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Wayne Hale's Blog
Ave Atque Vale
I was invited to speak to the assembled folks out in Utah who have just cast the last shuttle solid rocket segment. A few retirees and spouses made the event, but the crowd of over 2,000 was mostly active workers.
Over a year ago in this blog space I told you that the horse has left the barn and the shuttle was shutting down. Now we are seeing evidence every day. However you feel about that, the direction has not changed.
If there is anyone out there who thinks otherwise, . . . well.
For 30 years, the United States and its international partners have relied on the space shuttle: costly, not as safe as we need, sometimes not very reliable, and now that is coming to an end.
Four years ago, we had terminated contracts with 95% of the suppliers for parts for the external tanks. This has continued apace. For example, last week the contract was terminated for the suppliers of the specialized chemicals to make the black coating of the shuttle thermal insulation tiles. Also being shut down is the production of reinforced carbon-carbon wing leading edge panels. The folks up in the Dallas area are getting ready to take apart the one-of-a-kind jigs that are used in that process and clearing out the factory. Any museums want this thing?
The external tank folks reported this week that the last ET has moved out of yet another workstation which is now surplus and ready for removal. Welding has been complete for some time, cleaning, painting, and foam application are still active. The MAF workforce is down to about half of what it was a few years ago.
In the 1990s, almost 25,000 people worked for shuttle: civil servants and prime contractors. (This does not include subcontractors and vendors). By 2002, only about 16,000 folks worked on shuttle. There was a little peak for return to flight, but by 2006, the headcount was down to 16,000 again. Now there are about 12,000. And the number will decrease precipitously over the next year.
This is not to make you feel good or bad or whatever, just a status report.
Working in America’s space program is a privilege. Change is coming every day, and however you feel about the change, a wise person will be ready for it.
Author whalePosted on September 25, 2009 March 19, 2013 Tags change, shuttle, workforce8 Comments on Ave Atque Vale
Double Indemnity
Commercial human space flight is in its infancy. It has been suggested that NASA could do much to encourage or enable the fledgling industry. Supporters cite the historical analogy of US government contracts for air mail delivery in the 1920s as a model for how to kick start the industry. A rosy hued and much abbreviated history of that era suggests that once the government started contract airmail service, modern aviation as we know it inevitably and quickly followed.
It may be worthwhile to remind ourselves of a slightly more detailed version of history.
The US Post Office Department started scheduled airmail service while the Great War was still raging in May 1918. Government aircraft and government pilots delivered air mail in aircraft that were built to detailed government specifications for the next eight years. Twelve government pilots were killed in the first two years of this service. The US Post Office added regularly scheduled transcontinental airmail service in 1920, again with government owned aircraft and government pilots. Following the Kelly Air Mail Act of 1925, the first commercial contract air mail operations started. These were mostly flown by small start-up airlines which were frequently under-capitalized using old government surplus aircraft. By late 1926 all air mail delivery was turned over to these contracts and the government service was discontinued. Fatal accidents were still common among air mail pilots. To an even greater extent than today, the government to industry “revolving door” phenomenon was present in those days. In 1934 the great air mail scandal erupted. There were charges that government officials had colluded with industry officials (some of whom were former government officials) to fraudulently award air mail contracts to favored companies. FDR cancelled all commercial air mail contracts and called on the US Army Air Service to deliver the mail. Inexperienced military pilots and bad weather resulted in twelve pilot deaths in less than a month. WWI aviation hero Eddie Rickenbacker called the Army Air Service program “legalized murder.” Within a few months, Congress passed new air mail legislation and a more closely regulated commercial air mail service was restarted. Among the features of the legislation was the provision that banned all former airline executives from further contracts. All the old air line companies were reorganized. Air mail contracts were much less lucrative and the nascent airline companies had to rely increasingly on passenger fares rather than air mail revenues to make their operations profitable. Air craft accidents continued to be frequent and in 1938 the Civil Aviation Administration was formed. The CAA started an era of tight regulations reigned over the air line industry which continued for nearly forty years.
Is this the model that people have in mind for commercial space transportation?
Of course, a paragraph or two doesn’t do justice to the rich and complex history of aviation in the 1920s and 1930s. Go read the biography of Dutch Kindelberger, for example. Some airlines, like Pan Am, became profitable carrying passengers without the subsidy of air mail. The transportation of equipment and goods for purely commercial reasons apart from government contracts was a significant business. Air races stimulated technical advances. And what happened in the USA was only part of the story as airlines sprang up crossing the globe from Europe to Africa or Australia or South America. It wasn’t just the air mail contracts that spurred aviation in its “golden years”.
Changing focus slightly, it is often noted that the Air Force does not build its own airplane; the Army does not build its own tanks, why should NASA build its own spacecraft?
NASA, of course, does not build human spacecraft. Never has. Commercial companies have built all human spacecraft and their launch vehicles. McDonnell built Mercury and Gemini, North American Aviation and Grumman built the Apollo CSM and LM respectively. Chrysler built the Redstone rocket and the first stage of the Saturn 1B launch vehicle, and so forth. The renamed North American Rockwell built the Space Shuttle orbiter. When I became NASA’s Shuttle Program Manager, I was surprised to find that the detailed design and production drawings for the Space Shuttle orbiter were the intellectual property of Rockwell International Space Division which has since become part of Boeing. The government, while definitely involved with the design, did not do the detailed part of the design and does not own the “intellectual property” for the shuttle. Many boxes and piece parts remain “proprietary” and not under the detailed purview of the government. That seems commercial at some level, doesn’t it?
Thinking more about the military services, a recent speaker at NASA was from the Navy ship bureau in charge of building aircraft carriers. The Navy doesn’t build aircraft carriers, a commercial company does that; but the Navy is intimately involved in the detailed design of every part of a new aircraft carrier. And the Air Force is intimately involved in the design of new jet fighters like the F-22 and the F-35. Sometimes this backfires on a company; ask about the presidential helicopter program. There is a real lesson there.
So what is being proposed for commercial human spacecraft for government use? A contract that merely asks a “provider” to transport our 4-ish person ISS crew from some place on the earth’s surface to the ISS for a fee? No other questions asked? Somehow I think that is not really what is going to happen. Even the airlines and aircraft builders have to pass FAA certification for flight worthiness. So if the government contracts for transportation service there is going to be some government involvement. Oh, and don’t even ask about federal procurement regulations. Remember the 1934 air mail scandal? There are a slew of laws and regulations intended to prevent something like that from happening again.
So the real question is how much or how little the government will be involved in the design/certification/operation of commercially contracted human space vehicles. Neither the current model of intimate and controlling design authority nor a totally hands off approach is realistic.
Like almost all of life, there is going to be a compromise. The devil is in the details. It seems to me that we need to spend a serious amount of thought and discussion on how best to do this. Far more than a couple of paragraphs in an essay or a report.
Indemnification. I have heard a lot about that word lately. Had to look it up. Currently the US government indemnifies the companies that build and operate our current space vehicles. If they crash, the government, not the companies, is held liable. That is not the way the airlines work; if an airliner crashes, the airline company or sometimes the aircraft manufacturer are held responsibility and are subject to civil legal action. Some of the putative commercial human space flight providers want the government to indemnify them, take the responsibility if they crash. The original airmail contracts didn’t do that in 1925.
Seems like we have a lot to think about as we move commercial human space flight.
We might even learn from history.
William C. “Will Bill” Hopson was an early government airmail pilot earning 5 cents a mile. He helped pioneer the transcontinental route in 1920 flying the Omaha to Chicago leg in an open cockpit De Haviland DH-4 modified WWI bomber. He is shown here in his government gear, ready to fly in any weather. After the airmail was commercialized, Hopson went to work flying CAM-17 from New York to Chicago. He died in 1928, in a crash, flying his daily run for a commercial air mail company.
Author whalePosted on September 22, 2009 March 19, 2013 Tags air mail, commercial space flight, history6 Comments on Double Indemnity
I have been pondering the Augustine report (at least the executive summary) which has been released. There are a couple of sentences up front that have been on my mind:
“Human safety can never be absolutely assured, but throughout this report, it is treated as a sine qua non. It is not discussed in extensive detail because any concepts falling short in human safety have simply been eliminated from consideration.” As panel members commented (more than once) during the public sessions, ‘we assume NASA will build safe systems’.
I’m not a Latin scholar so I had to look it up. Sine qua non means the something or someone indispensible. So safety is indispensible. I’d agree with that. As a matter of fact, I have spent my entire career based on making spaceflight as safe as possible while still actually flying.
Actually, the assumption that NASA will build safe systems is poorly demonstrated by our history. Our failures are painful to enumerate. Early after the Columbia accident, we engaged Dr. Charles Perrow of Yale University to talk to us about his book (and theory) titled “Normal Accidents”. In summary, Dr. Perrow believes that accidents are unavoidable in complex systems. Very depressing to read. Nothing you can do will ultimately prevent a fatal flaw from surfacing and causing catastrophe. Life is hard and then you die. Not very motivational, but perhaps true. So all of us who listened to Dr. Perrow determined to prove him wrong.
In any event, safety in space flight is a relative term. A launch vehicle with a 98% success record is considered very safe, but you would never put your children on a school bus that only had a 98% chance of getting them safely to school. It is a high risk, low safety margin endeavor. Probabilistic Risk Analysis has made great strides in recent years but the only statistic I put any faith in is the demonstrated one. The shuttle has failed 2 times in 125 flights. That is not good enough.
Six years after the loss of Columbia, I’m not sure that we can make a spacecraft safe, but I have empirical evidence that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can make it expensive. The cynical part of me says that is what we do at NASA: demand extraordinary proof that things are safe. ‘Proof’ means a series of tests -a large enough number of tests to be ‘statistically significant’- and/or very complex analysis which examines every facet of each part of a system in detail to demonstrate that in the worst possible set of circumstances the system will perform as required. Trouble is, there is no end to imaginative tests, and there is always something else to throw into the analysis. And it all must be extensively peer reviewed, debated at length, documented to the nth degree, briefed to multiple layers of management, and signed off by virtually everybody in
the organization.
This is a very expensive process.
History indicates that attention to safety doesn’t seem to last. Sooner or later the people charged with making a system safe retire or die off, the bean counters get their knives out and the organization gets trimmed in the name of efficiency and cost savings, and somewhere along the way an invisible line is crossed. And Dr. Perrow is proved right again.
Not to be too depressed, but these report’s two sentences on safety are counterbalanced by many more sentences describing how space systems must be made cheaper and should accomplish its goals sooner. ‘Faster, better, cheaper’ was the rallying cry of management over a decade ago. The wags soon added ‘pick any two’. My experience has been that a project manager is lucky to get two, and many projects end with having failed on all three counts.
