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SPROSON STATUE UP
Statue erected well in time for unveiling
Port Vale Supporters' Club is delighted to announce that today the Roy Sproson statue was finally erected at Vale Park ahead of the planned official unveiling ceremony next month.
There is still plenty of work to do before then and the statue has now been covered over again.
We would like to take this opportunity to thanks everyone who has played a part over the last 11 years in turning this tribute to the club's greatest servant into a reality.
Roy is back where he belongs watching over his beloved Port Vale FC.
Roy Sproson Information
Born in the Mother Town of Burslem in 1930, Roy Sproson went on to play 837 times for the club he loved and was also manager for four years.
During that time he was part of the 1954 promotion-winning side and he also played and captained two other promotion-winning teams in 1958/59 and 1969/70.
He was a member of the Vale team which won the Football Supporters' Clubs' Trophy in 1961 and was voted Gillette 'Sportsman of the Year' in 1970.
Roy finished his playing career in 1972 with the distinction of never having been sent off and only being booked twice.
His older brother Jess also played for the Vale 38 times while his nephew Phil made 495 appearances – putting him third in the all-time appearances list and cementing the Sproson family's unique links with the club.
Port Vale Supporters' Club, which has more than 1,600 members, would like to wish Micky Adams and his team all the best for Saturday’s game away at Northampton Town.
Up The Vale!
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GAFFER PRE-MATCH
Micky hoping for back-to-back wins
Micky Adams will be looking to back-to-back wins as Vale take on bottom-placed Aldershot Town here at Vale Park on Saturday afternoon (weather pernmitting)
The Vale boss said: “We are ready and looking forward to the game. Last Saturday was a big relief for everybody and hopefully it has given the boys a bit of self-belief and given everybody confidence.
“We were on a terrific run at the beginning of the season, in fact for most of the season, and you could see a confident group of players.
“Obviously that confidence has not been there of late and that has been cause by us losing games, but confidence breeds success and we are hoping we have turned the corner.
“There is no doubt the importance of the game. Aldershot going to the bottom of the league on Tuesday will have been a real gut-wrencher for them and they need wins.
“Points at this time of the year - not necessarily for us but for those at the bottom – three points are massive for them so I can only see an Aldershot team coming here and trying to win the game – I think that’s their best policy.
“But we have got our own agenda. We want to get back to back victories to feel better about ourselves and to cement our place at the top.
“We know what we have got to do, let’s hope we can do that. I think the pace of the game and the tempo of the game hopefully will be dictated by us and not them.
“I felt that was the key to our success last week. We started really well and played in their half of the pitch for a lot of the first half and if you can do that and get an early goal as well, then obviously that settles everybody down.
“If we don’t do that, then obviously we have got to try and be a bit patient. A draw would probably help us rather than them.
“But our focus this week is that we need to set the tempo of the game, we need to start fast, we need to make sure that we concentrate fully, particularly the boys at the back.
they have to be mindful of the act that if things are doing well we need to keep a decent shape and not go gung-ho – it takes ninety minutes to win a game of football.” “And if we are putting pressure on Aldershot then
Vale have a couple of players back in contention for a place and also players who featured in last weekend’s victory at York are either doubtful or not available.
Adams says: “Daniel Jones has had a good weeks training and so he will be in the squad. We think there was a little bit of nervousness on his part last week and he certainly didn’t want to let anybody down.
“He did well sticking his hand in the air and saying he didn’t feel quite right in the warm-up, but he has had a good week in training.
“Doug Loft is fit and available, Rob Taylor has broken a bone in his hand this week in training, so he is going to be doubtful.
“Darren Purse is back on the training ground but I would think this game is too early for him, he needs a week’s training and obviously Chris Birchall is away on international duty.
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More evidence of a skewed GOP map in Wisconsin
The massive GOP edge in Wisconsin's legislative map, which state has been ordered to redraw
More evidence of a skewed GOP map in Wisconsin The massive GOP edge in Wisconsin's legislative map, which state has been ordered to redraw Check out this story on postcrescent.com: http://on.jsonl.in/2jD2CoD
Wisconsin Voter
Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 7:59 p.m. CT Jan. 28, 2017 | Updated 8:10 p.m. CT Jan. 28, 2017
President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington o n Friday. (Photo: Evan Vucci, Associated Press)
A fresh look at the 2016 vote offers yet more evidence of the huge partisan advantage Republicans built into Wisconsin’s legislative map, which the state was ordered to redraw by a federal court Friday.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton finished in a near tie statewide, with Trump prevailing by roughly three-quarters of a percentage point.
Yet Trump led Clinton in 63 of the state’s 99 Assembly districts, according to a review of state election returns.
And he led her in 23 of the state’s 33 state Senate districts.
Those numbers reflect the baked-in advantage — and virtual lock — the GOP enjoys in the battle for control of the Legislature, thanks to a one-sided map.
In effect, while the state overall is “purple” in its makeup, most legislative districts are “red.” Because Democratic voters are packed into fewer districts, the vast majority of seats are more Republican than the state as a whole. That means that whatever share of the vote the GOP wins in statewide races for president or governor, they are likely to win a much higher share of legislative seats.
This happened in 2012 when Republicans got only 46% of the presidential vote but still won 60% of the Assembly seats.
It happened in 2014 when Republicans got just over 52% of the vote for governor but captured 63% of the Assembly seats.
And it happened last fall when Republicans and Democrats virtually split the presidential vote, but the GOP won 64% of the Assembly seats.
RELATED: Will rural voters who swung to Trump swing back?
A three-judge federal panel tossed out Wisconsin’s legislative map two months ago for this very reason.
It found the maps were not only excessively partisan but were among the most heavily skewed to one party of any plan in the country in recent decades.
How is it possible to have a map in a competitive state in which so many seats skew Republican?
It happens when Democratic voters are highly concentrated or ”packed” into fewer districts, giving that party more votes than it needs in the districts it dominates, but fewer votes elsewhere. The result is a minority of seats that are lopsidedly Democratic and a majority of seats that have a smaller but decisive GOP edge.
Part of the GOP advantage in Wisconsin is natural: Democrats are more concentrated geographically in urban areas, such as Milwaukee and Madison, meaning their voters are less efficiently distributed across districts statewide. This effect was even more pronounced last fall, because the partisan gap between urban and rural Wisconsin was larger than usual.
But the federal court found that population patterns don’t explain away the sheer magnitude of the partisan tilt in the Wisconsin maps. And, in fact, the GOP advantage in legislative races was boosted considerably by the 2011 redistricting.
How big is that tilt?
There are different ways to measure it. Those challenging the map in court relied on a formula that calculates how many “wasted” votes a party has because its voters are concentrated in fewer districts.
But one simple way to illustrate the map’s lopsidedness is to use the presidential vote as a measure of how each district compares in its partisan makeup to the state as a whole.
Trump won statewide last fall by 0.76 of a percentage point. But he won by bigger margins in 63 of 99 Assembly seats and 23 of 33 state Senate seats, meaning those districts were more Republican than the state as a whole.
Something similar happened four years earlier when 60 Assembly seats were more Republican than the statewide vote, based on the Barack Obama-Mitt Romney presidential vote.
And it happened two years earlier when 62 Assembly seats were more Republican than the state as a whole, based on the vote for governor.
If 60 or more Assembly seats are redder than the state as a whole and fewer than 40 are bluer than the state as a whole, than an election in which both parties get the same number of votes statewide would typically result in at least a 20-seat GOP edge in that chamber. Democrats can win many more votes statewide without winning legislative control. Republicans can have a "down" year (as they did in 2012), win a minority of the state's voters and easily retain control.
The other big takeaway from these numbers is the pronounced lack of legislative competition at the local level.
While the state as a whole was ultra-competitive in 2016 — decided by less than a percentage point in the presidential vote — hardly any of the state’s 132 legislative districts reflect that overall partisan balance.
For example, the difference between the Democratic and Republican presidential vote was 10 points or more in 26 of 33 Senate seats; it was 5 points or more in 30 of the 33 seats.
In the Assembly, 77 of 99 seats were “decided” for president by 10 points or more, and 91 were decided by 5 points or more.
In other words, in a state in which three of the past five presidential races have been decided by less than a percentage point, only a small handful of legislative seats are balanced in their partisan makeup.
The rest are virtually locked in for the party that currently holds them. And in the clear majority of cases, that means the Republican Party.
The data show that for Democrats to win just a bare 50-seat majority in the Assembly under the current lines, they would have to capture at least 14 seats that voted for Trump, and nine that voted for both Trump in 2016 and Republican Mitt Romney in 2012. In some of those seats, the built-in GOP advantage is not just a point or two, but 5 to 10 points.
On Friday, a federal court ordered the state to redraw its maps by Nov. 1 to ensure their use in the 2018 elections. The state is expected to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is a test of how partisan a legislative map can be before it is unconstitutional. That legal question hasn’t been settled.
But there is less of a question when it comes to the political effects of gerrymandering.
In ruling against the Wisconsin map last fall, the federal court concluded that one of the goals of the GOP’s redistricting plan “was to secure Republican control of the Assembly under any likely future electoral scenario for the remainder of the decade, in other words to entrench the Republican Party in power.”
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Mathilde Emeriau
Ph.D Candidate
Mathilde Emeriau is a Ph.D. Candidate with an interest in comparative politics and quantitative methodology. Her research centers on immigrant integration, with a focus on France. In her dissertation, she examines who gets refugee status and how do refugees integrate in France using two original data collection. She successfully negotiated an unprecedented research agreement with the French asylum office to collect archival records of over 4,000 asylum applications and survey a representative sample of about 2,000 refugees living in France.
Her research has been supported by the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab, the Europe Center, and the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Before attending Stanford, she completed a M.A in Economics at the Paris School of Economics and worked on evaluations of health and cash transfer interventions with Innovations for Poverty Action in Cameroon, Uganda and Liberia.
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Do Anti-Poverty Programs Sway Voters? Experimental Evidence from Uganda
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Nicaragua Sets Modern CT Scanner into Service in Public Hospital
Managua, July 11 (Prensa Latina) The Nicaraguan Ministry of Health (MINSA) will start off a modern CT Scanner service in the Manolo Morales public hospital, located in Managua.
The public hospital will have such a state-of-the-art equipment for the first time. It emits low doses of radiation and provides high-quality images, the Vice President Rosario Murillo stated.
Implementing this brand-new tomograph, the hospital will offer a more comprehensive health service with a Computerized Tomography (CT) scan room, two Digital X-Rays rooms and three ultrasound rooms.
Rosario Murillo explained on Wednesday, on Channel 4 of national TV, that the tomograph installation was a reality come true thanks to a 7 million dollar investment and cooperation between Austria and Nicaragua.
When the Sandinista National Liberation Front returned to power in 2007, the public health system was dire, according to official data.
Hospitals in poor condition, insufficient working staff to cover all services, and a tech backwardness that did not allow to provide several services that are nowadays mandatory in the rest of the world.
MINSA was set about revolutionizing the public health system with millions of dollars investments in infrastructure construction, personnel training and acquisition of high-tech equipment. Over a decade later, Nicaragua boasted one of Latin America´s best health rates.
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Venezuelan Government and Opposition Agree on Permanent Dialogue
Caracas, Jul 12 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday that the Bolivarian Government and the delegations of several opposition groups agreed to establish permanent political dialogue to reach peace agreements.
'This week, in Barbados, a historic working session was held on all six issues agreed upon with the Government of Norway and the right-wing sectors. Three days of intensive work,' the head of State informed.
Maduro clarified that the Executive has no problems to announce the details of the meeting publicly, 'but there is an agreement among the parties to not reveal the punctual issues being discussed. We can only say that there are six items on the agenda agreed upon by consensus,' he noted.
From the city of Cua, state of Miranda, Maduro asked Governor Hector Rodriguez to report on his experience in the process that started in Oslo and was held later in Barbados.
Rodriguez is a member of the official delegation to the talks, along with other officials of the Bolivarian Government.
During three intensive sessions of dialogue and peace with the opposition sectors, we listened to the aspirations, reflections and requests made by the different groups,' the leader confirmed.
He explained that the Government ratified its will to install a permanent board 'in order to work together for the country's peace', in accordance with what was expressed by the right wing, Rodriguez summarized.
He revealed that in the talks in Norway and Barbados, the Bolivarian delegation repeated 'the sad violent and non-positive chronology of the opposition's history against Venezuelans,' he stressed.
Rodriguez, who is also a leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), noted that since President Hugo Chavez's death in 2013 and Maduro's electoral victory, the opposition has called to destabilize the country by any means.
He added that despite those opposition agendas with terrorist actions, 'which do not generate anyone's trust', the Government is carrying out the process of dialogue for the benefit of the people.
Rodriguez warned that the process 'will be complex and not simple, because the differences among opposition spokespersons need a lot of work and patience.'
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How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened.
Michael Waldman is president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the author of The Second Amendment: A Biography.
Thomas Jefferson offers numerous opportunities for pro-gun advocates. “Historical research demonstrates the Founders out-‘NRAing’ even the NRA,” proclaimed one prolific scholar. “‘One loves to possess arms’ wrote Thomas Jefferson, the premier intellectual of his day, to George Washington on June 19, 1796.” What a find! Oops: Jefferson was not talking about guns. He was writing to Washington asking for copies of some old letters, to have handy so he could issue a rebuttal in case he got attacked for a decision he made as secretary of state. The NRA website still includes the quote. You can go online to buy a T-shirt emblazoned with Jefferson’s mangled words.
Some of the assumptions were simply funny. In his book on judicial philosophy, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, lauded Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm’s “excellent study” of English gun rights, noting sarcastically, “she is not a member of the Michigan Militia, but an Englishwoman.” But a historian fact-checked the justice: “Malcolm’s name may sound British, and Bentley College, where Malcolm teaches history, may sound like a college at Oxford, but in fact Malcolm was born and raised in Utica, New York, and Bentley is a business college in Massachusetts.”
Still, all this focus on historical research began to have an impact. And eventually these law professors, many toiling at the fringes of respectability, were joined by a few of academia’s leading lights. Sanford Levinson is a prominent liberal constitutional law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1989, he published an article tweaking other progressives for ignoring “The Embarrassing Second Amendment.” “For too long,” he wrote, “most members of the legal academy have treated the Second Amendment as the equivalent of an embarrassing relative, whose mention brings a quick change of subject to other, more respectable, family members. That will no longer do.” Levinson was soon joined by Akhil Reed Amar of Yale and Harvard’s Laurence Tribe. These prominent progressives had differing opinions on the amendment and its scope. But what mattered was their political provenance—they were liberals! (One is reminded of Robert Frost’s definition of a liberal: someone so open-minded he will not take his own side in an argument.)
As the revisionist perspective took hold, government agencies also began to shift. In 1981, Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate for the first time in 24 years. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch became chair of a key Judiciary Committee panel, where he commissioned a study on “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.” In a breathless tone it announced, “What the Subcommittee on the Constitution uncovered was clear—and long lost—proof that the second amendment to our Constitution was intended as an individual right of the American citizen to keep and carry arms in a peaceful manner, for protection of himself, his family, and his freedoms.” The cryptologist discovering invisible writing on the back of the Declaration of Independence in the Disney movie National Treasure could not have said it better.
Despite Hatch’s dramatic “discovery,” a constitutional right to gun ownership was still a stretch, even for the conservatives in Reagan’s Justice Department, who were reluctant to undo the work not only of judges, but also of democratically elected legislators. When Ed Meese, Reagan’s attorney general, commissioned a comprehensive strategy for jurisprudential change in 15 areas ranging from the “exclusionary rule” under the Fourth Amendment to public initiatives to private religious education, it did not include a plan for the Second Amendment.
But in time, the NRA’s power to elect presidents began to shift executive branch policies, too. In 2000, gun activists strongly backed Governor George W. Bush of Texas. After the election, Bush’s new attorney general, John Ashcroft, reversed the Justice Department’s stance. The NRA’s head lobbyist read the new policy aloud at its 2001 convention in Kansas City: “The text and original intent of the Second Amendment clearly protect the right of individuals to keep and bear firearms.”
In the meantime, the “individual right” argument was starting to win in another forum: public opinion. In 1959, according to a Gallup poll, 60 percent of Americans favored banning handguns; that dropped to 41 percent by 1975 and 24 percent in 2012. By early 2008, according to Gallup, 73 percent of Americans believed the Second Amendment “guaranteed the rights of Americans to own guns” outside the militia.
Over the past decade, the idea of a Second Amendment right has become synonymous with conservatism, even with support for the Republican Party. In 1993, for example, the New York Times mentioned “gun control” 388 times, and the Second Amendment only 16. By 2008, overall mentions of the issue dropped to 160 but the Second Amendment was mentioned 59 times.
In the end, it was neither the NRA nor the Bush administration that pressed the Supreme Court to reverse its centuries-old approach, but a small group of libertarian lawyers who believed other gun advocates were too timid. They targeted a gun law passed by the local government in Washington, D.C., in 1976—perhaps the nation’s strictest—that barred individuals from keeping a loaded handgun at home without a trigger lock. They recruited an appealing plaintiff: Dick Heller, a security guard at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, who wanted to bring his work revolver home to his high-crime neighborhood. The NRA worried it lacked the five votes necessary to win. The organization tried to sideswipe the effort, filing what Heller’s lawyers called “sham litigation” to give courts an excuse to avoid a constitutional ruling. But the momentum that the NRA itself had set in motion proved unstoppable, and the big case made its way to the Supreme Court.
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Rick Perry’s Wild Plan to Take Jobs From Blue States
It’s so crazy, it just might work.
By CALEB HANNAN
Caleb Hannan is a writer in Denver.
There are many ways to run for president, even when it’s so early in the process that you don’t want to actually appear to be running for president. Yet Texas Governor Rick Perry may have found a new one.
While the men most considered to be his fellow hopefuls in the 2016 Republican race bounce between the early-primary states, Perry has charted a different course. He’s spent his fair share of time in South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire, of course. But he’s also paid multiple visits to a handful of states that would appear to have little to do with each other, and even less to do with winning a party nomination.
Since as early as February of last year and as recently as April of this one, Perry has made eight trips to six different states, all of which have one very particular thing in common: They’re run by Democratic governors. Perry has used his visits to hammer on a consistent theme: Texas is a great state for business; the state he’s currently in is not; so wouldn’t it make sense then for all those companies that aren’t currently located in the Lone Star State to correct their error? Earlier this month, Perry made plain the politics behind his accumulated frequent-flier miles. “Blue-state governors need to be looking over their shoulder,” he told a Fox News panel.
Perry’s focused national tour is built around a message that’s tailor made for a presidential campaign whose central issue will likely be a lagging economy. The “Texas miracle,” the idea that Perry’s policies produced job growth in the worst climate since the Great Depression, first emerged in his initial failed campaign and has lived on ever since, buoyed by the fact that the state’s unemployment rate remains below the national average. But as any number of progressive-minded opponents will tell you, that “miracle” is most likely due in large part to the state’s wealth of fossil fuels. Hardly an advantage Perry can claim credit for. But tempting CEOs to relocate southward? For that he'll gladly take an attaboy.
Poaching companies is nothing new. States have been bad-mouthing and out-bidding each other for decades in the hopes of luring more business, often with little to show for it. But according to Greg Leroy, the executive director of Good Jobs First , a D.C.-based non-profit devoted to exposing what it considers the folly of government subsidies often given in the name of attracting companies, Perry’s campaign stands on its own. “I’ve been covering this for 30 years and there’s no precedent for what he’s doing,” says Leroy. “Nobody’s been as aggressive. Nobody’s done it as personally. He’s really taking it to a new low.”
Whether you believe Perry is simply doing what’s best for Texas or using partially taxpayer-funded trips to launch a national campaign mostly depends on your affiliation. A spokesperson for Perry insists, “These trips are about competition for the best ideas.” Texas Democratic Party spokesperson Manny Garcia naturally disagrees: “This is quite clearly a front to rebrand himself.” Even those stuck in the middle realize the issues are intertwined. When reached for comment, Carol Sims, the director of the Texas Business Roundtable, said that she’d be happy to comment on Perry’s attempts to lure businesses into the state but wasn’t comfortable speaking about his “national political aspirations.” When it was suggested that it might be impossible to talk about one and not the other, Sims agreed. “Yeah that’s true,” she said. Then she laughed.
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By DAVID LAMPO
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Beyond how they might lay the groundwork for a future presidential campaign, though, there’s a more fundamental question raised by Perry’s trips. Are they actually doing anything for Texas? The War Between the States—the ongoing battle for businesses to relocate from one to another—has its roots in the Depression-era South, with flare-ups ever since. It usually follows a familiar pattern: A company expresses an interest in moving. States line up to offer them subsidies and tax breaks. And in the end, a politician has a press conference where they subtly, or not so subtly, take most of the credit.
The ideological fuel powering Perry’s trips out of state says that, unlike the weather, that vague term known as a “business climate” can be engineered, and that no one’s done a better job of parting the clouds than Texas. But Leroy and nearly a century’s worth of data suggest otherwise. As does the most recent pelt in Perry’s poaching tour, which also happens to be the biggest such prize in his political career.
Perry’s odyssey began last year with a radio ad that played in and around Sacramento in advance of his first trip. “Building a business is tough, but I hear building a business in California is next to impossible,” says Perry in a voiceover. “I have a message for California businesses: Come check out Texas.” The ad set the tone for Perry’s subsequent trips, which revolved around the reddest of red meat: guns and taxes.
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Gaels weekend road roundup: week 13
The beginning of the semester saw both hockey teams on the road for a pair of matchups. While the men’s team found good fortune away from home, the women weren’t quite as lucky.Continue...
Steve Snyder named head coach of Queen’s football
On Dec. 16, Athletics and Recreation (A&R) announced that Steve Snyder will take over as head coach of Queen’s football in the 2019-20 season.Continue...
Slater Doggett competes against Canadian World Junior team
In December, Queen’s forward Slater Doggett laced up and featured for the U Sports All-Stars in a three-game series against Canada’s World Junior Prospects.Continue...
New facilities, equipment on display at campus gyms
The New Year brought a wealth of fresh fitness equipment to the ARC and the soon-to-be-opened athletic facilities at Mitchell Hall.Continue...
Queen’s to host 2020 Women’s Rugby U Sports Championships
Early in December, U Sports awarded Queen’s the opportunity to host the 2020 Women’s Rugby National Championship.Continue...
Gaels' optimism ringing in new year
The men’s volleyball team has momentum heading into the final nine games of the regular season.Continue...
Face-off for number one
After his starting and backup goaltenders left the program this summer, men’s hockey Head Coach Brett Gibson faced a problem: he only had one goalie going into the season, and hadn’t recruited at all for another.Continue...
Continuity in coaching holds value
When Pat Sheahan said he was the best version of himself he's ever been at his resignation press conference last week, I didn’t doubt him.Continue...
Men's rugby earn silver at national championships
The men’s rugby team’s 22-game undefeated streak came to a halt last weekend.Continue...
Sports in Brief
This weekend, three past and present Gaels qualified for the World Cross Country Championships, and Ryan Bechmanis was named football's interim head coachContinue...
Queen’s trump RMC for second time of 2018-19
Last Saturday, the men’s hockey team beat the RMC Paladins for the second time this season, coming away with a 7-2 win on home ice.Continue...
Men’s basketball win lone game, women lose big; men’s, women’s volleyball sweep pair of games; women’s hockey split weekend seriesContinue...
'Coming back never an option' for resigned football head coach
On Tuesday, Queen’s Athletics and Recreation (A&R) announced football Head Coach Pat Sheahan had left the program after 19 years with the team. In a press conference at the Alumni Lounge on Thursday afternoon, Sheahan told reporters he “never quit anything in his life” and the program is experiencing a “generational change.”Continue...
Gaels sweep way to national championship final
After running away with the Turner Trophy just two weeks ago, the men’s rugby team is one win away from the Canadian University Rugby Championships in Victoria, B.C.Continue...
Stone’s eyes set on senior national rowing team
Gavin Stone is set on reaching the international stage.Continue...
Athletics recognize student athlete academic achievements
On Wednesday morning, Queen’s student athletes were honoured for their academic achievements over the past year.Continue...
Queen's split pair of home games, hold 4-3 record
After a rough 93-65 loss on Friday night against the Laurier Golden Hawks (5-3), the Gaels (4-3) rebounded Saturday night against the University of Waterloo Warriors (1-7) with a 83-75 win last weekend.Continue...
Women’s basketball triumphs over Laurier, Waterloo
The women’s basketball team is riding high.Continue...
Men’s hockey sweep weekend series, win fourth straight game
Over the weekend, the men’s hockey team (10-3-0) completed their four-game home series with two decisive wins over the Laurentian Voyageurs (5-7-0) and Nipissing Lakers (3-9).Continue...
Men’s, women’s volleyball dominate pair of home games
In their last home games of the fall term, the men’s and women’s volleyball teams won against the York Lions and Nipissing Lakers on Saturday and Sunday.Continue...
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Kwiambal National Park: Camping options
Kwiambal (= Ki-am-ble) is a tiny national park in northern New South Wales, some 70km north of Inverell. We stumbled upon it one hot January day, and ended up staying for a couple of nights. In fact, Kwiambal...
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Gibraltar Range National Park: Camping Guide
Gibraltar Range National Park isn't a huge national park as far as national parks go but it's a really neat spot for a few days of camping, relaxing and going on short hikes. I enjoyed our five days...
Bald Rock National Park: Camping Review
Bald Rock National Park, some 30km north of Tenterfield, is basically the same park as Girraween National Park but only on the New South Wales side. To access both, you usually have to do a one-way trip of...
Mount Kaputar: Camping review
Mount Kaputar National Park near Narrabri feels fairly remote even though it's only 560 km northwest of Sydney (or some 630 km southwest of Brisbane). And it's probably not the most popular national park in New South Wales,...
April 6, 2018 0 Comment
At the Border Ranges: Camping Review
The Border Ranges National Park is exactly that: a national park that stretches across the volcanic rim of the Queensland - New South Wales border. It's a picturesque area with lookouts, waterfalls and walks but being a rainforest...
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“Julius Madritsch, Righteous Among the Nations”, with Piotr Szalsza
This week’s trivia question: How many Jews signed a letter to Yad Vashem stating that Julius Madritsch had saved their lives?
Vienna-born Julius Madritsch was an expert in textiles. During the occupation of Poland, he served as a trustee of the German authorities, managing two textile factories close to the Krakow ghetto, which the Germans had confiscated from their original owners. He used his position to help the Jewish laborers who were forced to work in these factories. Together with his factory manager Raimund Titsch, he made sure to employ as many Jewish laborers as possible, many of whom were not professional workers. Madritsch and Titsch made sure the working conditions were humane, gave their workers large amounts of bread so they could sell part of it in the ghetto, and allowed Jewish laborers to make contact with the Poles outside the factory. They even arranged for a kosher kitchen in the factory. Madritsch also opened a branch of the factory next to the Tarnow ghetto. As in Krakow, the workers in Tarnow worked under humane conditions and received larger-then-usual food rations. He also helped a number of his workers in Krakow and Tarnow escape from the ghettos. In 1964 both Madritsch and Titsch were honoured as “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem. Madritsch came to be known as “Tarnow’s Schindler”, and students of Janusz Korczak High School No. 5 in that city have developed a project called “Threads of life”, to make his accomplishments known to the general public.
Piotr Szalsza is a director, producer, musician, writer, and organizer of musical and theatrical projects. Originally from Poland, he has lived in Vienna for more than three decades. His projects include a fictionalized documentary about Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish-Jewish violinist who, aside from being one of the greatist virtuosos of the 20th century, was a social activist and philanthropist, and founded what is now the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Szalsza also directed an acclaimed film about Mordechai Gebirtig, the renowned Yiddish poet and songwriter.
His latest film, Julius Madritsch, Righteous Among the Nations, includes interviews with people Madritsch saved and participants in the Threads of Life Project, as well as previously unpublished documents and photographs. We would like to thank Ernest Kowalczyk of the Polish Cultural Institute in Madrid for his help in translating parts of this interview.
If you would like to see Julius Madritsch, Righteous Among the Nations, please contact Piotr Szalsza directly at this address: piotr.szalsza@a1.net
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shemane chan
Partner, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
Construction & Projects
LLB (Hons), University College London
Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya
Barrister, United Kingdom
E shemane.chan@rajahtann.com
Shemane, a qualified lawyer in both Singapore and Malaysia, specialises in project and front-end construction work and has an MSc in Built Environment (Construction Economics and Management).
Shemane has been recommended in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific since 2014 for Projects and Energy, and Real Estate and Construction, Chambers Asia Pacific since 2014 for Projects and Energy, and International Financial Law Review 1000 since 2014 for Energy and Infrastructure. She is named as an Asialaw leading lawyer and also a nominated finalist for the 2015 Infrastructure Lawyer of the Year by the Asian Lawyer Emerging Markets Awards.
Shemane has vast experience in drafting procurement, construction, engineering, consultancy, concession, privatisation, dismantling and maintenance contracts. Her projects include acting for a consortium on its bid for the AssetsCo PPP project in respect of the KL-Singapore High Speed Rail project, advising an airport operator on the grant of concession to operate and maintain a co-generation plant to supply electricity and chilled water to an international airport in Malaysia, advising the preferred bidder on the development of a sea water desalination plant on a DBOO basis in Jurong Island, Singapore and advising the master developer for One Bangkok on the development of certain utility infrastructure (including electricity, potable water and recycled water, waste water and district cooling) on a DBOFT basis.
Her experience includes:
Acted for a power producer on the proposed development of a gas-fired power plant in Indonesia to supply electricity to a coal mine and associated facilities in Indonesia.
Acting for a major developer in an integrated tourism project in Maldives lagoon, including the construction, operation and maintenance of a power plant and solar energy generating facilities.
Advised a sponsor on its investment into a 1.6 Megawatt biomass power plant in the Myaungmya District in the Ayeyarwady Region of Myanmar. Role includes drafting the power purchase agreement, feedstock supply agreement and the EPC contract.
Advising the lenders on the development, financing, design, engineering, construction, testing and commissioning of an up to 50MW solar power project in Ninh Thuan, Vietnam. Role includes carrying out due diligence on the project, reviewing the PPA, EPC and O&M agreement and other project documents.
Advising one of the largest solar energy supplier in Singapore on the engineering & procurement contracts and operation & maintenance contracts for the purposes of project financing.
Advised one of the stakeholders in respect of the Phu My 3 Power Plant, the first power project in Vietnam developed under the BOT model.
Acting for a major American technology company on the purchase of solar energy from one of the largest solar energy supplier in Singapore to fuel its operations 100 per cent with renewable energy.
Advised the existing operator of airports in Malaysia on the grant of an exclusive concession to take over, operate, maintain and upgrade an existing co-generation plant which supplies electricity and chilled water to an international airport and other facilities. Role includes advising on the procurement structure, drafting and reviewing the RFP documents, concession agreement, electricity supply agreement, gas supply agreement, chilled water supply agreement and other project documents.
Advised a major developer on the development of a pilot data centre park and a chilled water and power plant project in Singapore on a PPP basis.
Advised an international contractor on its engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract for 2 power plants projects in Timor Leste and drafting its equipment supply contract and consultancy agreement, technical services agreement, sub-contracts, operation & maintenance contract and asset sale contract.
Advised the lenders on the S$700 million refinancing of the Keppel Merlimau Cogen Power Plant in Singapore. Role includes carrying out due diligence and risk analyses and reviewing the project documents.
Advised the owner on the development of a co-generation power plant project in Indonesia and role includes drafting the EPC contract.
Advised the master developer of “One Bangkok” in respect of the development of utility facilities on a design, build, own, operate, finance and transfer basis to supply utilities (eg waste treatment, electricity, recycled and potable water and district cooling) to serve the master development. Role includes drafting the request for proposal documents, concession agreements, direct agreements and other relevant project documents.
Advised a major developer in respect of the development of a chilled water plant on a DBOO basis within its proposed development of a multi-utility hub in subterranean space under a public park.
Advised the master developer on the development of what is conceived as Malaysia’s first international financial district with a gross development value of RM26 billion in respect of specialist infrastructure projects (i.e. electricity distribution, district cooling and waste water treatment plants). These projects are undertaken on a design, build, own, operate, finance and transfer basis. Role includes drafting the request for proposal documents, concession agreements, direct agreements and other relevant project documents.
Acted for a solar energy producer on the drafting of a power purchase agreement and rooftop lease agreement for use as its standard template for its customers.
Acted for a solar energy consumer on the drafting and negotiation of an electricity sale and purchase agreement.
Advised an owner on the sale of certain power plant assets and role includes advising on the structure of the sale, drafting the RFP, asset sale contract and other project agreements.
Advised an international solar company on the drafting of various trade contracts, equipment supply contracts, EPC contracts and EPCM agreements for a solar energy plant valued at S$6.3 billion.
Advised a preferred bidder on the concession to design, build, finance, own, operate and transfer a deep sea port in a special economic zone in Myanmar and role includes advising on the procurement structure and the RFP process, drafting and negotiating the concession agreement and other relevant project documents.
Acting for the Yangon Metropolitan Development Public Ltd, a joint venture between the Yangon Regional Government and the Myanmar Construction Entrepreneurs Association, on grant of a long term concession for an integrated logistics park and inland water transport jetty-linked dry port in Ngwe Pin Le, Yangon, Myanmar, on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis.
Acting as lead counsel in advising a consortium of companies on its potential bid for the Kuala Lumpur – Singapore High Speed Rail AssetsCo PPP project.
Advised the selected bidder relating to a long term concession for various international and domestic airports in one of the South Pacific countries on a design, build, finance, own, operate and transfer basis. Roles includes negotiations with the task force of the Government awarding the concession, drafting the concession agreement and other project documents.
Advised a Malaysian State Government on the concession to design, build, finance, own, operate and transfer highways and undersea tunnel / highway. The project is based on a land swap by which reclaimed land will be given to the contractor in stages based on the progress of the project and a 30-year concession on the tunnel.
Advised a major transportation player with respect to the procurement structure and drafting of the tender and contract documents for the design, construction, supply, testing, operation and maintenance of the Monorail System in Mumbai, India.
Advised the State Railway of Thailand in respect of a high-speed railway project in Thailand.
Advised the concessionaire on the tender and contract documents for the construction, completion and maintenance of the South Klang Valley Expressway project.
Oil & Gas / Water / Industrial Plants
Advised a consortium on its successful bid for Singapore Public Utilities Board’s (PUB) design, build, own and operate desalination plant project in Jurong Island. Role includes drafting and reviewing the water purchase agreement, the EPC and O&M contracts and other project documents.
Advised a leading global supplier of renewable diesel and petroleum products on the proposed expansion of its refinery plant in Singapore and the sale and purchase on long term basis of by-products generated by the operation of the plant and feedstock required for the operation of the plant, and other required storage, utility and jetty services.
Advised an EPC contractor on the engineering, procurement and construction of a mechanical and biological waste treatment plant in Singapore. Role includes drafting, reviewing and/or negotiating the EPC contract, the local engineering consultancy services agreement, the process engineering, testing and commissioning services and equipment supply contract and the construction contract.
Advised a mining company on the development of a coal processing and handling plant in Indonesia and bridges, roads and other infrastructure works related to the project. Role includes advising on the procurement structure and drafting and negotiating the EPC contract for the plant and the construction contract for the infrastructure works.
Advised a client on the EPC contract and downstream subcontracts for the development of oil storage and berthing facilities in Indonesia with an estimated value of over US$1 billion.
Advised a joint venture company (owned by two oil majors) on its development of the grass-roots lube oil additives blending plant at Zhangjiagang Industrial Park in Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China. Role includes drafting the request for proposal documents and the EPC contract.
Advised an Indonesian engineering and construction company in respect of the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning and the project financing of a 2,000 TPD Ammonia Plant on 185 hectares of land in Banggai, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia worth about US$750 million, of which the International Finance Corporation has committed to provide US$500 million. Role includes drafting the request for proposal documents and the EPCC contract, off-take agreement and other project documents and advising on the loan documents.
Advised a petrochemical company in respect of its construction and development of a 125 metric tonne paraffin-n and linear alkyl benzene plant in Jurong. She drafted the subscription agreement, shareholders’ agreement, construction and engineering contracts and consultancy contracts pertaining to the project.
Advised an international contractor on the drafting of the relevant project and construction documents pertaining to the development of an integrated oil refinery and petrochemical complex in the Straits of Malacca.
Advised a petrochemical company on the drafting of the EPC contract and marketing agreement for their biodiesel plant in Johor, Malaysia.
