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Many rosters in exceptional flux as camps open
By RONALD BLUM� AP Baseball Writer
Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Craig Kimbrel and Dallas Keuchel won’t be around when the bat and ball bags are opened at spring training throughout Florida and Arizona this week.
They are among the dozens of free agents still looking for jobs, joined by Mike Moustakas, Marwin Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez and Gio Gonzalez.
For the second straight winter, camps are opening with many rosters in exceptional flux.
"The market will sort itself out," St. Louis Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. said at last week’s owners’ meetings. "There is a long time between the end of the season and spring training, and there’s maybe not so much a sense of urgency on whichever side it happens to be."
Among the 164 players who exercised free agency rights at the end of last year’s World Series, 84 had announced agreements on the eve of spring training. That is up from 65 of 166 at roughly the same point last season but down from 105 of 158 two years ago.
Boston added J.D. Martinez last Feb. 26 and Philadelphia brought in Jake Arrieta on March 12. All but 26 of the free agents last offseason eventually reached deals, but some with big-money contracts flopped after late starts: Yu Darvish joined the Chicago Cubs on Feb. 13, went 1-3 and didn’t pitch after May 20 because of arm problems. Eric Hosmer finalized his agreement with San Diego on Feb. 19 and hit a career-worst .253 with 69 RBIs. Alex Cobb signed with Baltimore on March 26 and went 5-16.
A drawn-out negotiating process means clubs have lost time in marketing new acquisitions, which seems especially significant to a sport coming off three straight years of attendance declines. Average attendance dropped below 30,000 last year for the first time since 2003.
"We want players signed, particularly star players. I wish they were signed and ready to go," baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Friday. "We got another week before they have to report. I’m really hopeful that it’s going to get resolved during that period of time."
Oakland takes the field first, starting workouts Monday in Mesa, Arizona. Seattle follows Tuesday in Peoria, Arizona, with both teams getting early starts because they open the season in Tokyo on March 20-21, a week before other teams get underway. Every other club launches practice Wednesday or Thursday except for Atlanta, which waits until Saturday.
Six new managers are in charge for the second straight spring training and five of them are big league rookie skippers for the second straight year. Rocco Baldelli (Minnesota), David Bell (Cincinnati), Brandon Hyde (Baltimore), Charlie Montoyo (Toronto) and Chris Woodward (Texas) are first-timers running a big league dugout, joined by the Los Angeles Angels’ Brad Ausmus, Detroit’s manager from 2014-17.
One of last year’s rookie managers was Alex Cora, who led Boston to its fourth World Series title in 15 seasons. The Red Sox hope to become the first team to win consecutive titles since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees.
"Repeating is tough," Cora said. "It starts with the players. People are going to talk about hangovers and all that and the banquet circuit. It’s part of it. But they’ve been disciplined enough."
New baseball operations heads are in charge of three teams: Mike Elias (Baltimore), Farhan Zaidi (San Francisco) and Brodie Van Wagenen (New York Mets).
Among the major trades of the offseason, Philadelphia obtained catcher J.T. Realmuto from Miami, St. Louis got first baseman Paul Goldschmidt from Arizona and the New York Mets got second baseman Robinson Cano and closer Edwin Diaz from Seattle. In the free-agent market thus far, Washington added left-hander Patrick Corbin and the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder A.J. Pollock, Atlanta got third baseman Josh Donaldson and Colorado picked up second baseman Daniel Murphy.
By March 28, when most teams open, many rosters will look significantly different. The Mets and Phillies have noticeably bolstered theirs. Others chose rebuilding and appear to have little chance to reach the postseason: Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kanas City, Miami, Seattle and Toronto.
"There’s always been players available in February or March," Van Wagenen said. "I think there’s been a higher volume of more-recognizable names than in the past."
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Thunder has plenty of motivation tonight
Scott Linesburgh
STOCKTON - Garet Hunt and his Thunder teammates aren't going to be worried about past history or divisional rivalries when they show up at the Stockton Arena.
They will get all the motivation they need from being back in Stockton and glancing at the ECHL standings.
The Thunder returns to the arena in its home opener at 7:30 p.m. today and will trying to get its first win of the season against the Ontario Reign. The last time the teams were on the same ice, the Thunder beat the Reign in the seventh game of last season's first-round playoff series.
Hunt said the teams are developing a spirited rivalry in the Pacific Division, but the Thunder's main concern is victories after dropping a three-game series to the Idaho Steelheads last weekend.
"We want it to be intense because we're 0-3 right now," Hunt said. "What happened last year was last year, but I think it's going to be more intense because we're 0-3 and we need to respond. This is our home opener and it's a chance to respond."
Thunder coach Matt Thomas said one of the most important goals for the Thunder is to get its offense going against Ontario (1-1). Forward Judd Blackwater had a good series against the Steelheads, scoring in each of the three games, and rookie forward Chris D'Alvise had a goal and two assists in the series.
"We have to capitalize on our scoring chances, we have to play more offense than defense and we have to stop turning the puck over and keep it in their end," Blackwater said.
And the Thunder is glad to be home.
"It's good to be able to play in front of our crowd, and obviously our goal is to bring them a winning team," Thomas said. "I know they are going to be loud and are going to be excited."
Contact reporter Scott Linesburgh at (209) 546-8281 or slinesburgh@recordnet.com.
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Data will play key role in libraries
Friedel Grant reports back from the LIBER 2013 conference where data publishing and crowd sourcing were major themes
Writer and historian Shelby Foote is quoted as saying, ‘A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.’
It was with this quotation that Peter Strohschneider, chairman of the German Council of Science and Humanities, began his keynote speech at LIBER’s 42nd annual conference in Munich, Germany.
‘The library is a place in which learning and research happens, and in which knowledge orders are created,’ continued Strohschneider. ‘As Foote suggests, the library lies at the very heart of the academic experience. A university without a library is more or less unthinkable. This being the case, Foote’s perspective raises some important questions when we consider the future of academic libraries.’
Strohschneider went on to explain how some of the most notable research discoveries can be attributed to serendipity. These accidental revelations can, however, be thwarted by the current enthusiasm for modern search engines which only lead researchers to targeted results.
From this opening talk, the future of libraries was repeatedly explored over the three days of the conference – particularly in relation to the vast quantities of data currently being created and the library’s role in helping researchers to manage and sift through that data.
With two new scholarly articles being published every minute, Jan Velterop asserted that structures such as nano-publications would become an essential tool for researchers to identify relevant material. This would, in turn, require libraries and publishers to adjust to a new world where the scientific journal was valued more as a source of raw material, in which researchers could look for knowledge patterns, than something to read.
Liz Lyon, director of the United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking, also spoke about how libraries need to move away from print-based traditions to regarding themselves as data publishers, with relevant services and data-savvy staff.
This was followed by Geoffrey Boulton of the University of Edinburgh who pointed out that he and his students no longer use libraries as a place of research.
‘Why don’t I go there anymore? The reason simply is that there has been a revolution in the way the processes of science are done. The revolution has continued. It hasn’t worked itself through. It’s technologically driven and it’s probably faster than the revolution by which Gutenberg destroyed the business model of the late medieval monastery. The question is if it is destroying the business model of research libraries as we now see them.’
To respond to this change, Boulton urged libraries to talk directly with researchers about their needs and find innovative ways of supporting them.
‘We need a new breed of informatics trained data scientists as the new librarians of the post-Gutenburg world,’ he said.
In light of the current data deluge, and plans by the European Commission to harness this deluge through the implementation of e-infrastructures for data-driven science under Horizon 2020, Carlos Morais Pires, from the European Commission’s DG Connect, also issued a call to action to libraries to engage in the data infrastructure and bring their own unique, and now much needed competencies, to bear in bringing meaning to, and spreading the word about, data-driven science.
In addition to the main speakers, the various workshops, parallel sessions and panel discussions at LIBER 2013 allowed participants to hear the views and experiences of some 50 library professionals from around the world. The work of projects such as Europeana Newspapers (working on the aggregation and refinement of 18 million digital newspapers) and Medoanet (a network advocating for open-access strategies in Mediterranean countries) was highlighted, and the use of crowdsourcing was another recurring theme.
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard from the Royal Library of Denmark spoke about the library’s recent initiative Denmark Seen From The Air (Danmark Set Fra Luften). It presented the public with 200,000 pictures of farms and asked people to help locate the farms on a map, and to add relevant information such as information about who lived there.
The poster that was voted best of the conference also featured crowdsourcing. It profiled the Digitalgud project, in which 18 Estonian memory institutions uploaded photos of unidentified people and places to Facebook. In just 10 days, the page attracted over 1,000 followers and most of the photos were identified.
Friedel Grant is communications officer at LIBER. A version of this article also appears on the LIBER blog. Presentations from LIBER 2013 can be downloaded on the conference website and video highlights are available on LIBER’s YouTube channel
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'Don't reject global talent from the UK'
Laura Wheeler reports on a panel debate aimed at ensuring that the UK remains at the heart of global science and engineering
Yesterday morning (21 January), a group of invited parties convened at the House of Lords to discuss a newly launched report from the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), in which the government is called upon to improve its immigration policies. This report proposes ways in which the government can maintain the UK’s status as a leading global hub of science and engineering, offering 12 positive recommendations.
Digital Science was sponsor of the event which included: a prestigious panel debate chaired by Lord Nigel Crisp, a lively floor discussion, and a short summary from the company's chief scientist, Jonathan Adams. The aims of the morning’s discussions were to examine the findings of the report, where CaSE argued that the government’s anti-immigration rhetoric and immigration policies are putting the UK’s future economic and scientific success at risk.
Kicking off the roundtable was the newly appointed president of the Royal Society, Venki Ramakrishnan. This influential post adds to his already impressive CV, which includes a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2009. Born and educated in India, Ramakrishnan is also deputy director of the MRC’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He opened the discussions by highlighting the value of immigration to the UK research base, drawing on his own international experiences. He presented an interesting tidbit to the group – three of the last five presidents of the Royal Society have all been immigrants.
Ramakrishnan added: 'The UK’s “welcoming attitude” to immigrants is one of the reasons the UK has a world-class research base.'
Touching upon the application process, he considered how tedious procedures may put off Tier 1 applicants, the route used for outstanding and promising talent, quipping that they would very likely have put him off as well. In line with one of the CaSe report recommendations, he suggested that exceptional talent and peer-reviewed applications should be fast-tracked. In addition, Ramakrishnan pointed out that the UK benefits from overseas science and engineering students, whether they stay or leave after study.
Next to the floor was Andy Furlong, director of policy and communication at the Institution of Chemical Engineers. As someone embedded in the UK engineering community, Furlong outlined the value of immigration to the UK engineering community and explained how the talent pipeline is reliant on an international marketplace that benefits both migrant and home researchers by sharing skills and building networks.
Migration provides a crucial element in meeting demand for engineering and the government should actively promote the UK as a destination for engineers from all around the world, making it easy for them to come to the UK. He added that politicians must stop pandering to the prejudices stirred up by some press and parts of society. Furlong concluded: 'Rejecting global talent is at our own peril.'
Assistant director at CaSE, Naomi Weir, was next to the mic to outline the main findings and recommendations of their report. The report was informed by an extensive literature review and a call for evidence that attracted more than 100 responses from individuals and organisations in the public, private, and charity sector. These were then followed up with over a dozen one-to-one interviews, two stakeholder meetings and an advisory group to explore the issues.
Weir went on to highlight a few recommendations but encouraged everyone to take the time to read all 12 of them. She added that the government needs to support international researchers in maintaining links with their home countries in order to promote international development. Immigration supports brain circulation around the world, which can be a positive thing for all countries – but we must also ensure brain drain does not occur only in one direction, she said.
Weir explained how CaSE is eager to work with the government to make sure the UK remains a global science hub: 'We need to promote the UK as a place to “earn and learn”. Immigration is essential to the continued strength of the UK science and engineering base and this government has the opportunity to leave a positive legacy through its immigration policies.'
Weir added that our economic and cultural future depends on us getting off this slippery slope of negative policies. The positive steps that the report has outlined will help send a message that this is the goal of this government. Weir concluded: 'We hope our report will prove useful to those in government, and outside it, tasked with achieving this.'
The final panel member to take the stage was Alan Manning from the Migration Advisory Committee, who is also Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. Manning opened with the following statement: 'When I look out of the window, I see everything is related to STEM.'
Manning continued onto the changes proposed by the latest MAC report, a review of Tier 2: balancing migrant selectivity, investment in skills and impacts on UK productivity and competitiveness, which was published on 19 January. He acknowledged that there are some recommendations in this report people would not be so enthusiastic about.
Currently, to apply for a Tier 2 (general) visa, you must be a skilled worker from outside the European Economic Area and have a certificate of sponsorship from a UK employer who holds a valid Tier 2 sponsorship licence. There is an annual cap on the number of Tier 2 visas that can be granted, which stands at 20,700. Those with yearly earnings over £150,000 are excluded from the cap.
The recommendation made by CaSE is that the Tier 2 cap is sending out a terrible message to the world that the UK is not welcoming valuable workers and believes that it should be abolished or the government should seek to mitigate its impact. The MAC report, however, recommends a Government proposal to introduce an immigration skills charge.
Manning explained that universities should be asked to pay an immigration charge of £1,000 a year for each skilled migrant worker they hire. This means the immigration service charge for a three-year visa would cost £3,000 and a five-year visa £5,000. The MAC report calculates that presently this would raise over £200 million a year and the revenue should be used to support firms that boost the human capital of UK residents.
He explained that their report’s recommendations are not unreasonable and offer balance, with the aim of the charge being to incentivise employers to reduce their dependence on migrant staff.
Once the panel discussions came to an end, Lord Crisp opened the floor to a healthy debate that concluded with some final sentiments from Digital Science's chief scientist Jonathan Adams. Back in 2013 Adams analysed papers from the past three decades and found that the best science comes from international collaboration.
Adams concluded: 'The UK has an excellent collaborative network which must be maintained for the benefit of research quality. Collaboration is a British strength; it offers a competitive advantage for the UK.'
We encourage you to read the full report from CaSE here: You can also join in the discussion online using #caseimmigration
Laura Wheeler is community manager at Digital Science
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July/ August 2004
CORPORATE PROFILE OF:
Two renowned publishers under one brand
The organisational merger between the two scientific publishing companies Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) that was announced in February 2004 has now largely been completed. Since the start of July, Springer-Verlag and KAP have been operating under the joint 'Springer' brand.
A new logo has also been developed, and will appear on the majority of products in time for the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. As part of the organisational merger, all divisions are now globally organised, including the publishing, sales, and marketing activities. This will ensure global coordination of the programme and a uniform customer service in the future.
The new company has, among others, offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, Vienna, London, New York, Boston and Tokyo.
As a result of the merger, Springer is now the world's second-largest supplier of scientific literature. Its range of products includes 1,250 journals and some 3,500 new book titles a year. The 'old' Springer-Verlag traditionally focused on clinical medicine, biomedicine, life sciences, economics, statistics, physics, engineering sciences, mathematics, and computer science. By merging with KAP, publications in the humanities and the social sciences have enriched Springer's programme.
Springer is part of the specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media, which owns 70 companies throughout the world that produce both scientific literature and specialist information for the business-to-business sector.
New strategy
'Our strategy is to achieve growth from our own efforts, enhance efficiency, and pursue an innovative product policy,' Derk Haank, CEO of the specialist publishing group, emphasises. Mr Haank was appointed CEO in October 2003, and initiated the merger process with Kluwer Academic Publishers when he took up his post in February 2004.
In the science, technology and medicine (STM) sector, Derk Haank is increasing investments in journals, which he claims are gaining ground due to the developments taking place in online publishing. As part of the merger process, Springer-Verlag and KAP have reviewed their business policies in this area.
Author's choice
Effective from July 2004, authors who publish articles in scientific journals can choose between two different publication models. In addition to the existing subscription model, they also have the option of choosing the new Springer Open Choice model.
This model is a novelty because the author, and not the user, assumes the costs of quality and service in the publishing process. His or her article can be freely accessed by the public; the full-text version can be read and downloaded free-of-charge via the online SpringerLink service, without any access restrictions.
As Derk Haank explains, this business model is designed to service the market's new needs: 'The existing traditional subscription model has put us well on our way to efficiently connecting the entire research community electronically. At the same time, however, we want to respond to the demands of the small group of researchers, and certain publicly funded research communities, which are advocating even wider unlimited access to scientific content and who are in a position to pay for that service. Springer Open Choice is therefore not a matter of either/or. We want to offer our authors both options and let them choose. Ultimately, the customers will decide what they want.'
If authors choose the Open Choice model, they will pay a fee of US$3,000, once their article has been reviewed and accepted by the editorial board. The article is then published in both electronic and printed form.
There are no differences between the actual articles published in the Open Choice and the conventional model. They will all be subjected to the same strict, scientific review process and will appear in the established journals.
Articles will also go through Springer's full article processing service, including editing, production, and distribution through the established worldwide channels. Springer will ensure that the articles are linked to all the usual international reference systems in electronic publishing, and will also provide the standard indexing and abstract service. In addition, the articles continue to be protected by full copyright in both electronic and print form.
Digital archiving
Also since the merger, a journal archive project has been initiated and will give researchers almost comprehensive online access to the content of the back issues of all journals published by Springer-Verlag and KAP. The aim of this project is to digitise articles starting from the very first issue. The first backfiles will be launched on the market in January 2005.
Sabine Schaub, Springer Science+Business Media
Tel: +49 30 / 827 87-5282
Fax: +49 30 / 827 87 5707
Email: sabine.schaub@springer-sbm.com
Web: www.springeronline.com
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51s shut out Bees for fifth straight victory
By Todd DeweyLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
After falling short in his bid to become the Blue Jays’ fifth starter, Aaron Laffey got off to a rough start for the 51s.
But the veteran left-hander turned in his best outing of the year Sunday, taking a no-hitter into the sixth inning and limiting Salt Lake to two hits in seven scoreless innings to help Las Vegas to a 8-0 victory at Cashman Field.
“I’m starting to get into a groove and get comfortable,” said Laffey (1-4), who lowered his ERA from 7.20 to 5.63. “I’m starting to throw the ball well.”
Reliever Bobby Korecky allowed one hit in two innings to finish Las Vegas’ second three-hit shutout in 10 games. The 51s (15-16) have won a season-best five straight games and nine of 10 after opening 6-15.
“We got off to a rough start, but we’ve done a great job of staying in there and turning it around,” David Cooper said. “We’re hitting the ball better, we’re pitching better and we’re playing great defense.
“It’s a lot more fun coming to the field every day the way we’re playing.”
Cooper had two home runs and three RBIs, and Anthony Gose added a two-run blast as the 51s hit three homers for the second straight day.
Las Vegas will try to complete a four-game sweep of Salt Lake (15-16) – which has lost 10 of 11 – at 10:35 a.m. today on School Day.
Cooper, who has three homers in two days and four this season after hitting nine last year, also doubled to lift his average to .333.
“I’m getting some pitches to hit and fortunately, right now, I’m not missing them,” he said. “My swing feels really balanced at the plate and I’m seeing the ball well.”
Yan Gomes went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs to raise his average to .388, Ricardo Nanita had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 11 games and Chris Woodward and Mike McCoy supplied two hits apiece in the 14-hit attack.
The 51s, who have outscored their opponents 40-13 during the win streak, plated three runs each in the first and third innings.
Cooper belted a two-run bomb to center in the first inning and Gomes drilled a run-scoring double to left-center for a 3-0 lead.
Gose and Cooper went back-to-back in the fourth for a 7-0 advantage. Gose launched his first homer of the year over the right-field wall and Cooper followed with a shot to right-center.
Laffey, who has spent most of the past five seasons in the majors – going 21-23 with a 4.34 ERA for the Indians, Mariners and Yankees – retired 13 straight batters after issuing a two-out walk to Kole Calhoun in the first.
John Hester led off the sixth with a single to break up Laffey’s no-hit bid in his longest outing of the year.
“It’s nice to get past six,” the 27-year-old Laffey said. “That’s your goal, to go six-plus every time you’re out there. You don’t want to leave games early.”
Contact reporter Todd Dewey at tdewey@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0354.
SALT LAKE 0
■ KEY: Aaron Laffey and Bobby Korecky combined on a three-hitter, David Cooper had two home runs and Anthony Gose also homered.
■ NEXT: Bees (RHP Garrett Richards) at 51s (RHP Jesse Chavez), 10:35 a.m. today, KBAD-AM (920)
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ATP Turns Film set for South Cares’ School to Work Program
Words: Moira Saunders ATP
Tue 5 Aug 2014, 04:30 PM
ATP was transformed into a film set when local high school students spent the day on-site filming their latest project for South Cares’ School to Work Program.
On Wednesday, 6 August, the Park’s grounds, buildings and cafes were used as a backdrop for the students’ Framing Health films – a project students have been working on with University of Sydney graduates.
Souths Cares run the School to Work Program for year 11 and 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pupils to help identify and develop their own education and employment outcomes. As part of the Program, participants partner with Sydney University students and create videos that promote healthy living.
Souths Cares General Manager, Shannon Donato, said the exercises aim is two-fold.
“This is a great project for students as it gives them a creative outlet to design and produce a number of useful video health messages,” said Shannon.
“It also gives them the opportunity to collaborate with graduates on a project that exposes them to university life, encouraging them to consider further education as an option.
“ATP was a fantastic place for the project with all the open spaces providing a range of options for filming a variety of scenarios. We are really grateful we were able to use the Park as our set.”
The students will work on their films over the coming months, and a screening day will be held in ATP’s theatrette towards the end of October to showcase the films, celebrate their hard work, and promote the School to Work initiative.
South Cares is the charity arm of the South Sydney Rabbitohs and has a long standing partnership with ATP who sponsors their programs and has worked with the organisation on a number of projects and events.
Their programs give children and young people from Redfern and the surrounding areas the opportunity to take part in a series of health and education workshops that aid social and physical development.
Souths Cares would like to extend their sincere thanks to ATP as well as the University of Sydney’s Social Inclusion Unit – Compass – for their ongoing support.
Souths Cares' School to Work Program is also proudly supported by the Australian Government.
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Rabbitohs sign Steven Marsters for the 2020 season
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Home page > About us > News > Gareth Hancock appointed Director of Royal Academy Opera
Gareth Hancock appointed Director of Royal Academy Opera
The Royal Academy of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of Gareth Hancock as Director of Royal Academy Opera from next academic year, 2016/17.
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, the Academy’s Principal, said: ‘I’m delighted that Gareth Hancock will be taking over the reins of Royal Academy Opera from July 2016 after outstanding periods of leadership under Iain Ledingham, Anthony Legge and Jane Glover. The post of Director of Opera attracted some exceptional candidates from all over the world as we looked to appoint a top-class musician with a truly inspiring educational vision. As we move into an especially exciting era with the construction of our new theatre, Gareth’s remarkable qualities will help RAO to consolidate and develop its reputation as one of the world’s very best opera schools. I much look forward to working with him in the years ahead.’
Gareth Hancock is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music and is currently the Academy’s Head of Preparatory Opera. He has conducted at Glyndebourne, Opera North, English Touring Opera, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia, amongst many others. As an accompanist he has appeared at all the major London venues and throughout Europe and the USA. Opera magazine wrote ‘Gareth Hancock did not miss a trick’ in his conducting of Royal Academy Opera’s Walton/Berkeley double bill in May 2015. He will conduct Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night for Royal Academy Opera in Spring 2016, part of an imaginative series of opera ‘on the road’ during the construction of the Academy’s new theatre.
Jane Glover, Director of Royal Academy Opera since 2008, will conduct Le nozze di Figaro at Hackney Empire in October/November in the opera directorial debut of Janet Suzman. Tickets are available now. From July 2016, Professor Jane Glover will become the Royal Academy of Music’s first ‘Felix Mendelssohn Emeritus Professor of Music’ — in which role she will continue to contribute to the Academy’s musical life as a conductor, coach, mentor and researcher.
The Royal Academy of Music has an outstanding reputation for training some of the most talented singers for professional operatic careers. Royal Academy Opera is a specialist and intensive postgraduate programme for those with the potential and aspirations to succeed as principals at the highest international standard. It provides a highly focused study period in which advanced singers work closely with the Academy’s distinguished singing professors and prestigious visiting artists (including Thomas Allen, Barbara Bonney, Susan Bullock, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, Dennis O’Neill and Brindley Sherratt) and gain unrivalled performance experience.
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Daube Delivers on Senior Day for R-MC Men's Swimming vs. Catholic
ASHLAND, Va. - Senior Alex Daube (Hampton, Va./Hampton) earned a second and a third-place finish as the Randolph-Macon men's swimming team dropped a 218-44 decision to Catholic on Senior Day on Saturday afternoon.
The Yellow Jackets were missing three of their top performers on the men's side against the Cardinals.
Daube took second in the 100 Breast in 1:02.16. He was third in the 200 Breast in 2:25.33. Daube teamed with junior Connor Seif (Trent Woods, N.C./New Bern), junior Jordan Witherow (Mechanicsville, Va./Lee-Davis) and sophomore Matt Howard (Fredericksburg, Va./James Monroe) to take fourth in the 200 Medley Relay in 1:46.13. He joined Witherow, freshman Andrew Carr (Chestertown, Md./Kent County) and sophomore Jacob Cox (Montpelier, Va./Patrick Henry) to finish fourth in the 200 Free Relay in 1:36.48.
Witherow was third in the 200 Fly in 2:05.39. He finished fourth in the 200 Free in 1:53.12.
Howard was fourth in the 200 Back in 2:09.72, the 100 Fly in 59.71 and in the 400 IM in 4:45.16.
Senior Owen Wright (Ashland, Va./Patrick Henry) finished fourth in the 50 Free in 25.07 and in the 100 Free in 55.74.
Seif placed fourth in the 1000 Free in 11:00.18.
Cox finished fourth in the 100 Back in 1:01.47.
Carr was fourth in the 500 Free in 5:42.74.
Randolph-Macon concludes its regular season next Saturday, traveling to Roanoke to swim against Greensboro and the host Maroons. The ODAC Championships will be held Feb. 9-11 in Greensboro, N.C.
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Ioana Moldovan
Ioana holds an MA in English, German, and film studies in Romania and Germany. A natural people’s person, film enthusiast, Balkans and Berlin addict, she is happy to combine these passions in any way possible. When she is not writing for Romania-Insider.com she works for international film festivals and (ideally) travels a lot. Email: [email protected]
Submitted by ioana.m on Sun, 12/27/2015 - 10:45
Romanian film review – Three stories for the holidays
It's that time of the year again and I hope it's as happy and harmonious as possible. If you do feel like having a break from eating and family visits, however, you could watch any or all of the short films below for amusement, distraction, practical advice or simply to be grateful if your Christmas does not resemble some of these scenarios.
Let's start off with a classic, one of Toma Caragiu's funniest sketches, O, brad frumos. Caragiu is one of my favourite comedians and I am happy for every chance to feature his work. His deadpan delivery and comic timing are flawless and they are particularly impressive in a series of comic episodes that were aired on Romanian television in the 1970s. The one about the ideal set-up of the Christmas tree in a (then) contemporary designed apartment is hilarious, highly quotable, and inspirational indeed.
For something more contemporary, have a look at Captivi de Crăciun/Stuck on Christmas (2010), a story of four people stuck in a provincial train station when their train to Bucharest gets delayed. It may not be the most original film about a group of people stuck somewhere but it has its fair share of funny moments. Anyone who got stuck in the middle of nowhere waiting for their train to arrive or at least for some details about the delay will cringe and empathise.
O faptă bună/A Random Act of Kindness (2015) is a completely different story where the jokes are more subtle and more biting for that. With the saying in mind that 'no good deed goes unpunished', director Andrei Gruzsniczki sends his middle-class Bucharest to do some shopping on Christmas eve. When they see a stray dog who had been hit by a car, they decide to rescue it. It's Christmas after all and one should be particularly kind. But when they take it to a vet, things start to spiral out of control.
Happy holidays, dear Romania insiders, and may they bring the perfect tree, punctual means of transportation, no (relationship) drama, and happy, healthy pets.
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A Random Act of Kindness is streaming on HBO GO, the station's video-on-demand platform. You can watch it here if you have an account.
by Ioana Moldovan, columnist
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Submitted by romaniainsider on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 13:30
Teva Romania names new general manager
Israeli pharmaceutical group Teva Pharmaceuticals named Romanian Stana Moisescu as general manager of its local subsidiary Teva Romania.
Moisescu has been a key-member of the company’s local team since 2010. Before that, she worked as a financial director at IT group Ness Romania after previously working 12 years for pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline.
Teva is one of the biggest producers of generic drugs in the world. The group has been present in Romania since 2006. Teva’s business in Romania reached EUR 55 million in 2016, the latest year for which financial data are available at the Finance Ministry. The company had over 100 employees.
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Political conventions: From Bryan to Palin, their words echo through the ages
Neal Simon
With the nation turning its attention to the 2012 race for the White House, I have compiled excerpts from several notable convention speeches of the past. Some of these quotations come from famous addresses, while others are taken from more obscure offerings. In either case, the words offer a glimpse into our political history.
Mitt Romney will accept his party's nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Thursday night. The GOP confab will be followed by the Democratic Party gathering in Charlotte, N.C., from Sept. 3 to 6, to renominate President Barack Obama.
“If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
William Jennings Bryan, 1896 Democratic Convention in Chicago
“So, here we are at this convention to remind ourselves where we come from and to claim the future for ourselves and for our children. Today our great Democratic Party, which has saved this nation from depression, from fascism, from racism, from corruption, is called upon to do it again — this time to save the nation from confusion and division, from the threat of eventual fiscal disaster, and most of all from the fear of a nuclear holocaust.”
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco
“Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth... Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”
Sen. Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican Convention in San Francisco
“The grandeur of a people comes from their moral and spiritual character. Today that grandeur is corroded by intellectual dishonesty and corruption among public officials. The drip, drip, drip from dishonor in high places plays a part in the increasing of crime among the people. These acts do not make for free men.”
Former President Herbert Hoover, 1952 Republican Convention in Chicago
“We know it will not be easy to campaign against a man who has spoken and voted on every side of every issue. Mr. Nixon may feel that it's his turn now, after the New Deal and the Fair Deal, but before he deals, someone's going to cut the cards.
Sen. John F. Kennedy, 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation's highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it.”
Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, 1980 Republican Convention in Detroit
“Long ago, a young farmer and a haberdasher from Missouri, he followed an unlikely path — he followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency. And a writer observed, “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity,” and I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman. I grew up with those people. They're the ones who do some of the hardest work in America, who grow our food, and run our factories, and fight our wars. They love their country in good times and bad, and they're always proud of America.”
Gov. Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Hoover and Cuomo were not candidates at the conventions noted above. Cuomo would toy with the idea of making a presidential run for several cycles, earning the nickname "The Hamlet on the Hudson" for his indecision. In the end, Cuomo never ran for president.
John F. Kennedy won one of the closest presidential elections in history in 1960, and became the 35th president of the United States. In 1980, Reagan defeated President Jimmy Carter and became the oldest man to hold the office of president. He was re-elected in 1984.
Barry Goldwater lost in a landslide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, and remained in the U.S. Senate.
Sarah Palin did not get elected vice president. Neither would she finish her first term as Alaska governor, resigning the office. She remains a popular Republican speaker and fundraiser.
William Jennings Bryan lost the 1896 presidential election to Republican William McKinley. The national popular vote was McKinley 51 percent to Bryan's 47 percent. In the Electoral College, McKinley received 271 electoral votes to Bryan's 176 (224 were needed to win).
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Russia’s new T-50 fighter jet ‘almost a flying robot’ – developer
Published time: 25 May, 2015 15:38 Edited time: 27 May, 2015 06:11
RIA Novosti / Grigory Sisoev © RIA Novosti
Innovative technologies used in the Russia’s fifth generation T-50 fighter jet, which is currently undergoing tests before the start of production in 2016, makes it more of a flying robot than a plane, the developer said.
The Sukhoi PAK FA fighter jet, also known as T-50, is “already to some degree a flying robot, where the aviator fulfils the function not only of pilot, but is actually one of the constituent parts of the flying apparatus. That is, the reaction of the aviator is a part of the control loop,” Vladimir Mikheev, an advisor to the deputy head of the Radioelectronic Technologies Concern [KRET], said.
According to Mikheev, another innovative featured employed in the T-50 jet fighter is “smart paneling.”
"If we take the wingtip, from one perspective it functions as a wing, but from another it's also a part of the Himalaya active defense system," the official is cited by Sputnik news agency.
KRET, which is a unit of state-run Rostech Corporation, has delivered the batch of Himalaya systems for the aircraft in October last year.
“The unique system of active and passive radars and optical rangefinders is integrated into the aircraft body and acts as a 'smart skin'. Its use not only enhances the aircraft’s protection against jamming and its survivability, but also counters, to a great extent, the effects of low-observability [stealth] technology of enemy aircraft," the developer explained back then.
Previously, KRET said that T-50 is going to have the most advanced stealth capabilities, leaving even the only combat-ready fifth-generation fighter, the US Air Force's Lockheed F-22 Raptor, behind.
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“The T-50 is now ahead of not only all other fighters of the Russian Army, but also foreign models. For example, the visibility of the American fifth-generation F-22 fighter is 0.3-0.4 square meters," the developer stressed.
The Sukhoi PAK FA’s visibility stands at between 0.1 and 1 square meters, KRET added.
Such high level of stealth was achieved by moving all weaponry s the inside of the jet and redesigning the shape of the air intake channel, which was also lined with a material that absorbs radio waves.
According to KRET, T-50 is the first jet fighter in the Russian Air Force to be “made from a high proportion of composite materials, making up 25 percent of the mass of the aircraft and covering 70 percent of its surface."
The T-50 is set to replace the Sukhoi Su-27 and Mig-29 fourth generation fighter jet, which entered service in 1985 and 1983, respectively.
Five T-50 jets have already been produced and three more are now under construction at the Sukhoi facilities in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East, Vladislav Goncharenko, deputy director of the United Aircraft Corporation's (UAC's) combat aircraft department, said in December.
READ MORE: Russia to deploy fifth-gen fighters, S-500 missiles in 2016
The Russian Air Force plans to purchase 55 T-50 fighter jets between 2016 and 2020, Goncharenko said in December.
Russia to deploy fifth-gen fighters, S-500 missiles in 2016
India ready to spend $25bn on Russian 5G fighter jets
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SRF makes two acquisitions
NEW DELHI (Sept. 9, 2008) — Polyester maker SRF Ltd. said it has bought Thai Baroda Industries Ltd. and the belting fabrics business of South Africa-based Industex Technical Textiles (Pty.) Ltd.
Thai Baroda makes dipped nylon cord aimed mainly at the tire industry. It has a capacity of about 12,000 metric tons per year and brings SRF's total tire cord capacity to 65,000 metric tons per year. The firm said this makes it the second largest Nylon 6 tire cord fabric manufacturer in the world. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
SRF acquired the belting fabrics business of Industex for $4.4 million. The South Africa-based company has an annual production capacity of about 3,500 metric tons of belting fabrics with annual sales of about $16 million. With this deal, SRF said it improves its world ranking from the third largest to second largest player in the belting fabrics industry.
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Salinas enjoying new role as IISRP leader
Bruce Meyer
Bruce Meyer Juan Ramon Salinas (left) and James McGraw pose at the IISRP offices.
HOUSTON—The International Institute of Synthetic Rubbers Producers didn't have to search very far to find its new managing director.
The Houston-based institute that advocates for the interests of SR producing firms and others affiliated to the industry chose as its new leader Juan Ramon Salinas. He has been based in Houston since 2001 for his job with Dynasol Elastomers S.A., the past seven years as worldwide commercial and marketing director.
Salinas took over the post July 1 from James McGraw, who retired after leading the IISRP since 1999. McGraw is working closely with Salinas during a three-month transition period and also is serving as an adviser to the group's Executive Committee for a year.
Dynasol was formed in 1999 as a joint venture between Repsol S.A. and Mexico's Grupo Kuo S.A.B. de C.V. (formerly Negromex). It makes SSBR, ESBR, SBS, SEBS and nitrile rubber.
Salinas has been in the rubber and plastics industry for more than 35 years, the past 17 years in rubber. He was with Negromex when the JV was formed and then was transferred to Dynasol.
Salinas vividly remembers his start day in Houston as Sept. 27, 2001. He was supposed to arrive in the city on Sept. 13, two days after the tragic events of 9-11. It was two weeks before the airports reopened and he finally was able to take over his position as logistics and customer service manager.
The new director of the IISRP has a technical background, but his career has spanned all areas of the rubber business. His degrees are in chemical engineering, with his career starting on the technical side in quality control. He then moved into plant operations, became a plant director and entered Dynasol in the technical service department for customers.
His career with Dynasol then moved more into the management and commercial areas, with much more dealings with customers worldwide.
Prior work with IISRP
Salinas started becoming active in the IISRP about a decade ago. At first, he just attended meetings of the statistical committee, not as a representative but as an observer.
Then in 2007 he was named Dynasol's representative with the IISRP in the Americas section. He then served as vice president of the section in 2013-14 and as president in 2014-15, which brought with it a two-year stint on the Executive Committee.
From this perspective, he was able to see first-hand the value of the IISRP to its members. “I think the role of the institute is as the promoter/advocator/organizer of the interests of the synthetic rubber producers,” Salinas said in an interview at IISRP headquarters in Houston.
This also allowed him to see the impact of the rubber industry in the global economy through relationships with other sectors such as automotive and transportation.
“Really in numbers of producers, it's not a big amount, but it has an important impact in your life,” he said. “If you don't participate in this type of institute, you can't really see the scope of the impact.”
Salinas believed the IISRP, founded in 1960, has done a good job in representing its members. “One of the things I really appreciate for the institute is the statistical information that we receive,” he said. “The key factor is that the information is provided by the producers themselves. They provide it, and the IISRP organizes it, taking into account the secrecy of the information.”
Juan Ramon Salinas
Road to managing director
McGraw first told the Executive Committee in 2013 that he was looking to retire in 2014. He was asked to stay around because the IISRP was well into its last strategic plan, and the group wanted him to follow through on certain key elements.
At the IISRP Annual General Meeting in Japan in 2014, he said he definitely was planning to retire. Normally, the Finance Committee would be tasked with recruiting a new director, but members instead asked him to lead the search.
“That's not always fair to the incumbent, because inevitably you're going to look for someone to do the job just like you did it,” McGraw said. “And that's really not fair (to the incoming leader), because you need to give them a chance to look at it from a different perspective.”
Many people expressed interest, some of whom he didn't feel were serious about the job. Two or three were serious, but none really fit the bill.
One was brought in from Asia to interview, but soon it was clear it wouldn't work out. Another expressed interest late in the process, but McGraw said this candidate didn't want to commit to give the position the six- to eight-year commitment the IISRP sought from its new director.
At the same time, Salinas was taking stock of his career as he was approaching 60. At the Japan meeting, he was talking with another IISRP member and said he might find the job interesting, but he'd have to think about it carefully. A couple of months later, another member contacted him to gauge his interest.
Salinas felt his experience across the technical, plant operations and commercial sides of the rubber industry would help him in this position.
McGraw heard of Salinas' interest and asked that they meet. After Salinas told him he was serious about pursuing the post, the official process started. Salinas said he had the full support of Dynasol in seeking the post, as McGraw required him to tell his employer of his interest to avoid a conflict with an IISRP member company.
“I did a formal interview with him,” McGraw said. “I set up an interview with some of the board members to get their feedback, and it was positive. We decided to make him the job offer.”
He said that Salinas' exposure to all parts of the business were beneficial. “Him having commercial experience was a big plus,” McGraw said. “He also knew the industry. There are a lot of people and players. He just kind of seemed to be the right candidate.”
He also was impressed by Salinas' businesslike approach. “All of the board members who interviewed him came back to me that he was certainly business-oriented in the way he approached certain aspects of the position,” McGraw said.
The former IISRP director knew Salinas through his activities with the IISRP as a member. “When he took over as president, before we had any meetings, he would come out to the office, and we'd go over the agenda,” McGraw said. “We'd talk about what the expectations were from the committee reports. He wasn't going through the motions. He was sincerely wanting to lead the discussion at the meeting.”
McGraw wanted to ensure there was no confusion about who was in charge during the three-month transition period that runs through the end of September. To that end, he moved out of his office and set up shop in a corner of the conference room at IISRP headquarters, complete with a new phone number.
“I'm here as a resource,” McGraw said. “I'm not here to tell him how to do things. I'll say, "Here are things that need to be accomplished.' Then he basically develops them and does it himself.”
He had each of the four full-time staffers for the institute prepare a list of their activities so Salinas could become familiar with them and be clear on what their duties were. Much of the first three weeks also were spent on such nuts-and-bolts tasks as going around to the different banks the institute does business with and changing signatures on accounts.
Salinas views McGraw not as a resource but more of a “guardian angel.”
“He has extensive experience in the institute,” Salinas said. “The key parts are in the sensitivity of the critical issues of the institute. Jim has that sensitivity.”
McGraw is allowing him to develop his own style, Salinas said. “He provides me information, of course, but he gives me the space to do the job,” the new managing director said. “It's a "take-the-bull-by-the-horns' concept. I know if I need something, he is there.”
Salinas is learning to view the IISRP and synthetic rubber business from a different perspective. “Here I'm not going to sell rubber,” he said. “I have to keep the membership and increase the membership. I also have to keep and increase the quality of the services and promote common projects.”
Things will happen in a hurry for the new leader.
September starts with the Americas Section meetings in Louisiana, followed by the Europe Middle East and Africa group in Milan, Italy, and then the Asia Section in Tokyo. McGraw said the schedule is set up to get all the meetings handled in the same time frame, with the mid-year meeting the last part of October, where all the committee chairs come to Houston.
During this period, Salinas will be helping to develop the association's strategic plan for 2015-20, and planning already has started for next year's Annual General Meeting in New Orleans, the institute's most important event of each year.
Going forward, Salinas knows that one key measure of his success will be membership maintenance and growth. The IISRP currently boasts 31 full SR making members, accounting for about 80 percent of global synthetic rubber production, along with 40 affiliated members.
He realizes it will be a difficult task, as some producers still are hesitant dating back to a price fixing scandal that hit the industry early this century.
“I think we have to do it,” Salinas said. “We have to insist to them to be part. My responsibility is to try to do it. I think if we explain to them the value of the institute and all the benefits they can obtain, I don't know if we can get 100 percent, but I think we can get some.”
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SSBR surge buoys JSR's elastomers business
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Bill O'Reilly's latest outburst — threatens NYT reporter
In honor of O'Reilly's latest blowup, we look back at some of his most bombastic threats
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2015/02/24/bill_oreillys_bluster_5_of_the_fox_news_bloviators_most_bombastic_threats/
Luke Brinker
February 24, 2015 6:24PM (UTC)
Under scrutiny over fabricated accounts of his experiences as a CBS News reporter covering the 1982 Falklands War, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday betrayed the visceral impact the controversy has had on him, threatening a New York Times reporter covering the story.
Less than one week after Mother Jones' David Corn and Daniel Schulman exposed O'Reilly's Falklands fibs, the embattled host has struggled to fend off the story, with numerous former CBS colleagues and Falklands correspondents coming forward to dispute O'Reilly's claims about his purported "war zone" experience. The Times' report, published online Monday night, examines Fox News' fervent defense of O'Reilly, even amid escalating evidence that he has misled the public for years.
Speaking with one of the paper's journalists, O'Reilly vowed a relentless response if he objected to the Times' coverage.
“I am coming after you with everything I have,” O’Reilly said. “You can take it as a threat.”
The remarks quickly made the rounds on social media and news sites, adding a new and bombastic dimension to a controversy that has cast further doubt on O'Reilly's reportorial credentials but appears unlikely to have any consequences for his career at Fox News, which prides itself on its oppositional stance toward the lamestream media.
O'Reilly's threat fit a larger pattern of bluster, which in a very real sense is his trademark as host of "The O'Reilly Factor." Below, Salon looks back at four other times O'Reilly delivered bold, if ultimately unfulfilled, threats.
"Shaming" pro-choice lawmakers
In one of congressional Republicans' many efforts to chip away at reproductive rights, party lawmakers introduced legislation in 2012 banning gender-based abortions, which ultimately failed in the House. The legislation -- devised as a ploy to combat Democrats' "war on women" narrative -- won O'Reilly's support. On his show, he threatened to "name the names of congresspeople who vote against the bill, perhaps advising them they're in sync with China's abhorrent abortion policy."
It called to mind O'Reilly's years-long crusade against women's health care provider Dr. George Tiller, whom he repeatedly referred to as "Tiller the baby killer." After decades of vilification from anti-abortion activists and in right-wing media, Tiller was assassinated by Scott Roeder in 2009.
Boycotting Mexico
After Mexican authorities imprisoned U.S. Marine veteran Jon Hammar on firearms charges, O'Reilly threatened a boycott of the entire country in December 2012.
“If Mexico doesn’t release the corporal by Christmas, I’m going to call for a boycott of Mexico. Nobody goes," O'Reilly said, explaining that his boycott would include "individual tourism and airlines flying there. We can do that, and we will.”
As the Washington Post's Erik Wemple noted at the time, O'Reilly had blasted boycotts just months earlier as "fascist" and "un-American." The context? The push for advertisers to dump radio host Rush Limbaugh after he smeared Sandra Fluke as a "slut."
"Tear you to fucking pieces"
In 2003, O'Reilly interviewed Jeremy Glick, a man whose father perished in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Glick took the U.S. to task for “training militarily, economically, and situating geopolitically” the Taliban, but an indignant O'Reilly was having none of it. "Shut up! Shut up!" he thundered at Glick, before cutting off his microphone.
After the interview, Glick told the New Yorker, O'Reilly yelled at him, “Get out of my studio before I tear you to fucking pieces!”
Leaving the U.S.
Amid President Obama's bid to increase taxes on the wealthy, O'Reilly declared in 2011 that he'd leave his show if his ever taxes increased to 50 percent.
"My corporations employ scores of people," O'Reilly said. "They depend on me to do what I do so they can make a nice salary. If Barack Obama begins taxing me more than 50 percent, which is very possible, I don't know how much longer I'm going to do this. I like my job, but there comes a point when taxation becomes oppressive. Is the country really entitled to half a person's income?"
Your move, Mr. President.
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My kids like the nanny better!
I knew I'd need help to be a mom -- but didn't think my kids would ever pick the sitter over me
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2013/11/29/my_kids_prefer_their_nanny_to_me/
Lauren Slater
November 30, 2013 4:00AM (UTC)
Excerpted from "Playing House"
Before my first child was born, I knew I would need help. Even with the sixty-forty or seventy-thirty split between my husband and me, I knew assistance would be required, especially because, as time went by, that split dissolved, not all at once, but slowly, like sugar corroding a tooth. Cavities opened up, empty spaces, requiring that someone step in. Work came back to claim my husband and love came forward to claim me. Love takes time and resources and tactics, and that’s why I knew I needed help.
Given my precarious mental state, I already had help, a doctor with ink-black hair and a massive desk and a thick prescription pad he wrote on with a flourish. Though he had been enough before I had my first, I now saw that I needed a different sort of support, someone in-house, someone who knew how to sew, perhaps, or draw a warm bath or pat the baby on the back. I needed . . . I needed . . . a nanny. I hate the word “nanny,” smacking as it does of British privilege. I also hate the word “babysitter,” because it always conjures for me the image of a woman sitting on a baby. I could say I hired “help,” but that has an antebellum sound, snotty and antiquated. I hired another mother. Yes. This is exactly what I did. It was a decision based at once on total necessity—both my husband and I were back to working full-time—and also rooted in a deep sense of my own inadequacy. Though not quite admitting it to myself, I was pretty sure that whoever took the job would be so superior to me that I would step to the sidelines while she took center stage. In a sense, I would be the other mother, offering help, holding out tissues, while the real drama went on without me.
I didn’t want it this way, especially because I had come to adore my daughter, but adoration does not come with built-in confidence, of which I possessed, as a mother, very little. From my own mother I had learned . . . very little. I believed, I think, that my childhood had destined me to be an anemic sort of parent, lacking in essential instinct. When I look back into my past, I often cannot even see her face, my mother’s face, muffled by mist and then suddenly, swiftly appearing, like the sun burning brightly on an otherwise cloudy day, an instant of saffron brightness, and then gone. Gone! Who had been there, then? In truth, I was one of those kids raised on babysitters, so hiring one seemed absolutely natural to me. I was raised on the knees and by the sides of hired help. Corita taught me to sew; Jane nursed me through my illnesses; Angela, the Irish nanny, with hair the color of apple cider and a lilting way to all her words, Angela taught me to ride a bike, to pray (Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name), and to name the wildflowers, things I still do today, by instinct or, rather, by habit, echinacea with their bulging centers, columbine in the woods, the purple spikes of chive, and the weedy strawflowers that rise from the ground in August. In fact, yesterday, I went to the woods with my daughter, and we named the wildflowers, studying their leaves and their corollas, and it was Angela who was there, in spirit, my own mother nowhere near.
And I was my mother’s daughter, of course, similarly stunted, serrated, and rageful. My mother, her fists, her hitting. My father had told us that before my mother had children she was “a different woman, really,” but the pressures and conflicts of motherhood had done her in, changed her irrevocably and for the worse. Indeed, early photographs show my mother smiling on a Cape Cod beach with a red scarf around her wind-blown hair; by the time my sister, her first, came along, her face had narrowed, her eyes small and fierce, screwed into her skull. I never knew exactly why having children caused her undoing, her mad chatter and terrible violence, but not knowing made it all the more potent, more possible.
“You are the most like your mother,” my aunts always told me, ominous indeed. In order to avoid her female fate, I got a doctoral degree, published pounds of books, acquired prizes. I studiously avoided anything maternal, claiming a mannish incompetence, an inability to do baby talk and all of its equivalents. On the other hand, I held onto a sliver of hope, and my babies were born on this sliver.
Our first nanny did not work out. She came to us three weeks before my daughter was born. She was only nineteen, whip smart but boy crazy. Within a few weeks of her job she met a man, got engaged, broke up, and then got engaged to someone else. Therefore, she was, of course, preoccupied, all this yes and no, back and forth. My husband and I had no specific complaints—she didn’t shake our baby or leave her thirsty—but there was something distracted in the sitter’s eye, something rushed in her ways. She could barely wait for five o’clock, at which point she would race out of the house, rouge swooped onto her cheeks and her bitten lips bright with carmine. We didn’t have to decide a thing. Within a month or so she left us, a white wedding gown over her arm, on her way to Pocatello, Idaho, to walk the aisle with a man she met over the Internet.
Our second nanny, Ceci, came to us from a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend. She was thirty-six—an excellent age, we thought—new to this country, with shoe-polish-shiny black hair and a beautiful face. She spoke very little English. Not long after she started, our newborn baby got sick. Clara corkscrewed her body and screamed. Her stomach felt hard and lumpy. We stretched her, thumped her, cycled her little legs, but still she screamed, her tiny tongue extended.
