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Jack-o’-Lantern: A Brief History
The word Jack-o’-Lantern has only been used since the early 19th century in American but the term dates back to 17th-century Britain, where it referred to a night watchman with a lantern tasked on keeping watch through the night. But, the use of gourds lit with candles goes back much farther than either of these terms.
The history of the Jack-o’-Lantern is muddled with poor research and confusing accounts. Why? Well because a lot of the tradition occurred in times where recording traditions like this weren’t very common.
Although pumpkins are the Jack of choice these days turnips, in pre-Christian Britain, were the most popular Jack-o’-Lanterns. However, beets and other smaller gourds were also popular Jacks to use. The early Jack-o’-Lantern had a similar function to a man with a lantern. During Samhain, which is believed to be when the lanterns were used the most, however, it is not unthinkable that it could be used during other time of the year. These turnips and other vegetables were carved with the most frightening faces a person could imagine. The scarier the better because it was the person’s hope that these carvings would scare away the spirits that would wander by their homes when the veil was thin. These faces were also sometimes illuminated by coals.
There is also the myth of Stingy Jack which is also linked to Jack-o’-Lanterns. In Ireland, ages ago, there lived a man named Stingy Jack. Based on name alone I’m sure you can guess he wasn’t a very fun fellow. He was known as the town drunkard and on top of that he often lied, cheated, stole, and played countless pranks on unsuspecting townsfolk. Every night he would walk down the pub and drink until he was kicked out.
One night on his evening sojourn to the pub he came across a grotesque and inhuman body lying on the ground. This frightening body was that of the Devil who had come to collect Jack’s soul and bring him to the depths of hell. Shocked, Jack requested one more earthly delight...another drink.
The Devil, surprisingly, agreed. So, they both walked to the pub and Jack ordered a drink. When he had finished his ale he turned to the Devil and with some unknown confidence requested the Devil pay the tab. The Devil was equally shocked at this request and wanting to continue the fun he transformed himself into a sixpence so he could walk over and give it to the bartender...but Jack didn’t pay.
Instead, he slid the six-pence piece into his pocket right next to his crucifix. Being so close to a crucifix trapped the Devil and lessened his powers. Having all the power, Jack decided to make a deal with the Devil...he’d let the Devil out of his pocket but only if he promised his spare his soul for another decade. The Devil agreed.
Ten years pass and a scene much like his first meeting with the Devil occurs. Jack, knowing his time was up, agreed but made one more request. He requested to eat one more able from a nearby apple tree. The Devil, pleased at this simple request, agreed and climbed up a tree. As he was climbing and distracted, Stingy Jack cunningly carved a cross into the tree with his knife. The Devil was stuck...again. And Jack had another barter. The Devil had to promise to never take his soul to hell. The Devil agreed.
Stingy Jack finally died after a long life of drinking and debauchery. He was turned away at the gates of heaven but was unable to go to Hell, either. So, he was doomed to wander alone. The Devil, strangely, felt something for the cunning man who had eluded him twice and gave Jack a single, burning ember to help light his way through the dark.
When Jack came upon a turnip he hollowed it out, placed the ever-burning ember inside, and created a lantern that would forever guide his way through the darkness of the netherworld. It was then he lost his nickname Stingy Jack and gained a new one...Jack of the Lantern.
So how did it come back in the 19th century? Well, Halloween used to be epically pranky. One of the most popular pranks involved carving faces into pumpkins and then using those pumpkin heads to scare people in the dead of night.
At the end of the 19th century, their attractiveness and symbology of Halloween took hold in America and they became a common decoration.
The above image is from Flickr user Benny Mazur. It is licensed under Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).
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Data released in June gives an idea where Walker County stands in several key demographics, according to information from the United States Census bureau.
The county population was a little older and less diverse than the nation as a whole on July 1, 2018 according to the figures. The 2018 predicts a population of 72,480 in Walker County and 41,521 in Huntsville. That is an increase of 6.8% in the county and 7.7% in the city.
Children under 5 years make up 4.3% of the Walker County population. Nationwide the demographic accounts for 6.1%. Census trends show Walker County children decreasing in numbers since the last census.
The bulk of Walker County’s population is between the age of 18 and 65, accounting for 67.4% of the county. Walker county is below the national average in persons over 65 years old with 13.2%, with a 16% national average.
The white-non hispanic population in Walker County is 72.9% of the total. For the US, it is now 76.5%. African Americans account for 23.4% of the county, while hispanics make up 18.1%.
Walker County housing units total 26,408. Of those 52.8% are owner-occupied. For the U.S. the figure is 63.8%. The median value of those Henderson County homes is $132,200. Nationwide, the value is $193,000. Renters pay a median $838 in Walker County. The U.S. median is $982.
In Walker County 16.5% of its residents speak a language other than English in the home. Nationwide its 21.3%.
Among adults age 25 and older, 83.6% of Walker County residents have a high school diploma, while 20.3% have a bachelor's degree or higher. For the U.S. that's 30.9%.
Walker County residents, under age 65, without health insurance, account for 19.3% of the population. The percentage is 10.2 nationwide.
The median household income for Walker County residents is $41,456. For the United States, it's $57,652. Per capita, the figure is $17,194 for the county and 31,177 for the U.S. The county had 23.1% living in poverty as compared to 12.3% for the nation.
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Shrinking Space in RF Poses Challenges to AV Integrators
By Kelleigh Welch (Systems Contractor News) 2015-12-23T12:15:00Z Business
Picture your desk—you have a computer, a phone, a few folders with information about your latest project, a photo of your dog, all carefully arranged in their own designated space. Now cut the size of your desk in half—you can still fit everything in the space, it’s just a lot more cramped.
Such is the case with the wireless spectrum as the FCC continues to auction off pieces designated for TV broadcast and wireless microphone systems. Currently, wireless systems have access to the 470 to 698 mHz frequencies, but on March 29, 2016, this range will get smaller as pieces are auctioned off to mobile broadband companies.
So what does this mean for integrators? To start, with fewer frequencies to work with, integrators need to future proof their systems by choosing reliable and efficient wireless systems.
“Right now, if you are designing or putting together a concept for an install, you need to choose systems that are spectrally efficient. You have to look for attributes that can serve your install, with a wide tuning coverage,” explained Nick Wood, category director for wireless systems, Shure.
Another key to future proofing your wireless systems is finding alternative spectrums to use. Over at Audio-Technica, Jackie Green, VP of R&D and engineering, said the company started future-proofing its wireless systems as early as 1997. “We didn’t want to create a product that wouldn’t be useful to end users later on,” she explained. “At the same time, we started looking at alternative spectrums. Unofficially, it was becoming clear that parts of the spectrum were going away, and that we needed to come up with new ways to deal with that.”
Because A-T started looking early for new frequencies, they were able to test which ones were effective for wireless systems early on. More recently, A-T has invested in the 6 gHz range, creating the Spectrapulse, an install-based wireless system that utilizes that range.
“Right now that spectrum is mostly open,” she explained. “The other thing we need to look at is as we feed on leftover communications and technologies, it may be necessary to move into wireless mic systems above 10 gHz. Some communication companies out there looking for something above that already.”
Software is also important, said Wood, since it helpful to have a full set of tools to navigate the available wireless space. “Software is important to get everything to work harmoniously,” Wood said. “If possible, integrators should do a site survey to understand the RF environment.”
The FCC did provide some good news for the AV industry though, first by revising the rules to what constitutes a wireless operator.
“They’ve defined it more broadly,” he said. “Before we had to be involved in broadcasting in order to be involved in this category, but now they’ve become more inclusive to involve music, performance, and HOW.”
There is also room for wireless users to expand to new frequencies following the March auction, which will give wireless systems designers the opportunity to branch out. “The FCC has identified alternative spectrums outside of this range. Not all of them are immediately available, but the fact that they are under construction is a good sign,” said Wood.
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Ex-military leaders launch venture capital firm
Plowshares Ventures has launched as an Israel-based, but globally-focused, VC firm focused on the "intersection of the defense and commercial sectors," according to confidential documents obtained by Axios. The firm's three managing partners are:
Benny Gantz, former chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
Moshe Mor, formerly with Greylock Partners
Moti Shniberg, founder of Face.com (acquired by Facebook)
The group also has several senior advisors, including former U.S. Marine Corps General John Allen and Lord David Richards (former chief of staff of British Armed Forces).
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In September 2007 Avram Grant, in his early fifties, was appointed the new manager of Chelsea football club after the surprise departure of Jose Mourinho.
Avram Grant had recently been appointed Chelsea's director of football, and at the time, The Guardian reported:
"A source close to the coach denied press reports last week that Grant was swayed by a promise from Roman Abramovich that he would be the replacement for Jose Mourinho as manager 'if things go wrong this season'."
In May 2008 Chelsea sacked Avram Grant after just eight months as their manager, in spite of him taking Chelsea to the runners-up spot in the Premier League and Champions League finalists, just losing out to Manchester United on penalties.
Before joining Chelsea, Avram Grant had been Portsmouth's technical director.
Martin Samuel commented on Harry Redknapp's reluctance to get in the way of Avram Grant's move from Portsmouth to Chelsea:
"Grant is the director of football at Portsmouth, where his input is rated so highly by Harry Redknapp that the manager did everything but offer to drive him up the M3 when rumours of a move to Chelsea surfaced."
Avram Grant is reported to have first got to know Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich through the football agent Pini Zahavi, who, according to the Daily Mail: "took Abramovich to the Israel team hotel in Dublin to meet Grant after a 2-2 draw in a World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in 2004."
Grant, having won Israel's league title with Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa became Israel's manager, and was in charge when Israel narrowly failed to qualify for the World Cup 2006 finals.
Israel were unbeaten in their qualifying group but finished behind France and Switzerland.
Avram Grant and Israel parted company in the winter of 2005/6.
Avram Grant's wife Tzofit is an actress and TV host.
On April 30, 2008, after Avram Grant had coached Chelsea to a place in the Champions League final when they beat Liverpool in extra time in the second leg of the semi-finals at Stamford Bridge, he knelt to the turf and offered a prayer in remembrance of his family members killed in the Holocaust.
The BBC quoted Avram Grant's explanation:
"It was not an easy day for me. It is Holocaust Day in my country and I was thinking of my father, who buried my grandfather with his own hands, and I am very proud of what we did.
"It was very emotional. I owe a lot to my parents. My father survived the Holocaust and had to bury many of his family but he is the strongest and most optimistic man I have ever met."
In October 2009, Avram Grant returned to Portsmouth, which earlier in the week had been taken over by Ali Al Faraj, as their new director of football.
However, on 20 May 2010, Avram Grant resigned as manager of Portsmouth. The club was in financial crisis and had been relegated although it had reached the final of the F. A. Cup, which it lost to Chelsea.
On 3 June 2010, West Ham appointed Avram Grant as their new manager.
However, West Ham were relegated that season, and, on 15 May 2011, Avram Grant and West Ham parted company.
In 2012, he had a short stint in charge of Partizan Belgrade, winning the Serbian championship.
In 2014, he was appointed coach of the Ghana national side.
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Battle Creek man sentenced for making and distributing child pornography
Travis Tudor, 34, was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to a charge of sexual exploitation of a child.
Battle Creek man sentenced for making and distributing child pornography Travis Tudor, 34, was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to a charge of sexual exploitation of a child. Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2019/01/08/battle-creek-child-pornography-travis-tudor/2513723002/
Trace Christenson, Battle Creek Enquirer Published 1:42 p.m. ET Jan. 8, 2019 | Updated 1:43 p.m. ET Jan. 8, 2019
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KALAMAZOO - A Battle Creek man has been sentenced to federal prison for making and distributing child pornography.
Travis Tudor, 34, was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Monday during an appearance in Federal District Court in Kalamazoo after pleading guilty to a charge of sexual exploitation of a child.
Tudor was arrested in February by the Michigan State Police Computer Crimes Unit after they learned he was posting an ad on Criagslist soliciting images of child pornography.
Troopers were able to learn his identity and found him living in Bedford Township.
Investigators found evidence on his mobile devices that he was making and distributing child porn.
He was arraigned in Calhoun County District Court on Feb. 9 on charges of manufacturing, possession and distribution of child pornography.
He told Magistrate David Heiss at the time that, "This is all a big misunderstanding. I can prove my innocence if I have a fair chance."
Before the case proceeded in Calhoun County, Tudor was charged in April in Federal District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
Federal prosecutors alleged that on Jan. 30, 2018, between 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. Tudor took video of a naked six-year-old child and then sent several screenshots to another cellphone along with a message which said in part, "Nice. Here I took these of (redacted) for you. Actually I got a couple decent ----- shots."
He then went on to say he wanted to have sex with the child, according to an Aug. 29 plea agreement signed by Tudor.
State Police Detective/Trooper Torey Johns said Tuesday that, in addition to the six-year-old, Tudor was believed to have exploited a four-year-old girl.
In addition to his sentence of 27 years in prison, Tudor was sentenced by Judge Paul L. Maloney to a lifetime of supervised release.
Contact Trace Christenson at 269-966-0685 or tchrist@battlecreekenquirer.com. Follow him on Twitter: @TSChrisenson
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Friends of Kennedy
JOHN F. KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL and BELLMORE JFK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
PROUDLY ANNOUNCE THE 2019 INDUCTEES
HALL OF FAME/WALL OF HONOR/ FRIENDS OF KENNEDY
.... friends, alumni, family and business associates that would like to attend the event and honor the inductees and to purchase tickets, advertise in the journal and become a sponsor of the event please use the info below to print out the forms.
These are the 2019 inductees
Dr. Joseph Etzel
’83 – Renowned Clinical Faculty Practioner-St. John’s University School of Pharmacy
Rick Farber ‘78 – Senior Advisor for Financial Markets, United States Treasury
Neil Grover ’73 – Percussionist, Boston Symphony
Steph Hammerman ’08 – Adaptive Cross Fit Athlete and Trainer/ Entrepreneur Motivational Speaker
Dr. Jack Krauser ’69 – Renowned Periodontist/ Officer of International College of Oral Implantologists
Lee Mandel ’99- CEO of Intralogic Solutions
Dr. Thomas Pappas ’74 – Director of Cardiac Catherization, St. Francis Hospital
Seth Pitlake ’77 – Realtor, President of Merrick Kiwanis
Jackie Stone ’86 – Chief Marketing Officer of MiMedia
Dr. Aren Skolnick ’01 – Endocrinologist, Northwell Health, Asst. Professor, Zucker
School of Medicine (Hofstra University)
Steven Wunderlich ‘71 – Founding Executive Board /Executive Director of PREVAIL/ JFK Wrestler
WALL OF HONOR (RETIRED FACULTY)
Lorraine Poppe, Principal (1995-2018)
Eileen Connolly, Assistant Principal (1996-2015)
John Schaefer, Original Staff Member/Famed Wrestling Coach
FRIENDS OF KENNEDY (COMMUNITY)
Janet Goller Brooke Jones Louise Maxworthy
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JFK Hall of Fame Inductees
Colonel Steven D. Hunte, USA (Ret.) Class of 1973
A 1977 graduate of the University of Iowa, Steve Hunte is the most decorated wrestler in the history of Kennedy High School. A commissioned officer of the United States Army, Steve served his country with great distinction for over 32 years, before retiring at the rank of “Colonel” in 2011.
-Three time Nassau County Section Wrestling Champion
-Two time New York State Intercollegiate & Freestyle Wrestling Champion
- Member of three NCAA Championship Wrestling Teams
-Assistant Wrestling Coach at USMA at West Point
-All-Army Wrestling Team
-Chief of Physical Therapy at Numerous Command Posts
-Recipient of Army Commendation & Army Achievement Medals
Steve’s personal commitment to helping others and his dedication to providing to the welfare of military veterans embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Artie Kempner Class of 1977
A 1981 graduate of the University of Florida, Artie Kempner earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communications, while being a member of the national powerhouse “Gators” football squad. He has distinguished himself as an athlete, sports broadcaster, television producer and tireless advocate for autism research.
-USA Network – Director of US Open Tennis
-FOX Sports Director for the NFL and NASCAR
- FOX Sports Director of NHL
-FOX Sports Director of Super Bowl XXXIX and XLII
-Eight Time Sports Emmy Winner
-Founder and Past President of Autism Society of Delaware
-Former Board Member of Autism Society of America
Artie’s pursuit of excellence has taken him from the hallways of Kennedy to the spotlights of primetime television to “behind the scenes” as a television producer. His continued support and advocacy for autism research on both a state and national level is well recognized, and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Joan Littman Landry Class of 1984
A 1988 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Joan Littman Landry has distinguished herself as an army officer, as an engineer and as a pioneer for women seeking to go where others can only dream of.
-First female from JFK to attend and graduate from the USMA at West Point
-First Lieutenant, Operations Officer, Intelligence Analyst
-Contract Engineer for Abbott Laboratories
-Recipient of Numerous Army and Corporate Awards
-Completed Fifteen Full Marathons in Eleven States
Joan’s professional achievements and her personal commitment to assisting others by her service to our country and her continued efforts in opening doors to other females embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Steve Levy Class of 1983
A 1987 graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego, Steve Levy has distinguished himself as being one of the longest tenured ESPN SportsCenter anchors in the history of the network. A journalist, a broadcaster and play-by-play man, Steve’s career has taken him from college football to the National Hockey League:
-Nicknamed “Mr. Overtime” for broadcasting the three longest televised Stanley Cup playoff games in NHL history
- Member of the ESPN crew to travel to Kuwait with SportsCenter to “Salute the Troops”
- Winner of three Emmy awards for his role on SportsCenter
As one of the most recognized voices and sports personalities on ESPN’s SportsCenter, Steve has demonstrated that persistence, perseverance and effort are the cornerstones of success, and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Gary Morganstern Class of 1973
A 1977 graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Gary Morganstern continued his education at Loyola University School of Dentistry in Chicago, Illinois. As a Doctor of Dentistry in private practice in Merrick, Gary has distinguished himself as a professional, as a mentor to countless students and as the inaugural President of the John F. Kennedy High School Alumni Association.
-Private Practitioner (Doctor of Dentistry)
-President of John F. Kennedy High School Alumni Association
-Mentor - JFK Senior Experience Program
-Volunteer for Big Smiles Foundation
Gary’s dedication to volunteerism and to mentoring countless students from Kennedy High School will impact their lives forever. His selfless efforts on behalf of thousands of alumni and his generosity of time, talent and spirit embody the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Adam Schefter Class of 1985
A 1989 graduate of The University of Michigan, Adam went on to earn a master’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. A journalist, a sports reporter, radio personality and television sports analyst, Adam’s credits include:
- Sports Reporter for The Denver Post (Covered Denver Broncos for sixteen seasons and two Super Bowls)
-Sports Analyst for ESPN – “NFL INSIDER”
-Author of four books
-Sports Illustrated “Power 40” as one of the NFL’s most influential people
As one of the most recognized sports personalities on ESPN, Adam has demonstrated that hard work and perseverance are the trademarks of success as he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Larry Scott Class of 1982
A 1986 graduate of Harvard College, Larry Scott has distinguished himself as an accomplished business man and as an outstanding athlete. Larry has established a solid track record of innovation and growth, across a range of different sports, at both the college and professional levels.
-New York State Tennis Champion
-All-American Honors in Tennis at Harvard College
-Professional Tennis Player (ATP Circuit)
-Commissioner of NCAA PAC-12 Conference
-Recipient of Women’s Sports Foundation “Billie Jean King Contribution Award”
-Named to Time Magazine’s list of “Best Global Sports Executives”
Larry’s professional achievements and his personal commitment to assisting others by expanding opportunities of student-athletes and women are remarkable indeed and embody the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Ronald Steiger Class of 1972
Ron attended Nassau Community College, Farmingdale State College and Long Island University, CW Post Campus. He has been the driving force behind the creation and movement of the JFK Alumni Association.
-Regional Sales Director of Woodbury Financial Services for New York and all New England States
-Creator of the Bellmore JFK Alumni Association website and publisher of the Alumni Newsletter
-Trustee, JFK Alumni Association
-Civic Volunteer to Countless Charities and Organizations
Ron’s dedication to volunteerism, his selfless efforts on behalf of thousands of alumni and his generosity of time, talent and spirit embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy
Kenny Dichter – Class of 1986
A 1990 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Kenny Dichter has been an entrepreneur in sports marketing, retail and manufacturing. He is the founder of three companies:
· Alphabet City (a recording company)
· Tour GCX Inc. (golf access)
· Marquis Jet (travel access)
Kenny' s entrepreneurial success allowed him to create MarquisCare, which supports more than 50 different charities. A participant in JFK' s Senior Experience Program, Kenny is a favored guest speaker in Kennedy's classrooms.
Doug Ellin – Class of 1986
A 1990 graduate of Tulane University, Doug Ellin has become an acclaimed comic, actor, writer, producer and director. His credits include:
· Creator, Head Writer, and Producer of the hit television show, Entourage.
· Writer, Actor and Director of Life with Bonnie, Kissing a Fool, Phat Beach, The Pitch and The Waiter.
Doug is a creative artist, a philanthropist, and a recognized leader in the field of television.
Jonathan Fish – Class of 1980
A 1984 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania' s Wharton School of Business, Jonathan Fish then studied at Oxford University, earning a diploma in 1988.
· Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Advertising Council
· Five-time National Champion (Rowing)
· Seven-time Member, World Rowing Championship
· Gold Medalist-1986 Goodwill Games, Russia
· Olympian in Seoul, Korea 1988
· Silver Medalist-1991 Pan American Games, Cuba
Jon is a recognized business executive, adjunct professor, CPA, United States Olympian, member of Board of Directors of Row, New York, and former member of the United States Olympic Committee.
Lori E. Horowitz Moran –
Class of 1979 A graduate of Hofstra University and Hofstra University School of Law, Lori Horowitz Moran was admitted to the New York State Bar Association at the age of 22. In addition to participating as an attorney, she has held a variety of county positions:
· Chief Counsel, Nassau County Board of Supervisors
· Chief Prosecutor for Child Abuse, Nassau County
· Bureau Chief, Nassau County Department of Real Estate
· Chief of Operations for Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta
· Chief Operating Officer – Private Management Co.
Dr Matthew Kuschner – Class of 1977
A graduate of The State University of New York at Albany, Matthew Kuschner continued his studies at New York Chiropractic College. Formerly a private practitioner, Dr. Kuschner now serves as a medical investigator for a national insurance company.
· Chiropractor/Medical Investigator
· Fifteen-year Trustee, North Merrick Board of Education
· Six-year Trustee and/or Officer, Bellmore-Merrick CHSD Board of Education
· Member, Board of Directors of Bellmore-Merrick Community Wellness Center
· Commissioner: CYO and PAL Football
· Three-year Trustee, Congregation B' nai Israel
As a long time community advocate, Matthew Kuschner transformed his passion into action.
David Paul Weiss –
Class of 1968 A graduate of Buffalo University and Hofstra University School of Law, David Paul Weiss is a member of the first graduating class of John F. Kennedy High School. David is the backbone of countless organizations and community activities in Bellmore-Merrick, providing pro-bono legal services, as well as active support:
· Five-time President and 25-year Member of Bellmore Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
· Board of Directors, Bellmore-Merrick Cultural Arts Foundation
· Founder, JFK Alumni Wrestling Club
· Officer, JFK Sports Booster Club
· Advisor, BMCHSD Scholarship Program
· Mentor, BMCHSD Senior Experience/Shadow Days
Mr. Weiss is a tireless community advocate, an ardent supporter of all activities at Kennedy High School, and a true role model.
Lawrence B. Steinberg, Class of 1975
Graduated Yale University in 1978; and then Harvard Law School in 1981. Member of Los Angeles County Bar Association, Beverly HillsAssociation and American Bar Association.
Volunteer Work as a Board Member, Office and Past President of PUBLIC COUNSEL, a Pro Bono, Volunteer Public Interest Law Office that Provide Legal Services for Indigent, Specializing in Consumer Fraud and Real Property Fraud Cases.
Volunteer Work as a Member of the Board of Directors of the INNER CITYLAW CENTER, an Organization Providing Legal Representation Designed to Assist the Homeless of Los Angeles’ “Skid Row” in Obtaining Housing Benefits, Food Stamps, and Other Social Services Assistance.
Married to Ellen Gingold (J.F.K ’75)
2 Children: Jennifer and Valerie
Eileen Korey, Class of 1973
Eileen graduated from Princeton University in 1977, moved to Cleveland to work in Radio, Newspaper and Television. As a Medical Reporter for NBC Station, she spearheaded several public health campaigns, exposed dangerous medical practices, and kept the public informed of new life-saving technologies. Her accomplishments were noted nationally through the NBC Affiliates Network. She used her public position for the benefit of several charities, and was honored by:
-March of Dimes, Arthritis Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and LifeBanc Organ Donor Network
-The Recipient of six EMMY Awards, Recognizing Excellence in News and Public Service Reporting
- Two-Time winner of the UPI United Press International NewsLeader Award
- Built her own Video Production Company, Medical New Network, in 1992
-Her charity work and service to the Community, helping to form a Local Citizens Advocacy Group that monitor school spending and educational programming
Married to Robert Kaplan, Ph.D.
2 Children: Benjamin and Rachel
Mark Meyerowitz, Class of 1969
A Graduate of Farmingdale College and Hoftra University .
-Certified Public Accountant
-Past President of Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores
-Past President of the BellmoreLions
-Board Member of Bellmore Kiwanis
-Involved in Community Blood Drive
-Chairman Lions and Kiwanis Strawberry Festival
(Over the Years Having Helped Raise Over $500,000 for Local Charities)
Bellmore Family Street Festival Committee -Kiwanis Liason to Kennedy Key Club
Married to Karen Appel, 1973
3 Children: Andrew and twins Seth and Rachel
Arhur Pitts, Class of 1969
Attended Colgate University , then St. John’s University Law School (’81)
1986 Practicing Attorney, Associate Justice, Lindernhurst Village
’87 – ’92 Supervisor, Town of Babylon where he spearheaded a solid waste management program combining recycling and state-of-the-art resource recovery facility; created master plan for Town’s Department of Development; rewrote Town’s ethics code
1992 Elected to County Court Judge for Suffolk County
Married: Jane Broderick
Alix (Barbara) Korey, Class of 1969
Graduated Barnard College , Columbia University 1972. Appearing on Broadway, Off-Broadway, television and film, regional stock and industrial theater, as well as concert cabaret “gigs”. Making her mark as a performer in leading and featured roles in “Hello Dolly”, “Hello Kay”, “Pirates of Penzance”, “Show Boat”, “Forbidden Broadway”, “Jerry’s Girls”, and “Ain’t Broadway Grand”.
An elected official of Actors Equity, her greatest accomplishment was the creation of “Equity Fights AIDS” now called “Broadway Cares-Equity Fights AIDS”, this organization encompasses fund raising drives, galas, and concerts of the theatrical world for AIDS research.
1992 – Bistro Award cabaret performance of the year for “Songs You Might Have Missed”.
-Recorded album “Songs You Might Have Missed”
Married to Randy Hansen
Stan W. Ziegler, Class of 1968
A Graduate of Yale University
Ph.D. from Universityof Texas , in Austin , in Adolescent Psychology after being Eric Erikson’s Special Intern in San Francisco
-Hired immediately to start
California ’s largest new residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed teenagers
-Private Practice of Child Actors, former Child Stars and Celebrity’s Kids
-Media work as a Psychological consultant on T.V. movie projects, i.e. Donahue and Oprah
-President of Gay and Lesbian Adoloscent Social Services, providing residential care for severely emotionally disturbed teenagers
-Founded only licensed
California agency to provide residential care for teenagers with AIDS – now four homes.
Claude W. Bernard, Class of 1968
A Graduate of Harvard University, 1972, Claude was awarded the Sophia Freund Prize as the HIGHEST RANKING HARVARD SENIOR in 1972.
1972-1975 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship recipient
1976 Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics, Harvard University
1976-1978 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University
1978-1983 Assistant Professor, UCLA
1980-1983 Sloan Foundation Fellowship
1983-1986 Associate Professor, UCLA
1985 Distinguished Teaching Award UCLA
1986-1990 Professor, UCLA
1988-1990 Deputy Director, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
1990-present Professor,Washington University
1993-1996 Editorial Board, Physical Review D
Andrew Chasanoff , Class of 1971
A graduate of S.U.N.Y. at Cortland 1975 as a therapeutic recreation major
Director of Recreational Therapy at Children’s Specialized Hospital , Mountainside, New Jersey
Created Competitive Wheelchair Sports Program
1989 Head Coach for U.S. Jr. Wheelchair Team at World Disabilities Games in 1989
1990 Selected as one of ten Outstanding Young Citizens of New Jersey
On New Jersey ’s Governor’s Board of Advisors for the Handicapped
1991 Meet Director of the National Junior Wheelchair Championships
1992 Coached for the IX Paralympic Games, U.S. Wheelchair Team for 1992 games in Barcelona, Spain
Married: Debra
3 sons: Michael, Mark and Thomas
Steve Sackrin, Class of 1972
Graduated Yale University ; obtained his M.D. at California at San Francisco , 1980. Steve made the decision to make meaningful contributions to society rather than settle into a comfortable private practice. He joined Highland Hospital , an inner city hospital in Oakland, California , where most are unable to afford proper health care, leading the fight to assure them health services. Steve was chosen “Physician of the Year” three years in a row. (Because of this, the rules were changed so no one could receive this honor consecutively.)
Steve refused to become a member of the A.M.A. preferring to join the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He is active in the Sierra Club, a practicing conservationist.
Married: Pennie, a nurse
Tod Michael Zipnick, Class of 1973
Graduated Adelphi University . Founder of ICOM Simulations Inc., a Chicago-based computer software company.
Considered a “visionary” in his field, he developed interactive computer games; his company was the first in the world to develop a process that used live actors for video games in “Sherlock Holmes, The Consulting Detective”
Tod gave to people. Example: helped a fellow Kennedy graduate start a computer firm in Manhattan ; gave another classmate a job in his company’s law firm; put the children of a financially distressed couple through college (M.I.T.) because he could not stand to see potential go to waste. While at Kennedy, he helped create the Bellmore-Merrick Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
The N.Y. Times: “a man of extraordinary warmth and generosity. His unique creativity and vision and boundless energy propelled him to great success and international acclaim in the computer software industry.”
Tod died July 5, 1991 from complications of Hodgkins disease, four months short of his 36th birthday.
George E. Manaskie, Class of 1973
Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis ,
1977. Selected by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover for the submarine nuclear propulsion program.
1978-1982 Served on the U.S.S. Tullibee
1982-1984 Headed Reactor Principles Division at Navy Nuclear Power School Orlando, Florida
1984-1987 Chief Engineer on U.S.S. Lafayette
1987-1989 Submarine assignment officer,Washington, D.C.
1991-1992 Naval War College . Selected President’s Honor Graduate for “outstanding academic, extracurricular and community achievements as well as poromotion of the Navy in the Public Interests.”
1992 Commanding Officer of U.S.S. Bergall Submarine
Married: Sue Fader (J.F.K. ’74)
2 children (son and daughter)
Madeline Donahoe
Madeline Donahoe’s career as an educator has been both diverse and enriching. She began her work as both a special education and mathematics teacher at Kennedy High School in 1988. Teaching primarily mathematics, Madeline quickly became regarded as an outstanding classroom teacher, influencing students across the spectrum, from those who struggled to those in advanced placement coursework. In 2002, Madeline was appointed chairperson of mathematics, a position she has held for the last twelve years. Her influence has been extensive, working with students, teachers and administrators to improve instruction and ensure that all students are given every opportunity to succeed.
An ardent supporter of the co-curricular program, Madeline was the advisor of the Kennedy yearbook, Forevergreen, from 1991-2002. Even after becoming a supervisor, she continued to volunteer her service as co-advisor of the Long Island Challenge (2006-2012) and continues to co-advise the annual Trivia Challenge event, which raises money for cerebral palsy.
The consummate professional and cheerleader for Kennedy students, Madeline is a member of the Senior Awards Committee, the Cougar Pride Selection Committee, the Site Based Team and assists with Class Night every year.
Her contributions to the students of Kennedy, as both a classroom teacher and as a chairperson of mathematics, has been well recognized. As a teacher, she was recipient of the “Teacher of the Year Award” (students) and BMUST Outstanding Professional Award (colleagues). Additionally, Madeline has been recognized by the Kennedy High School PTA twice, receiving both the PTA Lifetime Award and the PTA Distinguished Service Award
Madeline Donahoe is thanked for her commitment to the students and staff at Kennedy. As a teacher, supervisor, advisor and volunteer, she has been an incredible role model and deserves her placement on the Kennedy Cougar Nation Wall of Honor.
Judy Nicoll
Judy Nicoll was a member of the “original” faculty at Kennedy High School, serving as a member of the Guidance staff from 1966-1994. She has been involved in the creation and establishment of so many traditions that are still active at both Kennedy High School and the Bellmore-Merrick community. In her twenty-seven year career at Kennedy, she has demonstrated her deep commitment to the students and families that she served.
Judy was a creator of the initial Bellmore-Merrick Cultural Arts Scholarship Program, which since the mid 1970’s has recognized the outstanding musical and artistic talents of our students district-wide. Additionally, Judy represented the BMCHSD on the initial BOCES Cultural Arts Committee. In 1992, Judy (along with Alan Fleischman) inaugurated the first JFK Hall of Fame, seeking to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of early Kennedy graduates. Her impact on these two programs serves as a basis to what continues to this day. Originally certified as a physical education and dance teacher, Judy served as the choreographer for many of the Kennedy musicals.
As an original member of the JFK Guidance staff, Judy ran the District College Fairs at Kennedy for twenty-four years and initiated the Junior College Planning Night for parents beginning in 1969.
Well recognized for her achievements in Kennedy High School, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and throughout the Long Island guidance community, Judy has been the recipient of the JFK Outstanding Professional Award (colleagues), the Bellmore-Merrick Board of Education-Community Service Award, the New York State Teachers Association Community Service Award, Nassau County Community Service Award, Town of Hempstead Community Service Award and the Bellmore-Merrick PTA Award.
Judy served on the Board of Directors of both the Long Island Personnel and Guidance Association and the New York State Personnel and Guidance Association.
As a counselor, club advisor, mentor and role model, Judy Nicoll is recognized for her commitment to the students of Kennedy and is deserving of her placement on the Kennedy Cougar Nation Wall of Honor.
Lt. Tony Giorgio
A 1982 and 1985 graduate of C.W. Post College (B.F.A. /M.S. degrees), Lt. Tony Giorgio is the Commanding Officer of the N.Y.P.D. Ceremonial Unit. Under his leadership and direction, Lt. Giorgio is responsible for all of the police department’s special events, parades, promotion ceremonies, memorials and funerals.
-Graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy (Quantico, Virginia)
-Founder and Musical Director of NYPD Police Band
-President of N.Y.P.D. Running Club
-Licensed Funeral Director
- CEO Giorgio Associates, Inc.
-Accomplished Marathon/ Triathlon Runner
As one of the most recognized and respected officers of the New York City Police Department, Lt. Tony Giorgio has well served the City of New York and his colleagues in “Blue”. He is truly one of New York’s “Finest” and embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
TERRENCE CLARK
A 1982 graduate of Cornell University, Terry Clark continued his education by earning a Master’s degree from New York University. Terry is a published author, nationwide speaker and one of the most respected educators in New York State. As the Superintendent of Schools for the Bethpage School District, he leads an award winning district with a student body of 3,000 and over 500 employees.
-Superintendent of Schools, Bethpage School District
-BOCES Educational Partner Award
-March of Dimes “Golden Apple Award”
-National Cable TV “Leaders in Learning Award”
- Nassau School Library System “Innovative Educator of the Year”
- First and Foremost- “A Teacher Terry Clark is a teacher, administrator, mentor and role model. As a twenty-nine year educator in Bethpage, he has proven to be a dynamic leader, and his success can be attributed to the rapport he has with students, teachers, parents, staff and administrators. As one whose commitment to education is seen in his every action and word, Terry Clark embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Steven H. Chassman
A 1992 graduate of New York University, Steven Chassman continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a master’s degree in Social Work. He is the ultimate advocate to those individuals living with substance abuse issues, HIV/AIDS and mental health conditions.
- Executive Director, Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (LICADD)
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- NYS Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor
- HIV/AIDS Advocate
- Human Rights and Healthcare Advocate
Steve’s personal commitment to helping others and his dedication to providing to the welfare of those who strive to live with social, medical and substance abuse issues is exemplary. Steve’s continued effort to be the voice and advocate for the often forgotten and neglected embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Steven Baronoff
A 1981graduate of Brown University, Steven Baronoff continued his education by earning a Juris Doctor degree from Yale University Law School. A renowned leader in the banking/financial industry, Steven has distinguished himself as a major force in both corporate America and on Wall Street.
- Chairman of Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Investment Banker/ Juris Doctor
Steven began his career at the prestigious law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, working in the field of investment banking. He eventually went to work for Merrill Lynch, where he now Chairs Global Mergers and Acquisitions. Steven has handled some of the biggest mergers in corporate America and was influential in helping to stabilize the American economy during the financial crisis in 2008. Steven is a recognized financial expert, a visiting lecturer and a philanthropist. His ability to lead, his keen financial sense and his strong work ethic are the basis of his success, and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy
Stephen B. Cavayero
A 1980 graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, Steve Cavayero went on to continue his education at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). Steve has distinguished himself as an athlete, inventor, business executive and electronics distributor.
-Two-time NCAA Division III National Wrestling Champion
- Founder & President, Cavaco Sales, Inc.
- Founder & CEO, United Wireless Technologies, Inc.
- Founder & President, Lafayette Electronics, Inc.
Founder & President, iDVDBOX, Inc.
Steve’s pursuit of excellence on the wrestling mat and in the business world of electronics and technology, have taken him from the hallways of Kennedy to around the world. Steve has demonstrated that persistence, perseverance, innovation and a strong work ethic are the basis of success, and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Harry J. Tsotsos
A 1986 graduate of Stony Brook University, Harry Tsotsos then studied at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (’90) before completing his education at New York University Dental School (’93). As a Doctor of Dentistry, Harry has distinguished himself as a orthodontist, as a mentor to countless students and as a philanthropist.
- Practioner/ Owner of Wantagh Family Orthodontics
-Trustee of John F. Kennedy High School Alumni Association
-Participant in JFK Health Fairs
-Volunteer for Medical Missions
Harry’s commitment to volunteerism and to mentoring countless students from Kennedy High School will impact their lives forever. His selfless efforts on behalf of our alumni and his generosity of time, talent and spirit embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. David Ryan Tener
A 2008 graduate of New York University, David Tener continued his education at the Life University College of Chiropractic. As a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine, David has distinguished himself as a professional, engaging in post-graduate training in clinical nutrition and Epidemiology. David continues to be regarded as one of Kennedy’s most celebrated student-athletes.
- Associate Doctor at The Goldberg Clinic for Chronic Disease Reversal
- JFK’s First All-County Athlete in Three Sports
- Two-time JFK “Athlete of the Year”
- Senior MVP in Soccer, Basketball and Volleyball
- “1000” Points – JFK Basketball
- News 12 Scholar-Athlete
As a student-athlete and as a professional, David has demonstrated that hard work and perseverance are the trademarks of success as he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Fern Berman Karhu
Fern Berman Karhu attended Nassau Community College and San Diego State University. She is well recognized as one of Long Island’s top tier of women real estate leaders and business owners, founding a start-up company that now employs over 600 sales professionals and twelve offices in less than five years.
- Owner/Broker Realty Connect USA
- Senior Housing Advocate
- Radio Host (16 years) of “Seniors on the Move”
- Past President, Long Island Board of Realtors
-Long Island Business News “Top 50 Women in Business”
As a tireless advocate for senior housing, Fern has been a radio show host, noted lecturer and television analyst in this crucial area of real estate. Her advocacy and philanthropic endeavors embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
HALL OF FAME INDUCTION March 7, 2015
Joseph Alagna
After graduating Kennedy, Joseph Alagna attended the University of Miami and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from C.W. Post College of LIU. His career in the Securities Industry spans almost thirty years. Joe has distinguished himself as a successful business executive, entrepreneur, philanthropist and community volunteer.
-Founding Member, Chairman, CEO of Joseph Gunnar & Co.
-Founding Member, Co-Manager, Buttonwood Venture Capital Funds
-Franchisee/Owner, Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Restaurant
-Kennedy Football Alumni Booster
Joe’s pursuit of excellence on the football field and in the business world have taken him from the hallways at Kennedy to the center of Wall Street. His ability to lead, his keen financial sense, perseverance and strong work ethic are the basis of his success, and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
HALL OF FAME INDUCTION MAY 6, 2017
Dr. Craig Greben
A 1986 graduate of Emory University, Craig Greben continued his education at New York Medical College. As an interventional radiologist, Craig has distinguished himself as a leader in his field, promoting advancements in interventional oncology that offers new treatment options for cancer patients.
- System Chief, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Northwell Health
- Associate Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
- National and International Research Presentations
Craig has participated in research presentations on medical device inventions and advancements in interventional oncology that allows patients to utilize treatments that incorporate state of the art devices and equipment. Craig’s commitment to improving the lives of his patients through advancements in cancer treatment and his dedication to the healthcare profession is noteworthy indeed; his actions embody the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Thomas Buda
A 1982 graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Thomas Buda has served his community, the City of New York and his country through his various roles in law enforcement and the military. His expertise in national security matters has enhanced his career in the New York City Police Department and the United States Navy Reserve, as he has led many missions and assignments pertaining to anti-terrorism.
- NYPD Detective Second Grade (Retired)
- NYPD/FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force
- US Navy Reserve Chief Petty Officer (Retired)
- Law Enforcement Liaison Officer at the United States Mission to the United Nations
Thomas’ commitment to serving others and his dedication to providing for the personal welfare of the citizens of New York City and beyond is exemplary. He is truly one of New York’s “Finest” and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Howard A. Riina
A 1986 graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Howard Riina went on to continue his education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. As a neurologist, Howard has distinguished himself as a physician, medical school professor and hospital administrator.
-Vice Chairman of Neurosurgery at NYU Langone Medical Center
- Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Radiology at
New York University School of Medicine
-Noted medical author/ lecturer
Howard is a cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgeon and leading expert in the treatment of aneurysms and vascular malformations of the brain and spine. He is one of the few internationally recognized neurosurgeons who perform both open-cerebrovascular neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology. Howard’s commitment to the field of medicine, his ability to lead and his strong work ethic are the basis of his success, and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Hall of Fame Induction May 6, 2017 John F. Kennedy High School
Dr. Jonathan A. Haas
A 1988 graduate of Cornell University, Jonathan Haas went on to study at Harvard University School of Dental Medicine, before pursuing a medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine. As a renowned Radiation Oncologist, Jonathan has distinguished himself as a professional consistently recognized by Newsday and Castle Connolly as both a Long Island and Metro area “Top Doctor”.
-Chief, Division of Radiation Oncology, Winthrop University Hospital
- Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
- Board of Directors, Maurer Foundation for Breast Health Education
-Medical Advisory Board, Fans for a Cure
As Chief, Division of Radiation Oncology at Winthrop University Hospital, Jonathan has been in the forefront on research and advanced practices in the treatment of cancer, particularly the use of “CyberKnife Radiosurgery” for early stage breast cancer and prostate cancer. Jonathan’s commitment to the medical field and his dedication to health education embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Lyle Cogen
A graduate of Long Island University- CW Post College, Lyle Cogen is an award-winning arts/educator, singer-songwriter, recording artist, theater performer and anti-bullying advocate. Lyle’s critically-acclaimed musical play about bullying, “Sticks and Stones”, launched her into the front lines of national efforts to curtail bullying and cyber-bullying.
- President, Pint Size Productions
- Commissioned playwright and performing artist in “Sticks and Stones”
- Four-time winner of Parent’s Choice Award
-Teaching artist affiliated with Tilles Center for Performing Arts
-Publisher, songwriter and executive producer at MalZac Music
-Cultural Partner with Suffolk BOCES
Lyle’s personal commitment to helping others and her dedication to providing to the welfare of others who are victims of bullying and cyber-bullying is exemplary. Lyle’s continued effort to be the voice and advocate for the often forgotten and neglected embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Mark R. Proctor
A 1986 graduate of Dartmouth College, Mark Proctor went on to continue his education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. As a pediatric neurologist, Mark has distinguished himself as a leading physician internationally, performing minimally invasive endoscopic corrections of craniofacial disorders.
- Neurosurgeon -in- Chief, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
- President, New England Neurosurgery Society
- Past Chairman, Thinkfirst National Injury Prevention Foundation
- Noted medical author/ lecturer
Mark’s specialties include brain injury, brain and spinal trauma, concussions, craniofacial anomalies and disorders and head and spine injury. Mark’s commitment to improving healthcare and the lives of his patients have built his reputation as an advocate, expert, leader and educator; his actions embody the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Merrick Wetzler
A 1982 graduate of Yale University, Merrick Wetzler continued his studies at Temple University School of Medicine. He is an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon, who has distinguished himself as an athlete, surgeon, team physician, medical chairman and distinguished presenter.
- President, Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates
- Medical Chairman, Maccabiah USA
- Team Doctor, International Maccabiah Games
- Team Doctor, European Maccabiah Games
- Team Doctor, Pan American Maccabiah Games
- Associate Editor, Journal of Arthroscopy
- Chief Medical Officer, Chinese Arena Football League
Merrick’s pursuit of excellence and love of sports have taken him from the athletic arena of Kennedy to working with top athletes from around our country to around the world. Merrick has demonstrated that persistence, perseverance and a strong work ethic are the basis of success, and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
A 2007 graduate of the Cornell University, Michael Greenberg continued his education at Hofstra University School of Law. An avid sports fan, a scholar athlete and the Research Editor of Hofstra Law Review, Michael went on to become the youngest Director of Football Administration in the National Football League.
- Director of Football Administration, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Football Administrative Intern, New York Jets
- Law Clerk, NFL Management Council
- Newsday Nassau County Scholar Athlete
Mike’s pursuit of excellence as three sport athlete and as a student leader has taken him from the hallways and athletic arena of Kennedy to the front office in the National Football League. Mike has demonstrated that persistence, perseverance and a strong work ethic are the basis of success and he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Richie Jackson
A 1987 graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Richie Jackson is well recognized in the entertainment industry as a talent manager, television, movie and Broadway producer. Through his generosity, Richie has endowed the “Richie Jackson Artist Fellowship at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts”.
- Executive Producer, Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” (Television)
- Co-Executive Producer, “Short Bus” (Film)
- Producer, “A Catered Affair” (Broadway)
A tireless advocate for the LGBTQ community, Richie has been honored for his efforts in providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention to LGBTQ youths. An ardent supporter of the LIVE OUT LOUD Homecoming Project, Richie’s endeavors embody the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
STEVEN LUTVAK
A 1980 graduate of Binghamton University, Steven Lutvak continued his education at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. A highly successful Broadway show writer, producer and musical consultant, Steven’s credits are both extensive and varied.
- Composer/Co-Lyricist, “A Gentleman Guide to Love and Murder”
-Recipient of Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Awards for Best Musical
-Composer/Lyricist, “Mad Hot Ballroom”
- Two Solo Albums: The Time It Takes, Ahead of My Heart
-Faculty, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theater Writing
A multi-talented creative artist, a recognized leader in the Broadway community and a mentor to aspiring composers and musicians, Steven Lutvak has gone from the Choral room at Kennedy to the big stage in the Big Apple; his work and passion embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
Wayne Levinson
A 2010 graduate of the University of Indiana’s Kelley School of Business, Wayne Levinson earned a dual degree in Accounting and Supply Chain Management with a minor in Public Policy. With his business and logistics background, Wayne founded his own company, Bulk FR8, specializing in the transportation of bulk liquids and chemicals.
-Owner/ President, Bulk FR8
-Seattle Business and Humanitarian of the Year (2015)
-Pugent Sound Business Journal, Top 25 LBGT Owned Business
-Pugent Sound Journal, Top 40 Under 40
-Vice-President, Pacific Northwest Chemical Association
-Volunteer, Northwest Art Alliance
Wayne is widely regarded as a steward of the industry and of LGBT rights. As a business owner, dynamic leader in his field and for his relentless efforts and contributions to the LGBT equality efforts, Wayne has clearly demonstrated that he embodies the visionary spirit of President John F. Kennedy.
COUGAR NATION WALL OF HONOR INDUCTEE
Greg Maushart
Greg Maushart was a member of the “original” faculty at Kennedy High School, serving as a member of the physical education staff from 1966-1992. He began his career in Bellmore-Merrick in 1960, being first assigned to Grand Avenue Junior High School, coaching numerous sports, including football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse and track.
When Kennedy High School opened its doors, Coach Maushart was assigned to the staff and became Kennedy’s first football coach, a position he held for over twenty years. He led the Cougar Football Squad to their first (and only) undefeated football season in 1973, earning him “Coach of the Year” honors. Additionally, Coach Maushart coached the Varsity Lacrosse and Track teams.
Coach Greg Maushart’s influence on the students at Kennedy High School went far beyond the gymnasium and beyond the school day. As a teacher, coach and role model, Greg Maushart is recognized for his commitment to the students and student-athletes of Kennedy and is deserving of his placement on the Cougar Nation Wall of Honor.
COUGAR NATION WALL OF HONOR
SHULA HIRSCH
Shula Hirsch began her teaching career at Kennedy High School in 1966 as an original member of the English Department, teaching grade level courses, Public Speaking and Jewish Literature. In her twenty years at JFK, Shula demonstrated a deep commitment to the students and families of South Bellmore and Merrick.
As a founding member and long- time advisor to the JFK Speech and Debate team, Shula spent long hours well beyond the school day working with students to improve their skills in the art in debate, carefully preparing them for competitions on the local, county and state level. Under Shula’s tutorage, the JFK Speech and Debate team performed at a high level, winning numerous competitions and tournaments. Shula’s influence on the students in her classroom and on her Speech and Debate team was far reaching; so many of them have and still keep in touch with her.
An accomplished writer, Shula is a published author of “An American Housewife in Israel” and co-author of “Off the Mat”. She has appeared on radio and television shows throughout the United States and has authored numerous magazine articles. Shula also taught on-line Public Speaking classes to soldiers who were stationed abroad.
Shula Hirsch is thanked for her commitment to the students at Kennedy. As a teacher, advisor, mentor and role model, she is well-deserving of her placement on the Kennedy Cougar Nation Wall of Honor.
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MMR Vaccine Linked to Autism?
(BeWellBuzz) The question as to whether MMR vaccines are safe first surfaced in 1998. 13 years on, and there is still no definite answer. As a parent, it is imperative that you educate yourself about this vaccine and use your best judgment to decide whether an MMR shot is safe for your child.
MMR Vaccine – What it is?
A 3-in-1 vaccine, the MMR vaccine is used for preventing 3 potentially dangerous diseases – measles, mumps, and rubella.
The first MMR shot is administered to a child when he/she is 12-15 months old. The second shot, in most cases, is administered before the age of 6.
What started the controversy?
Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist, was the first to raise concerns over the safety of the MMR vaccine. He suggested that a link between the MMR vaccine, chronic bowel disease, and autism may exist.
Dr. Wakefield’s claim created a storm, and many parents started questioning the use of MMR. However, governments in countries such as the UK, and the World Health Organization (WHO) vehemently supported MMR and stated that the findings of the study done by Dr. Wakefield could not be taken seriously. Two major flaws were pointed in the study:
The sample was too small. Only 12 children, 9 of whom had autism, were included in the investigation.
The study, it was claimed, was guilty of selection bias. Parents of 8 autistic children had themselves attributed their child’s autism to MMR.
With major governments of the world supporting MMR, the frenzy created by Dr. Wakefield’s report soon faded away. After Dr. Wakefield, a few other individuals did raise their concerns about this vaccine’s safety. However, these individuals too were not taken seriously. Health authorities repeatedly declared MMR to be 100% safe. The fact that 28 other independent studies supported Dr. Wakefield’s research was completely ignored by the authorities.
Alleged Judgment passed by Italian Court reignites the debate
It has been recently reported that an Italian court recently ruled in favor of a family who claimed that their child had developed autism due to the MMR vaccine. According to published but unconfirmed reports, the Italian Health Ministry conceded that MMR vaccine caused autism in Valtentino Bocca, the child central to this case.
If this story is confirmed to be true, this landmark judgment by the Italian court, without a doubt, has reignited the old debate concerning the safety of the MMR vaccine, and this time, it seems that the voices of MMR skeptics will not fade away so quickly. The Italian media has hinted that more cases of childhood autism due to MMR are likely to be filed in the near future.
The particulars of this Italian case
It has been reported that in 2004, Valentino Bocca, aged 15 months, received an MMR shot. From that day onward, his health started deteriorating. A year after receiving the vaccine, that is, in 2005, Valentino Bocca was diagnosed with autism. His parents suspected MMR to be responsible for their child’s autism and filed a case in the Italian court. In 2012, a court in Rimini, Italy ruled in favor of the Boccas and also granted a 15 year annuity worth 174,000 Euros.
Nothing has changed as the standard vaccination protocol remains the same
Although the Bocca family has won the case, the ground reality remains unchanged. The MMR vaccine is still being used, and no additional safety measures have been proposed by health authorities to monitor its administration.
So, as a parent, what you should do? Should you completely ignore the concerns about the safety of this vaccine, or should you first ensure that the vaccine is safe before giving it to your child? Most importantly, is there any reliable mechanism available that can determine a child’s risk toward vaccine damage?
The good news is that there is a simple, inexpensive way in which one can determine whether a child is at risk of suffering from chronic bowel disease and other conditions that may surface due to an MMR shot.
A simple way to reduce the possible risks associated with MMR
According to Dr. Campbell-McBride, who claims autism can be treated naturally, our gut, brain, and immune system share a profound dynamic interaction. She goes on to state that severe damage to the gastrointestinal system can lead to autism in children. This probably explains why only a few children have symptoms of autism after being given vaccinations like MMR, while a majority of children don’t.
Dr. Campbell-McBride explains that children with a vulnerable digestive tract and abnormal gut flora are at a considerably greater risk of developing chronic bowel inflammation due to the MMR vaccine. This, in turn, can cause autism.
In her book, Gut and Psychology Syndrome, Dr. Campbell-McBride has explained in detail how a child’s risk of autism due to vaccinations can be determined. In short, the following things need to be done:
Collect the complete medical history of the parents
Assess the health of the gut flora of the parents
Assess the state of the child’s gut flora within a few days after birth
Perform a urine test to determine if there are any metabolites in the child’s urine
These tests are not very expensive and cost approximately $80 each in nearly all laboratories.
To sum it up, a few hundred dollars worth of medical tests can ensure that your child does not develop complications due to the MMR vaccine.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/06/25/mmr-vaccine-caused-autism.aspx?e_cid=20120625_DNL_artNew_1
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002026.htm
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The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring
The first instalment of Peter Jackson’s epic adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien saga about the quest of a band of heroes to save their world from evil.
The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
The second instalment of Peter Jackson’s lavish three-part fantasy charts the continuing quest of its heroes to destroy a powerful magical ring.
The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King
The final instalment of the rousing, hugely successful trilogy that redefined the studio blockbuster, The Return of the King won 11 Oscars to add to its box office haul.
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New Blackpool winger Sullay Kaikai says: I've joined a club that's buzzing
Terry McPhillips welcomes Sullay Kaikai to Bloomfield Road Picture: BLACKPOOL FC
Matt Scrafton
New Blackpool signing Sullay Kaikai says the newfound positivity around Bloomfield Road was key to him signing for the Seasiders.
READ MORE: Blackpool sign exciting former Crystal Palace winger
The 23-year-old winger became Pool’s fifth signing of the summer when he put pen to paper on a two-year deal, with the option for a further 12 months, subject to international clearance.
Kaikai revealed he spoke to owner Simon Sadler prior to joining the club and those conversations made up his mind.
He said: “It’s exciting times with the new owner. You can feel the buzz around the place, so I’m happy to get it done.
“I spoke to the owner before I came here and he explained stuff. It’s something to look forward to and you can feel it around the place. It shows the club’s intent. Speaking to the manager also, he explained things and how he wants to work here.
“It sounds like it’s going to be a good project and I’m excited to be a part of it.”
The Londoner makes the move back to England after finishing last season with Dutch side NAC Breda.
Kaikai came through the youth ranks at Crystal Palace and played 11 games for the Eagles, the final two in last season’s Carabao Cup. His three Premier League appearances included games at Manchester United and Liverpool in 2017.
He left Selhurst Park for NAC Breda in January and made six Eredivisie appearances before his contract was mutually terminated at the end of the season.
Kaikai said: “The main thing for me is to play and enjoy my football, and the rest will take care of itself.
“Playing in Holland was humbling. It’s a different culture but I’m happy to be back in England.”
Kaikai is already familiar with one member of Blackpool’s squad in left-back Marc Bola.
“I spoke to Marc before I came and he had nothing but good things to say about the club,” Kaikai said.
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“It always helps when you know someone. It makes it easier to settle in.
“I know Marc well, so hopefully we can have that connection on the pitch as well.
“I’m just happy to be here and can’t wait to get started.
“I have lots of tricks, and I like to get fans off their seats and just express myself. Goals and assists are part of my game too.”
Kalkai has also spent time on loan with Charlton Athletic, Shrewsbury Town, Crawley Town and Brentford.
Shrewsbury in 2015-16 was his most productive spell, the most prolific spell, scoring 12 times in 29 games.
Kaikai becomes Blackpool’s fifth signing of the summer following Adi Yussuf, Ryan Edwards, Jamie Devitt and Ben Tollitt.
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DISPATCHES: After the UN Climate Conference: The meeting over, the movements growing
By Mel P on January 4, 2019 in Uncategorized
By Anna Gyorgy
Originally published in the Montague Reporter
German radio reported that 91% of Germans did not expect major advances from the 24th UN climate conference that ended late Saturday night December 15, in Katowice, Poland. But conference delegates did reach their basic goal, allowing relieved conference organizers to declare COP24 a success.
For after a long extra day and night of deliberations, delegates from almost 200 countries unanimously approved a detailed “rulebook” to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. In the huge Polish coalmine themed conference center (built on a closed one), they agreed to make national plans to limit global warming to 1.5° Celsius (2.7°F) compared to preindustrial times. That was the hoped-for goal in Paris. And one that will be hard to meet, given that the average temperature is now already at 1.1°C, and more than that in particularly vulnerable areas, like the Arctic.
At the beginning of the Katowice conference in early December there were 1908 places in the document marked with disagreements. On Saturday the last ones were settled, with a few delayed for future meetings. Next year’s climate conference will be in Chile, instead of Brazil, as planned. The incoming president there, archconservative Jair Bolsonaro, rejected the plan for Brazil, stating high costs and the limited time his government would have to prepare. However he is well known as no friend of the environment, having announced plans to further develop the Amazon for agriculture etc., a major ecological and climate threat.