Advised a client on the drilling contract in respect of an oil rig in Indonesia.
Advised an international contractor on the contract administration of the Petronas lube base oil and hydrogen unit project in Malacca, Malaysia and the Petronas methanol project in Labuan, Malaysia.
Advised a developer in respect of the construction of the POME Biogas Micro Turbine Plant, Carey Island, Malaysia.
Acted for a Singapore company in respect of an exclusive 10-year concession to supply LPG and design, supply, install and maintain an LPG system for an MCST. Role includes drafting the concession agreement, LPG supply agreement and other project documents.
Acted a major FMCG company in the drafting and negotiation of EPCC agreements for the fatty acid plant and methyl-ester plant projects in Kuantan, Malaysia.
Advised the preferred bidder on the concession to develop an integrated industrial park in a special economic zone in Myanmar and role includes advising on the procurement structure and the RFP process, drafting and negotiating the concession agreement / land lease agreement and other relevant project documents.
Advised the Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund on the Palapa Ring submarine cable project in Indonesia to bring internet connectivity to many parts of Indonesia that currently do not have access to such critical infrastructure.
Advised a bidder on its bid for the operation & maintenance of the Jurong Rock Cavern. Jurong Rock Cavern is South-east Asia’s first underground rock cavern for oil storage, with the first two caverns providing 480,000 cu meters of storage.
Advised a major international developer and manufacturer of chemical intermediates on an off-take agreement in respect of the off-take of certain products and a service corridor agreement in respect of the rental of pipe rack space in a service corridor within a major industrial development.
Acted for a major international telecommunications provider in relation to the provision of ICT services for the construction, development, operation and maintenance of Singapore's largest flagship PPP project and the largest sports facility infrastructure PPP project in the world. Stakeholders include the Singapore government, its lenders and six other service providers. The term of the appointment is approximately 21 years. Role includes advising on the ICT Contract and drafting other project documents.
Advised a major internet social network provider on the development of a data centre in Singapore. Role includes drafting and negotiating the construction contract, consultancy contract, NEWater supply agreement, electricity connection agreement and other project documents.
Advised a major internet social network provider on the construction, operation and maintenance of the Asia Pacific Gateway (including submarine cables and landing stations) and drafting the relevant project documents.
Advised an international telecommunications company in respect of its construction and development of a data centre in Singapore.
Advised a major telecommunication services provider on its procurement of the supply, installation and after sales services for telecommunication equipment and drafting the raw materials supply agreement, equipment supply agreement and after sales service agreement which are to be used as a standard template within the organisation.
Advised a major mobile services provider in Malaysia on its procurement of the supply, design, installation, testing and commissioning and project management services for in-building coverage and quality improvement for the development and implementation of 3G services.
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Powell: Fed independence serves country well; ‘bad things happen’ to countries with direct political control
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Independence of the nation’s central bank from direct political control is an important feature that has served the country well, the chairman of the bank’s board said Tuesday.
Speaking during a question and answer session at a conference sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. (“Jay”) Powell defended the independence of the Fed, particularly in light of consistent, recent criticism of the Fed and Powell’s leadership by President Donald Trump.
“Other central banks have that in other countries,” Powell said, referring to the same or similar level of independence from direct political control. “When you see central banks lacking that, you see bad things happen,” he said.
Powell echoed past statements he has made that the Fed is “strictly non-political,” doing its best to “serve all Americans with our tools. We understand we have an important role; we desire no role on political issues,” he said.
Perhaps in answering criticism from Trump, Powell acceded that members of the Federal Reserve Board are human and will make mistakes (although he didn’t offer any details), adding, “although I hope not frequently.”
“But we won’t make them (mistakes) of integrity and character,” Powell said.
Earlier, in prepared remarks before the Q&A session, Powell noted that the Fed is insulated from short-term political pressures— “what is often referred to as our “independence,” he said.
“Congress chose to insulate the Fed this way because it had seen the damage that often arises when policy bends to short-term political interests,” he said. “Central banks in major democracies around the world have similar independence.”
The Fed chairman noted that independence is at the heart of the board’s latest efforts to improve communications about its actions, and accountability, through special “listening session.”
“Along with this independence comes the obligation to explain clearly what we are doing and why we are doing it, so that the public and their elected representatives in Congress can hold us accountable,” he said. “But real accountability demands more of us than clear explanation: We must listen.”
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Could the Immigrant Investor Program save Vancouver?
by Neil Sharma18 Jun 2018
Warning! Fake client trying to lure agents to properties
Industry leaders are cautioning agents working Toronto’s west end, warning them about a seemingly ideal client intent on luring them to vacant properties.
Lighter Side: When real estate ads go wrong
Let’s face it: not all agents are the marketing gurus they think they are. Unfortunately, some of those bad puns and awkward photos make it to their advertising materials.
Canada’s defunct Immigrant Investor Program has long been associated with foreign plundering of Canadian real estate, and believed to have exacerbated unaffordability, but report from a University of British Columbia associate professor is calling for its reinstatement.
James Tansey of the Sauder School of Business at UBC says the principal funds from the IIP, as well as interest accrued, could fund rental housing in Metro Vancouver, of which there’s a pronounced dearth.
“If we have this investor demand for immigrants wanting to move to Canada and establish themselves principally from China and Asia and have a housing problem where there’s a shortfall of investment, my proposal is the federal government should at least look at a modified version of it where deposits made fund the gaps between what it costs to build starter properties and rental properties,” Tansey told REP. “I have no issue with that capital being tied up for 10 or 15 years as a form of a mortgage, and I’d have no issue with some of that capital not being refundable and it being a cost of a program.
“We had 50,000 people in the line for that program when it was cancelled, and even 2,000 a year paying $1mln a year would be $2bln annually into the space.”
The IIP, which essentially gave internationals permanent residency in exchange for $800,000 interest-free loans, to be repaid in five years, was discontinued in 2014. However, Quebec has its own version still in operation, but the windfall is substantially lower than the federal program.
Misinformation abound, the report elucidates how paltry the IIP’s impact was on real estate.
“If you look at all the immigrant investors that came into B.C. in one year, if every one of them bought an above-average-cost house—maybe a home for a few million dollars—the total cost of that spending would have been $500mln in Metro Vancouver,” said Tansey. “There was $37bln of residential real estate transactions last year, and if you look at the 1,100 people from the Quebec version, it’s far too few of them to have an effect. The supply side issues are much more significant and I think it’s simple economics: If the number of new household formations in Metro Vancouver is higher than the rate of housing starts, and housing is already fully subscribed, you’re always going to have more people looking for homes than there are homes available, and it’s just going to drive up prices.”
Tansey moreover alluded to a joint report released by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Statistics Canada in December that claimed foreign buyer activity in Canada is, in fact, negligible.
“Domestic demand from Canadian residential investors, CMHC showed very clearly, is playing a very big role and nobody is quite sure what the effect of immigrant investors or foreign capital is, but CMHC makes it very clear it’s a much smaller effect compared to low interest rates, household formation and economic development.”
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London's Heathrow airport publishes third runway masterplan
LONDON (Reuters) - London Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe, published its masterplan plan for expansion on Tuesday, including building a controversial third runway and new terminal facilities, at the start of a 12-week statutory consultation.
FILE PHOTO: A general view of Heathrow Airport near London, Britain, October 11, 2016. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth/File Photo
Emma Gilthorpe, Heathrow’s Executive Director for Expansion, said: “This consultation is an opportunity for people to have their say on our preferred masterplan, so it’s really important that as many people as possible take part.”
Britain has spent decades arguing about building more air capacity in the densely-populated southeast of England.
The government won a vote a year ago to proceed with Heathrow expansion, including building the first full-length new runway in the London area for 70 years.
But the plan is opposed by local politicians, environmental campaigners and the London mayor, who say increasing the number of flights at the hub from 473,000 in 2016 to a capacity of 740,000 will worsen air quality and increase noise pollution.
Lawmaker Boris Johnson, the front-runner to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister, told voters in his west London constituency four years ago that he “would lie down with you in front of those bulldozers and stop the building, stop the construction of that third runway”.
However, his opposition has softened, and he told a meeting of his fellow lawmakers this month that the expansion plan had been approved by parliament.
The plan published by Heathrow, which is owned by Ferrovial, Qatar Investment Authority and China Investment Corporation among others, shows growth in stages from the opening of the third runway in about 2026 to the end of the masterplan in about 2050.
It includes plans to mitigate the environmental impact of the expansion, including an ultra-low emissions zone, a vehicle access charge and a proposed 6.5-hour ban on scheduled night flights. Rivers will be diverted and a tunnel built to take vehicles on the busy M25 motorway under the new runway.
The consultation runs from Tuesday until Sept. 13, Heathrow said.
Reporting by Paul Sandle, editing by Ed Osmond
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February 12, 2015 / 8:50 AM / 4 years ago
India's Modi appalled by temple built to worship him
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Republic Day parade in New Delhi January 26, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was appalled that some of his fans had built a temple to deify him, adding that such an act contradicted tradition.
Hundreds of his followers in the western city of Rajkot donated funds for a temple that features a seated statue of Modi and is topped out with a wind gauge shaped like a lotus, the symbol of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“I was appalled,” Modi said. “This is shocking and against India’s great traditions. Building such temples is not what our culture teaches us.”
Modi’s reaction unnerved some of those involved in the temple project, who plan to replace the statue of the prime minister with the idol of a Hindu god, but others were unfazed.
“We love Modi and worship him because he is the finest leader we have ever had,” said Paresh Rawal, an edible oil trader who donated the land for the temple.
Modi, the former leader of Gujarat state, where the temple is located, swept to power last year in the biggest national election victory in three decades, and has since led his party to a string of state poll wins.
But the BJP suffered a dramatic election defeat in the capital this week, when it was trounced by an upstart anti-corruption party.
Reporting by Rupam Jain Nair; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Clarence Fernandez
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May 6, 2016 / 11:06 PM / in 3 years
U.S. says it killed 10 al Qaeda militants in Yemen April air strikes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States killed 10 al Qaeda militants and wounded one in four air strikes in late April, targeting the group’s branch in Yemen, a U.S. military statement said on Friday.
It said the strikes targeted militants of the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in various parts of Yemen between April 23 and 28. “We remain committed to defeating AQAP and denying it safe haven regardless of its location,” the statement said.
Reporting by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Sandra Maler
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Ukraine's richest man calls strike
May 20 - Hundreds of drivers in Donetsk have joined an anti-Russian strike initiated by billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man and owner of factories across the troubled east. As Joanna Partidge reports he's not the only oligarch playing a key role in the crisis.
UPSOUND Driving - in protest. Hundreds took to their vehicles to join an anti-Russian demonstration in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Unusually - the protest initiated by a businessman. Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, who owns factories across the troubled east. He's called on his employees to hold peaceful protests against the separatists planning to disrupt the country's presidential election on May 25. SOUNDBITE: RINAT AKHMETOV, UKRAINIAN STEEL AND COAL MAGNATE IN EASTERN UKRAINE, SAYING (Russian): "I want to tell everyone we won't stop. You won't intimidate us. Nobody will intimidate us, including those who call themselves the so-called Donetsk People's Republic. Tell me please, does anyone in Donbass know at least one representative of this DPR? What have they done for our region?" Coal and steel magnate Akhmetov has as estimated 300,000 employees on his payroll. The huge reach of his business empire makes him the most powerful person in the east of the country. He wants workers to continue the action daily until peace is restored. It's his strongest condemnation yet of the separatists, who have seized strategic points in towns in the Russian-speaking east. Another billionaire - chocolate tycoon Petro Poroshenko - is on track to win the weekend's first-round vote according to the latest poll. He was the only Ukrainian oligarch to quickly throw his weight behind the popular pro-Europe uprising which began in Kiev last year. The survey showed he'd gain support from over 50% of voters - enough to win an absolute majority. His main opponent is the divisive former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Just days before the vote, it's unclear if it will successfully go ahead in all regions. Residents in the rebel-held town of Slaviansk surveyed the damage caused by gunfire overnight between rebels and Ukrainian forces. The government has conceded it might not be able to organise the election in some rebel-held regions, says the country's Interior Minister. SOUNDBITE: ARSEN AVAKOV, UKRAINIAN INTERIOR MINISTER, SAYING (Russian): "We're not deceiving anyone, and we realise that in the vast territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, there's no way to hold elections normally. Polling stations have been attacked, stamps have been stolen, some heads of commissions have been kidnapped." The Donetsk and Luhansk regions alone account for almost 15% of the electorate.
https://www.reuters.com/video/2014/05/20/ukraines-richest-man-calls-strike?videoId=313025352&videoChannel=5
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Greenpeace: The Inside Story
Greenpeace: The Inside Story recounts the definitive history of the world's most renowned ecology action group. Beginning in the 1960s, the story follows our small cadre of peace activists, as we set out to start an "ecology movement." Inspired by Gandhi, the Quakers, Rachel Carson, and Marshall McLuhan, we sailed a boat into a nuclear test zone, then blockaded Russian and Japanese whalers, capturing our exploits in images that flashed across world media. We helped change public perceptions about nature, launched the modern environmental movement, and grew into a global force with millions of members in 50 nations. Along the way, we loved and fought with each other and experienced the price of success and fame.
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"A rousing tale of the buccaneers and idealists who conspired to save the world by bringing democracy to the high seas."
-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"An epic story, and highly readable."
-- The New Statesman
"A masterpiece."
-- Robert Hunter
Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against First Nations
The story of the most expansive geographical invasion and cultural extermination of all time: the occupation of the Americas by Europeans. Blood of the Land is also a record of the resistance to that occupation, which continues to this day, as indigenous power re-emerges from Canada to Chile. The book follows the rise of the American Indian Movement and the suppression, incarceration, and murder of native leaders such as Anna Mae Aquash and Leonard Peltier.
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"The story of continuing cultural genocide, an all-American holocaust against people whose title and sacred relation to valuable land challenges both profits and American exploitation. A shocking story, and very well told."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"A powerful reminder that we can only ignore environmental, social justice, and spiritual issues at our -- and the Earth's -- peril."
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The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message
Who was the historical Yeshua, and how did his story become the "Jesus" of a Roman Church? Yeshua, a Jewish sage, influenced by diverse 1st century philosophies, encouraged followers to "find the light inside," and to "share it with the world." He did not refer to himself as a deity or "messiah," did not demand "faith," and did not threaten others with eternal hell if they failed to believe in him. Roman patriarchs devised those doctrines of obedience and punishment as part of emperor Constantine's state religion, 300 years after the life of Yeshua. How did the Prince of Peace, become associated with religious violence, the inquisition, the burning of women healers, modern pedophilia scandals, and other atrocities of church history? How did the honoured Magdalene become a "fallen woman?" This book examines the research of international Bible scholars and some 200 ancient sources, including the recently discovered Gospels of Thomas and Mary to recreate the historical life of Yeshua, the Magdalene, and their followers.
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"Rex Weyler liberates the historical Jesus. He speaks truth to power in this solid and exciting re-telling of the diversity, politics, and mythology behind the origins of Christianity. There is integrity and trustworthiness in this work and in this author. Read this book."
-- Matthew Fox, author of One River Many Wells and Original Blessing.
To Save A Whale
Rex Weyler's photographs of the early Greenpeace whale voyages, 1975-77, with text by Robert Hunter. The photographs show the ships, crew, and confrontations with Russian whaling fleets on the high seas.
A guide to finding spiritual fulfillment in everyday life, showing how work, learning, family, healing, technology, social action, and all aspects of life can serve as paths of spritual development. The book draws on teachings, wisdom, advice, hints, and inspiration from both ancient and modern teachers; from Buddha and Hildegard of Bingen, to Gandhi and Rachel Carson. Weyler is a co-author with Rick Fields, Peggy Taylor, and Rick Ingrasci.
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GUA? Mulling Moldova's Absence As Summit Begins
July 01, 2008 13:06 GMT
Presidents Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine (left), Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, and Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia at the summit
BATUMI, Georgia -- Officials from Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova are in the Georgian city of Batumi for the first day of the two-day GUAM summit, with energy issues topping the agenda.
The regional grouping, which includes Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova, was founded in 1997 to foster cooperation between the former Soviet states and promote closer ties with the West.
A fifth member, Uzbekistan, suspended its membership in 2002.
The organization is widely viewed as a counterweight to another regional grouping, the Moscow-dominated Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS.
The presidents of Georgia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan are in attendance at the two-day summit, as are Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus and Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who have been invited as observers. Top officials from the United States and the Czech Republic will also be present.
Moldova Absent
Only Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, who has been pressured by Russia to withdraw from the pro-Western organization, snubbed the gathering. Moldova is represented by the country's deputy minister of foreign affairs and European integration, Valeriu Ostalep.
Despite that suggestion that the grouping may be suffering the first shudders of disintegration, this year's summit is taking place under the bullish motto: "GUAM -- Integrating Europe's East."
Reporting from Batumi, RFE/RL Georgian Service correspondent Nata Imedaishvili says energy issues are high on the summit's agenda, with discussions focusing on the Odessa-Brody-Gdansk-Plock oil pipeline project.
"After the meeting," Imedaishvili says, "[Georgian] Energy Minister Alexander Khetaguri declared that once completed, this project will allow oil to be transported from the countries of the Caspian basin to Ukraine and then to Europe."
GUAM countries -- particularly Ukraine and Georgia, whose relations with Moscow have soured in recent years -- are eager to reduce their dependence on Russian oil and gas.
Azerbaijan's energy and industry minister, Natiq Aliyev, is in Batumi, signaling the predominance of energy issues. Oil-rich Azerbaijan was quick to ship oil to Georgia in the winter of 2006 after explosions temporarily disabled Russian pipelines.
Georgian Gas Deliveries
Further stressing the importance of energy issues for GUAM member states, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, visited a family in Batumi on July 1 and symbolically lit the kitchen's gas stove.
"I am very pleased that Azerbaijani gas is delivered here," Aliyev said. "This illustrates our ties, our cooperation, and the fact that we were able to carry out a large-scale project in a short time. I am convinced that Azerbaijan will soon supply gas to other Georgian regions that have not yet been 'gasified.' Georgia is undergoing a gasification process and the volume of Azerbaijani gas delivered to your country is increasing."
Aliyev and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko are scheduled to hold talks with Saakashvili later on July 1.
Officials from GUAM countries are then expected to sign a series of documents promoting transportation and security cooperation between member states.
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Agency accused of violating law on remains, relics
U.S. officials allegedly ignored a law about tribal remains, relics in Nevada, other states.
Agency accused of violating law on remains, relics U.S. officials allegedly ignored a law about tribal remains, relics in Nevada, other states. Check out this story on rgj.com: http://on.rgj.com/1mq9UYh
Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press Published 6:22 p.m. PT July 11, 2014
An archaeologist is shown. (Photo: Valeriy Kirsanov/Hemera, Getty Images )
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – An independent federal agency is calling for an investigation into allegations that U.S. officials ignored a law requiring them to catalog, preserve and ultimately return human remains and relics to American Indian tribes.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has directed the Interior Department to investigate whether U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials have violated the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act while managing collections of remains and artifacts amassed during the construction and management of dams and waterways throughout California and parts of Nevada and Oregon.
A whistleblower complained that the bureau in Sacramento erased records within an Interior Department database and altered spreadsheets in an effort to hide mismanagement of collections under the agency’s control, resulting in hundreds of remains and artifacts being lost, boxed up for storage or loaned to museums and universities without the ability to track them.
The watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility told the Associated Press on Wednesday that it hopes the inquiry will be expanded to cover more agencies and more parts of the West.
“These are relics that do not belong to the American government,” said Jeff Ruch, the group’s executive director. “The point of the law is they belong to the tribes from which they came. If these were your ancestors’ remains and they were boxed up someplace where you couldn’t get any information about them, you’d be pretty angry.”
A spokesman with the Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific office could not immediately comment, saying he was unaware of the whistleblower’s case and the call for an investigation.
The federal government’s handling of Native American remains and artifacts has been criticized for years. Following a critical report by the Government Accountability Office in 2010, the Interior Department asked for more money and at least eight years to bolster compliance with the law.
But progress has been slow and frustrating, and communication with tribes is still lacking, said D. Bambi Kraus, a spokeswoman for the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. “It’s encouraging that this is being investigated,” she said.
A filing with the Office of Special Counsel shows Patrick Williams, who used to work as a museum specialist in archaeology in the bureau’s Mid-Pacific office, raised concerns with his supervisors that the agency was not complying with the law’s requirements once it stopped keeping detailed records of remains and relics. He also said the office was not filling out the proper paperwork when loaning out artifacts, essentially making the items untraceable.
The office routinely failed to notify tribes of long-stored and newly uncovered remains and funerary objects, Williams said. Some of the collections date back to the 1970s, when the federal government was building the New Melones dam and reservoir in California.
“They more or less wanted to sweep it under the rug,” Williams said in an interview. “They were telling me to change things they didn’t want to see in the record and not to record information that tribal members might want to see as part of a repatriation request.”
Williams said his supervisors told him creating detailed files of the remains and artifacts to comply with the law was “too complicated and required too much time and effort.” He said his concerns resulted in hostility and threats of termination.
“I’m not about to break the law for anybody, and they wanted me to go along with it,” Williams said. “I would rather step out, and that’s what I did.”
A combination of budget cuts and the low priority assigned by bureau managers resulted in responsibilities under the law falling by the wayside, Williams said.
While it’s unclear how widespread the compliance problem is, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said it wouldn’t be surprised if similar things were happening elsewhere given that budget shortfalls and other priorities are challenges found throughout the agency.
“This is a statutory duty they feel they can ignore,” Ruch said. “The most important part is tribes aren’t being consulted, so there’s nothing to prevent this from going on for years and years.”
The Office of Special Counsel has given the Interior Department 60 days to investigate the allegations and report back.
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The Olympic ideal of radars
US Army selects Raytheon to compete in the Sense-Off tech challenge
Designed to fit the U.S. Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense architecture, Raytheon’s proposed LTAMDS is built with new technology for better performance.
It takes years of training to get to the Olympics. Make that a decade or more if it's the Olympics of radars.
The U.S. Army has chosen Raytheon as one of the select few firms that will participate in its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor program's "Sense-Off" event. The equivalent of a gold medal: the contract for LTAMDS, the anti-missile radar that will replace the current PatriotTM system unit and serve the Army for the next fifty years.
Raytheon will place into the LTAMDS competition a brand-new radar designed from the ground up to meet the increasingly complex and advanced challenges of tomorrow's technology.
“We've been waiting for this opportunity to show what we've got,” said Raytheon's Doug Burgess, director of the LTAMDS program. “The Army is saying, ‘Show me what you’ve got, show me the radar.' And we’re saying we’re ready.”
Raytheon and a few key competitors will bring their LTAMDS prototypes to a live fire test at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, which will be held in May and June.
The company's key competitive advantage is its deep, years-long investment in developing semiconductor technology based on gallium nitride, the substance better known as GaN. Circuitry based on GaN can be used to build radars that emit stronger signals and boast greater sensitivity.
The tech has already been used to enhance the Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile – Tactical ballistic missile, or GEM-T. GEM-T is used against aircraft and tactical ballistic and cruise missiles, and uses GaN-based transmitters that will not need to be recertified over the life of the missile.
The Sense-Off is intended to speed development of the Patriot replacement radar to complete a modernization program as early as 2022.
“The Army faces a credible air and missile defense threat," according to Bob Kelley, Raytheon's director of IAMD Domestic Programs for Business Development & Strategy.
There's no silver or bronze in the radar Olympics.
“This is in effect for the win,” Burgess said.
Raytheon has two goals for the Sense-Off:
To show the Army what its LTAMDS can do;
To submit a proposal that meets the Army's timeline. These key factors will be used by the Army to evaluate the LTAMDS proposals in May and June. Shortly after, a selection to a single vendor is expected.
It’s been a long road to get here, but Burgess said all the prep will mean a better result.
“This is not an upgrade to Patriot," he said. “This is a whole new radar.”
Raytheon's LTAMDS
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Mentor Day with School in the Square
Why Mentoring Matters
As part of our commitment to giving back to the community, supporting youth, and promoting volunteerism, we invited 25 middle school students from a nonprofit organization - School in the Square - to join our employees for a day of mentorship and thought-provoking discussions. Students were encouraged to imagine new possibilities for their future. Share in the students’ day and hear Jennifer Grazel, Head of U.S. Brand and Marketing, and School in the Square Board Member, offer her insights around the positive impact of mentorship.
By Jennifer Grazel
Head of U.S. Brand and Marketing
Whether it be growing up being raised by my grandparents in Puerto Rico, working closely with college professors at Brown, or navigating my professional career spanning Fortune 500s to tech start-ups, I can attest that mentors have been essential to my personal and professional trajectory. I believe mentorship is critical at any stage of life, but it can be especially impactful at a young age. Mentors help students grow, close the opportunity gap, and open doors to new possibilities.
1 in 3 young people will grow up without a mentor, and the impact* is staggering. Young people who were at-risk but had a mentor are:
55% more likely to enroll in college;
78% more likely to volunteer regularly; and
130% more likely to hold leadership positions in the future.
As noted by our CEO, Dave McKay at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a new social contract has emerged.
"Across the world, only one in five people think the system is working for them."
– Dave McKay, CEO, RBC
It is the responsibility of corporations to invest in our people to create a better tomorrow, and I believe this extends into the community as well. Personally, I’ve tried to do my part to give back as a board member of a nonprofit called School in the Square and I am constantly inspired by the work that they do as a charter school for middle school students in Washington Heights.
At RBC, our people are our greatest asset, and our firm offers a breadth and depth of professional opportunities held by talented people with a variety of backgrounds. In an effort to provide a glimpse into the world of investment banking and the diversity of available career paths, we hosted 25 of S2’s 7th and 8th grade students for a day of mentorship, which included panels, breakout conversations, and Q&A discussions. RBC employees from across the bank provided personal, academic and professional advice to the students and urged them to work hard, stay true to themselves, and reach for the stars.
The most rewarding part of the mentor day with the S2 students was getting to hear their takeaways. One 7th grader noted “I will try my hardest to put my all into every action. I will think about how I will succeed in the future,” and another 8th grade student acknowledged, “I want to think more of my future and what I have to do to get there.”
Through mentorship, we can have a powerful impact on the life trajectory of youth in our communities. Many people can write a check, but one of the most effective ways to give back to the community is not necessarily money – it’s time. Consider how you can invest in the future of someone in your community through mentorship today.
About School in the Square
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*Mentor, The National Mentoring Partnership
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Why Kerry's visit to Moscow won't improve U.S.-Russia relations
Dec 17, 2015Andrei Korobkov Opinion
Moscow and Washington still are unable to see eye-to-eye on a series of important diplomatic issues, due in no small part to the Obama administration’s inability to develop a coherent foreign policy for the Middle East.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, chats with Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, left, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, top, in Moscow, Dec. 15. Photo: AP
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to Moscow, in which he met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin, would seem to indicate the potential for an opening in U.S.-Russian relations. Will Kerry's recent Moscow visit yield any results, though? Quite predictably, there are no simple answers to this question.
Also read Russia Direct's debates: "Kerry's visit to Moscow should be met with cautious optimism"
U.S. President Barack Obama appears to understand that Russia should and inevitably will participate in the resolution of the Syrian conflict. He also understands that America's closest "allies" in the region, which include Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf countries, are potentially double-dealing and engaging in some behind-the-scenes maneuvering, all the while supporting Sunni extremists.
Obama's decision to warm up to Iran also indicates that he increasingly perceives current Middle Eastern events as a conflict between the Sunnis and all other forces, including Shia and Kurdish forces. It is also important to take into account American special services' failure at forming a semblance of a "democratic" Sunni opposition alliance in Syria that cost the U.S. hundreds of millions of dollars.
What needs to happen for a breakthrough in U.S.-Russian relations
That being said, it is easy to see why Kerry’s visit to Moscow does not necessarily translate into a breakthrough in U.S.-Russia relations.
First, Washington would have to admit (at least, indirectly) that its position on Iraq and Syria was wrong and inefficient. It would also have to change its stance on the removal of al-Assad.
That is not likely to happen, since Americans refuse to admit their failures, shortcomings, or weaknesses in any international issue. Second, they always go after the ones that they have appointed the main culprits to make an example of those who dared question the American way. These idiosyncrasies of the American political course stand in the way of an effective dialogue between Russia and the U.S.
Moreover, announcing official agreements would acknowledge Russia's key role and positive influence in the Middle East, thus making a dent in Washington's global hegemony.
In spite of Turkey and Saudi Arabia's double dealing, Americans definitely do not want to see these two countries destabilized, which could happen if the Kurds form a sovereign state. The U.S. is also not seeking to take a step back in Ukraine in exchange for Russia's cooperation in Syria.
The situation is further complicated by Obama's desire to avoid sharp criticism from his Republican rivals, the press, and influential special interest groups. Nor does he want to be perceived as a weak politician by his fellow Americans.
Obama’s inability to develop a coherent foreign policy
For the first time in nearly 25 years, students and scholars alike are puzzled and perplexed when asked about the goals and methods of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
For a country where wide support of its foreign and especially military operations is virtually a given, such a response is quite unusual. American media typically are quite efficient in keeping their audiences away from alternative opinions and international news sources and work together on demonizing national leaders who do not fit well into U.S. interests (including, in particular, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as well as Iranian leaders).
One of the reasons behind the current American response to its government's foreign policies is conservatives' dislike of Obama and his unorthodox political style that does not involve public declarations of his international goals. Quite often, neither the general public nor even political elites are privy to this knowledge.
This tactic does not only apply when Obama is trying to introduce profound changes into U.S. foreign policy (for example, in Iran and Cuba), but also when the President does not agree with the traditional political course supported by most political elites and the press, but cannot openly show his disagreement (for example, on such issues as the relations with Israel and main Sunni partners in the Middle East, as well as conflicts in Syria, Egypt, and Libya in 2010-2013).
Recommended: "Obama vs. Putin: Mutual finger-pointing deepens ideological clash"
While this approach has its benefits for Obama, it often paints him as a weak and indecisive leader frequently taken advantage of by his political opponents.
However, the current situation around Syria, Iraq, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Greater Syria (ISIS) is drastically different. It is more about strategy than tactics, and thus it highlights the political leadership's inability to devise a comprehensive approach that would explain the nature of threats to the U.S. national interests in the region or clearly state what these interests are. It looks like the government cannot figure it out for itself, not to mention the general public.
The lack of a coherent strategy was fully exposed during the Republican presidential debate held in Las Vegas on Dec. 16. Although all 13 participants kept criticizing Obama for his indecision and the absence of a plan for the resolution of the Syrian conflict, their own ideas on the issue were strikingly controversial and incompetent.
Here is a telling example: promises to "teach Putin a lesson," shoot down Russian planes, and provide unyielding support to Saudi Arabia and Turkey (Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie, George Pataki, Marco Rubio and John Kasich) were quickly followed by the biting criticism of the traditional approach.
In particular, presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz stated that they seriously doubted the existence of an effective "democratic" opposition and the necessity to remove President al-Assad. Rand Paul said that the U.S. involvement in the region was irresponsible and counterproductive. Such utterances only contribute to the confusion among American voters and the general public.
The problem with multipolarity
One of the main reasons for this confusion both at the public and the political elite levels is America's leading position in the global system of international relations. The U.S. assumed its world leader status after the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of the bipolar system. And, in order to support its image both domestically and internationally, the U.S. must constantly demonstrate its ability to lead.
Sometimes, quite paradoxically, such demonstrations go against the U.S. national interests because the exercise of power requires constant excessive spending of resources compared with the countries of the "second tier" and never fails to antagonize the government and population of the countries that are experiencing this hegemonic interference.
Unpredictable influences on U.S.-Russian relations
Moreover, there is yet another unpredictable factor that eludes logical analysis: the possibility of an accidental or premeditated provocation (such as Turkey shooting down the Russian bomber) perpetrated by interested third parties and aimed at destabilizing any U.S.-Russia cooperation.
Also read: "What price will Moscow pay for its 2015 foreign policy moves in 2016?"
That is why we can expect to observe, on the one hand, further instances of inconsistent American policies in the region, the continuation of strong rhetoric towards Russia, and an extremely negative and biased coverage of its actions, and, on the other hand, the search for opportunities for joint military operations and the work on finding a compromise on conflict resolution.
The progress on this issue will be determined, first and foremost, by the ability to agree on the Syrian political factions that should be involved in the discussion of the country's future and the outcome of this discussion.
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Lawyer rants “I’m a f**king international lawyer” as she demands wine on flight
A 50 year old woman claiming to be a lawyer has been arrested for a sweary rant at staff on a flight from Mumbai to London.
Simone O'Broin (reported to also be known as Simone Burns) was a business class passenger on an Air India flight from Mumbai to London last Saturday, when she launched into the tirade, which was captured on video. O'Broin told the cabin crew that she is an "international criminal lawyer for the Palestinian people". She walked up to one crew member and said "I work for all you fucking people. The fucking Rohingyas, the fucking people of all Asia". She slurred "I don't get any money for it by the way. But you won't give me a fucking glass of wine, is that correct?"
O'Broin claimed to be the "leader of the fucking boycott movement - If I say boycott fucking Air India - done!" She continued "Do you understand me? You can't give me a wee bottle of wine?"
When a crew member told O'Broin to calm down, she jumped up and down and shouted "I'm a fucking international criminal lawyer and barrister. You will be pissed on in court". The silver-tongue charmer squared up to a female member of staff and then called her an "Indian fucking money-grabbing bastard", before screaming "I''ll tear your insides out, you stupid fucking c*nt".
From Namaste to nasty
In a second video, O'Broin demonstrated her ranting stamina as she raged "I'm a human rights lawyer. You think I'm scared and you threaten me with bollocks." She added somewhat cryptically "Irish Republican Army, you'll be fucking shot" and mimicked a gun sign. She also railed at fellow passengers for not "standing up against injustice".
Armed police officers escorted O'Broin off the plane when it landed in Heathrow. She was arrested but released after investigation.
It has been reported that O'Broin studied international law and trained as a lawyer in the UK, before working in Palestine. According to reports, the film was taken when she was on her way home from a two month holiday in Goa. Although O'Broin claimed to be a barrister, neither the Bar of England or Wales, Northern Ireland or Ireland had a record of a barrister with the name Simone O'Broin or Simone Burns.
The oratory skills of this supposed human rights lawyer can be seen here (NSFW):
F'ing international lawyer
Peter 16 November 18 07:36
I hate it when lawyers give drunken ***** a bad name
Anonymous 16 November 18 09:23
But is she a lawyer - no-one has ever heard of her, she has no professional registrations and Google searches turn up nada.
So she made threats to maim and kill, and invoked the name of a terrorist organisation. We're in custodial territory here, aren't we?
Lydia 16 November 18 09:36
Oh dear. They were certainly right to give her no more drink.
Warren 16 November 18 10:02
Alcohol addiction is a terrible affliction, but one probably not helped, like all mental illnesses, by public humiliation for entertainment purposes by the media. Hope she gets help and moves on with her life.
ShootyMcShootyface 16 November 18 10:14
... it's Madonna, isn't it?
Where do you start? Mentioning a terrorist organisation, claiming to be a the saviour of every person in Asia (unpaid to boot), claiming to have the power to cause everyone to boycott the flag carrier of the second most populous country in the world and also claiming to be able to urinate on people with her skills as a lawyer...
Wow, just wow...
Why are so many people who love humanity not very good with humans?
As a BDS activist this is not unexpected behaviour.
She may be a lawyer but she's also a guttersnipe
What's that dripping down her forehead?
Seems she needs help rather than ridicule. Proof of the dark side of booze, especially when mixed with underlying issues.
Human 16 November 18 12:54
Wishing her luck with dealing with her addiction - which is obviously very bad. If she can't control it, she will die young and friendless.
She's clearly pissed, but how are we able to diagnose alcoholism?
Anger and alcohol issues, bully, grandoise sense of self-worth - sounds like half the magic circle partners I've met.
Anonn above: yes. Anyone whose behaviour is problematic has a problem.
Ian 16 November 18 15:04
Not a news source I would nrmally look to, but...
http://www.israellycool.com/2018/11/14/anti-zionist-no-antisemite-of-the-day-simone-obroin/
Wow, Ian. It says there she fled in fear of her liberty. I suspect that rather a lot of people are in fear of her liberty.
I thought it was a drag queen
"She". Heh! That's a bloke if ever I saw one.