I remember one night when I’d been up with her until the daylight came. Ceci was living with us in a room down the hall. The baby howled. I turned on the fan to block the sound so Ceci could get some sleep. The baby yowled, one long painful skein of sound; it just went on, and on. There is really nothing like being with a screaming baby dead in the middle of the night. Her room was lit by one small bulb, shedding shadows so that my hand looked huge raised between the light and the wall. I held up the baby, and she too looked huge, her mouth a flapping, monstrous thing, her arms like wings, going nowhere.
At five in the morning, when I hadn’t caught a wink of sleep, it started to get light outside. The air got grainy and gray, the lawns visible, veiled with dew, and far in the distance a radio tower blinking its red light on and off, on and off. I started to cry right along with my daughter. Perhaps I cried even louder than she, for Ceci heard, and came to get us. Mussed and sleepy, she said, “Here,” and held out her arms. I gave her the baby. She said, “Go get me some lettuce leaves,” which I did. She then ran a warm bath and told me to drop the lettuce leaves in. The water turned pale green; the leaves looked like lily pads, charming. She lowered my daughter in. “In our country,” she said, “we know if you put lettuce leaves in a warm bath, it calms the child down.” I thought this was sweet and very lyrical. Lettuce leaves! Who knew what other neat herbal cures lay in wait for us, delivered fresh from her Mexican culture—a bath of apple blossoms, a cup of hot pomegranate juice? I have never been a big believer in anything outside of Western medicine. But let me tell you this: Presto. The baby quieted down. A cynic would say it was the water, not the lettuce leaves. Who cares? She quieted down, and soon after, she fell asleep. From that day on, Ceci made our colicky daughter a bath of lettuce leaves, and from that day on the other mother, she took my baby in and always, always knew exactly what to do. She had a gift.
It did not take long for Ceci to become famous in our neighborhood. Everyone wanted a piece of her. She was too good to be true, but let me tell you, she was true, the real deal, the best. It was not so much what she did—although she did a lot—but more who she was, her competence mixed with kindness, her sheer energy. In the five years she worked for us, she never once was late for work. She never took a sick day. Amazing. But perhaps she is best described by what she did outside of her working hours. Ceci took kickboxing, English as a second language, cooking classes. She was a gifted photographer and painter. She had her degree in marketing from the University of Mexico, but her interests leaned more towards the arts. She knit elaborate blankets, used a loom, could crochet a piece of intricate filmy lace. She found a beat-up bike in the trash and single-handedly restored it to working order. She loved jigsaw puzzles, huge four footers with thousands of scrambled pieces, and she had the patience to put it all together, day after day, until a coherent scene emerged. Once she was finished, she would spray her creation with clear glue, hang it whole on the wall. It always delighted my daughter, the image at once cracked and solid, a seeming impossibility, but there it was.
I could go on. She was from a close family in a small town and had come to the States to learn the English necessary for her career. The oldest of five children, the only girl, she had been both a daughter and another mother to her siblings from her own youngest years. She was full of mystical folk cures but also common sense to the extreme. Once, my daughter had a high, high fever. She thrashed and muttered and tore at the air with her hands. I, new to all this, did not know what to do. My hands shook and I could not measure out the medicine. Ceci took the bottle from me, drew the liquid up, grasped my thrashing daughter’s chin, and squirted her mouth full of cherry, all in one seemingly seamless move.
Months passed. The presence of Ceci in our family was like a light but firm hand arranging our shape in ways we could only see in retrospect. She was shocked to find out my husband and I celebrated neither Christmas nor Chanukah. My husband had been raised rigorously atheistic and anticapitalistic. I am Jewish by birth, but once I left my mother to live in a foster home, I soon lost touch with my family, and its traditions, for good. “No tree?” Ceci said that first year she was with us. “No presents? El niño. What about el niño?”
“Clara doesn’t care,” I remember saying. “She’s only one.”
“Clara cares,” Ceci said. And that afternoon she came home with a tree, tinsel, a plastic star, all those silk globes. My husband looked uncomfortable, but then after a second, he smiled. By the week’s end we were all zooming around town, buying up toys and trinkets, festive bows, shiny wrapping paper. “I’m Jewish,” I kept saying to my husband; “I’m a communist,” he kept saying to me. Then we shrugged. We were on a roll, and loving it. On Christmas Eve, Ceci took us all to Mass in a tiny basement church in the inner city. The priest was bedecked in some kind of crown and glossy robes, waving his incense stick so the whole church filled with the smell of frankincense and myrrh. Clara could not take her eyes off the princely looking priest or the children in the choir, all of whom were dressed in bright red ruffles and whose ears were pierced with tiny hoops of gold. Music started playing, something salsaish, and then a clip-clop hip-hop version of “Deck the Halls,” and before we knew it the whole church was dancing, skipping after the skipping priest, who waved his wand of smoke high and low. We skipped too. The air was so thick and cloying I could barely breathe. I felt I would choke. On the other hand, it was a lot of fun.
It was for reasons like these that I felt enormously grateful to Ceci and continuously lucky to have her; she brought humor into our tight little lives. However, I also know that her confidence and kindness, the charm she had for children, her easy engagement with them, and her steadfast love of the things I did not love—the dressing, the hair combing, Chuck E. Cheese’s, and swimming pools— only deepened my belief in my own inadequacies. I allowed it to. I felt I simply could not compare.
Here is a scene: It is early morning, and Ceci is brushing my daughter’s hair. She draws the bristles through in a single sweep, hefts up a skein of the champagne-colored locks, and braids them, her fingers flying. Moments later, Clara is ready for school, immaculate, clothes matching, her hair a complex series of plaits and twists all miraculously held to her head with only a single bright barrette. Later on, after school, I find Clara in her room and tentatively approach her. My own hair I have always worn in a mop, too busy for conditioners, just a quick scrub and a brisk, business-like rinse. “Let me do your hair,” I say. I say it softly, shyly, almost like I am in seventh grade asking a boy to dance. “Why?” she says. She doesn’t look up. She’s playing with a doll. “Because,” I say, and I don’t know how to go on. I pick up the brush with its flat-paddle handle and, standing over my daughter’s head, I see the pink seam of her scalp where Ceci has perfectly parted her hair. I bring the brush to it, drag down, and my daughter screams. She gives a loud, dramatic murderous yell and operatic tears fill her eyes. All I did was one tiny tug. I know, I know I haven’t hurt her. I stand there with the brush, frozen. She eyes me warily. I eye her right back. Then I cautiously slip from her room.
It is winter, shredded snow falling everywhere, muffling the mountains, bandaging the winding slopes, the skiers in their bright-red parkas looking, from a distance, like tiny beads of blood sliding down. I am twelve. I am full of holes. From across the kitchen, my mother snarls at me for reasons I cannot understand. Suddenly, she flings a spoon in my direction; it bounces off my cheek and lands, clattering, on the tiled floor.
Two years later we will sit together, my mother, father, and I, in a social worker’s office on the second floor of a psychiatric unit, where I have been temporarily placed, much to my relief. My mother’s left hand is badly bruised from where she put it through a wall. I, too, have various bruises, although the real problem, the relentless decimating daily humiliations, is harder to describe. The social worker tells me I will not be going home. My mother, who has become psychotically paranoid over the years, says, “You have abused me past what I can manage,” a classic example of projection. I nod, not knowing what else to do. Precipitating my removal from the home was the fact that my mother tried to push me down a gorge in Vermont. I survived, saved by the soft snow. I remember standing where I had slid, hearing the sound of her receding footsteps in the forest, tasting the cold on my tongue. I was fourteen then and had just begun to bleed. The trees were black, scarred. I saw them, and I understood that my mother wanted to kill me, that she always had. What was different, today, now, post-push, was that I wanted to kill her too. This, I saw, was what it meant to be a daughter, a mother. It is about blood and all the steep slopes.
Children are not subtle. They throw their arms around you or haughtily turn away. They answer you or don’t. My daughter is no different. At the end of every day, during Ceci’s tenure with us, I would come home from work. My briefcase was always bulging, my mind cramped, my stomach aflutter from all I had left to do. I was, at that point in my life, working full-time as both a psychologist and a writer. I sometimes worked sixty hours a week, trying to outrun my history, building walls with words.
I remember one homecoming in particular, not because it was better or worse, but simply because a single memory becomes emblematic, standing in for all the rest. It was winter, and when I opened the door a cold gust of air blew in. Ceci and Clara were absorbed in a book, Clara on Ceci’s lap, Ceci rocking the chair back and forth in time with the Spanish sentences. I could hear the words—leche, bebé, perro—but I did not understand. I saw my daughter’s sleepy eyes, how Ceci held her. “Hi,” I said, an interruption. Ceci smiled, beckoned me forward. Once she had brought me a beautiful blue vase from Mexico, and after my mastectomy, Ceci had filled my room with fresh flowers, helped me with my bandages. Now, I knelt down. “Hi, Clara,” I said, holding out my arms. Clara looked at me. “Go,” Ceci whispered, giving her a little push. “Besitos para mama.” Obediently, my daughter came forward and gave me a quick kiss.
Lest it be misunderstood, I love my daughter. I love her with my whole damaged heart. Her face has always filled me with a sense of the miraculous, for it is a beautiful face, fair-skinned, green-eyed; her limbs are lithe; she seems the expression of all that could be good in me, all that I have that is healthy. At night I often dream of my daughter. We are carrying flowers towards each other, big armfuls of fragile lupine.
Years passed this way. Clara spoke Spanish before she spoke English, and when Ceci’s friends came over they laughed and remarked, “She sounds just like a little Mexican,” my blonde-haired, green-eyed girl. Even so, I had moments with Clara, many moments, that were easy and unfettered, moments writing poetry together, a story called “Ick I’m Sick,” discussions about stars and god, Linnaeus and reptiles. We bought a vinegar-propelled rocket and shot it off together, our heads tipped back as it nosed straight into space. But her first love was not for me. Her first love was for her father, and when it came to women, her first love was, in truth—is this the truth?— for Ceci, and while I really grieved that, I also understood that I had set it up that way, a safe distance, space between mother and daughter, this dyad dangerous, rife with rejection, sick. And yet, it hurt my heart. It hurt my chest, my breasts. When Clara was three years, they found my ducts were crammed with cancerous cells. I had both my breasts removed, tiny, squishy saline bags slid into the sagging spaces left. In clothes I looked fine, but naked I looked maimed. Ceci, on the other hand, was whole and healthy. I know my daughter knew that. Sometimes she would come to me, pull down my shirt, peer in. “Ceci has nipples,” she would say. “And you don’t.” I’m sure this was just a statement of brute fact, but I could not help hearing it as more.
And so we went on. My husband, I hesitate to say, did not help the situation. He sided with Ceci, unconsciously, subtly, giving her his credence and confidence. For this I have not decided whether or not I will forgive him. Of course, I am largely to blame, for I had impressed upon him my image of myself: the ratty foster child, the progeny of insanity, the work a defense against it all. At one point my second-born developed a pustule-like rash on his tongue and palms. Ceci hypothesized an immune response due to a recent fever. My husband agreed. They stood in the kitchen talking together while I watched from the sidelines, and they decided that if it got any worse, they would call the doctor tomorrow. Give it a day, they said. “Are you kidding me?” I said. “It’s on the tongue.” I called the doctor immediately. “My child has white oozing spots on the tongue,” I said. My child. The pediatrician diagnosed hoof-and-mouth disease. For me, this was a twisted triumph.
Clara started pre-school. Here is where things took a distinctly downward turn. At the end of the day, while I was still at work, Ceci would pick her up and take her to a museum or to Chuck E. Cheese’s, and bring her home at five. Eventually this became common enough that Ceci no longer needed to tell us her plans ahead of time. Autumn turned into winter. One day, their usual arrival time of five o’clock passed, and they hadn’t come home. Ceci had been with us nearly four years then. The afternoon ticked on into evening. Where were they? Cars rumbled by on the road outside my study, but none of them stopped. The day grew dark. Frantic, I called my husband at work. “Clara and Ceci aren’t here,” I said, and I think I heard just the tiniest pause before he said, “They’re fine.” I called the school. It was closed. The church bells gonged. I thought crazy thoughts about Ceci: How do I know who she really is? Would she kidnap my girl? Of course not, dummy! But how can I know? And indeed, how could I? We had hired her years ago, based on a reference check and gut. It suddenly seemed careless, negligent; I pictured telling detectives, “She comes from Mexico,” but not being able to say more. Hometown? “Cool-ya-can?” Something like that. Address, copy of passport, visa, we had none of it. On a deeper level, I realized we knew almost nothing of her. Her plans, her hopes, her fears, her lovers, her enemies, nothing. We knew Ceci intimately, day after day, year after year, we knew her laugh, her voice, her hands, her hair, and yet we knew her not at all. This, I believe, is common.
At six o’clock I heard a key in the lock, the dogs barking, and when I raced downstairs I saw them standing together, mittened hand-in-mittened-hand. “Where were you guys?” I said. I was nearly wheezing with panic.
“Field trip,” Ceci said.
“Field trip?” I said.
“To Foss Park. I chaperoned. It was fun, wasn’t it, Clara?”
And Clara looked up, smiled, nodded. “Fun,” she said.
“But I didn’t . . . You didn’t tell . . .” And then I stopped. I held tight to the banister. “Wait a minute,” I said. “Aren’t parents supposed to sign a permission slip before their kids go on a field trip?” “Yes,” said Ceci, and if she thought her next comment was strange, she betrayed it not a bit. “I signed that slip weeks ago,” she
I did what any woman at once indebted and enmeshed would do. I said not a word to Ceci. The next day I called the school. “All permission slips,” I said to the teacher, “must be signed by me. Not Ceci. Me.” I paused. The teacher didn’t say anything. Her silence sounded accusing. Where was I at the end of every day, during pickups? Working. Working. Working. Where was I? “I’m Clara’s mother,” I said, and I heard it echo down the line.
When I became pregnant with Lucas, Ceci, who had lived with us for four years, moved out. She found a fantastic apartment in Harvard Square, just minutes away. It was not a big change. She left most of her clothes, her bed made, her pictures up on the walls. “What are we,” I said to my husband, “a storage facility?”
“You’re just jealous,” he said.
“Picture it,” I said. Suddenly, I was speaking slowly, newly aware of an anger. “Picture it. You and I have a child. We hire another man to move into the house and be the nanny. Your child falls in love with the man-nanny, this other father. I come to love the other father too, and I listen to all his child-rearing advice.”
“I don’t listen to all her child-rearing advice,” he said.
“If I think she has an ear infection and has to go to the doctor and Ceci doesn’t, you always agree with Ceci.”
“I’m just being polite,” he said. “She’s still a guest. You’re my wife.”
“Exactly,” I said. “That’s exactly my point. I’m your wife. I’m Clara’s mother.”
“Clara loves you a lot,” he said.
“Of course she does,” I said.
“You have to have more confidence,” he said.
“You tell me,” I said, and I was surprised by the depth of my anger. “You tell me how you would feel having another father around for your kid.”
“I would hate it,” he said thoughtfully. “It is something I would never allow.”
It was full-blown winter when I gave birth to my son, the trees splashed and mottled, my newborn’s face patchy with different hues of reds and blues. When I looked into his brand-new face, I saw nothing of my mother and nothing of myself. In part because of gender, in part because of experience, I approached my second with much more confidence, lifting him up by his armpits, swaddling him deftly, bathing him both swiftly and softly, and he felt it, my calm hands. He stopped crying whenever I picked him up. I picked him up as often as I could. Ceci seemed to like him less. “Boys,” she’d say and sigh. “Girls are fun,” she’d say. “The clothes . . . Boys are . . .” And then she wouldn’t finish. From his earliest days Ceci dressed him in little baseball shirts and high tops. She called Clara “mi amore” and Lucas “señor.” “It’s a cultural thing,” my husband said. “It’s Latino machismo.” Sometimes she let Lucas cry and cry. “Oh,” Ceci said to me one day. “Oh, he is a big bad boy. He has a terrible temper.” At the time, Lucas was two months old.
I see this gender bias as one of Ceci’s unintentional gifts to me, for it left a space, and I slipped in. I held my boy. I called him “mi amore.” He grabbed my nose, felt my face. I know he saw me, looming large over him, as someone safe. And I learned, from him, that I was safe, that I was not my mother, that I did not have claws or cruelty, that I could never hurt a child, my children, never, never, ever, girl or boy, no matter, these were indeed my children. My life. The best I had to offer.
Every child changes you in different ways. Clara curved me towards my past and, in doing so, forced me to consider its complex intersection with my present curving relentlessly towards my future. Lucas revealed for me the beauty of the single dimension. As a writer, unidimensionality is something I have always avoided. The worst thing that could be said about one’s work was that it lacked facets, was flat. Clara and I are two pieces of a single prism that keeps catching the light at an infinite number of angles. With Lucas, the surface is smooth. It is smooth, peaceful, a lake without wave or ruffled ripple, a lake whose very depth is implicit in its liquid skin. I could float here, catch my breath. I sang silly songs to him:
His name is Lucas
Lucas Palookas
And he’s the best
Lucas in town
I heard my voice. I saw the soft skin of my hands. He pressed himself against my chest, put his mouth on me, found a way to suck in the sound of my heart. “Come,” I said to Clara one afternoon, as I held him, as she watched us, saw me, mother. “Come here, Clarita.” She came. I pulled her close. We stood together, the dyad now a triad, three points, the triangle nature’s strongest shape.
A year after Lucas’s birth, Ceci’s visa expired. In order to renew it, she needed to return to Mexico, submit an application, and wait for a response from the embassy there. Her chances of getting a new visa: fifty-fifty. My husband and I did whatever we could, sought legal aid, attempted sponsorship, suggested she marry her American boyfriend. In the end there was no choice but for her to leave us for many months, maybe forever. I cried and cried. I cried mostly for Clara, such a huge loss, so early on, and I cried for the girl I once was, standing in front of my house on a hot summer day, waving good-bye to my own mother as the car drove me far away—forever—and who knew when, if ever, we would see each other again. I cried in relief and fear, the sense of something opening, something ending. Clara cried too. That night, she slept with me, in my bed. Dreaming, she moved towards me. “We are finally finding each other,” I thought.
Ceci had left behind her clothes, her shoes, her artwork, she was everywhere in our home, her plan to return obvious. But a few days after she left, I found myself packing up her clothes, slowly at first, and then picking up speed, boxing the dresses and skirts and shirts, moving her toothbrush and cosmetics into storage, taking down the puzzle pictures, the lacquer shiny, the cracks everywhere.
“What are you doing?” my daughter asked.
I knelt down, took her chin in my hand. “I know Ceci is your very best friend,” I said.
“But she is not your actual family,” I said. “Ceci has her own family, in Mexico.”
“I know,” she said. She looked straight at me. “I know you’re my mother,” she said. “And Ceci is my stepmother.”
“No,” I said. “Ceci is your nanny. She loves you with her whole heart. But nannies do not stay forever, even though they love you forever.”
“Do mothers stay forever?” she asked.
“Most mothers do,” I said. “Some don’t. But this mother,” and I pointed to myself, “this mother will stay with you for as long as you want.”
“Until you die,” she said.
“Yes,” I said. “Until I die.”
“When will you die?” she asked.
“I hope not for a long time.”
“I know you will die before Papa,” she said.
“How do you know that?” I asked.
“You’re forty-one,” she said. “And he’s only forty.”
“You never know,” I said. “But don’t worry.”
“I’m not worried,” she said. “I’m not the worrier. You are.” “You’re right,” I said. “I worry.”
“Someday,” she said, “Ceci will have her own baby.”
“I hope so,” I said.
“And you know what I’m going to be when I grow up?” she said. “No,” I said.
“That baby’s nanny,” she said. “I’m going to be Ceci’s baby’s nanny and a mama too.”
“That’s a great plan,” I said.
“My plan,” she said, “is to have four babies of my own, plus take care of Ceci’s. So that’s five,” she said. “That’s my limit.”
We hired someone else to take Ceci’s place during the months she was in Mexico. Vanessa was not nearly as good. She lacked Ceci’s keen competence, her motivation, her spark and humor. She lacked the enormous blessed love Ceci had to give, and this too was, in its own way, fine with me, for I felt I had more room, more say-so, more authority and simple space. There were small tasks Ceci had always done without ever being asked, like making Clara’s lunch for school each day. Now that fell to me. It is important to make your child’s lunch. It is important to cut the bread, wrap it, arrange the lunchbox, tuck in a sweet snack. It is important to know that when, the next day, she opens it, she will briefly see that in the arrangement and choice of foods, you have loved her, and always will.
It is important to claim the tasks of motherhood, even when time or trauma makes it difficult. You must, of course, sign the permission slips, shop for shoes, cook when you can, do her hair, with or without the knack. How one balances this with the competing demands of career or long-standing insecurities, I really have no idea. No advice. Only that it must be done, here and there, wherever you can. Motherhood is at once a great and sentimental abstraction and, in its true nature, a series of tiny tasks, not a lifetime but a day, which brings you to another day, which brings you to a third, and so you go. It is all dirty work, full of germs and life.
I gave my mothering away, and for too long a time. I did it one-eighth out of busyness and seven-eighths out of fear. I did it because I had the great good luck and simultaneous misfortune to find another mother so willing and skillful, so comfortably maternal, that I could not quite find my way, my voice, so to speak, the silly songs, the lettuce leaves. I did it also, and paradoxically, out of a keen desire to protect my girl, my best girl, my great love, from the badness I believed was in me. My daughter, my son, I owe everything to them. They have given me more than anyone could ever ask for. They have proven, by their very ruddy and vigorous existences, that even though my own mother gave me up and found me flawed, I had at least two good eggs to give the world, and I gave them.
Ceci was, after several months, granted a new visa and wanted to return to work. But I knew it could not be. I knew I had stepped into some new space and wanted not to step back but forward, enlarging my maternal role, helped but not too much. To say we “fired” Ceci would be wrong, but we did let her go, the perfect nanny, Mary Poppins, who in the end drifts up on an umbrella, leaving the children to their parents’ care. Ceci had no umbrella and the rupture was painful, her sense of betrayal enormous and understandable. “No,” I told her over the phone, “no, Ceci, we love you absolutely, but we just don’t need . . .”
“It is up to you,” she said.
“We will find you another job,” I said. “We will find you a rich family who can pay you more.”
“I can take care of myself,” she said. We both hung up, in tears.
Every once in a while now Ceci visits us. She is, indeed, working for a far wealthier family, earning much better money, so all’s well that ends well. Sort of. “You know,” Ceci said to me a few weeks ago when she was visiting, “Vanessa is not keeping up Clara’s Spanish. Since I’ve been gone, Clara’s Spanish has really degraded.”
“I will talk to Vanessa,” I said.
“Clara doesn’t like Vanessa,” Ceci said.
“Clara will never love another nanny the way she loves you,” I said.
But the strange thing is, while that is true, it is also too dramatic. For Clara, the transition was terrible, but she has moved on. When Ceci comes to visit, she spends less and less time with her, wanting to leave after only a minute now, to play with her best friend next door. So Ceci and I are left together, sitting in the kitchen, watching the girl we both love best out the window, playing on the green grass of our neighbor’s yard. Upstairs, Lucas, the boy I love best, churns in his sleep, the monitor crackling, full of the sound of him. “I have always wanted to ask you,” Ceci said to me one day, “why did you fire me?”
“I didn’t fire you,” I said, then began to stammer: “I didn’t need as many hours . . . we were . . . the money . . . expensive . . . I didn’t want to work so much—”
“Were you jealous?” Ceci interrupted.
Brief pause. “Yes,” I said. “You were always the better mother.” “That is not so,” she said. Her eyes filled with tears. “I am thirty-eight,” she said. “Clara may be the closest I ever get to having my own daughter.”
“She belongs to both of us,” I said.
But it was clear, looking out the window, that Clara belonged to no one but herself. There she was, leaping up to catch a ball, dancing in a clown costume, holding hands with Maya, her best friend. I tapped on the window. Clara looked up, briefly waved at us, went back to the business of her life. Ceci and I sat together in the kitchen. It was so quiet. We could hear the heat turn on, the furnace tick and fire. We boiled water on the stove. We filled our mugs, peppermint and chamomile. In the end, the unbreakable bond was perhaps not between Ceci and Clara or between Clara and me, but between Ceci and me, two women, two other mothers, knowing without words how hard and fierce and fabulous mothering can be, understanding the inherent losses of it all, soothing ourselves together, here, in the kitchen, at the very end what is left: two women taking tea.
Excerpted from "Playing House: Notes of a Reluctant Mother" by Lauren Slater. Copyright 2013. Excerpted with permission by Beacon Press.
Lauren Slater is the author of "Welcome to My Country," "Prozac Diary" and, most recently, "Lying."
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Located at the north end of O.B., Mother's has had to compete with music venues in the center of town.
Blurt Music News
Screw live music. TV’s where it’s at.
Mother's Saloon adjusts entertainment offerings
By Dryw Keltz, Oct. 25, 2017
Updated Oct. 25, 2017, 12:53 p.m.
Mother’s Saloon, one of a handful of venues in Ocean Beach that hosts live music, recently canceled all their upcoming shows. The venue had primarily been having live bands on the weekends, but the bar decided to go a different route: they removed the stage and brought in the TVs.
Mother's Saloon
2228 Bacon Street, Ocean Beach
“We’re gearing towards more of a sports bar, and it’s definitely working for us,” said Mother’s manager Alicia Falter. According to Falter, the bar has installed about 15 flat screens. They will be pumping out NFL games on Sundays and college football games on Saturdays.
Mother’s is located on the corner of Bacon and Lotus streets in the northwestern section of Ocean Beach. It took over the building that was formerly occupied by Dream Street Live, which threw in the towel around 2011. The bar had a decent sound and stage, but it’s undeniable that it had a difficult time drawing crowds. They may have been a tad too far off the beaten path as, a short distance to the south, Winstons has always done steady business with their shows.
Meanwhile, the Harp and the Holding Company are also showcasing live bands on Newport Avenue. Mother’s was likely competing against even more live-music options than Dreamstreet.
But even though the TVs have arrived and the stage is gone, live music isn’t banned from Mother’s. The bar recently had a band play for their sixth-anniversary party, and they are working on ideas for a new type of stage — likely a more temporary fixture. One idea, according to Falter, is “a fold-out one.” And even though the bar has switched its focus, she said they’re “not opposed to having live music at all.”
Even with the NFL down in ratings, it’s still more of a draw than live bands on a weekend.
“We’ve had a great response from our regulars about the direction we’ve taken for the NFL. We are open to change,” Falter said.
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Competition and Careers in Biosciences
By Richard Freeman, Frank Solomon, Janet Rosenbaum, Elizabeth Marincola, Eric Weinstein Dec. 21, 2001 , 10:00 AM
Reposted from Science magazine, December 14, 2001.
Editors Note:Unforeseen consequences and/or a failure to anticipate the ways in which complex institutions and people respond to opportunity and crisis can create messes that are hard to clean up. Perhaps this is the best way to understand the structural flaws that hold down earnings and restrict opportunities in the biosciences labor market.
The authors of this article, which is reposted in Next Wave from the December 14, 2001 issue of Science magazine, argue that the research and funding structures in the biosciences create undesirable market incentives that only the federal government, through the NIH and other funders, have the capacity to change. But in doing so they seem to pass over the critical roles that departments and disciplinary societies should play (e.g., collecting and reporting job placement data or establishing normative values for postdoctoral training). What do you think? Does the tournament model accurately describe the structure of the biosciences workplace? And if the author's analysis holds true, does this mean the whole system is broken? Join a discussion of these issues on the Next Wave Forums Science Policy section.
The rapid progress of biomedical research should be rewarding young scientists with bright careers. Instead, the National Research Council (NRC) reports a "crisis of expectations" as career opportunities fall short of those in comparable occupations. Our analysis suggests that the inconsistency between scientific promise and career prospects arises from how life scientists are trained and how their careers are structured and funded rather than from a short-term supply-demand imbalance. Improvements will require reforms in training and career structure and in funding support for young researchers.
Most of the approximately 150,000 Ph.D. life scientists in the United States work at colleges and universities, where the Federal government is the major single source of biomedical research funding. Government influences the supply of researchers through policies on postdoctoral fellowships, research assistantships and admission of students and scientists from abroad. It influences the demand for research activity through federally funded research grants.
University bioscience research is "little science," where laboratories resemble small family businesses 1. A typical research laboratory is run by a principal investigator (PI), whose name is attached to the laboratory. The PI is responsible for choosing research topics, raising money, juggling budgets, and managing postdocs and graduate students. The PI relies on postdoc and graduate student workers motivated by the hope of achieving an independent research career and making important contributions, rather than monetary incentives. Students and postdocs depend on the laboratory for education, career development, and income.
The Tournament Model
Research in the biosciences fits a tournament economic structure. A tournament offers participants the chance of winning a big prize--an independent research career, tenure, a named chair, scientific renown, awards--through competition 2. It fosters intense competition by amplifying small differences in productivity into large differences in recognition and reward. Well-structured tournaments stimulate competition. Because the differences in rewards exceed the differences in output, there is a disproportionate incentive to "win." Victory may result from being marginally better than competitors, e.g., completing a key experiment a week earlier.
This configuration puts enormous competitive pressure on PIs, because the slightest edge can make the difference between success and failure. Many PIs respond to the possibility of being "scooped" by working long hours. Nearly one-third of Ph.D. biological scientists work 60 or more hours per week compared with 24% of other Ph.D. scientists 3. Bioscience Ph.D.'s aged 35 to 44 work about 50 hours per week. The long hours especially impact those balancing career and family. Among Ph.D. biologists without children, women work more hours than men, but among those with children, women work many fewer hours than men. The decrease in hours worked by mothers damages career progression in the biosciences because of the field's rapid progress, one indicator of which is the median number of years of journal citations (citation half-life). Biosciences have the shortest citation half-life among all sciences, making it difficult to pause from or reduce work and return to the same career trajectory as before 4.
Data from the National Science Foundation document the link between work hours and scientific success. Between 1990 and 1995, bioscientists published 6.7 papers per year compared with 4.7 papers for scientists in other fields. In bioscience, 5 hours of work per week is associated with one additional publication, and each publication corresponds to approximately 0.9% higher salary. Bioscientists who work more hours publish more, and those who publish more, earn more.
Ideally, tournament job markets are socially efficient, inducing high productivity from all participants. They are most likely to optimize effort when each participant has a reasonable chance of winning. Biology fits this model: Many researchers have sufficiently similar scientific talent and equipment to make a big discovery. When a new technology or idea appears, many scientists with similar research experience can grab the "low-hanging fruit." If the chance of being first to make an extraordinary finding rises with increased effort, researchers have a strong incentive to invest in that effort.
However, tournaments can also produce perverse outcomes. The tournament model creates the incentive to publish quickly and to recruit as many postdoctoral fellows as possible, irrespective of the personal value of their training. One PI we interviewed said: "If I have three postdocs and we work all the time, I have a bigger chance of getting my results out first than if I have two postdocs and I take off weekends." The small businessperson might have said, "if I keep the store open late and on weekends, I will attract customers from my competitor who doesn't." Senior scientists may recognize that they and their students should take more time for their personal lives, but they adapt to their incentives, and the tournament incentive is clear.
Similarly, PIs recognize that graduate students and postdocs often struggle economically. But as long as cheap postdoc or graduate student labor is available, PIs will use them as their primary labor input. If encouraging graduate students and postdocs to specialize narrowly helps PIs win the research tournament, this will occur even if alternative forms of training, or leaving the lab sooner, might better serve the students and postdocs. If PIs cannot attract postdoctoral fellows from the United States or institutions cannot attract qualified graduate students, they widen their search geographically or lower admission standards. Mixing training and work inevitably links the supply of biology graduates to the demand for work in laboratories.
Lifetime Earnings
The long duration of graduate and postgraduate training and low rate of pay give bioscientists lower lifetime income than people in other careers that require high levels of education. In the 1990s, the median length of time between entry into a life science Ph.D. program and graduation with a degree was 8.0 years. The median time in postdoctoral training was 3.8 years. In 1970, the total time was under 10 years. Thus, many bioscientists do not obtain their first professional salary until their mid-30s. For funding agencies, a tournament structure that generates good research by employing idealistic young graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at low cost is an effective use of taxpayer dollars.
Career Information and Supply
The response of students to the inconsistency between scientific promise and career prospects depends on their information. NRC panels concerned with disgruntled young researchers invariably recommend that students receive greater information about career prospects 5. To see whether departments have been responsive, we contacted 10 leading biology departments. No department had job placement data available. Three said that they kept track of long-term outcome data for training grant reports, but that the data were confidential. In contrast, the professional schools (law, business, medicine) at some of the same institutions tracked careers of graduates and readily provided data on starting salaries and jobs.
To measure how undergraduates assess career opportunities, we surveyed nearly 100 Harvard students enrolled in the main bioscience majors' course. Ten percent thought that they had an excellent chance of obtaining a tenure-track job. Over 50% said that salary and/or a more secure career path would make a bioscience career more appealing. The many students who learned about the job market from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows had predominantly negative impressions about career prospects. Most said they discussed the job market with their family, and here, too, the negative impressions far outweighed the positive 6.
Still, from 1989 to 1998, the proportion of Ph.D.'s granted in biosciences increased. It increased largely among women, whose share of bioscience degrees rose from 37.5 to 43.3% and among non-U.S. citizens, whose share rose from 19.8 to 26.2%. Why in the face of poor career prospects has the field increased its supply of students relative to other Ph.D. fields? Intellectual allure may have trumped financial considerations for many students over this period. But the change in the demography of entrants and our undergraduate data suggest that this is only part of the story. Increased recruitment of noncitizens and changed admission standards to meet the labor requirements of research laboratories also affected supply. This has profound implications for the potential of market forces to improve bioscience careers. If departments can enroll graduate students and hire postdocs from the potentially large supply of bright foreign students, the natural reduction in supply that otherwise would occur when job prospects worsen 7. will not happen. Because there is no evidence that demand will grow so rapidly as to outpace the growth of supply, we conclude that without significant policy intervention, the tournament market incentives will perpetuate the current structure, benefiting senior investigators at the expense of new entrants. No single PI or institution, however well-meaning, can alter this dynamic. Any substantive change in the structure of the bioscience job market must be developed collectively and be supported by the National Institutes of Health and other funders.
Recent developments suggest that reforms are likely. The NIH response to the NAS report, "Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists 8 showed that the Agency takes seriously the evidence on the career problems of young bioscientists, and the need to improve career prospects for them. Accordingly, the agency has promised to increase postdoctoral and grad student stipends; and has endorsed "the concept that post-doctoral trainees should be converted to non-training staff or faculty positions at the earliest practical opportunity ... with appropriate levels of income and benefits ... [and] that such costs be built into future competing applications 8." The growing unionization of graduate students, moreover, which has spread from state universities like the University of Washington to private universities such as NYU, as a result of National Labor Relations Board decisions that these students have the rights of workers to form unions, is altering traditional relationships between universities and student employees.
Structural reforms could ameliorate the tournament-style job market 8. The proportion of federally supported graduate students receiving fellowships or grants can be increased gradually from its late 1990s rate of 26% to the 50 to 60% rate of the mid-1970s, thereby giving more trainees greater control over their careers. Funding agencies can offer fellowships that reward excellent graduate students with support at the end of their doctoral training so that they can launch their early careers. Similarly, agencies could provide funding to selected postdocs, 2 or 3 years into their research, to help them establish their own laboratories and achieve independence earlier. Compensation for postdocs could be raised to a level commensurate with the age and training of these professionals, for instance by setting postdoctoral stipends as a proportion of starting salaries for new assistant professors. An increase in stipends for starting postdocs to, say, 75% of starting academic salaries would raise the NIH stipend by about $10,000. The pay of postdocs with 1 year's experience could then be proportionately increased to, say, 80% of the starting academic salary, and so on, so that a fifth-year postdoc would earn the going market rate for an assistant professor. Finally, the NIH can allocate funds to support scientists who wish to do research without becoming PIs, thus directly addressing structural flaws in the training system.
Such changes, adopted by prominent investigators, leading departments, and funding agencies, can reduce the risk that poor career prospects and inadequate economic rewards may cost science the engine of its success, our the nation's and the world's most promising young people.
1. The analogy between a research lab and a family business resonated with several of the PIs that we interviewed.
2. E. P. Lazear, S. Rosen, J. Polit. Econ. 89, 841 (1981).
3. Tabulated from the National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Statistics Data System, 1997 ( www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/srsdata.htm#SESTAT).
4. A. Preston, "Do Differences in Rates of Skill Depreciation Across Scientific Fields Impact Labor Market Outcomes?" Haverford College, June 2000.
5. National Research Council, Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1998).
6. The 1995 National Survey of Recent College Graduates found that among science graduates with grade point averages of 3.75 to 4.0, proportionately fewer (21%) bioscience bachelor's recipients remained in the field as of 1995 than bachelor's recipients in all science and engineering fields (32%). Of these top students, 21% cited lack of jobs, 23% cited pay and/or promotion opportunities and 18% change in interest as their reason for pursuing other goals.
7. When earnings fall below expectations, the normal market adjustment is for the supply of new entrants to decline until an equilibrium is reestablished. The period of self-correcting adjustment can be quite long and can generate cyclical swings in which supply and demand oscillate out of balance for some period. This occurred in the 1980s in physics because of cutbacks in research funding 10 and in the 1990s in mathematics 11 and underlies the perpetual shift between shortages and surpluses of B.S. engineers 10.
8. Available at http://grants.nih.gov/training/nas_report/NIHResponse.htm
9. E. Marincola, F. Solomon, Science 281, 645 (1998).
10. R. Freeman, Am. Econ. Rev. 65(March), 27 (1975).
11. G. Davis,"Mathematicians and the Market" Notices of the American Mathematical Society, November 1997.
12. The report on which this policy forum was based can be found at www.ascb.org or www.nber.org.
*R. Freeman (to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: freeman@nber.org) is at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. R. Freeman, E. Weinstein, and J. Rosenbaum are or were at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E. Marincola is at the American Society for Cell Biology, 8120 Woodmont Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA. F. Solomon is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Salmon Safety
Julie Rehmeyer
11:14pm, January 15, 2007
Two recent reports urge more fish consumption, including farmed salmon. But previous studies had warned against farmed salmon because of high levels of organic pollutants. So, do we eat it or don't we?
A report published in Science 3 years ago warned that some kinds of salmon should be eaten at most once every 5 months. But in October 2006, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association and a report by the National Academy of Sciences advised most people to eat two servings of fish a week, regardless of the species. Which advice should you follow when you go to the grocery store?
Everyone agrees that fish in general and salmon in particular have considerable health benefits. Salmon is one of the richest sources of omega-3 fatty acids, which protect the heart and support fetal brain development. Furthermore, all fish are an excellent source of protein and a wide variety of micronutrients. And salmon tends to be low in mercury, one of the most serious contaminants of many kinds of fish.
But salmon is contaminated with persistent organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). Although PCBs and DDT have been banned in the United States for 30 years, the compounds still linger in the water, soil, and the flesh of animals because they biodegrade slowly. In 2003, an international accord banned a dozen of the organic pollutants from participating countries, but the chemicals are still in use elsewhere. When organic pollutants accumulate in the body, they increase risk of cancer and immune system dysfunction.
The conflicting advisories about fish consumption arise because scientists disagree about how serious the health risks from these pollutants are. The controversy focuses on the safety of farmed salmon in particular because the concentration of organic pollutants there tends to be several times higher than in wild salmon. Even by the most conservative estimates, it's safe to eat wild Alaskan salmon once or twice a week.
The two most recent reports say the benefits of eating salmon—wild or farmed—greatly outweigh the risks. "It's much more dangerous not to eat the salmon," says Dariush Mozaffarian of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, an author of the JAMA article. "I'm bothered that people might be scared away from eating what might be the best food for their hearts."
Mozaffarian points out that most animal products and even vegetables around the world are contaminated to some degree by organic pollutants. A 2003 U.S. Food and Drug Administration study analyzed roasted chicken, for example, and found that it had the same concentration of PCBs as salmon farmed in British Columbia.
But David O. Carpenter of the State University of New York at Albany in Rensselaer, an author of the 2004 Science article, says, "One should avoid farmed salmon like the plague." In his analysis, he considered contamination to be unacceptable if it raises the risk of cancer by more than 1 in 100,000. Using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formulas, he found that staying below that level of risk required limiting farmed salmon consumption to no more than one meal every 1 to 5 months, depending on where the salmon was raised. Salmon from Europe is far more contaminated than is salmon from western Canada, the Pacific Northwest, or Chile.
Mozaffarian says that the Science report doesn't take the positive effects of fish consumption into account. The cardiac benefits of farmed salmon, he says, prevent 100 to 400 times as many deaths as the organic pollutants cause. Furthermore, he argues that the studies showing heart benefits are stronger than the studies showing negative effects of organic pollutants. At high doses, the chemicals are known to make people sick, and animal studies suggest that lower doses can have an impact, but few large-scale human studies have been done. Mozaffarian also says that the researchers analyzed the pollutant levels of the entire fish, including the skin, which people don't ordinarily eat, thus getting artificially high values for the pollutants.
The high contamination levels in farmed salmon come from their diet. Farmed salmon are fed fish oil and fish meal, the leftover bits of fish after the meat has been removed for human consumption. These feeds give the farmed salmon a concentrated dose of pollutants because those chemicals are most abundant in fat and skin. Furthermore, farmed salmon tend to be fattier than wild salmon, also leading to higher concentrations of the pollutants—and, ironically, greater amounts of the beneficial omega-3s.
The distinction between wild and farmed is a useful one, but a new study of British Columbia salmon showed that different species and different farming practices can have a big impact on PCB concentrations. Michael Ikonomou of the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, British Columbia, and his colleagues found that farmed coho and Chinook salmon tend to be lower in PCBs than farmed Atlantic salmon—and are in fact lower than some wild salmon. This makes some sense, Ikonomou says, because farmed coho and Chinook salmon have lower fat levels than Atlantic salmon. The report appeared in the Jan. 15 Environmental Science & Technology.
Fish farming practices could be changed to reduce the contamination of the fish. The salmon could be fed soybean oil instead of fish oil early in their lives. A couple of months before harvest, they would be switched to fish oil to increase the omega-3 levels. Some farming practices have already been changed, Mozaffarian says, so farmed salmon may already have lower concentrations of pollutants than the ones tested in the Science study.
The human body breaks down organic pollutants, but only very slowly. Because they are fat-soluble, the body can't excrete them through urine or sweat. The chemicals have a half-life in the body of about 10 years, Carpenter says. Because people tend to continue ingesting the pollutants, they typically build up faster than the body can break them down.
Organic pollutants are, however, secreted in breast milk, which contains fat. A woman who breastfeeds three babies can decrease her pollutant load by half, Carpenter says, but the mother passes the chemicals on to her children. Because of this, Carpenter says that it's particularly important for girls and young women to avoid farmed salmon, especially since the heart benefits of the omega-3s are less essential for young people than for older ones.
Until further studies are done, we're going to be stuck with some uncertain choices at the grocery store. The one thing all the researchers seem to agree on is that you should put some fish, in one form or another, in the cart.
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Home Enewsletter Scottsdale Water recognized as global leader in recycled water use
Scottsdale Water recognized as global leader in recycled water use
Nov 4th, 2015 · by Scottsdale Independent · Comments:
The WateReuse Research Foundation and the Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence have recognized the Scottsdale Water Campus and Reclaimed Water Distribution System among the world’s most innovative water purification projects in their recently published Global Connections map.
The Global Connections project includes narratives and videos that demonstrate the needs, benefits, safety and technologies of key recycled water projects around the world.
With a goal of demonstrating the necessity and opportunities of reusing our most precious resource, the project explains some of the ways in which water is used and reused across the globe for both direct and indirect potable reuse.
The Scottsdale Water Campus component of the Global Connections map highlights the state-of-the-art Advanced Water Treatment Facility, which can produce 20 million gallons a day of ultrapure recycled water for both groundwater recharge and golf course irrigation, and the Reclaimed Water Distribution System – a public-private partnership funded by 23 golf courses in north Scottsdale to provide large turf irrigation without the use of groundwater, according to a press release.
Scottsdale Water Campus
Indirect potable reuse is the process of treating wastewater to levels that exceed drinking water standards and then injecting that ultrapure water into the aquifer to augment future groundwater supplies. The Scottsdale Water Campus is one of the largest and most sophisticated indirect potable reuse facilities in the world and has been an industry leader in this realm since the facility began operation in October of 1998.
The Water Campus has multiple distinct components: the Water Reclamation Plant, which produces tertiary effluent, the Advanced Water Treatment facility, which further treats effluent for aquifer recharge, a recharge well field with 63 injection wells, and a state-of-the-art water quality lab. (The Water Campus also houses a 70 million gallon a day capacity drinking water treatment facility.)
The AWT treats the effluent from the Water Reclamation Plant to ultrapure levels utilizing ozonation, microfiltration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet disinfection prior to recharge. In its original construction, the AWT had a production capacity of 6 million gallons a day of highly treated, RO-permeate recycled water. This water was originally used solely for groundwater recharge.
Reclaimed Water Distribution System
Since the early 1990s, Scottsdale has been providing non-potable water to 23 golf courses in north Scottsdale through a public-private partnership known as the Reclaimed Water Distribution System, the release stated.
The RWDS is a complex system of pipelines, booster pump stations and reclaimed and advanced water treatment facilities capable of delivering 20 million gallons a day of non-potable water for turf irrigation specifically to RWDS member clubs.
The RWDS was first conceived and negotiated by Desert Mountain Properties and the city of Scottsdale as a means of terminating north Scottsdale golf courses’ reliance on precious groundwater resources for irrigation. Through the original agreement, Desert Mountain and 12 other golf clubs invested $30 million to build and fund capital improvements to the system.
When the RWDS was first established, the city pumped raw surface water from the Central Arizona Project canal, which is also the city’s main source of surface water, to the member courses. When the city’s Water Reclamation Plant came online in 1998, the courses began receiving a combination of raw CAP water and tertiary effluent.
Over time, however, the high salt level in the reclaimed water – from both Scottsdale’s source water and salt-based water softeners in Scottsdale homes and businesses – was creating challenges for the golf courses’ turf germination. The RWDS courses and the city worked out an agreement to blend a portion of the ultrapure water from the AWT with the CAP water and effluent, which would significantly reduce the levels of total dissolved solids (primarily salt) in the delivered water.
To accommodate the needed additional water, the RWDS courses purchased capacity in the AWT, ultimately paying an additional $22.5 million to expand the facility’s capacity from 14 million gallons a day to its current capacity of 20 million gallons a day.
Benefits to the city of Scottsdale
The added capacity of the AWT – funded by the RWDS golf clubs – dramatically increased the city’s recharge capabilities. In the non-peak-watering months, the city capitalizes on that added capacity, recharging the excess water not needed by the golf courses. In 2014 alone, the city recharged over 1.7 billion gallons of ultrapure water into the aquifer, the release stated.
Scottsdale is an internationally renowned tourist destination, hosting an estimated 10 million visitors annually, with an economic impact to the city of a little over $4 billion. Golf is an essential economic driver for the city a key component of that tourism economy. While golf tourism has declined nationally, Scottsdale’s golf tourism continues to rise, increasing over 4 percent in 2014.
Scottsdale is also host to both the Phoenix Waste Management Open and the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. The two popular PGA events, both of which are played on RWDS courses, provide a significant economic and charitable impact, with a combined annual attendance of over 550,000 fans.
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Franklin Pierce University reaches out to displaced students
Sep 2, 2014 at 7:07 AM Sep 2, 2014 at 7:08 AM
LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — Franklin Pierce University has set up a tuition discount and credit transfer package for students at Lebanon College, which recently canceled its classes for the fall semester.
Based in Rindge, Franklin Pierce University also has a location in Lebanon, where interested students can attend an open house Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Franklin Pierce officials say their online and hybrid undergraduate programs can provide ready alternatives to displaced students.
Lebanon College officials canceled classes last month, saying it was the first step toward closing the college, which faces about $2.2 million in debt and declining enrollment.
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Filming in London, why Directors love to shoot here
Hollywood and New York have been considered the centre of the film making industry, but that’s all beginning to change.
More and more film directors are making the move to London for the production and post-production of their films, and it’s for good reason. London offers a number of advantages that appeal to directors that they can’t always find in Canada or the US.
Why Film in London?
Inspiration: London is steeped in a rich history and is filled with iconic filming locations along with museums, galleries, and a healthy night life. All of this works together to create an inspiring and creative air to the city that many directors find appealing in light of the work they’re doing. Being embedded in such an atmosphere means that they don’t have to shut off their creative minds when the day’s filming is done, and they just might find that bit of inspiration that will make their film great.
Location and Attitude: One of the big advantages to filming in London is the wealth of locations available for a director to use in their production. The variety of locations and stages available means that directors are likely to find whatever they need to make their film work. The London area offers the advantage of having a wide variety of landscapes and ancient structures that a director can use over the course of the production. See: Popular London Locations
With studios like the BBC and several others having been in business for several years in London, it’s not all that uncommon to find a section of the city closed off for production purposes, and most Londoners tend to take it in stride. It’s an attitude that directors won’t find in places like New York and Hollywood.
Experienced Crew: It might seem that it’s possible to find an experienced crew in any film making city in the world, and it is. What makes London film crews somewhat unique is their attitude to the film making process. London film crews tend to approach the job of film making like it isn’t just another job to them. Theres a feeling of joy and excitement to be part of something big in the making. For many of them, it doesn’t matter how often they work on the set of a film or how commonplace it might seem after a while. They hold on to that sense of newness and wonder. Again thanks to the presence of a number of studios, there is a wealth of experience to be found among those who work as part of film crews. Film making is a part of London’s history, and the experience of those who have helped make that history helps to make a director’s job just a little easier.
Equipment: There is probably nothing more frustrating to a director than to have production held up for the lack of a key piece of equipment. It doesn’t matter if it’s equipment that was forgotten or just late in arriving. Time is money on a set, and delays can potentially ruin a film budget.
With so many productions making the move to filming and producing in London, the demand for quality production equipment has grown to meet the demand. The full range of equipment suppliers is represented in England along with a large number of equipment rental companies. This means that directors can find the equipment they need here in London without much problem at all. The equipment suppliers of London can provide whatever a director needs and provide it when it’s needed no matter how busy the city might become.
Actors: There are few things more rewarding for a director than to find just the right actor with which to work. And with the growing popularity of several British actors, it only makes sense to make a film featuring such actors in London. This has the advantage of making it more convenient for the actor to fit the production into their schedule, and the director gains the advantage of getting the actor they want for their film along with all the other advantages of filming in London.
Financial Benefits: Last but certainly not least is the financial advantages of making a film in London. While this advantage isn’t strictly for directors, it often plays a key part in how well a film does, and that can directly affect a director’s career in film making. See: Filming Tax Incentives
The city of London offers tax incentives for filmmakers that can’t really be found anywhere else in the world. Its common for London to refund anywhere from 20 to 25 percent of a production’s budget back to them in return for all the additional revenue that the film has brought to London. But the financial advantage doesn’t end there. The UK also refunds a percentage of what the studio pays its talent for the production. These incentives are part of what has helped make a number of films produced in London such a success.
With all of these advantages, it’s easy to see why London has become a favourite for directors when it comes to making their films. From the beginning to the end of production, directors have a leg up by making the choice to film in London. They save money on production and post-production, get a great crew and equipment, and they are filming amidst a wealth of history and culture.
