will disproportionally hurt minorities, blacks, Hispanics, the middle class, the working class, seniors, students, and anyone else who doesn’t earn at least $200,000 a year ($250,000 for married joint filers). Now both sides have vulnerabilities.
The net net effect is that conservatives will be energized to support Romney (something they already have done in their antipathy toward Obama). But at the same time Ryan’s nomination will energize progressives and independents who now have a darker blueprint of what a Romney victory would mean. If they were holding back from Obama before, hoping Romney would revert to his Massachusetts ways, they now have been disabused of that possibility.
On a personal note, I’m happy Romney chose Ryan. I can say I almost met him. Our paths crossed during my trip last May to the Capitol with a group of Israeli trauma care providers brought to the States by Shalom Yisrael. The tall, lanky Ryan, with his widow’s beak hairdo reminiscent of Eddie Munster, walked right past our group. I reacted too slowly to stop him to introduce the group. Probably for the better. I might have expressed myself in a less than respectful manner.
Labels: Class warfare, Clinton-Gore, David Firestone, economy, Eddie Munster, Joe Six-Pack, John McCain, New York Times, Paul Ryan, Romney, Shalom Yisrael, taxes
Summer Musings
There Goes the Sun: I am green with envy at those able to harness the sun’s power. I learned yesterday my plans to install solar energy panels on the south side of our roof would not be economically feasible as my neighbor’s evergreen trees block too much of the sun, especially during the late fall, winter and early spring months.
I tried all sorts of different configurations, including panels on the side of the garage facing east, but different trees got in the way. Well, at least I tried to reduce our carbon footprint ...
Out of the Woods: Did you hear about the golfer at Maple Moor Golf Course in White Plains who tackled a suspect fleeing from police the other day? The Good Samaritan golfer saw the suspect running away through a wooded area (http://www.lohud.com/article/20120808/NEWS/308080037/Golfer-tackles-fleeing-drug-suspect-Maple-Moor-course-?odyssey=nav%257Chead&nclick_check=1).
When I picked up driver and putter lo some 30-odd years ago, I played Maple Moor. Had a bad guy rambled through the woods back then I would have been in perfect position to tackle him, or at least take an errant swing at him, as I was most often in the woods because of my frequent errant swings from the tee or fairway.
We played in a threesome back then, three new fathers—Dave, Rudy and yours truly—seeking diversion on Friday afternoons while our wives cared for our young’uns. We weren’t good golfers. Not even decent duffers. The only time our balls did not wind up in the woods was when the hole we were playing had a water hazard. You can guess where our balls landed when playing those holes.
Anyway, Dave and I would emerge from the brambles pledging scores of eight or nine. Rudy would own up to a four, five at most. After a few rounds (golf, not drinks, though we did more than a little of that, as well), Dave and I concluded it was no fun playing with Rudy if he wasn't going to count every stroke.
Easy Rider: Once again The New York Times has printed a story on adults learning to ride a bicycle. Here’s today’s article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/nyregion/a-reporter-learns-to-ride-a-bicycle-as-an-adult.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 but if you want my version of late-in-life daredevil learning and exploits on two wheels, here’s a link to what I wrote in June 2011: http://nosocksneededanymore.blogspot.com/2011/06/paddling-along.html
Reality TV: Have you noticed reality is starting to look a lot like TV? I mean, when did FBI and other law enforcement spokeswomen start looking like they came direct from Central Casting?
Regrettably, over the last few weeks we’ve seen lots of TV coverage of mass shootings. I don’t intend any disrespect, but some of the public spokespeople put forward by the police and FBI have been downright good looking, like they belong on CSI or Criminal Minds.
Perfect Match? As I’m washing up and dressing each morning I listen to the news on WCBS880, the all-news station. I’ve always assumed the station’s audience has above average education levels, and probably above average incomes.
Which makes me wonder, why do they carry so many ads for male menopause/testosterone fixes, debt relief schemes and other “fly-by-night” remedies for everything from hair loss to car dealerships where “nothing down” lets you drive away in the vehicle of your dreams? It just seems odd that an upscale audience like the one I envision for WCBS880 would be a match for their advertisers.
The advertisers must be reaping benefit or they wouldn’t be airing the spots so often and for so long. But you’d think that a well-informed audience would know better than to respond favorably to a pitch that promises the sexual performance of a teenager. As H.L. Mencken said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
Labels: bicycle, carbon footprint, Criminal Minds, CSI, FBI, Maple Moor Golf Course, Solar energy, WCBS880
To Russia With Love
When my generation was young and more radical, a common retort by the powers-that-be (or should that be, “powers-that-were”?) was, “If you don’t like it here, move to Russia.”
Now, it would appear, Russia might be the preferred locale for those “job creators” who don’t want their high incomes taxed too highly. According to KPMG, cited in Wednesday’s NY Times, at 13% Russia has the lowest top individual income tax rate among nine industrialized countries. Here’s how the top rates stack up: Sweden, 57%; Japan, 50%; Britain, 45%; Germany, 45%; Italy, 43%; France, 41%, soon to be 44% with the possibility of it going as high as 75% if new president François Hollande has his way; United States, 35%; Canada, 29%; Russia, 13%.
The Times article painted a dire portrait of Frenchies scurrying to relocate to more tax-friendly countries, such as Belgium, as Hollande’s scheme to get them to pay more gathers momentum (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/business/global/frances-les-riches-vow-to-leave-if-75-tax-rate-is-passed.html?pagewanted=all).
All of which begs the question, if the lower Bush tax rates on high incomes are allowed to expire at the end of the year, would our wealthy elite abandon the good ole’ USA to live, say, in Moscow or Vladivostok, in case they want a view of Sarah Palin’s home? Maybe not, given recent reports about Russian capitalists choosing to leave (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/world/europe/ex-kgb-banker-and-putin-critic-plans-to-sell-assets.html). They might find criticizing their new country’s leader, as they have been wont to do toward Barack Obama, slightly more problematic on many a foreign soil.
Of course, money, keeping your money, does talk. Here’s how two French business people explained the tax issue to The Times:
“‘People have an acceptable amount of taxes they are willing to pay,’ said Mr. (Steve) Horton, the (Parisian) accountant, ‘and if it goes above that, they will move somewhere that’s more reasonable.’”
“‘The thing French politicians don’t seem to understand or care about is that when you tax away two-thirds of someone’s earnings to appeal to voters, productive people who can enrich businesses and the economy won’t come — or they will just leave,’ said Diane Segalen, a corporate headhunter.”
Maybe. After all, during the Eisenhower years when our economy blossomed, the highest personal tax rate was 91%. I don’t seem to recall many corporate titans abandoning America back then. Nor did they flee America during the Clinton years when the top tax rate was 39%.
Political Analogies: I never liked SAT tests or other exams that asked you to figure out what two sets of data had in common. But I am intrigued by this grouping: Birth Certificate is to Obama as Tax Return is to Romney.
Republicans are finding the shoe on their foot is no less tight than it was on Obama’s during the inane birther controversy that should have been resolved when Hawaii released copies of the president’s birth certificate. Obama is legally qualified to be our chief executive. Mitt Romney can stonewall all he wants about his tax returns for the last decade, but sooner or later he will have to give in and do what Obama did with his birth certificate—make it available to the public.
For those defending Romney’s right to privacy, why is it that cabinet secretaries and other officials confirmed by the Senate must divulge more tax information than he is willing to? Romney is running for our country’s highest office. If he has nothing to hide, let’s get on with it and show the goods. If he does have something to hide, he should be reminded of the first rule of any political transgression: it’s not the foul that gets you in trouble, it’s the cover-up.
One interesting footnote to this dust-up between Romney and Sen. Harry Reid (who claims Romney paid no taxes for 10 years) is that both of them are Mormons. I wonder what the elders of the church think about all this brotherly “love”?
Labels: birth certificate, Birther, Clinton, Eisenhower, France, Harry Reid, Hollande, KPMG, Mormon, NY Times, Obama, Romney, Russia, Sarah Palin, tax rate, Vladivostok
An Empire Built on Nickels and Dimes
Ever been inside the Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway in lower Manhattan? During my early days reporting on the retail industry, I went there often to meet with executives of what at the time was one of the most diversified international retailers, though not one of the most successful. Today, all that remains of that empire are memories, folklore and just one enterprise, Foot Locker.
Today’s nostalgia is prompted by reports the top 30 floors of the 57-story, Cass Gilbert-designed landmark building have been bought, to be turned into high-priced condominiums (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/realestate/top-floors-of-woolworth-building-to-be-remade-as-luxury-apartments.html?_r=1&hpw). How ironic these multi-million dollar residences will sit atop a building paid for from the proceeds of a nickel and dime store chain. Frank W. Woolworth paid for his edifice in cash, $13.5 million, what today would be the equivalent of nearly $300 million.
The neo-Gothic structure, tallest in the world when it opened in 1913, was never meant to be solely the province of the Woolworth Corporation. Its headquarters staff used just a few of the floors, 44, 45 and 46, as I faintly recall. Some of its divisions, including Kinney Shoe Corp. from which Foot Locker sprang, had offices elsewhere in Manhattan.
I first entered the Woolworth Building in late 1978, as part of research for a January 1979 feature on the company’s 100th anniversary. The building was nicknamed the “cathedral of commerce” the day it opened. Like the Gothic churches of Europe, the lobby’s vaulted ceilings, mosaics and stained glass made one feel insignificant. See for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WTM3_PAT_M_IN_NYC_0021.jpg
It inspired awe. And wonder, not the wonder of reverence, but rather the wonder of consternation. How could any company that produced such magnificence sink to a level of mediocrity and even insignificance? How could its executives fail to recognize changes within the retail industry?
To be sure, the variety-store oriented Woolworth brain trust had diversified, investing in discount stores (Woolco), specialty stores (Susie’s Casuals, Anderson-Little, Richman Bros., Kinney), off-price stores (*J. Brannam), and international divisions (Canada, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Great Britain). Without going into an exhaustive explanation of what went wrong with each, the short story is they all underachieved. They were either closed down or sold off, save Foot Locker. (After shuttering the variety stores, Woolworth changed its name to Venator Group, then Foot Locker.)
Here’s one example that encapsulates the mentality of what went wrong. As they had for decades during the heyday of the five and dime store era, everyone took their 30-minute lunch break at 12 noon sharp. Executives and secretaries. It was impossible to reach anyone there by phone during that half hour. Nor was it possible to reach anyone after 4:30 pm., even if you were calling from the West Coast. They all went home.
Modern day retailing needs found no home at 233 Broadway. No doubt, the new homeowners atop the Woolworth tower can expect to have all their modern day housing needs fulfilled.
Labels: *J. Brannam, Anderson-Little, Cass Gilbert, five and dime, Foot Locker, Frank W. Woolworth, Kinney Shoe Corp., nickel and dime, Richman Bros., Susie’s Casuals, Woolco, Woolworth Building
Vertically Challenged and Red Ink
When you’re almost a foot taller than your wife, standing straight has its challenges. Unlike Fred and Ginger, we don’t dance cheek to cheek, even when Gilda wears heels. Where to hang pictures on the wall is a quandary. Her eye level is way below mine. Gilda raises the bathroom shade a mere 22”. I prefer a more comfortable 33”, so that I don’t have to bend over like a hunchback to peer outside.
My father used to tell his children to stand up straight and walk with shoulders thrust back so we wouldn’t bend over. I think he was reacting to the many hunched over men and women he saw in his youth in Poland. He didn’t want us to turn into hunchbacks. Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews have a tendency to suffer from scoliosis, a condition Gilda sees quite often among Hasidic patients who come to the spine surgery practice where she works. It’s a curable condition if caught early enough.
I’m not really in danger of becoming a latter day Quasimodo, but I do sometimes envy those couples who are more vertically compatible.
Speaking of my father, I thought of him the other week when New York University received City Council approval to expand its Greenwich Village campus despite opposition from community groups and even members of its own faculty who feared the project would alter the character of the neighborhood. According to an article in The NY Times, “University officials argued that if they could not build on that parcel, they would have to continue buying up, tearing down or converting buildings, which would further damage the neighborhood’s character and infuriate residents.”
From the 1950s through the early 1980s, my father operated a lingerie factory on Broadway, shifting its location whenever his lease would expire, from 718 Broadway near 8th Street down to 692 Broadway (the old Tower Records building) to 683 Broadway to 611 Broadway at Houston Street (where Crate & Barrel now occupies the ground floor). NYU was the landlord for several of those buildings. Back then they converted many of the buildings in the area to loft apartments or office space. Doing so effectively put out of business many of the small lingerie manufacturers who for decades operated in the area.
When it was 611 Broadway’s turn to be converted, my father organized a march on city hall. All the rally did was get him a few seconds on the local news, Channel 7, I believe. He moved his factory to Brooklyn, into the Howard Bros. building just south of the Manhattan Bridge. By then, in the mid-1980s, the lingerie business was not strong, nor was the polo shirt business he has transitioned into. He was losing about $1,000 a month. In his mid-70s, he couldn’t abide the thought of losing money. My brother and I counseled against closing the factory. It was, we told him, better therapy than seeing a shrink. It kept him active and out of the house, meaning, not in our mother’s hair 24 hours a day. As she used to say, she married him for breakfast and dinner, not for lunch. They had worked together for some 30 years, he in charge of the factory operations, she in charge of the office. When he ventured into her sanctuary, decibel levels invariably rose. Now in retirement, she had no desire to have him poking around her domestic domain all day.
Despite our best efforts, he chose to close his business. All he could see was red ink.
Labels: Ashkenazi Jews, Broadway, Brooklyn, Crate and Barrel, Fred and Ginger, Greenwich Village, Howard Bros., Hunchback, Manhattan Bridge, New York University, Poland, Quasimodo, scoliosis, Tower Records
A Call for Real Answers
As a former reporter and editor I retain a healthy skepticism for what politicians say. “Spin doctor” is a kind description of what most of them do. But my patience was truly lost this morning as I listened to NPR interview Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who also happens to be the chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, and a short while latter heard two Democrats and two Republicans square off on CBS Face The Nation about the presidential election.
Asked directly why President Obama was not polling higher among married women and white women, Schultz responded with standard talking points about why he is good for women and why he should be re-elected. Challenged that she didn’t answer the question, the congresswoman insisted she did. The interview ended on that note, either because NPR determined its audience was being buffaloed or the segment ran out of time. I hope it was the former, as the media must start showing some muscle in its dealings with politicians. If they won’t answer the question, cut them off and don’t give them a free ride to poison the air with their obfuscations.
Which, unfortunately, is what happened on Face the Nation. The Republicans accused Obama of turning negative. Hello? What do they think happened the first three years of his presidency? Does the word “birther” kindle any memories? Does the voice of a GOP congressman screaming out “You lie” during the State of the Union address revive any memories? Have they forgotten how they refused to compromise, how they thwarted any attempt to gain a balanced approach to our nation’s fiscal problems, which, they have conveniently forgotten, are mainly due to George Bush’s two wars and his senior citizen prescription medical reimbursement plan.
We have 93 more days before the election. Three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate. All in October. Maybe, if we’re lucky, the format will exact specific answers from each candidate. Maybe, again if we’re lucky, the moderator will show some respect for the American people and demand specific answers rather than platitudes, innuendos and gibberish. Oh, we should be so lucky.
Labels: Birther, CBS, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee, election day, Face the Nation, NPR, Obama, presidential debate, Republican, Spin doctor
Chicagoland Express
Spent the last two days in Chicagoland at a retail industry conference in a hotel near O’Hare Airport. During my heyday travel years, I’d fly in and out of O’Hare six times or more a year. I enjoyed Chicago’s controlled bustle. It always seemed more manageable than New York, though the ride between the airport and downtown was never predictable. No matter what time of day you were just as likely to swiftly and bumpily speed down the John F. Kennedy Expressway as you were to crawl along because of congestion or road work. A cabbie once told me Chicago had two seasons—winter and construction.
I didn’t have to contend with the latter this trip. But I did get caught on my way home by the bane of most summer travelers—delays from late afternoon thunderstorms. Chicago was crystal clear, but somewhere down the line storms had disrupted service so that our outgoing plane to La Guardia had not even landed at O’Hare by our scheduled departure time. Instead of returning to New York around 9:30 pm, my best prediction was closer to midnight, if I was lucky. This part of business travel I surely have not missed since my retirement from magazine publishing.
I also haven’t missed the temptation of conference dessert platters. The petits fours seem so delectable. They’re hard to resist, even for someone who has to watch his sugar intake. But they’re soooo appealing. From past experience I know looks are deceiving, yet I wonder if this is the hotel pastry chef who finally understands cardboard is not an essential ingredient of a Napoleon. So I sample a few morsels, secure in the thought none of my fellow conference attendees will squeal to Gilda about my indiscretion. By the time she reads this blog, I’ll have gone back on the dessert wagon and assumed full deniability mode.
Postscript: I was wrong. I did wind up getting screwed by congestion. Seems when I wrote this blog sitting in the Chicago airport around 7 pm, my fellow passengers and I were under the impression the thunderstorms we saw on the weather maps and reports on our smartphones caused the delay. Not so, it turns out. I was enlightened to the real reason as I deplaned around 11:30 pm at La Guardia. When I asked one of the pilots where the thunderstorms were that delayed us, she blithely related the airline always intended us to arrive two hours late, even if our plane had been waiting at O’Hare on time. Air traffic flow, or more precisely, too much air traffic into and out of La Guardia, made a late arrival in New York standard operating procedure. So much for truth in scheduling! Congestion! Argh!!!!
Postscript 2: Slight correction to my Wednesday post on Target, Chick-fil-A and same-sex marriage. The Matt Bai article from the Sunday NY Times magazine appeared July 22. I had written July 17 because when I looked it up on The Times Web site, the article carried a dateline of July 17, when it was first posted to the Internet. I never bothered to check what day of the week July 17 fell on. Another example of how it’s hard to trust anything you read these days and fact-checking is a lost art.
Labels: Chicago, Chicagoland, Chick-fil-A, La Gaurdia, Matt Bai, NY Times, O’Hare Airport, petits fours, same-sex marriage, Target
Chick-fil-A and Other Food for Thought
Lots of news and views to review from the last week or so ...
So liberal-minded cities and universities have rallied against Chick-fil-A because its president voiced religious opposition to same-sex marriage. Not a position I would endorse but probably not one solely held by Dan T. Cathy, son of the founder, S. Truett Cathy, a deeply religious man whose beliefs are underscored by keeping all 1,600 of his restaurants closed on Sundays.
The liberal elite wants to make an example of Chick-fil-A, denying it permission to open new units or by revoking existing permits. I wonder, though, would these same liberals denounce one of their store favorites if they knew it harbored similar anti-gay biases? As Matt Bai reported in the July 22 NY Times Sunday magazine, Target in 2010 contributed $150,000 to a Minnesota group backing a conservative candidate opposing gay marriage.