She appears elsewhere threatening to sue the medical profession over her diseased nose. Unpleasant woman.
Champagne socialist 18 November 18 10:27
How many times once has come across these condescending champagne socialists who think the world owes it to them as they are the precious ones because they help the less fortunate. Looking at her she appears to be the more needy one.
She can take her "charity" and stick it where her sun does not shine from.
She wouldn't make it as a barista in a Goa bar ... forget the UK or Irish ones.
Good show by the staff though.
Anon 13 December 18 13:53
What a tit.
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Train To Pakistan (PB) - Khushwant Singh
ISBN-9780143065883
An authentic version on Partition Manomajra, a tiny villages slumbers without much din of the urbane suddenly comes alive with fanaticism ta...
An authentic version on Partition Manomajra, a tiny villages slumbers without much din of the urbane suddenly comes alive with fanaticism takes hold of the innocent villagers. It is cast against a love story between a Sikh and a Muslim girl for whose sake the rustic makes a sacrifice thereby allowing her and the rest of the Muslims on their journey to the Promised Land, Pakistan.
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The partition of India was one of the most dreadful times in the recent Indian history. Since 1950s, it has time and again been depicted in various media. However, while most of those focused mainly on the socio-political causes and effects, the Train to Pakistan is a novel which has captured the essential human trauma and suffering in the face of such a terror and crisis.
The novel commences with a description of Mano Majra, a little village with Muslim and Sikh population that suddenly becomes a part of the border between Indian and Pakistan. An idyllic and peaceful village, Mano Majra resorted to love and harmony even at the face of all odds till external forces come and disrupted all the harmony. The odds start when a train filled with dead bodies of Sikhs and Hindus arrive in Mano Majra. Riots and strikes reached a high with the Sikhs and Hindus being on one side and the Muslims on the other. Torn between them and their vested interests are two people—Juggut and Iqbal, the former being a criminal and the latter being a western educated fellow on a mission to reform the society. Also underlying it is a love story that transcends all religion and odds.
Regarded as one of the most heart-rending testimonials of the partition of 1947, the Train to Pakistan is an ideal novel for those who wishes to learn more about India’s past and is looking for more than the socio-political scenario behind the partition.
Khushwant Singh was India’s best-known writer and columnist. He was founder-editor of Yojana and editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and Hindustan Times. He was a member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned the decoration in 19984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. He passed away in 2014 at the age of ninety-nine.
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Published Year: 2009
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Beijing Normal University, a key university under the administration of the Ministry of Education, is a renowned institution of higher education known for teacher education, education science and basic learning in both the arts and the sciences. The university’s predecessor, the Normal College of the Imperial University of Peking, was founded in 1902.
For over a century, Beijing Normal University has from the beginning shared a fate as regards the Chinese people’s struggle to gain independence, freedom, democracy and prosperity, and the university has played a significant role in patriotic movements that have included the May 4th Movement (1919) and the December 9th Movement (1935).
The comprehensive disciplinary strength of Beijing Normal University puts the school at the forefront of the nation’s advanced teaching institutions. In 2002, BNU was one of the top six universities with independent examination and approval authority for undergraduate majors. The university offers 58 different undergraduate majors, 166 Master’s degree programs, 111 Doctoral degree programs, 25 different rotating post-doctoral posts, and 24 and 36 Doctoral and Master’s degree programs for first-level disciplines. At present, there are 5 first-level disciplines, 11 second-level disciplines accorded national key discipline status, and 2 second-level disciplines accorded national key (fostering) discipline status.
Renowned for its rich educational resources, Beijing Normal University is one of the national bases for talent development of high quality and creativity. It houses 2 national bases for a basic foundation for talents and scientific research in the arts, 5 national bases for a basic foundation for scientific research and teacher development in the sciences, 5 innovative exemplary laboratories for human resource development of the Ministry of Education, and 3 national exemplary centers for experimental education. The school also has a national base for talent training in the life sciences and technology, a national base for the teaching of Chinese as a second language and a national base for university students in quality-oriented education.
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Beijing Normal University has a reasonably structured high-quality faculty team. At present, there are 3,100 teachers and staff on the main campus of whom 2,000 are full-time instructors. The number of BNU teachers with senior titles, doctoral degrees and/or overseas learning/working experience puts the school at the forefront among Chinese universities.
Student apartments fully implement property management, with the philosophy that “management educates people, environment educates people, and services educate people.” Freshmen have the option to bring their own bedding, or take the bedding provided by the dormitory management center. Moreover, laundries with both large and small size machines are set up to provide cleaning services for students. Dormitories are equipped with TV, telephone, electric fan, and other functional furniture. Broadband communication is available in each dormitory. The reception hall, clean and elegant, is provided with desks and chairs and also a newspaper stand.
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When away from home, University students have to learn to take care of themselves. If they become ill, they need to go to a medical care facility for timely treatment. The BNU hospital is located on campus, so that students may be treated in time. At the hospital one needs first register with his or her student card.
The main campus (North Taipingzhuang Campus) of Beijing Normal University covers 172.64 acres that serve as an important place for the university to carry out educational activities. The school has 22,000 full-time students, including 8,900 undergraduates, 11,300 graduates and 1,800 long-term international students. The campus has 1 education faculty, 22 schools and colleges, 2 departments and 36 research institutes (centers). The library boasts over 4.1 million volumes and some 17,300 GB of digital resources, with 1,400 GB e-books.
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Dragon Tattoo Director Poised for Flatliners Remake
In news that will shock no-one, another 90s movie is getting the Hollywood remake treatment: this time it's the much-loved Flatliners.
The 1990 original starred Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Kiefer Sutherland and was directed by Joel Schumacher, so the new school have some big shoes to fill.
Fortunately the first names announced look solid, with Ben Ripley (Source Code) slated to write the screenplay and Niels Arden Oplev, who directed the original movie version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo set to perform the same role on this film.
For those who don't remember, and shame on you, the film revolved around a group of medical students who investigated what would happen if they died for a brief amount of time. Understandably, things went awry.
The tagline on the original was "some lines shouldn't be crossed" - fans will be hoping this isn't one of them.
What do you think about the remake?
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England's Danny Willett wins Nedbank Challenge
SUN CITY, South Africa (AP) Danny Willett spoiled Luke Donald's birthday with a final-round 66 to charge past his English compatriot and win the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City by four shots on Sunday.
Willett claimed his second European Tour title ahead of Ross Fisher (68), while overnight leader Donald slipped to third in an all-English top three.
Willett had an impressive amateur career but had won just once on the tour - at the BMW International Open in 2012 - before his $1.25 million payday at the first event of the 2015 European season. The 27-year-old Willett made six birdies and no bogeys on the final day to finish with rounds of 65 and 66 over the weekend for an 18-under-par total of 270 at Gary Player Country Club.
The former top-ranked Donald, seeking a first title in more than a year, couldn't quite celebrate his 37th birthday in style and ended with a 73 with four bogeys. He was six shots behind Willett.
Willett trailed Donald by one heading into the final round, but had overtaken his compatriot by No. 5, when Donald made his second bogey of the round after a wayward tee shot. Willett pounced with his third of six birdies on Sunday to move ahead and he led to the end.
Willett's chasers had a glimpse of hope when he missed the green at No. 14, leaving himself with a tricky chip over a bunker back to the hole. But the former top-ranked European amateur recovered so well he still made birdie, and Fisher and Donald saw their hopes slip away. Willett entered the tournament as the No. 82-ranked player, but shoots to the top of the new European Order of Merit standings.
Behind Donald, Germany's Marcel Siem was alone in fourth on 9 under, Thailand's Kiradech Aphibarnrat was fifth and Spanish veteran Miguel Angel Jimenez completed a solid weekend with back-to-back 69s for sixth.
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Vigil for Ambassador Stevens in downtown San Diego
By Gail Powell, Sept. 17, 2012
A group of Arab Americans held a candlelight vigil downtown at Fourth and Broadway on the evening of September 15. The event was billed as an "Emergency Vigil in Honor of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens,” who was killed on September 11, 2012, along with three other Americans, in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
One of the attendees, Sherin Zadah, said that "Ambassador Stevens was very supportive of the Libyan people during their struggle against the former dictator Gaddafi and was a strong presence in recent months in Libya. He was loved and respected."
The vigil's Facebook events page was clear about how upset the tragedy has made many Arab Americans: "The acts of these few Muslims are horrific and simply do not represent Islam. We stand together as a community to make it known that those that took part in these tragic events do not represent the Libyan people nor do they represent Muslims worldwide."
Ken Harrison Sept. 19, 2012 @ 8:25 a.m.
Wow, this is news that should have been on every TV station in the country. Why wasn't it? Must not fit the main-stream media's narrative of all Muslims being crazy fanatics? Thanks to those that showed up for this event. Thanks to Gail for being the only reporter in the US that covered it.
Gail Powell Sept. 19, 2012 @ 2:50 p.m.
Thank you to califcomedy for the kind words. I noticed a story in the LA Times about the Syrian American Council organizing vigils for the Ambassador across the west. The Facebook organizer of the San Diego vigil, Sherin, told me that our local Channel 6 station came out and shoot some footage of them Sat. night but I don't know if it ever made it onto their news show.
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Xavier Darcos appointed President of the Sanofi Espoir Foundation
Paris, France - November 18, 2015 - Sanofi announced today the appointment of Xavier Darcos as President of the Sanofi Espoir Foundation. Xavier Darcos succeeds Jean-François Dehecq, whose term in office has come to a close.
"I wish to thank Jean-François Dehecq for his involvement in the Sanofi Espoir Foundation. Under his Presidency, the Foundation acquired a status which has placed it amongst the best, notably for its activities in the developing countries," said Olivier Brandicourt, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Sanofi. "I am convinced that Xavier Darcos will continue with the work already accomplished. The task remains huge, since the needs for prevention and for access to care and information are significant in the field of global health."
The mission of the Sanofi Espoir Foundation is to contribute to reducing inequalities in health and poverty, which put a strain on the development of many countries. At the end of 2014, the Foundation coordinated 58 development aid programs in 41 countries, focusing on three major fields:
Reducing childhood cancer in countries with low to moderate resources.
Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Improving access to healthcare for the most defenseless communities, in France and abroad, through healthcare pilot programs.
"Presiding over the Sanofi Espoir Foundation is a great honor for me," declared Xavier Darcos. "I shall use my experience as ambassador to promote the Foundation's actions in terms of international solidarity. The nobleness of these commitments in favor of access to healthcare for the most defenseless populations and the results obtained make the Foundation all the more remarkable."
Biography of Xavier Darcos
The French academic, civil servant and politician Xavier Darcos has been Senator and Mayor of Périgueux, Minister of School Education from 2002 to 2004, then Minister of Development, Cooperation and Francophony from 2004 to 2005, Minister of National Education from 2007 to 2009, and then Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Family, Solidarity and Cities from 2009 to 2010.
Xavier Darcos has also been an ambassador, representing France with the OECD from 2005 to 2007, then ambassador for France's foreign cultural policy and, in this capacity, Executive President of the French Institute from June 2010 to January 2015. Since February 2015, he has been ambassador for French people living abroad.
As a man of the arts and a scholar, Xavier Darcos has been, since October 2010, Permanent Secretary of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques Academy of Moral and Political Sciences to which he was elected in 2006. Since June 2013, he has been a member of the Académie française French Academy.
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Adcetris Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) Lawsuit
Home » Dangerous Drugs » Adcetris Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) Lawsuit
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a press release warning the public that a potentially-deadly brain infection known as progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) has been linked to the lymphoma drug Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin). Signs and symptoms of Adcetris-induced PML include changes in mood or usual behavior, confusion, thinking problems, decreased strength, and weakness on one side of the body. Due to the severity of PML, a new Boxed Warning highlighting this risk has been added to Adcetris labels.
Free Adcetris Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) Lawsuit Evaluation: If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with PML after being treated with Adcetris, you should contact our law firm immediately. You may be entitled to compensation by filing a suit against the manufacturer of Adcetris and we can help.
To date, there have been at least three cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in Adcetris users reported to the FDA. At the time of Adcetris’ approval in August 2011, a single case of PML was cited in the Warnings and Precautions section of the drug’s label.
Adcetris is a CD30-directed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) indicated for the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). These diseases are cancers of the lymphatic system. Adcetris contains an antibody that directs the drug to a target on lymphoma cells known as CD30.
Adcetris is intended to be used in patients whose condition has advanced after stem cell transplant, or after two prior chemotherapy treatments for those who cannot receive a transplant. The drug may also be used to treat individuals with ALCL whose condition has advanced after one chemotherapy treatment.
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
PML is a rare but extremely serious disorder that damages the myelin that covers and protects nerves in the white matter of the brain. The disease typically occurs in individuals undergoing chronic corticosteroid or immunosuppressive therapy for organ transplant, or in patients with Hodgkin’s disease or lymphoma. People with autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosis are at an increased risk for PML as well.
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy is most common among patients with HIV and AIDS. Research suggests that prior to effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), approximately five percent of patients infected with HIV eventually develop PML. However, modern techniques involving ART are able to effectively restore immune system function, allowing as many as half of all HIV-PML patients to survive, although they may sometimes have an inflammatory reaction in the regions of the brain affected by PML.
PML Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of Adcetris-induced PML are diverse, since they are related to the location and amount of damage in the brain, and may evolve and manifest themselves differently over time. The most prominent symptoms include:
loss of coordination, clumsiness
loss of language ability (aphasia)
weakness of the legs and arms that gets worse
Treatment & Prognosis (Outlook)
The best treatment currently available for PML is reversal of the immune-deficient state, since there are no effective medications that are able to block virus infection without toxicity. Reversal may be accomplished through plasma exchange to accelerate the removal of the therapeutic agents that put patients at risk for PML. In the case of HIV-associated PML, immediately beginning anti-retroviral therapy will benefit most patients.
PML typically has a mortality rate between 30-50% in the few months following the initial diagnosis, but the long-term outlook largely depends on the severity of the underlying disease and treatment received. Those who manage to survive PML are usually left with severe lifelong neurological disabilities.
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Did a recent poll claim that 45% of Americans doubt vaccine safety? NO
You’ve probably seen the clickbait headlines across the press that, in a recent poll, 45% of Americans doubt vaccine safety. At first, such a poll would make me think that the anti-vaccine zealots were gaining some sort of traction with their fear, uncertainty, and doubt campaign against the settled science of the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
Then a friend of mine, a pro-vaccine nurse in northern California, gave me a heads-up as to the actual data. And it wasn’t even close to that number doubting vaccine safety.
Even the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is one of the leading American science organizations, which generally casts a very critical eye toward this kind of data, kind of got it wrong.
Let’s take a moment to review the polling data, and show that the poll actually said that only 8% of Americans doubted vaccine safety, which feels about right. Clickbait headlines that never examine the data do a disservice to all of us. Continue reading “Did a recent poll claim that 45% of Americans doubt vaccine safety? NO”
Continue reading “Predicting US measles outbreak – vaccine uptake and international travel”
Traditional Chinese medicine kills dolphins
I am not a fan of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Very few of its medical claims ever amount to anything. Most of it isn’t very traditional and doesn’t work, like acupuncture. Worse yet, TCM is involved in the destruction of rare animals like the African rhino and other endangered animals. Now, we find that Traditional Chinese Medicine kills dolphins – just to push a “medicine” that has no evidence supporting its use.
Let’s look at this recent story where purveyors of TCM have indirectly lead to the collapse and near extinction of a beautiful ocean going mammal. Per usual with TCM, it’s a tale of greed and junk medicine. Continue reading “Traditional Chinese medicine kills dolphins”
Good news – more Americans accept evolution as a fact
Way before I started snarking on vaccine deniers and anti-GMO activists, I fought the good fight against creationism, and it’s more pseudoscientific cousin, intelligent design. Although there’s still a long way to go, more and more Americans accept evolution as a fact.
The religiously based anti-evolution forces are still alive in the USA (and some other parts of the world), but they are on the precipice of being relegated to the Moon Landing Hoax crowd. Yes, that is a thing.
Evolution denial isn’t exclusively an American issue – according to some polling, the creationist view was most popular in Saudi Arabia (75%), Turkey (60%), and Indonesia (57%), with the United States ranking 6th (40%), between Brazil (47%) and Russia (34%). Most European countries, which have long ago removed religion out of science education, have huge majorities of their citizens who accept evolution as a fact.
I have found that the ignorance of Americans towards the fact of evolution is about one of the most annoying anti-science attitudes in this country (although, vaccine denial and anti-GMO pseudoscience comes very very close).
Although progress is frustratingly slow, it’s still encouraging that things are starting to change in the USA.
Continue reading “Good news – more Americans accept evolution as a fact”
About that tryptophan and turkey making you sleepy–not so fast
A tiny handful of countries, most notably the US and Canada, celebrate a holiday called Thanksgiving. In the USA, the holiday is held on the fourth Thursday in November and more or less starts the so called holiday season which ends with New Year. In most of Canada (excluding the Atlantic provinces), the holiday is held on the second Monday in October.
For trivia purposes only, the other places that celebrate a similar Thanksgiving are Liberia (which is populated by descendants of freed slaves who returned to Africa from the US), Grenada (a small English-speaking island in the Caribbean), Puerto Rico (a Spanish-speaking territory of the USA), and Norfolk Island Australia. Australia?
Generally, the holiday celebrates white English settlers arriving in North America. The tales usually include some peaceful sharing of food between the white settlers and native Americans (a nice myth without much actual historical support) prior to the first winter. Canada’s back story on Thanksgiving is much more complicated, including ships getting stuck in ice and other legends.
In both Canada and the USA, the celebration includes tons of food (per person) including a roast (usually) turkey. Other foods may include mashed potatoes, yams (sweet potatoes), other meats, pies, corn, stuffing, and more food. It is a high calorie meal of epic portions!
There’s a legend that eating this meal, specifically the turkey, fills your body with tryptophan, and you fall asleep.
Nice story, but the science of eating, sleeping and turkeys doesn’t support this myth. Not even close. Continue reading “About that tryptophan and turkey making you sleepy–not so fast”
Worldwide vaccine uptake-2014
I make it a point to update this blog with the most current CDC analysis of vaccine uptake in the USA for kindergarten children (usually around 5 years old). Generally, the numbers have stayed stable, at around 95% vaccinated, although there is high variance from state to state, and locality to locality. The weakness in the vaccination uptake in the USA is that some areas may approach 100% vaccinated, but then other areas may be 50%, which makes those areas with low vaccine uptake susceptible to a quick spread of diseases that are not endemic to the USA (such as measles, polio, and others) through that unvaccinated population.
Given the 95% vaccine uptake rate, it begs the questions of why I push so hard for vaccination–because I want to protect the lives of children, and those 5% who aren’t vaccinated are at risk of serious disease and even death. And vaccines are the safest way to protect a child–protect them from death.
Nearly 55% of the readers of this blog are not American (a couple of years ago,this blog got a regular reader from Iran, which meant that all countries were represented amongst this blog’s readers). I have been accused of being a bit American-centric, but at the same time, I was also curious about vaccine uptake worldwide. Continue reading “Worldwide vaccine uptake-2014”
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Vic Marks
Vic Marks made his first-class debut for Somerset in 1975 and went on to play for the county for 14 years in over 340 first class games taking over 850 wickets. He also scored over 12,000 runs giving him a batting average of over 30.29 runs.
In 1980 Vic made his England ODI debut against the West Indies followed by his Test debut in 1982 against Pakistan.
He went on to play only six Test matches but was an important member of the ODI squad for a number of years appearing 34 times and taking 44 wickets at the good bowling average of 25.79.
After retiring from playing he went into journalism and broadcasting, and is now a regular summariser on the radio for Test Match Specials and he also writes for the Observer newspaper.
9th November 2012 6th December 2016
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Jungle Skipper Canteen
Written by Scott Joseph on 20 April 2016 on 20 April 2016 .
The Walt Disney World culineers have opened a new full-service restaurant within the gates of the Magic Kingdom, which previously had only a few table service restaurants, including Liberty Tree Tavern, the Plaza, Tony’s Town Square and Cinderella’s Royal Table. Be Our Guest opened three years ago with waiter service only at dinner.
Now comes Jungle Skipper Canteen, or as it’s known by its full name, the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen.
It occupies a space that had opened with the theme park as Adventureland Veranda. That restaurant closed years ago, and the space has been used for mainly for administrative offices.
Although its name refers to the Jungle River Cruise ride, known for the punacious pilots who keep eyes rolling on the river, the Canteen isn’t next to the ride, so, no water view of the boats gliding by a la San Angel at the Mexico pavilion at Epcot.
But the servers at the restaurant will make you feel as though you’re on the river ride — their patter is packed with puns, so whatever you decide to order, expect it to come with a heaping side of corn.
The menu is influenced by the cuisines of the four rivers, but don’t confuse that with the locally legendary barbecue chain. The four rivers here are the Mekong, Congo, Nile and Amazon. (Be careful if you order something from the Amazon — there may be a shipping fee (barump-bump).
The menu is under the direction of chef Al Youngman, who previously had been at Le Cellier in Epcot. I was invited to sample a number of items as part of a media dinner to introduce the new restaurant.
The wisecracking servers brought out an array of starter courses, which turned out to be the highlights. The sustainable fish collar was delicious. As the name suggests, the cut is from the fish’s clavicle, behind the gills. Not a pretty cut, and one has to work with the bone to get the meat off. But there was plenty of flesh to enjoy, and all of it broiled to perfection. This is the sort of thing you’d expect to be a hard sell to tourists. Despite their presence in a place called Adventureland, most are not adventurous eaters. Glad to see something like this on the menu.
I was glad for the house-made Arepas, too. Dollar pancake-sized tostones were piled high with shredded barbecue beef, black beans and queso fresco.
And the Shu Mai, bursting with a blend of pork, shrimp and soybeans, were big and tasty. (Just be careful with the soy dipping sauce; a heavy dose of sodium.)
Only the Falls Family Falafel disappointed. The little fritter balls looked right, but the texture was too dry.
For our entrees, we each made one selection from the all-day menu. I chose the Rice Noodle Bowl with duck (chicken or tofu are also available). It was a beautiful presentation, and I liked the duck meat very much. But the pho-like broth was a bit under seasoned. Some sriracha would have helped.
Others enjoyed such items as Grilled Lamb Chops, Dr. Falls’ Signature Grilled Steak, and Trader Sam’s Head-on Shrimp (another kudos-worthy offer for the adventuresome).
Desserts included Coconut Bar with Pineapple-basil Compote and Vanilla Cream, and Kungaloosh!, an “African-inspired chocolate cake” with caramelized bananas.
We were in an area suitable for private parties in which there was a hutch filled with dish ware, inevitably referred to by the staff as the great wall of china. (According to one of the cast members, the hutch also holds a piece of ribbon from the original ribbon cutting ceremony from the Magic Kingdom’s opening. So if you’re into Disney artifacts, you’ll want to seek that out.
The main dining room is a large open space with a voluminous ceiling. You’ll wonder why it hasn’t been utilized as a revenue producing venue for so long.
And speaking of revenue, entrees range from $17 for a vegetarian stew to $34 for that grilled steak. My duck soup would have cost me $23 if I had been paying.
And despite the precedence established by Be Our Guest when it opened in 2013, no alcoholic beverages are available with your dinner. “We’re still working on it,” one cast member whispered to me.
There’s got to be a pun on the word still.
Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen is in the Adventureland section of Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. It is open for lunch and dinner daily. Only same-day reservations are accepted, so if you’re visiting the park and wish to dine there, head over and get on the list.
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Steve Vladeck Guest
Posted Wed, July 12th, 2017 2:18 pm
Symposium: How the acting solicitor general (sort of) saved the travel ban
Posted Wed, July 12th, 2017 2:18 pm by Steve Vladeck
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law.
In her contribution to this symposium, Leah Litman writes that “it’s likely we’ve already heard the court’s last and only words (which were no words at all) on the merits [of the travel ban] . . . because the case will likely be moot by the time the court hears argument in the fall, or reaches a decision.” Whoever else claims victory in that scenario (hint: everyone), it seems to me that the real winner will be Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall — who, in retrospect, may have understood how to maximize the government’s chances before the Supreme Court better than anyone else (including, perhaps, the justices themselves).
I’ve written (well, tweeted) before about some of the procedural quirks in exactly how the government brought the travel-ban litigation to the Supreme Court. Three, in particular, stand out:
First, although the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit issued its 10-3 en banc decision affirming a nationwide injunction of the key provision of the travel ban on Thursday, May 25, the government waited a full week before applying to Chief Justice John Roberts for a stay of that decision (pending the Supreme Court’s disposition of the government’s contemporaneous cert petition). That may not sound like a lot, especially since half of that week was Memorial Day weekend, but both legally and optically, any delay could have been seen as undermining the argument for such emergency relief — which was itself predicated on the claim that the Maryland and Hawaii injunctions were causing irreparable harm to the government every moment that they remained in force. Indeed, let’s not forget that the government could have asked the Supreme Court to step in two months earlier, had it sought certiorari before judgment in the 4th Circuit.
Second, and far more significantly, once the government finally did file its stay applications and cert petition, it requested expedited briefing but not expedited argument. In other words, the government asked the Supreme Court to decide whether it would take up an appeal from the 4th and, later, 9th Circuit’s decisions by the end of June, but didn’t want the justices actually to hear such an appeal until October. As with the delay in the filing itself, not asking for expedited argument seemed a risky gambit, because it put that much more pressure on the stay applications — asking the court, in effect, to reinstate the entire executive order for at least four months.
Especially given the precedent for emergency, end-of-term arguments and decisions that Lyle Denniston reminded everyone about, not seeking similar treatment seemed, at the time, a perplexing move on the government’s part. And even if the government was of the view that an immediate, emergency argument would actually be to its detriment (on the theory that, in such a circumstance, the justices would be more inclined to defer to the status quo), it could at the very least have sought an off-schedule September argument — as seen most recently with the reargument of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission back in 2009. The difference between a September and October argument may not seem like much in the abstract, but if the executive order runs its course by the end of September (as now it seems it will), that could be the whole ballgame for the reasons Litman set out in her post.
Third, and a bit further into the weeds, when the 9th Circuit issued its own ruling on the travel ban on June 12, the government sought to extend the ongoing briefing on its stay application for an additional week — ostensibly to allow time to respond fully to the more recent ruling. This move may seem entirely technical, but it came while the Supreme Court’s press corps was awash with speculation that the justices might take the exact step to which Denniston had alluded, and hold an expedited hearing to resolve the case on the merits before recessing for the summer. However well-founded — or not — such speculation might have been, the government’s request, combined with the justices’ own travel schedules, necessarily ran out the clock on such a possibility.
And although the government did not get what it asked for substantively when the Supreme Court issued its interim ruling on June 26 (with a majority leaving the injunctions in place as applied to those with a “bona fide connection” to the United States), it got exactly what it asked for procedurally. The court granted the stays (in part), granted certiorari, and set the case for argument during its first scheduled sitting in October (and not a moment sooner). As the per curiam opinion notes on page 9, with a parenthetical explaining (and perhaps reflecting the justices’ own surprise) that “[t]he Government has not requested that we expedite consideration of the merits to a greater extent,” the cases will be heard “during the first session of October Term 2017.”
So why, exactly, would the lawyers in the Office of the Solicitor General, the very last people who would make tactical litigation mistakes before the Supreme Court, take three such seemingly unorthodox steps in presenting such important cases to the court? I’m only speculating, of course, but imagine that the lawyers in that office, who have an ethical and legal obligation to defend the official acts of the U.S. government to the fullest extent supported by law, had become convinced of the following three propositions:
(1) The district courts’ injunctions are overbroad in significant respects;
(2) If and when they reach the merits, at least five of the justices are likely to vote to invalidate the travel ban as applied to a large number of individuals – and thereby to affirm the injunctions to a significant extent; and
(3) Such a merits decision should be avoided if at all possible.
In that scenario, the goal would have been to structure the litigation to allow the Supreme Court to narrow the injunctions before holding oral argument and issuing a decision on the merits, and then to make the case go away before such an argument could happen. The court’s own summer recess provided the perfect cover for exactly such a maneuver, because it’s the only time all year that the justices go more than 90 days without a scheduled sitting.
Of course, this could all be a coincidence. Indeed, of the three quirky moves I highlighted above, two could have completely plausible alternative explanations. But the request for an October argument, specifically, indicates most strongly to me that these moves were all made by design. If so, then I think it’s worth admiring just how well-conceived that design was, at least thus far.
Besides providing an interesting back story, the above discussion brings up several larger points that I believe are worth considering.
For starters, the government’s apparent litigation strategy suggests that not even the administration’s own lawyers believe (or, at the very least, are reasonably confident) that the Supreme Court will uphold the entire executive order on the merits. Although many have suggested that the court’s interim June 26 ruling is proof that the justices are likely to side with the government on the merits if and when the time comes, the fact that a majority voted to leave the injunctions in place as applied to any non-citizen with a “bona fide connection” to the United States strongly implies the opposite. Simply put, the government’s lawyers may well have been on to something, and therefore fully justified in not pressing the matter more aggressively.
The strategy also enabled the acting solicitor general and his colleagues to accomplish as much as could reasonably have been expected under the circumstances. Getting the Supreme Court to put even portions of the executive order back into effect — in a part of the ruling from which no justice apparently dissented — was a modest victory legally, but a significant victory optically, especially if it stemmed from a skeptical assessment of the government’s chances on the merits.
Finally, and most importantly for present purposes, the apparent strategy to date is predicated on a fact not yet in evidence — that the controversy actually will become moot before the justices reconvene in October. That depends, to a large degree, on President Donald Trump. When the 90-day review contemplated by the executive order runs its course in September, does the president leave well enough alone (which might moot the case before the Supreme Court hears argument), or does he issue another executive order seeking to extend the “temporary pause” on entry from the six designated countries, which would certainly give the justices something to decide?
We’ll have to wait and see, of course. But the government’s litigation strategy thus far suggests that at least some of the Justice Department’s top lawyers may well be rooting, whether for personal or professional reasons (or both), for the former.
Posted in Trump v. Int'l Refugee Assistance Project, Trump v. Hawaii, Legal challenges to Trump's entry ban, Summer symposium on Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project and Trump v. Hawaii, Featured, Special Features
Recommended Citation: Steve Vladeck, Symposium: How the acting solicitor general (sort of) saved the travel ban, SCOTUSblog (Jul. 12, 2017, 2:18 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/07/symposium-acting-solicitor-general-sort-saved-travel-ban/
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Service Electric Cable TV, Inc. is a successor corporation to a community antenna television business started by John Walson in June 1948. Prior to beginning the nation's first community antenna television system, later known as cable television, in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, Mr. Walson was employed by the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company. In addition to that occupation, he and his wife also operated an electric appliance store under a General Electric franchise. In 1947, the Walsons began selling television sets at their appliance store. It was impossible to receive the three Philadelphia network stations in Mahanoy City because the town is surrounded by mountains. Because of this situation, an antenna tower was built on top of a nearby mountain. Mr. Walson was able to demonstrate his new television receivers at this mountain top location. In searching for ways to increase television sales, a line was constructed from that antenna site to his appliance warehouse.
In June 1948, that line was extended on utility poles to the Walsons' appliance store. Along the way, several families were connected to his community antenna system. Three television sets were displayed in the window of the store. Many people congregated in front of the store to view either channel 3, 6, or 10 from Philadelphia. As a result, a new industry was started in America.
Mr. Walson's pioneering achievements were recognized by the Congress of the United States and the National Cable Television Association in the spring of 1979. Quoting from the 96th Congressional record: By adding new antennas and boosters, and by starting to wire individual homes, Mr. Walson was able to create the Nation's first cable television system in 1948...
From this early beginning of cable television, Mr. Walson began constructing systems in nearby communities. Others, who observed his success, were quick to follow in areas where reception of television signals was difficult or impossible. His faith in the future of cable television never diminished. As systems were offered for sale, he purchased them. When franchises were available, he applied. Mr. Walson was guided by the one fundamental principle, people wanted television service. They were entitled to receive it, and his duty was to provide quality access to television.
With an alertness to change, adaptability to improving technology, and a conscientious responsibility to its customers, Service Electric continues to build its reputation in the cable television field. This requires the combined efforts of many dedicated people. This company is fortunate to have such people and we value them.
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The Future of Talcum Powder Litigation
Posted by Joseph F. Sullivan | Dec 06, 2018 | 0 Comments
The 2017 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Super. Ct of Cal. S.F. Cty., has left the future of talcum powder litigation uncertain.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Super. Ct of Cal. S.F. Cty., (“BMS Decision”) was a consolidated action filed by approximately 60 plaintiffs, the majority of whom were non-residents of California. The plaintiffs alleged injuries due to the use of the prescription drug Plavix, manufactured and sold by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (“BMS”). Plavix was not developed in California, nor was it marketed, labeled or packaged there. However, BMS derived over 1% of its nationwide sales from California, employed over 250 sales representatives, 160 employees and had 3 small offices. BMS moved to dismiss the non-resident plaintiff's claims on grounds that the California courts could not exercise jurisdiction over the non-resident claims because it violated BMS's Due Process rights. The California courts rejected the argument, and BMS appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court reversed the California ruling and held that BMS's activities in California were not sufficient for the California courts to exercise specific jurisdiction over the non-resident's claims.
The Supreme Court case set a new precedent that will apply to other mass tort cases and will have a significant impact on future mass tort litigation. The decision makes it more difficult for nonresidents to join consolidated state litigation. This, in turn, will increase the overall cost of mass litigation and make it more difficult for plaintiffs to join together in large groups that can more effectively fight corporations. Further, it will preclude many claims that don't involve substantial injuries because the cost of bringing such claims individually or in limited groups will not justify the cost of prosecuting them.
In relation to the talcum powder litigation, this ruling has already had an impact in Missouri, and BMS will likely try to use it in California, Delaware and other states. The same day the BMS Decision was released, a Missouri judge declared a mistrial on a talc powder case it was hearing because two of the three plaintiffs were not residences of Missouri. A year later, one of the first talc powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson, which resulted in a $55 million verdict in 2016, was set aside by an appellate court. Citing the BMS Decision, a three-judge panel deemed the nonresidential plaintiffs unable to join the consolidated litigation in Missouri. "The high court ruled that state courts cannot hear claims against companies that are not based in the state or when the alleged injuries did not occur there,” according to the ruling. This may lead to the dismissal of non-resident claims in the future. A plaintiff's lawyer who recently won a multibillion-dollar verdict in a 22-plaintiff case in Missouri that included non-residents said, in response to J&J's threatened appeal on jurisdictional grounds, “I hope they focus their appeal on jurisdiction because I'm confident we'll win that.” He also stated that he and his team had amassed hundreds of pages of evidence regarding lobbying efforts and J&J focus groups conducted in Missouri, which he feels should be sufficient to overcome the application of the BMS Decision.
For more information about talc powder litigation and your rights, contact our New York City personal injury lawyers at Sullivan & Brill, LLP. Dial (212) 566-1000 or contact us online anytime by clicking here.
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Philadelphia 76ers force Game 7 against Toronto Raptors
The Philadelphia 76ers bounced back from a 36-point reversal on Tuesday to tie their Eastern Conference semi-final series against Toronto Raptors 3-3.
Leonard leads the way as Toronto Raptors rout Philadelphia 76ers
The Toronto Raptors eased past the Philadelphia 76ers in a 125-89 triumph to take the upper hand in their Eastern Conference semi-final series.
Leonard shines as Toronto Raptors level semi-final against Philadelphia 76ers
Kawhi Leonard racked up 39 points – including a three-pointer with just over a minute left – as the Toronto Raptors levelled the Eastern Conference semi-final at 2-2.
Rodney Hood the hero for Portland Trail Blazers in fourth overtime
The Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Denver Nuggets in quadruple overtime to earn a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference semi-final series.
Trail Blazers neutralise Nuggets to level NBA play-off series
The Portland Trail Blazers held off a late rally from the Denver Nuggets to triumph 97-90 and level their play-off series at one game apiece.
Philadelphia hold off Raptors to level semi-final series
The Philadelphia 76ers held off a late surge by the Toronto Raptors to clinch a 94-89 victory and tie their Eastern Conference semi-final series at one game apiece.
Denver Nuggets end long wait for Western Conference semi-final spot
The Denver Nuggets booked their place in the Western Conference semi-finals for the first time in 10 years with a 90-86 win over the San Antonio Spurs.
Spurs force game seven against Nuggets
The San Antonio Spurs took their NBA play-off series against the Denver Nuggets to game seven with a 120-103 win on Thursday night despite 43 points from Nikola Jokic.