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How Cotopaxi Builds Its Brand and Spreads Its Vision With In-Person Events
Stephan Jacob is the Founder of Cotopaxi, a company that creates innovative outdoor products and experiences that fund sustainable poverty relief, move people to do good, and inspire adventure.
In this episode you’ll learn how he runs in-person 24-hour events to market his company's vision and brand.
How to attract smart people to your team.
What is a "public benefit corporation" and how it can help your business.
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Felix: Today, I’m joined by Stephan Jacob from Cotopaxi.com, that’s C-O-T-O-P-A-X-I.com. Cotopaxi creates innovative outdoor products and experiences that fund sustainable poverty relief, move people to do good, and inspire adventure. It was started in 2014, and based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Welcome, Stephan.
Stephan: Thanks, Felix. Thanks so much for having me. Great to be a part of the community.
Felix: It’s definitely exciting to have you on. Tell us a little bit more about your brand, your story. What are some of the most popular products that you sell?
Stephan: Yeah, sure, I’m happy to. We’re, as you said, an outdoor gear brand. We design and manufacture outdoor apparel, tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, both technical and lifestyle. We started about two years ago, based here out of Salt Lake. I’m looking out of my window, and I have the mountains in my back yard. That’s really why we chose to be here in a place where there’s a very active outdoor community, and are really fortunate with regard to access to talent and just people who really love the products and use the products that we make on a very regular basis.
Some of our most popular products, there’s one which is called the Luzon Del Dia, which is a very minimalist day hiking pack, but it has a really cool, rich back story. That’s performing really, really well. On the apparel side, the basic mantra that we live by is sort of this warmth without weight concept. We have a lot of different pieces that keep you nice and warm, insulate you well, but you don’t feel like you have to rip them off your body the moment you step inside.
There’s one product in particular, the Kusa jacket, which we actually use llama fleece, llama fur, as an insulator. That’s doing really well, and now with the spring coming, we just launched a new running jacket called the Paray, which is an ultra, ultra lightweight jacket that packs into a tiny pocket, that is off to a great start.
Felix: Awesome, so what’s your background? Did you have experience designing outdoor apparel or gear? How did you get into this industry?
Stephan: I did not. I’m originally from Germany. I was born and raised in Munich, close to the Alps. Ever since I was a little toddler, my godfather, who was an officer in the German special forces, took me and his son, who was my age, out into the mountains, doing crazy, wild things. That’s how I grew up, and always loved the outdoors.
I joined the special forces after graduating from high school myself, and just always as a consumer, loved that industry and just always have been a gear head at heart. I did a computer science tech background in college, and sold my soul for a couple years to McKinsey, a consulting company, strategy consulting firm, and loved that experience, but also realized that I just didn’t want to be a consultant for the rest of my life.
I went to business school at Wharton, where I met my co-founder here with Cotopaxi, and started a business out of school which was also an e-commerce business that was essentially a discovery platform for small independent apparel and accessories designers. It was an on-line channel concept. We had several stores, and then obviously our e-commerce base.
We ran that for a couple years, and just really a super-valuable experience that I benefit from every day now, with the second go-round with Cotopaxi. I exited that in 2013, and then I teamed up with Davis, my co-founder, who also is a very experienced entrepreneur, and we started this one here.
Felix: Very cool, so outdoor apparel is obviously very different than just T-shirts or designs on clothing, because there’s probably a lot more technology involved with outdoor apparel.
Stephan: That’s correct.
Felix: Because you didn’t necessarily have this background in it, how did you overcome that or work with it?
Stephan: I think this is a general learning, as an entrepreneur, you will never have all the skills required to build a business and to make it successful. I think the first step is to recognize, “Hey, I’m not an experienced outdoor apparel designer and developer.” That’s step one, having that realization. Step two is, “How do we fix that?” It’s by bringing in incredibly talented people who do have that skill set, and who share the same core values of what you want your organization to be. At the same time, bring in people who can fill those gaps.
That’s exactly, both Davis and myself, we did not have that background. We were e-commerce entrepreneurs, and had experience scaling and building businesses, but did not have the product background besides loving outdoor products ourselves as consumers, but not from a design and development perspective.
Our co-founder, his name is CJ Whittaker, he is from the industry. He has been working with Gregory and Black Diamond for 12 years before joining Cotopaxi, and designed some of their most award-winning gear during that decade. He’s sort of the brains behind the product, in our product vision and strategy.
Part of the founding team was also another person, Cheri, who is our director of apparel, who is an incredibly experienced and skilled visionary when it comes to outdoor apparel and sleeping bags, et cetera. All our soft goods are under her direction, and then hard goods under C.J.’s.
We essentially brought people on board, made them part of the team early on, that would enable us to come up with truly innovative, amazing products from the get-go.
Felix: Yeah, I think that’s a great point about how you need to recognize what you’re good at, what you’re not good at, then fill in those gaps by hiring the right people or part of the right people from the beginning. I guess this kind of leads to the next question which is, that was an obvious thought, because I think a lot of people are stuck in this space, but let’s say that you’ve come to this realization that you need to do this. Now, the next kind of big hurdle is how do you find and attract these smart people that, because they’re so smart, because they’re so talented, they could work anywhere? They could work for a more established brand, or [inaudible 00:07:43], or are looking to work with them, or maybe start their own business. How do you attract the people, when they have so many options and you were just a small player at the time?
Stephan: It’s a great question, and a real challenge. How do you build a team when really all you have to sell is a vision? I think we were able to convince the team that has come together, and every single day that’s one of the main reasons why I’m excited and so grateful to work on this project, and build this company, is the people who have made those leaps of faith, and have moved, often times.
In Cheri’s case, she was in Portland or close, in Bend, Oregon, and moved to [inaudible 00:08:32] River, and moved here to Salt Lake City. We have people who moved from California, from the East Coast, and from various places in phenomenal positions often times, and making sort of the jump and transition to join a very small start-up in the early stages.
I think ultimately what it came down to is, we have a very, very big vision. We truly believe that we can build the next large-scale million-dollar outdoor brand. That’s obviously highly aspirational. Who knows if that will really materialize? I think we were able to formulate early on the potential and the sort of wide space that we see in the outdoor industry, which in general is a very crowded space. There are a gazillion brands, and you could say the last thing the world needs is another outdoor brand.
We really feel that there is, if you look at the big players, they’ve been around for a very long time, whether that’s a Patagonia, a North Face, Columbia, et cetera. Those companies were built like 30, 40, 50 years ago. Some have done a better job than others sort of staying relevant and staying in tune with this younger millennial demographic that has been on the rise for several years now, as a consumer base.
We really felt that there was a white space there, where we could build a brand that is specifically designed around the desires and aesthetic and taste preferences of that younger consumer. I think that’s one, just to showcase that, “Hey, we have the potential to build something great, to build something amazing here as a business,” and it has the legs to scale.
I think the second thing that has been very, really differentiating from a talent acquisition perspective has been the fact that we’ve, from the get-go, said “We want this organization to be about more than just maximizing value for our shareholders.” We’re incorporated as a public benefit corporation. What that means is that in our articles of incorporation it is stated that our reason to exist is not just to make money, but it is to have a measurable positive impact on the world.
That’s very vague, but in our case how we sort of make that concrete is that all of our products raise money for various humanitarian causes in three main areas of health and education and livelihood. While we have concrete metrics that we track and hold our nonprofit partners accountable to, it puts a purpose behind the organization. We truly look at ways to disrupt not just the way … Not just with taking a portion of our profits and giving it to these various humanitarian causes that have a real impact in these communities, but really along the entire value chain, how can we make a difference? How can we do things differently?
One example would be the pack that I’d mentioned before, the Luzon Del Dia, which is a pack where the only instruction we gave to the sewers at our factory in the Philippines was, “The only rule is, no two bags can be alike. Other than that, you decide what thread color to use. You decide what panel color to use on X, Y and Z. You’re the designer, essentially.” We empowered these unsung heroes of the outdoor industry, the people who actually make the stuff, to truly be creative.
It was incredible to observe the dynamic on the sewing floor, what that did when we sort of gave them the power to truly be creative themselves, and create these packs based on their own mood, their own input, their own sort of cultural norms. The result is a very colorful, amazing product where every single one is unique. There are no two packs that are alike.
We’re going one step further now in the area, where we started teaching development and design skills on the factory level, to basically push these skills into the work force and help them grow as individuals and professionals. I think that has made a huge difference in terms of how people feel about joining a company like Cotopaxi, as opposed to other opportunities in the market.
It’s not just about a paycheck. It’s not just about making a career, but it’s about really making a difference, working on something that’s much, much bigger than any single one of us. I think that’s been a huge plus. We’ve had, on our first week after we lost … Our first month after we launched, the first four weeks, we had over 400 unsolicited job applications, just from people who were intrigued by what we were trying to do and just said, “I want to be a part of that.” I think the fact that we’re a purpose-driven organization has been a big, big plus when it came to talent acquisition and talent retention.
Felix: A lot of great things you said there that I want to definitely talk about; the public benefit corporation, and how you empower the manufacturers. Before we get to the base of that, what do you do on a daily basis? Let’s say, on a daily basis, what are some things that are on your to-do list or on your checklist that helps you, or that lets you help the company focus on the vision?
Stephan: We very recently rolled out a fairly holistic goal-setting program based on OKR, objective key results framework, which was initially introduced by John Doerr at Google, and has been spreading pretty wildly in the start-up community and sort of the larger tech community.
Felix: What does that stand for, you said OQR?
Stephan: OKR, and it stands for objective key results. You’re basically saying, “What are my objectives, goals if you will, typically on a, in our case, quarterly basis?” You define three to five key results which ideally should be measurable and attainable, sort of like a smart principle of goal-setting, slightly adapted, but in essence that’s what it is.
In the initial phase, we rolled that out with our revenue goals, and then you basically break them down in sort of the overall company goal, and then it breaks down to sub-team goals, and then you can break it even further down to individual goals. I think that was one step, as we grew as a team, and we’re still a very small company with just 23 full-time employees, but that was one way to break down that bigger vision of what we’re trying to achieve, into very concrete, actionable steps for the individual sub-team, and then every individual employee.
I think another big thing is just to live that vision as a leadership team, so for example Davis, my co-founder, he was in Istanbul just last week at the World Humanitarian … The United Nations’ World Humanitarian Summit. We’re very active individually in various refugee rescue efforts, where we work with the refugee community here in Utah, and over 60,000 refugees. With my engineering team, I launched a program there together with our chief impact officer, Lindsey, where we teach coding and computer science to refugee youth as a means to get access to very well-paying job opportunities, without the need for expensive college educations.
These little things, where we try to individually live by those values that we want to inspire others to live by, and take very concrete, publicly visible steps to be these thought leaders, and show people how they can make a difference. It’s not just saying, “Hey, we have a social mission as an organization, and X percent of our sales goes to nonprofit X, Y, Z.” I think it needs to be deeper and more authentic than that.
I think that alone is great, but for us we really said, “We want to do more than that, and really show that you can do well as a business, but also do good at the same time.” To be a real model individually, be role models in the community, to do that. It’s like little things throughout our entire value chain, where we try to bring that to light.
One example is, every customer that orders and then receives a package from us will receive a hand-written thank-you card. Initially, we wrote those cards ourselves, but that wasn’t very scalable. We started again working with our refugee youth committee here, and we set up a program where they basically write these cards for us. It’s a paying job, often times the first paying job they have in the country.
In addition, we do these job readiness training programs, where we coach them on resume/interview training, good habits, financial responsibility, various skills, just members of a team will teach a workshop on a Saturday morning. It’s a super-rich, amazing story that that handwritten thank-you card basically tells. It’s little things like that, where we really try to bring the for-good aspect and integrate that into everything that we do as a company.
Felix: You’re living the vision, just through kind of leading by example, and then the planning that you’re doing with those OKRs, so I think it makes a lot of sense that you need to live that vision, and you should be doing that from the very beginning of your business. When it comes to things like planning with the OKRs, did you do this from the very beginning, or does it make sense, or does it only become a necessity later when you’re more than a few people on the team?
Stephan: Yeah, I think it is definitely … We did not do that from the beginning. I think even our size of the company, it’s early. Normally, many organizations will roll something like this out when they’re 50, 60, 70, 80-plus employees, just because it becomes really, really hard to create that alignment and sort of make transparent how every individual is contributing to the bigger or larger vision for a company.
Yeah, we did it relatively early. I don’t think you necessarily need something as formalized in the first year or two. I think you do need to constantly talk about why you’re doing what you’re doing, the “why” of the organization at large, and every single individual and their contribution. That is important, to surface from day zero, so that you bring people on board who share that “why,” who understand, what are we trying to achieve? What is the end goal for this?
I think that is important, and whether that is through all-hands meetings, where you talk about that as the leader or CEO, it’s like the C-level, you talk about that vision and sort of break it down for everybody in the team, like how they can contribute. I think that is important, from the early day, because it’s hard to bring that to life, like two years into your journey, if it hasn’t been part of the conversation for two years. I think that’s important from day zero, but I don’t think it has to be as formalized as any goal-setting system with hierarchies and all that kind of stuff.
Felix: Yeah, and even based on what you were saying before about you might attract the wrong type of people too, if you’re not talking about the vision and really injecting that vision from the beginning, because then you might bring the people who are not a fan of that vision. Is it just like, when you're sending e-mails, having hallway conversations, these meetings, are you just always trying to find ways to inject the vision, inject the “why” into the conversation?
Stephan: Yeah, that’s correct. We have, in our case we call it [inaudible 00:21:31] at Cotopaxi, so every two weeks we have an all-hands meeting where we first do like a round-robin type update from every single employee in the company, what they’re working on right now and challenges that they may face.
Then, the second half of that meeting is typically like a teaching moment of sorts, and there can either be a guest speaker that somehow reinforces the vision and what we’re trying to achieve, so we have … In our case, we’re trying to build a large-scale outdoor company that does and inspires … Does good, and inspires others to do the same. We had people who summited Everest talk during that hour. We had people who launched an organization that was trying to rebuild schools in West Africa. We had a former CIA agent who talked about the refugee crisis and the situation in Syria, and just the atrocities that are happening there. We had one of our impact employees talk about his experience as a peace-keeper in South Sudan; various types of teaching moments, where we basically reinforce and bring stories to life that highlight why we’re trying to do what we’re doing.
Felix: Makes sense. Let’s talk about the public benefit corporation. Tell us a little bit more about that. How do you … Maybe we’ll start with, what is the benefit or maybe are there examples of times where the public benefit corporation has come in handy?
Stephan: I think it’s important to distinguish between two concepts in that context. There is the legal entity or type, which is a PBC, public benefit corporation, that’s comparable to a C-Corp or an S-Sorp or, in terms of being an entity, a legal entity here in the U.S. It’s a relatively new entity type that hasn’t been around for a long time, but I that is a reflection of the desire of founders and entrepreneurs, the desire and the recognition that as a company, you have a responsibility to not exclusively your shareholders, but also to other stakeholders, communities, et cetera.
That’s what we are. We incorporated as a public benefit corporation from the get-go, against the advice of our legal counsel, because it was so new. You know, lawyers always see all the risks and warn you about them, so the advice was against us saying that, “You might have difficulty raising money if you’re a PBC.”
We did it anyways, because we felt very strongly about that. We’re the first public benefit corporation to incorporate as such, and then raise venture money. It has never been a disadvantage, quite frankly, so I think the concern that was expressed, we never felt it, has never come up as an issue in our fund-raising conversations, but that’s essentially one part of the construct, is the legal entity public benefit corporation. As I said, the biggest difference is that in your articles of incorporation, it’s basically prescribed that you exist not exclusively to maximize shareholder value.
There are some implications from a fiduciary duty perspective. Our shareholders cannot come after us with a claim that we are not maximizing shareholder value, and are doing these things with nonprofits, giving sales and profits away, which if you’re a regular corporation, theoretically there is a risk of that happening. You’re really, as an executive of a C-Corporation, your only job from a pure fiduciary duty perspective is to maximize the value for your shareholders.
That’s sort of the legal aspect of it. Besides that, there’s a certification which is called a benefit corp, or B-Corp certification. That is literally a certification like many others that are out there in the market, that so says and shows that you abide by best practices with regard to pursuing sort of a healthy, sustainable business from a non-profitability perspective, but then also an environmental and a people perspective, so this triple bottom line concept.
Any legal entity, no matter what legal entity you are, you can be certified as a B-Corp. We are both. We started out as being only a public benefit corporation, as a legal entity, but then last year we also were certified as a B-Corp. We’re both now, and just really excited to be part of that community of entrepreneurs who feel that business is about more than just making money, and business can actually be used as a force for good, and a very sustainable force for good. That’s the whole concept and idea behind that.
Felix: Does it mean that you’re allowed to or you are protected if you make decisions that might solely benefit, let’s say, the manufacturers that you work with, that absolve you from the fiduciary duty to maximize profit for your shareholders?
Stephan: Yeah, that’s correct. I’m not an attorney, so I think there is a … In theory, that’s correct. I think you’re not absolved from the responsibility of an executive to your investors to make the business work. If you only … If you make decisions that sort of are to the detriment of the organization, and are risking the success of the organization, you’ll get axed no matter what.
It doesn’t protect you from making unsound business decisions, but it does mean that you have a better, a stronger position to justify why you’re making certain decisions that have maybe a more longer-term impact on the strength of the brand, and for sure on the strength of your supply chain, for example.
I think it just balances and sets expectations, from the get-go basically, any investor that we talk to we signal, “Hey, yes, we’re building a large, profitable brand, but we’re doing it with a purpose of impacting as many people as we can, through our various humanitarian efforts.” I think it just balances that discussion, or infuses a certain clarity with regard to, what is the real “why” again of the organization? Why are we doing what we’re doing? It does not absolve you from having to build a successful business, because that’s ultimately what makes an enterprising organization or a business different from a nonprofit, is that it self-funds, at scale, once you reach profitability. I think it doesn’t change that dynamic. That pressure to get to profitability is there, whether you’re a PBC or a C-Corp or an S-Corp or any other legal entity, for that matter.
Felix: It makes a lot of sense. What kinds of companies or entrepreneurs should look into following the footsteps, following your footsteps, by trading in a public benefit corporation?
Stephan: I don’t think there is a specific industry or type of company and vertical that is particularly suited for a public benefit corporation. I think anybody can choose that entity type, if they feel strongly that the reason that they go into the business is not exclusively to make money for themselves, or the people or fund them.
That’s really the whole idea, is to be at the forefront of a movement, of inspiring other entrepreneurs to follow suit, and recognize that there are many examples. We’re not the first ones to do this. There are many, many other examples; Warby Parker, Tom’s, Patagonia is a public benefit corporation.
I think we’re just really grateful to be part of a growing community of companies and entrepreneurs that are going that path, but I don’t think that there is any limit to who can or should not be a benefit corp. I think one thing that is important though, and we get that question a lot when we speak at universities and student groups, that it’s hard enough to start a business. It’s hard enough to get to profitability. Many companies never get to that point.
I think you need to be very clear about that, and that needs to be at the forefront of what you’re trying to achieve. Ultimately, you will fall short with all the impact that you want to have, if you can’t make the business work, all of that is mute. I think that’s just very important, that entrepreneurs, especially when you’re a first-time entrepreneur and it’s so difficult to get a business off the ground, especially the first time around, make sure you focus on that. If you feel really strongly that you have something that’s unique and sustainable and with a great product market fit, and you feel very strongly about a social cause, or your organization having a positive impact, that’s great, wonderful. Please do it, but please make sure that the business fundamentals are strong enough to sustain that.
Felix: Makes sense; it’s the idea that you can’t help others if you can’t help yourself first.
Stephan: Exactly.
Felix:
Makes sense, so for anyone out there that wants to become a public benefit corp, what’s the process like?
Stephan: Basically, the incorporation is very similar. If you from the get-go start as a corp, it’s very similar to any other entity type. In our case, we’re a Delaware PBC, but no matter where you are, obviously the rules and regulations are different. I think the best advice there is to work with an attorney to guide you through that process, and that differs from state to state. I do not have any experience in terms of converting from being some other entity type to a benefit corp.
That’s again the sort of question; you don’t have to be. You could also start by saying, “Hey, no matter what entity I am, I at least want to get certified as a B-Corp.” That’s perfectly acceptable and great. That’s completely independent from the entity type.
Felix: Makes sense. I want to talk about what you were saying earlier about empowering these manufacturers, these people that I think you said in the Philippines that were working for you. When you were telling me, I was just thinking in my head that a lot of entrepreneurs I have spoken to on the podcasts or off the podcasts would be very nervous about doing what you guys did, where you are empowering these manufacturers to make these decisions.
A lot of times I hear stories about how they worked with a manufacturer, they were not there telling them exactly what to do and exactly how to do things, and everything falls apart and doesn’t end up with the products that they want. How did you come … Did you have those fears, and how did you come to make this decision?
Stephan: I think we’re very fortunate with our product team. They’ve had a lot of experience in their respective fields, whether that’s patent, manufacturing, or apparel. In the case of the factory in the Philippines, C.J. has been working with that factory for many years, and had a very strong relationship, a trust relationship. I think it was a little easier to take that leap of faith to say, “Hey, we know how incredibly talented these people are, and we want to give them a chance to really show that,” and have seen how skilled they are as artisans, and as makers.
Yeah, that’s sort of the basis from which we made that decision, with that knowledge. It turned out amazingly well. I think if you work with a factory for the very first time, and you don’t have that understanding and trust, I think it’s a little more difficult. I think it’s probably also a good idea to start out, in our case, we did manufacture several batches of this product, where we did give them a full tech pack, where everything was exactly specified, like you normally would in a manufacturing process.
We knew that they had gone through that process, and then we sort of gave them the free reins to design themselves. I think it was A, strong pre-existing relationships that were established over a longer period of time, and B, the fact that they had experience with the product, so it wasn’t the first time that they were making this specific product. I think that helps, to de-risk an approach like that.
Felix: For sure, so what would you say is the biggest or has been the biggest benefit to the company, by having this initiative to let the factories design the products?
Stephan: Yeah, I think from day zero we said that we were not going to build this company by spending hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars on performance marketing, on Google and Facebook and whatnot. Instead, we want to find ways to empower our customers to tell our story, and to give them a reason, and a product that’s amazing enough for them to want to talk about it, and has enough of a rich back story that they want to talk about it, and show others.
I think the Del Dia does exactly that. It has this very deep and rich back story that perfectly encapsulates who we are as a brand, and why we’re different from others. I think that’s been the biggest benefit, that it really gives people a reason to chat to their friends about the cool pack. It’s also super colorful, so you stand out when you wear it.
That, to me, has been the biggest benefit besides the fact that we’re having a real impact in our supply chain, and are having happier workers and all that. I think from a pure reach and marketing perspective, that’s been the biggest one, the story-telling that comes with a product like that.
Felix: How do you get the customers to tell your story? Let’s say someone’s shopping on your site, they bought a product, and they don’t look anywhere else on your site, which I guess is a rare occurrence, but let’s say they get the product. Are you sending them educational material about the brand, about the people behind the brand that are in the factories? How are you getting them the story in the first place, for them to spread to their friends and family?
Stephan: Sure, yeah, so I think there is sort of the pre-purchase education. There’s the post-purchase education. Pre-purchases, a lot of that happens on the PDP, obviously, where we do believe in video. If you go on the PDP for the Luzon Del Dia, you see a video that basically tells the story of that product. You’re in the factory. You see C.J. working with the people there, and having them talk about their experience of putting this product together. I think that’s been very helpful to get that message across.
[inaudible 00:37:36], yes, we put hang tags on all products, but it’s a little harder in a two-dimensional hang tag to really communicate the awesomeness of the product, so we put little cues on the product itself. For example, on the Del Dia, if you open up the front zip pocket, there’s a sticker that says “one of one,” to basically signal, you have a unique product, and that is directly linked to the back story of how it was made.
It’s not an easy task, but I think we firmly believe in video as a powerful tool to do that on line. The other aspect is that we firmly believe in in-person experiences, where we expose people to the values that our brand stands for, face-to-face. We’ve launched an event series called the Questival, where we do that. We basically bring, it’s a 24-hour outdoor adventure race where we bring people together, do a lot of product education, story-telling, and expose them to products over a 24-hour period as they are racing across our city and completing various tasks. It’s both what we do on line, information that we attach to the product, and then in-person product education and storytelling.
Felix: Yeah, let’s talk about the Questival. This is like, I think you’ve labelled it as an adventure race. Tell us a little bit more about, how did you begin to organize something like this? A lot of entrepreneurs out there that are listening, I think they are attracted to starting an on-line business because they don’t have to put together in-person events. Obviously, there’s a lot of benefit to this about what you guys are doing, by going to trade shows, by networking, by just getting out there, out from behind the computer, outside the office, and actually meeting your customers. Tell us a little bit more about how you got started to create an event series like this.
Stephan: It was really born out of the same sort of mantra, we cannot buy traffic. That’s not to say we don’t do performance marketing, we do. We do do re-targeting, and PPC and affiliates and all that, but it’s complementary to the organic brand-building. To this day, 82, 84 percent of our traffic is organic, and only 15 percent or so is paid.
That was sort of the general belief when we started the brand, that we wanted to find a way to get in front of customers in an authentic manner, where we could tell our story, where we could engage with them, and it’s just really hard to do that on line.
That sort of was the impetus for the Questival. Initially, we just thought it would be our launch event. That’s how we wanted to get the word out on day zero, April 11 of 2014. We put together this event with the same team that also basically put together the whole product of e-commerce backing and all that. It was a lot of work. Man, that first … The last four weeks before launching, which is really the time that we had to organize this event and roll it out, we just didn’t sleep. It was crazy, but that’s how it is. That’s just the early days of launching a business, they’re just like that, and you look back at them with very fond memories.
We were essentially launching a product brand. We were launching it on line, but then we also organized this event which on the first year, we had 1,500 people sign up to it. We promoted it on mainly college campuses. Our logo is a llama, and so we rented llamas at that point. We own two llamas now, so we’re one of the few e-commerce companies to have a livestock line item on our balance sheet, because of those two llamas, but back then we didn’t.
We rented them, and just showed up on college campuses with those llamas, and started talking to people about Cotopaxi, and this event that was coming up. Normally, when you’re on campus, you’re trying to hand out flyers or promote a brand, you get kicked off by campus security within minutes. Those llamas, man, they really delivered. They’re so weird, that we had campus police take selfies with the llama, and letting us walk around and chat with people, and people wanted to hear what we had to say.
It was just a great way to get the word out, and get people excited about the first Questival, which as I’d mentioned, is a 24-hour outdoor adventure race. We put a list of 300 tasks together, that people can choose from. They work in teams. There’s a big kickoff party on Friday afternoon, where we have vendors, some of our nonprofit partners, and people can start completing challenges right there.
We built an app that basically guides them through the experience, and they snap a picture whenever they complete a challenge, and upload that to social media. It was an incredible experience. We had, that first day, the first 24 hours of our launch, we had over 30,000 social media posts of people completing challenges and pushing them to Facebook and Twitter, or trending on Twitter here in Utah. It was just an incredible way to get the brand out there.
We felt … At the same time, people who participated, they buy a ticket, and they get a backpack in return. We see product at the same time as really exposing people through the challenge list, to what we stand for as a brand. You can pick from challenges such as build a fire without matches, like outdoorsy, survival-type challenges, various hikes and outdoor activities, mountain biking, whatnot.
There are also humanitarian do-good challenges, where we have clean up a park, or volunteer at a food bank or a homeless shelter, et cetera. It was just an amazing way to expose people to who we were, who Cotopaxi and what Cotopaxi stood for, and the results were incredible in terms of really creating these evangelists for the brand, that really felt strongly about Cotopaxi and wanted to promote it and talk about it on line and with their friends. It was an amazing, amazing experience for us.
That has then led to rolling it out into a full event series, where we did, the first year we did six events in Salt Lake, in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Portland and Las Vegas. This year, we have close to 15, for the first time on the East Coast, Boston, New York, as well as Chicago, San Diego, and we’re going back to all the cities where we were in before.
It’s really become a part of the brand, and people recognize us for it. You’re absolutely right, it is a lot of work. Putting these events together is not easy, and so it takes a lot of effort and can cost a lot of money if you’re not careful. It has worked really well for us, but I think, and I strongly encourage other entrepreneurs to think through, “What is the …?” Not do a Questival, right? It works great because we’re an outdoor gear brand, but think through, “What could be … What could I come up with in terms of physical experiences, that let me build a genuine relationship with a customer base, and a customer base that I can then go back to and poll and get feedback from and listen to?”
I think that’s the mandate. What is sort of the equivalent for other brands in terms of physical, in-person experiences? We’ve definitely found that to be a great, great way to enter a new city and really get the word out in a very genuine and unique way.
Felix: Yeah, that’s awesome. I had no idea that this was a part of your company from the very beginning. You did this once to launch, obviously a ton of work; what did you see, or what did you experience, that made you guys say, “Let’s do this again, and do this multiple times”?
Stephan: Sure, yeah, so I think there’s some hard data that is very encouraging in terms of, the people who participate in these events, they purchase a ticket so we can trace back just through the e-mail address how they are then performing as customers. We see a higher average order value, higher lifetime revenue, and so it’s a very valuable core of customers, which kind of makes sense. They’ve been exposed to the brand in a very intense, almost cathartic experience, during those 24 hours.
Felix: It’s really as immersive as you can get, going through these events.
Stephan: Exactly, and so we built in this, on the app, there is, you log your challenges but then there is also a feed, which is like a “hot or not” feed, where you see the submissions of all the other teams, and you can basically vote on the other teams. We see at every event a couple of million interactions with the brand. The last Salt Lake event, we had 3,000 participants and I think 2.6 million swipes with the app over the 24 hours, so just a very engaging experience. These cores of customers are incredibly valuable from a product customer perspective, and it’s just an amazing way to get people to talk about the brand, again, non-intrusive, non-advertising type manner.
That’s really what made us feel so strongly about this, and roll out more. We’re constantly monitoring. We’re constantly tweaking and iterating the event, to make sure it still delivers on that initial idea of exposing new, incremental customers to the brand. So far, it’s been a really amazing way to get the word out. People purchase a ticket, so these events are typically profitable once they reach a certain scale. The cost per acquisition for these customers is actually negative, so it’s a pretty interesting venue.
Felix: Yeah, that’s amazing, so what, if anything, went wrong during the first in-person event? Just for anyone else out there that’s thinking about doing something like this, what are some things to look out for that maybe you didn’t expect to happen?
Stephan: Yeah, I think for one, it takes a lot of time and effort to pull this off. We had all hands on deck for several weeks to make this happen, in addition to launching the business, which in and of itself is a feat. I think that’s one thing to look out for. Make sure you don’t let any of the other balls that you have in the air drop, because you’re trying to pull off an event.
I think the other thing is too, we had a very specific problem if you will with our initial event, where now all the voting and judging of the teams … There are winners, right? The teams who accrue the most points over the 24-hour period, they get a big prize. It’s like a travel … Last year’s winners, they went to the Questival world championship tour, which just happened four weeks ago down in South America. The winning teams from each city raced against each other from Belize to Panama, and basically did a Questival down there with humanitarian projects on the way, and just various cool adventures.
It’s a big-ticket premium, and people were really excited about it. Now, all the judging is done by the participants themselves, but for the first event we actually pick the winners, like we, Cotopaxi, by looking at their content and how many points they had accrued and whatnot, and filtering out for any inconsistencies and whatnot.
Man, that was a big uproar, because people accused us of rigging it, and not being fair. That’s just a … If you do some type of a race, and then just be very clear about how does … What are the rules? Who’s enforcing them? Who’s picking the winners? Just try to extract yourself as much as possible from that whole process, because otherwise you may take the blame of not being [inaudible 00:50:40].
Felix: Makes sense. How do you … You did this once, for the launch. How did you guys prepare to scale something like this up, to have multiple events every year?
Stephan: Ultimately, it’s a matter of … Similar to the product discussion we had, we are not events people. We had never done this before. We pulled the first one off, and it went really well, but man, it was so much work. In order to scale it, again, we recognized that we needed somebody who had done this before. We brought on board our VP of events, Seth, who is one of the founders of the Color Run.
Felix: Oh, cool.
Stephan: You may or may not be familiar with it. It’s basically these races, these 5Ks, where you start with a white T-shirt, and then they throw chalk at you at various stations, so you end up with this crazy color everywhere, and people are super happy. It’s not timed. It’s about, again, the experience of doing a 5K, as opposed to the time with which you complete the race.
He was one of the original founders. They had millions of racers over the last couple years, so very experienced event professional, and he basically oversees all our Questival events now, with an event director, Flip. It was that recognition of, “We cannot do this alone. We need some help,” and we brought somebody on board who could do that for us.
Felix: Makes sense. For anyone out there that’s thinking about going down the same path, do you have any recommendations on how they can get started if they’re a very small company, with a very, very limited budget, and they’re just trying to dip their toes into, trying to launch in-person events, to connect with the community, to build these relationships with customers?
Stephan: Yeah, I think my recommendation would be to just try something really small. Invite people, and we still do a lot of that stuff as well, invite people to come to your office, and have just a get-together there. We had barbecues at our office, where we had people just show up. We threw some burgers on the grill, and we talked about product and showed them new prototypes and got feedback.
We organized hikes, where people just come, meet us at our office, we’ll go on a hike together with the founders. We have all kinds of people that come together and just spend time together and chat and really get an understanding of what matters to them when they purchase and think about outdoor gear.
None of these take nearly the capital or the time and effort to organize as a 1,500-people event, but I think it’s a great way to get started and to get a sense for, “How could this work?” Then, maybe you do something at just a small venue, without big permitting or anything like that, but just basically start small, just like you would with any … Sort of this idea of a lean start-up methodology, which I’m sure a lot of your listeners are familiar with.
I think the same applies to events. You start with sort of your MVP, and then you iterate, iterate, iterate, and learn along the way. I think for events, it’s the same thing. Start small, and then continue to grow it from there.
Felix: Makes sense. What are some goals for the remainder of this year? What are some goals you have for Cotopaxi?
Stephan: 2016 is an amazing year for us. It’s the first time that we’re actually opening up the company to wholesale, so we’ve received so many inbound requests over the first 14, 15 months of the business, of retailers saying, asking us if they could sell our product. We started to pursue that in earnest this year, so we’ll be in REI starting in the fall, and various specialty retailers in the Pacific Northwest and other places. That’s an exciting development, wholesale.
We’re moving our office. We outgrew a very small space here in Salt Lake, and are actually moving to a downtown location and are opening a retail store, which we’re really excited about, first foray into retail. Those are sort of the big, strategic projects for us this year, obviously besides scaling and continuing to grow our e-commerce base, as physical retail, our own store, and wholesale.
We’re very much in our infancy. Two years is nothing in the lifetime of a brand, so we’re still very much in listening and learning mode, but are seeing some really encouraging early signs and signals from the market. I’m really pumped to meet a lot of our customers face-to-face in our physical retail space. That’s really the big, strategic projects that are on the docket for us.
Felix: Awesome, very exciting times for you guys. Thanks so much, Stephan. Cotopaxi.com is the Web site. Again, it’s C-O-T-O-P-A-X-I.com. That’s where you can also find links to the Questival, the in-person events that they run. Anywhere else you recommend the listeners check out if they want to follow along with what you guys are up to?
Stephan: We’re really active on all social media channels. Anders runs out social media, and he’s done an incredible job. Recently, SnapChat has become a big thing for us, so follow us there, or follow us on Facebook, or on Instagram. By all means, please reach out. If you’re ever in Utah, come stop by our office. It will be in downtown Salt Lake, so we’re always excited to chat with other entrepreneurs, and just exchange notes.
Felix: Awesome, definitely check out their YouTube channel, too. You guys have a lot of great videos on there. I was watching some earlier, I think, very great, high-quality videos, especially if you want to learn more about what the Questival is like, there’s a lot of shoots or videos and documents in that.
Thanks again for your time, Stephan. I’ve really enjoyed talking to you.
Stephan: Yeah, same. Thanks, Felix, so glad to be part of the community, thank you.
Felix: Thanks for listening to Shopify Masters, the e-commerce marketing podcast for ambitious entrepreneurs. To start your store today, visit Shopify/com/masters to claim your extended 30-day free trial.
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Yes it does. The parade missiles were elevated very slightly from their rest positions.
Ah, a very simple explanation!
#61 Lethe, May 8, 2017
SamuraiBlue said: ↑
My personal observation, it looks as if it has been staged.
First if it was either the first or second stage where is the engine bell?
Why are there so many people at the crash site, it's in the middle of no where and still such a crowd?
If it was the either the first or second stage it would have been wrecked into pieces not being able to withstand the impact.
If it was the second stage suggested from the distance from launch it would have been charred beyond recognition due to reentry not being able to read anything on the body and yet you can read the numbers.
You underestimate the power of cell phone camera and Weibo or Sina forum. Everybody own cell phone in China eve n the remote place like Mongolia. Once some one spotted the wreckage they take photo and posted it on Weibo for everybody to see.
Military enthusiast will pick it and spread the news,
It is second stage allright and No it doesn't have to be blown to pieces because the impact forces will be absorbed by the sand and the second pieces just broke See the first stage stuck in the sand and badly charred
It is stages in a way because they don't collect and clean up the landing site .they don't try to hide it knowing it will be broadcast!
#62 Hendrik_2000, May 8, 2017
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Why are you wasting your time explaining logic to a deaf, blind, and in denial person who refuses to accept that China is advancing this much farther in man space program, rocketry, and HGV technology than Japan?
#63 Equation, May 8, 2017
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Why does the TEL cab in the previous post have a conical protrusion from the roof when the missile itself does not seem to lie in the hollow that is formed above?
It is double-cab and this man is in the rear cab.
DF-26 TEL cab, noticing conical shape in the middle.
#64 t2contra, May 8, 2017
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It is official the rocket force issue this statement
MoD: PLARF conducted a new missile test launch in the Bohai Sea recently, which achieved the expected result.
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PanAsian Major
In full in English:
http://english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2017-05/09/content_7594377.htm
Defense Ministry: PLA Rocket Force test-fires new-type missile weapons
Source China Military
Editor Dong Zhaohui
BEIJING, May 9, (ChinaMil) -- The Rocket Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army(PLA) recently conducted an operational test for its new-type missile weapons in waters of the Bohai Sea and achieved the expected results, said the Information Bureau of China's Ministry of National Defense(MND) on Tuesday.
China's MND Information Bureau was asked by journalists on Tuesday to confirm whether the PLA Rocket Force had conducted a trial firing of missile recently.
The Information Bureau answered that, to improve the troops' capability of carrying out missions and efficiently deal with national security threats, the PLA Rocket Force recently conducted an operational test for its new-type missile weapons in waters of the Bohai Sea according to the annual training plan and achieved the expected results.
Obviously this and other PLA exercises in the area is related to THAAD deployment in SK as well as US, SK, Japan military exercises in the area.
#66 PanAsian, May 9, 2017
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A good article by Zachary Keck about surveillance system for ASBM
Here is the link of Jeffrey Lin blog article about CH-T4 Very long endurance UAV. Potentially excellent platform for surveillance radar. Paired with quantum communication is it impossible to jam
http://www.popsci.com/china-solar-powered-drone
China Might Have a New Way to Sink U.S. Aircraft Carriers
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...ew-way-sink-us-aircraft-carriers-21090?page=2
Zachary Keck
The Pentagon just released its annual report on China’s military power, which once again highlighted Beijing’s efforts to put American aircraft carriers at risk. Right on cue, China announced a major milestone for a system that might be a key component of its antiaccess/area-denial (A2/AD) strategy.
This week, Chinese state media reported that the Caihong-T 4 (CH-T4), China’s massive, solar-powered drone, for the first time flew at an altitude of twenty thousand meters. This is important because there are no clouds above twenty thousand meters, which allows solar-powered drones to operate for significantly longer periods of time.
How long? Basically, indefinitely. According to China Daily, “future improvements will enable it to remain aloft several months or even several years.”
Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer, who write the excellent Eastern Arsenal blog, note that the CH-T4 is an impressive combination of big and light. The drone’s wingspan is around 130 feet, which is wider than a Boeing 737. At the same time, the CH-T4 only weighs between 880 and 1,100 pounds. By way of comparison, Boeing 737’s lowest typical operating empty weight is over seventy thousand pounds, and its maximum gross takeoff weight can reach as high as 170,000 pounds. Besides being slender, the CH-T4’s lightness is due to its carbon fiber and plastic components.
The drone can also travel at speeds of 125 miles per hour. However, it will also be able to cruise at sixty-five thousand feet, so it will be able to cover a huge swath of land without moving very far. Indeed, Lin and Singer point out: “It can utilize its high flight ceiling to maintain line-of-sight contact with over 400,000 square miles of ground and water. That's about the size of Egypt. For both militaries and tech firms, covering so much territory makes it an excellent data relay and communications node.”
What Lin and Singer don’t mention is that these capabilities will make the CH-T4 an excellent asset in China’s quest to hold America’s aircraft carriers at risk in the Western Pacific. Much of the attention given to that effort focuses on China’s so-called “carrier-killer” missile, the DF-21D. But as I noted last week in relation to North Korea, the missile itself is only one piece of the puzzle. Even more important is the sophisticated “kill chain” of surveillance, radar and communications systems needed to track and provide updated targeting information to the antiship ballistic missile while it is in flight.
Publicly available information indicates that America’s efforts to defeat China’s antiaccess/area-denial strategies focus on disrupting this “kill chain.” For example, in 2013, then chief of naval operations Jonathan Greenert and then Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh coauthored an essay in Foreign Policy on how Air-Sea Battle intended to overcome A2/AD threats. In the article, they wrote that “Air-Sea Battle defeats threats to access by, first, disrupting an adversary’s command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems; second, destroying adversary weapons launchers (including aircraft, ships, and missile sites); and finally, defeating the weapons an adversary launches.”
The logic of this approach, they argued, is that it “exploits the fact that, to attack our forces, an adversary must complete a sequence of actions, commonly referred to as a ‘kill chain.’ For example, surveillance systems locate U.S. forces, communications networks relay targeting information to weapons launchers, weapons are launched, and then they must hone in on U.S. forces. Each of these steps is vulnerable to interdiction or disruption, and because each step must work, our forces can focus on the weakest links in the chain, not each and every one.”
Once it is operational, the CH-T4 will complicate these efforts by increasing the redundancies in China’s kill chain. For instance, if America is able to disrupt or destroy Chinese satellites, Beijing can rely on the drone to provide the information necessary to track American ships. The CH-T4 will have other comparable advantages over other surveillance systems. On the one hand, they will be cheaper and more flexible than satellites, while at the same time flying higher and farther away from the battlefield than different surveillance aircraft and ships. This combination will make it more difficult for Washington to destroy the surveillance step of the kill chain, although it could still focus on other steps such as disrupting the communication networks.
None of this is news to the U.S. military. Although the Pentagon’s newest report on China’s military didn’t mention the CH-T4 by name, it did note that “the acquisition and development of longer-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will increase China’s ability to conduct long-range ISR and strike operations.”
Fortunately, the U.S. military will have some time to figure out its response, as China Daily reports that it will “take several years for designers and engineers to improve and test the aircraft before it is delivered to users.” If the United States’ own record at developing this type of technology is any guide, Beijing should expect a few more hiccups along the way. NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) began working on the Helios Prototype well over a decade ago. In 2001, it completed an important milestone by flying at an altitude of ninety-six thousand feet (29,260 meters). Yet a Helios crashed during a flight test just two years later. Europe, meanwhile, is also trying to develop so-called pseudo satellites.
Zachary Keck is the former managing editor of The National Interest. You can find him on Twitter: @ZacharyKeck.
The "Caihong-T 4" (CH-T4), built by the Chinese Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), has a double-bodied fuselage, cranked wing, and twin tail. It's got a wingspan of 40 meters—or about 130 feet, which means its wider than a Boeing 737 jetliner. Despite the large size, it weighs between 880 and 1,100 pounds. It owes its this lightness to its carbon fiber and plastic components.
NEAR SPACE
The CH-T4, flying 12 miles up into the atmosphere, has line-of-sight radio and visual coverage over 400,000 square miles—an area the size of Egypt.
#67 Hendrik_2000, Jun 11, 2017
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On the one hand, they will be cheaper and more flexible than satellites, while at the same time flying higher and farther away from the battlefield than different surveillance aircraft and ships.This combination will make it more difficult for Washington to destroy the surveillance step of the kill chain, although it could still focus on other steps such as disrupting the communication networks.
Yeah but China's Quantum technology and communication are getting better therefore makes this disruption almost obsolete.
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I do not understand.Why tell everyone what you are doing.
Did the Brits announce to the world that they were working on radar and demonstate in theory what the advantages of having it were before WW2 was declared?
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I think these were conclusions drown by the Pentagon, not leaks by the Chinese. They saw (maybe via satellite) China flying a drone at 20,000M with solar panels on it and they kinda put 2 and 2 together and figured it would be pretty handy at generating targeting data on ships.
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On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Armstrong is pictured here, shortly after collecting a sample of lunar dust and rocks. At his feet is the handle for the sample collection tool.
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The death of Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the surface of another world, is reverberating in the highest circles, including the White House.
Armstrong, who took humanity's first steps on the moon in July 1969, died today (Aug. 25) at the age of 82. President Barack Obama said he and his wife Michelle were deeply saddened to hear of the astronaut's passing.
"Neil was among the greatest of American heroes — not just of his time, but of all time," Obama said in a statement.
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 Commander, inside the Lunar Module as it rests on the lunar surface after completion of his historic moonwalk in July 1969.
Armstrong commanded NASA's Apollo 11 mission, which blasted off on July 16, 1969. Armstrong dropped onto the lunar surface four days later, and he and his two crewmates returned safely to Earth July 24, achieving a goal laid out by President John F. Kennedy eight years earlier.
"When he and his fellow crew members lifted off aboard Apollo 11 in 1969, they carried with them the aspirations of an entire nation," Obama said. "They set out to show the world that the American spirit can see beyond what seems unimaginable — that with enough drive and ingenuity, anything is possible. And when Neil stepped foot on the surface of the moon for the first time, he delivered a moment of human achievement that will never be forgotten."
Armstrong and Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin spent more than 21 hours on the moon while fellow crewmate Michael Collins orbited above in their command module Columbia. The mission was Armstrong's second — and final — spaceflight; he had first blasted off aboard NASA's Gemini 8 mission in 1966.
Shortly after his boot first clomped into the gray lunar dirt, Armstrong uttered one of the 20th century's most famous lines: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
The astronaut will continue to inspire explorers of all kinds far into the future, Obama said.
"Today, Neil's spirit of discovery lives on in all the men and women who have devoted their lives to exploring the unknown — including those who are ensuring that we reach higher and go further in space," he said. "That legacy will endure — sparked by a man who taught us the enormous power of one small step."
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David Fincher’s ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Being Developed with “More Heart… Realistic Lucidness”? Nope
Posted on Monday, August 23rd, 2010 by Adam Quigley
Update: Apparently this story isn’t completely accurate. MTV informs us that they have removed the story because Randall Wallace did script work on the McG version of 20,000 Leagues, but that project is dead. The Fincher is something totally different…
Few upcoming projects have quite the promise that Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea does, and much of that is due to it having David Fincher at the helm. If ever there were a director capable of delivering the visual splendor, attention to detail, and focused intensity and excitement that a tale like Jules Verne‘s classic deserves, it’s Fincher.
And between claims that Fincher wants 20,000 Leagues to be his Empire Strikes Back and this latest update from co-writer Randall Wallace, the likelihood of that promise being realized continues to grow.
In an interview with MTV (it’s been taken down for unknown reasons, but here’s a mirror), Wallace provided some insight into the project when discussing the week he spent doing rewrites on the script.
I loved that project. I think they were developing it in a really smart way. They were developing it, at least I believe this is why they asked me to work on it, they were developing it in a way that had more heart and a more realistic lucidness than what we would think of as the normal fantasy fare. It’s not my project to direct, [but] I can tell you… I am not a great fan of pixels. I understand they’re a tremendous moviemaking tool but what happens to me in most current movies, my actual emotional connection to the story and the characters is removed when I know — like everybody else in the audience knows — that I’m not watching human beings in a physical world.
I think most of us can agree that Wallace (who in addition to penning the screenplays for Braveheart and Pearl Harbor is the writer/director of films such as We Were Soldiers and the upcoming Secretariat) has the right attitude here, and I would hope that he brought as much of it into his draft of the script as possible.
The more I hear about the approach that Disney is taking with this property, the more it becomes clear that they know what they’re doing. The source material may be firmly rooted in elements of fantasy, but it’s not so fantastical that it can’t translate to a fully believable cinematic world. All it needs is the right person to give it that realistic edge, and Fincher is more than suited for the job. If anything, this is playing to his strengths, since even with a movie like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button he didn’t seem too keen on embracing the fantastical side to the story. With 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, he doesn’t need to; the fantasy elements are there, but the more practically realized they are, the better.
As you might recall, the project was previously titled Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and was setup with director by McG with a script by Bill Marsilli’s (Deja Vu), with rewrites by geek screenwriter Justin Marks (Masters of the Universe, Super Max) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart). The project was shut down a few weeks after Disney chairman Dick Cook left Disney. Apparnetly the dark tone of McG’s version was a big concern of new studio head Rich Ross and prodution head Sean Bailey.
Fincher approached Disney production head Sean Bailey a few weeks into his job this winter, which is around the same time Disney announced they had dropped the project from their slate. The project was developed under the radar and it was only in the past few days that the official deals were put on the table. Fincher developed the new take on the franchise with Bourne Ultimatum/The Informant! scribe Scott Z. Burns, which “will aim to be visually dazzling” and is being described as “being in the vein of Star Wars or The Empire Strikes Back.”
The previous screenplay was to tell the origin story of Nemo and his warship, the Nautilus. The unofficial logline read:
“A fugitive whaler teams up with a naturalist, a mysterious woman and a captain of a futuristic submarine, to search for a lost underwater civilization that holds libraries of vast knowledge and a weapon with the power to destroy mankind.”
Of course, this storyline will probably be completely abandoned. No details about Fincher’s take are known at this time. Burns will start writing the screenplay immediately, and Fincher will likely have enough time to tackle another project before going under the sea (probably the much talked about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo).
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was the first live action film in Walt Disney history, and is considered by many to be the most mature film they have ever produced. Based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name, the 1954 film told the story of a ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
The film is best remembered for the giant-squid battle and for the Nautilus itself. It won two Academy Awards in 1955 for Best Effects and Set Decoration, and was also nominated for Best Film Editing.
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Conflict in Thai south could be exploited by ISIS, warn analysts
The site of an attack in Chanae, in Narathiwat province, in April. The conflict in southern Thailand has claimed over 6,000 lives since 2004.PHOTO: REUTERS
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The armed conflict in the Philippines' Marawi city should serve as a wake-up call to the Thai authorities in addressing the insurgency in southern Thailand, analysts say, as the tensions could open the door for the ISIS terror group, which often exploits conflicts involving Muslims.