I found another Latin phrase which may apply here, from Horace: Splendide mendax. It means ‘splendidly untrue’. Safety at low cost, that is.
So as we look to the future, it is going to take a great deal of careful management to ensure that commercially provided crew transportation systems are adequately safe and yet not drive the cost (and schedule) through the roof. This balance is not easy to accomplish. Careful and thoughtful management attention will be required. No doubt you will hear some debate about this topic in days to come.
Which brings me back to sine qua non. About a year after the loss of Columbia, NASA had a conference on risk and exploration. A number of folks who do dangerous exploratory work talked with the NASA leadership about these issues. Probably the most memorable thought of the whole conference came from James Cameron. After almost two days of people repeating the phrase “safety first, safety is the most important thing”, Mr. Cameron made this observation: “While safety is very important and must be considered at all times, in exploration safety is not actually the most important thing. In exploration, the most important thing is to go.”
If I were writing the report, it would echo those words. Actual exploration is not safe. Actual exploration does not take place on powerpoint slides. Actual exploration takes courage. Actual exploration take action. Actual exploration requires going.
Actually going is sine non qua.
Author whalePosted on September 14, 2009 Tags cost, Exploration, risk, safety, Spaceflight24 Comments on Sine Qua Non
Secrets,Leaks,and Outright Lies
One very early shuttle flight was quite memorable for me. It was among the first shuttle flights that had requirements from ‘other national agencies.’ It was the first time that a shuttle attitude control thruster had a propellant leak during flight. It was marked my first appearance at a NASA press conference. Those things are strangely related.
As a twenty-something shiny new flight controller, I was very proud and nervous to be in the “front room” of the MCC for launch. The Propulsion Systems Officer is responsible for the Orbital Maneuvering System, the Reaction Control System with all their rocket engines, plumbing, tanks, valves, heaters, software, and associated wiring. These 46 rocket engines in the two systems use interconnected propellant supplies of hypergolic fuel and oxidizer. These chemicals are nasty stuff: corrosive, toxic, unstable.
Thruster leaks had been common in earlier programs such as Apollo and Gemini. The large RCS thrusters of the shuttle have valve seats which are made of a Teflon type material and are susceptible to small bits of solid contamination causing leaks. That is probably the same reason my kitchen sink faucet leaks occasionally. Before this particular flight, all of us Prop people were rather happy that no leaks had occurred in flight because we knew leaks were common in ground testing.
Thruster leaks are detected by a temperature drop. When exposed to vacuum the liquid propellant quickly evaporates which chills the thruster. Just after MECO the attitude thrusters come on line and one of them quickly range the leak alarm. That thruster was automatically removed from further use and we told the crew that no action was required. After a very short time, just a couple of minutes, the temperatures climbed back up to normal. The leak had stopped. We may have lost a few ounces of fluid, an immeasurably small amount.
We hoped that was all the excitement which was in store for us for the flight. It wasn’t.
A few hours after launch the shuttle would fire the OMS engines to raise the orbit altitude in the standard practice for those early flights. The Flight Director had told the Props and the FDOs well before the flight that we would not actually go to the altitude which was in the flight plan. Someone would provide us with an actual altitude target after we launched. Somebody we did not need to know about. No reason was offered. We nodded and kept quiet.
So it was no surprise an hour or so after we were in orbit – and well after the tiny thruster leak stopped – that the Flight Director informed us what the final altitude would be a couple of miles lower than planned. The burns were executed and our shift was over.
Then the Flight Director stopped at my console and told me to come to the post-shift press briefing with him.
I was scared silly. Never been to a press conference before, no training, and no instructions. Flight didn’t tell me what to say or why he wanted me to come, but I followed him over to the public affairs building.
I found myself up on the podium blinking under the lights. Flight told the assembled press all about the usual launch stuff and then said: “Due to the propellant leak, we could not raise our orbit to the planned altitude. Mr. Hale is here to tell you about that.”
Zap.
I must have looked like the proverbial deer caught in the headlights. It was, of course, a bald faced lie. Stunned, I did not know what to say, so I was as surprised as anybody when the words came out of my mouth: “yes that’s right, we had to go lower because of the propellant loss.”
No questions, no further comments, and at the end of the press conference you can imagine how I felt: used.
To my knowledge that is the one and only time I ever lied in a press conference. It has rankled me for twenty years.
Don’t use people.
Don’t tell lies, even for good reasons.
Even better, stay away from press conferences!
Author whalePosted on September 12, 2009 Tags leaks, press conferences, thrusters13 Comments on Secrets,Leaks,and Outright Lies
Flight Director Fables
Aesop’s fables have been famous for two millennia. They are obviously fictional stories – animals talking and such – but they are still useful for teaching important concepts to children – and adults.
When I joined the Flight Director office there were a number of fables that we were taught. Supposedly true, I cannot say that they really are. But the moral of these stories was the point. I’ll share just two with you today.
First Fable: how to end your career quickly.
Gemini 8 was as close a call as American had in space up to that time. Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott had just completed America’s first space docking between their Gemini spacecraft and an Agena target vehicle. Suddenly, the stack started spinning up for no apparent reason. Emergency undock was performed by the crew who hoped that the problem was with the Agena. It was not, the spin rate increased more dramatically after separation. Armstrong shut off the Gemini spacecraft’s primary attitude control system and activated the secondary system which was designed for limited use during re-entry. Attitude control was regained, the crisis averted, everybody started breathing again.
The Flight Rules called for an immediate deorbit once the re-entry attitude control system was activated; it had limited fuel and limited life. So Flight Director John Hodge (Blue Flight) had the team execute a rapid deorbit to the secondary landing site in the Pacific Ocean near the destroyer USS Mason. You might think that was the right thing to do.
Unfortunately . . . .
NASA management found out about the situation after the crew was in the ocean. According to the legend, Hodge did not take the time to pick up the phone and call the Program Manager, the Center Director, or even his boss, the Chief of the Flight Director office. The situation was stable, and even though waiting around was not necessarily a good thing, there was no reason that a couple of hours delay would have significantly increased the crew risk. Upper management was severely out of sorts with Blue Flight because they were not called in to review a critical action that really could have waited, despite what the Flight Rules called for.
Bottom line: John Hodge never served as Flight Director in Mission Control again.
Now, that is the way the story was told to us wide-eyed Flight Director wannabees. Is it true? Is it accurate? Is it complete? I have no way of knowing. Probably not.
But that is not the point of the fable. The moral of the story for all rookie Flight Directors is ALWAYS INVOLVE YOUR MANAGEMENT. Any time that a critical action can reasonably be delayed for even a few minutes GET ON THE PHONE WITH THE BOSS. No matter what the Flight Rules say. After all, it’s just your career on the line . . .
Second Fable: Lies will catch up with you.
A long time ago, it seems hard to imagine now, there were no privacy laws and the press was ALWAYS interested in crew health. Since about 60% of all astronauts have ‘space adaptation syndrome’ for the first three days of weightlessness. The press could always get a good barf story. Sometimes it seems like journalists never left the 5th grade. Today a Flight Director can respond to questions about crew upchuckitis by saying “Detailed discussions about crew health are covered by the medical privacy act. I can tell you that there has been no mission impact from any crew health issues.” There is rarely any mission impact these days because we have learned to build a light schedule the first few days to allow the crew to get past the need for the emesis bags.
In the early days of shuttle, such niceties did not exist. Every eight hours the offgoing Flight Director had a post-shift press conference and had to withstand the barrage of questions from the media, who were just hoping to get some human interest story out of the tight lipped and technical NASA officials. John Cox, Granite Flight, kept drawing the “space sickness” questions. He made the huge mistake of putting out a fib: ‘Crew is doing fine, no problems to speak of” in one of the early press conferences. A day later, the crew was definitely NOT doing fine, activities had been cancelled. But Granite Flight kept up the pretense. The press corps was suspicious. By the third day Granite Flight’s denials fell apart and the media went into witch-hunt frenzy. The video tape of that heated press conference is kept in the Flight Director training catalog and it is ugly with a capital U. The head of Flight Medicine, Dr. Sam Poole, had to come in and save Dr. Cox. Sam put a soft spin on things and more or less diffused the issue, but the damage was done. Granite Flight’s credibility with the media was in the dumpster.
Now, is that the entire, completely accurate story? Probably not. But we all had to watch that press conference videotape knowing that we would be in that hot seat in the very near future. The moral of the story: DON’T LIE TO THE PRESS. They will find out sooner or later and it will be very bad.
Whenever people ask me how to deal with the media, I reply: “The first rule is tell the truth, never lie. You will be found out and your credibility will be gone from then on.” I’ve had lots of practice with press events after learning that less from poor old Granite Flight, and I can confirm it’s true.
John Cox was a great Flight Director and served for many mission. I have a great deal of respect for him, not the least of which is that he dug his way out of that hole.
Remember, everybody is useful, sometimes just as an example of what not to do.
Author whalePosted on September 10, 2009 Tags Flight Rules, management, press conferences, space flight5 Comments on Flight Director Fables
Averted Vision
When my daughter was in middle school, she became interested in astronomy. We joined the local amateur club and built our own telescope. It is amazing what sights can be seen with even a modest home built telescope in a light polluted suburb!
One trick that experienced club members taught us was when looking for very dim celestial objects use averted vision. The center part of your vision is very good for well lit color but not very good in dim light. Away from the center of vision, the retina is better at picking up dim objects. It seems like magic but if you avert your gaze slightly from a dim object, it will pop into view much more clearly.
Averted vision may be a metaphor for other subjects as well.
My boss has asked me to study NASA’s research and development grants. Particularly, how their results differ from grants given by other federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other non-defense discretionary agencies.
This is a tough assignment for an old Flight Director.
NASA has about a half a billion dollars actively at work in R&D grants at universities, research institutes, and various other places. NSF runs about $2.5 billion in research grants every year. NIH also pumps more money into R&D than does NASA. What is different about the results that NASA gets from its investment in R&D?
For one thing, there are specific questions that space exploration needs answered: new types of space propulsion or power systems, closed loop environmental life support systems, and other mission critical applications. To enable missions to the planets, NASA supports a lot of biomedical research on the effects of weightlessness and radiation on people and other biological systems. These are the topics that the bulk of NASA’s R&D money goes toward.
Who would have thought that trying to get the most information out of planetary images from spacecraft would lead to image enhancing technology that greatly improves imagery from CAT scans or X-rays on people? Or that NASA would be frequently asked by law enforcement agencies to enhance images from surveillance cameras to identify crime suspects? None of these applications were on our minds when we tried to get better images of the craters on Enceladus or the methane lakes on Titan.
Discovery is like that. Frequently when you are looking for one thing you discover more, sometimes much more. The history of technology is full of hoary stories about researchers finding something other than what they were looking for: Alexander Fleming finding penicillin in a dirty culture dish, Charles Goodyear leaving his rubber experiment on the stove resulting in the vulcanization process, etc., etc.
