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Steven Carell’s New Silver Fox Look Has The Internet In A Tizzy
Jason Reynolds
Steve Carell showed up on Saturday, June 24, for the world premiere of his new animated movie, Despicable Me 3, and for once, the internet didn’t care about the minions. Instead, all eyes were on Carell’s new look. Carell has been out of the spotlight for a while now, as he worked on doing the voices for the new animated feature, but photographers caught him during the premiere and in London last Wednesday, taking note of his new grey hair. And just like it worked for George Clooney, it seems to have worked for Steve.
According to a fashion writer at Harper’s Bazaar, Steve now looks like a silver fox that could have stepped out of a fashion catalogue. Or as she put it, “A fitting reaction in this case might be, ‘Daaaamn.'”
GQ also took note of Steve’s new look, wholeheartedly approving of the actor’s decision to go from greying brown hair to full fledged silver. According to the female writer, there are many people, including herself, who will wonder “how Steve Carell got so damn hot overnight.”
It’s unknown whether or not the gray hair is natural or if he had it colored for an upcoming movie. Carell does have several projects coming soon that do not involve just putting time in a recording booth, so it is possible that the gray comes from a bottle. But then again, if the internet is any judge, nobody really cares. Several fans took to the social media outlet to express their appreciation for Steve Carell’s new look.
Honestly take your Goslings and your Zayns Malik and give me 2017 Steve Carell pic.twitter.com/lUWWF2A8Ue
— Chloe Gilke (@GilkeAsCharged) June 21, 2017
STEVE CARELL LOOKS SO GOOD???????????? @SteveCarell pic.twitter.com/3an5mGNCuj
— Carli Tuttle (@CarliTuttle) June 25, 2017
Carell looked just as good when he showed up to the L.A. premiere with Kristin Wiig. Steve swapped out his leather sneakers and sweater for a blue shirt sans tie under a gray suit with the same sunglasses.
Kristen Wiig, and Steve Carell help promote the world premiere of Despicable Me 3. [Image by Willy Sanjuan/AP Images]
The trend to go gray before it’s time has become a fashion trend that was highlighted by the New York Times in 2016. It has been percolating in the mean streets and back alleys of fashion since the early 2010’s, but now is its time to shine. According to the piece, searches on Amazon for gray hair dye have tripled in the last year, and silver hair has garnered an impressive number of searches and YouTube videos as well. After all, as the above tweets note, Zayn Malik went gray early, but he didn’t look nearly as good as Carell.
Steve Carell started to show signs of going grey in 2016. [Image by Jordan Strauss/AP Images File]
Of course, Steve Carell is more than just good looks. His new movie, Despicable Me 3, has the actor taking on double duty in the voice booth. He is not only voicing the main returning character of Gru, he is also voicing Gru’s twin brother, Dru. According to the writers, Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, they had always known that Carell would be voicing two parts in this movie. With his versatile acting chops, they knew that he could handle the work. And because of that, they were sure that the movie would be twice as funny. Carell agreed with the two.
“I thought it was hilarious. They showed me a picture of what the brother might look like, and the voice came from that. It’s so silly.”
As we mentioned previously, Carell has several other projects on the burner. His next film is Battle of the Sexes where he plays former tennis star Bobby Riggs. Riggs is famous for challenging women’s champ Billie Jean King to a match. In the end, King won the match in three straight sets, winning 6-4, 6-3, and 6-3. Emma Stone will be playing the part of King.
[Featured Image by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images]
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Kingfisher talks 'net positive'
Britain’s second biggest retailer – in terms of selling space, if not sales – has a plan to boost revenues: plant a tree. Or rather a few hundred thousand of them.
Kingfisher, the parent company of B&Q, which has more square footage than any other retailer in the UK, save Tesco, has unveiled a corporate social responsibility programme. It is entitled “net positive”, and Ian Cheshire, the chief executive, promises it goes beyond anything Marks & Spencer and its “Plan A” has done.
“We want to just go from being sustainable to being net positive.” In simple terms, this means not just replacing the trees it cuts down to make garden furniture, but also then planting a few more trees. So far, so easy to understand. But the company intends to extend this principle across various parts of its business, including “energy”, “innovation” and “communities”.
“Doing less evil is a good thing, but could we go beyond that? Being a positive force for good is a much more motivating idea than just not increasing the amount of evil you do,” says Cheshire, who is showing me around the B&Q store in Sutton, Surrey.
This sounds suspiciously vague and a bit irrelevant in a struggling consumer economy. But Cheshire is adamant that this is no vanity project “to make the chief executive feel better about the business”.
For him, it is an essential strategy if the company is to thrive in the long-term . “Being a good neighbour” is the only way to avoid the sort of back-lash that Tesco has suffered from in recent months.
“Business is not a pure popularity contest. But it is really critical now that you have a real sense of purpose, that there is something broader about the business and it’s not purely transactional. Because if it’s purely transactional you don’t have an enduring relationship with customers; you’re just taking their money.”
The full story is available in our Industry Articles section.
Source : Harry Wallopp – The Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9219576/Kingfisher-plants-a-forest-to-grow-sales-and-be-neighbourly.html
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AV in Sport Special: Scratching the surface of projection mapping in live events
Michael Garwood ⋅ Feb 18, 2019
Sports venues are the ideal stage for projection mapping. Mike Garrido, senior product manager, Christie, outlines some recent projects and future trends
For today’s sports venue owners, living up to the immense expectations of fans is a challenge in today’s digitally-connected, social and technology-fluent world. Although the sports themselves will always be the reason fans attend, there is a growing demand for stadium owners to enhance the non-game aspects of live sporting events to create truly unique and enriching fan experiences. Large screens displaying spectator relevant information, as well as replaying incidents from games and matches, is now commonplace in most large stadia worldwide. In a related technology development, in this case projection, enterprising arena and stadia are also embracing projection mapping, and specifically, playing surface mapping (PSM).
PSM is a big, bold and exciting way to energise fans in a stadium or auditorium. By presenting amazing visuals projected right on the playing surface – and it could be an ice rink, basketball court, or football pitch – one has a great way to engage and entertain fans.
Importantly for many venues competing with TV audiences, it also gives spectators added motivation to get off the couch and make the trip to the actual venue. Getting fans to the arena was important for the Spanish basketball team, Valencia Basket, when its 30th anniversary occurred recently.
Valencia Basket play at the La Fonteta Pavilion in the city, and the anniversary coincided with the third leg of Valencia’s Endesa League semi-final versus Baskonia. Ten minutes before the match got underway, the lights were turned down in the arena and the court was turned into a gigantic 25 x 15 metre screen onto which a spectacular 3D video mapping show commemorating their thirty-year history was projected. Another basketball team, the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), added a new dimension to its games with projection mapping at halftime and during timeouts.
Using a combination of 3D mapping techniques and video content produced by the Cavalier’s internal creative team, the court is transformed into an immersive environment featuring a classic ‘pong’-style game with spectators competing against each other. Participants from the crowd come down to each end of the court to battle it out using motion-tracking rackets that pass the virtual ball back and forth from one end of the court to the other. An additional benefit for the owner is the sponsorship opportunities offered by the interactive game, as Eric Gazzillo, of Quince Imaging, the creative agency behind the game relates: “We created something with the interactive gaming that fans haven’t seen before. Teams are always trying to develop additions to their menu of sponsorship opportunities. Interactive court projection or games are a menu item that are going to be very attractive to sponsors.”
The draw for teams and sponsors is that during a timeout or a long stoppage in play, fans are looking at the court surface. Gazzillo also learned that sponsors are not just interested in the fan experience in the arena, but also after the event when the experience has spread across social media, websites and other online platforms. “We introduced the interactive games because those are attractive to the fans who will then put the experience on Instagram, Facebook Live, and other social media sites. We try to get something unique to get the fans excited, get them tweeting and putting it on Snapchat.”
Creating complex, visual experiences, such as sports-venue projection mapping can be costly, time-consuming and challenging for any venue; the technical logistics required are complex. There are solutions available, such as Christie Mystique. The system is built on the three pillars of design, install and operate, with each facet of the system solving the specific challenges encountered at these stages on a complex multi-screen, multi-projector and blended installation.
Mystique Design features software tools to help integrators and clients design, validate, simulate and visualie any complex projection system. Mystique Install helps integrators through the installation and calibration process, including projector stacking. And Mystique Operate features system-level monitoring to ensure the overall system quality is maintained over its lifetime. A good example of the system in action is at the T-Mobile Arena, the home of National Hockey League (NHL) team, the Vegas Golden Knights – a professional ice hockey team based in Las Vegas. The challenge is not just competing with TV audiences, but with the multitude of attractions offered by the entertainment capital of the world.
Image Engineering, a specialist in effect designs and large spectacles (primarily in professional sport), was brought onboard by the Golden Knights to handle the full game presentation, including audiovisual integration. “We took a lot of care to figure out an installation plan that was going to work for T-Mobile Arena because they do have so many large concerts and one-off shows that come in and out so frequently,” explains Ian Bottiglieri, Director of Project Management, Image Engineering.
The installation features 12 projectors in “pods” of two near each face-off circle, each blue line, and at centre ice, on each side of the arena. Image Engineering then used Christie Mystique to align the projectors, saving both themselves and the Golden Knights what would normally be between eight to 10 hours every time the projectors needed realignment after being repositioned for a concert or other event. “It took about four to five hours to get Mystique setup and running for the first time. After that, we didn’t even really need to think about our alignment because we just needed to block out a 15-minute time period to be able to run the Mystique system and everything would be realigned and perfectly warped and blended,” added Bottiglieri.
While currently, PSM is primarily used as an entertainment tool, owners and teams are discovering innovative ways to employ PSM as an integral training and analytical tool to augment practice and player development. With developments like this in the pipeline, the future looks exciting.
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Sanford plans new heart center, bone marrow transplant program as part of Fargo growth plan
FARGO -- Sanford plans a new heart and vascular health center to be built adjacent to its recently opened medical center as part of a slate of $200 million in investments over the next decade to expand services for a growing patient base.
Written By: Patrick Springer | Jul 25th 2018 - 6pm.
FARGO - Sanford plans a new heart and vascular health center to be built adjacent to its recently opened medical center as part of a slate of $200 million in investments over the next decade to expand services for a growing patient base.
The announcement coincides with the one-year anniversary of the opening of the $594 million Sanford Medical Center, where patient volumes are exceeding projections, according Nate White, Sanford's chief operating officer and executive vice president of Sanford Fargo.
Plans call for construction on the new heart and vascular health center to begin in two or three years, in what Sanford administrators expect will be the first of a series of clinical buildings to expand the medical campus in the coming years.
"We are trying to create a one-stop destination for all of our service lines," clustering related services at its three Fargo medical campuses as Sanford strives to expand its role as a regional, destination medical center, White said.
"For a lot of things we're trying to do our competition is Minneapolis or Denver," he said.
Many heart procedures already are performed in the cardiac catheterization lab at the medical center, but clinical services for cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons still are based at the downtown center.
Adding the heart and vascular center to the main medical campus at 5225 23rd Ave. S. will eliminate the back-and-forth drives - a 7- or 8-mile trip each way - for physicians and staff.
"It's more efficient for our staff ... and obviously more convenient for patients," White said.
"This is a vision we already had our arms around when we built this medical center," he added, referring to development of the campus over time.
Before settling on expansion plans, "We wanted to be open a year to have a better feel of what needs to be out here," White said.
This fall, work begins on adding 18 new hospital rooms in space that was shelled off to allow for future growth at the new medical center.
Also, Sanford plans an architectural facelift and expansion for its orthopedic and rehabilitation center on South University Drive. The remodeling, which has begun, is expected to cost $25 million and will include features to give the medical center the Collegiate Gothic architectural style that is Sanford's signature look.
In a second phase, expected to cost $75 million, work will include the addition of four new operating rooms, along with some related diagnostic services.
Plans also call for additional services at the Roger Maris Cancer Center, including a bone marrow transplant program, which would be the first in North Dakota or South Dakota, White said.
"It isn't a money-maker, but it's an important service for the community," he said. It will keep patients and their families closer to home and provide care that is less costly than at major out-of-state medical centers, White said.
"We feel we can provide better value for payers," both public and private, he said.
Soon, remodeling of the former emergency room at the downtown campus will be completed, expanding the number of infusion rooms from 30 to 40.
In other plans, Sanford envisions new primary care clinics to keep up with population growth in southern Fargo and West Fargo. The Veterans Square Clinic is expected to open late spring 2019, with almost 6,000 square feet for children's and primary care services.
Since opening a year ago, patient volumes at the new medical center have grown more than anticipated, White said.
"It's exceeded every one of our expectations," he said. Hospital admissions are up almost 5 percent, and the birth center saw an 18-percent increase during a recent one-year period. Sanford's three campuses had a record hospital census of 495 patients on Feb. 15, and now have a daily average of 400 patients.
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Michigan Car Accident and Personal Injury Laws
By Injury Claim Coach
If you’ve been injured in a car accident in the State of Michigan, you may have questions about how the laws will affect your property damage and/or personal injury claim. In this article, we’ll review the laws most commonly associated with car accidents. To read the entirety of each law, click the link to the specific State of Michigan statutes in each section.
Here are the Michigan car accident and traffic laws we’ll cover:
Pedestrian Rules
Basic Driving Laws
Driving Offenses
Liability Laws
Pedestrian Laws
Pedestrians and Crosswalks
During a green traffic signal, vehicles turning right or left, must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk.
During a steady yellow traffic signal, vehicles must stop before entering the crosswalk. If the stop cannot be made safely, a vehicle may drive cautiously through the intersection.
Pedestrian Control Signals
Whenever special pedestrian control signals, exhibiting the words Walk or Don’t Walk are in place such signals shall indicate as follows:
Walk. Pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal and shall be given the right of way by the drivers of all vehicles.
Don’t Walk. No pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in the direction of such signal, whether flashing or steady. Any pedestrian who has partially completed the pedestrian’s crossing on the Walk signal shall complete the crossing to a sidewalk or safety island while the Don’t Walk signal is showing.
Pedestrians on Roadway
Where sidewalks are provided, it is unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon adjacent roadway. Where sidewalks are not provided, pedestrians are permitted to walk only on or along the left side of the roadway
Obedience to Traffic Control Devices
A driver must obey any traffic control devices applicable to the driver, unless directed by a traffic or police officer.
Driving on Right Side of Roadway
Drivers must drive in the right lane of roadways with the following exceptions:
When passing another driver in the same direction
When there is an obstruction in the right lane
Upon a roadway with three marked lanes of traffic
Upon a roadway restricted to one way traffic
Passing On the Left
Driver proceeding in the same direction must pass to the left at at a safe distance and shall remain in the passing lane until it is safe to return to the right lane. Drivers being passed must not increase the speed of their vehicle until their vehicle is completely passed by the overtaking car.
Limitations on Overtaking on the Left
Drivers may drive to the left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and passing another vehicle only if the left side is clearly visible and the overtaking vehicle can return to its lane without interfering with oncoming traffic.
Passing On the Right
Drivers may pass on the right under the following conditions:
When the driver about to be passed is about to make a left turn. However, the driver attempting to pass on the right must not do so without driving off the pavement of main-traveled portion of the roadway.
When the roadway has two (2) or more lanes of traffic moving in the same direction.
On a one-way street where the roadway is free from obstructions and wide enough for two or more lines of moving vehicles.
A driver must not follow another driver more closely than is “reasonable and prudent”, having due regard for the speed of other drivers and traffic conditions along the roadway.
Drivers and Mobile Electronic Devices
Drivers must not drive while using a mobile electronic device to send, read, or write a text message or use a handheld mobile telephone, except for the purpose of contacting emergency services.
Section 257.602b
Drivers and Intersections
When two (2) drivers approach an intersection at approximately the same time the driver on the left must yield to the driver to their right.
Drivers Intending to Turn Left at Intersections
A driver who intends to turn left at an intersection must yield the right of way to vehicles approaching from the opposite direction.
Drivers Entering or Crossing a Roadway
A driver about to enter or cross a roadway from any place other than another roadway must yield the right of way to all other vehicles on the roadway to be crossed.
Bicycling Laws
Bicyclists must obey the same traffic laws as drivers of cars, and are subject to the same penalties as are drivers for violating traffic laws.
Motorcycling Laws
Motorcyclists and Lanes of Traffic
Motorcyclists are entitled to the full use of a traffic lane and drivers must not take any action to deprive a motorcyclist of his or her right to use a full lane on a roadway. A motorcyclist must not pass another driver in the same lane. Motorcyclists must not ride more than two (2) abreast in a single lane.
“Lane Splitting”
Motorcyclists must not pass another driver in the same lane. Commonly known as “lane splitting,” motorcyclists sometimes attempt to pass other drivers when traffic is slowed, or bumper to bumper. To move forward through traffic motorcyclists sometimes drive between cars. Doing so is not only illegal, but quite dangerous.
Helmet Law
A person who is operating a motorcycle is not required to wear a crash helmet if the person has had a motorcycle endorsement on their license for not less than 2 years or if the person passes a motorcycle safety course.
Motorcycles and Headlights
Every motorcycle riding on a roadway must equipped with at least one and not more than two head lamps.
Driving Offenses and Accident Requirements
A person who operates a vehicle on a highway, on a frozen public lake, stream, or pond, or on any other place open to the general public, in a careless or negligent manner that is likely to endanger any person or property, but without wantonness or recklessness, is responsible guilty of careless driving, and can be fined and imprisoned.
A driver who operates a vehicle on a highway, on a frozen public lake, stream, or pond, or on any other place open to the general public, in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving, and can be fined and imprisoned.
Driver’s Duty to Give Information and Render Aid
A driver involved in an accident must give the driver’s and owner’s names and addresses, and the vehicle registration number, and show their driver’s license to persons or police officers involved in the accident. Also, the driver must immediately, by the quickest available means of communication, notify a state police officer, or the sheriff’s office of the county in which the accident occurred.
Moreover the driver must render to any person injured in the accident reasonable assistance, including making of arrangements to transfer the injured person to a physician, surgeon, or hospital for medical or surgical treatment if it is apparent medical treatment is required.
Accidents Involving Death, Personal Injury, or Substantial Bodily Injury
A driver involved in an accident resulting in injury or death must give the driver’s and owner’s names and addresses, and the vehicle registration number, and show their driver’s license to persons or police officers involved in the accident. Also, the driver must immediately, by the quickest available means of communication, notify a state police officer, or the sheriff’s office of the county in which the accident occurred.
Accidents Involving Only Damage to Another Car or Property
A driver involved in an accident resulting in property damage must give the driver’s and owner’s names and addresses, and the vehicle registration number, and show their driver’s license to persons or police officers involved in the accident. Also, the driver must immediately, by the quickest available means of communication, notify a state police officer, or the sheriff’s office of the county in which the accident occurred.
Driver’s Duty to Notify Police Department
A driver involved in an accident resulting in injury, death, or total damage to all property resulting in $1000.00 or more must immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice to the nearest police office.
Accident Reports Filed By Police Departments
The officer receiving a vehicle accident report must immediately forward each report to the director of the department of state police. The report form must be completed in full by the investigating officer.
A copy of the report and copies of reports must be retained for at least 3 years at the local police department, sheriff’s department, or local state police after the making of the report.
Open Alcohol Container Law
A driver or passenger must not be in possession of an opened container of an alcoholic beverage while the car is on Michigan roadways. An opened alcoholic beverage container can be kept only in the trunk of a vehicle, behind the last upright seat, in an area not normally occupied by the operator or a passenger, in a locked glove compartment if the vehicle does not have a trunk.
Passengers of a hired vehicle can consume and possess an opened container.
Section 257.624a
Driving Under Influence of Alcohol or Controlled Substance
A driver must not drive after drinking an alcoholic beverage or consuming an intoxicant in an amount which renders the driver incapable of driving safely along roadways. In Michigan, a driver is guilty of the offense of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated if the driver has a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is 0.08% or higher.
Ignition Interlock Device
A driver who is guilty of driving while under the influence of an intoxicant might be ordered to have installed at his or her own expenses an ignition interlock device. The ignition interlock device will serve to restore the driver’s driving privileges during the pendency of the driver’s probation. If an ignition device is installed, it must be installed in every car owned or operated by the driver.
An ignition interlock is a device which measures any amount of alcohol contained in a driver’s body. Before starting the car the driver must blow into a tube emanating from the ignition interlock device. If the device then detects a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) higher than is permitted by law the car will not start and the violation will be reported to the prosecutor, the probation officer, and/or the judge. At that point the driver may be subject to loss of driving privileges, immediate arrest and incarceration up to the maximum term provided by law.
Michigan Dram Shop Law
Michigan has a modified Dram Shop Law. Dram Shop Law refers to the liability of private social hosts, bars, hotels nightclubs and other commercial establishments who serve alcohol to patrons or to minors for injuries intoxicated patrons or minors cause to third parties such as in car accidents.
A private social host is the host at a private party, such as a wedding reception, a corporate sponsored event, a gathering of friends at a private residence, where alcohol is served not for profit.
Under Michigan law, a person who sells or provides alcohol to a minor or a visibly intoxicated person is liable for the injuries and property damage caused by the minor or visibly intoxicated person.
Section 436.1801
Financial Responsibility Car Insurance Minimum Limits
In the State of Michigan, each motor vehicle must be covered by an insurance policy that includes liability coverage of the following amounts for all damages resulting from an accident:
At least $20,000 per person
At least $40,000 for two or more people
$10,000 per occurrence for property damage
Michigan Insurance Information
For information about auto insurance, see the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services website.
In Michigan, the victim in a car accident can sue the negligent driver for compensation. The victim’s liability in causing the accident, their comparative negligence, affects the amount of compensation the victim receives. If the victim contributed to the accident more than all the other parties combined, then the compensation that the victim receives is reduced by their percentage of fault.
Example of Comparative Negligence
One morning, Jackson was driving north on his way to work. At an intersection, he pulled into the left turn lane. At the same time, Melanie approached the intersection from the opposite direction. Suddenly, Jackson turned left into Melanie’s lane and their cars collided.
Melanie sustained serious brain injuries and damage to her car, totalling in $100,000 dollars worth of damages.
After their investigation, the police determined that Jackson had failed to yield according to traffic laws. A pedestrian witness told police he saw Melanie texting at the time Jackson’s car crashed into Melanie’s. As a result, the police issued Melanie a citation for using a mobile device while driving.
Melanie sued Jackson for $100,000 and claimed he was 100% at fault for the accident because he did not yield to her right-of-way. At trial, the jury found Jackson liable for failing to yield the right-of-way. However, the jury also found Melissa liable for using a mobile device while driving and partially responsible for the accident.
The verdict stated Jackson’s negligence equaled 70% of the accident, and Melanie’s equaled 30%. The jury awarded Melanie only $70,000 dollars.
Comparative Negligence: Section 600.2959
Right of Way: Section 257.650
Drivers and Mobile Electronic Devices: Section 257.602b
Michigan’s No Fault Car Insurance
In Michigan, the law requires car owners to purchase no-fault car insurance. No-fault insurance allows a person, who is injured in a car accident or whose property is damaged, to file a claim with their own car insurance company. No-fault insurance allows a person to avoid pursuing a negligent driver for compensation for damages. No-fault insurance does not compensate for pain and suffering, and the amount of personal injury protection (PIP) insurance purchased by the injured party determines their coverage.
Michigan has a three (3) year statute of limitations for property damage and personal injury claims. This means if a driver, passenger, or passerby is injured or sustains property damage at the hands of a negligent driver, the victim file a lawsuit within the three (3) year period following the accident or the victim is barred from pursuing the negligent driver in court.
Small Claims Courts
In Michigan, victims of car accidents can choose to sue the negligent driver in small claims court. The jurisdiction of a small claims court regarding personal injury and property damage is limited to a maximum of $5,500, exclusive of filing fees and court costs.
For more information about filing a claim with a small claims court, see the Michigan Courts website.
Michigan Government Tort Claims – Sovereign Immunity
In Michigan, it is generally not possible to submit a claim against a governmental agency or its employees for personal injury or property damage unless the act amounts to gross negligence on the part of the governmental agency or its employees. Gross negligence means conduct so reckless as to demonstrate a substantial lack of concern for whether an injury results.
The claim must refer to an lawful action on the part of the governmental agency or employee performed in the scope of their duties. If the injury or property damage occurred as a result of an unlawful action, then the claimant can sue only the person(s) who caused injury or property damage individually. The governmental agency would not be liable.
If Melissa, an engineer with the Detroit Planning Department, ran a red light on her way to a worksite and caused an accident, then the City of Detroit would be liable for the property damage and personal injuries caused by her.
If Melissa stopped for a few drinks and became intoxicated before heading to a worksite and causing an accident, then the City of Detroit can claim sovereign immunity. Melissa performed an unlawful act and was not acting in the scope of her duties when she became intoxicated on her way to the worksite.
To seek compensation for damages, injured parties would have to sue Melissa personally. The determination of whether or not Melissa was acting within the scope of her duties would have to be decided during a trial.
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Star's bid to help find father
PUBLISHED: 22:03 04 February 2002 | UPDATED: 15:25 03 March 2010
THE Evening Star's unique finding friends website has helped to unite people from all corners of the globe. From school pals who have drifted apart, to long-lost relatives family members feared they would never see again.
Now we have been handed one of our greatest challenges to date. The story, which starts in Canada and could lead right to the heart of Suffolk, is one of the most moving tales you will ever hear and anyone could hold the key to unlocking its secret.
TINA HEATH reports.
On March 9 1974, in the maternity ward of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, two sisters made a secret pact that would change their lives forever.
Linda Rackham would adopt her sister's newborn baby and bring him up as her own, never telling him the truth about his birth.
For 16 years Sandra played out her role as doting aunt, never living very far away, she watched as her son Jonathan grew up by younger sister's side until, when he was 16-years-old a bitter family dispute exposed the incredible love triangle.
Now happily married and living in Canada, Jonathan and his wife are expecting their first child and he feels ready to bring this story full circle - by searching out his natural father through The Evening Star's unique finding friends website.
When Jonathan is asked about family medical history he can only shrug his shoulders. With his first child due in just a few months, questions about the possibility of hereditary diseases are inevitable but he knows virtually nothing about his father's side of the family.
His mother, Sandra, never told anybody she was pregnant. "He was 6lbs 3ozs and she never had an antenatal class, never took a vitamin," says Linda, Jonathan's adopted mother and Sandra's sister.
"I got a call from my brother saying my sister had been rushed to hospital with an appendicitis. He said she was screaming in pain, I just got down there as fast as I could."
When staff directed her to the maternity unit she thought there must be some mistake, until she set eyes on the child, crying alone in his cot, and her sister exhausted and tearful, in complete denial. Jonathan was two-hours-old.
"When I saw him, even though he wasn't my child, he was my sister's child, my nephew, there was an instant bond, a love," says Linda.
"Then for somebody to tell you they don't want him. I just couldn't let him go. I couldn't imagine waking up every morning and wondering what had happened to him. It was like an instant thing, if she didn't want him, I'm going to take him. I decided in that instant."
Linda was just 20-years-old when she carried Jonathan home in arms. She recalls how the nurses had done "everything they could" to unite mother and child, feeding and bathing the tiny infant in front of Sandra but "all she did was put her head under the covers and not look at him".
Sandra agreed to give her unwanted child to her sister on the condition that she never tell him the truth about his birth. Her relationship with the father had ended when she was just a few months pregnant. He never knew she was expecting and the sisters vowed to keep their secret within the tight circle of closest family.
Linda went home to Rackham Road in Norwich, and the house she shared with her husband Robert.
Sandra (nee Cutting) resumed her life with her three-year-old daughter Sara in nearby Lakenham. Four years later Sandra moved to Canada to be near her parents who emigrated there in 1972 and a few years later, when Jonathan was six-years-old, Linda and her family followed, leaving the vast gulf of the Atlantic between them and the birthplace of their secret.
Jonathan Robert Michael Rackham chokes back tears as he describes what he would say to his father if only he could find him.
Now 27-years-old and with his first child due in April he wants to tell him: "Only that I was brought up okay. That if he isn't already, he is going to be a grandfather."
He wants to know where his blue eyes, tall stature and dimpled cheeks come from – not his mother's side, that's for sure. His love of the outdoors, fishing and swimming must come from someone.
"It's like a big puzzle and my father is a piece I need to find," he adds, any trace of a Norfolk burr transformed into a characteristic Canadian inflection, the pitch of his voice rising as he completes each phrase.
Jonathan, who now lives with his wife Racheal, 28, in Tillsonburg, south of Montreal only found out that aunt and mother had swapped places when he was 16-years-old during a bitter family dispute. His entire family pack had to be reshuffled. For a while he was left disorientated, shocked and hurt.
Now, although Sandra refuses to expand much on the subject, he feels he has come some way to understanding why his natural mother had to let him go.
"I haven't alienated her for not telling me. We are still basically friends. I understand the predicament she was in. I'm just glad I wasn't put up for adoption outside the family. That's why I feel so lucky, I'm still part of the family."
Surprising it is Linda - who went on to have two more children Daniel, 26, born in the year Jonathan was legally adopted and Laura, 19 - who speaks of a strongest sense of guilt, for not telling Jonathan the truth sooner and for keeping it from his real father.
"I've always had a – guilty makes it sound like I did something wrong," she stumbles, struggling to express complex emotions.
"I always felt I should have contacted him back then to let him know Jon was with me. Since Jon knew I have always known he wanted to find his real father and now he's having his own child I can see the longing in him. It's open and raw like a need deep within him and I have a need to help him make this story come a full circle."
Linda's marriage ended in divorce in 1983. She said: " John never had a good relationship with my ex husband and I always felt guilty for that. When I saw Jon in the hospital and made that decision I know it changed the course of my life
"If I had my time again I would have been open and honest and contacted this man, but when you make decisions you scratch by. Now Jon comes first."
The trouble is so little is known about Jonathan's natural father. His name was Robert Myhill and at the time of his brief relationship with Sandra he was living in the Lowestoft area, although the family believe he may have roots in Norfolk.
They think he was working on an oilrig, but again they can't be sure. (Linda only met him once and at the time had no real reason to take a keen interest in her sister's casual boyfriend).
He was more than 6ft tall and had a sturdy build. By now he would be between 45 and 55 years old.
Various attempts have been made to find him in the past. On one trip to England, Linda tried calling every Myhill in the phonebook and just before Christmas she wrote letters to every Myhill on the electoral role but has met with a disappointing response.
"We're not looking for anything from him. We don't need handouts or financial help or anything like that," insists Linda, 48, who lives in Sault Sainte Marie on Lake Superior, just across town from Sandra, 49.
"Robert has no reason to feel guilty or punish himself, he hasn't kept a secret. He has no problem to look back and say 'I should have done this, I should have done that'. I just feel it would be wrong not to tell him now."
N If you think you have any information which might help Jonathan in his search please contact the Evening Star
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Protecting our resources
Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 01:00
OF ALL the big questions facing the State, few have more profound long-term implications than the management of our natural resources. Official estimates suggest a potential reserve of hydrocarbons equivalent to 10 billion barrels of oil off the west coast alone. Were all of this to be recovered, it would be enough to supply Ireland’s gas and oil needs for a century.
With the stakes so high, it is imperative that the State gets its approach right. It has to balance the need to get companies to spend vast sums drilling wells with the public interest in maximising benefits from resources that belong to the Irish people. There is some urgency. A new round of applications for exploration licences in Atlantic waters closed at the end of May. Fifteen applications were received – the largest number of any licensing round to date and an indication that Irish waters are an increasingly attractive prospect.
Once these licences are issued, the holders will be, in effect, entitled to develop any finds they make under the current terms. It is widely acknowledged that these terms are extremely generous to the energy companies and produce a very low return for the State. An Indecon report, commissioned by the State in 2007, noted that “the current fiscal regime . . . yields among the lowest government take in the world”. Since then, the regime has changed slightly, with the potential for a higher tax take on very profitable fields.
By international standards, however, the terms remain very generous. Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte argues, in line with his Fianna Fáil and Green Party predecessors, that such terms are necessary to stimulate exploration activity. He may well be right, but the issue is too important to be left solely to the judgement of an individual minister.
The economics of energy and the technologies for recovering oil and gas from deep waters have changed so radically that it is time for a proper public review of this whole issue. That review should be undertaken by the Oireachtas committee on communications, natural resources and agriculture. It should be both open and open-minded, seeking not least to give the public some clarity on key questions. What is the status of the many discoveries made in recent decades that are still “under assessment”? How well do the current terms guarantee security of supply? Do they ensure the maximum amount of employment for Irish workers?
Mr Rabbitte’s position in this regard seems oddly contradictory. In April, when Éamon Ó Cuív suggested such a review in the Dáil, Mr Rabbitte replied that “I will agree. I will accept the spirit of his proposition.” Subsequently, however, he said he would go ahead and issue the licences under the current round, regardless of what the Oireachtas committee decides to do. This is an absurd approach to such a serious question: decision first, debate afterwards. It is not the way a healthy democracy considers issues of vital public importance. There should be a pause in the issuing of licences until the end of the year, to allow the Oireachtas committee to conduct a rigorous review.
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Treasury, IRS issue proposed regulations on charitable contributions and state and local tax credits
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WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations providing rules on the availability of charitable contribution deductions when the taxpayer receives or expects to receive a corresponding state or local tax credit.
The proposed regulations issued today are designed to clarify the relationship between state and local tax credits and the federal tax rules for charitable contribution deductions. The proposed regulations are available in the Federal Register.
Under the proposed regulations, a taxpayer who makes payments or transfers property to an entity eligible to receive tax deductible contributions must reduce their charitable deduction by the amount of any state or local tax credit the taxpayer receives or expects to receive.
For example, if a state grants a 70 percent state tax credit and the taxpayer pays $1,000 to an eligible entity, the taxpayer receives a $700 state tax credit. The taxpayer must reduce the $1,000 contribution by the $700 state tax credit, leaving an allowable contribution deduction of $300 on the taxpayer’s federal income tax return. The proposed regulations also apply to payments made by trusts or decedents’ estates in determining the amount of their contribution deduction.
The proposed regulations provide exceptions for dollar-for-dollar state tax deductions and for tax credits of no more than 15 percent of the payment amount or of the fair market value of the property transferred. A taxpayer who makes a $1,000 contribution to an eligible entity is not required to reduce the $1,000 deduction on the taxpayer’s federal income tax return if the state or local tax credit received or expected to be received is no more than $150.
Treasury and IRS welcome public comments on these proposed regulations. For details on submitting comments, see the proposed regulations.
Updates on the implementation of the TCJA can be found on the Tax Reform page of IRS.gov.
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12 June 2015 at 10:30pm
Paddington Bear creator awarded CBE
Michael Bond has been awarded a CBE Photo: PA
Paddington Bear may be getting a trip to Buckingham Palace to see his creator collect his CBE.
Michael Bond, 89, joked he may take the much-loved children's character along, provided the bear does not try to sneak in a marmalade sandwich under his hat.
Mr Bond, who has been awarded a CBE for services to children's literature to add to the OBE he received in July 1997, said: "I think it (the award) will be good for children's books as a whole. I am delighted but I do think that my pleasure is mostly directed at Paddington getting it because he is a very real person to me."
Recent big screen success has introduced the clumsy but impeccably polite bear to a new generation of children. Paddington hails from "darkest Peru", loves marmalade sandwiches and is adopted by the Brown family.
Mr Bond's first book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published in 1958. The Paddington books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 30 languages.
Mr Bond said: "I got the OBE some years ago. I took him to the palace and read the notice I had from the palace about what you can and can't do. Then I saw it said that no food must be taken in and I realised he probably had a marmalade sandwich under his hat - that was quite a worry. To me he is very real and sometimes he makes me laugh when I am writing him. He is so accident-prone but I admire his confidence."
He said he will "probably" take Paddington to the palace, saying: "Yes, if I am allowed to because the time before people wanted a photograph of him. I think the award is more for the Paddington books than anything else (I have done)."
Mr Bond was born in Newbury and educated at Presentation College in Reading. He served in both the Royal Air Force and the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army during the Second World War. He began writing in 1945 when he was in the Army.
The dream of becoming a writer was born after he was paid seven guineas when his first short story was sold to a magazine called London Opinion. With a mass of short stories and radio plays under his belt, his agent suggested that he could consider writing for children.
Mr Bond turned a television play into a children's play and eventually the married father-of- two crafted a career as a successful children's writer.
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Managed Services & Outsourcing
IBM opens outsourcing centre to lure Japanese market
Published: July 5th, 2005
IBM Corp. launched a business transformation outsourcing centre in Brisbane on Monday, primarily aimed at luring the Japanese and Asia-Pacific region outsourcing dollar into Australia.
Australia’s economic maturity, combined with the push for Queensland’s Smart State initiative, is expected to make Queensland the ideal outsourcing location for Asia-Pacific, especially Japanese companies.
According to IDC outsourcing analyst Aprajita Sharma, the business process outsourcing (BPO) dollar in Australia in 2004 was worth some A$2.8 billion with predictions it will hit A$3.6 billion by 2008.
In 2004, IBM exported more than A$650 million in services and kind from Australia, up 6.4 per cent from 2003 and 17 per cent from 2002.
Phillip Bullock, managing director and CEO of IBM Australia, said the deal further cements Queensland as a key part of IBM strategy.
Ian McClenaughan, Big Blue’s Queensland general manager, said Queensland is attractive as an outsourcing destination because it boasts a variety of skills, culture and language, as well as the necessary technology.
“What we are offering is a business process for client transformation,” McClenaughan said.
“The sustainability of the Smart State is not just for cheaper labour, but we do have skilled labour that allows the transformation.”
The centre has 20 staff of differing nationalities now and that figure is expected to rise to 100 people by the end of the year and expected to swell to 1,000 seats within the next 10 years.
The Queensland government has offered tax exemptions for the IBM BPO office in the form of payroll tax relief that is expected to continue over the next five years as a way to attract such investment into Queensland.
At the launch, Premier Peter Beattie claimed that the deal is an example of the Smart State in action, adding he could think of no better symbol or example of a Smart State than Queensland providing ICT services to Japan.
“These are Smart State jobs….We have to compete in a globalized economy by getting these jobs,” Beattie said.
“There was a time when outsourcing was viewed as a way of reducing costs, now it’s a specialized way of managing services.”
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The first year running costs of the centre amount to between A$8 million to A$10 million for capital expenditure and salaries.
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Net College Price Within Reach
Tony Hall (right) appreciates the many opportunities for employment connections at Illinois Wesleyan, such as the Nursing Career Fair.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— Your news feed has been pretty scary the past few years with all sorts of bad news headlines: millennials have to live with their parents because of crushing student debt loads; only major in (fill-in-the-blank) if you want a job after graduation; here’s why you can’t afford your dream school.
What’s not showing up in your news feed? That net out-of-pocket tuition paid has gone down, at Illinois Wesleyan and at private nonprofit colleges and universities as a group, over the past decade.
Net out-of-pocket tuition is the final cost a student and his or her family pays after the financial aid is calculated. Financial aid includes scholarships, grants and loans, and at Illinois Wesleyan, that aid is considerable – about $36 million annually for a wide range of financial assistance programs. More than two-thirds of Illinois Wesleyan students receive merit or talent scholarships, including Tony Hall ’18 of East Peoria, Ill.
Hall did not initially consider a private university in his college search. For Hall, the opportunity to play college football, his dream since he was a little boy, ranked high on his list. But after narrowing his search to several state schools, Hall also widened his search to private universities and liberal arts institutions including Milliken, Augustana and Upper Iowa University.
“I considered all these schools pertaining to affordability, size, reputation and which sport I wanted to play, which was either wrestling or football,” Hall said. “I recognized Illinois Wesleyan’s costs were initially higher than the other schools.”
After his financial aid package was extended, however, his cost to attend Illinois Wesleyan “clearly became very manageable. I also thought the value of my degree would be higher if I obtained it from Illinois Wesleyan.” And when Hall considered Illinois Wesleyan’s School of Nursing’s reputation and the fact that typically 100 percent of its graduates are employed at the time they graduate, Hall was convinced his degree from Illinois Wesleyan would have more value than the other schools he was considering.
“A smaller school like Illinois Wesleyan allows for a better learning experience, in my opinion,” Hall continued. “I chose to come to Illinois Wesleyan because of the closer relationships you can develop between students and professors and for the opportunities. For example, nursing faculty and staff take their junior and senior students to annual conferences. They also sponsor a career fair along with the Hart Career Center.”
Everyone at Illinois Wesleyan supports students, according to Hall. “What I love about IWU is how caring the professors, Financial Aid, the Hart Career Center, and many others are about the students’ success,” said Hall. “They all promote an awesome atmosphere for students, and it makes my experience unique. You can easily approach a professor and ask for help for literally anything. And the people that work in Financial Aid are phenomenal. They recognize if a student is having financial issues, and they will assist you.”
Part of that help is administering gift assistance to more than 90 percent of students who, like Hall, qualify for some type of financial aid.
Investing in a college education is an important decision, but it shouldn’t be scary. A commitment to financial assistance makes an Illinois Wesleyan education within reach of any student.
Contact: khill1@iwu.edu
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Best quotes on Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry is a name synonymous with victory, legendary status and a deadly striker whose sole desire is to beat his opponent. Henry is not only famous among Arsenal faithfuls but everyone who ever watched the French forward during his prime years in England. The retired French footballer is a record goalscorer for English side Arsenal as well as French national team.
Here are quotes of what big names in football said about him.
"It was embarrassing for the defenders. He just scored when he wanted." - Arsene Wenger
"I think he's the best player to have played in this country. I'd go that far. " - Alan Smith
"There's a difference between skills and functional skills. Thierry's skills were perfectly functional. There was something behind every movement: to get a strike, receive a pass." - Dennis Bergkamp
"I asked my son who the best player in England is. I was waiting for him to say his dad. He said Thierry Henry." - Didier Drogba
"The word 'great' is overused but in Thierry's case it is absolutely true." - Bob Wilson
"Thierry Henry would play for Arsenal like he was a 20-year-old playing in an Under-12 league, and I've never seen that before." -
Paul Merson
"As a football fan I enjoy watching Henry, and some of the goals he scored last year were frightening. He's one of those player where you know what he's going to do but you just can't stop it. He's so quick,so strong and so confident. It feels like every game he's going to score a goal." - Ryan Giggs
"There is only one word to describe Henry—a nightmare. He is one of the best strikers in the world and a kind of player a goalkeeper doesn't want to face." -
Carlo Cudicini
"Character-wise, he was a winner, you could tell that straight away. But he had everything on the ball as well, he had skill, trickery, he could go past a player, and he had an eye for goal." -
Ray Parlour
"He was one of the greatest players this club has ever had and has done a huge service to this club. " -
"What a great player Thierry Henry was – I'd say he's the best to ever play in the Premiership, just ahead of Shearer." -
Jamie Carragher
"The first day that he came into the dressing room, I did not dare to look him in the face. I knew everything that he had done in England." -
"Is he one of the all-time greats? Obviously. He's the kind of player that you need forever." -
We were blessed in this country to see Thierry playing at his peak, potentially one of the greatest players in the world, and even if you supported another team you couldn't help but enjoy watching him play. It's always a shame when such a career comes to an end." -
"Henry is an artist and players like him are the reasons people get involved in football." -
"From the ages of ten to 16, watching him the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals – free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League." -
"His time with Arsenal was fantastic and he's always been a good role model in how he holds himself, as a footballer and a human being. He's never wavered from that type of professionalism that you need to achieve that status." -
"To be honest Thierry is different class. In my mind there is no better striker in the world at the moment. Marking him is near impossible, his pace is devastating, I don't think I've ever come up against a player with so many attributes." -
Ashley Cole
"A footballing monster in respects of ability. He (had) everything." -
"He was so powerful I've never seen a player being so dominant in the Premier League." -
"People say he doesn't score a lot of goals with his head, but does he really have to with the ability he has in his feet? He makes spectacular goals look easy. His technique is fantastic." -
Alan Shearer
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"Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game" -
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Firefighters extinguish Racine apartment building blaze
The three occupants of the building were able to escape the building without injury, the release said. The building at 1045 Grand Ave. suffered an estimated $440,000 in damage.
Firefighters extinguish Racine apartment building blaze The three occupants of the building were able to escape the building without injury, the release said. The building at 1045 Grand Ave. suffered an estimated $440,000 in damage. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2F0MEMS
Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 8:22 a.m. CT Jan. 21, 2018
Firetruck.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
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The fire department was called to the three-story apartment building Saturday around 8:30 p.m.The three occupants of the building were able to escape the building without injury, the release said.
The release said the fire started near the rear porch and the cause of the blaze is under investigation. The building at 1045 Grand Ave. suffered an estimated $440,000 in damage.
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On Wisconsin Politics newsletter aims to give you weekly highlights and explain the complex world of politics
In Wisconsin, we care about our communities, neighbors and fulfilling our civic responsibilities — and a good political street fight.
On Wisconsin Politics newsletter aims to give you weekly highlights and explain the complex world of politics In Wisconsin, we care about our communities, neighbors and fulfilling our civic responsibilities — and a good political street fight. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/14/wisconsin-politics-newsletter-explains-complex-world-politics/3152765002/
Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 11:11 a.m. CT March 14, 2019 | Updated 11:19 a.m. CT March 20, 2019
The Capitol is shown as light snow falls before Gov. Tony Evers delivers his State of the State address in Madison. (Photo: Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
We're the state of foam cheeseheads, bubblers and Friday fish fries.
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Wisconsin takes its politics seriously, so we're launching a new newsletter, On Wisconsin Politics.
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In battleground Wisconsin, the campaigns never stop and the political news is never dull. There's a reason Wisconsin is renowned for high voter turnout. We care about our communities, neighbors and fulfilling our civic responsibilities — and a good political street fight.