Lillard’s last-gasp three-pointer sends Trail Blazers into play-off second round
A buzzer-beating three-pointer from Damian Lillard earned the Portland Trail Blazers a place in the second round of the NBA play-offs as his side clinched a narrow 118-115 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Kimberly M. Roscoe
Kimberly M. Roscoe has been a member of the Saint Mary’s Hospital family for many years. Most recently, Kimberly and her husband, Robert, served as co-chairs of Saint Mary’s Hospital Foundation’s 2016 Champion Golf Classic. They also were co-chairs of the 2012 Saint Mary’s Hospital Gala.
Kimberly served as Volunteer Services Coordinator at Saint Mary’s Hospital from 2011 to 2016. In her role, she was responsible for recruiting, orienting, placing and managing the activities of approximately 170 volunteers at Saint Mary’s, who ranged from high school and college students to seniors. She was honored with the hospital’s 2015 Sisters of Saint Joseph Award for Respect. She also served as President-elect of the Connecticut Association of Directors of Volunteer Services in Healthcare (CADVSH).
Kimberly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education from Southern Connecticut State University and received her Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Special Education from St. Joseph College in West Hartford. She was a special education teacher for the Connecticut State Department of Mental Retardation in Torrington and taught at Stephen August Early Intervention Center and Middlebury Elementary School. Active in the community, Kimberly is a past board member of Waterbury Day Nursery and the Cheshire Education Foundation, a former member of the Cheshire Junior Women’s Club and a former volunteer at Saint Mary’s Hospital.
She and her husband have two children, Connor and Callee. They live in Cheshire.
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Few sports can heat up a cold winter’s night like basketball, especially at St. Norbert College’s raucous Mulva Family Fitness & Sports Center, where your inner Green Knight spirit is sure to spark.
Led by coach Connie Tilley, a pioneer in intercollegiate women’s athletics, St. Norbert won their record 14th Midwest Conference women’s basketball championship in 2016.
For the most up-to-date information about women’s basketball, view our press releases webpage.
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Leonhard-Perry Named St. Norbert Women's Basketball Coach
DE PERE, Wis. - St. Norbert College has named Amanda Leonhard-Perry as its next women's basketball coach, athletics director Tim Bald announced today. Leonhard-Perry has spent the last 11 seasons as an assistant coach at the highly successful NCAA Division I program at UW-Green Bay. She has helped the Phoenix to 10 regular-season Horizon League titles, eight conference tournament… More
Zurfluh, DeCleene Recognized by Midwest Conference
DE PERE - St. Norbert College junior guard Macie Zurfluh was named first-team All-Midwest Conference and sophomore guard Olivia DeCleene was named Newcomer of the Year on the All-MWC Team announced by the league office. Zurfluh, a Wisconsin Rapids native, earned her first All-MWC selection after averaging 13.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game this season. She led the Midwest Conference… More
Green Knights Can't Hold On at Ripon in Tilley's Finale
RIPON - St. Norbert College held a seven-point lead with just under five minutes remaining but couldn't hold on in a heartbreaking 44-40 loss to Ripon College in a Midwest Conference Tournament semifinal at Willmore Center. It marked the final game in the 42-year career of coach Connie Tilley, who finished with a 693-312 career record. St. Norbert nursed a 31-29 lead into the… More
Amanda Leonhard-Perry
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Thanks To A Typo: Hackers' Spelling Mistake Thwarts $1 Billion Bank Heist
12 March 2016, 7:36 am EST By Quinten Plummer Tech Times
The misspelling of the word "foundation" brought an end to an international cyberattack last month.
Their error tipped several banks off before the cyber criminals could siphon out $1 billion from the Central Bank of Bangladesh and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. But the hackers' efforts weren't in vain.
The hackers managed into infiltrate the Central Bank of Bangladesh's SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial) identification code. With the bank's unique identifier in hand, the hackers were able to pose as the bank and make withdrawals on its behalf.
The thieves sent five requests to the New York Fed to withdraw money from Bangladesh's reserves. They managed to deposit just over $80 million in bank accounts in the Philippines and in Sri Lanka, but their fifth attempt to draw money drew suspicion.
Attempting to transfer money to a non-governmental organization in Thailand named "Shalika Foundation," one of the hackers misspelled the word "foundation" as "fandation." The spelling error was brought to the attention of Deutsche Bank, which later found out that Shalika Foundation isn't even registered on the list of Sri Lankan NGOs.
Those anomalies were accentuated by the amount the hackers were attempting to withdraw, which totaled about $1 billion.
Even the money that was successfully siphoned attracted attention. The money that went to Sri Lanka raised eyebrows at Pan Asia Banking Corporation, where an official stated that the transaction was too large for an economy of its size.
Bangladesh banks with the Fed and keep money there to settle issues with other countries. It reports that it has been able to recover some of the stolen money, while counter-laundering squads in the Philippines have been working to keep the money from being cleaned.
SWIFT of Belgium also indicated that it is helping to remedy the issue.
"SWIFT and the Central Bank of Bangladesh are working together to resolve an internal operational issue at the central bank," SWIFT stated. "SWIFT's core messaging services were not impacted by the issue and continued to work as normal."
The attacks began early last month. The hackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in the banking system and then sat seemingly dormant for weeks before they began to launch their assaults.
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FRIDAY’S COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Seventh Annual Miss Gay Worcester/Lesbian Pageant with Lady Sabrina with special performance by Shannel from �RuPaul�s Drag Race,� 7 p.m. Sept. 14. $10 in advance; $15 at the door. Grand Ballroom at the DCU Center, 50 Foster St., Worcester. MsLadySabria@aol.com or worcesterpride@gmail.com.
Barry Manilow 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14. $19.99-$129.99. DCU Center, 50 Foster St., Worcester. Tickets also may be purchased at Ticketmaster locations or at ticketmaster.com, or charged by phone at (800) 745-3000 or (866) 448-7849. For accessible seating, call (508) 755-6800, ext. 2164, or www.dcucenter.com.
Music Dubble D and The Khaos Junkies, 9:30 p.m. Sept. 14. Jillian�s, 315 Grove St., Worcester.
Music Hatebreed, Whitechapel, All Shall Perish, Deez Nuts, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14. $20 in advance; $23 day of show. The Palladium, 261 Main St., Worcester. (800) 477-6849 or tickets.com.
Greater Worcester Farmers Market 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Fridays, through Oct. 26. Beaver Brook Park parking lot, 306 Chandler St., Worcester. (508) 753-7761.
Friday Morning Birds Enjoy a leisurely birding experience and help document the sanctuary birds over the season, 7-9 a.m. Sept. 14. Massachusetts Audubon Society adult members, free; adult nonmembers, $5. Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Road, Worcester. (508) 753-6087.
Music Rock �n Art with the Tokyo Tramps and Scallywag Ceramics, 9 p.m. Sept. 14. Beatnik�s, 433 Park Ave., Worcester. (508) 926-8877.
Music Oh The Humanity, Los Bungalitos, Jukebox Romantics, Progress, and more, 9 p.m. Sept. 14. Ralph�s Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St., Worcester. (508) 753-9543.
Hearing Lecture and Screening 10 a.m.-noon Sept. 14. Registration required for screening portion of the program. Worcester Senior Center, 128 Providence St., Worcester. (508) 799-1232.
Herbert E. Berg Flower Arranging Make a fall centerpiece. 1:15 and 2:15 p.m. Sept. 14. $10. Worcester Senior Center, 128 Providence St., Worcester. (508) 799-1232.
Acrylic Painting Class for Advanced and Beginners New 10-week class begins 1-2:30 p.m. Sept. 14. $10 per class plus a one-time supplies fee of $11. Bring a smock and wear old clothes. Scholarships available. Worcester Senior Center, 128 Providence St., Worcester. (508) 799-1232.
Movie �Big Miracle� 1-3 p.m. Sept. 14. Free. Worcester Senior Center, 128 Providence St., Worcester.
Music The Curtain Society, 8:30 p.m., Sept. 14. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St., Worcester. (508) 363-1888.
Film �Bernie,� 7 p.m. Sept. 14 and 15. Free. College of the Holy Cross, Seelos Theater, 1 College St., Worcester. (508) 793-2455.
Dance Students in Grades 6, 7 and 8 with DJ and snack bar, 7-10 p.m. Sept. 14. $7. First Congregational Church, 1070 Pleasant St., Worcester.
Early Education and Care Breakfast Meeting �Brain Building in Progress � Why Quality Counts,� by Sherri Killins, 8-10 a.m. Sept. 14. Registration required. YWCA, 1 Salem Square, Worcester. (508) 269-0251 or rputnam107@gmail.com. Donations of diapers, wipes and baby food welcomed.
Craft Time Book Buddy, 4:30 p.m. Sept. 14. Registration required. Auburn Public Library, 369 Southbridge St., Auburn. (508) 832-7790.
Feeling Good Fitness: Piyo with Pamila Stratton, 11:15 a.m. Fridays, through Oct. 19. Residents of Brimfield, Holland, Sturbridge and Wales, $60; all others, $65. Hitchcock Free Academy, 2 Brookfield Road, Brimfield. (413) 245-9977 or www.hitchcockacademy.org.
150th Anniversary Connie Mack Day Authors, guest speakers, refreshments, historical displays, barbershop quartet, 6-9 p.m. Sept. 14. East Elementary School, 410 East Brookfield Road, East Brookfield. Parade, art show, chicken barbecue, farmers market, car and tractor show, concert, amusements and country fair, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sept 15. Old time baseball game, 2 p.m. Sept. 15. Town Complex, Connie Mack Drive, East Brookfield. (508) 344-0663.
Western Ham and Beans Hooley Music by PT Pickers, line dance instructor, best Western attire contest, raffles, prizes, 6 p.m. Sept. 14. $12 in advance; $15 at the door. Lodge of Elks, 128 School St., Clinton. (978) 365-2822.
Friends of the Pearle L. Crawford Memorial Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 14 and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 15. Pearle L. Crawford Memorial Library, Fels Community Room, 40 Schofield Ave., Dudley.
American Red Cross Blood Drive 2-7 p.m. Sept. 14. St. Anthony of Padua, Dudley Hill Road, Dudley. (800) 733-2767 or www.redcrossblood.org. Donors receive a Boston Red Sox T-shirt.
�The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee� Stratton Players. 8 p.m. Sept. 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29; 2 p.m. Sept. 16, 23 and 30. $16. First Parish Unitarian Church, 923 Main St., Fitchburg. www.strattonplayers.com or (978) 345-6066.
American Red Cross Blood Drive 1-7 p.m. Sept. 14. Polish National Home, 7 Main St., South Grafton. (800) 733-2767 or www.redcrossblood.org. Donors receive a Boston Red Sox T-shirt and may enter a drawing to win Red Sox tickets.
American Red Cross Blood Drive 1-6 p.m. Sept. 14. Wa1greens parking lot, Route 85, Hudson. (800) 733-2767 or www.redcrossblood.org. Donors receive a Boston Red Sox T-shirt.
Fitchburg Table Tennis Club 6:30-10 p.m. Fridays. Veterans Center, 100 West St., Leominster. (978) 342-9901 or www.fitchburgttc.com.
Movie 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14. Free. Leominster United Methodist Church, Hall Street and Merriam Avenue, Leominster. (978) 537-1356. www.leominsterumc.org.
Monty Tech Annual Golf Tournament Registration, 8:30 a.m.; continental breakfast, 9 a.m.; shotgun start, 10 a.m.; social hour, 3-4 p.m. followed by a buffet dinner and awards. Sept. 14. $125, includes breakfast, lunch, attendance gifts, golf cart and dinner. A silent auction and raffle will also be held. Registration required. Westminster Country Club, 51 Ellis Road, Westminster. (978) 345-9200, ext. 5212. Proceeds benefit student scholarships and services and programs.
Plant and Bake Sale Fundraiser 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 14 (rain or shine). Upper level parking area, Always On Call Health Service, Inc., 285 Central St., Leominster. (978) 537-9900. Proceeds benefit Worcester County �Walk To End Alzheimer�s.�
Bridge and Scat 12:30 p.m. Sept. 14. Senior Center, 1 River St., Millbury. (508) 865-9247.
Exercise Class 10 a.m. Sept. 14. Senior Center, 1 River St., Millbury. (508) 865-9247
Music Together Applefest Program for children 18 months to 5 years 10-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:45 a.m. Sept. 14. Registration required. Northboro Free Library, 34 Main St., Northboro. (508) 393-5025.
Applefest Weekend Gathering Gather with First Parish friends for potluck, dessert and music by Justine Sullivan and friends. Open mic for sharing a song, poem or story. 7-9 p.m. Sept. 14. First Parish Church Unitarian, 40 Church St., Northboro. (508) 393-6422.
Songwriter Session hosted by Lisa Martin, 7 p.m. Sept. 14. $5. The Vanilla Bean Caf�, 450 Deerfield Road, Pomfret. (860) 928-1562 or www.thevanillabeancafe.com.
Fascinating Forests Hike Children 7 and older are welcome to participate in this 2- to 2-1/2-mile hike involving tricky footing over steep and rocky terrain, 2 p.m. Sept. 14 and 3 p.m. Sept. 16. Participants should wear sturdy hiking shoes and bring water and a snack. Meet at Westminster Road at the junction of the Administration Road park gate and Stage Coach Trail, Princeton. (978) 464-2987.
Talk About Rocks Join the park interpreter for a guided hike on one of the several trails that show examples of the geology of Mount Wachusett, 10 a.m. Sept. 14. Free. Meet at the Balance Rock Trail trailhead, near parking aisle 5 of Wachusett Mountain Ski Area parking lot, 499 Mountain Road, Princeton. (978) 465-2987.
Hand Chimes Choir for children in Grades 1-5, 3:45-4:30 p.m. Fridays. Free. Space is limited. Registration required. First Congregational Church, 19 Church Road, Shrewsbury. (508) 845-7286 or office@fccsm.org.
Ballroom Dance and Dinner Turkey dinner, 6-7 p.m. Sept. 14, $10. Reservations required. Dancing to music by Elliott Lockwood, 7:30-11 p.m. $10. SAC Park, 438 Lake St., Shrewsbury. (508) 757-3948 or (508) 829-6991.
Babytime This mini story time and specialized playgroup is for children younger than 3 and their caregivers. Drop in 10:30-noon Fridays. Free. Jacob Edwards Library, 236 Main St., Southbridge. (508) 764-5426 or www.jacobedwardslibrary.org.
Whist Party and Penny Sale 7 p.m. Sept. 14. $5. First Congregational Church, 207 Main St., Spencer.
The Big E Exhibits, buildings and craft common, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Avenue of States and Storrowton Village, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Midway, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sundays-Fridays; 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturdays through Sept. 30. $15; children 6-12, $10; children 5 and younger, free. Big E Value Pass, $40; children 6-12, $20 for unlimited admission for all days. Eastern States Exposition, 1305 Memorial Ave., West Springfield. (413) 737-2444 or www.thebige.com.
�Honk!� Sterling Community Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14, 15, 21 and 22. Matinee: 2 p.m. Sept. 15 and 22. $15; seniors and children 12 and younger, $12. First Church in Sterling, Route 12, Sterling. www.sterlingtheatre.com.
Farmers Market 3-6:30 p.m. Fridays. Town Hall, Route 12, Sterling. (978) 422-7350 or mpineopfp@aol.com.
Association of Traditional Hooking Artists, Wachusett Mountain Chapter Meeting 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 14. Eight Point Sportsman�s Club, 147 Beaman Road, Sterling. (978) 733-1264.
�Nunsense Amen, A Musical Comedy� 8 p.m. Sept. 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29. Matinee: 2 p.m. Sept. 16, 23 and 30. $17; seniors, $15; students 12 and younger, $8. Stageloft Repertory Theater, 450A Main St., Sturbridge. (508) 347-9005.
Adult CPR and First Aid Certification CPR, 1-3 p.m. First Aid, 3-5 p.m. Sept. 14. $60. Rehabilitative Resources, 1 Picker Road, Sturbridge. (508) 347-8181, ext. 104, or cwetherbee@rehabresourcesinc.org.
Junior Naturalists Nature hikes, scavenger hunts and hands-on activities for elementary age children and adult/caregiver, 4 p.m. Sept. 14, 21 and 28. Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, 198 Purgatory Road, Sutton. (508) 234-9610.
Movie �The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.� 12:30 p.m. Sept. 14. Free. Corbin Public Library, 2 Lake St., Webster. (508) 949-3880.
Farmers Market 3-6:30 p.m. Fridays. Academy Hill, Academy Hill Road, Westminster.
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Cambrian Coal Elected to File Voluntary Petitions for Relief Under Chapter 11 on June 16, 2019 and Obtains Financing for Its Restructuring
Mining Operations and Customer Shipments to Continue in the Ordinary Course
Company to Explore a Sale Process Under Court Supervision
BELCHER, Ky., June 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cambrian Coal and its affiliated companies (collectively “Cambrian”, the “Company”, or the “Debtors”) today announced that it filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for Eastern District of Kentucky in Lexington on June 16, 2019.
Cambrian has received commitments from certain of its lenders for up to $15 million of debtor-in-possession (“DIP”) financing and will explore a sale process under court supervision. The Company expects its mining operations and customer shipments to continue in the ordinary course throughout the court-supervised process.
“Today’s announcement represents a significant step in our ongoing efforts to secure our company’s position,” said Mark Campbell, President of Cambrian. “We will continue to provide our customers with exceptional service as we move through this process, while maintaining and further reinforcing our position in the industry with the highest standards for safety, environmental stewardship and productivity. This court-supervised process will also allow us to prepare our company for sale. Potential buyers for the business will have the opportunity to demonstrate their interest and provide the company with a path forward. We firmly believe this is the best course of action for our company.”
The terms of the DIP financing agreement have been ordered and approved by the Bankruptcy Court, among other conditions.
Cambrian has received the Bankruptcy Court’s approval for its motions to continue paying employee wages and providing health care and other benefits. The Company has also received approval to continue existing customer programs and intends to pay suppliers in full for goods and services provided after the filing date of June 16, 2019.
Court filings and other documents related to the reorganization proceedings are available on a website administered by Cambrian’s claims agent, Epiq, at https://dm.epiq11.com/case/CDC/dockets.
Frost Brown Todd LLC is serving as legal advisor to Cambrian, Jefferies and FTI Consulting are serving as financial advisors.
Cambrian is a leading producer of coal products for the steel, power generation and other industries in the U.S. Its operations include mining, shipping, and marketing coal from underground and surface mines located in Kentucky and Virginia. Presently, the Cambrian Coal operates at three primary mining facilities in Kentucky and Virginia: (i) Perry County Coal, located near Hazard, Kentucky; (ii) Premier Elkhorn Coal LLC, located near Dorton, Kentucky; and (iii) Clintwood Elkhorn Mining LLC, located in eastern Kentucky and western Virginia.
The Debtors in this Chapter 11 case are (with the last four digits of their federal tax identification numbers in parentheses): Cambrian Holding Company, Inc. (8203), Cambrian Coal LLC (3394), Apex Energy, Inc. (3455), C.W. Augering, Inc. (2875), Marshall Resources, Inc. (9735), PLM Holding Company LLC (7427), Bear Branch Coal LLC (0674), Clintwood Elkhorn Mining LLC (6910), Gatliff Coal LLC (5768), Perry County Coal LLC (4382), Ray Coal LLC (0981), Whitaker Coal LLC (8270), Pike-Letcher Land LLC (8952), Premier Elkhorn Coal LLC (8951), Raven Rock Development LLC (1351), Rich Mountain Coal LLC (1974), S.T. & T. Leasing, Inc. (0340), T.C. Leasing, Inc. (7705), and Shelby Resources, LLC (5085).
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" – that is, statements related to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address our expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," or "will." Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. For us, particular uncertainties arise from changes in the demand for our coal by the domestic electric generation industry; from legislation and regulations relating to the Clean Air Act and other environmental initiatives; from operational, geological, permit, labor and weather-related factors; from fluctuations in the amount of cash we generate from operations; from potential demands for additional collateral for self-bonding; from our ability to complete our potential exchange offers; from future integration of acquired businesses; and from numerous other matters of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive or regulatory nature. These uncertainties may cause our actual future results to be materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law. For a description of some of the risks and uncertainties that may affect our future results, you should see the risk factors described from time to time in the reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Epiq Call Center:
+1-877-830-7938 (toll-free in North America)
+1-503-520-4456 (outside of North America)
media@cambriancoal.com
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Texas Judge Indicted for Alleged Burglary, Government Document Tampering
by Bob Price on April 25, 2018 at 9:49 AM
A grand jury in San Jacinto County, Texas, returned a three-count indictment against its county judge for alleged burglary of a county office, tampering with a government record, and forgery. Two of the charges are state jail felonies while the third is a Class A Misdemeanor.
Following a presentation of evidence from a special prosecutor from the Office of the Texas Attorney General, a San Jacinto County grand jury returned a three-count indictment against County Judge John Lovett, Jr. on Monday. The indictment alleges Lovett illegally entered the office of San Jacinto County Clerk Dawn Wright and used her facsimile signature stamp to falsify a government document. Both of these allegations are state jail felonies. The indictment further alleges that Lovett forged the certification of a Notice of Meeting of the San Jacinto County Commissioners Court by using the stamp to make it appear the County Clerk authorized the document.
In Texas, the county judge is the chief executive officer of the county’s government. In some counties, including San Jacinto County, the county judge also carries out certain judicial duties.
San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers escorts arrested County Judge John Lovett from the courthouse to the jail. (Photo: San Jacinto County News)
Following the action by the grand jury, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers arrested Lovett and escorted the county judge to the jail for booking and processing, the sheriff told Breitbart Texas. “About an hour later,” Capers said, “the State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced Lovett’s suspension without pay.”
The suspension document states:
Having considered the Indictment, the Commission concluded that the judge is charged with Burglary, Tampering with Governmental Record, and Forgery, one of more of which constitutes a felony offense, and determined that John Lovett, Jr. should be suspended, without pay, from the office of County Judge of San Jacinto County, Texas.
Such suspension shall remain in effect until further orders of the Commission.
Capers said Lovett made no comments during the arrest and complied with instructions.
Monday afternoon, Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Beth Sewell allowed Lovett to be released on a personal recognizance bond.
The investigation into the alleged actions of the county judge began in July 2017 when an alarm at the office of the San Jacinto County Clerk triggered a police response from the sheriff’s office, KTRK ABC13 reported. Deputies arrived and reportedly found Levett, who said he was the one who entered the office. He allegedly claimed his position as county judge gave him the authority to use a master key to enter the premises.
County Clerk Wright disagreed.
“No one else should be able to come into my office other than me or my staff. I can confirm that it was broken into because there is proof of my file stamp being used,” Wright told the Houston ABC affiliate. “As an elected official, I’m not very happy about what’s been going on, but with the ongoing investigation I wish not to make any comments.”
Lovett attempted to justify his actions last July and told the reporter, “The clerk of the court is subservient to the court. If I need to go into the office of the court, I think I have every right to do so.”
In Texas, the office of county clerk is a governmental office that is independently elected by the county’s voters.
“The sheriff’s office is investigating the alarm call,” Lovett continued in the 2017 interview. “I don’t believe they are investigating any crimes.”
This is not the county judge’s first run-in with law enforcement since being elected in 2014.
Shortly before the alleged July 2017 break-in, a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper cited Judge Levett for failing to maintain financial responsibility by not having insurance and for driving on the wrong side of a roadway. His actions allegedly caused a 16-year-old girl to crash her car, ABC13 reported. She suffered cuts and bruises in the crash.
Lovett said he was trying to conduct county business and was working on a mental health emergency when the crash occurred.
The county judge announced he would not run for re-election in his current office following these incidents. Instead, Lovett announced he would seek election to the position of Justice of the Peace for Precinct 1. During the March Primary Election, Lovett finished second in a six-way race to Christina McGee. His name is currently on the ballot for the runoff election scheduled for May.
San Jacinto County GOP Chairman Dwayne Wright, who is married to County Clerk Dawn Wright, told Breitbart Texas, “Today’s events surrounding the county judge are most unfortunate. The San Jacinto County Republican Party hopes that justice will be served while maintaining that people are innocent until proven guilty.”
“While there are many rumors afloat, we stand steadfast in support of our judicial system and it’s ability to discern culpability,” the chairman continued. “The San Jacinto County Republican Party will continue to move forward in our efforts to have a positive impact in our county.”
The Commissioners Court met in emergency session on Monday and appointed Precinct 4 Commissioner Mark Nettuno to temporarily fill the position of county judge while Lovett remains under suspension, Wright said. A second emergency meeting of the court is scheduled for Tuesday.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, GAB, and Facebook. Originally published on Breitbart TX.
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Crossroads and Cultures, Volume II: Since 1300 A History of the World's Peoples
Authors: Bonnie G. Smith, Marc Van de Mieroop, Richard von Glahn, Kris Lane
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Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World’s Peoplesincorporates the best current cultural history into a fresh and original narrative that connects global patterns of development with life on the ground. As the title, “Crossroads,” suggests, this new synthesis highlights the places and times where people exchanged goods and commodities, shared innovations and ideas, waged war and spread disease, and in doing so joined their lives to the broad sweep of global history. Students benefit from a strong pedagogical design, abundant maps and images, and special features that heighten the narrative’s attention to the lives and voices of the world’s peoples. Test drive a chapter today.Find out…
how.
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.50" long x 1.00" tall
Kris Lane received his B.A. in History and Latin American Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1991, and his Ph.D in History from the University of Minnesota in 1996. Lane specializes in Colonial Latin American history, focusing mostly on mining in the Andes Mountains of South America. Lane's books include PILLAGING THE EMPIRE: PIRACY IN THE AMERICAS, 1500-1750 (1998) and QUITO, 1599: CITY & COLONY IN TRANSITION (2002). He also edited Bernardo de Vargas MACHUCA'S INDIAN MILITIA AND DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIES (2008) and DEFENSE OF THE WESTERN CONQUESTS (2009). Lane has also published articles on piracy, slavery, gold mining, headhunting, and witchcraft in colonial Ecuador and…
Colombia. His new book, COLOR OF PARADISE: COLOMBIAN EMERALDS IN THE AGE OF GUNPOWDER EMPIRES, is due out in 2010.
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Boiling Mad Behind the Lines in Tea Party America
Authors: Kate Zernike
Buy used: $12.59
"Concise [and] elegantly written. . . . A convincing portrait of the movement's most ardent activists." Los Angeles Times They burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recessionthousands of angry voters railing against bailouts and big governmentand within the year, the Tea Party had changed the terms of debate in Washington. This new populist movement set the agenda for the 2010 midterm elections, propelling a historic shift of power in Congress and capturing the mood of an anxious country. By election day, a remarkable four in ten voters called themselves Tea Party supporters. Boiling Madis Kate Zernike's eye-opening look inside the Tea Party, introducing us to its cast of unlikely…
activists and the philosophy and zeal that animate them. She shows how the movement emerged from an unusual alliance of young, Internet-savvy conservatives and older people who came to the movement out of fear and frustration. She takes us behind the scenes as well-connected groups in Washington move to mobilize the grassroots energy, and inside the campaign that best showed the movement's power and its contradictions. Putting the Tea Party in the context of other conservative revolts, Zernike shows us how the movement reflects important philosophical and cultural strains that have long been a feature of American politics.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
<b>Kate Zernike</b> is a national correspondent for <i>The New York Times</i> and was a member of the team that shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. She is author of the book <i>Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America</i>. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives with her family outside New York City.
"This is America!"
"Hard work beats Daddy's money"
"Get off our backs, damn it!"
"Wc look at the original, primary source"
"Huzzah!"
"We've kind of changed the rules"
"It's a mission"
"We've been a little bit too nice"
"I have a message, a message from the Tea Party"
Epmogue
Appendix: New York Times/CBS News Poll of Tea Party Supporters
Acknowleogments
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Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Higher Education Theories and Tensions
Edition: 5th 2010
Authors: AEHE Staff, Adrianna J. Kezar, Cecile Sam
American faculty are changing. Approximately 65 percent of all faculty now being appointed are nontenure track. Despite these changes, many higher education institutions still operate as though tenure-track faculty are the norm and non-tenure-track faculty are a supplementary workforce. This monograph highlights practical and empirical tensions, reviewing theories and frameworks that have been applied to the study of non-tenure-track faculty in an attempt to better understand their emergence, experience, and outcomes. It also reviews the literature about key tensions that emerge because of the development of this new group of faculty: Is tenure still relevant and important? Can tenure-track…
and non-tenure-track faculty find shared interests to collectively create change? Can non-tenure-track faculty overcome competition that prevents them from working together meaningfully? Why is the research on the institutional and student impacts of non-tenure-track faculty so mixed? Does empirical research address stereotypes about non-tenure-track faculty and how can it be spread more widely to imporve institutional decision making? What future research is needed to guide policy? As a guide to the trends and research in non-tenure track faculty, this is an invaluable review for administrators and faculty who want to make better-informed decisions about staffing. This is the fifth issue in the 36th volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph in the series is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Need for the Monograph
Purpose and Audience
Background: Understanding the Conflicting Research
Introduction to the Players: Groups Studying Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Organization of the Monograph
Theories Used to Study and Understand Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Economic Theories
Sociological Theories
Psychological and Social Psychological Theories
Organizational Theory
Labor Relations Theory
Ideological Tensions
Practical Tensions
Empirical Tensions
Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research
Overall Conclusions and Implications
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(6) just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
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In God's mind, true faith or living faith is virtually synonymous with obedience and works. Faith and obedience are interchangeable, even though they are not specifically the same thing. This is just like the Bible's usage of mind, heart, and spirit—they are not specifically the same thing, yet they are so interconnected that they really cannot be separated.
This verse is a quotation of Genesis 15:6. There is a parallel quotation in Romans 4:1-3:
What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
This verse in essence says that Abraham was justified because he believed. He was legally righteous before God because of his faith. This becomes the basis for Paul's teaching that justification is by faith and not by works. What Paul does not mention here is that Abraham's justification (Genesis 15:6) occurred 14 years before Abraham was circumcised. Paul's conclusion is that, based on Genesis 15:6, Abraham was justified by faith. The "work" of circumcision did not come for another 14 years! The circumcision did not justify him—the faith did. See the notes at Galatians 2:16.
Paul explains further in verses 21-25:
And being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore "it was accounted to him for righteousness." Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.
Paul shows that we are also justified (cleared of guilt, have our sins wiped away) by belief in the blood of Jesus Christ. What God did for Abraham, He will also do for us. Paul's conclusion then is that justification is by faith.
But like Galatians 2:16, this seemingly sets up a paradox, because faith does not stand alone:
But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. (James 2:20-24)
Paul also points out that there is more to the equation of justification than just faith in Romans 2:13: "For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."
These last two scriptures show that living faith cannot be separated from obedience—from works. Faith and works go together; where there is living faith, there will always be good works. If no works are produced, there is no living faith. What we truly and deeply believe will determine the actions we take in our lives. If we truly believe something, our "works"—what we do in our lives—will always point to that. "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7)—a man lives and acts according to what his core is.
As discussed previously (Galatians 2:16), these verses are in fact complementary, not contradictory. Each of these passages has a different context and purpose, and so we do not get the whole answer from any one of them individually. James' purpose is to show that there are two kinds of faith—living and dead, genuine and professing.
James says that a person's faith is perfected or completed by the kind of works that the faith produces. He shows that it is the kind of faith that Abraham had that made the real difference and brought about justification. Justification is entirely an act on God's part, but the kind of faith that brings about justification is the same kind that also brings about good works. It is not our works that save us, but only those who are "working" in the right way will be saved because their works will be indicative of what they truly believe in. Living faith, which James talks about, cannot be separated from works.
Paul backs this up in his second letter to the Corinthian church:
So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Therefore we make it our aim [work; labor], whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him [our acceptance by Him after being justified is dependent on what we do!]. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. (II Corinthians 5:6-10)
Paul lived by faith, but he worked (labored) so that he would be acceptable to God. If he did not work, he would not have been acceptable to God even though he professed God, said he believed in Christ, had faith that He could save, etc. His works were an indicator to God of what he had faith in—what he believed.
Paul's faith was the same faith that James was talking about—a living, active faith which produces good things—good works. Dead faith is inactive (toward the things of God). It does not produce anything profitable. It is the particular kind and quality of works that separates the Christian from the world, giving evidence of what a person believes.
— David C. Grabbe
Doers of the Law
Faith and Obedience
Faith as Work
Faith with Works
Faith, Dead
Faith, Living
Hearers and Doers
Hearers of the Law
Justification by Faith
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ISIS And The Anbar Crisis
Despite recent success in Mosul, ISIS is still trying to solidify its fragile gains in Anbar province, particularly following heavy losses in Syria.
By Raed El-Hamed
After a six-month campaign to assert a tenuous hold over Fallujah, and the failure to fully control Ramadi or to expand the insurgency to the rest of the cities of Anbar, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is using a new tactic. The group is attacking certain cities and then storming out, as happened recently in Samarra, to distract the military efforts against it. It also seeks to control major cities, as happened in Mosul after four days of fighting with government forces who failed to keep the city after the senior security, military, and political leaders defected. But despite these gains, the Western Desert on the Iraqi-Syrian border, 300 kilometers (180 miles) west of Ramadi in Anbar Province and the main stronghold of ISIS, remains of strategic importance and is vital for the group to maintain control of the area.
In Anbar, which provides a land bridge over the border and facilitates the flow of fighters and arms to and from eastern and northeastern Syria, large swaths of which ISIS controls, the group has focused its military efforts since entering Ramadi on eliminating old tribal Awakening (Sahwa) forces under Ahmed Abu Risha and newer Awakening ones led by Mohamed al-Hayis to prevent a powerful coalition from forming against it. The clashes that followed the arrest of Member of Parliament Ahmed al-Alwani in December 2013—and the subsequent standoff between government troops and armed groups, most of whom were members of the tribe angered by Alwani’s arrest and the killing of his brother—allowed ISIS just that. It gave them a chance to move into Ramadi, taking over several neighborhoods.
After ISIS seized the suburbs of Ramadi, including Albu Bali, al-Mulahama, and Jazeerat al-Khaldiya, most of the local population fled to safer areas. However, ISIS quickly abandoned the newly conquered territory to pursue a guerrilla warfare strategy, launching constant attacks on government troops who have returned to secure the area. The Iraqi army has so far been unable to reassert control over much of the contested neighborhoods, often entering into an area only to quickly withdraw under heavy fire. At other times, ISIS will withdraw its fighters as government troops advance, only to then stage a counterattack a few hours later and reclaim it. This explains the government’s drawn-out offensive in Hayy al-Mala‘ab—despite repeated announcements that government troops have seized control of the entire area, complete with images of deployed soldiers displayed on local stations, but without any official acknowledgments of the subsequent losses of control.
Since, ISIS has strengthened its control of the outlying Ramadi suburbs of Sufia, Albu Obaid, Albu Bali, Albu Faraj, and in some neighborhoods within the city proper, such as Hayy al-Dubbat, Hayy al-Ta’mim, Hayy al-Mala‘ab, and other neighborhoods in the main thoroughfare running through the southern part of the city and connects its eastern and western halves. Strongholds such as Hayy al-Dubbat and Hayy al-Mala‘ab have seen intense fighting between SWAT teams, local police, and the counterterrorism Golden Brigade unit, which is supported by some of the old Awakening Councils led by Ahmed Abu Risha. The new Awakening Councils, however, have been absent from the scene due to lack of government support and defections to the old Awakening Councils, especially since Abu Risha ended a year-long feud with the federal government to join forces against ISIS in December.
Following a successful entry into Fallujah in January 2014, which ISIS wanted as a stepping stone for attacks against Baghdad, the group formed an implicit agreement with tribal insurgents and the local military council, which includes armed former opposition factions and some former army officers. According to this agreement, ISIS can be present in Fallujah proper but may not launch revenge attacks against public property, former officials, party leaders, or former Awakening members, while also refraining from labeling any others as infidels (takfir), raising its flag, or forcing others to swear allegiance. The agreement also dictates that ISIS is to act in full coordination with the military council and the tribal insurgents in everything related to military action or civil administration, and cannot unilaterally claim credit for any attack on government troops.
The group’s presence in Fallujah gives the government and Ramadi Awakening Councils a pretext to attack the city, possibly weakening the Sunnis’ position nationally and regionally. Even if the army continues to press its offensive indefinitely, it will not curb the militants’ attacks or capabilities, due to the insurgents’ superior combat experience dating back to the Saddam Hussein era and insurgency training acquired during the U.S. occupation. The government troops, in comparison, are largely inexperienced units and are highly dependent on the militias including the Badr Organization, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and the Mahdi army, among others.