NASA is trying to turn dirty water into clean water so long duration space missions can be possible. Seems like there might be a use for that on Earth, too. You might see one of the practical results here: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2008/er_4.html
That is only one of a thousand. NASA R&D does pay off, and not just for applications in space.
Sometimes when you see something out of the corner of your eye, it is like magic.
Author whalePosted on September 9, 2009 Tags discovery, grants, research1 Comment on Averted Vision
Big day tomorrow!
Tomorrow, September 10, 2009, is shaping up to be a busy day for space. Three significant events are scheduled within a few hours of each other
First, at 1:01 PM EDT, is the launch of the Japanese HTV from Tanegashima Launch Site in Japan. This is Japan’s first attempt to robotically resupply the International Space Station. (OK, for the record, it will be 2:01 AM Sept. 11 in Tanegashima)
Second, at 3:00 PM EDT, the slightly delayed test of the new five segment booster DM-1 will take place at the Promontory, Utah test site.
Third, at 7:05 PM EDT, the Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to land at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
This wasn’t actually planned to work out this way, all these events just coalesced into the same short time period. And, for the record, none of these events are time critical. A weather delay or short technical delay resulting in moving any or all of these events a day or a few days later is no big deal. Better safe than sorry in this business.
But if it all comes together, it will be a busy day.
Author whalePosted on September 9, 2009 Tags Landing, supply, test1 Comment on Big day tomorrow!
Risk Averse
During my travels I always carry a paperback to read. A book that I finished recently was a history (my usual subject) concerning some German emigrants to America in the 1840’s. Their story was entirely typical: conditions in their village had deteriorated and they were lured by glowing stories of the opportunities in the United States. So they sold their houses and all their goods and made their way to the port at Antwerp. Unscrupulous characters soon fleeced them. Broke and alone in a country where they had no resources and did not speak the language, the putative emigrants were forced to beg for food and shelter. Some died. A shipowner agreed to provide them passage to the new world in exchange for indentured service upon arrival. The ocean voyage was miserable, the crew was inept, they ran out of food, water, encountered storms, and about a third of the party died during the voyage. Shortly after arrival in port, a smallpox epidemic took another third of the company. The survivors were marched off to indentured servitude; the remnants of families torn asunder. Only the strongest, or the luckiest, survived.
As I said, a story that was very typical. Few people made it easily to the “land of opportunity.”
My great-grandfather was of German emigrant descent; that book could have been the story of his parents. I never knew him since he died before I was born, but I knew my great-grandmother, and I’ve written about her before:
As a very young boy my parents would take me to visit her in central Oklahoma. As a young girl, she had walked alongside the family wagon as they moved west to new territory in search of land and a better life. Yet she lived will into her 90s and saw the beginnings of the space age.
And I had to wonder, as I thought of her and of the difficulties, dangers, and hardships of the pioneers who made this country strong, affluent, and powerful, do we still have what our pioneer ancestors had? My grandmother was old, small, and frail when I knew her. What shone through during those visits was a strength of character, a clarity of purpose, and a directness in communication that made you forget the frailty of old age. Her stark assessment of those pioneer days is still fresh in my memory: “The cowards never started, and the weak ones died along the way.” She faced that hardship and danger and had a better life than if her family had not taken the risk to move west.
What is it, I wonder, that has made America a great nation? Abundant natural resources are part of it. The availability of cheap labor was a factor. But other peoples have had cheap labor and abundant resources and have not succeeded in building a strong nation. I believe that it is due the American character; an innate optimism and the bold willingness to take on risks if they hold the promise of a better tomorrow. We have become the envy and wonder of the world not because of our wealth and power, but because of our character.
My great-great-grandparents certainly had some appreciation of the risks they incurred by moving west, but they could not have fully understood it. They knew Risk in the Big Sense: danger, hardship, and death threatened their way: accidents, disease, wild animals (wolves, bears, and snakes), hostile natives, terrible weather, and the difficulty of travel through the wilderness, all of these they must have recognized. But the details would have been only vaguely understood. The details of hardship were of secondary importance, they knew the Big Risk well enough. They took what preparations they could, and they set out.
My great-grandfather made mistakes; he literally lost the ranch in the great depression. But overall, they avoided the Big Mistake: not taking a worthwhile risk. Martin Luther once said “Sin boldly.” That is not permission to do what you know is wrong, but it is an admonition not to be paralyzed to inaction by the prospect that you might be doing something wrong.
Today we live in the luxury of their legacy. Our greatest hardship may be mowing the grass; our greatest risk may be driving on the freeway. These challenges just don’t compare with what our great-grandparents faced every day. Have we lost the capability to weigh risk and reward, hardship and hope, difficulty and opportunity as they did?
So the fundamental question remains, do we have those qualities that made our ancestors successful? Do we have the judgment to weigh it all in the balance? Do we have the character to dare great deeds?
History is watching.
Recently, I was in a public meeting where NASA was castigated as being “risk averse”. Is that a fair assessment, I wondered?
Then I remembered the words of one of my heroes, Capt. John Young: “We put seven people on top of 6 million pounds of high explosives and launch them into orbit at speeds six times faster than a rifle bullet. What part of that sounds safe to you?”
Well said. I couldn’t add to that statement.
It is easy to accuse someone of being risk averse when you personally don’t have to make tough decisions with real consequences. At NASA we make hard decisions every day and the whole world gets to watch and see if we got it right.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I think my great-grandparents would have approved.
Author whalePosted on September 2, 2009 Tags Exploration, frontier, risk10 Comments on Risk Averse
Figure of Merit
Figure of Merit is a term that may be unfamiliar. Engineers use this term to describe a number – based on a formula – which is useful in comparing different items. An everyday “figure of merit” is MPG (miles per gallon) for automobile fuel efficiency. If you have bought a household appliance recently you may have noted an energy efficiency “figure of merit” on the label. That allows you to decide to pay more for a more efficient appliance, or conversely to decide that the increased efficiency is not worth the cost and go for cheaper model. A figure of merit is always a simplification and your real world results may vary. For example, on my two year old vehicle, I have yet to achieve the MPG average that the sticker said it would get. Maybe I just have a heavy foot, or something. But that rating allowed me to compare vehicles in a significant way before I made the decision to buy. A figure of merit may not in itself be the deciding factor. But having a figure of merit is good when making a comparison between options.
There are many folks who wish that the world is different than it is. Science fiction movies in my childhood concentrated how the rocket worked in getting people to space rather than what they did when they got there. Nowadays, Han Solo jumps in the Millennium Falcon and instantaneously is in space making the calculations for hyperdrive. Kirk and Spock, if not using the transporter, ride a shuttlecraft effortlessly to the space dock where the new starship is ready for flight. Because Hollywood can do it with blue screens or computer animation, the popular imagination believes such things can be done in real life. Or should be able to do it. Or maybe just wish that we could do them.
So we see some folks that talk a good talk about getting into earth orbit. Unfortunately the state of the art of technology doesn’t quite match the state of the art of portrayed in some powerpoints.
So I propose a figure of merit exercise to illustrate the difficulty of getting to earth orbit. My figure of merit based on the energy state. (Hold on, this takes just a little bit of physics and mathematics – nothing that a high school graduate shouldn’t be expected to know).
So a High school physics refresher: total energy is the sum of kinetic and potential energy.
E=PE+KE.
Potential energy depends on how high up you are: height (or altitude) times gravity times mass:
PE=h x g x m.
For example, a commercial airliner cruises at roughly 35,000 ft. Let’s call it 6 nautical miles high, just to use an antique measurement system (I’m an old guy). A spacecraft in low earth orbit probably needs to be at about 120 miles altitude to have significant orbital lifetime before atmospheric drag causes decay. In simple math:
PE orbit/PE airplane = 120 miles x g x mass/6 miles x g x mass
So to stay in low earth orbit you need to be about 20 times higher than a commercial airliner. That means, you need 20 times the potential energy to get from an airliner altitude to an orbital spacecraft altitude. Wow. No wonder space travel is hard.
But wait, that’s not all. What about the other part of the equation, kinetic energy. Kinetic energy increases as the square of velocity:
KE = ½ x m x v x v.
A typical commercial airliner cruises at about 500 mph. To be in earth orbit requires a speed of 17,500 mph.
KE orbit/KE airplane = ½ x m x 17,500 mph x 17,500 mph / ½ x m x 500 x 500 = 1250 !
So it takes more than a thousand times as much kinetic energy to be in earth orbit as it does to be at airliner cruise speed!
It might be interesting to compare some other vehicles with orbital energy. For example, the SR-71 is the fastest military aircraft ever. It could go Mach 3 at an altitude of 80,000 ft. That is quite a bit more energy than a piddling commercial airliner. And the X-15 got to Mach 6.7 and an altitude of over 350,000 feet – well, not simultaneously, but let’s do that calculation just to make it easy. Here is a short table of some interesting vehicles:
Commercial airliner energy state at cruise: 159 kjoule/kg
SR-71 at max speed & max altitude: 748 kjoule/kg
Space Ship 1 at max speed & max altitude: 1,658 kjoule/kg
X-15 record altitude & record speed: 3,237 kjoule/kg
Mercury-Redstone at max speed & max altitude: 5,605 kjoule/kg
International Space Station (low earth orbit): 194,775 kjoule/kg
If you ever wonder why flying in space is not as simple or as easy as going to your local airport and getting on a scheduled commercial airliner, think physics. Going to orbit is not twice as hard or ten times as hard as an airliner; it is over a thousand times as hard.
Wishful thinking won’t make it easier.
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Call of Duty Online Live Action Behind The Scenes
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‘Captain America’ Surprises Young Fan Battling Cancer In Boston
BOSTON (CBS) – Kenny Botting is only nine years old, but this young Connecticut man is bravely battling a brain tumor.
He underwent brain surgery back in September and for the past three weeks he’s been staying at Christopher’s Haven, a place that provides a home away from home for kids battling cancer.
“Christopher’s Haven has given me a new apartment and a new home to stay and be here,” Botting said.
Kenny’s been staying at Christopher’s Haven with his sister and mother as he undergoes treatment next door at Mass General Hospital. “This is home, a community and you bring the whole family here,” Christopher’s Haven Founder Dan Olsen said.
On Monday Kenny received the surprise of a lifetime when his favorite action movie star, Captain America’s Chris Evans, visited him.
Kenny took pictures, received an autograph and gifts from Evans. To top it off Kenny took Evans on a tour of Christopher’s Haven.
Evans, who is from Sudbury, Mass., is in town for a special event at Fenway Park this weekend to help raise money for Christopher’s Haven. “It’s their strength that gives me strength. No matter what hurdles are in my life it’s nothing compared to what these families go through, so any way I can bring a smile it’s worth it,” Chris Evans said.