Our aim is to give you the highlights and explain the complex world of politics.
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And we'll provide updates from around the region and state from Waukesha to Wausau to Green Bay via Now News Group and USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
You'll get the best from our team of political reporters, including Patrick Marley and Molly Beck in Madison, Craig Gilbert in Washington, D.C., and Mary Spicuzza and columnist Daniel Bice in Milwaukee.
Milwaukee will be on the world stage as the host city of the 2020 Democratic National Convention and we'll be there every step of the way.
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Why Widows?
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‘KALANGARAI’, meaning ‘Beacon of Light’, had its birth in the process of relief and rehabilitation work initiated in Nagapattinam district following the Indian Ocean Tsunami, which occurred on 26th Dec. 2004. The district having a 116-mile coastline was the most devastated by the cataclysmic event. Of the total number of 8,018 deaths in the state, 6,065 were from Nagapattinam district.
Welcome to Kalangarai!
Friends of Kalangarai is a newly formed non-profit organization in the U.S. that supports the community-based programs of Kalangarai. These programs include micro-credit self-help groups, skills training, children’s educational programs, and a community college. More than 1000 widowed and abandoned women and their families participate in these programs.
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Episode 3 : Getting To Know A Southern Peach with K. Michelle
Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, K. Michelle is an R&B singer and songwriter who has always known her voice and how her music should feel and sound.
K. Michelle: I just knew what music was supposed to feel like, was supposed to be like, and it was just a comfort for me.
Lucas Hendrickson: Hip hop and R&B artist K. Michelle trusts the little voice inside her, the one that tells her which way to turn, one of the hardest lessons an emerging artist has to learn. On this episode, we talk to the relentlessly busy K.Michelle about music, her successful collaboration with Jack Daniel's on the country cocktails flavor Southern Peach, and believe it or not, yodeling. My name is Lucas Hendrickson, and this is "Around the Barrel."
Lucas: Welcome back to "Around the Barrel," the official podcast from the makers of Jack Daniel's. I'm your host, Lucas Hendrickson. The 21st century requires those in the public spotlight to both specialize and diversify, keep in your lane to develop a fan base, but do as many different things as you possibly can to keep that fan base interested. That doesn't seem to be a problem for Atlantic Records recording artist and Tennessee native, K. Michelle. Her artistic portfolio includes four albums, including her most recent 2017's "Kimberly: The People I Used to Know" and multiple TV projects, and then there's her collaboration with Jack Daniel's on the country cocktail flavor known as Southern Peach, which has become a runaway hit in that line of pre-mixed drinks. It's easy to see that K. Michelle has earned the hyphens in her career singer-songwriter-musician-mixologist, but in her eyes, all those facets rely on her bringing things back to the basics.
K. Michelle: Hello, my name is K. Michelle, known to my mother as Kimberly Pate. I'm from Memphis, Tennessee. I am a recording artist signed to Atlantic Records. And I love food. I'm a big foodie, and I'm a huge, huge, huge Jack Daniel's fan and Jack Daniel's drinker and I'm currently located and Studio City, Los Angeles, California on this sunny, but cold day.
Lucas: K. Michelle, welcome in to "Around the Barrel."
K. Michelle: Well, thank you for having me. I'm excited about it.
Lucas: No problem. We appreciate you spending time with us today. This is a very busy time for you. You just released a record on Atlantic Records called "Kimberly: The People I Used to Know." You're working on that, and then you also have your relationship with us here at Jack Daniel's. Talk a little bit first about the record. It came out early December, and the debut single was "Birthday," correct?
K. Michelle: Yes, yes. Yes
Lucas: You've got a number of different artists that are with you on this record as well, talk a little bit about what your music is like in this moment.
K. Michelle: Well, my music it's very much me. Like, I called it Kimberly because I wanted to get to back to the basics of what made me the artist I am, what made people fall in love with me and that was honesty. And this record is completely full of honesty. It is records of all different emotions, all different time frames in my life. And it's like a snapshot of my life right now. So, "Kimberly: The People I Used to Know" the people I used to know because so many people, everybody has somebody that they used to know, you know, they have somebody that they used to know which they still knew or somebody that they used to know that they don't ever want to know again. So a lot of my music and a lot of our life is the way people made us feel in the moment. So for me, I really wanted to show how I felt at that moment and I always kind of do but sometimes I get a little scared about it. But this time I really went for it.
Lucas: So if somebody were coming into your music cold, hadn't heard of you before, didn't know a lot of songs. How would you easiest describe your music right now?
K. Michelle: I would say it's a mix of everything. It's a fusion, it's a buffet. It's a little bit of this and that, I would say it's just music. There's some country. There's some rap. There's some R&B, some ballads, some soul, some inspirational. It was just all the emotion, so I can say the genre, there's really not a distinctive genre on the album. If you have to honestly listen down to it.
Lucas: Now, does that make it tough for you as an artist to get people to understand what you're trying to do there when you're trying to do a lot of different things all at once? I mean, that's a tough thing in our genre-specific age these days.
K. Michelle: Yeah, it's difficult for them. Not for me. Because them, they want to box it. Me, I just go with the flow and I go with the music that's there, and I think a lot of artists do, but I think what happens is, you know, they're trying to fit in like, you know people around them. But a lot of times if an artist truly loves music, they can feel any type of music and music is the universal language.
Lucas: So you've had a lot of experience in the the R&B world, you know crossing over into a little bit of rap, that kind of thing, but I think people would be really, really surprised to find out that you entered into higher education via yodeling. Tell me that story.
K. Michelle: [Laughing] I did, I entered into the game on some yodeling. And you know, it really was weird because my parents took me to Bob Westbrook and he is a voice teacher and he trained a lot of people like Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, the Miss America's... he's just been known for it. And when I went to him the first thing that he said he's like, you know, I want her to try some other things and immediately he started to teach me how to yodel.
Lucas: How did you react to that? I mean had you heard yodeling before? Had that crossed your path growing up at all, or was it a completely different musical form for you? And did you take to it pretty quickly?
K. Michelle: I took to it pretty quickly, I loved it. And it was something that was really easy for me and it was something that allowed me to do something different. So I've always liked different things and as just took to country music after that so it's always been something that I've loved.
Lucas: Okay, now your hometown is a fine upstanding, Tennessee town, you have Tennessee roots here. So you grew up in Memphis, right?
K. Michelle: I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee.
Lucas: Okay, so how much of your musical education was based on that area and it's very rich musical history?
K. Michelle: Oh, wow. A lot of it was based on what my parents would put around me. And they would put a lot of gospel music and also a lot of soul. So my mom was always like a big Diana Ross fan, and Patti LaBelle, so I was always surrounded with these great, great artists. So I just knew what music was supposed to feel like, was supposed to be like, and it was just a comfort for me, and that's a comfort that I always try to feel when creating music.
Lucas: And about what age did you discover A) I have some talent for this and B) This is something that I want to pursue on a bigger level?
K. Michelle: When I wouldn't shut up. Yeah, when I wouldn't shut up that's when I realized that okay, this is something a little bit different. My parents even gave me the biggest closet in the house so that I could just sing to the top of my lungs and not get on their nerves. So I appreciate it.
Lucas: That was no longer a closet. It was a vocal booth.
K. Michelle: Yes, it was my vocal booth. It was my stage, and I was ready for it.
Lucas: Okay. Do you remember the first time you sat down on purpose and attempted to write a song?
K. Michelle: Oh, I think I wrote them, I just wrote them every day. Like I remember I had like a little one of those recorders and I remember saying like a Christmas song like "Up on the housetop, click click click." and I would always sing that but I would always sing answers and it would drive my mom crazy. And I knew it would drive her crazy so I would continue to sing her answers. I was always writing something.
Lucas: Now, when did you get together with other creative people to try to do music in front of folks? Did you sing in church choirs, did you perform at school? What was your underpinning for that?
K. Michelle: Church, school, I went to a performing arts school and that was something that really helped because my classes were, I had to take a lot of the core classes in the summer and things like that. I went to school that was kind of like "Fame." So I also was like an amusement park entertainer. I stayed performing.
Lucas: But you're also a guitarist and a pianist, correct? When was the last time that you just sat down at a piano or grab a guitar and just kind of noodled away just to relax, to kind of just clear your mind or some other stuff. How are you able these days with as much as you've got going on to kind of stay in touch with your creative side, in that way?
K. Michelle: It's difficult. Like I can honestly say that it is difficult. Like really trying to not just do business and look at numbers and do all of these things. It gets to be very, oh very stressful.
Lucas: But are you able to take some time for yourself and do that? When was the last time you were able to truly do that?
K. Michelle: When was the last time? I make time, like at night, like late night when everybody sleep, I'm normally awake. Yeah, I'm normally awake. So I make time for it.
Lucas: And what was the last song idea that came out of one of those kind of moments?
K. Michelle: Well, you know a lot of my song ideas are like going until like my creativity with the drinks, like it's always song titles, you know, like the Cigar on the Beach all these different little titles, you know what I'm saying? So it just kind of comes out in other ways. It might not be if I sit down and write a specific song but it might be something with the restaurant, or something creative, as long as I'm being active and creative I feel a whole lot better. And you know, it's like an outlet for me.
Lucas: Well you gave me that great segue to kind of jump in and talk about why we are sitting Around the Barrel. Your relationship with Jack Daniel's. When did that come about? We know back in your song you wrote "Jack Daniel's is the only man I'll ever trust," I can say we appreciate that. But where did where did that relationship come from? And and what has come out of it?
K. Michelle: Jack Daniel's has been great for me because it's something that is authentic and natural to me. It's not anything that I'm forcing myself to drink or forcing myself to love. Like I genuinely have always liked drinking when I was of age. It's always been something.
Lucas: You've always enjoyed it responsibly.
K. Michelle: Yes, So for me that that's something else that just came true in the past couple of years because fans would bring me like bottles of Jack with bows on it. Yeah, with bows on it and they would say to me, "I know you say Jack Daniel's is the only man you'll ever trust" And I'm like, "you know, "Absolutely." And it is, so that's natural. So the relationship has grown from like a contest/competition type of thing, to now Southern Peach that's in stores, and you know people really love the Southern Peach Country Cocktail. And women love it, they drink it and they love it. So that for me alone is like to see a drink that you love, and then to see it growing like it's a part of you, that's something that I'm very proud of.
Lucas: What was it like for you to see that finished product for the first time? Do you remember seeing it in a store and was it kind of like hearing a song on the radio to know that you had a hand in putting together this product and now here it is in the real world for everybody to have?
K. Michelle: That's like, it's like weird. Like you see the Southern Peach, I was able to go and taste all the different types of Jack Daniel's flavors, and I just thought it was amazing how I did start, and then how they're delivered. And it is like a song. It's like an idea you just have maybe the music or you might have just something that you think you want to do, and I've watched it come to life. I've watched it.
Lucas: That's got to be a lot of fun.
K. Michelle: No. No, it's great. It's great. So, I'm thrilled.
Lucas: So what what does the future of that partnership look like here? Are you working on a second Country Cocktail since Southern Peach is taking off? Or are you gonna let this one ride for a little bit and see how it goes?
K. Michelle: I'm going to let it ride. I'm still making people aware of it. And I want to keep on making people know that it's a great, great drink. Southern Peach is a smooth drink. It's for a cookout, its for a girls night out. It's something that I'm going to hang in there with.
Lucas: At the same time, from a creative standpoint this could have been a very different time for you right now, music-wise. I know the record that just came out, "Kimberly: The People I Used to Know" again, very R&B, rap focused but it could have been a very different thing had other things gone a little differently. Talk about your love of country music and wanting to kind of create some of that moving forward.
K. Michelle: I absolutely adore it, like to me country music is just storytelling, and it's so heartfelt and it's everything that I'm about, you know, I grew up in it and it's so honest and I have a strong desire for it and it's something the first tape I ever got was the Judds.
Lucas: [Laughter] Okay, do you remember which record?
K. Michelle: "Love Can Build a Bridge"
Lucas: Okay. What a fantastic song that is.
K. Michelle: Yeah, country music just has always meant a lot to me. It's been something that I loved from yodeling all the way down to just the first tape I ever got was the Judds. So this is a genre of music that I've grown fond of and something that I've grown up in.
Lucas: So thinking about your fan base right now, who are some artists that you would point them to kind of say, "this is who has inspired me" not only legacy artists, but new artists, new country artists that are on the scene.
K. Michelle: I love Miranda Lambert. I love the Pistol Annies. I love the new country, its very rebellious.
Lucas: No, you rebellious? I'm shocked
K. Michelle: A little bit. Yeah.
Lucas: How do you feel like this particular beverage, Jack Daniel's Old Number 7, and the various things have sprung up around it over the past decade or so, how has that influenced the world of music and how has it intersected with not only your stuff but the history of all different forms of music?
K. Michelle: Jack Daniel's, a lot of people drink it and sing about Jack Daniel's. And you see it a lot, you know, a lot of even R&B acts like Rick James and things like that, a lot of people love Jack Daniels. It's like a cross genre based drink and it's natural. You don't see people like shoving it down your throat, It's something that you just naturally drink and love.
Lucas: Now have you had a chance to make it out to Lynchburg and see everything that goes on out there as far as the home of Jack Daniel's?
K. Michelle: Yes, I have. I've been able to, I went there years ago and it was a dry county and I got to see where it was made and everything like that. But I've also got to go to Kentucky and also got to see exactly where Southern Peach was made and that was a great experience.
Lucas: Did you get to see it being bottled and come off the line?
K. Michelle: Yes, I did. Yes, I did and I really enjoyed that.
Lucas: Did you get emotional about that? I mean, I know I've been emotional watching Jack Single Barrel coming off the line, but this was a product that you had a hand in, did it choke you up at all or are you just super excited about it?
K. Michelle: Oh, I was just, I flew down to watch it and I just kind of like teared up because it was such a long process and journey, you know for me to see that on the belt and just to see how it was created. I think anybody would just be thrilled.
Lucas: I would imagine that anybody would be thrilled. So I realize it's really early in the year but what does the balance of 2018 look like for you? Do you have music to promote? I'm assuming you're going to be performing throughout the year. What does what does the calendar look like this early in the year?
K. Michelle: I'm going on tour in February and I have to film a TV show, we start filming in January and you know, I have the Southern Peach promotion, so my New Year is ready to go.
Lucas: You're already spoken for, so we appreciate you spending some time with us today. Thank you so much K. Michelle. Appreciate it.
K. Michelle: Thank you so much. And it's really great to be a part of this. I really think that the podcast is going to really do great. And Southern Peach is something that ladies are enjoying and Jack Daniel's, in my opinion, just like music is universal, it's the universal drink.
Lucas: "Around the Barrel" is the official podcast of the Jack Daniel Distillery. Follow the podcast on the web at JackDaniels.com/podcast. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, and review at Apple Podcasts or wherever you gather your on-demand audio. Always remember, with great podcast and great whiskey, please enjoy responsibly. Join us next time for more conversations Around the Barrel. Your friends at Jack Daniel's remind you to drink responsibly. Jack Daniel's and Old Number 7 are registered trademarks, copyright 2018, Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, 40% alcohol by volume, 80 proof distilled and bottled by Jack Daniel Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee. Jack Daniel's Country Cocktails are premium Malt Beverages from the Jack Daniel's family of Brands. Around the Barrel is intended for listeners 21 years of age and older.
Her new album "Kimberly: The People I Used to Know," was released in December 2017 and is a snapshot of her life - open, honest, emotional and real. In this episode of Around the Barrel, K. Michelle talks with host Lucas Hendrickson about the forces that influence her music, career and life.
Subscribe to Around the Barrel with Jack Daniel's for this episode and more on Apple Podcasts or wherever you enjoy your on-demand audio.
For more information on K. Michelle and her new album, visit website at http://www.thekmichelle.com.
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Reference / Special Presentations | WITNESS TO WAR
CALL-UP, CAPTURE, COLD HARD LABOR
Aug. 13 field draftee fast-tracked to Soviet gulag
by Jun Hongo
Online: Jan 05, 2008
Fourteenth in a series
For Yoshiro Yazawa, the misfortune of being drafted just two days before Japan’s 1945 surrender ended up costing him three years in a Soviet concentration camp.
“I was drafted by the Imperial Japanese Army on Aug. 13, 1945,” said Yazawa, 80, recalling the fateful day. Japan announced its surrender only two days later, but its decision to do so was believed made prior to his conscription.
“I never expected to live through my time in the Soviet Union. I later learned that back in Japan, my mother had already arranged a gravestone with my name on it,” Yazawa said of his years following Japan’s surrender.
Although the war’s physical destruction was clearly visible, the psychological ordeal its survivors underwent often was not.
Yazawa’s life suffered a bolt from the blue when he was drafted in Manchuria two days before Japan’s surrender.
Born in Tokyo in October 1927, Yazawa was 15 when he moved to Benxi, Manchuria, with his parents and two older brothers. His father, who worked for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as an engineer for the bureau of waterworks, was sent to help Benxi manage its infrastructure.
Weak and skinny, Yazawa managed to avoid the draft and instead landed a job at a local steel company after finishing school, whereas 20 of his classmates enlisted as youth soldiers, only to be torpedoed and killed at sea near Korea.
Then came that fateful day when, at age 17, he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army, which ran Japan’s puppet state of Manchukuo.
“A civilian employee of the army came to visit me, and I was handed the order,” Yazawa recalled. Surprised to be drafted at his age, he was ordered to appear at the local recruiting station by the end of the day.
“Everyone was heading to war, so I didn’t think being drafted was unlucky,” he said, adding that he exchanged words with his father at the station out of fear that it would be the last time they’d speak. “I told him that I was ready.”
Carrying little more than his clothes, he took a train to Shenyang on Aug. 16. Although riots were a daily occurrence in Manchuria at the time, he was told the war was Japan’s attempt to liberate Asia from Western colonialism, and defeat was not an option.
But 10 days after being drafted, Yazawa’s infantry unit was captured by Soviet forces in Shenyang.
“There was nothing we could do but hold up our hands and surrender. We were surrounded by tanks,” Yazawa said.
The surrender was followed by over a month of marching eastward. Some 600,000 soldiers of the Kwantung Army are believed to have been captured and sent to concentration camps in Siberia at the time, but Yazawa, along with about 1,000 comrades, was ordered to head to Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent.
Sick soldiers who could not keep up with the others as they marched eastward were harassed by local Chinese and stripped naked. Those who were ill were inevitably left behind. Once on the train, prisoners were only given enough space to sit, not to lie down.
“Some of my colleagues never woke up in the morning. They had died while asleep, sitting down. I helped bury several bodies along the tracks when the train made stops,” Yazawa said. The food provided during the procession tasted atrocious and he learned in September amid the despair that Japan had surrendered to the Allied forces.
By that time, Yazawa had not only given up hope of returning home but had also become certain that the Soviets would eventually kill him.
His life was spared, but hardships awaited him at the camp.
It was November by the time the prisoners arrived in Uzbekistan. Their first task was to clean up a local military factory as the mercury plunged to minus 40, then return to their wooden bunks in the camp.
In the spring, they were sent to dig a canal from the Caspian Sea, using shovels and buckets.
As the weeks turned into months, however, Yazawa learned the local language and was able to speak with the Russians. By the second year at the camp, he was allowed to write his mother for the first time since being drafted.
Yazawa was freed in June 1948 and boarded a ship for home in Nakhodka port in eastern Russia.
“There was nothing to say, except to tell each other how surprising it was to find we had survived the war,” he recalled about reuniting with his family back in Tokyo. “Frankly, I was just surprised I made it out alive.”
Following his return home, Yazawa married at age 25, but had difficulty finding a job. The government was and still remains reluctant to compensate him for his labor in Tashkent, while many companies were unwilling to hire a returnee with no practical job training.
Frustrated with the treatment he was receiving, Yazawa opted to launch his own printing company in 1959.
Today, he has three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His company, Kenbunsha Printing, Co., relocated from Tokyo to Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, and is currently run by his son.
While many of his classmates and colleagues are among the war dead honored at Yasukuni Shrine, Yazawa has chosen not to visit the contentious Shinto landmark, which also enshrines Class-A war criminals. Instead, he has visited local elementary schools in the past several years to speak of his experiences.
“They say there’s a righteous war and a wrongful war, but it’s all about killing other human beings,” he often tells his students. Although his colleagues gave their lives for what they believed in, he feels it is unnecessary to visit Yasukuni, he said.
Yazawa does not hold anyone accountable for the hardships he endured, because those who lived through the era were all forced to make sacrifices for the war.
But had his draft notice been delayed for just two days, his life would have been completely different, he reckoned.
“I’d probably have spent my life another way, working on a lathe or something. I would have chosen a job similar to what my late father did,” Yazawa reflected. “The war devastated everything.”
In this series, we interview witnesses of Japan’s march to war and its crushing defeat who wish to pass on their experiences to younger generations.
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Home>Entertainment> Charlamagne: "There Is No Bigger Coon In Hip-Hop Than Soulja Boy"
Charlamagne: "There Is No Bigger Coon In Hip-Hop Than Soulja Boy"
By Angus Walker
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@gowangus
During the latest "Donkey of the Day" segment, Charlamagne tells Soulja Boy that his social media savagery is going to come back to haunt him.
Last night, Soulja Boy got himself trending on social media for calling out Quavo, releasing a diss track, and posting a video of himself toting heavy artillery while listening to said track, which he titled "Beef." For last night's antics, Soulja Boy earned himself the title of "Donkey of the Day," as he was today's focus of Charlamagne's daily sermons on stupidity. Charlamagne began the segment by defining the word "coon," which he says is "someone who is in entertainment, usually an actor or actress, who takes roles that stereotypically reinforce the negative stereotypes of black people."
"By that definition," he continues, "there is no bigger coon in hip-hop than Soulja Boy Tell Em."
Charlamagne reprimands Soulja for his "thumb thuggin'," "digital death threats," "cyber crippin'," and "broadband bloodin'." He plays a clip of Soulja Boy's "Beef," and says, "Yes, that's Soulja Boy using the Migos' whole flow to diss Quavo."
"All you're telling the universe is," he warns Soulja, "I wanna get shot, or I wanna shoot somebody, or I wanna go to jail." He reminds the 26-year-old rapper that one of these days someone is actually gonna engage him in a shootout, or more likely, that he'll shoot himself or a loved one when he's "dancing with a pistol, and you hit the dab the wrong way."
"When the police show up at your door," says Charlamagne, noting that law enforcement has access to social media, "don't get online talkin' about somebody's snitchin' because all you did was snitch on yourself." Charlamagne also pities Soulja's threatening response to actor Shia LaBeouf (who mentioned him in a freestyle primarily aimed at Lil Yachty), and jokes that he's having a crisis of identities, wanting to be both a thug and an IG model; "Soulja Boy don't know if he wanna be Gucci Mane or Bernice Burgos."
Unsurprisingly, Soulja Boy has heard Charlamagne's "Donkey of the Day" roast. He posted a video of him listening to the segment, and he seems highly amused, thanking Charlamagne for playing a snippet of his song on the radio. Strangely enough, he then shouted out Charlamagne and wrote, "... much love big bro. I don't take the perception. It's all fun and entertainment with me."
He then pressed Charlamagne for an interview on The Breakfast Club, promising to shed light on the context of all the beefs he's been involved in and to confirm that all of his Instagram gunplay is, in fact, legal. It looks like The Breakfast Club staff is on board.
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50 Polar Bears Searching For Food Invade Russian Town, Terrifying Residents
"People are scared. They are frightened to leave homes, and their daily routines are broken."
By Carla Baranauckas, HuffPost US
In what is being called a consequence of climate change, more than 50 polar bears have invaded a Russian settlement in the Arctic, forcing terrified residents to stay in their homes, according to news reports.
The settlement, Belushya Guba, is on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago off Russia’s northeast coast and has a population of about 2,500.
Officials declared a state of emergency on Saturday after reports of bears attacking people and entering homes, CNN said.
“People are scared,” local administrator Alexander Minayev told CNN. “They are frightened to leave homes, and their daily routines are broken. Parents are afraid to let the children go to school or kindergarten.”
Because polar bears are protected in Russia, residents are prohibited from killing the hungry intruders, The New York Times said. The settlement has put up additional fences in an effort to control the bears.
Generally, polar bears are born on land but spend most of their time on ice sheets and in the water, where they hunt and feed on seals, The Washington Post said. The World Wildlife Fund says that climate change has been shrinking their sea ice habitat.
Local administrator Zhigansha Musin was quoted by Russia’s state news agency as saying, “I have been in Novaya Zemlya since 1983, but there have never been so many polar bears in the vicinity.”
Carla Baranauckas Reporter, HuffPost
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Can You Get An STD From Receiving Oral Sex?
Experts break down your risk for an infection.
ByJenna Birch
07/06/2018 05:46am EDT
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Lots of people take heart knowing they can’t get pregnant while performing or receiving oral sex. But that doesn’t mean you should necessarily let your guard down quickly.
Oral isn’t entirely risk-free; it’s still entirely possible to get a sexually transmitted infection. In fact, you can orally transmit most STIs, said Dr. Ryan Berglund, a urologist and men’s health expert at Cleveland Clinic.
“The most concerning virus is the human papillomavirus which causes genital warts, but has also been linked to cervical, penile, anal and head and neck cancers,” he said. Roughly 76 million Americans have the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is often symptomless and usually goes away on its own in people under age 30 but can, in rare instances, lead to those more concerning health problems.
Other infections you can pick up via oral sex are “herpes, HIV, trichomoniasis, hepatitis A, B and C,” said Sunny Rodgers, a Los Angeles-based clinical sexologist and ambassador for the American Sexual Health Association. “Additionally, it is also possible to contract genital warts and pubic lice.
STIs are often invisible
STIs can be symptomless, so you might not notice any infection-related problems in a partner before performing or receiving oral sex. This is the same reason why most sexual health educators have moved away from using “sexually transmitted disease” (or STDs) to the more appropriate term “sexually transmitted infection.” While they are one and the same, the “disease” is misleading, Rodgers said.
“Disease insinuates a medical problem that will have an apparent sign or symptom,” she said. “Most people infected with common STDs are symptomless, or display mild symptoms, so the sexually transmitted virus or bacteria could be more appropriately described as an infection.”
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 10 percent of men and five to 30 percent of women with chlamydia show symptoms. Some estimates suggest that more than 90 percent of those with genital herpes will never be diagnosed; the red, painful sores associated with the condition can actually be mistaken for simple pimples or ingrown hairs. Gonorrhea is most common among women ages 15 to 24, and can be spread while symptomless. And if you do have symptoms, they might be mild, like vaginal discharge or burning during urination.
The invisible nature of most infections is why you need to get tested. Of course, if you or a partner notices sores, changes in urination, pain in the genitals or other abnormal symptoms, visit your doctor. But getting an STI test regardless of symptoms is also highly recommended, said Dr. Christine Greves, a board-certified ob/gyn and women’s health expert at Orlando Health in Florida.
“The only way to prevent an STI is to abstain,” she said. “There are ways of lowering risk using different barriers, but I recommend getting regularly tested to all my female patients and their partners.”
Your doctor can advise you on the best course of action if you have an STI. Gonorrhea and chlamydia can be treated with antibiotics. Antivirals can shorten or decrease outbreaks of herpes, and nitroimidazoles can be prescribed to reduce your risk of transmission and shorten symptoms of trichomoniasis.
What you can do to protect yourself during oral sex
First and foremost, get tested and get treatment before engaging in sex of any kind ― including oral sex. If you notice an abnormal lesion on your partner’s genitals, don’t engage in oral. “The presence of active disease or sores on the genitals or mouth of either party will increase the risk of transmission,” Berglund said. See your doctor, finish the entire course of treatment and listen to medical advice before you have sex.
Barriers can also lower your risk of contracting or passing an STI. “Condoms and dental dams, which are thin sheets of latex, can be used during oral sex,” Rodgers said. A dental dam is applied over the vaginal opening; in a pinch, a condom can be fashioned into a dental dam and you can also use water-based lube for more sensation.
There are also other ways you can physically connect with your partner that are risk-free or lower risk. Other sexual activities that lower the possibility of spreading an STI are kissing, fondling, masturbation or mutual masturbation, Rodgers said.
“Realistically, there is no such thing as 100 percent safe sex, but rather safer sex with regular STI testing and the use of precautionary measures,” Rodgers said. “The more knowledge a person has, the better.”
Don’t skip steps when it comes to your health, sexual or otherwise. Get educated, get tested and then get it on.
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04/03/2012 01:39 pm ET Updated Apr 05, 2012
Howard Morgan, Black Off-Duty Cop Shot 28 Times By White Chicago Officers, Faces Sentencing
As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers -- and lived to tell his side of the story.
Morgan was off-duty as a detective for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad when he was pulled over for driving the wrong way on a one-way street on Feb 21, 2005, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. While both police and Morgan agree on that much, what happened next is a mystery.
According to police, Morgan opened fire with his service weapon when officers tried to arrest him, which caused them to shoot him 28 times. His family, however, very much doubts those claims.
"Four white officers and one black Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad police man with his weapon on him -- around the corner from our home -- and he just decided to go crazy? No. That's ludicrous," Morgan's wife, Rosalind Morgan, told the Sun-Times.
She was not the only person to doubt CPD's side of the story. A Change.org petition signed by more than 2,600 people called for all charges against Morgan to be dropped, and now Occupy Chicago is getting involved.
"After being left for dead, he survived and was then charged with attempted murder of the four white officers who brutalized him," Occupy wrote on their website, adding that Morgan was found not guilty on three counts, including discharging his weapon. The same jury that cleared him of opening fire on the officers, however, deadlocked on a charge of attempted murder -- and another jury found him guilty in January.
That jury was not allowed to hear that Morgan had been acquitted of the other charges.
Protesters and Morgan's family say the second trial amounted to double jeopardy, and claim officers have gone to great lengths to obstruct justice in the case:
Howard Morgan's van was crushed and destroyed without notice or cause before any forensic investigation could be done.
Howard Morgan was never tested for gun residue to confirm if he even fired a weapon on the morning in question.
The State never produced the actual bullet proof vest worn by one of the officers who claimed to have allegedly taken a shot directly into the vest on the morning in question. The State only produced a replica.
"If they can do this and eliminate double jeopardy and your constitutional rights, then my God, I fear for every Afro-American -- whether they be male or female -- in this corrupt unjust system," Morgan's wife told the Sun-Times.
Howard Morgan will be sentenced Thursday. He faces 80 years in prison.
Update: Morgan was sentenced Thursday to serve 40 years in prison, essentially a life sentence.
To learn more about Howard Morgan's case, visit FreeHowardMorgan.com.
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10/16/2016 05:44 pm ET Updated Oct 18, 2016
ISIS Loses The Syrian Town Key To Its Belief In The Apocalypse
After fleeing Dabiq, the militant group is scrambling to explain why the world isn't ending.
By Nick Robins-Early
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A convoy belonging to the Members of Free Syrian Army (FSA), enters Dabiq village of Aleppo after drove Deash terrorists from the village in Aleppo, Syria on October 16, 2016
Syrian rebel fighters pushed ISIS militants out of the northern Syrian town of Dabiq on Sunday, forcing the extremist group to give up ground that is central to its propaganda and apocalyptic ideology.
Dabiq had a pre-war population of only a few thousand people, and is of little military value in terms of strategic location or resources. The role of Dabiq in certain end-of-times prophecies, however, gave the town special importance for ISIS.
Dabiq is where Muslim armies are meant to defeat foreign crusaders in an immense battle before conquering Constantinople and eventually bringing about the end of the world, according to certain Islamic prophecies. ISIS holds this apocalyptic narrative as an explicit part of its ideology, and one that it has increasingly promoted since the group captured Dabiq amid its rapid growth in 2014.
The Dabiq narrative appears frequently in ISIS propaganda. The group named its magazine after the town and filmed a number of its beheading and hostage videos there.
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Fighters from the Free Syrian Army fire a machine gun mounted on a vehicle deployed during fighting against the self-described Islamic State near Dabiq.
Losing Dabiq poses some obvious problems for ISIS. The image of Turkish-backed Syrian rebels sweeping into the town in Toyota trucks as ISIS militants flee doesn’t square with the grand vision of a victorious battle signaling the end of times.
“ISIS has argued that people should join its movement because it is successful and victorious. Its opponents can now argue that ISIS ran away from a battle that its ideologues have characterized as the most important moment in religious history,” J.M. Berger, author of ISIS: State of Terror, told The WorldPost.
The defeat is the latest blow to ISIS’ “lasting and expanding” description of its self-proclaimed caliphate. The group has suffered significant losses both in territory and leadership since the beginning of last year. Along with Dabiq, the group has been pushed out of much of northern Syria and key cities in Iraq. A massive U.S.-backed offensive to take back Mosul, the largest city still under ISIS control, is expected to start soon.
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A convoy belonging to the Members of Free Syrian Army enters Dabiq, near Aleppo, after driving ISIS terrorists from the village on October 16, 2016.
ISIS attempted to downplay the impending loss of Dabiq last week, saying in its newsletter that this was not the prophesied battle ― which is yet to come. But this is at odds with the group’s rhetoric during its expansion in 2014, which claimed that the final battle was quickly approaching.
The group’s reaction to losing Dabiq is similar to the way many doomsday cults react when their comet or flood or other world-ending disaster doesn’t materialize. Rather than admit that their prophecy has failed, these groups and leaders tend to retrofit their ideas to resolve any contradictions as quickly as possible.
“They’ve gone back to prophecy to try to find ways to cope with the cognitive dissonance,” said Will McCants, author of The ISIS Apocalypse.
“You could say they are doing so cynically, but you could also say that this is what apocalyptically-minded people do ― they are constantly shifting when circumstances don’t play out the way they expect.”
The loss will likely have a divisive effect on ISIS followers, McCants predicted. Although some supporters will be inclined to disassociate themselves from ISIS as its narrative begins to fall apart, there are also those who will see this as a challenge to overcome and harden their belief.
“They will frame it as a test for the sincerity of the believer: can you hold on when things aren’t going well? Can you hold on when it looks like prophecy hasn’t been fulfilled?” McCants said.
“But that is the language of defeat; it’s not the language of conquest and victory that they were using two years ago.”
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Joe Biden: Christine Blasey Ford 'Shouldn't Have To Go Through What Anita Hill Went Through'
He keeps defending his handling of Clarence Thomas' 1991 confirmation, saying he was “sorry I couldn’t have stopped the kind of attacks” Hill faced.
By Marina Fang
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday defended his handling of Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegation against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991, and advised current senators to avoid the same mistakes when they consider Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault claim against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Biden, who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee during Thomas’ confirmation, told NBC’s “Today” that he supported Blasey’s call for an FBI probe into her story that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were high school students. He suggested the Judiciary Committee delay its confirmation vote until after she testifies.
“She should not have to go through what Anita Hill went through, and some of the questions she got asked, and the way the right went after her on national television, and questioned her integrity, questioned her, not just her honesty, questioned her behavior,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s just not appropriate. You shouldn’t haven’t to be twice put through the same exact thing.”
He added: “I hope that they understand what courage it takes for someone to come forward and relive what they believe happened to them, but treat her with respect. Ask tough questions ... but don’t go after the character assassination.”
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Biden has long been criticized for not doing enough to prevent attacks against Hill, a law professor, as she was questioned by members of the all-male, all-white Judiciary Committee. He also declined to allow testimony from other women who accused Thomas of sexual misconduct or who may have helped corroborate Hill’s story.
Biden on Friday again expressed “regret” for what happened in 1991, but immediately defended his record, citing his support of female lawmakers and his work on the Violence Against Women Act.
“It seems like you get it now, versus back in ’91,” host Craig Melvin said.
“Well, I think I got it in ’91,” Biden replied, pausing. “I don’t think ― well, people have their own opinion. That’s why I wrote the Violence Against Women Act.”
Biden has acknowledged that Hill, now a law professor at Brandeis University and an advocate against workplace sexual harassment, was “vilified” during Thomas’ confirmation, but has never formally apologized to her.
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When Melvin asked if he had a message for Hill, Biden again defended himself, saying he “believed” and “supported” Hill.
“I am sorry I couldn’t have stopped the kind of attacks that came to you,” Biden said. “But I never attacked her. I supported her. I believed her from the beginning, and I voted against Clarence Thomas.”
Hill did not immediately return a request for comment on Biden’s remarks.
Biden was asked in November to answer Hill’s feeling that she wasn’t treated fairly at Thomas’ hearing. Biden said he was “so sorry if she believes that.”
“Let’s get something straight here: I believed Anita Hill. I voted against Clarence Thomas,” Biden said. “I am so sorry that she had to go through what she went through.”
Hill told The Washington Post later that month that Biden’s comments were “not enough” and the equivalent of “I’m sorry if you were offended.”
Hill said in an interview with Elle magazine published this week that she’s not waiting for an apology from Biden.
“People were asking, ‘When are you going to apologize to her?’ It’s become sort of a running joke in the household when someone rings the doorbell and we’re not expecting company. ‘Oh,’ we say, ‘is that Joe Biden coming to apologize?’” she said. “There are more important things to me now than hearing an apology from Joe Biden. I’m okay with where I am.”
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Higher Fuel Prices And Cold Weather Will Squeeze Heating Assistance
The Trump administration proposed eliminating federal heating help altogether.
By Arthur Delaney
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A man shovels snow outside a home in Union Beach, New Jersey, on Jan. 4, 2018.
WASHINGTON ― After then-President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress cut funding for a federal program that helps poor people pay utility bills in 2011, warm weather and low fuel prices mitigated the impact of the change.
But now, unusually cold weather and rising prices could cut into the benefits that reach only 6 million households, just 16 percent of those eligible.
“If this is what the rest of the winter’s going to look like, we’re going to have a tough time,” said Mark Wolfe, head of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association, a lobbying group for state heating assistance programs.
Members of Congress from Massachusetts warned on Thursday of a “home heating crisis” in the Northeast, urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to release additional Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds.
“Families in the Commonwealth will soon confront a home heating emergency as LIHEAP funds are exhausted while extreme cold weather continues to strike the region,” the lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote in their letter. “Families in the Northeast are also facing heating fuel prices that are significantly higher than last winter.”
Since the early 1980s, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program has helped millions of households heat their homes in winter and cool them in summer. Partly because of higher fuel costs, Congress boosted the program’s funding to $5 billion for 2009 and 2010, then started paring it back after the Obama administration signaled it was willing to sacrifice social spending to cut deals with Republicans. The program currently gets $3.3 billion.
“We had a huge spike in energy prices, and the program doubled to $5 billion,” White House budget director Jack Lew said in 2011. “We’re now at a price level that’s close to where we were before that increase.”
Energy prices subsequently increased again, bottomed out in early 2016 and are now on the rise once more, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Several relatively mild winters have alleviated the impact of the higher prices in recent years, but 2018 started out unusually cold across most of the U.S.
Wolfe said heating oil price increases will effectively reduce the value of federal assistance for home heating costs from 61 percent two years ago to 52 percent today for households that benefit from the program.
While the Obama administration supported cuts to heating assistance, the Trump administration proposed getting rid of it entirely as part of an austere budget last year that took funding from safety net programs and gave it to the military. (Most of the budget was a nonstarter on the Hill.)
Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney called heating assistance wasteful and cited a Government Accountability Office report from 2010 that found 9 percent of beneficiary households had incorrect information on their applications, including 11,000 Social Security numbers belonging to dead people.
“Eleven thousand dead people got this benefit a few years ago,” Mulvaney told Congress in May. “Dead people!”
Wolfe said most of the dead people probably had surviving spouses who legitimately qualified for the program. Mulvaney did not mention that Department of Health and Human Services has implemented each of the Government Accounting Office’s six recommendations for improving the integrity of the program.
Keith Wilson of Wendell, Minnesota, said he’d called the Minnesota Department of Commerce to request a heating assistance application on Thursday. His utility costs had increased about $50 per month last year.
Wilson said it’s been so cold that a pipe froze and burst in his basement last week. The 61-year-old disabled woodworker faulted himself for not keeping the heat high enough in the basement, but said he’s been scraping by on Social Security Disability Insurance benefits.
“I had to take out a loan to get a tooth fixed,” he said.
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06/23/2014 10:30 am ET Updated Aug 23, 2014
Supreme Court Mostly Upholds Climate Change Rules
By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued a mixed ruling on a challenge to part of President Barack Obama's greenhouse gas regulations by exempting a small proportion of facilities from a federal air pollution program while allowing most major pollution sources, including power plants and refineries, to be included.
The court was divided in several different ways in what was a relatively narrow case concerning a challenge by industry groups and Republican-leaning states to one aspect of a suite of rules issued by Obama's Democratic administration in 2009 and 2010.
On a 7-2 vote, the justices rejected the industry-backed argument that pollution sources cannot be regulated for greenhouse gases under the "prevention of serious deterioration" or PSD program. The program requires any new or modified major polluting facility to obtain a permit before any new construction is done if it emits "any air pollutant."
But industry could claim a partial win because the court said on a separate 5-4 vote that some facilities the government had wanted to regulate will be exempted.
According to the American Chemistry Council, one of the challengers, 83 percent of greenhouse gas emissions that could potentially be regulated under the Environmental Protection Agency's interpretation of the law would still be covered as a result of the ruling, compared with the 86 percent of emissions that the EPA says it wants to regulate.
Under the program, the operators have to show they are using the best technology available to reduce emissions of the covered pollutants. More than 300 facilities have already applied for permits.
The Supreme Court decision does not affect the Obama administration's ability to set air pollution standards for greenhouse gases under a separate provision of the Clean Air Act. On June 2, the White House announced proposed rules calling for 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, including coal-fired facilities. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Howard Goller and Grant McCool)
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State Department Human Rights Reports Showcase Selectivity of Administration on Abuses
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Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First welcomed release of the State Department’s 2018 Human Rights Reports today, while noting that the internationally recognized rights monitored within the reports are all too often missing from the center of the Trump Administration’s policies.
In response to the publication, Human Rights First’s Senior Vice President for Policy Rob Berschinski released the following statement:
Secretary Pompeo deserves plaudits for personally headlining the release of the 2018 Human Rights Reports, which marks the first time during the Trump Administration that the ceremony has included the Secretary of State’s participation.
Unfortunately, Secretary Pompeo’s remarks and preface to the Reports only highlight the Trump Administration’s selectivity when it comes to supporting and protecting human rights. Pompeo correctly acknowledges that America’s strongest alliances are built on a foundation of both shared interests and shared values. Yet from its shielding of Saudi leaders from accountability over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, to its cozy relationship with NATO allies trending towards authoritarianism, the Trump Administration seems disinterested in its own advice. With respect to the Khashoggi killing, the administration’s continued insistence that it is waiting on a Saudi-led investigation is laughable, given the complete absence of rule of law in that country.
Every U.S. administration engages in some degree of hypocrisy when it comes to defending human rights, but President Trump and Secretary Pompeo seem to take insincerity to a new level. One need look no further than President Trump’s words of praise for Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin, Secretary Pompeo’s obfuscation concerning Mohammed bin Salman’s responsibility in Khashoggi’s murder, or the administration’s desire to gut the State Department’s foreign assistance to gauge this administration’s priorities.”
The Department of State’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, commonly known as the Human Rights Reports, index abuses and advances in terms of civil, political, and worker rights globally. The Reports are widely regarded as a powerful tool to hold human rights violators accountable and to document the progress of governments toward respecting the dignity of their citizens.
Human Rights First notes that over two years into the Trump administration’s time in office, the State Department’s top two human rights positions remain vacant.
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What would Catrina think?
It is common to associate Mexico with calacas. These are the often marigold-adorned skeletons with indigenous roots that are used to decorate Día de muertos celebrations in Mexico and wherever Mexicans are living. There is something poetic in the tension of embracing life through the celebration of its opposite. It strikes me as healthier than the seemingly increasing need here in the US to push the reality of death further and further to the fringes of society. Ignoring death’s presence is cowardly and this act can negatively influence how we treat the limited time that we possess.
The Spanish considered Mexico’s relationship with skull imagery to be pagan. Their efforts to belittle it and to make it socially unacceptable found a natural response in the nineteenth century when the independence-minded embraced the skeletons in a gesture of Mexican-ness. Born thirty-one years after independence, José Guadalupe Posada is arguably the modern artist most responsible for the skeleton in popular Mexican imagination. With a long history of political cartoons, engraving, and lithography, his art earned particular attention during the Mexican Revolution. Because much of this creation was political in nature, its passage from historical context has meant that Guadalupe Posada’s name is relatively unknown outside Mexico. Nevertheless, his creation of the Calavera Catrina character -a satirical criticism of the upper-class’s lifestyle during Porfirio Díaz’s government- is arguably his most enduring contribution. In fact, the more internationally-known artist Diego Rivera gave her a place of prominence in his mural Sueño de una tarde dominical en la alameda central. In the painting, Rivera painted Guadalupe Posada at one of Catrina’s sides and, in a tip of the hat that placed himself as the next link in the continuation of a tradition, included a self-portrait of a young Rivera holding her other hand.
This year, the calacas seem to have completed the circle. The evolution from socially unacceptable to popular image of a culture reached a new level in October with the Mexican premier of Pixar’s Coco. Correctly released right before the holiday and a month before it entered theaters in the rest of the world, Mexico embraced this latest representation of their culture. If ticket sales -that very Catrina-esque measure of value- are a good yard stick, then it was a success as Mexicans transformed it not only into the highest grossing animated film in the country’s history, but the biggest earner of any film, ever. Seeing its many skeletons during this holiday period strikes me as a great way to celebrate family and life.
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David Chen's First Cello EP
Help David Chen make pop music with his looping cello.