But if the rules for implementing the Paris Agreement and setting targets for lowering emissions are now set, just how the very ambitious goal of controlling warming will be reached was not defined. The only mechanism to ensure that countries meet their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to reduce emissions is the requirement to report regularly, publicly and following guidelines that apply to all countries. As a German commentator said (in English), for those not meeting their targets or setting ones not high enough, the ‘enforcement’ process amounts to “naming and shaming.”
There are also no fixed goals for phasing out fossil fuels, nor specific requirements or enforcement mechanisms. Contributions to the fund for affected countries are voluntary. So what happens now depends on the individual countries, and action on the local as well as national levels.
At least the conference results keep the UN and International process going. Even given the situation in Poland, with its strict, even repressive, regulations limiting demonstrations and civil society actions at and during the COP, the two-week event provided a forum for strong statements and protest, especially from island nations and climate activists present.
The speech and press statements of 15 year old Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg resonated especially, as she accused world leaders of “stealing our future” and called for student strikes around the world for action on climate.
US negotiators were present, as the Trump pullout from the Paris Agreement will only be official in January 2021. Although American delegates actively attempted to weaken the results, the leading German weekly news magazine Spiegel’s report concluded that “probably the most important result from Katowice is that the UN steamship was not forced off course even by the world power USA, and that the climate process continues – and all countries are taking part.”
Climate NGO Germanwatch policy director Christoph Bals agreed: “The achievement of Katowice is also a victory for multilateralism… The test will be implementation of the Paris Agreement. We need Government decisions for ambitious climate protection at home. The climate movement, that has developed worldwide from the (defense of the endangered German) Hambacher Forest to resistance against pipelines and student strikes, has also been present here in Katowice, and will be ever stronger and demand the necessary climate protection.”
And in the streets
Parallel to the conference in Poland, major blockades and demonstrations took place in French cities, with highway barricades preventing holiday shoppers from reaching towns and gas stations.
The first actions of the so-called ‘yellow vest’ activists started in mid-November in response to an announced increased tax on diesel gasoline. Identified by the emergency vests they wore, a safety requirement in French cars, the protesters organized over social media. Their actions were ‘spontaneous’ in not having defined leadership, organizations and meetings.
Touted by French President Emmanuel Macron as a way to reduce both pollution and gas consumption, the tax was seen by working people, especially in rural areas, as the last straw in a policy of taxation clearly benefiting the rich and large corporations. A tax that was accompanied by increasing closure of local state facilities, from post offices to the local rail lines. Support from both left and right militants and extreme violence, including from the police, has changed the nature and demands of the movement, but the issues it is raising remain.
The situation in France was reportedly a major topic of conversation during coffee breaks at the climate conference. It was clearly an example of a top-down measures, not part of a coherent plan to deal with transportation pollution or climate crisis. It was also perhaps a warning to decision-makers as to how not to force changes in lifestyle and costs connected with a renewable energy transition.
Meanwhile, new initiatives around climate action were being announced: in Washington by newly elected progressive Democrats presenting plans for a Green New Deal, and in the streets of London, with the new direct action movement Extinction Rebellion.
Visiting Extinction Rebellion’s website at https://rebellion.earth/, I found what should be of interest to communities in Western Mass. For many are well aware of the dangers of climate change and its realities in our own area. Hundreds have been involved in opposing the NED gas pipeline and similar projects. And we may know that it is those people around the world who are least prepared and contribute the least to the causes of global warming who are most affected. But what to do on a state and national level?
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a response to the realities of climate changes that are drastic, and cannot be reversed or cleaned up, and of the need for emergency action to force attention and action for change.
The group formed just this past October in England, but is part of the activist group Rising Up, that practices nonviolent civil disobedience in various and creative ways. In a 50 minute video on the homepage of their website, Dr. Gail Bradbrook, of Rising Up and an XR founder, presents a packed program. It starts with the most recent scientific data around climate change and what it can mean. New information makes the timeframe shorter and more deadly. Her description of why putting yourself at risk of arrest, and agreeing to be part of a focused movement is itself moving.
Impressed, I signed up for more information, and found that among the list of new area groups forming there are in fact three in our great state: Boston, Cape Cod – and Western Mass! Right there above the last, Wyoming. An international time of actions is being planned for next March. Interest and sign-ups are growing internationally, as people fight despair on the subject with – if not hope – then courage.
DISPATCHES: Back in Wendell, with climate thoughts and New Year’s wishes
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A rise in assaults on SafeWork Inspectors
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There have been a number of incidents in the last two months involving SafeWork inspectors, and the SafeWork Regulator and Secretary of the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation, Martin Hoffman, has reiterated that the behaviour was unacceptable. At least two inspectors had been allegedly assaulted in recent months while carrying out their duties.
Mr Hoffman reiterated to businesses and workers that it is a criminal offence to hinder, obstruct, assault, threaten, or intimidate an inspector. “SafeWork staff are out there in the field to help businesses comply with health and safety legislation and to keep workers safe – any violent or aggressive behaviour displayed against our inspectors will not be tolerated,” Mr Hoffman said.
“Police are currently investigating after two separate incidents which occurred on November 2 last year and on January 17 this year.
“SafeWork NSW inspectors play a vital role in securing the health and safety of workers and as such they should be afforded the same level of respect and protection as every other worker,” Mr Hoffman said.
The body also took the opportunity to emphasise that the penalties for hindering the work of a SafeWork NSW inspector are severe. “The maximum penalties for persons convicted of intimating or assaulting a SafeWork NSW inspector are a $50,000 fine or imprisonment for two years or both for an individual, or in the case of a body corporate a $250,000 fine,” Mr Hoffman said.
“All workplaces have the obligation to not just provide necessary access to the workplace, but to be honest and provide information as requested.
“We will investigate all instances of alleged intimidation and assault of SafeWork NSW inspectors, we will report such instances to NSW Police and where warranted, we will prosecute those offences,” Mr Hoffman said.
In 2010, two men were convicted and fined $2,000 and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years after assaulting and intimidating a WorkSafe inspector in Victoria. Both men were also ordered to pay $6,000 in costs.
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Wolf: The Lives of Jack London (Compact Disc)
By James L. Haley, Bronson Pinchot (Read by)
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling west coast--by and by playing the role of hobo, sailor, and oyster pirate. From his vantage point at the margins of Gilded Age America, he witnessed such iniquity and abuses that he became a life long socialist and advocate for reform. His adventures in the American wilderness and underworld informed his fiction, and his writing came to captivate the nation as it defined his era. Within his own short lifetime, London became the most popular, and bestselling, author of his generation. By adulthood he had matured into the iconic American author of such still-universally loved books as The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Sea Wolf, but in spite of his success, he was at war with himself. The highest-paid writer in America, he was constantly broke. Famous as he was for conjuring the brutality of nature in story after story and novel after novel, upon the actual deaths of his favorite animals he would dissolve into helpless tears. Sick, angry, and disillusioned, after a short, breathless life, he passed away at age forty--but he left behind him a glorious literary legacy. Award-winning author James L. Haley explores the forgotten Jack London--a man bristling with ideas, whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died. In Wolf, Haley returns Jack London to his proper place in the American pantheon, resurrecting the author of White Fang in his full fire and glory.
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History and first models of aeroplanes
Model aeroplanes
Advances of balloons had not stopped works on the creation of an aeroplane. On the contrary, the more successful was the work at controlled balloons, the wider was the development activities of researchers and engineers of trying to build airplanes. These works are still going in several directions: the study of the birds’ flight, building models, building a life-size airplanes and theoretical studies.
Physiologist Marey had subtle experiments on the mechanics of bird flight, and establish a relationship between the size, weight and power of birds. Similar studies were conducted subsequently by famous Otto Lilienthal in Germany and Muyyar in Algeria.
The Frenchman Alphonse Peno built remarkably stable in flight model with rubber engine – planophores.
Beautiful flying models were built by Parisian watchmaker Victor Tateno. One of his models equipped with a pneumatic engine that run on two propellers, was tied with a long rope to a peg that was standing in the middle of the smooth ground. It running on this platform, taking off and flying in circles.
In the US, Samuel Langley built and tested a whole series of models, researching air resistance, the influence of the angle of attack and the lift and drag, determining the position of the center of pressure at different angles of attack, figuring out the laws of sustainability.
The Englishman Line-Field built a glider with wings and had barred him mounted on a railway platform, and at 65 km / h glider was taking off.
Australian Hargrove has built an extremely interesting model, which gave no propeller thrust and flapping wings. Such models with air motor or miniature steam engines flew up to 150 and.
In Russia, many models were built and tested by V.Kress. Vladimir Kotov also built numerous paper models, which had a remarkable stability. Kotov studied the laws of stability and controllability on these models, independently developed all controls and proved their effect in flight.
Building models has had a great impact on the continued success of airplanes, facilitating the study of the basic laws of aerodynamics and stability.
Since 1874 Clement Ader has begun to work over the aeroplane in France. This talented engineer and hard worker built several original full-size aircraft; those ones externally have been resembling a bat. These airplanes were equipped with steam engines.
Last K. Ader aeroplanes were called Avion III with two steam engines with a total capacity of 40 hp. They had a gross weight of about 400 kg. This airplane was tested October 12, 1897 by Ader himself. At the first trial the machine made short takeoffs. In the second test on a windy day Ader was unable to conduct an airplane in the air in the desired direction. Avion fell and broke down. Soulless War Ministry officials refused to fund further Ader experiments and he left works on aeroplanes.
The famous inventor of machine guns Hiram Maxim led more research in the field of mechanical flight in England. His work included monitoring the flight of birds, laboratory tests of the wings and propellers, the study of the kites and finally building a huge airplane with two steam engines with a total capacity of 350 hp.
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Airplanes model making: brief guide and tips
model airplanes
Professional model making is a painstaking exercise that requires lots of time, perseverance and dedication. For many adults it is an unattainable luxury, not to mention the kids for whom the world is not limited only to the assembling models. How to realize a dream, without scheming individual drawings and losing months and years on a single model? For adolescents and adults, for which model making is a hobby for a lifetime, the prefabricated models of airplanes for gluing is a perfect solution.
Millions of people around the world enjoy all the pleasures of this kind of scale modeling and it’s obvious. There is no need to design everything from sketches to finishing touches, but the assembled model is a perfect copy of the desired model of the aircraft. In addition, you make the aircraft with your own hands, but do not buy a ready-made one. Prefabricated plastic models of airplanes will be a perfect gift for any inquisitive boy older than eight years, and even for men. As a part of a set in addition to the parts of the aircraft often there are the paint and assembly glue.
Aircraft models allow to recreate in detail the most famous models of military and passenger aircraft with your own hands. Gathering a plane of fine particles, the child will foster fine motor skills of hands, logical and structural thinking, and while decorating he will foster creative skills and imagination.
To make an excellent model of aircraft is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.
These kits are designed so that the available details perfectly fit together. They are easy to get up in the grooves and held firmly there. To assemble, as models, both domestic and foreign instances of aircraft are available. They can have various years of release and complexity, to be typical or to have a collection interest for connoisseurs. Some models fly on batteries, others require recharging from the mains. In any case, creating such airplanes their energy resource must be taken into account, so to calculate the correct route then and not to lose the air aboard and crash somewhere in the middle of the road because its creator has calculated the possibility of his ‘child’ incorrectly.
However, above all, toy models of airplanes is a fun game for children, which, from the very beginning of production of such sets for creativity, have a unique opportunity to realize the dream of a bright sky long before being older. And it’s just great! People are always treated with reverence to the aircraft, but to those who know how to raise these iron ‘birds’ in the air with obvious respect. The professions of pilot, aircraft designer, aircraft mechanic have always been considered the most prestigious at the working rankings. The dream of the sky should be cherish, nurture and try to implement as soon as possible. And the task of parents, in this case, is the full support of the child’s hobbies, creating the necessary conditions for his creative work.
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Private aviation and the most popular planes
Private aviation
How often people standing in traffic jams dream about the wings, which could cover the distance in minutes. Especially the wings are needed when it is necessary to get into a very remote location, or to get to another continent. In these cases, a civil aviation is necessary. It is not always advisable to hire a private plane for a large company or a small number of people. For these purposes, private jets fit better.
If the companies’ representatives or individuals often make air travel because of their occupation, in order to save money and convenience you can purchase a small premium business or private plane. This article describes three of the best aircraft at the private aviation sector.
The cost of the aircraft, depending on the model has a fairly high price range. Best of manufactured to date models can reach several tens of millions of dollars, but the cheapest models can cost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars or even lower.
Cessna 750 Citation X
The most popular model of private aviation of the business class is Cessna. Especially great demand is on the model 750 Citation X. This model is one of the brightest representatives of the middle planes for business and premium class. The aircraft is designed for long air travel, and is able to accommodate up to twelve people.
Thanks to twin-engine turbofan engine from Rolls-Royce’s it is considered the most high-speed airplane, length of 22 meters. The wings have arrow-shaped design, allowing it to fly by 150 – 200 km / h faster than other business jets.
Appearance of the plane is as presentable as its interior decoration. Everything possible is made here so the passengers feel cozy and comfortable during a long flight.
Embraer Legacy 650
The next most popular model is the business jet Embraer Legacy 650. This aircraft is visually divided into three zones for passengers, the cabin area of the club and luggage compartment.
Compared with other models of the same class, the aircraft has a low noise level and an excellent ventilation system. These innovations make it possible to hold meetings with your partners even on the plane, as well as negotiations on satellite communications. The cabin is equipped with a TV and all the necessary kitchen equipment, which allows a wonderful rest and a snack during the flight.
Its design feature is the presence of two powerful turbofan engines, which can provide up to 7,000 flight kilometers. Also thanks to the new software, this model can take off and land at high altitude airfields.
Also, the best aircraft, and therefore the fastest one, comfortable and expensive are manufactured by Gulfstream. Planes of this company are used by many millionaires and world-famous celebrities.
The cost of the aircraft model G550 can reach fifty million dollars. However, given its high performance characteristics and level of comfort and reliability of the design, its cost is fully paid off.
Electric model airplanes
Electric aircraft has been in a stage of developmental work a long time ago. But now an American start-up, the European aerospace giant Airbus and Chinese aviation manufacturer are in the ranks of those who believe that electric models of planes are ready to fly. If they succeed, the aircraft will be much cheaper and more convenient – for training.
“Electric planes will change everything, if it comes to the cost of the flight,” – says George Bay, Colorado entrepreneur, participated in several aviation projects. His new company, Aero Electric Aircraft Corporation, plans to prepare a double Sun Flyer flight tests. Solar panels on the wings provide additional charging, and if you leave the aircraft in the sun for a few days, its battery will be fully charged absolutely free.
Taking into account the cost of maintenance and fuel, Double Sun Flyer will cost just $ 5 per hour, according to Bay, compared with the same Cessna 172 ($ 73 per hour), four-seater, which is often used for training. New Sun Flyer will be priced from 180 000 to 200 000 dollars, which may seem expensive, but the same new 172 costs about 370 thousand dollars.
Bay hopes that he will be the first manufacturer of electric training aircraft in the US market certified FAA by 2017 or earlier. But he is not alone.
In April, Airbus aircraft showed a battery-powered E-Fan 2.0. In July, the company said it plans to become the first in the market of electric aircraft for flight schools and begin deliveries already in 2018.
Two-seater plane, which will be built by the French manufacturer Daher-Socata, can stay aloft for up to two hours. It is not enough for commercial use, but quite decent for training, because the training field of the majority of flights continues for about an hour with no passengers on board. As soon as the plane sits, its battery can be easily replaced by a fresh one and continue flying. By 2019, Airbus also plans to introduce a hybrid version of the four-seater for personal transport. This is the first step of 30-year plan for the development of 90-seat aircraft with electric or hybrid propulsion system, part of an ambitious European program to reduce carbon emissions by 75% by 2050.
Electric aircraft is developing in China too: now there is the plant under construction, which will produce two-seater Rui Xiang RX1E. The aircraft developed by Shenyang Aerospace University, will be able to fly up to 90 minutes on a full charge. Private aviation develops slowly in China, since its development is complicated by government restrictions, but the pressure allows to look for other, more flexible ways.
If the cost of batteries will continue to decline and electric planes will spend more time in the air, the growth of the market of petrol engines will slow down, at any rate it will be so for training purposes, where the flights are short and more than two seats are not needed. In addition to cost reductions, electric flight is softer and quieter and the service in general is not difficult due to the lack of moving parts. If you are planning to learn to pilot a private jet, get ready for an electric one.
private jet rental
In business aviation charter flight is performed in the time you need. On-order jet is at your disposal for the leased period. You will be able to arrive at a particular airport, make the necessary appointments, and then to go back on the same plane.
A private plane will be specially prepared for you with all the necessary services for work and comfortable trip. A private plane is no longer a novelty, and these services are provided by many companies all around the world.
The convenience of this service is that you can order a plane just when you need it, rather than waiting on a fixed schedule from the existing airlines. You can schedule meetings in various remote areas of the world and do not depend on the schedules of the airlines. You are planning a meeting, and air carrier matches with the plan of your journey, but not vice versa.
Using the services of airlines you plan your appointments based on the schedules of their flights, which can damage the success of your other plans, aircraft rent frees you from such difficulties. In addition, a private jet can be equipped according to your individual order, so you would not be out of work during the flight. Renting a private jet has the best quality-to-price ratio.
Airlines also offer charter flights. VIP-charter is a flight that for a certain period will allow you to become full owner of the aircraft, and thus independently correct departure time, route, date, and other details. Signing the contract, the parties prescribe the conditions for cooperation and the duration of the charter lease.
Organizing charter for VIP-persons is an easy job, but it is giving a lot of advantages. First, on board the VIP-charter food and high quality service are organized. Second, charter flight passengers can pass the passport control zone proactively through VIP-halls. There will be a private transport served to the ramp. If necessary, the list of services will be adjusted according to the needs of each customer.
Personal security and privacy are conditions which are priority for a sufficiently large part of the customers. Flight information is available only to the client and a limited number of employees who are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of known to them data. In addition, aircraft rent excludes the possibility of the undesirable people’s presence on board. Your “neighbors” during the flight will only be passengers invited by you, flight attendants and crew. This is particularly topical for representatives of show business and dignitaries.
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Luxury private jets
Unlike regular flights there is no timetable, and there are no missing planes, instead of nervous passengers there is only ‘luxury’ around you: you will love to fly in a private jet.
900 Hawker XP, Hawker Beechcraft
Inside The Hawker 900 XP your thoughts are released. This luxury model of Beechcraft due to the improved performance, extended range, increased power and a greater degree of comfort is number one among the favorites of the public.
Best-selling midsize business jet of the world is the best in its class in regard to the size of the cabin. For13 million euros there six passengers will accommodate here, even standing – the interior is so spacious. Powerful Honeywell engines provide power of 863 km / h, allowing to make the flight from New York to Honolulu with one single transfer in record time. Low cost of the flight and fuel efficiency will allow even zealous conquerors of heaven to get unalloyed pleasure of this class “de luxe” aircraft.
Gulfstream G550, Gulfstream
If you spend all your life in a villa, so you need a palace for your voyages: Gulfstream G550. Still, the price of 46 million dollars is not everyone’s money.
Stars like Tom Cruise and Barbara Streisand pray for the power of its two engines from Rolls-Royce. John Travolta has a private Gulfstream in his front garden too. G550 is the flagship of Gulfstream fleet. He flies 10,863 kilometers – that is the distance from New York to Tokyo – without a single landing even in strong winds. With Mach number (the ratio of the speed of the aircraft to the speed of sound) to 0.87 (about 1,000 km / h) the aircraft is faster than most business jets. And more luxury: 15.3-meter cabin will provide enough space for 16 passengers. Eight comfortable leather seats and two broad two-place lounges give space to work and relax, and detachable and lockable compartments allow to get some privacy if it is desired. 14 oval panoramic windows fill the interior with light and make door handles and gold taps decorated with sapphires sparkle. Video, DVD and Airshow provide a variety of entertainment options. The system of external cameras gives onetime terms of launch, landing and flying of a machine.
Do you need to take on board more passengers or suddenly fly farther than the usual 2,734 kilometers? No matter what you choose, with the Hawker 400 XP flexibility is always flying with you.
This business jet of Beechcraft family gathers points, especially for the possibility of a spontaneous increase in range. In addition, it has the largest and most luxurious cabin of all light aircraft. The interior is decorated in a noble cherry wood, the tables are decorated with gold, so that wealthy clients from the very first flight will feel at home. While the 19 million dollars jet are piercing the sky at a speed of 867 km / h, passengers are resting or working in the elegant, fully adjustable seats. And around …there is comfort, wherever you look. The spacious bathrooms, of course, have a solid door. The temperature and lighting throughout the aircraft can be adjusted depending on the mood, why else would you own a plane? – Dimly lit and poorly ventilated lounge you can get in regular flights too.
Executive airplane is a plane of business class, which is designed for officials or representatives of the companies’ flights without a special schedule. These planes can be used by individuals for personal travel. Executive aircraft can also carry cargo belonging to organizations. This class of aircraft includes airplanes with comfortable cabin and capacity from 6 to 20, depending on the specific type.
Gulfstream G650 is a true standard of business aircraft. This over-sized Gulfstream airplane offers the highest speed and comfort among modern business jet in its class.
GulfstreamG650 at a cruising speed of 0.85 Mach can carry 8 passengers and 4 of crew and fly 12,964 km without refueling. This compares with the flight from New York to Beijing from London to Buenos Aires or from Dubai to New York. At high cruising speed of Mach 0.90 the aircraft will take passengers from Los Angeles to London and back in record time. And with a maximum cruising speed of Mach 0.925 Gulfstream G650 is the fastest aircraft in civil aviation. With a cruising height of 15,545 m Gulfstream G650 can fly much higher than atmospheric layers with adverse weather conditions and air corridors.
Bombardier Challenger 300
High comfort airliner Bombardier Challenger 300 have been the best-selling model in its class for almost ten years, and nowadays, according to operators, it continues to be on top of business jets super-middle class.
Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft model was the first business jet of super-middle class, challenging their standard design, it was created from scratch. After serious research, the purpose of which was to provide customers with the best conditions for doing business, the aircraft was designed for flights from one US coast to the other and was equipped with a unique room, designed for conferences.
Challenger 300 was made in the best traditions of Bombardier company. It allows CEOs not to depend on weather conditions and problems on busy roads. All aircraft systems and propulsions are designed for intensive use. The aircraft can carry up to ten passengers and fly at a distance of 5646 km at a cruising speed of Mach 0.80 (270 km / s)
Aircraft Falcon 7X
Aircraft Falcon 7X is the most technologically advanced business-jet, which currently performs flights all over the world. Refined yet practical, it sets new standards for performance. This is a new generation of business aircraft.
Falcon 7X was designed to fly to a distance of 9,600 km, which allows connecting cities such as Paris and Tokyo, Shanghai and Seattle, New York and Jeddah, Johannesburg and London. The aircraft can carry eight passengers and a crew of three. It has a top speed of Mach 0.90 (300 km / s) in order to deliver passengers to the right place as quickly as possible.
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Model airplanes for sale
Models play an important role in the development of aviation. They help to check the ideas and technical innovations, conduct scientific research. For example, experiments with flying models were very helpful for Alexander Mozhaysky in the creation of the first aircraft. On models he tested the theory and correctness of the assumptions underlying the first aircraft project.
Flying model is one of the best means to check the correctness of theoretical calculations. Currently, a theory is developed which allows to use the results of experiments carried out with models in wind tunnels at the calculations made for natural planes. Principles of flight, images of many phenomena occurring with aircraft in flight are tested and studied on flying models.
Do you want to experience the feeling of flying? Purchase one of radio-controlled planes mentioned below. All models of airplanes on the market are grouped by types:
Large aircraft
Aerobatic / 3D
Large airplanes with a wingspan of 2 meters or more are large and have realistic flight characteristics. The most popular ones are series of TOC. These model airplanes are for professional sporters and the dynamics of their behavior in the air is not much different from the real aircraft.
Trainers as the name implies, are the models for training. If you want to buy a radio-controlled airplane, but do not know where to start – start with the trainer. The basic set of management features, good glider and reasonable price will help you get in the air quickly.
Aerobatic 3D models are designed to perform complex aerobatic figures. The special shape of the fuselage, the geometry of the wing and control surfaces, as well as accurately calculated loads on the surface, giving you a total freedom in the air. In this class of model aircraft a wide field is opened for the invention of your own stunts.
Copies of the aircraft are samples of reliability and construction simplicity. The models are made of plywood, wood and balsa using modern technologies of laser cutting. They are notable for the design and outer resemblance to the full-scale originals. In addition, they look great and fly perfectly. Many copies are equipped with retractable landing gear, and additional attachments.
Gliders are a special type of model aircraft, which due to their design perfectly keep to an air stream. The glider can float in the air (under appropriate conditions and skills) for hours. Depending on your preference, you can choose between the motor or towed, run with your hands gliders or ones with a winch.
Park Flyers are small airplanes of simple design with simple controls for pleasure of all pilots regardless of their age. Usually, it is a lightweight and durable foam airplane which is not a pity to drop and which forgives many pilot’s mistakes. They may be of various sizes and with varying geometry, but they share the simplicity and availability.
Free Flight planes are manual started mini-models. These models do not require a complex set of electronics and mechanics. Budget price and beautiful appearance – perhaps that is what you need.
Captured people are very enthusiastic about the idea to collect a plane out of a model kit with their own hands. Whatever the impediments to your achievement, the true aeromodeller will overcome all obstacles and gather his model aircraft. And a beginner will experience many ups and downs on the way, aspiring to the dream.
Actually the process of construction and subsequent operations on the assembled aircraft is a source of pride to its owner. Almost everyone can make a plane with his own hands, if he has the desire. Quality of kit details, the assembly documentation and drawings allows you to build model airplanes with your own hands from wood and safely exploit them in the future. Those who decided to take up the construction of the aircraft for the first time, you must know that construction will take quite a long time and will require maximum effort for the successful completion of the model counterparts. To assemble the flying model from a purchased set, it is not necessary to be an expert in the field of aviation, an engineer in the field of hydraulics and electronics, and it does not necessarily to have a full arsenal of instruments and devices. Models of airplanes do not contain overstructured nodes or systems, so you have simply to assemble your copies of airplanes.
Purchased kits will help you to realize your dream – to create the radio plane with your own hands, as well as other large-scale copies of modern aircraft and aircraft replicas of past years, say kit fighter of the World War II CURTISS. Construction of your own aircraft can be one of the most interesting activities in your life, but appearing problems can be an obstacle in your way. Do not despair when you face with problems, each found solution will only add you strength and confidence.
Any model aircraft is a laborious design work and time-consuming exercise for the assembly. Assembling airplane model requires a lot of time and attention, but this hobby allows you to experience unprecedented passion, pride and joy of its creation.
Aircraft modeling is not just a passion; it’s a lifestyle that promotes the pursuit of the goal. And it does not matter what you construct model aircraft for: in order to recreate the aircraft models of different times, or to storm the new “height” in the competition on aircraft modeling. The higher and faster the model of your aircraft takes off, the brighter the emotions from their favorite hobby you have!
private jet charters
People use different modes of transport to get to their destination. The poorest usually walk to their desired places, people with a little more money are using public transport, rich ones travel in luxury cars … And what do the richest people in the world do? Many of them have private jets. This, of course, has advantages compared to ordinary people’s way of flying – you do not have to wait several hours to get on board of the aircraft, as well as to take obnoxious control of security. On the other hand, the opponents of this snobbery often say that personal jet is a waste of money that could be spent on something more useful. Whatever your opinion on this issue, look at the 5 most expensive private jets in the world.
Embraer Phenom 300
Embraer Phenom 3002, developed by the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer ‘Embraer’ is a light jet aircraft with a capacity of 9 passengers and flight range to 3,650 kilometers. ‘Phenom 300’ went on sale in 2008 and climbed up to the first line of best-selling business aircraft – in 2013 60 of these airplanes there sold. Price of ‘Phenom’ is from 5 to 8 million dollars.
‘767’ (Boeing 767) is a large wide-body twin-engine jet airliner, which can accommodate 375 people and fly 11,800 kilometers, but Roman Abramovich, a Russian businessman and owner of Chelsea football club, bought a plane for himself. The jet aircraft interior is decorated with a chestnut wood and gold. The aircraft can often be seen in Luton airport, 48 kilometers north of London, where Abramovich spends a lot of time.
Bombardier Global 8000
‘Bombardier Global 8000’ is able to fly 14,600 kilometers at a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, boasts the lowest fuel consumption and low volume of harmful emissions in its class. Jet provides three separate residential premises, including the ‘great hall’. According to the company, a division of the cabin into three zones is based on the research of customers’ requirements worldwide. This aircraft can accommodate from 8 to 19 passengers and can be purchased for the modest sum of $ 66 million.
Dassault Falcon 5X
New ‘Falcon 5X’ made its first flight in the first quarter of 2015. Maximum speed in 1102 kilometers per hour, the range of 9630 kilometers of flight and the ability to land on short runways allow this jet to become one of the most popular in its class. Elegant and comfortable interior of the aircraft is guaranteed, as in the case of other ‘Falcon’ models. ‘Falcon 5X’ can be purchased for $ 45 million.
‘Airbus A380’ is the largest passenger aircraft in the world, due to the capacity of 800 people, so the purchase of aircraft for private use is craziness, but that’s what the Prince of Saudi Arabia Alawaleed bin Talal has made. He bought «Airbus A380» for $ 300 million, and then spent more than $ 200 million to bring it up to something incredible. The list of what you can find on the plane would have been very long, so we mention only that there are spa treatments, steam rooms, paved with marble, giant televisions on the walls and floors, elevators and so on.
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Massachusetts cities and towns hold their own March for Our Lives rallies
By Elise Takahama Globe Correspondent,March 24, 2018, 11:19 p.m.
Rally-goers in Ipswich expressed support for Florida student activists.(Courtesy photo)
The March for Our Lives that swept the nation Saturday didn’t only draw people to Boston and other major cities.
Across Massachusetts, small cities and towns held marches and rallies to press for stricter gun control laws and safer school in the wake of the mass shooting last month that killed 17 at a Florida high school.
“We love that we sent ambassadors on trains and buses and cars to the larger protests, but Ipswich is a really tight community,” said Kerrie Bates, who helped to organize a rally in that North Shore town. “We felt we needed to occupy space right here. I think it’s super important to protest in our own communities.”
Residents were encouraged to create art and make signs to bring to the rally on the town green. “We were blown away,” Bates said of Saturday’s turnout. “We had over 200 people. And they came from every corner of the green, carrying signs and drums and flags.”
In Plymouth, more than 200 people showed up for a demonstration in the Town Hall Green organized by high school students.
“A huge problem is that a lot of kids feel like we don’t have the ability to speak out,” said Emmie Kelly, 16, a junior at Plymouth North High School who helped organize the event. “We can’t vote. We can’t say that much in school. What opportunities do we actually have? So when one presents itself, I think we have to take advantage of it.”
Zachary McCone, a 17-year-old student at Plymouth North. said he thinks many students have been more politically active since the 2016 election.
“This is definitely a first step,” he said. “We will definitely continue to be loud and boisterous. And we will get to the polls later on when we can vote.”
All the student organizers in Plymouth prepared speeches for the rally, but several individuals also performed music and poetry, Kelly said.
“We also had signups for any student performers who wanted to speak or sing or song or play an instrument, because one of the main ideas is that these are real people with real talents whose lives are being taken away,” she said.
Rallies were also held in Central and Western Massachusetts.
More than 1,000 people also responded that they were attending Worcester’s march, which ended at City Hall, according to the event Facebook page.
Lynn Dischler, a Bolton resident who attended, was impressed by the student-led demonstration that drew thousands to the city.
“I just love seeing the students all getting involved,” she said. “So I wanted to support them in any way I can.”
In Springfield, more than 1,000 people showed up to participate in the march which began in Court Square, headed downtown, then circled back to City Hall, said Amelia Ryan, an 18-year-old senior at Longmeadow High School and one of the students who organized the event.
Several members of the community spoke at the rally, including students and religious leaders, in addition to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Richard Neal.
Senator Elizabeth Warren marched with students in Springfield.((Senator Warren’s office))
“I think it went really well,” said Sarah Reyes, another student organizer and a 16-year-old sophomore at Longmeadow High School. “Having that many people there really amplified our message and made sure our voices would be heard as a national movement.”
Ryan said the shooting hit her community particularly hard since Springfield houses the headquarters of Smith and Wesson Corp., a national firearms manufacturing company.
“That drives the point home,” Reyes said. “The guns that killed 17 people in six minutes were manufactured by a company that has its corporate headquarters in Springfield.”
Reyes said students protested at the gates of Smith and Wesson last week and wrote letters to the company begging them to halt their donations to the NRA, but have received no response.
But they don’t want to lost their momentum, Ryan said, and are planning to start a Western Massachusetts chapter of Students Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a campaign started by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
“We’re seeing a lot of support for that,” Ryan said.
Elise Takahama can be reached at elise.takahama@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @elisetakahama.
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DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Pablo Sandoval could be a really big problem
By Dan Shaughnessy Globe Columnist,February 21, 2016, 11:32 a.m.
Pablo Sandoval arrived early at training camp, but his reported weight loss appeared to be exaggerated. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Pablo Sandoval arrived at Red Sox spring training camp Sunday morning, looking just as big as he looked when he arrived last spring. Maybe even bigger.
He was in a great mood. He said he has nothing to prove. He said he has no idea what he weighs. In a contradiction of what we’ve been told by Torey Lovullo, John Farrell, and Dave Dombrowski, Pablo said that nobody in Sox management asked him to lose weight during the offseason.
Ouch. In the eternal words of Bill Belichick, “This is not what we were looking for.”
Mercy. Get a load of that gut. if we didn’t know better, we’d suggest that Pablo appears not to be taking things seriously.
The Panda Watch had consumed folks in Fort Myers throughout the weekend. Last week Farrell casually mentioned that Sandoval would be in camp Saturday and when Pablo didn’t show on Saturday, the fat hit the fan.
Sandoval became the first player in baseball history to get ripped for not appearing in camp four days before the first full squad workout.
I looked everywhere for him Saturday night. I checked the deli counter at Publix and the popular Two Meatballs in the Kitchen restaurant off Daniels Parkway. I even went to the Regal Cinemas Belltower 20 to see if he might be taking in the late show of “Kung Fu Panda 3” but . . . no luck.
Meanwhile, Sandoval was taking a beating on social media.
At 7:30 a.m. Sunday, the Wait gave way to The Weight as Panda strolled into the clubhouse for the first time in 2016. Video crews from Comcast and NESN were there to record the moment. Minutes later, Panda came out of the clubhouse and greeted Farrell. Photos were snapped as the two walked arm-in-arm past the barbecue grill outside the clubhouse.
Panda Watch over. pic.twitter.com/qKs4hYzf6j
— Dan Shaughnessy (@Dan_Shaughnessy) February 21, 2016
Pablo then went to the cages to hit. At 9 a.m. he took questions from the media in front of his locker.
It was an unsatisfying session.
Early in the interview, Sandoval offered no contrition for his abysmal first season in Boston. He didn’t give us the spring training mantra of, “I’ve been eating salads all winter and am now in the best shape of my career.”
No. None of that.
Pablo smiled and talked a lot about winning and being a good teammate. But he didn’t give Sox fans what they likely wanted to hear.
VIDEO- of Pablo Sandoval's arrival #redsox more @CSNNE TV at 6 and 7pm. pic.twitter.com/ZocgKZCZwX
— Jessica Moran (@JessMoranCSN) February 21, 2016
“I’m excited to be back,” he started. “We have good energy. Everybody is happy.”
The second question was, “Do you feel like you have a lot to prove this year?’”
“No, I don’t got nothing to prove,” he said. “I just prepare myself to perform well, support my teammates and play and try to get to the World Series. That’s what I’m doing . . .”
Next he was asked if he considers last year (.245, 10 homers, 47 RBIs, 15 errors in 126 games) a personal disappointment.
“It’s not a disappointment, it’s baseball . . . You’re going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready,” he said. “Those down moments come. Shake it off and keep working hard to prove next year you’re better than that.”
It went downhill from there. A well-meaning reporter noted that Farrell said Sandoval lost 20-22 pounds over the winter. Was it Pablo’s goal to come into camp in better condition, we wondered?
Pablo Sandoval was all smiles after batting practice.(Jim Davis/Globe Staff)
“After the season was over, I got the clear to start working out in October to prepare myself to be an athlete on the field,” he said. “That’s what I do. I don’t try to lose weight or nothing. I just do my work, feel better . . . ”
How much weight did you lose?
“I don’t weigh in at all,” he said. “I just do my work, try to do everything I can. I don’t weigh in all offseason. I just try to get better, be in better position, be an athlete.”
Did anyone from the team talk to you about weight, or ask you to lose weight?
Shocking. When then-interim manager Lovullo met with the media in Cleveland at the end of the Red Sox 2015 last-place season, he said the Sox were going to ask Sandoval to lose weight during the winter. Dombrowski said the same thing at the Winter Meetings. At the writer’s dinner in January, Farrell said Sandoval had lost 20-22 pounds. If this is true, Panda must have been in Wilfork-land when he started shedding.
Based on what we saw Sunday, Pablo’s weight loss must be like the proverbial two deck chairs tossed off the Titanic.
Farrell attempted to clarify things after Sunday’s workout.
“We told him we needed him to come back in better condition,” said the manager. “Along with that, you anticipate there’s some potential for weight to be dropped. But there wasn’t a specific number given where we said, ‘We want you to come in at this weight.’ With every exit interview we tell them these things. There was a more direct sit-down meeting between Dave, Hanley [Ramirez] and his agent. That was more specific to the number.”
Farrell repeatedly stated that Sandoval looks to be in better condition than he was at the end of the season, but no one is talking numbers of pounds.
I believe Sandoval is simply being stubborn. He knows he’s never going to look like Mookie Betts and he’s understandably sensitive about the topic. He was subject of a weight watch with the Giants almost every spring and folks in Arizona will tell you that Sandoval usually had his worst seasons when he came to camp looking svelte.
Sandoval’s Sunday news conference got better as it went on. He said he’d been working at hitting from the right side and that he was “real motivated to have a good season.”
He said it had been tough defensively adjusting to the American League. He said he’s been working at “track and field.” (Did we miss him at the Millrose Games?)
He contradicted his opening remarks, saying, “I want to prove to the fans, I want to prove to my teammates that I can be a better defensive player, a better offensive player, to win games. I have to work hard to get to that moment.”
Nice. But the damage was done.
We need to remember that Sandoval is speaking in a second language when he takes questions from the English-speaking media. He is a pleasant and polite fellow and he looked pretty heavy when he was hitting .426 in three World Series Octobers.
Back in the day, when folks told Earl Weaver that Orioles first baseman Boog Powell was fat, Earl would say, “He doesn’t look fat to me when he’s running around the bases after hitting those homers.”
All that said, this was a disastrous introductory news conference for Pablo Sandoval. He is coming off a horrendous first season after signing a five-year, $95 million contract. He is a professional athlete and has been in the big leagues since 2008.
We thought he’d look different. And the Red Sox should have prepared him better.
The optics on this are bad and some of the words are likely to stick.
Sandoval was on the field with other Red Sox players.(Jim Davis/Globe Staff)
Sandoval was on the field with other Red Sox players, including Travis Shaw, who also took ground balls with him at third base.(Jim Davis/Globe Staff)
Sandoval appeared to be happy to be at spring training.(Jim Davis/Globe Staff)
Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at dshaughnessy@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @Dan_Shaughnessy.
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Family Ties: Half Jeb Bush’s Contributions From Previous Bush Donors
Luke Frazza/AFP/Getty Images
20 Aug 2015 Austin, TX
Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) is seeking to be the third President Bush, and his family legacy has provided him with not just political but also financial connections.
Bush’s presidential campaign and supportive PACs made headlines for raking in a combined total of about $120 million — more than double that of any of his Republican competitors — and the Bush name was incredibly helpful in raising those funds. A new analysis of Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records shows that more than half of Bush’s campaign war chest comes from donors who have previously donated to Bush’s father, former President George H.W. Bush, or his brother, former President George W. Bush.
A nonpartisan political research company called Crowdpac.com analyzed FEC and state campaign finance records for the three Bushes, and found lots of overlap between the donor lists. “The finding puts a numerical exclamation point on the advantage Bush’s presidential family gives him when it comes to fundraising,” reported the AP.
Looking at named contributors to Bush’s official campaign committee, his Super PAC, and his leadership PAC, Crowdpac found that $59.2 million was donated by first-time Bush donors, and $60.3 million came from donors who had previously given to Bush’s father or brother.
Super PACs can take in unlimited funds, while Bush’s presidential campaign is limited to $2,700 or $5,400 per married couple. Federal records identify donors who have given at least $200 per election cycle, and state disclosure requirements vary.
The group also found that more than 1,800 Americans had donated to all three Bushes. These diehard Bush family loyalists are spread all over the country, although large numbers live in Texas, where Bush was born and where his father and brother began their political careers, and Florida, where Bush was a two-term governor.
One such donor, Dirk Van Dongen, president of the Washington-based National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, told the AP that there was a “huge” network of volunteer fundraisers who bundled contributions from friends and business associates that had supported the family’s campaigns.
“It is a vast network built over decades and it has grown even larger since Gov. Bush announced his candidacy,” said Van Dongen. “No other Republican candidate comes close to matching it.”
Crowdpac also looked at two other 2016 presidential candidates who are benefiting from their last names this election cycle: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
About 16 percent, or $9 million, of Clinton’s campaign contributions came from donors who had also given to her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Paul’s father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), had a large, enthusiastic national network of supporters, and many of them are now helping his son. More than half of Paul’s nearly $9 million campaign and PAC funds came from people who had donated to his father, who ran for president himself in 2012.
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Milford Hospital to explore integration with Bridgeport Hospital
New Haven, CT (Sept. 28, 2018) – Following the approval of a Letter of Intent earlier this summer, Yale New Haven Health, Bridgeport Hospital and Milford Hospital Boards of Trustees have voted this week to pursue the acquisition of Milford Hospital by Bridgeport Hospital. With these board approvals, the organizations have signed an asset purchase agreement and will file for regulatory review of the transaction as they proceed with the necessary due diligence associated with the acquisition.
“It is clear that Milford Hospital has played a critical role in the delivery of healthcare to Milford and its surrounding communities,” said Marna P. Borgstrom, chief executive officer of Yale New Haven Health. “While the hospital has faced significant and mounting financial challenges, we are optimistic that by working together, we can address those issues directly and work towards providing improved access to high quality care, delivered in the most efficient manner possible.”
In 2014, facing significant financial headwinds, Milford Hospital developed a relationship with both Yale New Haven Hospital and Bridgeport Hospital to support their respective Inpatient Rehabilitation Units (IRU). This approach generated exceptionally high patient satisfaction rates. However, the need for a broader relationship became apparent as financial performance continued to be challenged by the existing healthcare environment.
Earlier this year, the Milford Hospital Board appointed an independent management and advisory firm, ToneyKorf Partners LLC, to develop a plan that would sustain the operations of the hospital as it considered long-term options, including the potential integration with Bridgeport Hospital.
“These are challenging times for community-based hospitals in Connecticut and throughout the country,” said Mark Toney, chief restructuring officer of Milford Hospital. “Yet, despite the pressures facing Milford Hospital, it is readily apparent that the community strongly supports this organization and the employees who work here. The commitment of the Milford Hospital team to high quality healthcare is unwavering and the passion for each other as fellow team members is inspiring. In working with Yale New Haven Health and Bridgeport Hospital, we believe that Milford Hospital can now develop a sustainable model for the future.” “While there is clearly more work to do, we are confident that by working together we can help Milford Hospital better serve the community by becoming part of Yale New Haven Health through Bridgeport Hospital,” said Yale New Haven Health president Richard D’Aquila. “We are excited about this opportunity to sustain and grow access to high quality healthcare locally and regionally. We fully believe that we can achieve our mutual goal of securing a positive future for the hospital and the broader community.”
Under the agreement, current Milford Hospital employees, including those represented by organized labor, would become employees of Bridgeport Hospital. Bridgeport Hospital has agreed to recognize all existing labor relationships.
As the regulatory process moves forward in the months ahead, Milford Hospital will continue to operate as a separate organization. During this time, the organizations will review the full value of opportunities associated with a broad integration between Milford and Bridgeport Hospitals, strengthened by the innovative solutions that can be delivered through the support of Yale New Haven Health.
Milford Hospital is a non-profit community hospital serving more than 50,000 patients from Greater New Haven and Fairfield County annually. Designated a Top Performer in Key Quality Measures by the Joint Commission, a Four Star Health Care Provider by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, a Cigna Center of Excellence and a Blue Distinction Center + for Quality and Efficiency in Joint Replacement, Milford Hospital is committed to providing safe, compassionate and cost efficient care its patients and the community. For more information please visit www.milfordhospital.org
Bridgeport Hospital, part of Yale New Haven Health, is a non-profit 501-bed acute care hospital with two campuses (plus 42 beds licensed to Yale New Haven Children's Hospital). Its Bridgeport and Milford Campuses serve patients from across the region. The hospital admits more than 23,000 patients and provides nearly 350,000 outpatient treatments annually. The Connecticut Burn Center at Bridgeport Hospital is the only burn center in the state and one of only 64 verified burn centers in the United States. Bridgeport Hospital is committed to providing safe, compassionate and cost efficient care its patients and the community.
Bridgeport Hospital, St. Vincent’s Medical Center share Connecticut’s Hospital Community Service Award
BRIDGEPORT, CT (June 26, 2019) – Bridgeport Hospital and St. Vincent’s Medical Center have received Connecticut’s Hospital Community Service Award for their joint involvement in providing free health screenings to underserved residents through the Know Your Numbers (KYN) program.
All Yale New Haven Health hospitals named as “Leaders in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality”
NEW HAVEN, CT (June 19, 2019) – All five Yale New Haven Health hospitals will be awarded the “LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader” designation in the forthcoming Healthcare Equality Index 2019.
Bridgeport Hospital first in state to earn national geriatric emergency department accreditation
BRIDGEPORT, CT (June 18, 2019) – Bridgeport Hospital is the first hospital in Connecticut to earn Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
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Alternative Titles: République du Mali, Republic of Mali
Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian regions. Mali is largely flat and arid. The Niger River flows through its interior, functioning as the main trading and transport artery in the country. Sections of the river flood periodically, providing much-needed fertile agricultural soil along its banks as well as creating pasture for livestock.
Djenné, Mali: mosqueMosque of Djenné, Mali. ulldellebre—iStock/Thinkstock
Although Mali is one of the largest countries in Africa, it has a relatively small population, which is largely centred along the Niger River. The Bambara (Bamana) ethnic group and language predominate, with several other groups—including the Fulani (Fulbe), Dogon, and Tuareg—also present in the population. Agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country, with cotton production, cattle and camel herding, and fishing among the major activities.
Mali Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The area that is now Mali was once part of the three great precolonial Sudanic empires: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. The fabled but now faded trading and learning centre of Timbuktu is situated in Mali on the upper Niger River. For centuries, caravans crossed the Sahara desert from North Africa while others came from the forest regions to the south, meeting at the crossroads of Timbuktu. Other notable towns include Djenné, noted for its famous mosque and other examples of Sudanese architecture, and Mopti, a bustling market centre. The Dogon region, centred on the Bandiagara escarpment in the country’s central area, is an important tourist destination because of its unique cliffside villages and diverse artistic life. The national capital, Bamako, is located on the Niger River and is a rapidly growing city because of increased migration from the depressed rural areas.
BamakoBamako, Mali. Arensond
Mali is bounded on the north by Algeria, on the east by Niger and Burkina Faso, on the south by Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea, and on the west by Senegal and Mauritania.
Mali’s landscape is largely flat and monotonous. Two basic relief features can be distinguished: plateaus and plains, which are crossed by two of Africa’s major river systems, the Niger and the Sénégal. The highland regions are localized and discontinuous.
The plateaus of the south and southwest (extensions of the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea and the Guinea Highlands of Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire) lie between about 1,000 and 1,600 feet (300 and 500 metres) above sea level but attain heights approaching 2,000 feet (600 metres) in the Mandingue Plateau near Bamako and more than 2,100 feet (640 metres) near Satadougou.
The plateaus of the southeast and east, also extensions of the Guinea Highlands, are a series of small, broken hills. Elevations in the southeast range between almost 1,000 feet (300 metres) around Sikasso and 1,740 feet (530 metres) at Mount Mina. East of the Niger River the Dogon Plateau descends gently westward to the river valley but ends in abrupt cliffs on the southeast. These cliffs reach an elevation approaching 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) at Bandiagara. Northwest of the region is the country’s highest point, Mount Hombori Tondo, which rises to a height of 3,789 feet (1,155 metres).
Northern and central Mali are made up of the plains of the Niger River basin and of the Sahara. The only marked relief feature in the north is the Iforas Massif. An extension of the mountainous Hoggar region of the Sahara, this heavily eroded sandstone plateau rises to elevations of more than 2,000 feet.
Drainage and soils
With the exception of some intermittent streams in the northeast, Mali’s drainage system consists entirely of the Sénégal and Niger rivers and their tributaries. The Sénégal system flows in a northwesterly direction across western Mali for about 420 miles (670 km) on its course to the Atlantic Ocean. One of its main headstreams, the Bakoye River, rises in the Fouta Djallon, while another, the Bafing River, rises farther to the east; they join at Bafoulabé to form the Sénégal. The river continues flowing northwest and then west around the Mandingue Plateau, broken along the way by falls at Gouina and Félou, before exiting Mali.
Niger RiverPirogues on the Niger River near Bamako, Mali. AdstockRF
The Niger River flows through Mali for slightly more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km), about two-fifths of the river’s total length. It rises in the Fouta Djallon and is of significant size by the time it enters the country near Kangaba. It flows to the northeast across the Mandingue Plateau, its course interrupted by falls and a dam at Sotuba. Reaching Koulikoro, it spreads out in a wide valley and flows majestically to its confluence with the Bani River at Mopti. The Niger then forms an interior delta, because the land is flat and the river’s gradient almost nonexistent. The river breaks down into a network of branches and lakes as it continues northward and, at Kabara, eastward. At Bourem the Niger makes a great turn to the southeast, known as the Niger Bend, and flows past Gao and Ansongo to the Niger border at Labbezanga.
The Niger River at Mopti, Mali. © Brian A. Vikander/West Light
The flow of the Niger varies seasonally. High waters occur on the upper Niger from July to October, at the delta from September to November, and at the bend from December to January. Periodic floods and the rich alluvial soils in the central delta make the Niger valley an important agricultural region.
Niger RiverNiger River near Koulikoro, Mali. Guaka
The soils outside the Niger valley in Mali are poor. In the south, ferruginous (iron-bearing) soils are shallow and form a hard, red crust because of intense evaporation. The desert region is composed of sand, rock, and gravel.
Mali lies within the intertropical zone and has a hot, dry climate, with the sun near its zenith throughout most of the year. In general, there are two distinct seasons, dry and wet. The dry season, which lasts from November to June, is marked by low humidity and high temperatures and is influenced by the alize and harmattan winds. The alize blows from the northeast from November to January and causes a relatively cool spell, with temperatures averaging 77 °F (25 °C). From March to June the harmattan, a dry, hot wind that blows from the east out of the Sahara, sweeps the soil into dusty whirlwinds and is accompanied by daytime temperatures of about 104 to 113 °F (40 to 45 °C).
During the rainy season, from June to October, the monsoon wind blows from the southwest. Preceded by large black clouds, the heavy rainstorms often include gusty winds and much lightning and thunder. Temperatures are somewhat lower in August, when most of the rainfall occurs.
The country can be divided into three climatic zones—the Sudanic, the Sahelian, and the desert zones. Sudanic climate occurs in about one-third of the country, from the southern border to latitude 15° N. It is characterized by an annual rainfall of 20 to 55 inches (510 to 1,400 mm) and average temperatures of 75 to 86 °F (24 to 30 °C). The Sahel, or the area bordering the Sahara, receives between 8 and 20 inches (200 and 510 mm) of rain per year and has average temperatures between 73 and 97 °F (23 and 36 °C). In the desert (Sahara), temperatures during the day range from 117 to nearly 140 °F (47 to 60 °C), while at night the temperature drops to 39 to 41 °F (4 to 5 °C).
SahelSahel in the rain season, between Bamako and Kayes, Mali. NSSL/NOAA
flag of Mali
République du Mali (Republic of Mali)
Form of government
multiparty republic1 with one legislative house (National Assembly [147])
President1: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
Prime Minister1: Boubou Cissé
Official language
Official religion
Monetary unit
CFA franc (CFAF)
(2018 est.) 19,446,000
Population rank
(2018) 61
Population projection 2030
Total area (sq mi)
Total area (sq km)
Density: persons per sq mi
(2018) 40.6
Density: persons per sq km
Urban-rural population
Urban: (2018) 42.4%
Rural: (2018) 57.6%
Male: (2016) 65.7 years
Female: (2016) 68.2 years
Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate
Male: (2015) 45.1%
Female: (2015) 22.2%
GNI (U.S.$ ’000,000)
(2017) 14,283
GNI per capita (U.S.$)
(2017) 770
1A military junta took power in March 2012; in April 2012 an ECOWAS-brokered deal gave nominal control to an interim civilian government, which handed power over to a democratically elected president in September 2013.
Plant and animal life
Settlement patterns
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
Resources and power
Services, labour, and taxation
Transportation and telecommunications
Government and society
Constitutional framework
Cultural life
Precolonial history
Independent Mali
Political unrest and military intervention
Traoré’s rule
Toward a more democratic future
2012 coup and warfare in the north
Art and Life in Africa - University of Iowa Museum of Art - Mali, Africa
Central Intelligence Agency - The World Factbook - Mali
Mali - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11)
Mali - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
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Speedway racing
Speedway racing, automobile or motorcycle racing on a racecourse or track, usually oval and flat. Both speedway racing and Grand Prix racing, which is done on closed highways or other courses partly simulating road conditions, began in 1906. Speedway racing became the dominant kind of automobile racing in the United States. For the position of speedway racing in the history of automobile racing, see automobile racing.
Speedway motorcycle racing in Germany. Authenticated News International
Speedway racing for motorcycles began much later, originating in Australia in the 1920s. It also became popular in Europe by the 1930s and remained so. The racing is done on small, flat, oval tracks with lightweight motorcycles that have small fuel tanks and no brakes. Tracks measure about 350 yards (320 metres) and have unpaved surfaces of dirt, cinders, grass, or sand. Competition ranges from local to international in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Attendance at such races in Great Britain during the 1980s was said to be second only to that for football (soccer). World championships under the supervision of the Fédération Internationale Motocycliste were held from 1937.
Article Title: Speedway racing
URL: https://www.britannica.com/sports/speedway-racing
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VISIT THE MARCHE
FROM OUR CAMPING TO GO AND DISCOVER URBINO, PESARO AND FANO
Starting from the camping in Fano, you can reach some of the most beautiful cities of the Marche region. From Fano's historic city center to Urbino's Renaissance monuments and Pesaro's architectural ones.
Ask for information at the reception desk, take advantage of the camping offers and spend your holidays camping in Fano, discovering the Marche Region as well as the cities of Urbino and Pesaro!
The territory around Mare Blu camping, is the ideal place to spend a holiday doing excursions among history, nature, art and culture. Leaving from the camping site, in a short time it is in fact possible to reach some among the most famous and fascinating tourist locations of the Marche region: Fano, Urbino, Pesaro, the Frasassi Caves, the Castle of Gradara, the State Natural Reserve Gola del Furlo, Mondavio, San Leo, the Republic of San Marino, Pergola with the Gilt Bronzes from Cartoceto Museum, Loreto and many others.
Fano, from Rome to the Renaissance era
The city of Fano introduces itself to the tourist showing a thousand facets: a quiet and chilled beach at east, lively and full of clubs the west one, a peculiar and well preserved historic city center. Omnipresent in every aspect and in every place is the sea. Along its 20 kilometers of coastline, there is an alternation of sandy and fine gravel beaches, equipped and public beaches. All of them have been awarded for several years, with the Europe's Blue Flag for the quality of the sea waters and the tourist services provided.
The beach to the south of Fano and one to the north are joined by the marina, with a beautiful promenade overlooking the sea. Here you can find lush gardens, playgrounds for children, bars, swimming pools, sailing and windsurfing clubs, gyms, tennis courts, football fields, bowling alleys, billiards rooms and much more. In the evening the seafront promenade and Fano city center offer different opportunities for fun and relaxation, with itinerant entertainment and shops open even late in the evening. Local specialty of the city of Fano is the delicious Fano's style "brodetto".
Urbino, capital of the Renaissance and Unesco heritage site
Urbino is one of the most important cities of the Marche region, with a remarkable historical legacy, stunning religious architecture and an ancient university. Nestled on a hill and surrounded by greenery, Urbino resembles a city from a fairy tale, with medieval castles echoing a past of horses and knights.
Urbino is a small and picturesque city, with Medieval and Renaissance architecture and is well-known to host one of the most renowned and ancient Universities of Italy. There are many great restaurants offering the typical local cuisine as well as numerous bars and wine cellars, many museums and historical buildings, churches, university clubs, art's studios, artisan workshops, gardens and trendy boutiques for those who love shopping.
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Pesaro has also a historic center rich with elegant streets, buildings, museums, churches, fortresses and ancient and modern libraries. Those visiting Pesaro during their stay in our camping can attend hundreds of performances and initiatives animating the summer.The peculiarities of the tourist offer of the city of Pesaro and its services shall establish a direct and friendly relationship with the tourist, transforming the holiday in a pleasant and relaxing experience.
The Frasassi Caves, one of the World's most charming underground path.
Frasassi Caves are one of the most beautiful places in Italy and are located in Genga, in the province of Ancona within the Regional Natural Park of Gola della Rossa and of Frasassi.
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The tourist itinerary of the Frasassi Caves presents an accessible and fully equipped path , with a duration of about 70 minutes and a 1.5km length. Visitors, accompanied by professional guides, can feel the thrill of a beautiful and hidden world, turned upside down, with a fascinating atmosphere and rich in extraordinary concretions, where silence is broken only by the sound of water dripping, making thus the complex alive and ever changing.
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Cañon City officials conduct active shooter…
Cañon City officials conduct active shooter training at St. Thomas More Hospital
Cañon City Police Officer Shelby Beck escorts responders with the Cañon City Fire District and a mock shooting victim to safety during a multi-agency active shooter training exercise Thursday at St. Thomas More Hospital.
Carie Canterbury/ Daily Record
Chris Mailliard, an Emergency Preparedness Specialist, right, and Cañon City Police Chief Daric Harvey go over some last minute planning before an active shooter training exercise Thursday at St. Thomas More Hospital. Mailliard, who also was a first responder at the Columbine High School shooting, played the role of the shooter in Thursday's drill.
An incident evaluator takes notes while Cañon City Police Commander Tammy Wagner, right, Officer Shelby Beck and Cañon City Fire District Battalion Chief Dave Marshall exchange information during an active shooter training exercise Thursday at St. Thomas More Hospital.