During Sunday night’s telecast of the NY Yankees-Boston Red Sox game, the camera lingered on Paul Simon in the box seats at Yankee Stadium. Yes, he’s worth pointing out to the audience. But what about the mustachioed gentleman sitting to his left? He probably wields as much influence, if not more, than Simon, though not as an entertainer. He does it with the weight of his ideas, the scope of his vision, the power of his reasoning. That man was Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The NY Times. Sadly, neither the broadcasters on ESPN nor the people in the control booth had any idea who he was.
Sticking with foreign affairs, Mitt Romney continued his gaffe-prone world tour, this time praising Poland’s vibrant economy while ignoring its 12% unemployment rate (50% higher than U.S. jobless rate), and lauding Solidarity for its part in overturning Communist rule. Solidarity, however, reacted coolly to Romney’s visit because of his anti-union positions in America. Former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, on the other hand, who invited Romney to Poland, praised him.
On a topic that can be classified as “nothing new here,” an article suggesting Barack Obama’s mother might have had African ancestry has caused quite a stir, with conservative commentators suggesting it’s merely a ploy to make the president’s life story appear more appealing while liberals are fascinated by the possibility.
Regardless of its veracity, the research by Ancestry.com demonstrated that just as happens today, in the distant past blacks received unequal, more severe punishment for identical crimes committed by whites. According to Ancestry.com, a geneology company based in Provo, Utah, an African indentured servant named John Punch escaped from Virginia in 1640. After his capture in Maryland along with two white escapees, Punch received a life sentence of servitude, a punishment “harsher than what the white servants received,” The Times reported. The two white men received just four additional years of servitude.
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St Peter's and All Saints' churches, Nottingham
St Peter’s – History
All Saints’ – History
Regular Sunday Services
Regular Weekday Services
Christmas and Easter Services
Services – an explanation
Baptism and Confirmation
St Peter’s Choir
All Saints’ Organ
St Peter’s Organ
Coffee Break Concerts
All Saints’ Bells
St Peter’s Bells
St Peter's - History
St Peter’s is one of the three parishes covering the ancient town centre of Nottingham. Domesday Book refers only to St Mary’s, the pre-Conquest foundation in the old Anglian borough; St Peter’s and St Nicholas’ were established after the Conquest, quite possibly before the end of the 11th Century, in the ‘French borough’ which rapidly grew up between the old settlement and the Norman castle. The earliest reference to these two churches is in about 1108, when William Peveril gave them to the newly-founded Lenton Priory.The first church, was built on a rock above the marsh formed by the Rowell Brook. This is now St Peter’s Square, and the marshy conditions caused problems for the parish authorities for centuries. It was presumably a simple building with a nave and a round apse. It was destroyed – perhaps twice – in the mid-12th Century.
The church was rebuilt between 1180 and 1220, with a south aisle; some of this building remains in use today, perhaps incorporating fragments of the earlier church. The tower and spire were added shortly before the Black Death, which reached Nottingham in 1348 and stopped further work for some years.
The final addition to the mediaeval church was the clerestory, with a new oak roof to the nave. This was built about 1480, when wood was given by Nicholas de Strelley from his estate outside the town. The weight of the new stonework pushed the ancient south arcade out of true, and though collapse was prevented by new buttresses to the south aisle, the columns towards the east end of the nave are still clearly far from vertical.
Like most mediaeval churches, St Peter’s contained many chapels and chantries, often with their own chaplains or mass-priests. Six chapels are known by name, though the location of some of them within the church is not certain.
After the Restoration, St Peter’s chancel was rebuilt, though on a smaller plan than before. The mediaeval chancel arch remained, though it had a gallery in front of it and was built up almost down to the level of the capitals.
The tower, and particularly the spire, has been prominent in the Nottingham townscape for 600 years. Over the centuries there have been many repairs: the top part of the spire seems to need rebuilding once or twice a century.
Nottingham was changing its face dramatically by the 1820s, as a flood of textile workers and a huge expansion of industry led to tenements being built over the gardens and to gross overcrowding around the town centre. The Narrow Marsh and the Broad Marsh (the latter in St Peter’s parish) became some of the worst slums in Europe, and suffered badly in the cholera epidemics of 1832 and later.
The church itself also underwent changes. The south door was closed about 1820, extra pews were installed and the west door was re-opened. But it was the major rebuilding of the chancel and north transept in 1877, and the associated re-ordering of the nave, which gave us most of the church we see today. The new chancel at first opened straight from the nave, giving a much more spacious impression than before (the present rood screen was erected only in 1898), and the great tower arch could again be appreciated once the organ gallery had been removed from the west end. New pews replaced the Georgian box-pews, which were used as an elegant wainscoting round the walls.
Victorian stained glass, some of good quality, was inserted in several windows at this time, mostly as memorials to clergy or notable families, but the church has retained enough plain glass to keep it light. The windows designed by Sir Ninian Comper in the north aisle, inserted in the 1960s, continue this tradition of filling the church with light.
A change in the fortunes of St Peter’s occurred in 1933. As part of a re-structuring of parishes in the city, St Peter’s benefice (which had been vacant for two years pending decisions of the ecclesiastical authorities) was united with St James’ Standard Hill.
Two strong rectors strengthened the important place of St Peter’s in the city centre. Arnold Lee (rector 1937-48) did much to make the church a centre of rest and peace, comfort and support, during the Second World War – a role which it continues to have. Angus Inglis (rector 1948-79) was also devoted to his flock and established a strong tradition of worship, continuing the choral tradition which dated back to the 19th Century. But it was his efforts in beautifying the church – new windows, a new pulpit, new lighting, redecoration of the chancel and finally a new west door with fine ironwork – and above all his acumen in negotiating with the authorities and others through the 1960s, during the redevelopment of the Broad Marsh and of St Peter’s Square, which are Inglis’ best memorial. Through promoting two private acts of Parliament he established a basis for future development around the church. The Broad Marsh Centre replaced the slums and devoured the church hall and burial ground. St Peter’s Church Side, the street south of the churchyard, disappeared under the extension of Marks & Spencer’s store.
After Angus Inglis there was a move in the church’s life to clearer social involvement with the disadvantaged of the city, with a more all-encompassing openness and links with local and international charities. Though there was no full-scale re-ordering, a dais was created at the east end of the nave, permitting the occasional use of a nave altar, and a new internal north porch was built, linked to a small room for private consultation and freeing space in the north aisle for circulation and a small library. A coffee room in the St James’s Room began to attract visitors to the church and from the street.
All this expansion meant that more space was needed for clergy and staff, and for social purposes (there had been no church hall since the Broad Marsh development of the 1960s). A church office was established in rented rooms on the second floor of a building in St Peter’s Church Walk, overlooking the church but difficult of access. In 1993 an approach from Marks & Spencer to the church, to permit further development of the store towards the church, led to new negotiations. The weight of these fell on Leslie Morley (rector 1985-99), who was still able to develop the church’s philosophy of acceptance which is now its hallmark. The results have been spectacularly successful.
Thanks to Marks & Spencer’s the church now has, in the St Peter’s Centre, an elegant building a few yards from the re-opened south door. It contains a suite of offices and an attractive seminar room on the first floor, with a spacious expansion of the old coffee room on the ground floor, designed to retain a measure of ecclesiastical flavour in a modern setting: the decoration of the roof of the restaurant is derived from the painted chancel ceiling. The newly landscaped churchyard lost no ground in this operation but is more enclosed by the large windows of the store extension – which from inside give a splendid new perspective on the church – and by fine ironwork gates. New stone steps lead up from St Peter’s Square to the west door, restoring the link with the world below. The Centre backs on to the store but has its own character and, in its prominent position overlooking the Square, offers new opportunities for ministry.
More details of the history of St Peter’s church can be found on the website of the Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project.
Please contact the Parish Office for details of any events or to get in touch with a member of staff.
All correspondence should be sent to the Parish Office (not to All Saints’ or St Peter’s church)
The office is situated on the upper floor of the St Peter's Centre, on the south side of St Peter's Church and adjacent to Marks & Spencer
If you wish to trace a former resident or member of the parish, please address your requests to the Nottinghamshire Archives.
For information on service times at All Saints' & St Peter's, please visit the Services page.
The Parish Office
St Peter's Centre, St Peter's Square
Nottingham, United Kingdom,
NG1 2NW
(+44 115 948 3658 outside the UK)
office@nottinghamchurches.org
Monday 9am - 3.30pm
Tuesday 9am - 3.30pm
Wednesday 9am - 3.30pm
Thursday 9am - 3.30pm
Friday 9am - 3.30pm
Raleigh Street, NG7 4DP
Open during Sunday and weekday services and on Tuesdays from 9.45 – 12.30 pm
St Peter's Gate, NG1 2NW
Open Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm
(and for Sunday services)
Copyright © 2019 The Parish of All Saints and St Peter. All rights reserved.
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Sts. Basil and Gregory Nazianzen
John 1: 19-28
His is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”
Then they said to him, “Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’” as the prophet Isaiah said. Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. They asked him, “Why then are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not know, the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal.” This took place in Bethany across the Jordan where John was baptizing.
How Do I Serve?
“Who are you?” This is the question asked to John the Baptist in today’s Gospel. The cousin of Christ understood not only who he was but also who he was not: “I am not the Christ,” he said. I am a voice in the wilderness. His incontrovertible self-knowledge could serve as an amazing example for each of us.
What is the core of your identity? Does this sense of yourself influence how you live and what you do for Christ? John the Baptist was clear that Jesus was the Messiah, and this consciousness allowed him to point others towards Jesus as Savior through how he chose to live his life.
Take a moment and list three identities you are aware of in yourself. I am a son, a daughter, a colleague: How have I served Christ? How do I serve Christ? How ought I serve Christ?
Perhaps a deeper look into the various hats I wear offers practical opportunities to invite others towards Jesus.
—Damian Torres-Botello, S.J. is a Jesuit scholastic currently studying philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.
Dear Lord, allow me to be that voice in the wilderness so others might see you, love you, and follow you; use me in everything I do until I have nothing more to give. Amen.
—Damian Torres-Botello, S.J.
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How Twin Peaks Was Resuscitated For Future Audiences
Twin Peaks was a hit back in 1990. With its mystery like plot, the show quickly climbed up the rankings both locally and internationally. However, the success was short lived prompting ABC to fast-forward the script and reveal Laura’s murder hence concluding the mystery in the story. After this, a movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me sent the once popular series to its grave.
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Planet Sage Blog
William Stein
Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc?
Nearly 3 years ago, I gave a talk at a Harvard mathematics conference announcing that “I am leaving academia to build a company”. What I really did is go on unpaid leave for three years from my tenured Full Professor position. No further extensions of that leave is possible, so I finally have to decide whether or not to go back to academia or resign.
Nearly two decades ago, as a recently minted Berkeley math Ph.D., I was hired as a non-tenure-track faculty member in the mathematics department at Harvard. I spent five years at Harvard, then I applied for jobs, and accepted a tenured Associate Professor position in the mathematics department at UC San Diego. The mathematics community was very supportive of my number theory research; I skipped tenure track, and landed a tier-1 tenured position by the time I was 30 years old. In 2006, I moved from UCSD to a tenured Associate Professor position at the University of Washington (UW) mathematics department, primarily because my wife was a graduate student there, UW has strong research in number theory and algebraic geometry, and they have a good culture supporting undergraduate research.
Before I left Harvard, I started the SageMath open source software project, initially with the longterm goal of creating a free open source viable alternative to Mathematica, Maple, Matlab and Magma. As a result, in addition to publishing dozens of research mathematics papers and some books, I also started spending a lot of my time writing software, and organizing Sage Days workshops.
Recruiting at UW Mathematics
At UW, I recruited an amazing team of undergraduates and grad students who had a major impact on the development of Sage. I was blown away by the quality of the students (both undergrad and grad) that I was able to get involved in Sage development. I fully expected that in the next few years I would have the resources to hire some of these students to work fulltime on Sage. They had written the first versions of much of the core functionality of Sage (e.g., graph theory, symbolic calculus, matrices, and much more).
I was surprised when my application for Full Professor at UW was delayed for one year because – I was told – I wasn’t publishing enough research papers. This was because I was working very hard on building Sage, which was going extremely well at the time. I took the feedback seriously, and put more time into traditional research and publishing; this was the first time in my life that I did research mathematics for reasons other than just because I loved doing it.
I tried very hard to hire Bill Hart as a tenure-track faculty member at UW. However, I was told that his publication count was “a bit light”, and I did not succeed at hiring him. If you printed out the source code of software he has written, it would be a tall stack of paper. In any case, I totally failed at the politics needed to make his case and was left dispirited, realizing my personal shortcomings at department politics meant I probably could not hire the sort of colleagues I desperately needed.
UW was also very supportive of me teaching an undergrad course on open source math software (it evolved into this). I taught a similar course at the graduate level once, and it went extremely well, and was in my mind the best course I ever taught at UW. I was extremely surprised when my application to teach that grad course again was denied, and I was told that grad students should just go to my undergraduate course. I thought, “this is really strange”, instead of lobbying to teach the course and better presenting my case.
To be clear, I do not mean to criticize the mathematics department. The UW math department has thought very hard and systematically about their priorities and how they fit into UW. They are a traditional pure mathematics departments that is generally ranked around 25 in the country, with a particular set of strengths. There is a separate applied math department on campus, several stats departments, and a massive School of Computer Science. Maybe I was in the wrong place to try to hire somebody whose main qualification is being world class at writing mathematical software. This blog post is about the question of whether the UW math department is the right place for me or not.
Outside Grant Support?
My number theory research received incredible support from the NSF, with me being the PI on six NSF grants. Also, Magma (which is similar to Sage, but closed source) had managed to find sufficient government funding, so I remained optimistic. Maybe I could fund people to build Sage via grants, and even start an institute! I applied for grants to support work on SageMath at a larger scale, and had some initial success (half of a postdoc, and some workshops, etc.).
Why is grant funding so important for Sage? The goal of the SageMath project is to create free open source software that is a viable alternative to Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, and Magma – software produced by companies with a combined thousands of fulltime employees. Though initial progress was encouraging, it was clear that I desperately needed significant money to genuinely compete. For example, one Sage developer had a fantastic Sage development project he wanted about 20K to work fulltime on during a summer, and I could not find the money; as a result he quit working on Sage. This project involved implementing some deep algorithms that are needed to more directly compete with Mathematica for solving symbolic inequalities. This sort of thing happened over and over again, and it began to really frustrate me. I could get plenty of funding for 1-week workshops (just travel expenses – everybody works for free), but there’s only so much you can do at such sprints.
I kept hearing that there would be a big one-in-10-years NSF institutes competition sometime in the “next year or two”. People hinted to me that this would be a good thing to watch out for, and I dreamed that I could found such an institute, with the mission to make it so the mathematics community finally owned the deep software on which teaching and research are based. This institute would bring the same openness and robustness to computational mathematics that rigorous proof had brought to mathematics itself a century earlier.
Alas, this did not happen. I remember the moment I found out about the actual NSF institutes competition. Joe Silverman was standing behind me at a coffee break at The Arizona Winter School 2010 telling people about how his proposal for ICERM had just won the NSF institutes competition. I spun around and congratulated him as I listened to how much work it was to put together the application during the last year; internally, my heart sunk. Not only did I not win, I didn’t even know the competition had happened! I guess I was too busy working on Sage. In any case, my fantasy of creating an NSF-funded institute died at that moment. Of course, ICERM has turned out to be a fantastic institute, and it has hosted several workshops that support the development of open source math software.
Around this time, I also started having my grant proposals denied for reasons I do not understand. This was confusing to me, after having received so many NSF grants before. In 2012, the Simons Foundation put out a call for something that potentially addressed what I had hoped to accomplish via an NSF-funded institute. I was very excited again, but that did not turn out as I had hoped. So next I tried something I never thought I would ever do in a million years…
Commercialization at UW
For various reasons, I failed to get the NSF or other foundations to fund Sage at the level I needed, so in 2013, I decided to try to sell a commercial product, and use the profits to fund Sage development. I first tried to do this at University of Washington, by working with the commercialization office (C4C) to sell access to Sage online. As long as the business and product were merely abstract ideas (e.g., let’s make up a name and trademark it! let’s write some terms of service!) things went fine. However, when things became much more concrete, working with C4C got strange and frustrating for me. I was clearly missing something.
For example, the first thing C4C told me on the very first day we sat down together was they would not work with me if I made the software I wrote for this open source, and that the university would own the software. Given there was no software at all yet, and I imagined I would just whip out a quick modern web-based frontend to Sage and make boatloads of money that would go straight into a UW account to be used to fund Sage, this seemed fine to me. However, I had a nagging feeling that a pure closed-source approach to this problem was impossible, and not having that flexibility would come back to haunt me.
Naively optimistic, I found myself working fulltime at UW and at the same time trying to get a sophisticated web application off the ground by myself, with many important early users depending on it for their classes. This was stressful and took an enormous amount of time and attention. I felt like I was just part of the software, often getting warnings that things were broken or breaking, and manually fixing them. The toil was high, and only got worse as more people used the software. I would get woken up all night. I couldn’t travel since things were constantly breaking.
Every time I fought through some really difficult problem with the web application instead of just giving up, I came out far more determined not to quit.
The web application described above evolved over 6 years into what is now https://CoCalc.com; the functionality was pretty similar from day 1, but quality and scalability have come a long ways. CoCalc lets you collaboratively use LaTeX, Sage, Terminals, Jupyter Notebooks, etc., for teaching and research.
In 2014, I went on sabbatical and worked fulltime developing this web application and the feedback loop I described above only grew more intense: fix things, fight through difficult problems, be even more determined not to give up. Fortunately, I had some leftover NSF grant funds, and was able to use them to hire several students to help with development. I failed to find students who I could hire to do the backend work (and be available any time day or night), which meant that much of the stress of keeping the site running continued to fall squarely on my shoulders. And as the site grew in popularity (and functionality), the stress from it got worse.
My Sabbatical ended, and I was required to return to UW fulltime for one year, or return all the money I was paid during my sabbatical. So far, CoCalc had grown in popularity, but I had not been allowed by the “commercialization office” to actually commercialize it, so it was still a free site.
I taught at UW at the same time as being the main person trying to run this very complicated and painful production web application. Based on user feedback, I was also highly motivated to improve CoCalc. I would typically sleep a few hours, get up at 3am and write code until 8am, then prepare to teach, hope not to have any site issues right before class, and so on. One day CoCalc got hit by a massive DDoS attack minutes before a class I was teaching, while I was talking with a prospective donor to the math department.
I am the sort of person who does well focusing on exactly one thing at a time. Given the chance to fully focus on one thing for extended periods of time, I sometimes even do things that really matter and have an impact. I am not great at doing many different things at once.