399 backers pledged $3,892 to help bring this project to life.
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My name is David Chen and I play cello covers of pop songs. I want to record/release an EP of my music, and I'd love your help to make this happen.
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I practiced and performed cello for almost 10 years as a kid, then gave it up when I went to college. One year ago, I picked it up again because I thought I could do it differently: by using a looping pedal and a pickup, I could re-create pop songs all by myself using a single cello. So I launched a YouTube channel and was off to the races: http://www.youtube.com/davechenmusic.
Pop Music and Movie Music, Reinterpreted
In the past year, my videos have garnered over 350K views on YouTube and Facebook. But all of the music for these videos were recorded using really basic equipment in my living room. I wanted to capture some of these arrangements in a professional studio, so that they can be enjoyed in the highest quality possible.
Here are some of the costs I have incurred or plan to incur while creating this EP:
~$150 - cost of cello pickup (used for cello amplification)
~$300 - cost of looping pedal (used to create cello loops)
~$1000 - licensing rights to do cover versions of the songs
~$1000 - recording/mixing/mastering
I've already started recording these tracks with sound engineers and am hoping to release the EP later this summer. But this endeavor will be very costly in terms of time and resources, and your contribution is invaluable towards helping me meet the costs.
Any amount you can contribute will help. Thanks for considering supporting me. I can't wait to share my music with you!
While this project might run into some minor delays (e.g. the rewards might be delivered a few weeks late), there is pretty much no chance that the rewards will not be delivered at all. Several tracks have already been recorded and completed, and I've fulfilled many Kickstarter projects successfully in the past.
GET A COPY OF THE EP! At this reward tier, you'll receive the full EP at a lower price than anyone else. Files will be delivered in un-DRMed MP3 format.
GET THE B-SIDES: At this tier, you will not only receive the EP, you'll receive audio files of the versions of many of the tracks I've already recorded and put on YouTube. Their quality will not be as good as the EP, but they are part of what inspired me to take this journey in the first place.
You will also get thanked by name on davechenmusic.com.
EARLY BACKERS: GET A CUSTOM RINGTONE - At this tier, I will perform a cello solo of your choosing and make it into a ringtone for you. Ringtones may last up to 40 seconds and they will be delivered in .m4r format.
You will also receive the EP and B-Sides and get thanked by name on davechenmusic.com.
GET A CUSTOM RINGTONE - At this tier, I will perform a cello solo of your choosing and make it into a ringtone for you. Ringtones may last up to 40 seconds and they will be delivered in .m4r format.
I will use my video camera to record myself playing a cello solo of any song of your choosing (up to 5 minutes), and send you the video file. If it's a song I love, I may even publish the video on Youtube.
LET'S CHAT: I will Skype you and play you a song of your choosing on the cello. Or we can just chat and hang out for a bit! Whatever you prefer.
We will make a home recording of a cover song of your choice, featuring me on the cello and local singer Annie Jantzer on vocals. Delivery will be in audio format only, although if we can shoot a video of it, we will do that and deliver that instead.
You will also get the cello EP, the B-sides, and your name thanked at davechenmusic.com.
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Kimberley Land and Sea Management
Kimberley Aboriginal people have been looking after and managing their land and sea country for more than 40,000 years and are still doing this today. Looking after Country is an integral part of our vision at the KLC and we have been working with Prescribed Body Corporates and Indigenous land managers to achieve the cultural and environmental outcomes they want to see happen on the ground.
Kimberley Aboriginal people have a cultural, spiritual, and social connection to country that exists and adapts with time and place. Indigenous law, culture, language, knowledge, traditions, stories and people are embedded in the landscape. They are interconnected and dependant on each other.
Kimberley Aboriginal people have a responsibility to look after country, just as it looks after them. Our land and sea unit started in 1998. Our projects are diverse and cover all aspects of cultural and natural resource management. All of our activities are underpinned by Indigenous cultural values which provide a strong foundation for governance.
Some of our key activities include:
Traditional knowledge transfer from old people to young people
Cultural and environmental services
Cultural enterprise development
Indigenous-owned land in the Kimberley
The Kimberley region covers about 423,000 sq km – an area almost twice the size of the state of Victoria, or equivalent to the size of California. Indigenous rangers and Traditional Owners are the leading land managers for the region and are using cultural and natural resource management to protect, enhance and conserve the unique biodiversity values of the region. They are doing this through their native title rights and interests, declaring Indigenous Protected Areas and National Heritage Listing.
Native title has been determined across more than 80 per cent of the Kimberley, legally recognising the rights and interests Aboriginal people have to these land and sea areas. Much of this area has also been determined by the Federal Court of Australia as being exclusive possession native title land – meaning Indigenous people have sole responsibility for management of, and access to these areas. As the custodians of their traditional lands, Kimberley Aboriginal people have been using their native title rights to manage their country and develop strategic plans to create sustainable businesses based on culture and country.
The Kimberley is home to eight Indigenous Protected Areas that are managed by Aboriginal people to conserve unique ecosystems and promote habitat corridors. Indigenous Protected Areas are declared across exclusive possession native title land and cover more than 90,000 sq km of country in the Kimberley. National Heritage Listing The Indigenous cultural values of the Kimberley were National Heritage Listed on August 31, 2011 cementing the region as a strong and significant Aboriginal place. It is the largest area in Australia to be protected through National Heritage Listing and includes an area of land and sea in the west Kimberley that is more than 50 per cent Indigenous-owned and controlled and almost entirely covered by native title claims or determinations. Kimberley Aboriginal people were the driving force behind the National Heritage Listing process which included more than two years of consultations and assessments. The KLC is working with the National Heritage Listing cultural advisory committee to develop a database in which to hold all the stories and traditional ecological knowledge that was captured as part of the project. A legal policy and Indigenous values management framework has also been developed to pull together already existing community conservation and land management plans and link them together to form a regional plan for management of Aboriginal lands in the Kimberley.
Having strong partnerships with various agencies and departments has been pivotal to the success of our land and sea unit and our various conservation and natural resource management projects. We work with many external agencies including the Federal Government, State Government, non-government environmental organisations and philanthropic groups. In the past two years we have also established a network of Indigenous land and sea managers from across the world that we have built long-lasting friendships with.
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Ask Kim – May 1
by: Ask Kim
Posted: May 1, 2019 / 01:59 PM CDT / Updated: May 1, 2019 / 01:59 PM CDT
Dear Kim,
Measles are spreading fast across the country. I didn’t have my kids vaccinated! What should I do?
Twyla
Dear Twyla,
Let the great debate begin. Many parents have not had their children vaccinated for a multitude of reasons. Some personal, while others have to do with religious teachings. One thing is for certain, people who have not been vaccinated are at risk.
Vox says: Even a small number of unvaccinated people can make it much easier for a disease to spread and survive. There is a concept in science called “herd immunity,” which refers to the idea that a lot of people need to get a given vaccine, whether it’s for the flu or measles, to stop a disease from spreading. Vaccinated people essentially act as barriers to outbreaks, since diseases can’t pass through them and infect others. This barrier helps protect some of the most vulnerable populations: infants under 12 months of age, who can’t get vaccinated and are more susceptible to infection; the elderly, who have a higher risk of death if they contract vaccine-treatable illnesses; and people with compromised immune systems, who can’t get vaccines and are more likely to die from the diseases they protect against. The public health goal is to vaccinate everyone who is able so there’s herd immunity for all vaccine-treatable illnesses. Over time, this would eradicate dangerous diseases — specifically, those that are exclusive to humans — by stopping them from spreading and developing in human hosts.
Children who are older than the CDC’s recommended ages for vaccination and have not received their shots should get vaccinated, said Dr. Jennifer Lighter-Fisher, a pediatric infectious-disease specialist at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. In fact, even if you’re exposed to someone who currently has measles, if you get vaccinated within three days of being exposed, you could be protected, Lighter-Fisher told Live Science. The only people who should not get the MMR vaccine are infants younger than 12 months, pregnant women, people with compromised immune systems (such as those who have cancer or AIDS), or those who are allergic to the vaccine, she said.
The MMR vaccine is “absolutely safe,” and has been given to millions of people around the world, Lighter-Fisher said. “There’s no association with autism; it has been studied in hundreds of thousands of people.” In fewer than one in 1 million cases, the vaccine can cause a severe allergic reaction. More common reactions include fever, a mild rash or swelling of glands in the cheek or neck, according to the CDC. But contracting measles can be far worse. “Before the vaccine, there were 2.6 million deaths per year caused by measles” worldwide, Lighter-Fisher said. “In 2013, there were 146,000 deaths globally,” from measles, or about 440 deaths per day, she added.
Last year’s Ebola epidemic got an enormous amount of media attention, but the chances of getting Ebola are extremely rare. “Ebola’s like a shark bite,” Lighter-Fisher said. By contrast, measles is “extremely contagious,” yet entirely preventable.
“No one has to have measles,” she said.
Seriously though, long story-short. If I were you, I’d take the kids to get vaccinated.
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Licensing reforms may come from law society
When Raquel Ness graduated from law school, finding an articling position was nearly impossible for her.
Richa Sandill says unpaid articling positions should be banned.
BY Alex Robinson 05 Feb 2018
The Barrie, Ont. lawyer applied to countless firms in cities and towns across the province. She networked, approached law associations and was open to going anywhere.
But she struggled to find a position in the traditional licensing route.
“It was very difficult,” she says. “There are minimal positions out there.”
She eventually decided to enroll in the Law Practice Program — an alternative to articling offered by the University of Ottawa and Ryerson University that includes a four-month course and a four-month placement.
Changes to articling and the broader licensing process might now be on the horizon as the law society’s professional development and competence committee is expected to release a report in February that will suggest possible reforms.
Last spring, the law society held a number of consultations — which it called “Dialogue on Licensing” — to engage the profession on the issue.
Some of the possible options that have been discussed include making the LPP a permanent program and the only pathway to licensing.
Some have said the problem with the LPP is that its candidates are perceived as second-tier and that it is not financially sustainable. But supporters of the program say there is no evidence that LPP candidates are actually inferior in any way and that it provides a pathway to licensing for those who have been hampered by a shortage of articling positions in Ontario.
The law society considered scrapping the LPP in 2016 before hearing overwhelming support to extend it.
Other options could include ending transitional training as a requirement, limited or specialized licensing.
A United States-style bar examination system could be another possible option, as the committee has also been exploring the way other jurisdictions license lawyers.
It is not clear yet what the committee will propose, but LSO Treasurer Paul Schabas says the profession will have the opportunity to comment on the options after they are released and before benchers vote on them.
Some have called for a complete overhaul of the licensing system and the abolishment of articling. Others would like to see less drastic reforms to the system such as shortening the length of time students article.
Richa Sandill, an employment and human rights lawyer at MacDonald & Associates LLP, who participated in the Dialogue on Licensing, says the biggest problem with the current articling system is an extreme lack of consistency.
“One articling student’s experience can be completely different from another articling student’s experience,” she says.
When Sandill entered the licensing process, she had the choice between the LPP and articling.
She said she chose articling because she wanted in-firm experience. It, however, took her more than a year to find a position.
She says that she had a great experience once she found her position, but that is far from the case for everyone.
Sandill was part of a group that surveyed 221 articling students and found 15.8 per cent of respondents had not been paid at all for articling and 16.8 per cent received less than the minimum wage.
The study, which was conducted through a website called Law Job Exchange, found that of the unpaid articling students that were surveyed, 60 per cent said they would not article at the same place again and 85.7 per cent were not hired back at the end of their articling term.
Sandill says it is time for unpaid articling positions to be banned.
“If a firm is investing in a student . . . a firm will put more into that person’s development and get more use out of them,” she says. “I think that’s one big crack that I have really been pushing for in this entire process to get filled.”
As part of its review of the licensing process, the law society conducted a survey that found one in five recent or current articling students had experienced some kind of unwelcome comment or conduct based on a personal characteristic, such as gender, race or sexual orientation.
The regulator is now reviewing its rules when it comes to discrimination and harassment.
For lawyer John McCrea, the testing process served as a big hurdle to licensing.
After he graduated from the University of Ottawa’s law school, he found an articling position with WeirFoulds LLP, but he had to take both the barrister and solicitor licensing examinations multiple times each before he succeeded.
McCrea, who has cerebral palsy, says that while the Law Society of Ontario provided him with special accommodations, it took him some time to figure out exactly what he needed to take the exams successfully.
He fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming a lawyer on Jan. 26, when he was called to the bar.
McCrea says the law society’s accommodations are based on candidates being proactive to express what they need, but it is not necessarily easy for an incoming candidate to know what they need in their first attempt at the exams.
McCrea says the process could be made better if there was a licensing candidate peer-to-peer network.
He says that while he thinks the law society should be barrier-cognizant in how lawyers are licensed, it should not be barrier-free.
“I think it should change its process, but it shouldn’t change its standards of competency just under the guise of access to justice,” he says.
McCrea says the law society should also do away with multiple choice on exams.
“The licensing exams such as they are constituted now are not an accurate barometer for what you do as a lawyer,” he says.
In 2016, the law society considered a new exam called the Practice and Procedure Examination, which would replace the bar exam and be given to candidates before they receive their experiential training.
It also explored implementing a Practice Skills Examination that would be added to licensing requirements.
But, these two initiatives were shelved when the committee chose to extend the LPP.
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Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015
Acts of the Scottish Parliament
2015 asp 12
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015, Section 44.
44Crown applicationS
(1)No contravention by the Crown of any provision made by or under this Act makes the Crown criminally liable.
(2)But the Court of Session may, on the application of the Scottish Ministers or any public body or office-holder having responsibility for enforcing the provision, declare unlawful any act or omission of the Crown which constitutes such a contravention.
(3)Despite subsection (1), any provision made by or under the provisions of this Act applies to persons in the public service of the Crown as it applies to other persons.
Text created by the Scottish Executive department responsible for the subject matter of the Act to explain what the Act sets out to achieve and to make the Act accessible to readers who are not legally qualified. Explanatory Notes were introduced in 1999 and accompany all Acts of the Scottish Parliament except those which result from Budget Bills
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Crime and Security Act 2010
Private security industry
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Crime and Security Act 2010, Section 44.
44Charges for vehicle release: appealsU.K.
[F1(1)The Private Security Industry Act 2001 is amended as follows.
[F2(2)Before section 23 there is inserted—
22A“Charges for vehicle release: appeals
(1)The Secretary of State shall by regulations make provision for the purpose specified in subsection (2) in a case where, in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, a person carries out—
(a)an activity to which paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 applies by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(c) of that paragraph (demanding or collecting a charge as a condition of the removal of an immobilisation device); or
(b)an activity to which paragraph 3A of Schedule 2 applies by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(d) of that paragraph (demanding or collecting a charge as a condition of the release of a vehicle).
(2)The purpose referred to in subsection (1) is to entitle a person otherwise entitled to remove the vehicle to appeal against the charge.
(3)Regulations under this section shall specify the grounds on which an appeal may be made.
(4)The grounds may include in particular—
(a)contravention of a code of practice issued by the Authority;
(b)contravention of any requirement imposed by or under this Act (including a condition contained in a licence granted under this Act).
(5)Regulations under this section shall make provision for and in connection with the person to whom an appeal may be made.
(6)That person may in particular be—
(a)a person exercising functions of adjudication or the hearing of appeals under another enactment;
(b)a body established by the Secretary of State under the regulations;
(c)an individual appointed under the regulations by the Secretary of State or by another person specified in the regulations.
(7)Regulations under this section may also include provision—
(a)as to the procedural conditions to be satisfied by a person before an appeal may be made;
(b)as to the payment of a fee by the appellant;
(c)as to the procedure (including time limits) for making an appeal;
(d)as to the procedure for deciding an appeal;
(e)as to the payment to the appellant by the respondent of—
(i)the charge against which the appeal is made;
(ii)other costs incurred by the appellant in consequence of the activity referred to in subsection (1);
(f)as to the payment by a party to an appeal of—
(i)costs of the other party in relation to the adjudication;
(ii)other costs in respect of the adjudication;
(g)as to the payment by the respondent to an appeal, in a case where the appeal is granted, of a charge in respect of the costs of adjudications under the regulations;
(h)as to the effect and enforcement of a decision of the person to whom an appeal is made;
(i)requiring or authorising the person to whom an appeal is made to provide information relating to the appeal to the Authority;
(j)to the effect that a person who makes a representation that is false in a material particular, and does so recklessly or knowing it to be false, commits an offence triable summarily and punishable with a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(8)The provision specified in paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of subsection (7) includes provision authorising the person to whom an appeal is made to require payment of the matters specified in those paragraphs.”]
22B“Charges for vehicle release: appeals in Northern Ireland
(1) The Department of Justice shall by regulations make provision for the purpose specified in subsection (2) in a case where, in Northern Ireland, a person carries out—
(b) a body established by the Department of Justice under the regulations;
(c) an individual appointed under the regulations by the Department of Justice or by another person specified in the regulations.
(3) In section 24 (orders and regulations), in subsection (4), after “section 3(2)(j)” there is inserted “ or 22A ” . ]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 44 repealed (E.W.) (1.10.2012) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 10 Pt. 3 (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/2075, art. 3(h)
F2S. 44(2) substituted (N.I.) (18.10.2012) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2595), arts. 1(2), 22(4) (with arts. 24-28)
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Gloria La Riva, third party candidate, among 100 arrested in Baton Rouge police attack on peaceful protesters
By Liberation Staff
Gloria La Riva, the presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), was targeted and arrested around 6:30 p.m. on July 9, along with 13 others, while filming a peaceful community demonstration and the actions by the police. Gloria was one of the first people arrested in a night marked by repeated police attacks. By midnight, more than 100 people were arrested as the police moved toward shutting down the city and suppressing any form of peaceful protest. Gloria and the others remain in detention at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. (Editor: She and others were released on Sunday, July 11.)
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Gloria La Riva came to Baton Rouge to show her support for the family of Alton Sterling and the Black community, which has faced continuous violence and repression from the police. Alton Sterling’s vicious, cold-blooded murder on July 5 by police while he lay prone on the street was captured on video by activists. Sterling was selling CDs outside of a convenience store. He was held down by police and killed at point blank range for no reason. The release of that video ignited a new round of nationwide protests against the epidemic of murders carried out by the police against civilians in the United States. Now, the police in Louisiana are trying to crush any protests against their racist and murderous conduct.
“Louisiana and especially the African-American community is today facing a reign of terror and intimidation from police and law enforcement agencies,” Gloria La Riva stated from the prison where she and the others are detained. “Even though it was the police who murdered Alton Sterling in cold blood, they have gone on the offensive against those in the state who desire to exercise their First Amendment right to protest.”
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Two demonstrations had been called on Saturday, July 9 to demand justice for Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and all victims of police murder. The first demonstration was called at the Triple S store where Alton Sterling was executed by a Baton Rouge police officer after two officers held him on his back and then shot him four times in the chest.
Demonstrators at the Triple S store came to join others in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department on Airline Highway at 6:00 p.m. last night. Several hundred people from the local community were gathered to demonstrate and take to the streets to demand justice. The police, in military formation and dressed in riot gear, moved in a line toward the peaceful demonstration, targeting any individual who was playing a leading role or documenting the demands of the people.
The demonstration was completely peaceful, composed of people from the surrounding community just minutes away from the Triple S store where Alton Sterling was murdered. People made and carried homemade signs and brought supplies of water that were distributed to their fellow community members to withstand the Baton Rouge summer heat. The people were dispersed after the police pushed back the demonstration onto the four corners in front of the police department.
The Circle K immediately became a center of people’s organizing, where demonstrators from the community coordinated others to go back to surround the police department, holding homemade signs and leading chants.
Gloria La Riva and the others arrested were brought to East Baton Rouge Parish Prison located at Brig. General Isaac Smith Avenue.
At 10:22 p.m. the police again lined up in a military formation taking back all the corners, pushing people into the last area of the demonstration at the Circle K gas station and store. By this time police helicopters loomed over the remaining demonstrators with the threat of the final move against those who remained. Then police, wielding batons, chased protesters in all directions, dispersing the demonstration.
By midnight Baton Rouge was under a virtual lockdown, with restaurants and other businesses all closing down early in response to the repression that the police were carrying out. The police had clearly received the go-ahead to suppress any organizing in the community to demand justice. There continues to be a heavy police presence throughout the city.
As of this afternoon, July 10, the police have not filed charges or bail amounts for the release of the those arrested. In front of the Parish Prison loved ones of those arrested over the past two nights gathered to receive word on those in the prison.
Gloria La Riva has been in communication with teams assisting with the release of those in the Parish Prison. La Riva is urging the people to continue to fight for justice and to attend the demonstration planned today at 4:00 p.m. at 445 East Washington Street, Baton Rouge, La.
Please show your support by providing an urgently needed donation for the unique socialist campaign of Gloria La Riva for President in 2016. This campaign is taking the message for social change not just to the ballot box but into our neighborhoods, communities, schools and streets everyday.
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The door knocker, a bold Marine Corps eagle insignia, boasts “Semper Fi." Patriotic art, including “Prayer at Valley Forge,” of George Washington praying during those trying winter months, adorns the.
Among his most famous pieces is the 1975 painting "The Prayer at Valley Forge," a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge. His fascinating life and work brought him international.
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But it is this portrait of George Washington, kneeling and praying in his most desperate hour of need. Friberg’s "The Prayer at Valley Forge" will stand forever as a poignant reminder that this is.
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Those words will now be in the Schuylkill County Courthouse, inscribed under a painting of George Washington on his knees praying at Valley Forge. The painting was donated to the courthouse by the Rev.
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EnglandSomersetEntry and exit formalities
Somerset in detail
Entering or leaving the UK is usually straightforward and hassle-free, save for the occasional inconvenience of long queues at passport control and security.
A referendum result in the UK in June 2016 that favoured withdrawal from the EU renders information in this section highly liable to change; it's important to check the current regulations before travel.
Britain has a two-tier customs system: one for goods bought duty-free outside the EU; the other for goods bought in another EU country where tax and duty is paid. The UK’s 2016 decision to leave the EU (widely known as ‘Brexit’) may eventually lead to a change in these arrangements.
Following is a summary of the current rules; for more details go to www.gov.uk and search for 'Bringing goods into the UK'.
Duty-free The duty-free limit for goods from outside the EU includes 200 cigarettes or equivalent in cigars, 4L of wine, 1L of spirits and other goods worth up to £390.
Tax and duty paid There is no limit on goods from within the EU (if taxes have been paid), but customs officials use the following guidelines to distinguish personal use from commercial imports: 800 cigarettes, 200 cigars, 10L of spirits, 90L of wine and 110L of beer. Still enough to have one hell of a party.
Generally not needed for stays of up to six months. Not a member of the Schengen Zone.
If you're a citizen of the European Economic Area (EEA) nations or Switzerland, you don't need a visa to enter or work in the UK – you can enter using your national identity card.
Visa regulations are always subject to change, and immigration restriction is big news in the UK, so it's essential to check with your local British embassy, high commission or consulate before leaving home.
At the time of research, if you're a citizen of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, the USA and several other countries, you can stay for up to six months (no visa required), but are not allowed to work.
Nationals of many countries, including South Africa, will need to obtain a visa: for more info, see www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
The Youth Mobility Scheme (www.gov.uk/tier-5-youth-mobility), for Australian, Canadian, Japanese, Hong Kong, Monégasque, New Zealand, South Korean and Taiwanese citizens aged 18 to 30, allows working visits of up to two years, but must be applied for in advance.
Commonwealth citizens with a UK-born parent may be eligible for a Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode, which entitles them to live and work in the UK.
Commonwealth citizens with a UK-born grandparent may qualify for a UK Ancestry Employment Certificate, allowing them to work full time for up to five years in the UK.
British immigration authorities have always been tough; dress neatly and carry proof that you have sufficient funds with which to support yourself. A credit card and/or an onward ticket will help.
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League of Women Voters Efforts To Achieve Full Rights for DC Citizens
The League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia, called for full rights for DC citizens shortly after the League was formed.
The League of Women Voters of the United States supported self-government for the District.
The League of Women Voters of the United States advocated the ratification of the 23rd Amendment to provide District citizens the right to vote for the President and Vice President of the United States.
The League supported the right of DC citizens to elect a non-voting Representative to the House of Representatives.
The League supported the DC Self Government and Governmental Reorganization Act that permitted limited home rule and the right of DC residents to elect a mayor and District Council. This action and the 1970 support for the non-voting Representative were viewed as interim steps until full rights could be achieved.
On August 22, the Senate confirmed the House-approved Constitutional Amendment that would have provided full representation for DC citizens. State and local Leagues across the country lobbied hard for ratification. However, when the ratification period expired in 1985, only 16 of the requisite 38 states had ratified the amendment.
Voting representation in both houses of Congress and full home rule were made explicit in the League program.
At the request of the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia, the League of Women Voters of the United States agreed that statehood would “afford the same rights of self-government and full voting representation” for citizens of the District as for other U.S. citizens. The League endorsed statehood for DC.
The League of Women Voters of the United States was instrumental in founding the Coalition for DC Voting Representation (now known as DCVote) and today remains a member of DC Vote’s Voting Rights Coalition.
In September, DC League members were among the plaintiffs in a federal suit, Alexander et al. v. Daley et al., challenging the denial of full voting representation for citizens of the District in Congress.
After a 3-judge panel rejected Alexander et al v. Daley et al in March, the case was appealed to the Supreme Court. In September the League of Women Voters of the United States filed an amicus brief. Later that year the Supreme Court rejected voting rights in Congress for District citizens.
In April the LWV of the United States board agreed that the existing position on voting rights also includes support for autonomy for the District in budgeting locally raised revenue and for eliminating the annual congressional DC appropriations budget-approval process.
The League of Women Voters National Convention adopted a concurrence to add support for the “restoration of an annual, predictable federal payment to the District to compensate for revenues denied and expenses incurred because of the federal presence.”
The League of Women Voters supported legislation that would provide an additional seat for Utah in Congress in return for full representation in the House of Representatives for DC citizens.
The League continued to press for passage of the legislation. The LWVUS president traveled to Ohio to meet with Congressional leaders to advocate for their support.
The League of Women Voters Education Fund obtained pass-through grants for 10 states to launch the DC Voting Rights Education Project in which Leagues across the country began work to educate members and local leaders about DC voting rights issues.
Delegates from the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia, presented a resolution to the 2016 LWVUS Convention calling for the League to strongly support statehood for the people of DC, which passed.
The League of Women Voters Education Fund obtained a grant from the District of Columbia that funds a Statehood Toolkit: Fixing the Hole in Our Democracy and train-the-trainer sessions with 5 Leagues across the country.
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ESG Leaders and Laggards – 3 companies in focus
Well over 200 years ago, religious groups such as Quakers and Methodists were already pioneering early forms of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), shunning businesses related to the likes of slave labour and harmful chemical production.1
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement took centre stage, with prominent figureheads such as Martin Luther King Jr. targeting companies opposing racial equality.2
By the 70s, much of the SRI efforts shifted towards corporate behaviour. Dow Chemical for instance came under heat for its role as the eventual sole provider of napalm in the Vietnam war.3 SRI even helped contribute to the end of Apartheid, thanks to international pressure to avoid investing in companies operating in South Africa.4
Moving on to the 80s and 90s, environmental concerns started gaining traction, from the health risks of fossil fuels to climate change.
ESG today is all about data
These days, popular forms of sustainable investing combine many of these issues through broad strategies with negative and/or exclusionary screens based on certain sectors or companies, as well as “best-in-class” screens focused on companies leading the way on ESG metrics.
Indeed, one of the fastest growing segments of ESG investing is the “best-in-class” approach, with a growth in global AuM of 125% between 2016 and 2018.5 And of the record-breaking €5.3bn of inflows into ESG ETFs in Europe year to date, almost three quarters went to broad “best-in-class” equity strategies.6
One of the main appeals of the “best-in-class” approach is the ability to keep a similar level of risk-adjusted return and sector exposure as non-ESG products. While there is a lingering myth that an ESG aligned portfolio sacrifices returns, it has largely been dispelled – one particular meta study reviewed over 2,000 papers and showed that ~90% of them found a non-negative link between ESG considerations and financial performance.7
Technology and culture have shifted. Today, we have swathes of high-quality data at our disposal thanks to increased disclosures from companies. As a result, sophisticated ETFs are available that can both align with your personal values, and still achieve a similar (if not better) risk/return profile to that of the broad market, with limited tracking error. Our ESG Leaders range is a good example.
MSCI World ESG Trend Leaders vs. parent index – ESG Ratings breakdown8
ETFs and ESG share many qualities, daily transparency arguably chief amongst them. On that note, and to better illustrate what really goes on in your portfolio, we shed the light on three companies and their respective ESG profiles. The first two make the cut for our Lyxor MSCI World ESG Trend Leaders (DR) UCITS ETF, while the third one falls short.6
Microsoft Corp. – an ESG “Leader”
MSCI ESG Rating: AAA9
Microsoft is an American multinational technology company specialised in the development, manufacturing and licensing of computer software, hardware and related services. Most of you are likely to have used one of their applications over the past week – if not in this very moment! Founded over 40 years ago, it boasts a market cap that recently crossed the $1tn mark.
With a top MSCI ESG Rating of AAA – held for three years running now – Microsoft is the corporate posterchild for what it means to be socially and environmentally responsible. In fact, the company scores so well that MSCI didn’t identify any areas of improvement relative to its peers.10 Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is the largest holding in our Lyxor MSCI World ESG Trend Leaders (DR) UCITS ETF.
One of Microsoft’s major strengths relates to Privacy & Data Security – probably one of the first things that comes to mind in the context of tech firms these days. Factors considered include whether the company’s privacy policies cover all relevant business lines, oversight on policies at board level, employee training on data privacy, and investments made to improve cybersecurity.
Microsoft is also recognised for its strong policies around Corruption & Instability. For a company that does a lot of government work, good business ethics is something you would naturally expect. Another strong point is its environmental considerations. Clean tech innovation lies at the heart of Microsoft, with investments in areas as varied as carbon neutrality, sustainable management of water, energy-efficient data centres, and waste minimisation.11
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. – “Average”, but improving
MSCI ESG Rating: BBB (up from BB)9
Fresenius Medical Care is a leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure. Headquartered in Germany, the company cares for more than 336,000 patients in a global network of more than 3,900 dialysis clinics.
Sustainable growth lies at the core of its strategy. Fresenius assumes a medical responsibility through its “patients first” principle, but also an economic responsibility based on “integrity, sound corporate governance and adherence to compliance principles”.12
Digging into MSCI’s ESG Rating, the company performs well in areas such as Carbon Emissions, Privacy & Data Security, Product Safety & Quality, and Corruption & Instability. Where it significantly underperforms versus its peers however is in Labour Management and Corporate Governance. This puts it just below its industry relative score, earning it an “Average” middle-ranking of BBB.
Worth noting, Fresenius has improved its ESG profile over time, having been upgraded from BB to BBB in its latest review. We believe that a positive change in ESG rating – “ESG trend” – can have a positive impact on share price. Our Lyxor MSCI World ESG Trend Leaders (DR) UCITS ETF takes both ESG rating and ESG trend into account, thereby rewarding the champions of change. So, while Fresenius doesn’t make the cut for the standard MSCI World ESG Leaders index, it does earn its place in our fund.
Mitsubishi Motors Co. – an ESG “Laggard”
MSCI ESG Rating: CCC9
Mitsubishi Motors is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer. Since October 2016, Mitsubishi has been one third owned by Nissan, and is part of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance.
With an MSCI ESG Rating of CCC – the worst possible score – Mitsubishi does not qualify for any MSCI ESG Leaders indices. Perhaps not surprising, given its admission in 2016 that it had falsified fuel efficiency tests for the past quarter century, and the ensuing penalties, compensations and lasting reputational damage.
In early 2018, the company announced its recall of about 640,000 cars and SUVs worldwide because of a faulty accessory drive belt. The arrest in November 2018 of Mr. Carlos Ghosn – Chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance – over concerns around financial misconduct and governance further embroiled the company in controversy.
With regards to its MSCI ESG Rating, poor scores in key areas such as Product Safety & Quality and Corporate Governance meant Mitsubishi Motors was dragged down significantly, giving it a “Laggard” CCC rating.
This article is for informative purposes only, and should not be taken as investment advice. Lyxor ETF does not in any way endorse or promote the companies mentioned in this article. The ESG Ratings mentioned in this article are determined by MSCI, not Lyxor ETF. Capital at risk. Please read our Risk Warning below.
1Source: Eurosif, European SRI Study 2018.
2Source: Investopedia, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sri.asp
3Source: Bloomberg, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-20/how-dow-chemical-got-woke
4Source: Journal of Business Ethics, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40785191?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
5Source: Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, 2018 Global Sustainable Investment Review.
6Source: Lyxor International Asset Management, Bloomberg, as at 30/06/2019.
7Source: Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, ESG and financial performance: aggregated evidence from more than 2000 empirical studies, Friede, Busch and Bassen, November 2015.
8Source: Lyxor International Asset Management, MSCI. Data as at 30/04/2019.
9Source: MSCI, as at June 2019.
10Source: MSCI, as at 31/03/2019.
11Source: Microsoft website, as at 02/07/2019.
12Source: Fresenius Medical Care website, as at 02/07/2019.
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Vigano Testimony Receives Mixed Response from US Bishops
Washington D.C., Aug 27, 2018 CNA/EWTN News.- Multiple bishops have responded to a testimony published over the weekend by a former apostolic nuncio to the United States, which called for the resignation of Pope Francis and several cardinals and bishops, who are alleged to have covered-up of sexual abuse allegations against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
USCCB President Seek Papal Audience, Answers to Former Nuncio's Questions
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he was "eager for an audience" with Pope Francis to gain his support for the bishops' plan to respond to the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
In an Aug. 27 statement, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston also said that the questions raised by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former nuncio to the United States, in a letter published by two Catholic media outlets "deserve answers that are conclusive and based on evidence."
Statement by Bishop da Cunha; Diocese of Fall River
Early this week, Pope Francis issued a “Letter to the People of God” in which he acknowledged “the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons.”
Statement by Bishop Rozanski; Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield
My dear friends,
Statement of Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, OFM Cap Archbishop of Boston
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President of U.S. Bishops’ Conference Response to Pope Francis’s Letter to the People of God
Pope Francis: Letter to the People of God (full text)
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis
To the People of God
Vatican Spokesman to Victims: "The Pope is on your side."
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the wake of a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses in Pennsylvania, a Vatican spokesman called the abuses described in the report as being "criminal and morally reprehensible."
"Victims should know that the pope is on their side. Those who have suffered are his priority, and the church wants to listen to them to root out this tragic horror that destroys the lives of the innocent," said Greg Burke, head of the Vatican press office, in a written statement Aug. 16.
Bishop Confirms Commitment to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
Statement of Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, OFM Cap
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Wayfair workers protest furniture sale to detention center
BOSTON (AP) — Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair walked out Wednesday to protest the company's decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas.
Employees of Wayfair march to Copley Square in protest prior to their rally in Boston, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair walked out of work to protest the company's decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas.
Wayfair employees and supporters rally at Copley Square in Boston, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair walked out of work to protest the company's decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas.
The Wayfair website on a computer in New York. Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair have planned a walkout to protest the company's decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas.
The protest triggered a broader backlash against the company, with some customers calling for a boycott. Several hundred people joined the protest at a plaza near the company's Boston headquarters, a mix of employees and people from outside the company.
More than 500 employees at the company's Boston headquarters signed a protest letter to executives when they found out about the contract. Wayfair refused to back out of the contract but told employees Wednesday morning that it would donate $100,000 to the Red Cross.
"Last week, we found out about the sale and that we are profiting from this. And we are not comfortable with that," said Tom Brown, 33, a Wayfair engineer at the protest. "For me personally, there is more to life than profit."
Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders both said they stood by the Wayfair employees who are protesting, as did Congressional Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Wayfair's stock initially slipped more than 5% Tuesday as word of the walkout spread. On Wednesday, the stock rose about 1%. The protest comes amid a new uproar over revelations of terrible conditions at a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, first reported by The Associated Press , including inadequate food, lack of medical care, no soap, and older children trying to care for toddlers. Emotions were also running high one day after photos published by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada and distributed worldwide by the AP showed the bodies of a migrant father and his young daughter who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to enter the United States without legal permission.
The unprecedented surge of migrant families has left U.S. immigration detention centers severely overcrowded and taxed the government's ability to provide medical care and other attention. Six children have died since September after being detained by border agents. As the controversy grew, the acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection resigned Tuesday, though he did not give a reason for leaving.
In a letter to the employees, Wayfair leaders said that it's standard practice to fulfill orders for any customer acting within the law. "We believe it is our business to sell to any customer who is acting within the laws of the countries within which we operate," said the letter.
Wayfair said it would have no further comment on the protest. Wayfair sold the beds to Baptist Children's Family Services, a non-profit with federal contracts to manage some of the camps along the border.
"We believe youth should sleep in beds with mattresses," the organization said in a brief statement. Madeline Howard, a product manager at Wayfair, said company leaders had held a town hall earlier this week to listen to employee concerns but would not budge on their stance.
She said the company's donation to the Red Cross did not satisfy the demands of the employees, who had asked that the profit from the sale — about $86,000 — be donated RAICES, a non-profit that is the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas.
In a statement, the Red Cross said it was "grateful for Wayfair's generous donation." The organization said it would put the funds toward "the increased aid we have provided for the past six months to community-based organizations helping with the border crisis in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico."
Brown, the Wayfair engineer, said there is no one answer on what the company policy should be, with some employees calling for the company to stop providing for the detention centers altogether, and others arguing it would be enough for Wayfair to forego profits from such sales.
Mimi Chakravorti, executive director of strategy at the brand consulting firm Landor, said Wayfair must decide whether the damage to their brand from the controversy will ultimately prove more costly than foregoing a $200,000 contract.
"Unfortunately, they are not going to able to get out of this without being burned on one side or the other," said Chakravorti. "Is it about moral standards? Or is it about the bottom line dollars, and being able to sell to anyone in a legal way?"
Other companies have also been drawn into the controversy over the Trump administration's immigration policies. Last year, American Airlines and United Airlines said they asked the government not to put migrant children who have been separated from their parents on their flights. Employees have protested work by Amazon and Microsoft to assist police agencies and federal immigration agents with facial recognition and other tools. Microsoft executives defended the company's immigration contract despite a protest letter that circulated through the company over the summer.
The children's magazine Highlights jumped in Tuesday, with CEO Kent Johnson posting a statement on Twitter condemning the separation of families at the border and calling for "more humane treatment of immigrant children" at detention centers.
The country's politically polarized atmosphere has become a minefield for many businesses as workers increasingly take on their employers for issues they care about. At Google, employees walked out of their offices last year to protest the tech company's mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations against executives. And workers at Amazon.com Inc. publicly published a letter addressed to CEO Jeff Bezos earlier this year to push the online shopping giant to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
Anne Gilson, a human resources expert at the employee benefits agency OneDigital, said companies have been traditionally more accustomed to handling employee discontent about internal workplace problems, not politics.
"This is new territory for many organizations," Gilson said, adding that companies need to strive to ensure employees feel they are heard before a controversy spills out into public view. "Why do people feel they have to take drastic action?" Gilson said. "How was the conversation initially managed? Is the culture, 'Yeah, thanks Johnny,' and eye-rolling and sighs?"
Olson reported from New York. Associated Press writer Nomaan Merchant in Houston contributed to this report.
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Iran able to bombard Israel if war started, warns Hezbollah
Head of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah says Iran is able to bombard Israel with ferocity and force if a war broke out between the United States and Iran. — AFP pic
BERUT, July 13 ― The head of Lebanon's Tehran-backed Hezbollah said yesterday that US ally Israel would not be “neutral” if a war broke out between the United States and Iran.
And “Iran is able to bombard Israel with ferocity and force,” Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television.
His remarks came after weeks of increasing tensions between the United States and Iran, and as US President Donald Trump steps up his war of words with the Islamic Republic.
“When the Americans understand that this war could wipe out Israel, they will reconsider,” Nasrallah said.
“Our collective responsibility in the region is to work towards preventing an American war on Iran,” he said.
He said neither Saudi Arabia nor the United Arab Emirates had any interest in a conflict erupting.
Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted to restrict Trump's ability to attack Iran, voicing fear that his hawkish policies are pushing toward a needless war.
Hezbollah is considered to be a terrorist organisation by the United States, and is the only faction not to have disarmed after the Lebanese 1975-1990 civil war.
But it is also a major political player in the small Mediterranean country, taking 13 seats in parliament last year and securing three posts in the current Cabinet.
Syria presence downgraded
Nasrallah also said he had decreased the number of his movement's fighters supporting the Damascus regime in neighbouring war-torn Syria.
“The Syrian army has greatly recovered and has found that today it does not need us,” he said.
“We are present in every area that we used to be. We are still there, but we don't need to be there in large numbers as long as there is no practical need,” he said.
The head of the Iran-backed Shiite movement, which has been fighting in Syria since 2013, did not give details on the extent of the reduction.
Backed by Russia and Iran, the Damascus government has taken back large swathes of territory from rebels and jihadists since 2015, and now controls around 60 per cent of the country.
Nasrallah spoke after Washington announced fresh sanctions Tuesday against Hezbollah, targeting elected officials from the movement for the first time.
Nasrallah said none of his fighters were currently involved in fighting in Syria's northwestern region of Idlib, where regime and Russian forces have increased deadly bombardments on a jihadist-run bastion since late April.
But “if there was a need to return, all those who were there would go back” to Syria, he added.
Tel Aviv 'within range'
Responding to a question about repeated Israeli air strikes on Syria, he said the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “deceiving his people”.
“He is playing a game of brinkmanship, because Iran will not leave Syria,” he warned.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in neighbouring Syria against what it says are Iranian and Hezbollah military targets. It has vowed to keep Iran from entrenching itself militarily there.
Nasrallah's interview came to mark the start of his movement's 2006 war with Israel, which killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
Both countries are still technically at war, and a UN peacekeeping force has said three tunnels have been found to have dug under the border from Lebanon into Israel since late last year.
The group's leader warned that key Israeli installations along the Mediterranean coast including Tel Aviv were “within range of our rockets”. ― AFP
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JAPAN: Asia Economies - Japan - Crisis exacerbates the pain of the 'bubble economy' hangover.
JAPAN: Asia Economies - Japan - Crisis exacerbates the pain of the 'bubble economy' hangover. - The Asian crisis has both involved Japan and exposed it to powerful international criticism. The Japanese government, it is argued, has put pressure on other
The Asian crisis has both involved Japan and exposed it to powerful international criticism. The Japanese government, it is argued, has put pressure on other countries in the region by pursuing a policy of yen depreciation and then, just when additional growth was needed, imposed mistaken tax cuts on its economy. Moreover, Japanese banks were culpable in their lending activities to the rest of Asia, channelling funds too readily for projects in the region and contributing to the over-investment in Asia which lies at the root of the crisis. Japan, for its part, points to policies put in place to alleviate both its own financial problems - a 30 trillion yen (£150 billion) support package for financial markets and a two trillion yen (£10 billion) tax cut. The criticisms, however, persist.
Prior to the crisis, Japan appeared to be heading for growth of about 2.5% in 1998. Now, say forecasters, zero is likely to be the best that can be achieved. According to Fred Bergsten of the Institute for International Economics: 'Japan accounts for about two-thirds of the entire Asian economy.
It is already in recession and is likely to experience zero or negative growth in 1998. Despite the government's recent initiatives, there seems to be little chance that sufficient policy changes will be adopted either to restore stability to the banking system and thus an effectively functioning credit market, or to convert the country's restrictive fiscal policy into the needed stimulus.'
Japan's problems pre-date the wider Asian crisis. The spectacular rise, and collapse, of the 'bubble economy' of the 1980s has resulted in a prolonged hangover during the 1990s. An economy that achieved a stunning growth performance in the miracle years abruptly shifted down to a mediocre performance.
This, in turn, has brought with it severe pressures on the corporate sector - the old system of lifetime employment now exists mainly only in name - and on investors. Japan had asset price deflation in both property and shares before the more recent general deflation. Strains in the banking and financial systems, the 'credit crunch', contributed to the failure of Yamaichi last year.
To such problems has now been added the Asia crisis. For Japanese companies, which invested heavily elsewhere in the region to minimise the competitive difficulties created by the yen's earlier strength, stagnation in Asian economies, collapsing consumer demand and sharply lower local currencies, the direct consequences are severe. For the economy, facing at least a two-year recession, relief will be painfully slow.
The Bank of Japan, having pursued a policy of ultra-low interest rates, is powerless to stimulate the economy. The government faces the problem that, even if it was to introduce a more substantial programme of tax cuts and higher public spending, there is no guarantee it would have the desired effect.
So much has confidence among consumers and businesses evaporated, say some analysts, that a fiscal expansion would have only a muted impact on the economy. Individuals, for example, could spend rather than save any tax cuts coming their way.
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Our city map of Albuquerque (Estados Unidos de América) shows 6,101 km of streets and paths. If you wanted to walk them all, assuming you walked four kilometers an hour, eight hours a day, it would take you 191 days. And, when you need to get home there are 71 bus and tram stops, and subway and railway stations in Albuquerque.
With a total area of 16.2 square kilometers, public green spaces and parks make up 3.2% of Albuquerque’s total area, 498 square kilometers. That means each of Albuquerque’s 504,949 residents has an average of 32 square meters.
When people in Albuquerque want to go out, they are spoilt for choice; our map shows more than 536 cafés, restaurants, bars, ice-cream parlors, beer gardens, cinemas, nightclubs and theatres. The city also boasts more than 58 sights and monuments, and far more than 428 retailers. Feeling tired? Our map shows more than 122 hotels and guest houses, where you can rest.