Last week, Thailand started deploying 24-hour patrols in Narathiwat and Yala provinces bordering Malaysia, following news of the capture of an ISIS cell involving Malaysian militants who smuggled weapons across the border.
Still, the Thai government is confident that it would be difficult for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants to take root in the Malay-Muslim-dominated south, owing to differences in ideology and lack of ground support.
Analysts say the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), a major Muslim insurgent group in the south, has also made it clear that ISIS is not welcome.
"Across the region, the ground is shifting rapidly and Bangkok can no longer afford the luxury of assuming the conflict will remain somehow insulated from these wider currents, or that stepped- up border patrols will solve the problem," Mr Anthony Davis, a Bangkok-based security analyst, told The Straits Times.
"Clearly, ISIS has interest in exploiting areas of conflict which involve Muslims and south Thailand represents an area of opportunity."
South-east Asian nations were jolted in recent weeks when Philippine-based militants from the Maute group, which has pledged allegiance to ISIS, managed to capture Marawi city.
But in Thailand, the government remains confident that it would be difficult for ISIS to succeed in the deep south without support from the local Malay-Muslim community. The long-running insurgency has claimed over 6,000 lives since 2004.
"While ISIS is an imminent threat in the region, the south Thailand insurgency has been largely a domestic issue," said Colonel Pramote Prom-in, a spokesman for the Fourth Army Region's Internal Security Operations Command. He said the insurgents, who are fighting for a level of autonomy from Thailand, have a different ideology from ISIS, which follows an extremist interpretation of Islam.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said last month that the Thai authorities have found no information suggesting that ISIS members are hiding in southern Thailand or were involved in recent attacks in the region.
"(BRN and ISIS) do not share the same ideology and BRN has made it very clear that ISIS is not welcome," said Mr Don Pathan, an analyst who writes about southern Thailand issues.
Mr Matthew Wheeler, a senior analyst for South-east Asia at the Belgium-based International Crisis Group, said BRN sees its struggle as "nationalist and anti-colonial".
"Subordinating their struggle to a forlorn agenda imposed by outsiders would be counter-productive, if not suicidal," he added.
In Thailand, too, latching onto Thai insurgent groups could be tough as they mostly work in the shadows, with little public knowledge of who controls them.
Still, analysts said terror threats remain even if Thailand is used by ISIS fighters only as a place to hide or to acquire fraudulent travel documents.
It is also a place where military weapons routinely turn up on the streets. Several Thai army officers were charged yesterday over a weapons market that saw soldiers selling grenades and bullets over social media, Agence France- Presse reported.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 10, 2017, with the headline 'Conflict in Thai south could be exploited by ISIS, warn analysts'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Alcohol use disorders prevalence in Mexico 2016
Prevalence of alcohol use disorders in Mexico in 2016, by gender*
by Ana Maria Rios Montanez, last edited Apr 8, 2019
This statistic shows the 12-month prevalence of alcohol use disorders in Mexico in 2016, by gender. In that year, 0.4 percent of all Mexican women aged 15 years and older had an alcohol use disorder in the preceding 12 months.
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Geoffrey Stover is an accomplished business litigator. He has handled a wide range of cases, including:
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Mr. Stover has represented Fortune 100 companies, medium-sized companies, emerging start-ups and high net-worth executives and individuals. His current clients include real estate development companies, an international financial services firm, a transportation trade group and a mortgage wholesaler, among many others. Mr. Stover’s practice also involves representing corporate clients based in China.
Mr. Stover started his career at Paul Hastings, where he was an associate until 2011. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and is involved in various community organizations.
Mr. Stover graduated from UCLA School of Law in 2000 and graduated with Honors from Wesleyan University in 1995. He is a Los Angeles native and lives in Venice, where he coaches his son’s youth basketball team.
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World War II films from different eras (China Daily)
Aug 28, 2015 Uncategorized Comments Off on World War II films from different eras (China Daily)
World War II was the most brutal and costly conflict in history, involving more than 30 countries and causing deaths of tens of millions.
This year marks the 70th anniversary since the end of the war and the victory of Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
Here we list films that recount history from different periods of time.
A scene from Casablanca. [Photo/Mtime]
Casablanca is a 1942 American romance directed by Michael Curtiz. Set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate Rick Blaine who is confronted with a difficult choice between love and social conscience.
Rick Blaine is the proprietor of an upscale nightclub and gambling den “Rick’s Café Américain” in Casablanca, Morocco, which attracts a varied clientele, including German officials, Italians, and refugees desperate to reach the still neutral America. He receives two “letters of transit” by accident which allow the bearer to travel freely around the German-controlled Europe and to neutral Portugal.
Ilsa Lund, former love of Rick, walks into his establishment one day, accompanied by her husband Victor Laszlo, a renowned fugitive Czech Resistance leader. They need the letters to escape to America, where Laszlo could continue his fight. After learning why Ilsa left him without explanation, Rick’s bitterness for her dissolves. He gives them the letters of transit and risks his life to help them escape.
The film won three Academy Awards in 1943, including for Best Picture.
A scene from The Bridge on the River Kwai. [Photo/Mtime]
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 World War II epic film directed by David Lean. The film was shot in present-day Sri Lanka, and the bridge in the film is located in Kitulgala, a small town in the west Sri Lanka.
The movie opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills is raging between camp commander Colonel Saito and British colonel Nicholson. Saito insists that Nicholson orders his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which Nicholson refuses because the Geneva Conventions exempt officers from manual labor.
After setting his differences with Saito, for the sake of maintaining his men’s morale, Nicholson co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of the bridge while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. On the final inspection, Nicholson spots the explosives placed by the Allies and brings it to Saito’s attention. Seeing Allied commandos killed and shot mortally, Nicolson stumbles towards the detonator and collapses on the plunger, just in time to blow up the bridge and send the train hurtling into the river below.
The film won seven Academy Awards in 1957, including for Best Motion Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, whose mission is to preserve American film heritage.
A scene fromFrom Here to Eternity. [Photo/Mtime]
From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann based on the namesake novel by James Joyce, an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. The picture deals with the aspirations and tribulations of three soldiers stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
It is 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt requests Army transfer and ends up at Schofield in Hawaii. His new captain, Dana Holmes, hears of his boxing prowess and is keen to get him to represent the company. However, Prewitt is adamant that he does not box anymore, for which Captain Holmes gets his subordinates to make his life a living hell. Meanwhile, Sergeant Warden starts seeing the captain’s wife, who has a history of seeking external relief from her troubled marriage. Prewitt’s friend Maggio has a few altercations with the sadistic stockade Sergeant “Fatso” Judson, and Prewitt begins to fall in love with social club employee Lorene. Unbeknownst to anyone, the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor looms in the distance.
The title of the film comes originally from the poem “Gentleman-Rankers” by Rudyard Kipling, an English poet, about soldiers of the British Empire who had “lost way” and were “damned from here to eternity”.
The film won 8 Academy Awards in 1953, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Adapted Screenplay.
La Grande Vadrouille
A scene from La Grande Vadrouille. [Photo/Mtime]
La Grande Vadrouille is a 1966 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury. It tells a story of two ordinary Frenchmen helping the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber shot down over Paris.
In the summer of 1941, over Nazi-occupied France, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress gets lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out over the city, where they run into and are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves tangled up in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach as they help the airmen escape to the free zone with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathizers.
For over 40 years, La Grande Vadrouille was the most successful French film in France.
Where Eagles Dare
A scene from Where Eagles Dare. [Photo/Mtime]
Where Eagles Dare is a British 1968 World War II action film directed by Brian G. Hutton. It centers upon a daring rescue and an even more daring escape.
Several months before D-Day, the British stage a daring rescue deep inside Germany. Led by British Major Jonathan Smith and an American, Lt. Morris Schaffer, their mission is to rescue American General George Carnaby whose airplane has been shot down over Germany. Carnaby, one of the architects of the D-Day invasion, is being held in the Schloss Adler, the Eagle’s Castle, which is built high on a promontory and accessible only by cable car. The team successfully parachutes into Germany but losses their radioman in the jump and then a second member of the team within a day. Taken prisoner by the Germans, Smith’s true mission is revealed: to uncover the identities of German spies operating in Britain.
The film involves some of the top moviemaking professionals of the time and is considered a classic.
A scene from Battle of the Bulge. [Photo/Mtime]
Battle of the Bulge is a 1965 American widescreen epic war film directed by Ken Annakin. The film condensed a battle that stretched across parts of Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg and lasted nearly a month into under three hours.
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this from happening, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. An Allied intelligence officer, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Kiley, is convinced that the Germans are amassing tanks and troops for an attack but he cannot get anyone to believe him. When the attack is finally launched, he deduces that a shortage of petrol will lead the tanks to a massive Allied fuel depot. Though Allied forces ultimately win the battle, the initial Nazi counteroffensive catches them by surprise and causes many casualties.
The film was one of the most popular movies at the British box office in 1966.
Autumn Interlude
A scene from Autumn Interlude. [Photo/Mtime]
Autumn Interlude is a 1976 Japanese drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi which depicts a sad love story between Setsuko Mizusawa and Tatsurou Yuuki during World War II.
The story is set in the summer of 1941, months before the Pacific War broke out. Setsuko is a daughter of a Japanese diplomat to Europe and she meets Tatsurou at a family gathering. Gradually, they fall in love. However, their happiness is accompanied by sorrow and departure. The Pacific War breaks out and Tatsurou joins the army, while Setsuko is diagnosed with tuberculosis and is arranged to marry another man by her parents.
On a snowy day before the army’s expedition, the couple meet and promise each other to stay alive for future reunion. But soon after Tatsurou goes to war, Setsuko dies of tuberculosis.
A scene from Tora! Tora! Tora! [Photo/Mtime]
Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese film directed by Richard Fleischer that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The title is the Japanese codeword used to indicate that complete surprise had been achieved, but in this case was an acronym for “totsugeki raigeki”, meaning “lightning attack”.
In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they attempt to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military hatches plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the US base at Pearl Harbor. American intelligence break the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might come.
Since warnings fail to reach the Pearl Harbor, the incoming Japanese fighter pilots don’t receive any anti-aircraft fire as they approach the base. As a result, the squadron leader radioed in the code phrase marking that complete surprise for the attack has been achieved: “Tora! Tora! Tora!”
Tora! Tora! Tora! was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography, and won one for Visual Effects.
A scene from Das Boot. [Photo/Mtime]
Das Boot is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Peterson. It is an adaptation of the 1973 namesake German novel.
Set during World War II, the film tells the fictional story of U-96, a type of military submarine operated by Germany in World War II, and its crew. It depicts both the excitement of battle and the tedium of the fruitless hunt, and shows the men serving aboard U-boats as ordinary individuals with a desire to do their best for their comrades and their country. In the end of the film, Allied planes bomb and straf the submarine with many of the crew killed.
The film drew highest critical acclaim and is seen as one of the greatest of all German films. The critical consensus states “Taut, breathtakingly thrilling, and devastatingly intelligent, Das Boot is one of the greatest war films ever made.”
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
A scene from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. [Photo/Agencies]
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is a 1983 British-Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima. The film is based on Sir Laurens van der Post’s experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II as depicted in his works The Seed and the Sower and The Night of the New Moon.
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp run by Captain Yonoi and Sergeant Hara. Yonoi later on develops a homoerotic fixation with Celliers and Hara befriends the British Lieutenant Colonel John Lawrence, one of the prisoners of war who speak fluent Japanese.
A transmission radio is discovered in the possession of the prisoners of war by the Japanese and Celliers and Lawrence were forced to take the blame. During Christmas Eve, Sergeant Hara orders for their release. As the men leave, Hara calls out for the first time in English, “Merry Christmas, Lawrence!” Although shocked at Sergeant Hara’s release of both Celliers and Lawrence, Yonoi only mildly reprimands him for exceeding authority.
Both Yonoi and Hara are redeployed. Their successor declares that “he is not as sentimental as Captain Yonoi” and immediately has Celliers buried in the ground up to his neck as a punishment and then left to die. Captain Yonoi goes to Celliers when there is no one around and takes a lock of his hair. He pays his respects and leaves, and Celliers dies shortly afterwards.
In 1946, four years later, Lawrence visited Hara, who is imprisoned by the Allied forces. Hara learned to speak English while in captivity and reveals that he was going to be executed the next day for war crimes, stating that he is not afraid to die, but didn’t understand how his actions were any different from those of any other soldier. Hara reminisces about that Christmas Eve and both are very much amused. The two bid each other farewell for the last time and just before Lawrence leaves, Hara called out again, “Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!”
The film enters into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme d’Or. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music in 1983.
Grave of Fireflies
A scene from Grave for Fireflies. [Photo/Mtime]
Grave for Fireflies is a 1988 Japanese animated drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata. Set in the city of Kobe, Japan, the film tells the story of two siblings, Seita and Setsuko, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of the Second World War.
Seita and Setsuko are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their soldier father’s destiny is unknown, the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs.
When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies. After Setsuko is diagnosed with serious malnutrition, Seita withdraws all the money remaining in their mother’s bank account to buy food. He returns only to find a dying Setsuko hallucinating. Seita hurries to cook, but Setsko dies soon after. Seita cremates Setsuko’s body, and puts her ashes in the fruit tin, which he carries along with his father’s photograph, until his death from malnutrition in Sannomiya Station a few weeks later.
The film received nearly universal acclaim from film critics and won the Blue Ribbon Awards for Special Award in 1984. Rotten Tomatoes, American film review aggregator website, offers this consensus: “An achingly sad anti-war film, Grave of the Fireflies is one of Studio Ghibli’s most profoundly beautiful, haunting works”.
A scene from Schindler’s List. [Photo/Mtime]
Schindler’s List is a 1993 American epic historical period drama directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the life of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
A member of the Nazi party, Schindler was essentially apolitical but knew how to deal with the bureaucracy and those in power to get what he wanted. He didn’t hesitate to use Jewish slave labor in his new factory. However, over time, he was deeply affected by the treatment of Jews and began to take steps to protect the 1,500 or so people who worked for him. He convinced the authorities to build a new factory where the employees were interned and went out of his way to hire those who faced the wrath of the camp commandant, Amon Goeth. When the camp was closed, he arranged for “his” Jews to be transferred to a new factory in Czechoslovakia. When the train carrying the women was diverted to Auschwitz, the notorious German concentration camp, he raced to have them freed using a part of his fortune to have them released to him. By the end of the war, Schindler lost everything but saved the lives of over 1,000 of his employees.
Often listed among the greatest films ever made, Schindler’s List was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2004. The film was the recipient of 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score.
A scene from Life is beautiful. [Photo/Mtime]
Life is beautiful is a 1997 Italian tragicomedy comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni.
In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son called Giosué and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize is a tank.
Despite being surrounded by the misery, sickness, and death at the camp, Giosué does not question this fiction because of his father’s convincing performance and his own innocence. In the end of film when Guido walks to his death and passes by Giosué hidden in a sweatbox one last time, he is still in character and playing the game.
The film was a critical and financial success, winning Benigni the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 71st Academy Awards as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
A scene from Stalingrad. [Photo/Agencies]
Stalingrad is a 1993 war drama film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. The movie follows a platoon of World War II German Army soldiers transferred to Russia, where they ultimately find themselves participating in the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the platoon leads his men to desert. While trying to escape, the soldiers find the city surrounded by the Soviet Army. In the end, Many of them are killed, starve or freeze to death.
In 1993 the film won Bavarian Film Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Production, and it was also entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.
A scene from The Pianist. [Photo/Mtime]
The Pianist is a 2002 historical drama film co-produced and directed by Roman Polanski. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist, a World War II memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman.
The story centers on Szpilman’s life in the slums of Poland during World War II, his separation from his family and how he struggles to survive. The protagonist meets a German officer one day in search of food, and under the officer’s orders, Szpilman is forced to perform a piece by Chopin. The officer, touched by his talents, decides to help him find a place to hide and provide food and clothing to help him live. After the war is over, Szpilman does his best to find the whereabouts of the German officer, but is shocked when he hears the officer was suspected of being a spy and died in captivity.
The film met with significant critical praise and received multiple awards and nominations. It was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It also won Oscars for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor, and was also nominated for four other awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003.
A scene from Flags of Our Fathers. [Photo/Mtime]
Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war film directed by Clint Eastwood. It is based on the book of the same name written by American writers James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were involved in raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the aftereffects of that event on their lives.
In 1945, the US Marines attack 12,000 Japanese protecting the 20,000-square-kilometers of the sacred Iwo Jima island in a very violent battle. When they reach the Mount Suribachi and six soldiers raise the national flag on the top, the picture became a symbol in the post-Great Depression America. The government brought the three survivors to America to raise funds for war and bring hope to desolate people, making the three men heroes of the war. However, the traumatized trio had difficulty dealing with the image built by their superiors and were haunted by memories of the war.
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Sound and Sound Editing in 2007.
I Want to Be a Shellfish
A scene from I Want to Be a Shellfish. [Photo/Agencies]
I Want to Be a Shellfish is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Katsuto Fukuzawa. Set during the World War II, the film tells a story of a Japanese barber being forced to fight in wars.
The barber led a plain but content life with his wife and son until 1939 when the World War II breaks out. He is forced to join the army and fight abroad. Traumatized by the cruelty and ruthlessness of war, the barber, as a lucky survivor, comes back home and hopes to lead a peaceful life. But what followed are charges of him being a war criminal, and he faces severe punishment. He and his pregnant wife attempt to make petitions, but in the end he is sentenced to death. In his will, he writes “If there is afterlife, I want to be a shellfish”.
The film was nominated for three Awards of the Japanese Academy, including Best Actress in 2009.
A scene from Back to 1942. [Photo/Mtime]
Back to 1942 is a 2012 Chinese historical film directed by Feng Xiaogang. It is based on Chinese writer Liu Zhenyun’s novel Remembering 1942, and is about a major famine in Henan province during the Chinese People’s War against Japanese Aggression.
The protagonist, Master Fan, is a wealthy landlord in a village in Henan. When others are struggling to meet their ends, Fan has plenty to feed upon, but his course of life changes when a group of bandits storm the village, rob it and burn it down to the ground.
Fan is left with no choice but to flee his hometown with his family, and heads westwards in search of food. During the flight, Fan continues to see his family members, and the fellow villagers, die one by one. He is eventually forced to sell his daughter to a brothel house in return for food, and to ensure the survival of his daughter. With limited help from the government, Fan begins to lose hope and wants to head back so he could die somewhere closer to home. On his way, he meets a little girl weeping on the body of her dead father. Fan tries to comfort the girl, but the child says she is not crying because of her father’s passing, but because everyone she knew has died and all those remaining were strangers to her. Touched by the girl’s words, Fan decides to adopt her as his granddaughter, and continues his journey westwards with the girls’ hand in his.
The film also won the Best Film of Mainland and Taiwan at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards in 2013, and was selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards in 2014.
The Flowers of War
A scene from The Flowers of War. [Photo/Mtime]
The Flowers of War is a 2011 Chinese historical drama war film directed by Zhang Yimou. The film is based on a novella by Geling Yan, 13 Flowers of Nanjing. The story is set in NanJing, China, during the 1937 Nanking Massacre in the Chinese People’s War against Japanese Aggression. A group of escapees, finding sanctuary in a church compound, try to survive the plight and persecution brought on by the violent invasion of the city.
Meantime, an American mortician, John Miller arrives at the church to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he finds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor.
The film was selected as the Chinese entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012, and received a nomination for the 69th Golden Globe Awards in 2011.
A scene from Unbroken. [Photo/Mtime]
Unbroken is a 2014 American historical biographic war-sports drama film, directed by Angelina Jolie, and based on the 2010 non-fiction by American writer Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. The film revolves around the life of USA Olympian and athlete Louis Zamperini, and with flashbacks of his childhood, it depicts how a man grows to find strength and faith.
The film opens showing Louis Zamperini flying as a bombardier of a United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber, during an April 1943 bombing mission against the Japanese-held island of Nauru. During the mission, however, both of the plane’s left engines fail, causing it to crash in the ocean. Louie and two others survive and live on two inflatable rafts. They are captured by Japanese forces and sent to separate prison camps. Louie is treated with cruelty for more than two years. At the end of the war, Louie and the other prisoners in the camp are set free to return to their homes. Back home in America, he kisses the ground and hugs his family.
The film won the Hollywood Film Awards for New Hollywood Award in 2014, and was nominated for three Academy Awards in 2015, including Best Cinematography in 2015.
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Letters to the Editor: April 27, 2019
Readers share their views on another bridge to Hutchinson Island, President Trump, presidential powers, Sarah Heard, and presidential candidates.
Letters to the Editor: April 27, 2019 Readers share their views on another bridge to Hutchinson Island, President Trump, presidential powers, Sarah Heard, and presidential candidates. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/readers/2019/04/27/letter-letters-editor-april-27-2019/3520046002/
Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 4:00 a.m. ET April 27, 2019
Another bridge to Hutchinson Island is unnecessary
We should all object to any plans to construct a bridge from Walton Road in Port St. Lucie just to ease a few people’s concerns about traffic on Jensen Beach Causeway.
The Transportation Planning Organization said there is no justification for another bridge. People on Hutchinson Island don’t want to make it easier for non-residents to crowd their island. It would cost more than $100 million, maybe $200 million, which would be wasted considering that due to sea-level rise from climate change, the bridge's end on Hutchinson Island would end up in the ocean in about 30 years.
Per Dr. R. Grant Gilmore, this location is the most fragile on the island and, when it rains, this area tries to form an inlet. Climate change causes saltwater intrusion in our shallow aquifers and acidification of our oceans, which means the loss of our coral reefs and sea grasses, and fish we like to eat. It also causes hotter weather, more hurricanes and extreme floods and droughts — harm to us, our food supply, our waterways and to wildlife.
The money would be better spent helping to slow down climate change by switching to 100 percent renewable energy.
We can help by removing some lawn and planting a grouping of native trees instead. Each tree will sequester 26 pounds of carbon a year. Grass lawns require lots of water, fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides, which are not good for our waterways, climate change or our health. An Auburn University study says energy costs are reduced up to 11 percent for just 17 percent of a home shaded by a tree. Grouping the trees helps to prevent them from blowing over in a hurricane.
We can also switch to an electric or hybrid car the next time we need a new one.
Diane Goldberg, Port St. Lucie, is the conservation chair of the St. Lucie Audubon Society.
What does it take to get a medal from President Trump?
President Trump was so thrilled by Tiger Woods winning the Masters golf tournament that he said he is going to award his golf buddy our nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The president’s logic apparently is that nothing could possibly be more representative of American greatness and spirit than winning such a prestigious event.
Tiger Woods stands with Donald Trump as he holds the Gene Serazen Cup for winning the Cadillac Championship golf tournament Sunday, March 10, 2013, in Doral, Fla. (Photo: Wilfredo Lee, AP)
The fact that this medal will be presented by Trump, who is a military draft dodger, shows that while both the presenter and the recipient may be undeserving, anything is possible in this great country.
When considering awards, we should also remember that President Trump considers himself a strong candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from the nuclear threat created by his dear friend Kim Jong-un. If he doesn't get the Nobel Prize, our president can always award the Medal of Freedom to himself. He has the absolute legal right to do so, and the medal will be so degraded that few Americans will even care who gets it or why.
James Broadhurst, Palm City
The president's power to pardon is limited
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz recently asserted on MSNBC that "a sitting U.S. president has absolute immunity and absolute power to pardon anyone, including himself, for absolutely anything."
The basis for the absolute power argument is that Article II of the U.S. Constitution states only that "the President shall have power to grant pardons for offenses against the United States," without mention of any limitation. Therefore, it is argued, the power must be unlimited.
The Constitution, however, should be interpreted reasonably and rationally. This short scenario should make the point: Suppose a future president decided to put all his political opponents in a concentration camp, and then execute them. So he hires professional assassins to do the work. Would the president have immunity to do that? Could he grant pardons to the assassins? Could he self-pardon?
The reasonable, rational mind replies: "Of course not." For obvious reasons, no one, not even a president, can pardon himself.
The power to pardon was never meant to provide cover for the commission of "high crimes," such as felony murder. Nor was it intended to cover treasonous conspiracy with a hostile foreign state, persons, or interest groups, or obstruction of justice in such a case. These and other issues are very much on the table today, in addition to criminal and civil actions for fraud and tax evasion still to come.
The public has the right to know the truth and to demand that justice be done. Self-pardon cannot be invoked to obstruct justice.
Anthony Piel, Stuart
Sarah Heard has consistently defended the comprehensive plan
I believe the unsuccessful prosecution of Martin County Commissioner Sarah Heard was politically motivated.
Some present and past commissioners have weakened the Martin County comprehensive growth management plan as to allow development such as the RaceTrac gas station in Hobe Sound and smaller lot sizes in planned unit developments along Cove Road and elsewhere, adding congestion, overcrowded schools and higher taxes.
Heard has consistently stood up for the comp plan and the people of Martin County. We are grateful to Commissioner Heard for her hard work and dedication.
Jeff Wittmann, Hobe Sound
There’s still room for more in the presidential jamboree
If Hollywood haters like George Clooney, Robert De Niro and others are dissatisfied with how well our country is doing, then they should join the social jamboree and run for president.
Chance McNeil, Fort Pierce
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March 1, 2019 | Electronics & Computers | Data Acquisition | Photonics/Optics | Semiconductors & ICs | Sensors/Data Acquisition
“Light-Written” Photonic Memory Devices
A hybrid technology shows advantages of both light and magnetic hard drives.
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Light is the most energy-efficient way to move information; however, light shows one big limitation: it is difficult to store. Data centers, for example, rely primarily on magnetic hard drives in which information is transferred at an energy cost that is increasing. A hybrid technology was developed that shows advantages of both light and magnetic hard drives.
In all-optical switching, data is stored in the form of bits that contain digital 0 (North Poles down) or 1 (North Poles up). Data writing is achieved by switching the direction of the poles via the application of short laser pulses (in red).
Ultra-short (femtosecond) light pulses allow data to be directly written in a magnetic memory in a fast and highly energy-efficient way. Moreover, as soon as the information is written (and stored), it moves forward, leaving space to empty memory domains to be filled in with new data.
Data are stored in hard drives in the form of bits — tiny magnetic domains with a North and a South pole. The direction of these poles (magnetization) determines whether the bits contain a digital 0 or a 1. Writing the data is achieved by switching the direction of the magnetization of the associated bits. Conventionally, the switching occurs when an external magnetic field is applied, which would force the direction of the poles either up (1) or down (0). Alternatively, switching can be achieved via the application of a short (femtosecond) laser pulse, called all-optical switching, and results in more efficient and much faster storage of data.
All-optical switching was achieved in synthetic ferrimagnets — a material system highly suitable for spintronic data applications — using single femtosecond laser pulses, thus exploiting the high velocity of data writing and reduced energy consumption.
The switching of the magnetization direction using single-pulse, all-optical switching is in the order of picoseconds — about 100 to 1,000 times faster than what is possible with today's technology. Moreover, as the optical information is stored in magnetic bits without the need of costly energy electronics, it holds potential for future use in photonic integrated circuits.
All-optical switching was integrated with so-called racetrack memory — a magnetic wire through which the data, in the form of magnetic bits, is efficiently transported using an electrical current. In this system, magnetic bits are continuously written using light and immediately transported along the wire by the electrical current, leaving space to empty magnetic bits and store new data. This on-the-fly copying of information between light and magnetic racetracks, without any intermediate electronic steps, is like jumping from one moving high-speed train to another.
The research was performed on micrometric wires; smaller devices on the nanometer scale should be designed for better integration on chips.
For more information, contact Mark Lalieu, Department of Applied Physics, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; +31 40-247 4305.
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Software bugs could compromise midterm votes in Texas
An election trainer demonstrates the Hart Intercivic E-Slate electronic voting machines used in many Texas counties.
A software flaw can be just as damaging to the voting process as a hacker.
That much is clear in Texas, where some early voters have claimed that machines are changing their votes in the midterm election. Keith Ingram, the Texas Director of Elections, said in an advisory that the problem is happening because voters are jumping the gun. The issue crops up if a voter selects the “straight party ticket” option, and then keeps pressing buttons before the page finishes loading on the screen, he said.
“As a reminder, voters should always carefully check their review screen before casting their ballots,” Ingram said.
The complaints show that even though much of the public debate about voting machines has focused on whether they could be hacked, crummy software has the potential to undermine US elections as well. It’s a problem for two reasons. First, it’s nearly impossible to quickly patch bugs in voting machines when they appear this close to an election, experts said. And second, sometimes elections officials don’t fix issues that they’ve known about for years. In the case of the machines used in Texas, voters have complained about the machines “flipping” their votes since 2008.
Electronic voting machine experts should expand their focus beyond looking for the kinds of flaws a hacker could exploit, and start looking for flaws that just make machines malfunction, said voting machine security expert Dan Wallach, a computer science professor at Rice University. “I would say that a decade ago we put a lot of focus on security bugs” he said. “Glitches have never received the same degree of attention.”
If Texas election officials are right about what’s causing the votes to change, Wallach said, the problem isn’t with voters moving too quickly. Instead, it’s a flaw in the software that needs fixing.
“It should not be possible simply by voter impatience for the machine to flip the vote,” Wallach said.
A spokesman for the Texas Secretary of State didn’t respond to a request for comment on the possibility of an investigation of the problem. In his advisory to voters, the Texas Director of Elections included instructions explaining how to use the machines.
Voters’ complaints also showcase one more reason why paper ballots need to play a starring role in the voting process, said Marian Schneider, president of voting integrity advocacy group Verified Voting.
“It just causes a lot of doubt in the voting systems, and it underscores why they need to be replaced,” Schneider said.
For now, any machine that does malfunction should be taken out of service to be inspected, and voters should be provided with paper ballots in the meantime at that precinct — enough paper ballots to last for “several hours of voting” if necessary, Schneider said.
Wallach, who has studied voting machine security for more than a decade, also said he would need to see a video of what voters are experiencing before he can make a judgment on the problem. We can’t know for sure whether the problem stems from voters continuing to press buttons, or whether they’re just mistaken and didn’t cast their votes the way they meant to.
Wallach knows personally that software glitches are hard to replicate. That’s because he also votes in Texas on the same voting machines that other voters have complained about, and tried to recreate the problem. He pressed the machine’s enter button and spun the dial while his ballot was loading. Nothing happened.
He also helped review the code that runs the machines — in 2007. At the time, he was tasked by the state of California to look for security flaws. Now, Wallach said he wishes he could look again to find the flaw that could be causing the problems voters are flagging.
“Right now we only have a bunch of hypotheses,” he said.
Election security: Midterm elections, social media and hacking: What you need to know.
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Capcom's 'Street Fighter V' June Update Is An Apology To Annoyed Fans
27 June 2016, 1:37 pm EDT By Jelani James Tech Times
CEO 2016 was held during the weekend, and as usual, Capcom had a major presence there with titles such as Street Fighter V, Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs. Capcom. Street Fighter V was definitely the star of the lineup, not just because of the hype moments throughout the event, or the Kenny Omega vs. Xavier Woods exhibition match, but because of an announcement.
At long last, Ibuki and the highly-anticipated Story Mode will be arriving on Friday, July 1, and as an added bonus, Balrog will be coming along for the ride.
The past several weeks have been rather brutal for Street Fighter V fans, and apparently, the upgraded June Update, which, humorously enough, is coming in July, is Capcom's way of making it up to them.
Prior to the game's release, Capcom revealed that it had a schedule set up for releasing future content, which would have Street Fighter V getting a new character every month starting in April.
As promised, Capcom stuck to that schedule, releasing Alex in March and then Guile in April. Ibuki was supposed to continue the trend in May after she was revealed during the ComboBreaker tournament. However, as time slowly wound down toward the end of the month, it became increasingly clear that she wouldn't be released in time. Capcom confirmed those suspicions, revealing that Ibuki would be released at the end of June instead.
At the time, Capcom didn't announce why the delay occurred, but it did say that the delay meant Ibuki would be released alongside the Story Mode once it arrives at the end of June. One month later, it now looks like Capcom is back on track, releasing Ibuki, the Story Mode and Balrog (who was recently shown off at E3).
Even without the Balrog bonus, however, the June Update is definitely something that will placate annoyed fans. In addition to everything else, the June Update will also feature daily challenges that players can use to accrue Fight Money, which can then be used to purchase in-game content such as new characters and extra costumes, as well as extra stages. Capcom mentioned in an earlier update that Extra Battle and Versus CPU single-player modes were in the works, though it's unclear if either of those two modes will be included.
In the meantime, Balrog is no doubt a welcome extra, and his inclusion in the update means that Urien and Juri will not be too far behind. Speaking of which, both of those characters were teased in Balrog's trailer below.
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Review of W. T. Woodfin, The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium
Review of Woodfin, Warren T. The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
The Embodied Icon is an essential study of the liturgical (and imperial) vestments that were used in the Byzantine Empire and by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Woodfin lays out, in a clear and concise manner, the types, decoration, and function of sacred clothing, as well as how these served in liturgical settings and also in the balance of power in the empire.
The book is divided into two parts, with a total of five chapters (plus extensive appendices):
Part I: Liturgical Vestments in the Orthodox Church
1. The Vestments of the Byzantine Rite Described
2. Moving Pictures: Embroidered Vestments and the Iconography of the Church Interior
3. Litiurgical Mystagogy and the Embroidered Image
Part II. Liturgical Vestments in Byzantine Society
4. Earthly Rivalry: Imperial and Ecclesiastical Dress
5. As it is in Heaven: Vesture and the Unseen World
Chapter 1 describes the liturgical clothing worn by the three orders of Orthodox church clergy: deacon, priest, and bishop. The details of the vestments of the offices of deacon and priest will not be elaborated on here, but a few details deserve mention.
A unique feature of the sacred dress of the deacons was the orarion, a long, narrow sash usually worn over left shoulder, but sometimes wrapped around body and over shoulders. The orarion was often inscribed with the words “Holy, holy, holy” (Isaiah 6:2-3), which represented the idea that the deacons were dressed as and representing the angels of heaven in the liturgy.
Regarding the manner of vesting the liturgical garments, Woodfin relates that the deacon “enters the sanctuary with the priest before the service, carrying his vestments with him. The deacon first asks the priest’s blessing on his sticharion (long, white linen robe) and orarion, then recites formulaic prayers as he dons his sticharion…” (pp. 8-9).
From another source, I found the following instructions for deacons:
They are to pray as they vest: “Let us pray to the Lord. My soul shall rejoice in the Lord, for He has clothed me with the garment of salvation; He has covered me with the robe of gladness; as a bridegroom He has set a crown on me; and as a bride adorns herself with jewels, so has He adorned me.”
As their vestments are generally a less elaborate version of what the bishops wore, I will not include details regarding what the priests wore. Regarding their manner of vesting: “The priest vests himself before participating in liturgical functions. He blesses the vestments and recites prayers while putting them on. He vests himself in the sanctuary, concealed from the view of the laity” (p. 13).
The sacred garments that the bishops donned for the liturgy include the following:
sticharion — long white tunic/robe — usually more ornate than that of deacons and priests (can be black or other colors as well)
anterion (cassock) — long garment worn under the sticharion
epitrachelion (stole) — similar to the deacon’s orarion, but worn around the neck with both ends hanging parallel in the front
phelonion — an outer garment worn like a cape over the shoulders — often decorated with crosses
omophorion — bishop’s outermost garment, a long wool or silk cloth wrapped around the shoulders, hanging in front and draped over left shoulder — often embroidered with crosses or other images
epimanikia — embroidered wrist cuffs
epigonation — a stiffened, embroidered handkerchief hung by a loop from the zone (belt)
mitra (mitre) — liturgical headcovering, usually a tall or domed hat
Regarding the manner of vesting for bishops, some traditions maintain that the bishop should come into the church in procession, already wearing his liturgical vestments. Other traditions declare that the bishop should enter the church wearing a large cloak (mandyas) over his street clothes which is to be removed after his entrance, and is then vested by the deacons (either in public or in the nave), who say prayers on his behalf. At a certain point in the liturgy (the alleluia before the Gospel), an official removes the bishop’s omophorion and then replaces it after the dismissal. The omophorion is a symbol of the bishop’s authority (when he wears it, he is imitating Christ).
Chapter 2 analyzes the embroidered images found on many liturgical vestments and their relationship to the iconography of the church. Some of the highlights from this chapter include the following:
Vestments were often decorated with images representing Christ and other intercessory figures, Eucharistic themes, and the twelve feast-day cycle, which consists of twelve episodes from salvation history.
At some point, the bishop began to be vested on a throne in the center of the church, in a manner that the congregation could see each piece of clothing up close and witness their symbolism.
The images on the vestments may have served as a sort of amuletic protection to the bishop in his ministry. The images were understood to serve as a conduit for the power of the figures they represented.
The images on the bishop’s vestments often match the icons on the iconostasis, the screen that separates the laity from the holy sanctuary of the church.
The images emphasize the bishop’s role as he stands in the place of Christ as the representative of the church.
Chapter 3 looks at the theology of the liturgy and how that theology played into how images were used, with special attention to how they functioned on liturgical vestments.
In the Middle Ages, Byzantine churchmen expounded on the Eucharistic rite in their writings, including associating symbolic meanings with the various priestly vestments. If not for these writings, we may never have known the symbolism and function of the images.
There was a connection between the iconography on the garments and the symbolism attached to each sacred vestment. For example, the omophorion (the outermost garment which was draped around the shoulders) was often embroidered with images of Christ as the Good Shepherd and was understood to represent the lost sheep rescued by Him.
The epitrachelion (worn around the neck with both ends hanging in front) was seen as representing the rope around Christ’s neck by which he was led to the high priest. Also, the right side of this sash was understood as representing the reed they put in Jesus’s hand and the left side is the burden of the cross upon his shoulders. Some traditions vary on the details here, but in general the epitrachelion symbolized the instruments of Christ’s scourging and death. Furthermore, it represented the grace of the priesthood poured out upon the priest — like ointment poured upon Aaron’s head that ran down his beard and vestments. This was understood to be the priesthood of Christ, the yoke that he took upon himself. Despite the latter tradition, however, anointing is never depicted on the epitrachelion itself.
A more clear parallel between the embroidery and symbolic value of a garment is the orarion of the deacon which, as previously mentioned, represents his angelic ministry and is inscribed with the cry of the seraphim, “Holy, holy, holy!”
Woodfin explains that the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church was understood to be a re-enactment of Christ’s life from the Annunciation to the Ascension (following the feast cycle). The divine plan was represented in iconography on the walls, curtains, and clothing that were all a part of the ritual. As the clergy performed the ceremonies, lay persons were meant to meditate on these scenes depicted before them.
The priest or bishop in his ministry represents both the angel of the Lord and also Jesus. The vestments that the celebrant (officiator) puts on aid in his representation of Christ — and he sits on Christ’s throne. The bishop puts on Christ’s image. As Woodfin states, “Through the mediation of the vestments, the celebrant is both a representation of Christ as eternal High Priest in heaven and as the incarnate Word on earth.” He assumes Christ’s dual role as both priest and sacrifice, both offerer and offering. Following the path of the Great Exemplar, the bishop leads the way to salvation. “By clothing the celebrant in the images of Christ’s incarnate life that parallel the sanctifying grace of the Eucharist, the minister is shown as an effectual agent of theosis” (p. 119).
It is clear from the imagery on the vestments that deacons did not represent Christ, but the angels. In the Divine Liturgy, the procession of the gifts (sacramental bread and wine) represented Christ’s journey to his crucifixion and ascension into heaven. At this point, the liturgy parallels the worship of the angels in heaven (the deacons) as the bishop approaches the throne of God.
Chapter 4 goes further into the details and history of imperial and ecclesiastical dress.
Woodfin notes that the imperial costume was supposed to have been given to Constantine the Great by the hand of an angel and could not be lent or given to others. The emperor wore clothing that represented the burial garments of Christ — the emperor was seen as representing Christ or “the image of God,” and served in his position as Christ on Earth.
Ecclesiastical clothing borrowed in many ways from imperial clothing, but avoided directly imitating the vestments of any particular political rank. Church officials wanted to project an image of exalted status, but not get mixed up in imperial politics.
Chapter 5 is entitled “As it is in Heaven: Vesture and the Unseen World” and describes how in the art of the time, it is apparent that people saw a connection between the clothing of the imperial and ecclesiastical hierarchies and the heavenly hierarchy.
The emperor was often depicted in art as possessing a rank higher than that of the archangels, and even higher than Michael. Although on Earth he was considered the representative of Christ, when he was depicted as being in heaven, he was Christ’s servant.
In the liturgy on Earth, the emperor had a quasi-sacerdotal role without actually being a priest — he wore a holy garment over his imperial regalia.
Priests/bishops were seen as similarly equivalent to Christ, but in vestment and in art, they were portrayed as similar in function and likeness to Christ, as opposed to the bishop being equated with the archangels. Christ himself is often depicted in the role of priest.
Deacons represented angels and assisted in the earthly liturgy as angels assist in the heavenly liturgy. For the purposes of comparison, we see that Christ was often depicted as a bishop officiating in the heavenly liturgy whereas angels do the work of the deacons. These functions are depicted in art as well as in the liturgical vestments.
In the liturgy, the bishop stands in Christ’s place at the altar in the sanctuary. According to Woodfin, the iconography “insists not just on the resemblance of the bishop to Christ, but on their equivalence” (p. 196). It is interesting to note that it was not only the patriarch of Constantinople that was seen as representing Christ, but each bishop fully represented him. The vestments reveal the unity of the church on earth and in heaven.
A few highlights from Woodfin’s conclusions:
— Images added to the vestments of clergy are an attempt to give visual form to symbolic thought.
— “As with the epitaphios at the Great Entrance, the function of such images was to lay bare the meaning of the very mysteries they hid from the direct view of the faithful.”
“In rhetoric, ritual, and art, the emperor and the clergy were more and more closely tied to the heavenly models they were believed to reflect.”
This entry was posted in Book Reviews and tagged Byzantine, emperor, garments, icons, Orthodox, priesthood, sacred clothing, vestments on August 19, 2013 by David J. Larsen.
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US Military Enlistment Standards for Single Parents
Joining the Military
Military Branches
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US Military Careers Joining the Military
The Rules and Regulations of Joining Call for Giving Up Custody
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By Stewart Smith
Single parents are not allowed to enlist in the active duty military. Except for the Reserve components of the military and Army National Guard, waiver approvals are rare, and most recruiters won't even submit one. Prior to 2000s, some recruits would try to get around this restriction by giving up legal custody of their child(ren) until after basic training and job school, then regain custody.
If they did not have a solid Family Care Plan when stationed at their first duty station, it would be evident to the chain of command as it causes major problems for everyone. The military has since banned this practice. As a result of wartime deployments in the early 1990s, the Department of Defense (DOD) published DOD Instruction 1342.19, Family Care Plans, to standardize the requirements for all of the military services.
Enlistment for Single Parents Isn't Possible Without Custody Transfer
Additionally, the military services stopped accepting single-parents for enlistment in the military because they saw the problems that long-term combat deployments caused. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, with more than 15 years of sustained combat action, the chances for single parents joining is impossible without custody transfer.
And, if already in active duty and you become a single parent, you have to have a Family Care Plan that guarantees someone local (nonmilitary) is basically on call (in writing) 24 hours a day 7 days a week to take care of your child in case you cannot. Failure to comply with these "Family Care Plans" can (and does) result in an immediate discharge.
Joining the military with a child and no family care plan can lead to difficulty for the military member, child, and the chain of command. The long hours at work, periods of travel, and long deployments are not conducive to a single parent family. Someone has to be responsible for taking care of the children at all times. If it is not the parent, it has to be given to a trusted member of the family (typically) by court order.
Single Parents in the Marine Corps and Navy
In the Marine Corps, one must give up legal custody (by court order) of their child(ren), and then wait one year or more before being eligible for enlistment. For Navy enlistments, the waiting period is six months and the court order must make it very plain that the transfer of custody is permanent. Typically, custody given to grandparents of the dependent child is an acceptable option.
Single Parents in the Army and Air Force
In the Army and Air Force, single-parent military applicants for enlistment must indicate they have a child or children in the custody of the other parent or another adult. They are then advised and required to acknowledge by certification that their intent at the time of enlistment was not to enter the Air Force or Army with the express intention of regaining custody after enlistment.
These applicants must execute a signed statement testifying they have been advised that, if they regain custody during their term of enlistment, they will be in violation of the stated intent of their enlistment contract. They may be subject to involuntary separation for fraudulent entry unless they can show cause, such as the death or incapacity of the other parent or custodian, or their marital status changes from single to married.
The military's refusal to accept single parents for enlistment is a valid one. The military is no place for a single parent. In the military, the mission always comes first. Absolutely no exceptions are made in assignments, deployments, duty hours, time off, or any other factor for single parents.
In general, an applicant who has joint physical custody of a child by court order or agreement, and the applicant does not have a spouse, he/she is considered a "single parent." If a local or state court allows modification, if the other parent assumes full custody, the applicant is usually qualified for enlistment.
In the Army National Guard, a single parent may enlist if they receive a waiver from the State Adjutant General of the state that individual is enlisting.
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Farmers give to Natividad Medical Center
The Agricultural Leadership Council supports Natividad Medical Foundation to help farm workers.
Farmers give to Natividad Medical Center The Agricultural Leadership Council supports Natividad Medical Foundation to help farm workers. Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: http://bit.ly/1LkyvKE
Teresa Douglass Published 2:59 p.m. PT June 19, 2015 | Updated 11:02 a.m. PT July 16, 2015
Area farmers support Natividad Medical Center through The Agricultural Leadership Council, founded in 2010 to provide high quality hospital care for its patients, many of whom work in agriculture.
John D'Arrigo listens to Dr. Craig Walls, emergency medical director, as he shows him the new equipment that was purchased by The Agricultural Leadership Council at Natividad Medical Center. In 2010, D’Arrigo and other growers started this philanthropic organization to help the hospital buy the latest, state-of-the-art equipment and better serve its patients, many of whom work in agriculture.(Photo: Teresa Douglass)Buy Photo
As John D'Arrigo toured the neo-natal intensive care unit at Natividad Medical Center recently, one of his employees from D'Arrigo Brothers recognized him.
She works as a foreman in one of its romaine heart divisions. But on this day, the employee, Susana Hernandez, was feeding her newborn daughter, Victoria, using a feeding tube in the NICU .
He asked how her daughter was doing.
Better now, she replied.
Nearby were state-of-the-art baby warmers or incubators, one for transportation from the delivery room and one for the NICU, which were donated by The Agricultural Leadership Council (TALC). This philanthropic organization was founded in 2010 by D'Arrigo, a third generation California farmer and president of the D'Arrigo Brothers of California.
With operations in Salinas, Imperial County and Yuma, Ariz., he easily hands out 4,000 W-2s each year. Yet while visiting the NICU at Natividad, one of his employees recognized him.
Farmers give to county hospital
John D'Arrigo founded The Agriculture Leadership Council (TALC) at Natividad Medical Center to provide services and state-of-the-art patient equipment such as the Panda Warmer seen at left which keeps newborns warm while in transit throughout the hospital. Submitted, Submitted
This fiber optic intubation system allows doctors to easily see down a patientÕs throat to insert a breathing tube, said Dr. Craig Walls, emergency medical director at Natividad Medical Center. It was purchased with money from The Agricultural Leadership Council. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
John D'Arrigo listens to Dr. Craig Walls, emergency medical director, as he shows him the new equipment that was purchased by The Agricultural Leadership Council at Natividad Medical Center. In 2010, he and other growers started this philanthropic organization to help the hospital buy the latest, state-of-the-art equipment and better serve its patients, many of whom work in agriculture. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
Indigenous interpreters for Natividad Medical Center include Floriana Isidro (Mixteco); Felicitas Gonzalez (Triqui); Brigida Gonzalez (Mixteco); Angelica Isidro (Mixteco); Carmelita Martinez (Triqui); Adelfo Isidro (Mixteco); and Maximiliano Mejia (Chatino). This service is provided with funds donated by The Agriculture Leadership Council. Submitted, Submitted
The Agricultural Leadership Council helps fund Indigenous Interpreters + at Natividad Medical Center. Pictured is TALC founder John D'Arrigo and Linda Ford, president and CEO of the Natividad Medical Foundation. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
Triqui is one of 16 indigenous languages that interpreters can speak at Natividad Medical Center. In Mexico, where many field workers come from, there are 11 language families, 68 indigenous languages spoken and 364 linguistic variants. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
John D'Arrigo, left, meets Israel De Jesus, 19, one of two indigenous interpreters currently in training at Natividad Medical Center. The two trainees are paid through a donation from D'Arrigo. The next two trainees are set to begin in August and still need sponsorship for their wages. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
In March, TALC donated $535,000 to the Natividad Medical Foundation to purchase new equipment and to support patient services at the county hospital in Salinas. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
John D'Arrigo, center, talks to Susana Hernandez who is feeding her daughter, Victoria, in the NICU at Natividad Medical Center. Hernandez is a foreman for D'Arrigo Brothers of California. When she saw D'Arrigo at the hospital, she told him she works for him. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
Susana Hernandez holds her newborn daughter, Victoria, and poses for a photo with Israel De Jesus, an indigenous interpreter, and John D'Arrigo of D'Arrigo Brothers. Hernandez is a foreman in one of the Romaine Heart divisions of his company. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
The Agricultural Leadership Council donated the money for this state-of-the-art baby incubator, the Giraffe, in the NICU at Natividad Medical Center. In 2010, he started TALC was founded to help the hospital buy the latest, state-of-the-art equipment and better serve its patients, many of whom work in agriculture. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
As John D'Arrigo tours the NICU at Natividad Medical Center, he stops to talk to Susana Hernandez who is feeding her newborn daughter through a feeding tube. Hernandez is a foreman in one of the Romaine heart divisions of D'Arrigo Brothers. John D'Arrigo founded The Agricultural Leadership Council (TALC) to help this county hospital buy the latest, state-of-the-art equipment and better serve its patients, many of whom work in agriculture. Teresa Douglass, Teresa Douglass
It was D'Arrigo who convinced fellow big-time farmers to form the group, TALC, whose soul purpose is to donate significant money to purchase patient equipment at Natividad Medical Center, which largely serves the people who work for them in the fields and packing sheds.
Generosity comes full circle
His parents always taught him to give back to the community.
So it was no surprise in 2010 when they told him it was time to start giving some money away. His parents, Andy and Phyllis, then well into their 80s, suggested they find out what Natividad Medical Center needed. D'Arrigo's sister, Mary Ann, had a baby there more than 30 years ago in the old hospital and he was her birth coach.
The D'Arrigos have farmed in California for the last 95 years.
"This valley's been so good to my family," he said. "We rely on this valley to make our business successful."
His parents set up a hospital tour and their son tagged along.
On the tour, he noticed a huge deficit of equipment, he said. Realizing that agricultural workers go to Natividad Medical Center for services, he said they deserve the same quality of equipment he would like to have.
"Let's make this the best hospital in our area," he said.
Later, on the golf course with his fellow competitors in agriculture, an inspiration came to him. By helping the hospital, he and other agricultural employers could help the people who work for them.
"I can gather my peers and make a real difference in our ag workers lives," he said. "We're all fierce competitors but we put down our swords for our ag workers."