Cañon City Police Sgt. Derek Irvine is the first one to arrive on the scene of an active shooter training exercise Thursday at St. Thomas More Hospital.
Cañon City Police Chief Daric Harvey, center, prepares officers during the initial phase of an active shooter training exercise Thursday at St. Thomas More Hospital.
Responders with the Cañon City Fire Department and American Medical Response care for a mock shooting victim during an active shooter training exercise Thursday at St. Thomas More Hospital.
By Carie Canterbury | canterburyc@canoncitydailyrecord.com and The Daily Record | Canon City Daily Record
PUBLISHED: September 27, 2018 at 8:01 pm | UPDATED: April 15, 2019 at 3:55 am
Expert advises people to ‘run, hide, fight’ during an active shooting
Chris Mailliard, an emergency preparedness specialist who has been part of dozens of active shooter training exercises, said the recommended action during such a situation is to “run, hide, fight.”
“Most people’s initial plan is to run, and we ask them to do that,” he said. “The problem is when they hear the gunshots, the brain says ‘no.’ The brain tells them if I can hear the gunshots, it’s too close, I can’t run.”
During a previous large-scale training at a Colorado hospital, only two of about 80 participants ran.
“What we find through the exercises is we have to change our planning and how we mitigate and how we prepare and how we work with our tenants of our building — it doesn’t matter if it’s a hospital or an office building or a school — we have to change how we do those things,” he said. “The best option is always to run, no matter what; if you can’t, we have to teach people how to barricade really, really well.”
Mailliard was a first responder who was dispatched to the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999. He said that shooting set the benchmark for mock shooting exercises.
“The interesting thing about Columbine, since Columbine, there really hasn’t been an incident like Columbine — two shooters, explosive devises that set it off, it was a very unique event that we really haven’t seen replicated in detail,” he said.
He emphasized that it’s always best to run when a shooter enters a building, especially since there haven’t been many shootings with more than one shooter — like Columbine — in the past 20 years.
“You are much better off running and getting out of the building,” he said.
For more information on emergency preparedness and response, visit Mailliard’s website at http://www.responseready.us/.
Chris Mailliard was a first responder when he was dispatched to the Columbine High School massacre April 20, 1999, and now he uses his skills and real-world experience to help prepare other organizations for similar instances.
Mailliard, an emergency preparedness specialist, played the role of a shooter during an active shooter training Thursday at St. Thomas More Hospital, where staff joined forces with the Cañon City Police Department and other agencies to evaluate and train for active shooter response tactics.
“We’ve learned a ton from these exercises,” Mailliard said. “The biggest take away from an exercise standpoint is actually using gunfire — blanks, of course — that is the true stimulus that people need.”
He said in the past, event organizers would bang two-by-fours together to mimic the sound of a gunshot, but people didn’t react the same way as they would if they heard an actual gunfire.
“Even if people shot a gun before, they may have never heard one in a carpeted area with low ceilings and sound-absorbing materials, it’s either outside or in a concrete range,” he said. “It sounds different, so we have to get them that experience of what it sounds like, what it smells like, what it feels like in order for them to start planning.”
When Mailliard entered the hospital and fired his gun Thursday, that set off the full-scale exercise.
Law enforcement from the CCPD arrived at the scene within five minutes, and after quickly gearing up, officers ran directly toward the line of fire, still uncertain of what type of mock situation they would be facing.
“This is to have them learn from an experience that is as realistic as can be,” Cañon City Police Chief Daric Harvey said. “The outcome for this is not only a better safety plan for the hospital and for the other responders, but it’s also so we can go back and look at what do we need to change in our plans to get better — what new equipment or training do we need so our responders can be more effective out on the street.”
The exercise took less than an hour to complete, but the planning took several weeks.
Mallory MacFarlane, the communications manager for St. Thomas More Hospital, said because active shootings are unfortunate occurrences these days, it’s important to be prepared.
“We want to make sure that we have not only the best care for our patients, but the best safety protocols set up in case of an emergency,” she said.
Nancy Bartkowiak, the hospital’s trauma and emergency management coordinator, said this was the largest scale training that hospital has done.
“It’s very exciting to see this many community partners involved in this event,” she said. “Many of our partners around the hospital did drills in conjunction with our active shooter drill today.”
She commended the CCPD on its response time and applauded the hospital staff for the training that went into the event beforehand.
Harvey said the volunteers who served as the shooting victims during Tuesday’s drill all did an excellent job.
Other agencies that took part in the event include the Cañon City Fire Department, American Medical Response, Pueblo County SWAT, Flight for Life, Fremont County Regional Dispatch Center, Fremont County Emergency Management and the Department of Corrections. The Pueblo County Mobile Command was set up as a centralized command post.
For more information on what to do in an active shooting event, how to recognize signs of potential violence and what to expect after an active shooting takes place, visit the Department of Homeland Security’s website at https://www.ready.gov/active-shooter.
Carie Canterbury: 719-276-7643, canterburyc@canoncitydailyrecord.com
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Travel Budget for Sao Paulo
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How much does it cost to travel to Sao Paulo?
How much money will you need in Sao Paulo? R$214 ($57) is the average daily price for traveling in Sao Paulo. The average price of meals in Sao Paulo for one day is R$60 ($16). The average price of a hotel in Sao Paulo for a couple is R$246 ($66). Additional pricing is in the table below. These average travel prices have been collected from other travelers to help you plan your own travel budget.
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With a population of around 11 million, and 20 million in the metropolitan area, Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil. It's also one of the wealthiest cities in the southern hemisphere, although you don't have to look far to see the income disparities and inequalities that exist. The city is diverse and culturally rich, with excellent food, music, and entertainment.
Despite being the largest city in Brazil, Sao Paulo is often overlooked by tourists and travelers who head straight to Rio de Janeiro. In fact, the city has plenty to see and culture abounds. The nightlife scene is excellent and each neighborhood has its own unique identity. The city is also just to the north of Parque Estadual Serra do Mar, which is a mountain range that is covered with rainforest. It makes a great ecotourism destination from the city.
Sao Paulo has a monsoon influenced humid subtropical climate with four distinct seasons: winter, summer, fall, and spring. The summers, which are between January and March, have average highs in the low 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The winter months have temperatures that range from the low 50s to the mid 70s. Rain is common year around, but most frequent in the warmer months.
The biggest appeal in visiting Sao Paulo is the great diversity of restaurants, interesting cultural events, and the handful of museums and galleries that offer you a glimpse into Brazilian culture. One of the best areas to explore is Paulista Avenue which has many restaurants, theaters, and shops. The city's historical center has many landmarks that reflect the city's past. The architecture in the area is lacking, but the area is still worth visiting. Also make sure you take time to head to the top of Banespa Tower for an outstanding view of the city. A popular park to visit is Ibirapuera Park. Two of the most notable museums around town are Museu do Ipiranga and the Memorial da America Latina. Other options are Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado, Instituto Tomio Ohtake, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, and Museu de Arte Moderna.
While initially Sao Paulo may feel like little more than a concrete city, as you take time to explore and immerse yourself in the city, you will begin to catch glimpses of its true beauty. The striking diversity in its neighborhoods is one of the more interesting aspects of Sao Paulo. You will find extremely beautiful, luxurious and glamorous neighborhoods that house the rich of Brazil, and then you will see the slums that hide the extreme poverty. The juxtaposition of these two extremes illustrates the inequality and lack of a middle class that still exists in many parts of Brazil.
Sao Paulo can be divided into several districts. The downtown has many of the city's historical sights and cultural centers. In the west you'll find the city's commercial and nightlife scene. The south central part of Sao Paulo has the wealthiest areas as well as Parque do Ibirapuera. The southeast has a large immigrant population and the northeast is where many of the city's events are held including Carnival. The far south still has forest and farms and the far east has beautiful parks. The northwest is suburban and where you'll find Parque Estadual do Jaragua.
Sao Paulo really is a cultural hub for the country. There are many concert halls and theaters around the city with two of the most important being Theatro Municipal and Sala Sao Paulo. It's also a truly unique experience to go to a soccer game in Sao Paulo. There are four teams that are in the 1st division (Sao Paulo, Corinthians, Palmeiras, and Portuguesa) and five large football stadiums around the city (Cicero Pompeu de Toledo Stadium, Morumbi, Parque Antarctica, Pacaembu, and Caninde).
Some of the most popular events and festivals in Sao Paulo include Sao Paulo Carnival, the Gay Pride Parade, Virada Cultural, Sao Paulo Indy 300, and the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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The restaurant scene in Sao Paulo is a major reason to visit the city. There is a wide variety of restaurants ranging in price from extremely budget to high end expensive. Food tents and carts offer some interesting cheap eats and are great places to grab a snack or quick lunch. Alternatively, you could eat at some of the most expensive and famous restaurants in the world, such as D.O.M.
Typical dishes in Sao Paulo include a side of beans and rice. Unlike other parts of the region, brown beans are usually used instead of black beans. Virado a Paulista is a popular dish and is made with rice, bean paste, collard greens, and pork chops. It's often served with pork rinds, sausage, a fried egg and a fried banana.
Traveling around Sao Paulo can be overwhelming and chaotic. Traffic is crazy all day long, but the peak hours really push the system to its limits. The most affordable way for tourists to travel is by subway, train, or trolleybus. The metro system is reliable and efficient. There are several lines which are most convenient for tourists. The blue line is the oldest line and travels through the city's historical center. The green line goes west to east by Avenida Paulista. The red line is a busy line that goes through the historical center. The yellow line connects the historical center to the west and the emerald line runs north to south.
Buses are a popular way to travel, but they are not as fast as the metro. They do reach almost any corner of the city and are a good option if you're traveling somewhere that the metro does not go.
Taxis are a good option for short distances. There are two types of taxis in Sao Paulo. Street-hailed taxis are cheaper and can be found at stands near city squares or popular venues. Radio taxis are more expensive and can be ordered by telephone.
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Lindsey Vonn blew a good shot at gold in her final Olympic event when she clipped a gate
Cork Gaines
Feb. 22, 2018, 7:42 AM
Lindsey Vonn was eliminated from the women's Alpine combined event when she clipped a gate.
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Lindsey Vonn did not medal in the women's Alpine combined event on Thursday at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, when her ski clipped a gate on her final run.
Vonn had entered the slalom portion of the event in first place and had a good shot at winning gold in what is widely considered her final Winter Olympics event.
The US's Mikaela Shiffrin notched her second medal of the games by jumping to second from sixth during the final run.
There was no final moment of Olympic glory for Lindsey Vonn, as she blew a good shot at winning a gold medal in the women's Alpine combined event on Thursday when she clipped a gate and did not finish the slalom portion.
Vonn entered the second run in first place, with a lead of more than 0.7 seconds over Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway and Michelle Gisin of Switzerland. The US's Mikaela Shiffrin was in sixth place after the downhill portion and was expected to make up ground in the slalom, her specialty.
Vonn had not competed in a slalom event since injuring her knee in 2013. Still, after her third-place finish on Tuesday in her final downhill race, she appeared set to rebound in the combined event.
But on the 13th gate, Vonn's worst nightmare came true — her ski clipped the gate, and she was out.
Gisin eventually won the gold, and Shiffrin the silver.
All Vonn could do was scream and shrug.
Vonn finished what is widely considered her final Winter Olympics with one bronze medal over three events at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Meanwhile, Shiffrin, who won gold in the giant slalom, gained her second medal of the games.
Despite Shiffrin's two medals, many will look back at her performance at this year's Olympics and wonder what might have been with a little luck and some better weather.
She came into the games hoping to win five medals. But scheduling delays forced Shiffrin to withdraw from two events, and she fell to fourth in her best event, the slalom, after what she described as a battle with nerves before one of her runs.
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Business Observer Friday, Jul. 15, 2016 3 years ago
Nine figures and counting
Tampa area hotels are fetching $100 million-plus prices thanks to improving fundamentals and limited high-end supply.
by: Kevin McQuaid Commercial Real Estate Editor
The sale of the Tampa Hilton for $101 million earlier this month highlights the burgeoning interest by institutional capital in top-level Gulf Coast lodging properties, the result of improved occupancy and revenue, analysts say.
CrossHarbor Capital Partners' acquisition of the 520-room downtown hotel marks just the fourth time in Tampa history that a hospitality asset has fetched nine figures in a sale.
Just as significantly, each of the $100 million-plus transactions occurred within the past two years, a sign that the region is commanding greater respect on national and international stages even as some markets appear to have peaked in regards to values.
“The Tampa Bay area is performing at a very high level and it's continuing to grow,” says Daniel C. Peek, the Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. senior managing director and head of the firm's hospitality practice group who led a team in representing sellers Driftwood Hospitality Management and H.I.G. Realty Partners in the sale.
“Areas like Miami and New York are also doing well but they seem to have plateaued, while the Tampa Bay area continues to excel,” Peek adds. “It had twice the growth in the level of revenue per available room compared to the nation last year, leading all major markets in the U.S.”
Lou Plasencia, head of Tampa-based The Plasencia Group, a hotel brokerage and consulting firm, also credits a series of internal and external factors in the sale. Internally, he notes Driftwood and H.I.G. invested in excess of $10 million to upgrade the Hilton and convert it from a Hyatt hotel in 2013, a year after buying the 211 N. Tampa St. property for roughly $63 million.
“H.I.G. and Driftwood did a magnificent job of repositioning that property to make it one of the best hotels downtown, and the general manager there is one of the best operators I've ever met,” Plasencia says.
A plethora of amenities have added value, as well. In addition to its rooms, the Tampa Hilton also contains a trio of restaurants and coffee shops, 30,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space, an upscale fitness center and a rooftop heated outdoor swimming pool and sun deck.
But Boston-based CrossHarbor's deal for the 18-story hotel, which was completed on 5.6 acres downtown in 1982, will also likely benefit from Strategic Property Partners' plans for $2 billion worth of improvements in Channelside — even though the partnership between Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik and Cascade Investments intends to add as many as 500 new hotel rooms as part of its development, Peek says.
“Downtown's reurbanization has made Tampa a more attractive area both to work in and visit,” Peek says. “Those dynamics draw institutional investors. I also don't think one can overstate the importance of what Jeff Vinik and Cascade's vision for Channelside is having.”
Analysts also predict CrossHarbor, a firm founded in 1993 that has invested more than $12 billion, won't be the last institutional player to enter the Gulf Coast market seeking trophy properties as a result of growing demand and limited supply.
“I think we're definitely going to see a different level of pricing in the region than we have in the past,” says Kent Schwarz, an executive vice president with commercial brokerage firm Colliers International Tampa Bay.
“After all, no one is going to be able to build the hotels that have been achieving those prices for anything less than $200,000 per key,” he adds. “And these prices are being driven by net operating income and what level of performance an investor thinks they'll have going forward. Investors have a lot of confidence in the future of this market.”
It remains to be seen, however, whether nine-figure pricing will remain focused on downtown hotels or those in close proximity to area beaches.
Two of the four $100 million-plus sales — the Tampa Hilton and the Tampa Waterside Marriott Hotel & Marina, which Vinik acquired for $150 million in October 2014 — have involved downtown properties.
The other two — the $134 million sale of the Hilton Clearwater Beach and the $120.5 million deal for the Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach — were hotels on or near beaches.
Of the four, the 250-room Hyatt Clearwater achieved the greatest value on a per-key basis, at $482,000 per key, an industry measurement. By comparison, the Tampa Hilton sold for $194,230 per key.
“I think you'll continue to see very strong pricing, based in part on the pretty astounding pricing that's been achieved on some sales,” Plasencia says. “Just like Tampa Waterside did, it made a statement in and about the marketplace. It substantiated Tampa as an attractive place for institutional owners.”
Peek, too, believes more nine-figure sales could be forthcoming in the next year or so, based on the area's growth, industry fundamentals and institutional perception.
“While it's not been typical in the history of Tampa, I think we'll see at least a couple more transactions of the same magnitude, for sure.”
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How One Man Is Trying To Restore The Glory Of The Newfoundland Railway
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A Newfoundland man is trying to preserve an important part of the island's history by saving and restoring as much of the old Newfoundland Railway as possible.
Trevor Croft
Trevor Croft is a railway worker who does track maintenance across North America. But in his spare time, he's trying to restore speeders and pump cars that once ran on the Newfoundland Railway, and put them back on track.
The now-defunct rail service ran for over a century, snaking across the island and connecting St. John's to Port aux Basques and everything in between.
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The narrow-gauge tracks made for slower, less efficient trains. CN took over operations after Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949 and upgraded the system, but the Newfoundland Railway was eventually eclipsed by car travel.
Even though the last train ran on the line in 1988, Croft said Newfoundlanders still get emotional thinking about it.
"Back then the whole interior of the island was just wilderness. There were no towns. And the railway opened all that up," Croft told BuzzFeed Canada.
(Croft's friend Darrell Steele even has a YouTube account devoted to celebrating the Newfoundland Railway. People really, really miss it.)
There are still small stretches of the old tracks spread around Newfoundland. This is a two-mile length in Avondale, which Croft wants to turn into a tourist and heritage site.
Croft wants to save as many old railway vehicles as possible and put them back into use.
"The ones that are in people's garages or used as lawn ornaments, I'm hoping to take those and if they can't be restored, to use them for parts to restore others," he said.
Croft already has two speeders and a pump car. A speeder is basically a motorized railcar, whereas a pump car is the kind of manually-driven vehicle you see in old black-and-white movies.
Croft, along with his friend JP Coady, has restored one of the speeders for use on the tracks already, and he wants to keep adding more. He just launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money and awareness for the project, and hopefully collect some more old vehicles.
He's sure there are a couple dozen more out there, and the sooner they are restored, the better.
"We need every bit of help we can get to preserve what is left of the Newfoundland Railway."
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Former First Lady of T & T receive highest national award.
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Zalayhar Hassanali, left, is congratulated by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar after receiving the nation’s honour, The Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, at the national awards ceremony at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s. Looking on is Mr Bissessar, the PM's husband.
Posted By: Trinidad Express September 2, 2011
Zalayhar Hassanali wife of late president Noor Hassanali, was among four recipients of the Order of Trinidad and Tobago, the country’s highest award, at Queen’s Hall on Wednesday evening, during the nation’s Independence Day Award ceremony. Her award was for distinguished and outstanding service to T&T in the sphere of community service.
Mrs. Hassanali said she was humbled by the recognition. “I am very grateful to the Government and the people of Trinidad and Tobago,” she said in an interview later. She advised citizens to keep their heads high at all times in the expectation that all would be well for the nation as it celebrated 49 years of independence. She added that she was “a bit emotional” about the award because her deceased husband had encouraged her to do social work in the early stages. “I get emotional because I think of him as well,” she added.
In previous years Mrs. Hassanali had to greet recipients during the awards ceremony as the wife of the then President. On Wednesday during the ceremony, she was warmly greeted by President George Maxwell Richards, his wife Dr Jean Ramjohn-Richards, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her husband and the Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Mrs Archie. Hassanali said she continued to think of others and offered as much help to them as she could.
Being a Muslim, Mrs. Hassanali said receipt of the country’s highest award on Eid, the feast marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, was a “double celebration”.
The others receiving T & T’s highest award are Justice Philip Louis Ulric Cross for distinguished and outstanding service to T&T in the sphere of law; businesswoman Helen Bhagwansingh for distinguished and outstanding service to T&T in the sphere of community service; and Chairman Emeritus of ANSA McAL Group of Companies, Dr Anthony Norman Sabga, for distinguished and outstanding service to T & T in the sphere of community service.
Zalayhar Hassanali is known well beyond serving as first lady of the nation from 1987 to 1997. She is known for her contributions to culture, child welfare, the environment and education. During her position as first lady, Hassanali was involved with 44 Non-Governmental Organisations, charity groups and social foundations. Hassanali was born in humble surroundings on May 3 1931 in Siparia. Her father, Ali Mohammed, was a tailor and her mother Khartoon was a seamstress. She attended Siparia Union Presbyterian Primary School, Naparima Girls’ High School from 1944 to 1947 and Naparima College from 1948 to 1949. At 21 she married upcoming lawyer, Noor Hassanali, who practised in San Fernando. She had two children, Khalid and Amena. Before becoming first lady, Hassanali worked in education and served as a founding member of the Muslim Teachers’ Association. During her time as first lady she attended six First Ladies of The Americas and the Caribbean Conferences. Today she continues to serve the country through her involvement in many non-governmental and charitable organisations.
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Rickover
Father of the Nuclear Navy
Thomas B. Allen
Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S.
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Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program and revived his career, being retired—involuntarily—some thirty years later in early 1982. He was not only the architect of the nuclear Navy but also its builder. In the process, he erected a network of power and influence that rivaled those who were elected to high office, and that protected him from them when his controversial methods became objectionable or, as critics would suggest, undermined the nation's vital interests. Authors Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar, whose full-length biography of Rickover (in manuscript in 1981) was consulted by the Reagan Administration during the decision to remove him from active duty, are eminently qualified to write an essential treatment on the controversial genius of Admiral Rickover.
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Interview: Edward Burns writes what he knows (and loves) in TNT’s Public Morals
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Lori Acken
To ask Edward Burns how long he has been working on his richly detailed new TNT drama Public Morals is a complex thing. After all, Burns is a proud Irish-American and native New Yorker, raised up on Long Island as the son of an NYPD cop and the great-grandson of a bona fide Hell’s Kitchen bruiser.
Thus, the Catholic schoolboy turned respected actor/filmmaker has always had tales of Irish-American cops and criminals percolating in his mind — and spilling out into screenplays. And now he has 10 episodes, a stellar cast rich with the New York-bred talent he insisted upon and the support of executive producer Steven Spielberg to flesh out those stories into a juicy character study saturated with the sights, sounds and social studies of the Big Apple in the early 1960s.
“I was always fascinated with the Irish-American gangs that ran the West Side from the 1880s all the way through probably the 1980s, and over the last 15 years I’ve written three or four scripts that had to do with Irish-American gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen,” says Burns, who also plays Morals’ streetwise vice cop and devoted family man Terry Muldoon, a guy determined to protect his extended clan and his home turf from warring factions of the Irish-American mob. “All of those unproduced screenplays sitting on the shelf in my office, I dusted them off because I was building my bible for this world. I’ve always done family stories and this was a way for me to raise the stakes by putting my families in with the cops and with the gangsters.”
After meeting Burns’ dad and uncle (also an NYPD cop) on the set of 1998’s Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg encouraged his multitalented young star to write about guys like them. Nearly two decades later, the senior Edward Burns serves as his son’s “dialogue and atmosphere consultant” — helping to ensure Morals’ cops speak and act authentically for the time — and the inspiration for the strict but loving Terry. In a memorable early scene, Muldoon addresses his older boy’s classroom antics in a no-B.S. manner that should be laugh-out-loud familiar to anyone over 40.
“A lot of the stuff you’ll see in the series, it’s my memories of what it was like to grow up in a cop house and the talks that my father and my mother had with us,” Burns says. “The ‘school fool’ story, that’s me. Terry is my dad and that speech is word for word. When I wrote the pilot, I remembered the first two scenes — the scene at school and then the scene in the car — but I had forgotten how it ended, so I called my dad. Of course he was dismayed at the fact that I couldn’t remember the most important moment, which is the lesson that came at the end: There’s a fork in the road and you gotta choose what kind of man you’re going to be.”
It’s a quagmire that Muldoon and his fellow vice cops face daily — on and off the job — in a town where hustling for a buck is part of the social fabric. “I think we did a pretty good job of being able to empathize with the situation that all of these people are in,” Burns says. “These cops are making very meager salaries, and there’s the temptation to say, ‘This poor guy who ended up with a hooker, who now is going to go to jail — do we really want to arrest this guy and embarrass him in front of his wife and family? Or do you take a little money from him, let him go home, and you have an extra couple of bucks to help pay the rent?’ Or the hooker who’s also a schoolteacher. I have no political agenda with the show. These kinds of stories are so fascinating, so I’m running with it and trying to make the characters and situations as complex as I can.
“When I started writing, I had this idea of doing this story more like a Western set in Hell’s Kitchen — the idea of the gamblers and the gunslingers and the whorehouses and the lawmen who played by their own set of rules,” Burns continues. “In Hell’s Kitchen, you grew up with your gang of friends and, back then, these working-class men would either join the cops and the firemen or, a lot of times, become gangsters. You would find yourself at a bar on a Saturday night hanging out with the guys you grew up with, only half of them are cops and half of them are gangsters. On Monday morning they’d be fighting it out again.”
In addition to Spielberg’s support, Burns says he also feels lucky that his partners at TNT share his New York roots. “Kevin Riley, who’s the head of TNT, me, him and Brian Dennehy (who plays mob boss Joe Patton, who controls the west side of Manhattan) all went to the same Catholic high school on Long Island,” he says. “One of the other executives is Irish-Catholic from Long Island and both of his grandfathers are retired cops. They all get and know the vibe of what it means to be a New Yorker, and they’re all 100-percent behind me in this show has to be made in New York City.”
And with Big Apple talent.
“I wanted to cast as many people who are born-and-bred, authentic New Yorkers,” Burns says. “I did not want anyone to have to come in and fake a New York accent, because I’ve never heard a good one. We found all of these undiscovered, real New York actors, then you add to that. Wass Stevens, who plays Latucci. Michael Rapaport to play Bowman. The woman who plays my wife, Elizabeth Masucci, she’s from Jersey. Katrina Bowden, she’s from New Jersey. It’s not just the accent that I was looking for, but there is a certain attitude that New Yorkers have. There’s a cadence to the speech and you can’t fake that. We were able to, fortunately, find all of these great folks.
“Brian Dennehy was someone that, the minute I wrote the part of Joe Patton, Steven Spielberg said, ‘You have to get Brian Dennehy to play Mr. Patton. That’s who we’re making the offer to.’” Burns adds. “I was like, ‘I couldn’t agree more because I always imagined Patton as the Irish-American Don Corleone.’”
And after that, great actors teamed with other great actors to create some of Public Morals‘ best moments.
“When Brian found out that Peter Gerety was playing Sargent Mike — he had never met Peter before but he knew him from all of his Broadway stage work — you could see both of their excitement,” Burns recalls. “There’s a scene in, I think it’s the fifth episode, where Dennehy and Garrity — these two old lions — get to go toe-to-toe. That’s the kind of day for the cast where we just get to sit back and watch these two great stage actors go at it.”
Public Morals premieres Tuesday Aug. 25 at 10/9CT on TNT
Images/video: TNT
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8 Questions With … Rob Lowe
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1. What has been your strangest fan encounter? Rob Lowe: I’ve been really lucky: My fan encounters, to a person, have been wonderful. The one that pops to mind was my encounter with some fans, plural, when they banded together to create the Save Sam Seaborn Society [named after Lowe’s character on The West Wing]. They paid to take out full-page ads in newspapers to get Warner Bros. Television and NBC to write more for me, then they deluged the studio with thousands and thousands of pennies, because Sam fought to save the penny. 2. You’re at a magazine rack […]
The Knick: Cinemax presents a lively look at race, sex and medicine in 1900s New York
August 1, 2014 Lori Acken Drama, Historical Programming, Interview, Magazine Archive Comments Off on The Knick: Cinemax presents a lively look at race, sex and medicine in 1900s New York
At the turn of the 20th century, New York City’s Knickerbocker Hospital was deeply in flux. As the wealthy patrons who once filled its beds — and its bank account — fled its urban locale for loftier boroughs, replaced by a teeming brew of racial and cultural disparities, the doctors and nurses at the “The Knick” struggled to stay atop the city’s burgeoning medical community. This is the world from which director Steven Soderbergh’s engrossing new fact-meets-fiction Cinemax series The Knick, which premieres Friday, emerges. Created by the veteran writing team of Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, the 10-episode drama sprung […]
8 Questions With … David Cross
October 19, 2006 Channel Guide Contributor 7 Questions With..., Magazine Archive Comments Off on 8 Questions With … David Cross
1. What has been your strangest fan encounter? This is strange in the surprising category. But I was on a boat, like a ferry, on the Bosporus in Istanbul, and I was sitting on the boat with my legs kind of dangling out and this guy came over and he spoke broken English. He said his son, who didn’t speak any English, recognized me, liked me, and his son was like 11 and they were from Lima, Peru. And I thought, “That is weird, I’m on a boat on the Bosporus, in Istanbul, being recognized by an 11-year-old who doesn’t […]
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Jack Teller
Grew up… taking risks. Jack believes that the bigger the risk, the better the score. While he often talks up his own perfectionism, Jack can’t seem to resist the thrill of the steal.
Living… in a squalid apartment in Montreal. Jack isn’t planning to stay in Montreal forever. In fact, he lives the kind of minimal existence you might expect of a guy who’s looking to make a quick exit.
Visiting… the Montreal Customs House, every night. Jack has been working the graveyard shift as a janitor while pretending to be mentally disabled. Meanwhile, he’s been memorizing every nook and cranny. “It’s a little bit complicated, but it’s a very doable job,” he explains to his two colleagues. “I can handle the system in there if someone else can break into this box.”
Profession… thief. Jack is young and inexperienced, but talented. “I am very good at what I do. And I take it very, very seriously,” he explains to his older colleague Nick. Jack knows that he’s talented, and is beginning to act a bit big for his britches.
Challenge… stealing a valuable scepter from the Customs House. Jack is in the midst of the biggest job of his career, but his obsessive and condescending colleague Nick isn’t making it any easier for him. Nick has a set of strict rules, and Jack doesn’t feel he needs to follow all of them.
Personality… arrogant and intelligent. Jack is a showboat: the last thing that a thief should want to be. He loves the risk and the thrill of a heist more than the actual score.
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An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
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Theatre in the Quarter
Chester Theatre in the Quarter receives £11,500 funding for primary schools project
Hundreds of children to sing on Chester Raceourse as part of The Lost Boy project
Sallie EhlenSocial Media Producer
The Lost Boy team with Nadine, Abrar, Umair and Dr Jeff Morgan (Image: UGC)
An ambitious theatre project involving 500 Chester primary school children is celebrating after receiving £11,500 worth of funding.
Theatre in the Quarter received £9,000 from the Lottery’s AWA programme and a further £2,500 from the Earl of Chester fund to carry out the project which will see young people take part in a mass community choir, singing an original composition based on the plight of the world’s 10,000 displaced young people.
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Filmed by a drone, the filming will take place at Chester Racecourse in spring 2018 and will become part of Theatre in the Quarter’s The Lost Boy theatre production that was first piloted at St Mary’s Creative Space in Chester in May 2017 and which was shortlisted for Northern Soul best piece of theatre award as well as receiving acclaim in the national press.
Written by playwright Stephanie Dale, writer of the highly acclaimed 2013 production of the Chester Mystery Plays, and directed by Kate McGregor, whose recent work includes Moira Buffini’s Gabrielle, starring Paul McGann, The Lost Boy is a groundbreaking project that addresses the changing communities of Britain and how our society is adapting to them.
It is a story of innocence, of fear of the unknown and ultimately a magical story of acceptance.
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Since its first run, The Lost Boy has been in development and will see many exciting new changes including the mass community song of the 500 young people. Plans are currently in place to take The Lost Boy on a UK-wide tour in the autumn of 2018, after a short run in Chester.
The existing collaboration with national charity, City of Sanctuary, on this project continues.
Trustee of City of Sanctuary Jeff Morgan said: “We were absolutely delighted to partner up with Theatre in the Quarter on their innovative theatre production, and we look forward to continuing this vital relationship with them as The Lost Boy develops over the coming years.
“We urge anyone who has a social conscience and a desire to educate our young people on international issues that affect them, to come and see the show, be that in Chester or other tour venues across the UK.”
Theatre in the Quarter artistic director Matt Baker with Nadine, Abrar, and producer Jo McLeish at a performance of The Lost Boy (Image: UGC)
Artistic director of Theatre in the Quarter Matt Baker said: “We are thrilled to receive this funding which will allow us to begin the first of several exciting new developments for The Lost Boy. Having support from both the Lottery and the Earl of Chester is a ringing endorsement of our work, and we are extremely grateful for their support in funding this project.”
He added: “We are also delighted that we can film this vital element at Chester Raceourse, and we thank the team there for enabling us to use one of the city’s largest and most prestigious locations.”
Hundreds of children to take part in arts project at Chester Storyhouse
Producer of The Lost Boy Jo McLeish said: “Being able to engage with 500 local primary school children who ordinarily do not have access to the arts is what makes this project so worthwhile.
“The impact is two-fold. We’ll be able to provide these young people with a meaningful artistic experience and secondly the sheer scale of this project will be such an incredible development for The Lost Boy production. We are currently in talks with theatres around the country who are keen to program our show in 2018.”
Matt Baker said: “Whilst we have some schools already on board, we would love to hear from any school who would like to be involved in this groundbreaking project.”
Chester Mystery Plays
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Best way to conceive? Start with good health, experts say
By By Judy Peres
Advice from an obstetrican for women who want to start a family: See your doctor for an assessment of current health. (StA-gur Karlsson, Getty Images/Vetta)
If you're among the hundreds of thousands of U.S. couples trying to get pregnant this season — and December is the most popular month for baby-making — experts say there are some lifestyle choices that could improve your odds.
Some are fairly obvious: maintain a healthy weight and don't smoke.
"Good health during pregnancy starts with being healthy before you get pregnant," said Dr. Ranit Mishori, associate professor of family medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington.
Others are more surprising, such as avoiding exposure to certain environmental chemicals, including some ultraviolet filters commonly used in sunscreen.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health recently discovered that men with high exposure to the UV filters benzophenone-2 (BP-2) and 4OH-BP had a 30 percent reduction in their ability to reproduce. There was no similar effect in women.
"Male fecundity seems to be more susceptible to these chemicals than female fecundity," even though women have greater exposure to UV filters overall, said Dr. Germaine Louis in announcing the results Nov. 14. Louis is director of the Division of Intramural Population Health Research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md. "Our next step is to figure out how these particular chemicals may be affecting couple fecundity or time to pregnancy — whether it's by diminishing sperm quality or inhibiting reproduction some other way."
The NIH researchers studied 501 couples who were trying to conceive. The couples were part of the Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Environment (LIFE). Earlier findings from the LIFE study have linked reduced fertility to high cholesterol levels in women and couples and to high concentrations of phthalates in men.
Dr. Sandra Carson, an obstetrician and reproductive endocrinologist from Brown University in Providence, R.I., who now serves as vice president of education for the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said her most important advice for a woman who wants to start a family is to see her doctor for an assessment of current health.
"The best thing she can do for herself is to be in the best shape she can be," Carson said. "Make sure all her immunizations are up to date. Make sure she's on folic acid. Make sure she knows about ovulation and when to have sex to maximize her chances, and she knows about good health in general."
Christine Proudfoot, a 29-year-old newly married architect in Washington, just had a checkup with her physician, Mishori, in which she mentioned that she and her husband were getting ready to start a family.
Proudfoot is in very good shape — she's a runner, she bikes a lot, and she exercises her dog before and after work every day. Mishori ascertained that her weight is in a healthy range and that her diet contains all the necessary nutrients. "The only thing she recommended I do differently was to start taking folic acid," Proudfoot said.
Taking a folic acid supplement both before and during pregnancy is important, experts agree, because it helps prevent defects in the development of the fetal brain and spinal cord. That development takes place in the first three to four weeks of pregnancy, so doctors recommend starting a supplement — or a prenatal multivitamin containing 400 micrograms of folic acid — at least a month before conception.
Here are some other tips:
Timing of intercourse — but not position — can affect fertility. "Every day or every other day during your fertile period is best," Mishori said. "And you should know when your fertile period is. But you don't have to put a pillow under your hips or hold your legs up for half an hour. That's a myth."
You also don't have to abstain during nonfertile times unless the male partner has a low sperm count. In that case, Carson said, the couple may have to restrict intercourse to the two days right before ovulation.
"You can buy a test kit to learn when you're ovulating," Carson said.
Avoiding cigarette smoke — her own and her partner's — can help a woman get pregnant both now and long-term (because smoking has been linked to earlier menopause) and also protect the unborn child.
Some studies show that women who smoke and women exposed to secondhand smoke have a greater likelihood of being infertile. Smoking by the male partner hurts in another way: It harms his semen.
"But you don't need a study to know smoking is bad," Mishori said.
Alcohol consumption is a little trickier. Some studies have shown detrimental effects on fertility as well as on the developing fetus, but others have shown that a little wine may actually enhance fertility.
"I tell women, if you don't have to drink, don't," Mishori said. "If you must drink, don't have more than two drinks a day."
High levels of caffeine — more than five cups of coffee a day — may impede fertility and increase the risk of miscarriage, Mishori said. "But one or two cups a day may be OK."
As for diet, "there are all kinds of myths," Mishori said. "Low fat, low carbohydrate, antioxidants, vitamin-this or vitamin-that. None has any good evidence. Don't buy supplements that promise to increase your fertility. A well-balanced diet is the way to proceed, whether or not you're intending to get pregnant."
One thing everyone agrees on is the importance of maintaining a healthy weight. "For those who are either very over- or underweight, their fertility is lowered," Mishori said.
"If you're obese, you're going to have a harder time getting pregnant," she said. "You're more likely to have pregnancy complications that will have negative effects on the fetus. And there is also a higher risk of complications in labor and delivery."
There are no good studies on the link between exercise and fertility, Mishori said, but exercise before pregnancy makes for a healthier pregnancy.
"Being fit makes it easier for you to withstand the delivery," she added. "And sometimes exercise helps to lower weight, blood sugar and blood pressure, all of which can be detrimental in pregnancy."
On the other hand, excessive exercise, such as training for a marathon, can harm fertility by interfering with ovulation.
Carson noted that protecting against sexually transmitted diseases also shields fertility. That means "having a limited number of sexual partners and using condoms in relationships where they don't want to become pregnant," she said.
Surprisingly, there is some evidence that personal lubricants may decrease fertility. "Don't use any at all," Mishori said.
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If you've heard that the way to get pregnant is to relax and take a vacation, you may be disappointed.
"The way to get pregnant is to have sex," Carson said. "Going on vacation only helps if you have more sex."
Reducing stress doesn't work either. "Stress can impair fertility," Carson explained, "because it can stop ovulation. But relieving stress doesn't necessarily restore it."
By the way, no one knows why December is the most common month for conception in the United States (and the United Kingdom). Some have suggested sperm may be healthier in cold weather. According to a 2006 chart compiled by Amitabh Chandra of Harvard University, using U.S. data for each date from 1973 through 1999, the largest number of births occur in September. And in case you were wondering, Sept. 16 is the most popular birthday.
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Judge's ruling clears way for Daley to be questioned in Burge torture case
By Jason Meisner
Nov 29, 2016 | 4:11 PM
Former Chicago mayor Richard Daley outside Smyth/Joyner Elementary School/Child Parent Center in Chicago on Aug. 23, 2016. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit can go forward accusing former Mayor Richard Daley of ignoring evidence that white Chicago police detectives working under disgraced former police Cmdr. Jon Burge tortured dozens of black suspects into murder confessions.
U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve's ruling sets the stage once again for Daley to potentially be forced to give sworn testimony about what he knew of the painful legacy of police torture that first came to light when Daley was Cook County state's attorney and later exploded during his more than two decades as mayor.
Twice before, Daley has been ordered to give a sworn deposition in other lawsuits over torture claims, but the city settled those cases before he was questioned under oath.
The latest lawsuit alleges Alonzo Smith was beaten by Area 2 detectives Peter Dignan and John Byrne with a rubber nightstick, kicked in the groin and had a plastic bag put over his head to force him to confess to the 1983 slaying of James Fullilove. He filed the lawsuit in March after a Cook County judge found enough credible evidence of torture to grant him a new trial, prompting prosecutors to dismiss the conviction.
Smith's attorney, Flint Taylor, said Tuesday that he and co-counsel Joey Mogul hope to take Daley's deposition in the Smith case "as soon as possible."
"This ruling means Daley remains as a defendant right along with Burge if this case goes to trial and he could be liable for compensatory and punitive damages," said Taylor, of the People's Law Office.
The city's Law Department declined to comment, citing the ongoing litigation. A spokeswoman for Daley, now of counsel with the law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, had no immediate comment.
According to his lawsuit, Smith has alleged the torture all along — testifying about it at his bond hearing and later at a motion to suppress his confession. But both times judges sided with the detectives, who claimed it never happened.
Smith spent nearly 20 years in prison before being granted the new trial last year.
Smith's lawsuit alleged that for years Daley failed to do anything about the burgeoning torture scandal even after he'd learned from police brass as far back as 1982 — when he was state's attorney — that serious allegations had been raised about Burge and detectives under his command.
In denying a motion by lawyers for the city to dismiss Smith's lawsuit, St. Eve wrote that Smith's attorneys "sufficiently allege that Daley, as Chicago's mayor, participated in a conspiracy to conceal evidence of police torture."
The judge did, however, dismiss on technical grounds allegations over Daley's actions as state's attorney, saying by law he was immune from exposure to damages stemming from a criminal prosecution.
St. Eve's decision closely mirrored a ruling in a separate case involving Michael Tillman, who claimed he confessed to a 1986 rape and murder only because detectives under Burge's command punched him, beat him with a phone book, threatened to kill him and held a plastic bag over his head.
In 2012, Daley was set to give a video-recorded deposition in Tillman's case after a judge allowed the suit against him to proceed. But before he testified, the case was settled for $5.375 million.
At the time, Daley spokeswoman Jacquelyn Heard issued a statement denying any wrongdoing on the mayor's part.
"As for the claims that he knowingly allowed police torture to occur some 30 years ago, his response remains the same: It is simply not true," Heard said.
Daley had also been ordered in 2007 to testify in the case brought by alleged torture victim Madison Hobley, but after the mayor initially said he was open to talking under oath, city lawyers fought vigorously to prevent it from happening. The case settled a year later for $7.5 million, records show.
After Daley left office in 2011, lawyers for another victim, Ronald Kitchen, again tried to get Daley to testify, but as both sides were wrangling over the parameters of the deposition, the case was settled for $6.15 million in 2013, records show.
Burge was fired from the department in 1993 and convicted in 2010 of lying about the torture and abuse of suspects. He was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in federal prison and is currently on supervised release in Florida, court records show.
The Burge torture scandal remains a black mark for Chicago's global reputation despite recent efforts to finally put the controversy to rest. In 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a public apology for the scandal, and last year the City Council approved a $5.5 million reparations fund for Burge victims and their families that Emanuel said would finally "close the book" on a sad chapter in the city's history.
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But even as officials have finally acknowledged that torture occurred, the city is still paying to defend Daley and numerous other defendants against pending Burge-related lawsuits, including Smith's.
Taylor said his open records requests show that the city has paid out at least $100 million in Burge-related cases, including more than $21 million in legal fees alone.
jmeisner@chicagotribune.com
Twitter @jmetr22b
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HomeTop NewsALERT: Mitch McConnell Just Got Awful News
ALERT: Mitch McConnell Just Got Awful News
August 26, 2017 Jeff Charles Top News Comments Off on ALERT: Mitch McConnell Just Got Awful News
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been receiving criticism from all sides. Now, President Donald Trump’s former Chief Strategist has joined the fray.
In an interview with The Economist, Steve Bannon targeted Mitch McConnell, saying that he is going to “light him up.” This is part of Bannon’s mission to apply more pressure on those in the GOP who do not support Trump’s agenda.
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon says he’s planning to ramp up pressure on political opponents while continuing to advocate for the president. “In the White House, I had influence,” Bannon said. “At Breitbart, I had power.”
It appears that Bannon intends to use the power provided by Breitbart to advocate for the populist policies he espoused even before becoming Trump’s campaign manager. Breitbart News is one of the most popular online news sites with hundreds of millions of views every month. Simply put, Breitbart has the attention of a significant number of conservatives.
McConnell’s popularity has waned in the past few months as many conservatives believe him to be ineffective. His failure to repeal and replace Obamacare is one of the reasons why so many have lost faith in the Majority Leader.
Many do not approve of his refusal to change the filibuster rule, which would allow GOP lawmakers to break through the Democrats’ efforts at obstruction when passing important legislation.
President Trump has also criticized the Senate Majority Leader. Along with Bannon, he has been frustrated by McConnell’s refusal to fully implement the White House’s agenda. Not only has he been unable to address healthcare, he is also not making progress on tax reform.
While Bannon certainly isn’t a fan of McConnell, he also has his sights set on others in the GOP. “Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons,” He said. It is clear that he intends to go after the members of the establishment GOP that do not put sufficient effort into moving towards a more populist direction.
This is one area where the president and Bannon differ. While he was responsible for shaping the more populist elements of Trump’s policy agenda, the president seems to have changed direction.
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Bannon acknowledged this in August, “The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” Bannon stated. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over.”
Before his firing, Bannon’s influence in the White House was in a serious decline. The president began to favor the advice of his generals and others in his administration over Bannon’s. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, had numerous altercations with the former Chief Strategist. These were all signs that Bannon was on his way out.
While he is no longer in the White House, Stephen Bannon still has a way to influence American politics through Breitbart News. While he has stated that he will never turn on the president, he has also said that he would not allow Trump to make decisions that hurt him. It is unclear what this means, but with Bannon back at the helm of Breitbart, there is no doubt that we will soon find out.
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https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/deerpark/news/article/Sketch-artist-s-work-has-helped-solve-13010341.php
Sketch artist’s work has helped solve 1,200-plus cases
By Jennifer Bolton
Updated 11:31 am CDT, Tuesday, June 26, 2018
"Little Jacob," the unidentified child whose body was found washed up on a Galveston beach in October, was identified as Jayden Alexander Lopez after Gibson's sketch and a photo of the deceased boy were released.
"Little Jacob," the unidentified child whose body was found washed up on a Galveston beach in October, was identified as Jayden Alexander Lopez after Gibson's sketch and a photo of the deceased boy were
Photo: Lois Gibson, HO
Lois Gibson was a Kansas girl trying to suss out her dreams in Los Angeles as a model and dancer in 1970 when she was attacked and left for dead.
That’s what led to the unconventional way she decided to become a forensic artist.
Gibson 68, has helped police across the country identify more than 1,000 suspects since the late 1980s through her pastel sketches. Recently, she was the forensic artist responsible for rendering the likeness of "Little Jacob," a toddler who washed up on the beach in Galveston in October without having been reported missing.
On June 20, authorities confirmed the child was 4-year-old Jayden Lopez. His mother, Rebecca Rivera, 34, and her girlfriend, Dania Sarai Amezquita Gomez, 31, were arrested this week in relation to the murder.
Lopez is one of many people Gibson's work has helped.
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“A few years ago, the number was 1,266,” she said.
Another local case involved a man suspected of sexually assaulting a girl in front of the La Porte library in April. Identified through Gibson’s sketch, Randy Baker, 37, was arrested in May in McKinney. He is awaiting trial on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child.
“We knew we needed to find this guy fast,” La Porte police Sgt. Bennie Boles said of his department’s move to contract Gibson to do a sketch. “So, we went out and hired the best. And believe me when I say that she is the best.”
The arc of Gibson’s professional path started with a traumatic event.
The catalyst
“Basically, I got into being a sketch artist because someone tried to kill me for fun a long time ago,” she said.
Photo: Kirk Sides / Houston Chronicle
Houston Police Department sketch artist Lois Gibson demonstrates how she creates sketched portraits of crime suspects.
Houston Police Department sketch artist Lois Gibson demonstrates...
That attack occurred when she was walking to her L.A. apartment when she was a dancer on the “The Real Don Steele” show.
“It was a sexual assault as well. And I felt that it was so embarrassing I couldn’t report it — you know how women sometimes feel responsible when we’re absolutely not if bad things happen to us? I tried to kill myself, but I’m really lousy at suicide, apparently — which somehow makes you feel even worse. Anyway all I could think about was wanting justice. That’s all I wanted. I was so severely depressed. It lasted what felt like forever.”
Then, six weeks later, something happened that Gibson describes as a miracle.
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“I was driving my car, and all of a sudden, something came over me,” she said. “I turned up this hill, never a way I would go, never a way I had been before and with no reason at all. I mean something just took my steering wheel. It sure as hell wasn’t me. I even said out loud to myself, ‘Why am I driving this way? What kind of Twilight Zone crap is this?’”
When she got to the top of the hill, Gibson was confident she had her answer.
“It took about half a second to realize what was happening,” she said. “I saw this guy, and he was surrounded by men front and back. They were L.A. police officers and he was being arrested — and they were being very aggressive with him. It was my attacker. What are the odds that I would see this person who tried to kill me being arrested? I learned two things that day — I could move on from this and I would never complain about paying taxes again. I was seeing justice. It was a beautiful sight. I know what it feels like to want justice. I know what it’s like to see it firsthand. It changed my whole life. It was a miracle. That’s why I do the job.”
Becoming a sketch artist didn’t happen overnight — in fact, Gibson wasn’t even immediately sure that’s what she wanted to do. Her life was like several pieces of a puzzle and it took a while to determine how those fit together. The attack was one piece.
“I learned two things from my attack,” she said. “First, someone was killing me as a recreational activity. He would strangle me until I almost passed out, wait for me to regain consciousness and then strangle me again.
“Second, he was doing this because he was having fun watching me suffer. I remember looking up and him and he was laughing.”
She got an art degree, moved to San Antonio and started doing sketches of tourists on the River Walk. This was another piece of the puzzle.
“I did more than 3,000 tourist portraits,” she said. “They’d come in, sit down for a one-time fee, I’d draw then and they’d leave. I’d never see them again. That’s killer practice.”
One tourist, she did see again, however.
“I fell in love with someone I drew,” she said. “I followed him to Houston, and that didn’t wind up working out, but it moved me to Houston where I wound up going to dental school.”
She became familiar with bone structure behind facial features.
This was yet another piece.
One day, while visiting a friend, a news story was being broadcast on television about a dance teacher who was raped in front of her students. There was no photo of the suspect.
“I started freaking out,” Gibson said, “I was immediately reliving my attack, and suddenly it was like a light bulb went off. ‘I can draw the guy,’ I said. I told my friend to go to the nearest gas station, take pretty good look at the gas station attendant and come back and tell me what he looks like.”
Her friend did as she was instructed.
“At first it was really hard,” Gibson said. “I almost quit. But my friend kept pushing me. By the end of it, she was convinced I had captured the gas station attendant’s face on paper; so we went back to the gas station to verify. He walked up to me and I broke down crying at the pump. My drawing looked just like him.”
I’ll never forget it. I knew right then I had a career. The gas station attendant, of course, had a lot of questions — like why was I drawing his face. But he agreed that it looked like him.”
Her pieces had almost fallen into place, but Gibson knew she needed to get local law enforcement on board. That part, she said was maybe the toughest leg of her journey.
A dozen years after she had been attacked, Gibson contacted the Houston Police Department, outlining the service she could provide.
“Cops are skeptical by nature,” she said, “and I understand why, but I’ve never met a tougher sell. They didn’t think it could be done — truthfully, some of them still don’t. The resistance was so fierce. Some of them tried to get rid of me in the worst way. They were mean, they were verbally abusive, some of them were physically threatening, but I kept coming back. Because I was nearly killed, I wouldn’t go away. It didn’t matter what I had to put up with because I knew what it felt like on the other side of the crime.”
She freelanced as HPD’s forensic artist, helping to solve crimes for almost a decade before they hired her full time.
“Every third sketch I did would solve a crime,” she said.
But that didn’t mean the pressure wasn’t, at times, extremely heavy.
After turning in a sketch related to a Memorial Park killing, Gibson drove away from the police department and reflected on the friction she was dealing with and the demands of the work. She had almost reached a breaking point.
“I had an 11-month-old baby at home,” she said. “I was just screaming and crying at myself, ‘I can’t keep doing this. I’m never doing this again.’”
Shortly afterwards, she received a phone call from the department.
“The next day I got a call from the officer and he just said, ‘You did it, girl. We found him because of your sketch,’ and it was all worth it,” she said. “I got the full-time job in 1989.”
The pieces had fallen into place.
Sketch of suspect in Stormy Daniels’ case
As a sketch artist, Gibson, who is married with two children, has been a part of thousands of cases — many of which gained widespread notoriety. She worked with Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who claims to have had an affair with President Trump, to develop a sketch of a person who allegedly approached and threatened her in a parking lot. And based on her knowledge of facial structures and age progression, Gibson helped verify the identity of Glenn McDuffie as the kissing soldier from the famous photo celebrating the end of World War II.
“I took nearly 100 pictures of him,” she said. “I know every muscle strand and bone in his face — that is the man from the photo.”
She’s also responsible for recreating likenesses when investigators find bodies. Gibson was the forensic artist responsible for recreating the image of Baby Grace after the toddler’s body was found in a container by a fisherman in Galveston Bay in 2007.
The child, whose real name was Riley Ann Sawyer, was identified through Gibson’s sketch by the paternal grandmother, who lived out of state. An investigation revealed that Sawyer’s mother, Kimberly Trenor, and stepfather, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, had beaten the child to death, put her body in a plastic container and threw it into the bay off the Galveston Causeway. Convicted of murder, Trenor and Zeigler were sentenced to life in prison.
“Cases like that are hard — and that’s where all of your training comes in, even if it’s just pieces of it,” she said. “Dental school played a huge part in my being able to recreate (the child’s) likeness.”
But interviewing witnesses and victims brings out another ability of Gibson’s — a knack for making people laugh.
“You wouldn’t think that at a time like this — arguably the worst time in someone’s life — that they would want to laugh, but that’s wrong. They want it more than anything else. All their friends and neighbors are visiting them and saying dumb-ass idiotic comments like, ‘I know how you feel,’ but they don’t want to be treated like a victim; so I don’t treat them that way. I make them laugh and I let them know that someone tried to kill me, too; so I gain instant footing with them. That and mood elevation is an enhancement to memory; so if they’re relaxed and feel connected to me, they’ll remember better as well,” she said.
The future for forensic artists
There are few forensic artists across the United States —. most most states and major cities don’t have one, Gibson said. She would like to see that change.
“There is a software system, and it’s in its infancy right now, that police can use which allows them to upload sketch artist’s sketches into it and it compares them to mugshots that are already in the system,” she said. “It’s similar to fingerprint or DNA matching technology. It’s incredible.”
But without forensic artists submitting sketches, the technology is underused. Because of the need for more practicing forensic artists, Gibson has started teaching classes to those interested in the career path.
Gibson’s next class will run from Feb. 25 through March 1 next year. Information can be found on her website at www.loisgibson.com.
“I take my vacation time to teach these courses,” she said. “It’s worth it. To teach others how to help people find the justice they deserve and on top of that, to help people start their own careers? Completely worth it.”
jennifer.bolton@chron.com
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Ex-Findlay Market vendors guilty in $3 million food stamp fraud case
On Friday, a jury in federal court in Dayton found Michael and Amanda Busch guilty on all 25 counts they faced.
Ex-Findlay Market vendors guilty in $3 million food stamp fraud case On Friday, a jury in federal court in Dayton found Michael and Amanda Busch guilty on all 25 counts they faced. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/crime-and-courts/2019/06/21/ex-findlay-market-vendors-guilty-food-stamp-fraud-case/1527914001/
Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 5:01 p.m. ET June 21, 2019 | Updated 5:12 p.m. ET June 21, 2019
Federal law enforcement officials suspect that the family that runs a Findlay mainstay in Over-the-Rhine also bilked the government out of more than $3.45 million in fake food stamp transactions just since 2010.
A husband and wife who co-owned a Findlay Market stand have been convicted in a food stamp fraud case that prosecutors say defrauded the government out of approximately $3.4 million.
On Friday, a jury in federal court in Dayton found Michael and Amanda Busch guilty on all 25 counts they faced, including conspiracy to steal government funds and wire fraud.
The scheme, which involved exchanging cash for food stamp benefits, lasted from April 2010 until May 2018, when federal agents raided the stand.
Investigators seize property at Busch's County Corner inside Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine on May 10, 2018. (Photo: The Enquirer/ Cameron Knight)
According to search and seizure warrants, the alleged scheme worked like this: People on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) with an electronic benefits card would pretend to make purchases worth up to thousands of dollars. The customers would get back about half the charged amount in cash and sometimes a small amount of food.
The business would keep the difference from the original charged amount, according to the documents.
One transaction included a beginning balance on an electronic benefits card of $1,300 and an ending balance of $11.
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Investigators estimated that the business completed a total of 195,000 individual SNAP transactions during the eight years the scheme lasted. Two-thirds of those were believed to be fraudulent.
The business was called Busch’s Country Corner and primarily sold poultry, eggs and other meats. A new business with new owners, called Country Meat Co., has taken over the spot at Findlay Market.
The trial began last week before U.S. District Judge Thomas Rose.
A screen capture of part of a seizure warrant filed by the U.S. Secret Service regarding Busch's Country Corner. (Photo: Provided)
Michael Busch was charged last year along with his brother, Randall. Amanda Busch was named in February in a superseding indictment.
Randall Busch pleaded guilty to multiple counts related to the scheme. In April, he was sentenced to five years of probation. He also was fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $14,124 in restitution, along with anyone else who might be convicted in the case.
A sentencing date for Michael and Amanda Busch has not been scheduled. Officials did not say what punishment they face.
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Check Out Tom Hardy Playing Al Capone In New Movie
Tom Hardy has handily turned into one of Hollywood's most versatile and transformative performers over the course of his career. He regularly plays larger-than-life characters, and now he has set his sights on one of America's most notorious gangsters with his new role as Al Capone in Josh Trank's Fonzo. All eyes are on Hardy to do something special with the legendary persona, and we now have our first official look at the Venom actor as the famous gangster. Check out the cool image, below.
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Fonzo (based on Al Capone's real first name, Alphonse) will follow the titular gangster during the final year of his life. Offering up an Al Capone suffering from severe dementia, we will see the aging criminal come face to face with the memories of the horrific actions that he sanctioned during his reign as Chicago's most notorious mob boss. That premise alone promises something dark, and this smoky, black and white photo hammers home how Josh Trank is attempting to tap into Tom Hardy's knack for dark characters.
One thing is very clear from this photo: Tom Hardy looks like he's going to play a very different Al Capone compared to the versions seen in other movies. The prohibition-era mob boss has become a pop culture fixture in the years since his death, with actors like Robert De Niro, Eric Roberts, and even The Punisher's Jon Bernthal playing him in a wide variety of projects.
You can even check our De Niro's iconic (and delightfully campy) portrayal of the mobster in The Untouchables, below.
Most of those preceding projects portrayed Al Capone as a quintessential, pinstripe suit-wearing mobster based on the legend of the character. However, the photo of Tom Hardy in Fonzo seems to promise something grittier. Needless to say, we're very excited.
The prospect of Tom Hardy stepping in to play the role of Al Capone for Josh Trank's Fonzo is particularly intriguing when we consider the fact that he has a history of portraying silver screen gangsters. In addition to this upcoming role, the Inception actor has also made a name for himself with his characters in similar period crime dramas like Legend and Peaky Blinders, not to mention one of his most iconic roles as a similarly notorious British gangster Charles Bronson in Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson. In addition to Hardy, the Fantastic Four director has also enlisted the acting chops of Matt Dillon, Linda Cardellini, and Twin Peaks' star Kyle McLachlan.