The recent fall of Mosul will, at least in the short term, allow ISIS greater access and mobility in Syria and Iraq. It will also allow them control of the oil pipeline between Kirkuk and the Turkish port of Ceyhan, in addition to water and electric resources through the Mosul Dam. But despite these gains, ISIS still faces serious challenges in Anbar, including the potential for a broader tribal-government coalition that could push it out of the city. A political deal with the federal government to facilitate this coalition, if reached, would almost certainly lead local military councils and tribal insurgents to switch sides. The latter, despite their deep mistrust of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, would prefer to be reintegrated into state institutions than to harbor a terrorist organization. This is compounded by the losses ISIS has faced in Syria, where the Free Syrian Army and some Islamist factions including Jabhat al-Nusra are pushing back against them, which will restrict the flow of militants into Anbar. In recent months, ISIS has ceded chunks of territory in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Province on the Iraqi border, with most of its fighters retreating to Raqqa Province, deeper within Syria. Other fighters have apparently crossed into Iraq, as suggested by the killing of top ISIS leader Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Kuwaiti near Ramadi in late March.
Recent events notwithstanding, local media stations have been downplaying ISIS’s gains in Anbar, something the group seems to welcome because they fear an acknowledgment of its presence could hasten a tribal-government alliance against it. In the meantime, ISIS is seeking to mend its relations with the Sunni community, while establishing cells within Sunni areas that would allow it greater future strike capabilities and give it a chance for more daily interactions that could improve its local image—all while fighting the Shia-dominated army and those Sunnis it labels “apostates” in the police and Awakening Councils.
Leaders in the Sunni community, including tribal leaders and religious scholars, worry ISIS might reestablish itself in the areas it controlled in 2005–2006, not because they fear the group would impose its strict interpretation of Islam, but for fear of reprisals against the Sunni community for their cooperation with U.S. troops in fighting ISIS between 2006 and 2008. This worry also applies to many former armed Sunni opposition factions—including Hamas of Iraq, the 1920 Revolution Brigades, the Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance (JAMI), and the Islamic Army—which at the time joined the U.S.-allied Awakening Councils.
Already on the defensive in Syria—standing alone against the Free Syrian Army, Jabhat al-Nusra, and other factions—ISIS cannot afford heavy losses in the battles in Fallujah and Ramadi. As ISIS seems to be fully aware, it is likely to be on the losing end should the military council and tribal insurgents join forces with the federal government against it. For this reason, the group is likely to pour new fighters into Anbar Province.
This article is reprinted with permission from Sada. It can be accessed online at: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/2014/06/12/isis-and-anbar-crisis/hdlf
Raed El-Hamed is an Iraqi journalist and member of the Iraqi Journalists’ Syndicate. He is a regular contributor to Sada.
This article was translated from Arabic.
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Hey, there's my old flint arrowhead!
Tuesday, 03 July 2018 09:34:48 CDT David-Braverman General, Geography (0)
Amsterdam is building a new subway line directly beneath the Amstel River, so they drained it, as one does. Then they let a team of archaeologists go wild:
The excavations in the Amstel yielded a deluge of finds, some 700,000 in all: a vast array of objects, some broken, some whole, all jumbled together. Damrak and Rokin proved to be extremely rich sites on account of the waste that had been dumped in the river for centuries and the objects accidentally lost in the water. The enormous quantity, great variety and everyday nature of these material remains make them rare sources of urban history. The richly assorted collection covers a vast stretch of time, from long before the emergence of the city right up to the present day. The objects paint a multi-facetted picture of daily life in the city of Amsterdam.
The city has published an online catalog that you can view chronologically or alphabetically.
California may move to UTC-7 year-round
Friday, 29 June 2018 11:23:57 CDT David-Braverman Geography, Travel (1)
Governor Jerry Brown approved AB 807, which would put to the voters in November an initiative to go to "year round Daylight Saving Time:"
Wrote Brown in a signing message: "Fiat Lux!" (Let there be light.)
Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, who authored Assembly Bill 807, has called the practice of changing clocks twice a year, in the fall and the spring, "outdated." He argues altering the time by an hour has adverse health affects, increasing chances for heart attacks, workplace injuries and traffic accidents.
The ballot measure would overturn a 1949 voter-approved initiative called the Daylight Savings Time Act, which established Standard Pacific Time in California.
Should voters approve the ballot measure, the Legislature would then decide how the state's time should be set. Congress would have to sign off on Chu's main goal of establishing year-round daylight saving time.
If it passes, L.A. and San Francisco would see sunrises at 7:44 and 8:09, respectively. But sunsets would be 17:44 and 17:51. So...if you live in California, how would you vote?
Driving in Evanston, Ill., in 1972
Wednesday, 27 June 2018 15:03:48 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, Geography (0)
Forget the news for a moment. This video is just so cool—especially if you're from Evanston in the 1970s:
You know this crap will keep happening
Monday, 25 June 2018 13:00:30 CDT David-Braverman Geography, Politics (2)
Now that ICE and CBP feel like they have carte blanche to "do their jobs," stories like this will only become more frequent:
The coast of White Rock, British Columbia, in western Canada looks to be an ideal place for a run, with its sweeping views of the Semiahmoo Bay to the west and scores of waterfront homes and seafood restaurants to the east. That's what 19-year-old Cedella Roman thought when she went jogging along the area's smooth beaches — in a southbound direction, notably — on May 21.
Roman, who lives in France, had been visiting her mother in nearby North Delta, British Columbia. During Roman's run, she was admiring the scenery when she unwittingly crossed the border from Canada into the United States, Roman told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
On May 22, Roman was taken to ICE's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., about 140 miles south of the border point where she had been arrested. She remained detained until June 5 when, after two weeks of paperwork and processing, Roman was taken back to the border “and removed to Canada,” Cutrell said.
Two weeks in detention—basically, a kidnapping—because she didn't have her French passport with her while jogging. CBP commented:
If an individual enters the United States at a location other than an official port of entry and without inspection by a Customs and Border Protection officer, they have illegally entered the United States and will be processed accordingly. It is the responsibility of an individual traveling in the vicinity of an international border to maintain awareness of their surroundings and their location at all times to ensure they do not illegally cross the border.
Here's what the border looks like just 4 kilometers from where Roman was arrested:
That's what almost our entire border with Canada looks like. That's because, since its founding in July 1867, Canada has remained the United States' closest friend and ally.
Arresting visitors to Canada who accidentally jog across an invisible line and holding them for two weeks is not how you treat a friend. But this was a discretionary arrest and detention; the CBP agents had the authority to shoo her back across the border without an incident.
This is what happens when the guy at the top gives people at the bottom permission to behave like assholes: some of them will.
Busy weekend; lunchtime reading
Monday, 25 June 2018 12:49:09 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, General, Geography, Politics, Travel (1)
This past weekend included the Chicago Gay Pride Parade and helping a friend prepare for hosing a brunch beforehand. Blogging fell a bit on the priority list.
Meanwhile, here are some of the things I'm reading today:
From last week, the Times discusses whether Earth's 23.4° axis tilt was actually a necessary precursor to life.
New Republic's Josephine Huetlin asks, "Why do populists get away with corruption?"
One of Chicago's last remaining over-the-tollway oases is slated for demolition.
Josh Marshall points out why President Trump treating international diplomatic negotiations like flea-market haggling is a huge, long-term problem for the US.
Writing for JetBrains' blog, developer Dino Esposito looks at how special string handling can be a code smell.
The owner of the Lexington, Va., restaurant that kicked out Press Secretary Sarah Sanders talked to the Washington Post.
Back to debugging service bus queues...
Late afternoon reading
Friday, 22 June 2018 16:32:15 CDT David-Braverman Entertainment, General, Geography, Politics, Travel (1)
Meetings and testing all day have put these on my list for reading tomorrow:
The Atlantic's Carl Zimmer on epigenetics.
New Republic's David Dayen saying AT&T has proved its critics right in only a week.
London plans to spend £1.5 bn ($2 bn) to get enough trains on its four most-crowded lines just to keep up with demand.
Jennifer Rubin says, contra the President, America is strong and he is weak.
Andrew Sullivan says, fuck it, give Trump his wall.
And pity the poor Trump Administration staffers who can't get dates in DC.
And with that, it's the weekend.
No decision in gerrymandering cases
To almost everyone's frustration, the Supreme Court rendered two unanimous decisions today in which they declined to rule on the constitutionality of two gerrymandering cases. This means both Wisconsin and Maryland will keep their district maps through the November election:
In the Wisconsin case, the court said that the challenges must be brought district by district, with voters in each proving that their rights had been violated. The challengers asked the court to consider the state map as a whole.
The Maryland case was still at a preliminary stage, and the court in an unsigned opinion said the lower court had not been wrong when it decided not to make the state redraw the maps in time for the 2018 election.
The justices sent the [Wisconsin] case back to a panel of three federal judges to see if the challengers could modify their suit to show they have plaintiffs in the individual districts.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the plaintiffs should be able to do so.
“Courts—and in particular this court—will again be called on to redress extreme partisan gerrymanders,” she wrote. “I am hopeful we will then step up to our responsibility to vindicate the Constitution against a contrary law.”
I totally understand why SCOTUS punted, because they really do not want to weigh in on such a politicized issue. But wow, given that a majority of Wisconsin voters are Democrats, it's obvious that the current Wisconsin map is a power-grab by Republicans who fear they're losing power against urban Democrats.
We're not going to be done with this in my lifetime.
Boring Company will bore Chicago
Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:43:24 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, Geography, Travel (3)
Elon Musk's Boring Co. has gotten approval to start work on a high-speed underground connection between O'Hare and downtown Chicago:
The promised project: A closed-loop pair of tunnels from Block 37 in the central Loop to the airport that would whisk passengers to their flights in 12 minutes, using autonomous pod-like vehicles, or electric skates, that would depart as frequently as every 30 seconds and carry up to 16 passengers and their luggage.
If all goes as it should, [Deputy Mayor Robert] Rivkin said, construction work could begin next year with actual service in operation around 2022.
The Chicago project generally would use already existing "electric skate" technology, though it would link them together in a form and length that is unique to this country. The direct connection via a dedicated tunnel would allow those vehicles to accelerate to over 100 miles per hour, according to the city and Boring, slashing the time on the 27 km O'Hare run. And the project would-use the long mothballed CTA "superstation" under Block 37 as a terminal, with the end point located near the CTA's Blue Line terminus close to O'Hare terminals but outside of the airport's security perimeter.
I really, really hope the project succeeds. It will be nice to get from O'Hare to downtown that quickly, though I doubt the $25 fare will last long. For comparison to other under-20-minute express trains, the Heathrow Express costs $29 while the Schiphol Fyra (to Amsterdam) only costs $6.25. If you want to take an hour, the El costs $5 and the Tube $4.10 (off-peak).
How the last ice age shaped New York City
Thursday, 07 June 2018 12:05:48 CDT David-Braverman Geography (1)
Total Daily Parker bait:
At the start of the last ice age, 2.6 million years ago, a sheet of frozen water formed atop North America that kept expanding and thickening until it reached a maximum depth of roughly two miles.
At its southern edge, the vast body deposited tons of rocky debris — from sand and pebbles to boulders the size of school buses. Then, some 18,000 years ago, the planet began to warm and the gargantuan sheet of ice began to melt and retreat.
Today, the southernmost edge of that frozen expanse is marked by a line of rubble that extends across the northern United States for thousands of miles. The largest deposits form what geologists call a terminal moraine.
The intermittent ridge runs from Puget Sound to the Missouri River to Montauk Point on Long Island, forming the prominence that supports its old lighthouse. The ancient sheet of ice also left its mark on a very modern phenomenon: New York City.
It's a clear explanation of how the terminal moraine formed the New York metro area, and where in the area you can see direct evidence of glaciation.
Wednesday, 06 June 2018 13:07:09 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, General, Geography, Politics (0)
Stuff that landed in my inbox today:
Illinois has secured a $132 m grant to fix one of the worst rail bottlenecks in the state.
Crain's Greg Hinz sort-of compliments Illinois governor Bruce Rauner for finally making a budget deal...in his 4th year as governor. Meanwhile, the administration's trade war will hurt Illinois harder than most—a feature, one suspects, and not a bug.
WaPo's Amber Phillips lists the winners and losers from yesterday's primary elections in California and other states.
New Republic's Ioan Grillo investigates why Latin American countries have such a hard time being democratic.
The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand wonders what Paul Manafort is doing.
Politico's Michael Statford wonders why Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is convening a panel on school safety that won't talk about guns. (To quote a Tweet I saw over the weekend, "I love little cultural differences, like how Americans are super offended by the word cunt but here in Australia we're super offended by school children being slaughtered with automatic weapons.")
Uncle Bob praises the given/when/then triptych that revolutionized software development.
And finally, Scott Hanselman warns that carriage returns and line feeds will bite you in the Git if you're not careful.
Also, while we're on the subject of the C-word, I love Minnie Driver's response: "That was the wrong word for Samantha Bee to have used. But mostly because (to paraphrase the French) Ivanka has neither the warmth nor the depth."
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Arab Poll: 55% Believe Offensive Words Justify Violence
by Jim Hoft March 31, 2008
55% of Arabs surveyed believe offensive words or actions (cartoons?) justify violence.
The Gulf Times and Religion of Peace reported:
A YOUGOV poll commissioned by the Doha Debates has concluded that nearly one-third of all Arabs believe that Saudi Arabia is at greater risk from religious extremism than any other country in the world.
The poll adds weight to the vote at a session of the Doha Debates held on March 3 in Doha, where the motion “This house believes that Muslims are failing to combat extremism”, was carried by more than 70% of the audience.
In the YouGov survey, nearly half of all Arabs in the Gulf, Levant and North Africa said they have met someone who holds extreme religious views.
Asked under what conditions violence is permissible, more than 60% cited Western interference in a Muslim country, while 55% said offensive words or behaviour was a trigger.
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Gays tell of mutilation by apartheid army
A report detailing castration and electric shocks adds weight to calls for doctors to be held to account over abuses
Chris McGreal in Johannesburg
Fri 28 Jul 2000 20.10 EDT First published on Fri 28 Jul 2000 20.10 EDT
The part-man, part-woman who still calls himself Harold is trying to gather the courage to finally fight back against South Africa's military. It was the army, after all, which abandoned him more than a decade ago, part way through "treatment" to turn him from a male to a female under a discredited policy of trying to "cure" homosexual conscripts.
"I now know that in one sense I was just unlucky. The army had whole gay battalions who they just shunted aside and let be. But if things went wrong and you ended up in the hands of the psychologists then it could get very bad. In my case it began with the electric shocks and only ended after they'd already given me breasts, and then the army said it had abandoned the whole policy," he said.
He is not alone. Thousands of other gays were subjected to electric shock therapy, hormone treatment and chemical castration through the 1970s and 80s, when national service was compulsory for white males and homosexuality was a crime.
Some lesbians were also given "cures".
An as-yet unpublished report, called the Aversion Project, commissioned by gay rights groups and South Africa's medical research council, details the extent of the abuses and is expected to form the basis of demands for corrective treatment, and demands that the doctors behind the "treatments" be held accountable by the medical authorities.
The attempts to "cure" homosexuals began after the creation of the infamous ward 22 at the Voortrekkerhoogte military hospital near Pretoria in 1969. The ward, which ostensibly catered for servicemen with psychological problems, was under the command of an army colonel and psychologist, Aubrey Levin.
Aversion therapy
Dr Levin treated genuinely disturbed patients, but was also keen to take in other soldiers to "cure". His focus was homosexuals and drug users. Commanding officers and chaplains were encouraged to refer "deviants" for "treatment".
At first Dr Levin was convinced he could make heterosexuals out of gay patients, using electroconvulsive aversion therapy. Michael Smith, now a 46-year-old marketing manager in Johannesburg, was sent to ward 22 after Dr Levin forced him to admit he was homosexual in front of his parents. He was then an 18-year-old conscript.
"It was the first time they realised I was homosexual and they were horrified. Dr Levin told them he had a therapy that would 'reorientate' me, so I agreed to the treatment," he said.
The treatment consisted of strapping electrodes to the upper arm with wires running to a dial calibrated from one to 10. Homosexual soldiers were shown pictures of a naked man and encouraged to fantasise, then the power was ratcheted up until the patient could take no more.
The subject was then shown an image of a naked woman.
"When you kind of reached the maximum point and then you'd say 'No, no, no, I couldn't stand it any more', then he would say: 'Now you must think about your girlfriend', and all that sort of off-the-wall statements," said Mr Smith.
"I was actually just completely freaked out and confused. It certainly didn't do much for my impulses of attraction for other boys."
Trudie Grobler, an intern psychologist on ward 22, saw a lesbian subjected to such severe shocks that her shoes flew off.
"It was traumatic. I could not believe her body could handle it," she said.
Dr Levin believed the same treatment could also cure "drug addicts", mostly men caught smoking marijuana. There were also those who simply did not want to serve in the apartheid military. They were tagged as "disturbed".
On arrival at ward 22, "patients" were stripped of their clothes and shoes and given brown pyjamas. The army said that would help to prevent escapes. Every new patient was put on Valium. The ward orderlies carried pistols.
Dr Levin also subjected his patients to narco-analysis or a "truth drug", involving the slow injection of a barbiturate before the questioning began. Dr Levin does not deny its use.
"Narco-analysis was used, I give you that, but it was used in very isolated cases and only to help treat post-traumatic stress. Narco-analysis was used to help get victims to talk about the trauma they suffered," he said.
But former patients say that gays and "drug addicts" were subjected to the treatment to see if they were really "cured". Drug users considered habitual addicts were sent to a hard-labour farm.
Dr Levin, who became chief psychiatrist for the whole South African military, eventually concluded that aversion therapy was a failure and abandoned it in favour of other methods.
One gay soldier, Jean Erasmus, was chemically castrated by Dr Levin at Bloemfontein psychiatric hospital in 1980.
Before he committed suicide last year, Erasmus recorded a tape detailing the broader abuse of homosexuals in the army, including how he was forced by his officers to participate in the gang rape of Angolan women, and how other gay soldiers were given hormone drugs.
"I am quite convinced that quite a few murders of gay people took place which we will never know of, and it was covered up. When people got trigger happy, gays were often the brunt of the bullet."
In practice, the army's treatment of gays was confused. Many found themselves in de facto "gay battalions", according to Mikki van Zyl, a researcher on the Aversion Project report.
"In Uppington, virtually the whole battalion was queer until some general decided this should be broken up. There was one in Grahamstown. There was another in Pretoria. For some of them, these were supportive environments," she said.
Some men joined the army specifically to get a sex change operation. But others were pressured into surgery by military psychologists after other methods failed. The army carried out as many as 50 sex change operations a year.
Lesbians were also offered surgery - one woman is among those left partially altered after the programme was shut down.
The Aversion Project report argues that the doctors concerned broke international law.
"Health workers in the [military] were expected to be loyal first to the state and its ideologies. It meant that some doctors flagrantly ignored terms from the Geneva convention and Tokyo declaration, and certainly showed no accountability to the national professional councils, nor best current practices. The stage was set for human rights abuses of patients under the care of such doctors."
Ms van Zyl says that while the army as an institution should be held accountable, Dr Levin has particular responsibility.
"He left a trail of experiments. He worked in environments where he had captive subjects and he abused them," she said.
Dr Levin emigrated to Canada at about the time he was warned by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa that he would be named as an abuser of human rights.
Speaking to the Guardian from Canada, where he works at a teaching hospital, he said he left South Africa only because of the high crime rate, and denied the accusations against him.
"Nobody was given electric shock treatment by me. What we practised was aversion therapy. We caused slight, very slight, pain in the arm by contracting the muscles, using an electronic device," he said.
"Nobody was held against his or her will. We did not keep human guinea pigs, like Russian communists; we only had patients who wanted to be cured and were there voluntarily."
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2015 Audi RS6 Avant by Audi Exclusive
Audi Exclusive got its hands on the RS6 Avant and made all of us here in the U.S. drool over this beauty.
Cars Reviews Audi Audi RS6 Station wagon Midsize cars Special editions
by Ciprian Florea, on December 30, 2014, 17:00
There are a lot of cool cars we can’t have in the United States, including a host of incredibly fast yet still practical wagons. The Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake is the first that pops into mind, but the RS6 Avant is the vehicle that adds even more insult to injury. While Europe gets no less than four Audi-badged wagons, U.S. customers have just the one in the form of the A6 Allroad. And while most of us can live without the A4 Avant and the A3 Sportback, not having the RS6 Avant on this side of the pond is pure blasphemy. While I could rant about this for hours, I’m going to take a break to tell you about the latest Exclusive package Audi rolled out for the RS6 Avant.
The bundle comes just in time for the wagon’s recently launched facelift and adds further aggressiveness to the already beefed-up grocery getter. Nothing massive, but just enough to turn the RS6 Avant from enticing to downright sinister.
Click past the jump to read more about the Audi RS6 Avant by Audi Exclusive.
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175000 (Est.)
Super High-End
As with most Audi Exclusive models, this RS6 boasts subtle exterior modifications. The main highlight of the wagon is its matte-gray paint job, which gives it a rather menacing appearance in conjunction with the aggressive body features that come with any RS badge.
Of course, add-ons aren’t limited to a custom color. The front end sports a carbon-fiber splitter and lower grille inserts, while the rear is now adorned by a carbon-fiber diffuser. Likewise, the side-mirror caps are also made from the lightweight material, enhancing the car’s sinister look. Rounding of this RS6’s exterior is a set of black, alloy wheels finished in a twin-five-spoke design and wrapped in the usual low-profile, performance tires.
The dark theme Audi Exclusive wrapped this wagon in continues in the cabin, where every inch of leather and Alcantara is painted black. Subtle threads of yellow stitching on the seats, steering wheel, door armrests, center console and lower dashboard area are the only bits of color that manage to pierce the darkness of this cockpit.
Carbon-fiber trim replaces every bit of aluminum and wood, leaving very few chrome parts to shine through. Needless to say, this interior is a great place to be if your name is Darth Vader.
The subtle yet effective changes applied inside and out are totally missing under the hood, as Audi Exclusive left the drivetrain untouched. But that’s not something customers will complain about, as the RS6’s turbocharged, 4.0-liter V-8 packs a serious punch to the tune of 560 horsepower and 517 pound-feet of torque. Using an eight-speed, tiptronic automatic and quattro all-wheel drive to grip the tarmac beneath the wheels, the drivetrain combines to deliver staggering performance figures.
While it might seem large and heavy, the wagon needs only 3.9 seconds to blast to 60 mph toward a top speed of 190 mph. Talk about getting your groceries in a jiffy!
As usual, Audi is mum on the premium these updates add to the standard RS6 Avant, but we’re looking at more than $10,000 worth of extra goodies. Unfortunately for those of you living in the United States, you can’t have any of them simply because Audi doesn’t sell this wagon in North America. But if you happen to live in the UK, you can grab one for at least £77,995 ($121,400 as of 12/30/2014).
Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Estate
Since BMW doesn’t build a wagon version of the M5, the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG is the RS6 Avant’s sole competitor to come from Germany. Although the latter isn’t sold here in the States, the two wagons can clash just about anywhere in Europe in arguably the most practical head-to-head comparison of the modern, high-performance era.
While the Merc is not as fresh as the RS6 Avant, which received a facelift for 2015, that’s not to say the AMG’s beefed-up wagon is dated. Its exterior design still feels modern, while the interior combines the highest-quality materials, the sportiness and the workmanship AMG is known for. The real treat is under the hood, where a 5.5-liter V-8 roars to the tune of 550 horsepower and 531 pound-feet of torque. 0-to-60 arrives in just 3.7 seconds, making it quicker than the RS6 Avant. On the other hand, top speed is limited at 155 mph.
Shoppers in need of more power can opt for the S package, which increases output to 585 ponies and 590 pound-feet of torque. U.S. pricing for the E63 AMG S 4MATIC begins at $103,200. In the UK, the souped up estate retails from £74,375, around £3,500 cheaper compared to the RS6 Avant.
Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake
The XFR-S Sportbrake is one of the very few high-performance wagons you can buy nowadays, but much like the RS6 Avant, you can’t have it in the United States. This leaves the British estate to battle it out with the Audi in mainland Europe and the United Kingdom, where the XFR-S gets to unleash its supercharged, 5.0-liter, V-8 engine at full blast. The mill churns 543 horsepower and 502 pound-feet of torque, pushing the Jag from 0 to 60 mph in 4.6 seconds and up to a top speed of 186 mph.
Granted, the XFR-S is slower than both its German rivals, but its exhaust note is no match for the turbocharged units found in the E63 AMG and the RS6. Less popular as far as sales and availability go, the XFR-S Sportbrake is the more expensive wagon of the pack, retailing from £82,495 ($128,400 as of 12/30/2014) on British soil.
Ever since Audi Exclusive brought the RS7 Dynamic Edition at the 2014 New York Auto Show, I’ve learned that these bespoke vehicles are among the most ridiculous luxury cars you can buy. And by ridiculous I’m mean awfully expensive, as the Dynamic Edition costs an extra $40,000 when compared to the standard RS7 and $10,000 more than a fully loaded car. Sure, that might not be the case with this RS6 Avant, but the wagon is likely to fetch a small fortune for the added carbon-fiber bits.
Granted, the RS6 Avant is arguably one of the coolest wagons around, and I wish Audi would bring it to the United States sooner than later, but my advice is to stay away from the Exclusive package unless you’re sitting on a very fat wallet and your garage is already packed with the world’s most coveted automobiles.
Menacing exterior looks
Carbon-packed interior
Not for U.S. consumption
Likely very expensive
Stiff competition in Europe
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Life & StyleTravel
life-style, travel,
In late 2018, Sir Richard Branson claimed his Virgin Galactic service would be taking passengers into space by the end of 2019 - that is, a few months from now. Whether or not the flamboyant entrepreneur meets that deadline, most experts agree it is only a matter of time before commercial space travel becomes a reality and there are growing indications Australia could play a key role in the emerging space tourism industry. Branson has made it clear he thinks Australia is an extremely attractive location for a spaceport, telling the ABC earlier this year, "We would love one day to set up an operation in Australia and to work with the Australian government in making that possible". In February, the director of the new Australian Space Agency, Dr Megan Clark, told delegates at UniSA's eighth Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program that the agency is taking Branson's interest very seriously, and is extremely positive about space tourism in general. UniSA Professor in Tourism, Dr Marianna Sigala, says the time has come for other Australian industry leaders, from sectors including space, tourism, food, health and education, to be actively developing strategies aimed at ensuring Australia is a key global player in future space tourism. "We can't afford to ignore this any longer, because it has such huge potential to become a major industry delivering many multiplier economic effects - Australia can build a whole tourism ecosystem with numerous sub-economies around space tourism," Prof Sigala says. "If you have a spaceport in Australia, people don't just fly in and fly out; they need to be fed, insured, they need medical checks, psychological support and training, they will have family with them who will need to be accommodated and all these extra dimensions would develop into a network around space travel. "And you also have those people who want to go to space but for health reasons, can't, so developing simulation services, like a space-themed 'park', on Australian ground is another opportunity for a new 'tourism' attraction." Australia already has eight travel agencies partnered with Virgin Galactic, and Prof Sigala says while prices for a ticket are currently very high, when they start to fall, as they inevitably will, it is essential Australia has already established a place in the industry. "This sort of travel won't just be for the rich for long, because the demand will be so great it will eventually make it more accessible," Prof Sigala says. "People will want to go to space for all sorts of reasons - adventure, spiritual wonder, even to gain fame and celebrity - and they will be willing to pay a lot of money for that experience and the services around it, so it is important Australia can provide that to them." Prof Sigala also notes we shouldn't underestimate the potential social good that could arise from regular routine access to space. She believes space tourism could provide greater opportunity and funds for scientific research, bring down the costs associated with other orbital technology such as satellites, and possibly provide new perspectives for travellers' understanding of Earth and the universe. "Space tourism falls into the category of what is known as 'transformational services', which are consumed not just to satisfy basic survival needs. Transformational services enable people to rethink and re-set their value system, their priorities and way of thinking, to learn and to self-develop, to change their attitude, mindsets or their behaviour or perception about certain things," she says. "Anyone travelling into space and seeing the Earth from above, even if it is only for a very brief period of time, will likely be psychologically and socially transformed by the experience in some way. "This is what makes space tourism something more than just a trip for the rich - the experience will have deep meaning for many people, so I believe the space tourism industry can expect to see strong growth and demand, even after the novelty of being one of the first to experience it has passed."
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Space tourism - a launch Australia can't afford to miss
FLY ME TO THE MOON: Is the next big step in tourism literally out of this world?
In late 2018, Sir Richard Branson claimed his Virgin Galactic service would be taking passengers into space by the end of 2019 - that is, a few months from now.
Whether or not the flamboyant entrepreneur meets that deadline, most experts agree it is only a matter of time before commercial space travel becomes a reality and there are growing indications Australia could play a key role in the emerging space tourism industry.
Branson has made it clear he thinks Australia is an extremely attractive location for a spaceport, telling the ABC earlier this year, "We would love one day to set up an operation in Australia and to work with the Australian government in making that possible".
In February, the director of the new Australian Space Agency, Dr Megan Clark, told delegates at UniSA's eighth Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program that the agency is taking Branson's interest very seriously, and is extremely positive about space tourism in general.
Dr Megan Clark, chief of the Australian Space Agency. Photo - Alex Ellinghausen
UniSA Professor in Tourism, Dr Marianna Sigala, says the time has come for other Australian industry leaders, from sectors including space, tourism, food, health and education, to be actively developing strategies aimed at ensuring Australia is a key global player in future space tourism.
"We can't afford to ignore this any longer, because it has such huge potential to become a major industry delivering many multiplier economic effects - Australia can build a whole tourism ecosystem with numerous sub-economies around space tourism," Prof Sigala says.
"If you have a spaceport in Australia, people don't just fly in and fly out; they need to be fed, insured, they need medical checks, psychological support and training, they will have family with them who will need to be accommodated and all these extra dimensions would develop into a network around space travel.
"And you also have those people who want to go to space but for health reasons, can't, so developing simulation services, like a space-themed 'park', on Australian ground is another opportunity for a new 'tourism' attraction."
Australia already has eight travel agencies partnered with Virgin Galactic, and Prof Sigala says while prices for a ticket are currently very high, when they start to fall, as they inevitably will, it is essential Australia has already established a place in the industry.
"This sort of travel won't just be for the rich for long, because the demand will be so great it will eventually make it more accessible," Prof Sigala says.
"People will want to go to space for all sorts of reasons - adventure, spiritual wonder, even to gain fame and celebrity - and they will be willing to pay a lot of money for that experience and the services around it, so it is important Australia can provide that to them."
UniSA Professor in Tourism, Dr Marianna Sigala. Image - UniSA
Prof Sigala also notes we shouldn't underestimate the potential social good that could arise from regular routine access to space.
She believes space tourism could provide greater opportunity and funds for scientific research, bring down the costs associated with other orbital technology such as satellites, and possibly provide new perspectives for travellers' understanding of Earth and the universe.
"Space tourism falls into the category of what is known as 'transformational services', which are consumed not just to satisfy basic survival needs. Transformational services enable people to rethink and re-set their value system, their priorities and way of thinking, to learn and to self-develop, to change their attitude, mindsets or their behaviour or perception about certain things," she says.
"Anyone travelling into space and seeing the Earth from above, even if it is only for a very brief period of time, will likely be psychologically and socially transformed by the experience in some way.
"This is what makes space tourism something more than just a trip for the rich - the experience will have deep meaning for many people, so I believe the space tourism industry can expect to see strong growth and demand, even after the novelty of being one of the first to experience it has passed."
This story Going where very few have gone before first appeared on Local News.
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Saul Centers Inc (BFS) Expected to Post Earnings of $0.81 Per Share
Posted by Stephan Jacobs | Apr 17th, 2019
Wall Street analysts forecast that Saul Centers Inc (NYSE:BFS) will report $0.81 earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter, according to Zacks. Four analysts have made estimates for Saul Centers’ earnings, with the highest EPS estimate coming in at $0.83 and the lowest estimate coming in at $0.80. Saul Centers reported earnings per share of $0.69 in the same quarter last year, which would suggest a positive year over year growth rate of 17.4%. The firm is expected to report its next quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 2nd.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Saul Centers will report full-year earnings of $3.30 per share for the current year, with EPS estimates ranging from $3.27 to $3.35. For the next financial year, analysts expect that the business will post earnings of $3.36 per share, with EPS estimates ranging from $3.25 to $3.42. Zacks Investment Research’s EPS calculations are an average based on a survey of sell-side analysts that cover Saul Centers.
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Separately, Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Saul Centers from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday.
In other news, Director Mark Sullivan III sold 2,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, April 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $53.00, for a total value of $132,500.00. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 48.50% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Rhumbline Advisers raised its holdings in Saul Centers by 31.8% in the 3rd quarter. Rhumbline Advisers now owns 42,627 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $2,387,000 after acquiring an additional 10,291 shares during the period. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its holdings in Saul Centers by 1.0% in the 3rd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 198,906 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $11,137,000 after acquiring an additional 1,985 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its holdings in Saul Centers by 85.2% in the 3rd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 302,729 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $16,953,000 after acquiring an additional 139,285 shares during the period. Renaissance Technologies LLC raised its holdings in Saul Centers by 7.8% in the 3rd quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 403,700 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $22,607,000 after acquiring an additional 29,100 shares during the period. Finally, Laurion Capital Management LP bought a new position in Saul Centers in the 3rd quarter valued at about $322,000. 46.68% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Shares of BFS stock traded down $0.41 on Friday, reaching $52.38. The stock had a trading volume of 435 shares, compared to its average volume of 57,070. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.17, a quick ratio of 2.11 and a current ratio of 2.11. The stock has a market cap of $1.21 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.84, a PEG ratio of 3.22 and a beta of 1.00. Saul Centers has a 12 month low of $45.49 and a 12 month high of $60.65.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 30th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 16th will be issued a $0.53 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 15th. This represents a $2.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.05%. Saul Centers’s payout ratio is 68.17%.
About Saul Centers
Saul Centers, Inc is a self-managed, self-administered equity REIT headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, which currently operates and manages a real estate portfolio of 60 properties which includes (a) 49 community and neighborhood shopping centers and seven mixed-use properties with approximately 9.3 million square feet of leasable area and (b) four land and development properties.
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SS-GB is Archer of the Yard a Collaborator?
James 01 March 2017 SS-GB is Archer of the Yard a Collaborator?2017-03-01T07:35:29+01:00 themself No Comment
Is Archer of the Yard just doing his civil police job or is he a Nazi collaborator?
I have a fascination with the moral dilemma of being a collaborator or changing sides in civil wars and occupations. None more so than the situation that Archer of the Yard finds himself in with SS-GB.
Let’s unpack Archer’s moral dilemma a little, and see whether we think he’s just doing the job, or whether he’s facilitating the worst excesses of Nazism by being a collaborator.
Archer as Loyal Policeman
The oath of a constable hasn’t changed much over the centuries. It’s had an update earlier this century to add fairness, but essentially it’s the same as the oath of office Archer would have taken when he joined the Met Police.
To serve the King and “…to the best of my power cause the peace to be kept and preserved, and prevent all offences against the persons and properties of His Majesty’s subjects…”
That’s the core of the constable’s oath. He’s promising to uphold the law and keep the peace. The constable is doing it on behalf of the King, but his duty is to the law.
Unlike soldiers, who promise loyalty to the King, his heirs and successors and the officers appointed above them, there is no explicit duty to serve the King or government. In fact this independence of the constabulary to uphold the law, against the government if need be, sets them apart.
Archer has no oath of loyalty that says he must oppose the Germans. In staying in his job and catching criminals he’s displaying his loyalty to his country’s law.
Archer as a Collaborator
The niceties of law and oaths of office aside, Archer is working with Germans. For some this alone marks Archer as a Collaborator. We see this in the comments and attitudes of many of the other characters. Even his son asks this.
The mere fact if having a German boss is compounded when Dr Huth arrives. Archer is seen in company of SS troops, often rounding up people and taking them away. Despite his best efforts wherever he goes the SS follow and arrest people. Even at his son’s school a master and several older boys are taken in for questioning.