In the meantime, Sage itself was growing and receiving funding, though this had nothing to do with me. For example, Gregg Musiker was putting together a big program at IMA, in the form of a ton of Sage Days workshops. Also, the huge ODK project, which was a European Union grant proposal to support open source math software would be fully funded. And closer to home, Moore and Sloane funded a major new initiative that could potentially have also supported work on Sage. I was invited to go to workshops and events involving these and other grants, but often I either said no or canceled at the last minute due to the toil needed just to keep CoCalc running. Also, I believed if I could start charging customers, then I would have a lot more money, and could hire more help.
I met with more senior people at UW’s C4C to finally actually charge people to use CoCalc. They wanted me to do some integration with their license management system, and sell “express” software licenses. It didn’t make any sense to me, and we went around in circles. I then asked about actually starting a separate company (a legal entity) that the university would have some ownership in, so that the company could take payments, etc. This is when things got really weird. They would not talk with me about creating the company due to “conflict of interest”.
I searched for other UW faculty that had commercialized remotely similar products, and found one. He told me how it went, and said it was the worst experience of his life. UW owned 50% of the company, and all of the software of the company, which they licensed under onerous terms. They refused to negotiate anything with him, instead requiring his spinoff company to hire an outside negotiator. As a result of all this, I educated myself as much as possible about relevant rules and laws, and consulted with a lawyer.
It turns out that the NSF grants I used to fund work on CoCalc explicitly stipulated that code funded by those grants had to be GPL licensed. This meant all the code for CoCalc had to be open sourced. Later the university even agreed in writing to release a snapshot of all the CoCalc code under the BSD license, and I haven’t been paid a penny by UW since the date of that release, so there is no possible claim that the company can’t use the code.
Building a company
A colleague of mine from when I was at Harvard was in town for a day, and we met for coffee. He expected we would talk about Sage and number theory, but instead I told him about CoCalc and my attempts at commercialization and starting a company. He immediately suggested a solution to my problems, which was to talk with a friend of his who had both extensive experience working with companies and deep connections with mathematics. I was confident that in the worst case I could quit my job at UW and rewrite all the software from scratch, so I took him up on the offer.
In 2015 I formed a corporation, and received some outside investment, and used that (and dramatically cutting my already-small academic income) to “leave academia”. More precisely, in 2016 (after working fulltime for a year at UW), I finally went on 100% unpaid leave from UW in order to completely focus on CoCalc development and getting a business off the ground. Also, there was no good reason to quit a tenured Full Professor job when you can go on leave; also CoCalc supports teaching in math departments, so it is closely related to my academic job. The only academic responsibilities I had were to my two Ph.D. students, who I meet with one-on-one at least once a week. At the end of two years, I requested a third year of unpaid leave, which UW granted (this is not routine). Throughout all this, the UW mathematics department was very supportive.
During these three years on unpaid leave, I’ve hired three other people who work fulltime on CoCalc. Together we have massively improved the software, and built a business with thousands of paying customers. The company is still not profitable, though the future is clearly very bright if we continue what we are currently doing. CoCalc has become a platform that an increasing number of scalable products (such as this) are being built with, and there is enormous growth potential in the next year.
At this point, it rightfully appears to the community that I have left SageMath development to focus fulltime on building CoCalc as an independent business. Indeed, I do not spend any significant time contributing to Sage, and I even switched to getting daily digests of the sage-devel mailing list.
On the other hand, as mentioned above, CoCalc is going well by many metrics (in terms of quality, feature development, customer love, market position, etc.). Most importantly, me and the other three people who work fulltime on CoCalc really, really love this job, and the potential to have a significant impact. I still don’t know if CoCalc will ever be wildly profitable and massively fund Sage development. If I were to obsess over only that goal, I would have to quit working on CoCalc (since it is taking way too long) and pursue other opportunities for funding Sage.
In retrospect, my idea from 7 years ago to start a web-based software company from scratch and build it into a successful profitable business has so far completely failed to fund Sage.
It would be far easier to work fulltime writing grants to foundations, and leveraging the acknowledged success of Sage so far. I made the wrong move, given my original goal. The surprise is that I really enjoy what I’m doing right now!
My unpaid leave is up – what am I going to do?
My third year of unpaid leave from UW is up. I have to decide whether to return to UW or resign. If I return, it turns out that I would have to have at least a 50% appointment. I currently have 50% of one year of teaching in “credits”, which means I wouldn’t be required to teach for the first year I go back as a 50% appointment. Moreover, the current department chair (John Palmieri) understands and appreciates Sage – he is among the top 10 all time contributors to the source code of Sage!
I have decided to resign. I’m worried about issues of intellectual property; it would be extremely unfair to my employees, investors and customers if I took a 50% UW position, and then later got sued by UW as a result. Having a 50% paid appointment at UW subjects one to a lot of legal jeopardy, which is precisely why I have been on 100% unpaid leave for the last three years. But more importantly, I feel very good about continuing to focus 100% on the development of CoCalc, which is going to have an incredible year going forward. I genuinely love building this (non-VC funded) company, and feel very good about it.
by William Stein ([email protected]) at May 09, 2019 02:21 PM
Sébastien Labbé
Comment installer et utiliser RISE, une extension du notebook Jupyter pour faire des présentations
La semaine dernière, Jeroen Demeyer a fait une présentation lors de l'Atelier PARI/GP 2019 au sujet de cypari2.
La présentation de Jeroen consistait en des diapositives HTML où les calculs sont faits en direct (avec Jupyter) et où on peut les modifier en direct dans les diapositives. Impressionant! Tout cela grâce au package Python RISE.
Pour installer et utiliser RISE, une extension du Jupyter Notebook pour faire des présentations éditables, il ne suffit pas de l'installer il faut aussi recopier les css au bon endroit. Pour l'installer dans Sage, il suffit de faire:
sage -pip install rise
sage -sh
jupyter-nbextension install rise --py --sys-prefix
Après on peut consulter ce démo sur youtube et la documentation de RISE est ici.
by Sébastien Labbé at January 24, 2019 10:37 AM
Comparison of Wang tiling solvers
During the last year, I have written a Python module to deal with Wang tiles containing about 4K lines of code including doctests and documentation.
It can be installed like this:
sage -pip install slabbe
It can be used like this:
sage: from slabbe import WangTileSet
sage: tiles = [(2,4,2,1), (2,2,2,0), (1,1,3,1), (1,2,3,2), (3,1,3,3),
....: (0,1,3,1), (0,0,0,1), (3,1,0,2), (0,2,1,2), (1,2,1,4), (3,3,1,2)]
sage: T0 = WangTileSet([map(str,t) for t in tiles])
sage: T0.tikz(ncolumns=11).pdf()
/Files/2018/T0_tiles.svg
The module on wang tiles contains a class WangTileSolver which contains three reductions of the Wang tiling problem the first using MILP solvers, the second using SAT solvers and the third using Knuth's dancing links.
Here is one example of a tiling found using the dancing links reduction:
sage: %time tiling = T0.solver(10,10).solve(solver='dancing_links')
CPU times: user 36 ms, sys: 12 ms, total: 48 ms
Wall time: 65.5 ms
sage: tiling.tikz().pdf()
/Files/2018/T0_10x10tiling.svg
All these reductions now allow me to compare the efficiency of various types of solvers restricted to the Wang tiling type of problems. Here is the list of solvers that I often use.
List of solvers
'Gurobi' MILP solver
'GLPK' MILP solver
'PPL' MILP solver
'LP' a SAT solver using a reduction to LP
'cryptominisat' SAT solver
'picosat' SAT solver
'glucose' SAT solver
'dancing_links' Knuth's algorihm
In this recent work on the substitutive structure of Jeandel-Rao tilings, I introduced various Wang tile sets \(T_i\) for \(i\in\{0,1,\dots,12\}\). In this blog post, we will concentrate on the 11 Wang tile set \(T_0\) introduced by Jeandel and Rao as well as \(T_2\) containing 20 tiles and \(T_3\) containing 24 tiles.
Tiling a n x n square
The most natural question to ask is to find valid Wang tilings of \(n\times n\) square with given Wang tiles. Below is the time spent by each mentionned solvers to find a valid tiling of a \(n\times n\) square in less than 10 seconds for each of the three wang tile sets \(T_0\), \(T_2\) and \(T_3\).
/Files/2018/T0_square_tilings.svg /Files/2018/T2_square_tilings.svg /Files/2018/T3_square_tilings.svg
We remark that MILP solvers are slower. Dancing links can solve 20x20 squares with Jeandel Rao tiles \(T_0\) and SAT solvers are performing very well with Glucose being the best as it can find a 55x55 tiling with Jeandel-Rao tiles \(T_0\) in less than 10 seconds.
Finding all dominoes allowing a surrounding of given radius
One thing that is often needed in my research is to enumerate all horizontal and vertical dominoes that allow a given surrounding radius. This is a difficult question in general as deciding if a given tile set admits a tiling of the infinite plane is undecidable. But in some cases, the information we get from the dominoes admitting a surrounding of radius 1, 2, 3 or 4 is enough to conclude that the tiling can be desubstituted for instance. This is why we need to answer this question as fast as possible.
Below is the comparison in the time taken by each solver to compute all vertical and horizontal dominoes allowing a surrounding of radius 1, 2 and 3 (in less than 1000 seconds for each execution).
/Files/2018/T0_dominoes_surrounding.svg /Files/2018/T2_dominoes_surrounding.svg /Files/2018/T3_dominoes_surrounding.svg
What is surprising at first is that the solvers that performed well in the first \(n\times n\) square experience are not the best in the second experiment computing valid dominoes. Dancing links and the MILP solver Gurobi are now the best algorithms to compute all dominoes. They are followed by picosat and cryptominisat and then glucose.
The source code of the above comparisons
The source code of the above comparison can be found in this Jupyter notebook. Note that it depends on the use of Glucose as a Sage optional package (#26361) and on the most recent development version of slabbe optional Sage Package.
by Sébastien Labbé at December 12, 2018 03:24 PM
Wooden laser-cut Jeandel-Rao tiles
I have been working on Jeandel-Rao tiles lately.
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Before the conference Model Sets and Aperiodic Order held in Durham UK (Sep 3-7 2018), I thought it would be a good idea to bring some real tiles at the conference. So I first decided of some conventions to represent the above tiles as topologically closed disk basically using the representation of integers in base 1:
/Files/2018/T0_shapes.svg
With these shapes, I created a 33 x 19 patch. With 3cm on each side, the patch takes 99cm x 57cm just within the capacity of the laser cut machine (1m x 60 cm):
/Files/2018/33x19_A_scale3.svg
With the help of David Renault from LaBRI, we went at Coh@bit, the FabLab of Bordeaux University and we laser cut two 3mm thick plywood for a total of 1282 Wang tiles. This is the result:
One may recreate the 33 x 19 tiling as follows (note that I am using Cartesian-like coordinates, so the first list data[0] actually is the first column from bottom to top):
sage: data = [[10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 3, 7, 0, 9, 7, 2, 6, 1, 3, 8, 7, 0, 9, 7],
....: [4, 5, 6, 1, 8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3, 8, 7, 0, 9, 7, 5, 0, 9, 3],
....: [3, 7, 6, 1, 7, 2, 5, 0, 9, 8, 7, 5, 0, 9, 3, 7, 0, 9, 10],
....: [10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 8, 7, 0, 9, 7, 5, 6, 1, 8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3],
....: [2, 5, 6, 1, 8, 7, 5, 0, 9, 3, 7, 6, 1, 7, 2, 5, 0, 9, 8],
....: [8, 7, 6, 1, 7, 5, 6, 1, 8, 10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 8, 7, 0, 9, 7],
....: [3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 8, 7, 6, 1, 7, 5, 6, 1, 8, 10],
....: [10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 3, 7, 0, 9, 7, 5, 6, 1, 3, 7, 6, 1, 7, 2],
....: [2, 5, 6, 1, 8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 8],
....: [7, 5, 6, 1, 3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 4, 5, 6, 1, 8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3],
....: [3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 3, 7, 6, 1, 7, 2, 5, 0, 9, 8],
....: [10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 3, 7, 0, 9, 10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 8, 7, 0, 9, 7],
....: [3, 7, 6, 1, 7, 2, 5, 0, 9, 8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3, 7, 0, 9, 10],
....: [2, 5, 6, 1, 8, 7, 5, 0, 9, 3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 4, 5, 0, 9, 8],
....: [7, 5, 6, 1, 3, 7, 6, 1, 7, 2, 5, 6, 1, 8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3],
....: [8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3, 7, 0, 9, 10, 4, 6, 1, 3, 8, 7, 0, 9, 7],
....: [3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 4, 5, 0, 9, 8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3, 7, 0, 9, 10],
....: [7, 5, 6, 1, 3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 4, 5, 6, 1, 8, 10, 4, 0, 9, 3]]
The above patch have been chosen among 1000 other randomly generated as the closest to the asymptotic frequencies of the tiles in Jeandel-Rao tilings (or at least in the minimal subshift that I describe in the preprint):
sage: from collections import Counter
sage: c = Counter(flatten(data))
sage: tile_count = [c[i] for i in range(11)]
The asymptotic frequencies:
sage: phi = golden_ratio.n()
sage: Linv = [2*phi + 6, 2*phi + 6, 18*phi + 10, 2*phi + 6, 8*phi + 2,
....: 5*phi + 4, 2*phi + 6, 12/5*phi + 14/5, 8*phi + 2,
....: 2*phi + 6, 8*phi + 2]
sage: perfect_proportions = vector([1/a for a in Linv])
Comparison of the number of tiles of each type with the expected frequency:
sage: header_row = ['tile id', 'Asymptotic frequency', 'Expected nb of copies',
....: 'Nb copies in the 33x19 patch']
sage: columns = [range(11), perfect_proportions, vector(perfect_proportions)*33*19, tile_count]
sage: table(columns=columns, header_row=header_row)
tile id Asymptotic frequency Expected nb of copies Nb copies in the 33x19 patch
+---------+----------------------+-----------------------+------------------------------+
0 0.108271182329550 67.8860313206280 67
2 0.0255593590340479 16.0257181143480 16
10 0.0669152706817991 41.9558747174880 44
I brought the \(33\times19=641\) tiles at the conference and offered to the first 7 persons to find a \(7\times 7\) tiling the opportunity to keep the 49 tiles they used. 49 is a good number since the frequency of the lowest tile (with id 2) is about 2% which allows to have at least one copy of each tile in a subset of 49 tiles allowing a solution.
A natural question to ask is how many such \(7\times 7\) tilings does there exist? With ticket #25125 that was merged in Sage 8.3 this Spring, it is possible to enumerate and count solutions in parallel with Knuth dancing links algorithm. After the installation of the Sage Optional package slabbe (sage -pip install slabbe), one may compute that there are 152244 solutions.
sage: T0 = WangTileSet(tiles)
sage: T0_solver = T0.solver(7,7)
sage: %time T0_solver.number_of_solutions(ncpus=8)
CPU times: user 16 ms, sys: 82.3 ms, total: 98.3 ms
Wall time: 388 ms
One may also get the list of all solutions and print one of them:
sage: %time L = T0_solver.all_solutions(); print(len(L))
CPU times: user 6.46 s, sys: 344 ms, total: 6.8 s
Wall time: 6.82 s
sage: L[0]
A wang tiling of a 7 x 7 rectangle
sage: L[0].table() # warning: the output is in Cartesian-like coordinates
[[1, 8, 10, 4, 5, 0, 9],
[1, 7, 2, 5, 6, 1, 8],
[1, 8, 10, 4, 6, 1, 7],
[1, 7, 2, 2, 6, 1, 3]]
This is the number of distinct sets of 49 tiles which admits a 7x7 solution:
sage: def count_tiles(tiling):
....: C = Counter(flatten(tiling.table()))
....: return tuple(C.get(a,0) for a in range(11))
sage: Lfreq = map(count_tiles, L)
sage: Lfreq_count = Counter(Lfreq)
sage: len(Lfreq_count)
Number of other solutions with the same set of 49 tiles:
sage: Counter(Lfreq_count.values())
Counter({1: 49076, 2: 19849, 3: 6313, 4: 3664, 6: 1410, 5: 1341, 7: 705, 8:
293, 9: 159, 14: 116, 10: 104, 12: 97, 18: 44, 11: 26, 15: 24, 13: 10, 17: 8,
22: 6, 32: 6, 16: 3, 28: 2, 19: 1, 21: 1})
How the number of \(k\times k\)-solutions grows for k from 0 to 9:
sage: [T0.solver(k,k).number_of_solutions() for k in range(10)]
[0, 11, 85, 444, 1723, 9172, 50638, 152244, 262019, 1641695]
Unfortunately, most of those \(k\times k\)-solutions are not extendable to a tiling of the whole plane. Indeed the number of \(k\times k\) patches in the language of the minimal aperiodic subshift that I am able to describe and which is a proper subset of Jeandel-Rao tilings seems, according to some heuristic, to be something like:
[1, 11, 49, 108, 184, 268, 367, 483]
I do not share my (ugly) code for this computation yet, as I will rather share clean code soon when times come. So among the 152244 about only 483 (0.32%) of them are prolongable into a uniformly recurrent tiling of the plane.
by Sébastien Labbé at September 07, 2018 09:16 AM
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On Wednesday, June 26th at 6 pm, the laneway between Oakwood Ave. and Regal Rd. will be officially named “Edward McIlwain Lane”. Come and join in the recognition of a former well-respected neighbor and friend to all. Everyone is welcome!
About Edward McIlwain
Edward McIlwain lived at 1380 Davenport for over fifty years. He came to Toronto from Thunder Bay in 1962. He and his wife Mary, raised four girls, Linda, Cindy, Kelley and Beverley. They attended Regal Road School and Winona Public School and then went on to further education. They all still live in the neighbourhood.
“Ed” (as he was known to everybody) worked for 40 years as a Plasterer. All houses in that period had plaster walls and ceilings. Ed became an artist in his craft as a plasterer and he would get calls long after he retired.
Edward McIlwain was a friend to everybody and everybody knew of his warm generous spirit. He was always helping others or the community, never missing an opportunity to contribute. He instilled this social conscience in his daughters and his grandchildren who still live close by.
When walking became a problem in his retirement, he drove a scooter and continued in his usual kind manner. Edward was predeceased by his wife and he died in 2013.
We wish to honour a remarkable man who befriended everyone and helped where he could, leaving a legacy of a family with his attributes in our neighbourhood. We were lucky to have known Ed.
Consent was given by Linda De Giorgio, Ed’s daughter and Treasurer on the Regal Heights Residents’ Association executive committee.
Ceremony officially unveils the Ed McIlwain Lane
Dozens of family, friends and neighbours turned out on Thursday, June 27 for the official unveiling of the newest named lane in Regal Heights.
Signs now mark the Ed McIlwain Lane, which runs from Oakwood Ave. just north of Davenport, emerging between two houses on Regal Rd.