Kenny could not stop smiling. “I am more than happy. I just want to say thank thanks for coming,” Botting said.
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SMCGP2: Self Modifying . . .
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Probabilistic Roadmaps for Path Planning in High-Dimensional Configuration Spaces
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Vermont Human Services - 4:46
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Re: Trump detests apologetic men
Trump detests apologetic men
ManicProgressive
@ChasKy53 wrote:
trump detests 'real' men because he isn't one.
Perfectly said.
ChasKy53
"The only thing man learns from history is man learns nothing from history"
Every mature adult knows it’s thenexact opposite. It take courage and strength to admit you are wrong. The ability to deal with those often-humiliating feelings. It’s the weak who are sunk at the thought of surviving an apology.
Cadet Bonespurs, like all pampered twits, gets his behavior from those he admires and Roy Cohen - Consigliere of Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, is the hero lil' donny chose to ape as his idea of an adult.
Every time Roy lost a case for donny, he told donny to tell the world they won, and like the addlepated puppy he is, that's what donny did and still does. He considers it a sign of strength because he has no idea what that really means, just like everything else including the seizure of airports by George Washington during the Revolution and the size of the crowds he draws.
People who admires a gutless draftdodger who is trying to become Roy Cohen cannot be left deciding our elections. Fortunately there's more of us then of them, so, fellow Progressives, VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES, even if you don't love them, because the other side will do that for their twits and there IS a difference.
Throughout his life Donald Trump refused to admit that he was wrong or made a mistake. When the Trump real estate business was sued by the government in 1973 and charged with violating the Fair Housing laws by refusing to rent to blacks; he settled the case and paid a fine. What Trump did was to plea no contest, accept the judgement of the court and walk away. He called it a victory and redemption, but in reality a no contest plea is a guilty plea without admitting guilt.
Donald Trump lies constantly. Whenever he is called out for his lies, he attacks and deflects. In 1989, Donald Trump took out a full page ad in the New York Times urging the death penalty for the "Central Park Five" accused of attacking and sexually assaulting a young woman who was jogging. The "Central Park Five" were all black and the jogger was a white woman. Of course she didn't die, so there couldn't be any murder charges which carry the death penalty. In essence, Trump was trying to start a lynch mob, just like racist whites did in the Jim Crow south whenever a black man was accused of attacking a white woman.
But the Central Park Five were innocent. Several years later another man was charged with the crime and DNA evidence, which wasn't available at the time of the crime, linked him to the victim. He was convicted and the Central Park Five were released from prison and exonerated. But Donald Trump never admitted that he was wrong and mistaken for advocating the execution of five innocent black men.
So why should anyone expect Donald Trump to act any differently now that he is President of the United States? Donald Trump is a flat out racist. He is a serial liar as well as a complete coward. Rather than refusing to admit a mistake or apologize being a sign of weakness, it is a sign of strength and maturity. It shows that a one is an adult who can realize and admit mistakes and grow as a result.
Refusing to admit mistakes and apologize are common for children. Responsible parents force their children to admit mistakes and apologize. I am sure that most grown men have had an experience in their childhood where their father made them apologize to someone else for something that they did. Whether it was hitting a baseball through a neighbor's window, or hitting their little sister; we all learn from our fathers to own up to our misdeeds and mistakes.
That is part of growing up and becoming a responsible adult. Donald Trump just has never grown up. What we have is a spoiled child as President.
rker321
Of course, he is such a narcissist that he thinks that an employ is a sign or weakness.
Here is a great column from New York Times columnist Charles Blow. Here he states the obvious; in Donald Trump's world, admitting that you were wrong and apologizing for mistakes is a sign of weakness. Donald Trump was raised by his father that there are winners and losers and the winners are "killers". Trump was taught by his father never to admit failure or a mistake.
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta negotiated what many consider a sweetheart deal with Jeffrey Epstein over sex-crime charges years ago when Acosta was the United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
Acosta held a news conference on Wednesday to, presumably, calm calls for his removal now that Epstein has been arrested and charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors in New York.
The Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking is part of the Department of Labor.
The charges are absolutely disgusting. Epstein is alleged to have preyed on underage girls, some of whom he used as recruiters of other victims.
Donald Trump urged Acosta to publicly explain actions, or inactions, in the Epstein case, according to reports.
It remains to be seen whether Acosta’s news conference performance will save his job. As The New York Times reported, “Mr. Acosta’s appearance before cameras was seen as a crucial test of whether he will keep his job, with an audience of one as President Trump watched and weighed a decision.”
But that’s the thing that stops you: For Trump, this isn’t about the charges or the children. For him, this is about how men perform denial. In the mind of the misogynist, a man’s word is the weightiest thing in society, even when he’s lying. One’s test of survival and prosperity isn’t what you say, but how you say it. It isn’t what you do, but how you defend or deny it.
Acosta did exactly what his audience of one would like: waffled, deflected and, notably, refused to apologize to the victims in the case and refused to say that he regretted his actions.
According to Bob Woodward last year, Trump talked about a “friend who had acknowledged some bad behavior toward women.” When counseling that friend on how to respond, Trump said, “You’ve got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women.” Trump continued: “If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you’re dead. That was a big mistake you made.”
In Trump’s world, apologies and punishments are for the weak. They are for losers.
Victims have no voice. There is a plane above us average people, a plane on which the lives of the rich and powerful play out, a plane on which the rules are different.
I don’t believe Trump cares at all about the girls Epstein is accused of having abused. I don’t believe he cares at all that the Acosta deal in the case looks shady and may have spared the rich man at the expense of the poor girls.
I believe Trump only cares about his own image and how those around him reflect on him. He wants to project strength at all times. To him, there’s nothing weaker than an apologetic man.
Read the entire column at this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/opinion/trump-acosta-epstein-apologize.html?fbclid=IwAR1Vpk1-cI08...
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Patented Multi-Purpose Nanoparticle Gel Available for Licensing from Kansas State University
Posted on May 25, 2010 by idan
A team of Kansas State University researchers has patented a new, more cost effective way to make a gel that can be used in oil & gas processing insulation, general building and vacuum insulation, electrochemical double layer supercapacitors, fuel cell catalysts, general catalysts, water filtration systems, cosmetics, acoustic damping, and perhaps as a net to capture fine cometary dust.
K-State physics professor Christopher Sorensen was the lead researcher for carbon soot aerosol gels. The product, which is officially known as an aerosol gel, is a low density, high surface area gel formed in a gas. The aerogels received U.S. Patent 7,691,909 and are available for licensing from the Kansas State.
“If you take a gaseous mixture of acetylene and oxygen and blow it up in a chamber, you get a cloud of smoke,” Sorensen said. “But if you leave it alone for a couple of minutes the nanoparticles of carbon smoke link together to form a lacey network that spans the chamber. It looks like the darkest, blackest angel food cake you’ve ever seen.”
When studying soot formation in flames about 12 years ago, Sorensen said he and a graduate student initially discovered that clouds of particles in a gas — also known as aerosols — can form a gel.
“When I first saw our pictures of gelled soot in a flame, I knew I had a big fish,” Sorensen said of the discovery’s magnitude. To that point, such gels had only been formed in liquids, much like the process used to make gelatin, he said.
Aerosol gels can be used as thermal or sound insulation, much like plastic foam. The material also has potential applications in electrochemical double layer supercapacitors, as fuel cell or general catalyst supports, or in water filtration systems. Sorensen has already been contacted by interested companies and is pursuing grants to further develop the material outside the laboratory setting.
“It is important to point out that this high-tech material, that could have a wide variety of applications, is the fruit of pure, curiosity-driven science,” he said.
The new material is similar to an existing product called aerogels, which is made in the liquid phase, Sorensen said. The last step in the process to make aerogels is an intense, high-pressure drying step that removes moisture. That latter step — which also can be quite costly — isn’t needed with Sorensen’s aerosol gel product, which he hopes will be an advantage when it comes to the commercialization of the material.
“I take great pride in the fact that there is only one place in the world that gels aerosols and that’s right here in good, ol’ Manhattan, Kan.,” Sorensen said.
K-State physics professor Amit Chakrabarti was instrumental in helping the research team understand the experimental conditions, and former K-State graduate students Rajan Dhaubhadel and Corey Gerving performed much of the requisite lab work. They are all listed on the patent, which was granted April 6 by the U.S. Patent Office.
FIGS. 1-3 from U.S. Patent 7,691,909 are TEM photographs of the acetylene-, ethylene-, and propane-derived gel products, respectively. These photographs illustrate that the carbon monomers are graphitic in nature. Acetylene and ethylene products both have monomers with typical sizes of about 60 nanometers.
The Kansas State discovery provides a novel method for producing porous materials with high specific surface area and extremely low density has been discovered. Representing a vastly different approach to synthesis of ultralow density materials compared to the widely used sol-gel method, the newly discovered process involves the gelation of nanoparticles in the aerosol phase to create a material that has been given the name “aerosol gel”.
The unique, gas-phase nanoparticle synthesis method used in this process allows the input precursors to aggregate and gel very quickly, thus producing this new material on a very short timeframe. So far, aerosol gels of silica and carbon have been produced that have very similar properties to that of silica and carbon aerogels. These materials have densities as low as 2.5 mg/cc, surface areas as large as 400 m2/g, very low thermal conductivity, and variable electrical conductivity.
Since the formation of the aerosol gels is made in the gas-phase, there is no need for the expensive, difficult, and time-consuming supercritical drying process inherent in the sol-gel production of commercial aerogel materials. The aerosol gel production method is also predicted to be capable of synthesis of a wider array of low-density, high porosity materials, unlike the sol-gel counterpart which is limited by solution thermodynamics.
Kansas State University Research Foundation seeks to have discussions with companies that are interested in licensing and/or research collaborations.
Interested parties should contact: National Institute for Strategic Technology Acquisition and Commercialization (NISTAC)
2005 Research Park Circle Manhattan, KS 66502
More information about carbon soot aerosol gels is available at
http://www.k-state.edu/tech.transfer/technologies/04-12.html.
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Joe And Mika Hold Hands On ‘Colbert’ (Oh, And Joe’s Leaving ‘Morning Joe’?)
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Betsy Rothstein Reporter
July 12, 2017 1:20 AM ET
“Morning Joe” couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski took their relationship to the next level Tuesday night by appearing on CBS’s “Late Night With Stephen Colbert.”
It was an easy breezy interview.
Asked why Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out the “full email chain” of his meeting with a Russian lawyer that blasted Monday’s news cycle out of the water, Mika replied, “I have no freakin’ idea. What the what?”