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With a total area of 1.5 square kilometers, public green spaces and parks make up 0.3% of Daejeon’s total area, 541 square kilometers. That means each of Daejeon’s 1,537,324 residents has an average of 1 square meters.
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Marty Fallon Joins Maslon
The law firm of Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP, is pleased to announce that Marty Fallon has joined the firm.
Marty Fallon is an associate in Maslon’s Litigation Practice Group. He has experience in the areas of commercial litigation, contract disputes, trade secret, and real estate litigation. He represents businesses and individuals in complex commercial disputes in federal and state courts, and in arbitration hearings. Prior to joining Maslon, Fallon was a law clerk for the Honorable David S. Doty, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, and worked as an associate in litigation for four years with another major Minneapolis law fi rm. He is a 2000 summa cum laude graduate of William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, MN, has a master’s degree in European History from the University of Minnesota, and earned his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in Government from St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN.
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Bringing Poetry to the Public in Newton
by Grey Held | July 2016
We’ve asked Grey Held to share with us the great work he’s doing in Newton to bring poetry to the public. For more information, visit poetryinplace.com.
The first project I did in Newton was the Poetry in the Park project, located in Edmands Park, a patch of wild nature at the heart of a leafy but dense suburban city of 85,000. The Edmands Park project featured an open poetry competition with a national reach, from which the panel of judges received almost 200 poems. 14 winning poems were selected to be attached to Depression-era stone pillars that were preexisting in the park. To meet the requirements of a limited project budget, and the goal of permanence with no maintenance costs, I developed a process of prepping the stones of those pillars with a clear epoxy and then affixing the poems using a dry-transfer method. Collectively, with several assistants, it took more than 100 hours of labor to meticulously install the poems.
Cathy Strisik, whose poem, “Magpie” is one of the Edmands Park poems, flew from New Mexico (where she lives) to see the park. Afterwards, she sent me an email—“what a wonderfully fun time we had at Edmands Park, and in the pouring rain!!! I was there with my mother, sister, daughter, and oldest friend from childhood. Walking through the wet leaves along the marsh, stopping to read poems en route...with our umbrellas, with so much laughter. Thank you once again. Such an innovative spectacular project that I feel thrilled and proud to be part of.”
Earlier this year, in conjunction with the Newton Festival of the Arts, I designed another poetry project—this time involving chalking 10 poems about mothers on the steps of Newton City Hall’s War Memorial, where they served as a backdrop for the Newton Ethnic Heritage Festival dance and music performances. What I like about “The Mother’s Day Poetry Project” is that it brings poetry out into the community, honors motherhood, helps facilitate discussions of motherhood in all its richness and diversity, and allows people to experience poetry outside of the usual framework of books. The project garnered 100 submissions, and featured poems that explore the ups and downs of motherhood to evoke memories about people’s experiences—good and bad—with their mothers.
Jeff Baker, a Newton resident said, “I was surprised by my feelings of delight as I approached the steps of city hall with my wife and her sister, both mothers. Even though it was a gray, drizzly day our spirits were lifted as we took in the sight of multi-colored chalked poems on the steps and the bright banners wrapping the columns and then dove deeper to discover and share our reactions to each distinctive poem. The entire construction felt like a playful blessing to start our family celebration of Mother’s Day.”
The Newton Council of the Arts has been supportive by providing grants for both of these poetry projects, and Linda Plaut, the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, continues to contribute her vision, encouragement, enthusiasm, and guidance.
Some of my other poetry ventures with the city include a 2015 Memorial Day Poetry reading that was the “opening act” for a musical performance by the 215th Army Band of the Massachusetts Army National Guard. The outdoor performance and reading were held at the Hyde Community Center. Featured poets included five Newton (and surrounding area) poets, including a WWII vet (Freddie Frankel), a poet who collected the stories of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps (Barbara Helfgott-Hyett), the son of a two-star general (me), an Iraq War veteran (Adam Graff), and the mother of an Iraq War veteran (Suellen Wedmore).
Currently I am focused on finding ways to incorporate art and poetry into the city’s redevelopment plans for West Newton’s “downtown” village center. For more about these projects visit poetryinplace.com.
Grey Held is a community activist in Newton, MA, who works with the city to develop innovative ways of bringing poetry into public spaces and public consciousness.
Held, a recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing and the author of two books of poetry, has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office for Cultural Affairs in Newton and the Parks and Recreation Commission, to brainstorm, develop and complete various projects in the city.
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Under the New York No-Fault law, a car accident injury victim has several different ways that they can satisfy the law's requirement of having sustained a "serious injury". If none apply, there is the catch all 90/180 day rule. What exactly is that rule? The injury victim must have a medically-determined injury or impairment of a nonpermanent nature which prevents him/her from performing substantially all of the material acts which constitute his/her usual and customary daily activities for not less than 90 days during the 180 days immediately following the accident. The courts have ruled that disability from work will generally meet the requirements for the 90/180 rule. The following 2nd Dept. appeals court case involved a determination regarding the proof offered in support and in opposition to the claim that the injury victim met the 90/180 day rule.
Reynolds v Wai Sang Leung
2010 NY Slip Op 08550 [78 AD3d 919]
Appellate Division, Second Department
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Schack, J.), dated April 9, 2010, which denied his motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d).
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
While we affirm the order appealed from, we do so on a ground other than that relied upon by the Supreme Court. The defendant failed to meet his prima facie burden of showing that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d) as a result of the subject accident (see Toure v Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 NY2d 345 [2002]; Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955, 956-957 [1992]). The defendant's motion papers failed to adequately address the plaintiff's claim, clearly set forth in his bill of particulars, that he sustained a medically-determined injury or impairment of a nonpermanent nature which prevented him from performing substantially all of the material acts which constituted his usual and customary daily activities for not less than 90 days during the 180 days immediately following the subject accident (hereinafter the 90-180 category of serious injury) (see Udochi v H & S Car Rental Inc., 76 AD3d 1011 [2010]; Strilcic v Paroly, 75 AD3d 542 [2010]; Bright v Moussa, 72 AD3d 859 [2010]; Encarnacion v Smith, 70 AD3d 628 [2010]; Negassi v Royle, 65 AD3d 1311 [2009]; Alvarez v Dematas, 65 AD3d 598 [2009]; Smith v Quicci, 62 AD3d 858 [2009]; Alexandre v Dweck, 44 AD3d 597 [2007]; Sayers v Hot, 23 AD3d 453 [2005]).
The subject accident occurred on October 31, 2006. In his supplemental bill of particulars, the plaintiff alleged that, after the subject accident, he was unable to resume working for more than 110 weeks. In support of his motion, the defendant submitted affirmed medical reports of a neurologist who examined the plaintiff on April 29, 2009, and of an orthopedic surgeon who examined the plaintiff on April 28, 2009. Although both physicians addressed the issue of whether the plaintiff sustained a significant limitation of use of a body function or system or a permanent consequential limitation of use of a body organ or member, they failed to relate their findings to the 90-180 category of serious injury for the period of time[*2]immediately following the subject accident.
Since the defendant failed to meet his prima facie burden, it is unnecessary to determine whether the papers submitted by the plaintiff in opposition were sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see Strilcic v Paroly, 75 AD3d at 543; Coscia v 938 Trading Corp., 283 AD2d 538 [2001]). Mastro, J.P., Florio, Dickerson, Belen and Lott, JJ., concur.
If you or a loved one has been the victim of a serious injury or fatality due to a Car Accident, you may be entitled to compensation. Contact an experienced federal and state courts serious personal injury trial lawyer at The Maurer Law Firm, PLLC to schedule a FREE CONSULTATION to discuss your rights by filling out our free website "Tell Us About Your Case" review form, or phone us directly at 845- 896-5295.
Ira Maurer is recognized by Super Lawyers as an outstanding lawyer who has attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Ira Maurer is also a Lifetime Member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
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Daniel R. Dominy
After attending Western Illinois University, Dan Dominy joined the family business in 1975. Upon completion of the IBEW Local 134 apprenticeship program, Dan worked in the field for a time before moving into the office. Dan holds a supervising electrician license with the City of Chicago. Dan has held positions of Assistant Purchasing Agent, Superintendent, Project Manager, and Vice President prior to his current role of President of Meany.
Our customers appreciate Dan’s motto of “get the job done – no matter the cost” and his tenacious approach has earned Meany’s reputation of an electrical contractor capable of completing complex projects under the tightest schedules.
Dan’s calm temperament and infectious personality has had a positive effect on the corporate culture of our family business. When he is not at the office “steering the ship”, Dan enjoys spending time at his lake house in Michigan and playing golf with colleagues and friends.
Jack D. Dominy
Jack graduated from the University of Arizona with bachelor’s degrees in both Accounting and Management Information Systems in 1997 and joined the family business shortly thereafter. Jack has held the positions of Superintendent, Estimator, and Project Manager over his twenty plus years at Meany. Jack currently serves the role of CFO in addition to sales and estimating, ensuring the financial health of the organization.
Jack is a youth baseball coach and spends much of his time supporting his son in his athletic endeavors. Jack and his wife Traci have both donated much of their time to the local community and charitable organizations. Jack is an avid golfer and enjoys traveling with his family.
Nick Dominy
Shortly after graduating from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Advertising in 2012, Nick became the 5th Dominy to join the family business. Nick currently serves as Superintendent and oversees all aspects of field productivity and operations, including supervising Meany’s information technology network. Nick’s comprehensive 24/7 approach ensures the successful completion of each of Meany’s projects.
When not at work, though he is never truly “off the clock”, Nick enjoys spending time with his wife Rebecca and their daughter in addition to playing golf with friends. Nick is a passionate Chicago sports fan and tries to attend as many Blackhawks games as possible.
Nick Doerr
Nick graduated with a Bachelor of Art degree from Southern Illinois University in 1977. Nick began his forty plus year career at Meany in 1978. After performing nearly every job in the company, Nick currently oversees the office at Meany. His duties include managing payroll, business accounts, bonds, insurance, vehicles, city licenses, and anything else that must be done to ensure the continued success of Meany Inc.
Nick is an accomplished artist specializing in drawing and a passionate music fan.
Dan Herman
Dan joined Meany in 1977 as a warehouse assistant.
Dan is the Purchasing Agent of Meany and oversees material and tool purchasing and equipment delivery. His substantial knowledge of the intricacies of the electrical industry makes him a key resource for the field foremen and often “engineers” solutions for our field workforce.
Dan is a sports fan and golfer. He also enjoys spending time with his family and grandchildren.
Assistant Office Manager
Diane began her career at Meany Inc. in 1990. Since then, Diane has generated over $400 Million of invoices for Meany. Among other duties, Diane oversees Job Creation, Job Cost, Purchase Orders, Time Sheets, Billings, Waivers, and Collections. Prior to joining the Meany team, Diane worked as a personal secretary to the President of a water and oil piping company.
Diane’s husband Jim is a veteran of the US Army, and together they support both the USO and Wounded Warrior Project.
Diane is a rabid Chicago Blackhawks fan and enjoys taking cruises and relaxing on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Adelita Alvarado
Accounts Receivable Specialist
Adelita, or “Addie”, recently joined Meany in 2018. Addie assists Diane Shaw with billing and has been a wonderful addition to Meany Inc.
Prior to joining the Meany family, Addie worked as a Hair Stylist and was manager of a salon. While she remains passionate about the beauty industry, she decided to make an occupation change with more standard hours, so she can spend more time with her two daughters – especially on the weekends and around the holidays.
When out of the office, Addie enjoys shopping, the beach, and donating time at church.
Beth Defily
Beth graduated Western Illinois University in 1994. Post college she worked in the advertising industry before making the decision to be a stay at home mom to raise her daughter. Beth handles the responsibilities of receptionist and Accounts Payable.
Beth is an ardent supporter of the Chicago White Sox. A member of the founding Comiskey family, Beth has deep ties to the organization and recently assisted the team as a hostess in the Stadium Club.
Away from Meany, Beth is a cheerleading coach for the Frankfort Falcons and enjoys travelling, golf, and attending youth and professional sporting events.
Bill Slobodnik
Senior Estimator / Project Manager
Bill completed the IBEW/NJATT Electrical Apprenticeship Program in 1982. From 1982 to 2002, Bill worked for an electrical contractor as a Foreman Electrician, Project Manager, and Estimator. Bill joined Meany Inc. in 2002 as an estimator / project manager. Bill has an extensive portfolio of estimated, bid, and completed work within the transportation, package conveyance, commercial, and K-12 education markets. Bill brings over 35 years of construction expertise to Meany Inc., and now oversees the estimating department along with his colleague, John Spila.
After successfully putting their two (2) children through college, Bill and his wife Deb enjoy cycling and travelling to their condo in Florida to boat, fish, walk on the beach, and relax in the warm weather.
John Spila
John completed the IBEW/NJATT Electrical Apprenticeship Program in 1996. John joined Meany as a 1st year apprentice in 1991, and had big shoes to fill, as his father John Spila Sr. was one of the finest electricians to have ever worked for Meany Inc. and the IBEW Local 134. The Spilas are one of several “father-son” teams that have worked together at Meany and proudly exemplifies our extended family business.
John was a general foreman in the field for over ten years before entering the office as an estimator / project manager. His extensive field experience and all around electrical knowledge has been integral in the success of the Meany estimating team. John now oversees the estimating department alongside his colleague Bill Slobodnik.
John is an electrical inspector for the Town of St. John, Indiana.
John is an avid fisherman and spends his time away from work with his wife Dawn raising and supporting their three (3) boys in all of their social and athletic endeavors.
Dave Easter
Estimator / Project Manager
Dave graduated the IBEW/NJATT Electrical Apprenticeship Program in 1996. Dave holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Computer Studies from Robert Morris College in 2003 and completed his Master’s Degree in Management Information Systems from the Morris School of Management in 2008. Dave holds a City of Orland Park Supervisor Electrician License, NECA Advanced Construction Law, and several technical and computer certifications.
Prior to joining Meany, Dave worked as a foreman electrician for 13 years with Burke Electric. From 2006 thru 2016 Dave was an Foreman, Estimator, Project Manager, and Owner of Excel Electric in Frankfort, IL.
Dave brings his vast electrical experience and IT expertise to the Meany team. His organization and attention to detail allows Dave to effectively estimate and project manage several projects at once. Dave has been an excellent addition to the Meany estimating team.
When away from Meany, Dave is a Deacon at his church and enjoys long cycling rides.
Jeff Jameson
Jeff joined Meany as a 1st year apprentice in 1998 and completed the IBEW/NJATT Electrical Apprenticeship Program in 2004. Jeff’s skill set was immediately noticeable, and he was quickly promoted to a General Foreman electrician and ran several successful projects for Meany over the past 15 years. Jeff has extensive experience with low voltage communications and has both overseen and personally installed miles of category 5/6 data cabling, fiber optics, fire alarm, security, and integrated communications.
Jeff’s level-headed demeanor and electrical knowledge has served Meany well in his recent transition to Estimator / Project Manager.
Jeff is an outdoors sportsman and prefers to spend his free time in tree stands and fishing boats. Jeff is also a supporter of the Chicago Bears and participates in multiple fantasy football leagues.
Mike Hoffman
Mike joined the IBEW Local 134 in 1991 and was quickly promoted to General Foreman and supervised large electrical installations for Hiram Electric. In 2003, Mike attended the NECA school of estimating and entered the office at Hiram as an Estimator in 2003. Mike holds a Supervising Electricians License with the City of Chicago. In 2010, Mike worked for Peak Electric before joining Meany in 2015.
Outside of work, Mike is an accomplished competition body builder and fitness coach. Mike is also a car and motorcycle enthusiast.
Rick Doerr
Rick joined Meany in 2014 as an assistant purchasing agent. In 2016, because of his previous background in the safety industry, Rick took over the role of Safety Director. Rick is OSHA 30 and NFPA 70E certified. Rick works closely with Meany’s 3rd party safety consultant, Optimum Results, and conducts tool box talks, lift training, tool inspections, site specific safety assessments, among other duties. Rick is the head of our Meany Safety Leadership Team, a collection of General Foreman, Journeyman, and Apprentices that meet quarterly with Meany management to discuss and improve our overall safety plan. Under his watch, Meany has averaged an outstanding .83 Experience Modification Rate.
Outside of work, Rick is a Chicago White Sox and Bears fan. He enjoys spending time with his family and friends and fixing up his farmhouse for retirement.
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Home / Blog / Billionaire Donates $25 Million to VA for Personalized Cancer Care
Billionaire Donates $25 Million to VA for Personalized Cancer Care
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Billionaire, Denny Sanford, is funding a special genetic testing program to improve VA cancer care. The program will help improve patient care and reduce costs by determining the best medications for individual patients.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has received a generous donation of $25 million to improve cancer care for veterans. Private funding like this plays a critical role in advancing cancer care and improving quality of life for those who served our country. The VA expects that the money will have a significant impact, helping about 250,000 veterans into the year 2022.
The money is funding a special testing program to develop personalized cancer treatment for veterans based on their DNA. Currently, it’s difficult for doctors to determine how a patient will respond to cancer treatment. This testing program hopes to change that.
VA Cancer Care Receives Private Funding From Air Force Veteran
The generous donation comes from a man named Denny Sanford, an Air Force veteran and South Dakota businessman.
Sanford subscribes to the growing trend among philanthropists of giving away their net worth while they are still alive. He prefers this over creating foundations that pay out much smaller amounts of money over time. The idea is to make a more substantial, short-term impact.
This donation is not Sanford’s first large gift. Sanford has already given away over $1 billion of his fortune and hopes to continue until he’s exhausted all of his funds. He’s already donated large amounts of money to medical research, clinical centers and neglected children.
After a donation of $400 million to Sandford Health in 2007, the hospital system was named after him. Now, Sandford Health is partnering with the VA to provide a zero-cost pharmacogenetic testing program with the help of Sanford’s donation.
About Pharmacogenomics Action for Cancer Survivorship
Sanford’s most recent $25 million donation is going towards a program called Pharmacogenomics Action for Cancer Survivorship (PHASeR). Pharmacogenetic testing involves testing your genes to determine how your body will respond to certain medications.
The genetic testing will help doctors select the right drugs and dosages for each patient. This makes treatment more effective and reduces the risk of adverse reactions.
Adverse drug reactions are not only problematic for patients, but they end up costing about $30 billion per year.
For cancer patients, genetic testing can help prevent negative reactions to chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can reach toxic levels in people whose bodies metabolize the drug differently, but without testing, doctors cannot predict this ahead of time. Genetic testing would help patients avoid these damaging side effects.
Doctors can also use testing to select other types of drugs, including pain medications, antidepressants and blood thinners. For example, the tests would determine which anti-nausea medications will work best for each patient.
This is a significant breakthrough in personalized cancer treatment. Until now, genetic testing has been too costly for veterans in the VA system. The genetic testing program will give doctors an idea of how patients will react to medication before they even take it, allowing them to tailor care to each veteran.
Cancer and Mesothelioma Care at VA Hospitals
The VA hopes that the genetic testing program will be available at 125 facilities by 2022. Veterans in the VA system will be able to receive testing at no cost. For veterans with mesothelioma, this testing will play a critical role in treatment and symptom management.
If you’ve been diagnosed with mesothelioma, there are many reasons to take advantage of VA cancer care. Veterans can receive high-quality treatment at specialized mesothelioma centers in Boston and Los Angeles. At these facilities, the VA system provides veterans access to top mesothelioma specialists, including Dr. Avi Lebenthal.
If you developed mesothelioma after serving in the military, file for compensation through the VA so you can get access to life-prolonging treatments and high-quality care. Contact the Mesothelioma Veterans Center for help reviewing your legal options.
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“With $25M donation, Sanford to help VA bring precision medicine to veterans” Duluth News Tribune and Forum Communications Company. Retrieved from https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/healthcare/4583668-25m-donation-sanford-help-va-bring-precision-medicine-veterans. Accessed on April 11, 2019.
“A Billionaire, Intent on "Dying Broke," Keeps the Big Gifts Flowing” Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved from https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/2/1/denny-sanford-philanthropy-san-diego. Accessed on April 11, 2019.
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Shia LaBeouf launches four-year, anti-Trump livestream called "He Will Not Divide Us"
By Jason Berman
Remember when Shia LaBeouf was the star of the Disney Channel show Even Stevens? Well, LaBeouf has come a long way, transitioning into mainstream films like Transformers, Fury and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and more recently to decidedly more alternative forms of expression, like a livestream of himself in an elevator for 24 hours.
Now, LaBeouf is embarking on an even more ambitious livestream. Starting with Friday's inauguration of President Donald Trump, LaBeouf has set up a livestream at hewillnotdivide.us. The livestream, titled "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US," will run continuously, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the next four years. Yup, you read that correctly.
The livestream will capture members of the public who choose to say "he will not divide us," for as long as they wish in front of a camera outside the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. The website states:
Open to all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the participatory performance will be livestreamed continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency. In this way, the mantra "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" acts as a show of resistance or insistence, opposition or optimism, guided by the spirit of each individual participant and the community.
The livestream's first participant was none other than Will Smith's son, Jaden Smith.
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Essent used PlateSpin® workload management technology to consolidate its servers in a new data centre, saving approximately €2 million.
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"If we hadn't selected the PlateSpin workload management solution, it would have taken a team of 25 people six months to build all the applications in the consolidated data centre—at an estimated cost of over €3 million. With the solution we were able to migrate all our servers in one month with a team of less than eight people."
Marco Spoel
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Essent is a leader in the Dutch energy sector, supplying electricity, gas, heat, and waste management services to private and business customers in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. The company also operates an international energy trading division called Essent Trading. Essent employs 12,000 people and achieved revenues of €7.4 billion in 2007.
Operating in the highly competitive energy market, Essent is constantly seeking to increase operational efficiency and deliver better value to customers and stakeholders. The company saw an opportunity to reduce costs by embarking on a major IT consolidation initiative.
Prior to the project, Essent's IT infrastructure was distributed between three data centres. The company decided to move to a central data centre that would be simpler to manage, maintain and protect.
The first challenge was timing: Essent needed to move quickly, before the lease on one of its existing data centres expired. Second, the servers used by Essent Trading needed to be online at all times, so it was not possible to shut them down and physically ship them from one location to another. Third, with limited space, power and cooling available at the new site, it was vital to minimise the number of physical servers required and ensure room for future growth.
Essent identified a number of solutions for simplifying the move from physical servers to virtual hosts (P2V), but the company also needed help with physical-to-physical (P2P) migration. PlateSpin technology was uniquely able to cover both requirements.
"We liked the ability of the solution to provide anywhere-to-anywhere workload migrations—not only physical-to-virtual, but also physical-to-physical and virtual-to-physical," said Marco Spoel, Project Manager, IT Infrastructure, Essent. "By enabling many different workload movement activities, PlateSpin technology supported both our data centre consolidation project and our ongoing operational requirements—all within a single software, support and training investment."
PQR, a partner specialising in PlateSpin technologies, performed a successful proof of concept, and Essent decided to go ahead with the full implementation.
Essent used PlateSpin Recon to remotely monitor the existing IT infrastructure and perform a full audit of the inventory and utilisation of each server. This made it easier to decide which servers were the best candidates for virtualisation, and which should be moved directly from one physical machine to another.
Using this information, Essent created a detailed migration plan and deployed PlateSpin Migrate to perform the P2P and P2V migrations. Within a month, the company moved 260 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server and Microsoft Windows Server workloads from heterogeneous HP hardware to standardised IBM System x servers. In addition, Essent migrated 50 physical machines to virtual machines on VMware ESX Server—reducing floor space requirements in the new data centre by 8 percent.
"If we hadn't selected the PlateSpin workload management solution, it would have taken a team of 25 people six months to build all the applications in the consolidated data centre—at an estimated cost of over €3 million," said Spoel. "With PlateSpin we were Able to migrate all servers in one month with a team of less than eight people."
To further reduce its IT management costs, Essent opted to standardise its Linux environment to a single distribution, selecting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the most cost-effective option.
By implementing PlateSpin to facilitate a rapid and non-disruptive move to the company's new central data centre, Essent was able to continue its business operations without significant interruption—a crucial advantage, especially for the time-sensitive energy trading division. Moving all the company's IT infrastructure to a single location will also provide considerable benefits in terms of manageability and security.
"The PlateSpin solution saved Essent about €2 million for the data centre consolidation project alone," said Spoel. "The solution also made it possible to complete our data centre consolidation without any costly business disruption, and with considerably reduced risk. The value to our organization over time could easily be in the order of hundreds of millions of euros."
Essent views PlateSpin as a strategic asset that will continue to deliver value in the long term. As the business continues to grow, the IT infrastructure will grow with it, and PlateSpin will help Essent assess how to manage its servers most effectively.
"The energy industry in which we operate has a high degree of merger and acquisition activity," said Spoel. "Essent typically buys smaller energy companies once or twice a year. With PlateSpin workload management solutions, we will be able to complete the IT consolidations associated with M&A activity with relative ease."
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Second bid by SNP councillors to have lights reinstated at Kirkintilloch shared space
Chaos at Catherine Street junction without the safety lights
Published: 11:47 Updated: 12:04 Wednesday 07 June 2017
SNP councillors are to make another bid to have safety lights reinstated at Catherine Street junction in Kirkintilloch at a meeting of East Dunbartonshire Council next week.
LibDem councillors say they will also raise the issue of the shared space at the meeting on Tuesday, June 13 — but have failed to say the lights should be put back at the busy town centre junction, which has been the subject of constant community concern because of safety issues.
A proposal put forward by the SNP minority administration to have the lights returned “as a matter of urgency” was blocked by LibDem and Tory councillors at the first meeting of the newly elected council on May 23. They voted together to prevent the proposal from even being discussed, and instead requested a special meeting of the council on June 13 - five days after the General Election.
Council leader Gordan Low told the Herald he has once again called for the lights to be reinstated.
He added: “I am putting forward the same motion we previously attempted to have considered at the statutory meeting on May 23”.
Seconded by SNP councillor John Jamieson, he wants officers report back to the council as a matter of urgency with proposals for the reinstatement of a signalised junction at Catherine Street, funded from within the capital budget for 2017/18.
He also wants council officers to carry out a full audit of the Cowgate shared space project, including the effects of its various elements on pedestrian and vehicle safety, and accessibility for all user groups, particulary for residents with visual and mobility impairments.
Meanwhile, LibDem Councillor Susan Murray said the shared space would be “debated” at next week’s meeting.
In a press release from the LibDem group, she said: “The community has legitimate concerns about the design of the shared space in Kirkintilloch town centre.
“The council must address these concerns by listening to the community and reviewing the design to make the town centre benefit as many people as possible.
“In particular, the Catherine Street junction needs to work better for vehicles, pedestrians and disabled people, including those who are visually impaired”.
It is almost certain that the LibDems and Conservatives will join together to form a coalition and oust the new SNP minority administration after the country goes to the polls on June 8.
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Karl praises managerial pair
Karl Robinson says he will be going up against two of the best managers in the division over the next ten days.
The Dons side face Lee Johnson’s Oldham Athletic this Saturday at stadiummk, before travelling to Meadow Lane to do battle with a Notts County outfit managed by Shaun Derry on Boxing Day.
Both the Latics and County finished in the bottom half of League 1 last season but have enjoyed excellent starts to the 2014/15 campaign, and Dons boss Robinson was keen to praise his opposite numbers for their achievements so far this year.
“I’m probably going up against the best managers in the league this weekend and the weekend after, in terms of what they’ve done with the resources they’ve had,” Robinson told the media.
“Lee and Shaun have produced some of the biggest turnarounds that we’ve seen in League 1, in a long time. Up until now, Lee and Shaun have been the best in the division and that’s not taking anything away from anyone else.
“Considering their teams were fighting relegation last season and now they’re fighting for the play-offs – you’ve got to take your hat off to them. I certainly do and they both deserve the plaudits that will no doubt come their way.”
Although complimentary of the pair, Robinson is still intent on taking three points from both of them as he and his side look to secure, if not improve on, their current position of third-place in the table heading into the New Year.
“There is an eight point gap between us and sixth at the moment and we’ve very rarely seen that, so it’s a remarkable achievement from the players. It’s going to be a big next two games, as we could either completely push teams away from us or drag them closer to us.
“However, everyone keeps talking about what we need to do to catch Swindon and Bristol and as long as we keep focusing on the teams above us, what happens below us will take care of itself.”
After their festive fixtures with both Oldham and Notts County, the Dons will have faced all-but one of the teams alongside them in the top eight, in the space of just two months – a stretch which Robinson believes is ‘as hard as it gets’.
“When we’ve come through this month we’d have played nearly everybody in the top eight in not much more than two months and in last four games we’d have played Sheffield United, who were just below us, Preston, who are now just below us, and Oldham and Notts County who are sixth and seventh.
“It doesn’t get much harder, but we believe in each other and collectively we’re very strong. I’d go on record to say this is the strongest group I’ve had, certainly the strongest 1-18.
“That goal at Preston was the first we’d conceded on the road in the league since Bristol City and that is a tremendous testament to the team. We’ve also broken a club record in League 1 for going 10 unbeaten - it just shows how well everyone is doing at the moment.
“We can’t stop, though, its turn the screw time. People who know me, know that I won’t accept where we are, I want to go on and on and I think it’s important we keep having a right good go.”
Tickets for Saturday's clash with Oldham Athletic are available to buy right up until kick-off, priced at £20 for adults and £6 for under-18s.
To purchase tickets click here - or vist the Box Office at stadiummk or the kiosk at thecentre:mk, call 01908 622900 or email boxoffice@mkdons.com.
Gallery: Tuesday's Bisham Abbey session
Edu departs for Crawley
Senior Professional Development Coach Edu Rubio has left Milton Keynes Dons to take up a first-team coaching role at Crawley Town.
Kits now on sale - buy online or in store!
All three MK Dons player kits, as well as the three goalkeeper strips, are now available to buy.
Club Superstore open this Saturday!
The Club Superstore will be open this Saturday to provide supporters with the opportunity to get their hands on the 2019/20 kit which went on sale this week.
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The AST Research Network is the AST’s mechanism for identifying, funding, and providing ongoing support to the most innovative research in transplantation and immunology.
The Research Network has funded hundreds of physicians and scientists who have dedicated their lives to advancing the research necessary to improve and save lives. View past grant recipients.
Advancing transplantation and immunology research to improve human life.
The AST Research Network fosters transformative, multidisciplinary transplantation and immunology research opportunities.
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The AST Research Network pursues its vision and mission through specific goals.
Dramatically increase the amount of funding available to support the best basic, clinical and translational research in transplantation and immunology.
Create innovative ways to train investigators in the latest technologies for scientific research.
Adhere to and further AST’s research goal as outlined in the AST strategic plan, which is to double long-term graft survival and optimize patient quality of life.
The AST Research Network is led by the Research Network Committee. Career development grant applications are reviewed by the Scientific Review Committee.
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Beverley chosen as starting point for biggest-ever Tour de Yorkshire ahead of grand finale in Leeds
Published: 12:09 Tuesday 05 December 2017
NEXT YEAR’S Tour de Yorkshire will begin in Beverley and cover 711 km before finishing in Leeds three days later.
Day one, May 3, will see the peloton race from Beverley to Doncaster.
Cyclist Mark Cavendish poses with the Queensbury Queens of the Mountains Cycling Club after a press conference at The Piece Hall, Halifax. PIC: Tony Johnson
Stage two, on May 4, is a 149km route from Barnsley to Ilkley where the “iconic” Cow and Calf will host the race’s first summit finish.
The following day the riders will begin in Richmond, with a finish 184km later on the seafront in Scarborough following a climb up the punishing Sutton Bank.
The stage will visit Scarborough twice and enter Filey for the first time in the race’s history.
The final day, on May 5, covers 189.5 km from Halifax to the Headrow in Leeds, including six classifield climbs and was described as “a beast of a stage” by Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive Gary Verity
It’s hard. That was makes Yorkshire so great, the diversity of the terrain. But more than that, it’s the fans that make the race so great.
Mark Cavendish
The race will finish outside the art gallery, where the Tour de France began in 2014.
The Asda Women’s Tour de Yorkshire has been doubled to two days, on May 3-4.
It will follow the final follow the lfinal 132km and 121.5km respectively of the men’s stages which commence later each day.
Tour de France legend Mark Cavendish was among the guests at Tuesday’s route announcement at the Piece Hall in Halifax and is set to ride in next year’s race, which has been expanded to four days for the first time.
HE'S BACK: Mark Cavendish (centre) shakes hands with Alberto Contador (left) and Chris Froome at the start of of the first stage of the Tour de France n Leeds back in 2014. Picture: Bruce Rollinson
He said: “It’s hard. That was makes Yorkshire so great, the diversity of the terrain. But more than that, it’s the fans that make the race so great.”
Speaking at the route unveiling, at the Piece Hall in Halifax, Verity revealed the race will visit 169 towns and villages, 101 of them for the first time.
Other cycling stars at the announcement included former Tour de France yellow jersey and tage winner David Millar, Brian Robinson, the first British rider to win at stage of the Tour de France and Leeds’ Scott Thwaites, who made his Tour de France debut this year.
Leeds City Council Councillor Judith Blake, said: “I’m absolutely delighted that Leeds has been chosen to host the big finale of next year’s Tour de Yorkshire. Each year this exciting sporting event gets bigger and better and helps to put our region firmly on the map, both nationally and internationally.
FINISH LINE: Sir Gary Verity outside Leeds Town Hall on the Headrow here the final stage of the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire will finish. Picture: Bruce Rollinson
“I’m sure people in communities across Leeds will once again create another brilliant and unforgettable atmosphere when the tour arrives next year.”
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Filichia Features: Robert Cuccioli’s third role with JEKYLL & HYDE
By Peter Filichia on September 14, 2018
in Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features
Calling all Jekkies!
All those ardent fans that Jekyll & Hyde made during its tryout and 1997-2001 Broadway run will want to get to the North Shore Music Theatre starting on Sept 25th. Then you can quote Dr. Jekyll's most famous exhortation: "This is the moment!"
Robert Cuccioli, who on tour and on Broadway brought both characters to life, will be directing Constantine Maroulis, who played them in the 2013 Broadway revival. Diana DeGarmo portrays Lucy, the lady of many evenings while Tess Primack plays Jekyll's fiancée, Emma Carew.
(She was Lisa Carew during the pre-Broadway tour, but the two "L" names kept confusing people.)
Cuccioli has previously directed the musical (originally conceived for the stage by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn) four times, most notably at Theatre under the Stars in Houston. That's where Jekyll & Hyde all began for him in 1995. Once again, he'll use the official MTI version that's part tryout and part Broadway.
Originally Jekyll's first song was "I Need to Know" and Lucy's was "Bring on the Men." When director Robin Phillips took over from Gregory Boyd, he inspired the writers to respectively replace those with "Lost in the Darkness" and "Good and Evil."
But after the Broadway production closed, composer Wildhorn and lyricist-librettist Leslie Bricusse reinserted the originals for the MTI version. Cuccioli is happy they're back.
He's grateful, however, for two other changes that Philips made. "First," he says, "Robin thought of having Jekyll's father confined to an insane asylum. Now Jekyll has a greater need to find a cure, for he wants to help his father in addition to the human race. It made him more sympathetic."
Then Phillips had a brainstorm for "Confrontation" in which Jekyll and Hyde battle each other for supremacy. Originally Cuccioli performed the aria alone in front of a black-and-white movie of Hyde that he'd filmed earlier.
"When Robin asked if I'd do both," he says, "I immediately answered 'Yes!'"
That led to the show's most famous image: Cuccioli tossing his hair back and forth, switching between the idealistic Jekyll and the horrific Hyde.
Two decades earlier, Cuccioli assumed his hair would be substantially shorter because he expected to work on corporate Wall Street. But when he was a senior at St. John's University, he saw the school was presenting Godspell.
"I saw myself as John the Baptist/Judas," he recalls. "They saw me as Jesus."
Soon Cuccioli had a dual life (although not as extreme as Jekyll's). He was a financial consultant for EF Hutton who spent lunch hours auditioning. Light Opera of Manhattan soon put him in the ensembles of The Desert Song, The Merry Widow and other chestnuts.
Long before Jekyll & Hyde, he experienced a different confrontation with his parents. They thought where Godspell had led wasn't all for the best.
"They weren't happy," he says, "until they saw me as Lancelot to Richard Harris' Arthur in Camelot (in 1987) because he was a celebrity they knew."
Off-Broadway came in 1990 as a son in The Rothschilds (two years ago, he played the father). In 1991 he did And the World Goes 'Round and debuted the title song of the still-yet-to-reach-Broadway Kiss of the Spider Woman. "Even though," he says with a smile, "it would be a woman's song in the show."
Cuccioli made it to Broadway in an unexpected way. "Six times I auditioned for Enjolras in Les Miserables," he says doggedly. "I always want to be the hero."
(Did that start after he got his first gig as Jesus?)
Six tries, six misses. After he'd auditioned for Richard Jay-Alexander, associate director of Les Miz, for another show - "and did miserably," he believes -- Cuccioli was surprised when Jay-Alexander asked if he'd like to play Javert on Broadway.
Guess what his answer was.
(Moral of the story? Don't second-guess yourself when you audition.)
"I did Javert for one year, one month and two days," he says. "I know that because Les Miz had everyone sign three-month contracts. Soon after I signed my fourth one I saw Jekyll & Hyde was looking for a leading man. I wanted it."
(Well, it did have at least half-a-hero.)
He'll always be grateful to Jay-Alexander for not standing in the way of a great opportunity - and his long association with Jekyll & Hyde.
"Despite directing it four times already," he says. "I've not done it in the round. That poses challenges that I want to meet."
We'll tell you in a few Fridays how Jekyll & Hyde plays in such a space.
Read more Filichia Features .
You may e-mail Peter at pfilichia@aol.com. Check out his weekly column each Monday at www.broadwayselect.com and Tuesday at www.masterworksbroadway.com . He can be heard most weeks of the year on www.broadwayradio.com.
Peter Filichia
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Brain Facts
Video highlights from Brain Surgery Live
Before Brain Surgery Live begins, brush up on everything there is to know about the world’s most powerful computer
The average adult human brain weighs just under three pounds and has a tofu-like consistency
Human brains are more wrinkled than other species' brains. Wrinkles create more surface areas for neurons, which means the human brain would be 2.7 square feet if flattened.
Neurological disorders affect more than 50 million Americans annually, and the cost of treatment is more than $500 billion. The United States alone could save an estimated $50 billion per year by discovering how to delay Alzheimer's disease by five years.
MIT researchers have found that after seeing something for just 13 milliseconds the brain is capable of identifying image.
When your nose breathes in odorous molecules from the air, they get trapped in the back of the nose on special olfactory receptor cells, which then route them along the olfactory tract to all different areas of the brain. A human brain has around 40 million olfactory receptor neurons and different odors trigger different actions from combinations of receptor neurons. These different combinations allow an adult to detect up to 10,000 different odors.
Scientists now believe that sleep is essential to the brain's daily housekeeping to remove harmful toxins that build up during waking hours. Through research on baboons and rats, scientists found that during sleep, more cerebrospinal fluidflushes through the brain to cut through the clutter and wash away harmful proteins, including beta amyloids, which forms plaque associated with Alzheimer's disease. This could have important implications for preventing or slowing neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia although the processes have not yet been observed in humans.
The brain doesn't have one single memory system. The system we use to retain memories of phone numbers or world capitals is a different system from that where we remember how to perform mathematical operations, and from the system that allows us to remember how to ride a bicycle, even if we haven't done it in years.
There are thought to be between 86 and 100 billion neurons in the human brain. Researchers are working to map the brain and its networks to better understand how we think and how to respond to brain disorders like epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and post-traumatic stress disorder.
A Harvard study found that meditation may have a multitude of positive effects on the brain. One study found that long-term meditators have more grey matter in theauditory and sensory regions of the brain, as well as in the frontal cortex, areas which are associated with memory, decision-making, and enhanced senses.
One of the most important patients in the history of neuroscience taught the world a great deal about how the brain forms memories. Known by his initials, H.M., Henry Molaison underwent surgery in 1953 at age 27 to treat severe epileptic seizures. But the surgery left him without the ability to create new memories: He retained his intelligence and could recall many details from his childhood and young adult life, yet he could not form memories of new events and people. Molaison volunteered to participate in decades of research, and upon his death, consented to have his brain dissected to better understand why the surgery had robbed him of his memories.
Our perception of pain comes from the brain, which has the power to "turn up" or "turn down" the intensity of information related to pain entering the brain. The emotion attached to a painful experience is determined by the brain. Recent research suggests that the brain can be trained to tune out things like chronic pain.
Brain Surgery Live airs Monday 26 October at 12.00pm AEDT/2.00pm NZDT with an encore at 8.30pm AEDT/NZDT.
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Inside the Grammy Award After Parties – See All the Best Pics
By Colin Bertram
Published Feb 16, 2016 at 11:13 AM | Updated at 12:37 PM EST on Feb 16, 2016
Where do music's biggest names head after the awards are handed out? To the Grammy after parties, where Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Pharrell celebrated alongside Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige and Tony Bennett.
Over 100 Great White Sharks Spotted Off Cape Cod This Summer
necn's 2019 Top News Gallery
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The latest news from around the state
James Taylor Announces Summer 2017 Tour of 4 Baseball Parks
Published Nov 28, 2016 at 2:12 PM
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James Taylor sings the national anthem prior to Game Two of the 2013 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals at Fenway Park on October 24, 2013.
Singer-songwriter James Taylor has announced a summer tour of four baseball parks, culminating in a date at Fenway Park, home of his beloved Boston Red Sox.
Taylor and his All-Star Band will open the tour July 14 at Nationals Park in Washington. It continues July 17 at Wrigley Field in Chicago; July 29 at AT&T Park in San Francisco; and Aug. 11 at Fenway.
Bonnie Raitt is scheduled to play at each show.
It will be the third consecutive year Taylor has played Fenway. Taylor was born in Boston and now lives in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts. Fenway also is where Taylor debuted his video for "Angels of Fenway," his ode to the redemptive spirit of baseball and a song featured on his 2015 album "Before This World."
'Nutcracker' Returns to the Stage in Boston
The Boston Ballet's 'Nutcracker' has returned to the stage this holiday season. The show opens Friday evening, but the creative minds behind this version of the classic performance spoke with Jackie Bruno before the curtain rose.
(Published Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016)
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Ed Sheeran ‘planning to volunteer in charity shop’ during time away from music
Larry Bartleet Aug 23, 2015 3:18 pm BST
Credit: Jenn Five/NME
There's 'a good possibility' he will volunteer, says the manager of the Sue Ryder shop in Framlingham, Suffolk
Earlier this year Ed Sheeran revealed he was hoping to “get on the outside [of the showbiz bubble] for at least a year”. Now it has emerged that he may spend some of that time working in his local charity shop.
The manager of the Sue Ryder shop in Framlingham, Suffolk, recently told the press, “There’s a good possibility he will volunteer here. We’d welcome him.
“My volunteers, who are aged between 61 and 91, know Ed because he was brought up in the town. They would be fine working with him.”
She also highlighted that the 24-year-old had recently bought an old police station for £1 million, a site he has turned into a youth club. “He’ll also be helping there when it’s up and running. I think he will draw the youngsters into our shop which will be good for us.” Sheeran has yet to comment.
The singer recently shared an image of a tattoo on his chest. The lion tattoo is only half finished according to Sheeran and was designed to mark his three sell-out gigs at London’s Wembley Stadium in July.
Some people online were critical of the tattoo, noting in particular its size and colour. Sheeran was defiant, tweeting about his lack of interest in what others make of his choice in ink. “All this kerfuffle over a tattoo,” he tweeted. “If it was black and white saying a clever phrase in a language I can’t speak no one would’ve said anything.”
“It’s not the first weird tattoo I’ve got and it won’t be the last,” he added. “I like all of them.”
Among other images, Sheeran has tattoos of the Heinz tomato-ketchup logo, the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air typography and a teddy bear, after his childhood nickname of ‘Teddy’.
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Pirate's Gold: New hives, habitat become home for ECU bees
East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus has about 20,000 new residents following the installation of two hives of western honey bees near Lake Laupus.
Chad Carwein, ECU sustainability manager, said the project is part of the university’s response to the global issue of declining bee colonies.
“Colony collapse disorder has killed about 50 percent of bee colonies worldwide in the last 10 years, and we’re trying to establish these hives because, when it gets down to it, one out of every three bites of food is pollinated by a bee,” he said.
On May 20, Will Johnson of All American Bee Company in New Bern transported the bees to campus, and with the help of Karen Mulcahy, teaching associate professor of geography, and retired ECU staff member Dale Aycock, transferred them to the new hives. After the queen is moved, the rest of the bees follow readily, Johnson said.
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Dan Magill
Dan Magill (1921-2014) worked tirelessly as the sports information director for UGA for fifty years and as the University of Georgia’s head tennis coach for thirty-four years, earning him recognition in the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.
Born on January 25, 1921 in Athens, Georgia, Dan Magill loved the Georgia Bulldogs from boyhood until the day he died. His affiliation with the Georgia Athletic program began as a teenager, when he served as a batboy for the baseball team and a manager for the tennis team. He continued supporting the University while he attended, ultimately earning a degree in journalism in 1942. He proved a valuable member of the varsity swim and tennis teams in addition to volunteering as an assistant football coach. He also joined the Chi Psi fraternity.