Fonzo does not have an official release date yet, but we will bring you more updates about the project as they become available to us. Until then, hop over to CinemaBlend's movie premiere guide to see what this year has in store on the big screen.
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£160m boost for UK life sciences
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The government is set to detail plans to invest £160m to make the UK a world leader in developing new drugs and healthcare technologies.
Sir John Bell, professor of medicine at Oxford University, will present a review of the life sciences industry at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Translational Medicine later today. He will outline his proposals to ease the effect of leaving the European Union on the UK’s scientific research and pharmaceutical industry.
The review calls for increased funding for basic science, improving growth and infrastructure; more NHS collaboration through early access to new drugs and a plan to invest in skills across the NHS and life sciences.
The UK government said will be considering the recommendations as it drafts a deal between the UK and the global life sciences sector.
Since 2009, every year has seen a lowering of net exports of pharmaceutical products and medical devices, with the UK becoming a net importer for the first time in 2014, according to UN trade data.
Last month, Pascal Soriot, chief executive of Anglo-Swiss pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, told the FT that Brexit was “slowing down decision-making and make people reluctant to invest in the UK”.
John Rountree, managing partner at Novasecta, which advises both UK and European pharmaceutical firms, told The Telegraph his clients were generally putting capital spending on hold until they had clarity over the post-Brexit landscape.
“With supply chains across different countries, if there are extra barriers and paperwork, clearly that will be a deterrent for investment,” he said.
As SM reported in January, prime minister Theresa May’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper identified the £64bn life sciences sector as one of five major sectors, along with artificial intelligence and driverless cars, with the potential to boost the UK economy.
In April, on the back of the green paper, the government announced it had set up the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and committed £1bn over the next four years to boost science and technology.
At today's launch business secretary Greg Clarke will detail how £146m of the earmarked £1bn will support advanced therapies and medicines, vaccine development and manufacture in the UK.
Separately, the Department of Health said it would also invest £14m in 11 medical research and development centres, bringing a total £160m worth of investment into the sector.
Mike Thompson, chief executive of the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries, which has lobbied for continuity in any Brexit deal, welcomed the government investment in life sciences.
“We look forward to working with the government and other partners to implement these recommendations—including through a sector deal with the bio-pharmaceutical industry and a voluntary agreement on US medicines policy between industry and the Department of Health,” he said.
“These measures will provide confidence for global companies in invest in the UK during and beyond Brexit.”
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The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in Chicago
by Darryl Holliday
BY NISSA RHEE, MANNY RAMOS AND ANDREA SALCEDO
On a mild morning in early May, two teenage boys sat on the porch of a house in West Humboldt Park on busy Chicago Avenue. From there, they could see a string of abandoned stores, boarded up and painted in bright colors. Occasionally, a CTA bus would pass in front of them, carrying commuters from the distant edges of the city to the Magnificent Mile shopping district eight miles to the east. A heavy breeze shook the blooming tree in front of the house.
At 10:30 AM, someone walked up to the porch and started shooting at them. The 16-year-old, Eddy Brooks, was shot in the head and later died in the hospital, according to Chicago Tribune reports. The 17-year-old was hit in the calf and thigh but survived the encounter.
Neighbors say they had long known the house to be a drug den. In the months leading up to the shooting, they had repeatedly complained about the building to the police and attended meetings of CAPS, the city's community policing unit, to demand that officers do something about the young men who congregated there.
CAPS community organizer John Campos was on his way to one of these public gatherings on the afternoon of May 6, when he saw yellow tape around the house. Two uniformed officers were taking pictures of the blood-splattered porch stairs. Despite a decades-long community policing system in place for reporting and preventing crime, violence had prevailed that day at the house on Chicago Avenue.
Community policing has long been a matter of life and death in Chicago. When it's worked, researchers have found that communities of color report less fear of crime and better relations with the police, which can translate into improved crime prevention and fewer shootings. And in a year when shootings have skyrocketed and community trust of the police has been severely damaged by the release of a series of videos capturing police shootings, it's been touted by politicians as a powerful crime-fighting strategy.
"Chicago is where the whole idea of community policing began," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a speech on police accountability on December 9, 2015, just two weeks after the release of the Laquan McDonald video rocked the city and sparked a crisis in police-community relations. "It remains the best and most comprehensive approach we have in changing the everyday conditions that breed crime and violence and then breed mistrust."
But nine months after that speech, an analysis by City Bureau and theReader finds CAPS in crisis. Chicago's once-trailblazing community policing program has been hollowed out by years of budget cuts and restructuring. Stretched thin, the police department no longer has the money necessary to reach out to the community and quickly follow up on citizen complaints such as the ones made about the house on Chicago Avenue. Neighborhoods like those on the city's west side struggle with far fewer resources and institutional knowledge than in previous years. CAPS today is an uneven patchwork of programs around the city. The result has been the destruction of the trust and goodwill the police department had built in the early years of CAPS.
Arguably, neighborhoods such as West Humboldt Park need strong police-community relations more than ever. An open-air drug market plagues the area, and residents live in constant fear of violence. District 11, where the May shooting occurred, has had twice as many murders so far this year as it had in the same period last year. As of September 15, CPD reports that there have been 65 murders in District 11 this year. That accounts for around one-tenth of the 519 homicides the city has had, as of September 19, so far this year. But while residents are eager to tackle crime, with CAPS a shell of its former self, they no longer have the support from the community policing program that they once did.
"It comes down to a question," Campos says. "Are our voices being heard on the west side?"
Asked for comment, Emanuel's office deferred to CPD. Meanwhile, the head of CAPS, deputy chief of community policing Eric Washington, has dismissed the idea that the program is in crisis, arguing that "Chicago has always been at the forefront of community policing."
"Community policing started in Chicago in 1993," Washington said in an interview at CPD headquarters. "We were at the forefront then and I believe we are at the forefront now."
CAPS community organizer John Campos, pictured here in 2012. (Jim Newberry/File)
Community policing got its start in the 80s and 90s as an innovative approach to reducing crime. Cities from New York to Seattle to Cleveland tried establishing community policing strategies during this time but failed to create strong stand-alone programs because of a lack of government funding or support.
In Chicago, however, Mayor Richard M. Daley was a staunch advocate of community policing and fueled the growth of CAPS.
The city established the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy in April 1993 during a period of high crime and poor public relations with the police. Chicago logged 940 murders in 1992 and 850 in 1993.
In a "Strategic plan for reinventing the Chicago Police Department," released in October 1993, Daley praised community policing as a "new, proactive approach to preventing crimes before they occur." He wrote that a "historic change was taking place in Chicago" with the adoption of CAPS, and that while "community policing means reinventing the way the Chicago Police Department works, it also means reinventing the way all City agencies, community members, and the police work with each other."
The strategy was rooted in a belief that communities can and should play a role in preventing crime and maintaining a safe environment. Through regular neighborhood beat meetings and district advisory councils, CAPS allowed police officers to work directly with community members to solve persistent problems like drugs and graffiti. Strategies ranged from playing basketball with neighborhood kids to holding regular community meetings and improving transparency in police operations and crime data. At the root of these strategies was relationship building, with police officers taking the time to engage with youth, business owners, and community residents.
After a brief experimental phase, CAPS was rolled out to all police districts in 1994. Between January and May 1995, more than 9,000 officers completed a three-day training on community policing's approach to problem solving.
In 1996 and 1997, CPD expanded its civilian staff in order to improve community outreach and increase participation in beat meetings. More staff members were also brought on for additional CAPS programs like court advocacy and projects targeting gang and drug hot spots.
By 1999, CAPS had a budget of $12.5 million, about 1.4 percent of CPD's total budget of $907 million—a small but significant slice. Each district was assigned a sergeant focused solely on community policing. The program was no longer dependent on the goodwill of the mayor's office, and had an established bureaucracy that could address the needs of each district. The response from the community was by and large positive, but some communities found CAPS more useful than others.
Researchers at Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research studied CAPS between 1994 and 2003 and in 2004 published a report that found that the program had had a substantial impact on crime levels and police-community relations during its first decade. They found that African-Americans reported a 10 percent decrease in what they saw as crime problems after CAPS was created. African-Americans also experienced a 22 percent decrease in fear of crime in their neighborhood. Whites also saw decreases in these measures during this time, though Latinos didn't. (Researchers speculated that Latinos didn't respond as well due to a combination of factors including language barriers, fear of deportation, and a young, mobile population that wasn't interested in attending beat meetings.)
Northwestern researchers also found an improvement in how communities saw social order and physical decay in the first decade of the CAPS program. African-Americans reported a 60 percent decrease in perceived social disorder and a 30 percent decrease in physical decay problems in their neighborhoods.
Even more significant was the change in police favorability ratings among these communities during this time. African-Americans, Latinos, and whites all felt that officers were more responsive after the establishment of CAPS than before its creation.
"From 1993 or so well into the 2000s, Chicago had the largest and most impressive community policing program in the world," says Northwestern University's Wesley Skogan, who led the CAPS study.
The early 2000s would prove to be CAPS's high point, however. While other cities invested heavily in community policing programs, Chicago began to pull back from its once-powerful tool.
"The energy went out of it after that time," Skogan says. "There was a new chief of police [Phil Cline] who wasn't interested in it. . . . And the mayor got sidetracked by a crime wave that was on the cover of the Chicago Tribune." Violence spiked again in 2001 with 667 homicides, breaking a six-year trend of a decrease in murders.
Following the rise in violence, Daley took a hard line on crime and focused the police department's efforts on guns, gangs, and homicides. Money was pulled away from CAPS and never returned. This past April, the Police Accountability Task Force convened by Emanuel gave its assessment of the state of policing in Chicago. The task force noted in its final report that "attendance [at CAPS events] dropped off significantly after 2000." (Cline declined to comment for this story. Daley didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.)
In 2010, Daley moved 111 officers from CAPS to street patrol in order to address what he described in a press release as "the most immediate and pressing problem facing many of our neighborhoods—violence in our streets and in our homes." Daley promised that the move would increase efficiency while at the same time ensuring "that the original goals and objectives of CAPS are met."
A Chicago News Cooperative/New York Times story from early January 2011 noted that because of budget cuts and shrinking staff, fewer community meetings were being held.
"The program has pretty much been eviscerated, which is tragic," 49th Ward alderman Joe Moore said at the time. "There's no substitute for an engaged citizenry and police officers taking an active role in preventing crime."
By the time Emanuel took office in May 2011, the budget for CAPS had fallen to $4.7 million, a little more than a third of what it had been in 1999. Meanwhile, CPD's total budget had jumped to $1.3 billion from $907 million in '99.
But in January 2012, Emanuel announced the "revitalization" of CAPS in order to restore "an effective community policing structure to the Department while providing the best possible services to the residents of Chicago."
"Community policing is a philosophy, and the strength of that philosophy within the Chicago Police Department and in our communities is more critical now than ever before," Emanuel said in a statement at the time. "CAPS is an important partnership between residents and police, and it's time to revitalize the program by giving District Commanders responsibility and authority to tailor programs for individual communities."
Under the new CAPS structure, community policing resources once controlled by police headquarters were moved to individual districts. Each district's CAPS program was to be handled by the commander, a CAPS sergeant, two officers, a community organizer, and a youth services provider. District commanders were given the responsibility of choosing which CAPS programs they would fund and which they would stop supporting, a strategy that the department hoped would make CAPS more responsive to local needs.
(Garry McCarthy, who served as Emanuel's police superintendent from 2011 to late 2015, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.)
While the "revitalization" changed the structure of CAPS, it didn't alter the downward trend in funding for community policing. In 2012, the year after Emanuel took office, the budget for CAPS was slashed by $178,497 from the year before. In 2016, CAPS has a budget of $3.9 million, less than a third of the funding it had in 1999 and 17 percent less than when Emanuel took office. The police department's overall budget has ballooned to $1.45 billion today; CAPS funding represents just 0.3 percent of CPD's overall budget.
"Emanuel kept CAPS in place, but there's no money there," says Jimmy Simmons, who has volunteered as a CAPS beat meeting facilitator in District 11 for 22 years. "They don't put any money into it. They continue to do these [beat] meetings, but that's it."
Emanuel's 2012 changes to CAPS also resulted in a patchwork of programming spread unevenly across districts that inadvertently isolated CAPS volunteers and staff from their colleagues in other parts of town.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, CPD said that each CAPS district received between $7,000 and $9,500 in 2016 to "support local community policing activities." Funding levels are dependent on "the size of the district, levels of crime, particularly violent crime, previous spending patterns and other factors."
But in analyzing CAPS programs for the first seven months of 2016, City Bureau and the Reader found striking variations in the activity level across districts. Several districts had more than 100 public events in the first seven months of this year, while others had fewer than 40. Our analysis showed that the number of events a district held didn't correlate with the amount of money it received from CPD; some districts that received less funding had many events, while other districts that received more funding held fewer. Nor did programming levels in a district correlate with crime rates. Instead, interviews with CAPS volunteers and staff suggest that programming levels are determined more by the interests of district commanders.
Plus, CAPS teams now work in what one facilitator described as "silos" in each district, rarely collaborating with their colleagues. Campos recalls going out on "wolf pack" missions with organizers from other districts before 2013 to address problematic areas together. Now, however, he rarely talks to CAPS employees outside of his own district.
"We don't even have the opportunity to learn from each other," Campos says. "Like, 'Hey John, what are you guys doing in [District] 11 to do this?' We used to get together monthly and have meetings. We don't do that [anymore]."
In the first seven months of this year, several police districts had more than 100 public CAPS events, while others had fewer than 40. (Maria Cardona/City Bureau)
On a Wednesday afternoon in July, two police officers roll a dusty portable chalkboard with SWAT printed on it to the front of a meeting room in the basement of District 11's west-side headquarters.
"How many chairs and rows do you think we need?" asks one of the officers.
"Ain't going to be that many people here anyways," says the other, as he arranges 36 blue chairs in the middle of the room. Indeed, when the meeting begins a few minutes later, only a dozen chairs are occupied.
District 11's Expanded Anti-Violence Initiative meeting wasn't always so poorly attended. Campos says that as recently as seven years ago, between 40 and 50 people would regularly attend the meeting. At that time a five- or six-person panel of community policing experts would help facilitate the initiative. Now it's led by Campos, beat facilitator Simmons, and the district's CAPS sergeant, who is out of the office on this particular day.
In the past, every district held monthly antiviolence meetings. That changed with the decreasing budget and recent restructuring, which allowed district commanders to choose whether or not to hold them. District 11 is now one of the few places that still does, but it's only the "skeletal remains" of the program, Campos says. A previous commander got rid of the program altogether; it was only reinstated when a new commander came in.
EAVI was originally envisioned as an ideal venue for community policing, a "beat meeting on steroids," as Campos puts it. Neighborhood leaders would meet regularly with police officers and CAPS staff and delineate problems in the neighborhood. People would break into groups around topics like public safety, community outreach, and problem buildings, and come up with solutions. Both community members and police officers were responsible for thinking up solutions and taking on "homework" that contributed to the solution. This could be as simple as finding out who a resident needed to speak to in order to get a stop sign installed on a certain corner, or talking to the principal of a school where young men loitered and caused trouble. When the group met again the following month, its members would be graded on how well they'd completed their homework and how close they were to resolving the issue.
Campos says that while those early violence-prevention meetings were "pretty successful" at addressing problems and holding people accountable, the low turnout in recent years has made the program less effective. Someone assigned an important piece of homework in one meeting could easily not show up to the next meeting, making accountability difficult.
Leticia Segura makes a point of attending the meetings, despite the fact that they fall in the middle of a workday. She walks into this one a little late, but is immediately recognized. The 44-year-old has lived in the area for more than a decade, and got involved in CAPS a year ago when she started having trouble with drug dealers near her house.
The dealers were hiding drugs in the alley, she says, and preventing her from backing her car out of the garage. When they began concealing drugs in her yard, she says, she feared for her family's safety, and began attending every CAPS meeting she could find. She called 911 frequently, determined to get the police department's attention.
Her persistence paid off. After more than three months, during which she asked the department for help, police raided the drug dealers and cleared the area.
Segura says the experience made her appreciate the power of community policing. Then, seeing that her local CAPS office was short-staffed, she started volunteering there, answering phones and doing administrative work.
CAPS "is spread very thin," Segura says. "You have only so many officers who can do so much. If we had more police help and more money, I think we could do way more things."
CAPS did indeed do more things in the past, Simmons says—when they had a bigger budget.
"CAPS was high on the list [back then]," he recalls of the 90s. "Oh, you had your little drug dealers and shootings, but nothing like this because the people were committed."
CAPS had turned his neighborhood around then, Simmons says. People weren't afraid to leave their houses, and they felt respected by the police. Thanks to the good relationship with the police, he says, the community was the "eyes and ears" of the department and helped officers solve and prevent crimes.
But when funding for community policing started decreasing, Simmons says that CAPS stopped being the cornerstone of policing in his district. The number of public meetings between officers and community members decreased, and their relationship suffered for it. Districts had to rely on donations to support bonding events like barbecues, and began enlisting volunteers like Segura to answer phones and do paperwork in their CAPS offices.
Looking at the cold and half-empty room, Simmons knits his brows.
"I think [CAPS] can do a much better job than what is being done," he says.
“It’s like building a better mousetrap.” We don’t need new or fancy methods for improving public safety, because the mousetrap “has already been invented.”click to tweet
—CAPS COMMUNITY ORGANIZER JOHN CAMPOS
Now, facing pressure over rising homicide numbers and poor community relations, CPD is once again looking to community policing to alleviate its problems. Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in April that CPD had made a mistake by downsizing CAPS and that the department is working on "reinvigorating" the program.
"While CAPS has been successful for decades, enhancements are being implemented to forge better relationships between police and the community," CPD told City Bureau and the Reader in a statement this week. "Over the next several months, you can expect to see more on this as the department will develop a specific community affairs platform that tackles some of the very challenging obstacles and tensions that exist between communities and the officers as well as implement better programs to work with young people and minority communities."
Still, just what the "new CAPS" will look like is unclear. So far the department has been vague and sometimes contradictory about the scale of the changes in store. In an interview at a CAPS event in August, Johnson had said his department was working on revamping CAPS, though he was "not really ready to roll out the actual details" of the change. In its statement to City Bureau and the Reader, CPD said that the formal strategy that will guide CAPS in the future is "still a work in progress."
Yet in an interview after a community meeting in July, CAPS deputy chief Eric Washington said, "We are not changing anything." In a second interview held at CPD headquarters in August, Washington hesitated to even use the acronym "CAPS" to describe Chicago's community policing program, and hinted that the letters would soon stand for something besides the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy.
"Because that 'alternative' is still there, I don't say 'CAPS' right now," Washington said. Both Washington and Johnson have said that going forward, community policing will no longer be an "alternative" strategy for CPD, but rather the guiding philosophy of the department.
"Every officer that works for CPD should be engaging in some type of CAPS activity," Johnson said. He didn't elaborate on what that work should entail, or how it would be paid for, however.
The talk of making CAPS a departmentwide doctrine and not just an "alternative strategy" may stem in part from the Police Accountability Task Force's review of CAPS in its final report, in which it asserted that community policing should be "treated as a core philosophy throughout CPD."
"Community policing cannot be relegated to a small, underfunded program," the report stated.
Since the CAPS "brand is significantly damaged" and its "civilian staff has dwindled to the point of ineffectiveness," the task force recommended getting rid of the program altogether. (The task force is not the first to call for the death of CAPS. Last year, District 14 commander Marc Buslik said of the program, "We need to drive a stake right through its heart.")
The task force recommended replacing CAPS with what it called "Community Empowerment and Engagement Districts." These CEEDs, one for each of Chicago's 22 police districts, would be more responsive to community needs, the task force argued. But there has been no indication that the police department or the mayor's office is considering such a change.
Meanwhile, as CAPS withers, police departments across the country are bolstering their community policing offices with the support of the U.S. Department of Justice. Last year, President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing included community policing as one of its six pillars for police reform and recommended that community policing be "infused throughout the culture and organizational structure of law enforcement agencies."
Johnson and other CPD officials have said that going forward, community policing will no longer be an “alternative” strategy, but rather the department’s guiding philosophy. (Maria Cardona/City Bureau)
On a hot afternoon in August, Superintendent Johnson grills hamburgers and sausages in a park set up for the 11th District's National Night Out. Nearby, Campos applies temporary tattoos of the CAPS logo to children's arms, and seniors take refuge from the sun under white tents. The event, which is held by police departments across the country, aims to create stronger community-police bonds.
"We are celebrating the community for being our right hand and helping us solve crimes," explains Daniel Allen, District 11 CAPS sergeant and an organizer of the event.
For some, like a 13-year-old named Xavier, the event marks the first time residents will meet a police officer. For others, it's a chance to learn about ways they can help prevent crime and become involved in CAPS.
Campos says he remains optimistic about the power of community policing to make neighborhoods like his more safe. He says that community policing can "absolutely" help reduce the homicide rate and that he saw its power at the peak of CAPS, when the program "had the resources [and] ways of pulling in the community."
"It's like building a better mousetrap," Campos says. "We don't need new or fancy methods for improving public safety, he argues, because the mousetrap "has already been invented."
"The philosophy of community policing should work," he says, "if that philosophy translates into action like it's supposed to do."
This story was produced in partnership with the Chicago Reader.
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Researchers ID Gene Variant that Protects against Alzheimer’s Disease
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Researchers in the Kauwe Lab at Brigham Young University
sing an unusual approach that combines linkage analysis, whole–genome sequencing (WGS), and biological studies, researchers have found evidence for a new genetic variant (in the gene RAB10) that may be protective against Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Scientists at Brigham Young University (BYU), led by John S. Kauwe, Ph.D., published results of the study in Genome Medicine in November. The study aims to help explain why some patients with a family history of the condition and carrying an APOE ε4 allele live long lives without showing symptoms of the disease. Kauwe is an associate professor of biology at BYU.
“We did not expect to find RAB10 variants implicated,” said Kauwe. But the group prioritized that gene in their study because other findings had suggested it could play a role in AD, specifically in the rate of amyloid beta production, which is thought to be a key process in progression of the disease. New evidence for how AD progresses is sorely needed. “If you look at the landscape now, variants for late–onset Alzheimer’s are spread out across inflammation, endocytosis, the immune response, and cholesterol regulation,” said Kauwe.
The new finding from the BYU team adds to a growing list of variants implicated in the development of AD or protection from it. The paper also describes a potentially powerful new approach for uncovering functional variants in AD, which are the most attractive targets for drug discovery. “The goal of Alzheimer’s genetic studies is to generate drug targets,” noted Gerard Schellenberg, Ph.D., principal investigator of the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, which is the largest sequencing project focused on AD. He is also head of the Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Advanced age and carrying the APOE ε4 allele are both major risk factors for AD, but people with these characteristics can still live well beyond 75 without ever showing AD symptoms. In searching for protective variants, part of the challenge is how to define “resilience” said Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D., professor of neurology at Harvard University, and director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. His group does its studies on the brains of people who died while deemed cognitively normal, but still had a lot of the plaques and tangles that are typically in people who have died of AD. But, as he points out, those brains are “hard to come by. “
The BYU team defined people as “AD resilient” if they were at least 75 years old, cognitively normal, and carried at least one APOE ε4 allele. Having one or more of those alleles, Kauwe explained, can increase a person’s risk of AD by five to 12 times. The “resilient” patients were evaluated multiple times. “They had to be normal from their first through their final cognitive assessment to be defined as resilient,” Kauwe added.
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African Development Bank Business Opportunity Seminar – Investing in partnerships for Africa’s transformation
The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) held a Business Opportunity Seminar (BOS) focused on strengthening and fostering the engagement of the business sector and of other stakeholders to effectively support investment in infrastructure and human development projects.
Seeking strategic alliances and potential business opportunities with the Bank, the participants, private-sector representatives, civil works contractors, local manufacturers, suppliers, small and medium-sized enterprises and government representatives, took part in presentations and interactive sessions on the Bank’s vision for Africa’s economic development, operational priorities, business processes and procurement guidelines.
Bank officials at the two-day seminar, held 4-5 April 2019 at the institution’s Babacar N’diaye Auditorium, also facilitated dialogue sessions on ongoing projects and the Bank’s financial products business opportunities and programs available to public, private and social enterprises.
Delivering the first presentation of the seminar, on the Bank’s strategies and policy parameters for partnerships and project financing, Hassanatu Mansaray, a Senior Policy Specialist said, “In every investment we make, the Bank’s due diligence teams look at the economic viability and development impact of the project or program.”
Valerie Dabady, the Bank’s manager for Resource Mobilisation and Partnerships, said the institution’s capacity to link public-sector needs with private sector expertise, technology and resources was unrivalled on the continent. “The African Development Bank Group has funded 4,391 projects since its inception. This includes 1,166 projects in West Africa with total commitments of $23.5 billion. In 2018, the Bank’s total approvals and disbursements stood at $8.90 billion and $6.02billion, respectively,” Dabady said.
The Bank’s non-sovereign investments also continue to grow, Dabady remarked, with investments in private sector transactions growing from $250 million in 2005 to $2.29 billion in 2018. She listed several prospective opportunities for private sector partners in the infrastructure space, including the $371.22 million Abidjan urban transport project to finance work on a fourth bridge in the Abidjan metropolis, the Dakar – Lagos Highway rehabilitation project, and Yeleen Rural Electrification Projectin Burkina Faso.
Romain Neyrand, Chief Financial Officer of SOCOPRM, an Abidjan-based firm with a concession contract, shared his insights while working on Abidjan’s Henri Konan Bédié Bridge project. Launched in 2014 and co-financed by the Bank, the 6.7 km bridge has 24 toll lanes, 4 dedicated electronic tag lanes and now averages up to 7,500 vehicles per hour. The bridge has registered over 100,000,000 vehicles since its opening, and contributes significantly to the reduction of pollution, congestion and CO2 emissions in Abidjan. The public facility currently has 185 employees.
Speaking also about the Bank-funded AZITO power plant, Mr. Douphet Yeo, Chief Financial Officer of Azito Energie, said the combined cycle power plant is contributing to Côte d'Ivoire’s energy mix, and exporting electricity to the neighbouring markets of Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin.
“The Bank needs to get more private sector players plugged into its investment plans and priorities, and its business development and investment framework for key sectors like infrastructure and agriculture,” said Oladipo Ajayi, Finance Controller for Johannesburg-based AGCO Corporation, an agriculture equipment maker.
Participants at the seminar affirmed that the Bank’s ethical business model is responsible for the successful financing, execution and delivery of its infrastructure and human development projects.
Convened twice a year, the Abidjan Business Opportunity Seminar was attended by about 200 delegates from Algeria, Angola, Austria, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, France, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. The second 2019 seminar is scheduled for the fourth quarter of year and will be hosted by the Bank’s Field Regional Resource Centre in Tunis, Tunisia.
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In a survey conducted by Airhelp, Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has been ranked as the world’s eighth best airport.AirHelp specialises in air-traveller rights and seeks compensation in cases of delays or cancellations.The airports are rated based on three factors: on-time performance, service quality, and food and shopping options. Here are the 10 best airports for 2019.
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Hamad International Airport- Hamad International Airport is the international airport of Doha, the capital city of Qatar. It replaced the former Doha International Airport as Qatar's principal airport.
Tokyo International Airport- Haneda Airport, also known as Tokyo International Airport, is located in Öta, Tokyo, 14km south of Tokyo Station. It serves the Greater Tokyo region. It was the second busiest airport in Asia and the fourth busiest in the world in 2009.
Athens International Airport-Athens International Airport began operation on 28 March 2001. It is Greece's busiest airport and it serves as the hub and main base of Aegean Airlines as well as other Greek airlines.
Afonso Pena International Airport-Afonso Pena International Airport is the main airport serving Curitiba, Brazil, located in the adjoining municipality of São José dos Pinhais. It is named after Afonso Pena, the 6th President of Brazil. It is operated by Infraero.
Gdansk Lech Wałęsa Airport, Poland- Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport is an international airport located 12 km northwest of Gdańsk, Poland, not far from the city centres of the Tricity metropolitan area: Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia. Since 2004 the airport is named after Lech Wałęsa, the former Polish president.
Sheremetyevo International Airport, Russia-Sheremetyevo International Airport is an international airport serving the city of Moscow, and the busiest airport in Russia. Originally built as an military airbase, Sheremetyevo was converted into a civilian airport in 1959. Sheremetyevo is one of four major airports that serve Moscow.
Changi Airport Singapore, Singapore- Changi Airport is the major civilian airport for Singapore, and one of the largest transportation hubs in Southeast Asia. The airport is located in Changi, at the eastern end of Singapore, approximately 20 kilometres northeast[7] from Marina Bay (Singapore's Downtown Core), on a 13-square-kilometre (5.0 sq mi) site.
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, India- Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is an international airport that serves Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Shamshabad, about 24 kilometres south of Hyderabad. It was opened on 23 March 2008 to replace Begumpet Airport.
Tenerife North Airport, Spain- Tenerife North Airport, formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is one of the two international airports on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 11 km by road from Santa Cruz and at an altitude of 633 metres. It handled 3,717,944 passengers in 2012.
Viracopos/Campinas International Airport, Brazil- Viracopos/Campinas International Airport is an international airport serving the municipality of Campinas, in the São Paulo State. On 6 January 1987, the airport name was officially normalized to its present form. It is named after the neighborhood where it is located. It is operated by Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos.
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US, European and Canadian bishops express solidarity with Christians in Holy Land
Rome, Italy, Jan 20, 2006 / 12:00 am (CNA).-
Bishops from the Episcopal Conferences of Europe, Canada and the United States expressed their solidarity with Christians in the Holy Land and called for the establishing of a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinian people, where “two viable states and three religious confessions” dwell together.
The bishops were participating in the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land. “We have come as pilgrims in prayer to pray for the prosperity of the Church and of all the peoples of the Holy Land,” they said in a statement.
Bishops from Episcopal conferences of Austria, Canada, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States were among those in attendance.
In their message the bishops underscored that the meeting provided the chance to witness “the vibrant faith of the Church in her worship, in her service to the people through many ecclesial institutions.” Nevertheless, they exhorted the faithful to pray for the Christians of the Holy Land, to go on pilgrimage to the holy sites and to support “generously the institutions of the local Church” by promoting “initiatives that bring peace and justice.”
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Bishop Cary: “Satan wants to destroy the Eucharist” and the priesthood
“The diabolical aspect of [former Cardinal McCarrick’s] betrayal is crucial,” says Bishop Liam Cary of Baker, Oregon. “It goes beyond human frailty, it is a deep-seated evil, and a betrayal of the Son of God.”
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Bishop Liam Cary in Baker, Oregon saying Mass in 2012. (YouTube)
Bishop Liam Cary, 71, has led the Diocese of Baker, Oregon since 2012. He was born in Portland, the oldest of four children, and grew up in Prineville, twenty miles away from Redmond where he presently resides as diocesan bishop. In 1961, at age 14, he entered Mount Angel Seminary, where he studied through his college years. He left the seminary for 18 years, but returned and was ordained a priest at age 45 for the Archdiocese of Portland in 1992. He served in multiple parishes in the archdiocese before coming to Baker, which makes up the eastern two-thirds of the state of Oregon.
Bishop Cary spoke recently with CWR about vocations, the current scandals in the Church, the controversies over inter-Communion, the importance of reading Scripture, and recent 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae.
CWR: What influenced you to become a priest?
Bishop Liam Cary: I was impressed by the example of my pastor at St. Joseph’s Parish in Prineville, Fr. Thomas McTeigue, who died at age 45 in 1960. (He had a bad heart; I remember how he’d come to dinner and thoroughly salt his meat. I’m sure that wasn’t good for him!)
Fr. McTeigue was a very holy man. As a bishop, I think I can appreciate that better. He was highly respected and widely admired by both his fellow clergy and the people.
He died at age 45, and I was ordained a priest at 45. So, in effect, I think of myself as having taken his place.
CWR: Can you give an overview of the Diocese of Baker?
Bishop Cary: Land-wise, we’re about the 4th or 5th largest diocese south of the Canadian border. We have 66,800 square miles of territory east of the Cascades. But, population-wise, we’re about the 3rd or 4th smallest, with about 30,000 or 40,000 Catholics. Bend is our largest city, with about 95,000 people. We have many other small and tiny towns.
I live 20 miles from Bend. The area here is high desert, which means we have sunlight about 300 days per year. It is a wonderful climate, with no humidity. It is a beautiful country, and a joy for me to drive through. I can drive somewhere by one route and enjoy one kind of terrain, then come home by another and enjoy an entirely different kind of terrain.
We’re a mostly non-Catholic area. In fact, we have a history of anti-Catholicism going back to the 1800s. We live in a part of the state that once had KKK parades. We have a long heritage of suspicion towards Catholics.
We have 35 priests, who serve from 35 to 40 parishes and missions.
CWR: How are you doing for vocations for the priesthood and religious life?
Bishop Cary: We have three seminarians. I ordained a priest two years ago, and we’re on track to ordain another next year. We have programs to promote vocations, such as Quo Vadis Days, a camp for young men to learn about the priesthood.
In the women’s religious area, we have some Sisters of Mary of Kakamega from Kenya, who run a home for the aged in Bend. They’ve been here seven or eight years, and have been well received.
This year, we’ve also welcomed three Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco who are teaching in St. Francis School, one of four parish schools we have in the diocese. They’ve been a wonderful addition, and our parents and grandparents are delighted to have the presence of religious in our schools again.
CWR: You regularly write letters to Catholics in the Diocese of Baker. Some of your most recent letters are about scandal in the Church. How do you think we’ve come to the place we are, and what do you think can or must be done?
Bishop Cary: It is a mystery, as the evil of sexual abuse is so often a hidden activity. The 2004 John Jay Report studied this topic as regards to priests and deacons, but did not examine why it happened with bishops: how it came to be, the extent to which some might be actively involved or helped cover it up.
We need to have a better view of what went on specifically among some bishops, so that we can take effective measures to prevent it from happening again. I believe the 2002 Dallas Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People was successful in combating sexual abuse by priests and deacons; we now need something similar for bishops. At our upcoming USCCB General Assembly in Baltimore [November 12-14] we’ll be looking at some proposals involving third party mechanisms to ensure that bishops are not complicit in sexual abuse, and that someone can report an allegation of sexual abuse involving a bishop and not have a fear of being retaliated against. And, we need to ensure that allegations are not merely reported, but that action is taken, something like a priest before a review board.
As I reflect on cases such as the one involving the former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, I am reminded of apostolic betrayal in Scripture. Both words are crucial. The Apostles were the witnesses at the first Eucharist. Betrayal is linked to the Eucharist, for as we say at Mass, “the night before He was betrayed …”
Our Lord knew who his betrayer was. He knew they were coming for Him in the Garden of Gethsemane and could have easily avoided capture, but He didn’t. When His name was called, He stepped forward out of the darkness. Why? Had He not allowed Himself to be betrayed, it would have suggested that betrayal was one sin God can’t forgive, and Satan would have won. When we reflect on our own experiences of being betrayed, we can begin to appreciate all the Lord has done for us.
I’d also add that Satan wants to destroy the Eucharist, and he can do that by trying to destroy the priesthood, and the bishops as well. If he can do this, he can ruin the faith of the people.
CWR: Pope Paul VI has been canonized and this year marks the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae. What are your thoughts on these two events?
Bishop Cary: Humanae Vitae is the defining statement of the Church against the modern world. Artificial contraception is taken for granted by so many; they believe it is the way to go. But the Church replies no, it’s not.
Catholics need to consider that if the Church is wrong on this issue, why wouldn’t it be wrong on any other issue … say, that Christ is present in the Eucharist or that Jesus is God made man? Humanae Vitae is linked to the nature and the authority of the Church.
I’d also note that the discussion of contraceptive use so often focuses on the circumstances of the individual couple, but overlooks that what they do has social and cultural consequences. Contraception separates sex from reproduction, and reproduction from sex. Once that has been accomplished, considering modern reproductive technologies, young people can no longer see the connection between the two.
It suggests that the responsibility of the child is the woman’s alone. So, if a man and a woman, who are unmarried, have a child together, he’ll often take on the attitude: that’s your business, not mine. This can lead to abortion.
Contraceptive use indicates that we can’t expect people to be chaste—or to practice “restraint” as they called it in the 19th century—it’s too much to ask. Chastity, this line of thinking goes, is not necessary for the moral perfection of the individual and society. It began with married people in the 19th century; now we can’t expect our 8th graders to be chaste.
And, the mentality that goes with contraceptive use is that it is needed to prevent overpopulation. A couple should have no more than two children; it is wrong to have a large family. Couples who do want many children must overcome the opprobrium of others.
CWR: In 1946, Pope Pius XII said that the greatest sin in the world today was that men have lost the sense of sin. Was he right? And, have we lost the awareness that there are devils who do tempt us to sin?
Bishop Cary: Yes, Pope Pius XII was right. We do sin, and then we try to justify our sins. And yes, we’ve lost awareness of the enemy. Let me revisit the McCarrick case. The diabolical aspect of his betrayal is crucial. It goes beyond human frailty, it is a deep-seated evil, and a betrayal of the Son of God.
CWR: Some German bishops said that they were going to allow intercommunion for Protestant spouses earlier this year. You published a column stating your disagreement with this practice. Can you explain?
Bishop Cary: People have told me at funerals that I should invite everyone up to Communion, whether Catholic or not. But, when you receive Communion and say “amen,” you are saying that you are a Catholic. You are saying “amen” to the Body of Christ, to the priest who put that Host in your hands, to your belief in the Mass itself, to the Creed recited at it, to the sacramental life of the Catholic Church and to your belief in the special role the Blessed Mother plays in that Church. If you can’t say “amen” to these teachings of the Church and all the others, that you believe and profess them, you shouldn’t be receiving Communion.
We have a 500-year-old disagreement with Protestants on a number of issues. We need to respect their decision not to be Catholic. By inviting them to Communion, we are putting them in a situation of declaring themselves to be something they are not.
CWR: We just had a midterm election. You asked Catholics in Baker to vote yes on Measure 106, which would have stopped taxpayer funded abortions. What other public policy issues are of importance to you?
Bishop Cary: First off, Measure 106 did not pass, which was a disappointment, but not unexpected.
In Oregon, I’m increasingly concerned about the bureaucratic imposition of a secular morality. We had a state bureaucracy make a change to our state insurance that would allow 15-year-old children to have sex reassignment procedures without the approval of their parents. The bureaucracy made its decision, and everyone is expected to get in line.
Or, there was a bakery outside of Portland that refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. The state fined them $135,000 and drove them out of business. They are trying to force citizens to do something that goes against their conscience.
CWR: You have a strong background in Scripture. Why is it important for the ordinary Catholic to regularly read the Bible?
Bishop Cary: It is foundational. It is God speaking to us, in the world as it is, and to us as we are. This is the place to find the truth, directed at our minds and hearts.
We need to receive that Word in a communal form, in the liturgy, and privately, as we close the door of our room, and let it assimilate within us. In this way, the Lord will speak to us on the details of our lives.
Jesus offers us peace: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you …” (John 14:27). One way we can have that peace is from the Word of God. My favorite saint, St. Francis de Sales, reminds us that it is most important that we find and keep our peace of soul. That is one of the functions of the Word of God.
CWR: What basic program of spirituality would you recommend to the typical layman?
Bishop Cary: There are many good programs out there. But to be serious about the spiritual life, we need to start small and regular. I was raised near a Benedictine monastery. The order of the day was to say short prayers at regular intervals, rather than long prayers right off the bat.
I would find things that speak to you. I would make use of holy images, and have them in a small space conducive to prayer. I would consider doing the Liturgy of the Hours, either the whole thing or small adaptations.
CWR: Who are some of your Catholic heroes?
Bishop Cary: Fr. Thomas McTeigue would be one, as well as another pastor I once knew. I also admired my aunt. She never married, and died at age 55, but was a very holy person. I can also think of other holy people who were part of my life that I’d like to be like.
As far as saints, I mentioned my fondness for St. Francis de Sales. I love his writing style. He was very good at connecting spirituality to the daily life of lay people.
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Isn’t it obvious yet that the Church must have been wrong about all of those things that were “reformed” in Vatican II? Practically everything the Church has taught about Herself, God, man, the liturgy, morality, Revelation, Tradition, heresies, and Church governance must have been wrong or why were all of them “reformed”? Not much that is Catholic remains and what does remain is being systematically destroyed. Why isn’t it obvious that by their fruits ye shall know them? What good fruits are there in the Church since this Council? None.
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For Elaine,
Let’s be careful to not tar things with too-wide a brush. To actually read the Vatican II documents can be an interesting pass-time. (There is evidence that many seminarians of the 70s never did this.) Yes, there are some troublesome lines—now being exploited for sure, but also cobbled into the mix are at least some correctives, today to be underlined. A good pair is these:
Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: “Thus, the human race has passed from a rather static concept of reality to a more dynamic, evolutionary one” (for sure an echo of Teilhard de Chardin’s poetry—not real theology).
Constitution on Divine Revelation: “The Christian dispensation, therefore, is the new and definitive covenant, will never pass away, and we now await not further new public revelation [Veritatis Splendor versus “anthropological cultural change;” or any discontinuous “paradigm shift”] before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb 13:8).
Rather than a “reform” in the sense of revolution, the imperfect but real Vatican II (not the virtual Vatican II) was about (1) more effective Christian engagement in the world: aggiornamento or “todaying” (not any toadying type of “updating”), and (2) ressourcement (a foundation in Scripture and the Church Fathers, rather than today’s well-positioned clericalism and grafitti theologians du jour).
The ever-up-to-date St. Augustine anticipated today’s manipulated confusion some fifteen centuries ago when he said “we can say things differently, but we can’t say different things.” As in Old Testament times, the problem is false prophets (the “prophet” motive), maybe not the real Vatican II.
morganB
The Bishop says…
“I’d also add that Satan wants to destroy the Eucharist, and he can do that by trying to destroy the priesthood, and the bishops as well. If he can do this, he can ruin the faith of the people.” Could that be interpreted as only Catholic clergy is being attacked by Satan? Without being too facetious one could add a familiar saying of Flip Wilson when he said to escape responsibility… “the Devil made me do it”. I call that “transference”… it will never end, but the blame must be squarely placed on the failing Catholic hierarchy.
MATHILDA MILLER
If the church today 2018 is desperate or worried that the scandal will leave us fewer priests, we can easily turn to converted ministers, deacons to fill in. The faithful will just love to see that happen because after all of these mess, we want more cleansed, purified, more HOLIER CHURCH.
TomG
A wonderful bishop, as was his predecessor, Bishop Robert Vasa (now bishop of Santa Rosa, CA).
Let the whole rotten mess collapse and burn. Better a smaller Church than today’s Church of heresy, homosexuality, and hypocrisy.
After reading the COR ORANS for the contemplative cloistered nuns, the first part of its description is very beautiful but the last part when it demands the strict cloistered nuns to go out to join federations, etc. etc. looks so threatening, not like command from our dear Lord as He even respect the freedom of His creatures….. Strict cloistered contemplative nuns who love and live their hidden life with Christ in silent solitude represent the heart of the Mystical Body of Christ, the CHURCH. Now to remove them from fixing their full attention to God in their daily life would force them to turn their back to God, sad indeed….it would diminish their close union with God and the weaken their heart-support to the Mystical Body of Christ… Am afraid the devil will rob the consecrated brides of Christ and destroy the Myscical Body of Christ. Please pray that good Pope Francis will revise the COR ORANS and remove the demand from obliging the strict contemplative nuns to turn away their focuss from God in the prayer life as God respects the freedom of His creatures. Our dear Lord also told St. Martha, “Martha. Martha, why are you so worry and fret about so many things? only one thing is necessary, Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken away from her.” Jesus also confirmed ,”No one can serve two masters” in one go, so……
I don’t ever recall any priest or bishop mentioning the grave harm done to the victims of the sexual abuse. They always talk about process and the need to preserve the priesthood and the church from the attack of evil. There’s something terribly wrong and amiss in that mindset.
Carl E. Olson
I’ve seen numerous remarks, both formal and otherwise, by bishops and priests lamenting the serious harm done to victims. There are many out there.
Elaine et al,
Look for the good ( Christ) and stop focusing on the bad (evil one). Otherwise you become part of the problem. In the Church I attend in Florida during season the daily mass swells to 300 to 500 people. Yes, that’s right. During lent we have 500 people at daily mass. We also have three different prayer groups, stations of the cross, adoration. Our generation learned to pray and when we retired we continued to pray and help the poor. Our parish has a great outreach through St. Vincent de Paul. We are the Church, the people of God. How about you?
Dominic Lombardo
We are the Church, the people of God.
No, Kathy: We are MEMBERS of the Catholic Church. One body, many members.
Well spoken.
If the bishops don’t formalize as pre-1910 that adult sex in the priesthood is grounds for dismissal, they are wasting our time again like not including bishops in the 2002 charter. Same old bait and switch of men of “deep” faith.
Josephi
A church that can not admit fault is wrong. The church is betraying Christ, not the people.
mike hurcum
I would suggest that Rome is trying its darnedest to replace the council of Trent with Vatican 2 and to substitute the Eucharist with Ecumenism
Suzanne Callahan
I just read Bishop Carey’s Interview with Catholic World Report. He is a good and holy man, whom I admire. His homilies are always inspirational. I’m so saddened by our Oregon politics. We have had prior ballot measures against the state funding of abortions and they failed too. It is the unborn babies who really lose.
I have also heard many priests lamenting the VICTIMS in this current, evil, sexual-abuse tragedy right from the altar and in writing.
We all need to be prayer warriors for the church.
DON MILLER
I belong to a Parish in the Oakland Diocese and at all Mass’s week day and on SUNDAY WE SAY one Hail Mary for an end to abortion’s and for Married Life.How many of these good
catholic’s went out and voted for a govenor who call’s him self a Catholic who allows
abortion and the porn empire! If Catholics voted as Catholics we would change AMERICA
and the World. PRAY THE ROSARY !!!!!!!!
Donald Link
It would seem that the good bishop’s time in the secular world was well spent. He has a realistic insight on matters that might have been somewhat unclear to those who went straight from seminary to first pastoral assignment. The mature men who feel a strong vocation are a valuable resource to the Church and would probably help prevent some of the problems attendant with immature and self centered men who have caused much of the scandal today.
Peter Aiello
The Church should revisit the priorities of Scripture; especially the New Testament epistles. They are different than what we have in today’s Church. I don’t see where we have made any improvements.
jasmine torres
A great bishop, as was his predecessor, Bishop Robert Vasa (now bishop of Santa Rosa, CA)
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The MIND diet: 10 foods that fight Alzheimer's (and 5 to avoid)
By Paula Cohen
March 30, 2015 / 6:00 AM / CBS News
Doctors have been saying for years that what you eat can affect the health of your heart. Now there's growing evidence that the same is true for your brain.
A new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago shows a diet plan they developed -- appropriately called the MIND diet -- may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by as much as 53 percent.
Even those who didn't stick to the diet perfectly but followed it "moderately well" reduced their risk of Alzheimer's by about a third.
Diet appears to be just one of "many factors that play into who gets the disease," said nutritional epidemiologist Martha Clare Morris, PhD, the lead author of the MIND diet study. Genetics and other factors like smoking, exercise and education also play a role. But the MIND diet helped slow the rate of cognitive decline and protect against Alzheimer's regardless of other risk factors.
The study, published in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia, looked at more than 900 people between the ages of 58 and 98 who filled out food questionnaires and underwent repeated neurological testing. It found participants whose diets most closely followed the MIND recommendations had a level of cognitive function the equivalent of a person 7.5 years younger.
The MIND diet breaks its recommendations down into 10 "brain healthy food groups" a person should eat and five "unhealthy food groups" to avoid.
It combines many elements of two other popular nutrition plans which have been proven to benefit heart health: the Mediterranean diet and the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet. (MIND stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay.)
But the MIND diet also differs from those plans in a few significant ways and proved more effective than either of them at reducing the risk of Alzheimer's.
Click through to see which foods to eat -- and which ones to avoid -- for optimal brain health.
The MIND diet recommends frequent servings of green leafy vegetables. Kale, spinach, broccoli, collards and other greens are packed with vitamins A and C and other nutrients. At least two servings a week can help, and researchers found six or more servings a week provide the greatest brain benefits.
The Mediterranean and DASH diets do not specifically recommend these types of vegetables, but the MIND diet study found that including greens in addition to other veggies made a difference in reducing the risk of Alzheimer's.
Like other diets focused on weight loss and heart health, the MIND diet emphasizes the importance of vegetables for brain health. The researchers recommend eating a salad and at least one other vegetable every day to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's.
Nuts are a good snack for brain health, according to the MIND diet study. Nuts contain healthy fats, fiber and antioxidants, and other studies have found they can help lower bad cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease. The MIND diet recommends eating nuts at least five times a week.
Berries are the only fruit specifically recommended in the MIND diet. "Blueberries are one of the more potent foods in terms of protecting the brain," Morris said. She noted that strawberries have also shown benefits in past studies looking at the effect of food on cognitive function. The MIND diet recommends eating berries at least twice a week.
If beans aren't a regular part of your diet, they should be. High in fiber and protein, and low in calories and fat, they also help keep your mind sharp as part of the MIND diet. The researchers recommend eating beans three times a week to help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's.
Whole grains are a key component of the MIND diet. It recommends at least three servings a day.
The MIND diet study found eating fish at least once a week helps protect brain function. However, there's no need to go overboard; unlike the Mediterranean diet, which recommends eating fish almost every day, the MIND diet says once a week is enough.
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Poultry is another part of a brain-healthy eating plan, according to the MIND diet. It recommends two or more servings a week.
Olive oil beat out other forms of cooking oil and fats in the MIND diet. The researchers found people who used olive oil as their primary oil at home saw greater protection against cognitive decline.
Raise a toast to the MIND diet: it recommends a glass of wine every day. Just one, though.
Wine rounds out the list of of 10 "brain healthy" food groups that help protect against Alzheimer's: green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, nuts, berries, beans, whole grains, fish, poultry, olive oil and wine.
Now here are the five food groups it says you should avoid to reduce your risk of developing dementia...
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Red meat isn't banned in the MIND diet, but the researchers say you should limit consumption to no more than four servings a week to help protect brain health. That's more generous than the Mediterranean diet, which restricts red meat to just one serving a week.
Butter and stick margarine
Butter and stick margarine should be limited to less than a tablespoon per day on the MIND diet. Brain-healthy olive oil can often be used instead.
Cheese may be delicious but it doesn't do your brain any favors, according to the MIND diet study. Eat cheese no more than once a week if you want to reduce your risk of Alzheimer's.
Pastries and sweets
You already know they're not so good for your waistline, and it turns out pastries and other sweets could have a negative effect on brain health as well. The MIND diet recommends limiting yourself to no more than five of these treats per week.
Fried foods and fast food
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Fried foods and fast food round out the MIND diet's list of unhealthy food groups. Limit your indulgence in fried food to no more than once a week for optimal brain health.
But even if you slip up on the diet from time to time, the researchers say it can still have benefits. Even "modest adherence" to the MIND diet measurably reduced a person's chances of developing Alzheimer's disease, and the longer you stick with it, the greater the benefits.
"People who eat this diet consistently over the years get the best protection," said lead author Martha Clare Morris. "You'll be healthier if you've been doing the right thing for a long time."
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Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Since "Sesame Street" first aired on Nov. 10, 1969, the show has been bringing sunny days and important lessons to children around the world. The original cast is seen in this photo.
Credit: AP Photo/PBS
Big Bird is one of the show's most beloved characters. The towering, yellow-feathered 6-year-old has called Sesame Street home since the show began. He even appeared solo on the cover of Time magazine, who dubbed his show "TV's Gift to Children."
Elmo, seen here with two firefighters, is another one of the show's most beloved characters. He made his first appearance on the show in 1972, as "Baby Monster." He didn't receive his current moniker until 1985. Since 1998, he has hosted "Elmo's World," a segment aimed at toddlers that airs during the last 15 minutes of "Sesame Street."
"Me want Cookie!" is one of Cookie Monster's most famous lines, but as time has passed the character has begun to watch what he eats. He explained his new philosophy on Martha Stewart's TV show in 2007, telling her that cookies are a "sometimes food."
Roommates Bert and Ernie, seen here in 2006, share a basement apartment at 123 Sesame Street. Ernie was originally performed by Jim Henson until his death in 1990, and Bert was voiced by Frank Oz until 2001. Ernie's love for his rubber duck was immortalized in the song "Rubber Duckie," which hit No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1970.
Credit: AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer
Other countries have co-produced their own unique versions of "Sesame Street," which include characters and segments that reflect their country's cultures. Other countries simply air dubbed versions of the original "Sesame Street." Seen here are characters from China's "Zhima Jie," from left, Hu Hu Zhu, Da Niao (Big Bird) and Little Plum.
The 2004 cast of "Sesame Street." Over the years the cast has grown, adding human and pupper characters alike. The show has also seen many celebrity guest stars, including Bob Hope, Julia Roberts, Ellen Degeneres, Johnny Cash, Barbra Walters and Lena Horne. First lady Michelle Obama is also joining that list - she's set to star on the 40th anniversary show airing on Nov. 10, 2009.
Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who plays the roles of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street," arrives with Oscar the Grouch at the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, on April 28, 2006. Spinney has played both characters since the show began in 1969.
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Oscar the Grouch, left, and Telly Monster, of the children's television show "Sesame Street," perform at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Aug. 30, 2009, in Los Angeles.
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Elmo, of the children's television show "Sesame Street," arrives at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, in Los Angeles. The show received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the ceremony. "Sesame Street" marks its 40th anniversary this year.
Credit: AP Photo/Matt Sayles
"Sesame Street" executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente, left, and cast member Sonia Manzano, center, and Big Bird accept the Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Aug. 30, 2009, in Los Angeles. As of 2009, the series has received 118 Emmy Awards, more than any other television series.
Cookie Monster, center, eats the statuette given for the Lifetime Achievement Award for "Sesame Street" at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday Aug. 30, 2009, in Los Angeles. As of 2009, an estimated 77 million Americans watched "Sesame Street" as children.
This May 5, 2009 photo released by Sesame Workshop shows first lady Michelle Obama, third from left, with Big Bird, Elmo, Muppets & cast in "Michelle Obama Plants A Garden" in Astoria, N.Y. Mrs. Obama appears on "Sesame Street" Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, on the 40th anniversary of the show's premiere.
Credit: AP Photo/Sesame Workshop
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Alberto Gallego leads Willis Towers Watson in Spain and Portugal
03 January 2018 Consultancy.eu
Willis Towers Watson has appointed a new leader for its Iberia business. Alberto Gallego, formerly the Chief Operating Officer for Iberia, has been named the new Head of the firm’s Spain and Portugal country organisations.
Alberto Gallego has been with Willis Towers Watson and its legal predecessors since 1990. He joined as its Chief Operating Officer for Iberia, a role he held up to the end of last year. In 2016 he was in addition promoted to the role of Head of Corporate Risk and Broking for Western Europe.
Per the 1st of January, Gallego has taken on the role of Head of Iberia, based in Madrid. Willis Towers Watson is seeking to expand its presence in Iberia, which currently spans 22 offices*, and Gallego will lead the expansion for the consultancy and risk brokers, leveraging his more than two decades of experience in leadership, consultancy and risk. He will continue to be the Head of Corporate Risk and Broking for Western Europe. Meanwhile, Anton Serrats, the former holder of the top post, takes on the role of Vice Chairman of Willis Towers Watson Iberia.
Commenting on the appointment, Paul Morris, Head of Western Europe at Willis Towers Watson, said, “We see strong potential to develop our well-established presence in Iberia, across a diverse range of business solutions and segments. Alberto will draw on his extensive local and global experience to lead further growth and expansion in this important market. He will also continue to drive revenues across the Western Europe region as the leader of Corporate Risk and Broking.” He added, “I would like to thank Anton for his long and distinguished leadership of the Iberian business, and for growing it to such a market-leading position.”
Reflecting on his promotion, Gallego said, “I’m looking forward to working with the fantastic team in Iberia, and helping them build on all the great work they have done so far. Maintaining the highest levels of client service and creating innovative solutions will be the central elements of our strategy.”
Willis Towers Watson was formed in 2015 by the merger between Willis Group and Towers Watson.
Meanwhile, in the summer of 2017, global consultancy FTI Consulting bolstered its presence in Spain with the launch of a new Strategic Communications practice, led by the Spaniard Juan Rivera.
* Willis Towers Watson’s offices in Spain and Portugal are based in A Coruña, Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Lasarte, Las Palmas, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Palma de Mallorca, San Sebastián, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid, Vigo, Vitoria, Zaragoza.
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New Year Non-News
By Frances Coppola - December 31, 2014
When there is no news, create some.....
I couldn't help noticing this article in the Guardian. "Taxpayers Left With £10bn Loss On RBS Stake", the headline screams.
Taxpayers were left with a £10bn loss on their stake in Royal Bank of Scotland shares at the end of 2014. The 79% shareholding in RBS was bought at an average of 502p a share, well above the 394p at which the shares ended the year.
Shocking. How dare the Government sell OUR shares in RBS at such a loss! That's worse even than Royal Mail. This Government goes from bad to worse, doesn't it?
And then Ms. Treanor moves briskly on to discussing Lloyds, where the taxpayer is actually making a profit:
In contrast, shares in Lloyds Banking Group ended at 75.8p, above the average price of 73.6p at which the government bailed out the bank six years ago. The taxpayer owns 24% of the bank but that stake could fall to 20% in the next six months under a plan announced by George Osborne th…
The Britham chronicles: the New Town story
Once upon a time there were six families who lived in neighbouring farms. Every now and then one of them would try to steal some of the land belonging to one of the other families: the other families would spring to the defence of the one who had lost the land, and there would be a noisy dispute and a bare-knuckle brawl between some of the menfolk, egged on by the rest. During these disputes the farms did not get tended, the cattle strayed, the crops were trampled and the chickens were eaten by foxes. Eventually, after several years the brawl would end and the participants would be shipped off to hospital, leaving those less injured to restore the farms and resume food production. It was all very unedifying.
After the last and most vicious of these brawls, the families agreed that this was not a sensible way to behave and they really should try to get on with each other better. So they decided to merge their farms. Instead of being six independent farms, there would now be one Commun…
The gullible economist
I think John Cochrane has lost his marbles. Or maybe his dispute with Paul Krugman has blown his brains. Anyway, he has written one of the worst op-eds I have ever seen. He even quotes George Osborne as an authority on (the problems with) Keynesian economics. You couldn't make it up.
Cullen fisked about half the article but gave up in disgust when he encountered this little gem:
By Keynesian logic, fraud is good; thieves have notoriously high marginal propensities to consume. Noah, who clearly has a stronger stomach, read all of it, understood most of it, and summed it up in one word.