Councillor Ana Bailão’s office presented the family with a framed copy of the City ordinance approving the new name. The Regal Heights Residents’ Association also presented a copy of the order on a decorative scroll.
Ed was a fixture in the neighbourhood and lived at 1380 Davenport for more than 50 years. He and his wife Mary had four daughters who still live in the neighbourhood and who attended the unveiling.
Ed worked as a plasterer and many homes in Regal Heights still have lovely “Ed” ceilings. He was also heavily involved in the life of the community. Even in his later years, neighbours would see him on his scooter, helping to pick up trash on the annual neighbourhood cleanup day. He died in 2013.
In his keynote speech at the ceremony, long-time friend and Regal Heights resident Michael Erkelenz remembered Ed as a man who knew everything there was to know about our local community, “a one-man repository of neighbourhood lore.”
More important, Michael said, Ed was always willing to help. “He put the word “neighbour” in “neighbourhood,” he said. “Especially when he was younger and in his prime, he was an almost limitless source of aid and assistance to the people who lived around him.”
The ceremony concluded when two of the youngest members of Ed’s extended clan removed a cloth cover to reveal the new street sign marking the Oakwood end of Ed McIlwain Lane.
Congratulations to the family and a special thank you to Florence Watts, whose energy and persistence made the new lane name a reality.
Edward McIlwain Laneway Naming Ceremony
Photo Credits: John Keating; members of the McIlwain family
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The ongoing war: superbugs versus humanity
I saw an article that gave me some hope for our current bacterial and viral dilemmas; it involved a new strategy to prevent infections, rather than treating them after they've struck. I'm all for preventive medicine, both in the infectious disease arena and in medicine in general. I think we "play catch-up" all too often.
How this ICU staffer chooses to protect you from MRSA is crucial.
The piece was in The Wall Street Journal on May 30, 21013 with its headline, "New Tack in Preventing Hospital Infections: Germ-Killing Soap-Ointment Treatment for all ICU Patients Shown to be More Effective than Isolating Some After Screening" The original article was printed online in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 29, 2013 and its title was "Targeted versus Universal Decolonization to Prevent ICU Infection."
We're mostly talking about MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), that strain of the familiar Staph bacteria that's been plaguing us for the last few decades, in large part as a result of unnecessary antibiotic use.
Even if antibiotics are used only for significant bacterial infections, a small proportion of the "bugs" may survive. The population of those germs who cannot be killed by the particular antibiotic can multiply and be spread to others. When antimicrobial drugs are used inappropriately used to "treat" viral infections (e.g., "flu" or the common cold) or given wholesale to food animals (beef, chicken, pigs) to promote growth), we're also likely to be find ourselves with bacteria that are resistant to those antibiotics we've previously been able to use successfully.
About 30% of us carry staph of our skin or in our nostrils (without being ill) and somewhere between 1% and 2.5% carry MRSA. Otherwise healthy people can develop infection with it as a painful skin boil, especially in rugby or football players and high school wrestlers, but also in those who are child care workers or live in crowded settings.
Since moving here in 1999 I'm personally aware of two people who started with what seemed to be very minor skin infections, but later were diagnosed with extremely serious progression of their initial disease. One died from what was eventually diagnosed as fleshing-eating Strep; the other survived, but spend a long time in intensive care with a Staph infection that spread from a bump on his arm up to his chest.
Hospitals often screen patients for MRSA and nine states now mandate such screening. But the study mentioned above attempted to see if there was a better way to avert serious infections in the intensive care setting where patients are the sickest.
MRSA growing on a culture plate.
Forty-three hospitals with 74 ICUs and nearly 75,000 patents were randomly assigned to one of three infection prevention strategies: the first group screened patents for MRSA and isolated those who tested positive; the second group added "decolonization," removing the bacteria by washing MRSA-positive patents with an antimicrobial (bacteria-killing) soap plus giving them a nasal antibiotic; the third group of hospitals did not screen patents, but treated every ICU patient as though they had MRSA, i.e., with the soap and the nasal antibiotic.
Universal decolonization cut the rate of positive blood cultures, a way to look at the most serious infections, by 44%. That included not only Staph, but other bacteria as well. Only seven of the research subjects had any form of adverse reaction and those were mild rashes of itching; all resolved after stopping the washing.
The Mayo Clinic webpage on MRSA discusses risk factors for hospital-associated MRSA infections (HA-MRSA) and for those that are community-associated (CA-MRSA). Just being hospitalized increases your risk as does having an invasive medical device (urinary catheter or IV line) and residing in a long-term care facility. Remember, carriers of MRSA can spread the germ, even if they are not sick from it. For CA-MRSA the risk factors include contact sport, living in crowded or unsanitary conditions and men who have homosexual relations.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has an online fact sheet on Antimicrobial resistance. Infections that fail to respond to conventional therapy result in higher medical care costs, greater length of illnesses and a higher risk of a fatal outcome.
MRSA is by no means the only germ that has developed drug resistance. WHO estimates over 630,000 cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR) requiring longer therapy with more drugs. Malaria, caused by one of five species of a parasite that are carried by mosquitos, has become increasingly difficult to treat because of this issue. Malaria cases in the United States have been relatively rare, about 1,200 per year while annually there are 300 million cases and one million deaths from the disease elsewhere in the world.
Most US cases have occurred in those who travel to sub-Saharan Africa, India, or Southeast Asia; That is likely to change as the expected average temperature increase of 0.4 degrees Celcius over the next eight years will likely increase our mosquito population by up to 30%, including the one mosquito species that carries the Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly type that I've only seen when I was serving at the Air Force Regional Medical Center located on Clark AFB in the Philippines.
A recent online copy of The New York Times has an article titled, "Pressure Grows to Created Drugs for Superbugs." Health and Human Services (HHS) is going to pay $40 million to a pharmaceutical company to develop new antibiotics to combat drug resistance; they are concerned about biological agents that terrorists may utilize to cause widespread death.
But in the meantime, tens of thousands of our citizens die from inceptions, mostly hospital-acquired and caused by the current generation of antibiotic resistant germs. The FDA's director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and research was quoted as saying, "We are facing a huge crisis worldwide not having an antibiotic pipeline... but what is worse is the thought of where we will be five to 10 years from now."
A move to fast-track approval of new anti-infective drugs is being hotly debated. The Infectious Disease Society of America would support their labeling for use on only the very sickest patients.
Others are concerned that these restrictions are insufficient; that the new medicines will be used for those less-than critically ill without our knowing how the antibiotics will perform and what their advise effects may be. One director of the infectious disease society said, "The last thing we want is for a new drug to be overused."
The next twenty to fifty years will be a critical time for the germs versus humans war.
Tags: drug-resistant bacteria, global warming, malaria, methicillin, MRSA, Plasmodium falciparum, superbugs
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Tom Trumper
In 1975, Tom Trumper was working as a diver for oil fields in Louisiana, but pursued Judy, the woman who would become his wife, out to Southern California. He saw a help wanted ad for sea urchin divers, and after his first trip out, he never went back to the oil rigs. At that time, only 20 guys...
In 1975, Tom Trumper was working as a diver for oil fields in Louisiana, but pursued Judy, the woman who would become his wife, out to Southern California. He saw a help wanted ad for sea urchin divers, and after his first trip out, he never went back to the oil rigs. At that time, only 20 guys were diving and the range was limited to southern California, from San Diego to Pt. Conception. The yen was strong in Japan and overnight shipping had just become possible, so markets over there were clamoring for California sea urchin.
“California has the best uni in the world, due to our kelp situation,” Tom said. “Sea urchin will eat anything—beer cans, rocks, you name it. But the ones that eat kelp are by far the best. We only harvest from kelp beds.”
In 1999, Tom co-founded Pacific Rim Seafood in Ft. Bragg, which he now runs with his daughter, Autumn. That year, the price from Japan was soft, and so they had to cut out the middlemen. In many seafood supply chains, there can be as many as 5-7 buyers before a product makes it to the market. In order to break this chain, he needed to create a domestic market.
Tom and Judy loaded 14 trays of uni in their VW bus and drove to San Francisco. By this time, sushi bars were ubiquitous in the city, and chefs loved their uni. Tom and Judy met with customers and gave samples and talks in the restaurants. Then Tom noticed that chefs who bought on a Monday were still serving their uni on a Friday.
“Before I became a processor, it took the distributors 5 to 7 days to deliver it. By that point it gets a strong, yucky flavor. By cutting out the middlemen, we could get it out much fresher," Tom told me. So they started bi-weekly deliveries to San Francisco. “People eat our uni two days out of the water,” he said. “It’s a huge difference.”
diver, fort bragg, urchin
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When Stroke Strikes Twice: One Family. Two Lives Saved.
And Now, Many More… Thanks to Overlook’s New Telestroke Program
It was déjà vu all over again for 55-year-old Robert Moore. He had accompanied his wife’s Uncle“Val” to Overlook’s Emergency Department (ED) in the middle of the night after the 80-year-old man had collapsed in his bathroom. His eye drooped, he couldn’t move his left side and he was struggling to speak. Suspecting stroke, the staff began a battery of tests. As Robert stood next to Uncle Val’s bedside, he was reminded of his own experience just five years earlier in the verysame ED.
Robert had collapsed in his Chatham home and he, too, had trouble moving and speaking. Paramedics transported him to Overlook, where Shalini Bansil, M.D. a board-certified neurologist with the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Overlook Medical Center’s Neuroscience Institute,determined he was having a stroke. She explained that there was a small window of time remaining to administer tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) – a powerful medication that dissolves clots blocking brain arteries – or risk permanent disability or possibly death. Fortunately, Robert opted for the medication and was transported to Overlook’s Neurointensive Care Unit, where he regained movement and speech. He was discharged within a week and returned home with no visible side effects.
Now, Uncle Val was facing the same decision, but this time the doctor presenting the option was not even in the building. Neurologist Dr. Robert Felberg, medical director of The Stroke Center at Overlook, was talking to them via a TV monitor mounted from the ceiling. The advanced video communications technology is part of Overlook’s new Telestroke program, which allows doctors to evaluate and consult on stroke patients’ treatment quickly and remotely via software similar to Skype.
The Telestroke Program is in place at Overlook Medical Center, its satellite Emergency Department in Union, and an increasing number of the 23 hospitals who refer patients to Overlook’s regional center for stroke care. The standard course of treatment for ischemic stroke is tPA if it can be administered within 4.5 hours from the onset of the patient’s symptoms. Beyond the 4.5-hour window, or in instances when the onset of symptoms is unknown, patients may be candidates for catheter-based procedures, in which clots are removed mechanically and sometimes in conjunction with tPA.
“Time is tissue,” states Dr. Felberg. “Every minute the patient goes without treatment, two million brain cells die. Getting immediate intervention will make the difference between returning home and going to a nursing home; between returning to normal life and being permanently impaired.The Telestroke Program leverages technology so people can get high-level evaluations quickly and at their local emergency department.”
“It reminded me of the Wizard of Oz,” says Robert about Dr. Felberg’s on-screen Emergency Department consultation. “He was very friendly, poised and professional; and it felt like he was right there with us. He explained that the benefits of tPA far outweighed the risks and Uncle Val readily agreed to put his life ‘virtually’ in Dr. Felberg’s hands.”
While the approach to treatment may have been different, Robert and Val’s outcomes were the same. Like Robert, Val resumed his daily life with no physical impairment, and both men have high praise for the prompt personal attention they received at Overlook.
“Having lived in the community all of my life, I’ve seen Overlook grow from a community hospital into a large bustling medical center,” says Robert. “Throughout this evolution, the care has always been top-shelf and very personal.”
Uncle Val’s wife, Irene, agrees. “We are pleased to have Overlook in our backyard. The doctors are outstanding.”
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Nice Guys Finish–an interview with Hemant Mehta
The annual convention of the Atheist Alliance International (AAI) is coming up at the end of September in Washington, DC. Included on the be-still-my-heart roster of speakers are Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Julia Sweeney, Daniel Dennett, and Eugenie Scott.
Oh, and me.
I’ll be the one in bobby sox and a poodle skirt screaming, “SAM!! Over HERE, Sam!! I have ALL your records!! I know all the lyrics to End of Faith, listen, listen: ‘The young man boards the bus as it leaves the terminal. He wears an overcoat. Beneath his overcoat, he is wearing a…’ OMIGOSH, HE BLEW ME A KISS!!” (Faint.)
But it’s another AAI convention that’s on my mind at the moment — Kansas City ’06, where I sat listening to an articulate and thoughtful twentysomething lad at the podium as he suggested atheists ought to show a friendlier face to the religious world than we often do.
He made the case that intentional ridicule and insult directed at religious folks are especially counterproductive. Included among his examples was the “Smut for Smut” campaign at the University of Texas San Antonio, in which atheist students offered to trade pornography for Bibles.
“BULLSHIT!” screamed a sixty-ish audience member near me. The speaker continued, so the guy in the audience stood and yelled again. “THAT’S BULLSHIT! Those people have courage, they’re out there fighting for your rights, and you ought to be honoring their courage!! For you to stand up there and…”
You get the idea. A kind of atheist “Support Our Troops” thing.
The speaker, seemingly unrattled, simply expressed his reasons again, while Mr. Bullshit sat, shook his head side to side, and bitched to his tablemates.
It was a powerful moment, a genuine clash between different visions of atheist activism. Both seek to move atheism out of the margins, but only one sees force of one kind or another as the way to get there.
Mr. Bullshit isn’t alone in thinking that a two-by-four between the eyes of religious folks is a good tool for advancing freethought. But neither is the speaker alone in thinking otherwise.
A few weeks ago I received a heartfelt email from a gentleman who saw the Newsweek article about PBB and wanted to express his hope that it did not focus on combating religion:
What I fear is that the momentum there appears to be today [in the popularity of freethought books] will hit an impassable wall of resistance because most people will still see Atheists and Agnostics as negative-oriented “spoilers”….I just don’t think we’re going to win this ideological war with criticism, argument, attack, and anger….I believe the only way Atheists and Agnostics will ever grow as a group is by offering people a joyful, wonderful alternative to religion….And in our own lives we should lead by example of how fulfilling one’s life can be without God.
Sadly, I can’t seem to find people who want to take this approach. I do not believe we can get [out of the margins] by attacking religion and people’s belief in God. Nor can we get there by assuming that Believers are usually stupid, ignorant, or brainwashed. I believe we can get there by offering an alternative that is as viable as religion and belief in God. I believe we can also coexist with Believers.
I gently suggested that, if he couldn’t find others taking that approach, he should look a little harder. There are scads of people out there working toward exactly the vision he advocates. I offered, as a shining example, this guy:
In addition to being the aforementioned speaker in Kansas City, Hemant Mehta is the author of The Friendly Atheist, one of the sharpest, wittiest, and most informative blogs on the block; author of I Sold My Soul on Ebay, a thought-provoking and fresh look at religious belief through a nonbeliever’s eyes; chair of the board of directors of the Secular Student Alliance; and one of the foremost advocates of nice-guy atheism. He was kind enough to take a moment to answer a few prying questions.
Why so friendly?
Most religious people I know aren’t doing the things atheists are so opposed to… They’re not pushing an anti-evolution agenda. They’re not trying to stop gay marriage or impede embryonic stem-cell research. But they do pray and they do have faith in God. I wholeheartedly accept that they are wrong in their beliefs, but they’re not the major problem.
I think we can reach out to those people and get them on our side. We need to do that. They already are on our side about most social issues and they believe in separation of church and state. Those concerns are much more important to me than their belief in the supernatural.
And the way to reach out to those people is to be friendly and to explain who I am, why I’m an atheist, and why that’s ok. It doesn’t mean I agree with their beliefs or that I am conceding anything to them.
Hemant is one of those rare people with whom I seem to agree constantly. You know the type? Read his blog and see if you don’t find yourself nodding like a damn bobblehead.
I know some non-religious folks (UUs, mostly, come to think of it) with a sort of “universal friendliness” toward religion and religious ideas. You seem to strike a more careful balance, discerning between those things that deserve respect and those that deserve critique. How do you strike that balance?
If their beliefs are personal and they’re not hurting anyone else, I’m not too worried about it. Sure, I can debate with the people and try to convince them that they’re wrong, but it’s not going to do much good. Even if you “win” the argument, you haven’t accomplished much.
On the other hand, when supernatural beliefs start causing harm, we have a problem. I’m referring to terrorists who act in the name of God, “psychics” who con vulnerable (and gullible) people out of their money, or certain Christian leaders whose clout helps bad legislation to get passed. Those people deserve to be criticized. Their faulty thinking and ignorance — due to their faith — is hurting others. By calling out their beliefs, we’re helping others who may be victims of their actions.
Atheist meetings of all kinds, from local chapters to national conventions, are often far too self-congratulatory for me. I’d like to see the same critical balance struck when we look in the mirror. What is the biggest whack in the head (or two or three) you’d like to give to atheists as a group?
Here’s a story for you. There was recently a poll on the website for Larry King Live, asking people about their religion affiliation. Initially, “Christians” were in the lead and “atheists” were in second. Some websites, mine included, encouraged atheists to submit a vote in the poll. A day later, the number of atheists was *overwhelming* — apparently, we were over 70% of the population.
Obviously, that’s not a scientifically accurate poll. But as one astute commenter mentioned on my blog, the results showed that we can get atheists to work together when it comes to irrelevant stuff, like this poll. When it comes to “rallying the troops” during election time or supporting national organizations who can speak on behalf of atheists on a large stage, we’re pathetic. I wish we could get our act together and convince other atheists that by ourselves, we’re not going to be able to accomplish much. We won’t be respected or accepted. But by supporting common causes and like-minded organizations, we could change that.
It’d also be nice if atheists would work harder at pointing out the benefits of a Godless worldview (as opposed to a religious one) and how you don’t need religion to be a good, moral, happy person. Instead, we just find joy in telling religious people how stupid they are. It gets us nowhere. But it does create more enemies.
And how about the other side — I mentioned the heckler in Kansas City. Do you get much of that kind of flak from atheists who think you’re too accommodating of religion?
The flak I get isn’t as bad as the Heckler 🙂 There are some atheists who think I’m too easy on religion. We may hold the same (non-)beliefs, and I’d say we also have the same passion for atheism, but like I said, I don’t think we’re focusing our energies where we should be, and they disagree.
One thing I do want to point out: I get very *little* mail from Christians who tell me I’m going to Hell. That was very surprising to me. Not all Christians love what I wrote in the book, but most of them write very civil emails. I was told by other atheists to expect a barrage of angry Christian letters, but it never happened. Most Christians that write me resonated with the tone of the book.
You know, I heard the same dire warning and got the same civil result. I think we pay so much attention to the nuts that we begin to expect that of all religious folks. Okay, another question. Give me two visions of the future, 50 years down the pike—one pessimistic, the other optimistic. You’re in your late seventies, I’ve been dead for 49 years, the Hilton Administration is in its third term. What’s the religious state of affairs in the U.S.?