After service with the Marine Corps during World War II, Magill briefly worked for the Atlanta Journal newspaper as the Prep Sports editor. In 1949, he accepted a position with the University as sports information director. In the 1950s, attendance at football games dwindled as Wally Butts struggled to secure UGA victories. To rekindle interest in the team, McGill established The Georgia Bulldog newspaper to circulate throughout the state as well as founding the Bulldog Club. Before long, nearly half of Georgia’s counties had local chapters of the Bulldog Club. McGill served as the executive secretary of the organization for decades. In 1954, he assumed the role of the tennis program’s head coach, holding the role for thirty-four years and greatly enhancing the program’s reputation. As head tennis coach, Magill oversaw construction of the UGA tennis complex and convinced the Intercollegiate Tennis Association to build their hall of fame in Athens.
The facility is named in his honor. Dan McGill earned admission into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1976. He died, August 23, 2014.
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Known for its charm and beauty, historic Oconee Hill Cemetery is located in Athens, Georgia adjacent to the University of Georgia campus. Established in 1856 and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Oconee Hill is significant for its landscape architecture, decorative funerary markers, distinctive cast-iron fencing, a rare through-truss bridge, and a Sexton's House of architectural significance. The grassy and rolling terrain with woods, flowing water and scenic vistas makes Oconee Hill a pleasant place to visit and stroll among the graves of many notable Georgians including governors, University presidents, veterans, and Congressmen. Oconee Hill is still an active cemetery, and lots are available for sale.
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The most produced isocyanate is methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI). This compound is used to produce rigid foams, commonly used as insulation for refrigerators and buildings. The second most produced isocyanate, toluene diisocyanate (TDI) is used to produce flexible foams, often seen in furniture, bedding, and packaging. Both MDI and TDI are also used to produce coatings, adhesives and sealants, among others. Another subset of isocyanates, called aliphatic diisocyanates, are often used as an intermediate in the production of polyisocyanates. These are often used to produce polyurethane coatings and elastomers. These polyurethane coatings tend to be more color stable than MDI and TDI polyurethanes, which tend to be sensitive to UV light. Additionally, they are very resistant to abrasion and weathering.
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Silicon Valley Job Outlook Brighter, Still Cloudy With many companies slow to hire, it will take a long time to get back to the kind of healthy job market Silicon Valley once had. Still, a lot of people are seeing new signs of life in the economy, and they're more optimistic than they were a year ago.
Silicon Valley Job Outlook Brighter, Still Cloudy
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Frog Design and ECOtality created the Blink family of recharging stations for the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf and other electric vehicles. frogdesign.com hide caption
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Frog Design and ECOtality created the Blink family of recharging stations for the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf and other electric vehicles.
In California's Silicon Valley, the economy is finally showing signs of a turnaround. Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook are generating a lot of new excitement, and there's even been a slight uptick in hiring. Still, the recession has done considerable damage to the region's economy, and the unemployment rate remains high.
The offices of Frog Design in San Francisco are as colorful and playful as a candy store. The rooms are lined with products the company had a hand in, such as a new kind of oven and a charging station for electric cars. The firm got its start designing products for Apple in the 1980s, and since then has worked with some of the biggest companies in the tech sector.
Frog Design says its business has been booming with products like this Turbochef wall oven, which the San Francisco firm designed. frogdesign.com hide caption
Frog Design says its business has been booming with products like this Turbochef wall oven, which the San Francisco firm designed.
"Many people may have products we designed in their bathroom or in their living rooms, and they don't even know we were the secret force behind them," says Tim Leberecht, Frog Design's chief marketing officer.
Recently, Leberecht says, business has been booming. Companies are spending again, profits have been good, and there's even been a small resurgence in the IPO market with the promise of riches for well-connected investors.
Ken Rosen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, says confidence is slowly coming back to the valley.
"I go down there [to Silicon Valley] at least once a month for lunch or presentations, and again the energy is so palpable in the startup world [and the] the venture world," Rosen says.
The region is still a long way from the kind of boom it enjoyed a decade ago. Silicon Valley is a place of almost militant optimism and boundless confidence in the benefits of technology. However, the past few years have tested its faith in the future. Unemployment rose above 11 percent, and housing in the Bay Area dropped by nearly a third.
"There was a period when we thought Silicon Valley might be immune to this whole thing. We're a technology economy, we're export oriented," says Russell Hancock, president of Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network, a public-private forum for discussing regional issues. "But in actuality, we were not. It turned out that Silicon Valley was like any American region — we had people in a lot of pain and stress."
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Hancock says that last year the economy added more than 12,000 jobs, the first net increase in years. But the jobless rate is still nearly 10 percent. Hancock says these gains in the private sector are being offset by a big drop in state and local government jobs.
"For the last year or so we were using stimulus funds locally," Hancock says. "That's now completely dried up; so now local governments are facing the full brunt of this recession."
He also says there's a fundamental difference in the job market today, and it may not bode well for the region. Big companies like Intel and Hewlett-Packard used to hire thousands of people in the area.
"The new model is companies are no longer infatuated with size. It's in their interest to stay lean, because this is how they compete. So companies today are hiving off entire divisions, and they're taking a different approach," Hancock says.
Currently, there is a big demand for engineers and software developers in Silicon Valley. However, big companies are increasingly contracting out a lot of the jobs they once handled themselves.
In part, they turn to freelancers, consultants and smaller local companies. Frog Design employs about 100 people at its headquarters, and is careful about hiring. Leberecht says getting too big, too fast would undermine the culture of innovation the company likes to foster.
"This place would be very, very different if 500 people worked here. We wouldn't be able to create the kind of culture that we want, to attract the kind of people that we need," he says.
With many companies slow to hire, it will take a long time to get back to the kind of healthy job market Silicon Valley once had. Still, a lot of people are seeing new signs of life in the economy, and they're more optimistic than they were a year ago.
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Katrina: The Debris // The R Word: Resilience
August 24, 2015 • Well, we've made it. Almost. It's been a long, hot summer and this is our last episode as we come up on the tenth anniversary of Katrina. The city is abuzz with journalists and experts and NGOs and politicians. We thought we'd use this last bit of The Debris to explore a word they're all using to talk about New Orleans: resilience.
Katrina: The Debris // Newcomers
August 17, 2015 • Lots of people who visit New Orleans today are surprised to find the city in such good shape. The rebuilding effort has been long, arduous, and largely successful in most areas (with a few notable exceptions, like the Lower 9th Ward ). New Orleans would not be where it is today without the students, church groups, retirees, professional organizations and lone good souls who gave their time and energy to rebuilding. At least a million people, by one count, and likely many millions. Newcomers
Katrina: The Debris // The Debris
August 10, 2015 • This week on Katrina: The Debris, we're exploring the actual debris — the stuff left behind when the winds died down and the floodwaters receded. Katrina changed our relationship with that "stuff" — the tangible things that make up our modern lives. Some things became much more important, while so much else became just trash to be left on the curb for pickup.
Katrina: The Debris // Mental Health
August 3, 2015 • The devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the floods that followed is most visible in pictures of ruined houses and people's destroyed possessions lying out on city streets. But there's unseen damage that runs even deeper: the collective emotional trauma experienced by the thousands of people who lived through it.
Katrina: The Debris // Missing
July 27, 2015 • According to numbers from the US Census and the IRS, 236,970 people left Louisiana between the summer of 2005 and the summer of 2006, mostly because of Hurricane Katrina. Census details can't tell who is a former resident returning and who's new, but as of last year, the state had only recovered about 100,000 people, less than half of those who left. Whether it's a bandoned houses or empty chairs at the dinner table, New Orleans is rebuilding around a conspicuous absence. This week on The Debris
Katrina: The Debris // Education
July 20, 2015 • Of all the changes New Orleans has seen in the ten years since Katrina, the restructuring of the city's public school system is perhaps the most drastic. In place of a traditional school district, most Orleans Parish schools are now governed by a loose confederation of charter operators. What does this new model mean for students, teachers and parents in New Orleans?
Katrina: The Debris // Nueva Orleans
July 13, 2015 • According to a study by the Data Center , the Hispanic population of the New Orleans metro area has nearly doubled since the year 2000. Many people immigrated from Mexico and Central America, or migrated from other parts of the U.S. to work in cleanup and construction after Katrina. The Latino population of greater New Orleans continues to grow and reshape the culture of the city.
Katrina: The Debris // Houston
July 6, 2015 • Nearly a quarter of a million people evacuated to Houston from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and in 2006 there were still about 150,000 Katrina evacuees in the Bayou City. As of 2012, 40,000 had resettled permanently from New Orleans to the Houston area.
Katrina: The Debris // On The Road
June 29, 2015 • You don't realize how much you appreciate traffic lights until you have to drive around a city without any. This week on Katrina: The Debris, getting around New Orleans, during and after the storm.
Katrina: The Debris // Generations
June 22, 2015 • New Orleans is a family city. Grandparents and grandkids, cousins, aunts and uncles often live in the same house, share the same traditions. When Katrina hit, many families evacuated together — three generations crammed into one car.
Katrina: The Debris // Ingredients
June 15, 2015 • The root of the word "restaurant" is in fact the French verb restaurer , to restore. And New Orleans restaurateurs , the proprietors, were seen as key figures in restoring the life and spirit of the city. But in those first months after the flood, nobody was sure how or even if the city's most famous restaurants were going to reopen. We hear tape from an October 2005 meeting of New Orleans chefs — including John Besh , Susan Spicer and Leah Chase — about how to get the city's restaurant
Katrina: The Debris // Green Dot
June 8, 2015 • The first comprehensive map for rebuilding New Orleans came out in early 2006, about six months after the flood. Saying it was highly anticipated would be an understatement. On it, some symbols that appeared as a death knell for some neighborhoods: green dots. To New Orleans native Wendell Pierce , star of The Wire and Treme — and to thousands of others — those dots meant: "your neighborhood is not welcomed back." Meet a woman who helped bring back her Green Dot neighborhood of Broadmoor , with
Katrina: The Debris // Incredible By Modern Standards
June 1, 2015 • Incredible by Modern Standards— June 1 New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the National Weather Service is using social science to improve forecasts. And hear from New Orleans residents who say the argument to call our 2005 disaster "The Federal Flood" instead of just "Katrina" still holds water. Why that weather wording matters. Read the National Weather Service's report on its service during
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Archives|Bayer Agrees To Pay U.S. $257 Million In Drug Fraud
Bayer Agrees To Pay U.S. $257 Million In Drug Fraud
By MELODY PETERSEN APRIL 17, 2003
In the largest Medicaid fraud settlement, Bayer agreed yesterday to pay the government $257 million and pleaded guilty to a criminal charge after engaging in what federal prosecutors said was a scheme to overcharge for the antibiotic Cipro.
According to documents turned over to the government by a whistle-blower, Bayer was coached in the scheme by a purchasing manager from Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest health care organizations.
The fraud involved selling Cipro to Kaiser at prices lower than the company was charging Medicaid, in violation of a federal law that requires drug makers to give the Medicaid program the lowest price charged to any customer. To cover up the fraud, the Cipro bottles sold to Kaiser were relabled with Kaiser's name and given a different drug identification number.
In announcing the settlement yesterday, prosecutors in the United States attorney's office in Boston did not charge Kaiser with any wrongdoing. Prosecutors declined to comment on Kaiser yesterday and said the investigation was continuing.
''There is a commitment to pursuing those who cheat the federal health care programs in any way,'' said Susan G. Winkler, an assistant United States attorney.
The five-year scheme by Bayer, which unfolded before the 2001 anthrax scare caused a run on Cipro, shows the lengths to which some drug companies will go to profit on the nation's complex prescription drug laws. Rules allow drug makers to keep most pricing data secret. Recently, federal prosecutors have begun focusing on similar pricing schemes as drug costs continue to rise and as whistle-blowers have come forward with documents detailing activities.
Prosecutors also announced yesterday that GlaxoSmithKline had agreed to pay $87.6 million to settle civil charges that it had overcharged the Medicaid program for Paxil, an antidepressant, and Flonase, an allergy spray. That deal also involved relabeling medicines for Kaiser, prosecutors said.
The money from the settlements will be divided by the federal and state governments, which jointly pay for Medicaid. A portion will also go to public health clinics, AIDS programs and other groups that are allowed to buy medicines at the Medicaid price.
About $34 million of the Bayer settlement will go to the estate of a former executive at the drug maker who became a whistle-blower. George J. Couto, the whistle-blower, died in November from cancer at the age of 39.
Bayer, based in Germany, said yesterday that it was pleased to have the matter resolved. The company said it believed that its marketing practices ''were responsible and conducted in good faith.'' It said it did not believe that the settlement would affect its continuing business with the government.
In a brief statement, Kaiser said it believed that its employees acted in accordance with the law. It said it had been cooperating with investigators for more than three years and would continue to do so.
GlaxoSmithKline said it had agreed to the settlement to avoid the delay and expense of a trial. The company said it ''continues to believe that its interpretation of the law was reasonable and in good faith.''
Bayer's Cipro scheme began in 1995 when Kaiser threatened to stop buying the antibiotic after Johnson & Johnson offered its medicine, Floxin, at a much lower price, according to documents, including internal memos, that Mr. Couto gave to prosecutors.
Bayer was desperate to keep the business of Kaiser, a nonprofit health insurer with eight million members, according to documents. Kaiser was buying about $7 million of Cipro each year. In addition, other health groups often follow Kaiser's lead in drug-buying decisions.
But if Bayer offered to beat the price offered by Johnson & Johnson, Cipro's new price would fall below what Bayer was charging Medicaid, forcing it to pay tens of millions of dollars in additional rebates.
Alan Mello, a market manager for Bayer, looked for a way to avoid paying the rebates, according to documents. His suggestions included a plan to switch Kaiser patients who were taking Cipro tablets to an injectable form of the drug, which was not subject to the lowest-price requirement, called the best price law. Kaiser rejected that proposal.
In April 1995, according to Mr. Couto's testimony, Kaiser suggested a solution. Bayer would ship Cipro to Kaiser in the usual way, but the words ''Distributed by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals'' would be typed on each bottle's label along with Kaiser's national drug code number rather than Bayer's. National drug codes, which are kept on a list maintained by the Food and Drug Administration, serve to identify medicines.
According to Mr. Couto, the executives' reasoning at the time was that the responsibility for reporting the new Cipro price fell to Kaiser. Because Kaiser did not have a Medicaid agreement with the government, the reasoning continued, it did not have to report the new price or pay additional rebates to the government.
Mr. Couto told prosecutors that Clive Frith, a purchasing manager for Kaiser, had told him that this was not the first such deal that he had put together for Kaiser. ''I do this all the time,'' Mr. Frith had said.
According to F.D.A. records, Kaiser has its own national drug code numbers for dozens of relabeled medicines.
Mr. Couto told prosecutors that when he presented the final details of the Kaiser agreement to his superiors, his boss had joked, ''We'll all look good in stripes.''
Medicaid fraud investigators and other experts say similar relabeling has been done by many drug companies to hide the deeply discounted prices they charge special customers.
In a study, Dr. Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, a professor of pharmaceutical economics at the University of Minnesota, found that the number of medicines that had been relabeled, much as Bayer did with Cipro, had grown from 791 in 1990 to 20,801 this year. Some of the medicines may have been relabeled for legitimate purposes, he said, but some relabelings appear questionable.
''How do you have competition when you don't even know the price?'' Dr. Schondelmeyer asked.
In 1996, Bayer also began relabeling Adalat CC, a blood pressure medicine, with Kaiser's drug code number so that it could also give the health group deeper discounts on that product without lowering the price it was charging to Medicaid.
In 2000, after reading a newspaper article stating that the government was looking into such practices, one Bayer executive left a voice mail message for his colleague, saying that they had known when the Cipro deal was done that someday they ''may have to pay the piper.'' The voice mail message was forwarded to Mr. Couto, who provided a transcript to prosecutors.
Mr. Couto told prosecutors that he had become concerned about the deal after attending a corporate ethics training class in 1999. The ethics seminar was the first such course Bayer had required him to attend, even though six years had passed since he joined the company.
The class began with a video address by Helge H. Wehmeier, who was then in charge of Bayer's United States operations. Mr. Wehmeier said that Bayer executives were expected to obey ''not only the letter of the law, but the spirit of the law as well.'' And he urged them to call his office if they learned of violations. Mr. Couto recalled how the room had erupted with laughter.
Within days of the class, Mr. Couto wrote a memo to his boss, asking how he should react to Mr. Wehmeier's comments given the Kaiser relabeling deals, which he had come to believe were illegal. Mr. Couto said he received no response.
In February 2000, Mr. Couto and his lawyers, the firm of Getnick & Getnick in Manhattan, presented his case to federal prosecutors.
A version of this article appears in print on April 17, 2003, on Page C00001 of the National edition with the headline: Bayer Agrees To Pay U.S. $257 Million In Drug Fraud. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Education Life
Education Life|Wanted: Factory Workers, Degree Required
Wanted: Factory Workers, Degree Required
Siemens Energy struggled to find qualified workers when it opened a gas turbine production plant in Charlotte, N.C.CreditCreditSiemens Energy Inc.
By Jeffrey J. Selingo
When the German engineering company Siemens Energy opened a gas turbine production plant in Charlotte, N.C., some 10,000 people showed up at a job fair for 800 positions. But fewer than 15 percent of the applicants were able to pass a reading, writing and math screening test geared toward a ninth-grade education.
“In our factories, there’s a computer about every 20 or 30 feet,” said Eric Spiegel, who recently retired as president and chief executive of Siemens U.S.A. “People on the plant floor need to be much more skilled than they were in the past. There are no jobs for high school graduates at Siemens today.”
Ditto at John Deere dealerships, which repair million-dollar farming machinery filled with several dozen computers. Fixing tractors and grain harvesters now requires advanced math and comprehension skills and the ability to solve problems on the fly. “The toolbox is now a computer,” said Andy Winnett, who directs the company’s agricultural program at Walla Walla Community College in Washington.
These are the types of good-paying jobs that President Trump, blaming trade deals for the decline in manufacturing, has promised to bring back to working-class communities. But according to a study by Ball State University, nearly nine in 10 jobs that disappeared since 2000 were lost to automation in the decades-long march to an information-driven economy, not to workers in other countries.
Even if those jobs returned, a high school diploma is simply no longer good enough to fill them. Yet rarely discussed in the political debate over lost jobs are the academic skills needed for today’s factory-floor positions, and the pathways through education that lead to them.
Many believe that the solution is for more Americans to go to college. But the college-for-all movement, which got its start in the 1970s as American manufacturing began its decline, is often conflated with earning a bachelor’s degree.
Many high school students rush off to four-year campuses not ready for the academic work or not sure why they are there. Government data show that 44 percent of new graduates enroll directly in a four-year college, but based on recent trends, less than half of them will earn a degree within four years. And though two-year colleges have long been identified as the institutions that fill the job-training role, some 80 percent of community college students say they intend to go on for a bachelor’s degree, or they leave with generic associate degrees that are of little value in the job market.
Students in the United States are offered few feasible routes to middle-skill careers — jobs that require more education than a high school diploma but typically not a bachelor’s degree. The National Skills Coalition, a nonprofit organization, calculates that middle-skill jobs — in computer technology, health care, construction, high-skill manufacturing and other fields — account for 54 percent of the labor market, but only 44 percent of workers are sufficiently trained.
“The bachelor’s degree is the gold standard, but the higher education system has to create ways for students to choose training and education in their own time and sequence,” said Anthony P. Carnevale, the director of the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University. “Higher ed,” he said, “needs to respect the dignity of labor.”
Faced with a skills gap, employers are increasingly working with community colleges to provide students with both the academic education needed to succeed in today’s work force and the specific hands-on skills to get a job in their companies. John Deere, for example, has designed a curriculum and donated farm equipment to several community colleges to train technicians for its dealer network. About 15 to 20 students come through the program at Walla Walla each semester. Because they are sponsored by a John Deere dealership, where the students work for half the program, most graduate in two years with a job in hand. Technicians start at salaries just shy of $40,000, on average.
Dr. Carnevale’s research has found that 40 percent of middle-skills jobs pay more than $55,000 a year; some 14 percent pay more than $80,000 (by comparison, the median salary for young adults with a bachelor’s degree is $50,000).
Jobs like the ones John Deere offers are still associated in people’s minds with students who performed poorly in high school, those considered “not college material.” But to succeed in programs like those at Walla Walla, students need to take advanced math and writing in high school, academics typically encouraged only for those going on to four-year colleges.
Persuading students and their parents to consider the apprenticeship track is a tough sell, especially because companies want students who have a strong academic background.
Struggling to fill jobs in the Charlotte plant, Siemens in 2011 created an apprenticeship program for seniors at local high schools that combines four years of on-the-job training with an associate degree in mechatronics from nearby Central Piedmont Community College. When they finish, graduates have no student loans and earn more than $50,000 a year.
Apprentices at Siemens divide their time between Central Piedmont Community College and the factory, where “there’s a computer every 20 or 30 feet.”CreditSiemens Energy Inc.
“These are not positions for underachievers,” said Roger Collins, who recruits apprentices for Siemens at 15 Charlotte-area high schools.
Chad Robinson was one of those students. Ranked in the top 10 of his high school’s senior class, with a 3.75 grade-point average, he had already been accepted to the engineering school at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte when he told his parents he wanted to shift course and apply for the Siemens apprenticeship.
“They were very against it,” he said, until they went to the open house. “A lot of my friends who majored in engineering in college told me they wish they had done the apprenticeship because my work experience will put me ahead of everyone else.”
IT is not uncommon to find executives in Europe who got their start in apprenticeships, which are seen as a respected path to a profession in a variety of fields, from hospitality to health care, retail to banking.
In the United States, on the other hand, apprenticeships have long been associated with the construction trades and labor unions. That can be traced to a Depression-era labor shortage that led Congress to pass the National Apprenticeship Act. The act formalized standards and empowered the Labor Department to certify training, which was mostly in manual labor occupations. Unions took on the task, tightly controlling apprenticeship opportunities and passing them down through the generations.
In the decades after World War II, registered programs expanded in number and type, with the addition of fields like firefighting and medical technician. But apprenticeships never caught on, relegated to a second-class career track as college enrollment ballooned in the 1960s and ’70s, and more recently mirroring the falloff in the influence and membership of labor unions.
The Department of Labor’s registry now lists 21,000 programs with about 500,000 apprentices, which sounds impressive but represents only 1.5 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in this country and is far short of demand. Still, participation is up 35 percent and the number of programs by 11 percent since 2013.
Apprenticeships are making a comeback thanks in part to bipartisan support among lawmakers. In the last two years, Washington has allocated $265 million to spur programs. President Obama’s secretary of labor, Thomas E. Perez, a strong proponent, attempted to rebrand apprenticeships to appeal to educators and parents. During his tenure, the department established a partnership between registered community colleges and sponsors that allowed on-the-job-training to count as academic credit toward a degree.
“Apprenticeship is the other college, except without the debt,” said Mr. Perez, who had a goal of doubling the number by 2018. Advocates are hopeful that the trend will continue with new leadership in Washington, given President Trump’s familiarity with construction.
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While the building trades still dominate, the types of occupations offering internships have expanded to include jobs like pharmacy technician, I.T. project manager and insurance adjuster. Aon, the insurance and financial services company, last month announced a program in Chicago in which high school graduates get training in account management, human resources, financial analysis and information technology while earning an associate degree from Harold Washington College or Harper College.
Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado wants to make apprenticeships ubiquitous in high schools around his state. Later this year, backed by $9.5 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies and JPMorgan Chase, Colorado will begin offering hands-on training, starting in high school, in financial services, information technology and health care as well as manufacturing. The goal is to make the program available to some 20,000 students at all academic and income levels within the next decade.
“Apprenticeships can start with a job and end with a Ph.D.,” said Noel Ginsburg, who heads up the program and is president and founder of Intertech Plastics in Denver. The initiative was inspired by a visit that Mr. Ginsburg and dozens of politicians and business and education leaders made to Switzerland in 2015. Although German apprenticeships are often held up as the model, Mr. Ginsburg preferred the Swiss approach, which involves a wider range of fields.
In Switzerland, compulsory education ends after ninth grade, when students can choose either an academic or a vocational path. Between 20 percent and 30 percent of students choose the academic track, which focuses on the few professions, such as medicine and law, that require a university education; nearly 70 percent choose the vocational track, with programs for about 230 occupations.
Beginning in 10th grade, students rotate among employers, industry organizations and school for three to four years of training and mentoring. Learning is hands-on, and they are paid. Switzerland’s unemployment rate for the young is the lowest in Europe and about a quarter that of the United States’.
Here in the United States, most students are offered a choice between college or a dead end. The college-for-all movement, it seems, has closed off rather than opened up career options. For working-class voters who feel left out in this economy to be able to secure meaningful jobs, educational pathways must be expanded and legitimized — in the process redefining and broadening what is meant by higher education.
“The silver bullet comes by adding more training opportunities during and after high school,” said Dr. Carnevale. “And whatever you do with training, you need to call it college. You want to make people feel good about the path they choose.”
Jeffrey J. Selingo is author of “There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.”
A version of this article appears in print on , Page 10 of Education Life with the headline: Blue Collar Redefined. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Currently Mr Bajnai is the Leader of the Together 2014 Electoral Alliance, formed in October 2012 for the next Hungarian parliamentary election. He is also the founder of the Patriotism and Progress Public Policy Foundation, founded in 2011, in Hungary.
Mr. Bajnai is also senior advisor to the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), a Washington based think thank, and member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). A former adjunct professor at Columbia University SIPA and visiting fellow at John Hopkins University (SAIS).
Between 2009 and 2010, Mr. Bajnai served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, leading the crisis management government as a non-partisan technocrat. Prior to this, from 2006 he was appointed a Government Commissioner in charge of the National Development Plan ; then Minister of Local Government and ater that Minister of National Development and Economic Affairs.
Between 2000 and 2006, he was CEO of the Wallis Group, a leading Hungarian diversified investment company. Between 1995 and 2000 he was Managing Director and Deputy CEO of CA IB Securities, a renowned investment bank in Hungary. Furthermore, during his 16 years of private sector career before joining government, he participated in the direction of the following companies: Budapest Airport as Chairman; Zwack Unicum Plc as member of the Supervisory Board; Danubius Radio, Graboplast and Rába Plc as member of the Board of Directors; and in 1999 he was a member of the Equinox Private Equity Fund’s Investment Board, in cooperation with Advent International. He graduated at the Budapest University of Economics in 1991.
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Vaccination can protect adults' life course from infectious diseases
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VThe qualifications are an essential part of infant and child care, offering protection from diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, pneumonia, and polio, diseases that have injured thousands of US children each year or killed thousands of people. worldwide. Sometimes it is forgotten that adults could benefit from vaccines. In order to prevent unnecessary deaths and to improve public health, the United States and other countries need to take the concept of lifetime vaccination more seriously, an approach to ensure effective immunization programs for people at risk. all ages and stages of life.
In the 2017-2018 influenza season, only 37% of adults in the United States were vaccinated against influenza, a decrease of 6% from the previous season, while the Control and Prevention Centers suggest vaccination as the best approach to influenza. to avoid infection. . Influenza occurs hard and fever can be treated with fluids and breaks: Among the 49 million Americans who came with flu during the 2017-2018 season, up to 959,000 were needed to go into hospital and 79,400 died.
Vaccines can prevent other diseases that are common in adults. The Washington University Institute of Metrics and Health Evaluation estimates that lower respiratory infections (including pneumonia and influenza) occurred in 2017 to over 1.5 million people aged 50 and over worldwide, particularly in low-income countries, t and account lost 23 million years of life. There are very few deaths in herpes zoster (the virus causing scandals), but it is a major factor in reducing productivity and affecting independent daily life.
This ongoing burden on preventable diseases grows in the absence of a global global policy on adult immunization. The World Health Organization has taken an important step by issuing a global influenza strategy, which I hope will provide a pathway to stronger country-to-country capability for the handling and detection of diseases, including emerging infections. over the flu.
As well as creating personal suffering, the avoidance of vaccination has economic consequences. In 2015, flu, pneumonia, and scandals cost the US more than $ 8.4 billion through lost treatment and productivity costs.
The problem of low vaccination rates among adults is not limited to the United States. It is a global phenomenon. Fewer than half of countries publicly recommend that older adults are vaccinated against influenza, and that rates of influenza vaccination among adults over 65 years of age are in countries that are part of the OECD. and Economic Development from as low as 2.8 per cent in Estonia to 84 as high as 84 percent in Korea.
Middle and low income countries are less likely to include adult vaccination than high income countries. With limited resources and weaker health systems, these countries focus on other priorities. In addition, individuals do not always see or have access to the value of vaccines.
Insert lifetime vaccination. It incorporates the simple fact that the risk of building diseases continues in recent years and in old age. But only a few countries, such as the United States, the UK and Australia, have taken a lifetime vaccination and many have had very few conversations.
There are common barriers to adult vaccination from concerns about the funding and competitiveness of health priorities to the lack of broad evidence and a coordinated global program to ensure the delivery of adult vaccines. An analysis of low income and middle income countries from the International Vaccine Access Center, the organization I work with, shows that they have few flu or pneumonia vaccines for adults. Clinicians and other healthcare professionals may be reluctant to recommend vaccines to adults, perhaps due to lack of incentives and concerns about cost, efficiency and safety.
Life course vaccination is urgently needed, taking into account the rapid growth in the number of older adults around the world. The UN reports that the global population in excess of 60 will be more than double between 2017 and 2050, growing to over 2 billion people. In adults over 70 years of age, the fifth cause of death in 2017 was lower respiratory infections that could be prevented from the vaccine and pneumococcal pneumonia. global surveillance to measure the extent of preventable in-adult deaths. seriously deficient.
As people stay longer and stay in the workforce longer, vaccines increase productivity. In addition, many older adults outside the workforce give attention to grandchildren, enabling working-age parents to continue working.
Immunization programs covering the life span create an infrastructure to respond quickly and effectively to emergencies, pandemics, and outbreaks. These programs have another welcome by-product: connecting people with the healthcare system enables people to diagnose and treat other health problems and to advise on healthy lifestyles.
Despite the recognition of lifetime immunization value, many countries are slow to recommend and fund vaccines for adults even when there are policy proposals. Many high-income countries and some middle-income countries recommend adult vaccination against pneumonia, for example, but coverage is low.
The emphasis on childhood immunization over the last decade, although much needed, is a small focus due to current demographic changes. The technical community, including partners such as the WHO, infectious disease experts, economists, researchers, and the healthy aging community, continues to provide advice on lifetime vaccination for countries that are consistent. or comprehensive. The lack of global recommendations for countries at the various stages of developing the message, of course, launches the importance of adult vaccines. Even in low-resource settings, there is a lot of work to be done to look at the evidence, to establish platforms to deliver immunization care and preventive health care, and to integrate into other investments in the health system.
World health leaders can no longer ignore this issue. Acceptance of adult immunization and lifetime vaccination as a preventative measure must be a political priority and a center for global health policy makers now working on a new vision and strategy for vaccines and immunizations. over the next decade. Just as a global movement has supported and funded global youth vaccination, a similar one is needed to create momentum for adult and life-cycle vaccination.
The growth of these demographic changes and the importance of preventing infectious diseases among older adults is growing. The International Council for Adult Immunization, composed of experts in the areas of healthy aging, infectious disease, economics, and social science, is hosted by the Johns Hopkins Public Health School Bloomberg, synthesising the available data on these trends. and health, the economy, and the social consequences of aging vaccines. On the basis of this work, the group will seek global recommendations from the World Health Organization and healthy aging organizations on the actions that countries need to take to integrate immunization planning into wider health strategies. These proposals should aim to increase the uptake of vaccines for adults, particularly in countries where older age groups are already above the younger age group population and in many countries where this is to happen. early.
The scope of this work must go beyond influenza, pneumonia, and scandals to cover potential vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, Ebola, respiratory syncytial virus, and cytomegalovirus. Vaccines for infections that occur commonly in healthcare settings, for example Clostridium difficile and Staphylococcus, must also be noted.
The WHO has confirmed that a decade of aging will be healthy in 2021 to 2030. Sincerity vaccination will help life course in countries around the world to do so. And with a growing adult population in most parts of the world, it is a necessity.
Lois Privor-Dumm is a director of policy, advocacy and communications for the International Vaccine Access Center Bloom Hopkins Public Health School Bloomberg and White Paper author the need for a lifetime vaccination as part of a thought leadership series initiated by the. t International Federation of Manufacturers and Pharmaceutical Associations promoting global reflection on the future of immunization.
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Hail to Mitt: Romney Has a Big Night—Sort Of
Now we know what it takes for Mitt Romney to have a really good primary evening. Persuade his principal rival to drop out of the race; wheel out Newt Gingrich to remind G.O.P. voters how bad it could have been; and print a bunch of signs saying “A Better America Begins Tonight” so that even the dimmest bulb in the campaign hack pack twigs to the story line.
If you do all these things, the Mittster can shine—or, at least, he can read from a teleprompter in a manner that is plausible enough for some well-known members of the fourth estate to say he shined. “An excellent speech from his perspective,” Wolf Blitzer intoned moments after Romney finished speaking in Manchester, New Hampshire. “Hard to recall a better Romney speech in 5+ years of running for president,” tweeted Scott Conroy, of Real Clear Politics.
In the face of this love-in, some conservative commentators were more restrained. “It was a good speech: he set the right tone,” Rick Santorum told Piers Morgan, Blitzer’s CNN colleague, while not quite bringing himself to formally endorse Romney. “Solid speech,” Robert Costa, of the National Review, tweeted. “The usual stuff but few mistakes. Nice opening drive on Hole 1.”
The golfing metaphor referred to Romney’s Convention-style acceptance of the G.O.P. nomination: “After forty-three primaries and caucuses, many long days and more than a few long nights, I can say with confidence—and gratitude—that you have given me a great honor and solemn responsibility. And, together, we will win on November 6th!”
Sticklers for political procedure will point out that in hailing himself as the candidate, Romney was being a bit premature—four months, to be exact. But after all his ups and downs, his campaign was understandably eager to seize the moment to reset, wiping clear all references to “vulture capitalists,” “Massachusetts moderates,” and Etch-a-Sketches. And, for one night anyway, a media eager to make a race of it was willing to go along with him.
In addition to printing up idiot-proof signs, the Romney advance team had lit the stage well and assembled what I suppose passes in New Hampshire G.O.P. circles for a rainbow alliance to stand behind the candidate and cheer while he spoke. There was a dad with a baby, a blonde woman, an Asian, a Latino, and a dexterish looking young man with thick glasses and a bow tie. Most impressive of all, the campaign also appeared to have found the only bearded hippie in the state who was willing to hold up a Romney placard and wave a little U.S. flag.
The speech itself was thin on substance and largely bereft of originality. A mélange of “Morning in America” Reaganism with a sprinkling of “I feel your pain” Clintonism, it trotted out the now-familiar trope that Barack Obama is leading America to a future of bureaucratic servitude and the country’s only hope is Mitt the free-market liberator, Mitt the job creator, Mitt the eternal optimist, whose father was a self-made man even if he wasn’t. (“Only in America could a man like my dad become governor of the state in which he once sold paint from the trunk of his car.”)
If the Dad-as-Horatio Alger line was the low point of the speech, its best bit came when Romney evoked Reagan’s famous question from 1980, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” and then channeled James Carville.
What do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama? Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? Have you saved what you needed for retirement? Are you making more in your job? Do you have a better chance to get a better job? Do you pay less at the pump?
If the answer were “yes” to those questions, then President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements…and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It’s still about the economy …and we’re not stupid.
I’m with the “Hail-to-Mitt” crowd on one thing. The last line was his best in months—a sign, perhaps, that not everybody working in his Boston HQ is a second-rater. But most of the speech was pablum, and some of the rest was emergency repair work, done to fix gaping potholes that emerged during the primary season. This was particularly true when Romney tried to reintroduce what was originally the raison d’etre for his campaign: his record as a businessman.
You might not have heard that I became successful by helping start a business that grew from 10 people to hundreds of people. You might not have heard that our business helped start other businesses, like Staples and Sports Authority and a new steel mill and a learning center called Bright Horizons. And I’d tell you that not every business made it and there were good days and bad days, but every day was a lesson. And after 25 years, I know how to lead us out of this stagnant Obama economy and into a job-creating recovery!
If Romney thought a few lines like this would put to rest the furor about his record at Bain Capital, he was engaging in wishful thinking. Still, by the time he signed off with the tired old cliché that America’s greatest days are still ahead of it—a line often attributed to Reagan, but which actually originated with Richard Nixon in 1971—CNN was projecting him the winner in Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. (He would also go onto record a big victory in New York.)
It barely needs repeating, but once he comes down from the high of last night, Romney will face a monumental task. As of yesterday, according to the Gallup tracking poll, he was trailing Obama by seven points: forty nine per cent to forty two per cent. In recent days, the President’s approval rating, which has been stuck in the mid-forties for several months, has bobbed up to fifty per cent, six points higher than his disapproval rating. “The 50% approval mark is notable because all incumbent presidents since Eisenhower who were at or above 50% approval at the time of the election were re-elected,” Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones noted in a post about the poll.
Before you accuse me (once again) of shilling for Obama, I would point out that the polls jump about quite a bit. Only last week, in the same Gallup survey, the two candidates were tied, and Obama’s disapproval rating was forty eight per cent, two points higher than his approval rating. If there has been any big news to explain this turnaround, I have missed it. (Perhaps the ludicrous efforts of some Republicans to exploit the Secret Service sex scandal prompted Americans to rally around their President. More likely, if there is any real reason for the change, it was the fact that gas prices have fallen a bit.)
For all of the necessary qualifications about Romney’s strategic position, and his abilities as a Presidential candidate, this is his moment. Regardless of what the man from Gallup or anybody else says, Republicans can take heart from the fact that, finally, they have a candidate to unite around. And for one night, he looked presidential—or so Piers Morgan said, anyway.
Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
John Cassidy has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. He also writes a column about politics, economics, and more for newyorker.com.
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Home » Press Office » Exhibitions » In the Forest of Fontainebleau » Tools of the Trade
The Impressionist’s Toolbox on View March 3–June 7, 2008; Complements In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet at the National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC—The artists who created amazing works of impressionist art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries had unprecedented access to equipment and information. Tools of the Trade will present a rare and fascinating collection of vintage art-supply catalogues, instruction manuals, and historic gear. On view from March 3 through June 6, 2008, in the East Building, the display is a joint effort of the National Gallery of Art library and conservation departments. Hours of the exhibition are Monday, noon to 4:30 p.m., and Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except federal holidays.
The display complements In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, a showcase of 19th-century landscape works created in the famous forest south of Paris that attracted both painters and photographers. That exhibition in Washington is made possible by The Florence Gould Foundation. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Tools of the Trade includes three sections that highlight materials available for oil painting, works on paper, and photography. Each section begins with a selection of instruction books describing techniques ranging from color harmony to perspective, landscape composition to pastel technique, and paint mixing to photographic developing. Part two of each section features illustrated catalogues showing everything an artist would need to venture outside the studio, such as paint boxes, brushes, easels, portable folios and stools, cameras, and tripods from around the world. Each section ends with images of artists at work.
Exhibition Curators
The co-curators of the exhibition are Neal Turtell, executive librarian, and Yuri Long, library researcher, both at the National Gallery of Art.
Library and Rare Books Collection
The National Gallery of Art Library contains more than 350,000 books and periodicals, including more than 8,000 volumes in the rare book collection, with an emphasis on Western art from the middle ages to the present. Founded in 1941 when the West Building opened to the public, the library moved to the East Building in 1979. The photographic archives and slide library contain more than 11 million black-and-white prints and 300,000 slides of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts. Access to the library is by appointment only. Call (202) 842-6511 for more information.
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Saint-Gaudens $20 (1907-1933)
< 1923 D $20 MS | 1924 D $20 MS >
Saint-Gaudens $20
1924 $20 MS
NGC Universal ID: 26G7
Category: Saint-Gaudens $20 (1907-1933)
Obverse Designer: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Reverse Designer: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Weight: 33.4400g
Melt Value: $1367.33 (7/16/2019)
Edge: Lettered
Jeff Garrett: The 1924 Double Eagle is easily the most common date of the series. Nearly 10% of the large mintage of over 4 million coins has been graded by the major grading services. NGC has graded over 100,000 coins in MS 64 alone! Much of Europe was in financial distress around this time and large quantities of this and other dated Double Eagles were sent overseas for international banking transactions. Many sat there for decades and large numbers continue to find their way back to the United States each year. Luckily, the abundance of coins available makes this a great candidate for a Type coin of the issue. NGC has graded two coins as MS 68, the last of which sold at auction for $48,875 in 2005.
Base $ 1410 1420 1420 1570 1570 1580 1580 1580 1580 1590 1600 1600 1810 1890 2150 2650 13000 90000 - -
$ - - - - - - - 1770 1820 1930 2300 3500 - -
Total Graded: 322662
Low Grade: G
NGC CENSUS DETAIL Last Updated: 7/16/2019 1924 $20 MS
Base - 2 1 - - - - - 1 28 397 726 7923 53470 112516 106832 35398 5170 195 3 - - 322662
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 7 18 54 2 - - - 86
- - - - - - - - - - - - - 19 94 665 532 161 1 - - - 1472
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 4 - - - - 5
Total - 2 1 - - - - - 1 28 397 726 7923 53489 112615 107504 35949 5389 198 3 - - 324225
- 0 % 0 % - - - - - 0 % 0 % 0 % 0 % 2 % 16 % 35 % 33 % 11 % 2 % 0 % 0 % - -
A random selection of coins is shown below.
3/27/2006 NGC MS 63 David Lawrence Rare Coins Internet Auction # 80, 85/Lot# 1082 $726.80
3/18/2007 PCGS MS 62 Teletrade Auction 2341, 2341/Lot# 2460 $728.00
9/4/2011 PCGS MS 64 Bonhams Coins and Medals, 19251/Lot# 1288 $2,223.00
9/4/2011 PCGS MS 64 Goldberg September 4-6, 2011 The Pre-Long Beach Auction, 65/Lot# 2225 $2,185.00
1/1/2012 NGC MS 62 Heritage Auctions Internet Coin Auction Session(2), 131202/Lot# 21258 $1,725.00
3/17/2013 PCGS MS 64 GreatCollections GreatCollections Coin Auctions 03/17/2013, 66/Lot# 103618 $2,090.00
4/21/2013 NGC MS 64 GreatCollections GreatCollections Coin Auctions 04/21/2013, 71/Lot# 110214 $1,760.01
2/6/2015 PCGS MS 65 Stack's Bowers 2015 Americana Auction, 6070/Lot# 2675 $1,997.50
NGC Registry Score 1924 $20 MS
Base 2197 2226 2233 2240 2247 2254 2261 2268 2274 2285 2295 2308 2319 2329 2352 2401 2643 3080 6048 11970 17560 27835
2207 2228 2235 2242 2249 2256 2263 2270 2278 2288 2299 2312 2322 2337 2368 2482 2789 4069 8022 13833 20985 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 2263 2270 2278 2288 2299 2312 2322 2337 2368 2482 2789 4069 8022 13833 0 0
Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles, 1907-1932 411
20th Century Series Type Set, Proofs & Non-Proofs 265
20th Century Series Type Set, Non-Proofs Only 219
Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles, 1907-1928, One-Per-Date 140
20th Century Gold Type Set, Non-Proofs Only 88
1924 Mint Set 21
Philadelphia Mint Gold Issues, Complete Circulation Issue 21
20th Century Series Type Set, Circulated Coins Only 15
Philadelphia Mint Double Eagles, Circulation Issue 13
Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles, 1907-1932, Circulated Coins Only 3
Grade: MS 66
Owner: JimK2012
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Owner: StanJustice
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Collecting Saint-Gaudens Part VII: 1924 - 1933 $20
5/10/2012 — Part VII and the last article in this series covers 1924 to 1933 Saint–Gaudens Double Eagles.
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NGC Certifies Historic Cache of Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles
12/16/2010 — These coins were part of a family's possessions during World War II exile and remained together for more than 65 years.
Exploring Surface Textures
1/24/2008 — No matter what its metal, a coin’s surface can provide vital clues to both how it was made and how it was preserved. Skip Fazzari offers an in-depth overview of how to decipher these clues.
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A flyover is performed by two E-2 Hawkeye planes during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
A flyover is performed by an E-2 Hawkeye plane during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
A flyover of two E-2 Hawkeye planes passes over the driving range grandstands before the start of the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
A course worker prepares a bunker in front of the clubhouse during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Fans line up at the first hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
View of a sign with a father's day message during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
A course worker waters the fourteenth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Phil Mickelson putts the first green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler walk to the second tee box during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Phil Mickelson reacts after putting the ninth green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Rickie Fowler tees off the tenth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Phil Mickelson tees off the tenth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Rickie Fowler tees off the eleventh hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Phil Mickelson tees off the eleventh hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Rickie Fowler caddie Joseph Skovron walks from the eleventh hole to the twelfth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Phil Mickelson tees off the twelfth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
A fan stands on a stool to watch Phil Mickelson (not pictured) tee off the thirteenth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Phil Mickelson hits from a bunker onto the thirteenth green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Phil Mickelson celebrates on the thirteenth green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Steve Stricker and Matt Parziale walk up the first fairway during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Matt Parziale tees off the second hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Matt Parziale reacts to his tee shot on the second hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Steve Stricker watches his tee shot on the second hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Will Grimmer watches his shot on the ninth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Luis Gagne watches his shot from the ninth fairway during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Russell Knox hits from a bunker onto the sixth green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Tommy Fleetwood reacts after a putt on the fourteenth green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Tommy Fleetwood tees off the fifteenth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Tommy Fleetwood reacts on the fourteenth green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Brooks Koepka reacts to a putt on the eighth during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Dustin Johnson tees off the ninth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Brooks Koepka tees off the ninth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills GC - Shinnecock Hills Golf C.