Colbert didn’t raise the issue of the infamous National Enquirer article, which claimed they both cheated on their former spouses. He blew past the news of their recent engagement entirely. Instead, he dramatically asked where they were when they learned that President Trump had tweeted that when Joe and Mika visited Mar-a-Lago over New Years, she was bleeding badly from a facelift.
Questions typically asked in this vein include: Where were you on September 11, 2001 or where were you when JFK was assassinated?
(It’s a moment that can never be scrubbed from their souls. Mika was on set. Joe was in the office. Joe and Mika’s TV son Willie Geist seemed uncomfortable to show her what he was reading on his phone.)
Soon Joe announced that he was leaving the GOP and becoming an independent. Which is of course a big deal for “Morning Joe,” for MSNBC and for him. But whatever.
Because then Colbert delved into another sensitive area: What’s next for Joe?
“Are you running for public office?” Colbert asked, after listening to Joe go on and on about how he still believes in Republican ideals but that he can no longer be a part of this Republican Party.
“NO, I am not,” Joe answered forcefully without skipping a beat. “I’m hangin’ with Mika.”
Colbert press him, asking, “Are you sure?”
“I’m hanging out with Mika,” Joe repeated.
Mika interjected, “Why does it sound like that because I have to tell you, why are we not hearing from more Republicans?”
Colbert seemed a little confused with Mika’s bizarre question that had nothing to do with her fiancé leaving her side to run for office. “I don’t know why,” he said, bewildered.
Colbert wouldn’t be deterred. He looked at Mika and gave her a reality check: “I know that Joe is interested in changing careers,” he said.
Mika replied, “That’s true.”
This was all building up to Joe’s newfound career as a musician.
Colbert sort of treated Joe’s musical aspirations like a goof. “Why do you want to be a rock n’ roll star?” he asked, as if it’s an obviously crackpot idea.
Wait! Has music been what Joe has really wanted to do all his life?
Joe told him he has written songs since he was 14.
“Anybody that knows me that that actually is what I’ve always wanted to do,” he said. “That’s been my life. I’ve always had guitars in every room.”
The segment went to commercial as Joe and Mika clasped hands.
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Sussex County, NJ
0.777% decline
2.12% growth
0.29% decline
Housing & Living
In 2017, Sussex County, NJ had a population of 144k people with a median age of 44.1 and a median household income of $89,238. Between 2016 and 2017 the population of Sussex County, NJ declined from 144,694 to 143,570, a -0.777% decrease and its median household income grew from $87,388 to $89,238, a 2.12% increase.
The population of Sussex County, NJ is 87.2% White Alone, 7.51% Hispanic or Latino, and 1.97% Black or African American Alone. 9.94% of the people in Sussex County, NJ speak a non-English language, and 97.6% are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Sussex County, NJ are Sussex County Community College (474 degrees awarded in 2016).
The median property value in Sussex County, NJ is $264,100, and the homeownership rate is 82.7%. Most people in Sussex County, NJ commute by Drove Alone, and the average commute time is 36.2 minutes. The average car ownership in Sussex County, NJ is 2 cars per household.
Sussex County, NJ borders Morris County, NJ, Monroe County, PA, Warren County, NJ, Pike County, PA, Passaic County, NJ, and Orange County, NY.
About the photo: Fall foliage at Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, Vernon Township, New Jersey.
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The economy of Sussex County, NJ employs 75.4k people. The largest industries in Sussex County, NJ are Health Care & Social Assistance (9,293 people), Retail Trade (9,111 people), and Educational Services (7,933 people), and the highest paying industries are Management of Companies & Enterprises ($126,111), Public Administration ($89,261), and Utilities ($88,661).
Median household income in Sussex County, NJ is $89,238. Males in Sussex County, NJ have an average income that is 1.38 times higher than the average income of females, which is $61,412. The income inequality in Sussex County, NJ (measured using the Gini index) is 0.493, which is higher than than the national average.
± 3.35%
Households in Sussex County, NJ have a median annual income of $89,238, which is more than the median annual income of $60,336 across the entire United States. This is in comparison to a median income of $87,388 in 2016, which represents a 2.12% annual growth.
Look at the chart to see how the median household income in Sussex County, NJ compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The PUMS dataset is not available at the County level, so we are showing data for New Jersey.
In 2017, full-time male employees in Sussex County, NJ made 1.38 times more than female employees.
This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in Sussex County, NJ by number of full-time employees.
Wage by Race and Ethnicity in Common Jobs
Highest Average Salaries by Race & Ethnicity
$79,679 ± $3,060
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
$52,154 ± $45,004
In 2017 the highest paid race/ethnicity of Sussex County, NJ workers was Asian. These workers were paid 1.18 times more than White workers, who made the second highest salary of any race/ethnicity.
This chart shows the race- and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in Sussex County, NJ by number of full-time employees.
The closest comparable wage GINI for Sussex County, NJ is from New Jersey.
2017 Wage GINI
In 2017, the income inequality in New Jersey was 0.493 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.437% growth from 2016 to 2017, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat less even.
The 2017 the GINI for New Jersey was higher than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in New Jersey in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in New Jersey across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
Income by Location
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TotalWhiteBlackAsianOtherTwo Or MoreWhite Non-HispanicHispanic
Highest Median Household Income (Total)
Census Tract 3732
In 2017, the tract with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Sussex County, NJ was Census Tract 3732 with a value of $149,286, followed by Census Tract 3731 and Census Tract 3744, with respective values of $142,500 and $127,000.
The following map shows all of the tracts in Sussex County, NJ colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
Poverty by Age and Gender
Females 45 - 54
Largest Demographic Living in Poverty
5.33% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Sussex County, NJ (7.57k out of 142k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is lower than the national average of 13.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 45 - 54, followed by Males 55 - 64 and then Females 35 - 44.
The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.
Poverty by Race and Ethnicity
Largest Race or Ethnicity Living in Poverty
6,532 ± 496
580 ± 171
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Sussex County, NJ is White, followed by Hispanic and Black.
Employment by Occupations
1 Year decline
From 2016 to 2017, employment in Sussex County, NJ declined at a rate of -0.29%, from 75.6k employees to 75.4k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Sussex County, NJ, are Office & Administrative Support Occupations (10,310 people), Sales & Related Occupations (8,877 people), and Management Occupations (8,699 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Sussex County, NJ.
The most common jobs held by residents of Sussex County, NJ, by number of employees, are Office & Administrative Support Occupations (10,310 people), Sales & Related Occupations (8,877 people), and Management Occupations (8,699 people).
Compared to other counties, Sussex County, NJ has an unusually high number of residents working as Law Enforcement Workers Including Supervisors (1.72 times higher than expected), Architecture & Engineering Occupations (1.27 times), and Transportation Occupations (1.17 times).
The highest paid jobs held by residents of Sussex County, NJ, by median earnings, are Law Enforcement Workers Including Supervisors ($101,563), Management Occupations ($89,468), and Protective Service Occupations ($88,531).
Employment by Industries
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Sussex County, NJ, are Health Care & Social Assistance (9,293 people), Retail Trade (9,111 people), and Educational Services (7,933 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Sussex County, NJ, though some of these residents may live in Sussex County, NJ and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The most common industries in Sussex County, NJ, by number of employees, are Health Care & Social Assistance (9,293 people), Retail Trade (9,111 people), and Educational Services (7,933 people).
Compared to other counties, Sussex County, NJ has an unusually high number of Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services (1.26 times higher than expected), Information (1.24 times), and Construction (1.22 times) industries.
The highest paying industries in Sussex County, NJ, by median earnings, are Management of Companies & Enterprises ($126,111), Public Administration ($89,261), and Utilities ($88,661).
Domestic Trade
Domestic Production & Consumption
Domestic production and consumption consists of products and services shipped from New Jersey to other states, or from other states to New Jersey.
Domestic Production in DollarsDomestic Production in TonnageDomestic Consumption in DollarsDomestic Consumption in Tonnage
Top Domestic Production in Dollars
$48.1B
In 2015, the top outbound New Jersey product (by dollars) was Pharmaceuticals with $48.1B, followed by Electronics with $36.5B and Motorized vehicles and $35.3B.
The following chart shows the share of these products in relation to all outbound New Jersey products.
Domestic Trade Growth
Showing data for New Jersey state.
$467B
Projected 2045 Value
57.1% growth
In 2015, total outbound New Jersey trade was $467B. This is expected to increase 57.1% to $734B by 2045.
The following chart shows how the domestic outbound New Jersey trade is projected to change in comparison to its neighboring states.
Interstate Trade
Interstate trade consists of products and services shipped from New Jersey to other states, or from other states to New Jersey.
Most Common Trade Partners
In 2015, the top outbound New Jersey domestic partner for goods and services (by dollars) was New York with $70.5B, followed by Pennsylvania with $48.9B and California and $16.6B.
The following map shows the amount of trade that New Jersey shares with each state (excluding itself).
93.6% of the population of Sussex County, NJ has health coverage, with 62.3% on employee plans, 7.89% on Medicaid, 12.7% on Medicare, 10% on non-group plans, and 0.636% on military or VA plans.
Per capita personal health care spending in the county of Sussex County, NJ was $8,859 in 2014. This is a 4.91% increase from the previous year ($8,444).
Primary care physicians in Sussex County, NJ see 2144 patients per year on average, which represents a 2.1% increase from the previous year (2100 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1384 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 727 patients per year.
Comparing across all counties in the state, Salem County has the highest prevalence of diabetes (12.1%). Additionally, Cumberland County has the highest prevalence of adult obesity (34.7%)
Patient to Clinician Ratios
Patient to Primary Care Physician RatioPatient to Dentist RatioPatient to Mental Health Provider RatioOther Primary Care Providers
2,144 to 1
Patient to Primary Care Physician Ratio
Primary care physicians in Sussex County, NJ see an average of 2,144 patients per year. This represents a 2.1% increase from the previous year (2,100 patients).
The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in Sussex County, NJ in comparison to neighboring states.
Behavioral Health Conditions
Data only available at the state level.
Adults With Major Depressive EpisodeAdults With Serious Mental IllnessOpioid Overdose Death RateSubstance Use Disorder Among Adolescents and Adults (Age 12+)Drug Overdose Death RateExcessive Drinking
State with the Highest Prevalence
8.26% of the population affected
In 2016, West Virginia had the highest prevalence of adults with major depressive episode, with 8.26% of the population affected. The second highest is Arkansas (8.13%), followed by New Hampshire (7.98%).
The following map shows the percent of individuals with major depressive episode by state over multiple years.
Estimated Number of Chronically Homeless IndividualsPercent of Residents with Access To Exercise OpportunitiesPrevalence of Food Insecurity
Most prevalent states
35,798 individuals
5,087 individuals
In 2017, California had the highest estimated number of chronically homeless individuals in the nation, at 35,798. New York has the second highest (5,087), followed by Florida (4,915).