Pessimistic vision: You’re dying in a year, and I’m supposed to be pessimistic?! 🙂
Okay—the world in this state wouldn’t be very different from where it is now. Our government may not officially be a theocracy, but the Christian Right has the power to make decisions for all of us. We’ve made no progress in obtaining rights for all people. Scientific research in the field of biology is all but halted because we can’t get federal funding for the most promising research there is. And I wouldn’t be surprised if abortion was made illegal.
Optimistic vision: Religion’s not going to go away, but ideally, in 50 years, I could see a country with a higher percentage of atheists (from ~15% now to possibly 30% in the future). We would have more seats in local and national government. We’ve helped acquire rights for all people and passed legislation that helps all people, religious or not. We’re not interfering with the private decisions of Americans, as long as they’re not stopping anyone else from living their own lives as they wish. And when a person says publicly, “I’m an atheist,” no one flinches. I think that’s entirely within reason. But it won’t happen if atheists continue acting the way we have been for so long.
One more: how’s I Sold My Soul on Ebay doing?
It’s going well… I have yet to see exact numbers (in terms of sales) but there is a lot of response from people who have read the book. Many bloggers and mainstream media have written about it, and there are still some projects stemming from the book in the works. It has also helped me transition into writing my blog, which I probably would not have started without the eBay auction. At many atheist conventions I’ve gone to since the auction, more people have heard about my website than the book! And I think that’s wonderful; it just speaks to the message I’m trying to convey, that we could achieve more success with a “friendlier” image.
Helluva guy, don’t you think?
One of the trickiest bits to negotiate in raising kids without religion is engendering the right attitudes about religion and religious people. Some aspects of religious belief deserve a helluva lot of loud and direct critique. I want them to learn to do that fearlessly, like Harris and Dawkins. But other aspects and actions deserve loud and direct applause. I want them to learn that as well [LIKE DAWKINS AND HARRIS. More on that later]. Discernment is called for. While never hesitating to criticize religious malignancies, we should bend over backwards to catch religious folks being and doing good if we ever expect them to notice us being and doing good. It stands to reason.
I feel a coinage coming on: Let’s call that hemantic discernment.
No marginalized group in history has gained a place at the table by telling the majority it is too stupid to live, or by closing its eyes and telling the majority you better damn well be gone before I count to ten. Imagine the dead end that gay rights would have encountered if the movement spoke of working toward a world with no heterosexuals. Imagine the grinding halt to civil rights legislation if black Americans insisted that white be recognized as inferior to black. By instead seeking nothing more or less than a shared place at the table, these movements moved. Until we realize the same thing and extend a far friendlier hand to the more reasonable representatives of the (most likely shocked and surprised) religious majority, we will be deservedly stuck on the margins.
Don’t worry. People like Hemant just might manage to save us from ourselves.
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Nice interview. I enjoy Hement’s blog and keep his RSS right next to yours on my google home page. 🙂
Comment: Amanda – 30. August 2007 @ 10:32 pm
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I think I first learned about his blog from your forums, and I thank you for that. He’s such a cool guy, and finding your book and his blog around the same time was really important to me. I have always thought of myself as a friendly atheist, and didn’t think there were many of us out there.
As with Amanda-the two blogs I check everyday, even when I’m busy-yours and his.
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O MY FREAKIN HECK!
It has come to my attention that some skimmers of this post have read it as a critique of Dawkins and Harris. NO!!!! Read again! I held them up as fearless in their critiques, but did NOT intend to imply that they are in the shrill and undiscerning camp. THEY ARE NOT. Most who say otherwise have not read their books.
For crying out loud, I open the post with an image of me in bobby sox fainting at the sight of Sam!
STOP THIS MEME!
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Chapter puts travel destination Victoria on social media map
Canada|social media club|Social media club victoria|susan Breidenbach|victoria|weekly chapter highlight
By socmedpro
The Canadian city of Victoria, like many western outposts, has its roots in the gold rushes of the 19th century. Today this Pacific gem and capital of British Columbia is mining digital riches, combining a strong tech industry with tourism, government, commercial fishing, shipbuilding, forestry, and agricultural research sectors.
Such diversity has cushioned the water-bound island community from the global recession somewhat, and provides a rich environment for a Social Media Club chapter. In fact, Victoria was the first city to proclaim June 30 its own Social Media Day, in conjunction with Mashable’s global event of the same name.
The seeds for Social Media Club Victoria were planted when one of the metropolitan area’s 345,000 residents—web developer veteran Paul Holmes, president of IdeaZone—started following the social media phenomenon in its early days and became fascinated.
“I gave MySpace a pass, but when Twitter came along that was it,” recalls Holmes. “I hunkered down for four to five months and built connections—particularly to local people.” He started getting invitations to speak at various events, and in 2008 discovered the Social Media Club. Holmes and social media specialist and blogger Catherine Novak decided Victoria was ripe for a local chapter, and Social Media Club Victoria held its first meeting at the University of Victoria on March 24, 2009.
“We put together a Twitter account (@SMCVictoria) and a Facebook page, and kind of ran the chapter ourselves for the first year or so,” says Holmes. He was paying for the meeting spaces and coffee largely out of his own pocket.
In sharp contrast to people who join chapter leadership teams expecting immediate new-business payoffs, Holmes has a patient, pay-it-forward philosophy. His efforts on the part of Social Media Club Victoria have given him and his company considerable visibility, and there have been other spinoff benefits.
Holmes runs WordPress’s local WordCamp—another activity that doesn’t make him any money directly, but has been “fantastic” for his business.
Holmes and a partner also developed a two-day Social Media Camp that is held annually in Victoria. It has no formal relationship with Social Media Club Victoria, but the two organizations do some cross-promotion. And the parent Social Media Club has been a partner on the last two camps. “It’s turned into an awesome event, and Social Media Club Victoria sort of planted the seed for it,” says Holmes.
The connections from Victoria’s tech industry combined with its status as a premier vacation destination help attract big-name speakers as well as attendees from all over the continent. People can schedule a vacation around the camp and write off the trip. Camp attendance has been increasing each year, and Chris Brogan is the headliner next year.
Meeting local needs
Social Media Club Victoria’s meeting attendance was initially fueled by an insatiable appetite for this hot new phenomenon, and Holmes and Novak found that a growing audience was coming regardless of the speaker or topic. Novak herself spoke at the first meeting; other speakers included a copyright expert and a security expert. Attendance topped 100 at some of the events.
“But in the past year, our regular attendees started dropping off, and new attendees were being drawn in by a particular topic,” Holmes says. “So this fall we are going to incorporate a networking component, and give Social Media Club members each 3 to 5 minutes to present themselves and their businesses.” The networking is followed by a formal speaker or panel.
Meanwhile Holmes and his team needed a rest, and put Social Media Club Victoria on hiatus for the summer. They are re-launching on Sept. 19 with a “social media 101” event aimed at people who need help with the very basic fundamentals. “We did one last year, it was our most popular meeting,” Holmes reports.
Regional differences mean that different chapters will have different needs. While Victoria’s economy is diverse, it is fueled mostly by small businesses, which tend to be less social-media-savvy than large enterprises. So, even though technology represents the region’s biggest industry sector, there is a continuing demand for basic information about social media. “You have to match these local needs with what your volunteers are willing to do,” advises Holmes.
The biggest challenge is coming up with enough volunteers who bring the right skills, expertise, and contacts to the table. “You can run something like this by yourself for a bit, but that can only go on for so long. Fortunately, we have had some great people step up to the plate this year.”
More leaders and more structure
Holmes is now creating a more formal structure, building a team around the guidelines of the parent Social Media Club, and providing for some backup. Offices include a president/promotions director; a vice president/programming director; a vice president/membership director; a secretary/partnerships director; a production/volunteers director; and a treasurer. There are also some directors at large who can provide backup and be assigned specific tasks as the need arises; and two student liaisons representing Camosun College and the University of Victoria.
Social Media Club Victoria now meets on the third Monday of the month at the University of Victoria, after bouncing around among different venues for a couple of years. The campus facility is equipped with audio/visual equipment and an Internet connection. Meetings start at 6:45 p.m., which gives people a chance to eat dinner beforehand so the chapter doesn’t have to bother with refreshments. “We did have a coffee sponsor last year, but we
don’t now, and people don’t seem to mind,” Holmes reports.
The meetings used to be free, but Social Media Club Victoria now charges $5 at the door to help defray expenses. Pre-registering with Eventbrite isn’t really an option, because while the service is free for free meetings, it is proportionately very expensive for low-cost events.
The chapter’s first meeting was publicized almost entirely through Facebook and Twitter. That raises the bar for potential attendees by filtering out people who aren’t even a little engaged already. The chapter also added a blog and a LinkedIn group. However, Facebook stopped doing event notifications last year, and attendance fell off a bit. The chapter has now augmented its social media marketing with an e-mail database for sending out meeting announcements and reminders.
A couple of radio stations also provide free radio spots for meeting announcements, and the chapter takes advantage of the free calendar listings in the local newspaper. But Holmes and his colleagues have noticed a diminishing effectiveness from these traditional media channels—presumably because people increasingly are using social media to find out about social media events.
All in all, “things are looking good,” sums up Holmes. “We have more than enough directors, and some fresh blood with some new skills. We now looking at video production—we might start live-streaming meetings, or at least making replays available.”
Advice to other chapters:
Try to build a community that reflects your local brick-and-mortar community. Leverage what is already there—which will be different for each locale.
Assemble a leadership team big enough to achieve critical mass and take off and keep on going. You want to be able to drop people who are just self-serving and not really contributing much. Have a standard and hold people to it.
The world changed a lot since the first Social Media Club chapters were launched a few years ago. The number of people who will show up for anything with “social media” on it has peaked. Some markets are hitting saturation points, and if you are in a saturated market, you have to figure out what role a Social Media Club chapter can play in the local ecosystem of organizations and events. Is it education? Or a forum in which social media experts can exchange ideas and push each other? Or what?
Work with other groups and individuals in the community; don’t compete with them. Victoria has a Tweetup/Meetup group that attracts up to 200 people to its gatherings. The region also has a WordPress user group and a Pecha Kucha group. “Some really cool events are filling up people’s calendars,” Holmes says. The challenge is to make them all more synergistic than competitive.
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Chi Cubs 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 0
LA Dodgers 0 0 0 4 2 0 1 0 x 7 11 0
W: C. Kershaw (6-1) L: J. Lester (5-5) S: J. Urías (3)
7:10 PM PT8:10 PM MT9:10 PM CT10:10 PM ET22:10 ET2:10 GMT10:10 7:10 PM MST9:10 PM EST9:40 PM VEN6:10 UAE (+1)9:10 PM CT, June 13, 2019
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California Attendance: 44,970
Dodgers outslug Cubs with 4 homers to win 7-3
(AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)
By BETH HARRIS
LOS ANGELES (AP) Cody Bellinger's recent 0-for-13 slump appears to have been a mere blip in a memorable season so far.
Bellinger hit a pair of home runs, Max Muncy and David Freese each added a two-run shot and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 7-3 Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series.
The leading vote-getter in All-Star balloting, Bellinger is batting .358 with 22 homers and 57 RBIs.
The slugger ended his skid at the plate in a loss at the Angels earlier this week. Now he's back home, where Bellinger has 14 homers and has hit safely in 28 of 32 games.
"A lot of work in the cage and tried to get back to where I was," he said. "We're good at bouncing back and forgetting about the past, treat every day like it's a new day."
Bellinger belted a two-run homer in the fourth inning. He added a solo shot in the seventh and drew chants of "MVP! MVP!"
"Just don't think of him as a hitter - he's a great athlete," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. "He plays all over the place, he plays every position well, he can run."
The NL West-leading Dodgers rallied from a 3-0 deficit after Kyle Schwarber and Kris Bryant hit leadoff homers against Clayton Kershaw in the early innings.
The Cubs arrived in Los Angeles having just ended a five-game road skid, but they've lost eight of 10 away from home. The loss dropped them a game behind the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers, who were idle.
It wasn't a great night for either team's left-handed ace.
Jon Lester, a three-time World Series champion, gave up three homers. Kershaw, a three-time NL Cy Young Award winner, allowed two.
Kershaw (6-1) yielded three runs and seven hits in six innings. He struck out eight and walked two.
"It's not great, but you can live with that," Kershaw said.
Julio Urias earned his third save with three scoreless innings of relief.
Lester (5-5) gave up six runs and nine hits in five innings. He struck out seven and walked one.
"They've got great hitters," he said. "Bellinger's probably one of the better hitters I've seen, as far as his approach and not chasing, playing the game and doing all that."
Lester got hit in the left foot by a comebacker from Freese in the fourth and said it was sore after the game.
Schwarber's homer came on the first pitch of the game and Willson Contreras added an RBI single in the first.
Bryant hit his 14th homer in the third.
Lester retired 10 of his first 11 batters before getting hit hard in the fifth. With one out, he allowed five consecutive hits - including two-run homers by Bellinger and Muncy - that gave the Dodgers a 4-3 lead.
The Cubs turned a double play to escape the inning.
"It's great when those lefties get going like that against Lester," Kershaw said.
Freese slugged a two-run shot off Lester with two outs in the fifth, extending the lead to 6-3.
Cubs: RHP Carl Edwards Jr. didn't make the trip to LA because of stiffness in his upper back.
Dodgers: SS Corey Seager went on the injured list with a left hamstring strain, the result of getting hurt in the ninth inning Tuesday against the Angels.
Cubs: RHP Kyle Hendricks (7-4, 3.00 ERA) has been strong over his last three starts. He has a 2.05 ERA with 20 strikeouts and two walks in that span.
Dodgers: LHP Rich Hill (3-1, 2.40) has averaged 10.80 strikeouts per nine innings and held Cubs batters to a .167 average in two career games. He has no record or ERA in those games.
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Sam Smith Details Upcoming ‘The Thrill of It All’ LP
Oct 11, 2017 | Soundcity Admin
After wowing fans with “Too Good at Goodbyes,” Sam Smith has announced his sophomore album ‘The Thrill of It All’. Three years since his Grammy-winning debut In the Lonely Hour, Smith’s highly-anticipated album is slated to arrive Nov. 3 via Capitol Records. Prior to that, he will perform on “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 7. To go [...]
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Valley Forge by MacKinlay Kantor (eBook)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville
Poignant, tender, and powerful, VALLEY FORGE brings into sharp new focus one of the most tensely dramatic episodes of the American Revolution.
With warmth and wit, compassion and sensitivity, MacKinlay Kantor evokes the flavor, pulse and texture of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, transporting the reader into the houses and workshops, kitchens and stables, parlors and bedrooms of ordinary citizens. Here are not only the soldiers of Valley Forge, but the panorama of the Revolution itself. George Washington, lamenting the remoteness and lack of valor in the Congress, anticipating new battle; the sprightly, good-humored Martha, always loyal and loving to a fault; the Marquis de Lafayette, whose poise and dignity belied his youth; Baron von Steuben whose halting English made the soldiers laugh, but whose fierce devotion won their respect. And the multitude—young Mum, a sixteen-year-old deserter savagely trampled by Tarleton's Raiders; Malachi Lennan whose gift of a horse gained him entry into Mad Anthony Wayne's Drovers; Billy, the turncoat, wailing for his mother as he was dragged to the gallows. Sons of farmers and tradesmen, trappers and teachers—some too young to fight, and some too old—surge through these pages, giving life, breath, scope and humanity to the American Revolution and the winter at Valley Forge.
MacKINLAY KANTOR was born in Webster City, Iowa in 1904. He began to write seriously at sixteen, became a newspaper reporter at seventeen, and an author at twenty-three. Since his first-published novel in 1928, more than forty books have appeared in print, including verse, short stories, novellas, histories, and books for children. His best-selling, and Pulitzer Prize- winning Andersonville was published in 1955. MacKinlay Kantor's other than book accomplishments range from Hollywood screenwriting to police patrolling (N. Y. P. D.), to combat experience (RAF and U.SAF) in two wars.
VALLEY FORGE is grandly conceived, but the quality is equal
to the concept. The climate of the war, its taste and
smell and the harsh texture of its life, are evoked
with mystery. Neither souped-up nor toned-down under
fashionable pressures, this is an extraordinarily honest
and human book. I am greatly impressed.
—MARY RENAULT
Praise for Valley Forge
VALLEY FORGE is history come alive. Mr. Kantor has conceived a pattern of vivid mosaics—some lyrical, some dramatic—which, taken as a whole, create a novel quite unlike any other. Even the style itself is original: the vernacular of the period rendered poetic. An astonishing achievement for which readers as well as literary prize-givers should be grateful.—Joseph Hayes author of The Desperate Hours and The Long Dark Night
Mack Kantor has taken a familiar story and retold it in the language of the time. He has breathed new life into it, and preserved the spirit of the times exceedingly well. Even well-known characters like Washington, Lafayette, Franklin and von Steuben are presented in a new light. He is to be congratulated for making it all seem so real.—Philip Van Doren Stern, author of The Drums of Morning and An End to Valor
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Ashley TATUM
Ashley Tatum formed Tatum Art Advisory, LLC. to provide exceptional advisory services and guidance to serious collectors of 20th Century and Contemporary art.
Prior to establishing Tatum Art Advisory, Ms. Tatum served as Vice President of Carey Ellis Company, a firm that provides art expertise nationwide to corporations and private collectors in the areas of art acquisition, de-accession, installation design, collection management and curatorial planning.
Her career history includes nearly a decade as Director at Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art. The gallery later resumed its name to Gerald Peters Gallery, a nationally regarded name in American fine art. Ms. Tatum’s keen market knowledge helped her cultivate strong client and artist relationships, while serving as a cultural liaison to others within the art industry.
As a formerly Accredited Member of the International Society of Appraisers and certified in the Uniform Standard Principles of Appraisal Practice, Ms. Tatum built a strong foundation in the ethics of art evaluation and its responsibility in the global art market.
Before becoming established in the commercial side of the art world, Ms. Tatum worked in collections management for the highly regarded Margaret and Trammell Crow Collection of Asian Art.
A graduate of Westminster College in Missouri, she holds a degree in Art History and Museum Studies. Ms. Tatum’s community involvement includes service on committees for the Dallas Museum of Art; the Texas Sculpture Association; the Dallas Contemporary, the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center and the Aging Mind Foundation..
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Texas Access to Justice Foundation
Richard L. Tate Reappointed Chair of the Texas Access to Justice Foundation Board of Directors
AUSTIN, Texas - The Supreme Court of Texas has reappointed attorney Richard L. Tate of Richmond, to chair the board of directors of the Texas Access to Justice Foundation (TAJF). Tate was reappointed to a three-year term as chair through August 2014. He is a founding partner in the Richmond law firm of Tate, Moerer & King, L.L.P.