But not being British, both Cullen and Noah missed the sheer idiocy of this statement (emphasis mine):
With the 2013 sequester, Keynesians warned that reduced spending and the end of 99-week unemployment benefits would drive the economy back to recession. Instead, unemployment came down faster than expected, and growth returned, albeit modestly. The story is similar in the U.K. Oh no it isn'…
One Bank To Rule Them All
The ECB has released this letter from its former President, Jean-Claude Trichet, to the Spanish Prime Minister in August 2011. It is excruciating reading.
The letter starts with a reminder about the Spanish government's responsibilities:
We recall that the Euro area Heads of State or Government summit of 21 July 2011 concluded that "all Euro countries solemnly affirm their inflexible commitment to honour fully their own individual sovereign signature....." Well, ok, this letter is about the threat to the Euro caused by spiking Spanish bond yields and the fear of default and redenomination at that time, so it is probably reasonable of the ECB to ask for assurance that the Spanish government intends to honour its debt obligations. But that's not all:
"...and all their commitments to sustainable fiscal conditions and structural reforms." And the letter then goes on to explain in some detail exactly what "structural reforms" the ECB expects Spain to …
Krugman, Bowman and the monetary financing of governments
Krugman says central banks can't create inflation. When interest rates are at zero, expanding the monetary base makes no difference.
This is, of course, anathema to dedicated believers in the omnipotence of central banks. But Krugman is in good company. I recently heard Richard Koo speak on lessons from Japan for the Eurozone. Koo questioned QE's effectiveness when the private sector is refusing to take on more debt because it is determined to deleverage.
Koo's and Krugman's scenarios are actually the same, though they attack the problem from different angles. In both cases, interest rates are zero, though Krugman explains this as an infinite demand for interest-free money (the liquidity trap), and Koo explains it as a lack of demand for borrowing. Both argue that central banks are unable to generate inflation when the private sector does not wish to spend. Both insist - though for different reasons - that when interest rates are zero, fiscal stimulus is needed to get …
Broken windows, broken lives
This is a difficult post for me to write, and there will no doubt be people out there who will be horrified at what I am about to say. But I feel that the hard questions that I shall raise have to be addressed.
In August this year, my mother went into a nursing home. She now has twenty-four hour nursing by specialists in the care of dementia sufferers. It is eyewateringly expensive. And it is being paid for entirely by my father.
This is an appalling tragedy. It is worse than a bereavement. In effect, my father has lost his wife - but he is still paying for her care.
Now, please don't misunderstand. It is not a financial tragedy. My father reckons he can afford to pay for my mother's care for five years without having to sell the house that he still lives in. He observed sadly that the people who will pay are his children and grandchildren, who will inherit far less than he had hoped. But to me, it is only right and proper that the savings he accumulated during his workin…
The Goldman touch
In my previous post, I cast doubt on the viability of Juncker's investment plan, pointing out that it involves no new money from either the EU or the EIB since it relies on a combination of non-sovereign guarantees and money diverted from other schemes, and questioning whether the private sector would be interested in investing in member state pet projects anyway. To put it bluntly, it appears to be a conjuring trick designed to give the impression that the European Commission is "doing something" about the appallingly low level of investment across the EU. I (somewhat impolitely) commented to a friend that this scheme looked like an attempt by Juncker to prove that he is not a total joke.
But in this extraordinary comment on my post, someone who identifies as "cig" exposes a dimension to Juncker's plan that I had missed:
There is an obvious trade here:
1. get bridge loan of say €100m
2. create SPV
3. have SPV buy €100m worth of senior tranche of EIB proje…
Juncker's CDO
The new President of the European Commission has recently unveiled his second attempt at increasing European investment without raising public debt levels. His first attempt, which envisaged leveraging the ESM, was shot down by the Germans. This version leverages both the EIB and the EU's own budget. By committing 16bn EUR from the EU's budget and 5bn from the EIB, Juncker reckons that upwards of 315bn of new investment could flow into EU-wide projects, increasing jobs and improving infrastructure. It sounds wonderful, doesn't it?
But how would it work, exactly? Here is an explanation from the European Commission's factsheet:
The role of the Fund is to mobilise extra private finance in specific sectors and areas. The Fund is estimated to reach a multiplier effect of 1:15 in real investment in the economy. This is the result of the Fund's initial risk bearing capacity and is an estimated average calculated as follows: For every initial one euro of protection by…
Lies, damned lies, and a wartime legacy
Back in October, Toby Nangle, head of multi asset allocation and co-head of global asset allocation at Threadneedle Investments, a UK-based fund manager,wrote a guest post on FT Alphaville in which he argued that the Chancellor should call in the UK's War Loan. The War Loan was issued by HM Treasury in 1932 and is one of the oldest bonds in the market today.
"The UK Government could reduce its debt and save the taxpayer £300m by exercising its right to call the ‘War Loan’ and refinance it with new perpetuals with the same coupon but a thirty-year non-call period or new long-dated bonds.", said Nangle.
The Chancellor took his advice. As part of the Autumn Statement, he has announced that the Government will call in not only the War Loan, but other historic gilts too. From HM Treasury's Press Release:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne is today (Wednesday 3 December) announcing that the government will repay all the nation’s First World War debt.
Greece's Great Depression, charted
Via the FT's Robin Wigglesworth comes this chart:
Greek RGDP fell by 28% between 2008 and the end of 2013. Since then it has increased by about 2%. This is recovery, apparently.
The most recent inflation figures show CPI inflation at -1.68% and HICP (core) inflation at -1.8%. , Yes, that is deflation. Indeed Greece has been persistently in deflation for the last six years.
Annualised growth figures show RGDP currently growing by 0.6%.
Using either measure of inflation, NGDP is negative. The ECB's preferred HICP measure gives NGDP of -1.2%.
I suppose, when you are starving, crumbs look like a square meal.
Celebrating the Spanish recovery
By Frances Coppola - November 30, 2014
Lots of people have been celebrating the Spanish recovery. "From boom to bust to export-led recovery", crowed one Twitter commentator.
This is the reality:
Well, real GDP growth is now positive. I suppose that is a recovery, sort of. Though 0.5% growth is not exactly robust. In the UK we call 0.5% growth "stagnation", not recovery.*
But look at this:
Note the red at the far right. That is deflation. Consumer prices in Spain are falling by about 0.5%, according to the latest figures. To be sure, this is an annual chart: using annual GDP figures, NGDP is about 1%. I don't call that much of a recovery.
And I doubt if the Spanish see it as recovery, either. This is GDP per capita:
Yes, the Spanish are worse off now than they were in 2003. Ouch.
So if the "recovery" is largely due to falling consumer prices flattering real GDP, what about those exports?
Here's the Spanish current account:
This looks like something of a success story. The current accoun…
Structural destruction
Researchers at the Federal Reserve recently produced a fascinating article in which they argued that severe recessions such as that in 2008-9 leave permanent economic scars.This set of charts shows the effect of the 2008-9 recession on real GDP trend growth for four economic areas - the US, the UK, the Euro area and Canada:
This reminds me of the four-image game on the UK's satirical current affairs show "Have I Got News For You". Spot the odd one out, and explain why.....and no, it isn't the one you think it is.
Actually each chart has a claim to be the odd one out, which just goes to show how the economic effects of the financial crisis varied by country. Or perhaps more accurately, how the response to the crisis by monetary and fiscal authorities varied. These charts show a significant drop in trend RGDP for all four economic areas: Canada, which had neither a property market crash nor a banking crisis, shows the smallest fall. Interestingly - and contrary to pop…
Reflections on Rochester and Strood
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I also get emails from the Conservatives, phone calls from the Conservatives, visits from the Conservatives.....I told an opinion pollster who rang recently (yes, I get lots of those too) that the Conservatives look desperate to me. I'm utterly sick of their flood tactics. But now UKIP have adopted the same tactics. Spam, spam, spam. They are nearly as bad as the PPI leeches.
Spamming my letterbox, mailbox and voicemail merely annoys me. I don't need more information. I know what all of the main candidates are offering. Heaven knows, they've told me enough times.
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Police Arrest Tenant For Renovating House Without Landlord’s Consent
A businesswoman, Adebukola Oladipo, has been arrested by the police for purportedly damaging a building belonging to her landlord, Ediac Ezemuede.
It was learned that Oladipo rented a guesthouse consisting of five rooms, an open space and two stores from the landlord in 2016.
The landlord in his statement to the police said Oladipo damaged the building for reasons best known to her, adding that she used the police against him when he demanded an explanation from her.
“The office and the store were damaged by her (Oladipo) and in my bid to get an explanation, she got me arrested. She also threatened to kill me as long as she knew my house,” he said.
Oladipo, while denying the allegation of a threat to life, however, admitted that the house got damaged while she was trying to renovate it.
The tenant said, “When I rented the place, there was no electricity or water supply to the building. The rooms, toilets and doors were damaged as well. He (the landlord) asked me to repair them and promised either to refund the money expended on the repairs or convert it to rent. He reneged on the agreement and said he could only give me two months’ rent and I spent N600,000 to fix the whole place.
“I never threatened him; rather, different people, who claimed to be his brothers, came around and threatened to beat me up. I informed him when I wanted to destroy the building for renovation and he did not complain. I don’t know why he is making an issue of it now.”
The Ogun State indigene was arraigned before an Ogba Magistrates’ Court on two counts of wilful damage and conduct likely to cause a breach of peace, Punch reports.
The charges read, “That you, Adebukola Oladipo, in February 2018, on Clem Road, Jankara, Ijaiye, Lagos State, in the Ikeja Magisterial District, did wilfully damage the wall of one of the rooms you occupied valued at N600,000, property of one Ediac Ezemuede without his consent, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 350 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.
“That you, Adebukola Oladipo, on the same date, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district, did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by abusing and threatening one Ediac Ezemuede that you were going to kill him over his property, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 168(d) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs I. A. Abina, granted her bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties each in like sum and thereafter adjourned the case till November 19, 2018.
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President Donald Trump, left, talks with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they arrive for the G-20 summit session on women’s workforce participation, future of work, and aging societies in Osaka, Japan, in Osaka, Japan, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
At G20, Trudeau highlights plight of Canadians in China, but details scarce
Canadian government’s strategies included trying to rally support from other G20 countries
Justin Trudeau kept his cards close to the vest Saturday as he wrapped up this weekend’s high-stakes G20 meetings in Japan, acknowledging Canada’s protracted impasse with China but offering few details about the ongoing effort to liberate the two Canadians caught in the crossfire.
The arrest in China of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — victims, from Canada’s perspective, of a three-way diplomatic standoff rooted primarily in a dispute between the United States and Beijing — came up in sideline talks with President Xi Jinping, the prime minister said before jetting back to Ottawa.
But Trudeau would say little else about what he called a “challenging moment” for Canada, and it remained agonizingly unclear whether U.S. President Donald Trump had made good on his promise to raise the issue in his own bilateral meeting with Xi.
“I think it was important that I have an opportunity to have face-to-face discussions with President Xi on this issue,” Trudeau said. The two did not formally meet, but were spotted having discussions on the margins of the gathering — “constructive interactions,” in the words of the Prime Minister’s Office.
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“We take the situation of the two Canadians detained in China extremely seriously, and it was important we have those exchanges,” Trudeau added.
One of the Canadian government’s strategies going into the meetings was to rally support from other G20 countries during the two days of talks, and the PMO said Friday that Canada received “broad” support from its European partners on the matter.
But it was Trump’s commitment to confront Xi about Kovrig and Spavor, secured during Trudeau’s meeting with the president last week in the Oval Office, that was widely seen as the first real hope for progress in what has evolved into an intractable conflict. Tensions with China have been on the rise since December, when Canada detained Chinese high-tech scion Meng Wanzhou at the behest of the U.S. government.
Meng, the chief financial officer of telecom titan Huawei Technologies, is facing charges in the U.S. of violating sanctions against Iran. She is free on bail but under partial house arrest in Vancouver as she awaits an extradition hearing; the detention in China of the two Canadian citizens, which happened less than two weeks later, is widely considered an act of retribution.
“Many of our allies around the world have been highlighting the situation of the two Canadians detained in China and we are confident that the (U.S.) president also brought that up, but you’ll have to ask him for details,” Trudeau said.
But in his own post-G20 press conference, marked by a reboot of stalled trade talks between the White House and Beijing, Trump didn’t explicitly mention Kovrig and Spavor. Huawei, which the U.S. and other countries see as a potentially serious threat to national and global security, did come up — but not Meng.
“That was not discussed,” Trump said. “We did discuss Huawei, but we didn’t discuss her situation.” Huawei would have to be the last issue discussed in trade talks with China, he added.
Trump said existing U.S. tariffs would remain in place against Chinese imports while negotiations continue, but that additional tariffs he’s threatened to slap on billions worth of other Chinese goods will not be triggered for the “time being.” He added that the U.S. and China would restart stalled trade talks, saying, “we’re going to work with China where we left off.”
The U.S. has imposed 25 per cent import taxes on $250 billion in Chinese products and is threatening to target another $300 billion — a move that would extend the tariffs to virtually everything China ships to the U.S. China has lashed back with tariffs on $110 billion in American goods, focusing on agricultural products in a direct and painful shot at Trump supporters in the U.S. farm belt.
A central point of friction between the U.S. and China is the decision by the Americans to deem Huawei as “incompatible” with its security interests and that of its allies. But that appears to have taken a back seat to the newly rekindled efforts to secure a trade agreement — a development that likely has farmers, exporters and financial markets exhaling with relief.
Trump, who said he has “become friends” with Xi, said he intends to allow U.S. companies to sell their products to Huawei, but he was not yet willing to remove the company from a trade blacklist.
The U.S. president also had his first face-to-face sit-down with Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman since the U.S. intelligence community concluded that the crown prince directed the grisly murder of Washington Post columnist and American resident Jamal Khashoggi last year.
Trump, who referred to Prince Mohammed as his “friend,” has long sought to minimize the crown prince’s role in the murder and has been reluctant to criticize the killing of the royal critic at a Saudi consulate in Turkey last year. Trump views the kingdom as the lynchpin of U.S.’ Middle East strategy to counter Iran.
In a wide-ranging news conference after the summit, Trump called the killing of Khashoggi “horrible,” but said Saudi Arabia had “been a terrific ally.” He suggested he was satisfied with steps the country is taking to prosecute some of those involved, while claiming that “nobody so far has pointed directly a finger” at Saudi Arabia’s future king. U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that bin Salman must have at least known of the plot.
Trudeau for his part acknowledged attending a G20 session on empowering women that was also attended by bin Salman, whose regime — initially seen as progressive on the issue of women’s rights — has since been widely criticized for detaining activists and backsliding on human rights issues in general. He said he raised Canada’s concerns about Khashoggi and human rights.
Trudeau noted that next year’s G20 summit will be held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
“Since they are hosting next year, there is an opportunity for them to demonstrate the reforms they have begun to undertake and move quicker on that, and that Canada certainly hopes there will be forward progress.”
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New Dorm Visitation Study Reveals Need for Reform
In a hyper-sexual society, once-traditional morals have eroded even in our Catholic institutions—and especially on many Catholic college campuses. Research shows that the pervasive “hook up” culture on the typical American campus is found even at many Catholic colleges, a fact that will not surprise most Crisis readers.
Given the documented consequences of the Sexual Revolution, it’s long past time that Catholic colleges take the lead on campus reform, creating cultures that reinforce the expectation of chastity. Solutions are by no means simple, as the casual sex scene has become an accepted norm of college life—even seemingly acceptable to many Catholic parents who would never allow such behavior in their homes. But while there’s no quick fix, Catholic colleges can at least start to address the problem by observing the residence life policies of those few faithful Catholic institutions and their other Christian counterparts that promote a culture of chastity.
Good solutions often begin with good data, so The Cardinal Newman Society has published a review of the dorm visitation policies at 191 residential Catholic college campuses in the United States. Our report, Visitation Policies at U.S. Catholic Colleges, is a factual overview of policies that regulate student visits to those campus residences that function, at least in large part, as student bedrooms.
The report includes information on several different Catholic college policies related to visitation, and it compares a sample of Catholic institutions to their Protestant and non-denominational Christian peers. Some of the findings validate common assumptions about the residential atmosphere on these campuses: overall, the report confirms that the vast majority of Catholic colleges allow bedroom visitation behind closed doors—including students of the opposite sex—until late into the night, and this contrasts with the much healthier policies of other Christian colleges.
On weekends, 95 percent of Catholic colleges permit at least a portion of the students (usually non-freshmen when specified) to visit with members of the opposite sex in dorm rooms for at least some part of the night. It’s the norm in American higher education, but it’s an extraordinary social shift for Catholic colleges that still retain the language of moral formation and Catholic campus living.
Other results of the study may be surprising. More than a quarter of residential Catholic colleges—54 nationwide—permit all-night opposite-sex visits on weekends, and only five of these regulate visiting hours during the week. Whether intended or not, that’s an open invitation to sexual activity. The colleges enabling this include some of the largest and most notable Catholic colleges, such as Boston College, DePaul University, Georgetown University, Loyola University Chicago, Loyola University New Orleans, Santa Clara University, St. Joseph’s University, University of Dayton, University of San Francisco and Villanova University. But it’s surprising to see how many smaller Catholic colleges have also abandoned dorm policies that were universally embraced just a few decades ago.
Even at the more than two-thirds of Catholic colleges that impose deadlines for opposite-sex visits to dorm rooms, their policies generally fail to satisfy Catholic sensibilities. Nearly half (91) of Catholic colleges permit opposite-sex visitation until 2 a.m., well into the night. Another 11 colleges allow visitation until 3 and even 4 a.m., inviting the question, “Why even bother?” These include Creighton University, DeSales University, Fordham University, St. John’s University (N.Y.), St. Louis University and the University of Scranton, as well as smaller institutions.
At the University of San Francisco, there is no pretense of promoting chastity in its dorm policies. In addition to having open visitation hours, USF now also offers some students the option to have an opposite-sex roommate. The program for “gender inclusive housing” welcomes students who identify as “transgender,” do not identify as any sex or simply “respect people with the above identities” and “prefer to live” in a gender-inclusive “community.” Students share bathrooms with members of both sexes. And community standards include respecting “gender as a non-binary construct,” openness to developing one’s own sexual orientation and using “preferred names and gender pronouns.”
Catholic Edgewood College in Wisconsin unabashedly condones promiscuity with 24-hour “Weekend Opposite Sex/Intimate Partner Visitation Hours.” The College declares that dorm visits can be for “opposite sex and same-sex intimate partners.” Curiously, while the College permits fornication on the weekend, it states that “intimate partner guests are prohibited overnight during the weekday.”
Edgewood is, of course, an extreme case—and we approached this study assuming that even when Catholic colleges implicitly condone sexual activity by inviting opposite-sex visitation in bedrooms, those colleges would have rules on the books forbidding premarital relations. Sadly, we were wrong. We examined student handbooks and residence life policies, finding that only about one-third of the colleges explicitly prohibit sexual relations on campus. Most of these cite the institution’s Catholic identity or reference Catholic teaching reserving sex for marriage as the reason for the rule.
Better News
Not all the findings in our report are bad. For instance, even among Catholic colleges that offer opposite-sex visiting hours, there are some that set deadlines at more reasonable hours. Donnelly College admirably ends weekend visitation at 10 p.m., and ten other colleges allow it until midnight. The Franciscan University of Steubenville has visiting hours only from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. on weekends, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Sundays, and doors must stay open.
Weeknight visitation hours are also more reasonable at 84 Catholic colleges (44 percent), which end visitation at or before midnight. But still, a quarter of Catholic colleges end visitation after midnight during the week, and 26 percent have no time parameters at all.
Some Catholic colleges that allow opposite-sex visitation have open-door and open-bolt rules that help discourage sexual activity. Franciscan University of Steubenville and Ave Maria University require that, during opposite-sex visitation, bedroom doors must remain open. St. Gregory’s University and the University of Dallas require that the bolts of bedroom doors must be placed in the open position to keep them ajar. St. Martin’s University requires open doors during the final couple hours of visitation.
Most impressive are the nine Catholic colleges that have retained traditional Catholic mores; i.e., there is no opposite-sex visitation in student residences, save occasional open-house events in some cases. Most of these institutions will be familiar to Crisis readers: Aquinas College (Tenn.), Christendom College, Divine Word College, Holy Apostles College and Seminary, John Paul the Great Catholic University, Northeast Catholic College, Thomas Aquinas College, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and Wyoming Catholic College. These colleges demonstrate that a culture that promotes chastity can be achieved with appropriate dorm polices as well as educational efforts.
Fraternal Witness
In order to find out how Catholic colleges stack up to their Protestant and nondenominational Christian counterparts, we compared 40 colleges that belong to the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities to 40 colleges of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). We chose top colleges ranked highly in various categories by U.S. News and World Report—not because we expected the rankings to have any clear relationship to visitation policies, but the rankings seemed a convenient method for selecting a variety of colleges that are similarly competitive with students of similar backgrounds.
Overall, the Catholic institutions were found to have more relaxed policies. While more than a quarter of the Catholic colleges in the sample permit “open” or 24-hour visitation in campus residences, none of the sampled CCCU colleges allow this. Only two of the Catholic colleges prohibit opposite-sex visitation, but seven of the CCCU colleges do so. Of the 27 Catholic colleges with visitation hour limits, 23 end at 2 a.m. or later on weekends, and the earliest deadline is midnight. But at CCCU colleges, only a dozen go later than midnight—and only two of those allow visitation until 2 a.m.
Further, more than half of the CCCU colleges sampled have open-door or open-bolt policies during opposite-sex visitation hours, and a quarter of them require that at least one light stays on. Only one of the sampled Catholic colleges—St. Gregory’s University—has an open-bolt policy.
Our study also examined the difference between Catholic and CCCU colleges on the question of prohibiting sexual relations in the dorms. Fully three quarters of the sampled CCCU institutions have policies that explicitly prohibit sex, compared to about a quarter of the sampled Catholic colleges. Many other Catholic colleges offer vague proscriptions against “cohabitation,” but in at least some instances cohabitation appears to mean long-term living arrangements, so the term is unclear to students. And others prohibit sleepovers by students of the opposite sex, without regulating sexual activity during available visiting hours.
Chastity Must Be the Norm
There is no single policy that can reform college campus life, but placing greater limits on opposite-sex visitation to student residences—those that serve as bedrooms—is likely to have a significant impact on the “hook-up” culture and sends a strong message in support of chastity.
And that’s one thing that all leaders of Catholic colleges should be able to agree upon: chastity should be the expectation on Catholic campuses, not the exception.
As Pope Benedict XVI told Catholic college presidents during his historic address at The Catholic University of America in 2008, “First and foremost every Catholic educational institution is a place to encounter the living God, Who in Jesus Christ reveals His transforming love and truth.”
Students attending a Catholic college should have the opportunity to fall in love with the truth. In the classroom, professors can facilitate this by ensuring the balance of faith and reason, but a Catholic college’s duty to students does not end with intellectual formation. Students spend the majority of their time outside the classroom.
For this reason, residence life policies are of paramount importance. A healthy campus culture gives students the atmosphere necessary to excel in their studies and form good friendships. At a Catholic college, the campus residences should be an environment to grow in virtue. But this ideal is far from the norm at the majority of Catholic colleges throughout the U.S.
Catholic teaching reserves sexual intimacy for marriage. It also bids us to avoid the near occasion of sin. How can we hold these beliefs, yet continue to invite young men and women into each other’s bedrooms late into the night, behind closed doors?
It is our hope that more Catholic college leaders will take to heart the Church’s call to help students encounter Christ on campus, by giving them a healthy campus experience that helps them grow in virtue and holiness.
Editor’s note: Pictured above are dorm rooms designated for LGBT students at the University of San Francisco.
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By Adam Wilson
Adam Wilson is Communications Director for The Cardinal Newman Society and author of the report, Visitation Policies at U.S. Catholic Colleges.
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CSB grads rank #3 nationally on 2011 CPA exams
By Barbara Hein
It was an unusual sound coming from the halls of the Accounting and Finance Department at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University recently. The chair of the department was heard to say "whoohoo!" Why all the cheers and clapping?
The results had been announced for the 'Best-Performing Accounting Programs' of 2011 and CSB is ranked number three in the United States, according to the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). The NASBA annually reviews the results of all first-time Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exams taken.
"We have a history of out-performing — by a strong measure — national averages at CSB and SJU," said Mary Jepperson, chair of the CSB/SJU Accounting and Finance Department. "In the three years prior to 2011, our average pass rate for the two schools for all candidates (first-time and repeat) was about 60 percent. The national rankings are based on first-time candidates and the 2011 group performed exceptionally well."
In 2011, CSB had 14 first-time CPA test takes with a pass rate of 84.8 percent and an average score of 82.2. SJU test takers also performed well with 45 first-time candidates tallying a pass rate of 65.2 percent and an average score of 75.2.
"This is a strong affirmation that we have an excellent department and excellent faculty," said Rita Knuesel, provost at CSB and SJU. "I was absolutely thrilled to learn this excellent news. I am very proud of our students and the Accounting and Finance Department."
According to the report, the top five schools for first-time exam takers were:
Wake Forest University with an 88.4 percent pass rate
University of Pennsylvania with an 85.5 percent pass rate
College of Saint Benedict with an 84.8 percent pass rate
University of Virginia with an 84.7 percent pass rate
Duke University with an 80.8 percent pass rate
"We have long believed that a strong accounting and finance program nestled in an amazing liberal arts education is the best possible preparation for the work world — wherever our students go. This ranking solidifies the fact that the liberal arts is a good home for pre-professional programs," Jepperson said.
A home that may need to get used to more "whoohoo's" from its chairperson in the future.
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UPDATE: The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on PDVSA aimed at pressuring President Maduro to step down in favor of Juan Guaido. The sanctions freeze U.S.-based assets of PDVSA. CITGO will continue to operate as usual, but any money it earns will be placed in a blocked account, reported Voice of America. It will not be able to send any money to Venezuela.
Maduro said the United States is trying to "steal" CITGO from Venezuela. "I have given specific instructions to the head of PDVSA to launch political and legal action in U.S. and international courts to defend the property and assets of CITGO," he said on Venezuelan television.
“The United States is holding accountable those responsible for Venezuela’s tragic decline, and will continue to use the full suite of its diplomatic and economic tools to support Interim President Juan Guaidó, the National Assembly and the Venezuelan people’s efforts to restore their democracy,” Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said in a press conference. “Today’s [sanctions] will help prevent further diverting of Venezuela’s assets by Maduro and preserve these assets for the people of Venezuela. The path to sanctions relief for PDVSA is through the expeditious transfer of control to the interim president or a subsequent, democratically elected government.”
PDVSA has ordered customers with tankers waiting to load Venezuelan crude bound for the United States to prepay for the cargoes or leave the ports. CITGO, San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp. and San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corp. are the three largest buyers of Venezuelan crude in the United States.
HOUSTON -- Juan Guaido, the head of the opposition-controlled congress who has proclaimed himself president of Venezuela, is considering naming a new team to lead U.S. refiner CITGO Petroleum Corp., the country’s most important foreign asset, reported Reuters. But President Nicolas Maduro said in the capital of Caracas on Jan. 25 that his government would seek to defend the refiner, raising the prospect that CITGO, run by Maduro appointees, could become a battleground between the two claimants to the politically and economically unstable country’s leadership.
Houston-based CITGO is owned by CITGO Holding Inc., a subsidiary of Venezuela’s Caracas-based state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA). Through CITGO’s refineries in Corpus Christi, Texas, Lake Charles, La., and Lemont, Ill., the Venezuelan government is the largest foreign owner of U.S. domestic refinery capacity. The refineries account for about 4% of domestic fuel capacity and are major suppliers of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel through a network of pipelines and terminals across 24 states. Independent CITGO-branded retail marketers sell motor fuels through about 6,000 gas stations and convenience stores in 30 states.
CITGO is preparing to block efforts for its board to be removed and its revenues diverted to an opposition government, sources close to the talks told the news agency.
"CITGO is the property of the Venezuelan state," Maduro said. The OPEC-member country plans to continue selling oil to the United States, its first destination for crude exports and PDVSA’s largest source of cash, he said.
CITGO President Asdrubal Chavez has been called to meetings in Caracas, according to those sources. He is the cousin of late President Hugo Chavez. In November 2017, Maduro had six top CITGO executives, including the acting president, arrested in Venezuela allegedly on corruption charges and installed Chavez as president of CITGO in the United States.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Jan. 25 issued a statement on Venezuela: “This week, President Trump recognized Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela. Diplomatic and economic relations between the United States and Venezuela must be consistent with the United States’ recognition of Juan Guaido and the National Assembly. The United States will use its economic and diplomatic tools to ensure that commercial transactions by the Venezuelan government, including those involving its state-owned enterprises and international reserves, are consistent with this recognition.”
A CITGO vice president traveled to Washington earlier this month for talks on the company's future, the sources added.
"CITGO is registered in Delaware. It belongs to Venezuela, which now has two presidents. The United States only recognizes one, but that is not the one who appointed people at CITGO's board," one of the sources told Reuters.
The White House has been exploring ways to redirect oil revenues to the opposition, said the report.
In November 2018, Venezuela settled a $1.2 billion claim in a deal that prevented a creditor from gaining control of CITGO.
CITGO did not respond to a CSP Daily News request for comment by posting time.
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Pair charged in carjacking and armed robbery spree
Prosecutors charged Maruis Edward Robinson, 31, and Kevin Terrell Edwards, 28, both of Detroit, in a series of carjackings and armed robberies
Pair charged in carjacking and armed robbery spree Prosecutors charged Maruis Edward Robinson, 31, and Kevin Terrell Edwards, 28, both of Detroit, in a series of carjackings and armed robberies Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2019/05/16/pair-charged-carjacking-and-armed-robbery-spree/3694050002/
Oralandar Brand-Williams, The Detroit News Published 1:40 p.m. ET May 16, 2019 | Updated 4:34 p.m. ET May 16, 2019
Maruis Robinson (Photo: Detroit Police Department)
Two men were charged Thursday in connection with a carjacking and armed robbery spree that ended earlier this week.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Maruis Edward Robinson, 31, and Kevin Terrell Edwards, 28, both of Detroit, in a series of carjackings and armed robberies that began last week.
The spree began May 9 around 12:45 p.m. when a car was stolen in front of a home in the 8800 block of Stahelin in Detroit. Four days later, around 8:40 a.m., Robinson and Edwards allegedly attempted to carjack and rob a man at gunpoint. The victim fled the scene without giving up his car keys, according to the prosecutor's office.
Later on Monday, Robinson and Edwards allegedly approached a woman in a parking lot in the 9600 block of Wyoming around 9:37 a.m. The pair produced a weapon and robbed the woman of her belongings and drive away in her vehicle.
Less than 10 minutes later, Robinson and Edwards allegedly approached another woman sitting in her vehicle in the 10100 block of West Chicago and robbed her of her personal belongings and her vehicle. About 15 minutes later, the duo allegedly approached a man as he was getting out of his in car near Joy Road and Greenfield and took his belongings and vehicle at gunpoint.
Kevin Edwards (Photo: Detroit Police Department)
The pair were arrested following an investigation by Detroit Police. Both were charged with three counts each of armed robbery, receiving and concealing stolen property between $1,000-$20,000; carrying a dangerous weapon; felon in possession of a firearm and eight counts of felony firearm.
Robinson and Edwards were arraigned Thursday afternoon before 36th District Court Magistrate Millicent Sherman. Probable cause conferences are scheduled for May 28, 2019 at 8:30 a.m., and preliminary examinations are scheduled for June 4, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.
Both hearings are before Judge Kenyetta Stanford-Jones in 36th District Court. Both defendants received a $300,000 cash/surety bond.
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Agency Workers
[Thanks to Louise Jones of 1 Temple Gardens for providing this case summary]
The Court of Appeal has handed down its decision in Muschett v HM Prison Service, where the Court considered whether the relationship of the Appellant, an agency worker, with HM Prison Service had developed into that of an 'employee', within the meaning of both section 230(1) of the ERA 1996 and the wider test in discrimination law, in particular that of section 78 of RRA 1976.
Where contractual terms are clear, as they were in this case, by an analysis of the elements of control, personal performance and mutuality of obligation in the work carried out by the Appellant (applying the Court of Appeal's decision in James v LB Greenwich [2007] IRLR 168), there is no need to imply a contract of employment. The application of the ERA test confirmed the Appellant was not an employee.
Further, because the Appellant had no contractual obligation to HM Prison Service to do any work for them, and because there was no contract between him and HM Prison Service, he had no contract for service in the context of section 78 of the RRA 1976: he was not an 'employee' applying the discrimination law test.
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Suspending Employees
When may an employer suspend an employee without breaching the implied term of trust and confidence?
When it has reasonable and proper cause for doing so, held the Court of Appeal in London Borough of Lambeth v Agoreyo.
A primary school suspended a teacher after two teaching assistants accused her of using excessive force against two young pupils with special educational needs. She claimed it was a 'kneejerk' suspension and thus a breach of the implied term of trust and confidence. She resigned and brought a claim.
The County Court held that the school had reasonable and proper cause for suspending her, and dismissed her claim. On appeal, the High Court held that it had not been necessary to suspend her, and therefore the suspension was a breach of trust and confidence. She appealed to the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal agreed with the County Court, and held there was no breach of trust and confidence. The correct legal test was whether the Head Teacher had reasonable and proper cause to suspend, and the County Court judge was entitled to hold that it did - a decision which could not be overturned on appeal. The High Court was wrong, it said, to seemingly instead adopt a test of whether it was necessary to suspend - that was setting the bar too high.
Accordingly the teacher's claim that her suspension was a breach of contract failed.
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Northampton mum creates support group to help her and others deal with effects of degenerative eye disease
Katie, husband Gregg and son Harvey
Tim Redigolo
A Northampton mum has set up a support group for people who suffer from the same eye disease after she found a lack of help or advice in the wake of her diagnosis.
During a routine inspection in June last year, the optician found some damage to Katie Berrill's retina and urgently referred her to Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.
Doctors then diagnosed Katie, 33, with Stargardt's disease, which means she will progressively lose her central vision, making it near-impossible to read, recognise people's faces and drive.
"It was a massive shock," she said.
"Because I always had regular appointments I didn't think I had anything wrong.
"Now I know what it is I realise it was affecting me."
Katie will still be able to use her peripheral vision, but over time she will lose her central sight though she won't go blind.
Stargardt's disease causes vision loss in the range of 20/50 to 20/200 on a standard eye chart while also making it hard to see in low lighting.
Katie says the effects are as if you were wearing glasses but had a drop of water permanently on the centre of the lens.
Gradually, more and more water drops appear until eventually your central vision is completely blurry.
"It affects you so much on a daily basis," said Katie.
The stay at home mum found it difficult after her diagnosis because she didn't have anyone to turn to for help.
She didn't know how quickly her sight would deteriorate, how to deal with the loss of sight or know anyone going through the same process.
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"After I left the doctors I wasn't given any support or advice, which is why I started the group," said Katie.
"It's for people in the UK to talk to others who are going through similar things.
"They now give me help and support, and tell me what things will be like."
Katie and her husband Greg have a seven-year-old boy Harvey and because Stargardt's can be an inherited disease, she took her son to the doctors to get him tested.
"Luckily he has less than one per cent chance of getting it," said Katie, who lives in Bugbrooke.
"He knows that mummy is losing her central vision and that I can find it hard to read to him at night."
Because Katie struggles to recognise people, she's also had to tell her son not to get upset if she doesn't spot him straight away after school.
There is no cure or treatment for Stargardt's and funding for research is lacking, but Katie hopes her support group could lead to fundraising events in the future as well as raise awareness of the disease.
The Facebook group can be found by searching its name UK Support Group for Stargardt's and other Juvenile Macular Dystrophies.
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Cleaning Own Agro Mess
October 16, 2018 DayAfter
Modi government has agreed to most of the demands of agitating farmers, but is it enough for the BJP to extricate itself from the agro mess it created in last four years of its regime
The Kisan Kranti Yatra organized by the Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) was called off in the early hours on October 3rd. Before that, the marching and agitating farmers had finally been allowed to cross the border at Ghaziabad and enter Delhi to end their rally at Kisan Ghat, their avowed objective.
Though a compromise appeared to have been reached, it has let more questions out of the bottle than it has stopped. We should first note that this farmers’ rally was one in a long list of such demonstrations. There have been a number of massive rallies during the pendency of this regime: there was a massive demonstration in Maharashtra organized by the All India Kisan Sabha, demanding, inter alia, loan waivers, which the Devendra Fadnavis government was finally forced to concede; there have been strong exhibitions of unity in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, the lattermost forcing the Yogi Adityanath government to announce a loan-waiver package; and there was the showpiece rally of farmers from all over the country ending at Jantar Mantar in Delhi in July 2017. The Maharashtra rally was held just a few months ago and succeeded in capturing the national imagination; many urban, middle-class people suddenly woke up to the issue of agrarian distress for the first time.
The 11 demands of the BKU-led Kisan Kranti Yatra encapsulated the demands of most farmers. Important among these were a remunerative minimum support price (MSP), loan waivers, a cut in fuel prices and power rates so that tractors and pumps could be operated at low cost and the implementation of the report of the Swaminathan commission, which was set up in 2004 under the renowned agronomist MS Swaminathan, the moving spirit behind the ‘Green Revolution’ in the late 1960s.
It has been reported that the government has acceded to ‘most’ of the demands, though there seems to be no public clarity on what has been acceded to and what has not. It has been suggested, though, that the demand for farm-loan waivers has been rejected, since it does not lie within the Centre’s sphere to grant it.
There is little doubt, if we are to begin with some basic background that the agrarian sector is languishing and agrarian distress is on the rise. It has been suggested that over 2,000 farmers are quitting agriculture every day. The growth rates in the agricultural sector are nothing to write home about either. A magazine, specializing in matters scientific and environmental, in a report says that while the 2004-14 period saw at 4 percent annually a golden run in the agricultural growth rate, it has plummeted since: it was – 0.20 percent in 2014-15; 2.10 percent in 2015-16; and 4.1 percent in 2016-17. This, despite two good monsoons.
The overall contribution of the agricultural sector to GDP was 18.30 percent in 2013-14, which fell to 17.40 in 2 015-16. Most of these statistics are taken from a report put together by the Dalwai committee, set up by the current government at the Centre in 2016 to find ways to double farm income by 2022. The suicide rate among farmers rose to 8,007 in 2015, up 41 percent from the 5,650 in 2014, according to statistics put out by the National Crime Records Bureau, although several ministers in various BJP governments attribute these suicides to reasons that have nothing to do with agrarian distress and the policies that has caused it.
It is in this context that we have to see the discrete elements that have pushed farmers from four corners of the country to converge in Bhopal, Delhi, Jaipur, Lucknow and Mumbai to demand their due. Let us begin with the issue of MSP.
Farmers have been demanding remunerative prices for their produce for decades. In times of scarcity and high prices, they are shortchanged of the profits they could have earned by middlemen; and in times of glut and low prices, they are often compelled to dump their produce either because it is uneconomic to take them to the market or to protest the lack of a viable MSP and robust procurement.
It was in this context that in the run-up to the 2014 elections, the then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi promised farmers they would get a much enhanced MSP – all costs covered and 50 percent above that. Unfortunately, like many of Modi’s fantastic promises, this one, too, has failed to materialize.
For four years, there was no action on this front. Neither did the MSP hike materialize, nor was the procurement arms of the government substantially strengthened. The Dalwai committee report says that in the past three years only 10-odd percent of farmers managed to sell their produce at MSP; in the past two years, 2015-17, farmers have had to sell bumper crops at 30-50 percent below the MSP.
Then there is the issue of the new MSP announced by Modi earlier this year. Agricultural scientists and agronomists point out that the new cost-plus-50 percent MSP is predicated on new criteria that excludes the cost of land, which used to be factored in earlier. According to the old formula, experts say, the hike effectively works out to just 13 percent for paddy. The attitude of the government was summed up by NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar, who dismissed Swaminathan’s recommendation in respect of MSP by calling him an ‘impractical man’. Moreover, MSP covers only 6 percent of farmers, the rest are left to be buffeted by market forces.
The BJP government at the Centre is equally dismissive about the waiver of farm loans. The Centre has washed its hands of any financial commitment in this regard. Though Modi committed himself to the waiver of farm loans in 2017 – during the campaign for the Uttar Pradesh elections – the lack of central support has meant that cash-strapped states have been left holding the baby. A number of states have, in fact, signed up to waivers; some under duress. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh are some of the states that have announced waivers. The lack of support has meant, in some cases, surreal outcomes, with farmers being presented single-figure cheques.
The Swaminathan report is comprehensive, covering issues related to land reform, ecological sustainability, agricultural marketing, MSP, rural employment, investment in agriculture and lots more. Arguably, no government can implement its recommendation in its entirety ever, forget in four years, especially given the way India’s political economy plays itself out, but some things were easily achievable, like proper, rather than cosmetic, action on MSP, procurement (the government’s policies have failed to take off in this sphere as well), or investment in agriculture to create robust infrastructure. As for the last, what do we have?
The BJP government assumed power promising to double farm incomes. The Dalwai committee suggested an investment of Rs 6.4 lakh crore to meet the target but the 2018 budget for agriculture has been increased by just Rs 4,845 crore which severely exposes the promise as just rhetoric.
All told, Modi’s government has done practically nothing to address the concerns of distressed farmers. There was a time when farmers who hit the streets were usually small and marginal farmers, or the landless, but big, rich farmers – the kulaks – have also started hitting the streets. And this has sent the government into crisis-management mode.
Farmers are par excellence an ‘election issue’ and the BJP, if no other party, understands that in its marrow, now that it is no more mainly a ‘bania party’. Take the Jats, for example. In Western Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and parts of Rajasthan, the community voted solidly for the party, enabling it to blank out the Congress in Rajasthan and get 7 out of 10 seats in Haryana, as well as 71 out of 80 in Uttar Pradesh.
But the Jats are now disenchanted. It must be a fair conjecture that many of those trying to march into Delhi on 2 October, were from that community. Then, of course, there was the massive and violent stir in Haryana based on the demand that they should be listed as other backward castes, which, again, possibly stemmed from the fact that their main occupations – farming and dairying – had been badly hit. Similar is the case with the once prosperous Patidar community of Gujarat, who are, or were, prosperous farmers.
Somewhere in the labyrinthine, number-crunching personal bureaucracy that supports the Modi dispensation, ably propped up by party president Amit Shah, the realization must be dawning that a disaffected farm sector does not bode well for the BJP’s electoral prospects. This is even more so because two surreal initiatives undertaken, or underwritten, by the Modi-Shah act have massively exacerbated the agrarian crisis.
One is demonetization, which coming, as it did, bang in the middle of the kharif marketing season sent an already reeling sector into an irreversible tailspin. Second, was the spate of draconian amendments to anti-cow slaughter legislation, followed by widespread incidents of ‘beef vigilantism’, which sent the bovine economy into a similar tailspin? Since the two economies must feed off each other for both to be prosperous, this double blow caused a grievous injury.
The question now is: Can the BJP retrieve the situation? The combination of Modi’s Teflon charisma and Shah’s incredible ability to pursue detail has been endowed by now with near-mythical powers, but, with the public mood bordering on the sullen; even the ruling deities of the ruling dispensation could find it difficult to extricate the party from the farming mess.
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Home / Maritime / Australia floats interest in quadrilateral exercise
Australia floats interest in quadrilateral exercise
HMA Ships Broome and Bathurst & Darwin during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2017, a join military exercise with key regional partners including Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Brunei, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Cambodia and the Federated States of Micronesia. Image via Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence.
Maritime and Undersea Warfare | 19 December 2017 | Reporter
Frances Adamson, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia, has reignited talks of Australia joining the Malabar naval exercise.
Speaking at a media round table while visiting India for the inaugural 2+2 Foreign Secretaries and Defence Secretaries Dialogue between India and Australia, Adamson said Australia is more than willing to join the exercise if invited by the other three participants.
"Australia, of course, stands very willing to join Malabar should we be invited to do so," Adamson said.
"But that invitation could only come from the other three."
The naval exercise was originally started by India and the US, with Japan becoming a permanent third member in 2015. Australia took part in the 2007 exercise but left after concerns were expressed by Beijing.
Australia's interest in the exercise has continued to increase as the strategic importance of the Indo-Pacific region becomes more prominent. However, India rejected Australia's request to join earlier this year.
"Australia has regularly discussed the matter of the Royal Australian Navy's involvement in Exercise Malabar with India since 2015," a Defence spokesperson told the ABC in June.
Defence Minister Marise Payne also discussed Australia's interest in joining the naval exercise during a visit to Tokyo in April.
"Australia is very interested in a quadrilateral engagement with India, Japan and the United States," she said.
"What form that may take is a matter of discussion between our various countries."
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Archives by date > 2019 > July > 9th
GPS III ready for Take-Off | Israel intercepts Gaza Drone | Polish Reapers relocate to Romania
Jul 09, 2019 05:00 UTC
DynCorp International won a $306.6 million contract from the US Air Force for aviation command and control and maintenance services. The deal includes air traffic control, airfield management and maintenance support in the Air Force Central Command’s area of responsibility. The Air Force Central Command’s area of responsibility also covers southwest Asia. DynCorp is expected to perform work until July 31, 2024.
Lockheed Martin announced that its second next-generation GPS III satellite is all set and ready for its planned launch on July 25. According to a news release published by the company, Lockheed Martin Space and United Launch Alliance (ULA) technicians completed encapsulating GPS III Space Vehicle 02 in its launch fairings at the company’s Astrotech Space Operations facility, where the satellite has undergone pre-launch processing and fueling since its arrival in March. This final step enclosed GPS III SV02 in a protective, aerodynamic, nose-cone shell. GPS Block III’s purpose is to keep the Navstar Global Positioning System operational. The first satellite in the series launched in December 2018. According to Lockheed, GPS III satellites will have three times better accuracy and up to eight times improved anti-jamming capabilities than its predecessors. Spacecraft life will extend to 15 years, 25 percent longer than the newest GPS satellites on-orbit today. In the next few days the second GPS III satellite will be mounted on a Delta IV rocket to prepare for the launch.
Local news reports that a drone, which infiltrated from the Gaza Strip was intercepted by the Israel Defense Forces on Monday morning. “A short while ago IDF troops spotted a drone entering from the Gaza Strip. The drone was shot down by IDF soldiers and then sent for investigation,” the military said in a statement. Israeli radar systems spotted the drone while it was flying over the border in northern Gaza and then over Kibbutz Zikim. An Israeli Defense System intercepted the UAV. The Defense Forces took pieces to further inspect its origin and what it had been carrying.
The US Air Force announced in a press release that it temporarily relocated its Polish MQ-9 Reapers to Romania, while the runway at Miroslawiec undergoes construction. The UAVs had begun flying out of Miros?awiec Air Base in northwestern Poland in May 2018. The MQ-9 Reaper is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that is employed primarily against dynamic execution targets and secondarily as an intelligence collection asset. With its significant loiter time, wide-range sensors, multi-mode communications suite, and precision weapons, it provides a unique capability to perform strike, coordination, and reconnaissance against high-value, fleeting, and time-sensitive targets. The detachment is a geographically separated unit assigned to the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, whose mission is to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in order to meet combatant commander objectives. It has not been revealed how many Reapers had been stationed in Poland and now Romania.
Saab received a $52.8 million order for the Carl-Gustaf man-portable weapon system. The company did not disclose, which customer ordered the weapon system. The Carl-Gustaf is a shoulder-launched weapon system used to destroy armored tanks with add-on armor protection, to neutralize landing craft and bunkers and to clear obstacles. It is also used to engage enemies in buildings. The recoilless 84mm rifle in any case is a lightweight, low cost weapon that uses a wide range of ammunition, which makes it extremely flexible and suitable in a wide variety of roles.
Japan’s Atago Class Guided Missile Destroyer completed its second round of sea trials last month, according to local media reports. The new ship dubbed Maya or PN 179 is right on track for commissioning in 2020. The Maya is the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force’s seventh surface combatant to be equipped with the Aegis combat system. The Atago Class ships are improved versions of the Kongou Class. The Aegis system used on Atago Class ships is more capable than that, used on the previous Kongou Class. The Atago Class has a 127 mm dual-purpose gun in a stealth-shaped mount. For anti-submarine warfare there are 2 triple-tube torpedo launchers for Mk.46 Mod.5 Neartip, or Japanese Type 73 torpedoes.
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Future GPS: The USA’s GPS-III Programs
Latest updates[?]: Lockheed Martin announced that its second next-generation GPS III satellite is all set and ready for its planned launch on July 25. According to a news release published by the company, Lockheed Martin Space and United Launch Alliance (ULA) technicians completed encapsulating GPS III Space Vehicle 02 in its launch fairings at the company's Astrotech Space Operations facility, where the satellite has undergone pre-launch processing and fueling since its arrival in March. This final step enclosed GPS III SV02 in a protective, aerodynamic, nose-cone shell. GPS Block III’s purpose is to keep the Navstar Global Positioning System operational. The first satellite in the series launched in December 2018. According to Lockheed, GPS III satellites will have three times better accuracy and up to eight times improved anti-jamming capabilities than its predecessors. Spacecraft life will extend to 15 years, 25 percent longer than the newest GPS satellites on-orbit today. In the next few days the second GPS III satellite will be mounted on a Delta IV rocket to prepare for the launch.
GPS IIIA concept
GPS-III satellites, in conjunction with their companion OCX ground control, system are the Global Positioning System (GPS) future. They offer big advantages over existing GPS-II satellites and GCS, but most of all, they have to work. Disruption or decay of the critical capabilities provided by the USA’s Navstar satellites would cripple both the US military, and many aspects of the global economy.
The time-based GPS service is the most-used application of Einstein’s Theories of Relativity. GPS has become part of civilian life in ways that go go far beyond those handy driving maps, including crop planting, timing services for stock trades, and a key role in credit card processing. At the same time, military class (M-code) GPS guidance can now be found in everything from cruise missiles and various precision-guided bombs, to battlefield rockets and even artillery shells. Combat search and rescue radios rely on this line of communication, and so does a broadening array of individual soldier equipment.
This DII FOCUS article looks at the existing constellation, GPS-III improvements, the program’s structure, its progress through contracts and key milestones, and extensive PTN (Positioning, Timing & Navigation)/ GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) research links.
MQ-9 Reaper: Unfettered for Export
Latest updates[?]: The US Air Force announced in a press release that it temporarily relocated its Polish MQ-9 Reapers to Romania, while the runway at Miroslawiec undergoes construction. The UAVs had begun flying out of Miros?awiec Air Base in northwestern Poland in May 2018. The MQ-9 Reaper is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that is employed primarily against dynamic execution targets and secondarily as an intelligence collection asset. With its significant loiter time, wide-range sensors, multi-mode communications suite, and precision weapons, it provides a unique capability to perform strike, coordination, and reconnaissance against high-value, fleeting, and time-sensitive targets. The detachment is a geographically separated unit assigned to the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, whose mission is to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in order to meet combatant commander objectives. It has not been revealed how many Reapers had been stationed in Poland and now Romania.
Reaper, ready…
The MQ-9 Reaper UAV, once called “Predator B,” is somewhat similar to the famous Predator. Until you look at the tail. Or its size. Or its weapons. It’s called “Reaper” for a reason: while it packs the same surveillance gear, it’s much more of a hunter-killer design. Some have called it the first fielded Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV).
The Reaper UCAV will play a significant role in the future USAF, even though its capability set makes the MQ-9 considerably more expensive than MQ-1 Predators. Given these high-end capabilities and expenses, one may not have expected the MQ-9 to enjoy better export success than its famous cousin. Nevertheless, that’s what appears to be happening. MQ-9 operators currently include the USA and Britain, who use it in hunter-killer mode, and Italy. Several other countries are expressing interest, and the steady addition of new payloads are expanding the Reaper’s advantage over competitors…
Japan’s Fleet BMD: Upgrades & UORs
Latest updates[?]: Japan’s Atago Class Guided Missile Destroyer completed its second round of sea trials last month, according to local media reports. The new ship dubbed Maya or PN 179 is right on track for commissioning in 2020. The Maya is the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force’s seventh surface combatant to be equipped with the Aegis combat system. The Atago Class ships are improved versions of the Kongou Class. The Aegis system used on Atago Class ships is more capable than that, used on the previous Kongou Class. The Atago Class has a 127 mm dual-purpose gun in a stealth-shaped mount. For anti-submarine warfare there are 2 triple-tube torpedo launchers for Mk.46 Mod.5 Neartip, or Japanese Type 73 torpedoes.
JS Kongou
The JMSDF (Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force) is working closely with the USA on missile defense activities. Air Force cooperation has also improved by leaps and bounds, allowing for much closer coordination with the USA in all aspects of operations – including missile tracking.
Japanese involvement includes modification and improvements to the SM-3 long-range anti-air/ABM missile. This weapon will form the outer layer of Japan’s ABM system, deployed from its current fleet of 4 Kongo Class AEGIS destroyers and their 2 larger Atago Class successors. The inner layer will consist of land-based Japan Self Defense Forces PAC-3 Patriot missiles, and together they will form the initial ballistic missile defense architecture for mainland Japan.
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Iowa caucus 2020: Florida mayor Wayne Messam says he doesn't need Washington experience to be president
"What does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?" Wayne Messam asked in West Des Moines.
Iowa caucus 2020: Florida mayor Wayne Messam says he doesn't need Washington experience to be president "What does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?" Wayne Messam asked in West Des Moines. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/04/30/election-2020-florida-mayor-wayne-messam-iowa-caucus-democrat-candidates-student-tuition-loans-debt/3622211002/
Brianne Pfannenstiel, Des Moines Register Published 11:41 a.m. CT April 30, 2019
Wayne Messam, mayor of Miramar, Fla. and declared caucus candidate, holds a town hall on Monday, April 29, 2019, at Fox Brewing in West Des Moines. Kelsey Kremer, kkremer@dmreg.com
South Florida mayor and presidential candidate Wayne Messam made his first pitch to Iowans Monday, telling a group of about 20 people at Fox Brewing Co. in West Des Moines that mayors are better suited to being president than senators or congressmen.
"What does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?" he asked. "Because the mayors are closest to the American people. We don't have the luxury to run away from our constituents in the grocery store. Whether we get enough support from the federal government, I have to make sure all the water is clean. I have to make sure our streets are clean."
Messam spoke for about 20 minutes and then took more than an hour of questions on issues like criminal justice reform, the Renewable Fuel Standard, immigration, water quality and whether the United States should pay reparations to African Americans.
Iowans pressed Messam about his relative lack of experience in Washington, D.C., particularly as it relates to foreign policy. He pushed back on the idea that the nation's commander in chief should have foreign policy experience, instead saying, "that is why presidents have a secretary of state, a cabinet," who can offer guidance and counsel.
Wayne Messam, mayor of Miramar, Florida and declared caucus candidate, holds a town hall on Monday, April 29, 2019, at Fox Brewing in West Des Moines. This is his first trip to Iowa after announcing his run for president. (Photo: Kelsey Kremer/The Register)
When pressed about what he would do to address partisan gerrymandering, Messam seemed to equate it with redistricting. He did not say what he would do to address gerrymandering, instead saying that the ability to redraw voting districts to ensure adequate representation must be preserved.
"Gerrymandering at its essence is supposed to be used to reflect the changing geography to ensure representation," Messam said. "But we know that politics gets involved and it’s used to benefit whoever’s in control. That’s the problem we have with gerrymandering."
Before politics, Messam started a construction company, and in 2011, he was elected to the Miramar City Commission. Messam now is the first African American mayor of Miramar, Florida, a city of about 140,000 people near Miami.
He is largely unknown in national politics. A recent University of New Hampshire Granite State Poll showed Messam at 1% in that state, and he has not been included on many other national or state polls.
Messam acknowledges he faces hurdles — "I need your help to get onto the debate stage," he said Monday, imploring the group more than once to go to his website, donate and help him meet the threshold set by the Democratic National Committee to appear in the party's primary debates.
But he's also defiant, offering a small jab to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who he says has offered a student debt forgiveness plan that "doesn't go as far as my plan."
"(I was) the first candidate to lead on this issue," Messam said. He said he chuckled when Warren offered her plan, noting that he has been talking about a one-time cancellation of the nation's $1.5 billion in outstanding student debt since he formed an exploratory committee in March.
Warren announced a plan to forgive most student loan debt and implement free tuition at public colleges and universities going forward.
"So it's interesting to see other candidates now beginning to start to put out a proposal," he said. (Bernie Sanders has also long advocated for free college tuition, as have other candidates.)
Messam said he would pay for the plan by repealing the tax cuts passed by President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.
He said he's running because of issues like access to health care, the rising cost of prescription drugs, gun violence and climate change.
Clay Pasqual, a 23-year-old Des Moines resident who asked Messam about criminal justice reform, said he liked the mayor's answer, which focused on things like mandatory sentencing reform.
"I think I've been to more than a dozen of these presidential candidates, so I just like hearing from all of them, hearing what their perspectives are on the issues and seeing them up close," Pasqual said. "I try to get selfies with all of them for my Facebook album. ... He gave some really great answers on all his issues he had."
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Phil Evans, 91
Phil Evans, 91, Montezuma, passed away Saturday afternoon, Jan. 6, 2018 at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center.
Phil Evans, 91 Phil Evans, 91, Montezuma, passed away Saturday afternoon, Jan. 6, 2018 at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: http://dmreg.co/2FeOI4F
Poweshiek County CR, powcr@registermedia.com Published 10:34 a.m. CT Jan. 8, 2018
Phil Evans, 91(Photo: Courtesy/Special to Poweshiek County CR)
Phil Evans, 91, of Montezuma passed away Saturday afternoon, January 6, 2018 at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center in Grinnell. Funeral services will begin at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, January 11, 2018 at the Montezuma United Methodist Church. Burial will be held in the Jackson Township Cemetery in Montezuma. Visitation will begin after 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at the funeral home with the family present from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Montezuma Methodist Church or the Montezuma FFA. Holland-Coble Funeral Home of Montezuma is in charge of arrangements.
Philip Don Evans, the son of Esli and Myrtle (Wiseman) Evans, was born on January 1, 1927 south of Sigourney, Iowa and was a 1945 graduate of Sigourney High School. Immediately following graduation, Phil was drafted by the United States Army, where he served as a Staff Sergeant at Fort Knox, Kentucky. After his honorable discharge in 1947, Phil went to Iowa State University on the GI Bill, receiving his degree in Dairy Industry. Phil moved to Cedar Rapids, where he worked for Sanitary Farms Dairy. On September 17, 1950, he was united in marriage to Lois Hinton at the United Brethren Church in Cedar Rapids. To this union, two children were born: Debbie and Don. In 1959, Phil and Lois purchased a farm in Montezuma, Iowa and farmed for over 50 years. Phil loved life on the farm and was very proud of his barn quilt that Don and Lisa made for him. He loved the Iowa State Cyclones and held season tickets for several years. He was a dedicated husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather and absolutely enjoyed spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Faith was very important to Phil and he was a member of the St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids before moving to Montezuma, where they transferred their membership to the Montezuma United Methodist Church. He was also a member of the Methodist Men, the Farm Bureau and Farm Credit Association.