Archer, his son and household directly benefit from him keeping his job. As well as pay he gets extra rations and has access to a car.
While in the job he gets to influence what the Germans are doing. His influence is low, but not nonexistent. He facilitates the escape of his erstwhile secretary and also turns a blind eye to other resistance activity. Where he can he frustrates the occupation forces in small ways.
Archer isn’t stupid. He’s well aware of how others see him. He knows there are people that would kill him given an opportunity. When he talks to the press he stresses the apolitical nature of his work and non involvement in doing the Germans dirty work.
Archer’s alternatives
Archer has seen the Germans at first hand. He’s met the SS and Gestapo that chase the resistance, they work in the building next door. He knows that they are brutal and inhuman. Archer is also aware that they’re the people that would replace him and his colleagues if they quit.
There’s also the fact that the war is pretty much over. There isn’t a prospect of the US launching a cross-atlantic assault to free Britain. The only real hope Britain might have is that the Germans decide to go home in a couple of years having installed a friendly puppet government. That’s the point Britain might restore itself the way Germany did after WW1.
In the meantime Archer believes that staying in post and maintaining the standards and forms of the prewar ways is the best hope to enable return. Giving up and letting the Germans take over will lead to anarchy, brutality and many avoidable British deaths.
He might be wrong. He might be dragged into helping the Germans with their brutality and rounding up of British patriots.
That’s Archer’s dilemma. Be thought a collaborator but prevent a more excessive regime, or escape and let the excesses happen.
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Catsimatidis Speaks on New York’s Future
John Catsimatidis' bid for the GOP nomination for New York Mayor fell a little short, but the party fell a lot short when Joe Lhota won the primary
NEW YORK – The New York City real estate market will hit new highs, says John Catsimatidis, as long as crime and taxes do not rise, too.
Catsimatidis, the 65 year-old self-made billionaire, who was brought as a baby to the United States from the tiny island of Nisyros by his parents and has emerged as one of the wealthiest men in America, has a lot of faith in New York’s future, he told the New York Times, unless new Mayor Bill de Blasio does something that would hurt the city.
The man known as “Cats” for short ran for mayor of New York City last year, mounting a strong Republican primary run but ultimately falling short to Joe Lhota, who lost the general election to Democrat de Blasio. Castimatidis knows de Blasio for 20 years and hopes he does a great job, he told the Times, but has not ruled out running for mayor again. He said he wants to be in a position to make a difference, and would consider jumping in to a race should another opportunity arise.
Though his political future remains undetermined, Catsimatidis is far more certain about expanding his real estate ventures. With four-to-six projects pending, Catsimatidis told the Times, he has no plans of slowing down. He said retirement simply means working four days a week, the New York Times reported, although he hopes his children will take larger roles in their father’s business as they continue to immerse themselves deeper and deeper into his various enterprises.
Three beachfront towers at Coney Island are a big part of Catsimatidis’ New York ventures, the Times reported. With the zoning in place, the rentals will be hot commodities. If you go there on a sunny day, he said, you fall in love.
Other Brooklyn projects in development are in Downtown Brooklyn, around Myrtle and Flatbush Avenues he said, the Times reported, and he is also speculating about building ventures in Florida. He bought the property 30 years ago for approximately $400,000, and now just the land by itself is worth $200 million, he said.
Then, there is Manhattan, where Catsimatidis’ office is located on 11th Avenue and 56th Street, where he has an eye on knocking down the building and erecting a 22-story structure in its stead – that might be a hotel, residential units, an office building, or some combination thereof.
With his real estate enterprises firmly in expansion mode, the question remains whether he will run for office again. Former NY Governor George Pataki, an ardent supporter, told TNH last fall, after Catsimatidis’ GOP primary loss, that “John ran a great race. I was told tonight 80 percent of Republicans have a favorable impression of him. I think that’s how New Yorkers feel. He’s a good guy who cares about people and I hope he stays involved in helping to make this a better city and country.”
Even closer to home, Catsimatidis’ wife, Margo, recently told TNH “I honestly believe that he will do it again.”
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All Eyez on Me Star Demetrius Shipp Jr. on Being Tupac, a Role He Seemed Destined to Play
Ronda Racha Penrice
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Demetrius Shipp Jr. (Ron Eshel/Invision/AP Images)
To say that a Tupac biopic has been a long time coming is an understatement. Perhaps few know that as well as Demetrius Shipp Jr., the icon’s “blink twice” doppelgänger who was originally cast in the role in 2011 and waited through a handful of directors, including John Singleton and Carl Franklin, before Benny Boom, the popular music-video director, completed the film. Whether people love or hate the Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me, Shipp knows that his life has been forever changed, and he has put in tremendous work to get to this moment.
Ask the 28-year-old Shipp why he kept hanging on and he answers, “I don’t know,” but adds that “I dedicated myself [to the role] immediately when I first got the opportunity back in 2011. Before I was taken as a serious candidate back then, I went out and pierced my nose and lost weight without any formal indication of there being a guarantee that I would get it. I was just trying to go that extra step. So I think, throughout the years, I was like ‘I dedicated myself to this.’”
And while he admits that playing Tupac “seemed like a big opportunity for me and a break in life, in my career,” even he became doubtful as time wore on that the film would even happen. “Honestly, the very last time I got that call, I was very reluctant to even entertain the idea or go in and read again because I didn’t believe that it was real, but my mother convinced me to go through with the audition process, and it went well,” says Shipp, who spoke to The Root via telephone from a hotel room in Chicago days before the film’s release.
Of course, playing a figure as beloved and as galvanizing as Tupac is no easy feat. Although his life was cut short on Sept. 13, 1996, at the age of 25 after being shot days earlier on the infamous Las Vegas Strip on Sept. 7, Tupac made an impact in music, amassing several platinum plaques with such albums as Me Against the World, featuring “Dear Mama”; and the album from which the film takes its title, which contains the Dr. Dre-produced “California Love,” which featured a very young Kendrick Lamar in the crowd for the video shoot in Compton, Calif.
Tupac was also memorable on the big screen, particularly as Bishop in Juice and Lucky in Poetic Justice. And he was surprisingly conscious in an age in which many rappers who looked and acted like him were not. His “Thug Life” mantra even became a rallying point globally. Tupac’s life was marked by the trials and tribulations many black men still endure, be it going in and out of the court system or just trying to cope with always having a bull’s-eye on your back.
Shipp needed a way to mine the many levels of Tupac’s life, and with the help of acting coach Angela Gibbs—daughter of Marla Gibbs, who even coached actors in The Revenant, the gruesome film that finally earned Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar—Shipp began the long process.
“Me and my acting coach Angela Gibbs just wrote down the different periods of his life and studied those individually as thorough as we could, and just tried to draw parallels between those moments in his life as well as mine, certain situations that I could connect to, not because I experienced the same-exact thing, but maybe it gave me the same type of feeling [from a] situation where I felt betrayed,” he says. “Tupac felt betrayed at one point.”
Throughout the film, Shipp was literally surrounded by people who knew Tupac. Shipp’s own father, for whom he is named, produced Tupac’s “Toss It Up.” All Eyez on Me film producer L.T. Hutton, who has been a driving force behind getting the film made for years, cut his teeth in music, working for both Ruthless and Death Row record companies in varying capacities as A&R and music producer.
E.D.I. Mean (government name, Malcolm Greenridge), and Young Noble (Rufus Cooper III), members of the Outlawz, the group Tupac started and groomed, play themselves in the film and were constant fixtures on the set. Ron “Money-B” Brooks of Digital Underground, the Oakland, Calif.-based group that helped launch Tupac’s career, also plays himself. Plus others, like Naughty by Nature rapper Anthony “Treach” Criss and Tha Dogg Pound member and producer Delmar “Daz Dillinger” Arnaud, who knew Tupac well, dropped by during filming.
Shipp admits to initially feeling uneasy about such reminders. “For a second I felt that pressure until they relieved me of that pressure and gave me great compliments and great words of advice and really gave me their blessings and loved my work,” he says. “So that was a great deal of weight off my shoulders because they were enjoying it and they connected with me and they didn’t feel like I was trying to do an imitation of Pac, but [that] I was trying to capture the essence, rather.”
And what was the essence of Tupac? “He was much more than just the rapper. He was much more than just the controversy. He was much more than thug life,” Shipp says. “It was the perseverance that he had. The work ethic that he had. It was the upbringing: the Black Panther Party, the activist. The 17-year-old Tupac at the Baltimore School for the Arts, who was a poet, into Shakespeare, who was into ballet. People don’t really know that. And the social consciousness that he had and the awareness that he was trying to raise back at the young age of 17.”
Even today, Shipp remains in awe that he was the one chosen to share that legacy. “It’s just amazing,” he says. “Back in 2011, if you would have asked me if I’d think I would be here in 2017, Tupac’s birthday, the movie’s coming out and I’m starring in it, I would have been like, ‘Man, that sounds like a perfect world right there. That sounds like a dream.’ So I’m living the dream. It feels like destiny.”
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Ronda Racha Penrice is a freelance writer who resides in Atlanta. She is the author of "African American History for Dummies."
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Harrier Bob in marathon charity a-peel
Gala Harrier Bob Johnson unveils his Mr Potato Head costume at a fundraising coffee morning on Saturday.
Kevin Janiak
Published: 10:17 Tuesday 18 April 2017
A local athlete is hoping to s-mash a Guinness world record by running the London Marathon dressed as Mr Potato Head.
Gala Harrier Bob Johnson aims to chip a few minutes off the fastest time run by a person in a 3D shape and raise money for The Children’s Trust – a charity which helps children and young people with brain injury.
Bob and his brother Jon after he completed the marathon dressed as a 15kg 7ft dalek in 2006
Bob, an engineer from Walkerburn, has worked tirelessly over the past few months to create the large papier-mache Mr Potato Head costume which he will run the 26 mile course in this Sunday, April 23.
He told the Southern: “So far I’ve spent around 60 hours making the costume and still have finishing touches to add to it, such as the harness, which will support the frame as I run.
“It weighs about 16lbs in total and is made almost entirely out of papier-mache.
“To break the Guinness World Record, I’ll have to run the marathon as the three-dimensional Mr Potato Head in under five hours.
“I’m also hoping to raise as much money as I can for The Children’s Trust who help and support youngsters with a brain injury.”
Bob is no stranger to record-breaking marathon runs – dressed as an ostrich, he broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon run by a three-dimensional bird in 2015.
He also raised more than £10,000 in 2006 after completing the marathon dressed in a 7ft Dalek costume, weighing a hefty 15 kilos.
Bob unveiled his impressive costume on Saturday at a special fundraising coffee morning hosted by fellow Gala Harriers Colin and Sara Green.
If you would like to make a donation and help the charity make a difference to the lives of children with brain injury, please visit’s Bob’s fundraising page by clicking here.
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Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 7:53 pm on 19th March 1984.
Mr Brian Sedgemore , Hackney South and Shoreditch 7:53 pm, 19th March 1984
Those of us who are members of the Select Committee on the Treasury and Civil Service with the hon. Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Howell) are well aware of the problems of Mr. Hamilton Lowe, who is a victim of the poverty trap. However, 1984 will be remembered not so much for Mr. Hamilton Lowe as for the year in which the monetarist theory was laid to waste, and the year in which its doctrines were upheld by no more than a few zealots and dingbats, although unfortunately for our country and our people among the idiosyncratic misfits who wish to see the monetarist theory put into practice are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his ignorant and etiolated colleagues in the Treasury and the Cabinet.
In strict economic terms the Budget can best be described as a combination of born-again Adam Smith economics and demonic monetarism. There has been surprisingly little comment from the so-called experts about the awesome prospects for the future of our economy implicit in the medium-term financial strategy set out in the financial statement, and the ranges for monetary growth set out in table 2.2 of the statement. If we link the monetary target for 1984–85 and the monetary objectives for the years up to 1988–89 to the fiscally perverse proposal to reduce the PSBR and the Government deficit as a proportion of GDP in the years up to 1988–89, as set out in table 2.6, we have a picture, when the cyclical upturn ends, of an economy that will go into a further slump, industry that will fail to expand because of lack of demand, investment that will taper off, real incomes and take-home pay that will be lower than they should be, and unemployment that will inexorably rise.
There was a strange period during the Chancellor's Budget statement when he talked about the money supply. He referred to M3, M0 M1 PSL, M2, broad money, broad money redefined, narrow money and narrow money redefined. At that point we all thought that men in white coats were about to enter the Chamber and take him away. The last time that I witnessed a Minister going stark raving bonkers I raised the issue with my permanent secretary, Dame Evelyn Sharp, who told me, "Yes, I know that your Minister has lost a fuse, but what can we do?".
There are two reasons why the Chancellor is not now sitting on the floor alone in a room, looking at a brilliant white Dulux wall with his arms folded. The first reason is a tribute to his skill in refusing to set out wither the details or the consequences of the monetary targets in the financial statement. The second reason is a testimony to the lack of understanding or the munificent fatuity of some of the City operators on the Conservative Benches. It was extraordinary to watch, while the Budget unfolded, the reaction of those Conservative Members sitting just below the Gangway, who seem now to have disappeared. I did not blame them for dribbling out of the corners of their mouths as the Chancellor set out his proposals, then for salivating with expectant anticipation of better things to come and, finally, for slobbering uncontrollably as they began to realise that the Government were about to set at the top table fruits in such abundance that we were about to witness a positive orgy. Self-interest and malicious greed are perfectly understandable human qualities. They are the traditional Victorian virtues about which our tarnished Prime Minister speaks so often.
What worries me more is why they cheered when the Chancellor, in announcing his tax changes, made it plain to the House that he was looking to the rich and to the dead to create investment and enterprise. Students of economic history will know that neither enterprise nor investment has traditionally come from the rich, and the idea of necrophilia as a weapon in our economic salvation is entirely new to this Chancellor of the Exchequer.
My real concern today is to consider some of the origins of the monetarist fallacy, to ask what went wrong and to see whether there are any lessons for the future.
On 28 October 1983 a panel of experts assembled at the Bank of England. One participant defined monetarism as follows: Money causes prices, money does not cause output, and nothing else causes prices or output". However, it was a statement by Professor Milton Friedman in 1956 which excited people such as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and, I dare say, the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell). At that time, Professor Friedman said: there is perhaps no other empirical relation in economics that has been observed to recur so uniformly under so wide a variety of circumstances as the relation between substantial changes over short periods in the stock of money and in prices; the one is invariably linked with the other and is in the same direction; this uniformity is, I suspect, of the same order as many of the uniformities that form the basis of the physical sciences". What an extraordinary statement, yet what impact it had!
Subsequent analysis has revealed that that statement is about as scientific as, and has a predictive value of the order of, the statement, "The ice-caps melt when the temperature falls." Yet that is the holy grail upon which successive Conservative Governments have damaged our economy, wrecked our industrial heritage and sown the seeds of permanent economic decline.
The monetarism as set out in that statement in 1956 first found attraction in the academic world, then the media picked it up, then the wider intellectual world took it over, then the policy makers came in, then the political parties, and finally Governments, until it became conventional establishment wisdom. In fact, it was as dominant as Keynes' general theory, but whereas there was massive success in that theory, calamity has occurred over the past 10 years because of the belief in that Friedman theory.
Yet I still do not believe that monetarism would ever have gained hold but for the oil crisis in 1973. Around the world we saw terrified bankers, officials and Governments stretching out desperately for something to hold on to, and the only thing that appeared to be present which they could grasp was monetarism. Even the Labour Government clutched at monetarist straws. Shortly after they did so, there was the most extraordinary version that anyone has ever heard of. A Mr. William Rees-Mogg, then editor of The Times—now Sir William and chairman of the Arts Council—produced a version of monetarism which said that inflation could be controlled by a combination of a belief in God and a return to the gold standard.
No one in this House should be surprised that that cranky, zany theory had at the time the general support of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. I wonder whether in next year's Budget, instead of the financial statement in the Vote Office, we shall find 654 prayer books with a gold sovereign inside each.
(Citation: HC Deb, 19 March 1984, c766)
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Hobo Jim
Hobo Jim performs his "Alaska Show" throughout the state of Alaska and has gathered a multitude of fans for his humorous songs about his occupations and wilderness lifestyle. Jim has recorded six albums, as well as three children’s records and has performed with many well-known artists such as Reba McEntire, Ricky Nelson, Randy Travis. In 1994, he was named Alaska's official "state balladeer" by the Alaska Legislature and governor.
I have traveled around the state and enjoyed every minute of it, but nothing causes my heart to race more than feeling a jerk on the end of my fishing rod, and yelling the words, "FISH ON!" For some of the best fishing in the world, I head straight to the home of the "Monster Kings," the Kenai Peninsula.
1) Krog's Kamp
If you're looking for a pro to show you the ways of the river, Krog's Kamp (45843 Big Eddy Rd., 907-262-2671) is one of many places to turn. Located near Soldotna, the camp's experienced fishing guides ensure a thrilling experience and old-fashioned Alaska hospitality. Along with wildlife, you might even spot former Miami Dolphins hall-of-famer, Larry Csonka, filming an episode of his "North to Alaska" fishing show.
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When I'm looking for a more private escape, I rent one of the beautiful, secluded log cabins at Orca Lodge (44240 Oehler Rd., 907-262-5649). The lodge's fishing guides will put you into action with enormous king salmon, feisty rainbows, Dolly Varden, line-stripping sockeye and silver salmon. Or, if you prefer a more scenic adventure, take one of the lodge's floatplane or rafting trips to do some whale watching or bear viewing. In the evening, savor the taste of barbecued salmon and exchange your wisest fish tales with other guests around the crackle of the campfire. Or relax in a soothing hot tub, listening to the sounds of songbirds and wind-blown birches.
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TU9 SelfAssessment will be continued - first follow-up survey is now available
TU9 uses SelfAssessment as an important measure for the successful recruitment of students for studying in Germany
TU9 has a special tool on offer for young people to facilitate taking a decision about studying in Germany:
"SelfAssessment international".
This internet-based self-assessment challenges prospective students with the standards of technical courses offered at TU9 universities.
Aim of this 90 to 120 minute self-assessment is to help judging one's qualifications and dispositions with regard to technical studies adequately.
"I am delighted to announce that TU9 will continue SelfAssessment international in 2009", says Professor Dr Horst Hippler, TU9 President. "This TU9 service is an important tool for a successful recruitment of students for studying in Germany. Apart from the self- assessment for technical-related courses, we plan to develop an additional one for the natural sciences."
TU9's SelfAssessment international enters the second year of being online and results of the first follow-up survey are now available:
"Numerous participants of the SelfAssessment provided information on what became of their study plans after they had made use of this special service", says Professor Dr Lutz F. Hornke of the Institute of Psychology at RWTH Aachen, where the TU9 SelfAssessment has been developed and where it is supervised.
SelfAssessment international aims at international prospective students who are interested in studying a technical course at one of the TU9 universities. "This internet-based counseling tool consists of tasks which especially reflect the challenges of technical studies in the initial phase", says Professor Dr Hornke. "Part of this is testing the knowledge of German, mathematics and technical comprehension, as well as questions regarding one's self-assessment which question academic motivation and ambition." After taking the SelfAssessment, participants receive a detailed feedback on their strengths and weaknesses so they are able to assess their abilities and compare themselves with others.
++ Evaluation of the results and recommendations ++
The follow-up survey is supposed to help assess the decision making process as well as the current study situation of those who have taken the SelfAssessment international up to two years ago.
"We are pleasantly surprised by the high willingness to participate in the online follow-up survey, irrespective of the date of taking the SelfAssessment," says Professor Dr Hornke. "In terms of a targeted relationship management, it can be positively reported that participants of the questionnaire are likely to give additional information via e-mail about their experience and decision making process."
Concerning the content of the results, a remarkable half of the respondents has by now started their studies in Germany. This demonstrates that prospective students actually use/notice internet- based counseling services and most probably include these in their decision making process.
Considerable differences can be noticed between participants of the German and English version. According to these, the degree of one's knowledge of German is decisive; this knowledge is mainly regarded as an important prerequisite for entering studies in Germany.
A majority of the participants of the German version have meanwhile started their studies in Germany. Most participants of the English version, however, decided to start studying in their home country or a third country. Professor Dr Hornke:"This creates scope for TU9 to act: concerns of these international students should be addressed and diminished; information on German courses can be given as well as pointing out the wide range of foreign languages. Participants of the German version, who have not yet entered a university, are more likely to start studying in Germany."
Participants of both versions have dealt with challenges of academic studies as well as their strengths and weaknesses way before their actual start of studies with the help of the SelfAssessment international. Apart from anticipated problems with performance and motivation, financial difficulties seem to play a major role for those participants, who have decided against studying in Germany.
The results of the follow-up survey clearly support the fact that SelfAssessment international is an important contribution in the process of recruiting and counseling international students apart from other counseling and informational services, furthermore, it is warmly welcomed by prospective students.
++Background TU9 SelfAssessment++
The tool is online since 2006 and is available in both German and English. An adequate internet portal for the TU9 universities has been implemented (http://www.self-assessment.tu9.de). The development phase of SelfAssessment international has been financed by the DAAD, since then TU9 has made it its responsibility and is supervised by RWTH Aachen.
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Tubal Reversal vs. IVF
WE’RE PREGNANT!
Mark D. Sanchez, M.D., F.A.C.O.G
Dr. Sanchez’s years of experience is reflected in each patient’s treatment:
“It was like talking with a friend, you don’t get that anywhere else.”
“Dr. Sanchez even drew a picture of how the procedure would be done.”
“He showed us such compassion and cared for us throughout the process.”
Dr. Sanchez graduated from the University of South Florida in 1991 with a Bachelors of Science in Biology. He subsequently attended the University of Florida College of Medicine, and graduated in 1995 with a Doctorate in Medicine. From 1995 to 1999 Dr. Sanchez performed his Internship and Residency at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he received several honors and awards including outstanding laparoscopic surgeon. Following his residency, Dr. Sanchez completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of South Florida.
Dr. Sanchez is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and subspecialty certified in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, and the Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists. Dr. Sanchez remains active in the education of residents in training. He is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University’s college of Medicine, faculty at Bayfront Medical Center’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Associate Program Director, Director of REI and clinical research director at Brandon Regional Hospitals OB/GYN Residency. He is also an Adjunct Professor at NOVA University.
Mark Sanchez, M.D. Curriculum Vitae
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Kiernan Shipka Teases 'Really Emotional' Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Christmas Special
Dec 7, 2018 at 4:58 PM
If you didn't get enough of the Dark Lord and his underlings during the first season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a creeptastic holiday special is coming to Netflix. The stand-alone episode picks up just a few weeks after the events of the first season as the Spellmans prepare for the winter solstice. Of course, their holiday traditions look a little different from the ones you're used to seeing at this time of year.
"The holiday special is really wonderful. It's a really emotional episode and it's beautiful for the holidays.," Kiernan Shipka said during a recent set visit. "Obviously, the show wouldn't be our show without some excitement and some demons, literally."
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A mishap with the Yule Log will invite unwelcome guests to the Spellman house, and they'll have to team up to restore the peace. (Yes, even faithful servants of Satan have to deal with some unpleasant dark forces.) According to Shipka, the special won't just be a monster-of-the-week special, but will help move the characters along emotionally.
"It's action-packed, and it's fun, but at the same time there's a lot of heart and there's a lot of soul to it," the actress said. "A lot of the relationships develop in it really beautifully. I think it really fuses the witch world and the mortal world in a really lovely way. It's truly a very, very special episode. I really, really love it."
It won't be all heartwarming though. Sabrina and Harvey's (Ross Lynch) relationship is still on the rocks when we see them next, and they'll have to navigate some difficult feelings that are only exacerbated by the joyful spirit of the season.
Phew! You Won't Have to Wait Long for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 2
"We left off [with] Harvey and Sabrina's kiss goodbye, so we pick up where that leaves off in their relationship," Lynch said. "But the episode itself is very, very just twisted Christmas, and it's awesome."
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"It's, in so many ways, a stand-alone episode. It doesn't get too crazy on plot or this or that," Shipka added. "It really just kind of focuses in on the characters, and it takes its time. It's super-perfect for the holidays."
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina holiday special premieres Friday, Dec. 14.
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Jack Benny's Man Friday
No other show in OTR history had the spin-off success the Jack Benny Program had...numerous shows came from the popularity of Jack and his talented cast. Bandleader Phil Harris on Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, Singer Dennis Day on Day in the Life of Dennis Day, Voice Man Mel Blanc on Mel Blanc's Fix it Shop and Ronald Coleman and Benita Hume on Hall's of Ivy....One other Benny regular tried his turn at his own series...
Eddie Anderson a audience favorite was also a theater and vaudeville star who became famous as the wisecracking gravel throat valet Rochester on The Jack Benny Program. The short lived series lasted only a few episodes in 1950 and was called both The Rochester Show and Life of Rochester Van Jones.
Here is the premiere episode of that series from Feb. 8, 1950.
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Jordan Peele Dares Everyone to Look at Horrors of 'Us'
FILE - Actors Winston Duke, from left, Lupita Nyong'o and director Jordan Peele pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Us' in London, March 14, 2019.
Jordan Peele's sweet spot as a filmmaker are the "pit in your stomach" moments. That thing that happens when you realize the woman stirring the tea isn't just there for conversation. When you notice that the help is a little off. Or, as in his new film Us, when you see that the family of four standing in your driveway late at night looks exactly like you.
Peele knows how to get under your skin and stay there, and it's what made him the must-see horror filmmaker of the moment. Us, out nationwide Friday, is only his second and yet it's been an event-in-the-making ever since it was announced. That's what happens when your debut is Get Out.
Get Out wasn't even finished when the former sketch-comedian started cooking up the idea for his follow-up about doppelgangers, loosely inspired by the Twilight Zone episode "Mirror Image." Then the wild success of Get Out — four Oscars nominations, one win (Peele for original screenplay), over $255 million in tickets sold against a $4.5 million budget, and general cultural impact — put Peele on another level. So by the time Universal Pictures agreed to make Us, not only did he have a budget over five times higher than his first, but he had his pick of collaborators too.
Jordan Peele accepts the award for best feature fo
FILE - Jordan Peele accepts the award for best feature for "Get Out" at the 33rd Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., March 3, 2018.
"Because of Get Out, I was privileged enough to be able to tap the best talent in the industry," Peele said recently.
Nyong'o and Duke
That goes for stars Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke, who play dual roles as the nuclear American family, the Wilsons, and the terrifying red jumpsuit-wearing and gold scissor-wielding Red and Abraham, as well as the below-the-line talent: Production designer Ruth De Jong (Twin Peaks); cinematographer Mike Gioulakis (It Follows); and costume designer Kym Barrett (The Matrix) among them.
"I had an amazing team on Get Out," Peele said. "But this group sort of allowed me to stretch a little bit more."
Duke was impressed by his calm. He knew there were "sophomore pressures" — he had his own set following his breakout role in Black Panther — but said Peele never brought any of that to set.
"Day one, [Peele] said, 'Before we do anything I just want to let you guys know that I'm here for you. I won't stop until we get the shot. When I say cut, we got the shot. So trust me, believe in me,"' Duke said. "And I was like, that's all I need."
Duke and Nyong'o already had a short hand working together. Yes, they had just both been in Black Panther, but they were also Yale Drama School graduates and have seen one another do everything from clown work to Chekov.
"It was great to be able to perform with someone who I value as much more than a friend — I value her as a cohort. I value her as an ally. I went to work every day trying to make sure we could create a space where she could excel. I thought that was my duty," Duke said. "We had a female lead and in our climate in Hollywood we were doing the work and leading by example."
And Peele put them both through the wringer. The days on set as the Wilsons were full of laughter and fun. But the days as the murderous doppelgangers known as The Tethered, Peele said, felt like "a morgue."
"The air getting sucked out of the room is an understatement. But it was kind of cool," Peele said. The actors went "pretty method" on those days.
Nyong'o had it especially hard. She'd chosen to affect a strained vocal condition — spasmodic dysphonia — to make Red even more haunting. And she had to do Red's first big monologue 11 times with that raspy, painful sounding voice.
Us is chock full of pop culture references, subtle and overt: A Jaws T-shirt here, a C.H.U.D. VHS there. Even the setting, the Santa Cruz boardwalk, is a callback to The Lost Boys. And every reference works "on two different levels and hopefully more," Peele said. But don't stress if you don't catch or decipher them all.
"There are many of these things that only I will ever know," Peele revealed.
Although one thing is not really up for interpretation: the genre. He tweeted the other day that "Us is a horror movie."
"I can see the debate already beginning and people are calling it different things. I have a little bit of fun with the big genre conversation," he said. "But I saw enough little pieces of like 'horror-thriller,' 'horror-comedy,' 'social-thriller,' out there that I just want to make it nice clean and defined: It's a horror movie."
Peele hasn't tired of explaining that Us isn't about race, either. Though he understands why people might think it would be, considering Get Out.
"I know the way we are, the lack of representation in the industry and genre has led us to this point where it's almost impossible to not see race in a movie with a black family in the center. And I wanted people to be ready to expand their expectations," Peele said. "My fear was if I didn't say anything, that people would take away that this was a movie about black-on-black violence which was not my intention."
As for whether Peele has felt internal or external pressures to match Get Out's magic?
"There are, but it's OK," he laughed. "It's just movies."
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Cole Sprouse on Riverdale, Donald Trump, and Jughead’s Asexuality
By Abraham Riesman
Photo: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images
It’s oddly perfect that Cole Sprouse is one of the leads on Riverdale. The prime-time CW drama is based on the gleefully shallow teens of Archie Comics, which indirectly begat the bouncy antics seen on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, the Disney Channel vehicle that made Sprouse and his twin brother Dylan into child stars. Much as the Archie mythos has grown up into something shadowy and unsettling in Riverdale, the 24-year-old Sprouse is trying to grow up into an actor worth taking seriously.
He plays Jughead in Riverdale — not as a hamburger-eating goofball, but rather as a cynical outsider and ominous narrator. Sprouse is one of the standout performers in the series, eternally dour yet endearingly vulnerable. He also happens to be smart as a whip. Vulture caught up with Sprouse inside the full-scale diner set constructed for the show in a Vancouver suburb, where he discussed the show’s similarities to Rian Johnson’s 2005 indie hit Brick, what Riverdale means in the age of Trump, and why he’s such a fan of the comics’ recent decision to make Jughead asexual.
I have to say, this is a very convincing diner.
It was, brick for brick, wall for wall, taken from a diner that we shot in for the pilot. This is a functioning diner. If we wanted to turn it around off-season and make a little cash, we could! We actually had an 18-wheeler pull in, thinking this was a legit diner.
Come on.
Yeah, recently! That’s how you know you’ve built a convincing set.
Better than an Emmy.
Yeah, really.
How did you get a handle on Riverdale’s weird tonal mashup of Archie Comics and sinister small-town drama?
By the time the audition process had ended, I was already pretty firm on what the show was going for. I talked to Roberto [Aguirre-Sacasa, the showrunner] about it in the very first audition. I was in a weird place and I had come off a binge of The Twilight Zone, so I had just come off this Rod Serling narration every episode. I walked in and, at first, you’re like, Okay, so how much of this “Goll-ee, Arch!” stuff is this gonna be? When I asked Roberto if I could read it like Rod Serling, he was like, “Uh, yeah, of course!” I got a good idea of where we stood then. But when we shot the pilot, I really knew where we stood, in terms of the film noir elements and the darker tone. That’s when I knew this was a show I was really excited to do. Because I had just come off a Disney background.
The stuff you were doing is, actually, closer in tone to the classic Archie style.
Precisely right. And that’s an interesting parallel: The classic, sitcom, goofy-hijinks stuff that my brother and I were doing in The Suite Life is what I wanted to stay away from, frankly, when I was reading for this part. And Roberto wants to, as well. What we’ve got now is something that’s not that. It manages to still be relevant and manages to still harken back to this beloved kind of Archie. I think those were really my only two worries: that it was gonna be a Scooby-Doo movie, or it was gonna do too much damage to the characters. Once those two were crossed off the list, I knew, Okay, this sounds like a fun project.
Did your experience on on The Suite Life inform how you approached this Archie story?
Oh, of course. Especially when it comes to acting or professionalism or artistry or anything like that. In terms of how much of that I take to this in terms of tone? Very, very little. In terms of working for my whole life and the professionalism demanded on a stage and so on and so forth? All of that stays with me. All the technical stuff stays, but the tone stuff is really not here.
Who is Jughead? I didn’t read these comics growing up, but in doing so now, I’m struck by how unique of a fictional character he is.
He’s a bit creepy in the comics. I’m sure some people would take offense to that, but he’s this sardonic, sarcastic, oftentimes cynical character who, if it wasn’t obviously stated that he was a real member of the town, you would probably think was fashioned by Archie in his imagination. He’s almost an imaginary friend, not like a real character. But in this, we still very much try to deal with Jughead as this cynical, sardonic, objective character. He’s very much on the outside. And, much like real comedians or real jokesters or real cynics, Jughead has a troubled past. But we still keep the fundamental basis of Jughead strong. He’s a very nonsensical character and he has a unique philosophical take.
How can you make him nonsensical while also being a cynical outsider?
Y’know, it’s funny: You oftentimes think of joking around as a very loose, comical thing, but the way I originally saw him, and the way I think we’re taking it now, is that comedy is a shell he’s using to approach the world. He’s using this lighthearted joviality as an attempt to either gain information or defuse situations, and I think it’s still coming from a place of hurt. Which is interesting.
How would you characterize the Archie/Jughead relationship?
Much more sibling than friend. The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin. It’s one of those things where, if someone is doing something wrong and they’re your close friend, you’re close enough to them to be like, “Cut it the hell out. You’re really being destructive.” But they’re also childhood friends who have carried childhood understandings of morality into this darker period of their lives. They’re trying to accept this fluctuating version of their friendship while simultaneously retaining those strong morals of childhood.
Much like a sibling, Jughead would defend Archie from others, even if the two of them were on the outs.
I think that’s the important distinction: The fights that they’re having or the tension they are having is more temporary than it seems, but still legitimate. They are consistently trying to define their place in the world based on how their moralities and their biases are changing.
Why is Jughead the narrator?
He’s more objective than the rest of the town. He is now, especially within this universe, a character that fits on the outside of his society, and I think that gives him an interesting perspective on the inner workings of it. It gives him the perfect point of view to say, “This person’s crazy, this person’s not crazy.” But I also think he’s the narrator because it flatters him. I think Jughead’s a selfish character. I think he really is. I really do feel like Jughead tries to influence people based on his own understanding of what they should be and his own understanding of himself. It’s quite vain to think, I’m so cool and on the outside of society that I can write about everybody. That’s not common at all among teenagers. [Laughs.]
No, not common at all.
I think he’s the narrator for those reasons, but mainly because he’s on the outside. The primary cast of Archie, to me, has always been Betty, Veronica, Archie, and Jughead. It’s the core four. I think the way the show was originally written was very much the love triangle between the three, and Jughead needed a place. That also satisfies that requirement for Jughead, but I really think it’s because he’s an outsider and it gives him interesting perspective.
When we spoke at San Diego Comic-Con, you compared the show to Rian Johnson’s indie-noir movie Brick and Charles Burns’s surreal horror comic Black Hole. What do you see in those works that’s echoed in Riverdale?
I think Brick is a more obvious one than Black Hole, especially because Black Hole is not as widely known. Brick is this otherwise-teen drama in a local setting that, all of a sudden, reveals itself to be quite a heavy and dangerous situation. Through style and tone and genre elements, you’re able to tease out this really fun, enjoyable watch. But Black Hole is another example of a hyperstylized narrative that takes place within a teenage setting and dramatizes an otherwise-recognizable teenage experience — a super-relatable teenage experience — into something that can be more dastardly and dangerous and scary and frightening.
Y’know, I think, inherently, when you hear something like a teenage narrative come into play, even the idea that it’s being called “teenage” is a notion that it’s being reduced to a problem that’s not quite adult. That’s a problematic thing to say about a narrative that could actually be dangerous, could be hurtful, could be upsetting. Things could go wrong. That’s what we’re going for: this small-town feeling of claustrophobia and relatable issues that we all grow up with. We want to tease out the elements of fear within those things and have people relate to them.
Since you’re a comics geek, have you reached out to any of the Archie Comics creators?
Not so much with the comics creators. Now there’s a Riverdale universe that’s gonna take off in print form now, too. Roberto has talked to me about writing a couple of those, which would be awesome. I’d love to try my hand at that.
What did you think of the choice to have Jughead be asexual in the comics?