Tate was appointed to the board of directors of TAJF in 1993, and was first appointed chair of the board in 1999. The Texas Access to Justice Foundation is the largest state-based funding source for civil legal aid in Texas, and has awarded more than $300 million since its inception. The Foundation board of directors consists of 13 attorney and public members, seven of whom are appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas and six by the State Bar of Texas.
"We are pleased to have the leadership of Mr. Tate in this Foundation that helps thousands of disadvantaged Texans receive the legal services they desperately need,” Justice Nathan Hecht, the Supreme Court’s liaison to the Texas Access to Justice Foundation, said. “As we continue to face the economic challenges of providing more basic legal services for more people in need, we are confident the experience and commitment of Mr. Tate will help us meet those fiscal challenges responsibly and conscientiously.”
Tate is a former president of the Fort Bend County Bar Association and has been in private practice for 32 years, with a principal concentration in civil litigation. He earned his law degree from the University of Houston, his undergraduate degree from Pan American University, and a master’s degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Supreme Court of Texas created the Texas Access to Justice Foundation in 1984 to provide funding for the civil legal needs of poor and low-income Texans. The Foundation annually awards grants to approximately 40 nonprofit legal aid organizations throughout the state that help struggling Texans in matters involving foreclosures, employment, domestic violence and family law issues.
The Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) program is a primary funding source for the Foundation and for civil legal services to Texans in need. IOLTA funding has decreased nearly 75 percent since 2007 due to an overall decline in interest rates. In addition to IOLTA, the Foundation collects and administers other private and public funding and works closely with partners in the banking industry to manage and increase the funding for IOLTA.
The Texas Access to Justice Foundation (www.teajf.org), created by the Supreme Court of Texas in 1984, is the primary state-based funding source for the provision of civil legal aid in Texas. The organization is committed to the vision that all Texans will have equal access to justice, regardless of their income. The Foundation administers a variety of funding sources, which are earmarked to assist nonprofit organizations in providing legal aid to approximately 100,000 Texans each year.
Contact: Kimberly Schmitt
kschmitt@teajf.org
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W: T. Bauer (5-6) L: S. Turnbull (3-6)
10:10 AM PT11:10 AM MT12:10 PM CT1:10 PM ET13:10 ET17:10 GMT1:10 10:10 AM MST12:10 PM EST12:40 PM VEN21:10 UAE12:10 PM CT, June 16, 2019
Comerica Park, Detroit, Michigan Attendance: 26,705
Bauer pitches 1st shutout as a pro, Indians beat Tigers 8-0
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
By DAVE HOGG
DETROIT (AP) Trevor Bauer has accomplished a lot of things in his career, but there was one box he wasn't able to check off until Sunday in Detroit.
Bauer pitched his first shutout as a pro, ending the longest winless streak of his career as the Cleveland Indians beat the Tigers 8-0 Sunday for a three-game sweep.
Bauer (5-6) gave up four hits, struck out eight and walked none. This was his 224th start since being drafted out of UCLA, including 166 in the majors.
"I'm only disappointed that my strikeouts lagged a little," he said. "If you pitch a complete game with 10 strikeouts and no walks, you're really getting into rarified air."
"I have some mechanical stuff that was out of whack, but I was able to compensate and go out there and get those results," he said.
The 28-year-old righty had been 0-5 in his previous eight starts before dominating the Tigers in his third career complete game.
"Any time you go out there and throw nine innings without giving up a run, you are doing a lot of things right," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "He got out of an early jam when it was still 1-0 and then we got him some runs and he settled in."
Harold Castro hit a leadoff triple in the second, but Bauer stranded him with a popup, a groundball and a strikeout.
"He was a monster out there," Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He's such a fierce competitor and he went out there and spun the ball against us. When he needed a fastball, he always had it."
The Tigers have lost 17 of 19 at home
Gardenhire met with his players after the game, and made it clear he wasn't happy with their lethargic play on Sunday.
"I'm not happy. I respect the hell out of these guys, and I know the losing is beating them down, but it doesn't take any effort to run out a pop fly," he said. "You owe that much to the guys on the bench and the fans in the stands."
Rookie Oscar Mercado drove in four runs and Jason Kipnis homered and drove in three. The Indians are 18-7 against Detroit since the beginning of last season and outscored them 25-6 in this set at Comerica Park.
"The offense has been rolling for a little while now," Kipnis said. "We have some pride in what we're doing and that's coming together right now. I'm excited to see where we go from here."
Spencer Turnbull (3-6) allowed a season-high six earned runs on 10 hits and two walks in five innings.
"Like everyone, he's a little beat up right now and they really made him work," Gardenhire said. "They were fouling off a lot of tough pitches and when he made a mistake, they hit it."
Detroit is 7-22 overall since May 13.
"There are so many things we need to get better at, and the first thing is giving everything we've got every day," first baseman/catcher John Hicks said. "This is frustrating and that's going to boil over at times, but we've got to keep playing hard and turn this around."
The Indians took a 1-0 lead in the first on back-to-back, two-out doubles by Carlos Santana and Kipnis. Cleveland added three more in the third when Francisco Lindor doubled and scored on Mercado's hit-and-run infield single before Kipnis homered.
Mercado's two-run single gave the Indians a 6-0 lead in the fourth and he added an RBI double in the sixth.
Indians: RHP Mike Clevinger is scheduled to start Monday in Texas. He has been on the injured list since April 8 with an upper-back strain.
Tigers: Miguel Cabrera, who is limited to designated hitter duties due to knee problems, had a regularly scheduled day off on Sunday.
BEATING UP ON THE TIGERS
Mercado became the fourth Indians player to drive it at least four runs in a game this season. Two of them were in the weekend series, as Jake Bauers did it on Friday. The Indians also had the ninth cycle in franchise history (Bauers) and their first straight steal of home since 2005 (Leonys Martin) during the series.
WEATHER CHANGES PLANS
The game started on time, but the heavy morning rain did lead to the odd sight of the Indians bullpen working hard while Bauer was pitching the first inning. Adam Plutko, scheduled to start Wednesday in Texas, had to move his bullpen session to the beginning of the game.
Indians: Cleveland travels to Texas for a three-game series starting on Monday. Clevinger (1-0, 0.00 ERA) will return to face Lance Lynn (7-4, 4.40) of the Rangers.
Tigers: Detroit will be off on Monday while traveling to Pittsburgh for a two-game visit. Daniel Norris (2-5, 4.52) is scheduled to pitch the opener for the Tigers, while the Pirates haven't announced a starter.
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Daley made sure to make his legendary presence felt at Rams Head Live! with good company
He did just that with performing his popular hit's off his album Days & Nights; featuring opening acts Travis McClung and Conner Youngblood
Gypsy Soul Entertainment presented us with the opportunity to be apart of the Red List for the Daley concert at Rams Head Live!. Upon arrival at Rams Head Live!, you could easily hear Daley warming up for the nights show. He went over his set for the night and with great detail went through his stage performance before the show. Shortly, after he finished up his sound check he came backstage and greeted the Stereo team and other media outlets. He was a calm and collected individual down to earth and all about his business.
Soon the doors opened up for the show and Travis McClung, a smooth R&B singer from Dallas, TX took the stage. He went through several covers then went on to sing a few of his original tracks. His sound was definitely cool and the crowd received him quite well as he dazzled them with his amazing vocals. Once Travis, wrapped up the homie Conner Youngblood took to the stage and went on to perform on not just one guitar but almost nearly 6 to 7 different kind of guitars throughout his entire act. I have to say this was definitely impressive along with him even finding time to loop in a beat machine in which he knocked the crazy powerful bass on his tracks throughout his act. His music seemed to be more dreamy, mood music, and full of passion.
Once Travis and Conner got finish Daley took the stage and the crowd went crazy. He had fun with the crowd and shared stories of his journey to Baltimore and his time in the States. He went on to perform many songs off of his new album Days & Nights including his popular hit with the lovely Marsha Ambrosius, “Alone Together“. He made sure to make sure his presence was felt by interacting with the crowd throughout his show and letting them fill in lyrics to his hits. Before the end of the show he made sure to show all of his talents and he even played the piano for one of his tracks. Soon as he finished up the concert he stormed backstage to a gang of interviews and made time to link with Stereo.
As he sat down and talked with Jessi, he shared several cool things including who his favorite artist is, what he enjoys for breakfast, and what he’d like to share with the fans.
About Daley Compared to Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall due to his Manchester, England origin, red hair, and R&B roots — the parallels end there, really — Gareth Daley kicked his career into gear once he submitted a low-key but affecting ballad, “Rainy Day,” to the BBC. BBC 1Xtra placed the song, bearing a backing that resembled early-’70s Hi releases and showcased Daley’s pained voice, in rotation. The following year, Daley co-wrote and appeared on the Gorillaz single “Doncamatic” and was nominated beside the likes of Jamie Woon and James Blake in the BBC’s Sound of 2011 poll. In 2011, he collaborated with Wretch 32, another one of his fellow nominees, on “Long Way Home.” The same year, he issued a remarkably polished ten-track mixtape, Those Who Wait, and made it available as a free download. Signed in the U.S. to Universal Republic, his label released one of its tracks, a steamy duet with Marsha Ambrosius titled “Alone Together”; the song entered Billboard’s U.S. Hot R&B/Hip Songs chart in late May 2012. A few months later, “Remember Me” (featuring Sound of 2011 winner Jessie J) was released as his first U.K. single with the single “Broken” following in 2013. Days & Nights, Daley’s proper debut album, was released in February 2014. Varied yet unified, it featured collaborations with Pharrell Williams, Bernard Butler, Illangelo, Andre Harris, and Happy Perez, among others.
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The old-fashioned steamer of the Houlton Fire Department remains one of the favorites of Houlton's Fourth of July parade. This parade was in 2016. (Joseph Cyr)
Residents, past and present, recall Houlton Fourth of July memories
Jen Lynds • July 3, 2019
Although she never lived in the community, Sarah Morrison of Andover, Massachusetts, has fond memories of her family’s annual trip to the Fourth of July festivities in Houlton.
HOULTON, Maine –Although she never lived in the community, Sarah Morrison of Andover, Massachusetts, has fond memories of her family’s annual trip to the Fourth of July festivities in Houlton.
Morrison, who spent five years living in central Aroostook while her father was stationed at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, said that her family “spent the whole day” in Houlton on the Fourth of July.
HOULTON CELEBRATES THE FOURTH Dunn Furniture Co.’s float won the award for best commerical entry in Houlton’s Fourth of July parade. on July 4, 2003. The Hawaiian-themed float, which included a smoking volcano, promoted the store’s Hawaiian vacation giveaway. The business closed after 110 years in operation last year, but current and former Houlton residents recalled several of the colorful floats that the company entered in the parade each year. (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY WAYNE L. BROWN )
“I have cousins who grew up in Hodgdon, so we would always drive down to Houlton to spend the holiday with them,” she recalled Tuesday. “We would meet at the same spot each year to watch the parade and then we would go to Community Park to the [Houlton Agricultural] fair and to see the fireworks.”
The Houlton Fair has been a licensed state fair since 1986, according to the Houlton Fair Association website. The town has hosted a Fourth of July parade even longer, although an exact start date was not available Tuesday. The Maine Memory Network has parade photos stretching as far back as 1905, according to its website.
Morrison said that she would spend hours in the livestock area, petting the animals and watching the horse shows.
“My sister and I used to love the horse shows they would host each year,” she said, laughing as she recalled the “jealousy” they felt toward the girls their ages in the shows. “They always looked so pretty and elegant in their riding clothes, just so easily leading those beautiful horses. It was wonderful.”
Kara Steiner of Houlton also recalled her family’s appreciation for the parade, especially for the floats and marching units that would enter.
“We also watched it from the same place each year, if we could,” she said. “We tried to gather on the corner by the old Town and Country clothing store. I used to love the floats that people or businesses would make by kind of fluffing up tissue paper that had been tied together and then painting it.”
Steiner said that her younger siblings were often in the parade each year, either playing instruments in school bands or for being on a championship Little League team.
She said that her father and grandparents preferred the older entries, such as the antique farm equipment or the Houlton Fire Department’s 135-year-old steamer pumper.
Mary Logan, another Houlton resident, said Tuesday that she now enjoys making Fourth of July memories with her grandchildren.
“I try to get them up here for the fair whenever I can,” she said. “They live in New Hampshire now, but they are just getting to the age when they can enjoy all of the contests my children used to, such as the pig scramble. It is nice to be able to take them.”
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Classless Act Candidate
What is a classless act? Here's a prime example, as Georgia players storm the field after the Bulldogs scored their first touchdown last Saturday against Florida. On Monday, Georgia's Mark Richt issued a letter of apology for the excessive celebration. Let's hope this act doesn't open a can of worms and we begin a round of copycat crimes in the coming weeks as coaches try any tactic to get their players energized. Thanks to Deep South Sports.
We're on the hunt for other classless acts for our season-ending poll. To give you an idea what we are looking for, here is the link to last season's most degrading behavior. (Last year's runaway winner was the Florida International-Miami brawl, moderated by Lamar Thomas.)
Most important, this is an opportunity to get a dig on your rivals and possibly destabilize them, which, frankly, is never a bad idea. Our address: dawizofodds (at) aol.com.
Don't think what Georgia did was in the category of classless. Urban Meyer probably wishes he had thought of it first.
Anyway, you want classless? Look at the chop block Auburn put on LSU's Glen Dorsey. Now, that's what you call classless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqiLlOybz9s
it's not classless bc the intent wasn't to taunt. it was to set the tone. yes, it could've gotten out of hand and started a fight. that's why richt apologized, but the intent was pure.
Brady said...
Pure NFL-esque Nonsense!!
No need for that crap in college football! What kind of coach says yes it's Acceptable to be penalized. what's next a late hit to rouse the crowd and fire up a team as the player is carted off the field??
Don't get me wrong, glad georgia won, but that was classless, especially on the first score of the game. Plenty of time for that after they win!
"YES I ORDERED THE CODE RED!!"
HAHA...yeah right, there's no room for passion and excitement in college football. leave that for baseball. it's called gamesmanship and perfectly acceptable. late hits are cheating and not acceptable. that's apples vs oranges.
and you're right guy...meyer does wish he thought of it first. the look on his face was priceless. then he goes and tries to get the team to jump around and match UGA's intensity.
Big surprise that this occurred in an SEC game.
no kidding, since they play better football down there.
The Dorsey hit and video have already been recorded on the site. It falls under another category "Cheapest Shots of the Year," which is linked on the right-hand side of the blog. Classless Acts is a different category.
We are expected to have a Cheap Shot candidate from the Georgia-Florida game to post on Wednesday.
Again, each of these categories will be put up for a vote at the end of the season, so if you don't necessarily agree with something, you will have a say in the end.
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The students of USC and Visual Artists Guild
cordially invite you to a
Film Screening: Lessons in Dissent
Q&A to follow
Joshua Wong - student leader of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement,
one of TIME magazine Most Influential Teenager of 2014
and nominated for TIME Person of Year 2014
Matthew Torne - Director/Filmmaker
Friday, February 20, 2015 10:00 a.m. at the campus of the
Event: Screening of film Lessons in Dissent
with Joshua Wong, a student leader of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement,
and Matthew Torne, Director/Filmmaker
Time: 10:00 am. showing of film 97 minutes
Location: Mudd Hall, MHP 101
RSVP a must: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For further information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 310-433-0697
Direction and Map to USC: http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/
Parking: $10 on campus
About: Joshua Wong
Named as one of TIME Magazine's Most Influential Teenager of 2014 and nominated for TIME Magazine's 2014 Person of the Year, Joshua Wong was propelled into international attention during Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement when his arrest and the police's use of pepper spray against the non-violent protesters galvanized the citizens of Hong Kong in demanding the right to nominate and elect the chief executive of Hong Kong.
About: Matthew Torne
Matthew Torne's interest in Hong Kong began in 2003 when he had to leave his teaching post in China to go to Hong Kong when the SARS epidemic broke out in Beijing. While in Hong Kong he became fascinated by the 2003 protest against the proposed Hong Kong Article 23 sedition law. After returning to England, he took Cantonese lessons and worked toward a Masters degree in Modern Chinese studies at Oxford University. Upon finishing his thesis on Hong Kong post-1997 development and options for democratic reform, he went to Hong Kong in 2011 with the goal of making a documentary. "Lessons in Dissent" is the result.
About the film: Lessons in Dissent
Lessons in Dissent is a vivid portrait of Hong Kong's young generation who demand to forge their own future in Hong Kong.
Before the Umbrella Movement of 2014, in 2012, 15 year old Joshua Wong led a campaign group of high school students, Scholarism, to oppose the government's introduction of brainwashing via a "National Education" program with the slogan, "I want independent thinking, not brainwashing". 17 year old Ma Jai, quit school to join a pro-democracy political party in support of a candidate for the legislature to push for political reform.
Filmed over 18 months, the film is a study of the passion, sweat and tears of the struggles of Hong Kong's youth, knowing that their fight is now, before Hong Kong completely loses its status of "One Country, Two Systems" in 2047.
About Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement
Hong Kong, a British colony, was returned to China in 1997 under the Sino-British Joint Declaration with the condition that Hong Kong would be able to maintain its state of autonomy for 50 years.
In 2007, the Beijing government agreed that there will be universal suffrage allowing all of the Hong Kong citizens to elect their chief executive (the highest office in Hong Kong) by the year 2017; however in August last year, Beijing announced that candidates for Hong Kong chief executive must be first nominated by a committee of 1200 appointed people and the nominees must also be approved by Beijing.
The people in Hong Kong felt that they have been betrayed. In late September of 2014, students started their protest. When Hong Kong's police began using tear gas and pepper spray against the peaceful demonstrators, it galvanized the people of Hong Kong to join the protest.
In more than 11 weeks of protests, no one car has been overturned and no one store window has been broken except for one door of the Legislative building which was deliberately broken by several masked men probably to discredit the peaceful movement. Dubbed the most civil of civil disobedience, protesters used umbrellas to shield themselves from the tear gas; thus the “Umbrella Movement” was born.
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Schedule 4 | Index | Schedule 6
1. In this Schedule, the "1995 Rules" means the Patents Rules 1995 as they had effect immediately prior to their revocation by these Rules.
Periods of time
2. Where, in relation to any proceedings under the Act, a period of time prescribed by the 1995 Rules for the purposes of a particular provision of the Act has not expired before the date on which these Rules come into force, that period continues to apply.
Proceedings before the comptroller
3. Proceedings before the comptroller which commenced before these Rules came into force shall continue in accordance with Part 7 of these Rules, subject to paragraph 2 of this Schedule.
Service by post
4. Any document sent to the comptroller by posting it in the United Kingdom before the day these Rules come into force shall be deemed to have been filed at the time when it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
Applications to which certain amendments made to the Act by the Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 do not apply.