Photos from Day 4 of the 2018 US Open.
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Russia expels more U.K. diplomats, ramping up dispute with the West
Politics Mar 30, 2018 9:47 AM EDT
MOSCOW — Russia ordered new cuts Friday in the number of British envoys in the country, escalating a dispute with the West over the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain. The massive expulsion of diplomats on both sides has reached a scale unseen even at the height of the Cold War.
Two dozen countries, including the U.S. and many EU nations, and NATO ordered out more than 150 Russian diplomats this week in a show of solidarity with Britain over the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter that London blamed on Russia.
Moscow has vehemently denied involvement in the nerve agent attack and announced Thursday that it would expel the same number of diplomats from each nation.
The Russian Foreign Ministry further escalated its response Friday, saying it has ordered Britain to reduce the number of its diplomats in Moscow to the level that Russia has in London. That exact number wasn’t immediately clear.
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The ministry said it summoned the British ambassador to hand him a protest over the “provocative and unsubstantiated actions by Britain, which instigated the expulsion of Russian diplomats from various nations for no reason.” It gave London one month to reduce its diplomatic personnel in Russia.
Commenting on the Russian move, a spokeswoman for the British Foreign Office said “it’s regrettable but in light of Russia’s previous behaviour, we anticipated a response.”
“However, this doesn’t change the facts of the matter: the attempted assassination of two people on British soil, for which there is no alternative conclusion other than that the Russian State was culpable,” she said. “Russia is in flagrant breach of international law and the Chemical Weapons Convention and actions by countries around the world have demonstrated the depth of international concern.”
Speaking to reporters Friday in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted that “Russia didn’t start any diplomatic wars,” and “remains open for developing good ties.”
He added that Russia has called a meeting of the international chemical weapons watchdog next week to press for an “unbiased and objective investigation.”
On Thursday, Russia summoned the U.S. ambassador to announce the closure of the American consulate in St. Petersburg and the expulsion of 60 U.S. diplomats in a tit-for-tat response to Washington’s move to order 60 Russians out and shut the Russian consulate in Seattle.
An Associated Press reporter on Friday saw U.S. consulate staff carrying boxes from the building in St. Petersburg and loading them into a van. Several mini-vans drove out of the consulate while security also detained a man who threw a Starbucks cup at the building.
Some passers-by near the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg cheered the expulsions.
“Let them get out of here,” said 61-year-old retiree Viktor Fedin. “You won’t put Russia on its knees.”
Others were more cautious, worried that the closures would affect visa processing for Russians.
“The Russian government has to respond to the hostile actions against Russia,” said 32-year-old researcher Yelena Bogomazova. “But the escalation is bad. The closure of the consulate will make it difficult for people to get U.S. visas, they will have to go to Moscow.”
After Russia expelled several dozens of U.S. diplomats, the waiting list for U.S. visa applications in Russia has increased to weeks, if not months. The U.S. embassy said it was unable to process visa applications faster because of the staff shortage.
Katz reported from London. Irina Titova in St. Petersburg and Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed to this report.
Left: The Russian flag flies on the Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in Manhattan in New York City. Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters
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DNA Portraits: as Personal as Art Can Get
By Juan Carlos Perez
Confessional poetry, tell-all memoirs, painted self portraits and thinly veiled autobiographical novels are all intensely personal works of art, but none comes close to what the company DNA 11 can create for you.
The company, co-founded by a graphic designer and a molecular geneticist, makes high-quality portraits of its customers' DNA, ready to be proudly displayed in the living room or office.
"DNA is the most unique element in all of us. What we produce is a person's life code as a piece of art," says Adrian Salamunovic, the co-founder with the artistic background. "It doesn't get any more unique than that."
Salamunovic came up with the idea on a whim, after seeing some DNA images produced by his childhood friend Nazim Ahmed at work, a biotech company specializing in digital biological imaging.
"I have a design and marketing background with very limited knowledge of genetics and when I saw these DNA images I saw art," Salamunovic explains.
Ahmed liked the idea of commercializing DNA portraits as art, but figured it would be nothing more than a side gig for him and his friend.
However, since starting the company in 2005, they have sold thousands of portraits worldwide and employ seven full-time staffers. So, yes, Ahmed and Salamunovic quit their day jobs early on.
None other than New York's Museum of Modern Art carries DNA art in their store and the portraits have also been featured in an episode of the hit CBS television show CSI:NY (Crime Scene Investigation: New York.)
Their DNA art products, which range in price from US$169 for Mini Portraits to $1,200 for the most expensive regular portraits, hold broad appeal.
Portraits have been sold to celebrities, big-name CEOs and regular folks of all ages. Some couples have asked for their respective DNA images to be blended into one portrait. Proud owners of Fido and Whiskers have sent in samples of their pets' DNA. "We're never surprised," Salamunovic says. "We have such a wide range of customers."
What the customers have in common is appreciation for the unique and for art, Salamunovic says. "We create one of the world's most unique products: art that happens to be portraits made from a sample of your DNA," he says.
That, of course, could give pause to people concerned about privacy, since, as we all know, our DNA holds very sensitive information about our bodies, including our predisposition to certain health problems.
The DNA 11 co-founders from the start designed their business with these concerns in mind. People get their DNA sample by swabbing the inside of a cheek and sending the kit back to the company, which in turns forwards that to the external lab it works with. The sample is identified only with a serial number and, shortly after the customer gets the portrait, the entire kit is destroyed.
Moreover, the portrait is made from snippets of a person's genome and there is no way to reverse-engineer the image to come up with revealing information about the subject, Ahmed says. Although the appearance of DNA 11's art in a CSI:NY episode helps to crack a case, the scenario is poetic license.
That is not to say that the scientific element gets short thrift at the expense of art. DNA 11 offers customers what it calls the GenePak option, which can isolate four specific genes: the "sports" gene called ACTN2, expressed in all of a person's muscle cells; the "brain" gene, called IGF-2 and associated with intelligence; the "love" gene, called NGF2, which triggers romantic feelings; and the "hair" gene, called MC1R, which determines hair color.
GenePak portraits also come with a booklet that explains the lab process and the genetic significance of the piece. But even without the GenePak, Ahmed feels that DNA 11 portraits implicitly help advance knowledge and awareness about genetics.
"Our artwork is very much an introduction to genomics through a medium to which everyone can relate to, which is art," he says. "Exposure to genomics at a very interactive, entertaining level sparks people's interest to learn more about genetics."
So, if penning a string of lachrymose verses doesn't quite give that aesthetic catharsis you're seeking, and if pouring it all out to your journal fails to deliver an emotional release, it might be handy to have a framed snapshot of your DNA on the wall that you can point at and know that piece of art is, literally, you, and no one else.
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Microsoft Wants People to Throw Windows 7 Launch Parties
By Elizabeth Montalbano
A new version of Windows is not typically a reason to throw a party, but Microsoft is hoping people will do just that to celebrate Windows 7, and has teamed with House Party to help them do so.
Through a House Party promotional Web site, people can apply to throw a Windows 7 launch party any time between Oct. 22 and Oct. 29. Microsoft is releasing Windows 7 globally on Oct. 22.
"You host the party. We'll bring the favors," Microsoft declared on the site calling for applications. House Party is a community-based site that helps people around the world host parties that are usually held on the same day and are focused on a corporate event or product launch.
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If chosen to throw a party, hosts will receive a Signature Edition of Windows 7 Ultimate and a Windows 7 Party Pack based on a theme of their choosing to help them organize the party. The themes for the party packs pertain to features of the new OS and, as listed on the Web site, are: PhotoPalooza, Media Mania, Setting up with Ease and Family Friendly Fun.
Every host also has a chance to win a PC worth US$750, according to the Web site. Winners will be notified and their prizes delivered after Oct. 30.
Windows 7, which has been in the hands of testers and early adopters, has gotten generally positive reviews. Many say it's the OS Microsoft should have delivered when it released Windows Vista -- an overall disappointment among Windows users -- in early 2007.
Microsoft isn't the first company to ask enthusiasts to throw a geek-themed party in honor of a software launch. Fans of Mozilla's Firefox browser were asked by the company to host download parties when it released Firefox 3 in June. The company hoped to set a Guinness World Record for the number of software downloads in 24 hours, and claimed to log more than 8 million downloads of the browser in a day.
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Peace Corps, South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Sign Agreement to Expand Environmental Programs in the Pacific; Volunteers to Depart from San Francisco Next Week
Washington, D.C., July 15, 1999—Peace Corps Director Mark Gearan and Tamari'i Tutangata, the Director of the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), signed a Memorandum of Understanding this week stipulating that the two agencies will expand their environmental programs in the Pacific.
Twelve Peace Corps Volunteers, under the auspices of the Peace Corps' "Pacific Initiative," will depart next week from San Francisco to work on environmental projects in Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Niue, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.
"The Pacific Initiative reflects the Peace Corps' commitment to the Pacific islands region, where about 350 Peace Corps volunteers are currently serving," Gearan said. "We look forward to expanding the relationship between the Peace Corps, the Pacific island nations, and regional organizations such as SPREP."
SPREP is an intergovernmental environment organization whose members include the governments of 22 Pacific island countries and four developed countries with direct interests in the region, including the United States.
Tutangata, the director of SPREP, said that the Peace Corps volunteers will make a real difference in enabling the Pacific island countries to manage their environments. "The volunteers will help fuse together traditional knowledge with modern practices, especially with respect to nature conservation," he said.
Steve Nagler, Pacific Initiative Director for the Peace Corps, said these volunteers will be the first group to work directly with a regional organization in the Pacific, which is crucial because of the small size of the countries and the great distances among them.
"For the Peace Corps, this is first time we have looked at development issues on a regional basis instead of a country basis," Nagler said. "We hope that SPREP will be the first of many organizations that will form partnerships for our Pacific Initiative. It will help us meet new needs—particularly with regard to the environment and youth development—that we could not otherwise meet."
The first project with SPREP, which will be funded by the United Nations Development Programme, will focus on increasing the capacity of Pacific Island governments and grass-roots communities to utilize their natural resources in a sustainable manner. The Peace Corps volunteers will serve as environmental educators, community organizers, and trainers.
Currently, nearly 6,700 Peace Corps volunteers are working in 77 countries around the world to bring clean water to communities, teach children, protect the environment, help start new small businesses, and prevent the spread of AIDS. Since 1961, more than 150,000 Americans have joined the Peace Corps.
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ADB offers $50m to Avaada to push PV in India
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revealed plans to invest $50 million to help New Delhi-based renewables developer Avaada to quickly deploy solar throughout India.
March 21, 2019 Brian Publicover
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The ADB will draw upon its Ordinary Capital Resources, as well as Leading Asia’s Private Sector Infrastructure Fund (LEAP), to facilitate the planned investment, according to an online statement. LEAP is a funding facility under the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which the ADB administers.
“Supporting renewable energy capacity enhancement by way of debt and equity is a key focus area of ADB’s private sector strategy,” said Mayank Choudhary, principal investment specialist for the ADB.
Avaada develops utility-scale, rooftop and off-grid PV projects. It has already signed PPAs for roughly 1.7 GW of solar capacity, the ADB said, claiming that its investment will allow the company to expand its plans beyond the 2 GW threshold.
The ADB said the investment will make a significant contribution to the Indian government’s renewable energy goals. The authorities currently aim to have renewables such as solar PV account for 40% of national generating capacity by 2030, from about 20% last year.
The investment by the ADB is the development bank’s second major solar-focused initiative to be announced this week. In a separate agreement, it said it would work with LEAP to provide $18.7 million to Sermsang Power and Tenuun Gerel Construction. The two companies will use the funds to develop a 15 MW solar project in Mongolia.
Early last year, Avaada announced plans to invest $1.55 billion to develop 1.6 GW of solar capacity in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. More recently, the group was one of several developers that bid on a sizeable chunk of a 1 GW solar tender in the state of Maharashtra.
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Avaada Energy Private (AEPL) previously secured power purchase agreements of about 1,700MW. With the latest equity investment, the company is well funded to exceed a capacity of 2GW.
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Uncharted 4 Multiplayer Won’t Have Dedicated Servers, Naughty Dog Hoping to Add Vehicles
Jason DunningWednesday, October 28, 2015
After seeing Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End multiplayer yesterday, and learning that it will run at 900p/60fps, Naughty Dog Lead Multiplayer Designer Robert Cogburn confirmed some more details about the online mode.
At a Paris Games Week event attended by VG247, Cogburn said Uncharted 4’s multiplayer won’t use dedicated servers:
We’ll still have a host, it’s still peer-to-peer.
He didn’t go into detail about how the game would react to a host dropping out, but he did confirm that matches would remain 5v5 for a maximum of 10 players at one time.
Cogburn also revealed Naughty Dog is aiming to have eight maps and they’re all “going to be new maps.”
Finally, Cogburn talked about their plans to eventually add vehicles:
I can tell you for ship we will not have vehicles, but it is something we’re hoping to tackle in the future.
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End releases on March 18, 2016 for PlayStation 4. You’ll be able to try out Uncharted 4’s multiplayer from December 4 – 13 if you own The Nathan Drake Collection, though only Team Deathmatch will be included.
[Source: VG247 (1), (2), (3)]
Tags: Naughty Dog, Paris Games Week, Sony, Uncharted, Uncharted 4, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
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All dressed up with two places to go
ANDREW KROECKEL
EAST STROUDSBURG — Last night, Evan Nelson went to his prom. This morning, he woke up with the sun and made the 2�-hour drive to Shippensburg for a 10 a.m. weigh-in. Tonight, he's headed to the Jersey shore, where he'll meet back up with his prom party.
EAST STROUDSBURG — Last night, Evan Nelson went to his prom. This morning, he woke up with the sun and made the 2½-hour drive to Shippensburg for a 10 a.m. weigh-in. Tonight, he's headed to the Jersey shore, where he'll meet back up with his prom party.
At some point in between, he's going to try to vault himself 15 feet, 6 inches into the air and bring home a state medal on the second day of the PIAA Track and Field Championships.
"I think any medal I'll be happy with," said Nelson, a senior pole vaulter from East Stroudsburg South.
Nelson, who is seeded seventh, became the first Monroe County athlete to clear 15-0, breaking his own school record of 14-6 on his way to winning gold at last week's District 11 Championships.
With the top two seeds — Hatboro-Horsham's Joe Berry and Daniel Boone's Justin Germani — coming in at over 16 feet, a state gold might be out of reach, but a bronze or any other medal certainly isn't. And after finishing ninth last year, one spot off the podium, the only thing Nelson wants at this point is a state medal.
"That really ate at me over the offseason," said Nelson, who also qualified for states as a sophomore, two years and a foot and a half ago. "That helped motivate me to get better."
And then some. Nelson dedicated himself to his workout program in November, four hours a day of lifting, running and jumping, leaving a mere shadow of the freshman with skinny arms who had to lie to Bob Wilson, ES South's boys track coach, about how many pull-ups he could do.
Maybe he couldn't do more than a handful, but he was tall and could jump. He was also smart, quickly grasping the physics and more technical aspects of the most technical event there is.
"I think that has actually worked to my advantage a little bit," said Nelson, who will attend West Point in the fall and compete for the Black Knights in the spring. "because I'm not one of these people who has a huge level of athleticism like (Jon) Clouse or Anita James, where they can just pick up any event."
It has also helped to have Wilson, who knows the event well and instantly knows, based on Nelson's previous jump, how many inches to move the standards, how far back Nelson should start his run or where on the pole Nelson should put his hands.
"I wouldn't be able to do what I've done without Coach Wilson," Nelson said.
And every bit of Wilson's wisdom came free of charge. Nelson is the only pole vaulter in the district, and perhaps the entire state, who competes at a high level without the benefit of professional coaching. Vertical Assault is the vaulting school of choice in the Lehigh Valley, but it was never for Nelson.
"I don't think at the high school it's something that should be encouraged, paying for professional coaching," Nelson said. "I guess it's kind of an unfair advantage to kids with a lot of money, because it is expensive."
No amount of technical advice, paid, free or otherwise, could help Nelson during the course of the regular season, though. After clearing 14-6 at an early dual meet against Pleasant Valley, he struggled to get back to 14-0 for several weeks, a mental block he couldn't explain.
He couldn't explain his breakthrough, either, and was at a loss as to how he went from being able to barely clear 14-0 to nearly clearing 15-5½ at districts. Taking full jumps in practice, something he had never really done, may have made the difference, but he's still not sure how his mind caught up with what his body already knew it could do.
" I really don't know," Nelson said. "I can't tell you."
The longer, stiffer poles he was able to borrow from a coach at Lafayette definitely helped. He was simply getting too good and too strong for ES South's shorter, softer poles, simply blowing through them, in the non-technical parlance, on his way up. The longer poles give him more control and help him get up and over the bar, rather than accelerating through it.
"Everything is just so much faster (on the longer poles)," Nelson said.
But that's all right; his day will be long enough as it is.
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Australia and Japan should seize the moment on trade
Building momentum for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Fukunari Kimura
PHOTO: Kliem pictures on Pixabay
Economics and finance, Trade and industry | Australia, Asia, East Asia
Australia and Japan should take advantage of a recent win on the Trans-Pacific Partnership to push for further trade integration in the region, Fukunari Kimura writes.
To push back self-defeating anti-globalisation sentiment, Japan and Australia should seize the moment and act together strategically in the arena of international commercial policies.
In January 2017, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) appeared beyond saving when US President Donald Trump pulled America out of the economic agreement. Now one year on, negotiations for the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) were recently concluded in Tokyo. Also called the TPP-11, the revised trade deal is backed by 11 countries (without the US) and will be signed in March.
For Australia and Japan, the priorities are obvious. First, validate the CPTPP as soon as possible. Second, help conclude the negotiations over the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in a timely manner. Third, work towards expanding the membership of CPTPP, including the eventual re-entry of the US, and upgrade the overall business environment in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
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The value of the CPTPP is profound. Once validated, it will set a new standard for international commercial policies in the region in liberalisation and international rule-making.
On liberalisation, the CPTPP achieves thorough tariff removals at the level of 99-100 per cent in terms of the tariff lines, except Japan that will reach only 95 per cent. The liberalisation format also takes a ‘negative-list’ approach for services and investment – one that applies to everything, with only explicitly listed exceptions – and includes various forms of trade facilitation.
As far as international rule-making goes, the CPTPP’s chapters on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and e-commerce are particularly path-breaking and will become a prototype of new international rules. These will pave the way for the wider and deeper application of the mechanics of international production networks and the introduction of the digital economy in the region.
Negotiations for the RCEP – a free trade agreement that would encompass the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as China, India, Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand – have taken more time than initially expected. The delay is due to differences in the level of ambition among negotiating countries. However, once the CPTPP is about to be validated, the situation must be changed drastically.
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The RCEP has two components: international commercial policies, and policy cooperation. For commercial policies, the CPTPP will set a final goal for the RCEP. Consequently, the RCEP just needs to write down a long-run schedule for progressively upgrading the liberalisation commitments to reach that goal. The first round agreement should be concluded soon, even if not all homework is cleared now.
It is important for Japan and Australia to work jointly to conclude this round’s RCEP negotiation soon in order to keep ‘ASEAN centrality’ alive. The conclusion of the RCEP will make both countries more comfortable in expanding the membership of the CPTPP.
Once the CPTPP is in effect, it would be nice to have a series of formal or informal seminars jointly in prospective countries to promote the value of the agreement. It may be better to have additional countries as members after the US comes back. To prepare for this, the 11 member countries did their best to set up the smallest possible number of frozen items with which they tried to narrow the scope of possible negotiation with the US. However, if the US does not come back soon, it would be fine to expand the membership – this might also further motivate an eventual US return.
Some parts of international rule-making can be developed as an individual international treaty even with countries that are not ready to accept all of the CPTPP obligations. E-commerce is one example. The digital economy has already arrived in East Asia, and countries must immediately set up international rules for e-commerce.
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On e-commerce, the CPTPP poses an important philosophy: data should flow freely as a default. This philosophy is based on three principles: first, the free flow of data; second, the prohibition of requirements for data to be localised; and third, the prohibition of forced disclosure of source codes. At the same time, CPTPP members also need a series of backup policies that address issues relating to consumer protection, privacy, competition policy, taxation, and cyber-security.
This is somewhat of a ‘negative-list’ approach: the principle of free-flowing data is to apply to everything except those areas explicitly listed as exceptions. This contrasts with recent policies applied by the European Union. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation will request strict data localisation from May 2018 – more of a positive-list approach.
China and other countries are introducing data localisation regulations with different motivations. The countries of East Asia and the Asia-Pacific should set up international rules on e-commerce and other digital economy-related issues before it is too late.
It is now time for Japan and Australia to work together for a new regime of international commercial policies in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
This piece is based on the author’s talk at the recent event Cooperation between Japan and Australia as global partners held at the Australian National University. The event was jointly organised by the ANU Japan Institute and the Embassy of Japan in Australia.
Professor Fukunari Kimura is Chief Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
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it’s not clear if Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif or his colleagues attending the talks have the leverage within Iran to get the Americans freed. | AP Photo
Iran's seizure of U.S. businessman rekindles sanctions debate
The arrest comes as the nuclear deal enters the highly sensitive implementation phase.
By NAHAL TOOSI
Updated 10/30/2015 03:00 PM EDT
President Barack Obama’s effort to implement the Iran nuclear deal has been dealt another blow -- at least on the public relations front -- with word that the Islamist government in Tehran has imprisoned a fourth American.
The news that Siamak Namazi, a businessman with dual U.S.-Iranian citizenship, has been detained came as Secretary of State John Kerry meets with his Iranian counterparts and other world leaders in Vienna to try to end the conflict in Syria. It also comes as the nuclear deal is in the early stages of the highly sensitive implementation phase, with Iran expected to reduce its uranium stockpile and dismantle centrifuges in exchange for relief from nuclear-related sanctions.
Reports of Namazi’s arrest flared anger in Congress, where the Iran deal has numerous critics, many of whom tried unsuccessfully to derail it earlier this year. The arrest is likely to fuel efforts on Capitol Hill to increase human rights and other sanctions on Iran that are not set to be lifted as part of the nuclear deal.
Ed Royce, a Republican from California who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee and opposed the nuclear deal, called Namazi's arrest "the latest show of contempt for America." He called on Kerry to not just raise the prisoners' cases while in Europe but "demand that these Americans come home now."
Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois said the nuclear deal had only emboldened Iran, adding: "Iran's threatening behavior will worsen if the administration does not work with Congress to enact stronger measures to push back, including renewal of the expiring Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 and targeted sanctions against Iran's Revolutionary Guard and against any Iranian official found to have participated in the unjust detainment of American citizens."
Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan, who has long championed the case of one of the prisoners but supported the nuclear deal, also demanded the Americans' release. “Iran has a long history of imprisoning Americans, including my constituent, Amir Hekmati, who continues to be held despite his innocence,” the Democrat said in a statement. “Iran has repeatedly said it seeks to rejoin the global community, yet I simply cannot fathom how this is possible if it continues to hold American political prisoners.”
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Namazi, who serves as the head of strategic planning at United Arab Emirates-based Crescent Petroleum Co., was arrested about two weeks ago while visiting relatives in Tehran, according to multiple news reports. Namazi has advocated improved U.S.-Iran relations, and his arrest, reportedly at the behest of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence arm, suggested hardline factions in Iran were trying to undermine the nuclear deal between Iran, the U.S. and five other nations.
The Revolutionary Guards may see the potential of increased foreign investment in Iran, one of the outcomes of the nuclear deal that many moderates in the country hope for, as a threat to its own heavy stake in the Iranian economy. More likely, they could be signaling to moderates in Iran that it is still in control of the political scene and can act with impunity.
The armed faction "doesn't want the status quo to change in Iran. Arrests like Namazi's are generally much more about internal political dynamics than they are about foreign relations," said Afshon Ostovar, a Middle East analyst at CNA, a non-profit research organization.
At least three other Americans, all of Iranian descent, are publicly known to be detained in Iran: Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine; Christian pastor Saeed Abedini; and Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian. Another American, retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, is believed missing in Iran but the government there insists it is not holding him. The Wall Street Journal also reported that Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese Internet freedom advocate who lives in Washington and has U.S. permanent resident status, also has been detained in Iran.
Asked Friday if there are any other Americans in Iranian custody, a State Department official said “for privacy reasons we don’t give out that information.” As far as the Namazi case, department spokesman Mark Toner said: "We're aware of recent reports of the possible arrest in Iran of a U.S. citizen. We're looking into these reports and don't have anything further to provide at this time."
U.S. officials are limited in what they can say and do when Americans, especially those of Iranian descent, are held by government in Tehran, with which Washington hasn't had formal diplomatic relations in nearly 40 years.
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By ELIZA COLLINS
Iran doesn’t recognize dual nationality, treating the detainees solely as Iranians, so holding a U.S. passport doesn’t provide legal protection. As the State Department details in its travel warnings, American officials cannot even get access to the detainees through Switzerland, the country that serves as the intermediary for U.S. interests in Iran. Strict privacy laws also severely limit what U.S. officials can say about citizens held overseas and the lack of access to the detainees means U.S. officials cannot meet with them to get privacy waivers signed.
Another complicating factor is that each prisoner’s case is unique (some are accused of spying, others of proselytizing and some of more murky "crimes"), and it’s never quite clear which faction within the Iranian government is responsible for each person’s arrest. That makes trying to obtain a mass release of all the prisoners a challenge.
The U.S. has been in touch with a number of third parties, including the Vatican, to help pressure Iran to free the Americans. It’s a tactic that has worked in the past when other U.S. citizens were imprisoned on seemingly flimsy charges; the government of Oman, for example, helped obtain the release of three American hikers who were held in Iran after being captured in 2009.
The nuclear talks with Iran also served as a rare opportunity for U.S. officials to directly plead with their Iranian counterparts to release the Americans, something Kerry and his deputies repeatedly did on the sidelines of the negotiations. And in the days after the deal was struck, the secretary of state sounded unusually hopeful about the prospects of seeing the men freed.
U.S. officials, including the president, have long insisted that the case of the prisoners must be treated as separate from efforts to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. They have also tried to keep the nuclear deal insulated from other concerns about Iran, including its role in the unrest in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Yemen, a subject of deep concern to Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies of the United States.
Even Iran's recent test of a ballistic missile, while alleged to be a violation of a U.N. resolution, is unlikely to stop the Obama administration's support for the nuclear deal.
The U.S. said that Kerry again raised the issue during a bilateral session with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Thursday. But it’s not clear that the Iranian foreign minister or his colleagues attending the talks have the leverage within Iran to get the Americans freed. When up against the powerful Revolutionary Guard or Iranian intelligence agencies, Zarif and even Iranian President Hassan Rouhani are believed to have limited authority.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in theory has the last word on matters of state, but he may see value in keeping the men imprisoned as a way to appease the hardline factions in the government wary of the nuclear deal's long-term effects on the country's theocratic system.
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Why we opposed DA municipal budgets - ANC WCape
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Faiez Jacobs says opposition determined to hold ruling party to account
ANC PROMISES TO REPRESENT INTERESTS OF COMMUNITIES AND HOLD DA TO ACCOUNT
The African National Congress is stepping up its campaign in the interests of all communities to hold to account the Democratic Alliance-run municipalities in the Western Cape. As part of this campaign, the ANC has over the last week opposed budgets in DA-run municipalities which do not cater for the needs of poor people. Provincial Secretary Faiez Jacobs says the ANC has voted against all budgets tabled by DA-controlled municipalities, sending a clear message that the ANC wants to ensure that municipal budgets are used to change the lives of poor people.
The following are examples of ANC caucuses voting against DA budgets last week:
In the City of Cape Town, more than 50,000 comments were submitted by the public to oppose the DA-run metropolitan council’s tariff increases. Faced with a concerted campaign by ratepayers and civic organizations against the DA’s ludicrous proposals to drastically increase water tariffs and levies, the City eventually reduced the two key water tariffs from 26,9% to 19,9%, and 55,1% to 10,1%.
The ANC had opposed those increases from the outset and voted against the City’s budget last week. The ANC will continue to represent the interest of all ratepayers, especially the poor, in opposing the administration's efforts to make residents of Cape Town pay the price for the DA’s infighting and maladministration amid serious allegations of nepotism and corruption which has already claimed the head of the former Municipal Manager, Mr Achmat Ebrahim.
In Theewaterskloof, the ANC voted against the DA's budget because the DA gave rebates to the agricultural sector of R5-million whilst increasing tariffs on basic services by 10 percent, effectively forcing the poor to fund wealthy farmers.
In George, the ANC voted against the DA's budget because it did not address the needs of local communities and a corruption scandal hangs over that municipality as the Hawks continue their investigations.
In Overstrand, the ANC rejected the DA's budget as there was no public participation process.
In Swellendam, the ANC voted against the DA’s budget because councilors received the budget documentation only two days before it was presented, clearly intended to rush the budget through council without proper scrutiny.
In Central Karoo District, the ANC voted against the budget and Integrated Development Programme because the budget documents were distributed five (5) minutes before the meeting at which it was to be adopted. The DA’s Mayor acknowledged that there was no public participation to Beaufort west and other communities.
Jacobs said: “The African National Congress in the Western Cape is determined to hold the Democratic Alliance to account and will do so with all means at our disposal, including our role as an opposition party in municipal councils and the provincial legislature. Communities across the province have shown in recent weeks and months that they have had enough of the DA’s arrogance and their unwillingness to make decisions in favour of those people who are struggling to feed and protect their families. In the spirit of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘Thuma Mina’ call, the ANC in the Western Cape will accelerate our programme to work together with communities and civil society organizations to ensure that we make every effort possible to improve the lives of especially the poor and vulnerable.”
Statement issued by Faiez Jacobs, ANC Western Cape Provincial Secretary, 3 June 2018
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Africa Missions: Giving Hope and Love to Children
Angel Guardian Home - Nigeria
Angel Guardian Home began in 2006 to help the abandoned and unwanted street children in Mgbele. Most children that are found on the streets have families, but they are too poor to care for their children. Many families, with support and counseling, are reunited with their children. The Sisters continue to support these families through spiritual guidance, assisting parents with job skills and continuing education for the children.
When the Sisters found Orluebube, she was malnourished, neglected and unwanted at the age of 3 years old. Her father had left the village and her mother had died. Her aunt believed that Orluebube's mother had died of AIDS and therefore she did not want to accept her into their family. She was made to sleep under a tree in the family's yard, even during the rainy season. The Sisters brought her to the Angel Guardian Home where she was fed, clothed and most importantly, loved. Today, Orluebube is a normally developed little girl, loves school and is very happy.
To Learn More About the Angel Guardian Home, Click Here
The Caring Place - Kenya
Sister Germaine Hustedde, PHJC, has always been passionate about children. When she began working in Kenya, she immediately saw a need to give the young "street boys" a better life. "These kids needed so much love and so much training and so much everything".
Sister Germaine tells this story, "I met a bunch of kids, boys primarily, digging through the rubbish with sticks or metal poles or anything they could find. These kids were dirty and emaciated. One day I came upon a kid with a big cabbage leaf and he looked at it like it was a piece of silver. Kids came flocking. He stood there and tore up that cabbage leaf into about 25 pieces. Every kid got a bite. We became friends. One day when I came along, a bunch of them came up to me and in their very best English, they said 'Sister, we want to go to school!' And I thought, what am I going to do with these street kids? I promised them I would do something about it."
She started the Caring Place in 2007 opening the orphanage in a small abandoned slaughter house. She raised enough money to build a larger facility and in 2011 opened St. Joseph Home, aka "Caring Place", with rooms to house up to 75 boys. These children, having no place to live, no one to teach them, no one to show them simple skills, now call the Caring Place home.
To Learn More About the Caring Place, Click Here
St. Anne Mission Hospital - Kenya
St. Anne Mission Hospital, in Igoji Kenya, has been a ministry of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ since 2009. The hospital has experienced a lot of growth over the past six years. St. Anne's now provides dental services, a birthing center, outpatient services and a small surgical center. Recently, the hospital delivered their first set of triplets. The nurses from the mobile clinic visit the babies once a week to monitor their development.
To Learn About St. Anne Mission Hospital, Click Here
Looking Towards the Future
Today, we are asking for your support and to partner with us in sustaining these ministries. Your gift will help children at Angel Guardian Home, like Orluebube, receive the education, medical care and love they need to survive. Your gift will help to ensure the boys at the Caring Place will have a place to live, opportunities to study and to learn job skills so that they have a brighter future. Your gift will help St. Anne Mission Hospital continue treating those who cannot afford to have the necessary medical care.
For over 160 years, it has been the mission of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ to serve the sick, the poor and the homeless. We rely on partners like you to help us continue our mission. Your gift can have such an impact on the people we serve. If you are able, please give today.
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Cash from an armored truck showered a Georgia highway. People are actually returning it.
By Michael Brice-Saddler / The Washington Post
The once-in-a-lifetime weather event that took place Tuesday night in a suburb north of Atlanta is perhaps best described by local police: “cloudy with a chance of cash.”
Gleeful motorists on Interstate 285 in Dunwoody, Georgia, were showered with at least $175,000 when the door of an armored car swung open, authorities say. Viral video captured the aftermath — dozens of opportunistic drivers pulled over and parked in the middle of the road, taking to the streets to collect as much as their fists would allow.
Dunwoody Police said there were no crashes or injuries as a result of the windfall, and authorities were able to recover a few hundred dollars at the scene. Taking the money was technically theft, the department wrote on Facebook, though they could “certainly understand the temptation.”
Many poked fun at the department’s plea to return the cash and “do the right thing.”
“I could have sworn the law was ‘finders keepers’,” one woman wrote in response.
By Wednesday night, however, a handful of people had stepped forward to return a chunk of the money, according to Dunwoody Police spokesman Sgt. Robert Parsons. The five good Samaritans turned in a combined $4,400, highlighted by Randrell Lewis, who Parsons said delivered $2,100 to the department.
Speaking with local NBC affiliate 11 Alive, Lewis said he initially thought the cash showering his car late Tuesday was leaves. When he learned the leaves were actually dollar bills, he “pulled over and started picking up as much as [he] could.”
The man briefly fantasized about how the money could benefit him and his family, he explained. But those dreams were cut short as local news reports elaborated on the potential consequences the drivers who took money could face.
“The news said that it’s theft, it’s stealing, it’s a crime and you must turn it [in] so I have to,” he told 11 Alive.
In Lewis’ case, he may have avoided a felony. Under Georgia law, retrieving money from the highway constitutes “theft of mislaid property,” which makes it a misdemeanor to keep lost items “without first taking reasonable measures to restore the property to the owner.”
Keeping more than $1,500 could lead to a felony charge, Parsons explained. He said the department may take a look at video posted to social media by onlookers to identify the license plates of other vehicles stopped at the scene, but he doubts the quality is good enough to do so.
“We don’t want that to happen. We understand that all of the money is not going to be recovered,” Parsons said. “But those people who do have it, they need to bring it back.”
This isn’t the first time a do-gooder has returned money under similar circumstances. Last year in New Jersey, a man returned $10,000 in cash that he found in a bag lying on the street. Four years prior, a Salvation Army employee in California was rewarded $5,000 after he turned in a bag containing $125,000 left behind by a Brinks truck.
“I started crying and shaking,” the man told the Fresno Bee at the time. “Everything was going through my mind — the good devil/bad devil thing. What to do?”
As the Georgia story gained traction Wednesday, Parsons said the department began to receive a new set of complaints: Dozens of drivers had taken to the interstate, scouring the area for spare dollars that hadn’t yet been collected while “causing huge traffic jams on the perimeter.”
“They were going into the woods, jumping over the walls, doing everything they can to find the money,” Parsons said with a chuckle, adding there wasn’t any left. “Officers told me they saw an elderly woman climb over the wall in search of money.”
Lewis, who did not return messages requesting comment, proudly shared the police department’s photo of him returning the money on his Facebook page. In the replies, many of his friends and family members expressed pride in his decision.
Others were perplexed as to why he didn’t keep at least some of the cash.
“[You’re] better than me,” one person wrote.
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Sunday Sound Effects Round Up - RZ Post, A Sound Effect, GameSoundCon
In this week's Sunday Sound Effects Round Up we take a look at a free bicycle library from RZ Post, how the creepy sound of the movie "Lights Out" was made from the A Sound Effects blog and learn that this year's GameSoundCon will have a day dedicated to virtual reality.
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How The Creepy Sound of the movie "Lights Out" Was Made
Lights Out by David F. Sandberg has received lots of praise for its great scares – and a truly unsettling story, too. In this exclusive, in-depth A Sound Effect interview, Jennifer Walden speaks with Lights Out’s award-winning sound designer and supervising sound editor Bill R. Dean.
He shares the team’s approach to horror sound, how they used dynamics to create some very effective scares, the surprising sources for some of the movie’s signature sounds - and much more...
The movie deals with a fear that just about everybody has at some point in their life, the fear of the dark. The great thing about that, in regards to working with the sound on this film, is that the characters and the audience start to depend on listening because they can’t see what the danger is. They have to start consciously listening for it. You start listening for sound cues to protect yourself. It’s a fun aspect of the show.
One of the things that is interesting about the film is that our specter, Diana, has her own sonic signature in our world and it’s not just her voice, which is also unique. We hear the way she moves and that’s something David really wanted to focus on. We hear her movement so we know she is really there and not just a vaporous apparition. David also wanted her sound to convey what happened to her, with her accident and how she was burned. He wanted to have this feeling that her body was irreparably damaged and you can hear it when she moves. All of her joints don’t work the same way so it’s very poppy and snappy; she moves in these jerky motions. Her skin is all charred and gnarled and so when she moves that skin it sounds all cracky and gross. It helps to make the audience just love her that much more.
You can read the full interview with Bill R. Dean by Jennifer Walden on the A Sound Effect blog.
GameSoundCon Adds Virtual Reality Day To Their 2016 Conference
GameSoundCon has expanded its 2016 conference with a full day dedicated to Audio for Virtual Reality and another full day on academic and research topics. Sound designers of all levels will come together on Sept 27-28 in Los Angeles for two days of sessions, networking opportunities, and hands-on workshops focused on all aspects of game audio, including Virtual Reality in video games. Brian Schmidt, Executive Director of GameSoundCon, sees exciting opportunities for game composers and sound designers in the new field of Virtual Reality and its close cousin Augmented Reality. He told us...
Virtual Reality is not only taking the game industry by storm, but most other forms of media and entertainment as well. Along with Augmented Reality, VR presents a whole new set of challenges and opportunities for composers and sound designers. Due to the inherently interactive nature of VR and AR, those who are familiar with interactive audio tools such as game composers and sound designers will definitely have a leg-up over those who have only worked in traditional media.
One of the speakers at this year’s GameSoundCon will be Scott Gershin, Technicolor’s Director of Sound Editorial. Gershin has worked on over 100 films and received 26 industry award nominations, including a BAFTA Award for his work on American Beauty, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler. At GameSoundCon, he and Technicolor Sound Supervisor, Viktor Phoenix, will cover advanced techniques and best practices for implementing 3D audio for Virtual Reality
MTV VMA nominated composer Tom Salta, one of the most versatile and prolific music artists/producers working in film, television, advertising and video games and collaborator, Klayton (Celldweller) will speak about the highly interactive Wwise score for Killer Instinct 3.
GameSoundCon is a resource for sound designers and composers from Film, TV, music or other traditional media who are looking to widen their skills when it comes to composing music for games, and to game audio professionals who want to learn more about Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and other new areas of growth. The conference will held on September 27-28 in the Milliennium Biltmore Hote in Los Angeles, CA.
Look out for more content on gaming audio and virtual reality coming to the site over the coming months.
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Using cross-movement collaborations to tackle human rights complexities
Human rights problems are increasingly more complex and cross-cutting. Can collaboration across issue areas and geographic regions make advocacy more effective?
By: Claudia Samcam
The complexity of human rights issues today means that breaking down problems in an isolated way simply isn’t working—and the complexity keeps growing. It’s almost impossible, for example, not to think about climate change and how it is inter-connected with mining, agro-industries, pollution and so on, affecting every aspect of our lives. Defining or tackling various human rights problems as clear cut, separate issues is disingenuous and may even hamper progress.
There has also been growing recognition in recent years of the effects of climate change on women´s life and rights. Researchers have made clear how women are disproportionally affected by climate chaos, along with the need to have women at the center of the initiatives to tackle it. Women are leading countless adaptation and mitigation initiatives at the local and national levels, yet they are still significantly underfunded and under-recognized.
Indeed, because of scarce resources, non-governmental organizations do not have the opportunities to connect with their peers within their own and other movements, and they often end up competing with one another rather than working together. Yet many of us are dealing with several issues at once with limited time and resources, and we want to truly help and support the communities that we serve, while also facing pressure to deliver and demonstrate impact for our donors. As human rights practitioners, we can be more effective when we acknowledge that we cannot solve these complex problems from our own corners alone: collaboration is essential.
As human rights practitioners, we can be more effective when we acknowledge that we cannot solve these complex problems from our own corners alone: collaboration is essential.
It is from this vantage point that two feminists Women’s Funds—the Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM) and Mama Cash—and one environmental organization, Both ENDS, decided to create a program with a common goal of ensuring that local grassroots groups have the resources to strengthen their own capacities to ensure women can exercise their right to water, food sovereignty and a clean, healthy and safe environment. This program is known as the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA), and is a partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (MFA). While FCAM—the leader of the alliance—is a regional fund based in Nicaragua, our partners are Dutch and are both global.
The first lesson we learned in this endeavor was the importance of trust. We did not know Both ENDS at all; Mama Cash was the connector between our two organizations, and in retrospect perhaps it was risky to enter a five-year agreement with an organization that we did not know. However, because we had a long-standing relationship with Mama Cash through multiple experiences of working together, we trusted Mama Cash as the matchmaker. It had also been clear since the first conversations about this initiative that we had a shared interest and commitment, providing a solid common ground to start working together.
Then there were the “simple” issues of different time zones and language. The significant time difference between Nicaragua and the Netherlands was a complex hurdle, along with cultural differences. We had to invest a lot time in understanding each other, finding ways to communicate more clearly and making a commitment to never stop asking.
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It is critical for human rights practitioners within grassroots organizations to use collaboration.
In addition, because FCAM is a regional organization working at the grassroots level, while Mama Cash and Both ENDS work at the global level, we had to find ways of cooperating and dividing responsibilities that worked for everyone, taking into account that the program is being implemented in 30 countries globally. Beyond cooperation and division of tasks, we had to find ways of working in a coordinated and comprehensive way while respecting each organization´s mission, roles and procedures—finding our own independence within the collaboration. We also had to recognize and be sensible to the multiple contexts we are working on and develop different strategies, related, for example, to security issues, or how lobby and advocacy strategies have to be adapted depending on the context.
Flexibility was a key issue as well, but when we started the program, this was not totally defined. It was clear to us that important aspects were going to be developed with our partners and allies during the implementation. The collective development of relevant strategies is part of our—and that of our partners—learning and trust building process.
Finally, the most significant lesson learned from our experience is that these types of collaborations require an important investment. From when this idea was first born to when we signed and received the grant, nearly 18 months went by. We had to devote a lot of time and resources into an idea that we weren’t even sure would be approved and funded. This was possible because of the core support the three of us had, and the capacity to have not one, but several team members working almost exclusively on this project during those 18 months. It’s important to start a project like this being very clear on what resources are available; for example, one organization may not have the extra staff but it might have the expertise, relationships or partners relevant to the initiative.
Now, almost two years into our five-year grant, we have settled into our various roles and are collectively focusing on strengthening the ability of local groups to learn better practices and to influence decision-makers at the local, national and international levels. In this regard, the diversity of GAGGA organizations is powerful, especially in terms of reaching local and grassroots organizations; for example, the GAGGA universe is made up by 14 Women´s Fund, six environmental funds, 28 NGOs, and at least 300 grassroots groups, working directly in 30 countries in three regions of the world.
However, many of the partner organizations in this collaboration have been working on issues related to women´s rights and/or environmental justice at the local, national or international level for many years but were not aware of other GAGGA actors working on related issues. In 2016 and 2017, we prioritized facilitating dialogues and spaces, so actors can share different viewpoints, with the intention of finding a way to work together, recognizing their differences. A key focus for us in 2018 is to try and influence the Green Climate Fund, its accreditation process as well as specific fund-wide policies, and we aim to involve different GAGGA actors that see this as a priority. For example, in South America earlier past year we helped to organize a campaign around the right to water, and we are expecting to build on this work with our partners over the next few years to influence decision-makers in various spaces.
This collaboration has reached many grassroots organizations, building capacity among local people and also learning from each other to create better strategies. It has certainly been a challenging and risky process, but the results we have seen thus far encourage us to believe that it has been well worth the struggle.
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Claudia Samcam is the development coordinator for institutional donors at FCAM (Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres). Claudia has a degree in Sociology from the Central American University (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua. She also has a Master’s degree in International Aid and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
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OPRO announce partnership with 11 AVIVA Premiership Rugby teams
OPRO, producer of the world’s most technically advanced mouthguard, today announced that they are the official mouthguard partner of 11 AVIVA Premiership Rugby teams, including: Harlequins, Bath Rugby, Exeter Chiefs, Gloucester Rugby, Leicester Tigers, London Irish, Newcastle Falcons, Northampton Saints, Sale Sharks, Wasps and Worcester Warriors.
OPRO have signed long-term deals with the Premiership teams, many of whose relationship with OPRO has spanned back over 15 years.
As part of their agreement’s OPRO will provide mouthguards to all men’s first team squad representatives, in addition they will supply women’s first team squads and under age teams depending on the structure of the club.