Ag support
From the golf course, D'Arrigo called Linda Ford, president and CEO of Natividad Medical Foundation.
"John's been our angel," she said. "His presence is everywhere in the hospital."
Before D'Arrigo founded The Agriculture Leadership Council, donations to the hospital foundation were as little as $11 a month. In March, TALC donated $535,000 to the Natividad Medical Foundation to purchase new equipment and to support patient services.
Initially, D'Arrigo convinced 22 farm families to join his efforts and now 134 individuals, families and businesses support TALC. There are no meetings to attend. They simply give money to buy equipment for the hospital, D'Arrigo said.
"They said, 'No meetings? I'm in,' " he said. "There's no overhead, administration or office."
It operates under the umbrella of the Natividad Medical Foundation. Every penny donated for TALC is used for hospital equipment and patient services.
"That resonated with every single business owner I met," he said. "We account for every penny."
Since it was formed in 2010, TALC has donated more than $1.7 million to the hospital.
Indigenous interpreters
In 2014, TALC provided the seed money, including $75,000 from Driscoll's, to launch a pilot program, Indigenous Interpreting+, to help indigenous patients from Mexico communicate with doctors at Natividad Medical Center.
The program has been so successful it now provides indigenous interpreting services for court, medical and community interpreting across the country, said Linda Ford, president and CEO of the Natividad Medical Foundation.
"We're one of the few in the country," she said. "Even the FBI has asked for our interpreting help."
Israel De Jesus, 19, of Greenfield, is one of two interpreters currently in training at the hospital. They each work 24 hours a week and their wages are paid for by D'Arrigo. The next two trainees are set to begin in August and the foundation is searching for sponsorship for their wages, about $22,000.
Eight indigenous interpreters have completed the 6-month program.
In Mexico, where many field workers come from, there are 11 language families, 68 indigenous languages spoken and 364 linguistic variants, she said.
"We had no idea the depth of the need," D'Arrigo said. "We just thought they all spoke Spanish."
Many of the Salinas Valley agricultural workers speak pre-Columbian languages without Latin roots.
Doctors couldn't communicate with these patients, they said. It's very difficult to connect with a patient who speaks an indigenous language and gain their trust, said Dr. Peter Chandler, an obstetrics physician.
"We can't operate on them without consent," he said.
When an emergency Caesarean section is warranted, often patients from Mexico feel wary as the procedure is rare in their country, he said.
De Jesus, a trainee in the indigenous interpretation program at Natividad, spoke Spanish as his first language. But he learned to speak Triqui in Oaxaca when he was only 5 years old. Later, his father moved the family to Greenfield when he was in the sixth grade.
He graduated from Greenfield High School in 2014 and attends Hartnell College. He said he wants to become an architectural engineer.
Now, the language he picked up as a child provides him with a part-time interpreting job at Natividad Medical Center.
"It's an honor to work here," he said.
Helping his people
In May, he interpreted for a young woman from Mexico who only spoke Trique. Her doctor wanted her to have a Caesarean section in order to safely deliver her baby. She would not agree to the procedure and De Jesus went home.
A few hours later at 4 a.m., he was called back to the hospital to try again to talk to the woman once more. He was told to tell her again that she needed an emergency C-section. She declined the procedure and continued to push, but by late morning, he was asked to tell her the baby's heart was getting tired.
"The only solution was a C-section," he said.
Accompanying the patient was her mother and her husband.
"I talked to them all," he said.
The patient finally gave her approval and De Jesus went into the operating room with her. He stood next to her until the doctor began to cut.
The baby lived and he said he felt proud.
State-of-the-art trauma center
In an emergency room trauma bay, Dr. Craig Walls, emergency medical director for the hospital, showed John D'Arrigo some of the equipment TALC has purchased and what its donations mean to the hospital.
With a brand new ultrasound machine, the SonoSite X-Porte, there's no time wasted in the ER waiting for the machine to warm up. If an abdominal wound is detected with enhanced image quality, for example, the patient can be moved quickly to the operating room.
Before the hospital had this equipment, to check a patient for abdominal blood loss, the doctor had to insert a liter of fluid into the abdominal cavity using a spinal needle. Upon removal of the fluid, if it was red it indicated internal bleeding, he said.
With the new ultrasound, there's no pain and more accuracy.
"Our mission is to save lives," D'Arrigo said. "This is the newest generation of sonograms."
The new equipment also shows if the patient is pregnant or if he or she has a collapsed lung, Wall said.
Thanks to TALC, the hospital recently purchased a Level 1 Rapid Infuser which warms units of blood in a heater and is able to pump it through an IV at a high flow rate with precision, Walls said. This allows blood transfusions to be more comfortable and keeps hypothermia at bay in trauma patients.
A fiber optic intubation system allows the doctor to easily see down inside the patient's throat to insert a breathing tube. The trauma bay bed weighs a patient without moving him and is also ready for taking X-rays with a built-in slot for the X-ray plate under the mattress.
"It's more comfortable for the patient and you don't lose time," Walls said.
The emergency department has 19 treatment areas and is rated as a Level II Trauma Center.
New equipment motivates the staff by giving them the tools they need to save lives, D'Arrigo said.
To donate to The Agricultural Leadership Council at the Natividad Medical Foundation, go to www.natividadfoundation.org or mail a check to P.O. Box 4427, Salinas, CA 93912. For more info, call the foundation at 755-4187.
To learn more about Indigenous Interpreters +, call the (855) 662-5300 hotline or go online to www.interpretnmf.com. Donations can be made online.
D'Arrigo family sponsors specialty clinic
After Andy, Phyllis and their son, John D'Arrigo toured Natividad Medical Center in 2010, the family decided to launch a specialty clinic at the hospital. It provides specialists to see patients in a clinic at the hospital right there in Salinas.
D'Arrigo Family Special Services gives patients access to advanced surgical care; pediatrics sub-specialty care in cardiology, gastroenterology and orthopedics; and obstetrics and gynecology.
For more info, go to http://www.natividad.com/medical-services/outpatient-services/specialty-services.
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Bishops request rule changes
Letter to Tommy Thompson from state's bishops says alter stem cell research guidelines
The Wisconsin Catholic Conference, public policy voice of Wisconsin's Catholic bishops asked Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson to rescind current National Institutes of Health guidelines permitting public funding of research that relies on the destruction of human embryos to obtain stem cells for genetic research.
The conference also asked that federal guidelines comply with existing federal law, which bans the practice. John Huebscher, WCC executive director, made the request in a March 15 letter to Thompson.
Stem cells are the parent cells of all tissues in the body. Stem cells may be derived from embryos, from adult human tissues and from umbilical cord blood. In theory, that means scientists can replace diseased tissue with healthy tissue.
The versatility of stem cells makes them attractive to researchers working on treatments and cures for a wide range of diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. However, to obtain embryonic stem cells for research, the embryo in which they are developing must be destroyed.
"No rationalizations used by those who seek to dodge the ethical concerns for the fundamental human rights of living embryos can alter the fact that the deliberate destruction of embryos for scientific research purposes is not moral, legal, nor necessary," Huebscher wrote. "When embryonic stem cell research treats embryos as things that can be manufactured, stored, destroyed or donated to science, sacred human life becomes a commodity."
Huebscher noted that science and technology are valuable tools that can serve noble ends - such as curing disease, feeding the hungry, and furthering life in many other ways. As such they should be respected and encouraged. But, he emphasized, no potential benefit from research on embryonic stem cells justifies destroying them.
"We also reject the notion that some lives may be deemed less valuable and therefore can be sacrificed to benefit the rest of us," he added.
"If society accepts that embryos can be destroyed, donated or discarded for research, on what grounds can it object to the formation of embryos solely for the purpose of research?" he asked. "By what moral principle may we ban the practice of cloning an individual in order to obtain a perfect cell match?"
Backers of stem cell research allege that no other option provides results as promising. However, other scientists argue that stem cells taken from living adults and stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood avoid the ethical dilemmas that embryonic stem cells present. Adult stem cells already are showing promise in clinical applications in the treatment of cancer, arthritis, and lupus.
Scientists now believe that the sources for adult stem cells are far more numerous than originally thought and that many adult organs maintain a "reservoir" of stem cells.
"All this makes a compelling case that it is not necessary to destroy a life to advance in our understanding of and ability to treat illness," Huebscher wrote.
Huebscher also asked that Catholics and others committed to the value of human life also write Thompson.
"These issues are too important to be left to scientists. All of us need to be part of the debate," he concluded.
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Are Writers Born Or Made?
August 9, 2013 by Joanna Penn 49 Comments
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When we start writing, it can be daunting to read the amazing books by our author heroes and wonder how we can ever be that good.
Thomas Hardy's edited manuscript of ‘Tess of the D'Urbevilles, one of England's greatest writers
Surely, for them, the words just flowed perfectly from brain to page with effortless grace?
But I have seen Thomas Hardy's manuscript of Tess in the British Library. Check out that editing! Even the greats went through the same creative process as we do. Today's guest article from Chris Allen explores this further.
Many writers dream of writing from a young age, but are we born with a literary gift, or is it a skill honed over many years?
It’s easy to regard the celebrated thriller authors of our time – Ian Fleming, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederick Forsyth, John Le Carré et al – as being superhuman at their craft and having innate talent. We see the countless reprints with the special edition covers, but we don't see the knock-backs, the evolution of their writing style, and the hard slog they too went through on the road to success.
My first attempts at writing were woeful.
Never what you’d call a disciplined student – school always seemed to get in the way of life – once I decided writing was my calling, I had a fanciful notion that ‘it’, whatever it was, would come naturally. It didn’t.
Discovering Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun in the school library as a young teen was the moment that the fanciful notion became a quest. Hoping to achieve what Bond’s creator had done – building a world of international espionage, heart-stopping action, complex characters and intrigue, I opted to take the experience angle, therein avoiding study, to write my own brand of thrillers. All of which prompts the question:
How do well-intentioned, aspiring writers tread the path to becoming great storytellers?
Chatting recently with a couple of popular Australian authors, namely Greg Barron (author of Savage Tide & Rotten Gods) and Luke Preston (author of Dark City Blue), who with myself and Tony Park are co-founding members of the Action Thriller Writers Association of Australia (ThrillerEdge.com), I wanted to find out how they had honed their abilities. Was it a walk in the park for them? Or was it, like most of us, decades of learning?
Words are Addictive
Luke Preston’s stories have been proclaimed “Noir on No-Doz.” He first put pen to paper around the age of sixteen and the pen hasn’t left his hand since. For Luke, “Writing is not about achievement. It’s about survival. The words are an addiction for which the only cure is getting the words on the page.”
Greg Barron, recently described as “a political thriller writer at the very top of his game,” embarked on his path to publication while in his mid-thirties, and the journey so far has taken more than a decade.
Greg says, “Not only am I not a natural, but I’m a slow learner. There was a moment when I realised that great writing requires both clarity and imaginative embellishment in equal measure. That was about seven years after I started writing. My first drafts are clunky and terrible. Reading them over for the first time is depressing.” Despite that, Greg’s teachers identified early on that he was skilled at putting words together and told him to do something with it.
Meanwhile, never a great student, actually learning to write wasn't something I did (or ever wanted to do) in a formal sense. Although, having done a fair bit of writing throughout my professional career – in military, law enforcement and government, where the descriptions were necessarily short and sharp, and the facts accessed quickly – this helped in honing my style.
What is Talent, Anyway?
The most important things in life are only achieved with practice, patience and commitment. To some, including me, writing is no different: the concept of natural talent has been profoundly absent in most aspects of my life, instead having to work for everything, which, in itself, is not a bad state of affairs.
There were, for example, at least six full versions of the manuscript that eventually became my first novel, Defender. That process, along with the proofreading, editing, and re-editing, is the only real creative writing development I’ve done.
Luke Preston grew up in the decade that invented Atari and home video, commenting, “Any kid with a pen in his hand instead of a joystick is probably going to be considered talented.” But Luke was a storyteller from early on, and determined each word would be better than the last.
Greg recognizes now that determination was the key ingredient necessary to complement those early assessments of his writing potential, saying, “I don’t think it was evident that I would have the dogged persistence necessary to write a good book, as I had a mind that jumped around all over the place.”
It Takes One Million Words
Teachers, playwrights, university lecturers and agents can act as inspiration during a writer’s apprenticeship, helping to spur burgeoning talent along. Another fool-proof trick is to read widely, but remember to keep your own literary heroes close as a daily reminder of the great heights we writers reach for.
Luke Preston observes that “the hardest part of writing is learning how to write like you.” He says, “I’m not sure there’s such a thing as a natural writer. To me it’s like saying that somebody was born a natural plumber. Storytelling is a craft and a trade. It takes ten years and one million words to build a good writer and when you’re not good, you’re bad.”
As an unabashed Fleming and Conan Doyle fan (some would hazard to say nut), it’s been a tortuous journey in terms of my desire to emulate their creative strengths. By way of an origin point for my inspiration, a copy of Casino Royale, Fleming’s first novel, has permanent residence on my writing desk.
That said, success on their scale has never been my yardstick. I’m drawn to the way Fleming and Conan Doyle created iconic characters based upon their own life experiences. By putting myself at the core of the principal character, while drawing on other interesting characters, both real and fictional, I make my protagonist a hybrid of all those things.
Luke Preston has benchmark writers whose books live on his desk. He says, “When I’m tired, hungover, fed up or just downright lazy, I dip into those books that remind me of the calibre or work I’m up against.”
While Luke currently has copies of Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis and L.A. Confidential by James Ellory next to him, Greg Barron would love to write as vividly as Wilbur Smith, with the beautiful prose of F Scott Fitzgerald, and the detail of Leon Uris. He says, modestly, “In reality, I’ll fall short on all three counts!”
Be Your Best Writer
As creative capitalists, we are each on our own path, some days trudging through treacle, others where we take rare moments of literary flight, so this notion of reaching the apex of a writing career is debatable. More likely is the realization of an idea of us as writers, as it was first dreamed and imagined those many years ago.
Writing words has been a profession for Greg, in terms of his habits and attitudes, long before being published. Today, he has a vision of himself, “at my desk, attempting to do my best every day, falling short most of the time, but persisting.”
Luke Preston strives to be the best writer he can be. He says, “If I had tried to write like anybody else it just wouldn’t have worked. A writer is an accumulation of their experiences, childhood, fears, desires and favourite colours.”
To me, being a successful writer meant reaching that time of life when one could look contemplatively out of a window, recalling people, places and life experiences, while wrestling with how those things might be presented on the page. To some extent, that’s happening, although I’m yet to wear a dinner jacket or drink martinis while doing it!
Between us, we may have published five books and written millions of words over many decades, but success remains an abstract concept.
As Preston says, “I’m not convinced that overnight success exists in the business of words. I’d wager that the writer who believes they were, secretly has a couple of unreadable manuscripts hidden away in their bottom drawer.”
Do you think writers are born or can we learn over time? Please do leave your comments below.
Before penning his Alex Morgan espionage series, Chris Allen served as a Paratrooper with three Commonwealth armies; undertook humanitarian aid in East Timor; protected Sydney’s iconic Opera House sails post 9/11; and as Sheriff of New South Wales, held one of Australia’s oldest law enforcement appointments.
Chris’s first novel in the Intrepid series, Defender, was self-published before being re-released by Momentum Books with his second novel, Hunter, at the end of 2012. Both novels rocketed to the top of the charts on iTunes and Amazon with Hunter becoming a bestseller and there is a US film / TV franchise based on his novels in development. His third title, Avenger, will be published next year.
You can read the full transcripts of each author’s interview over at the intrepidallen.com/blog.
Defender: Intrepid 1 is on Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/15jGQr4
Hunter: Intrepid 2 is on Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/12lQIhV
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opsimath says
An interesting and thought-provoking post, which seems to have polarised opinion. My own, for what it may be worth, is that while a good writer can improve, someone without the basic talent for writing will never be able to write anything worth reading. As to being a born plumber, I wouldn’t be so sure that such things don’t occur; just look at the innate genius of Mozart, the Bernoulli family, the Bachs and, perhaps the greatest of all geniuses, Sir Isaac Newton.
While I realise that all received further polishing of their talents, those same talents were inborn. As the old saying has it, one day a hamster will fly; unfortunately we know that is quite impossible. Hope is a good thing but reading the wonderful books by, for example, Erin Morgenstern, Neil Gaiman and Julian Barnes can be disempowering, and no amount of gainsaying will alter the truth of that.
Thank you for a fascinating web-site, and please keep writing. There are those for whom your words will strike a chord, but I am unable to hear them in that way.
Karen Lane says
The question ‘are writers born or made’ has fascinated me for a long while. In order to give a one hour talk at WEA SYDNEY in June of this year, I am currently researching this question. So far, the best internet link I’ve found is this one here
http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/17/are-writers-born-or-made-jack-kerouac/
Ismaila Ali Sani says
To be a writer is just determination, effort, interest and hard working. Not born.
Ross Trovato says
Good writers are definately born. Just as all the vocal coaching in the world won’t make some people “great singers”, all the “writer’s workshops” in the world won’t make some people “great writers”. Classes can only help an aspiring writer with the basics. Natural creative talent isn’t something that can be taught or learned, it’s a God-given gift.
I totally disagree. Writing great stories can be learned – I think the love of reading and words is probably innate but the art of pleasing readers can definitely be learned over time.
Kyle'sMantra says
I have to agree with you for the most part. In terms of creativity and originality, Bob Dylan can’t even compared to someone like Ariana Grande. And in terms of vocal ability, Dylan could never hang with Ariana, no matter how many classes he may have taken.
And I might clarify that a “good” writer, in my mind, is someone who has some innate ability to perceive and capture a certain energy/perspective/mood from life and in turn create something with it, rather than tell us in technical terms what exactly you mean or want us to feel. Knowing the technical skills can help, but there seems to me a clear distinction between those who got it and those who don’t…
“Pride and Prejudice” vs. “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”.
But that’s coming from an English Lit. major who graduated with a Liberal Arts degree, so I may be biased toward to Austen.
Rod Serling said it best, “All writers are born. They’re never made. The talent to recreate in language the experience of life, has to be God-given.”
Totally disagree with that. Writers have to learn the trade, like any other artist.
David Baratta says
He was talking about creativity. Not structure or trade.
This should help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUsck3G7Ta0
I watched the clips — thank you for the heads-up — and I absolutely agree with Mr Serling.
Writing, like any other gift is God-given; no amount of wishing or however long spent in study will ever change that. At least now I can give up this foolish fantasy of ‘being a writer’ and turn my hand to something with half a chance of succeeding while I still have a little time left to me.
Ed Lewis says
Honestly…who cares what he said?
Please tell me, from a scientific perspective, how a writer is “born” that way?
As far as I know…when we are born NONE of us are able to write or use language in any way. These are learned skills.
Now…do some people learn them at different points of their life? Surely.
And do people who learn/hone their language and writing skills at a young age have an advantage over those who do not? Absolutely.
Like anything else, it’s safe to say that some people may be born with a predisposition to excel in language and writing. But even with that predisposition, it still must be developed. If it is not, then little comes of it.
I don’t buy the “natural born writer” schtick. It’s a myth.
A myth spread purely by ego. The ego’s of writer’s who want to feel special. Some force or God liked me more than everyone else, so they gave me the special ability to be a writer. Pure nonsense. Narcissistic nonsense at that.
You should watch the clips. He is talking about being creative. He’s talking about being able to observe life, to re-create it in language form. Not the actual ability to complete a sentence. Being able to paint a picture into someone’s mind, being able to create characters that come to life is God-given.
Jony says
I had a problem with some of this. You need 10 years and 1 million words…..
No what you need is to learn how to learn. You need to read a novel, then chapter by chapter, break it down. Consider how the author went about prose, plot, character and ofcourse how he set up his entire format. Learn from them.
While doing that you have to write. Write short stories first so that you end quickly. Then analyze your text. What did you do right? Wrong? What could you add? Are your characters 3d? And so on.
Then write another short story and focus on your weaknesses.
“1 million words”: all this means is that this person likes to write from the heart. That they just sit down and words fly out beautifully. Good for them, they are masters of this craft. But its BS for amateurs. Treat writing like a science. Break it down to its components and you will become a much better writer.
It is a skill yes, but that doesn’t mean you write and write and write till you get it. You have to treat it like a science. Track your progress. Understand what works and what doesn’t work. What are you struggling with? And so on. Thats the best way to become a better writer.
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Huffington's Remarkable Resilience
To the casual observer, Arianna Huffington's career trajectory would be one of the more baffling success stories in politics and media. How could one woman manage to evolve from being a contrarian of the feminist movement of the 70s, to an intellectual with questionable credentials in the 80s, then to a strong advocate for the Republican party and Newt Gingrich in the 90s, and lastly an outraged liberal with a distaste for mainstream media? A new, highly critical review of the Huffington's new book, Right Is Wrong published in The New Republic, takes the new media maven to task, painting her as a cunning businesswoman with a penchant for sensing the zeitgeist, but lacking any legitimate credibility. The writer, Isaac Chotiner, unleashes a barrage of beefs with Huffington, but one of the most current—and common—criticisms is of her Web site, which he paints as a barnacle on the hull of journalism. Her new book, according to Chotiner, is "less genuine and more tiresome," and plagued by gaps in logic and Huffington's ego.
Read it at The New Republic
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The Bittersweetness of Being Invisible While Trans in Rome
I had anticipated so many problems, most of which never came to fruition simply because of how painfully unaware modern Rome is of trans people.
Noah Deans-Gravlee
Updated 12.22.18 4:11AM ET / Published 12.21.18 9:19PM ET
Courtesy Noah Deans-Gravlee
I usually get butterflies in my stomach before a big adventure, and my 2016 study abroad trip to Rome is no exception. Most of it is the usual mix of nerves and excitement—I wouldn’t travel if I didn’t love it—but there’s another element as well.
This would be the first time I am outside the country as a transgender person.
When you do a quick Google search of “traveling while trans,” you tend to end up with a list of things that could go wrong: getting held up at the airport, harassed by strangers, more airport horror stories, getting killed. And these are things I know I should be aware of, but none of this is new information. What I’m worried about is the unknown. What is Rome’s queer community like? Are transgender people on their radar? Should I tone down my femininity? Google doesn’t say.
The flight goes about as well as it can—thankfully no horror stories here—and before I know it I find myself in my university's Rome Center, filling out my Declaration of Presence. Nome? Noah. Sesso? Female.
From there I make my way down the narrow cobbled streets to find my apartment, the wheels on my suitcase getting trapped between the stones (sanpietrini) when they aren’t clattering embarrassingly loudly in the quiet residential area. By the time I reach my vine-covered apartment I’ve worked up a good sweat in the humid June heat of the city. I’ve also realized that it’s going to be impossible to wear my chest binder here. I’m not supposed to wear it more than eight hours, certainly not while exerting myself in the heat, and I already know I will probably walk more than I have in my life.
No binder means I’ll have to layer. This works well for me in my Pacific Northwest home, but I foresee a lot of sweaty days in Rome. Thankfully there are constantly-flowing drinking fountains, nicknamed nasoni for their nose-like spouts, all across the city. It takes a few tries to correctly direct the flow of water with my finger over the tip of the spout, but I don’t mind the splashes of water in this heat.
I know my roommates already, and after unpacking and setting up the apartment the three of us make our way back to the bustling Campo de' Fiori for our first lesson. The campo, the name of which literally translates to “field of flowers,” boasts a large open air market in the mornings, as well as restaurants and a small bookstore in the surrounding buildings. My study abroad group is on the roof of one of those buildings, pouring wine and making toasts to the symphony of the city below us. Only a few of those people know that I am trans, and it’s an odd, cloistered feeling. But as I sip my wine in the cool evening air my mood shifts to excited anticipation for the month ahead.
June of 2016 was a big month for Italy’s gay population. On June 5th same-sex civil unions were officially recognized, and the recent victory is obvious from the resulting backlash as I walk through the city in the light of day. The usual graffiti (a surprising amount of it just birds or humanoid figures) is peppered with messages denouncing queer people. I’m not fluent in Italian, and I can’t read it all, but I know enough to get the gist. Seeing that kind of hate in a city which has build up a reputation for being magical and wonderful is a bit like stepping on a shard of glass at the beach. Annoying, painful, unexpected, but unsurprising. And yet the graffiti is also a reminder of the victory Italy’s community has won. A bittersweet reminder, to be sure.
More and more I find myself noticing that jarring Roman mixture of ancient and modern; of graffiti on ruins. There are statues to ancient gods and goddesses mixed in with Catholic imagery and modern storefronts behind every corner. One particular ancient deity, Hermaphroditus, catches my interest. Hermaphroditus was the Greek and Roman deity of unions and androgyny. The story goes that they were once a young boy, but after being assaulted by a jealous nymph his body was merged with hers to create the androgynous deity. Their name was the basis for an outdated medical term for intersex people, and they are one of many historical stories that prove gender has never been simple or binary. I find it somewhat comforting to think about ancient Romans telling Hermaphroditus’ story in this city, their own children learning that the child of Venus and Mercury was neither man nor woman.
On the same day that I learn about my new favorite Roman deity, my friends and I happen on the aptly named Gay Street di Roma, Rome’s tiny gay neighborhood in the shadow of the Colosseum. There we eat at the restaurant Coming Out, which features sandwiches named after types of gay men. I order the Bear (a hamburger) from the strikingly handsome waiter, and he takes our giggled orders with a grin. I’m ecstatic about this new find, even though the district is small and there is no mention of trans people whatsoever. The imagery in the restaurants and stores is largely of muscled, cisgender, white gay men, with the occasional lesbian couple. Being so close to the Colosseum also means that the crowd is largely (straight) tourists. It’s nothing like the queer district back home, but I’m happy nonetheless. It’s the most comfortable I’ve felt in days.
June ends, and July passes in a blur of hot days and travel to monuments throughout Rome and the nearby cities. All too soon my trip is coming to an end, and I spend one of my last nights watching the sun set over the city, the bright oranges and golds illuminating the terracotta rooftops spread out below me like a maze. I am thinking about identity, and community, and how I had anticipated so many problems, most of which never came to fruition simply because of how painfully unaware modern Rome is of trans people. I am invisible, and yet I do not feel alone.
The simple fact is this: queer history and culture is everywhere, and Rome is no exception. I went to this city expecting to feel isolated by my trans identity, but instead I found bittersweet graffiti and deities, restaurants and history. There is an old superstition that if you toss three coins into a Roman fountain you will get married, two for love, and one to return to Rome. I tossed in six. Maybe I will return with my husband some day. We can go to Coming Out and order the Twink.
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2013 Brussels Diamond Heist: Four 'Prominent' Men to Stand Trial
Four 'prominent' men from Geneva, including three real estate developers and a lawyer, will stand trial in November on charges of money laundering and embezzlement linked to the spectacular, $50 million diamond heist of an airplane in Brussels in 2013. Many of the stones, which were being transported from Antwerp to Zurich, were recovered in the first two months after the heist, while an undisclosed portion was sold on. The defendents include P., a real estate developer who is supected of having received hundreds of stones worth $7 million from the presusmed French gangster, which he concealed in the cellar of his building; a Geneva lawyer, who will face charges for (literally) holding the keys to the loot; and two friends of P. who will stand trial for having knowingly purchased some of the stolen goods.
P. as well as the Geneva lawyer had prior connections with one of the alleged robbers. P. has admitted his involvement but claims he did not profit from his actions and was not involved in the heist in Belgium. His attourney stated that, "He had no personal interest. On the contrary, he lost considerable sums of money. He bitterly regrets, moreover, that three of his close friends have been implicated and prosecuted wrongly in this unfortunate affair." The two other real estate developers that purchased the rough stones claim that the charges are unfounded.
Read the full article (French)
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Nobel laureate Peter Grunberg made tablets, smartphones possible
Dennis Overbye
The New York Times News Service
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German physicist Peter Gruenberg poses with a computer hard disc at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2007, in Berlin. The Juelich Research Centre said in a statement: ‘Without him, modern computers and smartphones as we know them would be unthinkable.’
Peter Grunberg, a Nobel-Prize-winning physicist who discovered how to store vast amounts of data by manipulating the magnetic and electrical fields of thin layers of atoms, making possible devices such as the iPad and the smartphone, has died at 78.
His death on April 7 in Julich, Germany, was announced by the Juelich Research Centre, where he was a long-time researcher.
Dr. Grunberg shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2007 with Albert Fert of the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay. They had independently made the same discovery – of an effect known as giant magnetoresistance, in which tiny changes in a magnetic field can result in huge changes in electrical resistance.
The effect is at the heart of modern gadgets that record music, video or other data as dense magnetic patchworks of ones and zeros – that is to say, electronic tablets and smartphones, the GPS devices in our pockets and handbags.
“The MP3 and iPod industry would not have existed without this discovery,” Borje Johansson of the Swedish Royal Academy said when the Nobel was announced. “You would not have an iPod without this effect.”
The Juelich institute said as much in a statement:
“Without exaggeration, one can say Peter Grunberg and his discovery of giant magnetoresistance decisively changed our lives. Without him, modern computers and smartphones as we know them would be unthinkable.”
Peter Andreas Grunberg was born on May 18, 1939, in Pilsen, in what is now the Czech Republic. His father, Theodore, was a mechanical engineer who designed locomotives. The elder Grunberg died in a Czech prison camp in 1945. Subsequently, Peter, an older sister and their mother, Anna, were expelled to Lauterbach in western Germany.
Dr. Grunberg entered Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1959. In 1963, he entered the Darmstadt University of Technology, emerging with a PhD in physics in 1969.
He married Helma Prauser, a future teacher he had met in 1966, during his studies in Frankfurt. They had a son, Andreas; two daughters, Sylvia and Katharina; and two granddaughters. There was no immediate information on who he leaves.
Dr. Grunberg did a postdoctoral fellowship at Carleton University, in Ottawa, from 1969 to 1972. At Carleton, he worked in the lab of physical chemistry professor Dr. Arnold Koningstein, whom he later said was one of “the giants whose shoulders I stood on so I could see further.”
After his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Grunberg joined the Institute of Solid State Research at the Juelich Research Centre, near Cologne, and stayed there until he retired in 2004.
Engineers have been recording information magnetically and reading it out electrically since the dawn of the computer age, but as they have endeavored to pack more and more data onto their machines, they have been forced to use smaller and fainter magnetic inscriptions and thus more and more sensitive read-out devices.
Since British physicist Lord Kelvin first wrote about the subject in 1857, it had long been known that magnetic fields could affect the electrical resistance of magnetic materials such as iron. Current flowed more easily along the field lines than across them.
While this effect on electrical resistance was useful for sensing magnetic fields and, in electronic heads, reading magnetic disks, it amounted to only a small change in the resistance and physicists did not think there were many prospects for improvement.
So it was a surprise in 1988 when groups led by Dr. Fert at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides in Paris and by Dr. Grunberg found that super-slim sandwiches of iron and chromium that they had assembled showed large sensitivity to magnetic fields – or “giant magnetoresistance,” as Dr. Fert called it. The name stuck.
The reason for the effect has to do with what physicists call the spin of electrons – their somewhat mysterious ability to have an orientation in space. When the magnetic layers of the sandwich have both their fields pointing in the same direction, electrons whose spin points along that direction can migrate freely through the sandwich. Electrons that point in another direction, however, are scattered.
If, however, one of the magnetic layers is perturbed by, say, reading a small signal, it can flip its direction so that its field runs opposite to the other one; this dramatically increases the electrical resistance of the sandwich.
As Philip Schewe, of the American Institute of Physics, explained, “You’ve leveraged a weak bit of magnetism into a robust bit of electricity.”
Experts said the discovery was one of the first triumphs of the new field of nanotechnology, the ability to build and manipulate assemblies of atoms only a nanometer (a billionth of a metre) in size.
The scanning heads in today’s electronic devices consist of alternating layers – each only a few atoms thick – of a magnetic metal such as iron and a nonmagnetic metal such as chromium. At that minuscule size, the strange rules of quantum mechanics come into play and novel properties emerge.
As a result, Dr. Grunberg’s work laid the foundation for a new, even smaller and denser type of memory storage called “spintronics.” Here, information is stored and processed by manipulating the spins of electrons, with applications ranging from videotape to MP3 players and hard disks.
The announcement of this effect, at a meeting in Le Creusot, France, caused a sensation in high-tech circles. The discovery allowed computers and other devices to greatly increase the amount of data they could store. By the late 1990s, according to a report in Physics World, the rate of increase of hard-disk data storage had tripled. The world of big data was on its way.
When he was awarded what some observers called the “iPod Nobel,” Dr. Grunberg said he was not surprised because he had been asked many times over the years when he was going to win the big prize.
He added that he was looking forward to being able to pursue his research without applying for grants for “every tiny bit.”
Dr. Grunberg returned to Ottawa in 2012 to receive an honorary doctorate from Carleton University
In his Nobel autobiography, he recalled that it was only at the Le Creusot meeting that he finally met Dr. Fert, with whom he would share the Nobel. The rivals got along great.
“After we had compared our results and came to the conclusion that we had seen the same effect, and thus confirmed it to each other,” he said, “we were ready for a glass of red wine from Burgundy.”
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Flooding in Brantford, Ont., prompts evacuations, state of emergency
Some Brantford residents are being evacuated due to flooding along the Grand River on Feb. 21, 2018.
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BRANTFORD, Ont.
Residents of a southern Ontario city were forced from their homes and businesses on Wednesday as rising flood waters from a local river prompted a state of emergency.
Days of mild temperatures and torrential rain caused an ice jam clogging the Grand River to release, sending water surging into Brantford, Ont.
City Mayor Chris Friel said neighbourhoods immediately surrounding the river have been particularly impacted, adding the flooding has also closed nearby city trails and shuttered many local businesses and schools.
City officials said 4,900 residents and 2,000 homes were affected by an evacuation order issued to three neighbourhoods, and Friel said all residents should be keeping their distance from the flood zone for the foreseeable future.
"It is never worth your personal safety for a view of the river ... stay away from the river," he said at a news conference. "That is not just for today or this afternoon or this evening. That will be for the next couple days at least."
Friel said the state of emergency went into effect mid Wednesday morning, adding that the river is still rising and is expected to peak later in the day.
Local roads and bridges were jammed as people began to make their way out of the three neighbourhoods covered under the evacuation order, he said.
City officials have dispatched someone to the Indigenous community of Six Nations, about an hour from Brantford, Ont., to share real-time information on flood conditions. Six Nations has already begun mobilizing its emergency co-ordination team in case flooding reaches the area, he added.
Friel said the Ontario government has been in contact with his community, and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Bill Mauro said a team is already en route to the city.
But Brantford was not the only community grappling with the Grand River's rising water levels. Nearly 100 kilometres away near Orangeville, Ont., provincial Police said they were trying to extricate a vehicle that became submerged in the river after driving off a washed-out road.
Const. Paul Nancekivell, spokesman for OPP's Dufferin Detachment, said the car went into the river just before 1:00 a.m. Wednesday where police had closed part of the road due to flooding.
"(The female driver) came southbound through the road closure, went on to the flooded area and from there her vehicle was pulled into the river," he added. "She got out and the vehicle swept away."
He could not confirm reports that a child was in the car, or that a child was missing from the area, but confirmed that an active search of the river was still underway.
The woman is "safe and sound" after being treated in hospital for hypothermia, he added.
Grand Valley District Fire Chief Kevein McNeilly said conditions at the time of the incident were treacherous for all concerned.
"It was extremely foggy. Very, very violent river last night," McNeilly said. "At one point it raised up three feet in a matter of 20 minutes."
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Money When a big buyer calls, don't overplay your hand
John Warrillow
When a big buyer calls, don't overplay your hand
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published September 28, 2011 Updated May 8, 2018
On the first day of June, both Floyd's Coffee Shops in Portland, Ore., were busier than usual.
The regulars were elbowed out of the way by new customers visiting the store for the first time to redeem their coupon, and get $10 worth of coffee for $3.
This tempting offer was made because Floyd's had been picked as the first-ever Google Offers "deal."
Google Offers is the company's baby step into the world of social buying-style promotions, where a special, limited time offer is made by a company hoping that the deal will spread virally and thereby introduce a new legion of customers to its business.
Google Inc., of course, did not invent the deal-of-the-day category; it was goaded into it after its generous $6-billion offer to buy Groupon was turned down.
Now Groupon is starting to feel the pinch after thumbing its nose at one of the world's most valuable companies. According to compete.com, Groupon lost 28.56 per cent of its traffic in August when compared to the previous month.
That was the second month in a row that Groupon's traffic was down, compared to the almost meteoric rise it had experienced since its launch in November, 2008.
I think the moral of the story is to be careful not to overplay your hand when approached by someone who wants to buy your company. Acquirers usually have deep pockets and, while you may think your business is unique, never underestimate the resolve of a big company with lots of cash.
It does have an alternative to buying you: It can simply compete with you.
Typically, when it makes the decision to walk away from the negotiation table, it does not leave empty-handed. It comes away with newfound insight on how you run your business, what works, and what flops; so it has an enormous head start to launch a competitive company.
And it doesn't just happen in Silicon Valley. Take a hypothetical example of an insurance broker that generates $500,000 a year in revenue, which is more than enough to keep the broker and his or her two office staff happy.
Then one day a big insurance broker comes along and says it wants to buy the broker's book of business and is willing to pay one times annual revenue. The broker turns up his or her nose and demands 1.5 times.
Now the suitor has a choice. It can try to negotiate with the broker, but that would undermine the economics of the model it's used to buy hundreds of practices just like this one.
Or it can simply hire someone to start an office to compete.
Let's say it picks choice No. 2 and hires a young, aggressive broker. It guarantees that broker $200,000 a year in the first 12 months on the job while he or she is building a book of business.
You have not only lost the opportunity to sell your business; you're now competing against a young, motivated rival with a parent company who has an extra $300,000 that it didn't use to buy you, and it's putting it toward helping your new competitor build a business.
If you're lucky enough to get approached by a big company that wants to buy yours, remember it is usually not choosing between buying you or buying your competitor.
It's often choosing between buying you or setting up shop to compete with you. As soon as buying you becomes more expensive than competing with you, it'll compete.
In the case of the deal-of-the day business, there is virtually no barrier to entry. All you need is some e-mail addresses, local knowledge and a sales force willing to call on small businesses – all of which Google has plenty of from initiatives like Google AdWords, gmail and the like.
John Warrillow is a writer, speaker and angel investor in a number of start-up companies. You can download a free chapter of his new book, Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.
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Britain’s private rented sector isn’t fit for purpose. It’s unfair and unsafe
Vicky Spratt
With landlords holding all the cards and tenants in substandard housing, regulation hasn’t kept pace with market conditions
Thu 27 Jun 2019 11.30 EDT Last modified on Thu 27 Jun 2019 13.48 EDT
‘The number of renters is only set to grow, with a quarter of the population expected to rent by 2021.’
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Another day, another housing crisis story confirming what we already knew: things are really bad. New research from Citizens Advice has found that not only do half of landlords not know about or understand their legal obligations, but that their tenants aren’t aware of their rights either and, even when they are, they don’t always feel able to enforce them.
Two-thirds of tenants said that their landlord has not addressed disrepair in their home, 15% said they believed that disrepair was a major threat to their health and safety, and 32% said that their home did not have a carbon monoxide alarm despite requiring one. This, Citizens Advice says, leaves hundreds of thousands of renters living in mouldy, potentially dangerous homes with some missing smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.
There’s a serious power imbalance. Renters fear complaining – even when they know they’re within their rights to
When it comes to renting, there’s a serious power imbalance. Renters fear complaining – even when they know they’re within their rights to – because, despite the government’s recent promise to do away with section 21 of the 1988 Housing Act, which allows landlords to evict tenants without having to give them a reason, the provision still actually exists. It’s technically illegal to evict someone for complaining about conditions and yet, we know that 46% of tenants who make a formal complaint to a local authority about their landlord find themselves issued with a section 21 order.
Despite the work of MPs such as Karen Buck in bringing in the Homes (Fit for Human Habitation) Act, as the number of people who rent in Britain grows, it’s quite clear that the private rented sector isn’t fit for purpose. Following deregulation in the late 1980s, which included doing away with rent controls and the introduction of section 21, the buy-to-let market boomed, social housing stock dwindled and house prices began to climb. But the wages of younger people did not, and increasing numbers could no longer afford to buy a home. By 2011-12, there were more people renting privately than there were in social housing, but neither the quality of rented homes nor the legislation to protect tenants kept up with that change. Between 2010 and 2018, the number of households renting rose from 3.6m to 4.5m, making the private rented sector home to one in five households. These are not just avocado-guzzling millennials but families and older people too. The number of renters is only set to grow, with a quarter of the population expected to rent by 2021.
What’s more, many landlords were dipping their toe into the buy-to-let market as something of a side hustle. They weren’t professional housing providers or faceless plutocrats. They were our wealthier neighbours and, sometimes, our friends. Indeed, today we know that almost half of landlords own just one property while only 17% own five properties or more.
Homelessness lawyers complain of legal aid 'culture of refusal'
Britain’s renting crisis has been inexcusably obvious for almost a decade now. But successive politicians after Thatcher have ploughed on, ignoring the private rented sector in favour of an increasingly facile focus on buyers (or, rather, the lack thereof), come what may. Why? Well, homeowners vote. In a speech at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s conference on Wednesday, Theresa May explicitly acknowledged this by saying that social housing has been a “victim of the single-minded drive for home ownership” under successive governments. That’s absolutely true, and so has the private rented sector.
How do we explain such serious structural neglect? Perhaps the fact that so many MPs, historically, have also been landlords contributed to the laissez-faire attitude towards renting and political oversight of renters. Let’s not forget that Buck’s bill was defeated by the Conservatives when it first passed through the House of Commons in 2015. It passed on the second attempt, in 2018, because voting against it post-Grenfell would have been unthinkable.
Home, whether you own it or not, is where you go to sleep and wake up every day. It’s where we raise our children and care for the elderly. It ought to be a place of safety. There can now be no doubt that the failure to intervene in the private rental market, to introduce legislation in favour of tenants ensuring minimum standards, safety and regulating housing provision has brought us to where we are today. Dysfunctional markets don’t regulate themselves.
• Vicky Spratt is a freelance journalist and housing campaigner
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Moussaoui pleads guilty to role in 9/11 attacks
Fri 22 Apr 2005 16.40 EDT First published on Fri 22 Apr 2005 16.40 EDT
Zacarias Moussaoui has today pleaded guilty to helping al-Qaida carry out the September 11 hijackings and said he understood he could be put to death for his role in the deadliest terror attack in American history.
US District Judge Leonie M Brinkema accepted the plea, making the French citizen the lone person convicted in a US court for the 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Moussaoui, more subdued than in earlier court appearances during which he sometimes ranted at Brinkema, answered her questions politely.
"How do you plead?" she asked him for each of the six felony counts against him. Each time, Moussaoui answered, "Guilty."
Brinkema asked defence lawyer Alan Yamamoto, the only lawyer Moussaoui would talk to in recent weeks, if he was satisfied the defendant understood what he was doing.
"When I have spoken to him, we have disagreed," Yamamoto said. "He is facing the possibility of death or life in prison. He has told me that he understands that."
"The court is accepting today the defendant's six pleas of guilty to the six counts of the indictment," Brinkema said.
"You are found guilty at this time," she told Moussaoui.
She said she had discussed Moussaoui's pleas at length with him earlier.
"He has a better understanding of the legal system than some lawyers I have seen in court," the judge said.
Moussaoui stood quietly before her, with two security officers behind him. He was not shackled. He wore a green prison jumpsuit. He had a full beard.
After standing for five minutes to review the statement of facts against him, he asked to sit down. The courtroom was hushed as he reviewed the document, then signed it.
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By: Karima Malikzada
National archive has particular position in today’s world and considered as one of researching sources. Various countries by establishing national archives are preserving their historic and valuable documents and manuscripts. For the first time in Afghanistan, documents and manuscripts have been collected to be preserved during the era of King Amanullah Khan.
In an interview with The Kabul Times correspondent, head of Afghanistan National Archive Mohammad Afsar Rahbin said, “On the occasion of celebration the 100th Independence anniversary of Afghanistan, preparations are underway in national level. Each governmental institution will somehow take part celebration of the anniversary.
In the meantime, various departments relevant to the ministry of information and culture will have particular programs for which particular meetings have been held. Afghanistan National Archive will also have particular programs. For example, the national archive was tasked to publish all codebooks from the era of King Amanullah Khan and put all historic documents and manuscripts for exhibition.”
Rahbin further said that there were dozens of codebooks, speeches, pictures and MoUs and agreements from the era of King Amanullah Khan and were all preserved in national archive and the Independence anniversary’s festival belonged to all the nation of Afghanistan.
“Newspapers, valuable documents and manuscripts, hundreds of pictures belonging to the era of King Amanullah Khan are preserved in national archive, but we can say the exact number of all documents and historic manuscripts unless they are digitalized,” Rahbin said.
He added that Afghanistan National Archive by its most valuable and historic documents such as agreements, memorandums of understanding, historic pictures, manuscripts and various copies of the Holy Quran and dozens of others belong to the nation of Afghanistan.
It is worth mentioning that the National Archives of Afghanistan houses and preserves unique and valuable collections of important historical documents, and rare manuscripts, as well as valuable examples of works of calligraphy and miniatures dating back centuries.
The basic goals of Afghanistan’s National Archives are to collect and to preserve archival documents in Afghanistan and to prevent manuscripts and documents from leaving the country.
Afghanistan’s National Archives is ready to respond to the scientific and literary needs of researchers and students in Afghanistan and from other countries.
The National Archives of Afghanistan welcomes scholars and researchers doing research in the fields of literature, history, politics, economy and socio-cultural issues of Afghanistan. During the course of history, archives have served humanity as a treasury of cultural assets acquired by peoples over time, serving to introduce to new generations the culture and traditions of their ancestors and strengthen the cultural pillars of society.
This attention to national archives is a symbol of the importance given by societies to their cultural heritage through the establishment of museums and archives.
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What Aquatic Insects Tell Us About Water Quality
Behavior & Communication
Ants. Bees, & Wasps
Ticks & Mites
True Bugs, Aphids, Cicadas, and Hoppers
Water Quality Sampling Net and Tray.
Will Heap / Dorling Kindersley / Getty Images
by Debbie Hadley
Debbie Hadley is a science educator with 25 years of experience who has written on science topics for over a decade.
The types of insects and other invertebrates living in the world's lakes, rivers or oceans can tell us if that water source has very high or very little water pollutants.
There are a number of ways that the scientific community and environmental agencies measure water quality, such as taking the temperature of the water, testing the pH and water clarity, measuring the level of dissolved oxygen, as well as determining the levels of nutrients and toxic substances.
It seems looking at insect life in the water might be the easiest and perhaps most cost-effective method especially if the surveyor can tell the difference from one invertebrate to the next upon visual examination. It can eliminate the need for frequent, costly chemical tests.
"Bioindicators, which are sort of like a canary in a coalmine—are living organisms that indicate the quality of their environment by their presence or absence," according to Hannah Foster, postdoctoral researcher in bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The main reason to use bioindicators is that chemical analysis of water provides only a snapshot of the quality of a body of water."
Importance of Water Quality Monitoring
Adverse changes to the water quality of one stream can impact all the bodies of water it touches. When water quality degrades, changes to plant, insect and fish communities may occur and can affect the entire food chain.
Through water quality monitoring, communities can assess the health of their streams and rivers over time. Once baseline data on the health of a stream is collected, subsequent monitoring can help identify when and where pollution incidents occur.
Using Bioindicators for Water Sampling
Doing a survey of bioindicators, or biological water quality monitoring involves collecting samples of aquatic macroinvertebrates. Aquatic macroinvertebrates live in water for at least part of their life cycle. Macroinvertebrates are organisms without backbones, which are visible to the eye without the aid of a microscope. Aquatic macroinvertebrates live on, under and around rocks and sediment on the bottoms of lakes, rivers, and streams. Aquatic macroinvertebrates include species of insects, worms, snails, mussels, leeches, and crayfish.
For example, sampling macroinvertebrate life in a stream when monitoring water quality is useful because these organisms are easy to collect and identify, and tend to stay in one area unless environmental conditions change. Simply put, some macroinvertebrates are highly sensitive to pollution, while others tolerate it. Certain types of macroinvertebrates found thriving in a body of water can tell you if that water is clean or polluted.
Highly Sensitive to Pollution
When found in high numbers, macroinvertebrates like adult riffle beetles and gilled snails can serve as bioindicators of good water quality. These creatures are usually highly sensitive to pollution. These organisms tend to require highly dissolved oxygen levels. If these organisms were once abundant, but subsequent sampling shows a decline in numbers, it may indicate that a pollution incident occurred. Other organisms that are highly sensitive to pollution include:
Mayflies (nymphs)
Caddisflies (larvae)
Stoneflies (nymphs)
Water Pennies
Hellgrammites (dobsonfly larvae)
Somewhat Tolerant of Pollution
If there is an abundance of a certain type of macroinvertebrates, like clams, mussels, crayfish, and sowbugs, that can indicate that the water is in fair to good condition. Other macroinvertebrates that are somewhat tolerant to pollutants include:
Alderflies (larvae)
Dragonflies and Damselflies (nymphs)
Whirligig Beetles (larvae)
Riffle Beetles (larvae)
Fishflies (larvae)
Scuds
Pollution Tolerant
Certain macroinvertebrates, like leeches and aquatic worms, thrive in poor quality water. An abundance of these organisms suggests environmental conditions in a body of water have deteriorated. Some of these invertebrates use "snorkels" to access oxygen at the water's surface and are less dependent on dissolved oxygen to breathe. Other pollution-tolerant macroinvertebrates include:
Black Flies (larvae)
Midge Flies (larvae)
Lunged Snails
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A story of gold and glory: Palmerton woman to compete in the Special Olympics World Games
Delina Rodrigues competes in a powerlifting competition. The Palmerton girl will be traveling to the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi to compete in March. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Published February 16. 2019 06:25AM
<p>By Rich Strack</p><p>tneditor@tnonline.com</p>
Twenty-four years ago, in a single life-altering moment, Dave and Christine Rodrigues learned the shocking news about their 4-month-old daughter. Delina had been diagnosed with severe brain damage.
“She was going to have a permanent intellectual disability for the rest of her life,” Christine said. “We had to accept the reality that our daughter would never be able to be like most others.”
Now, jump to another life-altering moment for the Rodrigues family.
Delina Rodrigues will be a member of the United States powerlifting team next month at the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The early struggles
For the first five years of her life, Delina had difficulty with ordinary functions. She didn’t talk. She struggled to walk. She drooled when she opened her mouth. She wore diapers until she was 5 years old.
“Our daughter had therapy three days a week, and we hoped she would improve,” Christine said. “The doctors kept telling us that nothing could be done. They said she would never be athletic. She couldn’t even be a cheerleader. We were told that at best she could be a bookworm.”
Dave and Christine would have to find schools for their daughter that could address her special needs. Although the family, which included their sons, Darris and Bo, lived in Palmerton, Delina had to be transported first to L.B. Morris Elementary School in Jim Thorpe and then to Carbon Career & Technical Institute for life skills classes. She would graduate from CCTI at age 21.