The following map shows the estimated number of chronically homeless individuals in the nation by state over multiple years.
Access and Quality
Data only available at state level.
Adults Who Haven't Seen a Doctor in the Past 12 Months Due to CostMental Health Service Use Among Adults With Mental Illness30-Day Hospital Readmission Rate Among Medicare PatientsAdult Hospice Patients Who Received Care Consistent With Their End-Of-Life Wishes
19.2% of adults
In 2016, Mississippi had the highest prevalence of adults who haven't seen a doctor in the past 12 months due to cost, at 19.2%. It is followed by Texas (17.9%) and Louisiana (17.6%).
The following map shows the prevalence of adults who haven't seen a doctor in the past 12 months due to cost by state over multiple years.
Health Care Spending
Data is only available at the state level. Showing data for New Jersey.
Total Per Capita Spending on Personal Health Care
Per Enrollee Private Health Insurance Spending on Personal Health Care
Per Enrollee Medicaid Spending on Personal Health Care
Per Enrollee Medicare Spending on Personal Health Care
Between 2013 and 2014, all personal health care spending per capita in New Jersey (including private, Medicare, and Medicaid) grew 4.91%, from $8,444 to $8,859.
The following chart shows how this spending changed over time in comparison to Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance spending, per enrollee.
Employer Coverage
Non-Group
Military or VA
Between 2016 and 2017, the percent of uninsured citizens in Sussex County, NJ declined by 11.1% from 7.18% to 6.39%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Sussex County, NJ changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
Data available at the county level.
DiabetesAdult ObesityHIV DiagnosesSexually Transmitted InfectionsAdult SmokingAlcohol-Impaired Driving DeathsMotor Vehicle Crash DeathsHomicidesViolent Crimes
Most at risk counties
12.1% prevalence
Salem County has the highest prevalence of diabetes in New Jersey, at 12.1%.
The following map shows the prevalence of diabetes in New Jersey by county over multiple years.
Sussex County, NJ is home to a population of 144k people, from which 97.6% are citizens. As of 2017, 7.98% of Sussex County, NJ residents were born outside of the country.
The ethnic composition of the population of Sussex County, NJ is composed of 125k White Alone residents (87.2%), 10.8k Hispanic or Latino residents (7.51%), 2.83k Black or African American Alone residents (1.97%), 2.81k Asian Alone residents (1.96%), 1.85k Two or More Races residents (1.29%), 97 Some Other Race Alone residents (0.0676%), 12 American Indian & Alaska Native Alone residents (0.00836%), and 6 Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Alone residents (0.00418%).
The most common foreign languages spoken in Sussex County, NJ are Spanish or Spanish Creole (5,797 speakers), Polish (1,274 speakers), and German (876 speakers).
Age by Nativity
Median Native-Born Age
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Median Foreign-Born Age
In 2017, the median age of all people in Sussex County, NJ was 44.1. Native-born citizens, with a median age of 43, were generally younger than than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of 50. But people in Sussex County, NJ are getting getting older. In 2016, the average age of all Sussex County, NJ residents was 44.
Foreign-Born Population
2017 Foreign-Born Population
As of 2017, 7.98% of Sussex County, NJ residents were born outside of the United States, which is lower than the national average of 13.7%. In 2016, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Sussex County, NJ was 7.82%, meaning that the rate has been increasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Sussex County, NJ compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
Most Common Origin
251,165 ± 12,131 people
162,243 ± 9,799 people
In 2017, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Sussex County, NJ was India, the natal country of 251,165 Sussex County, NJ residents, followed by Dominican Republic with 162,243 and Mexico with 124,109.
2017 Citizenship
As of 2017, 97.6% of Sussex County, NJ residents were US citizens, which is higher than the national average of 93.1%. In 2016, the percentage of US citizens in Sussex County, NJ was 97.7%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been decreasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Sussex County, NJ compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
White Alone
125k ± 74
10.8k ± 755
Black or African American Alone
2.83k ± 174
In 2017, there were 11.6 times more White Alone residents (125k people) in Sussex County, NJ than any other race or ethnicity. There were 10.8k Hispanic or Latino and 2.83k Black or African American Alone residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups.
The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in Sussex County, NJ as a share of the total population.
Most Common Languages
Spanish or Spanish Creole
5,797 speakers (4.17%)
1,274 speakers (0.917%)
876 speakers (0.63%)
9.94% of Sussex County, NJ citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is lower than the national average of 21.5%. In 2015, the most common non-English language spoken in Sussex County, NJ was Spanish or Spanish Creole. 4.17% of the overall population of Sussex County, NJ are native Spanish or Spanish Creole speakers. 0.917% speak Polish and 0.63% speak Spanish or Spanish Creole, the next two most common languages.
Most Common Service Period
Gulf War (2001-)
Gulf War (1990s)
Sussex County, NJ has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 4.38 times greater than any other conflict.
In 2016, universities in Sussex County, NJ awarded 474 degrees. The student population of Sussex County, NJ is skewed towards women, with 1,271 male students and 1,318 female students.
Most students graduating from Universities in Sussex County, NJ are White (425 and 89.7%), followed by Hispanic or Latino (31 and 6.54%), Two or More Races (6 and 1.27%), and Asian (5 and 1.05%).
The largest universities in Sussex County, NJ by number of degrees awarded are Sussex County Community College (474 and 100%).
The most popular majors in Sussex County, NJ are Liberal Arts & Sciences (210 and 44.3%), General Business Administration & Management (80 and 16.9%), and Biological & Physical Sciences (54 and 11.4%).
The median tuition costs in Sussex County, NJ are $N/A for private four year colleges, and $N/A and $N/A respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students.
< 1 Year Postsecondary Certificate1 to 2 Year Postsecondary CertificateAssociates Degree
Liberal Arts & Sciences
General Business Administration & Management
In 2015, the most common concentation for Associates Degree recipients in Sussex County, NJ was Liberal Arts & Sciences with 210 degrees awarded.
This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a Associates Degree from schools in Sussex County, NJ according to their major.
Sussex County Community College
Largest Universities by degrees awarded
Median Private
In 2016, the Sussex County, NJ institution with the largest number of graduating students was Sussex County Community College with 474 degrees awarded.
Student Gender for Common Institutions
Degrees Awarded to Men
Degrees Awarded to Women
In 2016, 210 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Sussex County, NJ, which is 0.795 times less than the 264 female students who received degrees in the same year.
This chart displays the gender disparity between the institutions in Sussex County, NJ by degrees awarded.
Student Race and Ethnicity
Most Common Student Race or Ethnicity
In 2016 the majority of degrees awarded at institutions in Sussex County, NJ were to White students. These 425 degrees mean that there were 13.7 times more White students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Hispanic or Latino, with 31 degrees awarded.
The median property value in Sussex County, NJ was $264,100 in 2017, which is 1.21 times larger than the national average of $217,600. Between 2016 and 2017 the median property value increased from $265,600 to $264,100, a 0.565% decrease. The homeownership rate in Sussex County, NJ is 82.7%, which is higher than the national average of 63.9%. People in Sussex County, NJ have an average commute time of 36.2 minutes, and they commute by Drove Alone. Car ownership in Sussex County, NJ is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
Please note that the buckets used in this visualization were not evenly distributed by ACS when publishing the data.
Number of Households
In 2017, the median household income of the 53.6k households in Sussex County, NJ grew to $89,238 from the previous year's value of $87,388.
The following chart displays the households in Sussex County, NJ distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $75k - $100k range.
2017 Median
In 2017, the median property value in Sussex County, NJ declined from to $264,100 from the previous year's value of $265,600.
The following charts display, first, the property values in Sussex County, NJ compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Sussex County, NJ the largest share of households have a property value in the $300k - $400k range.
$3k+
Average Range
This chart shows the households in Sussex County, NJ distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Sussex County, NJ the largest share of households pay taxes in the $3k+ range.
Rent vs Own
2017 Homeownership
In 2017, 82.7% of the housing units in Sussex County, NJ were occupied by their owner. This percentage declined from the previous year's rate of 82.9%.
This percentage of owner-occupation is higher than the national average of 63.9%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in Sussex County, NJ compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
Car Ownership
Average Number
The following chart displays the households in Sussex County, NJ distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Sussex County, NJ have 2 cars, followed by 3 cars.
Average Travel Time
Using averages, employees in Sussex County, NJ have a longer commute time (36.2 minutes) than the normal US worker (25.1 minutes). Additionally, 7.32% of the workforce in Sussex County, NJ have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Sussex County, NJ compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
Commuter Transportation
Most Common Method of Travel
Drove Alone
Carpooled
In 2017, the most common method of travel for workers in Sussex County, NJ was Drove Alone, followed by those who Carpooled and those who Worked At Home.
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December 4, 2011 Action Films / Suspense Movies
Directed By Mimi Leder
Starring: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures
This 1997 political action thriller was directed by Mimi Leder who has spent most of her career in television. Despite this, her work in films is impressive. She’s been involved in films like Deep Impact and Pay It Forward. This film stars George Clooney and Nicole Kidman along with a number of great actors who make this a fun and suspenseful film.
When Russian nuclear arms are stolen the United States government sends Dr. Julia Kelly (Kidman) and Lt. Colonel Thomas Devoe (Clooney) to hunt them down. On the other end a terrorist (Iures) is planning to use the warheads to make a statement to the Western world. As Kelly and Devoe search across Europe they’re faced with challenges from all directions. They’re also faced with the knowledge that each minute brings them closer to a possible terrorist attack. Determined the find the weapons and stop the terrorists Kelly and Devoe are willing to cross the line and do what it takes. The question isn’t if they’ll find the warheads, it’s if they’ll find them in time.
This was a decent suspense movie with a lot of action. I could say that it’s cut from the same cloth as most other political dramas. It’s the kind of film that keeps you in suspense despite being relatively predictable. When watching this movie the suspense comes from the “how” not the “what”.
Clooney and Kidman work well together in the film. I would say that this is a better performance from Kidman than she gave in The Interpreter. The two of them manage to play well off each other without any awkward moments. Iures is also great in the movie. He plays the role of a villain with a style that almost tempts you to feel some connection with him.
The rest of the film seems like a typical Hollywood action film. It has hard gritty moments throughout and manages to avoid being overly graphic. I would give this film a 3.2 out of 5 stars. If you like political thrillers or action films this might be one for you.
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I just watched this movie, it was a decent action thriller. Not the best but still a good enough movie.
I think it doesn’t quite hold up from a visual standpoint. Thanks for checking out the review!
I liked the whole opposite thing in terms of personality with Clooney and Kidman.