5.-(1) This paragraph applies to an application for a patent to which article 20, 21 or 22 of the Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 applies.
(2) Any reference in these Rules to-
(a) section 15(9) of the Act is a reference to section 15(4) of the unamended Act;
(b) section 15(10)(a) of the Act is a reference to section 15(5)(a) of the unamended Act;
(c) section 15(10)(b) or (c) of the Act shall be disregarded;
(d) section 15(10)(d) of the Act is a reference to section 15(5)(b) of the unamended Act;
(e) section 15A of the Act is a reference to section 17(1) of the unamended Act;
(f) section 17(1)(c)(i) of the Act is a reference to section 17(1)(a) of the unamended Act; and
(g) Patents Form 9A is a reference to Patents Form 9.
(3) The following provisions do not apply-
rule 6(2) and (3) (declaration of priority made after date of filing);
rule 7 (permission to make late declaration under section 5(2B));
rule 12(2), (3), (8) and (9) (notifications of deficiencies in application);
rule 17 (references under section 15(1)(c)(ii));
rule 18 (missing parts);
rule 22(3) (prescribed period for the purpose of section 15(10)(b)(ii)).
(4) In this paragraph "unamended Act" means the Act as it had effect immediately before the Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004 came into effect.
Security for costs
6. Rule 85 does not apply in respect of proceedings started before 1st October 2005.
Patent applications filed before 7th January 1991
7.-(1) This paragraph applies to an application for a patent filed before 7th January 1991 and to a patent granted in pursuance of such application.
(2) Schedule 1 has effect with the following modifications.
(3) In paragraph 2, for the words "involves the use of or concerns biological material" substitute the words "requires for its performance the use of a micro-organism".
(4) In paragraph 5(3)(b), insert at the beginning the words "in the case of an undertaking given in accordance with paragraph 1(a)," and insert at the end the word "or" followed by:
" (c) in the case of an undertaking given in accordance with paragraph (1)(b), when the patent is granted.".
(5) Any reference to "biological material"-
(a) in paragraphs 3(1)(a), 4, 5 and 8 is a reference to "culture of the micro-organism"; and
(b) other than in those provisions, is a reference to "micro-organism".
(6) For the purposes of paragraph 3(2) the relevant period is the period of two months beginning immediately after1 the date of filing of the application for a patent.
(7) The following provisions do not have effect-
paragraph 3(3) (defining relevant period);
paragraph 6 (restriction of availability of biological material to experts);
paragraph 7 (request for sample to be made available to expert).
Patent applications filed between 7th January 1991 and 27th July 2000
8.-(1) This paragraph applies to an application for a patent filed during the period beginning with 7th January 1991 and ending with 27th July 2000 and to a patent granted in pursuance of such application.
(2) Schedule 1 to these Rules has effect with the following modifications.
(a) in paragraphs 3(1)(a), 4, 5, 6(3), 7(2) and 8 is a reference to "culture of the micro-organism"; and
(6) Paragraph 2(2)(b) (requirement that application contains relevant information) does not have effect.
(7) In paragraph 6(5)(b), for the words from "the period of 20 years" to the end of that provision substitute "the period ending with the date on which the application was terminated or withdrawn".
(8) The specification of an application for a patent, or of a patent, must mention any international agreement under which the micro-organism is deposited.
Continued application of Patents Rules 1968 to existing patents
9.-(1) This paragraph and paragraph 10 apply to existing patents and applications.
(2) Rules 4, 58 and 59 of the Patents Rules 1968 [SI 1968/1389] continue to apply.
Application of these Rules to existing patents and applications
10.-(1) Rules 4, 10(2), 44 to 50, 73 to 88, 101, 103 to 105 and 107 apply to existing patents and applications.
(2) In those provisions as they apply by virtue of this paragraph, a reference to a specified provision of these Rules other than one of those provisions is a reference to the corresponding provision of the Patents Rules 1968 (any provision of those Rules being treated as corresponding to a provision of these Rules if it was made for purposes which are the same as or similar to that provision of these Rules).
Application of the 1995 Rules to sections 8 and 12
11. If before 1st January 2005 a question has been referred to the comptroller under section 8 or 12, in relation to that reference, sections 8, 11 and 12 have effect as if the amendments to those sections by the Patents Act 2004 had not been made and rules 9 and 13 of the 1995 Rules have effect as in force immediately before 1st January 2005.
1. Amended by the Patents (Amendment) Rules 2011, SI 2011 No. 2052 as from 1 October 2011.
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War Is A Crime
A blog about a criminal enterprise
Posted on April 19, 2018 by Lawrence Wittner
Review of Daniel Ellsberg’s “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner”
It’s not every day that an insider tells us how preparations for nuclear war have been proceeding. So, when one does, it’s worth sitting up and taking notice.
Although Daniel Ellsberg is best-known for his 1971 role in delivering the Pentagon Papers (the Top Secret Defense Department study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam) to the American people, he spent much of his 13-year career as a military analyst at the highest levels of the U.S. national security apparatus grappling with issues of nuclear war.
Ellsberg’s tasks for the Rand Corporation and the Defense Department included studying how to deter, avert, control, limit, or terminate a nuclear Armageddon between the United States and the Soviet Union, providing McGeorge Bundy (President Kennedy’s national security advisor) with an early briefing on existing nuclear planning, and writing the Kennedy administration’s Top Secret guidance for the U.S. operational plan for general nuclear war. In addition, he was the only person to serve on two of the working groups reporting to the executive committee of the U.S. National Security Council during the Cuban missile crisis. In 1963, he was the sole researcher in a government study of past U.S. nuclear crises, with a classified access several levels above Top Secret. As he writes in this book: “These functions gave me an unusual knowledge . . . of the nature of the plans and operations of the nuclear forces and the dangers these posed.”
This background informed Ellsberg’s decision to copy and release much more than the Pentagon Papers. Horrified by what he had learned about the readiness of the United States and the Soviet Union to exterminate a substantial portion of the human race, he copied everything in his government files with the intention of exposing it to public scrutiny and discussion. He released the Vietnam material first, for war was already ravaging that land. But he always regarded his nuclear records as more important, for they revealed how fragile the survival of world civilization had become. Ironically, however, the nuclear material, hidden by Ellsberg’s brother in a compost pile and, later, in the hillside adjoining a garbage dump, was buried or swept away in a tropical hurricane.
Consequently, bringing the full range of his nuclear revelations to public attention took Ellsberg considerably longer than he anticipated. Over the following decades, while giving lectures and participating in numerous antinuclear conferences and demonstrations, he laboriously reconstructed his missing files from memory, located documents through Freedom of Information Act requests, and drew upon newly declassified government records. He also spoke with national security officials and read extensively on nuclear issues. Nevertheless, despite Ellsberg’s extraordinary knowledge of nuclear war planning and the overriding importance of confronting the issue of human survival in the nuclear age, 17 publishers rejected The Doomsday Machine before it was finally accepted for publication.
The result, though, is a book commensurate with Ellsberg’s courage and unwavering determination―eloquent, honest, and packed with fascinating revelations.
Perhaps the most startling of the revelations is that the leaders of the nuclear powers have delegated authority to initiate nuclear war to military commanders and even to their military subordinates. After Ellsberg discovered the adoption of this alarming policy by the Eisenhower administration, he reported it to the Kennedy White House, only to find that Kennedy continued it, as did Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and―as he notes―“almost certainly . . . every subsequent president to this day.” Indeed, General Curtis LeMay, the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff, argued that, when it came to launching a nuclear war, U.S. presidents should be left out of the picture entirely. “After all,” LeMay remarked gruffly to Ellsberg and a White House official, “who is more qualified to make that decision: some politician . . . or a man who has been preparing all his adult life to make it?” According to Ellsberg, “it is virtually certain” that this same secret delegation of authority to military officers “exists in every nuclear state.”
The reason for the remarkable looseness of command in launching a nuclear holocaust is that the leaders of nuclear-armed nations fear a “decapitating” nuclear strike that, by snuffing out their centralized command and control systems, will prevent them from ordering a retaliatory nuclear assault. Therefore, they gravitate toward diversifying their opportunities for waging nuclear war. In the Soviet Union and, later, Russia, the authorities went so far as to establish a “Dead Hand” system in which machines have the authority to launch a full-scale nuclear war in response to an American attack on their central command and control system.
Ellsberg’s discussion of the reasons for the development and maintenance of the massive U.S. nuclear weapons system is less startling, though no less disturbing. “The declared official rationale for such a system,” he observes, “has always been primarily the supposed need to deter―or if necessary respond to―an aggressive Russian nuclear first strike against the United States.” But that’s “a deliberate deception,” he contends, for that “has never been . . . the primary purpose of our nuclear plans and preparations.” Instead, they represent an “attempt to limit the damage to the United States from Soviet or Russian retaliation to a U.S. first strike against the USSR or Russia.” In particular, this nuclear capability is “intended to strengthen the credibility of U.S. threats to initiate limited nuclear attacks, or escalate them . . . to prevail in regional, initially non-nuclear conflicts.”
Ellsberg reports that, “contrary to the cliché that `no nuclear weapons have been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki,’ U.S. presidents have used our nuclear weapons dozens of times in `crises,’ mostly in secret from the American public (though not from adversaries).” U.S. officials have employed them as threats, just as “a gun is used when it is pointed at someone in a confrontation”―to “get one’s way.” Thus, for example, the Nixon administration threatened the government of North Vietnam with a nuclear attack on 13 occasions. Ellsberg also outlines 24 other U.S. government threats, from Presidents Truman through Clinton, to initiate nuclear war against a variety of countries.
Naturally, to bolster these threats, the U.S. government has insisted upon not only the massive nuclear arsenal needed for a “first strike” (a nuclear attack on an enemy’s nuclear facilities to prevent retaliation), but the right to “first use” of nuclear weapons (the initiation of nuclear war). Ellsberg notes that no major party presidential candidate or president “has ever come close to adopting and proclaiming a no-first-use policy.” Asked about a nuclear attack upon Iran in 2006, President George W. Bush stated emphatically: “All options are on the table.” During the 2007-2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, Barack Obama temporarily went off message and, asked by a reporter whether there was any circumstance in which he’d use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan or Pakistan to defeat al-Qaeda, replied: “That’s not on the table.” Naturally, his rival, Hillary Clinton, seized on this brief departure from the holy writ of U.S. national security policy to chide him, remarking: “I don’t believe any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.” Similarly, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump, pressed by an interviewer about his willingness to launch a U.S. nuclear attack in the Middle East, declared that he “would never take any of my cards off the table.”
One of the most chilling aspects of this book is Ellsberg’s revelation of how close the world has been―and remains―to nuclear annihilation. Nuclear war, he argues, is “a catastrophe waiting to happen,” and he provides many examples of how nations have been sliding toward it thanks to the growing acceptability of targeting civilian populations, the delegation of launching authority to military officers, the ruthlessness of military officers and other national security officials, false alarms, and unexpected events. During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, he remarks, the United States and the Soviet Union came within “a hairsbreadth” of ending world civilization, despite the fact that Khrushchev and Kennedy “were determined to avoid armed conflict.”
How did this paradoxical situation develop? As Ellsberg explains, the risk of a nuclear war between the superpowers grew exponentially during the missile crisis thanks to the fact that a Soviet missile crew, acting on its own authority, destroyed a U.S. U-2 flight over Cuba and that Castro’s armed forces, already firing on low-flying U.S. reconnaissance planes, were getting closer to hitting them. Also, although the U.S. government didn’t know it, there were 42,000 Soviet troops in Cuba, armed (among other things) with over 100 tactical nuclear weapons, and the Soviet government had agreed to delegate authority to local military commanders to use them to repel a U.S. invasion. The situation was clearly spinning out of control. Khrushchev later recalled: “A smell of scorching hung in the air.”
Meanwhile, U.S. warships cornered a Soviet submarine in the Caribbean and attempted to force it to surface by bombarding it with depth charges. The submarine’s top officers, considering themselves under attack, were cut off from outside communications and unsure whether a U.S.-Soviet war had already begun. Moreover, the submarine’s ventilator system had broken down, temperatures in the vessel ranged from 113 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, and crew members began collapsing from the extreme heat and carbon dioxide buildup. Increasingly desperate, the Soviet officers wondered whether they should fight back by firing their nuclear torpedo at the U.S. warships. After a four-hour assault on the submarine―which one Soviet officer later said “felt like you were sitting in a metal barrel, which somebody is blasting with a sledgehammer”―the exhausted Soviet submarine commander “became furious” and ordered the nuclear torpedo readied for battle. Justifying the order, another emotional officer cried out: “We’re going to blast them now! We will die, but we will sink them all―we will not disgrace our Navy!” But, as another officer recalled, the submarine’s commander “was able to rein in his wrath” and, after consultation with top officers on board, made the decision to bring the vessel peacefully to the surface. As a result, an almost certain escalation into a full-scale nuclear war was averted―but only narrowly.
And what would the results of a full-scale nuclear war have been at that time? In 1961, Ellsberg discovered that the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff estimated that 600 million Russians and Chinese would die from a U.S. first strike. In addition, another 100 million or so would die in the East European satellite countries, plus (thanks to the radioactive fallout) up to another 100 million people in the surrounding neutral countries and up to another 100 million in America’s West European NATO allies. Also, of course, there would be a great many millions of additional people killed by the Soviet Union’s nuclear response. Furthermore, as Ellsberg notes, this was a “fantastic underestimate,” for it was based on fatalities from nuclear blast and fallout, and did not include deaths by fire.
Today, of course, the destruction from a full-scale nuclear war would be far greater. The shift in nuclear arsenals from atomic bombs to H-Bombs (weapons that can be made a thousand times as powerful as the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima) has certainly upped the ante. Moreover scientists have discovered and confirmed the phenomenon of “nuclear winter,” in which the soot and smoke from a large number of nuclear explosions would be lofted into the upper stratosphere. This, in turn, would create global darkness and cold that would destroy the world’s agriculture, thereby leading to massive starvation and the death of nearly every human left alive on earth, along with that of most other large species.
Ellsberg’s conclusion is stark, but follows logically from this evidence. “Any social system,” he writes, “that has created and maintained a Doomsday Machine and has put a trigger to it, including first use of nuclear weapons, in the hands of one human being―. . . still worse in the hands of an unknown number of persons―is in core aspects mad. Ours is such a system. We are in the grip of institutionalized madness.”
Although Ellsberg is pessimistic about the prospects of human survival, he is not without remnants of hope or recommendations for action. “The U.S. government,” he writes, “pressed by a popular movement and preferably backed by binding congressional legislation,” should proclaim “that there is no `nuclear first-use option’ on the bargaining table in our dealings with . . . any nation.” Indeed, first use of nuclear weapons is “not a legitimate `option’ for the United States, Russia, or for any other country under any circumstances.” Other “necessary goals” include reducing the role of the world’s nuclear weapons to deterrence while securing, as rapidly as possible, the “total universal abolition of nuclear weapons.”
His top priority, though, is the dismantling of the Doomsday Machines of the United States and Russia through drastic reductions in their nuclear arsenals. As he reminds us: “No cause, no principle, no considerations of honor or obligation or prestige or maintaining leadership in current alliances―still less, no concern for remaining in office or maintaining a particular power structure, or sustaining jobs, profits, votes―can justify maintaining any risk whatever of causing the near extinction of human and other animal life on this planet.” Omnicide―whether threatened, prepared, or carried out―”cannot be regarded as anything less than criminal, immoral, evil.”
Whether the people of the world will take this message to heart remains uncertain. It’s tempting to ignore it for, like the evidence of human-instigated climate disruption, it necessitates a significant change in behavior. And it’s sometimes easier to continue a bad habit―even when it leads to harmful consequences―than to face up to the necessity for change.
But, as Ellsberg’s brilliantly-written, deeply insightful, and powerful book should convince us, continued preparations for nuclear war seriously threaten the survival of most life on earth. Also, in fact, millions of people in nations around the globe have already spoken out against government plans for nuclear annihilation, demanding, instead, nuclear disarmament. Perhaps, ultimately, humanity will have the wisdom and strength to prevail.
This review was published originally by the History News Network
Lawrence S. Wittner (http://www.lawrenceswittner.com) is professor of history emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press).
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Mouser Electronics Further Expands Headquarters, Global Presence, and Widest Product Selection to Meet Growing Demand
DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#connectors—Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, is greatly expanding its large global headquarters and distribution center to meet the needs of its flourishing business well into the next decade. Construction is under way to add more than 125,000 square feet to the distribution center, as well as a new 50,000 square-foot office building on Mouser’s campus, located south of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
Upon completion of the new construction, Mouser’s 78-acre global headquarters and massive distribution center will consist of 1 million square feet to accommodate Mouser’s vast inventory of 1 million unique SKUs for products and technologies from over 750 electronic component manufacturers.
With a positive industry outlook, double-digit revenue growth and the addition of many new manufacturer partners, the industry-leading electronic components distributor is expanding its global footprint and growing its business position to meet increasing customer demand worldwide.
In 2018 Mouser’s sales hit $1.9 billion, and the company is on track to surpass that number this year. All this comes as Mouser has expanded its full-time global workforce to more than 2,400 and is set to provide local customer service in four new global locations: Brazil, Poland, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
“With the rapid increase in technological advancements such as IoT, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, robotics, and 5G, we definitely find ourselves in a very robust and fortunate position,” explained Glenn Smith, Mouser’s President and CEO. “We are planning for future growth as our customer needs increase.”
An industry leader in New Product Introductions, Mouser stocks the widest selection of authorized components and continues to expand its vast line card with additional manufacturers from major electronic component product categories, including semiconductors, embedded modules, optoelectronics, passives, interconnects and wire/cable assemblies, electromechanical, power, test and measurement, and tools.
“Adding new products and manufacturers reinforces our steadfast commitment to our customers as a single destination for all the components and development tools necessary for the design process,” Smith added. “Our focus on providing the industry’s widest breadth of products is resonating with our growing customer base of engineers and procurement agents in every corner of the world.”
Today, Mouser’s 24-hour global distribution center handles tens of thousands of orders per day, processing and shipping — same day in most cases — to over 600,000 customers in 220 countries/territories. Over the past several years, the global distributor has made significant capital investments in state-of-the-art, automated equipment to process orders with best-in-class efficiency and accuracy.
With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser strives to empower innovation among design engineers and buyers by delivering advanced technologies. Mouser stocks the world’s widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for the newest design projects. Mouser Electronics’ website is continually updated and offers advanced search methods to help customers quickly locate inventory. Mouser.com also houses data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, and engineering tools.
About Mouser Electronics
Mouser Electronics, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is an award-winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on rapid New Product Introductions from its manufacturing partners for electronic design engineers and buyers. The global distributor’s website, Mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 5 million products from over 750 manufacturers. Mouser offers 25 support locations around the world to provide best-in-class customer service and ships globally to over 600,000 customers in more than 220 countries/territories from its 750,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit www.mouser.com.