Special times in the Special Olympics
When Delina was 10, her parents enrolled her in the Carbon County Special Olympics program. She began to bowl and play floor hockey. Then she tried track and field.
“She did very well and enjoyed the competition of sports and won gold medals in 100, 200, 400, and 4X100 relay track events,” Christine said.
In 2013 and 2014, Delina represented Pennsylvania at a national track and field event in Princeton, New Jersey. She won silver and bronze medals in the 100 and 200 meter races.
After five years in the program, Delina showed an interest in powerlifting.
When asked what prompted this interest, her mother was quick to answer.
“She liked being around the boys,” Christine said with a laugh, “and so she began weightlifting training at Dedicated Fitness in Palmerton.”
Delina loved powerlifting, and two years later when weighing 150 pounds, she lifted 220 pounds in the dead lift.
At the Special Olympics Pennsylvania held at Villanova University in November 2017, she won a gold and two silvers in the powerlifting events. She also won silver and bronze medals in the 100 and 200 meter races.
She qualified for the USA team, but that simply meant her name would be put into a hat with other winners and then the team would be randomly selected.
“We didn’t think Delina would be picked, and it was a long day, so we were driving home when we heard she was selected for the USA team. We were so happy for her.”
Delina returned to Villanova in November 2018 and won gold in the bench, back squat and dead lift events.
‘She’s my hero’
Delina Rodrigues will be one of three women on an eight-member United States powerlifting team at the Special Olympics World Games in March. She will compete against a group of athletes selected from more than 200 countries.
“She can’t comprehend the magnitude of these games, and that’s a good thing,” Christine said. “She’s very competitive, but she’s OK if she doesn’t win. She doesn’t get upset.”
While Delina will travel to Abu Dhabi with the U.S. team, Christine will go with her son, Darris.
“Too many parents of special needs children shelter their kids,” Christine said. “They are different, of course, and once in a while they might embarrass you with their behavior in a public place, but you have to give them opportunities to interact with people. If you shelter them, they will always be timid. The Special Olympics program has certainly helped our daughter with her social skills and with her confidence.”
When asked to describe how she feels now about her daughter when thinking about the struggles during infancy and knowing now she will be representing her country at the World Games, Christine answered through her motherly tears.
“I am in awe of my daughter. She’s fun to be with. She’s kind. She’s full of energy and determination.
“I wish I was more like her. Delina has changed who we are.”
After a second emotional pause, Christine added, “She’s my hero.”
The World Games are scheduled for March 14-21. There will be a send-off celebration for Delina on March 2 at L.B. Morris Elementary School in Jim Thorpe. The public is invited to come and wish her well.
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TRANSCRIPT: RADIO INTERVIEW - ABC RN DRIVE - TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
E&OE TRANSCRIPT
ABC RN DRIVE
PATRICIA KARVELAS (HOST): Tony Burke welcome to RN Drive.
TONY BURKE, MANAGER OF OPPOSITION BUSINESS: Good afternoon.
KARVELAS: Let’s just start with some of the big issues. The reputation of the Australian financial sector seems to be in a death spiral. What's it going to take to fix it?
BURKE: It takes what it was always going to take, which was a royal commission and if the Government had gone ahead with the Royal Commission back when we were calling for it a couple of years ago it would have reported by now and I think we'd have a pretty clear pathway in front of us. Instead two years later and two additional years of more problems occurring, this is where we are. What we've heard today is yet another example and I wish it was going to be the end of the road on these sorts of stories but it won't be. There’ll be more to come and it'll continue to be awful.
KARVELAS: Just on the budget. Next week's big week, the Government will deliver its budget of course then the budget in reply by Bill Shorten and the Labor side of politics on the Thursday. When you've gone through a few of them, I’ve covered them and they are now almost like a dance piece. How are you war-gaming the budget? We saw Chris Bowen today talk about delivering a bigger surplus. Is that what Labor's going to try and do? Show that the Labor side of politics is more prepared to deliver a bigger surplus? Is that where the action is that for you?
BURKE: We've been determined to have improvements to the budget bottom line for a long time. That's why we've delivered the commitments on trusts, on negative gearing, on capital gains tax and more recently on dividend imputation refunds. So, all of those policies have been aimed really clearly at making sure that we do what we can to improve the budget bottom line. But all of those issues are almost eclipsed by the hit to the budget of what by budget night will be an $80 billion giveaway to corporate Australia. Up until now, we've been talking about it as $65 billion but every year the extra year comes into the forward estimates of the full give away and adds $15 billion at least to it.
So in the context of the sorts of cuts that the Government puts forward to hospitals, to schools, to families and pensioners so much of that can be dealt with in a responsible way, in a fairer way by simply walking away from an $80 billion giveaway to the exact sort of companies we were talking about at the beginning of this interview.
KARVELAS: The Business Council of Australia has made clear that it intends to campaign on these sorts of issues. To go to business tax cuts and just general economic issues. Labor has been critical but isn't that what the trade union movement consistently does and if you look at some of the figures being circulated at a pretty big price for the Labor movement?
BURKE: Well the unions understandably will campaign against things like the cuts to penalty rates that have been dealt with on the floor of the Parliament and there's no surprise to that.
There's also no surprise I guess that big business when there's $80 billion on the table from the Government will use its money not to deliver the better deal for customers which might have avoided some of the stories that have been coming out from banks and financial institutions but instead will use some of their money for a campaign to try to get their hands on the $80 billion giveaway. I can understand that around the board table why they might want to do that. But I reckon Australians watching those ads knowing it's being paid for by some of the same sorts of institutions that have been ripping them off, it's going to be a big ask if they reckon they can run a campaign that people won't see straight through.
KARVELAS: Just in your own portfolio area we actually had Josh Frydenberg on last night talking about a range of issues but also talking about the Great Barrier Reef. The commitment that the Government has made that's half a billion dollars, the biggest investment to the reef in history. Do you recognise that the Government has made a good effort here?
BURKE: They've made an effort.
KARVELAS: But it's the biggest investment in history.
BURKE: Some of this investment we've got to wait to see how it pans out. Because by doing it through the foundation which I won't bore with the budgetary trick that this involves but it allows them to get all the money out the door this financial year. I don't know the extent to which there's been Government oversight and how it's spent.
So the normal way in which there has been oversight will be difficult to apply given the mechanism that they've used for the lion's share of that money. You can't buy your way around the challenges for the Great Barrier Reef. You can't buy it out of problems. And so, is more money going to be a good thing? Yes but it's a bit like turning up to a natural disaster with a packet of band-aids. People will be pleased that they're there but the first question has to be ‘what are the biggest issues affecting the reef?’ The biggest issues affecting the reef are attached directly to climate change and then you need to also deal with the issues that provide the resilience for the reef. On climate change, the Government's on the wrong side of the debate and on the issues for resilience of the reef they're on the wrong side as well.
They supported the abolition of the land clearing laws in the Great Barrier Reef catchment. They've just turned the Coral Sea into a massive trawling area immediately adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. The same action that deals with climate change also deals with ocean acidification because the gases that cause climate change are the same gases that cause ocean acidification. You need to be dealing with all of these issues as well.
So yes, is it good to be getting in there removing crown-of-thorns starfish? Of course, it is. But at the same time, they're in their numbers because of what's happening with runoff as a direct result of there not being proper land clearing laws.
KARVELAS: It’s interesting all the things you've just listed. There's one gaping omission in my analysis Tony Burke and that is you haven't mentioned the Adani coal mine. If you listen to the Australian Conservation Foundation and Geoff Cousins who I actually interviewed on National Wrap that you'd been on, in fact, I'll invite you again. He actually came on the program and mentioned the Adani coal mine and was critical of the reef package on the basis of the Government's strategy on climate change but also Adani. Now Labor has had a kind of flip-flop approach to Adani too. You’re not mentioning it and you're not opposing it.
BURKE: The Adani mine has become emblematic of action on climate change…
KARVELAS: But do you see it as destructive to the reef?
BURKE: I think it adds to the problems. It adds to the problems. There's no doubt about that. If we win Government I'll be the person in charge if there are any remaining approvals. And so I certainly can’t in this interview now prejudge the decision that I might have to make in Government. But what I can say is the more I've looked at this project the more sceptical I've become about it. I remain deeply concerned. Now, this is not a specific issue on reef health. The reports that came out some months ago into the dumping of coal-laden water into the Caley Valley wetlands where there is federal responsibility for those wetlands and the Environment Minister's response was ‘oh that's just a matter for Queensland’. I can't for the life of me see how that's a way that the responsibilities of the Federal Environment Minister are properly being acquitted. So yes I do have deep concerns about the Adani mine.
What I'm really careful to do though, just as it is an exaggeration to look at Josh Frydenberg’s package and say that fixes everything, it’s also an exaggeration to claim if we stop Adani then we have fixed everything for the reef because it is one of the projects that adds to the pressures. And the reason I avoid benching it I guess is twofold.
In the first instance, I may end up being the decision maker over it and I can't prejudge it. If I do any decision I make would be thrown out in court. The second thing though with Adani is I do believe we shouldn't fall into the trap of believing if we stop that project then the reef has been properly protected because the list of things that need to be done goes way beyond Adani.
KARVELAS: Just finally the if the ASD (Australian Signals Directorate) is given the power to monitor our lives to prevent child exploitation and terrorism. The particular child exploitation examples that Peter Dutton the Home Affairs Minister has provided, would it be worth it?
BURKE: On any of these issues we need to start with ‘what's the proposal from the government?’ And at the moment we're getting a different answer from Peter Dutton to what we're getting with Julie Bishop. It is a big, big step. If we're going to go down the path where Australians can be monitored without there being a warrant in that way. So it's a very significant step. But at the moment we're getting conflicting signals from the Government as to whether or not there is in fact even this proposal.
We take a really responsible approach on the national security issues. We always want to be properly briefed, there is a committee that deals with these issues in a responsible way. If bipartisanship is possible in a responsible way then we deliver it and when it's not, we don't.
But the first point you need to cross the threshold on is what's the proposal from the Government? And the Government can't answer that question.
KARVELAS: Tony Burke many thanks for your time.
BURKE: Great to be back on the program.
Tony Burke 1 May 2018
TRANSCRIPT: RADIO INTERVIEW - ABC RN BREAKFAST - TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
TRANSCRIPT: PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS - FRYDENBERG'S FALSE CLAIMS - MONDAY, 26 MARCH 2018
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Posted on November 29, 2015 by Urbana Daily Citizen
UU men’s team goes 0-2 over the weekend
From staff and wire reports
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – An early struggle turned into a cake walk Sunday afternoon.
Bowling Green’s men’s basketball team couldn’t pull away from Urbana University until late in the first half, but the Falcons dominated over the final 26 minutes en route to a 96-55 win over the Blue Knights in the Stroh Center.
The Falcons improve to 4-2 on the season while UU drops to 1-6.
The teams played to a 26-26 tie with 6:44 left in the first half before Bowling Green used a 9-0 run that helped it to a 42-30 lead at halftime. The Falcons then scored the first 15 points of the second half to extend their lead to 57-30 with 16:23 to play.
UU hampered the Falcons early with a flurry of 3-pointers from Carlas Jackson, who entered averaging 16 points per game. Jackson hit five 3s in the first 14 minutes to help keep the Blue Knights in contention. He had 17 of UU’s 30 points in the first half.
But the Blue Knights went cold in the final 6:44 of the opening half, missing 11 of their final 12 shots of the half to go along with three turnovers.
Jackson finished with 20 points and didn’t hit another three the rest of the way. No other UU player recorded more than seven points.
UU’s strong first-half work quickly went to waste in the second half when Bowling Green shot 64.5 percent from the field in the final 20 minutes.
UU falls at home
Matt Csuhran and Jahmere Howze scored 54 points combined, but it wasn’t enough as the Urbana University men’s basketball team fell 101-99 in overtime against Davis and Elkins Saturday inside the Grimes Center.
Csuhran finished three points shy of his career high, leading all scorers with 28 points. The sophomore hit 8 of 14 from beyond the arc, and added two more field goals to finish 10-of-19 shooting.
Howze, who is UU’s leading scorer, recorded 16 points combined in the second half and OT period, and also grabbed 10 rebounds for his second double-double this season. The freshman forward had his way in the paint, and finished 9 of 15 from the field with seven free throws.
Freshman Kevin Fisher scored a career-high 11 points in 16 minutes off the bench, helping UU’s reserves to outscore the visitor’s bench 46-23 during UU’s first OT game of the season.
Freshman Austin Adams registered his first double-double with 10 points and 11 boards, while sophomore Carlas Jackson added 10 points and three assists.
The Blue Knights (1-5, 0-2) led for 26-plus minutes, but couldn’t pick up a defensive stop when they needed it most.
UU shot 46 percent overall from the field, and made 12 of 35 three-point attempts. The Senators were more efficient from both areas, hitting 8 of 16 from deep and shooting 51 percent overall.
With the score tied at 88-88, Adams was fouled at the rim with less than a second left in regulation, but the forward missed both free throws to send the game to OT.
The visitors held off the Blue Knights in the extra period, outscoring UU 13-11 over the final five minutes.
Jackson sunk a pair of free throws with eight seconds left in OT, putting UU down one, 100-99. Then, Davis and Elkins made 1 of 2 on the other end and UU failed to get a shot off on its final possession.
UU led 44-38 at the half, but it allowed a 6-0 Davis and Elkins run out of the break.
Davis and Elkins (1-4) out-muscled UU on the boards 46-40, and used that advantage on the glass to outscore the Blue Knights 46-38 in the paint.
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Hubble photographs unique red rectangle
Astronomers believe the star is part of a close binary system, which may explain the unique shape of the surrounding gas.
The red-tinged hydrogen gas streaming out from the star HD 44179 forms an X and rectangle around the binary system. Photo by NASA/ESA/Hubble
WASHINGTON, April 11 (UPI) -- A new image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope shows how star HD 44179 got its nickname.
The star known as the Red Rectangle lies 2,300 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn. When photographed from Earth and space, HD 44179 looks to be surrounded by a faint red rectangle marked by an X-shaped structure of glowing gas.
Astronomers say the star is similar to our sun, but older and nearing its death -- beginning to leak gas into interstellar space. The lost stellar material is what forms the X and rectangle. Astronomers believe the star is part of a close binary system, which may explain the unique shape of the surrounding gas.
The gas and dust coalescing around the Red Rectangle is currently classified as a proto-planetary nebula, but is on its way to becoming a planetary nebula.
"Once the expulsion of mass is complete a very hot white dwarf star will remain and its brilliant ultraviolet radiation will cause the surrounding gas to glow," NASA scientists explained in a news release.
The latest image -- captured using the High Resolution Channel of the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys -- is the sharpest yet.
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50 years on, fateful Vietnam resolution resonates
Gulf of Tonkin resolution led to deep American involvement in the Vietnam War
50 years on, fateful Vietnam resolution resonates Gulf of Tonkin resolution led to deep American involvement in the Vietnam War Check out this story on theleafchronicle.com: http://leafne.ws/VfAvfs
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Published 9:21 a.m. CT Aug. 11, 2014 | Updated 9:34 a.m. CT Aug. 11, 2014
In this Aug. 10, 1964, file photo, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Joint Resolution for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, also known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, backing his firm stand against aggression in Southeast Asia.(Photo: John Rous , AP)
NEW YORK – A dubious threat to U.S. interests. A swift vote in Congress for broad presidential war powers in response. A long, costly and bitterly debated war.
Fifty years ago Sunday, reacting to reports of a U.S. Navy encounter with enemy warships in the Gulf of Tonkin off Vietnam — reports long since discredited — President Lyndon Johnson signed a resolution passed overwhelmingly by Congress that historians call the crucial catalyst for deep American involvement in the Vietnam War. Many also see it as a cautionary tale that has gone unheeded.
"I think we are probably a bit better informed now, but I don't think that makes us a lot safer," says Edwin Moises, author of "Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War." Every era brings new foreign policy and political challenges, said the Clemson University history professor, "and I think it is utterly unpredictable what kind of misunderstandings may come along."
"If you ask whether we learned anything, I would say not enough," says former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat who opposed the war in Iraq, long after Tonkin and Vietnam.
In the last five decades, Tonkin has not kept Washington from backing wars, but it has shadowed relations between presidents and Congress. Debates about foreign conflicts, whether in Bosnia, Syria or Iraq, have also been referendums on trust. Is the war really necessary? Is the president telling everything he knows? What should be the parameters, if any, for military action?
Graham was chairman of the intelligence committee when the Senate debated, in the fall of 2002, whether to authorize military action in Iraq. Did Saddam Hussein, as alleged by President George W. Bush's administration, possess weapons of mass destruction? Graham found the case "soft and unreliable" and voted no. But most of his colleagues disagreed. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were barely a year old, and the midterm election was just a month away, a difficult time to turn away the president or the Pentagon.
The Senate approved the Iraq resolution by 77-23, the House 296-133. A U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq, opening a conflict that lasted for years. As Graham and others feared, the weapons were not found.
Former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, who had been badly wounded in Vietnam, was among those who supported the 2002 legislation. "I can't believe I volunteered for one war, which turned out to be a massive tragedy for the United States, and I went to the Senate and voted for another war, which turned out to be a massive tragedy," he says.
"It was right before my re-election, and I felt compelled for my own hide," explains Cleland, who nonetheless was defeated. "It became the worst vote I made in my life."
Trust in the White House was high at the time Johnson signed the Tonkin resolution on Aug. 10, 1964. The resolution was submitted and passed within 48 hours.
For months, the U.S. had been conducting clandestine missions, engaging in what historians now consider provocations. On Aug. 2, gunfire was briefly exchanged between the North Vietnamese and the Americans, leading to the sinking of a North Vietnamese boat. According to Stanley Karnow's respected history, "Vietnam," Johnson considered pushing for the resolution but decided to hold off because no Americans had been harmed.
Two days later, the commander of the destroyer Maddox, Capt. John J. Herrick, believed he had picked up radio messages communicating a planned North Vietnamese attack. The Maddox and a second vessel, the Turner Joy, began firing at what they thought were enemy patrol boats launching torpedoes against the Americans.
"But hardly had the shooting stopped than Herrick and his men began to have second thoughts," Karnow wrote. "Not a single sailor on either vessel had seen or heard enemy gunfire."
Still, reports of a second conflict, however vague, were enough to convince Johnson that it was time to act. A Pentagon spokesman denounced a "second deliberate attack," and the U.S. launched its first bombing mission against the North Vietnamese. Johnson, meanwhile, addressed the nation on television.
"Repeated acts of violence against the armed forces of the United States must be met not only with alert defense, but with positive reply. That reply is being given as I speak to you tonight," Johnson stated.
On Aug. 5, Johnson sent the resolution to Congress, where Democrats held solid majorities. The House of Representatives approved it unanimously two days later. The Senate passed it the same day 88-2; only Democrats Wayne Morse of Oregon and Sen. Ernest Gruening of Alaska voted no.
The Tonkin resolution allowed the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression" and to assist regional allies. The resolution had no end date.
In his homespun way, Johnson likened the legislation to "grandma's nightshirt — it covered everything."
Congress rescinded the resolution in 1970, though by that time Richard Nixon was president and cited his powers as commander in chief for continuing the war. Three years later, over Nixon's veto, Congress passed the War Powers Act, which called for far greater consultation with the legislative branch.
The government itself would issue one of the harshest assessments of the Tonkin events. In 2005, 30 years after the U.S. left Vietnam and in the midst of the Iraqi conflict, the National Security Agency declassified a review concluding that the second Tonkin attack did not take place. Written by agency historian Robert J. Hanyok, the 56-page summary bluntly criticized intelligence officers.
"What was issued in the Gulf of Tonkin summaries beginning late on August 4 was deliberately skewed to support the notion that there had been an attack," Hanyok wrote. "That the NSA personnel believed that the attack happened and rationalized the contradictory evidence away is probably all that is necessary to know in order to understand what was done. They walked alone in their counsels."
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Faucher said Wednesday the port had yet to receive the payment. If the owner does not pay by the end of the week, the port could seize the vessel and put it up for public auction.
“At the end of the day, we are responsible to taxpayers and can’t give away public money,” Faucher said.
In separate emails, the port has reminded Gregory Jones, the apparent owner, about the delinquency.
Jones replied that he has an unspecified medical issue.
“Currently, as the result, I have no voice,” Jones writes. “... With that said, we are working hard to get things moved but have run into an issue that we are trying to work through as fast as a possible. He later writes that “my doctor is saying I will need surgery,” but adds that he is also getting a second opinion.
Faucher said the owner has articulated a plan to hire a captain and transport the ferry to Florida, but that has yet to happen.
This is the second time that Jones Broadcasting has missed a payment with the port.
“In July of last year (2018), he went past due and received this same (delinquency) notice and quickly paid and has remained on time in payments until April,” Faucher said in his update to Gibboney.
The ferry first arrived at the port in April 2018 and was expected to stay for only two months.
The Olympian reported in March that The Evergreen State, at the time of its sale, was the state’s oldest ferry at 63. Built in 1954, it was powered by surplus drive motors from a Navy destroyer escort and served on several routes, including Seattle to Bainbridge Island and San Juan Islands inter-island routes, according to the state.
It turns out the owner of a former Washington state ferry that has been docked at the Port of Olympia for more than a year, has some financial challenges after all, according to emails requested by The Olympian. Steve Bloom sbloom@theolympian.com
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A rollover crash involving a tractor-trailer hauling logs, scattered logs across northbound Interstate 5 in Lewis County on Monday, according to the Washington State Patrol.
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T.O. ISIS bride nabbed: 'I believe in Sharia, wherever Sharia is'
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Published on: February 10, 2019 | Last Updated: February 10, 2019 2:25 PM EST
Dura Ahmed, 28, from Toronto has no regrets about traveling to join her ISIS husband. The mother of two is now trying to get out of Syria. SCREENGRAB/ CNN
A Toronto woman who was a member of Islamic State’s women’s auxiliary and captured by U.S. forces claims she was clueless about the horrors committed by the death cult.
Dura Ahmed, 28, was one of two Canadian women captured in eastern Syria. The other is a former graphic designer from Alberta.
Regrets? She has none, according to CNN. Nor had Ahmed heard of the countless executions or the murder and enslavement of Yezidi women.
“Briefly, just briefly I heard about some executions taking place,” Ahmed told the network.
As for the Yezidis, she remained non-plussed.
“When I came here I heard. I haven’t seen one but…,” she laughed. “Well, having slaves is part of Sharia [Islamic law]. I believe in Sharia, wherever Sharia is. We must follow whoever is implementing the way, the law.”
The good old days in Raqqa where the Pringles were plentiful. GETTY IMAGES
Both Canadian women have children and lived in the tattered remains of what’s left of Islamic State’s caliphate.
According to the France 24 network, another 46-year-old Canadian woman showed up at the camp on Friday claiming ISIS was “doing good things.”
Ahmed’s husband arrived in Raqqa, Syria — the death cult’s heartland — in 2012. She was in school, she told CNN, and waited two years to take the plunge.
She knew nada about the events unfolding there. And she loved it.
Ahmed called it “an easy life” packed with Pringles and Twix chocolate bars.
Both her children were born under ISIS’ iron boot.
The 34-year-old Albertan would not give the network her name. She said that as a “Muslim wife,” she had to obey when her hubby asked her to go to the war zone.
Hubby was taken off the board by allied forces. She married again, to a Canadian and given the lifespan of jihadis, he was also killed.
Global Affairs Canada told CBC News it is aware that Canadian citizens are being “detained in Syria.”
And Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale appeared less than enthusiastic about bringing the terror travellers home.
Goodale said the ability to bring them home is “extremely limited” and he won’t jeopardize the safety of Canadians by bringing ISIS thugs back here.
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Home News AGF Malami Writes INEC, Asks For Zamfara Election Postponement
AGF Malami Writes INEC, Asks For Zamfara Election Postponement
The Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, (SAN)
The Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, (SAN) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) to allow the All Progressives Congress (APC) Zamfara, field candidates for the general elections.
He also urged INEC to postpone the National Assembly, governorship and state assembly elections in the state to enable APC to catch up with other parties.
Malami, who doubles as the Minister of Justice, made the call in a letter to INEC dated Feb. 13.
The minister said that INEC could not foreclose the right of a political party to participate in elections without recourse to the Act.
“My office received a petition from the firm of M. A. Mahmud, (SAN) & CO, in respect of the need to urgently consider Sections 38 and 39 of the Electoral Act and extend the time for the APC Zamfara to field a gubernatorial candidate in the light of a Zamfara High Court judgment in suit No.ZMS/GS/52/2018.
“The letter was requesting that the subsisting judgment in the suit be upheld and respected by INEC, as the Court of Appeal has upheld the appeal with No. CA/S/23/2019; thus effectively annulling the grounds upon which the purported cancellation of the APC Primaries in Zamfara by INEC was based.’’
Malami, in the letter invited INEC to comply with the judgment of the Court of Appeal by admitting the results of the APC Zamfara primaries.
He also invited INEC to comply with the provisions of Section 38 of the Electoral Act, which empower the commission to postpone the election for the governorship, National Assembly and House of Assembly elections.
He said this was in view of the fact since the Court of Appeal had upheld the primaries as valid, the APC in Zamfara would need a little time to catch up with its contemporaries in the election.
“Granting them this concession is not necessarily a favour but a right that inures to all contestants under similar circumstances.”
The AGF maintained that by the doctrine and principle of judicial precedence, the appeal superseded the Federal High Court’s position which foreclosed APC Zamfara from fielding candidates in the Feb. and March general elections.
Full text of Malami’s letter:
The Chairman,
Independent National Electoral Commission,
Zambezi Crescent,
Maitama, Abuja.
RE: THE NEED TO URGENTLY CONSIDER SECTIONS 38 & 39 OF THE ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) ACT 2010 AND EXTEND THE TIME FOR THE APC ZAMFARA TO FIELDA GUBERNATORIALCANDIDATE FOR THE 2019 GOVERNORSHIP ELECTIONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE ZAMFARA HIGH COURT JUDGMENT INSUIT NO. ZMS/GS/52/2018-SANUSI LIMAN DAN-ALHAJL & 37 ORS V. ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS & 144 ORS: AND APPEAL NO. CA/S/ 23/2019
My office received a petition from the firm of M. A. Mahmud, SAN & CO in respect of the above subject matter, (copy attached for ease of reference) requesting that the subsisting judgment in Suit No. ZMS/GS/52/2018-SANUSI LIMAN DAN-ALHAJI & 3Z ORS V. ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS & 144 ORS be upheld and respected by INEC, as the Court of Appeal has upheld the Appeal in Appeal No. CA/S/23/2019, (scanned copy attached for ease of reference) thus effectively annulling the grounds upon which the purported cancellation of the APC Primaries in Zamfara State by INEC was based.
2. You may wish to recall that the Zamfara State High Court upheld the Zamfara APC Primaries in the suit mentioned in the first paragraph above, held on the 3rd and 7th October, 2018 for the Governorship and the National and State Legislative Houses. Copy attached for ease of reference.
3. You may further wish to recall that in Suit No.FHC/ABJ/CS/1279/2018- ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) V. INEC & 5 ORS, the Federal High Court held that the nullification of the said Zamfara APC Primaries by INEC was lawful. However, this decision has been upturned in Appeal No CA/S/23/2019. Copy is also attached for ease of reference.
4. In the circumstance and in consideration of the provisions of Sections 38 and 39 of the Electoral Act, 2010, the law allows INEC the latitude and discretion to extend the time within which a political party may duly field a candidate for an election where unforeseen circumstances constrained such a party from doing so within the stipulated time frame. Section 38 states: Where at the close of nomination, there is no candidate validly nominated, the Commission SHALL extend time for the nomination and fix a new date for the election. Section 39 states: Subject to any other provisions of this Act, if after the latest time for the delivery of nomination papers, and the withdrawal of candidates for an election under this Act, more than one person remains validly nominated, a poll shall be taken. In this particular instance, the constraining circumstances that led to the delay in fielding a candidate were caused by INEC’s refusal THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE to comply with the Zamfara State High Court Judgment in the aforementioned suit to uphold the Primaries as held. Moreover, INEC cannot foreclose the right of a political party to participate in elections without recourse to the Act. By the doctrine and principle of judicial precedence, the Appeal supersedes the Federal High Court’s Position in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1279/2018- ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) V. INEC & 5 ORS.
5. In view of the fact, now that the Court of Appeal has upheld the Primaries as valid, the APC in Zamfara State will need a little time to catch up with its contemporaries in the election. Granting them this concession is not necessarily a favour but a right that inures to all contestants under similar circumstances.
6. Consequent on the above, INEC is invited to comply with the judgement of the Court of Appeal by admitting the results of the APC Zamfara State Primaries and to also comply with the provisions of S.38 of the Electoral Act which empowers INEC to postpone the election for the governorship, National Assembly and House of Assembly Elections.
7. Please accept the assurances of my warm regards
ABUBAKAR MALAMI, SAN
Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice
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Scientists Teleported A Quantum Gate For The First Time
A team of researchers from Yale University has successfully demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the “teleportation” of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand. Scientists team says it looking to solve one of the big problems in quantum computing: the errors that are introduced by quantum computing processors.
“A quantum computer has the potential to efficiently solve problems that are intractable for classical computers,” the team wrote. “However, constructing a large-scale quantum processor is challenging because of the errors and noise that are inherent in real-world quantum systems.”
One way to cut out these errors is to use modularity.
Network overview of the modular quantum architecture demonstrated in the new study. Special Credit for the Image: Yale University (YU)
Modularity, which is found in everything from the organization of a biological cell to the network of engines in the latest SpaceX rocket, has proved to be a powerful strategy for building large, complex systems, the researchers say. A quantum modular architecture consists of a collection of modules that function as small quantum processors connected into a larger network.
Modules in this architecture have a natural isolation from each other, which reduces unwanted interactions through the larger system. Yet this isolation also makes performing operations between modules a distinct challenge, according to the researchers. Teleported gates are a way to implement inter-module operation.
So essential to this approach is the teleportation of a quantum gate—this would allow interactions without the risk of errors being introduced in the transfer. This idea was first proposed as a theoretical approach in the 1990s. The Yale scientists have now demonstrated it in a real-world experiment.
“Our work is the first time that this protocol has been demonstrated where the classical communication occurs in real-time, allowing us to implement a ‘deterministic’ operation that performs the desired operation every time,” study co-author Kevin Chou said in a statement.
This has big implications for the development of “fault-tolerant quantum computation,” the scientists say. “And when realized within a network it can have broad applications in quantum communication, metrology, and simulations,” they add.
Head investigator Robert Schoelkopf said that: “It is a milestone toward quantum information processing using error-correctable qubits.”
The research Published in Nature.com
Physics Quantum Gate Teleportation
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Not So Special One
Jose Mourinho: Man United boss is the club’s second worst in modern history, according to stats
Special One lost his fifth game in charge of the Old Trafford outfit, from just 17 games in charge, against Fenerbahce
By Dave Fraser
Updated: 12 Nov 2016, 21:30
JOSE MOURINHO is the second-worst Manchester United boss in modern history, according to the statistics.
The Special One, 53, took over the reins at Old Trafford following the sacking of Louis van Gaal back in the summer of 2016.
Jose Mourinho is the second-worst Man United manager of all-time, according to statsCredit: AP:Associated Press
The move quickly restored optimism within the club and, of course, the fans.
Keep up to date with ALL the Manchester United news, gossip, transfers and goals on our club page plus fixtures, results and live match commentary.
Those feelings were fully justified after United got off to a blistering start to the 2016-17 season, winning their first four Premier League games.
But ever since the 2-1 derby loss at the hands of rivals Manchester City, cracks have begun to appear... and rapidly widen.
Manchester United lost their fifth game of the season against FenerbahceCredit: Reuters
Losses at the hands of Feyenoord and Watford soon followed in September, before the 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Chelsea in October.
In fact, Thursday night's 2-1 Europa League loss to Fenerbahce was United - and Mourinho's - fifth of the campaign, from just 17 games played.
Only one manager since 1977 has ever lost five games for Manchester United more quickly; Dave Sexton from just 15 games.
Ron Atkinson lost his opening five clashes from 18 games, while the man himself Sir Alex Ferguson lost five of his opening 20 games.
Louis van Gaal holds the joint-best record in recent decades... Along with David MoyesCredit: PA:Press Association
Man United managers: Quickest to five losses
Dave Sexton - 15 games
Jose Mourinho - 17 games
Alex Ferguson - 20 games
David Moyes - 23 games
Louis van Gaal- 23 games
Amazingly, the much-maligned duo of Louis van Gaal and David Moyes - both axed for their 'poor' stints in charge of United - lost their fifth match in their 23rd game in charge.
That's not only far superior to Mourinho, but also the most-successful United boss of all time; Fergie.
So what is the club's next move? Something to think about for United's hierarchy...
Man United currently sit eighth in the Premier League with 15 points from their opening ten games, while they are third in Europa League Group A - which would not be enough to qualify to the knockout stages.
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A big hand for our Mr Jazz
Thirty years of the Stables, John Dankworth and Cleo Laines landmark venue, deserve a gala. Clive Davis reports
October 9 2000, 1:00am, The Times
It must have seemed a quixotic idea 30 years ago, yet John Dankworth and Cleo Laine’s performance centre at their home near Milton Keynes has grown into a national landmark. A £4.7 million expansion project partly funded by the lottery has now yielded an enlarged 400-seat auditorium at the Stables in Wavendon, with more additions planned. So Mr and Mrs Jazz have allowed themselves a slap on the back in the form of an ambitious gala season.
John Williams gave the first recital there in 1970, with Eleanor Bron, John Ogdon and André Previn all volunteering their services in the weeks that followed. The range of performances in this month’s celebrations reflects the couple’s continuing determination to mix and match in the arts. Jazz is…
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Brexit moving at lightning speed, David Davis tells EU leaders
Adam Sage, Paris
October 19 2017, 12:00pm, The Times
David Davis, the Brexit minister, said he is hoping not return from the Brussels summit “with a simple no”ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
David Davis claimed that Brexit talks were progressing at “lightning speed” today as he urged the EU to open negotiations on issues such as trade.
The Brexit secretary was speaking to EU heads of state, who are expected to rule at a summit in Brussels today and tomorrow that insufficient progress has been made on Britain’s divorce settlement to begin talks about their future relations with the UK.
In an interview with European newspapers, Mr Davis took issue with Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, who denounced a “disturbing” deadlock in the negotiations. “We have already made a lot of progress, at lightning speed by comparison with EU’s habits,” said Mr Davis.
He said talks on the Irish border have gone as far as…
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Ireland must get a grip on its identity crisis
The Emerald Isle remains buffeted by self-doubt despite a heroic turnaround in the economy – it is time this changed
In November 2004 the Economist Intelligence Unit named Ireland as the best country in the world to live. It was an acknowledgement that Ireland had experienced a remarkable economic and social transformation. The fact that Britain ranked 29th on the same list made victory all the sweeter.
Ireland’s relationship with Britain had been a source of a national inferiority complex for most of the lifetime of the Republic. It had soaked up the country’s economic migrants for decades.
Confidence, a scarce commodity since the foundation of the state, had become the defining national characteristic during the Celtic Tiger. Irish property developers bought some of the most recognisable developments in London. Irish banks were lending to the great and good. Young Irish people travelled the world…
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Mertesacker out for five months as £29m bid for Lacazette fails
July 27 2016, 12:01am, The Times
Lacazette has scored 48 league goals in his past two seasons for LyonsPatricia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images
Arsène Wenger suffered a double setback yesterday when the Arsenal manager revealed that Per Mertesacker could be out for five months with a knee injury. The news came hours after a £29 million bid for Alexandre Lacazette had been rejected.
Mertesacker did not join his team-mates on their pre-season tour to the United States after suffering a knock during the friendly in France against Lens on Friday. The Germany centre back is certain to miss the start of the season and may not return until the new year. It means that Wenger is facing a defensive problem before Arsenal’s opening game of the season, at home to Liverpool on August 14.
The Arsenal manager may be without Gabriel Paulista, who is struggling with tonsillitis, and…
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The way most Americans buy a home could be one of their biggest hurdles to getting rich
(Business Insider) -- One of the most common decisions people make when buying a home can also prevent them from building wealth.
"If you want to know why most people don't become millionaires, look no further than the 30-year mortgage," wrote Chris Hogan in his book "Everyday Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth — and How You Can Too." In partnership with the Dave Ramsey research team, he studied 10,000 American millionaires (defined as those with a net worth of at least $1 million) for seven months.
"People throw away tens — even hundreds — of thousands of dollars on these loans without ever stopping to do the math," Hogan wrote.According to Freddie Mac, about 90% of US homebuyers opt for a 30-year mortgage.
Of course there are a host of other factors, like income level and spending patterns, contributing to someone's ability to become a millionaire, but according to Hogan's research, the average millionaire paid off their house in 11 years and 67% live in homes with paid-off mortgages. This puts their home entirely in the asset column of their net worth and wipes their biggest debt off the liability column, he said.
"On average, one-third of a millionaire's net worth comes from their primary residence," he wrote. "So, if you're sitting in a paid-for $350,000 home, that entire $350,000 counts toward your net worth. If you've got that plus $650,000 in retirement accounts, you're a millionaire!"
Hogan calculated the difference between a 30-year mortgage and a 15-year mortgage of $225,000.
For a $225,000, 30-year mortgage with a 4% fixed interest rate:
The monthly payment (principal and interest) is $1,074.
After 10 years, you would have paid $128,880 with a remaining principal balance of $177,264.
The interest paid at this point is $81,000 — and you still have 20 years to go.
After 30 years, the total interest paid would be $161,640.
For a $225,000, 15-year mortgage with 4% fixed interest rate:
A monthly payment (principal and interest) is $1,664 — $590 more a month than the 30-year rate mortgage.
But after 10 years, you would have paid $199,680 with a remaining principal balance of $90,369.
The interest paid at this point is $65,049 — and you only have five years left.
After 15 years, the total interest paid is $74,520 — about $87,000 less than the 30-year loan.
Not only would you pay less interest in the latter scenario, but you would have paid off almost twice as much of the principal balance after 10 years. Further, the difference in interest paid could have been put toward your net worth or into investments, Hogan said.
"Going against the flow and choosing a 15-year loan would have saved you more than $87,000 and would have put you in a paid-for home in half the time," he wrote. However, that's if you can afford it — 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages are especially appealing to homebuyers because of the comparatively low monthly payment,according to Freddie Mac.
To pay off a mortgage early, live in a home you can easily afford and pay extra each month
If you want to strategize like a millionaire and pay off your home in less than 15 years, consider Hogan's Purchase Price Paydown method:
Assume you have a mortgage of $250,000. Use the first three numbers of the purchase price — 2-5-0 — to make an extra monthly payment. In this case, it should be $250.
If you pay that much extra every month, you'll pay off a 30-year mortgage 8 1/2 years faster. On a 15-year mortgage, you'll pay it off a little more than two years faster. If you double that payment to $500, the 30-year mortgage gets paid off 13 years faster and the 15-year mortgage four years faster.
The early payoff timeline works for mortgages under $1 million, Hogan said, but most millionaires don't have a mortgage that high. The average millionaire lives in a modest home, according to Hogan's research. They also live in a ZIP code where home values are below the national average of $205,000, and more than half live in neighborhoods where the average household income is $75,000 or less.
That's smart considering that where you live plays a huge role in how much you save and spend, according to Sarah Stanley Fallaw, the director of research for the Affluent Market Institute and coauthor of "The Next Millionaire Next Door: Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth."
She found that if you live in a pricey home in an affluent neighborhood, you're more likely to mirror your neighbors' consumption habits, affecting your ability to accumulate wealth over time.
Living in a home you can easily afford is the key to building wealth, Stanley Fallaw said.
"Keeping housing costs low is smart, no matter how much money you have," wrote Business Insider's Lauren Lyons Cole, a certified financial planner. "The best financial move you can make is to literally move to a less expensive home."
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ECJ: Britain Can Stop Withdrawal Process From EU
FILE - The towers of the European Court of Justice are seen in Luxembourg, Jan. 26, 2017.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Monday that Britain retains the right to reverse its decision to leave the European Union.
“The United Kingdom is free to revoke unilaterally the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU," the Luxembourg-based ECJ said.
"Such a revocation, decided in accordance with its own national constitutional requirements, would have the effect that the United Kingdom remains in the EU under terms that are unchanged," the court said.
The ECJ ruling comes as British Prime Minister Theresa May delayed a House of Commons vote that had been set for Tuesday on whether to approve or reject the Brexit deal.
Britain voted in a 2016 referendum to leave the 28-member bloc, and invoked Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty in March 2017, to begin the two-year exit process.
Because the prospect of any country leaving EU was considered unlikely, the Article 50 contains few specific details about the process.
A group of Scottish legislators, however, had asked the ECJ to rule on whether Britain could reverse the withdrawal procedure on its own.
A majority of voters in Scotland had voted against leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.
UK's May: 'Uncharted Waters' If Lawmakers Reject Brexit Deal
With a crucial parliamentary vote on Brexit looming, British Prime Minister Theresa May warned lawmakers Sunday that they could take Britain into "uncharted waters" and trigger a general election if they reject the divorce deal she struck with the European Union. May is fighting to save her unpopular Brexit plan and her job ahead of a showdown in Parliament on Tuesday, when lawmakers are widely expected to vote down the deal she negotiated with Brussels. Her…
Britain’s May: It’s My Deal, No Deal, or No Brexit at All
Prime Minister Theresa May said Thursday that British lawmakers faced a choice ahead of a vote on her Brexit deal: approving her deal or facing an exit with no deal or even the reversal of Brexit. May said she was speaking to lawmakers about giving parliament a bigger role in whether the Northern Irish backstop arrangement would be triggered, though she gave few details. May said some in parliament were trying to frustrate Brexit and that she did not think…
UK Parliament Delivers Rebuke to Government Over Brexit
Britain's Parliament dealt Prime Minister Theresa May's government two bruising defeats Tuesday, and that was before lawmakers began an epic debate that will decide the fate of May's European Union divorce deal and her political career. Opening five days of debate on the Brexit agreement, May said that since the British people voted in 2016 to leave the EU, it was the "duty of this Parliament to deliver on the result" of the referendum. Despite her…
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Untermenschen: The Language of Death
Following the defeat of Germany and Japan in World War II, the first trial held at Nuremburg was for those who were accused of medical atrocities. Twenty-three individuals, 20 of whom were medical doctors, were tried for a wide variety of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Prisoners of the Nazis were subjected to, among other horrible things, blood experiments, sterilization, castration, mastectomies, starvation, amputations, electroshock, and so on. Seeking cures for a variety of diseases, the Nazis purposefully infected some prisoners (including children) with typhus, hepatitis, Yellow Fever, smallpox, malaria, and the like.
In order to understand and improve conditions for German soldiers, prisoners of the Nazis were also subjected to high-altitude and hypothermia experiments. Doctors committed to the Nazi cause were also instrumental in Hitler’s euthanasia and Final Solution programs.
As the principal prosecutor Telford Taylor said in his opening statement at Nuremburg,
The defendants in this case are charged with murders, tortures and other atrocities committed in the name of medical science. The victims of these crimes are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. A handful only are still alive; a few of the survivors will appear in this courtroom. But most of these miserable victims were slaughtered outright or died in the course of the tortures to which they were subjected ... To their murderers, these wretched people were not individuals at all. They came in wholesale lots and were treated worse than animals.
According to author Dr. David Livingstone Smith, such dehumanization played a significant role in the “single most destructive event in human history: the Second World War.” Smith is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of New England, co-founder and director of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies, and the author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.
According to NPR, in his book, Smith “argues that it's important to define and describe dehumanization, because it's what opens the door for cruelty and genocide.” Before going any further, let me say that from the little I know of Dr. Smith and his work, it is fair to assume that our worldviews are vastly different.
This paragraph from NPR justifies my conclusion:
Human beings have long conceived of the universe as a hierarchy of value, says Smith, with God at the top and inert matter at the bottom, and everything else in between. That model of the universe ‘doesn't make scientific sense,’ says Smith, but ‘nonetheless, for some reason, we continue to conceive of the universe in that fashion, and we relegate nonhuman creatures to a lower position’ on the scale.
Of course, from the Christian perspective, having God at the top of the hierarchy of the universe is the only worldview—or “model of the universe”—that makes any sense. Nevertheless, Smith’s conclusions on humanity and genocide are revealing.
In Less Than Human, Dr. Smith asks, “What is it that enables one group of human beings to treat another group as though they were subhuman creatures?” According to Dr. Smith, the answer isn’t difficult to come by. He concludes,
Thinking sets the agenda for action, and thinking of humans as less than human paves the way for atrocity. The Nazis were explicit about the status of their victims. They were Untermenschen — subhumans — and as such were excluded from the system of moral rights and obligations that bind humankind together. It's wrong to kill a person, but permissible to exterminate a rat. To the Nazis, all the Jews, Gypsies and others were rats: dangerous, disease-carrying rats.
The Germans were not the only dehumanizing butchers of World War II. By the time the Soviets were drawn into the war, Stalin’s government was already quite adept at dehumanization and mass atrocities. In the 1930s, Stalin killed millions of his own citizenry. In turn, upon invading the Soviet Union, the German army killed over 20 million Soviets, about half of them civilians.
In retaliation, and in order to foment hatred towards the Germans, Soviet propagandists provided soldiers of the Red Army with pamphlets describing the Germans as “two-legged animals who have mastered the technique of war”—“ersatz (inferior) men” who needed to be annihilated. “The Germans are not human beings,” the pamphlets read.
In 2010, in Forbes Magazine, Dr. Smith also describes the Japanese brutality of World War II.
For a period of six weeks from December 1937 to January 1938, Japanese soldiers slaughtered, mutilated, raped and tortured thousands of Chinese civilians. Honda Katsuichi’s harrowing book The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame describes many of the details of what happened. Katsuichi lets the perpetrators speak for themselves, and their accounts of the atrocities are so horrific that they are difficult to read.
A Japanese veteran of World War II interviewed for Katsuichi’s book explained how such cruelty was possible. “We called the Chinese ‘chancorro’ that meant below human, like bugs or animals. The Chinese didn’t belong to the human race. That was the way we looked at it…If I’d thought of them as human beings I couldn’t have done it,” he observed, “But I thought of them as animals or below human beings.”
“This is called dehumanization,” Dr. Smith again concludes.
We dehumanize our fellow human beings when we convince ourselves (or allow ourselves to be convinced) that they are less than human and come to believe that, although these people appear to be human beings like us, this is merely a façade. Beneath the surface they are really subhuman creatures, fit to be hunted down and destroyed. The immense destructive power of dehumanization lies in the fact that it excludes its victims from the universe of moral obligation, so killing them is of no greater consequence than swatting a mosquito, or poisoning a rat.
Smith’s conclusions are quite beneficial as we witness modern liberals’ attempts to defend the killing of children in the womb, along with the harvesting of the baby’s organs, by Planned Parenthood. To justify the slaughter of tens-of-millions of children in the womb, abortion apologists have regularly employed the de-humanizing language described by Dr. Smith. For decades now, liberalism has excluded unborn babies “from the universe of moral obligation.”
This has been on particular display in the recent scandal involving Planned Parenthood (PP). “These are not ‘baby parts,’” insists Jen Gunter. She prefers that the “tissue specimen” be referred to as “products of conception.” The term “baby” doesn’t apply until birth, Gunter declares. She concludes, “Calling the tissue ‘baby parts’ is a calculated attempt to anthropomorphize [humanize—notice that, she can’t even bring herself to use the word “human”] an embryo or fetus.”
Such language is replete within liberal circles when it comes to killing children in the womb. “The right to choose,” is a refrain that’s been around for decades. The recent videos that shed more light onto what PP really does, according to Hillary Clinton, is “really an attack against a woman's right to choose.” Like the murderous Nazis, barbarous Red Army, and the genocidal Japanese of World War II, tens-of-millions of Americans have been convinced (or allowed themselves to be convinced) that a child in the womb is “less than human.”
As science and technology advance, the deception about this “choice” is getting more difficult for liberals. This is due not only to pro-life activism and ultrasounds, but also the internet. For those who are willing to look for it, the truth about the humanity of life in the womb is available now more than it has ever been.
Nevertheless, the will to do whatever one wants sexually without the consequences is a powerful force, and those devoted to death are working harder than ever to maintain their lies. In defense of the largest abortion provider in the U.S., liberals regularly extol PP. They are lauded as “awesome,” and regularly promoted as merely “a women's health care provider” who has “extremely high standards.” President Obama himself has thanked PP for their work, and even offered them a “God bless you.”
In other words, in the face of well over 50 million deaths in American wombs since 1973, in order to maintain the façade of abortion as simply a “choice,” liberals have utilized the same language and propaganda as the most prolific murderers in the history of humanity.
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At a time when student financial-aid requests nationwide are up 16 percent from last year, Sallie Mae's decision to make fewer loans at a higher price will deepen the financial pain of millions of parents and students who already are struggling to pay for college educations.
It's the latest example of how the Wall Street crisis is digging into the pockets of Americans who are far removed from New York's financial district.
Bloomington is another stop in a journey into America to chronicle these effects on folks of all backgrounds. Journalists from McClatchy and the American News Project, an independent video-news outlet, have reported on the wealthy in Connecticut, growing legal wars in New York City, family health and financial insecurity in Pennsylvania, job losses in Ohio and now higher-education anxiety in Indiana.
The project, "Fallout on Main Street," is available in print, on video and on the Internet.
Historically, when the economy starts to tank, students return to higher education in greater numbers.
"But with the credit crunch and money tight and the economy so bad, I think it's going to be difficult for students and families to pay that college tuition," said Roger J. Thompson, IU's vice provost for enrollment management. "I talk to parents fairly regularly, and they're struggling. Their kids are down to the last semester or two, money's tight and they're worried about their jobs, and they're just hoping they can get their kids the rest of the way through."
Amanda Daugherty was just a toddler when her father died, and she was still in high school when ovarian cancer took her mother's life.
Now only two months shy of her master's degree in public health, the 24-year-old Lafayette, Ind., native owes nearly $70,000 after financing almost all of her six-year college education with student loans.
The enormity of her debt first hit Daugherty last year after she received, for the first time, a bank statement that tallied all her loans, which then totaled nearly $60,000. "I kinda freaked out," she recalled. "I saw it, and my stomach just turned. It almost didn't seem real. Fifty or sixty thousand dollars? I'm like, 'Really? I racked up that much?' . . . It's so overwhelming. It feels like I'll never be able to pay it off. How am I ever going to be able to buy a house?"
Her more immediate concern is finding a position in the ultra-tight job market. Daugherty's already applied for more than 15 without success. She wants to work for a nonprofit agency, but she fears that the troubled economy may be conspiring against her.
"I think there's going to be cutbacks in funding and I feel like people won't be as willing to hire new people into organizations," she said. "I'm getting really scared because I don't know what to do if I can't pay. I mean if I don't have a job, can I claim financial hardship? I really don't know."
After graduation, Daugherty will continue working part time in the university communications department and waiting on tables at Mother Bear's pizzeria, where the entire night shift on Friday seemed to tell similar tales of financial stress aggravated by the weak economy.
Claire Miller, a freshman who buses tables at the restaurant, said that her mother, a paramedic, had taken a second job to help pay the tuition for her four children, who were all in college at the same time.