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Manitoba Agricultural College was formerly opened in 1906. In the following year, Manitoba Agricultural College became affiliated with the University of Manitoba so that the degree in agriculture could be conferred on students who had successfully completed the five-year course. However, the affiliation of Manitoba Agricultural College with the University was terminated by an Act of the Provincial Legislature in 1912 when the College was granted degree conferring powers. However, in 1916, the Act was amended and the affiliation between the College and University was restored again. The University of Manitoba conferred the degree Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.S.A) for the first time in May 1911. Regular instruction in Home Economics began the same year and the degree of Bachelor of Home Economics (B.H.E.) was first conferred in May 1918. On March 1, 1924, by Act of the Manitoba Legislature, the administration of Manitoba Agricultural College was transferred to the Board of Governors of the University and it was arranged that in future, the instructional work of the College could be carried on as a Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics of the University. The length of the degree courses in both Agriculture and Home Economics was reduced to four sessions in 1927-1928 to conform with the other university faculties. In 1929, the Legislature selected the site in Fort Garry, already occupied by the Manitoba Agricultural College since 1913, as the permanent site of the university. A systematic program of work in the field of rural adult education was begun in 1940. By 1941, the Faculty consisted of six departments: Animal Science, Bacteriology and Animal Pathology, Dairy Husbandry, Entomology, Plant Science ,and Soils. In 1946, the Department of Agricultural Engineering was added to the faculty. In 1966, the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics opened the Centre for Applied Research at Glenlea, twenty kilometers south of Winnipeg. In 1970, the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics separated into two independent faculties, Agriculture and Home Economics. Beginning in 1971, the Faculty of Agriculture, through sponsorship from the provincial government, became involved with various foreign aid programs. This culminated in 1979 when the Canadian International Development Agency (C.I.D.A.) financed a joint agricultural program with the University of Zambia. In July 1991, the Faculty became the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences.
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Digital Publishing Awards, DPA Soirée, DPA19, News, Uncategorized
Eternity Martis to host this year’s DPAs
We’re pleased to announce that award-winning journalist and editor Eternity Martis will host this year’s DPA Soirée on May 29 at One King West Hotel in Toronto.
“I’m very excited to emcee this year’s Digital Publishing Awards and honour the excellent work of journalists, editors, designers, producers and all others in digital publishing who are creating and telling the stories that matter. In the years the DPAs has recognized digital excellence, it’s provided a space for celebrating a range of voices and content that both reflect our cultural landscape and push the boundaries of storytelling. As a young woman fairly new to the industry when the DPAs launched, it was thrilling to see the stories I cared about nominated and awarded. Now as your emcee, I look forward to celebrating another year of astonishing achievements with all of you.”
Eternity is an award-winning journalist and the senior editor at Xtra. Her work, namely on race and gender, has been featured in Vice, HuffPost, The Walrus, CBC, Hazlitt, The Fader, tvo.org and more, and one of her essays was selected by Roxane Gay as part of Salon’s series highlighting writers of colour.
Her article “A Capital Idea,” exploring the reasons for capitalizing Black and Indigenous, helped influence media style guides changes across Canada including The Ryerson Review of Journalism, tvo.org, and Xtra. Her writing has also been featured on syllabuses at Western University, Carleton University, University of Ottawa, University of West Indies St. Augustine and on numerous #BlackLivesMatter syllabuses around the world.
In 2018, she won Gold for Best Investigative Feature at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her piece “The Health Effects of Anti-Black Racism.” In 2017, she was a National Magazine Awards finalist for Best New Writer for her longform feature “Know Your History, Know Your Greatness” in Hazlitt. She recently wrote an essay in the highly-anticipated anthology “Black Writers Matter” from University of Regina Press (2019), and her memoir, They Said This Would Be Fun, about being a student of colour amid growing white nationalism on campus, is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart.
Eternity is from Toronto and tweets at @eternitymartis.
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Sextortion
September 15, 2018 Stuart Ashenbrenner
Less than a month ago, security researcher Brian Krebs published an article called, Sextortion Scam Uses Recipient’s Hacked Passwords, and now, it appears that extortion has spread to the Apple platform.
Sextortion, by definition, is a form of blackmail in which sexual information or images are used to extort sexual favors from the victim.
As noted by Krebs, the perpetrators would first hack the computers password. After receiving the computer's password, the hackers would email the victim and inform them that their password was hacked. What they would do next is tell the victim that they recorded them doing nefarious things. You can read an entire email below.
This type of email would be very convincing, as the hackers literally know your password, which would make the average user and even more advanced users assume that recording through the webcam is possible. This is one of the more intimidating and personal scams I've ever seen. This isn't simply an attempt at extortion, it's uncomfortably personal.
Quite some time ago, I wrote a blog entitled simply Should You Cover Your Computer Camera. Now, when I wrote this, I hadn't really considered something like sextortion. That being said, if you are going to be doing..."personal" things on your computer, you may be better off using a camera cover. In addition to covering your camera, it may be worth it to get a piece of camera-monitoring software that can help monitor your webcam activity and alert you to its use.
When it comes to webcam monitoring, there is nothing better than Oversight by Objective-See. This software, as I mentioned, alerts you to both your camera and your microphone becoming active. It will throw you a notification in the top-right corner of your screen, alerting you to its activation. It also allows to whitelist certain apps, meaning that when you get the alert whether to allow or block the enabling of your camera, you can choose "Yes, Always" or "Just Once." This way, you can make sure Facetime always comes through, but other applications do not. Now you may be thinking, "Isn't that what the small, green light next to the camera is for?" The short answer is: yes. The slightly longer answer is that the green light can be bypassed to remain off even while the camera is active.
© Objective-See —— example of whitelisting an application with Oversight
© Objective-See —— Oversight Application for macOS
There are other ways you can protect yourself, such as using a program such as Micro Snitch, which is a program by the creators of Little Snitch, or you could even use an actual camera cover. If you so desire, you even get a pair the two. I don't physically cover my camera, as I am not overly concerned of being spied on, but a large part of this is due to the fact that I purchased Micro Snitch years ago, and since then, Objective-See released Oversight, which I also have installed. I figure that between the two programs, I should be safe, although I've found myself definitely drifting towards Objective-See's tools as opposed to the creators of Little/Micro Snitch, Objective Development. TL;DR: Install Oversight.
I do understand why others may want it covered. We all remember that picture of Mark Zuckerberg holding up a sign in his office, and in the background you see a MacBook Pro with the microphone and camera covered. Many people were shocked by this, but I was not one of them. Zuckerberg has many whom I'm sure would like to access his webcam, whereas someone like myself doesn't really have to deal with creepy people like that in my reality. It's our differences in fame and fortune. Fortune will quickly make you a larger target for any type of cyber attack.
The FBI has listed a few ways to avoid sextortion scams. They are as follows:
1. Never send compromising images of yourself to anyone, no matter who they are — or who they say they are.
2. Don’t open attachments from people you don’t know, and in general be wary of opening attachments even from those you do know.
3. Turn off [and/or cover] any web cameras when you are not using them.
If you or someone you know have been victims of a sextortion scam, contact the FBI toll-free at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
In Computer Security Tags sextortion, extortion, scams, computer scam, scammer, infosec, information security, mac, apple, macos, adware, malware, objective-see, oversight
Why MacKeeper IS a Scam
May 8, 2018 Stuart Ashenbrenner
Known Bad Software Part I - MacKeeper
Before starting, I need to thank Matt Jacobs (@pnwbeard - Primary Apple Authorized Mac Technician, Apple Certified iOS Technician, Apple Authorized Support Professional), Diego Munoz (@diegomunozmusic - Primary Apple Certified iOS Technician, Apple Authorized Mac Technician, Apple Authorized Support Professional), mac-interactive (@macinteractive - Operated company providing Apple Support since 2003, experience in maintaining large networks of Macs in enterprise environment), and MacFixer.co.uk (@TheMacFixer - provides computer support, hardware repair, maintenance and upgrades for Apple Macintosh and iOS users in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex for on-site repairs/collections) for their contributions to this blog post. Their knowledge and assistance over the years have made this possible. Give them a follow on Twitter as a thank you! Thank you very much for your contributions!
Known Bad Software (KBS), or sometimes referred to as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are on the rise. As PUPs seems like a "politically correct" term to call these programs, I'm going to call a spade a spade. Welcome to Part 1 of a multipart series focusing on Known Bad Software. Our first software, the well-known, persistent piece of garbage, MacKeeper.
My Badge of Honor
As most of you know, I have never been a fan of the software MacKeeper. In fact, I have been undoubtedly critical of them, enough to have them block me on Twitter. A fellow computer technician, @mac-interactive, took a screenshot of the message saying "MacKeeper has blocked you" and referred to it as the 'Badge of Honor'. I of course concur.
I wanted to write a post that chronicles the reasoning behind my hatred. I also want to talk about specific articles that praise MacKeeper, and touch on why I still believe it is garbage.
History: I want to start with a little history of MacKeeper, and the two companies that have owned it since its inception in March 2010.
MacKeeper was started by ZeoBIT, LLC, out of Sunnyvale, California. MacKeeper, and as most programs, started out slow before gaining speed in the computer "security" industry. The way it gained speed, however, is part of the reason that MacKeeper is so highly criticized.
In 2014, Holly Yecha filed a class-action lawsuit against MacKeeper's, at the time, former owner, ZeoBIT, LLC, claiming that the company's computer security program identifies problems that don't exist and generates false error messages to scare users into purchasing an upgrade. (see Holly Yencha, et al. v. ZeoBIT LLC, Case No. 2:13-cv-00578, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania). The lawsuit was settled, and I am ommitting a lot of the legal jargon, but ZeoBIT settled for $2 million and told customers they could get a refund if MacKeeper was purchased before 8 July, 2015. A win for the people!
As of December 6, 2016, ZeoBIT, LLC is no longer in operation, but not before they sold MacKeeper to Kromtech Alliance Corp. in April, 2013. Keep in mind, this is before the class-action lawsuit against ZeoBIT, LLC, which I believe is the reason ZeoBIT went under. It is, I think, an accurate guess to think that ZeoBIT, LLC simply rebranded as Kromtech Alliance Corp.
Kromtech is known for its shady marketing techniques, which many users claim try to scare the user into buying their software. This is similar to how ZeoBIT, LLC operated.
https://mackeeper.com/blog/post/5-avira-licenses-anti-virus-technology-to-kromtech-to-power-mackeeper-security
In June 2014, Kromtech partnered with Avira, a well known antivirus software, to integrate the Avira database technology into MacKeeper. ZeoBIT did the same in 2011. The licensing agreement, which you can even see when your installing MacKeeper, allows Avira's Secure Antivirus API to run as a background service, which can also take requests from MacKeeper to run scans.