With over 20 years’ experience, OPRO are dedicated to bringing leading technology and safety to athletes at all levels of sport and are the official mouthguard partner of over 60 teams, including England Rugby, Australia Rugby and New Zealand Rugby.
OPRO chairman and founder, Dr Anthony Lovat BDS, said: “This is an important time for OPRO and we feel honoured to be the official mouthguard partner of 11 AVIVA Premiership teams. As a dental surgeon, my team and I are passionate in our commitment to provide the most comfortable, best fitting mouthguards available and we are delighted to support such iconic teams.”
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Founded 20 years ago by dentist Dr Anthony Lovat, OPRO is the world’s most technically advanced mouthguard company and a leading pioneer in oral protection. Through the development and deployment of cutting edge technology and the use of innovative design and production methods, OPRO has been at the forefront of protecting the safety of athletes at all levels, across a range of different sports, for more than two decades.
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SPTS Technologies Wins Top Honours at ESTnet Awards 2016
Corey Lewis Awarded Apprentice of the Year and SPTS Technologies Wins Company of the Year
Newport, United Kingdom – SPTS Technologies, an Orbotech company and supplier of advanced wafer processing solutions for the global semiconductor and related industries, was named Company of the Year at the 4th Annual ESTnet Awards on March 2nd at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Corey Lewis, now Customer Support Engineer at SPTS, was awarded Apprentice of the Year in recognition of the extraordinary achievements in his work studies and job role at SPTS.
The ESTnet Awards celebrate excellence in the electronics, software and technologies sector in Wales by recognizing the outstanding achievements of individuals and companies that make up the greatness of the Welsh technology community. Supporting young talent and the future of engineering, SPTS was also proud sponsors of the Young Engineer of the Year Award.
“We are really proud to be recognised by the ESTnet award judges,” said Kevin Crofton, President of SPTS Technologies and Corporate Vice President at Orbotech. “We have had very rapid growth in the company and been able to expand market share and improve footprint in all of our served markets. We hired 20 new employees in the course of the past year at our headquarters in Newport, and we have been very active in growing our apprenticeship program. We are so proud of Corey Lewis’ award, and it is an honor accepting the Company of the Year award on behalf of our employees. This is a huge recognition for our workforce and the important role that SPTS plays in the Welsh economy.”
ESTnet is the premier network of technology enterprises, created to form strong business relationships, exchange knowledge and share ideas. ESTnet's associated members include supply chains and the professional services which support it. Its affiliate members provide the industry with professional services, and its academic members provide the industry with good quality graduates and opportunities to collaborate on research and innovation.
The network provides a collaborative environment in which people and organisations working with these enabling technologies can create strong business relationships, exchange knowledge and share ideas.
About SPTS Technologies
SPTS Technologies, an Orbotech company, designs, manufactures, sells, and supports etch, PVD, and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets. With manufacturing facilities in Newport, Wales, and Allentown, Pennsylvania, the company operates across 19 countries in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. For more information about SPTS Technologies, please visit www.spts.com
Destanie Clarke, Senior Director of Corporate Marketing
SPTS Technologies
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Examination of Compiled Birth and Death Date Data
By averaging the ages of death for all of the seventeen (17) males in the data set, as well as the eighteen (18) females, it was possible to calculate the average age of death for each gender. For the thirty-five (35) subjects studied in this section of Oak Grove Cemetery, males were deceased at an average age of 63.65 years, while females were deceased at an average age of just 59 years. If one presupposes an average lifespan for this historical era of 60 years, the average difference of 4.65 years of lengthened life afforded to males represents an additional 7 per cent of lifespan simply on the basis of gender. While there may exist certain physiological tendencies which lead to males living for a longer time than females, the variety of socioeconomic disadvantages imposed on females during this historical era would…… [Read More]
Public Archeology Nationalism and Public
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One other area of the world which is currently experiencing some major problems related to archeological excavations in public places is the Middle East, particularly Israel and within its capital city of Jerusalem. In this case study by Yigal Bronner and Neve Gordon, the main area of dispute lies with "the way archeology is being used in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in the oldest part" of Jerusalem, where excavations, under the guidance and support of the Israeli government, are currently being carried out. However, as Yonathan Mizrachi, an Israeli archeologist, sees it, these excavations are part of "a concerted campaign to expel Palestinians from their ancestral home" by using archeology as a leveraging tool. Mizrachi's evidence for this alleged campaign has deep connections to Elad, an Israeli settlement organization which through a variety of legal means has managed to "evict East Jerusalem Palestinians from their homes and replace them with…… [Read More]
Bronner, Yigal and Neve Gordon. (2008). Digging for trouble. [Internet], Counterpunch.org. Available at http://www.counterpunch.org/bronner04112008.html[Accessed 30 December 2008].
Bruce-Mitford, Robert. (2004) the sutton hoo ship burial. Vol. 1. London, the British Museum.
Jameson, John H. (1997) Presenting archeology to the public: digging for the truth. Los Angeles, Alta Mira Press.
McGimsey, Charles R. (2002) Public archeology. New York, Seminar Press.
Making Things Public Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War
Artistic Analysis of "The Weeping Woman": A Plan to Develop a New Work
The meaning of artistic work continues to evolve to mold into new forms and shapes. The current sociological and economic developments are significantly influencing the artistic creations. Women have the power in the society, and, therefore, they have the freedom to do jobs, own businesses, and at a personal level, they now possess the option of sexual orientation. The modern era remained quite merciful towards women who had a role of sexual slaves in the past. The omans along with the Greeks considered the females as toys that had a function of providing comfort to warriors. Females were responsible for taking care of domestic chores, and they had no right of receiving payments against their services. However, males identified and treated them as trophies, and they collected them according to their level of bravery in the battlefield.…… [Read More]
Barnes, M., Davis, A., & Rogers, H. (2006). Women's voices, Women's choices: Experiences and creativity in consulting women users of mental health services. Journal of Mental Health 15 (3), 329-341.
Gonzalez-Ruibal, A. (2007). Making things public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War. Public Archaeology Vol 6 (4), 203-226 .
Picasso, P (1937).The Weeping Woman . Tate. Tate Modern, London.
Culture and the Evolutionary Process of Human Beings
Words: 3353 Length: 10 Pages Document Type: Essay Paper #: 67181596
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THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY
Undestanding the evolution of humanity has been one of the most citical quests fo most individuals in the cuent society. The intesection between envionmental influences and cultue ceates an aea of social inteest with a focus on human evolution. Empiical eseach shows that the society plays a significant ole in shaping the evolution of human beings as evidenced by psychological analysis of human evolution. The extaodinay coopeative natue of human beings aises moe questions on the peceived changes of human behavio and inteaction ove time (Hawkes, Paine, & School, 2006). Among the factos that dive human beings to stive to undestand thei evolution, include paleoanthopology esults that povide unique infomation that povides significant evidence to the aspects of human evolution postulated to have occued millions of yeas ago. Results fom fossil studies such as inceasing bain size and…… [Read More]
references: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12(01), 1 -- 14.
Croll, E., & Parkin, D. (2002). Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment, and Development. Routledge.
Darlington, P.J. (1978). Altruism: Its characteristics and evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 75(1), 385 -- 389.
Eagly, A.H., & Wood, W. (1999). The origins of sex differences in human behavior: Evolved dispositions vs. social roles. American Psychologist, 54(6), 408 -- 423.
Foley, R. (1995). The adaptive legacy of human evolution: A search for the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 4(6), 194 -- 203
Classic Antiquities Stopping Looting of Classic Greek
Classic Antiquities
Stopping Looting of Classic Greek and Roman Underwater Antiquities Sites
Cultural artifacts that both describe how a group of people lived and demonstrates the art they contrived is precious to the people who consider themselves present members of that culture or, at the very least, are residents of the nation from which the culture originated. Unfortunately, the removal and sale of these artifacts has a long history, and the trade is only recently being regulated and stopped. There are many problems with the methods used to stop the trade however and no one nation or regulatory body has been able to devise a solid means by which these treasures can be returned to the people who claim them as heritage. The heritage argument and the ability to return the artifacts becomes even more clouded when the items in question are found underwater. Although there has been a concerted…… [Read More]
AFP. "A Rich Greek Archeology Frontier Lying Underwater." Khaleej Times (2005, June 24).
Aiken, Jonathan. "Antiquities Diplomacy." The American Spectator 42.1 (2009): 58-60.
Akal, Tuncay. "Surveillance and Protection of Underwater Archaeological Sites: Sea Guard." (accessed November 2, 2012) http://www.acoustics.org/press/155th/akal.htm
Carver, Martin. "Editorial." Antiquity 82.315 (2008): 7-9.
History of Underwater Archeological Sites in the United States
Archaeological Sites in the U.S.
This paper examines underwater archaeology in the U.S. The paper discusses excavation techniques, tools and technology and also explores the Clovis theory. The paper also reviews findings at several submerged North American prehistoric archeological sites.
Underwater survey and excavation are typically more expensive and logistically more complex than comparable terrestrial projects. Underwater conditions involve more variability from site to site, and even from hour to hour at the same site. All survey and excavation work is constrained by safety factors; in general the deeper the site, the less time that a scuba diver can remain at that depth. Other factors that are frequently less than ideal include water currents, temperature, and visibility (Merwin, Lynch, and Robinson, 42).
Nonetheless, the potential to recover significant archaeological data outweighs the disadvantages of working underwater. In fact, underwater sites may allow for the preservation of organic materials…… [Read More]
Anderson, David G. And Faught, Michael K. "The Paleoindian Period (ca. 13,000 B.C. To 7,900 B.C.)." National Park Service. n.d. Web. 6 May 2012. .
Faught, Michael K. "Submerged Paleoindian and Archaic Sites of the Big Bend, Florida." Journal of Field Archaeology 29, 3-4, (2004): 273-290.
"Florida's First People" Florida State University 2004. Web. 6 May 2012. .
Merwin, Daria E., Lynch, Daniel P., and Robinson, David, S. "Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Southern New England: Past Research and Future Directions" Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut 65 (2003): 41-56.
William Foxwell Albright
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William F. Albright
A Study of W.F. Albright and How iblical Archeology Helped Shape His
William Foxwell Albright was first and foremost a believer in the religion of Christianity, a fact that greatly influenced his role as a iblical archeologist, or "historian of religion," according to critical scholars like J. Edward Wright and David Noel Freedman.
Yet Albright himself never claimed to be anything more than dedicated to interpreting "the unfolding scroll of history," in which he saw the Revelation of Christianity -- the fulfillment of the prophets of the Old Testament.
Or, more appropriately, as Albright himself wrote in 1940, the purpose of his work was "to show how man's idea of God developed from prehistoric antiquity to the time of Christ, and to place this development in its historical context."
In other words, Albright sought to illustrate in a real, contextual way the truth of the Christian…… [Read More]
Albright, William F. From the Stone Age to Christianity: Monotheism and the Historical Process. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1940.
Albright, William F. From the Stone Age to Christianity, 3rd edn. NY: Doubleday,
Albright, William F. "How Well Can We Know the Ancient Near East?" Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 56, no. 2 (June, 1936), 121-144.
Science and Christianity Introduction Common
This occurred in 330 BC, and Zoroaster's date would then be 588 BC, and this date we may take to refer to the initial success of his prophetic mission which consisted in the conversion of King Visht-spa when Zoroaster was forty years old. Since he is traditionally said to have lived seventy-seven years, we will not be far wrong in dating him at 628-551 BC. It seems also to be generally agreed that the Prophet's sphere of operation in which his message was proclaimed was ancient Chorasmia -- an area comprising, perhaps, what is now Persian Khorasan, estern Afghanistan, and the Turkmen Republic of the U.S.S.R. (Zaehner, R.C., 1961, 33)."
Ayala's science takes the mitochondrial Eve back even before what we know about Zoroastrianism, but we really have no accurate date of the monotheistic tradition as it arises out of Zoroastrianism, because there are no written artifacts that support its…… [Read More]
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Blackwell, Richard J. 1999. Science, Religion and Authority: Lessons from the Galileo Affair. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. Book online. Available from Questia, http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=29306390.Internet. Accessed 3 November 2008.
Dembski, William and Charles Colson. 2004. The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design. Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove, Il.
Dembski, William and McDowell, Sean. 2008. Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Langauge. Harvest House Publishers. Eugene, Oregon. http://www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103534752
History of Construction Technology of
Staircase ramps which are comprised of steep and narrow steps that lead up one face of the pyramid were more in use at that time with evidence found at the Sinki, Meidum, Giza, Abu Ghurob, and Lisht pyramids respectively (Heizer).
A third ramp variation was the spiral ramp, found in use during the nineteenth dynasty and was, as its name suggests, comprised of a ramp covering all faces of the pyramids leading towards the top. Reversing ramps zigzag up one face of a pyramid at a time and would not be used in the construction of step pyramids, while lastly interior ramps that have been found within the pyramids of Sahura, Nyuserra, Neferifijata, Abusir, and Pepi II (Heizer, Shaw).
Ancient Greek architecture exists mainly in surviving temples that survive in large numbers even today and is tied into Roman and Hellenistic periods which borrowed heavily from the Greeks.…… [Read More]
Ackerman, J.S. "Architectural Practice in the Italian Renaissance." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1954): 3-11.
Alchermes, Joseph. "Spolia in Roman Cities of the Late Empire: Legislative Rationales and Architectural Reuse." Dumbarton Oaks Paper (1994): 167-178.
Allen, Rob. "Variations of the Arch: Post -- and lintel, Corbelled Arch, Arch, Vault, Cross-Vault Module." 11 August 2009. Civilization Collection. 5 April 2010 .
Anderson, James. "Anachronism in the Roman Architecture of Gaul: The Date of the Maison Carree at Nimes." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2001): 68-79.
Islamic Luster Wear the Area
The potter has complete control over the shape the pot takes by the pressure, how fast he spins the potting wheel, and the moisture and pressure he applies from inside and outside the pot. He can keep the pot short and stout by slowing the wheel decreasing the outside pressure, or by spinning it faster and pulling upward he can grow the pot taller.
The bearing has to be maintained and kept lubricated, and the potter used animal fat to lubricate it.
The bearing was made of stone, and could be replaced to keep the wheel in the best working condition.
Other ways to create pots, even after the potter's wheel, was to coil the pot and shape it entirely by hand, smoothing out the coils and shaping it with just the artist's skills of hand control. Obviously, the wheel was an invention that much improved the process. Although there…… [Read More]
Grave, Peter, (Andrew S. Fairbairn, Sue O'Connor and Ben Marwick, Eds.) Melting Moments: Modelling archeological high temperature ceramic data, New Directions in Archeological Science (2009), Archeology and Palaeonthropology (University of New England, Armidale, Australia), Chapter 15, 215-232.
Memmi, Isabella Turbani, Pottery production and distribution: the contribution of mineralogical and petrographical methodologies in Italy, Periodico di Mineralogia, 73 (2004), 239-257.
Staubach, Suzanne, Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind's Relationship with Earth's Most Primal Element (2005). Berkley: Berkley Hardcover Press.
Zaimeche, PhD Salah, Malagwa, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation (2005), June, 8.
Paleolithic Art Ecological Interpretations Mithen's
This interpretation would therefore tend to suggest a view of the art that shows cultural and social disparities between classes and social groups in the society.
In the final analysis what is clear that Mithen's approach holds a great deal of potential for an understanding of past cultures and societies from an archeological perspective. This interpretive stance is valuable in that it takes into account a wide ranging and inclusive understanding of the concept of ecology. Mithen's view is both logical and consistent with contemporary approaches in other disciplines in its emphasis on holistic and integrative views and interpretations of reality. Another benefit of this stance is that it brings to bear a host of different disciplines and perspectives that can help to unravel the mysteries encapsulated in the artifacts of the past.
However, while holistic thinking and integration are useful conceptual tools for research one should not…… [Read More]
Hodder, I., & Hutson, S., 2003, Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology (3rd ed.), Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Faris, J., 1983, 'From Form to Content in the Structural Study of Aesthetic Systems', in D. Washburn (ed.), Structure and Cognition in Art, Cambridge University Press, London.
Flannery, K. V, and Marcus, J., 1976, 'Formative Oaxaca and the Zapotec Cosmos',
American Scientist, volume 64, pp.374-83.
Learning Organization the Skokie Library
Most significantly, too, the library runs a free service and a book mobile to reach those who are unable for various reasons (such as being handicapped, ill, or elderly) to use the library. The book mobile has its own selection of books, toys, and a teacher who is available to instruct those who desire instruction and those who need help with their homework.
The library's vision statement is that it seeks to help people pursue lifelong leaning and discovery, as well as enjoyment of popular culture and the arts. It also seeks to help residents become well informed, to engage each other in dialogue and respectful discourse, and to actively participate in the life of the community. All of this makes it an organization that disseminates learning in the fullest sense of the word.
In a practical way -- and as per its mission statement -- it does this by…… [Read More]
Brown, J.S. & Duguid, P. (1991). Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: Towards a unified view of working, learning and innovation. Organization Science. 2(1): 40-57.
Cohen, W.M. & Levinthal, D.A. (2000). Absorptive Capacity: A new perspective on learning and innovation. In R. Cross and S. Israelit (eds) Strategic learning in the knowledge economy. (pp. 39-68) Boston: Butterworth Heinemann.
Comley, L., Arandez, L., Holden, S & Kuriata, E. (2000). Are TAFE organisations learning organisations? Do they 'walk the talk'? The Centre for Curriculum Innovation and Development. Melbourne: Victoria University
Cross, R. And Israelit, S. (2000) Strategic learning in the knowledge economy. Boston: Heinemann.
Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers
Dignity of orkers
Dignity of ork and the Rights of orkers
There is a set of photographs taken by Sebastiao Salgado that explains the viewer both who Salgado is and why he covers the worker's plight throughout the world. The images are set in a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada which is a vast pit where people toil daily to dig gold from the mud. The people dig the mud from the pit using the meanest of tools (pick, shovels) which they then put into wicker baskets. The baskets, weighing between "30 and 60 kilograms" (Stallabrass), or 65 to 130 pounds, are then carried up wooden ladders. The ladders are approximately 50 feet tall (and can be more), and the workers make as many as 60 trips per day with their baskets (Stallabrass). For each trip, the worker is paid the equivalent of 20 United States cents on…… [Read More]
Arceyut-Frixione, Helen Adilia. "Picturing and consuming Images of Misery and Injustice." Concordia University, 2008. Web.
Bakre, Shilpa. "AMOA Presents: "Workers: Photographs of by Sebastiao Salgado." AMOA News, 2009. Web.
Crow, Thomas. "The Practice of Art History in America." Daedalus 135.2 (2006): 70-84. Print.
Salgado, Sebastiao. Workers: An Archeology of the Industrial Age. London: Phaidon, 2002. Print.
Neanderthal Cultural Complexity
Glimpse into Neanderthal Culture
hen one thinks of the Humanoid genus Homo Sapiens neanderthalensis (HSN) they picture a very primitive creature, simplistic in nature with few social complexities. However, upon close examination of several Neanderthan archeological sites, one will find the Neanderthal man had all of the necessary elements for the beginning of the formation of modern society. It was once thought that these elements were only present after Neanderthan culture after contact with Home Sapiens (HSS). However, evidence now exists that suggests that Neanderthals were already well on their way to developing a formal, but rudimentary, culture well before contact with HSS. This research will examine these findings using evidence gathered from the Petralona, Larga Velhol, St. Cesaire, Shanidar, and Arago sites. This research will support the thesis that Neanderthals had the beginnings of an advanced society prior to contact with Home Sapiens and that the disappearance of the…… [Read More]
Bednarik, R.G. (1992). Palaeoart and archaeological myths. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2(1): 27-43.
Chase, P. And Dibble, H (1987). Middle Paleolithic symbolism: a review of current evidence and interpretations. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 6:263-296.
A d'Errico, F. et al. (1998) "Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? Current Anthropology, Supplement, 39:1-44, p. 3 in Morton, G. (1998) Neanderthan Culture. Internet Discussion. September 7, 1998. http://www.asa3.org/archive/evolution/199809/0121.html Accessed July, 2003.
Fagan, B. (1990) The Journey From Eden, (London: Thames and Hudson) in Morton, G. (1998) Neanderthan Culture. Internet Discussion. September 7, 1998. http://www.asa3.org/archive/evolution/199809/0121.html Accessed July, 2003.
History of Construction Technology Time
It consists a series of successively smaller platforms which lifted to a height of about 64 feet, and was constructed with a solid core of mud-brick covered by a thick skin of burnt-brick to guard it from the forces of nature (Burney). The Ziggurat's corners are oriented to the compass points, with walls sloping slightly inwards (Molleson and Hodgson) .
The Ziggurat of Ur was a component of a temple building complex that serviced the urban center as an administrative hub. Additionally, in terms of spirituality, it was believed to be the site on earth that the moon god Nanna (the patron deity of Ur) had selected to inhabit. Nanna was shown as a wise and unfathomable old man, complete with a flowing beard and four horns in number. A single shrine crowned the summit of the ziggurat (Faiella). This was purportedly the bedchamber of the god, and was occupied…… [Read More]
Social Sciences There Are Many Fields of
There are many fields of study that fall under the umbrella of the social sciences. Sociology is usually the first thing that comes to mind when the term is mentioned, but there are several other fields of study under social sciences. A person studying in this field could also study such things as anthropology, history, archeology, and geography to name a few. Since studying in these fields generally does not command the large salaries as say a degree in computer programming or finance might, many wonder why someone would study in any field under the social sciences umbrella.
Even though studying in this field may not seem like a guarantee to a fast track career with a large paycheck, the social sciences offers a broad range of knowledge that can be used in almost any career field. A degree in the social sciences helps the student become a…… [Read More]
Gabbo, F. (2009). On metaphors, everyday diversity and intercultural education: Some further reflections. Intercultural Education, 20(4), 321-332.
Groeneveld, P.W., Heidenreich, P.A., Garber, A.M. (2005). Trends in implantable cardioverter-
defibrillator racial disparity. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 45(1), 72-
Excavation of Corinth
Ancient Corinth, located in Greece, is located in the northeast area of the Peloponnese at the front of the Gulf of Corinth was one of the largest cities of the ancient world and perfect for trade and commerce since it was strategically located between the Corinthian gulf and the aronic gulf, and possessed two harbors. Imports and exports from and to Asia used the harbor leading to Cenchrea, on the aronic Gulf, whilst ships travelling to and from Europe arrived at Lechaeum, on the Corinthian gulf ([footnoteRef:1]). [1: Excavations in Ancient Corinthhttp://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/excavationcorinth/about-the-corinth-excavations/]
Corinth contained a quarter of a million people and became notorious for its standards of high-living and immorality. One ancient writer, in fact, used the term 'to Corinthianize', as synonymous for engaging in immorality. Its existence as a center of trade also made it a prosperous city.
Excavations of ancient Corinth were initiated in 1896 by the American…… [Read More]
Excavations in Ancient Corinth
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Facing the challenge, "The synagogue in Corinth visited by Paul in Acts chapter 18" http://www.facingthechallenge.org/corinth.php
Facing the challenge, "The Judgment seat in Corinth."
Ludlow Strike One of the Bloodiest and
Ludlow Strike
One of the bloodiest and most prolonged strikes in U.S. labor history occurred at Ludlow, Colorado in 1913-14, in which 10-12,000 miners employed by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CFIC) demanded a 10% pay raise, the right to trade outside of company stores and recognition of the United Mine Workers Union. These mines were also among the most dangerous in the country, with a death rate over double the national average, but relatives of those killed in the mines almost never received compensation from the local courts. Indeed, the judges, sheriffs and county officials were all under the control of the company, while over 60% of the workers were immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.[footnoteRef:1] CCFI, which was owned by the Rockefeller family, fired the miners immediately, evicted them from the company towns and brought in strikebreakers protected by the aldwin-Felts Detective Agency. This organization began a…… [Read More]
Ammons, Elias M. "The Colorado Strike." North American Review, Vol. 200, No. 704, July 1914, pp. 35-44.
Wallace, Mark. "The Ludlow Massacre: Class, Warfare, and Historical Memory in Southern Colorado." Historical Archeology, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2003, pp.66-80.
Mummies of Urumchi
Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland arber. Specifically, it will contain a book report on the book, including the author's thesis, evidence she uses to prove her thesis, and how convincing a case she makes. Did ancient civilizations of Asia and Europe expand from common places of origin? Where did these Caucasians come from? Elizabeth Wayland arber, an archaeologist at Occidental College, asks herself those questions and begins a fascinating journey along the silk-road into prehistoric time. Is there strong circumstantial evidence to prove there was expansion from common places of origin for these mummies? arber was well prepared to piece together all of the diverse and overwhelming textiles, linguistic, and anatomical clues that makes up this amazing case.
The Mummies of Urumchi
arber's book chronicles the mummies found in and around the Urumchi area of Eurasia. The mummies are quite interesting for several reasons, including the vivid and beautiful…… [Read More]
Barber, Elizabeth W. The Mummies of Urumchi. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.
St. Philip, Elizabeth. "The Mummies of Urumchi." Discovery Canada. 17 July 1999. 1 Nov. 2003.
Notion of Culture in Anthropology
Culture in Anthropology:
Culture is basically defined as values, attitudes, and behaviors that are shared by a group of individuals. However, this definition of this has been a complex and relatively difficult task for anthropologists since the commencement of discipline in the late 19th Century. Culture originates from interactions and behaviors of people who eventually develop common attitudes, values, and behaviors. In essence, as people live and interact with one another, their learning skills and attitudes are in turn transmitted as knowledge and beliefs that are shared among them, which results in cultural beliefs and practices.
Despite the simple, basic definition of culture, anthropologists have struggled to describe and specify the concept since the discipline was established in the late 19th Century. There are various anthropologists who have attempted to define and specify the culture including Edward Tylor whose definition incorporates various significant features that are currently included in most…… [Read More]
Bonvillain, Nancy. "Chapter 2 -- The Nature of Culture" Cultural Anthropology. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. 19-42. Print.
Paleo & Archaic Periods
Commitment Expectations
The major topic I have decided to research is the topic of the progression of the ancient people from the Clovis Period to the Late Archaic Period as represented by the artifacts and art that have survived them. Specifically, the paper will use the spear points of the Clovis Period found in Iowa from 11,000 BC and the White Shaman Mural found in West Texas from 2000 BC to describe the evolution of the ancient world—an evolution that begin with the people’s need simply to survive by hunting and using the spear points as a tool; after the progression of thousands of years and the migration of peoples to a region where they had new tools—rock walls—to tell stories and communicate ideas about where life came from, the people were able to address higher needs, such as the establishment of authority in the community and a myth about…… [Read More]
Students Were Graduating High School
Audience views can also be discussed at this time.
The students have written their first draft. The teacher tells them that after the peer review, they will take the suggested comments and rewrite the paper. This step is another step in the writing process. As the students are learning the process, it is natural with less stress. At the same time, the instructor can continue exposing the students to the masters but in another way. As mentioned above, the teacher is there to answer questions from the students about possible errors in the writing. During the time, the students can spend a portion of their time in examining sentence build from different styles of writing. From this writing, they can have assignments where they clarify their knowledge of the rudiments of grammar, such as subject, predicate, noun, and verb, etc. This can be done using the writings to which they…… [Read More]
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2. Hiemstra, R. Uses and Benefits of Journal Writing. New Directions for Adults and Continuing Education. 2001. n. 90. p. 19-26.
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History and Development of Master Builder and Design Build Tradition of Western Civilization
Architecture through the Ages
Construction in ancient times is second only to agriculture-it reaches back as far as the Stone Age and possibly further (Jackson 4). Before the existence of master builders in design and construction the Code of Hammurabi (1795-1750 B.C.) referred to design and construction as a simple process (Beard, Loulakis and undrum (13). Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon, the world's first metropolis and he codified his code of laws (Beard 13). This is the earliest example of a ruler introducing his laws publicly. The code regulated the organization of society including the extreme punishments for violating the law. The builder's work is addressed in the code, however faulty design and improper construction were viewed as one (13). Six specific laws address the builder. These laws are;
228. If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house…… [Read More]
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Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
To resolve this conflict in the situation where demographic and experiential differences are found qualitative researchers, such as those studying different cultures, might employ guides, interpreters and/or other "native" individuals to introduce and help them assimilate into the culture, in order to observe it or in some cases they use time as their tool, immersing for longer periods of time with limited or no interruption to eliminate any bias that might occur in research results because of his or her presence. Even among researchers this is not seen as a perfect set up but it can help resolve some of the intrusion challenges associated with diversity.
One of the major problems, as qualitative researchers see it in historical research is the fact that the researcher has often been seen and thought of as holding a position of authority over the subjects being studied. This idea of "social capital" is pervasive,…… [Read More]
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Finkleman, J.M. (2007) Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation: The Dysfunctional Side of Diversity. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 59 (4) 254 -- 260
Pugh, S.D. Dietz, J. Brief, a.P. & Wiley, J.W. (2008) Looking Inside and Out: The Impact of Employee and Community Demographic Composition on Organizational Diversity Climate. Journal of Applied Psychology. 93 (6) 1422 -- 1428.
Merchant, B.M. & Willis, a.I. (Eds.). (2001). Multiple and Intersecting Identities in Qualitative Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Ecological Approaches Provide a Strong
According to Fitzpatrick & Keegan (2010), "This use of historical ecology to study "the complex, historical interactions between human populations and the ecosystems they have inhabited" (Kirch 1997a, p.2; see also Crumley (ed.) 1994), has been applied in other parts of the world to observe anthropogenic changes through time. Archaeologists, influenced by a wide array of scientific fields, have taken a keen interest in understanding how humans adapted, influenced, modified, and impacted their environment. This is a difficult endeavor, however, because "environments change and the magnitude of change are never constant" (O'Brien 2001, pp. 29-30). (Fitzpatrick, Keegan, pg. 30, 2007)
Fitzpatrick & Keegan point to the uses of historical ecology to investigate the interrelationships between humans and the biosphere. The importance of noting environmental changes as separate from human involvement may be erroneous. Environmental changes are hinted by proponents of historical ecology to have been initiated by humans through their…… [Read More]
Anderson, a. 2009, Epilogue: Changing Archaeological Perspectives upon Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands1, University Press of Hawaii.
Balee W. (1998), Historical Ecology: Premises and Postulates -- Chapter 1.
Bird DW., Richardson JL., Veth PM., Barham AJ. (2002) Explaining Shellfish Variability in Middens on the Meriam Islands, Torres Strait, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 29, 457-469
Erlandson, Rick (2010) Archaeology Meets Marine Ecology: The Antiquity of Maritime Cultures and Human Impacts on Marine Fisheries and Ecosystems.
Origins of the Holy Grail
"The body of a bloodied Christ is divinely displaced from its sepulcher" and transferred to the est, where it must regain its rightful place, symbolically making Christianity's ownership of Jerusalem rightful and just."
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Stupid Rich Bastards by Laurel
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To him, these teachers never really crossed the barrier but are merely bridges that connect the two territories, speaking both the language of the rich and of the poor. Because of this, the only ones that the narrator ever trusts aside from the poor people are his teachers. This paved the way for the narrator to make them an exception from the "stupid rich bastards" that do not understand the poor. For him his teachers are the only noble people outside the territory of the poor, standing between the "stupid rich bastards" and them. The narrator's vision of a good life is greatly influenced by these teachers. He even considered being like them someday.
But the narrator was not fully convinced that being a teacher would help him give his family a comfortable life. He judged that being a teacher would not help him in his pursuit of his dreams…… [Read More]
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Postmodern With the Help of
Even though the movement has experienced having more success in the better developed parts of the globe, it is also present in third-world countries in domains such as art and philosophy.
The modern era lasted until approximately the end of the first half of the twentieth century, as the 1940s still had people subjecting themselves to the typical behavior of the time. ith the new movement into place, people learnt that they had the chance to change their lives without anyone prohibiting them to do so.
Even though technology has begun to flourish decades before, the technology brought by Postmodernism was completely different from what it had been until the time.
Considering a team of Archeologists that would excavate a site where technology flourished during the beginning or the twenty first century and a site where it prospered during the 1940s, the findings that they would make is that the…… [Read More]
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Medieval Castle Comparison of Roscommon
The gatehouse at Harlech contained spacious chambers or halls, with fireplaces and latrines. There is little doubt that the guardhouse was home to the constable of the castle. Master James of St. George, the Harlech's builder, was himself appointed constable of his creation (Williams 2007, p. 7). The gatehouse was also occupied, in this period, by Sir John de Bonvillars, Deputy Justiciar of North Wales. The larger rooms on each level were fitted with tall windows. The most favored rooms faced the courtyard, the chimneys of their fireplaces making an additional architectural arrangement on the roof of the gatehouse (Williams 2007, p. 21). The view from Harlech is particularly impressive. The sea and the mountains of Snowdonia provide a majestic backdrop to the royal castle. It has even been suggested at oscommon that the castle's original location beside a lake and in the middle of an expansive field may have…… [Read More]
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Ancient Literary Sources How Reliable
For example, in the United States, the Civil War occurred less than 150 years ago, and yet different historians provide conflicting perspectives about the causes of the war, why it was lost, and the consequences of the war for America's history. Moreover, it was only after the Civil War and the end of slavery that one began to see widespread, reliable publication about various slave rebellions that had occurred in the antebellum South. This is interesting, because it makes one wonder if that information would be available or suppressed had the war ended differently. Moreover, the vast majority of Americans are unaware that some northern states were slaveholding states. Furthermore, when one looks at the number of Holocaust deniers, despite the overwhelming physical evidence and documentation regarding the Holocaust, one can see how intentional misrepresentation can play a role in history; there are entire countries that believe it is a…… [Read More]
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History of Economics the Way
These principles were those of reciprocity, reallocation and house holding, and they were embedded in the way the civil and politic societies interacted. The end of the century however brought by the first signs of disembeddment and they revolved around the transformation of land and labor force into commodities. For the European countries for instance, a disembedded economy referred also to the territorial expansion of the companies. In this understanding then, the developed European countries had expanded their operations and moved to wider markets, where they increased their access to customers and also their revenues. And not only that they began to sell their products to larger audiences, but they also began to acquire cheaper commodities from the foreign regions; they employed cheaper workforce in the region; and operations of international transfer of capital begun to emerge.
Ultimately then, an embedded economy is generally an enclosed and protectionist one, and…… [Read More]
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Films Spartacus Directed by Stanley
Many of the other characters of the legend, such as Guinevere and Merlin are present in this film, as is the Sword in the Stone legend of Excalibur, Arthur's weapon (it was his father who removed it from the stone.
Ultimately, Arthur denounces his oman citizenship when he is disillusioned by the oman leaders and their activities, especially Bishop Germanius, and he joins the Woads to fight the Saxon Army that is attempting to gain control of Britain. In the end, many of his knights are killed in a ferocious battle, including Lancelot, and when the battle is over; Arthur has won and is declared king, with Guinevere by his side.
This film is so different from the traditional Arthur legend that is seems quite unlikely, but legends are often wrong, and so, the film could actually be based on historical fact, since new evidence comes out all the time…… [Read More]
King Arthur. Dir. Antoine Fuqua. Perf. Clive Owen, Keira Knightley. Touchstone Pictures, 2004.
Spartacus. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Perf. Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis. Universal Pictures, 1960.
Crannogs by the Gaelic Elite
Examples of the mention of the use of the 'crannog' in Lough Laoghaire is stated by Brady and O'Conor to be referenced directly in the Annals of Ulster in 1436. These annals are "contemporary Gaelic records of the high profile events that occurred in Ireland, and such mention carries with it an automatic association of status and dramatic event." (Brady and O'Conor, nd)
III. O'SULLIVAN (1998)
Aidan O'Sullivan writes in the work entitled: "The Archaeology of Lake Settlement in Ireland" (1998) that in the Late Middle Ages...the Gaelic Irish experienced a revival in military power, giving rise to what is commonly known as the 'Gaelic esurgence'" which was a time when raids increased on the English settlements which were richer and there was a "state of endemic warfare across the country." (O'Sullivan, 1998) Cultural and military renewal among the Gaelic Irish were drivers of the 'esurgence' as well as…… [Read More]
References in historical literature further give indications that "crannogs and islands were used as permanent settlements and as temporary fortifications by the Gaelic Irish in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries." (O'Sullivan, 1998) the military tactics of the Gaelic Irish were such that natural defensive features were used such as those of "lakes, islands, woodlands and bogs." (O'Sullivan, 1998) O'Sullivan states that there is sound archaeological as well as historical evidence that crannogs were occupied as dwellings during the medieval and late medieval periods.
O'Sullivan, just as did Brady and O'Conor, states that historically, the use of crannogs has been ignored by research and has "tended to greatly reduce the attention paid to this later material." (O'Sullivan, 1998) Stated to be the best evidence of archeology for the occupation of crannogs during the thirteenth and sixteenth century were findings of medieval 'everted-rim war and crannog ware..." discovered on several crannogs in the north..." (O'Sullivan, 1998) This type of pottery was hand-made and used for cooking and is stated to be easily distinguished due to its "dark, unglazed appearance and heavy gritty inclusions and texture." (O'Sullivan, 1998)
O'Sullivan states that it is simply obvious that the Gaelic Irish used crannogs and that the Anglo-Normans even used the crannogs at times as defensive military settlements. Twice mentioned in history is the crannog on Lough Oughter which was occupied by the O'Reilleys and which was taken in an attack in 1247 by Milid Mac Gosdelb and also is referred to as the site "from which Toirrdelbach mac Aeda Ua Conchobari escaped in 1246..." (1998)
O'Sullivan additionally states that the work of Giraldus Cambrensis entitled: "Topographia Hiberniae" a twelfth century account of Ireland that the Irish lakes "contain islands rising to some height and very beautiful. The lords of the land usually appropriate them as places of safety and refuge, as well as of habitation. They are inaccessible except by boats." (O'Sullivan, 1998)
O'Conor writes in the work entitled: "Later Medieval Settlement in North Roscommon" that evidence presently available indicates that "despite close contacts with the Anglo-Normans since the 12th century" that it took over two centuries for "Gaelic lords to regularly build defended structures that can be classified as castles." (nd) O'Conor reiterates in this work that a great amount of "documentary, pictorial, radiocarbon, dencrochronological and excavated evidence" is in existence to indicate that the crannogs "were widely occupied and used by Gaelic lords throughout the whole later medieval period." (nd)
Mediterranean Empires the World Has
Around the year of 1200 B.C. all off the three important Mediterranean civilizations had stopped from their remarkable advance and collapsed with no actual information regarding to the reason for their ending. Archeological findings show that all three nations had been preparing for war during the period and that an enemy that is unknown to this day had defeated all Mediterranean empires.
Consequent to the collapse of some of the greatest empires in the world, the Greek empire had been surfacing as a nation of great potential and wisdom which gave birth to several of the world's philosophers.
The Roman Empire had appeared differently from the previous empires that surrounded the Mediterranean Sea. Rome had not began their society independently, but it had managed to defeat their superiors, the Etruscans, after more than two centuries in which the Etruscans ruled over Rome and other communities from within the Latin League.…… [Read More]
Sinopoli, Carla. "The Archeology of Empires." 159-180.
Smiley, Francis. "The Rise of Mediterranean Empires in the First Millennium B.C." 1-9.
The Vishnu Temple Annotated Bibliography
Vats, Madho Sarup. The Gupta Temple at Deogarh. New Delhi, India:
Archeological Survey
of India, 2000. 56 pgs.
In this heavily researched work, Madho Sarup Vats, one of modern
India's best scholars on Indian archeology, discusses in great depth the
Vishnu Temple at Deogarh and includes chapters on its history,
construction, design and cultural significance to the people of the Gupta
Period. Vats also includes several archeological diagrams which shows the
Vishnu Temple from numerous perspectives and what the current Indian
government is doing to preserve this temple form the ravages of time.
Vidula, Jayaswal. Royal Temples of the Gupta Period. New Delhi, India:
Aryan Books
International, 2001. 213 pgs.
Much like Vat's The Gupta Temple at Deogarh, this elaborately
illustrated book discusses a number of Hindu temples designed and
constructed during the Gupta Period, such as the rock-cut temple at
Mahabalipuram of the 7th century A.D., the Muktesvar Temple…… [Read More]
Aztecs Civilizations of the Past
The author points out that there were more commoners than nobles but the commoners were often at the mercy of nobles and were expected to serve them. Although this was the case, it was also true that commoners had a great deal of control over their lives and in most cases they had enough to meet their basic needs and the needs of their family.
eligion
One of the most interesting aspects of Aztec civilization is Aztec religious practices. According to an article found in the Journal of the Southwest, the Aztec religious system dominated the way of life for the Aztec people. The research indicates that the religious system of the Aztec people was very much associated with the Aztec Calendar. This calendar was based on the yearly agricultural cycle.
For instance when the winter solstice occurred the Aztec people would participate in fire festivals. The purpose of such…… [Read More]
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Aztec Society Family. 16 April, 2008 http://www.aztec-history.com/aztec-society-family.html
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Greek Artifacts the Civilization of
Also, this carving is quite sentimental in appearance, for it reflects "the solemn pathos of the Greek citizen, much like some of the sculptures found on the pediment of the Parthenon" (Seyffert, 245).
Our last artifact is titled Pair of Armbands with Triton and Tritoness Holding Erotes, made in the Hellenistic period, circa 200 .C.E. These jewelry objects were apparently designed for a woman of high Greek culture, for they are made from solid gold and are fashioned in the shape of two loosely-coiled snakes or serpents. Whomever designed these intricate and beautiful objects realized the special properties of gold, for the woman lucky enough to wear these could easily slip her arms through the loops, due to the malleability of solid gold. The two figures located at the tops of each piece are representations of Triton and Tritoness, most closely associated with the Greek god of the sea Poseidon.…… [Read More]
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Animal and Plant Domestication One
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The geneticist must first identify the wild crop, to be utilized as a comparative, (99) stressing that such information to be considered accurate in time and space must be gleaned from archaeological record and only based on the genetic process determined from the modern research in plant and/or even animal genetics.
In regards to the animal domesticate the issues become much more complicated, sometimes offering a richer picture of the effects of domestication upon animals but more often offering a more laborious process with more missing pieces of information. The difference between the plant and animal studies is largely do to the complicated nature of the animal as compared to the plant. The variables associated with animal selection are far greater in number and far less predictable than with those of plants as within the genetic record of an animal far more variations occur and surprises are historically evident in…… [Read More]
Emshwiller, E. 2006 Genetic data and plant domestication. in, Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms, edited by M.A. Zeder, D.G.Bradley, E.Emshwiller, and B.D.Smith, pp.99-122. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Smith, Bruce D. 206 Documenting domesticated plants in the archaeological record. in, Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms, edited by M.A. Zeder, D.G.Bradley, E.Emshwiller, and B.D.Smith, pp.15-24
Bradley, D.G 2006 Documenting domistication: reading Animal genetic texts. in, Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms, edited by M.A. Zeder, D.G.Bradley, E.Emshwiller, and B.D.Smith, pp.273-278 University of California Press, Berkeley.
Zeder, M.A. 2006 Archaeological approaches to documenting animal domestication.In, Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms, edited by M.A. Zeder, D.G.Bradley, E.Emshwiller, and B.D.Smith, pp.171-180 University of California Press, Berkeley.
Evolution of Civilizations as a
, lands useful to man, but according to technical and conspicuous for purposes that each civilization.
When business needs and adds prestige to urban heritage, religions, however, that mark their territories of pagodas, churches, monasteries, mosques and other places of worship, this singularity is affirmed more, while the forms of urban and rural habitat are specified, they are luxuries or miserable. And civilization, always customary in everyday life acquires additional visibility monumental materializing the skills of craftsmen-artists who enrich the work of the builders.
Added to this are, of course, the wealth and prestige that comes from adding additional, oral traditions of all time, written tradition gradually spread to shops and palaces, and the ideological apparatuses of all kinds, from which they eventually win the depths of peoples. o, the graphics become, like languages, distinctive marks of the various civilizations.
Maturation profoundly affects trade flows of civilization. On the one…… [Read More]
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Trigger, Bruce, Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and Contingency (New Perspectives on the Past), Blackwell Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-55786-977-4
Reade, Julian 2001 Assyrian King-Lists, the Royal Tombs of Ur, and Indus Origins. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 60(1):1-29
Men and Women Change After
A Greek man's male friends served this purpose.
Ancient Rome followed the patterns in male-female roles as set by the Greeks for most of their history. Like the Greeks, love was generally not an element of most male/female relationships and prostitution was a major industry. For the Romans, the natural order of things was that men were better suited to labor outside the home while women were considered better equipped for handling matters within the home. Unlike Greek women, however, who were relegated to operating in the background even with the home, Roman women were afforded a much larger role in the home but were still not allowed to participate in affairs that occurred in public. In both Greek society and Roman society it must be remembered that they were societies in which under-population was a concern and not over-population as it is today. As a result, the primary function…… [Read More]
Kevin Reilly, "Men and Women: Hunters and Gatherers" in The West and the World: a history of civilization from the ancient world to 1700. Kevin Reilly (New York: Harper & Row, 1989).
Kevin Reilly, "Men and Women: Hunters and Gatherers" in The West and the World: a history of civilization from the ancient world to 1700. Kevin Reilly (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), 12.
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Established Methods of Control and the Current
established methods of control and the current departmental and organizational cultures.