His memory will be honored by his wife, Lois Evans of Grinnell; his children, Debbie (Roger) Iverson of Grinnell and Don (Lisa) Evans of Solon; five grandchildren, Amy (Phil) Oliver, Sara (Lee) Schroeder, Hilary (Jason Breon) Iverson, Erin Evans and Lance Evans; two great- grandchildren, Caleb and Bryn Oliver; and several other relatives and friends.
Phil was preceded in death by his parents and a grandson, Grant Philip Evans.
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TV star Tanner Stine returns to Valley
The 19-year-old Iowa native is starring as Oyster in Nickelodeon’s “The Thundermans.”
TV star Tanner Stine returns to Valley The 19-year-old Iowa native is starring as Oyster in Nickelodeon’s “The Thundermans.” Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: http://dmreg.co/1wa5KXf
Elaine Watkins-Miller, Published 11:00 p.m. CT Oct. 16, 2014 | Updated 11:02 p.m. CT Oct. 16, 2014
Tanner Stine, a 19-year-old Valley High School graduate, takes a photo with students at Jordan Creek Elementary School during a recent visit. Stine has a recurring role on the Nickelodeon TV show "The Thundermans."(Photo: Special to the Register, Special to the Register)
When Tanner Stine was 8 years old, he told his mom he wanted to be a movie star.
The 2013 Valley High School graduate is on his way to reaching his goal. This fall he is starring as Oyster in Nickelodeon’s “The Thundermans.”
Now living in Los Angeles, the 19-year-old Stine recently returned home to watch the premiere of his appearance in the TV show, and to stop by Jordan Creek Elementary School to have lunch with his younger brother, Dawson. He also visited his friend Abbie Kliegl at Valley High School. Stine also has a brother, Chase, who is a senior at Valley.
Coming back to two of the schools he attended growing up was nostalgic for Stine.
“The biggest thing I noticed is how much smaller it is,” Stine said of Jordan Creek Elementary.
Although Stine knew early on he wanted to be an actor, it was not his only interest. After being in plays at the Des Moines Playhouse in fifth and sixth grade, he changed his focus and started playing football.
“I love football and I still watch it today and wonder if I should have played football instead of coming out to L.A.,” Stine said.
He was a junior when Valley High School won the state championship in 2011. Stine said he has great memories of playing football, but it wasn’t easy. He worked hard to improve while playing second string for most of high school.
Things changed his senior year. Not only did he become a starter for the Valley football team, he competed in the IMTA (International Modeling and Talent Association) in Los Angeles, where he won junior male actor of the year and junior male model of the year.
Stine was signed right away with an agent. He began auditioning and got a part for one episode on Nickelodeon’s “The Haunted Hathaways.” He later auditioned for the “The Thundermans.”
“It was like a one audition deal,” Stine explained of his audition for “The Thundermans.” “They filmed it and the casting directors in the room liked what I did. A few days later they called and said you booked it.”
He was only scheduled to be in two episodes, but the show kept calling him back. He ended up filming eight episodes.
Stine also attends Santa Monica College. Looking back on his education, Stine said learning that hard work leads to success has helped him the most.
“I think that was the biggest lesson for me in school, learning that the effort you choose to put into things is what you are going to get out,” he said.
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2019 Season (Sophomore): Made 10 appearances on the mound with seven starts...Threw 39.1 innings and posted a 6.18 ERA with a 3-4 record...Struck out 28 with a K/9 of 6.41...Allowed only two runs in 13 innings pitched in the wins against Benedictine (April 8) and Edgewood (April 16)...Threw three innings of shutout work in the 4-2 playoff win over Marian (May 10).
2018 Season (Sophomore): Made eight appearances on the mound, including five starts…Threw 38 innings and struck out 21 batters…Posted a 2-2 record with one complete game…Gained win against Dubuque (March 14) with 6.2 innings, allowing three earned runs…Threw 5.1 scoreless frames against Rockford (April 2)…Tossed a complete game in a 12-3 win over Lakeland (April 21) with six strikeouts.
2017 Season (Freshman): Named to NACC All-Freshmen Team...Threw 24.2 innings and posted a 2.92 ERA...Finished the year with a 2-1 record...Collected two saves...Struck out 12...Threw 16.2 straight scoreless frames from April 23 through May 4...Tossed seven scoreless innings in a win over Lawrence (May 4)...Pitched 5.2 innings of scoreless relief and earned the win against Marian (April 29).
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Woman chokes back tears as she videos property vandalized with racial slurs
Jaya Saxena—
Screengrab via Mia Frias-Russell/Facebook (Fair Use) Remix by Jason Reed
She streamed the damage to Facebook Live.
Last week, Mia Frias-Russell woke up to find her property had been vandalized with racial and misogynistic slurs.
In a Facebook Live video from her home in Campbellsburg, Indiana, Frias-Russell showed the audience her shed and car, both of which had been covered in graffiti saying “N—-r” and “B—h.” Frias-Russell appears beside herself in shock and sadness, and you can hear her muffled cries as the camera pans across her backyard.
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“I don’t have any friends out here, so I don’t know who could have done this,” she said in the video, and mentions that the previous day she “almost got ran off the road.” She says the vandals also put sugar in her gas tank.
The police have been investigating the incident, and Campbellsburg Marshal Claude Combs said, “This kind of stuff is not right, it’s not tolerable, and when we find out who did it, they will be charged criminally.”
The Daily Dot has reached out to Frias-Russell about the incident, but haven’t heard back as of this posting. Her video has had nearly six million views on Facebook, and she’s received an outpouring of support. On Facebook, she posted a photo of a flower bouquet sent from a well-wisher in California.
Brandi Nicole Dimas, who identifies herself as a friend of Frias-Russell’s, has also started a GoFundMe campaign for Frias-Russell, to help her move and get a new car. Dimas says Frias-Russell recently moved with her three kids to Campbellsburg “in hopes to raise her children in a better community,” but now she hopes she can use the money to “get out of that racist town.”
Some are accusing the incident of being a scam, even going so far as to suggest Frias-Russell staged the entire thing. Multiple people commented with a link to a Facebook video made by a woman named Antonia D. Bridges, suggesting the contents of the video reveal a different story, but that video is no longer live.
However, Dimas tells the Daily Dot over Facebook message that Frias-Russell was not looking for attention, and the video didn’t go viral until Dimas started sharing it. “They vandalized her house and her vehicle to no repair, and for people to accuse her of doing this herself is unreal,” she says.
Despite those few comments, Dimas says she’s otherwise been amazed by the outpouring of support. “I’m so happy that people are taking the time to listen to her story,” she writes. “Right now Mia is overwhelmed with emotions, good and bad. It’s unreal all the racism that is still around. It’s very sad and hurts my heart to know some people are full of hate without knowledge.”
Jaya Saxena is a lifestyle writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on women's issues and web culture. Her writing has appeared in GQ, ELLE, the Toast, the New Yorker, Tthe Hairpin, BuzzFeed, Racked, Eater, Catapult, and others. She is the co-author of 'Dad Magazine,' the author of 'The Book Of Lost Recipes,' and the co-author of 'Basic Witches.'
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Mexico hails arrest of second drug kingpin 'El Grande' as major victory over cartels
By Mail Foreign Service
Capture comes two weeks after arrest of 'La Barbie' Edgar Valdez
Mexican marines have arrested one of the country's most wanted drugs traffickers.
Sergio Villarreal, dubbed 'El Grande', is suspected of being a leading member of the Beltran Leyva cartel and did not resist capture when dozens of marines using armoured vehicles cornered him at a safe house in the central Mexican city of Puebla.
The raid yesterday afternoon involved 30 Navy marines, five vehicles and a helicopter. Villarreal has appeared on the attorney general's list of Mexico's most wanted and had a bounty of more than $2million on his head.
He is listed as one of the top remaining leaders of the Beltran Leyva cartel following the death of Arturo, who was known as the 'Boss of Bosses', and the arrest of bitter rival 'La Barbie', a former Beltran Leyva hitman a few weeks ago.
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Villarreal offered no resistance when he was arrested, along with two suspected accomplices. He faces at least seven investigations for alleged drug trafficking and organised crime.
'The capture of Sergio Villarreal ... is another of the federal government's continuing strikes against a highly dangerous criminal organization which is today badly weakened,' said Alejandro Poire, the government's national security spokesman.
Downfall of the American-born drug lord they call 'Barbie' -...
Mr Poire said the Beltran Leyvas 'had constituted one of the groups with the largest presence in the country', conducting operations in 32 Mexican states, including the capital.
Shoot-outs, beheadings: The desperate battle for power
The Beltran Leyva cartel was founded by four brothers Marcos Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo and Héctor. Trouble for the organisation began when Alfredo Beltran Leyva was arrested in 2008.
Then the death of his brother Arturo the following year splintered the cartel, launching a brutal war for control of the gang, involving mass executions and beheadings in once-peaceful parts of central Mexico. Carlos Beltran Leyva was arrested a few days after Arturo's death.
One of four men killed several days ago in Acapulco. The sign reads: 'This happened to you because you were working for Hector Beltran Leyva'
The fight for the remains of the cartel pitted Hector Beltran Leyva and Villarreal against a faction led by "La Barbie."
In July the decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge in Cuernavaca, a favourite weekend retreat for the capital's wealthy. Alongside was hung a message threatening allies of "La Barbie" and signed by the gang led by Hector Beltran Leyva. Hector is the last Beltran Leyva brother at large.
The Beltran Leyva brothers once formed a part of the Sinaloa cartel, but broke away following a dispute.
An indication of the problems they face is that three of the four main blows dealt to drug gangs in the past year involve Beltran Leyva leaders or operatives.
Villarreal offered no resistance when he was arrested mid-afternoon, along with two suspected accomplices.
The capture will strengthen the position of President Felipe Calderon who has faced growing unease that his campaign against the cartels is having little effect.
More than 28,000 people have died since he launched his crackdown on drug cartels in 2006.
Villarreal's capture is the fourth major blow delivered to drug cartels by the government in the past year.
First came the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva, the top leader of Beltran Leyva cartel, in a raid outside Mexico City on Dec. 16, 2009. Then soldiers killed the Sinaloa cartel's No. 3 capo, Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, on July 29.
And on Aug. 30 federal police announced the capture of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie." The two men are not related.
While the security forces can boast of these recent successes several other drug cartels are firmly rooted around the country and use violence to control their smuggling routes.
Suspected drug hitmen killed 25 people late last week in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez in what was the bloodiest day in almost three years for a major manufacturing hub gripped by an escalating drug war.
In the central state of Morelos, police discovered nine bodies in clandestine graves Saturday in the same area where four more were recently found.
The Public Safety Department said in a statement that all 13 victims were believed to have been killed on the orders of 'La Barbie' in his battle for control of the cartel.
On Sunday, the military announced that it filed charges against four troops for the killings last week of a man and his 15-year-old son along the highway linking the northern city of Monterrey to Laredo, Texas.
Authorities have said soldiers opened fire on the family vehicle when it failed to stop at a checkpoint, though relatives who were also in the car say they were shot at after they passed a military convoy.
The mother and wife of the two victims was also wounded in the shooting.
A captain, a corporal and two infantrymen are in custody in military prison and have been charged with homicide, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Mexico's military was already under scrutiny for this year's killings of two brothers, ages five and nine, on a highway in Tamaulipas, a state bordering Nuevo Leon.
The National Human Rights Commission has accused soldiers of shooting the children and altering the scene to try to pin the deaths on drug cartel gunmen.
The army denies the allegations and says the boys were killed in the crossfire of a shootout between soldiers and suspected traffickers.
The scandal renewed demands from activists that civilian authorities, not the army, investigate human rights cases involving the military.
More recently, soldiers killed a U.S. citizen Aug. 22 outside the Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco.
In a statement to police, an army lieutenant claimed that Joseph Proctor, who had lived Mexico for several years, shot first at the military convoy on a highway between Acapulco and Zihuatanejo.
The Defense Department says it is investigating the claim, which Proctor's father, William Proctor, says he found hard to believe.
Drug 'kingpin' arrested in Mexico as government hails capture as major victory over crime cartels
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Harry Potter and the locations for hire
by SIMON HEPTINSTALL, Mail on Sunday
Last updated at 18:03 12 February 2001
Historic attractions all over England are gearing themselves up for a tourist invasion of Harry Potter fans.
The quiet, leafy surroundings of the National Trust's Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, the hushed cloisters of Durham Cathedral and the silent reading rooms of the Bodleian Library in Oxford are about to experience a commotion of visitors after being used as locations in the major new film version of the book.
J.K. Rowling's first story featuring the adolescent wizard, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, is certain to become the hit movie of 2001.
The Warner Brothers film features Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, alongside established stars such as John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Rik Mayall, Maggie Smith, Zoe Wanamaker and Richard Harris.
It is due for release in November, but we have discovered many of the major locations already. Harry's legions of followers will be sure to investigate many of them in advance.
Durham Cathedral Cloisters and Christ Church College, Oxford, were used as major parts of Harry's extraordinary gothic school, Hogwarts. The Oxford School of Divinity was transformed into the school hospital and the hallowed Bodleian Library became the Hogwarts school library.
The interior of the National Trust's Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire will be seen as Harry's school classrooms. Other scenes take place at Gloucester Cathedral and in the streets of Lacock village. London Zoo's Reptile House is used for the scenes in which Harry realises he can communicate with serpents.
But the most unlikely transformation took place in the grand interior of Australia House in Central London, which becomes Gringotts, the wizards' bank run by goblins, guarded by dragons and located deep underground.
But Harry Potter isn't alone. Leading film-makers are increasingly choosing British beauty spots as locations for even the most unlikely scenes.
The forthcoming film Pearl Harbor, about the Japanese attack on the American fleet in Hawaii, uses an airfield on private land near Bath. The soon-to-be-released Chocolat, the story of a sweet shop in rural France, uses locations in Wiltshire and Somerset.
They follow a long tradition of Britain being used as an unlikely but adaptable backdrop for films set in other countries.
The Three Musketeers, the classic tale of French swordplay, was filmed near Lostwithiel in Cornwall; Oscar And Lucinda, a story about 19th Century Australia, was shot in North Cornwall; and Water, a Michael Caine film supposedly based on a Caribbean island, used Hartland in North Devon as its location.
Invariably, when a public attraction has been featured in a film its attendances go up. National Trust properties used in Sense And Sensibility, such as Saltram House in Plymouth and Montacute House in Somerset, registered a 30 per cent increase in visitor numbers after the film's release.
Local councils in North Somerset are so keen to cash in on their areas' use for locations in a new film called Pandaemonium, being released this year, that they have produced a brochure pinpointing the spots where filming took place.
Pandaemonium follows the relationship between the romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, and the locations in this case are historically accurate.
This means that National Trust attractions such as Coleridge's house in Nether Stowey and the cliff path through Holnicote Estate can expect a surge in visitors, as can the Quantock Hills, Hestercombe Gardens, Watchet and Wookey Hole Caves - all clearly featured in the film.
The South West Film Commission, which encourages movie-makers to the area, has produced a free glossy map of more than 80 screen sites to make it easy for visitors.
Using it, you can follow in the footsteps of your favourite scenes from Love Story, The Shell Seekers, Blue Juice and Straw Dogs (Lands End), or the 1958 David Niven film Separate Tables (The Hotel Miramar, Bournemouth).
Travel facts The Screen Sites map is available from Tourist Information Centres across Britain or by calling West Country Holidays Information Line (0870 4420880). Details of it are also available on South West Tourism's website: www.westcountrynow.com. For a free copy of the Pandaemonium brochure, contact the Tourism Information Centre at Paul Street, Taunton TA1 3XZ (tel 01823 336344), or e-mail tautic@somerset.gov.uk For information about film locations across the rest of Britain, visit www.visitbritain.com/moviemap Alternatively the English Heritage Visitors' Handbook uses a camera symbol to indicate which properties have been used for film locations. For information, contact EH Customer Service on 01793 414910 or visit www.english-heritage.org.uk
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by: David Breakspear Within the tome, amongst the pages you’ll find, emotive words, from hearts & souls, of a younger kind. Unable to vote, yet parents they lose, Is something…
Wise Poets from the Present
Shirley Satterfield | June 1, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Man Who Elevated Rap Rap music, it seems that one either loves it or hates it, And I think that one is more apt…
Guildford Windley | May 30, 2019
by: Guildford Windley The Report _____________________________ The winds they’re a blowing The fog is a clearing The truth will be known You may hide behind the lies But the time…
Shirley Satterfield | May 27, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield .The Paper The scholar and the printer Work to put the Paper out; One strains every fiber in his brain While the other his sinewy arms maintain…
ArteLeonida | May 26, 2019
by: ArteLeonida Secret island in the shadow 😊🌞💗 like destiny like the end of a journey or a promise under the touch of a golden sky of heaven the pure…
Edgar Allen Poe: The Spooky Poet
by: Shirley Satterfield Edgar Allen Poe, born in January 1849, liked to weave tales of mystery and macabre. And he often delved into the inner workings of a sick man’s…
THE BREATH OF LIGHT
alexis karpouzos | May 25, 2019
by: alexis karpouzos We are the gleam of infinite, the breath of light, the spark of life, the chain of being, the circle of the sheres, the scales of creation,…
Original #crossbyte
Steve Cross | May 20, 2019
by: Steve Cross #crossbyte When you have doubts about the way your life has gone, instead of asking yourself “what if,” ask yourself “what now?”
A Lost Soul
by: Guildford Windley A Lost Soul __________________________ Oh, mother, I call to you My words are silent, my tears cannot flow It’s your lost daughter; I went missing two years…
James Joyce: Ireland’s Premiere
Shirley Satterfield | May 18, 2019 May 18, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield James Joyce: Ireland’s Premiere Artist James Joyce was born in February of 1882 the Irish city of Dublin and became one of the 20th century’s foremost writers…
All These Gifts
by: Shirley Satterfield Earth is a gift. Life is a gift. Art and Nature together are yet another gift. But all these gifts we so enjoy Will give way to…
A Look at Mother’s Day
by: Guildford Windley A look at Mother’s Day ______________________________ The sun peeping through the curtains hanging from the window The warm beams of light seeping into the sleepy bedroom Yes,…
Wise Poets of the Present: Nikki Giovanni
by: Shirley Satterfield Nikki Giovanni: The Voice of Triumph in the Aftermath of a Mass Shooting On April 16, 2007 there was an unusual sound ringing out at Ambler Johnson…
YOU WERE BORN
by: alexis karpouzos You were born with dreams and ideals, you were born with love and trust, you were born with potential and greatness. You were born with wings. Don’t…
Guildford Windley | May 9, 2019
by: Guildford Windley The Truth will come out ________________________ The days are of gray Long are they The nights are cold The silence last so long One day is just…
Thoughts of the Fisherman
by: Guildford Windley Thoughts of the Fisherman ________________________________ Tis morning first light As we make way through the swells The boat is rocking as the water breaks over the bow…
John Milton: The Great English Scholar Poet
Shirley Satterfield | May 4, 2019 May 5, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield John Milton: The Great English Scholar Poet Born in London in the year of 1608 Milton lived and wrote at a time when England was in political…
by: Guildford Windley The Lily pad ______________________ The Lily pads upon the water In a small pond, they float Like small clouds in the sky lazily floating by A world…
You That I Met
Mar'Kata Rhaimes | April 29, 2019
by: Mar’Kata Rhaimes It was you that I met, at the very time when everything seemed to have been lost. It was you that I met, at that moment when…
The Song that Beats within my Heart
Guildford Windley | April 28, 2019
by: Guildford Windley The Song that Beats within my Heart ____________________________________ The song beat in my heart Beats a sad note to hear The world that was so beautiful Not…
A WOmanaging Director of the Company
Yasir Sulaiman | April 28, 2019
by: Yasir Sulaiman A short story dedicated to working women: The clock struck 11 in the morning and everyone in the company was tense. Today was definitely going to take…
My Review of the book “Beyond the Absurd”
by: Yasir Sulaiman Amazing! This book has literally captured my imagination “Beyond the Absurdities”! Combining elements of horror, mythology and science fiction, the author has ensured that everyone will love…
Flying High!
by: Yasir Sulaiman Run oh rebels, wait no more! Forget those excuses you must Race towards your goal you must instead. Run my rebels, run immediately . Cross those boundaries…
Wise Poets from the Past
Shirley Satterfield | April 27, 2019 April 27, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield Langston Hughes:The Harlem Voice Prophetic Pain and Hope Born in 1902, Langston Hughes was a great American Negro poet who who flourished as a writer and an…
My Review of the book, “Still Loved…Still Missed!
by: Yasir Sulaiman I often forget how m any tales are hidden in each small moment of life. I often forget how lucky I am that I have my loved…
alexis karpouzos | April 27, 2019
by: alexis karpouzos Our heart is so small, almost invisible. It’s a blessing from the light, a touch of the stardust, a whisper of the infinite. Let’s give her a…
I DREAM
by: alexis karpouzos I dream that on day we will look at each other in the same way we look at the sun. and we will touch each other like…
My Review of book, “I will kill you in my dreams”
by: Yasir Sulaiman I will start my review with an ending line, “Once I started reading this book, I couldn’t put it down until I completed it!” Set in war-torn…
Building Hope
Shirley Satterfield | April 25, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield Hi Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin friends. Now while most people my age are preparing to die, I’m preparing to just begin to live and to live and…
Willie Willie
by: Shirley Satterfield .Willie, Willie such a paradox of a person. He’s a real nice guy, he drives a church van, cooks dinner for the saints on Sunday and shares…
by: Guildford Windley The Crash _________________ h the air we breathe The food we eat The water we drink The education that makes us thinks The places we work or…
Investment of Life
Yasir Sulaiman | April 22, 2019 April 22, 2019
Show love to nature around you so that it can give you more life…
To Mom With Love
A simple Poem I wrote in the past promising that her prayers for me will be answered……
I Feel So Small
by: Guildford Windley I Feel So Small ______________________________ One night as I looked up at the stars It occurred to me how small I really must be There up in…
Wish I could tell you
by: Yasir Sulaiman Come before me you did a lot, But words spoken between us were very few Close to me when you were not, Immensely, I still did feel…
by: Yasir Sulaiman Every individual alive today is known or recognized by a distinctive personality or character that he or she shows in his or her actions and the way…
She Is The One
by: Guildford Windley She Is the One _____________________ Feel the wind blowing in your face; it is her touch that you embrace Feel the rain as it falls from up…
by: Shirley Satterfield Emily Dickenson: The Secret Poet Emily Dickinson: The Great American Lady Bard Emily Dickinson was the mysterious recluse poet who, although her friends and neighbors deemed her…
by: Shirley Satterfield The Baptism Stumbling, Trembling, Faltering as I step down into the cold clean waters of death. Oh how I fear. Oh how I dread the chilly abode…
A Glimpse of a Dream
by: Guildford Windley A glimpse of a Dream ______________________ One glimpse of her eyes Makes my temperature rise Her movement is of methodic beat She sways in the wind and…
For The Babies That Never Were
by: Guildford Windley For the Babies that Never Were (Dedicated to my Sister the one I’ll never know) ______________________________________________ Life is so fickle No one knows for sure We come…
The Table of Light
by: Shirley Satterfield The mood was Pitch, The mood was Dark in this everyday Box-store hustle, And there was tension in the air During this everyday Big-store Tussle .. But…
Can You Find The Truth?
by: Guildford Windley Can you find the Truth? _____________________ What is a lie? It is not the truth Or is it Is truth really the lie and the lie is…
Peace, Harmony and Things to Come
by: Shirley Satterfield Dedicated to a very Special Friend Marilyn went to the School of the Birds And when she warbles out a note She keeps my soul afloat. She…
Mortal Moment
by: Shirley Satterfield My name is written on a graven stone In a lonely yard somewhere, But I’m not about to go Exactly right in there. So I’ll be glad…
Democracy Dies
by: Guildford Windley Democracy Dies ___________________________ The Day democracy died No one, cried for they did not know They went about their own way While those who tried to warn…
feelin Broken
by: Shirley Satterfield Spitting flys into the wind. Spitting flys into the wind. Thats what we so often do When we let harsh and bitter words Escape into our immortal…
YOU CAME IN TO THIS WORLD
by: alexis karpouzos You came in to this world with enough light to find your way out of the dark, enough kindness to save a soul, enough love to shift…
by: alexis karpouzos She’s real and dreamy she’s logical and mystical, she’s sensitive and distant, a warrior and lover. She’s fearless and gentle, wondrous and brave. She lives in waterfalls…
Who Will Cry
Guildford Windley | April 7, 2019
by: Guildford Windley Who will cry ________________________________________________ Who will cry for the Lark at the edge of the park? Who will weep for the willow in the far meadow? Where…
Freedom Blissfully Contained
Shirley Satterfield | April 7, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield Windchimes in a bucket Sitting on the sand. I love you my dear heart husband Let me take you by the hand. Married love can take you…
The Ecstasy and the Cruelty of Love
by: Guildford Windley The Ecstasy and the Cruelty of Love ___________________________________ The touch, the feel Of when you hold me, dear Of you being near, I need it so Your…
Where Oh, Where is the Report
by: Guildford Windley Where oh, where is the report ________________________ Now that we are here Where is the report Where oh, where is the report In the April part of…
The Tale Of John Bowls
Guildford Windley | April 2, 2019 April 2, 2019
by: Guildford Windley The Tale of John Bowls ______________________________________________ There was a time, long ago that a man name, John Bowls did live. His grave is over there, away from…
Guildford Windley | March 30, 2019
by: Guildford Windley She Is The One ____________________________ Oh those were the days, way back then I can see them clearly as the mist of time clears Yes, as I…
Necessary Critics
Shirley Satterfield | March 29, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield May God bless our haters, Our oh so lovely ego deflaters. We need them every one. They keep us grounded to the earth, Although they are not…
by: Shirley Satterfield Recovered I sit here fully recovered In the accomplishment He did for me at Calvary Hanging on a cross I’m at peace now As I count my…
Sing Africa!
by: Shirley Satterfield Sing to me, sing to me, Africa. I sure do need your joyful music today. And if I had a dollar and if I had a wing….
Truth Is What You Don’t Know
by: Guildford Windley Truth is what you don’t Know ____________________________ Once there was a man who wanted to be king Who thought he was everything He cheated and lied All…
Morning Dance
by: Shirley Satterfield Its my everyday dance That fitness stepper morning dance. How do I love thee. How do I love the way you make my heart prance. God is…
A Puzzle Piece
by: Guildford Windley A Puzzle Piece __________________________________ As I laid there in my bed Thoughts passed through my mind Like film strips of a movie, that was my life Each…
by: Shirley Satterfield Thank you God for my wonderful mind That rings out the many alarms Which shield me from the many harms That come my way. You are the…
Thank you God for my wonderful mind
by: Shirley Satterfield 1109 Noblin Ave.
A Tribute
by: Shirley Satterfield Kudos to the IT guy. He keeps the world in motion. He put the lotion in the ocean that keeps the people talkin all day long.
God is Still Good
by: Shirley Satterfield God is Still Good. Thank You God for giving me strength to breathe this morning and strength to get up after a bad night and fix breakfast…
Life’s Special Purpose
by: Shirley Satterfield What is life’s purpose I asked myself as I gazed at the morning mood, as the fragrance of a rose was about to make me swoon. I…
For Mental Health Month
by: Shirley Satterfield Don’t hate me Because you say I’m crazy. Its not my fault I’ve been abused, My love for others Been refused. I was just a child. My…
by: Guildford Windley A New Beginning __________________________________ It’s a time to love, a time to heal The pain that we feel So much hate, so much anger The evil that…
The Real Border Crisis
Guildford Windley | March 8, 2019
by: Guildford Windley The Real Border Crisis _______________________________ Confinement, a place to hold Those that you fear But, you say they are not a pen No cages do we have…
Beware of a Wishing Stone
by: Guildford Windley Beware of a wishing stone _________________________________ It was just back in June Sun was shining down Hot as hell it was We have been in this drought…
A Judgement is a Coming
by: Guildford Windley A Judgement is a Coming __________________________________ Gloomy days all of gray Clouds dark full of rain As they sail east in different forms In the mountains high…
The Game We Play
by: Guildford Windley The Game We Play ___________________________________ It’s in the wind the sounds I hear The cries of people everywhere For Justice and freedom We work and toil For…
A River That is Wide
by: Guildford Windley A River That Is Wide _________________________________________________ On a river that is wide Do we find a place to hide in the twist and turns as the river…
Reflections of Rejections
by: Guildford Windley Reflections of Rejections _____________________________ Reflections of the rejections Social needs, Oh we can’t pay for this Reflections of the necessities Security and war these are a must…
A Wish for the Day
Guildford Windley | February 25, 2019
by: Guildford Windley A wish for the day ___________________________________________ Kiss the winter day’s goodbye Let the warmth of the Sun come in Gentle become the winds Not the blow of…
The Road You Take
by: Guildford Windley . The Road You Take _________________________________ The road, you take has many turns You’ll come to a fork in the road Which way to go The road…
Song of a Con Man
by: Guildford Windley Song of the Con Man _________________________ Manufacture the lie Turn the truth into a lie Make wrong right before their eyes Confused all with your song Tell…
A Rainy Morning
by: Guildford Windley A Rainy morning _____________________________ The rain a taping on the window pane The trees swishing in the breeze The burst of the wind Gives you pause As…
A New Bright Day
by: Guildford Windley A New Bright Day ______________________________________ In the morning light, I see a new bright day In the eyes of a curious child, I see a new bright…
Follow Your Rainbow
by: Guildford Windley Follow your rainbow ____________________ Look to the rainbow When the storm has passed Watch the sunrise After the long cold night The smell of the fresh scent…
by: Guildford Windley What is Love? ________________________________ First person: I found you at last My heart was empty My soul incomplete You brought to me the love I sorely needed…
What Happen To US
Guildford Windley | February 9, 2019
by: Guildford Windley What Happen To Us _________________________________ Where oh where did we go How did we change so There was time We reach for the stars There was a…
Tears from My Eyes
by: Guildford Windley Tears from My Eyes _________________________________ Tears from my eyes Flow down my cheek The pain runs so deep My hurt is real since I feel I look…
The Wild Red Rose
Guildford Windley | January 31, 2019
by: Guildford Windley The Wild Red Rose ______________________________ I was six; he was seven when we met back in forty-eight It was at the playground at our school My friends…
New Dew
Shirley Satterfield | January 31, 2019
by: Shirley Satterfield New Dew on a morning leaf Seeking Him for now relief. All my prayers however brief Bring new Dew on a morning leaf.
Love a Never Ending Game
by: Guildford Windley Love a Never Ending Game _________________________ Tears of joy, tears of pain Love is a never ending game Take my hand, take my heart Hold me tight,…
The Definition of Madness
by: Guildford Windley The Definition of Madness _______________________________ What madness is this? That we see today What happens to the way it was? Where did it go wrong? Used to…
The Enemy from Within
by: Guildford Windley The Enemy from Within ________________________ The enemy from within He smiles with a grin He shouts slogans and promises Like he’s pouring whiskey for a drunken man…
Freedom, Dreams and Action
by: Guildford Windley Freedom, Dreams and Action ___________________________________ In righteous joy In righteous pain Each step we take May, not be ahead But in his name, we should persist For…
A Word About Truth
by: Guildford Windley A Word About Truth ____________________________________ Things go unseeing in the dark of night In the darkness, there is no light to see what there is to be…
Ron Dailey | January 16, 2019
by: Ron Dailey Please don’t leave me stranded Abandoned all alone For I’m just a little puppy In search for a loving home I’ll promise to keep you happy I’ll…
It’s a Small Quaint Southern Town
by: Guildford Windley It’s a small Quaint Southern Town _______________________________________ In a small quaint southern town They meant and fell in love But their love was not to be For…
by: Guildford Windley Cry Baby _________________________ Cry baby, cry baby, cry Pout baby, pout baby, pout Stomp baby, stomp baby, stomp Shout baby, shout baby, shout Oh, what a temper…
Samantha Leboeuf | January 14, 2019
by: Samantha Leboeuf After the storm, the sun rises again Life can be our enemy It can also be our friend We can keep a positive disposition And remain sunny…
Even Nature Speaks of It
by: Shirley Satterfield Cicadas emerge to sing joyfully for two weeks of endless fun. Its a two week splurge as they fill the earth and crunch under my feet so…
A Question of Why a Wall?
by: Guildford Windley .·A Question of Why a Wall? ______________________________ What do you do with your wall? People will say, why to build this ugly old thing Rather of steel…
Her Octagon of Death
Ron Dailey | January 8, 2019
by: Ron Dailey Building the perfect home Between two trees I’m as skillful as an acrobat With no need for trapeze Spindling weaving crafting Every threads in place I need…
Love touched me
Samantha Leboeuf | January 7, 2019
by: Samantha Leboeuf Love has finally touched me now In a way I don’t know how Inspiration took a bow Causing me happiness I wouldn’t allow Love has finally called…
A New Year Greeting
Guildford Windley | December 31, 2018
by: Guildford Windley A New Year Greeting ____________________________________ As I sit here pondering the past A year now at an end I see hope ahead, for I’m an optimist The…
Moments of One’s Life
by: Guildford Windley Moments of One’s Life ________________________________ As the leaves fall from the winter trees Life changes just a little, but do we notice As the river flows each…
by: Guildford Windley Emotions ________________________________ I cried little inside of me For to show emotion is weak Or so they say To stand there and take it like a man…
Mendocino Dreaming
by: Guildford Windley Mendocino Dreaming On a bluff above the rugged cliffs sits a sentinel overlooking the sea, the old white gazebos stands. For years on end, it sits looking…
That Sweet Ride Home!
by: Guildford Windley · That Sweet Ride Home! In the morning coastal fog one can hear the sounds of the ocean surf as it comes ashore. But on the road…
The Grave
Samantha Leboeuf | November 27, 2018
by: Ron Dailey It’s twelve minutes past midnight and you best be prepared for you can not be frightened nor internally scared As you look past those shadows from those…
Ron Dailey | November 24, 2018 November 27, 2018
A Fall from Grace
Guildford Windley | November 16, 2018
by: Guildford Windley A fall from Grace _______________________ Once there was a place Upon a lofty hill Where justice ruled The people of the world over Looked to this shiny…
She Wore a Ribbon of Red, White, and Blue
by: Guildford Windley She wore a Ribbon of Red, White, and Blue _________________________________________________ It was at the state fair, that summer day She had a ribbon in her hair, Red,…
The Clock is Ticking
by: Guildford Windley The Clock is ticking ______________________________ Tick tock, tick tock The clock is ticking Tick tock, tick tock The clock is ticking Our eyes, they are not focus…
Where Is The Heart
Guildford Windley | November 8, 2018
by: Guildford Windley · Where is the Heart ______________________________________ Where is the heart when there is so much pain? Where is the heart when the tears flow like rain? Where…
ALL FOR THE SAKE OF
leeschultheiss | November 7, 2018
by: leeschultheiss Here is a poem using the Daily Wisdom Word: BREVITY
leeschultheiss | November 7, 2018 November 7, 2018
So You Didn’t Vote
by: Guildford Windley So You Didn’t Vote _________________________________ So you did not vote, it was so inconvenient To busy were you, politics did not suit you Yes you know there…
The Cold November
by: Guildford Windley The Cold November _______________________________ Sadness falls to me, this November morn As the leaves fall from the trees, a gentle wind does blow The coldness of the…
Control Freaks
Shirley Satterfield | October 29, 2018
by: Shirley Satterfield Hear ye. Hear ye all ye control freaks. Learn to control yourself, chump and God will give you a city to rule. Abut lead by example, Sir,…
A Haunting of Emotions
Guildford Windley | October 28, 2018
by: Guildford Windley A Haunting of Emotions _______________________________ As I sat there in the darkened room At my desk was I, my only light was the flickering candles That threw…
by: Shirley Satterfield I am free now to love my neighbor as much as my Savior. There’s a holy flame burning in my heart. I forgave someone today and alls…
First Hello
by: Shirley Satterfield I’m a new member of this community and just stopped by just to say Hi. It’s nice to meeting such new and exciting writers. And I also…
kylecoare | October 22, 2018
by: kylecoare The rose I gave made it all worse the thorns that pierce and curse stick in veins so deeply lets the blood flow freely The flowers forced thoughts…
Aruban Sunset
Jacqueline Mead | October 21, 2018
by: Jacqueline Mead As the sun sets on another glorious day. All the colours of fire, come out to play. Red, yellow and orange light up the sky. Creating patterns…
The Torment and the Ecstasy that is Love
by: Guildford Windley The torment and the Ecstasy that is love _______________________________ The pain I feel deep within The walls that hold me back For the truth that I know…
How Do tThey Do It
by: Guildford Windley How Do They Do It ____________________________ How do they do it? This I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW For it sure not their people skills The things they…
johnv1957 | October 12, 2018
by: johnv1957 MORE More time to love More time to hate More time to give More time to take More time to accept More time to deny More time for…
Truth??
Laurie McKinney | October 10, 2018
by: Laurie McKinney What is truth? To a Child….. Love/Care glowing in Mommy’s eye Joy of giving a fresh picked flower Softness of a kittens fur Beauty and wonder of…
The Winds they are a Blowing
Guildford Windley | October 9, 2018
by: Guildford Windley The wind of change is a blowing Those mountains that seem too high to climb just a year ago Now seem to be not so tall The…
Precious Lord
johnv1957 | October 9, 2018
by: johnv1957 There are times in my life When I’m troubled, in strife And I feel like there’s nowhere to turn In those times I find peace And my troubles…
by: johnv1957 In this game of life sometimes you’ve got to take a chance You’ve got to move your feet before you ever learn to dance You can’t just sit…
You Can’t Make Someone Love You
by: johnv1957 You can’t make someone love you Their heart has to decide Persevere, take your time Let patience be your guide Show her that she is your world Be…
The Course of this Country
by: Guildford Windley The course of this country ________________________________________________ Where do we put women the Republican asked? Well, of course, they will say, women should do what old white man…
Laurie McKinney | October 5, 2018
by: Laurie McKinney I was drawn in by his sweet words His kindness that touch my very soul He danced with me in my dreams That beautiful sexy sway to…
The Woman 0n the Pier
by: Guildford Windley The Woman On the Pier _________________________________________ On the old wooden dock, I see her every day In her long gown of blue, quite the lady I would…
Todd McDaniel | October 5, 2018
by: Todd McDaniel Ambition is a fire of desire Flowing from the heart An attitude to aspire Until we all depart Applied in ones life Without greed or revelry It…
A Fish Name Abigail
by: Guildford Windley A fish Name Abigail _______________________________________ On my table in a room sits a small fish bowl just for her Its home to Abigail, she’s a fish, a…
The winds of October
by: Guildford Windley The Winds of October ______________________________________ October days they come to the coast The fog of the summer now disappears As the fall sky, fills with lazy clouds…
A Nation at a Crossroad
by: Guildford Windley A Nation at a Crossroad ________________________________________ In the misty darkness of the night As I lay in the security of my warm safe bed I lie there…
The Woman Took the Stand
Guildford Windley | September 28, 2018
by: Guildford Windley The Woman Took the Stand __________________________________________ On the floor, she spoke with courage It was like she was on trial The power of the red machine Tried…
The Judgement
by: Guildford Windley The Judgment _________________________________ In her eyes you can see the fear Her voice quivers with each word But she bravely tells her story While the old men…
Rainbows are everything
by: Guildford Windley Rainbows are everything __________________________________ Rainbows are everything When you hide behind an old gray cloud In a misty place where you hide the truth You stand there…
by: Guildford Windley That cold long winter is coming The Clock is ticking It won’t be denied! Guildford H Windley September 21, 2018
by: Guildford Windley The clock is ticking ____________________________________ September is in the waning Soft warm September days Give way To the autumn of the year The breeze is just a…
A Tall Ship upon the Sea
by: Guildford Windley A Tall ship upon the Sea ________________________________________ In the bay, there she sits A tall ship, a barquentine rigged and ready Out to the ocean I must…
by: Guildford Windley Robert A baby comes on the whispers of October bringing forth a new sweet morning. A child with bright blue eyes and a sheepish grin, that won…
DechoLee | September 18, 2018
by: DechoLee Wondering in a broken room Lost to looking back Doesn’t know a forward track Splash down Swimming in a cutscene of dreams Where did it go What seeds…
Butterflies and Flowers
by: Guildford Windley Butterflies and Flowers ——————————————- In this life Some people strive For wealth Some want fame To reach their dream They sacrifice everything Their work is their life…
Puerto Rico Pain
by: Guildford Windley Puerto Rico pain _________________________________ Hear the cries of the people The dead, not counted The propaganda The death count low But we know You don’t count brown…
To Believe
by: Guildford Windley To Believe ___________________________ The struggle within To reach for the sky The passion The drive Your heart knows What your brain is afraid to recognize Within you…
by: Guildford Windley A Family Affair ______________________________________ As I reflect back to the day It was not that long ago; but it seems like a million years One quick moment…
Gary Simmons | September 12, 2018
by: Gary Simmons I cry at night Wishing God would clear my life Lay openly awake And hoping He will listen while I pray at night Hope He hears me…
by: Guildford Windley In Remembrance ___________________________________ From the sky On that September morn Four planes Hijacked in the sky 19 militants Killed thousands Let’s not forget All those souls that…
by: Guildford Windley In a blink of an eye —————————————————– As I sit here in my chair On my porch Enjoying the night air I can look out into the…
A Story to Be Told
by: Guildford Windley A Story to Be Told _________________________________ Deep down within us Lies within us Our destiny Our reason for being There inside tucked away All our hopes and…
My Mother & I
Cassandra | September 10, 2018
by: Cassandra Wedge of deception Drew the lines Trusting Believing the words It was an empty bottle Drunk by Motives of insanity Drifting further On the open seas Years turn…
by: Cassandra Stowed in a dark closet Underneath toys and clothes Ability lay on the floor Always told Never smart or good enough Doubts and fears Crippled for years Grace…
Yes, It Only Takes One
Guildford Windley | September 9, 2018 September 9, 2018
by: Guildford Windley Yes, It Only Takes One _______________________________________ There comes a time When things look pretty grim When we are down Loss in the crowd No one knows what…
A Wild Ride To The Dark Side
Guildford Windley | September 8, 2018
by: Guildford Windley A Wild ride to the dark side ____________________________________________ In the midst of a fog Blinded by the shroud of lies The wild bunch Does its best to…
The Country has lost its way
by: Guildford Windley The Country has lost its way ______________________________ Where oh where do we go him here A country that is going down Lead by Putin’s clown Oh yeah…
Whispers in My Ear
by: Guildford Windley Whispers in My Ear ______________________ It never ends He haunts me so I try but he won’t let go All my hopes and all dreams, burn in…
by: Guildford Windley Shining Star In life we all have are difficulties Some more than others The barriers put in place By those who have advantages People that they hold…
by: Guildford Windley Addiction As I look out on the world From a place where I don’t exist I see things in new ways Lost am I here in a…
A Tale that is true(well almost)
by: Guildford Windley A Tale that is true (well almost) _____________________________ Well how should I begin, a tale I wish to share Now let me warn you that what I’m…
by: Guildford Windley Forbidden Love While walking down by the creek early this morn My eye caught a glimpse of some daisies growing nearby I picked a few as I…
To Debate a Point
by: Guildford Windley To debate a point ———————————————- To win an argument with someone You first should consider their side of the story For we must understand the others point…
Never Today
Cassandra | September 3, 2018
by: Cassandra Lovely figure Caressing the air With delicate fingers Stillness in her sanity All is a level field Calm before the waiting storm Not a sound spoken Wind will…
A Lost Love
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by: LEE SCHULTHEISS Here is a poem for the Wisdom Word LISTENING:
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Impenetrable fortress The temple of our love ♥️ Solid as it has been Against all measure of time. No gale can blow us now From our destiny Or deter us…
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Julián Castro would repeal illegal entry as a crime. Is that an 'open borders' policy?
Todd J. Gillman, Washington Bureau Chief
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WASHINGTON - Julián Castro has challenged fellow 2020 contenders to join his call to decriminalize crossing the U.S. border without permission. Most have -- handing a gift to the president and other Republicans who’ve insisted that Democrats stand for “open borders” even before all those hands went up in the first debate.
For progressives, scrapping that law has become a litmus test, a virtue signal on immigration in an era of family separations and threats of mass round-ups and deportation.
But it’s a more nuanced issue than came across when Castro used it to bludgeon Beto O'Rourke in the first debate.
Even some immigrant advocates say that it’s a bad idea to scrap one of the tools used to deter unauthorized migration. Enforcement experts worry about the message repeal would send, 90 years after Congress made unlawful entry a crime.
“It annoys me to no end when these politicians start throwing out these facile solutions,” said Sarah Saldaña, the former Dallas-based U.S. attorney and director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Obama administration. “You have it on the books and either you exercise your prosecutorial discretion or not, but at least it’s a tool in your toolbox.”
Advocates for restricting immigration fully condemn the idea.
Gang members can be charged with unlawful entry and removed from the United States even if witnesses to more serious crimes refuse to come forward. It’s a tool used against known drug smugglers and human traffickers nabbed at the border but not in the act of plying their illicit trade.
“It basically is open borders because there’s no longer a criminal deterrent,” Andrew Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, a pro-enforcement group. “Plenty of people speed but very few people drunk drive. Because if you drunk drive you go to jail. If you speed, you get a ticket.”
Last month, nearly 250 civil rights and immigrant advocacy groups sent an open letter demanding decriminalization and other steps to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the GOP minority leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
The groups demand repeal of a 1996 law signed by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, that boosted fines to $2,000 for a first illegal entry offense, raising the punishment to two years in prison, and a felony, for subsequent convictions.
Coleman Livingston Blease was a state legislator, governor and senator from South Carolina, and an unabashed white supremacist who, in 1929, authored the law making it a crime to enter the United States except at a port of entry.
(Library of Congress)
That was an update of a 90-year-old law: Section 1325 of Title 8 of the U.S. Code, which made it a crime for the first time to enter the U.S. except at a port of entry. A first offense was a misdemeanor. Re-entry after removal became a felony.
After a decade of robust enforcement, the law was rarely invoked, until 2005. Under the last three presidents, unlawful entry has been one of the most common charges brought in federal court.
It’s one reason for the family separation crisis under President Donald Trump, but not the only one.
Blease’s law
The law dates to 1929, proposed by a white supremacist senator who wanted to broker a compromise between forces seeking to close the border entirely and business interests demanding access to migrant labor.
Soon after World War I, Congress set strict immigration quotas, choking off the flow from Asia and Southern and Eastern Europe.
But employers in the Southwest lobbied to ward off restrictions on Mexicans, because farms, ranches, railroads and mines relied on these workers.
According to Kelly Lytle-Hernández, a UCLA historian of immigration and incarceration who chronicled the genesis of the law outlawing border crossings in a book “City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965,” employers also staved off restrictions by arguing that unlike immigrants from across the oceans, Mexicans often returned home.
That argument wore thin over time. By 1929, nearly 1.5 million Mexicans lived in the United States. Pressure in Congress peaked. And with entry fees rising, migrants were more apt to cross at unguarded spots along the Rio Grande and elsewhere.
Enter U.S. Sen. Coleman Livingston Blease, a South Carolina Democrat who openly defended lynching and whipping of blacks.
Blease’s idea was to make “unlawfully entering the country” a crime, funneling migrants toward ports of entry where flows could be monitored and adjusted. There was a racial tinge, in that the bill promoted the cause of those seeking to curb migration other than from Northern and Western Europe.
Congress enacted the law eight months before the market crashed, setting off the Great Depression.
By the end of 1930, according to Lytle-Hernandez, the federal government had prosecuted 7,001 cases of unlawful entry. The tally topped 44,000 by the end of the decade. The Bureau of Prisons built three new prisons to handle the influx, in El Paso, Tucson and Los Angeles.
Prosecutions fell sharply after Pearl Harbor. U.S. industries needed Mexican labor, and the statute largely fell into disuse. In two terms of the Clinton presidency, only about 14,000 cases were brought.
The turning point came in 2005, with President George W. Bush determined to jump start a grand deal on immigration -- and project toughness during his “war on terror.” Operation Streamline began in Del Rio, where the detention center had run out of beds.
There were over 16,000 prosecutions that year nationwide. Within a decade, nearly three quarters of a million people had been prosecuted: 412,240 for improper entry and 317,916 for illegal re-entry, according to a July 2016 study that relied on data collected by a clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
In 2016, the final year of the Obama administration - when Castro was in the cabinet, as secretary of housing and urban development - those two charges alone accounted for more than half of all federal prosecutions.
So, the trend pre-dated Trump. But he built on it.
In June 2018, his then-attorney general, Jeff Sessions, announced a new zero-tolerance policy, directing U.S. attorneys to prosecute all adults caught crossing the Southwest border without permission with illegal entry under Section 1325 - including adults traveling with children.
Since federal courts don’t allow prolonged detention of children, parents and kids would soon be separated, in large numbers - fueling the outrage that has made Castro’s call for decriminalization so popular on the left.
During the June 27, 2019, Democratic presidential debate in Miami, candidates raise their hands when asked if they would provide healthcare for undocumented immigrants: author Marianne Williamson, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.
(Wilfredo Lee/AP)
Democratic presidential candidate, former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of El Paso, speaks to the media outside a detention center for migrant children on June 27, 2019 in Homestead, Fla., the nation's largest center for detaining immigrant children.
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
In this handout photo provided by the Office of Inspector General, overcrowding of families is observed by OIG at U.S. Border Patrol Weslaco Station on June 11, 2019, in Weslaco, Texas. (Photo by Office of Inspector General/Department of Homeland Security via Getty Images)
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In this handout photo provided by the Office of Inspector General, overcrowding of families is observed by OIG at the U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station Centralized Processing Center on June 11, 2019 in McAllen, Texas. (Photo by Office of Inspector General/Department of Homeland Security via Getty Images)
In this handout photo provided by the Office of Inspector General, adult males are detained in a cell with standing room only, as observed by OIG at U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station on June 10, 2019 in McAllen, Texas. (Photo by Office of Inspector General/Department of Homeland Security via Getty Images)
MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 26: (L-R) Former housing secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) react during the first night of the Democratic presidential debate on June 26, 2019 in Miami, Florida. A field of 20 Democratic presidential candidates was split into two groups of 10 for the first debate of the 2020 election, taking place over two nights at Knight Concert Hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, hosted by NBC News, MSNBC, and Telemundo. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) ***BESTPIX***
Democratic presidential hopefuls Julian Castro, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, left, shares a laugh with Sens. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren laugh during a break in the first 2020 primary debate in Miami on June 26, 2019. Castro successfully prodded most of his rivals to join his call to decriminalized unauthorized entry into the United States, accusing one holdout, fellow Texan Beto O'Rourke, of failing to do his homework on the issue.
(JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Open borders?
The Democratic presidential contenders universally condemn Trump for mistreating migrants, separating families, “metering” the number of migrants who can request asylum and keeping them outside the country while they wait their turn. They all would end his blanket policy of criminal prosecutions.
Where O’Rourke and Castro differ, and where Castro accused his rival of failing to do his homework on immigration policy, is that O’Rourke wants to keep the legal deterrent on the books for use later, once Trump and his excesses are gone.
"I want to make sure that we retain some part of 1325 to criminally prosecute people we apprehend who are known smugglers, whether or not they're in the act of smuggling at the moment, or known traffickers, whether or not they're in the act of trafficking at the moment,” he said July 2 during a campaign stop in Ames, Iowa.
Some prominent immigrant advocates side with O’Rourke on this, among them Ali Noorani, executive director of America is Better.
Even if Castro isn’t advocating open borders, he said, “It lends itself to being painted as open borders.”
“We need to have secure borders, and there needs to be a legal disincentive to crossing the border,” he said Friday.
Juliette Kayyem, an assistant secretary of homeland security under Obama and now, chair of the homeland security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, argues that decriminalization is no panacea.
“Little of what is being done now by the Trump administration can be laid at the door of Section 1325,” she wrote in the Washington Post after the debate. “Not the interior enforcement efforts that have separated families; not the `dreamers’ waiting in limbo; not the wall; not the changes to asylum law; not the conditions of deprivation that children are suffering under this administration.”
Other federal laws, including a sister provision to section 1325 -- section 1326, which makes illegal re-entry a felony - that would remain under Castro’s plan.
And he vehemently disputes that his approach amounts to “open borders.”
“Nobody's talking about open borders,” he said last Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “We have 654 miles of fencing, we have thousands of personnel at the border, we have planes, we have helicopters, we have guns, we have boats, we have security cameras. ...That's just a right-wing talking point.”
But on the right, that’s exactly the argument.
“You take out 1325, there is no longer any sanction. We’d have to put you through removal proceedings,” which take at least 90 days, often a year or more, said Arthur, the Center for Immigration Studies fellow, and a former immigration judge and top lawyer at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. (In 2003, the INS was folded into new agencies at the Department of Homeland Security.)
At the least, he said, under Castro’s plan, immigrants would get “one free pass” to enter the United States illegally.
Shikha Dalmia, a senior analyst at the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank, lauded Castro for raising the issue.
“This proposal is a far cry from open borders,” she argued in a recent essay. “After all, being in the country without proper authorization would remain a civil--and therefore a deportable--offense.”
Saldaña agreed. As U.S. attorney in Dallas from 2011 to 2014, she rarely pursued illegal entry claims, though prosecutors along the border did.
Still, repeal strikes her as an unnecessary invitation.
“It could contribute to more people coming.... Anything that encourages [illegal migration] is a real difficult thing to support. There is a deterrent effect in criminal codes,” she said.
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Mississauga Based Rap Artist Saugasson Unleashes His New Video "Can I Live"
Saugasson is a young and upcoming hip-hop artist from Mississauga, Ontario. His musical endeavors consist of singing, rapping, songwriting, and producing. A complete act, Saugasson strives to be more than just successful in music, but also to be known as a multi-talented artist who cares about his craft, in continuous evolution. He is influenced by many artists, including but not limited to, Xxxtentacion, Drake, PartyNextDoor, Croosh and many more. As Saugasson releases more music, he shows growth and passion for both the music itself and the stories he tells.
Saugasson is currently working on his first album, “Miss Karter”, set to be released in December. “My sound has escalated, and been fine tuned. Filled with true feelings and experiences, I love each song I made for this album.” Live, Saugasson is known for his contagious energy, bringing the crowds to higher levels.
This multi-talented artist has just dropped the DOPE Marcus Letts directed visual to his single “Can I Live”, and we’ve got it ready for you to check out below. Regarding this new release, Saugasson says,
“My new release “Can I Live” was creatively directed by myself & directed/edited by Marcus Letts. The song has to do with the stress and issues i face in life right now. The hook is catchy and relatable for anybody who feels like life can be too much too handle and people seem to be pushing your buttons constantly. The song as a whole is for anyone who just wants to be able to live their life and succeed best they can.”
Watch “Can I Live” right now and be sure to connect with Saugasson on his website and social media. Also, stay tuned in to DCWS because we’ll be sharing our exclusive Q&A with Saugasson very soon!
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The Globe and Mail – Divorced dad wanted to stop commuting in his minivan, so he created the Elio
Divorced dad wanted to stop commuting in his minivan, so he created the Elio
SOURCE: THE GLOBE AND MAIL
LAS VEGAS — The Globe and Mail
The party line: A divorced dad of three boys, Paul Elio felt “ridiculous” commuting to work in his minivan after the kids had gone back to mom. So, with gas prices soaring in 2008, he conceived the three-wheel namesake, a motorcycle being manufactured to act like a car.
Pledging 2.9 litres/100 km highway/4.8 litres/100 km city, and a sticker price of $6,800 (U.S.), the Elio had been scheduled to roll out in the United States later this year, thereafter in Canada. Production’s been pushed to 2016 as the company looks for up to $185-million in financing.
Elio dubs his creation an “and car” – a complement opposed to a substitute to your SUV – meant for solo commuting while having the capacity to carry a passenger in a tight back seat. Slightly wider than half a Mazda3, the vehicle is equipped with a concealed roll cage and three air bags. Inside a stationary model on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, the feeling behind the wheel felt cockpit-like and low to the ground, as though sitting in an IndyCar. One unique, cool feature: a dashboard tablet dock, enabling your iPad to run the infotainment.
“I was talking to a guy with a three-year-old Maserati whose son was trying to persuade him to trade it in because infotainment sucks,” Elio, an automotive engineer, says with a laugh. “This way, your vehicle’s infotainment stays relevant.”
For those thinking the Elio is yet another – albeit strangest looking – creation to emerge from the hybrid/hydrogen fuel-cell/solar/plug-in movement, in fact the small displacement engine is gasoline-powered, a three-cylinder about the size of a lawnmower, being built from scratch.
The business model departs from the norm, too. Elio is to be sold in 120 strip-mall stores, Tesla-style, and be distributed from seven regional “marshalling centres”, Amazon-style. The bulk of the vehicle is to be assembled in Shreveport, La., at a facility where GM once built the Hummer, with options added at the distribution centre. There will be two models, one with automatic transmission, one manual. Customers may order options individually rather than in trims. “If you want the orange colour with automatic transmission, power leather seats and blind-spot detection, we can deliver it to you the next day,” Elio says.
Will this company succeed? Elio Motors cites U.S. Census Bureau stats indicating that more than 75 per cent of Americans drive solo to work, and unattributed information that 95 million cars on the road are on average 11 years old and getting 13.8 litres/100 km. So, theoretically, there’s a market. The company claims to have received nearly 40,000 pre-orders though, as of this writing, the next spot on the production line, No. 12,800, could be reserved online at eliomotors.com by committing $1,000.
As with the major manufacturers trying to sell $40,000 hybrids, America’s $2 per gallon gasoline may be zapping momentum from Elio’s word-of-mouth/social-media movement. More problematically, while Geico is already offering insurance, states classifying it as a motorcycle may require the driver to wear a helmet, according to various reports.
Looks: The front wheels extend from the nose like a crocodile’s legs and the aerodynamic body is shaped like a bloated cucumber. With this vehicle, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Interior: A tablet dock lets drivers plug an iPad into the dashboard for personal entertainment. Change tablets? No problem, the system adjusts. The dashboard lighting can be adjusted to a colour of preference. The front is designed to accommodate a 6-foot-1, 220-pound person. There’s room for your dog in the back but a medium-sized adult would feel his head pinched against the ceiling.
Performance: Elio commissioned German company IAV to develop a new 0.9-litre, three-cylinder internal combustion engine, which is to be demonstrated in Plymouth, Mich., on Feb 6. IAV developed several components to suit the Elio including the cylinder block, cylinder heads, CAM cover, front cover, oil pan, crankshaft, camshaft, valve train, pistons, connecting rods, bearings and water pump. The emphasis is on manufacturing simplicity and fuel efficiency. Elio claims the vehicle will go from 0-to-100 km/h in less than 10 seconds with top speed greater than 160 km/h.
Technology: Standard features include power windows and locks, three air bags, one auxiliary port, ABS and traction control. A 30-litre tank feeds the engine.