"All of us have jobs while we're in college because it helps (our parents) out tremendously. I might have to take on more shifts to help them because the economy now is just going down and everyone is feeling the effects of it." Miller said.
Antane Armstrong, a waitress, left IU last year because of money problems. She's trying to save enough to re-enroll, but with tips and business declining, her goal has become harder to reach.
Armstrong typically gets the standard 15 to 17 percent tip, with a few who always leave 10 percent. "Now the 10 percenters are tipping 5 percent, and everybody else has gone down to 10," Armstrong said.
Hostess Laura Cole, a 19-year-old sophomore, had a trust fund that was supposed to help her with college, but because it's invested in the stock market, it's been losing value.
"I'm under 21, so I can't touch my mutual fund, so I just sit back and watch it fail," Cole said. Her brother's fund dropped to $20,000 from $40,000 in a matter of months, she said.
Even future college students and their families are taking note of the costs.
On Saturday, about 20 Bloomington-area 4-H Club members met at the county fairgrounds to hear about their college financial-aid options from Roy Durnal, a senior associate director for recruitment at Indiana University.
Listening intently were Sylvia Reece of Bloomington and her 18-year-old son, Mykel Faultless.
Reece stopped working several years ago to care for her ill father and grandmother. She'll use her personal savings and help from her first husband, Faultless' father, to finance their son's freshman and sophomore years.
To save money, Faultless will have to attend a local community college for two years before transferring to IU as a junior.
"It's a little bit cheaper, and the credits will transfer," Reece explained.
Faultless also will have to contribute. He works at a car wash and local movie theater to make ends meet. He also has saved some money from livestock sales through the 4-H Club. Last year, he sold a chicken for $300 and his 310-pound pig fetched $2,000.
The budding business major still will need some student loans, however, and Durnal had a sobering warning for all the youngsters.
"I certainly hate it when I see students that are ready to graduate and facing what would ultimately be like a house payment just paying off their student loans. My first lesson for you guys is to be aware and don't get yourself too overburdened with that loan debt," Durnal said.
"I'm still new to all this college stuff and I don't really know what's going on, but when he said that, it worried me," said Faultless, a husky lad with an emotionless face.
To help with the costs, Reece said, she plans to go back to work when her son transfers to IU, and even though he'll continue to live on their 8-acre farm with the horses, goats, pigs and chickens, the tuition still will cost about $10,000 a year.
"I really hate to see him have to get all the loans and everything, but the jobs just aren't there, so it's scary," Reece said. "It's downright scary."
About this project: This is another in our series of articles on Fallout on Main Street. The joint project with journalists from McClatchy's Washington bureau and from the American News Project, an independent video news group, has gone into America to get the reaction of regular citizens to the unfolding economic troubles.
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Entertainment posted Sep 12, 2018 @ 06:30am by Josh Duncan
BTS tops list of Canada's best selling fall concerts
The list of hottest selling fall concerts in Canada is largely what you’d expect, with the exception of the top spot.
K-pop supergroup, BTS, claimed top spot on the list, ahead of iconic acts like Elton John, Paul McCartney and Fleetwood Mac.
The seven-piece boy band also beat out some of the most popular acts in music today, including Drake, Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars.
The numbers are based on total sales on StubHub for Canadian tour dates between Sept. 3 and Nov. 30.
BTS has an average ticket price of $258, edging out Elton John by $3 and Paul McCartney by $15.
Drake is well behind in fourth place at $160 per ticket and he’s also the only hip hop act on the list.
"As we see one legend wrap up a remarkable career with Elton John taking the number two spot, it is fascinating to watch the rapid rise of an entire genre in North America, as BTS represented our top selling fall concert act in Canada this year," said Jeff Poirier, GM of music and theatre for StubHub.
While many of these acts won’t make their way to B.C. this fall, Drake and Fleetwood Mac will both perform in Vancouver in November, while Foo Fighters had their show this past weekend.
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Even A Blizzard Didn’t Stop A Ton Of Violence From Happening This Weekend | Village Voice
Even A Blizzard Didn’t Stop A Ton Of Violence From Happening This Weekend
by John Surico
Nemo was able to shut down power, the Long Island Expressway and most of the news over the weekend. But, somehow, it apparently couldn’t prevent the unfortunate plague of crime in New York City.
The first shooting victim came Friday night during the apex of the snowstorm. At a baby shower up on East 165th Street, a 20-year-old man was fatally shot just after midnight as the blizzard began to weather down on the City. Also, the man’s cousin was shot but is currently in critical condition. There’s video surveillance that shows the attackers but the police told the New York Post that no one has been charged yet with the shootings.
The violence continued into Saturday night.
At around 8:50pm, a 19-year-old man was found with two fatal gun wounds in his back at a bodega in Brooklyn. Once again, the cops are still unsure what happened while no arrests have been made. And then three hours later, a 54-year-old man was found dead at a motel in Elmhurst. The officials on the scene determined it was homicide and could be the result of a strangling.
And we haven’t even mentioned the other shootings that went down this weekend yet.
The night before the storm hit, there were two non-fatal shootings that occurred just hours between each other. First, at midnight on Friday, a man was shot in the shoulder Uptown; then, up in the Bronx, a man was shot in the leg. Both cases: no arrests, pending investigations.
On Saturday night, mid-blizzard, a 15-year-old kid in Harlem was physically restrained for shooting a 22-year-old man twice in the leg. The youth was found with a Bryco Arms .380 firearm (Gothamist has a photo of the weapon here) and charged with assault, possessing that damn gun and resisting arrest after a few officers had to hold him down.
Mother Nature, maybe the blizzard wasn’t a good idea.
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Brighton have a point to prove against Cardiff – Chris Hughton
Chris Hughton expects a reaction from Brighton's players
Chris Hughton believes Brighton’s players will be keen to “prove a point” against fellow strugglers Cardiff after making them watch footage of the humiliating 5-0 home loss to Bournemouth.
Albion’s squad was called in for a team meeting on Sunday following the embarrassment of the club’s biggest Premier League defeat.
Saturday’s thrashing has increased the Seagulls’ relegation fears going into Tuesday evening’s visit of Neil Warnock’s 18th-placed Bluebirds.
Cardiff could suck Brighton to within two points of the drop zone with victory at the Amex Stadium and Hughton does not expect his team to be short of motivation.
“I don’t think there will be any difficulty in lifting the players,” said the Albion boss.
“They’ll want to prove a point on Tuesday – they will want to show an attitude that says they were that disappointed with Saturday.
“We had a meeting yesterday, went through the game and the goals that we conceded.
“It was probably our worst performance of the season but this is football.
“There isn’t one player in that changing room that wouldn’t have gone through a bad defeat, a bad performance, and what it’s always about is how you respond to that.
“I expect very much a reaction from our players.”
Following the disappointment of their narrow FA Cup semi-final defeat to Manchester City at Wembley, Brighton had a big opportunity to pull clear of the bottom three against the Cherries.
But a second-half collapse which saw them concede four times – compounded by a needless red card for Anthony Knockaert – inflicted a third successive league loss without scoring.
Hughton accepts the setback has put increased pressure on the Cardiff game.
“The fact we didn’t get the result we wanted on Saturday it becomes an even bigger game,” said the 60-year-old, who guided the club to safety with two games to spare last season.
“This is not unfamiliar territory, we are a battling club, we are a club that’s new to this division that are fighting with the qualities and rigours of this division.
“The good thing about our game is you always get an opportunity – and on this occasion it’s a very quick opportunity – to turn things around.”
Brighton will be unable to call on the services of winger Knockaert for the next three games after he was punished for a reckless lunge at Adam Smith.
Hughton says the Frenchman must learn to control his emotions on the pitch.
“I’ve spoken with Anthony. It’s very clear for everybody to see that it’s a bad challenge that deserved the red card,” said Hughton.
“It’s one that he realises hasn’t done us any favours.
“I think it’s a bit of frustration, emotion. What he can’t afford to do is let those frustrations and emotions take part of the game.”
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A belly-button Saviour!
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A belly-button saviour — preached by Revd Keith Underhill on 24th December 2016
I recall a sometime ago now , having an in-depth conversation with one of my former colleagues, the Revd Neil Lambert, an Anglican minister from Ash, who looked after the Circuit Fresh Expression at The Chapel.
Every Circuit needs a Neil — someone who has at least 23 new and exciting ideas before breakfast each and every day — someone who has dreams and can catch a vision for the future.
Anyhow, Neil was telling me about a church trip he had taken earlier in the year to Nigeria. The thing that struck me the most however, was what he had to do to apply for a visa, and the rigmarole he had to go through.
He had to get a visa in order to prove his identity and to prove to the authorities that he was Neil and that when going through passport control in Lagos; he would be identified as and be known as, Neil Lambert.
When filling out his visa application form, Neil had to give his full name. That was easy enough and we know how important our names are.
We might not like them, we might wish our parents had been wiser or chosen differently, but our names help to say who we are and to identify us.
Of course, names in Africa are often given not because they are liked, or because they are the popular ones, but because of other factors, such as what the name actually means, or the day of the week you were born on.
In the Bible, we often see not only the person's name being used but also the name of their father, to make sure that everyone knows exactly who it is that they are talking about — so for example, Isaiah in the opening verse of the first chapter of his book, is referred to as Isaiah, son of Amoz.
As we wait for the coming of Christmas once more, we are reminded that the name Immanuel, means God with us and that the birth of the Christ Child signifies that and tells us that in the dirt and the poverty of the manger, God silently and almost un-noticed, slipped into our lives and shared our common humanity — that he lived our lives and showed us that we are no longer alone and that God had not given us up or abandoned us, that we are his daughters and sons and that he loves us so very much.
The other name along with Immanuel that we remember this time of year is Jesus. It is the Greek derivation of the Hebrew "Yeshua" or "Joshua" which means "Yahweh saves" or "The Lord saves."
So in the meaning of the baby's name we find both his mission and his purpose.
Neil's visa application also asked for information about any scars that he might have.
Many of us here this evening will have scars, reminders of operations or accidents that we have undergone or that have befallen us.
I could if time allowed, show you the scar on my right elbow, following an accident that shattered it just days after getting married, much to the amusement of all who heard the news.
But of course, this question on the visa application form refers not to mishaps or medical emergencies but to the cultural practice of giving people facial scars, to help identify them and root them within their family.
A report a couple of years ago by CNN spoke of how this practice is still happening across Africa, although they are becoming increasingly restricted to people in the rural regions.
The CNN report described how in a dark room, the High Priestess used her ceremonial knife to cut two teardrop scars beneath her baby grandson's eyes. As the baby cried out, the marks ran red with blood. It took only a few moments, but scarred him for life.
In her small mud-brick home in southwest Nigeria, she performed the Yoruba tradition of giving tribal marks to the youngest member of her family.
"The tribal mark is to identify the family," she said. "Everyone in the family must have it."
Yoruba tribal scars have a variety of patterns and meanings. Most obviously, they appear as a series of cuts and lines across the face to identify a person's family and regional heritage.
Thinking about scars, we are reminded of the words from the prophet Isaiah in the 5th verse of his 53rd Chapter.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
When we think of Jesus and his scars, we automatically think of the scars of his passion — the nail prints in his hands and his feet and the wound to his side where the soldier pierced his body with a spear.
But there are others scar that marked Jesus' body that we need to note and ponder on this Christmas Eve.
The first is that performed on Jesus when he was just a week old, as mentioned in Luke 2:21 — when Jesus was both named and circumcised.
Circumcision is very important in the Old Testament; the cut for males, being a visible mark and sign of who they were of their own identity as well as being a sign of whom they worshiped and followed.
But of course, whilst Jesus came first to God's own people, the whole story around his birth, around Christmas itself, points to the truth that is revealed in his life, ministry and passion, resurrection and ascension — that he came for all people, he came for the whole world.
This universal truth is fully demonstrated by another scar of his, the one that everyone here has and shares in.
It is the umbilicus, the navel, the belly or tummy button, call it what you will, It is the scar on the abdomen where the umbilical cord was attached.
It is the scar that we all have, it is the scar that we all share, it is the scar of our common humanity and it was to all of humanity that Jesus came to be know and to save.
And of course, the body of the Christ child is marked also in other ways as well, wounded by the events of the world in which we live.
In recent days, His body has been marked and scarred by the violence in Aleppo and Berlin, as it has in, through and by every other conflict, act of war, or terrorist atrocity that has wrought death and carnage
It was the German theologian, Jurgen Moltmann, who wrote the book "The Crucified God", stating that in our suffering, as in the suffering of Jesus on the cross, God does not passively look on as some kind of voyeuristic bystander, but is to be found in the midst of the pain and suffering.
Which takes us back to where we started — of Immanuel God with us, who through his scars as Jesus, saves us all, and saves you and me!
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Daily Light Media Group names Crist as executive leader
Daily Light report
Ellis County will soon see a new face leading the efforts at the Daily Light Media Group.
Colten Crist, a born-and-raised Texan, has been tasked as the next executive leader of the longstanding newspaper and media group. He will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Daily Light Media Group, which includes the advertising, business operations, circulation and news for the Waxahachie Daily Light and its sister publication, the Midlothian Mirror.
He begins in his new role Monday and is currently in the market for a home to share with his wife, Samantha, and their five-month-old daughter, Everly.
Crist said Friday that he already feels "right at home" in Waxahachie. “Honestly, I love it. It personally reminds me of where I grew up," he added.
Crist was raised in Smithson Valley, about 40 minutes north of downtown San Antonio, which has also seen its fair share of the business boom over the last decade-plus. He also noted that the view of the cotton farms and farmland on the outskirts of Ellis County also remind him of his grandmother’s property in Kansas.
Crist has spent the past seven years in media as an executive leader for various media and corporate brands. Most recently, Crist held the role as an advertising manager for Texas Student Media at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has served since 2016.
He also previously worked in the media industry with Cox Media (Austin American-Statesman) and Hearst Media Services (San Antonio Express-News).
Crist earned a bachelor's degree in public relations with a minor in psychology from Texas Tech University in 2008.
Crist notes his primary focus with the Daily Light will be to "truly have the best possible outlet of community news."
“I think our newspaper serves two main purposes,” Crist explained. “One, bringing the community together through good and bad times; and two, informing the community, making them smarter to be able to make the best decisions possible.”
Nate Rodriguez, regional group publisher, echoed Crist's sentiments. Rodriguez also noted Crist was chosen as the next executive leader for the newspaper group after a nationwide search.
"Colten's passion for news and community will continue our renewed focus on all things Ellis County," Rodriguez said. "His drive, energy, dogged determination and commitment to local journalism will be great assets to the staff at the Daily Light and to our readers."
When he is not thumbing through the ink, Crist tries to spend as much time as possible with his young family — or finds time to catch up on sleep.
“I will tell you that the best part of my day is listening to Everly laugh. It’s the best feeling ever to hear that giggle of pure joy,” he expressed.
Crist lives an active lifestyle that includes exercise and sports to balance the stresses of the job. He will also read through any sci-fi fantasy or self-help books so he can continue his education and perspectives on life.
To reach Crist, email ccrist@waxahachietx.com or stop by the Waxahachie Daily Light, located at 200 W. Marvin, anytime from 8 a.m. — 5 p.m. Monday—Friday.
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Protestors storm McDonald's across country
Teresa Crawford
<p>Solo Littlejohn, a fast food worker from Cicero, Ill., joins protesters calling for a union and pay of $15 an hour outside a McDonald's restaurant in Chicago on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The "Fight for $15" is part of an ongoing push targeting the world's biggest hamburger chain. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)</p>
NEW YORK (AP) — Protesters calling for pay of $15 an hour and a union were at McDonald's restaurants around the country and overseas Thursday as part of an ongoing push targeting the world's biggest hamburger chain.
The "Fight for $15" campaign says low-wage employees including airport workers, adjunct professors and home care workers turned out to show their solidarity with fast-food workers. They say they're targeting McDonald's because of its ability to influence pay practices throughout the economy.
The push is being backed by the Service Employees International Union and began in late 2012, with striking fast-food workers in New York City. Since then, the growing demonstrations have helped make hourly pay a major political issue.
The success has prompted organizers to expand their push to energize new swaths of workers to fight for higher pay and unionization.
Organizers said strikes and protests were planned for cities including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami. In Paris, about 100 people waving red union flags protested outside a McDonald's restaurant at Disneyland.
In New York, demonstrators were planning to march crosstown to a Republican gala in the early evening.
The campaign is taking place as McDonald's Corp. tries to reinvigorate its business and win back customers. This week, executives met with franchisees in Florida for a bi-annual convention and discussed plans for a rebound.
Lisa McComb, a McDonald's representative, said the company gives workers access to programs that help them earn high school and college degrees. She noted McDonald's raised pay last year at company-owned stores in the U.S., which account for about 10 percent of its more than 14,000 locations. The hike for starting pay was for $1 above the local minimum wage.
"We proudly invest in the future of those who work in McDonald's restaurants," McComb said.
McDonald's workers called those measures a publicity stunt that failed to address the difficulties they face.
Sepia Rasheen Coleman, a home care worker in Memphis, Tennessee, said she became involved in the Fight for $15 campaign after an organizer reached out to her on Facebook. She said she was initially dismissive, but was later awed by the support for workers she felt at her first demonstration.
Since then, Coleman said she has been to Washington, D.C., for training on organizing protests.
"This is a mission, this is something I need to do," she said.
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Government House buzzing with excitement for royal visit (with VIDEO)
No outlandish requests for royal couple's stay at Government House
Pamela Roth
Odessa Corletto
When Thandi Williams was given the news that Prince William and his family would be staying at Government House this month, she anticipated her shopping list would have some difficult items to fill.
But as the days tick down to the royal couple’s arrival in Victoria on Saturday, so far nothing has been out of the ordinary — aside from the buzz amongst staff preparing the house for their stay.
“I was quite surprised that it wasn’t anything really huge that we had to do to make the arrangements for our visitors. You would think with the royal family coming to visit that it would be pretty outlandish or something that we’re not accustomed to, but it really wasn’t,” said Williams, director of operations at Government House.
“You can feel the excitement, you can feel the desire from the team to really put their best foot forward. If you think about this being the centre of hospitality for British Columbia, we really have a responsibility to showcase the best of our culture.”
Located in Rockland, Government House is the office and official residence of the Lieutenant Governor, who also provides accommodation to distinguished visitors like international royalty.
According to Williams, the house hosts more than 100 events each year so staff are continually making sure the rooms are up to par, polishing the silverware once a week, dusting the furniture and manicuring the extravagant grounds.
No major upgrades were done for the royal visit, but the worn out carpet in front of the building has been replaced and renovations were recently completed to make the washrooms accessible for wheelchairs.
Staff have also been child proofing the house to some degree for the couple’s young children — Prince George, age three, and 16-month-old Princess Charlotte. It’s rumoured a sandbox will be on hand for the children to play, but Williams was tight lipped on any details and how many people will be part of the couple’s entourage.
“We’re just trying to think what they might like to do while they are here if they do intend to stay within the grounds and what would be amusing for children of that age, so that’s where we started our planning and preparation,” said Williams, who’ll be placing local snacks in some of the 13 rooms.
When it comes to what will be on the menu for the royal family, Aleks Kornat’s lips are sealed. But the executive chef at Government House for the last two years has been busy this week, sourcing local products for meals that celebrate the best of B.C. Some food will be gathered from the orchard, vegetable gardens and beehives on the grounds.
Kornat anticipates a lot of late nights in the kitchen during the few days the couple are here, but he and his staff are already tingling with excitement about cooking meals for the biggest guests of his career.
“You don’t get that chance every day. It’s a great opportunity,” said Kornat, who’s cooked for a royal visit before and isn’t feeling too much pressure thus far.
“You always hear about the royals coming to Canada and you hear about other chefs in other cities getting them. It’s a fantastic opportunity for us to showcase B.C., showcase Victoria, showcase the house and have some fun with it at the same time.”
The royal couple, who will be in Victoria between Sept. 24 and Oct.1, have a number of things planned for their first trip to city, including visits to the Cridge Centre for the Family, tea at Government House with children and families from the Military Family Resource Centre, and sailing a tall ship with the Sail and Life Training Society before making their departure at the Victoria Harbour seaplane terminal.
During their week-long visit to B.C., the couple will also stop in Vancouver, the Great Bear Rainforest, Bella Bella, Kelowna, Whitehorse, Haida Gwaii, the Yukon and Carcross.
A welcoming ceremony will be held at the B.C. Legislature at 5:05 p.m. on Saturday. The grounds of Government House will be closed to the public from Sept. 23 to Oct. 2.
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Ucluelet says goodbye to Canadian Princess
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The case for changing London’s acute emergency and maternity services, and quality standards to deliver consistent seven day services have been published. Quality and safety audit reports for each hospital are also available at: http://www.londonhp.nhs.uk/services/quality-and-safety-programme/.
Improving the quality and safety of hospital-based acute emergency – adult and paediatric – and maternity services was identified as one of the NHS in London’s key priorities for 2012/13. Most notably, the priority was to address the variation that existed in service arrangements and patient outcomes – including mortality – in these services between hospitals and within hospitals, between weekdays and weekends.
Following endorsement from the London Clinical Senate and the London Clinical Commissioning Council, the cases for change and London quality standards for critical care, emergency departments, fractured neck of femur pathway, paediatric emergency services (medicine and surgery) and maternity services have been published. London quality standards for urgent care and inter-hospital transfer and acceptance standards for adults and paediatrics have also been developed.. All of the Quality and Safety Programme publications can be found at http://www.londonhp.nhs.uk/services/quality-and-safety-programme/
In addition to the development of the London quality standards, an audit was undertaken between May 2012 and January 2013 to ascertain the current status of London’s acute hospitals against their achievement of the acute medicine and emergency general surgery commissioning standards – commissioned from April 2012.
The individual hospital audit reports have been published on the London Health Programmes website at http://www.londonhp.nhs.uk/services/quality-and-safety-programme/audit/. PCT cluster reports and pan London findings from the quality and safety audit of London’s acute hospitals will be available on 28 February 2013, along with the full comparable results published on myhealthLondon website at http://www.myhealthlondon/.
Please contact the programme team if you have any queries at emergency.services@londonhp.nhs.uk.
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Spring Babies Abound at Los Angeles Zoo
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Spring means lots of new babies at the Los Angeles Zoo! Guests can now observe two Sichuan Takin calves and two Chacoan Peccary piglets out in their habitats while an Eastern Bongo calf, two Ocelot kittens, and seven Peninsular Pronghorn fawns remain behind the scenes bonding with their mothers for a few more weeks.
Peccary/Jamie Pham
Takin/Jamie Pham
"The Zoo does tend to see a rise in animal babies each spring, but there is a lot more thought and careful planning that goes into the process than one might think," said Beth Schaefer, General Curator at the Los Angeles Zoo. "A majority of our offspring this season are all members of Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) Species Survival Plan (SSP) programs which aim to keep the North American populations of these species sustainable while also creating an insurance population, so these animals don't disappear from the planet."
One insurance population currently thriving at the L.A. Zoo is a breeding group of Peninsular Pronghorn, a species of antelope native to Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Zoo recently welcomed seven Peninsular Pronghorn fawns, born between March 4 and April 8. In 2002, the L.A. Zoo joined the Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Project in the Vizcaino Desert Biosphere Reserve of Baja California Sur, Mexico because the species’ numbers were dwindling in the wild due to hunting, habitat destruction, and cattle ranching.
On April 4, the L.A. Zoo celebrated the birth of two endangered Chacoan Peccary piglets. These medium-sized animals are found primarily in Paraguay and Bolivia, and they have a strong resemblance to pigs. Chacoan peccaries are social animals that live in small herds of up to 10 individuals, and they are known for their tough snouts and rooting abilities. The L.A. Zoo is currently working with the only conservation project in existence for this endangered species called the Chaco Center for the Conservation and Research (CCCI) and hopes to help care for and breed this species whose numbers are dwindling primarily due to habitat loss and hunting.
More photos and video below.
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Watch As Queens Zoo's Pronghorn Fawns Zip Around
Photo Credit: Julie Larsen Maher
The Queens Zoo saw the arrival of four Pronghorn Antelope fawns. The fawns were born to two different mothers one week apart, and include one set of female twins and a second male-female set, bringing the Zoo’s Pronghorn herd up to a total of eight.
Each fawn has a coat of soft brown fur and enormous dark-brown eyes. Already they can be seen prancing around their exhibits on their signature long legs, which give the species its incredible speed. Pronghorn are one of the world’s fastest land animals, second only to the cheetah. They also rank highly for endurance, second to Arctic caribou for the longest-distance migration in the Western Hemisphere.
Two of the fawns can be seen on the Farm, where visitors can watch zookeepers bottle-feed them a nutrient-rich formula several times a day, as you see in this video.
The two younger fawns remain in the Plains habitat which they share with a herd of bison just as they would in the wild. Those babies spend much of their time running through the large, open space.
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Los Angeles Zoo is Bursting with Babies!
Photo credits: Tad Motoyama
The Los Angeles Zoo’s Koala joey, Peninsular Pronghorn twins and desert Bighorn Sheep made their media debut yesterday.
The Zoo’s baby boom kicked off last year with the July 6 birth of a female Koala. Since newborn Koalas spend about six months developing in the mother’s pouch, this joey has just recently begun to emerge. Baby Koalas are commonly referred to as joeys. When a Koala is born, it is just three-fourths of an inch long. After birth they climb into the mother’s pouch and stay there for six months. For the following six months, they are weaned from milk to eucalyptus as they stick their heads out of the pouch to eat partially digested leaves. After a year, they leave the pouch for good.
Although they are often referred to as a “Koala bear,” Koalas belong to the marsupial family. Marsupials are mammals whose females typically rear their young in a pouch through early infancy. Other members of the marsupial family are Kangaroos, Wallabies, Wallaroos, Wombats and Opossums. Native to Australia, Koalas have a very low metabolic rate requiring them to conserve energy and to sleep between 18 and 20 hours a day. They spend about three of their five active hours eating a diet that consists entirely of eucalyptus leaves. Koalas consume 2 ½ pounds of leaves per day and rarely drink water due to the moisture found in eucalyptus leaves.
March 20, brought the birth of a female Desert Bighorn Sheep. This species is native to the high mountains and deserts of the south western United States and northern Mexico. Preferring to reside in places with rocky terrain and access to water, they completely avoid forested areas.
Bighorn Sheep can be seen in our local San Gabriel Mountains, though their population is threatened by many factors including drought, predators, disease and fires. The most recognizable characteristic of the Bighorn Sheep is the male’s massive, spiraled horns and their majestic faces. These horns may add up to one third of their total body weight when they’re full grown. Females have much smaller horns.
On March 1, two Peninsular Pronghorn, one male and one female, were born. Native to Baja California Sur, Mexico, these graceful animals are mostly active at dawn and dusk. Hunting, cattle ranching and agriculture have resulted in the significant decrease of this critically endangered species.
Newborn Pronghorns take their first steps within 30 minutes of birth. By the time they are four days old, they can outrun humans. After just a week, fawns can run faster than dogs and horseback riders over short distances. They are the second fastest land mammal and the fastest ungulate (hoofed mammal), clocking in at anywhere from 40 to 60 miles per hour. They can maintain this speed, without showing any sign of distress, for an hour or longer.
Typically, a Pronghorn mother will have one or two fawns weighing in at around seven or eight pounds. When they reach adulthood, pronghorns weigh up to 125 pounds and reach a height of 35 inches. The females are usually 10 to 25 percent smaller then males.
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Prancing Pronghorns in Queens
Just last week, the Queens Zoo debuted three little pronghorn fawns. The world's second fastest animal, pronghorns zip across the plains at speeds of up to 60 mph from Canada to Northern Mexico.
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Lungu warns against hooliganism
Posted on 31 August 2016.
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has warned that he will not allow hooliganism in the governing Patriotic Front (PF) or in the opposition political parties and is happy that the defence and State security wings were in control of the country by curbing violent activities in some parts of the country.
President, through his special assistant for press and public relations Amos Chanda, has warned opposition political parties against dragging the defence and security personnel in the country into their ‘‘political amnesia’’.
President Lungu said the defence and security wings should be left out of politics and warned that as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces he was not going to allow hooliganism and violence from either the Patriotic Front (PF) or the opposition.
The Head of State said unnecessary and careless talk about the security of the country would not be tolerated because the defence forces were in full control of the security of the country.
Mr Chanda said that until the Head of State handed over power to the President-elect, he was going to continue performing the functions of the President.
President Lungu said he had been informed that the security of the country was stable and that any citizen who was going to engage in acts that border on subversion would have to bear the full wrath of the law.
“The defence and security forces will deal with any form of violence or unruly conduct. . In fact, the defence and security forces will not tolerate that they should be dragged into politics. So the security (forces) will deal with any form of violence and hooliganism from either the PF or the opposition parties,” President Lungu said.
“President Lungu will not tolerate lawlessness and hooliganism in the PF. If they are going to celebrate their victory, they must do so with civility without provoking the losers. And those who would have lost should not exaggerate their misery and cause confusion because as Commander in-Chief, the President has sworn to protect lives and property,” Mr Chanda said.
Mr Chanda said President Lungu was disheartened by claims by UPND sympathizer Nevers Mumba that the pictures of people who were displaced in Southern Province were not from Zambia but from South Africa.
Mr Chanda said it was shameful and below the expectations of a preacher man to mock distressed citizens whose lives had been destroyed by the violence purely on the basis of wanting to be a Prime Minister in the UPND.
And Mr Chanda said the Zambia Police should take keen interest in a statement attributed to UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba that there was a culture in Zambia where the State would cause the destruction of private and public property and blame such actions on the opposition.
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Directed by Leslie Norman (The Long, The Short And The Tall), starring John Mills (Ice Cold In Alex, Goodbye Mr Chips, Great Expectations) Richard Attenborough (Brighton Rock, The Great Escape) and a cast featuring actual army officers, DUNKIRK is one of the most authentic representations of conflict during World War II.
DUNKIRK follows the dramatic events leading up to Operation Dynamo, where upon the British Army attempted to rescue fellow soldiers and Allied troops from Nazi occupied France. Seen from the dual perspectives of a jaded journalist in search of propaganda and a weary soldier desperately trying to give his troop some hope, DUNKIRK never shies away from the brutality of war and the bravery of its soldiers.
John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart, Ray Jackson, Ronald Hines
Leslie Norman
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Island Girls Night Out
Lowcountry Life
Dr. Mark Siegel, MD FAAO
Dr. Stephen Durham, DMD
Bill Rauch
Scott Graber
Bringing Our Community Together
For the community, by the community, Beaufort Water Festival back again
Published on July 10, 2019 in Community/News
By MINDY LUCAS
The 64th Annual Beaufort Water Festival kicks off Friday with all the pomp and circumstance of one of the state’s oldest and most venerable festivals.
Completely organized and run by an all-volunteer staff, the Water Festival features 10 days of music, art and family-fun activities.
From the hilarious and must-see-to-believe hospital bed races, to one of the most spectacular fireworks shows in the region, the festival serves up a variety of Americana event goers aren’t likely to find anywhere else.
Commodore Brian Patrick said he and organizers are particularly proud of this year’s theme, “For the Community, By the Community.”
“We really wanted to highlight the fact that the festival is for the community, and everyone who puts it on are truly your neighbors, local law enforcement, military, our sponsors, all volunteers – everyone is from this community, and of course the people we put it on for,” Patrick said.
And while Patrick said they obviously don’t have any control of the weather, they hoped to avoid a repeat of last year, when heavy rainfall caused organizers to cancel some performances and postpone the opening night’s fireworks show for several days.
With that in mind, Patrick said festival goers won’t want to miss the opening night ceremonies complete with The Parris Island Marine Band and fireworks at dusk on Friday.
Another crowd favorite is Saturday’s Concert in the Park. This year’s headliner is country music singer/ songwriter Tyler Farr.
Farr’s most recent album, Suffer In Peace, released in 2015, debuted in the top five on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, and before that his album Redneck Crazy, released in 2013, made No. 2 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Top 200, making Farr the only solo male country artist in the last 10 years whose first two studio albums debuted in the Billboard Top 200 Albums Top 5.
Emily Ann Roberts, who fans may remember from Season 9 of The Voice, will open for Farr. Roberts has several Billboard singles and two No. 1 iTunes country songs to her name.
Texas-based Copper Chief, a roots-country-rock band will also perform during the Saturday night concert.
2019 BEAUFORT WATER FESTIVAL
Saturday, July 12-Sunday, July 21
For tickets or more information, visit www.bftwaterfestival.com
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Allstate Insurance Company v. Callum Macgregor/Privacy--Protect.org
Complainant is Allstate Insurance Company of Northbrook, Illinois, United States of America, represented by Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC, United States of America.
Respondent is Callum Macgregor of Highland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Privacy--Protect.org of Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China.
The disputed domain names <allstatema.com>, <allstatemahem.com>, <allstatemayheminsurance.com>,
<allstateroadservice.com>, <whyallstateagent.com>, and <wwwallstateagent.com> are registered with Hebei Guoji Maoyi (Shanghai) LTD aka HEBEI INTERNATIONAL TRADING (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD dba HebeiDomains.com (the “Registrar”).
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”) on February 4, 2011. On February 7, 2011 and February 8, 2011, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain names. On February 9, 2011, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response disclosing registrant and contact information for the disputed domain names which differed from the named Respondent and contact information in the Complaint. The Center sent an email communication to Complainant on February 9, 2011 providing the registrant and contact information disclosed by the Registrar, and inviting Complainant to submit an amendment to the Complaint. On February 10, 2011, Complainant filed an amended Complaint and a consolidation request to consolidate Complaints D2011-0241, D2011-0245 and D2011-0261 into Case D2011-0244. The consolidation request was accepted by the Center on February 11, 2011.
The Center verified that the Complaint together with the amended Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Policy” or “UDRP”), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Rules”), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Supplemental Rules”).
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on February 15, 2011. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was March 7, 2011. Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified Respondent’s default on March 8, 2011.
The Center appointed Manoel J. Pereira dos Santos as the sole panelist in this matter on March 14, 2011. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
The trademark upon which the Complaint is based is ALLSTATE. According to the documentary evidence and contentions submitted, the ALLSTATE trademark was first registered in the United States under U.S. Reg. No. 0717683 on June 27, 1961 for insurance services. Complainant also owns U.S. Reg. No. 0761091 as of December 3, 1963 and U.S. Reg. No. 0840187 as of December 5, 1967 for the same services. On October 31, 2006, Complainant obtained U.S. Reg. No. 3164784 for ALLSTATE.COM in connection with financial services. In June 2010 Complainant obtained U.S. Reg. Nos. 3811642 and 3801141 for ALLSTATE ROADSIDE SERVICES in connection with financial services. Complainant has also a pending trademark registration for MAYHEM for insurance services, which mark has been used since July 2010.
Complainant is a well-known insurance company which was founded in 1931 and provides insurance services all over the United States. Complainant owns a large number of domain names containing the ALLSTATE trademark, including <allstate.com>, <allstate.org> and <allstate.net>, which were registered in the period of May 10, 1995 to July 17, 1998.
The domain name <allstatema.com> was registered on November 29, 2008. The domain names <whyallstateagent.com> and <wwwallstateagent.com> were registered on June 8, 2010. The domain name <allstateroadservice.com> was registered on June 23, 2010. The domain names <allstatemahem.com> and <allstatemayheminsurance.com> were registered on August 25, 2010. The websites to which such domain names resolve display advertising links in the field of insurances, including links to Complainant’s direct competitors in the insurance market.
Complainant sent a cease and desist letter to Respondent on December 10, 2010. Complainant states that Respondent never replied.
Complainant argues that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to the trademarks in which Complainant has rights because (i) the incorporation of a mark in full within a disputed domain name is sufficient to establish confusingly similarity between the mark and the disputed domain name, particularly where the incorporated mark is well-known, because users are likely to believe that the trademark holder authorized or is controlling the disputed website; (ii) a prior WIPO panel has determined that the ALLSTATE trademark is famous; (iii) some of the disputed domain names include typographical errors, a practice which is known as “typosquatting"; and (iv) the content of the webpage that Internet users are directed to adds to the likelihood of confusion.
Complainant further contends that Respondent does not have rights or legitimate interests regarding the disputed domain names because (i) Respondent is not commonly known by the names “allstatemahem”, “allstatemayheminsurance”, “wwwallstateagent”, “whyallstateagent”, “allstateroadservice” and “allstatema”, but even if it were any adoption of a name which is confusingly similar to Complainant’s trademarks was done with complete knowledge of Complainant and its rights, and with an intent to trade off Complainant's goodwill; and (ii) Respondent is not making a noncommercial use of the disputed domain names, and the use of a well-known trademark or the misspelling of a well-known trademark in a domain name for a website that simply contains hyperlinks is not a legitimate commercial use.
Finally, Complainant contends that Respondent registered and uses the disputed domain names in bad faith because (i) bad faith exists where, as in the instant case, a respondent uses a domain name to intentionally attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to its website by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of its website; (ii) bad faith exists where, as in the instant case, a respondent uses a well-known trademark and there can be no question that respondent knew or should have known about complainant's trademark rights before registering its domain name; (iii) the practice of typosquatting, of itself, is evidence of bad faith registration of a domain name; (iv) the exploitation of the reputation of trademarks and profit from the diversion of Internet users is an indication of bad faith according to numerous previous decisions; (v) Respondent's use of a privacy service provides evidence that Respondent is attempting to hide its activities from scrutiny; (vi) Respondent appears to be engaged in a pattern of registering and using the disputed domain names in bad faith; and (vii) Respondent is responsible for the content of the websites located at the disputed domain names.
Respondent did not reply to the Complainant’s contentions.
A. Status of Respondent
When the Complaint was filed, the disputed domain names were registered in the name of “Privacy-Protect.org”, which is obviously a proxy service to enable “real” owners of domain names to conceal their identities. By the time the Center transmitted to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain names, the identity of the actual registrant was disclosed. Both the proxy service and Callum Macgregor have been served with copies of the Complaint and neither has responded. The practice of having two respondents to a proceeding under the Policy where one is a proxy service and the other is the beneficial party which was later disclosed by the registrar is well-recognized in UDRP cases, as it helps to inform interested parties. See Microsoft Corporation v. Whois Privacy Protection Service / Lee Xongwei, WIPO Case No. D2005-0642.
B. Consolidation of Multiple Domain Names
Paragraph 10(e) of the Rules empowers panels to consolidate multiple domain names in accordance with the Policy and the Rules as paragraph 3(c) of the Rules establishes that the complaint may relate to more than one domain name, provided that the domain names are registered by the same domain-name holder. Given that the Registrar has disclosed information confirming that the beneficial holder of each dispute domain name is the same, i.e., Callum Macgregor, the Panel finds that the Center’s acceptance of the consolidation request was appropriate and fair.
C. Effect of the Default
The consensus view is that respondent’s default does not automatically result in a decision in favor of complainant and that complainant must establish each of the three elements required by paragraph 4(a) of the UDRP (WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, para. 2.2). However, paragraph 14(b) of the Rules provides that, in the absence of exceptional circumstances, a panel shall draw such inferences as it considers appropriate from a failure of a party to comply with a provision or requirement of the Rules.
Therefore, the Panel will now review each of the three cumulative elements set forth in paragraph 4(a) of the Policy to determine whether Complainant has complied with such requirements.
D. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Panel notes that the notoriety of the ALLSTATE trademark has been confirmed in previous WIPO decisions. See Allstate Insurance Company v. Domain Supermarket, WIPO Case No. D2009-1175 (“[g]iven its long and widespread use and extensive recognition, the ALLSTATE brand is among those that may be fairly described as famous or well known”; Allstate Insurance Company v. WXN, WIPO Case No. D2010-2165. In addition, the Panel notes that all the disputed domain names incorporate the ALLSTATE trademark in its entirety.
The Panel agrees with previous UDRP decisions which have held that, when a domain name wholly incorporates a complainant’s registered trademark, that may be sufficient to establish confusing similarity for purposes of the Policy. See, e.g., Eauto, L.L.C. v. Triple S. Auto Parts d/b/a Kung Fu Yea Enterprises, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-0047; Magnum Piering, Inc. v. The Mudjackers and Garwood S. Wilson, Sr., WIPO Case No. D2000-1525; Kabushiki Kaisha Hitachi Seisakusho (d/b/a Hitachi Ltd) v. Arthur Wrangle, WIPO Case No. D2005-1105; Oki Data Americas, Inc. v. ASD, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2001-0903; Bayerische Motoren Werke AG v. bmwcar.com, WIPO Case No. D2002-0615; Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG v. Vasiliy Terkin, WIPO Case No. D2003-0888; adidas-Salomon AG v. Mti Networks Ltd, WIPO Case No. D2005-0258 and AT&T Corp. v. William Gormally, WIPO Case No. D2005-0758. The likelihood of confusion is greater where the disputed domain name incorporates a famous or well-known trademark, as in the instant case.
Further, the disputed domain name <allstateroadservice.com> reproduces partially the ALLSTATE ROADSIDE SERVICES trademark and the disputed domain names <allstatemahen.com> and <allstatemayheminsurance.com> also reproduce the MAYHEM trademark. The disputed domain name <allstateroadservice.com> was registered at approximately the same time as Complainant secured the U.S. trademark registrations for the ALLSTATE ROADSIDE SERVICES mark, but first use of such trademark by Complainant started on June 6, 2009 as shown on the records of the USPTO.
Also, the MAYHEM trademark was filed on October 21, 2010 and its first use started on July 9, 2010 as shown on the records of the USPTO. Therefore, the domain names <allstatemahen.com> and <allstatemayheminsurance.com> were registered after Complainant started using the MAYHEM trademark. The Panel understands that it is not necessary in the instant case to determine whether Complainant has successfully asserted common-law or unregistered trademark rights since Respondent used the ALLSTATE and MAYHEM trademarks together in the domain names <allstatemahen.com> and <allstatemayheminsurance.com>, therefore creating a clear association between the two trademarks, one of which is famous or well-known.
The Panel also concurs with previous UDRP decisions relating to “typosquatting”, the practice of misspelling an element of the mark which has consistently been regarded as creating domain names confusingly similar to the relevant mark. See, e.g. Deutsche Bank AG v. New York TV Tickets Inc., WIPO Case No. D2001-1314 and Playboy Enterprises v. Movie Name Company, WIPO Case No. D2001-1201.
This is the position here. In fact, the disputed domain names <allstatemahem.com>, <wwwallstateagent.com> and <allstateroadservice.com> reproduce Complainant’s registered trademarks except for certain typographical errors which are customarily made by an Internet user. The circumstances of “typosquatting” in this case do create confusing similarity.
The likelihood of confusion is greater where the disputed domain name incorporates the famous or well-known ALLSTATE trademark and adds either the descriptive word “insurance”, such as in <allstatemayheminsurance.com> or the generic word “agent”, such as in <whyallstateagent.com> and <wwwallstateagent.com>, all of which are words closely related to Complainant’s business. The same result is achieved in the disputed domain name <allstatema.com> where Respondent added the letters “ma”, which may be regarded as an abbreviation for the State of Massachusetts. The addition of geographic or generic words does nothing to differentiate the disputed domain names from Complainant’s ALLSTATE trademark. In fact, it has been decided that the addition of generic or descriptive terms to an otherwise distinctive trademark is to be considered confusingly similar to a complainant’s trademark. V&S Vin&Sprit AhB v. Giovanni Pastore, WIPO Case No. D2002-0926; Thomson Broadcast and Media Solution Inc., Thomson v. Alvaro Collazo, WIPO Case No. D2004-0746; Sanofi-Aventis v. US-Meds.com, WIPO Case No. D2004-0809 and F. Hoffman La Roche AG v.Pinetree Development, Ltd., WIPO Case No. D2006-0049.
Finally, the addition of the suffix “.com” is non-distinctive because it is required for the registration of the domain name. RX America, LLC. v. Mattew Smith, WIPO Case No. D2005-0540.
Therefore, the Panel finds that the disputed domain names <allstatema.com>, <allstatemahem.com>, <allstatemayheminsurance.com>, <allstateroadservice.com>, <whyallstateagent.com> and <wwwallstateagent.com> are clearly confusingly similar to Complainant’s registered trademarks and, as a result, finds that the requirement of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy is met.
E. Rights or Legitimate Interests
Respondent is using the disputed domain names to resolve to websites with click-through advertisements pointing to various websites, including those competing with Complainant and those offering services unrelated to Complainant’s products. The websites to which the disputed domain names resolve are entirely in English.
The issue as to whether use of a domain name for purposes of offering “sponsored links” creates a right or legitimate interest to a domain name has been addressed in previous WIPO UDRP decisions. In similar circumstances, the consensus view is that such use cannot be considered a bona fide offering of goods or services, or a noncommercial or fair use. See Bridgestone Corporation v. Horoshiy, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2004-0795; Deutsche Telekom AG v. Dong Wong, WIPO Case No. D2005-0819 and PRL USA Holdings, Inc. v. LucasCobb, WIPO Case No. D2006-0162.
In addition, the Panel sees no plausible explanation for Respondent’s adoption and use of the names “allstatemahem”, “allstatemayheminsurance”, “wwwallstateagent”, “whyallstateagent”, “allstateroadservice” and “allstatema” in the disputed domain names and, accordingly, concludes that the disputed domain names were selected and used by Respondent to take advantage of the notoriety enjoyed by the ALLSTATE trademark and the association with other trademarks used by Complainant, with the intent to attract for commercial gain Internet users. See Madonna Ciccone, p/k/a Madonna v. Dan Parisi and "Madonna.com", WIPO Case No. D2000-0847.
In short, Complainant has satisfied its burden of providing sufficient evidence to make a prima facie case showing that Respondent lacks rights to or legitimate interests in the disputed domain names, and Respondent has failed to provide the Panel with any of the types of evidence set forth in paragraph 4(c) of the Policy from which the Panel might conclude that Respondent has any rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain names. Berlitz Investment Corp. v. Stefan Tinculescu, WIPO Case No. D2003-0465.
In light of the foregoing, the Panel finds that the requirement of paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy is met.
F. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
In light of the reputation of the ALLSTATE trademark, the reproduction by Respondent of that trademark with typographical errors, in association with other trademarks used by Complainant and/or in combination with descriptive or generic terms shows that Respondent in all likelihood knew of the existence of Complainant’s trademarks and of the notoriety of ALLSTATE worldwide, and intended to attract for commercial gain Internet users by creating a likelihood of confusion with Complainant’s trademarks .
This Panel also concurs with previous WIPO UDRP decisions holding that registration of a well-known trademark as a domain name may be a further indication of bad faith. As decided before, “knowledge of a corresponding mark at the time of registration of the domain name suggests bad faith”. Caixa D´Estalvis I Pensions de Barcelona (“La Caixa”) v. Eric Adam, WIPO Case No. D2006-0464 and Reuters Limited v. Global Net 2000, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-441. In addition, “[t]yposquatting is inherently parasitic and of itself evidence of bad faith”, as one panel held before. See National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, Inc., d/b/a Minor League Baseball v. John Zuccarini, WIPO Case No. D2002-1011.
A contributing bad faith factor in this case is the fact that a trademark search on the date of registration of the disputed domain names would have revealed Complainant’s long standing trademark registrations as well as Complainant’s filing of other trademarks already in use by Complainant. See, for instance, RRI Financial, Inc. v. Ray Chen, WIPO Case No. D2001-1242. Such behavior as is present in this case is what some case precedents have termed as “opportunistic bad faith”. Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, Maison Fondée en 1772 v. The Polygenix Group Co., WIPO Case No. D2000-0163 and Sanofi-aventis v. Nevis Domains LLC, WIPO Case No. D2006-0303.
The Panel also finds that Respondent is obviously not making any legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the disputed domain names.
As decided in a previous WIPO UDRP decision, “[t]he proper test in this Panel’s view is whether the objective consequence or effect of the Respondent’s conduct is to free-ride on the Complainant’s goodwill, whether or not that was the primary (subjective) intent of the Respondent. In light of the above, the Panel concludes that knowledge of the mark at the time of registration followed by use in commerce without a legitimate interest and likely to create confusion (and thus allow the Respondent to free-ride on the Complainant’s goodwill), is the proper test”. See Paule Ka v. Paula Korenek, WIPO Case No. D2003-0453.
The Panel takes further the view that in this case the content of the websites is relevant in the finding of bad faith use. As indicated before, Respondent’s websites contained online directories featuring sponsored links to third parties, including those competing with Complainant and those offering services unrelated to Complainant’s products. Accordingly, the Panel is convinced by all the evidence produced in this case and by Respondent’s default that Respondent intended to free ride on Complainant’s reputation and goodwill by diverting Internet users and customers to a website for commercial gain.
There are two final elements which are relevant in the resolution of this dispute. Complainant contends that Respondent's use of a privacy service provides evidence that Respondent is attempting to hide its activities from scrutiny, and that Respondent appears to be engaged in a pattern of registering and using the disputed domain names in bad faith. See Priceline.com v. Callum Macgregor, NAF Claim No. FA1303928; Baylor University v. Callum Macgregor, NAF Claim No.FA1340159; Barclays Bank PLC v. Privacy Protect/Callum Macgregor, WIPO Case No. D2010-1988.
The practice of using a proxy service to achieve registration of domain names creates a potential for abuse by cybersquatters. While there can be valid reasons for a person wishing to protect privacy by means of a proxy service, that is a factor pointing in direction of bad faith in a great variety of cases. See Barclays Bank PLC v. Privacy Protect/Callum Macgregor, supra. The Panel also finds that Complainant’s contention that Respondent appears to be engaged in a pattern of registering and using the disputed domain names in bad faith is warranted. The facts in Barclays Bank PLC v. Privacy Protect/Callum Macgregor, supra are similar to the instant case to the extent that Respondent, using the same proxy service, registered a well-known trademark and the website associated with the disputed domain name was used for “pay per click” or sponsored advertising services.
In short, the manner in which Respondent has used and is using the disputed domain names demonstrates that the disputed domain names were registered, were used and still are being used in bad faith.
Therefore, the Panel finds that the requirement of paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy is met.
For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the disputed domain names <allstatema.com>, <allstatemahem.com>, <allstatemayheminsurance.com>, <allstateroadservice.com>, <whyallstateagent.com> and <wwwallstateagent.com> be transferred to Complainant.
Manoel J. Pereira dos Santos
Dated: March 28, 2011
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International Business Machines v. Milen Radumilo
1.1 The Complainant is International Business Machines of Armonk, New York, United States of America (“United States”), represented by Ravindra Persaud, United States (the “Complainant”).
1.2 The Respondent is Milen Radumilo of Bucharest, Romania (the “Respondent”).
2.1 The Disputed Domain Names <01-ibm.com>, <03-ibm.com>, <304-ibm.com> (the “Disputed Domain Names”) are registered with eNom, Inc. (the “Registrar”).
3.1 The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”) on February 13, 2018. On February 14, 2018, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the Disputed Domain Names. On February 14, 2018, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details.
3.2 The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Policy” or “UDRP”), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Rules”), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Supplemental Rules”).
3.3 In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2 and 4, the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on February 26, 2018. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5, the due date for Response was March 18, 2018. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent’s default on March 19, 2018.