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Old-Growth Forests Face a Worldwide Decline
By Jack Portman 1 year ago
On Feb. 7, Bob Browne, a biology professor at Wake Forest, delivered a presentation regarding his recent research conducted at Oxford University. In the third installment of the ZSR Library Lecture Series, Browne — the recipient of the Nathan and Julie Hatch Research Grant for Academic Excellence — explored his studies of England’s ancient forests and discussed the histories and traditions surrounding these mostly undeveloped spaces of land.
Worldwide, Browne said, there has been a large decline in the abundance of ancient forests, with virtually none remaining in the U.S. These forested areas, which are generally more than five hundred years old and frequently surpass one thousand, have been largely depleted as industrialization and urban sprawl destory and pollute large tracts of previously undisturbed forest. In years past, many trees were removed for lumber and to clear large spaces for human development. Many of the world’s remaining old-growth forests exist in Europe, with Britain’s being the subject of Browne’s research in previous years.
Although they’ve shrunk in recent decades, with most now baring a footprint of less than twenty hectares, ancient forests serve important research functions and are therefore of great value to botanists, entomologists and the greater biological community.
Many organisms lived almost endemically in ancient forests. The decline in ancient forest space has therefore also seen a decline in these species. Biologists like Browne utilize the small tracts of remaining forest land to identify and catalog species whose loss of habitat has endangered their livelihood. Browne added that conservationists and civilians seem particularly concerned with the preservation of insect species whose exteriors are colorful or lustrous, placing less emphasis on the study and protection of less aesthetically appealing species. Similarly, several species of plants exist in ancient forests that are absent in younger forests. Species such as the sessile oak and hornbeam hazel are indicator species typically found in ancient forests.
Browne studied the recorded field notes and records of “landed gentry,” a historical social class of wealthy land-owning Britons. These records, Browne hoped, would serve to identify insect species that existed prior to the devastation of worldwide ancient forest, thereby enabling him to track the loss and gain of insect species over time. However, these notes generally prove to be insufficient for this, most lacking precision and scientific value. Although the effort to compare past catalogues of species variety to contemporary data proved inefficient, examining the organisms that once lived in ancient forests is still a worthwhile endeavor.
Studying the endangered species endemic to the forests, and those that were known to have existed in these environments but no longer do, serves as a meaningful indicator of the devastating effects deforestation can have.
Browne also addressed the practices of coppicing and pollarding, methods utilized by tree farmers to ensure continual regrowth of trees. Each involves removing the tree’s trunk from its stump, and allowing the stump to regrow new sprouts.
This routine cutting expedites the process of regrowth, and encourages the presence of small wildlife and numerous insect species.
In recent years, conservation groups have arose across Europe to ensure the preservation of what ancient forests still exist. Browne added that Oliver Rackham, a British ecologist at the University of Cambridge, facilitated the growth of conservation movements concerned with ancient forests after publishing groundbreaking research in a book entitled “Ancient Woodland, its History, Vegetation and Uses in England.”
Browne’s presentation is available for viewing on the Z. Smith Reynolds YouTube channel, entitled “Ancient Forests of England.”
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About Us » School Overview
James A. Whitaker School was named after the founder of Buena Park and a wholesale grocer who came from Chicago in 1885. He bought 690 acres of the Stearns Rancho, part of what was once the sprawling Rancho Los Coyotes. Whitaker intended to create a cattle ranch, but Santa Fe Railway officials convinced him to use the land for a new town. Whitaker filed his township papers in 1887 in Los Angeles County - Orange County had not been formed - to create the town of Buena Park. The City was not incorporated until 1953.
Whitaker School is currently serving the diverse community of Buena Park. The school is located next to the Buena Park Auto Center and Buena Park High School. Whitaker School's teachers and students have been embracing Ca Common Core Standards excelling in early literacy in grades K-2. Teachers have ongoing training in Writing Workshop and Reading Workshop. The school continues to incorporate new standards and teaching practices.
Recently, Whitaker School has become modernized. All classrooms have been modernized with the latest in technology. Students in grades 4-6 have one-to-one iPads while grades TK-3 have class sets of iPads.
In 2017, Whitaker School was approved by CDE to open a preschool. Whitaker provides an after school program, ASES, connected with Cal State Fullerton.
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Saudi police question woman accused of wearing ‘indecent’ clothing
July 18, 2017 WEC
Religious police begin inquiry but woman says she didn’t post Snapchat video herself of visit to Ushaqir in skirt and crop top, without veil
The woman, identified as Khulood, appeared in a series of clips of herself at the deserted Ushaqir heritage village.
A woman who appeared in videos touring one of Saudi Arabia’s heritage sites dressed in a skirt and crop top is being investigated by the kingdom’s religious police.
The woman, who is identified as Khulood, appeared in a series of clips on Snapchat over the weekend at the deserted Ushaqir heritage village in the religiously conservative province of Najd, about 100 miles (160km) north of the capital, Riyadh.
In a statement marked urgent on Tuesday, the general directorate of public security said the woman had been questioned by police while investigations continue. It said it had been monitoring the videos under laws aimed at tackling “information crimes”.
To westerners, her outfit is that of a typical summer tourist – sunglasses, a short skirt, short T-shirt and her head uncovered. But it breaches Saudi Arabia’s strict dress code requiring women to wear headscarves and abayas (full-length robes) in public. Most also cover their face with a black veil, though exceptions are made for visiting dignitaries.
The videos, filmed in a region home to many of Saudi Arabia’s most conservative tribes and families, appeared to be a deliberate protest against clothing rules and has prompted calls for the woman to be prosecuted. But according to Saudi news agencies the woman has told the authorities that the videos were posted without her knowledge.
Versions of the videos went viral on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter amid a furious debate about dress and the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia.
The woman apparently told police that she had been accompanied by a male relative – or muharam – at all times during her visit, in accordance with Saudi’s male guardianship system. She confirmed she had appeared in the videos, but insisted she did not post the clips herself.
Saudi Arabia’s religious police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, said they were also investigating.
Their official Twitter feed said they were aware of the video and in contact with the relevant authorities.
المتحدث باسم #هيئة_الأمر_بالمعروف بـ #الرياض: الرئاسة رصدت مقطع لفتاة بلباسٍ مخالف، وجرى التنسيق مع الجهات المختصة.https://t.co/WCZBqLN2e8 pic.twitter.com/rD78JeAgUa
— رئاسة الهيئة (@PvGovSa) July 16, 2017
The Saudi news website Sabq reported that the religious police have written to other agencies calling for an investigation into the “indecently” dressed woman.
The woman’s actions prompted abusive backlash online. Since the incident the issue has been trending on Twitter under the hashtag “demand the trial of model Khulood”.
The Saudi writer Ibrahim al-Munayif told his 41,000 Twitter followers that if everyone disregarded the law in this way there would be chaos.
“Just like we call on people to respect the laws of countries they travel to, people must also respect the laws of this country,” he wrote.
But the woman’s actions have also been fiercely defended online. Many have pointed out that during Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi in May his wife, Melania, and daughter Ivanka chose not to wear headscarves in public.
Others have suggested Saudi society must accept infringements of its dress codes if it is to attract more tourists as envisaged under crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s strategy for the future – or Vision 2030.
Amal al-Hazzani, an academic and writer, wrote: “Let’s suppose this is an Italian tourist who wanted to know about our great past as part of our 2030 vision of not relying only on oil. Get use to that.”
Social media are wildly popular in Saudi Arabia as a space to vent frustrations and gauge public opinion.
With more than half of the population of Saudi Arabia under 25, Salman, the country’s 31-year-old heir to the throne, has pushed for greater freedom of entertainment, in part to appease young people, but strict gender segregation rules and other restrictions on women’s movements remain in place.
Rothna Begum, a women’s rights researcher on the Middle East at Human Rights Watch, said any attempt to arrest the woman in the video would be a violation of her right to freedom of expression.
In an email to the Guardian, she said: “The dress code and strict segregation in Saudi Arabia affects women across the kingdom, including in their right to work.”
Companies can face fines if they do not segregate offices and enforce a strict dress code for women, including a mandatory hijab, which often means they are more reluctant to hire women. Women who do not abide by the dress code in offices can be fined 1,000 riyals (£205).
“Such restrictions come on top of the notorious male guardianship system in which, from birth until death, a woman must have a male guardian – a father, husband, brother or even a son – who has the power to make a range of critical decisions on her behalf,” Begum said.
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Advertising Week New York 2018
Vineet Mehra
Vineet Mehra is a global business leader with experience leading diverse teams within multi-billion dollar cross-industry organizations across North America, Europe, Asia and South America. As EVP and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Ancestry, he is modernizing the marketing organization, elevating the brand to iconic status and taking consumer genomics into the cultural mainstream. He also holds full accountability for the delivery of Ancestry’s worldwide revenue target. Prior to Ancestry, Vineet held leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson, P&G, Novartis and General Mills. Vineet has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including being named one of the World's 100 Most Influential Marketing Leaders, P&G's Top 40 under 40 Alumni award, Chair of the Jury for the M&M Global Media Awards and an Invited Speaker at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. He currently sits on the Global Board of Directors for Effie Worldwide.
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Interview with Shahen Mirakian, President Of ANCC, About Prime Minister Trudeau’s Visit To Armenia
Interview conducted by Varak Babian
Q- Canadian Armenians couldn’t’ help but to be captivated by our prime minister’s visit to Armenia. Apart from the favourable optics that resulted with the trip, what are some of the long term political and economic implications of Trudeau’s time in Armenia
A- The bilateral visit itself yielded two tangible results – an air travel agreement between the two countries and the Arnold Chan Initiative for Democracy in Armenia.
The air travel agreement puts in place the necessary agreement between governments to facilitate more direct air connections between Armenia and Canada. The immediate outcome will be a code share between Air Canada and a European airline that flies to Yerevan. The code share is intended to allow passengers to purchase a single ticket through Air Canada, reduce wait times in Europe and ensure that most travellers from Toronto or Montreal will be able to fly to Yerevan on Air Canada with a single connection. The long-term outcome is to have a Canadian airline offer direct flights to Yerevan from Toronto or Montreal once there is sufficient demand.
The Arnold Chan Initiative is a one-time funding of $99,000 by the Canadian government for five non-governmental organizations in Armenia which work to promote democracy, civic engagement, gender equality, minority rights and environmental awareness. Currently, there is ongoing work to try to make the funding annual, and extend the initiative to more organizations.
Although no tangible results have been realised yet, another outcome of the visit is that there has been considerable progress on the effort to have permanent Canadian diplomatic representation in Armenia (an embassy or a consulate). Decision-makers, including the Prime Minister himself, became aware of why an embassy was needed and what the benefits would be.
Finally, the Prime Minister’s visit to Tsitsernakaberd cemented Canada’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide. It is almost impossible to see a future government of any political stripe abandoning Canadian recognition of the Armenian Genocide. It shows just how far we have come in 15 years on that front.
Q- Armenia hosted the 17th annual Francophonie Summit. Apart from showcasing our hospitality skills, what long-term impact do you envision will stem from Armenia’s time in the global spotlight?
A- I think the main impact is actually the hospitality (and logistics and security) skills. If Armenia can host the Francophonie, it can host other large international events such as UN summits or large private conferences. Otherwise I suspect the Francophonie Summit will soon be forgotten.
Q- How was the ANCC able to facilitate the bilateral meetings and the visit itself?
A- It was almost a given that the Prime Minister would attend the Francophone Summit. Canada is an important member of the group and an enthusiastic participant at international meetings (for instance, Canadian MPs and Senators had attended a meeting of the Francophonie Parliamentary Assembly in Yerevan earlier this year and Ottawa often hosts Francophonie meetings). However, ANCC worked closely with the Prime Minister’s Office, Minister Joly’s office (and previously Minister Bibeau’s office), Global Affairs Canada (including diplomats active in Armenia) and our friends in Parliament to emphasize the need for a bilateral visit apart from the summit. These efforts commenced almost two years ago and involved numerous meetings, letters and one on one conversations. While we don’t have any direct insight into the decision-making, we believe that our lobbying efforts played a part in the Prime Minister deciding to hold a bilateral visit.
Q- Armenia has been in the midst of major democratic change. What would be the significance of Trudeau’s visit in that context. How can Canada assist in that process?
A- Trudeau’s visit and indeed the entire Francophonie Summit gave legitimacy to the new government. The heads of government and attending heads of state recognized that the new regime had the authority to govern Armenia and accepted that the will of the people had been carried out. However, what’s most important is that Canada assist Armenia in creating the institutions that ensure that transitions of government are done in a less exceptional manner. The Arnold Chan Initiative is a good first step, as well as ties between Canadian and Armenian universities, but more needs to be done.
Q- As a Canadian Armenian yourself, did you feel any added pressure for the trip to conclude without any major hiccups.
A- Yes and no. Yes, in that we wanted the trip to please the Prime Minister’s office from a political perspective, but we also didn’t feel like we would be responsible if the Prime Minister decided to repeat some of the errors from his summer trip to India. Similarly, as Armenians we very much hoped that Armenia hadn’t bitten off more than it could chew, but at the same time we felt like people were willing to excuse some issues because Armenia had gone through so much disruption this year. In the end, everything worked out perfectly. The Prime Minister’s staff could not have been happier from a foreign relations or domestic public relations perspective. And Armenia itself did an incredible job. The delegates we spoke to were all extremely pleased with how well things were run and how fantastic Yerevan looked.
Q- The Diaspora, and more specifically Canada, has a layered perception of the current state of Armenia. How do Armenians that reside in Armenia view their counterparts in Canada?
Almost everyone you meet in Armenia knows someone in Canada (and generally someone very close to them). They have a very good idea of what Canada is and what the situation is for Armenians. I’m not as sure that people know about the situation of the traditional Armenian diaspora in Canada (the diaspora made up of people who are not recent emigres from Armenia) beyond a few famous names and the fact that Canada recognizes the Armenian genocide. To be honest, I don’t think that will ever change. There really isn’t very much reason for the average Armenian to take an interest in the community we have built in Canada.
Q- Compared to previous times you’ve travelled to Armenia, was there a noticeable narrative shift surrounding the local government and its approach to public affairs?
A- People certainly seemed more optimistic about the situation, but much of that has to do with improved economic circumstances and immigration to Armenia from various diaspora communities with their own issues. In the bubble of downtown Yerevan (where I remained because my trip was for a very limited purpose), it can feel like Armenia has progressed considerably, but I think everyone can sense that it is something of a mirage. One big difference is that people have some hope that the government will be better now – that hope is new, but I think that is just because of the novelty.
Q- Are there any plans for Prime Minister Pashinyan and or President Sarkissian to visit Canada?
A- I’m not aware of any immediate plans, but I believe there is a standing invitation for either one to visit?
Q- And finally- there was a video circling social media where our prime minister engages the crowd with an Armenian phrase, sharing he had learned it from an Armenian friend. For those of us who are tempted to play the “I wonder if we know the friend” game, any clues?
Prime Minister Trudeau had an Armenian friend (in Montreal) who taught him the phrases.
He had used them with me about 10 years ago, so I reminded him and asked why he wasn’t indulging the people. He obliged, and expressed two different phrases on a couple of occasions. “Vaghuh tbrots bidi yertam” was a crowd favourite.
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The false faith of scientific reason
Jewish Chronicle, 17 October 2008
It is an article of faith (except, of course, among those who actually have a faith) that the dethronement of God by the apostles of secularism has ushered in an age of reason. Belief in the Almighty is now widely held to be a priori evidence of primitive stupidity.
In fact, we are living in a deeply irrational age, where millions are putting their faith in such mumbo-jumbo as astrology, parapsychology, paganism, witchcraft or conspiracies between sinister groups and extra-terrestrial forces. All of which goes to prove the truth of the old adage that when people stop believing in God, they will believe in anything.
Nevertheless, the belief has taken hold that religious faith is inimical to reason, as defined and exemplified by the scientific mind. Such belief expresses itself in the near God-like status afforded to Professor Richard Dawkins — the Savonarola of atheism — on the basis of his aggressive contention that evolution accounts for the origin of life, and that anyone who believes the world had a creator and a purpose should be exiled altogether from intelligent discourse
Interestingly, over the past few months Dawkins has been meeting his match in a remarkable Oxford mathematics professor called John Lennox, who argues for the existence of a creator on the basis of science — and demonstrates that, on his own scientific terms, Dawkins’s arguments fail the test of reason.
Next week, the two of them will slug it out in a debate freighted with historic resonance at Oxford’s Natural History Museum — the very place where, in 1860, Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, tried to pour scorn on Darwin’s Origin of Species, only to be savaged by ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ TH Huxley. I wouldn’t put money on the same outcome this time.
The fact that secularism has taken on the characteristics of religious fanaticism, in espousing dogma inimical to human flourishing and punishing dissenters in order to slam the lid on debate, is explored in a timely monograph by Herbert London, president of the Hudson Institute, the influential American think-tank.
This institute is a front-line combatant in America’s culture wars, in which it seeks to defend the values of western civilisation against the onslaught from those trying to destroy it. In his book, America’s Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion, London argues that the rise of secularism has so hollowed out Western society that it has left it acutely vulnerable to the predations of radical Islam.
The decay of religion, he says, has given rise to moral relativism, which regards all beliefs and principles as being of equal value and truth as a relative concept. This has given rise to multiculturalism, which masquerades as the promotion of equal rights but is actually a disguised form of cultural and national self-loathing.
This in turn lies behind the idea that nations are illegitimate or passé, and that the world’s problems can all be solved by everyone on the planet coming together to harness the power of reason to arrive at a solution. But, in robbing people of their national identity and capacity to believe in anything except the fiction that reason trumps all, this is an essentially irrational negation of self-interest.
No less irrational is the overreach of science which, as London writes, has been hijacked by secular fundamentalists who want to supplant religion by asserting that only in science can truths be found.
Such ’scientism’ — as this overreach is termed — goes beyond the ability of science to explain the nature of the world around us and claims to tell us how life began. Yet the assumption that science provides a complete theory of knowledge is itself fundamentally unscientific.
Science generates more questions than it can answer. The more science unravels the mysteries of the world for us, the more mysterious it becomes. And, as the many scientists who are also religious believers demonstrate, there is no inherent conflict between religion and science.
The dogma that science provides the answer to every question and so supplants religion has led to a junking of the moral codes deriving from Judaism and Christianity that underpin western society.
This loss of cultural nerve has created an unwitting collusion between secular zealots and the Islamists who have declared war upon western civilisation, and who believe — correctly — that a secular west will be unable to resist them.
Science, rationality and the pursuit of truth are intimately related to the religious traditions of the west. If those traditions are not defended from within against the threat from without, this will be how the west was lost.
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