Cargo: There’s room for and a couple of grocery bags in the trunk. Fold down the back seat, there’s room to squeeze a set of golf clubs, maybe a hockey bag.
https://www.eliomotors.com/the-globe-and-mail-divorced-dad-wanted-to-stop-commuting-in-his-minivan-so-he-created-the-elio/
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USDOS – US Department of State
2018 Report on International Religious Freedom: Angola
The constitution defines the state as secular, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides for freedom of religion. The religious freedom law requires religious groups to seek government recognition by meeting legally established criteria. There are 81 recognized religious groups and more than 1,000 unrecognized religious groups. The government has not recognized any new religious groups since passage in 2004 of a law that requires religious groups to have at least 100,000 citizens as members. On October 16, the government issued a joint executive decree mandating that all unregistered religious groups operating in the country submit registration documents within 30 days or the government would force them to cease operations. The decree superseded a 2015 government circular permitting unregistered religious groups to incorporate within ecumenical associations, which the decree abolished. At year’s end, according to the Ministry of Culture, which oversees the registration process, 94 unregistered religious groups had submitted their files for recognition. On November 6, the government launched the nationwide Operation Rescue law enforcement campaign to combat criminality, including the operation of unlicensed associations. At year’s end, the government reported the closure of more than 900 houses of worship, including eight mosques. On December 1, the Order of Evangelical Pastors of Angola protested in Luanda against the decree’s abolishment of the ecumenical associations and violation of freedom of religion. The government continued to state its concern about the proliferation of religious “sects,” some of which the government said exploited vulnerable populations. In President Joao Lourenco’s address to parliament on October 15, he reaffirmed the government’s commitment to respect freedom of religion, but stressed the government would not tolerate churches that operated solely as for-profit businesses and preyed on poor and vulnerable segments of the population. In July the Supreme Court invalidated a 2015 decree issued by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (MJHR) recognizing the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the World as the only legitimate Tocoist church in the country. The court ruled that it was not the role of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights to unify the different religious denominations in the country, but rather only to ensure religious groups obeyed the law. On December 4, activists asked President Lourenco to review the cases of four Angolan Muslims convicted in 2017 of preparatory acts to establish a terrorist cell and sentenced to three years in prison. Human rights activists criticized the convictions as politically orchestrated by the government and lacking evidence. The defendants said the prosecution discriminated against them because of their Muslim faith.
Some leaders of legally recognized religious organizations continued to criticize the proliferation of smaller, unrecognized religious groups, while they also acknowledged the need for greater religious understanding and interfaith dialogue.
Throughout the year, the embassy raised religious freedom issues, including long-pending registration applications and the drafting of the new religious freedom legislation with government officials. The Ambassador and embassy officials met with representatives of religious groups and civil society organizations and discussed their views regarding the government’s concern with the proliferation of churches, and also discussed efforts to promote interfaith dialogue.
Section I. Religious Demography
The U.S. government estimates the total population at 30.4 million (July 2018 estimate). According to the 2014 national census, approximately 41 percent of the population is Roman Catholic and 38 percent Protestant. Individuals not associated with any religious group constitute 12 percent of the population. The remaining 10 percent is composed of animists, Muslims, Jews, Baha’is, and other religious groups. While the 2014 census reported there were an estimated 103,000 Muslims in the country, one leader of a Muslim organization stated there could be as many as 800,000, including an unknown number of Muslim migrants mainly from North and West African countries. There are approximately 350 Jews, primarily foreign residents.
Section II. Status of Government Respect for Religious Freedom
The constitution defines the state as secular and prohibits religious discrimination. The constitution requires the state to protect churches and religious groups as long as they comply with the law. The constitution provides for freedom of conscience, religious belief, and worship, and recognizes the right of religious groups to organize and carry out their activities as long as they adhere to the law. The constitution permits conscientious objection for religious reasons, prohibits questioning individuals about their religious beliefs for reasons other than anonymous statistical purposes, and specifies religious rights may not be suspended even if the state declares a state of war, siege, or emergency. It recognizes the right of prisoners to receive visits from, and correspond with, religious counselors. The law establishes that conscientious objectors may perform civilian service as an alternative to military service.
The 2004 religious freedom law requires religious groups to register for legal recognition from the state. Legal recognition gives religious groups the ability to purchase property collectively and use their property to hold religious events, exempts them from paying certain property taxes, and authorizes a group to be treated as an incorporated entity in the court system. To apply for government recognition, a religious group must collect 100,000 member signatures from legal residents in at least 12 of the 18 provinces and submit them to the MJHR. The law also requires religious groups to submit documents defining their organizational structure, methods of worship, leadership, the amount of time the group has operated in the country, and that their doctrine be in accordance with principles and rights in the constitution.
On October 16, the government issued a joint executive decree mandating all unregistered religious groups submit the necessary registration documents or cease operations by November 4. The joint decree superseded a 2015 MJHR circular that established four ecumenical associations and required all unrecognized religious group to incorporate within one of the ecumenical associations in order to operate.
While the MJHR is responsible for registration and recognition of religious groups, oversight of religious organizations is the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture through its National Institute for Religious Affairs.
Religious instruction is not a component of the public educational system. Private schools are allowed to teach religion.
The country is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
On October 16, a joint executive decree revoked the 2015 MJHR circular, thereby abolishing the ecumenical associations and mandating all unregistered religious groups to submit within 30 days individual requests for recognition or cease operations. The government began closing churches in November after the 30-day period came to an end. At year’s end, the government reported it had closed more than 900 houses of worship, including eight mosques. By year’s end, 94 unregistered religious groups submitted their files for recognition. The number of officially recognized religious groups remained at 81. At year’s end, the government had not recognized any new religious groups.
Government officials at the highest levels continued to state concern about the proliferation of religious “sects,” some of which were alleged to have exploited vulnerable populations with limited financial means by requiring them to provide recurring payments or dues to worship or belong to these organizations. In President Lourenco’s address to parliament on October 15, he reaffirmed the government’s commitment to respect freedom of religion, but stressed the government would not tolerate churches that operate solely as for-profit businesses and prey on poor and vulnerable segments of the population.
The government continued not to recognize any Muslim groups officially or issue any licenses to Muslim groups to practice their religion legally. The Muslim community requested official recognition of its groups but was unable to meet the requirements of the 2004 law, including having 100,000 legal members and a religious doctrine aligned with the country’s constitution. In the past, government officials had stated some practices allowed by Islam, such as polygamy, contradicted the constitution. The Islamic Community of Angola (COIA) as well the Islamic Foundation of Angola (FIA) requested official recognition following the October 16 joint executive decree. According to COIA, there were 69 unregistered mosques in the country.
The Baha’i Faith and the Global Messianic Church remained the only two non-Christian organizations legally registered prior to the 2004 law.
On November 6, the government launched the nationwide Operation Rescue law enforcement campaign to combat criminality, including the operation of unlicensed religious groups.
Some religious leaders, civil society members, and media outlets continued to accuse the government of trying to coerce religious groups to align themselves with the ruling party in exchange for authorization to operate freely.
On December 1, there was a protest in Luanda against the closing of churches under Operation Rescue organized by the Order of Evangelical Pastors of Angola (OPEA). OPEA stated the government’s closure of churches violated freedom of religion and involved the use of excessive force and coercive power. OPEA also said police engaged in violence against pastors, some of whom police arbitrarily detained, and violated the sanctity of their churches. The leader of COIA said Operation Rescue violated the exercise of freedom of religion because eight mosques were closed despite the fact that COIA submitted registration documentation by November 4, in accordance with the new joint executive decree. Pastors in Lubango from the Church of the Christian Coalition in Angola and Christian Vision Church criticized the government’s failure to consult religious leaders before abolishing the ecumenical associations.
On July 24, the Huambo Provincial Court tried and convicted 32-year-old Justino Tchipango, deputy leader of the Light of the World religious group, and sentenced him to 18 years in prison for the killing of nine police officers during clashes in 2015 between law enforcement and followers of the religious group in Mount Sumi, Huambo Province.
The leader of the Light of the World religious group, Jose Kalupeteka, sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2016 by the Huambo Provincial Court for the killing of nine police officers, appealed to the Supreme Court, but there was no decision on the appeal at year’s end. On December 18, authorities transferred Kalupeteka from prison in Benguela to his native province of Huambo at the request of his family, which along with civil society had requested the transfer since his sentencing. Civil society groups maintained Kalupeteka’s trial and conviction were politically motivated and called on the government to open an independent investigation during the year.
On July 30, the Supreme Court invalidated a 2015 decree issued by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights recognizing the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the World as the only legitimate Tocoist church in the country. The court ruled it is not the role of the MJHR to unify the different religious denominations in the country, but rather only to ensure religious groups obey the law.
On January 8, President Lourenco announced the government would allow Catholic radio station Ecclesia to extend its signal beyond Luanda Province to other provinces. Radio Ecclesia submitted a request to operate nationwide in 2009, but the previous government never approved the request. During the year, Radio Ecclesia began to operate in several additional provinces.
Section III. Status of Societal Respect for Religious Freedom
Leaders of unrecognized churches criticized the October joint executive decree for terminating the ecumenical associations, shutting down places of worship, and detention of members of those congregations during Operation Rescue.
Journalists and human rights organizations criticized the conviction of four young Muslims in 2017 on terrorism charges and the 2016 murder conviction of Jose Kalupeteka, leader of the Light of the World religious group, arguing that in both cases the trials were politically motivated and marred by religious bias. Activists urged the government to reopen the cases.
Section IV. U.S. Government Policy and Engagement
Throughout the year the embassy raised religious freedom issues with government officials, including long-pending registration applications and the drafting of the new religious freedom law.
Embassy officials met with religious leaders and civil society representatives to discuss religious freedom issues and expanded outreach to religious communities. Embassy officials met with representatives of the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities and civil society, and discussed their reaction to the government’s stated concerns about the proliferation of churches. They also discussed the status of pending recognitions, the proposed law on religion freedom, efforts to promote increased interfaith dialogue, and the impact of Operation Rescue on religious groups. In August embassy officials attended a celebration of Eid al-Adha at a Luanda mosque, at the invitation of COIA. At the invitation of the Tocoist church, the Ambassador attended a ceremony at the Tocoist church. Embassy officers discussed religious freedom issues with representatives of multiple religious groups and organizations, including the Congregation of Christian Churches in Angola, Tocoists, the Order of Angolan Evangelical Pastors, Jesuit Refugee Services, MOSAIKO (a Catholic-based organization), Norwegian Church Aid, COIA, FIA, Chabad of Angola, and Radio Ecclesia, among others.
Jahresbericht zur Religionsfreiheit (Beobachtungszeitraum 2018)
https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-report-on-international-religious-freedom/angola/
Periodischer Bericht
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UNI-Europa Hair and Beauty and the European Association of Hairdressers' Employers (CIC Europe)
http://www.hairsaloneurope.com/
In the Communication, the Commission "welcomes the social partners' wish to pursue a more autonomous dialogue and to contribute to achieving the Lisbon objectives". That autonomous dialogue follows the process of social dialogue but the resulting 'new generation agreements or autonomous agreements' are not transposed into legal acts and therefore do not fall in the remit of traditional social dialogue. Autonomous agreements or new generation agreements are implemented by the procedures and practices specific to management, labour and the Member States. Code of conduct - "How to get along" - was signed by UNI-Europa Hair and Beauty and the European Association of Hairdressers' Employers (CIC Europe) on 26 June 2001. The guidelines emerged from the framework of social dialogue between unions and employers in the industry with the support of the European Commission. The recommended guidelines cover 400,000 hairdressing salons with a million workers in Europe and about 350 million potential customers. They are based on producing good working relations between employers and employees to produce well trained and motivated staff who will win and keep the confidence of customers. As a labour intensive industry unions and employers are also pressing national governments to help by keeping value added tax on hairdressing low. The code calls for a good working environment based on: profitability, fair wages and conditions, lifelong learning. A good working environment also depends on creativity and self-expression, says the Code, and wherever possible on job rotation and job enrichment. The guidelines also include general principles which cover child labour, reconciling family and professional life and the rights to join unions and collective bargaining.
Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG: EMPL
EMPL F.1.
Legislative Act
Articles 154 and 155 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Code of Conduct: Guidelines for European Hairdressers
Less than EU + third countries
Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Slovakia
Code of conduct (EU social dialogue text) http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/dsw/dspMain.do?lang=en. The EU social partners pursued an autonomous dialogue following the process of social dialogue but resulting in 'new generation agreements or autonomous agreements'. These are not transposed into legal acts and therefore do not fall in the remit of traditional social dialogue. Autonomous agreements or new generation agreements are implemented by the procedures and practices specific to management, labour and the Member States.
Level(s) at which private rules should be defined and applied:
European Commission yes
While respecting the principle of the autonomy of the social partners, the Commission will publish autonomous agreements and inform the European Parliament and the Council after undertaking an ex-ante assessment as it does for Article 139(2) agreements to be implemented by Council decision. Commission may also monitor the agreements ex post. Upon the expiry of the implementation and monitoring period, while giving precedence to the monitoring undertaken by the social partners themselves, the Commission will undertake its own monitoring of the agreement, to assess the extent to which the agreement has contributed to the achievement of the Community's objectives.
Communication from the Commission, Partnership for change in an enlarged Europe - Enhancing the contribution of European social dialogue, COM (2004)557, 12. 08. 2004.
Articles 154 and 155 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European UnionCommunication: Partnership for change in an enlarged Europe - Enhancing the contribution of European social dialogueCharter (EU social dialogue text)
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/American History
By: Jon • Essay • 750 Words • December 18, 2008 • 1,124 Views
Essay title: Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was one of the influential founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States. Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence. This document was a major achievement because it created the framework of a new country declaring its independence from England. This new country being the 13 colonies in the New World, headed at the time, by King George The Third.
Jefferson's idea of the Declaration Of Independence was to bring together the best ideals for a new freedom, equality and self-rule heard Jefferson's fervent words directed at King George The Third (White 101). In doing, so Jefferson expressed three main ideas. The first one, Jefferson argued was that all men possess unalienable rights. Jefferson stated that these basic right included life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Jefferson's next argument was that King George The Third violated The colonist rights by passing unfair laws and interfering with colonial government (Thomas Jefferson inspiring writing). Lastly, Jefferson final ideal argued that the colonies had the right to break from Britain These strong declarations were to lead into the Continental Congress they were ratified, and became the Declaration Of Independence. July 4, 1776, the day of ratification, is considered the birth date of the United States.
Another importance document was that Thomas Jefferson wrote in his era was directed to the state in which he was born, Virginia. Jefferson introduced legislation designed to separate the affairs of the state from the affairs of the church. For example, in Virginia the government supported church had too much power in Virginia. Jefferson suggested that if was unfair for people to pay taxes for a church that most of the citizens of Virginia never went to (Nardo 71). In 1779, The Statue Of Religious Freedom was a landmark of legislation. Many of the other legislations were shocked about this idea. It was worth remembering that those time the idea of religious freedom was quite revolutionary, suppression and persecution was the reason the Colonies were founded. The bill passed with great opposition coming from those who saw the bill as an attack on Christianity. This bill cemented the idea of religious freedom in America, and gave individual the right to pursue their own spiritual and religious path. This marks the separation between state and religion. An idea still embraced and fiercely defended by our courts. Although Jefferson believed in god, he thought that the State should not impose a particular religion for individual, furthermore, the church should not be judge no person for the religion he or she chooses to follow.
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Thomas Jefferson In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty,
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 to Peter and Jane Jefferson. His exact place of birth is not known. But it is believed
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Young People, Like Ben Breedlove
By Deborah Mitchell G+ Dec 30 2011 - 3:44pm
By now, the YouTube videos left behind by 18-year-old Ben Breedlove, who died on Christmas due to complications of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), have been viewed by countless numbers of people around the world. This young man’s life was taken by a disease that is the most common cause of sudden death in young people (age 35 and younger).
What is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a relatively uncommon heart disease that strikes males and females of any ethnic group about equally, although there is a slightly higher prevalence among blacks.
While you may not have heard of HCM before, it is more common than many other conditions that are more familiar, such as cystic fibrosis, which affects about 1 in 3,300 people. The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association reports that the condition affects 1 in 500 people in the general population, and there are an estimated 600,000 people in the United States with the disease.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a hereditary condition, caused by abnormalities in genes that produce a protein necessary for contraction of the heart. In most cases, the condition is inherited from a one parent who carries a defective gene. If a parent has the gene, there is a 50% chance his or her children will have HCM.
While the muscle fibers in a healthy heart have a normal thickness of less than 11 millimeters, the muscles in a heart affected by HCM become abnormally thick. The excessive muscle growth can begin even before a child is born, while the heart of the fetus is still developing.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and athletes
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes, including high school, college, and young professional players as well. One example is Gaines Adams, a defensive end for the Chicago Bears, who died at age 26 from HCM.
In two studies of high school and college age athletes who died suddenly—one involving 160 cases and the other involving 134 cases, each covering a period of 10 years—the main contributor to sudden death from cardiovascular causes during sports was HCM.
Symptoms can vary from person to person. Some people with the disease never experience any symptoms at all, and the first and only sign for them may be when they experience unexpected sudden death during or after physical exertion, as has been seen among young athletes.
Symptoms of HCM can include
Lightheadedness, passing out
Because the symptoms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are like those of many other heart conditions, clinicians need to conduct certain tests to identify the disease. Among them are:
Electrocardiogram (ECG), which can show an abnormal electrical signal associated with a thickening of the heart muscle
Echocardiogram (heart ultrasound), which allows the thickness of the heart muscle to be measured. When used with Doppler, ultrasound can show an image of the blood flow in the heart and measure contractions and the filling of the heart
Cardiac catheterization, in which a cardiologist inserts a catheter into an artery in the groin, arm, or neck and guides it to the heart (using X-ray imaging)
How is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy treated?
Various medications, such as beta-blockers (e.g., atenolol, metoprolol, propranolol), calcium antagonists (e.g., diltiazem, verapamil), and anti-arrhythmic drugs (e.g., amiodarone, disopyramide) can be administered to relieve symptoms.
Other treatment options include surgical myectomy (removal of thickened muscle) or implantation of a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
Currently there is no cure for HCM.
For some people who have been diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, like Ben Breedlove, the disease severely restricts their lifestyle and can ultimately lead to an early death. For others, the disease is not as severe and they can live a fairly normal life.
Ben Breedlove and his silent videos about his struggle with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are a loud testament to the seriousness of the disease. Perhaps with greater awareness, more young people will escape the fate that befell this young man.
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Kathleen Blanchard wrote on December 31, 2011 - 9:37am Permalink
Breedlove's videos were heart wrenching. There are so many treatments. I do wonder about his chances for transplant, given his young age. Nowhere have I read that he had a defibrillator or other device.
Anonymous wrote on December 31, 2011 - 10:46am Permalink
In one of Ben's videos he says that in I think 2009 he had surgery for a pacemaker/defibrillator.
Kathleen Blanchard wrote on December 31, 2011 - 12:36pm Permalink
Okay, thanks. That makes sense, of course.
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Esteemed Actor Ricardo Montalban Dies
Fantasy Island's 'Mr. Roarke,' Star Trek's 'Khan' swatted away Latin
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Watch Montalban's exclusive conversation with the Television Archive about his life and career. Excerpt below.
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Watch full three-hour interview here.
Ricardo Montalban, the award-winning actor who starred in numerous feature films and became a pop-culture icon as the enigmatic Mr. Roarke on the television series Fantasy Island, died January 14 at his Los Angeles home. He was 88.
Beyond his prolific acting career, Montalban was a pioneering advocate for Latins in the entertainment industry.
The son of parents who had emigrated from Spain, Montalban was born in Mexico City on November 25, 1920. Brought up to speak Castilian Spanish, Montalban was teased by his schoolmates for the way he spoke.
This early experience was echoed in later years when, after moving to the United States, he endured prejudice due to his Mexican origins.
The youngest of four children, Montalban left Mexico for Los Angeles after graduating from high school. The move was encouraged by his oldest brother, Carlos, who had lived in Los Angeles and worked in the Hollywood movie studios.
Montalban studied English at L.A.’s Fairfax High School, where an MGM talent scout took note of him in a student play.
Although offered a screen test, he declined the opportunity joined his brother on a trip to New York City. There, he appeared in a short film that led to small roles in various plays.
He returned to Mexico when his mother became ill, but continued to seek work as an actor. He gradually broke into Mexican films, and eventually MGM sought him out again to play a bullfighter in the Esther Williams film Fiesta, much of which was shot in Mexico.
That film led to a contract with the legendary studio, and in the ensuing eight years he appeared in several productions with some of the biggest stars of the era, including Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Van Johnson and June Allyson.
But for all of his success at the time, a breakout role eluded him, perhaps because he was often typecast in so-called “Latin Lover” parts.
When MGM did not renew his contract in 1953, Montalban enjoyed success on stage as the star of a touring production of Don Juan in Hell that eventually went to Broadway.
In 1955, he appeared on Broadway in Seventh Heaven; a few years later he starred opposite Lena Horne in Jamaica, which ran for 555 performances and earned him a Tony nomination for best actor in a musical.
He also continued to work in films, including Sayonara and The Singing Nun, and in the mid-’50s he expanded into television as well. Early TV appearances included Colgate Theater and Playhouse 90, and over the years he appeared in episodes of dozens of series, from Ben Casey and Bonanza to Murder, She Wrote and Chicago Hope.
Years after appearing as the villainous Khan Noonien Singh in a 1967 episode of Star Trek, he reprised the role in the 1982 feature film Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.
In 1978 Montalban won a Primetime Emmy for his performance as Chief Satangkai in the ABC miniseries How the West Was Won. In the late 1980s he was one of the stars of the ABC series The Colbys, a spin-off of Dynasty.
But he is best remembered for Fantasy Island, which aired from 1978-1984. The Aaron Spelling production was set in a lush island paradise where guests would venture to fulfill long-held dreams—and inevitably faced difficult life lessons along the way.
Along with his diminutive sidekick Tattoo, played by Herve Villechaize, Montalban’s Mr. Roarke served as the mystery-shrouded host to the island’s visitors.
His other most recognized television role may have been as the pitchman for the Chrysler automobile Cordoba. In a series of commercials, Montalban extolled the vehicle’s “soft Corinthian leather,” which became an enduring catch phrase.
In 1970, Montalban organized fellow Latino actors into an organization called Nosotros (Spanish for “We”'), and became its first president. The group’s objective was to improve the image of Spanish-speaking Americans on the screen, to assure that Latin-American actors were not discriminated against and to stimulate Latino actors to study their profession.
To draw attention to the achievements of Latin performer, Nosotros established the Golden Eagle Awards, an annual ceremony dedicated to recognizing Latino stars, shows and movies. One of its honors is the Ricardo Montalban Life Achievement Award.
The Ricardo Montalban Foundation, formed in 1999, purchased the former Doolittle Theatre near Hollywood and Vine to stage Latino productions and renamed the theater after Montalban.
The Ricardo Montalban Theatre, Los Angeles, California.
While shooting the 1951 Western Across the Wide Missouri, starring Clark Gable, Montalban suffered a spinal injury when he fell from a horse. From then on, he walked with a limp, which he managed to conceal during his performances.
Further spinal problems emerged in 1993, when he lost the feeling in his leg, and subsequent tests revealed that he had suffered a small hemorrhage in his neck, similar to the injury decades earlier. He underwent nine-and-a-half hours of spinal surgery at UCLA Medical Center.
Although debilitated by severe pain, Montalban continued to act well into his seventies and eighties. He appeared in another Aaron Spelling series, 1994’s Heaven Help Us, as an angel. He also remained a familiar face in such movies as the 1988 release Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! and in Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003).
In recent years he remained busy with voice-over work, including episodes of the animated series Dora the Explorer, Kim Possible and Family Guy.
In 1998, Pope John Paul II named Montalban, a devout Catholic, a Knight Commander of St. Gregory, the highest honor bestowed upon non-clergy in the Roman Catholic Church.
And 1988, then-Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid gave Montalban the Recognition of Merit award, the highest honor bestowed on Mexican civilians, for his work helping to raise more than $10 million after the Mexico City earthquake.
From 1965 to 1970, Montalban was vice president of the Screen Actors Guild, which gave him a life achievement award in 1993.
Montalban’s wife of more than 50 years, Georgiana Young, the sister of actress Loretta Young, died in 2007. He is survived by two daughters, two sons and six grandchildren.
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In August 2002, Ricardo Montalban had an extensive conversation with Karen Herman of the Archive of American Television about his life and career.
He spoke of his desire to keep his name despite the Hollywood pressure to change it to “Ricky Martin" and of his early courting by Hollywood and his eventual signing with MGM.
Montalban discussed his appearance in one of the early “soundies” of the 1940s, He’s A Latin From Staten Island, described Hollywood's Latin stereotypes and discussed how he was not cast in Mexican roles, but rather more “exotic” South American “types.”
He talked of touring the country to promote movies—in the studios’ attempt to steer the public from television—and of the "truth in acting" he discovered through his acting studies with Stanislavsky disciple Seki Sano in the early 1940s. Plus, he recalled appearances on several “live” dramatic television anthologies of the 1950s, including Climax! and The Loretta Young Show.
Montalban described his recreation of the role of Khan from the 1967 “Space Seed” episode of Star Trek to the 1982 feature film Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, which required him to review his earlier performance to recapture the spirit of the part.
Plus, he spoke in great detail about the part for which he is most associated: Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island. He discussed producer Aaron Spelling’s concept, the use of Roarke in setting the stage for each episode, and the challenges of production. He also spoke of his well-known appearances as spokesman for Chrysler Cordoba.
He looked back on his founding of Nosotros, an organization to promote opportunities for Hispanic actors and to help eradicate stereotypical images of them in Hollywood. Montalban described the organization’s goals and how its founding caused him to be blacklisted temporarily from the industry.
See the full five-part interview with Ricardo Montalban here.
The complete interview is also available for viewing at the AAT office, located on the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences plaza in North Hollywood. Contact the Television Archive at (818) 754-2800 for more information.
To learn more about this life and works of this American Archive of Television personality online, please visit the Archive of American Television Update blog
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Home Arts Educational magazines Mascall, Jennifer (Wootton) 1952-
Mascall, Jennifer (Wootton) 1952-
PERSONAL: Born December 11, 1952, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; daughter of David William and Elizabeth Mary (Blair) Wootton; married John Macfarlane, July 13, 1984; children: Nicholas, Matthew, Tobias. Education: York University, B.F.A., 1974.
ADDRESSES: Home—1258 Haywood Street, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Offıce—1130 Jervis Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6E 2C7. E-mail—[email protected]
CAREER: Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, teacher, 1975; Independent choreographer, 1975-82; Mount Allison summer school, teacher, 1982; Experimental Dance and Music, co-founder, co-artistic director, and teacher, 1982-89; Mascall Dance, artistic director, 1989—; Nijinsky Gibber Jazz Club, director, 1990—. Served on Canadian Council Arts Awards juries, 1985-91, Canada Council dance advisory panel, 1986-90, Vancouver Dance Center board, 1986-87, and British Columbia Status of the Artist advisory committee, 1993-94.
AWARDS, HONORS: Three External Affairs grants; Clifford E. Lee Award, 1982; Ann O'Connor Award, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1982; Dora Mavor Moore Award, 1983; Jacqueline Lemieux Award, 1983; Jesse Award, 1988; Commemorative Medal, 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation, 1992.
(Editor) Footnotes, privately published, 1978.
SIDELIGHTS: Choreographer Jennifer Mascall is "known for her techniques of splicing movement and meaning together to make collages of contrasting references that communicate ideas and perceptions," according to a Banff Centre Web site contributor.
Mascall's choreography is a combination of ballet and modern dance.
In 1982 Mascall, along with seven others, co-founded Experimental Dance and Music (EDAM). She left EDAM in 1989 and founded Mascall Dance, in which she is also a dancer and choreographer. She published the dance-related book Footnotes in 1978.
Banff Centre,http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/ (April 12, 2002), "Dance Festival History—Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award: Jennifer Mascall—1981."
Vancouver Public Library,http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/ (April 12, 2002), "Mascal Dance International."
Vkool Communications,http://www.vkool.com/ (April 12, 2002), "Mascall Dance."*
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Home History Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodie
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Susanna Moodie (1803-1885), a Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist, is chiefly remembered for her classic account of the lives of early settlers in what is now the province of Ontario: "Roughing It in the Bush."
Susanna Strickland was born in Bungay, Suffolk, England. She married J. W. D. Moodie, an English army officer, and in 1832 they emigrated to Upper Canada (now Ontario) and settled first on a farm near Cobourg. In 1834 they moved to a backwoods area in Douro Township and cleared a farm from the wilderness. Capt. Moodie took part in suppressing the abortive Rebellion of 1837, led by William Lyon Mackenzie, and was shortly thereafter appointed sheriff of Hastings County. From that time on, the family lived in Belleville, where Mrs. Moodie did most of her writing. She died in Toronto.
Mrs. Moodie, several of whose sisters were also writers, had begun to write in England. Between 1839 and 1851 she contributed many poems, serial novels, short stories, and prose sketches to the chief Canadian literary magazine of the period, the Literary Garland. In 1847 she helped to establish in Belleville the Victoria Magazine and was its editor and leading contributor during the year and a half that it survived.
Mrs. Moodie's masterpiece, Roughing It in the Bush, appeared in 1852, and its slightly less successful sequel, Life in the Clearings versus the Bush, a year later. Since most of the sketches in the former book had been written much earlier and published as sketches in the Literary Garland, there is a marked difference in the author's attitudes in the two books. In Roughing It she is rather snobbish in her attitude toward less highly educated immigrants and settlers; in Life in the Clearings she has adapted herself more fully to the pioneer environment and become more appreciative of the virtues of her neighbors and acquaintances.
In both books Mrs. Moodie's best qualities are her accurate observations of the people and processes of pioneer life, her dry humor, her gift for striking portraiture of eccentric characters, and her sturdy common sense. She can make even the most commonplace event memorable by the honesty and shrewd wit with which she describes it.
Mrs. Moodie's poems and romantic novels—the latter include Mark Hurdlestone (1853), Flora Lyndsay (1853), Matrimonial Speculations (1854), and Geoffrey Moncton (1856)—are much more conventional in their form and content and are typical expressions of Victorian sentimentality, didacticism, and romantic idealization. Her reputation rests firmly on the two books of autobiographical sketches, which together give us the most convincing picture we have of how life in pioneer Ontario struck a sensitive and intelligent woman.
There is no book on Susanna Moodie. The best essays on her are in G. H. Needler, Otonabee Pioneers (1953), and Carl F. Klinck's "Introduction" to the new Canadian Library edition of Roughing It in the Bush (1962). See also Desmond Pacey, Creative Writing in Canada: A Short History of English-Canadian Literature (1952; rev. ed. 1961), and Carl F. Klinck and others, eds., Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English (1965).
Moodie, Susanna, Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada, Boston: Beacon Press, 1987. □
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Edith Marie Flanigen, born in Buffalo, New York (1929), and recently retired (1994), is one of the most inventive chemists of all time. She has earned 102 U.S. patents for her innovations in the rather esoteric fields of petroleum research and product development.
After graduating as class president and valedictorian from D'Youville College in Buffalo, and after gaining an M.S. in Inorganic-Physical Chemistry from Syracuse University (1952), Flanigen began a forty-two year career in research at Union Carbide Corporation and UOP, a joint venture of Union Carbide and AlliedSignal. Her first area of expertise was the identification, extraction and purification of various silicone polymers (chemical compounds), which could then be used in chemical processes.
In 1956, Flanigen began working on "molecular sieves": crystal compounds with molecule-sized pores, that can be used to filter and separate the constituent parts of complex mixtures, and as "catalysts," substances that accelerate chemical reactions. In her career, Flanigen invented or developed over 200 different synthetic substances, the most important of which is "zeolite Y," a silicate sieve used to refine petroleum. Petroleum, or "crude oil," found in the earth, must be broken down into its parts (called "fractions") by a process called "catalytic cracking" before it can be used. Gasoline is only one of the lighter fractions of crude oil. Flanigen's zeolites are used as catalysts to optimize the conversion of crude oil to gasoline.
Flanigen's work is admittedly complex, but it has many practical benefits. First of all, her innovations have made the production of gasoline in the U.S. and around the world greater, cleaner, and safer. Secondly, her "sieves" are used in other processes, such as water purification and environmental clean-up. Finally, Flanigen's work has other commercial applications: for, she is the co-inventor of a synthetic emerald, produced and marketed by Union Carbide for a number of year. However unknown she may be to the general public, Edith Flanigen is deservedly a living legend to research chemists world-wide.
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Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century: Medical Authority, (pseudo)Science and the Explained Supernatural in Late Victorian Female Gothic Fiction
22 February 17:30 to 19:00
Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College
Dr Helena Ifill University of Sheffield
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s short story ‘Good Lady Ducayne’ and Florence Marryat’s novel The Blood of the Vampire were published at much the same time as Bram Stoker’s best-selling Dracula. But these “vampire” stories do not feature the kind of blood-sucking fiend we may expect. Instead they offer alternative visions of vampirism which lead to a questioning of “expert” medical authority, doctor-patient power relations, and the efficacy of modern medical science.
Drinks will be served after the seminar. All welcome, no booking is required.
Please contact Alyson Slade for further information at alyson.slade@ell.ox.ac.uk
This seminar is organised as part of the Faculty of English, Diseases of Modern Life 19th Century Perspectives Project.
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24 Hours of Concrete Pour Go Into WA Foundation
A 41 story luxury hotel/residential tower is being built in Bellevue, Washington that will see one of the largest concrete pours for its foundation in the country. The continuous concrete pour will set the Washington State size record and it will stack up against concrete pours from around the nation in size and scope, too. The pour started on February 28, 2015 during the wee morning hours and took close to 24 hours from start to finish. Let’s look more at this project.
The Bellevue Lincoln Square Expansion has everyone from construction works to architects to engineers working to create a luxury hotel/residential tower that will beautify and revitalize the city of Bellevue. The continuous concrete pour, more than 13,680 yards of concrete, is just the state as the foundation is laid. Combined with rebar, the foundation will house the massive tower.
The tower will stand 47 stories tall and stand at 450 feet tall. This is why the foundation for this building is such a massive project. It has to be able to withstand the force of the building, and stand atop the six story parking garage beneath it. This foundation will anchor the building well into the future.
485,000 square feet of earth was removed from the site before the concrete foundation was poured and three million pounds of rebar was used to anchor. The foundation will help support the structure in the event of high winds and potential seismic activity. This mat-type foundation is meant to utilize high-strength steel for building projects such as this.
During the concrete pour, temperatures will reach 150 degrees during the 24 hour time period to help mix and set the concrete foundation. Five local plants will be continuously running trucks to and from plants to the site for the pour, while seven pumps will be used at once to pour.
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Feb 27, 2017 05:00 AM EST By R. Siva Kumar
Justin Bieber Upset That Selena Gomez Is Opening For The Weeknd's Musical: Report
The dating rumors and close scenes between Selena Gomez and The Weeknd have been ringing the till, but they have also driven Justin Bieber up the wall. For Selena, The Weeknd would be a great PR opening for her rise in publicity. However, he is reportedly making Justin Bieber go crazy.
There were reports in In Touch that Justin Bieber is "spiraling" and might have even "snapped." He is rumored to have sworn that he would take on The Weeknd if he runs into him anywhere. But on her side, the "It Ain't Me" singer, Selena Gomez, firmly made it clear that she was done with the "Sorry" singer, who always kept a yo-yo relationship with her. His drinking, partying all night and disloyalty made her sing firmly that "We stopped seeing eye-to-eye/You were staying out all night/And I had enough."
Recently, it was rumored that Selena Gomez would feature in the opening scenes of The Weeknd's recent tour. However, even if it might not even be true, the rumor was already ringing bells all over the Internet. Hence, most of Selena's fans do believe in the rumors, including Justin Bieber.
Justin Bieber had earlier declared that he is a great 'fan' of Selena Gomez. He was also a close friend of The Weeknd. Both facts began to crumble once the two - Selena and The Weeknd - began to date. Justin began to get upset at the thought. Moreover, the news that both of them were coming together in the music department was also not to his liking, as he had always presumed that he was Selena's preference in that.
Sadly for him, all these rumors have certainly driven a knife into Justin Bieber's heart. There are other rumors that he warned that he would be writing a revenge song on The Weeknd. However, that rumor has been completely scorched by Gossip Cop.
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Suspect Arrested for 5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Organization Breach
By: Sean Michael Kerner | September 02, 2016
The alleged attacker behind the 2011 breach of kernel.org is arrested as details on the actual attack now emerge.
In September 2011, news first broke that the kernel.org site that hosts the core development infrastructure behind the Linux kernel was breached. For the last five years, few facts about the attack have been revealed and the attacker remained at large—that is, until he was picked during a traffic stop in Miami on Aug. 28.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California issued a release on Sept. 1 announcing the arrest of 27-year-old Donald Ryan Austin in connection with the kernel.org attack. Austin is being charged in a four-count indictment in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Austin appeared in a federal court in Miami on Aug. 29 and was released on $50,000 bail on Sept. 1. He is scheduled to be back in court on Sept. 21.
"If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum sentence of ten years of imprisonment, and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution, for each violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A)," the Justice Department stated.
The attack against kernel.org occurred between Aug. 12, 2011, and Sept. 1, 2011, and involved a breach of at least four servers. According to the indictment, Austin made use of a pair of hacking tools to gain access to kernel.org. The tools he used included the Phalanx rootkit, which helped to enable unauthorized backdoor access to kernel.org servers. In addition, the attack made use of the Ebury Trojan, which was used to collect the SSH (Secure Shell) credentials of users who logged into infected servers.
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"The Ebury trojan collected the credentials and transmitted them over the internet to an outside computer controlled by the person who installed the malicious software," the indictment states.
After the kernel.org attack was first discovered on Sept. 1, 2011, Linux kernel developers, including Linus Torvalds, temporarily moved the mainline of development to GitHub. On Oct. 4, 2011, service to kernel.org was restored, and additional security hardening measures were taken.
Linux is used to power the internet today and is widely deployed by the world's largest stock exchanges, supercomputers, mobile phones and everything in between. According to the indictment, "one of Austin's goals was to gain access to the software distributed through the www.kernel.org website."
The indictment claims Austin was able to gain access to kernel.org servers by using "credentials belonging to an individual, J.H., to gain unauthorized access to servers belonging to the Linux Foundation."
The indictment doesn't identify who J.H is though, although J.H. is a mailing list name widely used by kernel.org administrator John Hawley. Somewhat ironically, Hawley was the first person associated with kernel.org to publicly reveal in a mailing list message on Aug. 29, 2011, that a breach had occurred.
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Double Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic looks set to land a second world title to go with her global collection as she dominated qualifying in the discus on Friday.
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Fear can rule your mind, but it can also motivate and protect you. So how do you strike a balance? Get expert advice on managing your relationship with fear so that you feel more in control.
We’re joined by Dr. Reid Wilson, a licensed psychologist and director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. He is author of the book, “Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks.”
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Hello, and welcome to HealthTalk Live [HealthTalk Live has been renamed Health Now with Judy Foreman]. I'm your host, Judy Foreman.
Fear can rule your mind, but it can also motivate and protect you. So, how do you strike a balance? Tonight you get expert advice on managing your relationship with fear so that you feel more in control.
I'm very pleased to welcome Dr. Reid Wilson, a licensed psychologist and director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. He is also the author of the book, "Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks."
Dr. Reid Wilson, welcome to HealthTalk Live.
Dr. Reid Wilson:
Oh, thanks, Judy. Glad to be here.
Judy:
May I call you Reid?
Dr. Wilson:
I wish you would.
Okay. That will be easy. So tonight, as everybody knows, is Halloween, which brings up an interesting question. Why do little kids seem to like to get scared in certain situations? Is a little tingle of fear actually fun for kids if they know it's pretend?
Well, interestingly, at the moment of the scare, they don't know it's pretend, but seconds, milliseconds almost, later they can correct it, so scare is very much, viscerally, like excitement.
And so as soon as they get past that scare moment, they will laugh and giggle when they are through it. So there is a kind of attractiveness to that kind of excitement. We can go all the way back to primates with monkeys, learning all kinds of springing off one tree to another tree with each other, chasing each other. But it's all about training to get them to be able to escape later on. And I think in some ways there is a genetic predisposition for all little kids to be able to learn to tolerate this in such a way that the scare process itself doesn't scare them so much, that they can then use it. And, of course, as you know we have some people on the other end of the continuum that get frightened by that fear response.
So actually what is the difference between fear and excitement, or being scared and excitement? I mean, you are right. I think, subjectively, there is a lot of overlap, but why does excitement feel good and fear ultimately feel bad?
Great question. Who knows? It exhilarates you. It wakes you up. You know, it's a little like sometimes when you get angry, you feel it in every cell of your body. You know, "He said that about me?" So it will electrify you, so to speak, and so does excitement in that way. And, of course, when you get fear, it's that same kind of electrifying response that is now necessary to handle a situation that's in front of you that feels like a threat.
Yeah, so how do kids learn to separate something that's genuinely scary from something that's just kind of fun scary, and then milliseconds later they realize it's pretend, or they laugh and giggle?
Well, lots of different ways. You know, first off is feedback. You start to learn. There is a kind of conditioning response that goes on in threatening situations that you can say, "Oh, that's just mom. This is Halloween, and mom decided to pop out behind the door," and that's expected. There is training that we are going to do, that we're going to train kids to distinguish one from the other.
It's interesting. If you look at some people who develop phobias, if you look at their family structure, very often the parents of those adults or children who develop phobias were parents who did not process loss and conflict in that sort of way. You can handle loss when you process it. You can handle conflict when you can talk about it later on and what took place. You can handle trauma much better once your system, your environment and your community talks about it with you. When you start living in a situation where that kind of conversation is taboo or the parents are not very well-trained themselves in processing things, then your little mind begins to make up some of the reasons why you are scared at that moment. That's when things start to go haywire.
Interesting. What about adults and horror movies? I mean, personally I have never liked horror movies, but obviously they are very popular. What's the attraction there?
Well, I think it's the same. I think we are just big kids.
That's reasonable.
Some people will agree with that, and others don't. In the same way we have excitement junkies, we have adrenalin junkies. We have people who are clearly risk-takers.
It's interesting that there are two broad types of people who end up being therapists for people with anxiety disorders. And one is a group of people who have an affinity to anxious people, have some of that in their blood themselves. They kind of know what it's like and want to help them out because they have been there. And the other are the people who are more out there – risk-taking, rock climbers. And the people who tend to be the most powerful therapists are the risk takers because they are the ones that are pushing people into situations that will help them promote healthy growth out of fear situations.
So I think horror movies - I am like you, I could care less about them; I don't want the scare - but I think it's just another brand of ways of people getting stimulated and feeling excited and enjoying it. I will take caffeine myself. That's enough for me.
Or chocolate. In a more serious vein, explain to us what the difference is between fear and anxiety. I mean, my guess would be that fear is reality-based, while anxiety is a little bit more neurotic or internally generated or something along those lines.
Yeah. That's absolutely one way to look at it. The other way to think about it is the fear response actually has a beginning, middle, and an end. You are going to have a fear response based on some situation that you walk into that causes some kind of threat. Anxiety is much more insidious. It's like an unwanted houseguest that kind of breezes in quickly into your life, but it's kind of hard to get rid of them.
So anxiety can begin to have a life of its own after a while, and it doesn't seem so nice and clean and coupled with a threatening situation moment by moment, temporally, that the fear experience is.
Right. I mean, if you sort of have a close call in the car or something, and your heart will be pounding, and you will say, "Whew, that was a close one," and then once it's over, it's kind of over. But anxiety creeps in and eventually creeps out.
Well, you know, if I could just say one more thing about that fear response: When you are in that car, very often what you are saying is, "Oh, my gosh, here comes the ditch. I'm dead." But in that fear response your conscious mind has very little to do with your behavior at that moment. You basically go on automatic pilot. Your unconscious doesn't want to have anything to do with your analytic self in the moment. It wants to go in and handle things. And so, the more critical a threat is, the closer you are to a threat, the more temporally there is going to be moments between you and the threat, the more your unconscious circuitry simply takes over and says, "Conscious mind, take a back seat if you would like."
By unconscious, are you really meaning the limbic system, the kind of the more primitive processing system in the brain as opposed to the cortex, the more thinking part?
Well, it's a tremendous set of circuitry. The best way to start with that is just to say the amygdala really orchestrates most of this. A lot of stuff is going on in the brain stem. A lot of things are going on in the central affective regions. We're going to have a startle response. We're going to have a freeze response. We're going to have blood pressure that goes up. We are going to have our heart (rate)that goes up. All of those systems are going to tend to come in at once.
The limbic system can be a little behind in terms of its work. So if you've got a threat that seems to be coming up 300 yards from you or a threat that's coming up five minutes from you, the limbic system has a little more room to move because it's got a little more analysis going on.
When you are, as we just talked about, in the car, anything that's really immediate, the limbic system is just a few steps away from the accident. It kind of has to play catch up also. It ends up in the back seat, and we go into the more immediate responses that are controlled unconsciously often through the amygdala and the brain stem.
Amygdala - tell us what that is. And I was going to ask you anyway, what are the brain circuits that govern fear and anxiety? And are they the same thing? But amygdala may not be a household word in everybody's house.
Well, I think, simply put for us - and we can get complicated about the amygdala - we just want to say that is really the (part of the brain that is the)center of a lot of our emotional responses of what's going on. It's going to control the messages sent to the hippocampus which is going to help us remember and store things. There is going to be a signal that comes from the cortex to the amygdala that says, "Something is going on." That signal tends to be unconscious. You don't really hear it. It happens very rapidly, and there is very little signal that gets back up to the cortex from learning from the amygdala.
It just goes in and takes over control of the brain stem. It helps promote epinephrine (adrenalin)being secreted through the brain as well as the body. It's going to tell the hippocampus to begin to remember what just happened, so it can learn some things. So everything gets collaborated among a lot of different systems, but the amygdala is going to, typically, start things and keep track of things in its very simple manner.
I know that we are speaking loosely, but for people who aren't neurologists, the amygdala is kind of like the fear center of the brain. Would that be okay to call it?
Sure. It is the center of lots of things, but for what we're talking about right now, that would be a fine way to think about it. It provides emotional tone, and it does do some filtering of things as well. So it's paying attention to just the essential messages that are necessary for these kinds of situations.
So you mentioned a minute ago that fear has a sort of a beginning, middle, and end, and an anxiety kind of creeps in and kind of worms its way into your consciousness. Are the same brain circuits like the amygdala involved in both anxiety and fear?
Well, in the brain circuitry in those immediate situations, that is true. But over time, the anxiety process tends to take over even organs in the body and begins the neurotransmitter messages and so forth. There's a kind of hypersensitivity that begins to develop in people with anxiety. Some of that is actually genetic and is programmed for people. Some of it is familial. Some of it is learned. Some of it is through experiences and traumas. Obviously people who have post-traumatic stress disorder have a trauma that begins to signal it, but even as we look at some people who have actually been traumatized, there can be a genetic component of those folks as well.
So once the anxiety system has activated itself in the human being - whether it starts at six years old with a kind of school phobia or a fear of clowns, or it starts in the adults with other more traumatic events - it does again start to mess with lots of different organs in the body as well as in the brain.
You mentioned a familial origin for some anxiety, and I think you said something about parents or families that aren't comfortable talking about emotions. Is that why a lot of people wind up anxious? It was that their parents didn't let them talk about their feelings or wouldn't talk about their own feelings? Is that what you meant?
Well, that's one of the ways. I can, minimally at least, say when we look back in the history of people with phobias, they do have less experience in their family system where they process those kind of conflicts.
The other thing that we tend to notice is they either have a parent who is domineering, controlling, critical, or a parent who models anxiety. A good plurality of children who develop anxiety actually have one parent who is also anxious.
So, the normal parent may say, "Don't climb up in that tree, you may fall down and break your arm." The overprotective parent says, "Don't climb up in a tree, you may fall down and break your neck. Don't go down in that creek, you might drown." So, you're walking down the street holding the hand of your mom, and you hear a dog bark and you feel a little squeeze of your hand. Well, if you feel that enough, there is what we call a conditioned response where you start going, "Dogs must be dangerous," and then you are left on your own.
The domineering, controlling parent is very similar to the overprotective parent because they both are basically saying, "Listen to me. I will tell you how to behave so you will know how to be safe." So if I was raised in the family of an alcoholic parent who was aggressive, then I am going to be watching what's going on with my mom or dad more than I am going to be paying attention to my feelings. So the ability for me to pay attention to what's going on inside me tends to atrophy.
Well, if we pair that up with a kind of hyper-sensitivity, genetically where I am easier to be overexcited, some of that excitement comes halfway up into the system before I even notice it, and then it's not that hard for the rain to spill over in the rain barrel and me to even have a panic attack, because I have this built-in system that all of a sudden cracks through the surface and gives me a panic attack.
It's very interesting. I mean, we will get into panic in a second. I just wanted to again go to the difference between kind of good and bad fears, which is sort of our theme for tonight. So if I were living in Baghdad where it really is dangerous, it would be healthy to fear going out at night or even during the day because there is real imminent, external danger. But if I were just kind of fearful of my own feelings of sadness or anger or some other feeling, that's more anxiety rather than fear. Have I got that right?
Sure. You know, I saw a woman today for the first time, and she comes in and talks about her fear of being alone with other people and that someone is going to harm her. She would rather be with friends, and so forth. And she also had a social anxiety, and I understood that social anxiety, but this particular fear was a different one. Well, about 20 minutes into the conversation I find out "X" number of years ago, relatively recently, she was raped by two young men and has never processed that whatsoever.
And so here we have both good and bad fear. We have the message of, "Don't walk around on campus alone and go up on stairways, take the elevator." Those kinds of messages make good sense. And what's left over from this horrible trauma that she has hardly spoken to anyone about is that she has got a broad-based fear of crossing anyone. She got lost the other day with her parents and wouldn't allow the parents to pull over and ask anybody for help because it was raining and night for fear she would get harmed by it. So now we start taking a good fear, and it gets exaggerated.
It's the same thing you have to have a healthy fear of water out in the deep ocean, but you can have some people with phobias of water where they walk around puddles in great distance because it brings up a message of, "I'm not safe and the world is a threatening place."
Interesting. What about the fear of going crazy? Lay people kind of say, "Well, if you are afraid of going crazy, by definition you are not crazy." Is that right?
Well, I don't know that definition for that. I don't think that's a good clinical definition. I have a skewed population who I work with, of course, but I think the two most primary things that we are afraid of is, we are afraid of losing control and we are afraid of being trapped. If somebody came in and put you in a straightjacket and wouldn't let you out, I would want to struggle so badly to break out of that. I watched "The War," the 15-hour piece by Ken Burns, and they were talking about the gunners in those planes that got into a small space where their knees were up to their elbows, and they were there for hours. That sense of trappedness would really make me terribly uncomfortable. So, I think that's a pretty primitive fear of being trapped and then also out of control.
I can be out of control if my car starts skidding across the ice. I can be out of control if I have all of a sudden lost my PowerPoint slides moments before I give a talk. I can be out of control if I think somehow I'm going to make a fool of myself with people. So people have a variety of definitions. Lots of people who I work with are feeling trapped and out of control in social situations. Or, I am getting my groceries, and I am being rung up by the cashier, and I am feeling trapped. And socially, if I walked away right now, that would be humiliating to me.
So that's the kind of population I think about. That whole idea, I think all of us can resonate to the idea that I am not interested in being out of control, and "don't you hold me down."
It's interesting because I just today was reading a wonderful new book about schizophrenia, and it's a very eminent professional who has written it. She talks about a sort of a psychotic episode, and of course she gets taken to the emergency room. The first thing they do is tie her down with these restraints, and her terror magnifies tremendously.
And then they force drugs down her throat. She started out in bad shape, and then they made it a whole lot worse for her by tying her down and really making her out of control by force-feeding her these drugs.
Yes. And probably it was going to make her have a more difficult time turning to the health professional next time she is feeling crazy.
You know, I'd rather manage it by myself, which also can have its own problems.
Yeah. Well, are we as humans, as mammals, for that matter, born kind of hardwired with certain fears? I mean, I've read that mammals are afraid of snakes, and that animals in general are afraid of falling. What are we hardwired to be afraid of?
Well, there are a number of things that we are hardwired with, and many of them are associated with both mammals or with primates. We are afraid of heights. We are afraid of dark places, not just darkness but dark places. We are afraid of loud sounds - that whole startled response that all of us would have. And then, depending on what mammal you are, we are afraid of certain animals. Snakes are something that we are instinctually afraid of. It's just hardwired right on in there. And then in different species, they have predators that they are afraid of.
There is just beginning to be some interesting research out regarding the whole idea of, are animals afraid of their predators if they are not around anywhere? It's interesting to try to look at how they do that study. So, the sum of the results is coming up to say if the predator is not available, then they start to lose that fear.
That would be fascinating. If you have never seen your natural enemy, and you have grown up as an animal your whole life, and then you encounter that, maybe you would be like overly cozy with the predator or something.
Sure. Or even after they have been used to them in the past, then they withdraw them for a period of time, they are beginning to see some sense that that may disappear.
How does that apply to humans, or doesn't it? Is that anything like stranger anxiety? Would we be afraid of something we have never encountered? People we have never encountered?
Well, the fears that I just listed where we are hardwired, I think we are going to be pretty automatically conditioned to respond to them, and it will take some extinction for us to be able to not respond to it. Again, back in the day - you know how old I am - in Vietnam where they used to send the small, little, wiry soldiers into the hole to find the enemy, who are buried inside - that would just absolutely terrify me.
Well, I'm sure that person at some level had to go ahead and go against instinct, because we are the only mammal with that degree of intelligence that we can begin to undo some things that appear to be hardwired. Obviously lots of us can handle fear of heights. I wouldn't necessarily be one of those. So we can use our intellect and very often repetition of a behavior that will help us.
It desensitizes you to it, yeah.
It desensitizes you because the trauma is drama. It happens suddenly, and it's what we can call one-trial learning. I had an episode where I had nearly drowned at one point, and that will never leave my mind ever. And there are certain things I won't let myself do that I think is probably bright at this point because of that near experience.
So you can really learn something in a flash because of trauma. And we don't have a system that matches that in terms of intensity to flip that, so we have to combat trauma with repetition. It is our tool that we end up using, and that's the best we have, one of the best ways we have found so far.
Do you think we are hardwired to fear strangers or people who look different from us?
I don't know that we are hardwired to that. We are hardwired, you know, when we walk into a situation and we say, "Object received does not equal object expected." Then there is a kind of hardwire to that. And so, back years ago when we had some terrorist-seeming events in the United States, you know, the first time they were bombing the Trade Center. I had almost like a vicarious trauma with that. I can remember getting on an elevator and a kind of disheveled guy came on the elevator with me, and I was then saying to myself, "Hey, imagery received at this point is not imagery expected," and I went into a kind of alarm for a few moments around that.
So, I think it's a much more generic experience in this particular context, what's acceptable and what isn't. And of course we have had a tremendous amount of discrimination with anyone who wears a scarf on their head these days.
Because, you know, you go to the airport, and it is still today remarkable to see a family of little kids and mother and father and grandparents, and they are watched. And that's much more of a programming because of a past stimulus associated with trauma as opposed to being hardwired.
A lot of people these days seem to be afraid of chemicals in the environment, and God knows that's a hard thing to tease apart - what chemicals really are dangerous or what aren't? But what's your take on that? Do you think we are sort of overly worried about some of that stuff? Or underly worried?
We had a great editorial cartoon today in the paper because today is Halloween, at least when you and I are speaking. And heading up to this household to ring the doorbell were all these things that we are terrified about, whether it's Osama bin Laden or chemicals or Chinese toothpaste - you know, they recalled something called Ugly Teeth today because it had like ten times the amount of lead in it than is allowed. So we are inundated now with things to be afraid of, and chemicals are just one single thing that it is.
So I think we already know from the research, and it seems obvious to any of us, anybody who watches the evening news perceives the world is a more dangerous place than people who do not watch the evening news. So this global village has some nice connections in some ways, but it also brings too much home to us to be afraid of.
It certainly does.
We have some e-mails that have come in now. One is from Christine in Georgia. She writes, "It seems to me that a lot of religion is fear-based. If you don't do this or that, you are going to hell. Is this a healthy type of fear or an unhealthy one?"
That's a little tricky question because Christine is asking me about a religious faith and how they teach people to, I guess, follow some of their doctrines, and I'm actually hesitating to answer this question, Judy.
Well, I don't blame you, but it is interesting that--I mean, it makes you wonder why a whole system of thought would be set up that does seem to prey on people's fear. I mean, as opposed to, I don't know, maybe Buddhism on something that may prey a little bit more on joy.
Well, Freud said, our basic drive is to move toward pleasure and avoid pain. And so hopefully this particular spiritual practice includes, how you get to heaven and live in the glory next to God as well as how do you prevent yourself from ending up at the gates of hell and the burning fires for eternity.
Yuck. Yes. Well, let's not go there.
Well, I want to get a little bit more clinical. Can you explain to us what the different kinds of anxiety disorders are and how common they are and what the treatments are? Let's start with phobias. What is a phobia?
Well, phobia is by definition irrational.
Isn't all fear irrational? I mean, or isn't all anxiety irrational?
Well, no. I mean, again, that's a tricky kind of question. Certainly not all fears are irrational.
Right. Sorry.
There is the healthy fear of water, and if I take that to an extreme where I have to walk ten yards away from puddles, then I have taken that to an extreme. So a phobia, such as a phobia of flying, could be any of seven or eight different kinds of phobias. It is a threat enough about that situation that either I avoid it totally or I go into it with a tremendous amount of trepidation and fear.
So we used to think that the cardinal definition of phobia was you avoid that circumstance. But you can certainly go into water or get on a plane or go into a tight elevator with anxiety and still have a phobia of those arenas.
It reminds me, this is really not that funny, but some group therapy things about fears where the person had a phobia about elevators crashing, and they were all talking about it, and then this person actually was on an elevator that crashed. I imagine that would kind of set back the therapy a bit unless maybe it cured her. Who knows?
I have actually had that experience with somebody who was afraid of flying, and then had a plane crash and then recovered from her fear of flying out of that. So it does seem kind of paradoxical with that.
Did the crash help her, I mean, or him?
Somehow that caused her to break through from irrational to rational kinds of fear, that she survived that particular thing. You know, it's just she had her own kind of psychology about how that occurred, but it certainly woke her up to what is serious and what is not serious.
I had a second client who was actually in a plane crash where everyone was killed except six of them, her and her father and four other people. And she was out of the group therapy for a while and came back in, and as people were talking about whatever they talk about in group therapy, she was saying, "You know, I can't even relate to what you folks are talking about. What I think about is giving hugs to people I love and being close to the people who are important to me in my life, and these petty things that you are talking about…." She was not quite so crude, but that's the kind of waking up that she had after this terrible trauma.