3.4 The Center appointed Ike Ehiribe as the sole panelist in this matter on April 4, 2018. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
4.1 The Complainant in this administrative proceeding is International Business Machines Corporation, a company incorporated in the United States since June 16, 1911. The Complainant is said to have been officially known as International Business Machines (“IBM”) since 1924 and has sold so many products including office and research equipment, under the IBM trademark since then. The Complainant introduced its first large vacuum tube computer under the name IBM 710 in 1952 and since then has continuously used the trademark IBM in association with computers and computer hardware, software and accessories. The Complainant is said to have owned several trademark registrations in 170 countries all around the world for several decades, and for a broad range of goods and services not limited to information technology related goods and services. In particular, the Complainant has attached to this proceeding copies of the trademark registration certificates marked as annex 4, indicating IBM registrations of trademarks in the United States (Registration No. 4181289, registered on July 31, 2012) and in Romania (Registration No. 4R008334, registered on December 12, 2003) where the Respondent is based. It is further contended that the Complainant was in 2017 ranked the 9th most valuable brand by “BrandZ” and the 10th best global brand by “Interbrand”, the 32nd largest company on the “Fortune 500” list and the 81st largest company on the “Fortune Global 500” list. The Complainant’s IBM trademark was valued by “BrandZ” at well over USD 102 billion in 2017. It is further said that the Complainant spends nearly USD 6 billion each year on advanced research in addition to expenditure on product development.
4.2 According to the WhoIs information attached to this proceeding the Disputed Domain Names were registered with the Registrar on November 30, 2016 and December 1, 2016 and resolve to pay-per-click (“PPC”) pages. As the language of the registration agreement as confirmed by the Registrar is English, and the Complaint which has been submitted in this language, the language of the proceedings shall be equally conducted in English.
5.1 It is contended on behalf of the Complainant that the three Disputed Domain Names are identical or confusingly similar to the Complainant’s registered IBM trademarks. In that firstly, the first Disputed Domain Name <01-ibm.com> is said to consist of, the numbers “01”, followed by a hyphen, the letters “ibm” (not case sensitive), and the generic Top-Level Domain (“gTLD”) “.com”. Secondly, the second Disputed Domain Name <03-ibm.com> consists of, the numbers “03”, followed by a hyphen, the letters “ibm” (not case sensitive), and the gTLD “.com”. Thirdly, the third Disputed Domain Name <304-ibm> consists of the numbers “304” followed by a hyphen, the letters “ibm” (not case sensitive), and the gTLD “.com”. The letters “ibm” contained in the Disputed Domain Names, it is said, are exactly the same as the IBM trademark, therefore, it is asserted that the Disputed Domain Names namely <01-ibm.com>, <03-ibm.com> and
<304-ibm.com> are identical or confusingly similar to the Complainant’s registered trademarks.
5.2 The Complainant contends that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Disputed Domain Names in that the Respondent has not been licensed, contracted or otherwise permitted to use the IBM trademark or to apply for any domain name incorporating the IBM trademark nor has the Complainant acquiesced in any way to such use or application of the IBM trademark. Furthermore, it is argued that there is no evidence that “IBM” is the name of the Respondent’s corporate entity, and neither is there evidence of fair use. Also, it is said that there is no evidence suggesting that the Respondent is using or planning to use the Disputed Domain Names incorporating the Complainant’s IBM trademark for a bona fide offering of goods or services. On the contrary, it is asserted that the Respondent has been using the Complainant’s IBM trademark in the Disputed Domain Names to promote its websites for commercial gain which such act is likely to compel consumers to erroneously believe that the Complainant is affiliated with the Respondent or is endorsing its commercial activities when actually, no such relationship exists.
5.3 On the question of bad faith registration and use, the Complainant advances the following arguments. Firstly, the Complainant asserts that the Respondent was well aware of the existence of the Complainant’s trademarks before the registration of the Disputed Domain Names. The Complainant reiterates the observation that the Complainant’s trademarks are well-known all over the world and asserts that registration of the Disputed Domain Names, is in itself proof of bad faith at the time of registration. Secondly, the Complainant refers to a cease and desist letter which the Complainant dispatched to the Respondent on January 16, 2018, requesting that the Respondent disable and transfer the Disputed Domain Names back to the Complainant, which the Respondent failed to reply to as further evidence of bad faith use. Thirdly, the Complainant asserts that the Respondent has been intentionally attempting to create a likelihood of confusion by using the Disputed Domain Names containing the IBM trademark to generate revenue from Pay-Per-Click advertisement links by using words such as “ibm”, “ibm server”, “ibm careers” “ibm cloud”, “ibm bluemix”, “ibm tivoli” and “ibm tsm”.
5.4 The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant’s contentions. Therefore, in accordance with paragraphs 14(a) and (b) of the Rules, the Panel shall draw such inferences as it considers appropriate from the Respondent’s default.
6.1 Under paragraph 4(a) of the Policy to succeed in this administrative proceeding the Complainant must prove that: (i) the Disputed Domain Names are identical or confusingly similar to the trademark or service mark of the Complainant; (ii) the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Disputed Domain Names; and (iii) the Disputed Domain Names have been registered and are being used in bad faith.
6.2 As expressly stated in the Policy, the Complainant must establish the existence of each of these three elements in any UDRP administrative proceeding.
6.3 This Panel accepts that the Complainant is the registered owner of several trademark registrations of the IBM trademark as confirmed by copies of the trademark registration certificates annexed to this proceeding. The Panel therefore finds without any hesitation that the Disputed Domain Names <01-ibm.com>, <03-ibm.com> and<304-ibm.com> are confusingly similar to the Complainant’s well-known IBM trademark. The Disputed Domain Names contain the letters “ibm” which are exactly the same with the Complainant’s abbreviated trademark IBM. Thus, the Panel finds that the mere addition of the numbers “01”, “03” and “304” followed by a hyphen and the gTLD “.com” does absolutely nothing to prevent a finding of confusing similarity. See in support sections 1.7 and 1.9 of the WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions Third Edition (“WIPO Overview 3.0”). See also in support of this finding previous UDRP decisions namely, International Business Machines Corporation v. Niculescu Aron Razva Nicolae, WIPO Case No. DRO 2010–0003 and International Business Machines Corporation v. Linux Security Systems srl, WIPO Case No. DRO 2010-0004.
6.4 The Panel therefore finds that the Complainant has established that the Disputed Domain Names are confusingly similar to the Complainant’s IBM trademark.
6.5 As submitted by the Complainant, the Panel equally finds that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Names within the ambit of Paragraph 4(c) of the Policy. Clearly, the Respondent has failed to adduce any evidence that suggests that the Complainant has authorized, permitted or licensed the Respondent to utilize the Disputed Domain Names or apply for the registration of the Disputed Domain Names incorporating the Complainant’s IBM trademark; nor is there any evidence that the Respondent has ever been known or associated with the Complainant. The Panel also finds and holds that the Respondent has failed to produce any evidence of an indication that the Respondent is making a bona fide offering of goods and services or a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the Disputed Domain Names without the intention to derive commercial benefit by misleadingly diverting Internet visitors to websites associated with the Disputed Domain Names. See in this regard Oki Data Americas Inc. v. ASD, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2001-0903.
6.6 Accordingly, the Panel is satisfied that the Complainant has established that the Respondent does not possess any rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Names as stipulated in paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy.
6.7 On the particular question of bad faith registration and use, the Panel finds without any hesitation that the Respondent registered the Disputed Domain Names in bad faith and continued with bad faith use. This finding is anchored on the Complainant’s unchallenged assertions and the evidence placed before the Panel as follows. Firstly, the Respondent registered all three Disputed Domain Names almost on the same date, being November 30, 2016 and December 1, 2016, certainly, the Respondent must have known about the prior existence of the Complainant’s registered rights in the IBM trademark as at this date. The Panel therefore finds that it was purely for commercial gain that the Respondent decided to register not just one, but three Disputed Domain Names, all incorporating the Complainant’s IBM trademark. Secondly, the Complainant has adduced credible evidence through the annexed website screen shots to demonstrate that the Respondent registered the Disputed Domain Names with the intention of generating Pay-Per-Click revenue by exploiting the confusion in the minds of Internet visitors who may confuse the websites associated with the Disputed Domain Names with those owned by the Complainant. Thirdly, the Respondent was sent a cease and desist letter dated January 16, 2018, yet the Respondent failed to respond. Fourthly, as stated at paragraph 5.4 above, the Panel has drawn adverse inferences from the failure of the Respondent to reply to the contentions of the Complainant in this matter.
6.8 The Panel is therefore satisfied that the Respondent registered the Disputed Domain Names in bad faith and has continued to engage in bad faith use.
7.1 For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the Disputed Domain Names, namely, <01-ibm.com>,<03-ibm.com>, and <304-ibm.com> be transferred to the Complainant.
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What is Zoloft&Reg;?
A doctor can prescribe Zoloft.
People who take Zoloft® may experience side effects, including insomnia.
Zoloft increases the amount of serotonin in the brain by blocking the reabsorption of serotonin into the transmitting neuron.
Within established guidelines, the recommended Zoloft dose is that which works for the patient.
Zoloft is a prescription medication used to treat several disorders, including depression.
Dizziness is a side effect of Zoloft.
Written By: Ron Marr
Zoloft® is a drug, created and manufactured by the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, that is prescribed primarily for the treatment of depression and social anxiety disorders. It is also approved for use in treatment of other disorders, including panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It falls under the classification of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and was originally approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991 as a treatment for depression. The chemical name for Zoloft® is sertraline hydrochloride.
There are many SSRIs available to physicians in addition to Zoloft®. The basic premise behind all of them is to assist in correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain’s neurotransmitters. By correcting the imbalance of the neurotransmitter serotonin, a chemical related to mood control and enhancement, Zoloft® allows the mind to better process electrical signals and relieve the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders.
This is no small thing, as anxiety disorders are estimated to affect as many as twenty million Americans alone. While the root cause may stem from biological, psychological, or environmental factors, those afflicted with anxiety disorders often lead a tortured existence. Symptoms include obsessive thoughts, intrusive and painful memories, overwhelming fear, and nightmares, in addition to physical symptoms such as muscle tension and rapid heart beat. Sufferers often realize that their fears are irrational, but they are still unable to control them.
Although Zoloft® is not regarded as a cure for anxiety, it can greatly relieve symptoms in many people. People with social anxiety, for example, may experience overpowering fear, panic attacks, profuse shaking and sweating, and an increased heart rate at the thought of such tasks as public speaking, working in front of others, social situations of most any kind, and even talking on the telephone. In some cases, the fear causes a total withdrawal from social situations, and increases the isolation that leads to severe depression. By helping to correct serotonin levels in the bloodstream, Zoloft® aids such people in leading a more happy and normal life.
As is true with all drugs, Zoloft® is not effective for everyone. Also, there is a considerable risk of side effects. These can include fever, loss of appetite, tremors, headaches, impotence, and insomnia, just to name a few. A qualified physician should monitor the use of Zoloft® very closely.
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Diamantes de Color, an evening of Flamenco
Diamantes de Color, an evening of Flamenco at The Headwaters Theater September 17th, 8:00 p. m.
Seattle-based Flamenco dancer, Savannah Fuentes brings her latest show, Diamantes de Color (colored diamonds) an evening of Flamenco, to the Headwaters Theater in Portland September 17th.
Savannah will be joined by two exceptional Spanish Flamenco artists; acclaimed Spanish-Romani guitarist Pedro Cortes and singer/percussionist/dancer Jose Moreno. Diamantes de Color, an evening of Flamenco will be presented in select locations in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
September 17, 8:00 p.m.
The Headwaters Theater
55 NE Farragut St. #9
Tickets: child $7 student $15, general admission $22, VIP reserved seats $34
available at www.brownpapertickets.com
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3599978
about Savannah Fuentes
"Real flamenco. straight up and stunning"
Regina Hackett, The Seattle P.I.
Savannah Fuentes, born in Seattle to parents of Puerto Rican and Irish ancestry, is one of the only touring artists in the Pacific Northwest region with strong links to Flamenco culture. She studies both baile(flamenco dance) and cante (flamenco singing) and has toured throughout the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Arizona. She has independently produced over 250 performances and workshops featuring internationally recognized Spanish Flamenco Artists such as Jose Anillo, Saray Munoz, Jesus Montoya, and Juanarito. She has studied with artists such as Guadiana, Joaquin Grilo, Eva Yerbabuena, El Farru, and Isabel Bayon. She attributes her formation as an artist to her most significant mentor, Maestra Sara de Luis. She continues to evolve as an innovator and performance artist.
about Pedro Cortes
www.pedrocortes.com
Pedro Cortes, Comes from a family of Spanish Gypsy guitarists and began his studies with his father and the esteemed Flamenco guitarist Sabicas. Having toured professionally since the age of 17, he is gaining international recognition as a soloist and composer. He has premiered his work En la oscuridad de las minas at the Teatro Albeniz in Madrid, he had works premiered by the Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company at the Joyce Theater in New York. He has two books on Flamenco, El Dron del Faraon and Cruzando el Charco, published by the American Institute of Guitar. Mr. Cortes, was commissioned by the Cohen Brothers to compose music for the film Paris Je T’Aime .He also wrote music for a childrens program on H B O called Fairy tale for Every Child. He has toured with Jose Greco and Maria Benitez, La Conja and has performed with such artists as Farrucita, La Tati, Merche Esmeralda, Manolete and the late Lola Flores. He has been guest artist with the St. Louis Opera and the New York Grand Opera, and has been commissioned by and performed as Musical Director with the Guthrie Theater In Garcia Lorcas BODAS DE SANGRE. Mr. Cortes is artistic director of his own Flamenco group, and also Musical Director of Palo Seco. Cortes is a third generation Flamenco guitarists and uses the experience passed down to him by his family to maintain the purity of Flamenco while creating new compositions.
about Jose Moreno
Born into a family of famous flamenco artists Estrella Morena (dancer) and Pepe de Málaga (singer), Jose began his flamenco career at an early age, His debut was at the famous Tablao Costa Vasca in Miami. Jose continued his studies with the Great Manolete, Farruquito, and Andres Marin and Cajon Percussion with Manuel Soler. Jose has been invited to perform in various companies, and worked with distinguished artists such as: The Great Manolete, Joaquin Ruiz, Pastora Galvan, Jose Cortes “Pansequito”, Jose Luis Rodriquez, Roberto Castellon, Pedro Cortes, Jose Valle “Chuscales”, Basilio Garcia, Paco Heredia, Elena Andujar, Jesus Montoya, Zorongo Flamenco Dance, La Tania, Miguel Vargas, Nelida Tirado, Antonio Hidalgo, Curro Cueto, Ruben de Maria, Gonzalo Grau, Edwin Aparicio, Amparo Heredia, Antonio Granjero and Omayra Amaya. In 2001, Jose choreographed and performed a collaborative work with his mother Estrella Morena, and with renowned flamenco singer Carmen Linares with the New World Symphony Orquestra at Lincoln Theater in Miami. In 2007, Jose performed with the internationally known Isabel Pantoja as a cajón percussionist, alongside flamenco guitarist Jose de Luna. Also in 2007 With David Bisbal in “Premios lo Nuestro” Also performed in 2010 in the 7th annual Panama Jazz Festival, and Carnegie Hall in New York City…
Fabrizio & Cabriolet In: Water, Dirt, Breeze, Fire!
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The Great War Over Here: Stories from the Home Front
Georgia remembers those who served in World War I
Reproduced here with appreciation to and permission of the Saporta Report
In this column, members of Georgia Humanities and their colleagues take turns discussing Georgia’s history and culture, and other topics that matter. Through different voices, we hear different stories.
This week guest contributor TOM JACKSON, of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission, looks at the many memorials to WWI soldiers in our state.
By Tom Jackson
Tom Jackson
The mission of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission (GWWICC) in remembering the Great War is not only to educate today’s citizens about this often-overlooked war but also to honor those who served and commemorate those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
With its 1921 Georgia State Memorial Book, Georgia became the first state to publish an official memorial book to those who died in World War I. But under the racial practices of the time, the book contained only the names of white personnel. Through the diligent research of retired state librarian Dr. Lamar Veatch, who works as an associate with the GWWICC, the names of hundreds of soldiers of African American, Native American, and other descent have been identified and added to the expanded version housed on the GWWICC website. As a result of this significant effort, today the names of some 1,300 Georgians are on the rolls as part of the national centennial program to find and record all such tributes to Americans who fought and died in World War I.
That same website also includes an online inventory, with photographs, of the war memorials and plaques located throughout the state — there is one in virtually every county seat. Some are elaborate; others are simple. Some have separate listings for “white” and “colored,” while others omit African Americans altogether. The GWWICC website will become a lasting legacy of these efforts as a part of the National Archives collection on the WWI Centennial.
Notable among the Georgia monuments are the many striking “Spirit of the American Doughboy” statues standing prominently across the state, among hundreds that were erected nationwide. Georgia has the original. All others are copies of the first by sculptor E. M. Viquesney that stands outside the courthouse in Nashville (in Berrien County). It honors the 60 Berrien residents who died in the war, including 28 who perished in the disastrous sinking of the troop ship Otranto off the coast of Scotland in 1918. The original bronze statue was ordered in August 1920, and when completed was displayed in Americus before touring on a national exhibition and finally being delivered to the Berrien County courthouse square in summer 1921. There it stood under a veil until late 1923 as local citizens worked to raise the remainder of the funds owed on it —a dedication ceremony was held once the debt was paid. A 1939 widening of the highway required moving the statue from the middle of the street to the courthouse grounds, where it stands today.
A copper copy of the original doughboy statue stands in Rees Park, in Americus, relocated from downtown Americus in 1947. An unusual but striking copy done in stone — the only known stone version — stands in front of the Morgan County Courthouse in downtown Madison. There are other versions across Georgia, generally in bronze or copper, in places like Trion (Chattooga County), Griffin (Spalding County), and Waycross (Ware County) — and more than 150 copies nationwide, mass-produced from the original statue in the 1920s and 1930s.
Georgia also is home to the grave of America’s “Known Soldier” of World War I. After the close of the war, Congress and President Warren G. Harding determined in 1922 to designate a known soldier killed in action as a representative of all who were lost in the war and to lie in Arlington Cemetery beside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. At random, the name of Private Charles Graves was chosen — an 18-year-old private from Rome, Georgia, killed in the Hindenburg Line and originally buried in France. It was to be a tremendous honor for young Graves, except his mother wanted him buried at home in the family plot at Antioch Cemetery outside Rome. The government acceded to Mrs. Graves’s wishes. Graves got his ceremony and a glorious homecoming parade through New York City, honoring him and all the soldiers, returning and fallen. But then instead of going to Arlington, his body was put on a train to Rome, where he was buried in accordance with his mother’s wishes, still designated as representative of all who died in the Great War.
Local citizens soon thought it not fitting for America’s “Known Soldier” to lie in a little church cemetery. After the death of his mother, they obtained the permission of Graves’s brother to move him to a more stately setting in Rome’s historic Myrtle Hill Cemetery. Others, thinking the mother’s wishes should be honored, sought a court injunction to stop the move. But the night before an injunction was to be issued, a group of men exhumed Graves’s body and moved him to Myrtle Hill in the Memorial Plaza, where he lies today. A dramatic renovation of the site in 2000 created a memorial plaza to all 34 young men from Floyd County who died in World War I, with the “Known Soldier,” Charles Graves, at its center.
Keep reading “Jamil’s Georgia” for more in this continuing series about World War I.
Tom Jackson serves as executive director of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission in his position as Heritage Communications Executive for the University System of Georgia.
Kelly Caudle and Allison Hutton of Georgia Humanities provide editorial assistance for the “Jamil’s Georgia” columns.
Gwinnett Braves Memorial Day Observance
The Gwinnett Braves joined other members of baseball’s International League in commemorating the World War I Centennial in observances on Memorial Day 2017.
UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU! WORLD WAR I AND THE AMERICAN POSTER
Open May 20 - December 3, 2017
One hundred years ago, Americans were reluctant to get involved in what they viewed as Europe's war When the United States finally entered the war in April 1917, public opinion had to be turned around. The U.S. government mobilized an incredible cadre of artists to create "pictorial publicity" for all aspects of the war effort -- from recruiting to war relief to food and fuel conservation. Artists of the caliber of James Montgomery Flagg, Howard Chandler Christy, Charles Dana Gibson, J. C. Leyendecker, and N.C. Wyeth produced an impressive body of art. Unfortunately, all but a handful of these posters have long since been forgotten.
This exhibition combines artifact holdings from the Atlanta History Center with the magnificent poster collection of Atlanta historian Walton Rawls, whose landmark book Wake Up, America! World War I and the American Poster was published in 2001. The result is a fascinating look at American posters of World War I, both as graphic masterworks and as illustrations of a tragic historical episode.
Uncle Sam Wants You! WWI and the American Poster is part of a series of exhibitions at Atlanta History Center in 2017-2018 commemorating the centennial of World War I.
When Emory Doctors went to War
This week, REN DAVIS, an Atlanta writer and photographer, shares a story of Georgia patriots — the physicians, nurses, and medical staff who answered the call of World War I.
By Ren Davis
Only a small fraction of Americans now choose to serve in the military, many coming from the lower rungs of the nation’s economic ladder, and a declining number ofpolitical and business leaders are veterans. Circumstances were very different a century ago, when nearly all Americans, from laborers to professionals, put their lives and careers on hold and answered the call to serve in World War I. Atlanta and Georgia provided an excellent illustration of this patriotism and dedication.
In April 1917, shortly after America’s entry into the Great War, a call went out from the U.S. Army and the Red Cross to medical schools across the country. Doctors and nurses would be urgently needed to staff hospitals in support of the hundreds of thousands of newly enlisted “doughboys” who would soon head overseas to join British and French allies fighting Germans in the trenches snaking across Europe.
Emory School of Medicine answered the call. When dean William S. Elkin, M.D., received the request, he turned immediately to Edward Campbell Davis, M.D., to organize the school’s medical unit. Davis, a professor at the school and co-founder of Atlanta’s Davis-Fischer Sanatorium (later Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital and now Emory University Hospital Midtown), had served as an Army surgeon in the Spanish-American War and retained his military rank. Without hesitation, Davis accepted and immediately began assembling a team of Atlanta’s and Georgia’s most prominent physicians, skilled nurses, and other staff for this critical assignment. To enlist support for Davis’s efforts, noted Atlanta writer and journalist Corra Harris urged readers to volunteer, writing, “Every doctor and every nurse that can be spared must be sent to France, and they must go at once.”
The initial call was to organize a 500-bed hospital to be funded through popular subscription. Recognizing the scale of this endeavor, however, the federal government in August 1917 appropriated $40,000 to equip the Emory Unit, soon to be officially designated Base Hospital 43.
Base hospitals were the fourth tier of a complex military healthcare system. The first tier were aid stations near the front lines, where casualties were brought by stretcher for assessment. A few miles to the rear and accessible by ambulance were field hospitals, where patients were triaged by severity of injury or illness; those with minor wounds could be treated and returned to the front lines, while others would be transported to evacuation hospitals. These facilities, predecessors to the M.A.S.H. units from World War II and the Korean War, were the destination for urgent surgical or medical care. Once stabilized, patients would be taken by train to the large, permanent base hospitals for extensive surgical or medical treatment and convalescence.
Throughout the fall and winter, before leaving for Europe, Emory Unit physicians and nurses attended courses in military and combat medical care while awaiting word of the unit’s activation and training. A local fundraising campaign by the Atlanta newspapers netted $7,000. At a Piedmont Driving Club celebration, Davis was presented with the check (used to purchase a fully outfitted ambulance), while staff were given sweaters and Red Cross comfort kits.
Still, months went by — the usual military “hurry up and wait” — with no orders. Finally, in April 1918, unit officers received instructions to report to the recently constructed Camp John B. Gordon (present site of DeKalb Peachtree Airport) for basic training. At the same time, they learned that the unit’s hospital would be increased in size to 1,000 beds.
Finally, in June 1918 unit members traveled by train to Hoboken, New Jersey, and boarded the SS Olympic (sister ship of the ill-fated Titanic) for the voyage to Southampton, England. Due to logistical delays, unit nurses were held behind and did not join their colleagues for nearly a month. After a short channel crossing, the unit arrived in Le Havre, France, on June 23, 1918. A few days later, they were in the city of Blois. Emory Unit Base Hospital 43 of the Allied Expeditionary Force was now operational.
Utilizing existing hospitals and converted school buildings, Base Hospital 43 was soon expanded to 939 medical-surgical beds and 1,229 emergency beds. By mid-July, casualties began arriving by train from evacuation hospitals near Coulommiers, close to the battle lines at Chateau-Thierry and along the Marne River. Soon, the hospital’s census exceeded 700, most injured by gunshot and shrapnel wounds, with dozens of others suffering from poison gas attacks. To meet the growing number of casualties, two principal surgical teams were organized, one of which was then deployed to staff Mobile Hospital 1, providing frontline care for American soldiers fighting in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, the climactic battle to end the war.
Twice during these final months, Base Hospital 43’s capacity was increased to meet the desperate needs, the last time in mid-October, to 2,025 medical-surgical beds and 2,300 emergency beds. On November 10, 1918, the day before the Armistice would be signed, ending the war, the hospital’s census peaked at 2,237 patients. In the weeks and months after hostilities ceased, the hospital continued to care and treat hundreds of patients suffering from both combat-related injuries as well as the epidemic of influenza that was sweeping across Europe and the world.
On Christmas Day, Base Hospital 43 commander Lieutenant Colonel S. U. Marietta, received a telegram of season’s greetings and congratulations from Major General John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. Pershing wrote, “Please accept for yourself, the officers, nurses, and men under your command, and patients under your care, my. . .admiration for. . .the spirit of loyalty and enthusiasm with which the personnel of your hospital have met their obligations.”
The unit remained in France, caring for ill and wounded soldiers until relieved from duty on January 21, 1919. Following a month of demobilization and packing, the unit’s veteran doctors, nurses, and enlisted personnel returned home to a rousing welcome at Camp Gordon on March 29, 1919. While the Emory Unit received citations for meritorious service from General Pershing, French field marshal Ferdinand Foch, and others, the greatest compliment may have come from a patient, a young Army lieutenant, E. H. Jefferies, from New York:
“Atlanta, you can be proud of Emory Unit and if you think you have any more like it, send them along, but you have to go some to keep up with Emory. God bless the people of the South. From a Northern Yank. . . .”
On September 2, 1942, the Emory Unit would be reactivated for service in World War II as General Hospital 43, serving in North Africa and France.
To learn more about the Emory Unit, check out History of the Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43, U.S. Army, American Expeditionary Forces (1919) and The History of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine (Ovid Bell Press, 1979) by John D. Martin, M.D.
Georgia Humanities is a partner of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission. To learn more about Georgia and World War I, read this overview, and our columns about fighter pilot Eugene Dobbs, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and the impact of wartime propaganda.
Ren Davis, a graduate of Emory University, is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in such places as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Magazine, and Atlanta Magazine. Davis and his wife, Helen, are the authors of several popular guidebooks and the award-winning Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service (UGA Press, 2015).
Georgia WWI Centennial Commission meets at the National Infantry Museum
May 2, 2017 – The Commission held its regular monthly meeting at the impressive National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning, followed by a reception for the community and a lecture by Dr. Monique Seefried, member of the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission.
World War I Changed Georgia
This week, TOM JACKSON, Georgia World War I Centennial Commission, and LAURA MCCARTY, of Georgia Humanities, examine the changes World War I brought to Georgia and efforts across the state to commemorate the war.
By Tom Jackson and Laura McCarty
Those of a certain age – early Baby Boomers – grew up through the centennial of the War Between the States and were regaled with stories of Georgia’s role in it. Our parents were of “the Greatest Generation” who fought World War II, so we were well familiar with those stories as well. But when we note that April 6 this year marks the centennial of the United States’ entry into the “Great War,” some actually have to pause to think what war that might be.
World War I, as it came to be known, had been thought “the war to end all wars,” until it didn’t. There were 70 million military personnel mobilized, nine million combatants and seven million civilians who died as a result of the war. We know of the trench warfare, the use of mustard gas and barbed wire, but the stories of Georgia’s role in the war and of the doughboys it sent to the front are less well known.
One hundred years ago this week, on April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. Though President Woodrow Wilson recently had been reelected with a narrow victory under the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War,” increased German submarine attacks on trading and passenger vessels and the Zimmerman Telegram (a secret communication from Germany to Mexico that offered the latter the opportunity to reclaim land in the American Southwest if they allied with Germany) led him to seek the declaration. Congress also passed the Selective Draft Act requiring men from ages 21 to 30 to register.
With the war already almost three years old and at a dangerous stalemate, Georgia newspapers and elected officials had been opposed to American intervention, fearing it would hurt the cotton and timber trade. After the sinking of the Lusitania, Senator Hoke Smith said war was not needed to avenge the deaths of a few “rich Americans.” Senator Thomas E. Watson unsuccessfully challenged the draft act in federal court. Some farmers and landowners feared the loss of laborers and attempted to control who would be drafted. Ten percent of Georgia’s African Americans left as part of what became the Great Migration, seeking to escape Georgia’s Jim Crow conditions through jobs in northern industries or service abroad. (Georgia’s Eugene Bullard, a boxer, had left American shores for Europe prior to the war, but when war broke out, he joined the French military, fighting first with the infantry and eventually as a fighter pilot.)
Georgia’s anti-war attitudes changed quickly, thanks to newspaper accounts that were anti-German and strongly patriotic. (Annette Laing’s column of March 13 provides some examples of how these newspaper articles worked). By the end of the war, more than 100,000 Georgians had served in the war effort, and the state had been home to more military training camps than any other state. Georgia’s major camps crisscrossed the state — from Fort Oglethorpe to Fort Screven on Tybee Island; from Fort Benning in Columbus, to Camp Wheeler in Macon, to Camp Hancock and the Arsenal in Augusta. Souther Field, outside of Americus, was home to a flight school that trained more than 2,000 pilots. Fort McPherson was in south Atlanta, and Camp Gordon was located on the current site of Peachtree DeKalb Airport.
Progressive era women’s clubs provided hospitality to the troops in training. Georgians bought war bonds and planted “liberty gardens.” The state school superintendent encouraged teachers and students to take loyalty oaths. Teachers stopped covering German language, art, and history to emphasize their patriotism.
In 1915 teacher and University of Georgia administrator Moina Michael began the practice of making and selling poppies to raise funds to care for wounded soldiers. The Veterans of Foreign Wars organization continues this practice through their “Buddy Poppy” effort, which occurs in April.
Less than seven weeks before the armistice, the tragic wreck of the troop ship Otranto occurred off the Scottish coast. Of 690 doughboys on board, 370 died, including 130 Georgians. Nashville, the county seat of Berrien County, which had lost 28 men in the Otranto disaster alone, dedicated one of the first doughboy statues in 1921. Across the state many communities erected monuments to those they lost and to honor those who served in the Great War. Charles Graves, a Rome native killed in action, was selected to be the “known” soldier buried at Arlington Cemetery. Later, in accordance with his mother’s wishes, he was reburied in Myrtle Cemetery. Shortly before the war’s end and for several months after, Georgia’s soldiers and civilians were effected by the Spanish flu pandemic.
The Georgia World War I Centennial Commission (GWWICC), in partnership with Georgia Humanities and other key organizations, is working to honor the memory, educate about, and commemorate the roles that Georgians played in the war through exhibitions, K-12 curriculum development, and other programs. Among many of note:
Uncle Sam Wants You! World War I and the American Poster, Atlanta History Center
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924, Atlanta History Center
From Flying Aces to Army Boots: World War I and the Chattahoochee Valley, Columbus Museum
The World’s War is Georgia’s War: 1917-1919, Georgia Southern University Museum, Statesboro
With the Georgia Department of Education, the GWWICC is developing teacher resources for use by teachers in the 5th, 6th, and 8th grades and in high school U.S. and world history courses that include World War I. Through National History Day in Georgia (a program of Georgia Humanities and LaGrange College in partnership with Mercer University), the commission will present awards to students for their research on World War I topics.
The GWWICC website is rich with a directory and photographs of World War I markers and monuments across the state and an expanding database of Georgians who died in service during World War I, including many African Americans not previously recognized.
Tune in to GPB on Monday, April 10; Tuesday, April 11; and Wednesday, April 12; from 9:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. for American Experience’s “The Great War” series.
Tom Jackson serves as executive director of the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission in his position as Heritage Communications Executive for the University System of Georgia. Laura McCarty is executive vice president of Georgia Humanities.
“Ready to Serve” – A story from WWI Base Hospital 18 in France
Storyteller Ellouise Schoettler re-enacts an engaging, first-person account of Army nurses at the front in World War I, leaving members of the audience feeling as if they had been there. Her presentation on Monday, March 27 told the story of nurses from Johns Hopkins Hospital, who are shown in the slide as they boarded the U.S.S. Finland to cross the Atlantic. The event, sponsored by the Oconee County Library, was part of the observance of the centennial of World War I. Thursday, April 6, 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the U.S. declaration of war.
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy
America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
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Michael B. Oren (View Bio)
Hardcover: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007.
A New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Foreign Affairs magazine Best Seller
Drawing on thousands of government documents and personal letters, featuring original maps and more than 60 photographs, this book covers more than 230 years of history. POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY is an indispensable work for anyone interested in understanding the roots of America's Middle East involvement today.
"We often hear that Americans know little about other nations; a bigger problem is that we know too little about ourselves, our history and our national character…. So when a brilliant, lucid historian such as Michael B. Oren does bring the past back to life for us, revealing both what has changed and what has stayed the same, it is a shaft of light in a dark sky. Today, the conventional view is that George W. Bush took the United States on a radical departure when he declared a policy to transform the Middle East and that, as soon as he leaves office, U.S. policy will return to an alleged tradition of realism, rooted in the hard-headed pursuit of tangible national interests. This is both bad history and bad prophecy, as Oren shows in POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY, a series of fascinating and beautifully written stories about individual Americans over the past four centuries and their contact with Middle Eastern cultures…. Three powerful themes emerge from his tales: that from the Founders onward, Americans have repeatedly tried to transform Arab and Muslim peoples—politically, spiritually and economically—to conform to liberal and Christian principles; that since the days of the Puritans, many Americans have been obsessed with the idea of ‘restoring’ Palestine to the Jews; and that from the colonial era to the present, many (and perhaps most) Americans have regarded Islam as a barbaric, violent, and despotic religion. Whether these purposes and perceptions have been intelligent or misguided, based on reality or fantasy, Oren shows that they have been the dominant features of our foreign policy tradition in the Middle East…. Many today may want to disagree, but they will have to wrestle first with the long history of American behavior that Oren has so luminously portrayed." — Robert Kagan, The Washington Post Book World
"POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY is hugely ambitious, drawing on hundreds of original sources to create a finely balanced overview of this enormously complex subject.... Yet it is a diverting tale...full of forgotten twists and memorable characters.... Oren cleverly weaves them into the overarching themes of his title." — Max Rodenbeck, The New York Times Book Review
"This engrossing, informative, and frequently surprising survey of U.S. involvement in the Middle East over the past 230 years is particularly timely. Oren, a contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and New Republic, illustrates that American interests have frequently combined elements of romanticism, religious fervency, and hard-headed power politics. In the early nineteenth century, President Jefferson, perhaps acting against his own instincts to remain aloof from the affairs of the Old World, sent the infant American navy to confront the Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa. Like many of our future endeavors in the region, the results were a mixture of success, failure, and farce. Other episodes covered here that are particularly interesting include previously obscure American efforts to locate the source of the Nile and the efforts by American missionaries to convert vast numbers of Ottoman subjects. But Oren is at his best when describing American involvement in the twentieth century as the U.S. replaced Britain as the dominant ‘imperial’ power in the area. Appealing to both scholars and general readers. " — Booklist
"A tour de force, brilliantly researched and written." — Henry Kissinger, Former U.S. Secretary of State
"A landmark achievement. This is an absolutely vital work that will change the way Americans look at their role in the Middle East and beyond. The story is riveting and the research encyclopedic." — Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations
"Not only a terrific read, but also proof that you don't really understand an issue until you know its history." — Niall Ferguson, author of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
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Quiz: Only 1 in 67 People Can Name All of These Famous African Americans. Can You?
Only 1 in 67 People Can Name All of These Famous African Americans. Can You?
By: Jacqueline Samaroo
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While their history in the United States is littered with countless forms of adversity against them, many African Americans throughout the years have managed to leave their mark on the country and make it a better and more accepting place. Do you believe in dreams? Then let’s see if you can name all of these famous African Americans.
Who is this famous African American?
James Meredith
Maya Angelou – born April 4, 1928 and died May 28, 2014 – is an African American memoirist, civil rights activist and poet. She is widely praised for her literary works, especially her debut autobiography “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”.
The first African American president of the U.S.; Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States for a period of eight years, from 2009 to 2017. Before this, he served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004 and then served as a United States senator (representing Illinois) from 2005 to 2008.
Charles Drew
Charles Drew (born June 3, 1904 and died April 1, 1950) was an American medical researcher, physician and surgeon who helped to advance aspects of blood storage and blood transfusions, which directly led to developing large-scale blood banks in World War II. Drew was an outspoken protester against the racial segregation of blood donation – since there was no scientific cause for the practice.
James Earl Jones is without a doubt one of the most prolific actors in American history; having a career that well exceeds 60 years. Jones is known for his part in The Great White Hope, as well as his voice work in The Lion King (Mufasa) and Star Wars (Darth Vader).
Emmett Till has posthumously become an icon of the Civil Rights Movement as a result the cause of his death. Carolyn Bryant accused Emmett of whistling and flirting with her (something she admitted years later that she had fabricated) and so a few days later her husband (and others) abducted, beat, mutilated and finally shot Till in the head. Emmett Till died at the age of 14 and his funeral was attended by tens of thousands.
Ella Baker
Wilt Chamberlain – full name Wilton Norman Chamberlain – was an American basketball player who is commonly considered to be one of the greatest players in NBA history. Wilt Chamberlain holds numerous records, and is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game.
Before she was an actress, Halle Berry was actually a proficient model, being the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and sixth place in Miss World 1986. She is the only black woman to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is one of the most prolific and acclaimed actors in modern filmmaking. He is well known for portraying several real-life figures; including his celebrated portrayal of Malcom X. He has won several awards for his performances, including two Academy Awards.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Bessie Coleman
Patricia Bath
Muhammad Ali was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, where he began training as an amateur boxer when he was just 12 years old. At the young age of 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and turned professional later that year.
Roy Wilkins
Roy Ottoway Wilkins (born August 30, 1901 and died September 8, 1981) was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement from the 1930s to the 1970s. He is also well known for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Morgan Freeman is an American actor who has won several awards, including an Academy Award for his role in Million Dollar Baby. Freeman has since expanded into directing and even does work as a narrator.
Richard Nathaniel Wright is a celebrated African American author who wrote several poems, non-fiction books, short stories and novels. While he was alive, many of his works were viewed as being controversial since they highlighted racial issues and real-life acts of discrimination.
Ella Baker was by far one of the most influential women in the Civil Rights Movement; even though she may not have been the most well-known. Baker worked alongside several civil rights leaders in the 20th century, including Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
Stevie Wonder is considered to be one of the most critically and commercially successful musical performers of the late 20th century. He is also an activist and is well known for his successful campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a holiday.
Madame C.J. Walker
Duke Ellington was an African American composer, pianist and bandleader of a jazz orchestra. He toured extensively with his orchestra, even in Europe; and managed to lead them for over 50 years until his death. He is also known for having written over a thousand compositions.
Bessie Coleman was the first woman of African-American descent (and also the first of Native American descent) to hold a pilot license. Coleman was interested in flying from an early age; however, since African Americans and women had no US flight school opportunities at the time, she instead saved up money to go to France and earn her license there.
Malcolm X has been hailed as one of the most influential African Americans in history. Although he initially criticized the Civil Rights Movement as being ineffectual and unsuccessful, later on he would find himself willing to work with them – while advocating for some more effective changes in their policies.
Eddie Murphy is a man who has had many different successful careers in entertainment, including but not limited to: comedian, actor, producer, singer and writer. Murphy is one of the most financially successful actors.
Sugar Ray Leonard is widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, and won world titles in five weight divisions. He was named "Boxer of the Decade" in the 1980s and was a part of the “fabulous four” with Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler and Roberto Durán.
Althea Gibson was an African American tennis player and also a professional golfer. She was the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title (doing so in 1956) and she won both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon in both 1957 and also again in 1958.
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is widely regarded as one of the most skilled, well-known golfers of all time. At the height of his professional career, he was considered to be one of the highest paid athletes in the world and also ranked number one for a total of 683 weeks.
Widely hailed as one of the most skilled basketball players of all time, Magic Johnson is now currently retired but he holds the position of president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers. He was a member of the “Dream Team” (1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team) that won the gold medal in 1992.
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If any singer needs no introduction it is Michael Jackson, the undisputed “King of Pop." While it is obvious that he has influenced countless musical artists around the world, he has also had a significant impact on the evolution of dance techniques and their popularization.
Dorothy Dandridge was an African American actress, singer, and dancer. She is well known for being the first African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress – which she received for her performance in the 1954 film Carmen Jones.
Undeniably one of the most influential figures in North American black culture, Marcus Garvey was an activist and a supporter of Pan-Africanism. He was also an outspoken criticizer of Western communism, especially on topics of how the political movement related to people of African ancestry.
Sidney Poitier (full title Sir Sidney Poitier) is an American actor, film director, author and diplomat. He is best known for being the first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor – for his part in Lilies of the Field.
While Diana Ross is obviously best known for her extensive singing career, she has also found success as a songwriter, actress and record producer. She was the lead singer of the Supremes; the best charting girl group in US history, and one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.
At the time of his retirement in 1989, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA's all-time leader in points scored (38,387), games played (1,560), minutes played (57,446), field goals made (15,837), field goal attempts (28,307), blocked shots (3,189), defensive rebounds (9,394), career wins (1,074) and personal fouls (4,657). He still currently holds the records for points scored and career wins.
Spike Lee has, through his personal production company, produced over 35 films. His efforts in the film industry have earned him numerous awards and two Academy Award nominations. His is well known for focusing on topics of race relations and racism.
Colin Powell is the first and only (as of now) African American who has served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was the first African American to serve as United States secretary of state, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.
James Howard Meredith is not only an important Civil Rights Movement figure, but he is also an Air Force veteran, a writer and a political adviser. He is responsible for the largest civil rights march in Mississippi, which he had original started a solo march but soon amassed over 15,000 marchers after he was shot on the second day by a white gunman.
Tatan Brown
Aretha Franklin is an African American singer and songwriter. She has recorded a total of 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top 10 pop singles, 100 R&B entries and 20 number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the chart's history.
Josephine Baker was a woman of seemingly polarizing occupations. On one hand she was a prolific dancer and entertainer especially throughout Europe. On the other hand, she was also a celebrated Civil Rights activist and even a French Resistance agent
Nat King Cole was one of the most powerful and influential figures in jazz music and is largely responsible for its mainstream appeal even to this day. During his lifetime, he recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.
While he may be experiencing worldwide success as a businessman today, Michael Jordan also experienced unrivaled success as a basketball player as well. He has been hailed as the greatest basketball player of all time by countless critics and professional organizations.
While Michael Jackson was dubbed the “King of Pop” Oprah Winfrey was dubbed by many as the "Queen of All Media." She has been ranked the richest African-American and is also considered to be the greatest black philanthropist in American history. She is also North America's first multi-billionaire black person.
Ralph Ellison was an African American novelist, literary critic and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He is known for his political content as well, specifically Shadow and Act, a collection of political, social and critical essays
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Richard Pryor was best known as an African American comedian; however, he was also an actor and a social critic (which often found its way into his comedy routines). Several successful comedians (including Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Chappelle) regard Pryor as the greatest comedian of all time.
Madame C.J. Walker was many things throughout her life: social activist, philanthropist and political activist; however, what she is most famous for is her success as an entrepreneur. She is widely considered to be the first female self-made millionaire in America.
While he was an exceptional baseball player in his own right, what Jackie Robinson is most famous for is his importance in ending racial segregation in professional baseball. He was the first black player to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award.
Often referred to as “The Genius," Ray Charles was an African American musician, singer, songwriter and composer who pioneered the soul music genre. Charles achieved all of this success and fame while being blind from the age of 7.
Langston Hughes is well known for being one of the initial innovators of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He was also an influential social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist. He spoke about issues that dealt with racism, black identity and sexuality.
Will Smith is quite possibly one of the greatest entertainers of all time, earning accolades and awards with virtually every career path that he has pursued. On TV he earned success in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, as a musician he has won four Grammy Awards, and as a movie actor he has received countless awards and nominations. He is also a celebrated producer and comedian.
Charles Barkley is one of the greatest NBA players of all time and often regarded as one of the most animated players as well. He was a part of the Olympic “Dream Team” and was actually the highest-scoring member of that team.
Booker T. Washington lived on the cusp of radical racial change in the United States. He was in fact from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery. He is celebrated as an author, educator and (more often than not remembered as) an advisor to presidents of the United States.
When the Civil Rights Movement is talked about, one name always comes up more often than the rest – Martin Luther King, Jr. Inspired by his Christian upbringing and individuals such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr chose to adopt nonviolent means of activism to try and achieve his goals.
Where would rock music be today without the hands and mind of Jimi Hendrix? The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame chooses to label him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music”. A surprisingly great achievement, since his mainstream music career only spanned four years.
Often referred to as “mother of the freedom movement” and also “the first lady of civil rights”, Rosa Parks is hailed as one of the most recognizable icons of the civil rights movement. While she was not the first person to oppose segregation on public transportation, her case was the most effective and publicized.
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Safe Streets, A Participant’s Story: Alex Atkins
Alex Atkins, who grew up in Humboldt Park, vividly remembers tough experiences “using and selling weed” for several years. He eventually asked himself “Am I am going to do this every day? Or am I going to go ahead and get me a job?”
These days, he is trying to find a new path - one that involves work and may lead back to school. Alex has worked closely with the outreach team at ALSO, which has mentored him and shown him that there are alternatives.
Alex Atkins, Safe Streets participant (right) and Maribel Romero, Lead Case Manager at ALSO. On April 25, Alex and Maribel were honored by Community Partners 4 Peace (CP4P) at an event held at the Humboldt Park Fieldhouse that recognized participants and staff of the program.
To understand how far Alex, who is 23, has come, consider more of the story that led him to this point.
“We smoked weed and sold it all the time,” he says of himself and a group of friends. “I’d leave the house around seven in the morning and come back at one at night.”
At one point, he says, he “saw no point in going to school, even though I only needed one credit to graduate. I didn’t really have any thoughts about the future. I was just getting money by selling weed.” Then, in 2014 - a week after he stopped going to high school - Alex had his first epileptic seizure. He’s had about 50 seizures since then, and has been to a hospital 20 times because of his epilepsy.
“I thought it was going to keep on going like this. And then, right before I turned 20, I got shot. The bullet went right through both of my legs and hit one of my thighs. It crippled me for a few months.”
Meanwhile, by the time he was a senior in high school, Alex’s father had passed away. Alex lived in Humboldt Park with his great-grandfather, and now lives in Oak Park with his mother. He has struggled to get on public aid, he says, and is still trying to make that happen.
At one point, he says, he started talking to Marcus Davis - his father’s fiance’s brother. Marcus is also a street outreach worker at ALSO. “He was like my ‘step uncle,’” Alex says. “His attitude was ‘Let’s see if I can help you out, Alex.’”
Marcus told Alex about ALSO, and Alex participated in the 10-10-10 Employment Program, which teaches disconnected youth and young adults how to set up and operate state-of-the-art sound system equipment.
Safe Streets participant Alex Atkins
At first, Alex says “I was really skeptical of ALSO. I thought it was just another youth program, and they might check up on you every two or three weeks.” Instead, what he learned was that he was welcomed into the program by a number of people - including outreach workers Nelson Torres,Christine Escalera and Rolando Otero (who is also Outreach Supervisor) as well as Lead Outreach Worker Orlando Cintron and caseworker George Gonzalez. Lead Case Manager Maribel Romero has helped Alex put together a resume and prepare for interviews.
“These people understand my predicament, and I learned from them that there are a lot of other things I could do with my life besides selling drugs. I don’t want to be locked up or on probation and limited in what kind of job I can get.”
George connected Alex to a job opportunity at a car wash at Quiroga’s Car Wash in Chicago, and Alex worked there - washing, drying and detailing cars - for five months. Later, ALSO helped connect Alex to a variety of jobs through temp agencies. He also went to Springfield with George and Marcus to participate in a rally against gun violence with inVEST Chicago, a citywide partnership organizations working on the issue.
Alex talks to Marcus three or four times a week; Nelson checks up on him, and Orlando is trying to help him get another job. In the meantime, he is starting to share the message about ALSO to younger brothers and cousins. “I tell them that the program is going to help you out - schoolwise, financial-wise. The people at ALSO care - and they will help you.”
Down the road, Alex says, he would like to be in a stable job and can also see himself working with youth. Marcus says that Alex is “passionate about talking to people his age and younger, and has learned a lot from his experience.”
“When I was younger, there was no guidance for me,” says Alex. “ I’ve learned that you can have a long life, but stuff you do when you’re younger will affect you in the future. I can share what I’ve learned with others who are in the same situation.”
Alex Atkins, who grew up in Humboldt Park, vividly remembers tough experiences “using and selling weed” for several years. These days, he is trying to find a new path - one that involves work and may lead back to school. Alex has worked closely with the outreach team at ALSO, which has mentored him and shown him that there are alternatives.
“The people at ALSO understand my predicament, and I learned from them that there are a lot of other things I could do with my life besides selling drugs,” says Alex. “I don’t want to be locked up or on probation and limited in what kind of job I can get.”
Down the road, Alex says, he would like to be in a stable job and can also see himself working with youth. “When I was younger, there was no guidance for me,” says Alex. “ I’ve learned that you can have a long life, but stuff you do when you’re younger will affect you in the future. I can share what I’ve learned with others who are in the same situation.”
ALSO is an organization committed to end violence in homes and communities nationwide. Your contribution will help us live out our mission to develop, promote and implement model programs in order to build a movement for peace and safety in the coming year.
With your support, we will:
Continue providing jobs for in-risk youth through our 10-10-10 job training program.
Provide bystander intervention training for youth and community members, giving people the skills to know how to increase safety in high risk situations.
Explore and reveal the relationship between intimate partner and community violence to create programming that will reduce both.
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Rob has broad practice, focusing on intellectual property, trade practices, general commercial litigation, tax and administrative law. He has appeared both led and unled in the High Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Supreme Court of Western Australia, Federal Circuit Court, District Court of New South Wales, Local Court of New South Wales, IP Australia, AAT and NCAT.
Before coming to the Bar, Rob worked as a solicitor at Allens in the Intellectual Property and Banking and Finance teams and was an associate to Hon Justice Cowdroy OAM on the Federal Court of Australia.
Rob has completed a BCL at the University of Oxford, graduating with a distinction average, and he was awarded the Law Faculty Prize for International Intellectual Property. Prior to this, Rob completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours.
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