Organization culture is an element that must exist in every organization. The description of the term 'organization culture' has proven to be too elusive. This is attributed to the fact that the term is defined in terms of both causes and effects. Organizational culture has been defined differently by scholars. Kroeber and Kluckholn (1952) for instance defined organizational culture as consisting of patterns that are both implicit and explicit of the behaviors that is acquired as well as transmitted by various symbols that constitute the rather distinctive nature of achievements of various human groups. The main element of culture is tradition. According to Hofstede (1980), culture is the collective programming of an individual's mind which effectively distinguishes the group members from each other. Symington (1983) on the other hand defined culture as the complex whole that is made up…… [Read More]
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American Anthropology
Jaguars and Were-Jaguars:
Conceptions and Misconceptions in Olmec Culture
There is not a question that jaguars were important to Mesoamerican religion and culture. The Olmecs were no exception to this rule. However, it seems that previous interpretations of Olmec art and architecture have erroneously placed more emphasis on the jaguar than is actually due. While a significant part of Mesoamerican culture, the jaguar did not play quite the all-encompassing role that many archaeologists have attributed to it. Specifically, the so-called "were-jaguar" motif might be representative of something other than a jaguar, or at least, contain elements of other animals in addition to the feline. Among others, it has been suggested that the "were-jaguar" babies were, instead, crocodilians, toads, deformed human children, snakes, or iguanas. This essay will look at the most convincing of these arguments, in particular, the possibility of the "were-jaguar" actually representing congenitally deformed babies, were-crocodilians,…… [Read More]
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1969 Olmec Society. In The Olmec World, pp.86-106. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Coe, Michael
2002 Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs. Thames and Hudson, New York.
History of Israel Author John
" (This statement appears to fly in the face of his detailed emphasis on trying to be terribly thorough at other times throughout the book; and his seeming editorial neurosis creates doubts in the minds of the reader as to precisely how consistent and valid his values are vis-a-vis what he believes to be true.)
Those biblical students probably read his book and had a sense that he was in a classroom, behind a podium, lecturing to them, when, on pages 18-20, he discusses pre-history (Stone Age) and Neolithic Jericho. His bias towards places and people who are in some way connected to Scripture comes across numerous times in obviously favored passages.
To wit: one can almost hear his voice as he describes the relative distance in time to make his point about the advent of the Israel we know today. "Difficult as it is for us to realize, it…… [Read More]
Bright, John. (1959). A History of Israel. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press.
Noll, K.L. (1999). Looking on the Bright Side of Israel's History: Is There Pedagogical Value in Theological Presentation of History? Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary
Approaches, 7, 1-27.
Extra Lines Paragraphs Use Footnotes Endnotes
extra lines paragraphs. Use footnotes endnotes ( author, title book, page number needed).
The contemporary society largely owes its advancements to ancient peoples such as the Egyptians, considering the technological progress experienced in Egypt in times when the rest of the world was struggling to survive given the harsh conditions available. hile Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were diverse civilizations and spread over several territories, Ancient Egypt concentrated on a particular geographical area. Even with this, the complex nature of this particular civilization makes it difficult for one to describe it similar to how he or she would describe the other two.
In order to have a better understanding of Ancient Egypt one would first have to consider its location. Most people associate it with the African continent as a whole while others are inclined to associate it with the northern part of the territory, considering that these people generally…… [Read More]
Donadoni, Sergio, "The Egyptians," (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
Loken, Israel P. "The Old Testament Historical Books:
An Introduction," (Xulon Press, 30.05.2008)
Modrzejewski, Joseph, "The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian," (Princeton University Press, 27.10.1997)
American Religious History Defining Fundamentalism and Liberalism
American Religious History
Defining fundamentalism and liberalism in Christianity is hardly an exact science, especially because prior to about 1920 there was not even a term for fundamentalism as it exists today. hile present-day fundamentalists often claim descent from the Puritans and Calvinists of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Puritans were not really fundamentalists in the modern sense. They were not in conflict with 20th Century-style liberals and supporters of evolution and Higher Criticism because those did not yet exist. As George McKenna put it "if there were no liberalism there would be no fundamentalism" to react against it (McKenna 231). Today, about one-third of Americans define themselves as evangelical Protestants, and all Republican Party politicians have to make appeals to the Christian Right (Hankins 1). In 1976 there were at least fifty million 'born again' evangelical Protestants in the United States, and today their numbers may be as high…… [Read More]
Carpenter, Joel A. Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Gilkey, Langdon. On Niebuhr: A Theological Study. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Hankins, Barry. American Evangelicals: A Contemporary History of a Mainstream Religious Movement. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008.
Longfield, Bradley J. The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists and Modernity. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Female Identity Formation in New
It is for this reason that one could reasonably argue that Precious' entire life, and particularly the trials and tribulations she must endure, including her violent family life, her poverty, and her illiteracy, all ultimately stem from her racial and ethnic background, because the pervasive, institutional racial inequalities that still exist in America served to structure her entire life. Even before she began she was already disadvantaged by being born a black woman in the United States, because the United States maintains a system of social, economic, and political inequality that disproportionately impoverishes the black population. Thus, in broad strokes, one can say that all of the major events in Precious' life are a result of her ethnic background and the meaning American society places on that category of difference.
Perhaps more than any of the novels discussed here, Push manages to make the idea of difference as a form…… [Read More]
Chattalas, Michael, and Holly Harper. "Navigating a Hybrid Cultural Identity: Hispanic
Teenagers' Fashion Consumption Influences." The Journal of Consumer Marketing 24.6
(2007): 351-.
Chodorow, Nancy. Feminism and psychoanalytic theory. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University
Archaeological Controversy Archeological Controversies Are
The Paleolithic arts and culture assumes its significance from more studies conducted on the issue. Shea, John (441-450) argued that recently found stone artifacts of Middle Paleolithic occupations of Kebara Cave (Mount Carmel, Israel) depict that the Middle Paleolithic populations used technology-assisted hunting as the artifacts had clear representation and meanings regarding the use of tools and this use of tools was not limited to hominids. This suggests that the paintings, artifacts, and the cultural significance of carvings is more than usually thought by some researchers. The way of life that was prevalent in that era clearly impacted the artifacts. Further the cognitive development of human is also represented in the artifacts as these were drawn, carved, and developed by using same tools and technology materials used by those people.
The Paleolithic era people have produced many artifacts that have provoked an archeological controversy in the academic and research-based…… [Read More]
Halverson, John, et al. "Art for Art's Sake in the Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]." Current Anthropology 28.1 (1987): 63-89.
Leroi-Gourhan, Andre. "The evolution of Paleolithic art." Scientific American 218 (1968): 58-70.
Lewis-Williams, J. David, et al. "The Signs of All Times: Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Paleolithic Art [and Comments and Reply]." Current Anthropology 29.2 (1988): 201-245.
Pfeiffer, J.E. (1985). The emergence of humankind (p. 38). New York: Harper & Row.
Mesolithic Religion Like Numerous Neolithic Settlements Located
Mesolithic eligion
"Like numerous Neolithic settlements located in valleys with access to water and the prerequisites for agriculture, Gobekli Tepe dominates the landscape" and has continued to astonish modern archeologists today (History Underfoot, 2011). The Stone Temple erected at Urfa signaled the arrival of a new way of life in the Mesolithic era and a new set of behaviors. The site, in southeastern Turkey, is now considered one of the older religious sites known to man, which was erected during the Mesolithic era. It represents a new way of life, where man begins to harness his own power to create lasting objects on the natural landscape, where mankind changes the landscape in honor of religious practices.
Essentially, this massive effort on the behalf of these ancient people signified a new way of life. The site is "the oldest human-made place of worship" (Axelrod, 2010). According to the research, "massive carved…… [Read More]
Axelrod, Lauren. (2010). Rock architecture: When it first appeared, why it was built, and what history can it tell us. Ancient Digger. Web. http://www.ancientdigger.com/2010/08/monday-ground-up-rock-architecture-when.html
Curry, Andrew. (2008). Gobelki Tepe: The world's first temple? Smithsonian. Web. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
History Underfoot. (2011). Gobekli Tepe's oldest temple in the world: An archeological stone age site in Anatolia. Electrum Magazine. Web. http://www.electrummagazine.com/2011/10/gobekli-tepes-oldest-temple-in-the-world-an-archaeological-stone-age-site-in-anatolia/
Scham, Sandra. (2008). The world's first temple. Archeology, 61(6). Web. http://archive.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html
Worry Bout Audience Analysis Word Count 1000-1250
worry bout audience Analysis ord Count: 1000-1250 words (This word count refers ONLY essay . It include audience analysis orks Cited page. If essay falls short minimum word count, I automatically deduct riting Informative Essay (Corresponding chapter The Little Seagull Handbook: -7) General Information An informative essay organized primary functions: report a unfamiliar topic; analyze meaning, pattern connections; explain works; explore questions answers.
Informative essay: The impact of the economic crisis upon young people
Although the consensus amongst economists is that the United States has extricated itself from the worst of the recession of 2008, the impact of the economic crisis is still palpable amongst many demographics within the United States. Recent college graduates are amongst the hardest-hit. Given the sluggish labor market, many new college graduates are struggling for work, while the previous generation was able to find jobs with much greater ease. These workers are burdened by high…… [Read More]
Goudreau, Nicole. "The 10 worst college majors." Forbes. 11 Oct 2012. 25 Jan 2013.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/10/11/the-10-worst-college-majors/
"Help Wanted: Millions of Cloud-Skilled IT Workers Needed." Microsoft Press Release.
19 Dec 2012. 25 Jan 2013.http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2012/dec12/12-19CloudWorkersWanted.aspx
Dead Sea Scrolls and the Identity of Jesus in the Isaiah Scrolls
The Dead Sea scrolls reference the ancient scrolls found in the Qumran caves by a shepherd named Mohammad adh-Dhib (Baigent 247). At the time of the discovery of the scrolls, and because of the way in which they had been handled after their discovery (for profit), there were many questions raised as to the authenticity, origin, and date of the scrolls (Shanks 9-10). The Isaiah scrolls were amongst those found in Cave 1, and the first scroll of the two Isaiah scrolls was in the best condition (Shanks 14). Because of its completeness, the first Isaiah is often referred to as "Isaiah A (Shanks 14)." Shanks says that the importance of the scrolls is not that they tell us something we didn't know, but they tell us much about what we did not know about the period during…… [Read More]
Abegg, Martin G., Flint, Peter, and Ulrich, Eugene. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Bible Translated for the First Time into English. HarperOne, New York, 1999. Print.
Baigent, Michael. The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History. 2007.
Knohl, Israel and Maisel, David. The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Berkley and Los Angeles, CA: 2002. Print.
Motyer, J.A. The Prophecy of Isaiah: An Introduction and Commentary. 1998. Print.
Evaluator Researcher or Observer Watches What Takes
evaluator, researcher or observer watches what takes place and then attempts to analyze the data gathered during that observation to present the findings. n experimental study attempts to provide a scenario that can be answered by conducting experiments, while a study using surveys to determine results is a survey study. Each of the methods can use quantitative, qualitative, mixed and action research methods to gather data, and each of the three basic methods will also go through a step-by-step process as it attempts to come to a conclusion.
The step-by-step process for conducting basic research encompasses a number of steps. The initiation of a research project begins with a curiosity factor. Human beings are naturally curious and questioning how and why certain things are the way they are oftentimes leads to an attempt to discern those how's and why's. Those attempts are the first step in research. n individual wishes…… [Read More]
Investopedia (2010) Null hypothesis, accessed on December 8, 2007 at: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/null_hypothesis.asp
Kiofas, J.M. & Cutshall, C.R.; (1985) The social archeology of a juvenile facility: Unobtrusive methods in the study of institutional cultures, Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 8, Issue 4, p. 368
Regions Letter
Recap" of class work so far, which two or three areas/fields of study would you like to pursue if you were in France? What interests you about these areas or fields of study?
In France, I would like to take a history of art class, focusing on modern art. I would also like to take some sociology classes, of special interest to me are classes focused on migration, the history of migration in France as well as migration patterns in this country today and its challenges for the French society, compared to similar issues in the U.S., for example. Since we are living in a globalized world and people are more mobile than ever, I am interested to study the problems related to migration in order to be able to offer solutions.
By means of the study of art history I would love to get a better grasp of art…… [Read More]
Historicity of the Characters and Events in Genesis
GENESIS HISTORY OR MYTH?
Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It contains incredible stories of the creation of the universe, man's fall from grace, the story of Noah and the great flood, and the stories of the first generations of man. This book is perhaps one of the most controversial as well. The contents of the book are not as source of dispute. However, the interpretation of the content is a source of great scholarly debate for many reasons.
The first source of debate is exactly what type of work Genesis constitutes. Conservative Christians consider Genesis to be a history. Using this interpretation, events in Genesis happened exactly as written. Other more liberal interpretations consider Genesis to be something other than a historical account. There are many liberal viewpoints on how to categorize Genesis. Some believe that Genesis is an allegory, others a myth, and still others compare…… [Read More]
Boice, James Montgomery. Genesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998.
Dolphin, Lambert. Introduction to Genesis. May 24, 2000. http://ldolphin.org/Accessed September, 2002.
England, Donald. A Christian View of Origins. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Bppks, 1972.
Howe, George. Creation Research Society Annual. Ann Arbor, MI: Creation Research Society,
Korean History The Climate and Culture of
Korean History: The Climate and Culture of Foreign Business
The challenge of any cultural history undertaken to determine the foreign business fitness of a location is to make sure that there is due respect afforded the society with regard to issues that might not be seen as directly affecting the bottom line. So much of the time in the business world we are collectively focused on the ideas that surround the continued development of the global world economy, without regard for the existence of prior national issues. An easily made mistake for a researcher addressing issues of Korea from the United States would be to distill Korean history into a form that only include the interests of this country after the Korean-American ar.
This account will attempt to address those issues by addressing the culture through its earliest history to its present state through modern demographics, religion, education, housing, leisure…… [Read More]
North Korean crisis starts to hurt South Korea economically." February 11, 2003. American
City Business Journals Inc. February, 11 2003 (http://tampabay.bizjournals.com).
South Korea gross national income soars." February 9, 2003. American City Business Journals
Inc. February 11, 2003. (http://tampabay.bizjournals.com).
Hershell Hanks begins his book "The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls," (Shanks, 1998) with a startling revelation. Despite numerous treatises, articles and books on the subject, it is still unclear who found The Dead Sea Scrolls. An Arab shepherd boy or maybe two shepherd boys searching for their lost sheep close to the banks of the Dead Sea discovered the 'Scrolls' in 1947 in a cave in Qumran -- though the date varies depending on the source. In an effort to look for the lost sheep, the edouin shepherd began throwing stones into nearby caves. An unexpected cracking sound of earthenware inside the cave encouraged him to explore further. Muhammad Ahmad el-Hamed of the Ta'amireh tribe is assumed to be the shepherd who found the scrolls. This fact has however been constantly debated and interviewing and identifying the right individual who found the scroll…… [Read More]
Shanks, H. (1998) The mystery and meaning of the Dead Sea scrolls, Random House, New York.
Why I Believe in God and Christianity
The world is filled with chaos, war and strife. In Africa, innumerable numbers of individuals suffer and die from AIDS, poverty and hunger. Genocide and mass murder of groups with varying cultures continues. Regularly, soldiers and civilians die in Iraq. Terrorism scare tactics threaten throughout the world and the Middle East remains a hotbed for horror. China moves forward with its "Big Brother" actions and North Korea downplays its nuclear capacity. In such a world, how can I believe in God? Because it is more important to believe now than it ever was before, especially with such uncertain world. As Voltaire once said: "To believe in God is impossible. Not to believe in Him is absurd."
One of the main reasons I believe in God is that it makes me feel more secure amidst this growing instability. Because we live in such an insecure world, it is impossible to…… [Read More]
Holy Bible King James Version Study Bible. New York: Thomas Nelson, 1997.
Voltaire Foundation. Website visited October 9, 2003. http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/voltaire_english.html.
California Tribes
The Mohave and the Chemehuevi
The objective of this paper is to explore the history, social organization, and customs of two California tribes: The Mohave and the Chemehuevi. The scope of the paper includes a review of the current status of the two tribes.
The American Indian tribes are the original immigrants of the continent of America. In fact, the people of these tribes are of old Eastern origin, believed to be descendants of the Mongloid race in Asia. Over a period of thousands of years, these tribes gradually populated the unoccupied Western Hemisphere, from the Bering Strait to the southern most tip of South America, and from coast to coast. These first settlers were not savages and, in fact, possessed ancient knowledge about the laws of the universe and nature. They developed varying types of social organization and mechanisms, which satisfied their…… [Read More]
Driver, Harold E. And William C. Massey. 1957. Comparative Studies of North American Indians. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
Dutton, Bertha P. 1983. American Indians of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Griffin-Pierce, Trudy. 2000. Native Peoples of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Hallowell, Irving A. And Frederica De Laguna. 1960. Selected Papers from the American Anthropologist. Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson.
Transitional Species
Transitional Form Archaeopteryx won't fly"
Using the information from the article, "As a Transitional Form Archaeopteryx on't Fly," by Duane Gish, I want you to critically evaluate Dr. Gish's argument.
The article by Duane T. Gish, "As a Transitional Form Archaeopteryx won't Fly," provides a provocative insight into the world of creationist science that makes a genuine stab at being a scientific form of inquiry, rather than merely reasserting the truths of the Bible. Gish states specifically that the notion of the Archaeopteryx as a transitional form of a between the evolving birds and reptile species groups during the early evolution of the planet earth is in doubt. He argues that recent fossil discoveries and recent research on Archaeopteryx argue strongly against the idea that Archaeopteryx ever had reptilian features.
Do you agree, or disagree with Dr. Gish? You must support you answer with any factual evidence you can find.…… [Read More]
Gish, Duane T. (2004) "As a Transitional Form Archaeopteryx won't fly." IMPACT No. 195. September 1989, 2004. Institute for Creation Research. http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-195.htm
How to be anti-Darwin." (December 21, 1998) ( http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional/part1a.html )
"The Evolution of Tetrapods and the Closing of Romer's Gap." (2004) (http://members.aol.com/darwinpage/tetrapods.htm#Tetrapods)
Lawrence in Arabia War Deceit Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Lawrence never received formal military training, but he achieved the rank of Colonel in the British Army. Discuss how he achieved the rank and compare his training to yours.
Lawrence initially studied archeology and architecture at Oxford; these pursuits first drew him to the Middle East. The knowledge he gained was instrumental in his securing a military position in the Middle East. Thanks to his knowledge of the Arab world and the Ottoman Empire, "he was sent to nurture the Arab revolt against Turkish rule, started by Sherif Hussein of Mecca with the aim of creating a single Arab state stretching from Syria to Yemen"(MacIntyre 2010). In contrast to my own training, the knowledge Lawrence obtained was largely experiential -- he did not study military theory in-depth or go through basic training and was iconoclastic…… [Read More]
Anderson, S. (2013). Lawrence in Arabia: War, deceit, imperial folly, and the making of the modern Middle East. New York: Doubleday.
MacIntyre, B. (2010). Arabian knight. The New York Times. Retrieved from:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Macintyre-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
Components of a Quality Curriculum an Annotated
Componens of a Qualiy Curriculum
An Annoaed Bibliography
Qualiy Curriculum
The research indicaes ha a qualiy school curriculum is refleced by he curricula of is mahemaics and science componens, driven by is exbooks and eachers, and may improve if a variey of domains are included (e.g., music and he ars). Bu mah and science curricula appear useful predicors of he overall qualiy of a school curriculum. In addiion, sudens exposed o beer learning experiences a an early age will do beer laer on and a curriculum ha includes pracical and applicable maerial will also produce informed and skilled aduls.
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Hook, Bishop, and Hook (2007) invesigaed a new mah curriculum on he curriculums of he six leading counries in mah performance as deermined by The Inernaional Mah & Science Sudy (TIMSS) of 1995. These op six counries had…… [Read More]
the impact of structural standards. Early Years, 29(1), 19-31.
Zhu, Y., & Fan, L. (2006). Focus on the representation of problem types in intended curriculum:
A comparison of selected mathematics textbooks from Mainland China and the United States. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 4(4), 609-626
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By Hazel King on June 25, 2019 Videos
This week’s video comes courtesy of the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia and shows the latest work on the Airport Central station being built as part of the new Forrestfield-Airport Link.
The Link is intended to connect Perth’s airport, local rail network and growing eastern suburbs. The Airport Central site, once finished, will be a three-level station with a triple escalator system.
Airport Central station will be located immediately south of the air traffic control tower adjacent to Terminal 1. An elevated and enclosed walkway will provide a link between the terminals and the new underground station.
The project was launched in August 2014, having been given approval from the state government. In April 2016, Salini Impregilo-NRW Joint Venture (SI-NRW) was awarded a A$1.18bn (US$800m) contract for design, construction and a 10-year maintenance period once the project is complete in 2021.
Hazel King
With a decade of experience in trade publishing, Hazel first joined UKi Media & Events in 2011 as assistant editor before progressing to editor of Business Airport International. After taking 18 months off to bring up her daughter and try her hand at marketing copywriting, she returned to UKi Media & Events in January 2018 to do what she loves best – magazine editing!
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Discussing married priests
and clerical celibacy with
Ivan Yates on ‘Newstalk’
Pope Francis with Archbishop Justin Welby … is Pope Francis about to soften the rules on clerical celibacy?
I was part of a panel on Newstalk this earlier this afternoon [18 June 2019] being interviewed by Ivan Yates on the topic of clerical celibacy and married priests.
I was invited with Father Tony Flannery, the Redemptorist priest and former editor of Reality onto the Hard Shoulder programme to discuss my experiences as a married Anglican priest with a grown-up family in response proposals this week that many see as a potentially ground-breaking move in the Roman Catholic Church.
A document released by the Vatican this week is seen as having the potential to open a new discussion on ordained married priests, with its invitation to bishops in Latin America to hold a discussion in the Vatican next October on the ordination of elderly men to the priesthood, albeit to meet pastoral needs in remote parts of the Amazon.
The proposal comes as a response to the dearth of priests in many parts of South America. It would involve ordaining viri probati, or ‘men of proven character,’ as they are known in Canon Law.
Some people, obviously, wonder whether conceding this exception would be a step towards ordaining married men in other areas of the world.
The Vatican document published this week affirms celibacy as ‘a gift for the Church, but notes that there have been requests to consider, for the most remote areas of the Amazon, ‘the possibility of conferring priestly ordination on elderly men, preferably indigenous, respected and accepted members of their community.’
Such men, the document says, could be ordained ‘even if they already have an established and stable family.’
Pope Francis has already said that he would consider the possibility of ordaining viri probati in remote areas that are deprived of the sacraments. But he has also made clear that his Church retains its broader commitment to priestly celibacy.
The Vatican proposal was drawn up after consultations with bishops and church leaders in the Amazon region.
Even if this proposal is accepted, these married priests would not be the first within the Roman Catholic tradition. Pope Benedict XVI allowed the ordination of some married Anglican priests who moved across to the Roman Catholic tradition.
Some Eastern-rite Catholic churches that are in communion with Rome, such as the Greek Catholics in Eastern Europe and the Melkites, Maronites and Coptic Catholics in the Middle East, have always had married priests alongside priests who are celibate monks. However, married priests in any of these traditions have never been allowed to become bishops unless they are widowed.
The proposed exception for remote areas of South America would address the extreme shortage of priests that is found in many parts of the world today.
The change is proposed in a working document for a meeting of bishops in Rome in October to discuss the pastoral needs communities in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, which are known collectively as the Pan-Amazon Region.
The Vatican document also contains a proposal for an ‘official ministry’ for women in the Pan-Amazon region, although it does not specify what type of ministry.
Pope Francis had convened a panel of experts to study the history of women deacons in the early Church, but he said in May that the panel’s findings were inconclusive.
Parishes in the Amazon area often experience frequent and lengthy periods of difficulty in celebrating the Eucharist and of waiting for with Baptisms, Confessions and Church weddings because of the lack of priests.
The working paper was released on Monday by the Synod of Bishops, the Vatican department overseeing the world’s bishops. ‘For this reason, instead of leaving the communities without the Eucharist, the criteria of selection and preparation of the ministers authorised to celebrate it should be changed.’
The document urges the bishops meeting in October to address the pastoral needs of moving the Church from one ‘that visits’ to a ‘Church that remains.’ However, the Vatican insists that the working document of the Amazonian Synod is no more that a working document, and it remains open to being discussed and modified.
The Vatican proposal also suggests that the Church should incorporate indigenous ‘music and dance, in native languages and clothes, in communion with nature and with the community.’
Cardinal Walter Kasper said earlier this month that if bishops from the Amazon together propose that married men should be ordained to the priesthood, Pope Francis would ‘in principle probably accept it.’
In an interview with the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau, the former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity said the change to the tradition of a celibate priesthood in the Latin Church could come at the Synod on the Amazon in October.
Cardinal Kasper, who is considered one of Pope Francis’s preferred theological advisors, said in the interview that ‘celibacy is not a dogma, it is not an unalterable practice.’
The First and Second Lateran Councils in 1123 and 1139 explicitly forbade priests in the Western Church from marrying, so celibacy has been part of that tradition for almost 1,000 years. Eliminating the prospect of marriage ensured that children or wives of priests did not make claims on property acquired throughout a priest’s life, and this helped to prevent the alienation of land and property belonging to the Church.
However, it took centuries for the practice of priestly celibacy to become widespread. As Tony Flannery pointed out this afternoon, there were married priests, and perhaps even married bishops, in Ireland until as late as the 16th century. But while celibacy eventually became the norm in the Western Catholic Church, it was rejected by many parts of the western Church, and in the East remains a tradition only within monasticism.
Sandro Magister, a Vatican expert at the Italian magazine L’Espresso, said that he was confident that allowing married priests in the Amazon would ‘open the door for other bishops’ conferences all over the world to allow married priests,’ including in the heart of Europe. He said that German bishops plan to hold a synod on this topic next year.
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Málaga statue remembers
Solomon ibn Gabirol, a long
forgotten poet and philosopher
The statue of the poet and philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol in a small square in Málaga (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)
Between the Roman amphitheatre in Málaga and the proposed Sephardic Museum in La Judería in the southern Spanish city, a statue beneath the shade of some trees in a small square commemorates the Jewish poet and philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol, also known as Solomon ben Judah and Shlomo Ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol, is known in Arabic as Abu Ayyub Sulayman bin Yahya bin Jabirul.
He was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher who was influenced by Neo-Platonism. He published over 100 poems, as well as works of biblical exegesis, philosophy, ethics and satire. One source credits ibn Gabirol with creating a golem, possibly female, for household chores.
Researchers in the 19th century realised that mediaeval translators had Latinised ibn Gabirol’s name to Avicebron or Avencebrol and had translated his work on Jewish Neo-Platonic philosophy into a Latin form that in the intervening centuries had been highly regarded as a work of Islamic or Christian scholarship.
Because of this work, ibn Gabirol is known in the history of philosophy for the doctrine that all things, including soul and intellect, are composed of matter and form (‘Universal Hylomorphism’), and he is also known for his emphasis on divine will.
However, little is known about ibn Gabirol’s life. However, most sources agree he was born in Málaga, in late 1021 or early 1022. They are less certain about the date his death, although he died sometime between the age 30 and age 48.
Although ibn Gabirol lived a materially comfortable life, it was a difficult and loveless life, and he suffered ill health and misfortunes, and had fickle friends and powerful enemies.
His health problems – which may have been caused by lupus vulgaris – gave him constant pain and left him embittered for the rest of his life. His poetry shows how he thought himself short and ugly. Indeed, he was dismissed by many of his contemporaries as a social misfit.
The plaque in Málaga commemorating Solomon ibn Gabirol (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)
ibn Gabirol’s writings indicate his father was a prominent figure in Córdoba, but was forced to move to Málaga during a political crisis in 1013. His parents died while he was a child, leaving him an orphan with no siblings or close relatives.
He was befriended, supported and protected by a prominent political figure, Yekutiel ibn Hassan al-Mutawakkil ibn Qabrun, and moved to Zaragoza, then a centre of Jewish culture. There he immersed himself in studying the Talmud, grammar, geometry, astronomy and philosophy.
He was an accomplished poet and philosopher at an early age. By 17, he had composed five of his known poems, one an azhara (‘I am the master, and Song is my slave’) enumerating all 613 commandments of Judaism. At about this time, he also composed a 200-verse elegy for his patron Yekutiel, and four other notable elegies to mourn the death of Hai Gaon.
However, when ibn Gabirol was still 17, his patron was assassinated , and by 1045 ibn Gabirol had to leave Zaragoza.
He was then sponsored by Samuel ibn Naghrillah, the Grand Vizier of the King of Granada.
By 19, he had composed an alphabetical and acrostic poem in 400 verses teaching the rules of Hebrew grammar. By the time he was 23 or 25, he had composed, in Arabic, ‘Improvement of the Moral Qualities,’ later translated into Hebrew by Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon.
By 25, he also composed his collection of proverbs Mivchar Pninim (‘Choice of Pearls’), although scholars are divided on his authorship.
At 28, he composed his philosophical work Fons Vitæ.
But ibn Gabriol and Samuel ibn Naghrillah eventually argued, and ibn Gabirol spent the rest of his life wandering. He may have died in either in 1069 or 1070, or around 1058 in Valencia.
One legend claims that he was trampled to death by an Arab horseman. Another says he was murdered by a Muslim poet who was jealous of ibn Gabirol’s poetic gifts, and who secretly buried him beneath the roots of a fig tree. The tree bore fruit in abundant quantity and of extraordinary sweetness. Its unique qualities attracted attention and brought about an investigation. ibn Gabirol’s body was found under the tree, and his murderer was identified and executed.
Scholars disagree about the date and circumstances of the death of Solomon ibn Gabirol (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)
Although ibn Gabirol’s legacy was esteemed throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it was historically minimized by errors in scholarship that misattributed his works.
He seems to have often been called ‘the Málagan’ because of the city of his birth, known in Arabic days as al-Mālaqa. The 12th-century Arab philosopher Jabir ibn Aflah ascribed 17 philosophical essays by Gabirol to the Biblical King Solomon. The 15th-century Jewish philosopher Yohanan Alemanno introduced this error into Hebrew scholarship, and added another four works to the list of false ascriptions.
In 1846, Solomon Munk identified him with the Latin work known as Fons Vitæ and ascribed to Avicebron. For centuries, Avicebron or Avencebrol had been thought of as either a Christian or Arabic Muslim philosopher. confusion was in part because Fons Vitæ is independent of Jewish dogma and does not cite Biblical verses or Rabbinic sources.
ibn Gabirol also wrote sacred and secular poems in Hebrew, and was recognised even by his critics as the greatest poet of his age. His lasting poetic legacy, however, was his sacred works, often considered to be the most powerful of their kind in the mediaeval Hebrew tradition.
His long cosmological masterpiece, Keter Malchut (‘Royal Crown’), written for recitation on Yom Kippur, is regarded as one of the greatest poems Hebrew literature. In 900 lines, it describes the cosmos as testifying to its own creation by God, based on the then scientific understanding of the cosmos.
He also wrote more than 100 piyyuṭim and selichot for the Sabbath, festivals, and fast-days, most of which have been included in the prayer books for Holy Days used by Sephardim and Ashkenazim.
The Roman amphitheatre in Málaga … the statue of ibn Gabirol is in a small square nearby (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)
Labels: Inter-Faith Dialogue, Judaism, Malaga, Philosophy, Poetry, Sephardim, Spain 2019
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The average Delaware State University salary ranges from $24,650 to $92,042 a year. A Human Resources (HR) Director at Delaware State University makes the most with an average salary of $92,042 per year, while a Facilities / Maintenance Supervisor makes the least with an average salary of $24,650 per year.
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PPD Renews Commitment to PPD Beach2Battleship Triathlon
Event spotlights vital role of clinical research participation in improving health, saving lives
WILMINGTON, N.C. (October 24, 2014) – Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD) today announced it has renewed its commitment as title sponsor of the annual PPD Beach2Battleship Triathlon. PPD has supported the annual iron-distance triathlon – scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 25 – as the title sponsor since 2010.
PPD announced the sponsorship renewal during the annual PPD Hero Awards held today at company headquarters in Wilmington. The event celebrates clinical trial heroes, everyday people who overcame illness with medical treatments developed by clinical research, and who compete in the triathlon to help raise awareness about the importance of increasing participation in clinical trials.
“We are pleased to renew our commitment to the PPD Beach2Battleship event and the community we call home for our worldwide headquarters,” said David Simmons, chairman and CEO of PPD. “PPD began sponsoring the triathlon to support its employees’ commitment to healthy lifestyles and to help educate the public about the vital role clinical research plays in improving health and saving lives. Along the way, the triathlon weekend has grown into a premier celebration of the Cape Fear region. We look forward to remaining part of the PPD Beach2Battleship Triathlon and continuing to invest in this community.”
More than 2,000 athletes participate in the race, rated among the top five iron-distance triathlons in the world by readers of Triathlete magazine, including approximately 120 PPD employees this year from Wilmington and other PPD office locations. The event generates an estimated $4 million in local economic impact. Funds raised benefit the Wilmington Family YMCA.
“The PPD Beach2Battleship is the largest single fundraising event each year for our organization,” said Dick Jones, president and CEO of the Wilmington Family YMCA. “Proceeds from this event help the Y provide programs and wellness services to hundreds of families in need throughout the Wilmington area. PPD’s continued partnership with the Y through this event will help us deliver on our mission of providing programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.”
Help Get Sponsors, a full-service sponsorship sales and management company based in Raleigh, N.C., represented the Wilmington Family YMCA on the sponsorship.
Produced by Set Up Events, which is among the largest triathlon production companies in the United States, the 140.6-mile race starts in Wrightsville Beach, winds through New Hanover, Pender, Sampson and Bladen counties and ends in downtown Wilmington. The full iron distance triathlon includes a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run. The event also offers a half triathlon course. This year, the New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) 5K was added as a companion race, expanding opportunity for participation in a world-class event weekend.
PPD is a leading global contract research organization providing drug discovery, development, lifecycle management and laboratory services. Our clients and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations. With offices in 46 countries and approximately 13,000 professionals worldwide, PPD applies innovative technologies, therapeutic expertise and a commitment to quality to help clients and partners accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics and maximize the returns on their R&D investments. For more information, visit www.ppdi.com.
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Step Up, Speak Out set Wednesday
by KENNETH FRYPress Argus-Courier Editor
Wednesday’s Step Up, Speak Out block party at the Boys and Girls Club of Van Buren will have events for both children and adults.
Step Up, Speak Out to increase awareness of child abuse is scheduled for 5 to 7 p.m. on the club parking lot in the Dr. Louis Peer Memorial City Park, according to Cindy Faldon, boys and girls club director.
The Van Buren Step Up, Speak Out block party is being held in conjunction with similar events at Spradling and Tilles Elementary schools, Evans Boys and Girls Club and Girls Inc. in Fort Smith, Boys and Girls Club in Greenwood and the Lavaca Public School softball field.
Booths offering games and informative material will be set up by the boys and girls club, Kiwanis Club, BACA, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Optimist Club, CASA of Crawford County and GFWC Women’s League of Van Buren.
There will be face painting and a football toss.
Children also will receive free T-shirts, coloring books and bracelets.
Citizens Bank & Trust will grill 1,000 hot dogs donated by Arkansas Food Bank. Arvest Bank will provide suckers and balloons for the kids.
Lee Prince, a rapper and hip hop artist, and 357, a band which plays older rock ‘n roll, also will perform.
To be given away as door prizes will be a Kindle Fire donated by Heritage United Methodist Church, two bicycles and a skateboard from Fort Smith Area United Way and two bikes from GFWC Women’s League of Van Buren.
First Baptist Church of Van Buren will provide tents for the events.
On display will be vehicles from the Van Buren Fire Department, Van Buren Police Department and Crawford County Sheriff’s Department.
Detective Donald Eversole of the Van Buren Police Department will conduct an Internet safety class for adults at 5:45 p.m. Literature also will be available on how to teach parents to better protect children from abuse.
Crawford County Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Robert Presley will emcee the event.
The boys and girls club will run a shuttle van from Central Elementary School parking lot to the club from 4 to 5 p.m. and again at 7 p.m.
In the case of inclement weather the event will be moved indoors at the boys and girls club.
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The Doors- Vinyl Box Set
The Doors: The Doors
7 LP Box Set
Label: Rhino
- The Doors (stereo)
- Strange days
- Waiting For The Sun
- The Soft Parade
- Morrison Hotel
- L.A. Woman
- The Doors (original Mono Mix)
This set is now out-of-print. We have a limited amount remaining. Buy now before the price increases or worse, before they're gone.
"…It's good. No, it's magnificent…If you love the Doors and can still find a copy of this box set, buy it, no matter what you have to pay." – Jeff Dorgay, Tone Audio, No. 15, 2008
The ultimate Doors collectible: A limited-edition, seven-LP box – covered in faux lizard skin – with 12" 180-gram HQ vinyl reissues of the original stereo mixes of the band's six Morrison-era studio albums PLUS a copy of their '67 debut album in mono! All remastered by Bernie Grundman! And pressed at RTI! The entire set has been personally supervised by Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records and production supervisor of The Doors, and Bruce Botnick, The Doors' engineer/co-producer/mixer for all six studio albums. All albums are exact replicas of the original releases, including all artwork, packaging, inner sleeves and mixes.
The Doors' revolutionary self-titled 1967 debut LP – widely regarded as one of rock music's most important debuts – instantly heralded the arrival of an utterly original, and now all-time legendary, band. Through five more groundbreaking studio albums, the Doors were fronted by rock icon Jim Morrison as they expanded the boundaries of contemporary music, performance art and popular culture overall. Today, their impact looms as large as ever, and Rhino continues its 40th anniversary of the group's stunning debut with a deluxe vinyl box set certain to be a highly prized and sought-after rarity. Only 12,500 were made worldwide.
This set is strictly limited to 12,500 copies! Please note that when this set was first announced the record label misinformed their distributors by claiming the set would be limited to 5,000 copies. That production run was increased due to their decision to expand the offer to include the European market. We have been assured that 12,500 is the final and accurate total for copies to be pressed.
This is an obvious must-have for any fan of The Doors. And how could you not be a fan of The Doors?
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Kevin Prufer
IN A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY by Kevin PruferPosted by Timothy Green
Review by Nick DePascal
IN A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
by Kevin Prufer
Four Way Books
Village Station, New York NY 10014
2011, 116 pp., $15.95
www.fourwaybook.com
Kevin Prufer’s fifth poetry collection, In a Beautiful Country, is a fitting follow up to 2008’s National Anthem in terms of a continuation of themes and content. Like his previous collection, In a Beautiful Country is an engaging and lengthy meditation on the loss of one’s country, one’s faith and one’s friends and family. The collection, in its willingness to take risks with imagery and sounds, is an absolute mesmerizing pleasure to read. And yet, while as a reader I’m quite a fan of dark, unflinching poetry, especially dealing with personal loss, the collection, at 107 pages, seems to push these themes too insistently, and for too long.
Unlike the two large sections of National Anthem that cleanly split the political and personal poems, In a Beautiful Country, for the most part, prefers to move in symphonic swells of theme, helped along by much shorter sections. In general, this structuring of the book and placement of the poems allow the reader to feel as though they are experiencing the poems more naturally and to find connections among the varying subjects of the book.
One particularly evocative example of this comes late in the collection in three successive poems. “The 20th Century” wonderfully personifies a time period, beginning as a pitying lament to the dying century wherein the reader is advised to “Kiss its cheek, then smooth its sad, gray hair. / Bring it secret cigarettes. How could they hurt / it anymore?” yet ending with a call to snuff the century, and all it entailed, out: “And if it finds no comfort from your visit, / put a pillow to its mouth, and, so, be done with it.”
Following this poem is “Recent History,” wherein the speaker and his neighbors encounter dying angels crashing down to earth with such disinterestedness that by the end of the poem they seem to care only that “they’ll stink in the sun.” Placed immediately after “The 20th Century,” the mundane spiritual malady of “Recent History” seems to be a direct consequence of the sickness of the 20th century. Following these two poems is “A Wandering Star,” which tracks the devastating effects of Earth suddenly gaining a second star, in tandem with the slow death of the speaker’s father. Even as “the treetops burst in flame,” and “the roofs / charred,” the speaker remains at his father’s bedside until “the star grew / dimmer every day, / until at last, like you, it blinked away.” The whole poem is a beautifully executed metaphor on both our ability to survive loss and the seemingly hollow life that remains once we’ve survived it.
Following as it does “Recent History,” there is again a suggested causality between the poems, as if the death of the angels and, by proxy, the faith in the first poem is directly responsible for the Biblical-like destruction of “A Wandering Star.” Though each of the three poems have different themes, and make use of varying imagery, their expert placement in the collection guarantees cross-pollination in the reader’s mind.
Elsewhere, it is the opposite: that the repeated use of particular imagery tends to blur some of the poems together, and suggests redundancy rather than pattern. In a number of poems where death has occurred or is occurring, wintry images are employed so often that they become a sort of too easy stand-in for the cold sadness of a loved one’s death. In the poem “Icicles,” we learn that “melting icicles remind me / of a hospital.” Two poems later comes “Burial Hymn in Winter.” In “Broken Statue of Gabriel,” “Carla said it was a body in the snow.” In “Transparent Cities,” the speaker tells us “I fell into a snow bank and didn’t wake again,” and then in “Night Watch,” “the snow fell like angels.” It certainly isn’t that these poems aren’t incredibly written, or beautifully wrought, but rather that the redundant imagery over the lot of them blunts their thematic intensity, especially the further into the collection the reader gets. It’s exactly the variety of images that occur throughout the rest of the collection that makes these winter-heavy poems seem excessive and less powerful.
And yet, even with these occasional missteps, its clear that Prufer is in full command of his image-making faculties. The book is rich with images at turns beautiful, disturbing, vivid and voluptuous. Prufer’s love and mastery of the striking image is evident in his ability to make the reader reconsider a seemingly concrete image from another angle. Consider the painstakingly rendered, almost perversely loving description of a weapon of destruction in “Patriot Missile,” which begins:
I loved the half-constructed hulk of it,
the firing condenser that, bared,
caught the light
and made of it a copper flare—
nose and husk, electrolyte.
And I, tweezing a clot of oil, a metal shaving from its stilled heart,
might smile, as if to tell it Live—
Here, the image of the missile is given the florid details of a living thing, so that it comes to sound like the speaker is describing a flower, or the features of a beloved. Likewise, another exciting trait of much of Prufer’s poetry is at work in this poem: his seemingly unabashed love of rhythm, rhyme, and just generally sound. Here, the rhymes of “bared” and “flare,” and “oil” and “smile,” have a soft, open-mouthed quality to them, as if the speaker is cooing to a lover, which incidentally, later in the poem he does, when he discloses “I told it Darling and Love.”
It seems rare and refreshing these days to find a poet so willing to pose a clear and traceable rhyme scheme in his poetry, and yet Prufer does so quite effortlessly. Take for example the ABBA rhyme structure of “What I Gave the 20th Century,” which begins “I gave it thirty years. It wanted more. / I loved its mad perambulations / through the outlet malls, its runs / of horror movies and its discount stores.” Prufer manages to successfully carry this rhyme scheme throughout the four stanzas of the poem by using a mix of perfect and slant rhyme. He never forces an exact rhyme on the lines if they don’t call for it, instead allowing rhymes to fall where they may within the line, all of which contributes to wonderful sound and rhythm without sacrificing the surprise of interesting line breaks. Ultimately, it’s this sort of attention to sonic detail and general command of image that make one want to go back and read the poems again and again.
Nick DePascal currently lives in Albuquerque, NM with his wife and son, where he’s working towards his MFA in Poetry at the University of New Mexico. His poetry and reviews have appeared in Sugar House Review, Adobe Walls, The Houston Literary Review, Breadcrumb Scabs and more.
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County Board to Consider Roland Clarke Project in Reston
by Fatimah Waseem October 24, 2018 at 10:15 am 12 Comments
Roland Clarke Place (Photo via handout/Fairfax County Government)
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Plans to replace a vacant office building at 1941 Roland Clarke Place with a 308-unit apartment building are headed to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for approval next week.
Woodfield Investments wants to demolish a two-story office building and replace it with a 291,650-square-foot multifamily building across around 6 acres of land north of Sunrise Valley Drive, south of the Dulles Toll Road and east of Reston Parkway.
A hearing on the project is set for Oct. 30 at 3:30 p.m.
The property would be developed in two phases. Phase one will include the construction of the apartment building, which has 37 workforce dwelling units. The second phase will retain an 80,000-square-foot office building and the addition of a pocket park. The second phase leaves the option of redevelopment sometime in the future, according to the proposal.
The existing cul-de-sac at Roland Clarke Place will be reconstructed and extended further north to connect two private roads and provide access to the parking garage on the property.
Staff from the Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning recommended approval of the project.
Photos via handout/Fairfax County Government
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NextStop Theatre Presents Adaptation of ‘East of Eden’
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Too many (parking) spaces, not enough green!
Proof that McMaster is overbuilt with parking comes via this recent (April 2011) consultants' report on McMaster Campus Capacity: at the peak of parking demand, 2,803 spaces are required out of a possible 4,276 spaces - that's 1,473 unused spaces at peak usage. That's a lot of concrete and asphalt wasted even at peak, with of course far less demand the majority of time.
There are 1,349 spaces in lot M at present, the site of the parking lot that abuts Ancaster Creek and the focus of our concern at Restore Cootes. Where we are pushing for at least a 30m buffer between parking and the creek, it turns out a lot more could be done. In fact, given the data, the possibility exists to remove the majority of spaces there, enabling us to realistically act on the potential to re-establish a natural area so important to the health of the local watershed, including the Cootes Paradise marsh which Ancaster Creek feeds into.
As we know, the parking lots located west of Cootes Drive ar…
invoking paradise
"The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world-we've actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves and each other."
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