I think it’s great, personally. I wasn’t hyperfamiliar with Archie Comics before the show, and I started my research just after Jughead had been announced as asexual. Now, Jughead’s asexuality is very recent. And it’s only been announced within one comic of [writer Chip] Zdarsky’s Jughead, which is not the digests. If it’s announced in the digest, to me, then it’s etched in stone. But clearly, there’s a group of people who really resonated with Jughead’s asexuality, and that alone begs an interest in that representation and a demand for that representation.
In this universe, we’re all aware now that Jughead’s not asexual. Or, at least, that narrative has not been explored. But that doesn’t reduce the importance of that happening in Zdarsky’s universe, at all. That kind of representation is more needed now than ever. I hope the comments upon Jughead’s sexuality, which is a question I receive all the time, display an interest in that kind of representation — enough for it to reach a more mainstream platform.
Not to get too political, but it’s interesting that Riverdale came out right after a presidential campaign that won with this idea of, “We’re going back to a different kind of America.” Archie Comics have historically been an idyllic look at an American consensus that never really existed.
I was just thinking about this.
What were you thinking?
Well, I was thinking about what it means to be representing such a fundamental, all-American kind of narrative with this platform of Donald Trump being a return to an all-American understanding. I haven’t really come to a conclusion about what it means, but the timing could not be more uncanny. Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. — usually the ‘40s or ‘50s — 90 percent of the time, they’re a straight white man.
I think Archie fits within this very interesting place, where the first iteration of those comics came out of that same exact time period. That also puts us in a perfect position to try and show the reality of that narrative. Archie holds a responsibility upon itself as a product of this “golden age,” which is something I think we need to recognize and accept and confront. Is it my job as an actor? Probably not as much as it is the writers’ and some of those other guys’, but I still think it’s an important conversation piece. Hopefully we can find a place within that conversation and sit at one end of that table, and whoever else is sitting at that table, we can reach some consensus about how we deal with the past and how we deal with this image of an older version of ourselves, which Archie very much informs. I would be honored to be a part of that conversation.
Cole Sprouse on Riverdale, Donald Trump, and Asexual Jughead
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IBBA Lecture August 4: Ageing, Brain and Cognition by Prof. Rik Henson
Drinks: 17.00-18.00
Location: VU University, WN-C-623
“Ageing, Brain and Cognition: Some results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing & Neuroscience (CamCAN)”
I will describe a range of results from neuroscientific investigation of approximately 700 people from 18-88 years of age in the CamCAN project (www.cam-can.org), including: 1) separating the effects of age on vascular vs neural components of the BOLD response by combining resting-state fMRI and MEG; 2) effects of white matter (measured from diffusion kurtosis imaging) on age-related changes in latency of evoked MEG responses, 3) state-dependent effects of age on fMRI connectivity across rest, sensorimotor-responding and movie-watching; and 4) structural equation modelling of the relationship between gray- and white-matter integrity, executive function, memory and age.
Rik Henson is Acting Director of the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain sciences Unit (CBU) in Cambridge, England. His research concerns the systems neuroscience of human memory, using data from behavioural, neuroimaging and neuropsychological approaches. He is also an expert in fMRI and M/EEG analysis techniques. He obtained his first degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh before returning to the University of Cambridge for a PhD in Experimental Psychology. He was a post-doctoral researcher and Wellcome Career Development Fellow at University College London for 8 years, before returning to Cambridge in 2004 as an MRC Programme Leader at the CBU.
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You are here: IGU Urban Geography Commission > Urban Commission > Projects > Project 2016-2020
Commission of Urban Geography
Urban Challenges in a Global World
The Urban Commission is designed to encourage geographical research on the new Urban Challenges emerging in an increasingly Complex World, and to further the exchange of findings among urban geographers from many countries. Cities, with their distinctive processes and problems, are major features of the modern world.
Hence the commission will use a comparative global context to focus on their properties, the social, economic and environmental issues they pose, and to evaluate the utility of political and societal solutions to their problems. Comparisons themselves will continue to be debated following the current debates developed nowadays in the highest ranked journals of urban geography.
Multidisciplinary approaches are increasing in urban studies, and the commission will promote the specific contribution of the geographical methods and concepts. Geographic urban issues focus on how such features as differential spatial proximity, segregation, cohesion, environmental and governance factors are transforming the character and vitality of urban places and are creating new challenges that need to be overcome. Particular attention are paid to the use of multi-scale approaches in analysing changes and to such features as: the differential diffusion of innovations, hierarchies, networks, concentrations, segregations, and renovations, etc. in altering both urban systems and the internal structures of cities. We will especially encourage the development of new concepts and the involvement of geographers in new digital methods using Big Data to improve knowledge and comprehension on cities.
Given this perspective, the current proposal is built upon the work of the 2012-2016 Urban Commission. It will continue the efforts to improve democratic and participatory practices inside the commission, which has been supported by a dynamic and interactive website, allowing for more bottom-up initiatives, and encouraging younger scholars to attend meetings.
The commission 2016-2020 aims at developing further collaborations inside the IGU and different activities, publications and meetings with continental and international associations dealing with urban issues. It will promote geography and urban geographers in different spheres of education, research and policies.
Three issues for Urban Geography
In order to focus debates, the commission proposes a starting point of a rational based on three main conceptions of urban evolution:
I- Inter-dependent urban systems
II- Diversity between and within cities
III- Sustainability and Equity
These 3 main domains lead to a proposal for 11 critical issues that will frame researchers’ contributions and encourage debate. The critical issues will evolve year after year leading to a more complete renewal in 4 years.
I- Inter-dependent Urban Systems.
Increasingly, a few hundred city regions account for much of the world's consumption and production, just as a few hundred large corporations now dominate most of the world's trade, and sites of production. More and more people live within huge agglomerations. One result is that these core cities (the ‘World Cities’) are increasingly connected in many ways: by more rapid, more intense, and spatially extensive linkages of information, goods and money, as well as migration and tourism. Large corporations link distant cities into the same global strategies, and international agencies encourage states to co-operate in international governance. At the same time the intense interaction supports greater variation in economic and political roles among cities. Small and medium cities are sometimes “shrinking” but are always more dependent on the central large metropolises in order to connect with the rest of the world. These urban concentrations pose some key questions that are intrinsically urban and geographical: What are the nodes, structures and functions of these emerging urban networks? How can we locate each city within this multinational allocation of economic activity and control? These issues are especially relevant to problems of economic competition, development, and innovation since the networks transmit ideas, and the cities foster the innovations. This is not only a global issue, because each continent and each country contains similar networks. Clearly, we need to investigate whether these new networks are shaped by deep-seated structural processes, such as the market or individual choice, or through deliberate national and regional policies in the diverse regions of the world.
II- Diversity between and within Cities.
The most striking feature of urban life is the compartmentalization of jobs, of social groups, and of land use, including workplaces and homes. Inevitably, these specialized activities are separated spatially both, among cities in a world division of labour, and inside urban areas by cluster formation and the increasing segregation and specialization of places. The new complexity of multi-scale interactions implies a world in which more and more of the population is exposed to this type of specialization and spatial structure that shapes urban behaviour and lifestyles. Many cities are becoming more unequal and more specialized, as well as multi-layered, in terms of social class and ethnicity. As a result cities differ in employment opportunities and exhibit distinctive forms of poverty, as well as providing opportunities that attract migrants from rural areas and other cities, while they also vary in their ability to preserve the heritage of their historic past. Rapid urban growth often creates an imbalance between the population and the city’s resources of housing and infrastructure and reduces the quality of life of its citizens. Economic integration and new immigration can bring insecurity, or accelerate spatial change and conflict within the city. In many cities crime, disease, and environmental degradation overwhelm the public sector. The study of the regularities in these processes has become a staple of urban geographic research over the years. It has led the proposed urban commission to reposition spatial diversity within multi-scale, multi-level and multi-dimensional urban processes.
III- Sustainability and Equity.
Sustainability and equity are crucial to allow harmonized urban developments in the future. Geographers have always been leaders in the study of urban sprawl and the associated pollution, transportation, and infrastructure difficulties that result as well as the problems produced by environmental disasters. But the new concept of sustainability, which has emerged as one of the key societal concerns of the last decade, has provided important new perspectives, through attempts to diminish the consumption of non-renewable resources, and reduce pollution and sprawl, whilst meeting the basic needs and aspirations of present and future generations. However, the processes of new urban concentrations, new compact forms and the renewal of cities, often create less equity, resulting in more social injustice and less security. Urban geographers in the new commission can help in our understanding of these problems by monitoring the increasingly influential efforts by individual cities around the world to build more environmentally and socially sustainable urban environments in the search for more just cities.
Eleven specific Urban Challenges
Within these broad themes, eleven research critical issues and areas have been identified, in order to more closely focus the work of the proposed commission. These questions include both theoretical and applied issues derived from the general title of ‘Urban Challenges in a Complex World’. Each meeting will focus on one or two of these topics, although not exclusively, to ensure that emerging new ideas from specific members can also be dealt with. Debates and collective publications will be encouraged on these specific topics in order to elaborate the issues.
1- Complex Urban Systems and processes of cities’ transformation
Urban systems have seen radical changes in recent decades and will continue to do so. How are various national, continental and global urban systems changing - particularly in relation to such features as city size, economy, migration, interaction, linkage, communication, transport and control functions? What processes and differential development paths are involved and how have different government policies affected these changes? Previous Urban Commissions have produced a large body of work on the urban systems of individual countries. This work will be extended to incorporate updated national and international comparisons and recognise the accelerated growth of a limited number of global command centres in the highly connected world of electronic communications, finance, trade, and rapid travel. In addition, we must seek solutions for those cities that are left behind by these changes.
2- Technological innovations, creative activities in cities
Urban economies are evolving quickly, with the growth of the “service” sectors and new activities in science, technology, commerce, communication, media, art and design. Why do these activities concentrate in some cities and how do these new “clusters” integrate within existing economic, social and environmental contexts? Can one identify cycles in these economic trends?
3- Innovative, smart building and transportation in cities
Can we identify “smart cities”? What criteria in terms of governance, planning, economy are needed to qualify smart cities? As a result of new technologies are all cities become “smart”? Does this “smart” growth benefit the entire city or does it increase polarisation and fragmentation? Does it alter the morphology and structure of urban areas and can it lead to new forms of urban society?
4- Polycentrism, small and medium size cities
At national or regional scales, small and medium size cities have very different issues depending on their proximity to large cities. In remote areas, small and medium size cities often lack higher education, and advanced services, that lead many young people to leave never to return. These places find it difficult to attract investment and are often by-passed in favour of larger more accessible locations. How can these places find new dynamism? Can they counter increasing concentration in metropolises? Can they provide an alternative approach or insight for sustainable urban systems? On the other hand if one focuses on a more city-region scale, small and medium size cities around the metropolises constitute new urban spaces such as “edge” or "edgeless cities” that remain under the influence of the central metropolis. What is the future of such places? To what extent are new polycentric patterns emerging and what is the likely impact on sustainability and spatial equity?
5- Sustainable to resilient cities
Can sustainability be tackled at the urban scale? To what extent should the concept of “resilience” be considered in association with “sustainability” in order to orient urban policies? What progress is being made by cities around the world in the development of new programmes and policies to create more resilience? How can these solutions be evaluated at various spatial scales? What are the emerging best practices for cities, from smart growth to green solutions etc., at national or regional scales and what are the problems that restrict progress in implementing more these effective policies?
6- Shrinking and aging Cities
A serious new problem has emerged in some cities of the developed world. The declining birth rate of industrialized countries is creating many settlements with increasingly aging and declining populations. What are the effects of this trend upon the functions and character of these cities, especially their infrastructures and levels of social provision? What policies are emerging in cities around the world affected by this problem to cope with these changes? How can so-called “shrinking cities” manage their future?
7- Urban Governance, planning and participative democracy
It is an unfortunate, but undeniable, fact that most large urban agglomerations are not permitted to be governed by their citizens. Control over revenues and investments is shared with other levels of government and/or fragmented among dozens of small municipal units within the metropolitan area. Inevitably these political arrangements affect the spatial structure of infrastructure and public services, including planning. We must explore the spatial issues that detract from good urban governance, and investigate the utility of emerging administrative solutions seen in many countries, such as the ‘new regionalism’ that seeks to provide a new spatial solution to the provision of services. In parallel, citizens are becoming more organized and becoming more active and involved in decision making at the neighbourhood level. This activism affects the way urban planning functions and is bound to have impacts on cities’ future. This will also affect urban areas beyond the limits of the traditional city.
8- Contested Social Spaces
The increasingly multi-layered social and ethnic character of cities has led to more intricate life spaces within cities, and increased the potential for conflicts among various groups. Since many communities, made up of either diasporas or cosmopolitans, exhibit strong intra-community cohesion, this may threaten other communities. How can we measure these new patterns and changes and make effective international comparisons? Where and when do conflicts emerge? How can differences between the various actors in these spaces be reconciled, ensuring that local communities are themselves empowered, rather than simply passive recipients of change from forces beyond their control? Is it possible for all groups to live in tolerance with one another?
9- Subjective/Objective well-being in cities
In the past, cities survived because of their ability to create secure environments, community cohesion and they permitted individual self-development for their citizens. In many contemporary cities, social fragmentation, crime rates, anti-social behaviour, ethnic conflict, huge distance to work, and environmental issues, threaten to make them less liveable. Apparent solutions such as gated communities or higher levels of surveillance, which create more private spaces and segregation may work for some but what of about well-being for all citizens of the city?. How can we best conceptualize and measure subjective and objective well-being in cities? How do we make international and national comparisons of cities’ well-being? Can we apply best practice from cities that have successfully overcome these problems to other cities and societies, as well as linking these problems to our understanding of the new forms of urban social space?
10- Urban Heritage and Conservation
The distinctive identity of many cities and societies depends upon their historical heritage, as expressed in their built fabric. How can these identities be understood and interpreted? What are the policies that support the preservation of these heritages, yet still provide liveable and affordable spaces in these areas, rather than allowing historic areas and city centres to be overwhelmed by homogenised tourism? How can heritage and identity be harnessed for the social, economic and environmental renewal of cities?
11- New concepts and methods in urban studies
As the world changes there seems to be more and more data and more and more things to measure. There are new forms of economic activity, increasing levels of personal and corporate communication, increasing mobility of capital and people, increasing levels of internet usage, increasing levels of e-commerce, and increasing levels of electronic participation in democracy. All of these have the potential to transform the interurban and intra-urban realms in which we live. Big data may help our understanding of many urban problems, but there is also a need for increasing conceptual and methodological sophistication to deal with these changes. New theories, approaches, methods and techniques are needed if we are to fully understand the urban world of the twenty-first century.
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Home / Pro / Kastles win fifth straight World TeamTennis championship
Kastles win fifth straight
World TeamTennis title
McCarton Ackerman | August 3, 2015
The Washington Kastles extended their dominance in World TeamTennis for another year by winning a record fifth consecutive Mylan World TeamTennis championship on Sunday, defeating the Austin Aces in the final, 24-18.
The final took place at the Kastles Stadium at the Smith Center of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Led by doubles world No. 1 Martina Hingis (second from left) and 17-time Grand Slam doubles champion Leander Paes (second from right), the Kastles won four of the five sets played and never relinquished their early lead.
“It’s just a beautiful moment to share,” said Paes, who was named the Finals MVP. “I’ve had a really long career and done some really special things, and this is way up there with the best of them.”
Hingis and Paes opened up the night with a 5-2 victory in mixed doubles over Alla Kudryavtseva and Teymuraz Gabashvili. ADVERTISEMENT Hingis then went right back on court with Anastasia Rodionova (far right) to tough out a 5-4 win in women’s doubles over Kudryavtseva and Elina Svitolina.
Paes then continued his red-hot form with Sam Querrey (center) in the men’s doubles, securing a 5-3 win over Gabashvili and Jarmere Jenkins. Querrey then added even further padding onto the Kastles’ lead by defeating Gabashvili in men’s singles, 5-4.
The Kastles led by 20-13 going into the final match of the night in women’s singles. Svitolina recorded a 5-3 win over Kastles member Madison Brengle (far left), sending the match into overtime. Svitolina would have needed to win six straight games to pull off the miraculous comeback, but a backhand winner by Brengle on her first championship point clinched the title for the Kastles.
It was the sixth overall championship for the Kastles, tying the mark set by the Sacramento Capitals in 2007.
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U.S.VETS and EDC to Lead New Initiative to Assist Women Veterans
Home / National / U.S.VETS and EDC to Lead New Initiative to Assist Women Veterans
California pilot to reach at-risk women veterans with mental health resources
Los Angeles, Calif.: In response to a growing awareness of trauma, sexual assault, and mental health concerns faced by women in the U.S. military, a new initiative is designed to reach out to women veterans and connect them with services and resources specific to their needs.
U.S.VETS and EDC will lead Women Vets on Point, a new program funded through a consortium of Southern California foundations, to be developed and pilot-tested in Los Angeles County beginning in October 2017.
“While women have long served in the armed forces, the support services available have not always been tailored to meet the unique mental health and psychosocial needs of the female veteran population,” said Steve Peck, president and CEO of U.S.VETS, the largest veteran-specific nonprofit housing and service provider in the country. “We’re pleased to work with EDC to develop and pilot a program in Los Angeles that will inform the way these services are delivered across the nation.”
With more women now working in combat roles, their deepening engagement with conflict places them at greater risk for trauma and other mental health conditions. Research has shown that women are also more apt to have experienced sexual trauma and are more reluctant to seek care. Women Vets on Point seeks to partner with veterans’ organizations and service providers around the country, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, to increase support and services for women veterans.
“Research has shown that mental health issues faced by women veterans are especially acute,” said David Offensend, president and CEO of EDC, a global health and education nonprofit organization. “We also know there are many barriers to women seeking care, including the need for childcare or experiences with trauma such as domestic violence or sexual assault. By working directly with women veterans to understand what best fits their needs, we hope to make it easier to connect them with services.”
As part of the program, a team of researchers, program developers, and service providers will create a set of tools to reach out to and assist women veterans with the challenges they may face in civilian life, including PTSD, military sexual trauma, substance abuse disorders, and domestic violence. The program will combine outreach, education, engagement, and screening and referral services regarding housing, employment, and legal services. Los Angeles County was selected for the pilot because it is home to a significant percentage of California’s 185,000 women veterans.
“It is imperative that we ensure that female veterans who have served our country are provided the services that they need and have earned,” said Los Angeles County supervisor and former U.S. secretary of labor Hilda L. Solis, who is helping to launch Women Vets on Point. “I have long been an advocate for expanding mental health services, for veterans, and for combating sexual assault. I am pleased that Women Vets on Point will help women veterans right here in LA County.”
In addition to U.S.VETS and EDC, program partners include the Frameworks Institute and Reingold Communications, who will work with women veterans to develop and test messages and methods that motivate help-seeking and recovery. A Web portal designed to serve the needs of women veterans will facilitate education, self-help, crisis management, and connection to services and peers. The program will be evaluated with the goal of achieving statewide expansion and then national expansion.
For more information about Women Vets on Point, please contact:
Alison Cohen, EDC
acohen@edc.org
Laney Kapgan, U.S.VETS
lkapgan@usvetsinc.org
EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs to improve education, health, and economic opportunity worldwide. Visit www.edc.org and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
U.S.VETS is the nation’s largest nonprofit provider of housing, mental health, and employment programs for veterans, serving more than 4,000 men and women each day at 11 sites across the country. Learn more at www.usvetsinc.org.
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Iceland looks at ending boom and bust with radical money plan
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers), March 31, 2015
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11507810/Icelan...
Iceland's government is considering a revolutionary monetary proposal - removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank. The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled "A better monetary system for Iceland". In Iceland, as in other modern market economies, the central bank controls the creation of banknotes and coins but not the creation of all money, which occurs as soon as a commercial bank offers a line of credit. The central bank can only try to influence the money supply with its monetary policy tools. Under the so-called Sovereign Money proposal, the country's central bank would become the only creator of money. "Crucially, the power to create money is kept separate from the power to decide how that new money is used," Mr Sigurjonsson wrote in the proposal. "As with the state budget, the parliament will debate the government's proposal for allocation of new money," he wrote. Banks would continue to manage accounts and payments, and would serve as intermediaries between savers and lenders. Mr Sigurjonsson, a businessman and economist, was one of the masterminds behind Iceland's household debt relief programme launched in May 2014 and aimed at helping the many Icelanders whose finances were strangled by inflation-indexed mortgages signed before the 2008 financial crisis.
Note: Iceland so far has been the only country to really challenge the banksters. For more on this, see this article. Will Iceland's proposed new monetary policy help check the power of the corrupt financial industry?
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Investigators look at overdose in Prince death
Posted: 8:00 PM, Apr 28, 2016
Matt Sayles
<p>FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2015 file photo, Prince presents the award for favorite album - soul/R&B at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles. Prince, widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive and influential musicians of his era with hits including "Little Red Corvette," ''Let's Go Crazy" and "When Doves Cry," was found dead at his home on Thursday, April 21, 2016, in suburban Minneapolis, according to his publicist. He was 57. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)</p>
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether Prince died from a drug overdose and whether a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before he was found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The official said that among the things investigators are looking at is whether a doctor was on a plane that made an emergency landing in Illinois less than a week before Prince died.
The law enforcement official has been briefed on the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The official said investigators are also looking into what kind of drugs were on plane and at his house in suburban Minneapolis.
The official also confirmed some details that have previously been reported by other media outlets, including TMZ.
Prince's plane made an emergency stop in Moline, in Western Illinois, and he was found unconscious on the plane, the official said. The person said first responders gave Prince a shot of narcan, which is used in suspected opioid overdoses. The official said the shot was given when the plane was on the runway in Moline, Illinois, as Prince returned to Minneapolis following a performance in Atlanta.
The official said investigators are looking at whether Prince overdosed on the plane and whether an overdose killed him, and at what kind of drugs were involved.
Prince died April 21. An autopsy has been performed, but results weren't expected for three to four weeks. The search warrant for Prince's Paisley Park home and studio — carried out the day of his death — was filed Thursday under seal at the request of investigators who said it would hamper their investigation if contents were public.
The filing, signed by Carver County Chief Deputy Jason Kamerud, also warned that disclosing details in the warrant could cause "the search or related searches to be unsuccessful" and risk injury to innocent people.
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The New Warning About Water Births
If you've ever considered having your baby in a tub, read this first.
By Alison Goldman
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Water births have been featured in everything from Keeping Up with the Kardashians to the Jennifer Lopez movie The Back-Up Plan. But how do they measure up from a medical perspective? The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently issued a joint committee opinion paper on the topic.
The joint committee reviewed the limited research available on the potential benefits and risks of water births. They broke their statement down into water immersion during labor and water immersion during delivery, which, they say, is an important distinction.
You see, heading into some H20 during the first stage of having a baby—laboring—may have some pros: It "may be associated with decreased pain or use of anesthesia and decreased duration of labor," wrote the joint committee, adding, "However, there is no evidence that immersion in water during the first stage of labor otherwise improves perinatal outcomes." Essentially, it may make labor more pleasant, but there were no differences in perineal trauma or tears, or in the need for assisted vaginal deliveries or Cesarean sections. An important note, says Jeffrey L. Ecker, M.D., a high-risk obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and chair of ACOG's Committee on Obstetric Practice, is that if a mom-to-be does choose to spend some time in water during the first stage of labor, she and her baby are still being monitored at the normal intervals.
MORE: This Woman Live-Tweeted Her Baby’s Home Birth
But the second stage—delivery—is an entirely different story: "The advice of the group is that it should not be done," says Ecker. "There are potential risks and the benefits have not been demonstrated." In fact, the joint committee was not able to find any benefits at all to delivering underwater. They did, however, list potential rare but serious risks based on the case studies and series they examined: higher risk of infections for both mom and baby, difficulty in regulating the baby's body temperature, an increased chance of umbilical cord damage, respiratory issues from the baby inhaling water, and even the possibility that the baby could have seizures or asphyxiate after birth.
The committees did note in the statement that the research available on this topic is limited. Most immersion therapy trials are small, and they also have different variables—how long the mom was immersed, how frequently she was examined, the temperature and depth of the bath/pool, for example—that could affect outcomes. But based on the lack of evidence regarding the safety and benefits of water births, the joint committee concluded: "The practice of immersion in the second stage of labor (underwater delivery) should be considered an experimental procedure that only should be performed within the context of an appropriately designed clinical trial with informed consent."
You can read the complete statement here. Plus, find more news on pregnancy and delivery right here.
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Bering Sea – Map & Description
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The Bering Sea, a northern extension of the Pacific Ocean, separates two continents.
Covering over two million sq km (775,000 sq mi), the sea is bordered in the west by Russia and the Kamchatka Peninsula; in the south by the Aleutian Islands, and in the east by Alaska.
The sea ends in the Bering Strait, located just to the south of the Arctic Circle. That strait is a somewhat narrow sea passage between the easternmost point of the Asian continent (Russia) and the westernmost point of the North American continent (Alaska).
The official boundary between the United States and Russia lies at the tip of the black arrow; at that exact point in the middle of the strait, are two islands - Big and Little Diomede.
The sea (and strait) are named for Danish-born Russian mariner Vitus Bering, who first spotted the Alaskan mainland while exploring the area with an expedition of Russian sailors in the mid-18th century.
The Bering Sea is one of the world's most productive fishing grounds, producing huge quantities of king crab, salmon and other varieties of fish. In addition, it's home to vast quantities of wildlife, including many species of whales, walrus, and millions of seabirds.
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Where is New York
Where is New York, United States?
Location of state of New York within United States
New York is a state found in the nation of United States. Home to 19,378,102 people, it is the 3rd largest division in United States in terms of population.
New York gained its current status as a state in the year 1788. The government of New York is lead by Andrew Cuomo and is based in the state capital of Albany (Population: 97,856).
The most populous cities in New York are: New York City (Population: 8,175,133), Brooklyn (Population: 2,300,664), Borough of Queens (Population: 2,272,771), Manhattan (Population: 1,487,536), The Bronx (Population: 1,385,108).
New York State - Quick Facts
Region Type State
ISO Code US_NY
Time Zone EDT
Capital Albany (Population: 97,856)
Head of Government Andrew Cuomo
Total Population 19,378,102
Total Area 127,190 sq km (49,108 sq miles)
Population Density 152.4 sq km (394.6 sq miles)
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First Muslim deputy spokeswoman for German Foreign Ministry
A German woman of Palestinian origin has been appointed as one of the spokespersons of the German Foreign Ministry.
The first German Muslim woman with Palestinian roots, Sawsan Chebli started her role as deputy spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry on Monday.
During the government press conference in Berlin, Chebli introduced herself and explained that her work as a deputy spokeswoman had officially begun.
Chebli said that she worked for 6 years at the parliament of Germany (Bundestag) but she had little experience as a press spokeswoman. She said that she was happy with her new post and underlined, "I hope that someday, that religion or ethnicity will be not in the foreground and will be perceived as normal."
It is expected that Chebli will be deputy spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry for four years.
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Case Spurs Pharmacies' Fears of Lawsuits Over Drug Abuse
Amy Merrick
Updated Oct. 29, 2009 12:01 am ET
When Patricia Copening, a petite, 35-year-old doctor's office receptionist, bought nearly 4,500 doses of prescription painkillers one year, alarm bells sounded at the Nevada controlled-substance task force. The state board sent letters to 14 pharmacies in the Las Vegas area warning that Ms. Copening could be abusing drugs.
On the afternoon of June 4, 2004 -- a year after the letters were sent -- Ms. Copening climbed into a gray Dodge Durango, veered onto U.S. 95 and was seen weaving erratically in and out of three-lane traffic,...
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Rod Dreher on Doug Wilson's Scandal in Moscow
UPDATE: Doug Wilson has responded to Dreher’s article at American Conservative. Dreher then provides a helpful analysis.
In response to several requests, I have been researching Christ Church in Moscow, ID. As time permits, I have read blogs, court docs, and emails from concerned brothers and sisters about the church pastored by Doug Wilson. Most of what I have reviewed has been extremely disturbing.
With the publication of an article by Rod Dreher today, I may not need to do much more. On the American Conservative website yesterday, Dreher brought together many of the facts of the situation which involves child abuse and what appears to be a dysfunctional church in Moscow, ID.
In essence, it seems that the leadership at Christ Church in Moscow, ID have exercised extremely poor judgment in encouraging a serial abuser to pursue a kind of therapy via marriage. In the face of evidence that Christ Church’s pastor, Doug Wilson, provided remarkably unwise advice to the abuser and a young woman who married the abuser, Wilson has gone on the defensive. Cited by Dreher, Wilson said in defense of conducting this ill-fated therapy by marriage:
Moreover, if everything is on the table, we do not believe the church has the authority to prohibit or “not allow” a lawful marriage.
To which Dreher countered:
Really? The church has no authority to prohibit a lawful marriage? I suppose same-sex couples in Idaho can show up at Christ Church and expect Pastor Wilson to marry them, then. This, and the claim that the church can’t withhold marriage from anybody, as long as both parties know what they’re getting into, is a pretty shameless example of passing the buck for a disaster. Wilson subsequently praised himself for the way he’s conducted himself in this matter, saying that persecution is a sign of his righteousness, and sneering that his wife celebrated the criticism coming their way by buying him a bottle of single-malt Scotch.
Wilson’s brazen self-defense is in contrast to a former pastor of Christ’s Church daughter church, Peter Leithart, who has apologized for his part in another case involving abuse.
Wilson has helped pioneer the classical schooling movement and has some disturbing views of American slavery. Wilson believes slavery, while not a moral good, was more benign than American abolitionists depicted. Lost causers and Confederate sympathizers love it.
According to some near the situation (speaking to me anonymously), things are getting more and more unsettled in Moscow with some of the empire unraveling. There might be more Scotch in Wilson’s future.
On a related note, Wenatchee the Hatchet has a post on connection between Mark Driscoll and Doug Wilson.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on September 30, 2015 Categories dominionism, racism, ReligionTags child abuse, Christ Church, Doug Wilson, Moscow ID, pedophilia, rod dreher, slaveryLeave a comment on Rod Dreher on Doug Wilson's Scandal in Moscow
Over the Top Reactions to Gays and the Duggars
I read two op-eds this morning which took the same approach to different groups.
First, Jenny Kutner at Salon demonized the religious beliefs of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. Second, Matt Barber beat up on gays in an op-ed attacking the Boy Scouts of America’s president Robert Gates. Both authors, from opposing ideological perspectives, attempt to explain the factors behind child sexual abuse. Neither succeed.
Kutner finds the Duggars beliefs unacceptable and links the patriarchal beliefs to sexual violence. She ends her op-ed by saying, “Beyond that, though, there is the entire culture undergirding rape culture and victim-blaming, and the outcome is shaping up exactly as one would expect.” The implication is that Josh Duggar’s religious training directly contributed to his sexual offenses.
On the other hand, Matt Barber leaves little doubt that he believes sexual abuse of boys is more likely if openly gay adult males are allowed to be scout leaders. He massacres social science data to craft a straw man which he savagely beats down. In fact, the consensus of social science research does not support his illusory correlation.
Barber cherry picks his data and Kutner doesn’t offer any. The problem here should be clear. Both people have pre-existing views and they shape these vivid cases to support them. The confirmation bias is strong in these articles. In the face of horrific or confusing events, most of us fall back on our pre-existing biases and stereotypes instead of looking at the situation dispassionately.
It is certainly not wrong to inquire about the relationship, if any, between certain religious beliefs or sexual orientation and child abuse. Researchers should not be afraid to ask hard questions. Personally, I intend no defense of one or more Duggars. I reject the Quiverful movement and what I know of the Duggars’ beliefs about gender. I am inclined to agree that there could be problems in viewing women in keeping with Bill Gothard’s teachings.
My interest is in how we seek answers to important questions and how we discuss those important questions without demonizing entire groups of people. In my view, without research or evidence, Kutner’s incendiary language about religious beliefs is about as helpful as Matt Barber’s self-righteous rant about gay scout leaders.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on May 28, 2015 Categories Professional issues, psychology, ReligionTags Boy Scouts, child abuse, Jenny Kutner, Josh Duggar, matt barber, Quiverfull, social psychology, the Duggar familyLeave a comment on Over the Top Reactions to Gays and the Duggars
Former Staff Members: Faith Christian Church Members Taught to Spank Infants to Curb Rebellion
Two former staff members of Faith Christian Church in Tucson AZ provided more details about the procedures church leaders told members to use to drive out rebellion from infants. The Arizona Daily Star reported the procedures described by former member and staffer Rachiel Morgan. According to the Star report, church pastor Stephen Hall taught members to spank babies as young as 8 weeks if they raised up their heads while laying on their stomachs.
Wanting to learn more about this claim, I spoke today with Rachiel Morgan. She told me that the techniques were taught in small groups by the elders and that her ex-husband was exhorted to spank his six month old baby in front of church elders to determine if the spankings were hard enough.
Another former staff person, Jeff Phillips told me that the techniques were taught to “drive out the rebellion” in the children. He said, according to church pastors, “The only way to recognize rebellion in a child that small is to place the child on his belly to put him to sleep.” If parents worried about infants suffocating or SIDS, they were told “to live by faith and not worry that our baby would die in the crib if he was on his belly.”
Both Morgan and Phillips described similar tactics. According to Phillips, parents were advised:
When putting the child down, if the child lifted his head, you were to push his head down and say “no” firmly. If he lifted his head again, you were to spank him on the backside with the rubber eraser end of a pencil or a cardboard tube from a clothes hanger. You were supposed to strike the baby hard enough to make him cry. You repeated this process until the baby complied, usually by falling asleep.
I wrote the email provided by Faith Christian Church to allow them to give their side or to rebut these charges but there has been no answer.
Morgan and Phillips described other concerns including financial ones with the ministers of a 400-500 member church getting six figure salaries while most staff were living off donations which had to be shared with the church leadership. Membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability was used by campus non-salary staff to raise money for the church. Morgan and Phillips knew of no investigation on the part of the ECFA; according to the former staffers, the church pastors gloated about the credibility they had due to membership in the ECFA.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on March 9, 2015 Categories Faith Christian Church, ReligionTags child abuse, ECFA, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, Faith Christian Church, Ian Laks, Stephen HallLeave a comment on Former Staff Members: Faith Christian Church Members Taught to Spank Infants to Curb Rebellion
Top Ten Posts in 2013
Here are the ten most visited pages on the blog for 2013. Two posts were written prior to 2013 but continue to be quite popular. I designate them in the list below by the year of publication.
1. On The Allegations of Plagiarism Against Mark Driscoll
2. Janet Mefferd Removes Evidence Relating to Charges of Plagiarism Against Mark Driscoll; Apologizes to Audience
3. Ingrid Schlueter Resigns from Janet Mefferd Show Over Mark Driscoll Plagiarism Controversy
4. John Piper Calls Out Famous Guys (Like Mark Driscoll) on Ghostwriting
5. Was the National Rifle Association Started to Drive Out the KKK?
6. A Major Study of Child Abuse and Homosexuality Revisited (2009)
7. Mars Hill Church Alters Statement of Mark Driscoll Plagiarism Controversy
8. Narth Loses Tax Exempt Status
9. Mars Hill Sermon Series Battle Plan Reveals Source Behind Mark Driscoll’s Book on Peter
10. The Trail of Tears Remembered (2011)
Clearly, posts about the controversy surrounding Mark Driscoll and allegations of plagiarism and ghostwriting were popular. With Driscoll’s apology the attention left the issue, even though he did not address several other instances in other books. To some degree, he was probably also aided by Christmas break and the Duck Dynasty hullabaloo. I was surprised that the most popular post about David Barton was about his claim that the National Rifle Association was started to counter the KKK. There are so many other claims that are even more outrageous. As far as I can determine, donations to NARTH are still not deductible. The two posts from past years have consistently shown up on the top ten lists since they were published.
The move to Patheos has been smooth thanks to the great folks there and I want to thank readers for making the switch and welcome all the new readers here.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on December 31, 2013 Categories david barton, ex-gay, Getting Jefferson Right, history, NARTH, politics, Professional issues, racism, Religion, Religion and sexuality, reparative therapy, sexual orientationTags 2013, child abuse, david Barton, Mark Driscoll, NARTH, sexual orientation, trail of tearsLeave a comment on Top Ten Posts in 2013
The Sovereign Grace Ministries Scandal
I have only recently learned about the lawsuit alleging wide-spread child abuse at Sovereign Grace Ministries, a neo-Calvinist denomination based in MD. Check here for local coverage of the lawsuit, much of which was dismissed earlier this month.