And that's what people sometimes go through when they are diagnosed with a terminal illness. All of a sudden everything seems in perspective. So you can have traumas that in some ways wake you up and make you more resilient.
There must be an easier way to find inner peace.
That would be nice. Certainly it would be great to quit smoking before I got the emphysema instead of afterwards. We are still working on that.
What actually causes phobias? You were mentioning a family dynamic before. Is that the basic thing that happens?
There are a number of ways. One, you can have a literal trauma yourself related to that situation, like falling into a pool when you were young.
You can have a vicarious learning. People can watch or witness an event. My sister and her family were one block away from this horrible fire at the beach on Sunday where seven people were burned up, and so she saw that fire and didn't know that people were being burned up at the moment, but learned later. Now there will be some people out of that who will, by being in close enough proximity to that, develop some kind of trauma from it vicariously. Or they can watch it on TV and have it.
Some phobias just slowly creep in. You know, one of those can be, again, the fear of flying. It tends to be the phobia that shows up the latest in the lifecycle. The average person with a fear of flying is about 27 as opposed to about 21 or 22 for other kinds of phobias.
So there is a variety of ways. The most common way we think of is that you develop a phobia out of some kind of direct event.
So, how do you treat phobias? Or can people overcome phobias?
Oh, sure. It takes some work and effort. Our traditional way that's been around for a long time is called systematic desensitization where we teach people to relax and have a good skill at that - an ability to quiet the body and mind. And then we gradually introduce in a kind of a hierarchical fashion from a very simple representation of that fear to a pretty dramatic one.
I worked with somebody a while back in three hours, all at one time, her fear of snakes. And we started with her just looking at a little postage-sized pen and ink drawing of a snake on the couch with her where she could hardly even touch it with her finger. And by the end of three hours, she was holding one end of a boa constrictor at the Science and Nature Museum in Durham, North Carolina.
So, when I say gradually working, three hours is pretty darn fast to go from not being able to touch a piece of paper the size of a postage stamp representing a snake to holding a nine-foot boa constrictor in your hands. But that is the process that can occur. You just gradually do it and discover that it's uncomfortable, but you can manage it.
What about generalized anxiety disorder? I know millions and millions of people have that. What is it, and how do you treat it?
Well, we want to be clear about generalized anxiety because it's not just about, you know, "I walk around during the day, and my stomach is tied in knots, and I have got butterflies, and I have a headache, and my hands are shaking." The cornerstone of generalized anxiety is severe worry, and the main things people worry about are money, relationships with other people, work or school, and health-related issues. And then, 91 percent of the people with generalized anxiety worry about minor things. They get nickeled and dimed all day.
And you kind of think of generalized anxiety as the basic, simple kind of anxiety. It's one of the more difficult anxiety disorders to treat because it seems so insidious. It's almost like it's part of the character of the person. Very often they will say, "I've been a worrier ever since kindergarten," so the treatment can be somewhat elaborate, but we are pretty clear about the main things that we need to do.
And one of the things to start with is, when you have a worry, being able to distinguish whether it is noise or a signal. And if a worry is a signal, then you need to be problem solving it. If it is noise - some repetitious, unproductive thought that is of no use to me - then we have lots of tricks and gimmicks we can teach people. But that distinction is really the most important one.
Well, I am not sure everyone is familiar with the terms "signal" and "noise." What do you actually mean?
Because I made that up. So you know, a worry that is a signal would be: It's two o'clock at night, your daughter is out on a date, she was to be home at midnight, and she is only nine years old. Then you are going to be worried as a parent, and you are going to start calling around and trying to get help.
A worry as a noise would be: If I were spending all afternoon preparing for our talk tonight for an hour - I do this enough that if I were doing that, I am wasting my day because I can I can pull this off without a tremendous amount of preparation. I did prepare, but I wouldn't have spent all day. That would be noise.
Or if I have got a project tomorrow, and it's 11 o'clock at night, and it's time for me to go to sleep, even though there is a worry, that is a signal. Meaning I do need to do something about that project, I am scheduled to do it tomorrow, and I am declaring 11 o'clock at night as my bedtime. And so now if those thoughts pop up, "Oh, my gosh, how am I going to solve that problem?" I want to treat them as noise, meaning I don't need to pay attention to them. And once I know I don't need to pay attention to them, now I can kind of go into my bag of tricks and begin to respond to them.
Sometimes you can have people sing their worries in their mind and put it to a little ditty and start singing it in their head. Or make them write everything down because it's so laborious and irritating that they would rather just not worry about it than write it down. Or bring their attention somewhere else. When I go to sleep at night, I start counting backwards because I'm not a quiet person. My mind is kind of going, so I just count my exhales from 100 down to one. Every exhale, "100, 99, 98…" as a way to give my mind something simple to focus on so that it stops thinking about all of these quote-unquote, "important things" it thinks it needs to think about.
What number do you fall asleep at?
Oh, depends on how disturbed I am. I have got a writing project right now, so I might end up starting at a thousand and go every ten. So I have to play around with it. You know, when I am really having trouble, what I will do is say every letter of the alphabet on an exhale randomly and try to get all letters of the alphabet. It's a frustrating task, but I would choose that one if I tend to be pretty distracted by some worry.
Well, you're the expert, but may I recommend…
You want me to take Valium, don't you?
No, no, no, no, no. A far less pharmacological solution. May I recommend listening to books on tape or CD? Especially not very scary books. They have to be not too boring, because then you actually have to work to pay attention, but something that catches your attention, and you can just listen to it over and over and over.
That's another way to do it. You can do those kinds of things. But first you have to decide when that negative thought comes up, "I am not paying attention to it." And that actually, Judy, is the biggest task for most people.
That's very hard. I mean, you are essentially talking about cognitive behavior therapy at this point.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's simple, but it's hard.
It's effective, but hard, yeah.
We have an e-mail from Lucy in Florida, and she writes, "My daughter is scared to go to sleep because she says the monster under her bed is going to get her. I try to reassure her, but nothing works. Any suggestions?"
Well, I would be curious as to what she is doing now because her daughter, I guess, eventually goes to sleep. Again, we are working with kids who want me to distinguish real versus imaginary, and that's one of troubles that she is having.
So, there are lots of metaphors that we can use, or examples in other parts of the day. Since you know it's real versus imaginary that we need to help her figure out, you can have her read story books to her during the day, not necessarily at night, in which she helps you to distinguish what fears are real and which are imaginary.
It is actually totally fine to go through a room and look for the monsters that might be there with her and confirm that they are not there, and then, as far as I am concerned, we play all kinds of games with that. We can actually have her get under there and pretend she is the monster, and have me simulate coming into bed, and let her grab my leg, so she becomes and plays the role of the bad guy sometimes.
Again with each different kid, you may have to do a variety of different things, and you want to be somewhat creative about it. You can't simply say, "Everything is fine, honey, you'll be okay." But be active like that.
And then the second major area that we go to is that we bring her focus of attention to something else, like we were just talking about.
Where she does have a ritual, where she begins to pay attention to things, or she counts backwards or those sorts of things.
Another big category of anxiety is OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder. I know even some dogs have this where they chase their tails endlessly or lick their sides. What do we know about OCD? And actually, for that matter, whether it's inherited - does it run in families?
Well, obsessive-compulsive disorder is the most genetically predetermined of all the anxiety disorders. We pretty much know that. You know, when I see somebody with OCD, there is very little family history I bother taking in the initial session. We can basically get to work on the treatment because there are no developmental things that we need to look for, not how the parents were raised and so forth. The interesting thing about that is, this is also the only anxiety disorder that we've proven that cognitive behavioral therapy works better than medication.
So we have got a genetically predisposed condition that is more effective when we utilize the skills, self-help skills and cognitive behavioral skills to overcome it. So when you start talking about genetics, people almost always say, "Well, therefore you must have a chemical intervention," and that's simply not true.
Well, that's amazing, because I was going to ask you - I know there have been studies where they put people in these brain scanning machines and then show them the object that they are obsessing or scared of or compulsive about, like a dirty towel or something, and these very distinct regions of the brain light up. I mean, it's obviously a very real anatomical, biochemical thing that's OCD.
And then you treat them with cognitive behavioral therapy, do that brain scan again, and it looks like the normal brain.
So, tell us a little bit about how you do this therapy. How do you do this?
Well, as almost all the treatment of anxiety disorders, it is paradoxical in nature, which means you are going to go toward the thing that you are afraid of. The number one thing that we need to understand with obsessive-compulsive disorder is that the content of the obsession is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with germs or having somebody break into my house or leaving my curling iron on and burning down the house or running somebody over in the road. Those are the tricks that the anxiety disorder generates in order to make me anxious.
So, the number one trick that we start with or the point of view that we start with is that content is irrelevant. And then we do two things primarily: seek out uncertainty and seek out discomfort.
Again, you want to have a paradoxical intervention. So what I mean by seek out uncertainty is, we want to in lots of ways and hierarchical ways, some clever, interesting ways, we do it. We want them to not know if their hands are completely clean if they are focused on germs, or not know for sure that they have locked the door. And they want to have that feeling voluntarily.
Okay, just pretend? I don't think I do have OCD, but suppose I did, and suppose I were washing my hands however many times a day, too many. So I come to you, and you tell me not to pay attention to how dirty I think my hands are?
Well, let's back up. Let's say you are afraid of salmonella. And you have gone, you are afraid you are going to go to…
Well, how about MRSA, the phobia du jour?
Sure. But it's easier to think of salmonella because everybody knows that it's raw chicken and meat and so forth. There's ways to clean your utensils and not mixing things up.
But if, like a phobia, you get overly focused on salmonella when, for instance, you have had no contact with salmonella, not been around any kind of raw meats and so forth, and yet you find yourself coming home and having to wash so frequently, what you want to do is - now you know your theme. So anytime when I haven't been directly exposed to salmonella, and I don't have to do my typical rituals that would be appropriate, then as I am exposed to that theme, and I begin to worry about the possibility that my hands are contaminated, I want to find ways to change my response to that.
Now, you don't instantly have to not wash your hands, but if you were washing your hands for 20 minutes, we might have you begin by having a little timer, and every one minute, take your hands out of the water and dry them off and wait three minutes, and then wash again - any kind of breaking up of that pattern to begin to give you a little sense of control. But the most important thing is in your mind. Your disposition is, "I want to be uncertain about whether my hands are clean because that's what rules me. The obsessive-compulsive disorder requires me to be certain."
And if I can flip that on there and say, "I am looking to feel doubt," then I am doing exactly opposite what the OCD wants. Well now, if you are going to be doubtful about whether your hands are clean enough, you are going to be anxious. And so the second piece is, "I want to be anxious. I am looking to be anxious. And I am trying to stretch it out and be anxious as long as I can."
We can't instantly do that, but we have got lots of different ways that we approach it. Those are the cardinal ways that I am going to go towards it with someone.
I mean, don't people look at you and say, "What are you talking about?"
Absolutely. They laugh out loud. But, we stay with it. Fortunately in that first session, I've got 45 minutes, and very often, what I call it is persuasive therapy. I have got to talk someone into a mindset opposite of their own. And one particular client who said, "You know, when I would do that practice, I kept saying in my mind I hope that good doctor knows what he is talking about," think about the logic of somebody washing their hands, "well, all I have to do is spend ten minutes washing my hands, and I am going to keep myself from contaminating my children with salmonella. Why would I be so selfish as to not wash my hands thoroughly?"
So, you are going to absolutely lose if you operate at the level of content. That's why we have to have people elevate above content to go, "This is anxiety disorder. It's all about not being willing to tolerate uncertainty."
But I don't even know what to ask you about that.
What do you mean, "but," Judy? It's simple, totally easy.
But there is so much uncertainty in life. How do you relax in the face of that? I mean, no one knows whether they are going to get cancer or not, get hit by a car, whether we are going to invade Iran, whether their kids are going to get into Harvard, you know?
Well, that's right, but we all handle that, don't we?
Well, to greater or lesser degrees.
To varying degrees. And these people with obsessive-compulsive disorder handle it in all these other arenas where they are not certain about things, and that's what we are talking about. Here we have a theme. In this theme, we are now going to operate with uncertainty. You know, if I think I have just run somebody over in the highway, I am not going back and walking the ditches all night. I am just not going to do it, and I am willing to take the risk that I accidentally hit someone and they are lying the ditch dying.
It's the same way if you are afraid to fly, Judy, because you are afraid the plane is going to crash. There is no way I am going to convince you that your plane will not crash because even if I tell you…
Judy: That's right, because it could.
The statistic of one in 11 million chances of that - you would have to fly every single day of your life for 26,000 years before your number would be up, and you would die on a plane, but that is not going to help you much.
So if you are going to learn to overcome your fear of flying, if it's about death, then the message you have to give yourself at some point is, "I am willing to take the risk that one day I get on a plane that crashes and I die. I want to overcome this phobia badly enough that I am taking that risk," because you can't get closure on certainty. You can't. You have to have a reasonable amount of certainty and then move on, and that's what I want to take care to help people to get to. I am being cold and crisp with you, but we are going to take some time to help understand that.
So, I mean, essentially you are telling people there is no such thing as certainty.
Absolutely. And that's where people are in trouble. "I want to know," they essentially say, "I will do whatever it takes, whatever you want me to do to get better as long as you will guarantee me 100 percent that I will have zero symptoms ever again, or that you will promise me that this is not going to harm my children."
You know, I work with people who are afraid that they are going to - with obsessive-compulsive disorder, not some violent tendency - that, "I am going to stab my child. Well, can you assure me that I won't harm my child?" That is not my business. I am not going to assure you.
What I am going to assure you of is, you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and people with obsessive-compulsive disorder have these kinds of violent fantasies and don't act on them. It's all about scaring themselves.
Am I going to promise you you won't act on harming your child? I can't promise you that because that's against the therapy. Then I would be reassuring you, and that's against the treatment protocol. I cannot reassure you.
What did you mean about people scaring themselves? I mean, it almost sounded like you were saying they are intentionally scaring themselves or there was some kind of secondary gain from scaring themselves?
I don't remember saying it that way, so tell me what I said more specifically.
Oh, no, no. I mean, maybe I just misheard you. You said they are scaring themselves as if they were doing it on purpose to scare themselves.
Yeah,I certainly didn't mean to say that, and I am not recalling having said that. So, sorry.
Oh, no, okay. What about panic disorder? I mean, again, that affects millions of people. And my understanding is that that, like OCD, has a strong biological underpinning that some substances like carbon dioxide can trigger panic attacks. Some brain circuits, again, light up with people who are prone to panic attacks, and there is even some thought that there is a kind of a suffocation alarm in the brain that people think they can't get enough air. There is air hunger, and that that's physiologically real and causes panic attacks. Is that right?
Sure. Well, let's work our way backwards on some of that. The suffocation alarm fear was really proposed by Donald Klein years and years ago, and it was a pretty simplistic way of thinking about it. I think it fits a certain percentage of people with panic disorder who get this fear of not being able to get a full breath. But interestingly, I have worked with lots of people who are afraid they can't get a full breath, well, can you imagine what the treatment is for somebody who can't get a full breath? The treatment is exhale all the way. Here we go again, this paradoxical response. If you are afraid you are not getting your full breath, and I tell you, "Please exhale all the way," you will think I am crazy.
And yet when you exhale all the way, you will then automatically get a full, complete breath. But you have to take this risk which is, "I'm not sure I'll breathe again, and now I am going to let the air go that I have."
So a panic disorder is this fear of the fear response itself, and it is the epitome of this fear of being out of control or trapped. They need to sit on the back aisle of the movie theater, see where the exits are. You know, not say yes to somebody about having a dinner engagement with them because I might not be able to show up. They have to drive themselves instead of being a passenger in the car. You know, not go too far into Wal-Mart because they might get trapped and not be able to escape. So that's the tendency of panic disorder.
And there is a genetic predisposition to some degree. And then there's some developmental issues that we would look at, similar to what I talked about earlier regarding not developing a sense of what my own feelings and needs are because of that, what we call, "external locus of control" and paying attention to other people instead of paying attention to my own feelings.
So, the people who we call with panic disorder and agoraphobia - which means that they severely restrict their lifestyle in order to prevent having a panic attack - these people may have had one single panic attack and then stopped driving, stopped going out alone and so forth to make sure they don't have another panic attack. That's pretty darn frightening because very often your first panic or two, you end up in the emergency room. So it's like a near-death experience. Of course, people are going to brace against that. So we are undoing a kind of natural response, and that takes a little bit of time.
Well, we are almost at the end of our time here. Do you have a final message that you would like to leave us with?
I would say, we have a website that is a free, self-help site, and they can just go to that website and work, without paying any money to anyone, on panic disorder, on fear of flying, on generalized anxiety. It's called anxieties.com. It's a good way to kind of educate yourself about what's going on and also begin to do some self-help. Studies from across the world are finding that self-help techniques and books or small groups of self-help people can work effectively, similar to being in therapy with someone. So it is a good way to kind of go out and get information, like listening to this particular show.
Okay. And maybe you were to modest to mention it, but you are the author, Dr.Reid Wilson, of the book "Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks."
I would like to thank you very much, Dr. Wilson, for being on the show tonight. And I would like to thank you, the listeners, for joining us. Until next week, I am Judy Foreman. Good night.
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Wentzell-Cuc didn't become a career firefighter until she was 35 years old, which is the age cutoff for most departments in West Virginia.
"Fortunately, I passed the physical agility and written portion and eventually got hired on just in time," she said.
Prior to becoming a Moundsville firefighter, she worked as an EMT and a county medical examiner.
One thing, however, hasn't changed over the years: She's always paid close attention to the connection between firefighters and cancer.
"I have always pushed people to wash their gear, their hoods, everything," she said. "Some people think I'm nagging them. I'm doing this because I care. It's always been a concern and interest for me. I do a lot of research into it, and I've been trying to push hard in this area."
The department recently added a particulate hood, which blocks 99 percent of particulates, to its PPE.
"We all have one particulate hood, and we're looking to buy a second one so that when one is dirty we can wash it and have the other one to protect us," Wentzell-Cuc said.
They also started using products designed to remove hydrocarbon contaminants from their gear and any equipment they may use, as well as deep-cleaning the apparatus.
"Any time our vehicles have been taken out of service, we've actually pulled everything off the trucks and cleaned them inside and out – any of our tools, equipment, helmets, SCBA bottles," she said. "Any time they're exposed, they get cleaned with that."
The department is currently working with city council officials to secure a backup set of turnout gear as well, so that they have more time to properly decontaminate soiled gear between calls.
"Our ultimate goal is to get better with on-scene decon," she said. "We use fire wipes, but we can't do gross decon because it would soak our gear and we don't have a second set to change into."
Now that the department has been affected by cancer twice, Wentzell-Cuc said their push to evolve is greater than ever.
Assistant Chief Kevin Kimple, a cancer survivor, joins firefighter Brady Clarke (Chief Clarke's son) and Chief Gary Brandon at the late chief's grave. (courtesy photo)
Evolving as a fire service
Firefighters around the country, like Chief Clarke, are succumbing to occupational cancer at a young age.
"Fifty years old. That's way too early – that's only the beginning of someone's life. If you want to be here, it's not cool to walk around in dirty gear anymore," said Wentzell-Cuc. "We have to evolve as a fire service. We have to make changes according to the science and proof that's out there so that we can be around for our families."
For firefighters who are still hesitant, she said, said there's going to be a time when it will become overwhelming.
"They're going to go to a class and someone is going to say, 'Why is your helmet and gear so dirty?' They're going to be embarrassed," she said.
After all, if the fire service were to always to remain the same, then firefighters would still be putting out fires with water buckets.
"I am grateful that I work at a department that realizes the need to evolve, and I'm glad to see that a lot of other departments in the community are getting on board with it as well," Wentzell-Cuc said.
Sarah Calams previously served as Associate Editor of FireRescue1 and Fire Chief. In addition to her regular editing duties, Sarah delved deep into the people and issues that make up the fire service to bring insights and lessons learned to firefighters everywhere.
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Jacksonville mom finds new use for breast milk, designs jewelry
Lactation Creations is a store specializing in unique jewelry made from breast milk that is molded into the shapes of feathers, eggs, bees and more.
Author: Erica Santiago
Published: 7:41 PM EDT October 25, 2018
Updated: 3:07 PM EDT October 29, 2018
A local mother is showing support to Jacksonville's motherhood community by creating personalized jewelry out of her customers' breast milk.
Lactation Creations is an online jewelry store founded by Jesikah Black, a mother of two and certified lactation counselor.
The store specializes in unique jewelry made from breast milk that is molded into the shapes of feathers, eggs, bees and more.
“It’s just a way to help these moms I’m supporting with breastfeeding to just be proud of what they’re doing," Black told First Coast News. "Breastfeeding is something to be so proud of. It’s harder than we think it’s going to be.”
Black got the idea for the project while working with her clients as a lactation counselor.
"I started seeing other moms who are having trouble breastfeeding and just need a little more support," she said. "I go to their house, I help them breastfeed, I get them latched, and just help support them through it, because sometimes it can be hard."
Over time, her clients started to make an interesting request -- can she make her clients jewelry out of their breast milk?
"[The trend] is like the buzz between moms, breastfeeding moms," Black explained.
After a year of research, Black started Lactation Creations and has received jewelry requests from local moms as well as moms from as far as Australia.
Though the designs are intricate, Black says it's a very simple process that only takes about 15 minutes.
“I found this really great non-toxic preservative that I can use [to preserve the milk]. It’s more like a hardener," she said. "Think of when you get your nails done and you put your hands under the UV light – that’s basically what I do."
Black says she boils the milk to rid of any bacteria and eliminate the chances of mold. She then mixes the clear preservative with her clients' milk, pours the solution into a mold and places the mold under a UV light.
"...And it hardens like that," she said. "It turns it essentially into a little gemstone.”
She lets the jewelry set for at least a day to ensure there are no imperfections. Then she ships them in colorful cloth pouches she calls Mammary Glam Bags.
“It’s made with care, it’s made with love," she said. "I love what I do, and this is just another way for me to show my community that I’m here for them.”
Each piece comes with a lifetime guarantee and a special promise from Black.
"I will keep making it. If it gets lost, cracked, or turns blue or green or whatever, I will replace it for you," she said. "It is my promise that you will have a beautiful piece of jewelry for a lifetime.”
Black says "I wanted you to be able to wash your hands and do whatever you want – change diapers, you know, we’re busy."
Breast milk can be used for a variety of things and has plenty of healing properties, according to Black.
"My pediatrician told me to get rid of a clumped tear duct with my breast milk," she said. "I was putting breast milk in my kids’ ears, eyes, everything. It’s good for the skin."
"I mean I can take a bath in my own breast milk, but I don't," she said with a laugh.
Black, who is still breastfeeding her own children, says she understands the struggle of motherhood and also hosts support groups and classes for local mothers.
She hosts a support group every second Thursday of the month at Southside Baptist Church in San Marco, she hosts classes in Nocatee.
“My daughter, she’s my first [child]. Me and her had a terrible time. It took three months to figure out how to breastfeed properly," Black said. “There’s a quote that I like. It says, ‘Breastfeeding is natural like falling in love – not breathing.’ We come out, we know how to breathe, but you don’t come out knowing how to love. You have to work on that."
To learn more about Lactation Creations, click here or follow the store on Facebook and Instagram. Black also has a Facebook page where she gives advice to local mothers.
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When Bad Supervisors Happen to Good People: The Price of Poor Supervision
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By Steve Oppermann on August 9, 2007 in Human Resources with 0 Comments
“If I could make a bar graph to chart the subjects on which I get e-mail every week, one subject would tower over the others: managers. You have bad managers, you could do a better job than your own manager. You are a new manager and don’t know what you’re doing. You are a new manager and just want a little respect. You are a new manager and you miss your old non-managerial job. You wish your company offered your managers some training. You wonder whether training would actually help. You want to go home and hide under the covers.” [Washington Post columnist Amy Joyce, as quoted in the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) report titled “First-Line Supervisors in the Federal Service…”] (emphasis added)
In Part 1 of this series, I talked about the fact that many FedSmith.com readers who have responded to my articles have expressed concern about what they see as ineffective supervisors. In this article, I’m going to focus on what the NAPA report called “The Price of Poor Supervision” and related topics.
The NAPA report stated, albeit in language less colorful than Ms. Joyce’s, that:
“It is difficult to quantify the precise cost of supervisory deficiencies, but even a small deficiency could result in a loss of billions of dollars. Data indicate that this problem involves more than ‘a small percentage’ and real costs could be considerably larger. Without solid programs for identifying, developing, and managing first-line supervisors, agencies pay an enormous price in several ways:
Job performance suffers. As key managers where the work gets done, supervisors are critical to agency mission accomplishment. They may be the most important factor in their individual work unit’s performance and productivity.”
I would go even further, postulating that supervisors are the most important factor in their work unit’s performance and productivity. And that cuts both ways: good supervisors can be the driving force behind excellent group performance and productivity; bad supervisors can have just the opposite effect.
“Poor supervision drives good employees away. Reports from OPM, MSPB, and others have noted the impact of poor supervision on moral and turnover. Also, undesired turnover…adds recruitment and training costs.”
The idea that poor supervision drives good employees away is by no means confined to the Federal sector. For example, a Gallup report dated April 19, 1999, found that “employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers and supervisors. The impact that a supervisor has in today’s workplace can be either very valuable or very costly to the organization and the people who work there.” (emphasis added)
Tim Rutledge, Ph.D., in a May 1, 2006, article chimed in:
“It’s a well known truth that people don’t leave companies, they leave supervisors. Supervisors are the most important ingredient in the overall employment experience. Their behaviour will create either engaging or disengaging employment experiences for their staff…”
Clearly, front line supervisors are critical to their employees’ perceptions of their jobs. And employees are highly attuned to how their supervisors use power. Organizations that want to keep their top performers will also want to assess supervisory candidates for how they’re likely to use power. As long as such assessments are left out, the door is open for the boss from hell to waltz in.
‘Nearly all men can stand adversity. If you really want to test a man’s character, give him power.‘ –Abraham Lincoln”
Dan Woolridge captured similar thoughts in “The Boss from Hell”:
“‘Rapport with the boss largely predicts risk for depression and other psychiatric problems in the workplace,’ says Brad Gilbreath of Indiana University-Purdue University in Fort Wayne. His study, published in the journal Work and Stress and reported in Psychology Today this month, found that a worker’s relationship with the boss was almost equal to his relationship with his spouse when it comes to the impact on his well-being. A rewarding job or even good relationships with coworkers cannot compensate (for) a negative relationship with the boss. (emphasis in original)
The Gallup surveys and Brad Gilbreath’s work confirm that the number one reason for employee turnover and, perhaps, the number one reason for lower than expected work productivity is not workers, but bosses. It also appears that poor boss performance may affect the long term health of company employees, and that will become a financial issue.” (emphasis added)
The third and final item NAPA noted under the heading “price of poor supervision” was:
“Problems that require third-party intervention increase. Supervisory behavior impacts the number of grievances and complaints filed by non-supervisory employees. The cost for resolving these issues can be very significant.”
Sometimes the number of grievances and complaints in a work unit increases because the supervisor tries to do the right thing, such as dealing with performance and conduct problems; I advise supervisors that morale usually improves when the situation has been resolved. However, supervisors can also trigger grievances and complaints by behaving in an inappropriate manner and/or by tolerating those who do so. I believe that, as a general rule, if morale declines in an organization productivity is likely to follow it downward, so I always tell supervisors that it is in their best interest to maintain a consistently high level of morale.
Where do some supervisors go wrong?
I’m convinced that the overwhelming majority of supervisors (like non-supervisory employees) come to work each day intending to do a good job.
Sometimes, as astute FedSmith.com readers have observed, the “system” fails after the supervisor has been selected, when higher levels of management do not provide adequate training and guidance and/or fail to stand behind a supervisor who appropriately attempts to deal with problems in the workplace.
Other times, the system fails earlier – namely, in the selection process. As noted in the earlier article, NAPA found that often the agency places more value in its crediting plan on the technical aspects of the job than on its supervisory component. When that happens, the selection process is more likely to identify the best technical candidates than the candidates with the best experience or potential to be an effective supervisor.
What kinds of supervisory behaviors most antagonize subordinates? According to a Baltimore Sun article from April 26, 2006:
“…the fact remains that bosses have some across-the-board behaviors that drive employees wild. Witness a recent online survey by DDI and its partner Badbossology.com. When asked what they’d fire their bosses for, the 1,062 respondents complained about bosses they couldn’t trust, bosses who micromanaged them, bosses who didn’t give them opportunities to grow and bosses who took credit for employees’ work and ideas.
Treating employees with little or no respect is probably the No. 1 complaint workers have about their supervisors, experts say. Some bosses belittle employees’ ideas, refuse to delegate work, (and) rarely ask employees what they’re thinking…” (emphasis added)
Here is a little parable from Charles Hopkins’ article “New Supervisor: Prepare for Your Changed Role,” parts of which hit uncomfortably close to home for me:
“George spent several years as an auditor in his company’s internal auditor’s office. He was known for his expertise and dynamic character. His supervisor and others rarely challenged his findings. He knew that his conclusions would be accepted, giving him a rather high opinion of himself as an auditor. He had all the answers.
Because of his excellent track record, he was selected to be the chief of his unit when his supervisor retired. He felt comfortable that he could handle the job without any problems.
However, when he actually took over, he found that his people did things differently than he did. He felt that, since they did things differently, they must be wrong. He wasn’t willing to see other ways of doing things. For example, he had developed a writing style that seemed to work for him. It was flowery, using very bureaucratic language. Consequently, he felt that the way he always wrote was the best. And he was going to make sure that all his auditors would write the same way. He became very demanding, correcting their audit reports and making them do them over many times before he was willing to accept them. Plus, he treated them as if they were incompetent.
George soon found himself alienated from his employees. They avoided him as much as possible. When they were faced with having to redo their reports, they grudgingly rewrote them with as little contact with him as possible. Reports started coming in late. This further enraged George, which led to his calling meetings where he severely chastised his employees. It all became a vicious cycle.”
I first became a supervisor, as a section chief, at the age of 27 with only four years of experience in the Federal government, so I was selected more on potential than experience, and had a huge amount to learn. In an office of about eight employees, two of my new subordinates contested my selection, so it was a good thing that tact and diplomacy were among my few skills.
Like “George,” I had trouble learning to delegate authority and responsibility to subordinates. I, too, was very comfortable with my writing skills and style and was convinced that my editing of draft documents improved the quality of the written products that left our office. In theory that wasn’t a bad thing, but what often happened was that I changed the drafts of my subordinates so much that they couldn’t even recognize them, which was more about my ego than about developing their skills.
I only supervised one employee at a time in each of my next two jobs, so while I’m sure I inadvertently made those two people suffer mightily, at least the harm I could do was limited by the small size of my staff.
In my next position I supervised about a half-dozen personnelists, followed by a job which required me to supervise more than twice that many and one, as Regional Director of Personnel, in which I supervised 25-30 employees through four branch chiefs.
When a reorganization eliminated our region, among others, I jumped to another agency, where I initially supervised about six classification specialists, assistants and clerks; then more than a dozen staffing and classification specialists, as well as processing assistants and administrative staff. At the end of my career, I was back to supervising one person, which may not have been coincidental.
In the early years, most of my errors as a supervisor were made out of ignorance, which is far more excusable than the ones later in my career, when I typically knew what to do and how to do it but didn’t always have the intestinal fortitude to take prompt and effective corrective action when conduct or performance problems arose. Another major flaw was that I did not “manage by walking about” as General Electric’s Jack Welch used to advocate. I was also inconsistent in holding staff meetings, often canceling them when another priority would pop up, and I was not nearly as good as I should have been in responding to questions/issues raised by employees. What I learned, belatedly, is that an employee who asks a supervisor a question or raises a concern actually expects an answer, and in a timely manner at that.
In the next article, I’ll discuss not just what I learned from my own long, checkered career as a supervisor and manager, but also what knowledge I gained from my various supervisors over the years. I will also attempt to defend my theory that one can learn just as much about effective supervision, if not more so, from a bad supervisor as from a good one.
© 2019 Steve Oppermann. All rights reserved. This article may not be reproduced without express written consent from Steve Oppermann.
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Steve Oppermann completed his Federal career on March 31, 1997, after more than 26 years of service, virtually all in human resources management. He served as Regional Director of Personnel for GSA and advised and represented management in six agencies during his federal career. Steve passed away after a battle with cancer on December 22, 2013.
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Battle to Break Up OPM Intensifies
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The latest move in the Trump administration’s push to restructure the Office of Personnel Management could involve laying off up to 150 federal employees at the agency.
This news was reported by the Washington Post. The news outlet obtained an internal briefing document which said that 150 OPM employees could be furloughed and eventually laid off permanently after 30 days if Congress blocks the Trump administration’s plans to break up the agency.
The Washington Post quoted acting OPM director Margaret Weichert who confirmed the possibility of the layoffs but called them a “last resort” that was trying to be avoided. The White House had previously said that it did not foresee the OPM restructuring involving any employee layoffs, but that was obviously before Congress started to fight the changes.
Jacob Wood, spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement to FedSmith:
As the Administration has shared publicly on many occasions, the Congressionally mandated move of background investigations to DOD leaves OPM with a major funding shortfall. We continue to work with Congress to find a solution and sustainable path forward that avoids unacceptable impacts to the staff at OPM. Unfortunately, issues of funding and appropriations law leave OPM with few options. It is our sincere hope that Congress helps us find a way to address the funding gap created by their decision to move a major funding source away from OPM.
Wood also noted that any issuance of furlough notice, as required by Congress and in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3502(d), requires a 60 day notice.
Changes Proposed for OPM
The Trump administration has cited significant and ongoing problems plaguing OPM as evidence of the need to break it up. Among them are IT security problems that led to two massive data breaches which left the personal data of over 20 million current and former federal employees vulnerable and an ongoing backlog of retirement applications of federal retirees that never seems to improve, even by the agency’s own standards.
Under the Trump administration’s proposal, OPM’s functions would be divided among three agencies: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
DoD would oversee background investigations, and the human resources functions performed by OPM would move to GSA. President Trump has already issued an executive order to move the background investigations over to DoD.
OPM’s policymaking functions would be moved to the Executive Office of the President (EOP). A government reorganization report described this change as follows:
Once complete, a transition into the EOP could create a more streamlined personnel management unit that is less expensive to operate. Such a unit would also support centralized coordination of all personnel policies for Federal employees, eliminating the confusing matrix of who does what today, as well as several key gaps in policy that are inhibiting the streamlining of mission support services. Centralizing human capital operational services at the General Services Administration (GSA) should provide economies of scale and significant cost-avoidance based on reductions in contract and IT duplication as well as increased data sharing and availability.
House Democrats are fighting the proposed changes. Some requested that funding be blocked that would go towards restructuring OPM. Also, a spending bill that recently advanced in the House would block any funding for reorganizing OPM. The bill also contains a 3.1% pay raise for current federal employees.
On the Senate side, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) questioned the benefit of the changes and said he wants to see a solid business case being made for restructuring OPM.
Lankford told the Washington Post, “I want to see how this plan is cheaper for the taxpayer and better for the federal workforce. It’s hard to get to a determination of how this makes things better.”
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The Tree Squirrel Slam: How a Small-Game Biologist Tagged All 8 U.S. Bushytail Species
By Johnathan O Dell
Johnathan O'Dell is the small game biologist for the Arizona Game and Fish Department. He's also a seriously dedicated squirrel hunter. O'Dell says he prefers hunting the bushy-tailed tree-dwellers over any other game because of the skill level required. "Being a really good squirrel hunter requires you to utilize all your collective hunting knowledge and skills," O'Dell says. "You have to read sign and the woods, listen for squirrels over other noise and stay alert for visual cues. You have to move swiftly yet silently or sit motionless for long periods. Squirrel hunting requires different techniques and tactics, depending on weather, season, behavior and location." If anyone would know, it's O'Dell. In 2009 he happened to be traveling to destinations within the ranges of all eight tree squirrel species native to the United States. "I seized the opportunity and made plans to try and take the U.S. Slam of tree squirrels," he says. "It wasn't until after I finished the hunts that I learned I may very well be the first hunter to ever accomplish this feat." This is O'Dell's first-person account of his journey to becoming the Squirrel Master of the U.S.
by Johnathan O'Dell September 25-26, Eureka, California, Western Gray Squirrel. The Western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus; also known as the silver gray or Columbian gray squirrel) is found in the conifer and oak forests of California, Oregon, and Washington. Feeding on pine nuts, acorns, fungi, bark, and some plants, they bury acorns for winter (scatter-hoarding) like the Eastern gray squirrels do. They prefer forests with trees that have interlocking canopies to travel from place to place.
The first leg of the trip was to California where my friend Tim Carlson joined me. It's always best to share hunting trips with a friend and a second set of eyes comes in handy as well. Western gray squirrels are incredibly wary. They will hide or slip away if you don't stay quiet while walking game trails and hiking paths. We heard them knocking cones and twigs out of the trees and stalked in closer for a shot. We were both surprised at how big the Western gray squirrels were, and especially at the size of their beautiful tails.
September 25-26, Eureka, California, Douglas Squirrel. The Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii; also known as the spruce squirrel or chickaree) occupies the high elevation mixed conifer forests of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. When it's not eating pine cones, it's storing them in large caches called middens to eat during the cold winters of mountaintop living. The Douglas squirrel was the hardest to find good hunting information about. It was probably more luck than anything that they occupied the same woods where we found Western Grays. We only found them in Douglas fir trees, which were named by the same gentleman as the squirrel. Go figure. Because of their size, you'll need a few to make a good-sized meal.
October 9, Tonto Creek, Arizona, Arizona Gray Squirrel. The Arizona gray squirrel (Sciurus arizonensis) is found mostly in Arizona, ranging slightly into New Mexico and northern Sonora, Mexico. Actually a fox squirrel, the Arizona gray gets its name from its fur coat, which resembles that of the Eastern gray squirrel. Eating its favorite food, walnuts, will cause it to have characteristic stains on its paws, face, and belly from the juices. It also feeds on acorns, beech nuts, flowers, fungi, berries, and pine cone seeds. It prefers mountainous mixed forested riparian drainages.
I'm fortunate to live in Arizona where four of the eight species are found, and two of those species can only be found in my home state. One of those, the Arizona gray squirrel, can be challenging at times. I see more of them in the first part of the season (October) rather than later when they are more active because of ripened nuts hitting the ground. They can also flatten out on a branch and not move for over an hour, so you have to be patient to bag them. Be aware that black bears like the same food and habitats these squirrels do, so don't be surprised if you see one while waiting for a squirrel, I did.
October 24, Woods Canyon Lake, Arizona, Abert's Squirrel. The Abert's squirrel (Sciurus aberti; also known as the tassel-eared squirrel) can be found in the four corner states (AZ, CO, NM, UT) and Mexico. They are linked closely with Ponderosa pine as a food resource. They eat the inner bark of fresh growth and the pine cone seeds, and use the Ponderosa pine as their living quarters. Arguably the most handsome squirrel, they sport long ear tufts from fall through the spring breeding season.
Part of the world's largest contiguous Ponderosa pine forest covers Arizona's Colorado Plateau. In late October, I picked out a stand of mature trees with fresh clippings underneath and took a seat. Minutes later I had curious squirrel walking out on a branch to check me out. After the first one, two more fell without me having to budge an inch. Abert's squirrels are almost never found alone.
October 24, Woods Canyon Lake, Arizona, Red Squirrel. The red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; also known as the pine or barking squirrel, chickaree, mountain boomer, boomer, or fairy diddle) are found in mixed conifer forests from the west coast of Alaska to the east coast of Canada, the Rocky Mountains and surrounding areas as far south as Arizona and New Mexico, and from the Great Lakes states to the Appalachian Mountains as far south as Georgia. Like the Douglas squirrel, they store pine cones on the ground in earthen structures called middens. They are extremely territorial and will bark at any intruder for as long as they are annoyed by them. To bag a red squirrel in Arizona I moved out of the ponderosa into the spruce-firs and listened for their chatter, then I walked towards them, stopping when they quit talking. Once I invaded their space, out they'd come to yell at me. These are probably the least difficult of all the squirrels to hunt.
For me, the best way to find more eastern gray squirrels is to show up well before dawn, pick a spot with the best viewing ranges, take a seat and wait for shooting light. Of course I hit the ground running in late Novemeber while in Missouri. I scouted the woods the previous day looking not only for squirrels, but obvious signs of them like feeding sign (hulls of nuts). When you find a well used feeding tree, you'll want to be nearby the next morning.
November 14-15, Clinton Lake, Kansas, Eastern Fox Squirrel. The Eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger; also known as the fox, cat, red, or stump-eared squirrel) overlaps much of the same range as the Eastern gray with the exception of New England (where it is absent). They eat much the same foods as Eastern grays, but are not nearly as abundant or as densely populated. They prefer more open hardwood forested habitats with little to no undergrowth. I reached Kansas in late November and found the Eastern fox squirrel loves trees in windrows or wood lots next to grain fields. Usually you can spot their big leafy nest balls up in the trees after the leaves have fallen. I also found a few fresh hedge apples torn apart that let me know the nests were still active. I took an early morning front row seat and waited for the show.
December 10-13, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, Mexican Fox Squirrel. The Mexican fox squirrel (Sciurus nayaritensis; also known as the Nayarit, Apache, Apache fox, Chiracahua, Chiricahua fox, Chiricahua Mountain, or Chiricahua nayarit squirrel) lives in only one mountain range in Southeastern Arizona and then south through the mountains to Jalisco, Mexico. Very secretive and quiet, they feed on acorns, pine cones, bark, fungi, and fruits. They are not proficient climbers and are often only seen after falling from a tree.
Spot and stalk is the only way to go on Mexican fox squirrels.Their population density in Arizona is very low, so you have to cover a lot of ground to put yourself in contact with one. Consequently, once you take one you should quit hunting for the rest of the day because you'll wear yourself out looking for another. I spent 2 days trying to locate the one you see in this picture. It was a gratifying experience to finish off the slam with this squirrel.
Most books and magazine articles only cover how to hunt fox and gray squirrels in the East. If you are interested in Western squirrels, talk with the individual state small game biologists. They can provide you with information about where to go and how to hunt. In many states, if you pick your hunting spot carefully, you can bag more than one species in the same day. You just have to look for a diversity of forest types that are either mixed together or right next to each other.
I chose to do the slam with a Remington 870 was because it's a favorite gun of mine and also based on recommendations from taxidermists. Pellets do less damage to the pelt because I practice shooting squirrels with just the edge of the pattern, a technique known as "edging." I used #6 shot with an improved cylinder choke.
I always carry a Squirrel Buster call from Primos. I like it because it gives me a wide range of sounds that I can always mix with different hunting styles and techniques for each squirrel. More often than not, I first use it as a locator call to get the squirrels to bark and let me know where they are. Once I've found the branch prancer, I'll use it again to get them to stop moving or bring their attention to me.
Squirrels have some pretty amazing teeth to be able to chew through the hard shells of nuts and rip pine cones apart. A surefire way to find out if squirrels are in the area is to look on the ground for feeding sign. This includes nut shells, cone scales, clipped ends of branches and fruit skins.
I love squirrel hunting because it requires fundamental skills that apply to all hunting. Francis E. Sell said it best: "One cannot be a mediocre squirrel hunter, and at the same time a skillful deer hunter. The two techniques go together." Another benefit is there are no scores and every squirrel is a trophy. Squirrel hunting is pure and simple and anyone can do it.
With 8 native species of tree squirrels, 52 recognized subspecies, and myriad color varieties, you could spend the better part of a lifetime and still never get them all. The best part is that every state in the lower 48 has at least one squirrel within its boundaries.
The journey ended with :
13 days afield
3,248 air miles
2,472 road miles
27 squirrels taken
2 bear sightings
12 Breakfast burritos
1 roll of antacids (bad burrito)
1 box of cold/flu medicine (sitting in the rain too long)
1 pair of new boot laces.
$1800 total taxidermy
So what's next for me? Well, I suppose I'll keep chasing squirrels until the bitter end. I hear there are more tree squirrels in Mexico. Maybe I'll try for the North American Slam!
Johnathan O'Dell is a small game biologist in Arizona, which helps make him one heck of a squirrel hunter. In this story, he talks about the individual characteristics of all eight native squirrel species in the U.S. and explains the tactics he used to tag one of each in a single season.
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JANUARY 12, 1922 THE DETERMINATION OF DOWNWASH* By Lieut. WALTER S. DIEHL, Bureau of Construction and Repair, U.S.N. Introduction.—It is obvious that, in accordance with Newton's second law, the lift on an aerofoil must be equal to the vertical momentum communicated per second *to the air mass affected. Consequently, a lifting aerofoil in flight is trailed by a wash which has a definite inclination corresponding to the factors producing the lift. It is thought that sufficient data, theoretical and experimental, are now available for a complete determination of this wash with respect to the variation of its angle of inclination to the originating aerofoil and with respect to the law which governs its decay in space. Munk's Formula for Downwash..—Although it has long been known that the angle of downwash «, as observed at a given point behind the aerofoil, is directly proportional to the lift of the aerofoil (British A.C.A., R.'and M. No. 196) and inversely proportional to the aspect ratio (Lanchester, Aerial FKgkt.Vol. 1, Chapter VIII, British A.C.A., R. andM. No. 161). Munk (Technische Berichte III-i) seems to have been the first to propose a quantitative solution. He asserts that e must be represented as the product of some constant and the angle of attack as expressed by the formula (Betz, T.B. 1-4), a =57-3 2L (S) fo- Data taken at X=£.33 c to 1 "S r 1 <s V -52 \ — - 1 U^ •te' 1 <s^ J0^"^ ^^r— -a£^H FIG. 1. Anale of Attack •ac "j Variation of angle of downwash with depth Y below upper wing. From R. and M., No. 426, Fig. 7. where b is the span, Lc is the lift coefficient and S is the area of the aerofoil. The formula for downwash then becomes f^C.a=5Z^ 2LC ® the value of the constant c being determined by experiment- The formula as given applies to monoplanes, but may be applied to multiplanes, according to Munk, by the intro duction of another constant k which reduces the span b to the span of the equivalent monoplane. The values of c were determined for several models by photographing a series of streamers. Owing to the lack of certain vital data, the results have not been included in this study, but the conclusions are given instead. It appears that the equation, as given above, is not general. The values of c vary somewhat more than is allowable for a " constant." No attempt was made to determine the variation of c with aspect ratio, nor was any allowance made for the inevitable dying out of the wash effect in space. It appears, however, that the angle of downwash is substantially constant over about eight-tenths of the span, with sudden changes near the tips. N.P.L. Formula.—The most comprehensive series of tests on downwash, which have been published, are those by Sandison, Glauert, and Jones (British A.C.A.. R. and M. No. 426). In this investigation the variation of downwash was determined in space for a number of points behind, above, and below the trailing edge of the aerofoil. It was * Technical Note No. 42 of the American National Advisory Committee f or Aeronautics. found that, in accordance with hydrodynamic theory, f the angle of downwash decreases exponentially -with the distance from the aerofoil (a biplane in this case), and might be expressed by the empirical formula f = f(t 10 - 0-06 -•>•<»>£ where £ is the distance behind the wing in chord lengths, I is the distance below the chord of the upper wing in terms of the gap, and (0 is a constant for any given arrangement. This appears to have been the first attempt to express the variation of t„ from point to point. With a satisfactory law for the variation of f„ it would have been complete. Derivation of a Comprehensive Downwash Formula It is now possible to derive a comprehensive downwash formula based on the Gottingen theoretical and the N.P.L. empirical formulae. It is known definitely that downwash varies exponentially with distance from the trailing edge. The plotted results of N.P.L. investigations, which show this variation vertically and horizontally, are given in Figs. 1 and 2, respectively. The data in Fig. 1 have been replotted on a logarithmic scale in Fig. 3, with the vertical distance from the trailing edge expressed in chord lengths plus one Data iaken at Y~0.5c Angle of Attack -cc '5 Variation of angle of downwash with distance X behind wings. From R. and M., No. 426, Fig. 7. chord length! as abscissa and angles of downwash as ordinates. It is found that for a given angle of attack, the angles of downwash at various vertical distances from the trailing edge lie on a straight line. The lines corresponding to the various angles of attack are all parallel and have a slope of -i3°io-5°. This indicates that the variation of angle of downwash with vertical distance from the trailing edge can be represented by an equation of the form : • = c, (y + 1) ", where cx = a constant, y = the vertical distance, of the point under consideration, in chord lengths, from the trailing edge, and w = tan (—13° ± 0-5°) = — 0-23 ± 001. In a similar manner the data from Fig. 2 have been plotted in Fig. 4. The points again fall near parallel straight lines, but their slope, -210 ±0-5°, is steeper than that in Fig. 3. The indicated variation of the angle of downwash with variation of horizontal distance from the trailing edge is of the form € — C„-(X + 1)" where cs = a constant, x = the horizontal distance, of the point under consideration in chord lengths, from the trailing edge, and « = tan (— 210 ± 0.50). = - 0-38 ± o-oi. t See Lanchester. Aerial Flight, Vol. 1, Chap. III. 1 This is necessary so as to provide a finite value at the trailing edge. 24
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Brush up on your anti-corruption controls
By Ken Tysiac
Governance and risk
A new, detailed description of what constitutes corruption can help company executives shape their controls and remain compliant when doing business in foreign markets.
Globalisation and the movement of business activities to emerging markets has led to increased focus from officials in many nations on preventing bribery and corruption.
One example of that increased focus is stepped-up enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by regulators such as the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The law’s anti-bribery provisions apply to all US persons, certain foreign issuers of securities, and foreign firms or persons who cause corrupt payments to occur in the United States.
The two US government agencies have released a 120-page guide providing a detailed analysis of the agencies’ approach to enforcement of the FCPA, which is designed to prevent bribery and corruption of foreign officials by companies seeking to gain a competitive business advantage.
The FCPA was enacted in 1977, and enforcement by the DOJ and SEC has been stepped up in recent years as business has become more global.
In every full year since 2007, the SEC has announced FCPA enforcement actions against at least ten companies, according to a list provided on its website. Enforcement actions were much less frequent before 2001. In 2010, the SEC created a special unit to enhance FCPA enforcement.
“The fight against corruption is a law enforcement priority of the United States,” Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the DOJ’s Criminal Division said in a news release. “Our FCPA enforcement is critical to protecting the integrity of markets for American companies doing business abroad, and we will continue to make clear that bribing foreign officials is not an acceptable shortcut.”
The US is not alone in the attention it is paying to bribery and corruption. The UK Bribery Act 2010 set rules for offences covering the offering or payment of a bribe as well as the accepting or receiving of a bribe.
The UK law also expanded the scope of regulation to include commercial bribery in addition to bribery of government officials. China’s anti-corruption laws were amended in 2011, and India’s government has proposed toughening its anti-bribery laws to prevent corruption in the private sector.
The DOJ and SEC’s release is designed to aid businesses practising in foreign markets.
The US Chamber of Commerce, a business advocacy group that has pushed for more clarity on FCPA enforcement, called the new guidance “an important step forward.” Harold Kim, executive vice president of the US Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform, said that, previously, a lack of clarity of interpretation of the FCPA has led to overcompliance by US companies.
Kim said US companies have pulled out of deals in foreign countries because of the lack of certainty about the FCPA. He said it is helpful to have one unified, detailed document containing specific hypotheticals and examples of why the DOJ or SEC declined to prosecute certain companies. But the US Chamber still has concerns.
“While it’s a helpful document, it’s nonbinding,” Kim said. “It says so in the disclaimer. And it can’t provide the kind of certainty that actual legislation or a statutory change would make. It’s not as though you can base a motion to dismiss on what’s said in the guidance.”
The guide contains a chapter that describes the FCPA’s accounting provisions, and defines who is considered a foreign official and the difference between proper and improper gifts.
“This guide will protect investors by assisting businesses in preventing such unlawful behaviour, thus avoiding FCPA violations in the first place, which is in the interest of law enforcement and business alike,” Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, said in a news release.
Accounting guidance
In one chapter, the guide explains that the FCPA’s accounting provisions operate in tandem with the anti-bribery provisions and prohibit off-the-books accounting.
The “books and records” provision requires companies to keep records that accurately and fairly reflect transactions and dispositions of assets. The “internal controls” provision requires companies to maintain internal accounting controls that will ensure management’s control, authority and responsibility over the firm’s assets.
According to the guide, a company’s internal controls and compliance programme should be tailored to its specific circumstances with regard to operational realities and risks such as:
How products or services get to market.
The nature of the workforce.
The degree of regulation.
The extent of government interaction.
The degree to which the company operates in countries where there is a high risk of corruption.
The guide says there is no one-size-fits-all FCPA compliance programme, but describes aspects of compliance programmes that the DOJ and SEC assess during investigations. These include:
Commitment from senior management and a clearly articulated policy against corruption.
A code of conduct and compliance policies and procedures that are clear, concise and accessible to all employees and those conducting business on the company’s behalf.
Oversight and implementation by senior personnel with the proper authority, autonomy from management and resources to be effective.
Effective due diligence, assessment and analysis of the risks a particular company faces.
Periodic training on policies and procedures for directors, officers, relevant employees, agents and business partners.
Incentives for ethics and compliance leadership, and proper disciplinary procedures.
Due diligence with regard to third-party agents, consultants and distributors.
Mechanisms for confidential reporting by employees, and efficient, reliable internal investigations.
Periodic testing and review.
In addition, the guide says the FCPA applies to corrupt payments to any officer or employee of a foreign government, and those acting on the foreign government’s behalf. This definition of a foreign official means corrupt payments to low-ranking employees – as well as high-level officials – are prohibited.
Although payments to foreign officials are banned, payments to foreign governments are not prohibited, according to the guide. But the guide says companies considering payments to foreign governments should take steps to ensure that no funds are used for corrupt purposes.
Only payments intended to influence a foreign official to use his or her position to assist in obtaining or retaining business are covered by the FCPA, the guide says. Payments of travel and entertainment expenses do not necessarily violate the FCPA, the guide says, but the DOJ and SEC have brought cases where these types of expenditures were believed to be corrupt.
In the foreword to the guide, Breuer and Khuzami state that law-abiding companies are put at a competitive disadvantage when business is won or lost based on how much a company is willing to pay in bribes.
“Investors must have faith that the economic performance of public companies reflects lawful considerations of markets, price and product,” Khuzami said in a news release, “rather than a mirage resulting from bribery and corruption.”
Paul Pelletier, a former prosecutor for the DOJ who now practices in the FCPA group at international law firm Mintz Levin, said the new guidance should be helpful for companies and demonstrates the circumstances in which the DOJ and SEC are likely to prosecute.
“They’re there to prosecute cases where companies have bad compliance programmes, bad tone at the top, or payments are being made with an absolutely, positively corrupt intent,” Pelletier said.
—Ken Tysiac (ktysiac@aicpa.org) is a CGMA Magazine senior editor.
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Rangers: Marcus Browne could be the next big star
By Matt Davies
It was a solid first season under Steven Gerrard, wasn’t it? Yes, finishing second behind Celtic can never fully be deemed a success, but there were many positives to take. However, in honesty, if they are to close the gap, more investment is needed.
So, who are Rangers looking to bring in? Let’s have a look at one name below.
It has emerged in recent days that both Rangers and Celtic are interested in West Ham winger, Marcus Browne. Goal reported that the youngster, who played his football on-loan at Oxford United last season, will get his chance to impress Manuel Pellegrini during pre-season.
Still, they claim that plenty of clubs are interested in the man with just one year left on his contract.
But what would the exciting Englishman bring to Rangers? Well, the 21-year-old scored nine goals and claimed five assists in 44 league games last season. Additionally, he impressed in West Ham’s U-23 side just the year before, netting six goals in just 12 games. We’ve seen the likes of Moussa Dembele and Patrick Roberts thrive on the other side of Glasgow after leaving English football at a young age to hone their craft, so it’s a well-trodden path and one that has yielded success in seasons gone by.
These are impressive figures for such a young forward. Hailed by Terry Westley for some of his work in East London, he has certainly built up a fairly strong footballing pedigree during his short career.
Goal report the West Ham hierarchy were very pleased with what they saw of his time at Oxford and they say a number of Championship clubs were interested, but Browne opted to stay in League One, where he quickly made a name for himself. Frankly, for the reasons we’ve already explained, it’s not difficult to see why Rangers would want him.
Browne has an abundance of pace, while clearly also having an eye for goal. Perhaps he could even become Rangers’ next loan star after witnessing Ryan Kent’s incredible displays last season. We all know what Kent is capable of, netting six times in a hugely impressive season, though is future does appear to lie elsewhere. Missing that kind of attacking verve, perhaps Browne can fill what would be a void should Kent not return.
Should Browne be as capable, or even more so, Rangers could have a genuine player on their hands.
Rangers fans, would you be excited to see Browne at Ibrox? Is he the man to help close the gap with Celtic? Comment below…
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Olaf Stiller is CEO of Paedi Protect AG and Deputy Chairman of the association „Die Jungen Unternehmer/BJU“ (German Association of Young Entrepreneurs), where he leads the region Mittelhessen.
Born in 1977 in the German city of Marburg, Dr. Stiller finished his studies in business administration with honors in 2002. In the year 2005 he received his PhD in economics for his work on the economic potential of innovations in the area of nano- and biotechnology. He also pursued research in the field of entrepreneurship. Dr. Stiller was awarded a doctoral scholarship under the talent promotion program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
He co-founded NanoRepro AG in 2006, where he then served as managing director from 2006 to 2013. He also co-founded Formycon AG in 2007. He actively accompanied both companies from their foundation until their listings on the stock market.
Following completion of his studies in banking and finance, Hermann Vogt worked from 1987 to 1994 as a bond trader at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. He then joined Deutsche Bank, where he served until 2002 as managing director responsible for a significant portion of its bond trading activities. He subsequently held senior positions at LBBW in Stuttgart, where he headed bond trading until 2004, and at Eurohypo AG, where he managed its public finance business for the next two years. Since 2008 he has been managing director of AA ASSET CONSULT GmbH, a Frankfurt-based investment and trading firm.
Following his training as an industrial manager at Dr. Oetker in Bielefeld, Peter Wendeln joined Milchhof Ice Cream, near Düsseldorf, where he worked until 1992, ultimately as sales manager. After this he studied at the Academy of Business in Hanover, Germany. At this point he moved to Wendeln GmbH & Co. KG, near Cloppenburg in the north of Germany, a large bakery company with leading German brands (Golden Toast, Lieken Urkorn), where he headed the company’s sales and marketing activities. He continued in this position following the acquisition of Wendeln by Kamps AG in 1999.
Since 2003 Mr. Wendeln has been managing partner of Wback GmbH. In this role he established Wback with its manufacturing sites in Bönen (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Leipheim (Bavaria) as the most modern producer of soft bread rolls (e.g. for Burger King). In 2014 he successfully sold the main part of the company to a financial investor, since which time Mr. Wendeln has been managing partner of Wendeln & Cie. Asset Management GmbH.
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