I don’t know what to make of this yet, as I am still reading about it. However, the story is pitting some evangelical heavy weights against each other.
Christianity Today is covering this scandal and notes that Al Mohler, Mark Dever, Justin Taylor, and Ligon Duncan have come to the defense of SGM founder C.J. Mahaney. On the other side, supporting those who allege abuse, are Rachel Held Evans, Scot McKnight and Liberty University professor Boz Tchividjian.
For summaries of the situation, the following sites seem to have good coverage.
SGM Survivors
Internet Monk (Update)
Wartburg Watch
Given the seriousness of the allegations and the notoriety of the those who are taking sides, this set of events could be the foundation of a major disruption in the evangelical world.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on May 29, 2013 Categories mental health, psychology, Religion and sexualityTags child abuse, sovereign grace ministries16 Comments on The Sovereign Grace Ministries Scandal
Top Ten Posts – 2011
To reflect on 2011, I have listed here the ten most popular posts in terms of visits this year. Two of the posts were written in prior years but were visited frequently this year. In addition to being popular, I think they are representative of the stories and issues which I wrote about this year.
1. The Trail of Tears remembered
2. Uganda update: Anti-Homosexuality Bill on tomorrow’s agenda
3. Committee chair says Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill may not be considered
4. What would dominionists do with gays?
6. NARTH is not primarily composed of mental health professionals
7. Only the gay die young: Examining the claims of shorter life expectancy for homosexuals (2007)
8. The evangelical blackout of research on sexual orientation
9. William Penn founded the Quakers and other tall tales from David Barton
10. Was the Jefferson Bible an evangelism tool?
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on December 22, 2011 Categories American family association, Blogkeeping, david barton, dominionism, human rights, NARTH, native american, new apostolic reformation, politics, Religion and sexuality, reparative therapy, sexual orientation, ugandaTags anti-homosexuality bill, blog, child abuse, david Barton, dominionism, NARTH, thomas jefferson, top ten posts, trail of tears, uganda, Warren Throckmorton3 Comments on Top Ten Posts – 2011
Article on sexuality in Uganda’s Independent
This morning, The Independent, a Ugandan daily, published an article from me on sexual orientation and the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Titled, “What makes someone gay and can people change orientation?” I wanted to provide an honest summary of the issues surrounding causation and change.
The article begins:
Defending the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Hon. David Bahati told the BBC, “It’s [homosexuality] not an inborn orientation, it’s a behaviour learnt – and it can be unlearnt.” Is this true?
Hon. Bahati’s assertion is not consistent with current research on sexuality. While much is being learned about sexuality, the reasons why sexual attractions take the direction they do for any given person is not well known. There are many theories but no clear answers. I think this is a surprising fact for many people.
I am not going to post the rest here because I want you to go visit the Independent, rate the piece and perhaps even make a comment.
UPDATE: Oh my, I made an error in the piece which will not be corrected until the morning in Uganda. Here is a comment I just left under the article:
Thanks to Uganda Talks for posting this column. There is one correction that I need to post.
In the section describing the Exodus International study, I wrote:
Just over 20% of subjects remaining in the study reported some degree of movement from straight to gay but most did not.
However, that sentence should read instead:
Just over 20% of subjects remaining in the study reported some degree of movement from being attracted to the same sex toward developing attractions to the opposite sex, but most did not.
I am very sorry for any confusion caused by the error.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on January 14, 2010 Categories Religion, Religion and sexuality, sexual orientation, ugandaTags anti-homosexuality bill 2009, child abuse, sexual orientation, The Independent, uganda, widom, wilson59 Comments on Article on sexuality in Uganda’s Independent
Early childhood stress is associated with elevated herpes antibodies
Reading in the area of early childhood stress brought me to this article from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science:
It is well known that children need solicitous parenting and a nurturing rearing environment to ensure their normal behavioral development. Early adversity often negatively impacts emotional and mental well-being, but it is less clearly established how much the maturation and regulation of physiological systems is also compromised. The following research investigated the effect of 2 different types of adverse childhood experiences, early deprivation through institutionalization and physical abuse, on a previously unexplored outcome: the containment of herpes simplex virus (HSV). The presence of HSV-specific antibody in salivary specimens was determined in 155 adolescents, including 41 postinstitutionalized, 34 physically-abused, and 80 demographically-similar control youth. Across 4 school and home days, HSV antibody was higher in both postinstitutionalized and physically-abused adolescents when compared with control participants. Because the prevalence of HSV infection was similar across the groups, the elevated antibody was likely indicative of viral recrudescence from latency. Total secretory Ig-A secretion was associated with HSV, but did not account for the group differences in HSV-specific antibody. These findings are likely caused by a failure of cellular immune processes to limit viral reactivation, indicating a persistent effect of early rearing on immune functioning. The fact that antibody profiles were still altered years after adoption into a more benevolent setting with supportive families suggests these results were not caused by contemporaneous factors, but rather reflect a lingering influence of earlier life experiences.
Here we have an indication that early stressors leave a mark so to speak on immune functioning. Those promoting the pathogen theory of sexual orientation might wonder if this finding provides any support. Not sure, but I doubt it, in light of the recent finding that physical abuse and neglect do not relate to adult sexual orientation. For men, but not women, sexual abuse did associate with adult sexual orientation. Abuse compromises the immune system with durable consequences. Physically abused and neglected children have compromised immune systems but are not more likely to report homosexual behavior. Seems like this would be a group more likely to demonstrate homosexuality since anything attacked by the immune system would have an easier time of it.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on February 7, 2009 Categories mental health, psychology, Research news, sexual identity, sexual orientationTags child abuse, herpes, neglect, pathogen theory of sexual orientation16 Comments on Early childhood stress is associated with elevated herpes antibodies
Sexual abuse and sexual orientation: A prospective study
Online now ahead of publication is a report from H. Wilson and C. Widom of a prospective study of the relationship between sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect and sexual orientation in men and women. Published to subscribers January 7, 2009 on the Archives of Sexual Behavior website, the abstract provides a glimpse into the many findings reported here.
Existing cross-sectional research suggests associations between physical and sexual abuse in childhood and same-sex sexual orientation in adulthood. This study prospectively examined whether abuse and/or neglect in childhood were associated with increased likelihood of same-sex partnerships in adulthood. The sample included physically abused (N = 85), sexually abused (N = 72), and neglected (N = 429) children (ages 0-11) with documented cases during 1967-1971 who were matched with non-maltreated children (N = 415) and followed into adulthood. At approximately age 40, participants (483 women and 461 men) were asked about romantic cohabitation and sexual partners, in the context of in-person interviews covering a range of topics. Group (abuse/neglect versus control) differences were assessed with cross-tabulations and logistic regression. A total of 8% of the overall sample reported any same-sex relationship (cohabitation or sexual partners). Childhood physical abuse and neglect were not significantly associated with same-sex cohabitation or sexual partners. Individuals with documented histories of childhood sexual abuse were significantly more likely than controls to report ever having had same-sex sexual partners (OR = 2.81, 95% CI = 1.16-6.80, p = .05); however, only men with histories of childhood sexual abuse were significantly more likely than controls to report same-sex sexual partners (OR = 6.75, 95% CI = 1.53-29.86, p = .01). These prospective findings provide tentative evidence of a link between childhood sexual abuse and same-sex sexual partnerships among men, although further research is needed to explore this relationship and to examine potential underlying mechanisms.
Beyond the result reported above there is much of interest here. I want to describe some how sexuality was measured and then make some general observations. This study will get more than one post.
One of the weaknesses of research on sexual orientation and social factors has been the lack of long term prospective studies. Most research into abuse and sexual orientation is based on retrospective self-report. This study is a significant improvement in that the authors had documentation of childhood sexual and physical abuse and neglect regarding 908 children from juvenile and family courts in a midwestern metropolitan area. The cases were reported and processed between 1967 and 1971. The authors then interviewed as many of these individuals as possible and included interviews with a matched set of control participants. The control group was matched with the abuse group on age, sex, race/ethnicity, and approximate social class at the time of the abuse. The average age of participant reports for all cases was 6.3 years.
At follow up, when the participants were in their late 30s and early 40s, they were asked if they lived (at the time of the interview) with a person of the same sex in a sexual relationship, whether the person had ever cohabited in a same-sex relationship, had ever had a same-sex sexual partner and whether the person had such a partner with the past year. Attraction was not directly assessed which is an unfortunate aspect of the study. Primarily the authors were interested in sames-sex sexual behavior, which may or may not indicate enduring attractions.
Among males, 2.9% reported a same-sex partner within the last year and 6.4% saying they had such a partner at some time in the past. Percentages were similar for women (2.1% and 6.8% respectively). Similar differences were reported for cohabitation and any prior same-sex relationships. Nearly all participants reported sexual partners of both sexes. Only five men (1.3%) and one woman (.24%) reported exclusively same-sex relations. It is highly likely that some of these individuals would identify as straight but had engaged in same-sex relations at some point in their past.
The main significant finding was reported in the abstract: “men with histories of childhood sexual abuse were significantly more likely than controls to report same-sex sexual partners.” There was no relationship between child sexual abuse and sexual behavior for women. Also, “child physical abuse and neglect were not significantly associated with increased likelihood of same-sex cohabitation or sexual partnerships” (from paper, pg 7). While sexual abuse is associated with an increased likelihood of same-sex behavior, this is not a study that shows homosexuality is caused by sexual abuse. Also, the study does not indicate that sexual abuse leads to homosexuality. In the control group, 5.3% said they had engaged in same-sex relationships, whereas in the sexual abuse group, 27.3% did. More on this in the next post.
This study is a significant challenge to reparative drive theory. Reparative theory, on display recently on the Dr. Phil Show, proposes that gender disturbances are caused by a poor relationship with the same-sex parent. Although this study does not directly test a specific set of family dynamics, it is plausible based on reparative concepts to predict that abuse and neglect might be more frequent in homes where dad is uninvolved or hostile to the children. Dr. Nicolosi frequently says he has never met a gay man who had a good relationship with his father. One would expect a significant elevation in these circumstances but none shows up here. Regarding parenting and sexual orientation, Wilson and Widom write:
These results were consistent for men and women and support the conclusions of Bell et al (1981) that early parenting experiences, positive or negative, play little direct role in the development of sexual orientation. Among women, we also found no associations between childhood sexual abuse and same-sex relationships.
This study, along with the recent work from Andrew Francis casts more doubt on reparative drive theory as a general theory of same-sex attraction. In a future post, I want to address additional implications of this study, especially regarding the complex question of how sexual orientation may be related to sexual abuse. The pattern of findings in the Wilson and Widom study can be interpreted in several ways. More about that soon.
Author Warren ThrockmortonPosted on January 20, 2009 Categories NARTH, Professional issues, reparative therapy, Research news, sexual identity, sexual orientationTags c. widom, child abuse, h wilson, homosexuality, neglect, physical abuse, same-sex orientation, sexual orientation26 Comments on Sexual abuse and sexual orientation: A prospective study
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Sex: Men fake it too
Men fake it? What!?! The traditional story has always been that women fake it periodically but now, scientific evidence that the hairy Neanderthal beating his chest with cries of victory has also been fibbing a bit?
In the latest issue of the Journal of Sex Research, volume 47, issue 6, we find a reprint of a paper by Charlene L. Muehlenhard and Sheena K. Shippee first presented in November 2006 entitled Men's and Women's Reports of Pretending Orgasm. This study looked at 180 male college and 101 female college students and discovered the following numbers:
almost 100% of the participants had experienced some form of sex
85% of men had experienced intercourse
68% of women had experienced intercourse
25% of men pretended to have had an orgasm
50% of women pretended to have had an orgasm
of those who had intercourse, 28% of men pretended to have had an orgasm
of those who had intercourse, 67% of women pretended to have had an orgasm
Most pretended during intercourse, but some pretended during oral sex, manual stimulation and phone sex.
Why did the participants fake it? They explained their reasons as:
having an orgasm was not likely
they wanted sex to end
they did not want to hurt their partner's feelings
they wanted to please their partner
The researchers in looking at the results concluded that there was in many cases, a sort of "sexual script" the participants were following and this script stated that women should orgasm before men and men are responsible for women's orgasms.
In reporting on the above study in LiveScience, the journalist Stephanie Pappas analyses why people would fake it.
For men, the most common reasons for faking it were that orgasm was unlikely or taking too long and that they wanted sex to end. Four-fifths of women reported they faked it to avoid negative consequences, like hurting their partner's feelings. Half of men reported the same motivation.
The participants who faked shared a common sexual "script," the authors wrote, in which both genders feel pressure to orgasm during intercourse, with the woman orgasming first. In some cases, people are so wedded to this script they pass up the chance to orgasm for real in order to fake orgasm at the "right" time. The study found that 20 percent of the women pretended to orgasm because their partner seemed about to.
"Some of the women wrote that they actually could have orgasmed, but they chose a pretend orgasm in the right sequence — before or during the man's orgasm — rather than an actual orgasm in the wrong sequence," the authors wrote.
These sexual scripts put undue pressure on both genders, said Carol Ellison, the author of "Women's Sexualities: Generations of Women Share Intimate Secrets of Sexual Self-Acceptance" (New Harbinger, 2000).
"When sex is a performance, and when sex has performance goals — erection, intercourse, orgasms — it's problematic," Ellison, who was not involved in the research, told LiveScience. Ellison argues that sexual success should be redefined as anything that makes you feel good about yourself, good about your partner and as something that enhances your relationship.
"If you change the goal of sex to creating mutual pleasure and finding all the different ways to create pleasure... you'll learn a lot more about sexual responsiveness," she said. "Sex will be a whole different experience."
Hmmm, does this make sex a sort of performance art? So, how many times have our partners "faked it"? Then again, have we "faked it"? In a perfect world, we would always have a 100% success rate but I'm sure we all realise that nobody succeeds 100% of the time. Can we accept that? Can we accept the occasional "negative consequence"?
With age cums wisdom
Of course, let's mix into this the question of age. Amy Sohn of the New York Magazine wrote of this whole question of men faking it back in March 2010 however she delved into the interesting aspect of age in this question.
Men and women experience a role reversal as they age, says Charles. “Only a few young women really want to have sex for its own sake. When you get older, it flips around. By the time guys are losing interest in constant sex, the women are hornier and more into it. For the guy, it may not be as thrilling to have sex for sex’s sake, which is why sometimes, when you do, you realize it’s not what you wanted.”
Ned, 57, an entertainment executive, believes that sometimes faking is the only way to satisfy a woman. They appreciate attentive, generous men, he says, but still seem insulted if the guy doesn’t come himself. “Through their thirties and forties, women start singing a song about how they wish a guy would be more sensitive to what they need, and when a guy reaches the point where a lot of his satisfaction comes from what he can do for his partner instead of from his own orgasm, they get very disappointed. They still think it is their duty to get the guy to ejaculate. So you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
Ned considers faking a form of generosity; he knows the orgasm matters to the woman but is bright enough not to blame her for the problem. “Some guys don’t have the presence of mind to fake it. They might even blame the woman as a way to cover up their own shortcoming.” For men who find themselves starring in their own personal remake of Endless Love, he has some advice. “Pump away, give a sudden exclamation of ‘Ahh!,’ toss your back a bit, and spasm.” What if the woman raises suspicions about output? “You say, ‘It’s not always a lot.’ And if you really get down to it, you can say, ‘Where’s yours?’ ”
What's that old saying? I'm not as good as I once was, but I hope I'm as good once as I ever was.
AARP: Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons:
How Sex Changes for Men After 50
It's not the same as it used to be — and that can be a good thing.
by Michael Castleman - October 12, 2010
Some things change. Take, for example, erections. After 40 and certainly by 50, they rise more slowly, and become less firm and frequent. Sexual fantasies are no longer enough. Men need fondling, often for quite a while. It's disconcerting to lose firmness and suffer wilting from minor distractions, such as a phone ringing, but these changes are perfectly normal. Unfortunately, many men mistake them for erectile dysfunction (ED) and become distraught — only exacerbating the problem. Anxiety constricts the arteries that carry blood into the penis, making erections even less likely.
Ah, an orgasm can be faked but an erection? :-)
Why would a woman fake it?
In the study "Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations in Women Are Not a Reflexive Consequence of Orgasm" by Gayle Brewer of the University of Central Lancashire and Colin Hendrie of the University of Leeds, the authors discovered that while women tended to have an orgasm when the clitoris was manipulated such as during oral sex, they did not always have an orgasm during intercourse. However, the women tended to make more noise or vocalizations during intercourse as opposed to when they actually had their orgasm. The purpose was to manipulate the behaviour of the male.
The MSNBC reporter Brian Alexander spoke with Gayle Brewer and found out that “women were making conscious vocalizations in order to influence their partner rather than as a direct expression of sexual arousal. Women reported using these vocalizations to ‘speed up’ their partner’s ejaculation due to boredom, fatigue, discomfort, time limitations.”
It was a tactic they used to induce their man to do something, like get it over with. In most cases, they were also trying to be nice. “Importantly, 92 percent of participants felt very strongly that these vocalizations boosted their partner’s self-esteem,” the paper stated, “and 87 percent reported using them for this purpose."
Of course, as Meg Ryan proved in another movie, “When Harry Met Sally,” women can use their voices to fake an orgasm, too. In Brewer’s survey, more than 25 percent of women routinely used vocalization to fake it. They did it about 90 percent of the time they realized they would not climax. About 80 percent faked using vocalizations about half the time they were unable to have an orgasm.
Women do this because their men are so goal-directed they won’t stop until a woman climaxes, the authors say.
Women fake it; men fake it. Not all the time, but sometimes. More so for women than for men. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? From the above article by Amy Sohn when she talks about Ned:
"...a guy reaches the point where a lot of his satisfaction comes from what he can do for his partner instead of from his own orgasm..."
Ned considers faking a form of generosity; he knows the orgasm matters to the woman but is bright enough not to blame her for the problem.
Sometimes our bodies just can't keep up with our minds. As I read in a comment written by a man to one of the above articles, "I may not always be able to cum but that doesn't mean I'm still not in love with the idea of cumming." :-)
"I Was Tired and Just Couldn't Go Any Longer": Men's and Women's Reports of Pretending Orgasm
Sheena K. Shippee, Charlene L. Muehlenhard, Ph.D.
2006 SSSS Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, November 9 - 12, 2006
http://www.sexscience.org/uploads/media/2006_SSSS_Annual__Meeting_Prelim_Program.pdf
Shippee, S. K., & Muehlenhard, C. L. (2006, November).
“I was tired and just couldn’t go any longer”: Men’s and women’s reports of pretending orgasm.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality,
Las Vegas.
Charlene L. Muehlenhard, Ph.D.
http://wgss.ku.edu/people/pdf/Muehlenhard_CV_10_01_01.pdf
Men's and Women's Reports of Pretending Orgasm
Charlene L. Muehlenhard; Sheena K. Shippee
Journal of Sex Research, 1559-8519, Volume 47, Issue 6, First published 2010, Pages 552 – 567
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~db=all~content=a914174687~fulltext=713240930
Cost: Purchase this single article: $30 USD
Wikipedia: he Journal of Sex Research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Sex_Research
The Journal of Sex Research is a scientific journal published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (New York City). In 1963, the society had published a one-issue journal entitled Advances in Sex Research. The Journal of Sex Research was then first published in 1965, six years before the Archives of Sexual Behavior was established in 1971.
Wikipedia: Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_the_Scientific_Study_of_Sexuality
The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS, or "quad-S"), formed in 1957, is a non-profit, professional membership organization that claims to be "the oldest professional society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality." It claims to have more than 1,000 members and has a quarterly newsletter, Sexual Science. It produces two other publications:
Annual Review of Sex Research, "An Integrative and Interdisciplinary Review"
Journal of Sex Research, a scholarly journal published quarterly
official web site: http://www.sexscience.org
Wikipedia: Archives of Sexual Behavior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives_of_Sexual_Behavior
The Archives of Sexual Behavior is a peer-reviewed academic journal in sexology. It is the official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research.
Wikipedia: International Academy of Sex Research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Academy_of_Sex_Research
The International Academy of Sex Research (IASR) is a scientific society for researchers in sexology. According to John Bancroft, retired director of the Kinsey Institute, IASR "can claim...most of the field's leading researchers." IASR is unique among sexology organizations in that individuals must be elected to membership, which requires demonstration of substantial contribution to sexology, including the authorship of 10 or more professional publications.
official web site: http://www.iasr.org/
LiveScience: Study: Men Fake Orgasm, Too
By Stephanie Pappas, Nov 11/2010
http://www.livescience.com/health/men-fake-orgasms-too-101111.html
New York Magazine: Snow Job By Amy Sohn - March 2010
Women aren’t the only ones who fake orgasm. Men are doing it, too—and getting away with it.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/nightlife/sex/columns/nakedcity/n_9882/
Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations in Women Are Not a Reflexive Consequence of Orgasm.
Gayle Brewer of the University of Central Lancashire
Colin Hendrie of the University of Leeds
Archives of Sexual Behaviour - May 18, 2010
MSNBC: Sorry, guys: Up to 80 percent of women admit faking it
Wild noises help boost his ego and speed things up, new sex study finds
By Brian Alexander - June 30/2010
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38006774/ns/health-sexual_health/
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Failure to File a Tax Return: What Happens?
The Internal Revenue Service requires that anyone receiving income from any source must file a tax return each year, with limited exceptions. If an individual does not file an income tax return, the IRS will file one for them and then send that individual the bill of the taxes owed. At first, this sounds somewhat advantageous to have the service itself prepare and file taxes, but this process has its drawbacks.
The IRS prepared-filing is in no way a good substitute for a return a taxpayer prepares and sends personally. These "ghost returns" are based only on income and the IRS does not include any deductions or credits for which a taxpayer may qualify. The IRS files a substitute Form 1040 based on reports of wages paid by an employer and statements from financial institutions for interest and dividend payments made to the non-filing taxpayer.
Once the IRS calculates income, it will then calculate the amount of taxes due. It then adds interest and a penalty for not filing. The taxpayer is then sent a bill for payment of the amount of taxes, interest, and penalties.
The IRS does not immediately prepare a substitute return for a delinquent taxpayer. The IRS first sends several letters reminding the non-filer to file their return. Only after approximately one year of non-filing will the IRS file a substitute return for that individual.
With the availability of better technology, it has become much easier for the IRS to identify non-filers. The IRS now receives an increasing amount of electronic accounts reporting many different types of income. This allows the IRS to easily track those who are receiving income but are not filing a return.
It is very unusual for a taxpayer to have no offsetting expenses, deductions, or credits to be applied to taxable income or taxes due. It is only by personally filing a return that such offsets will be used to reduce taxes. Therefore, it is important for taxpayers to complete and submit their own return to avoid the IRS filing the substitute. Furthermore, if a substitute return is filed by the IRS, it is important not to ignore it. The taxpayer will need to work with the IRS to correct it in order to avoid collection efforts by the IRS to collect the amount of taxes due under that substitute return.
Issues involving taxes and failure to pay can be complicated and it is best to seek out advice from a tax law attorney if you suspect there may be problems with your taxes.
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Middle East Energy: Beyond an Iran Nuclear Deal
Thu. Jul. 09 2015
The Wilson Center’s Regional and Global Energy series continued on July 9 with a deeper look into Middle East energy and what changes could be expected in the aftermath of an Iran nuclear deal. In a diverse panel of experts from both academia and the private sector, the speakers highlighted future oil and natural gas developments in Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf, as well as the broader trends of the Middle East and the global energy market.
On July 9, 2015, the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a Wilson Center Region and Global Energy Series event “Middle East Energy: Beyond an Iran Nuclear Deal” with David Gordon, Senior Advisor of Eurasia Group; Julia Nanay, Principal of Energy Ventures LLC; Jean-Francois Seznec, Non-Resident Senior Fellow of Atlantic Council; and David Goldwyn, President of Goldwyn Global Strategies LLC and former State Department Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs. Andrew Selee, Executive Vice President of the Wilson Center, provided welcoming remarks. Henri J. Barkey, Director or the Middle East Program, provided introductory remarks and noted its timeliness in the context of the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran. Jan H. Kalicki, Public Policy Scholar and energy lead at the Woodrow Wilson Center, opened the conversation by highlighting three significant questions: if there is a deal between Iran and the P5+1, how will lifting sanctions impact Iranian production and exports? How will Iran’s neighbors respond? And how will the deal affect broader energy trends and geopolitics?
Gordon started by noting that there were two additional key areas of focus that the world should be watching besides the nuclear negotiations with Iran: the Levant and Libya. In the Levant, the Syrian civil war has entered its fourth year, the Islamic State (IS) has created a resilient powerbase, the Syrian Kurds have managed to establish a broad zone of control along the Turkish-Syrian border, and the Turks have moved to militarize their border with Syria. Second, while Libya has experienced radical decentralization and an escalation in conflict, the country might still be able to find a solution to its political and security issues and then significantly impact the oil market. Regarding the negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran, Gordon noted that if they are successful a deal could ease tensions among the regional powers and allow for a stronger coalition to combat IS.
Nanay emphasized that timing will be key in Iran’s return to the energy market. Iran has loaded a number of cargo tankers with 30 or more million barrels of oil that can be sold as soon as sanctions are lifted. Iran is in an advantageous position to supply Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East with both oil and natural gas. However, in the Middle East, Iranian gas exports face both political and commercial obstacles, with pricing disagreements already holding up some projects. Iranian oil exports to Europe and China have been replaced since 2012 by a number of competing suppliers, including Russia and Saudi Arabia. Another key point Nanay discussed is the potential for increased Iranian natural gas in the global marketplace. Iran has the world’s largest natural gas reserves and has made significant investments in developing its offshore Pars Field, which it shares with Qatar’s cross-border North Field. However, with North American as well as other major players such as Qatar to Australia already in the market, will Iranian exports prove sufficiently competitive?
Seznec pointed out that how Saudi Arabia responds to Iran’s return to the market will have important regional and global consequences. Saudi Arabia can be expected to defend strongly its market share, resulting in lower oil prices across the board. On the one hand, this will likely encourage Iran to focus more on natural gas exports over the longer term. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia will look increasingly to adding value to its oil production through petrochemical and other investments. If political obstacles can be overcome, Iran would be well positioned to supply natural gas to the Persian Gulf. Interestingly, the Saudis and Russians have stepped up their dialogue, suggesting an interest in greater understanding on future exports, which might be extended to include Iran.
Goldwyn highlighted four key points with regard to Iraq. First, the war against IS has only further fragmented an already divided Iraq, with most of the successes coming from the Kurdish peshmerga. Second, the Baghdad-Erbil energy deal is unraveling as Baghdad fails to implement revenue sharing provisions and the Kurdistan Regional Government fails to market the requisite 550,000 barrels per day of crude oil through Bagdad’s State Organization for the Marketing of Oil (SOMO). Third, Iraq has been unable to continue to develop its reserves due to a growing shortage of cash. Fourth, Iraqi shortfalls may provide space to OPEC to make more room available for increased Iranian exports. In addition, Goldwyn observed that while Saudi Arabia has begun to show more initiative toward combatting IS, it still perceives Iranian regional ambitions as comprising the number one threat to its security. While a Saudi-Iranian security deal would be pivotal not only for the two countries but for the region as a whole, there are complex obstacles on both sides that make such an agreement challenging to reach.
By Brandon Roselius, Research Assistant
David L. Goldwyn
President, Goldwyn Global Strategies LLC, former State Department Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, and Co-Editor, Energy & Security: Strategies for a World in Transition
Senior Advisor, Eurasia Group
Julia Nanay
Principal, Energy Ventures LLC
Jean-Francois Seznec
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
Jan H. Kalicki
Public Policy Fellow
Counselor for International Strategy, Chevron; Chairman, Eurasia Foundation
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New law drives return to market growth -- India on fast forward
In a fast transforming scenario of reforms under the Electricity Act 2003, India's power industry is witnessing the unbundling of electricity boards, with ownership changes and the establishment of regulatory commissions at the state and central level. With vows to significantly increase wind development being fulfilled through improvements to policy within the restructuring process, the future has rarely looked brighter. India has a target for 5000 MW of wind power by 2012. Danish market analyst company BTM Consult forecasts that 2800 MW of this will be installed by 2006. It could be sooner. Last year, around 250 MW went up, compared with 195 MW in 2002.
By the end of 2003, India's combined wind power generation had reached 2120 MW. Progress in meeting the target for 1500 MW of wind plant to be installed under India's 10th Five Year Plan (2002-2007) is well advanced, says the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES). In the next month alone, it expects to see another 100 MW running.
Significant local manufacturing capacity has been established and wind turbines and components are being exported to the US, Europe and several developing countries. NEG Micon, NEPC India, LM Glasfiber, Enercon, GE Wind and Suzlon are leading the pack. NEPC can now turn out 800, 225 kW turbines a year. The company's Raj Kumar says there has been a notable market boom from 2002 to 2003. His company recently won an order for 70 turbines from Vishal Exports in Ahmedabad, to be installed in the Tirunelveli belt of Tamil Nadu by September.
State governments are showing renewed interest in wind. Gujarat, with a 1450 MW of potential, is back with a blast. Around 50 sites in the state have been earmarked for wind farm development -- with 800-1600 MW likely to be installed in the coming years. The Gujarat government has signed agreements with Suzlon, NEG Micon, Enercon and NEPC India to develop wind farms on a build-own-transfer basis. Each manufacturer will be given land for the installation of between 200-400 MW in the Kutch, Jamnagar, Rajkot and Bhavnagar districts, although the details are yet to be confirmed.
Wind resource mapping and promotion of development opportunities to private sector corporations, public sector units and power utilities, is being given new priority. A centre for wind energy technology has been established in Chennai and one of its first tasks is to conduct a wind resource study of north-east India, an area of strong winds which to date has been largely ignored due to its difficult terrain.
The financial community's interest in wind also seems to have been rejuvenated. Banks are charging lower interest rates and the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) has revised its financing terms for the wind sector -- interest rates have been lowered to 9.5%-11.5%, depending on the nature of investment, while repayment periods vary from seven to ten years. The climate is far more favourable than in recent years, although many in the industry still argue rates are too high.
Significantly, new comers are arriving as project developers. The Hinduja Group, a large industrial corporation, says it will make its wind department one of its core operations. Its foray into wind is via Alfin Wind Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ashok Leyland Finance (ALF), which operates 67 turbines with a combined capacity of 18 MW at two wind farms in southern Tamil Nadu. "Our aim is to become a major player in the wind industry, as a developer, operation and maintenance service provider and even a manufacturer of wind turbines," says the company's S. Nagarajan. Under current plans, ALF intends to invest $23 million in the wind sector, much of it in the development of a new 20 MW wind farm.
There is still room for improvement in national policy. Clarification of a mandatory minimum percentage of green electricity requirement for utilities under the Electricity Act is still awaited. And some states, particularly Kerala with a miserly 3 MW out of a potential for 600-800 MW, need properly designed regulations, says Anil Kane of the Indian Wind Energy Association.
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Watch Elton John and Taron Egerton Perform ‘Tiny Dancer’ at Oscars Party
Rich Fury, Getty Images for EJAF
Elton John performed "Tiny Dancer" with Taron Egerton, who stars as John in the upcoming Rocketman, at the singer's annual Oscars party last night.
The event took place at the City of West Hollywood Park in West Hollywood, and raised more than $6.3 million for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
According to a press release, Egerton was welcomed to the stage during the auction portion of the evening, where one of the items up for bid was a trip to London to see the premiere of the "musical fantasy" based on John's life, which opens on May 31.
Auctioneer Alexander Gilkes then asked Egerton, who performed his own vocals in the film, to sing. Egerton said he would comply only if John accompanied him on piano. As you can see in the below video, the music legend obliged.
Last night marked the 27th year John has held a party on Oscars night to raise funds for his foundation. At last year's benefit, he introduced Greta Van Fleet, who hadn't released their debut album yet, to an audience of Hollywood elite. The band performed "Edge of Darkness"; John sat in with them on "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting."
John personally called the young band to invite them to perform, saying that their EPs were "the best rock 'n' roll I've heard in 20 fucking years!"
"They're amazing, and they blew me away," John said from the stage that night. "So you're going to see them here and they're going to be one of the biggest new bands of the year. They have an amazing future ahead of them, and I'm so thrilled -- I'm so thankful to have them come onstage and play for you."
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Liberty, Justice, and Musical Theatre for All
While the boys were on an extended visit with my parents in Upstate New York, it became their custom to listen to the soundtrack to Les Miserables in the car. For some reason, it has struck a deep chord in Jack. He has never seen the musical. He has never seen the film. The story exists to him in the form of the music and whatever my parents have told him about the plot. And for a few weeks after his visit it was Jean Valjean this and “Master of the House” that. Knowing even less than my children about Les Miserable, I was at a complete loss to understand this new obsession.
When the craptastic live version of The Sound of Music aired on NBC not that long ago, Jack cannily deduced that my inability to resist watching meant that if he sat with me, I would be absolutely incapable of leaving my spot on the couch and that he’d be allowed to stay up really late. At first he seemed to be trying to disappear into the couch so that I would forget he was there. But at some point, around the time of Liesel’s “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”, I noticed that he was leaning his entire body toward the television. The glow of the TV screen bathed Jack’s freckled nose in a transcendent light. His blue eyes were wide with wonder.
I couldn’t even hate-watch Vampire Bill and that blonde in a satisfying way because Jack kept defending what he was seeing, and was so wrapped up in the music. The next morning I woke him up early and we watched the Julie Andrews movie huddled on the couch together before Zeke and Aaron even got up. Jack and I sang along with the children as they frolicked through the streets in their curtain outfits and cheered when it was revealed that the nuns tampered with the Nazi’s car! It was a wonderful mother-son morning. Though I didn’t think much about it afterwards.
On Sundays the boys take a class at the Society for Ethical Culture. There they spent some time discussing Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Their teacher explained to them that when King was alive, the laws in our country allowed people to be treated differently based on the color of their skin. She told them that Martin Luther King Jr. wanted all people to be treated equally, judged by the content of their character.
The teacher told me that when she explained this to the class and read them a story about him, she saw Jack thinking very hard. She could tell that he was processing all that he was being told and considering it in a serious way.
After the story Jack raised his hand and said that he thought that the way black people were treated in America sounded a lot like the way the Jews were treated in The Sound of Music and the poor were treated in Les Miserables. People hated them because of their religion or because they didn’t have enough money to take care of themselves, and did not pay attention to the contents of their characters.
The next week, as they continued discussions of King, the children were asked to share dreams that they had for the world. A 4th-grader in the class said that he dreamed that children would be treated as more than just numbers. He said that he felt that the standardized tests in his school reduced the students to their score and took away their individuality. Jack was quick to raise his hand and say that this was a lot like Jean Valjean in Les Miserable, who was referred to by a number when he was in prison, when he wanted to be referred to as a person, as a man with a name.
I have never seen Les Miserables in any form and I have to admit that the music does not really move me. I like the goofy cheeriness of The Sound of Music but I certainly haven’t spent time listening to it since I was barely older than Jack.
I generally feel that musicals are pleasant but simplistic– like slogan t-shirts or bumper stickers. Sure, I can enjoy them, they’re just not that substantial. But when I see the way these two examples of an art form I have dismissed as melodramatic and corny, have been able to engender deep thoughts in my son about injustice and inequality, I have to re-evaluate the Musical and it’s unique capacity for using a rousing melody to present us with simple human truths. So simple, a 5-year old can grasp and internalize them.
Jack once said that he thought
Love was all of the feelings in one.
“Sometimes you feel happy.
Sometimes you feel sad.
Or angry.
But when you feel all of those things at one time,
that is love.”
And when I think of Jack and his possession by the ideas in these musicals, I want to laugh and I want to cry. I have this amazing sense of dramatic movement which comes from watching this small person make sense of the world with such a keenly honed instinct. I marvel at the way that my son can find such deep awareness and meaningful connections in something so simple, that to me is merely vaguely pleasant. I am profoundly moved by his compassion and terrified for him to get the more complicated view of the tragedy and evil rampant in humanity.
I feel all of this at once. And I am sure that what I am feeling is Love.
September 8, 2014 | Categories: parenting | Tags: amanda brokaw, boys, childhood, children, conscience, Education, illustration, Les Miserables, molly schulman, Mother, musicals, Parent, parenthood, parenting, personal essay, Social Justice, The Sound of Music, zeke and destroy | 6 Comments
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