Now keep in mind, there is a difference between Kromtech Security Center, and the software Kromtech is putting on the market. Kromtech Security Center has done some great work in security research. I just wish Kromtech put a little more effort into their poor excuse for their security software.
How I learned about MacKeeper: I was first introduced to MacKeeper in 2015. I had recently began my work as a technician with an AASP (Apple Authorized Service Provider). I was being trained by Matt Jacobs, who had been with the company for a little over two years at the time. This was about the time when MacKeeper was starting to gain some notoriety in the Apple community as being a piece of software that should be avoided.
I remember one of my first days of training: I had a yellow legal pad out, taking notes on what was referred to as the "Security Bundle," a suite of programs and processes designed to help customers that were having security issues. A piece of this was removing programs that at the time, were known by the acronym KBS, for Known Bad Software, a phrase and acronym coined by Matt. It was Matt's knowledge and experienced that really sparked my interest into the world of computer security, and more specifically, Mac Security.
"It all started with (OS X 10.9) Mavericks, which also seemed to open the door to malware," Matt told me. "I was running a 'tune-up' on a customer's machine (in 2013) that was running slower than it should. When I was working through my normal process of running a tune-up, MacKeeper crashed and asked if I wanted it to reopen. As I was just running a tune-up, I didn't think it was necessary to have it open. Right after I told it to not to reopen, the machine sped up to the speed it should be running. Not realizing MacKeeper was actually bad software, I thought it was a bad installation of the program, so I went out and installed it again. Sure enough, once it started running, the whole machine started running slow again."
After a lot of research, and going down the rabbit hole of Google, Matt discovered from a reputable source within the Apple Discussion Forums, that you (users) should stay away from MacKeeper. Matt fired off an email to Thomas Reed, at the time the creator of Adware Medic and owner/blogger on The Safe Mac website, now with Malwarebytes. Shortly after, a blog post by Reed went up on The Safe Mac, and MacKeeper began it's downfall in the eyes of the Apple community. "I don't know if my email to Thomas (Reed) had anything to do with his blog post, but I like to think it was," Matt stated.
It was after my training with Matt that triggered my love for investigating these types of poorly designed, unwanted programs.
From left to right: Stuart Ashenbrenner, Diego Munoz, Matt Jacobs
When I was initially hired, I was being hired as Matt's replacement, as he and his family were moving. Roughly nine months later, Matt returned, and our store was also fortunate enough to get Diego Munoz, around a month before Matt came back. The three of us quickly became very close friends, and we worked very diligently on Matt's Security Bundle, Matt spearheading it. We were identified as Simply Mac's Research & Development team a short time later for the Security Bundle that went company-wide the following year, which I confirmed yesterday is still in use, and I just need to say this, Matt Jacobs has yet to get any credit for the production of this software, which is an abomination by that company. In our off-hours, we would test programs, run adware and see what it did and how it persisted, and worked to refine the Security Bundle to be as efficient as possible. The Security Bundle is still ran within the company, but the R & D team has mostly been disbanded with the massive customer increase, as well as some Apple Repair Extension Programs, that have kept Matt and Diego extremely busy, leaving little to no time to work on research and development. Even though I've left the company, I still spend my free time and time with Crash Security researching malware, adware, and known bad software like MacKeeper, so I can bring you blogs like this one.
Mac expert mac-interactive dug through some old emails, and he found the first surfacing of MacKeeper in his inbox from 30 November 2011. His email was sent out to his coworkers. It said, "Just had an email from a friend saying they had 'installed MacKeeper'...followed by 'is it any good? (...I removed some content for brevity...) Do [sic] the team have an experience? I would stay away from the app purely because of its excessive banner advertising and the fact that the banner click downloads the package!" Package is referring to MacKeeper's installer. 'Package' is the technical term for a type of installer. The response to mac-interactive was in the affirmative, telling him to stay away from it.
One of mac-interactive's coworkers stated at the time, "The client had carried out a 'clean up' operation using the application (MacKeeper), and it deleted a lot of their files from the Library folder in their home directory and also complete applications like 'iPhoto' and 'Pages'. A total of 2 hours has been spent getting the client's iMac up and running again. I talked the client through the reinstallation of Mac OS X 10.6 from their DVD which restored most functions. Then the client decided to purchase, download and install the latest version of Mac OS X (10.8), iPhoto and Pages applications from the App Store as they weren't sure where their original installation disks were and they wanted to be up to date.
The application, as I suspected was 'MacKeeper'. It's an app that appears a lot in 'Speed Up Your Mac' (advertisements) all over the internet.
This is a bad application in my opinion, and I generally uninstall it as soon as I find it on client's computers. Some versions of this application have been VERY difficult to remove in the past."
MacKeeper's problems: First, they provide cleaning software, which they claim you need, and they claim that they are criticized on forums because the people on the forms don't understand this and still believe Macs don't get viruses. Let's address this: NO! Many people who criticize MacKeeper on forums and discussion boards are actually security or Mac professionals. I believe that Macs need malware protection, which is sometimes bundled with an antivirus program. I think it is necessary. Macs are getting targeted for malware more and more every day. The idea that "Macs can't get viruses" just isn't true anymore, which prior to OS X 10.9 Mavericks was actually a valid statement. Actually, the phrase should have said, "Macs haven't gotten viruses." The ad campaign that Apple put out years ago is now irrelevant, except for the fact that the majority of Mac users truly believe that Macs can't get a virus, malware, adware, anything. What this does is makes them extremely vulnerable, and in-turn, they click on anything, believing that there is no way it can be malicious. However, malware protection is COMPLETELY, 100% different than "cleaning" software, which claims to "free up RAM space", yada yada yada.
Now for my favorite part...why do I, personally, have such hatred for MacKeeper? Now keep in mind, I am one of many who hate this software. I asked Diego Munoz, why he thought MacKeeper was so reviled. Munoz says, "I think most people who revile it are somewhat tech savvy and know how different computer processes work and they can see how "sketchy" they are."
Marketing: Beginning with their marketing tactics, MacKeeper is supremely one of the most aggressive advertisers that I've come across online. Their ads are predominantly on pages that are uncommon to the average user, but occasionally, you will see them on CNN[dot]com or other popular sites.. You will see their banner ads splattered across common pirating or torrenting pages, any page that speaks about computer speed, and the strangest - on the pages of other "security" software like CleanMyMac. Speedtest.net, a well known webpage for testing the upload and download time of your internet runs MacKeeper ads, and I have yet to run across a computer that is running MacKeeper and is benefiting from it. When I asked Diego about why he thinks it gets installed, he replied, "I think it's a guilt trip scam, and 100% of the computers I've worked on have not benefited from this. In fact, 100% of them do better without it."
MacKeeper has been everywhere as far as marketing is concerned. Part, if not all of this, is made possible by CJ Affiliate, formerly Commission Junction, who is owned by Alliance Data. CJ Affiliate is a site that allows you to publish advertisements to target a specific audience. Based on how many 'clicks' your links get, you "stock" goes up, meaning that affiliates can turn a higher profit per click. Let me give you an example...if I use CJ Affiliate, MacKeeper can run an ad on my site, potentially. For ever click from my website to MacKeeper's site, I would give a certain amount of kickback money from that. Furthermore, if someone goes on to MacKeeper's site and buys something after visiting from my link, I get a kickback from that as well. Because of this, MacKeeper is on a TON of websites, because it is easy money for businesses, as they are getting a kickback off each click. The thing about MacKeeper that pushes this forward is that fact that MacKeeper sure does look legitimate. I will give them that. There website and software look as if they will actually help, which I don't think they do. I, as Diego mention, believe that removing it is more beneficial.
Fake Advertisements: MacKeeper has even been known, in the past, to also produce fake advertisements, trying to get the user to click on them. MacKeeper claims this is due to competitors trying to deface the company, but the following still remain. MacKeeper has been so well noted as being a piece of Known Bad Software, that some highly touted antivirus engines actually recognize MacKeeper as, not necessarily a piece of malware, but as a PUP, and the antivirus will help you remove it.
Macfixer.co.uk told me, "I think the selling tactics give it away, any legitimate software would not use pop-under ads telling people they needed to clean their Macs by scaring them. They also make it difficult to uninstall and even if you follow the guides on-line various crap is left remaining. So whilst the only harm it may do is to slow down your system and bundle a number of very poor ‘utilities’, ultimately its the shoddy business tactics that mean I tell all and sundry to avoid it. I’ve had dozens of cases where a poorly running Mac is restored to full health after MacKeeper has been given the boot."
I digress momentarily to say this: many antivirus programs make your Mac slower, especially the big ones that you heard of from the Windows platform. Antivirus software like Norton, Sophos (not as much), Avast, McAfee, AVG, and Kaspersky seem to slow a Mac down rather drastically. The difference with MacKeeper is that it repeatedly tells you that "your system is at risk," and that you should update MacKeeper to the Premium version, of course at a cost.
They claim their software can clean your memory, to name just one. You don't need a program to "clean your memory." It may remove the 200MB from your Safari cache, but 200MB on a hard drive over the size of 128GB is so minute, it's ridiculous to market towards people in this fashion.
Fake Reviews: One of the issues I have seen is the false advertising by people claiming to be Mac experts, lobbying for MacKeeper. To give you an example, I found macsumo[dot]com, a website that contains the word "mac," which also makes Apple users more trustworthy of them. Macsumo has only four articles, but unfortunately, the website lands on one of the first pages of a "MacKeeper" web search.
Macsumo[dot]com's most recent article posted on 3 April 2018, titled Mackeeper Review (April 2018) – Testing The World’s Most Controversial Mac App leads off with an interesting question. "First things first, do you really need cleaning tools like Mackeeper?" they ask. Their answer...Yes, you do!?!?! This is a flat-out falsehood. You don't need "cleaning tools." Do you need malware tools? Yes, I think so, but cleaning tools, no. Macsumo also claimed it sped up their machine, which would be a first. The most bizarre part of this blog post was the fact that one-eighth of the way into the article, they offer an "Exclusive MacKeeper discount", claiming "Macsumo exclusive 20% discount link." These ads then are scattered throughout the ENTIRE article, and by entire, I mean there are six in total. Yet, when you follow the link, you get to the purchase page for MacKeeper. No discount, just their primary purchase page. So much of the "advertising" from MacKeeper, in these forms, is simply clickbait (an ad designed to just make you click it). If you think about it, MacKeeper not only makes money on their product, but they make money on page hits, so if they put ads that convince consumers that their computer is running slow, then user clicks on it, and MacKeeper can then tell potential advertising clients that their pages get x-amount of hits per day. Still, there was a funny aspect to macsumo[dot]com: 1.) Their Terms of Service, which contain the "Links" section. See the picture below to see what I mean.
Macsumo[dot]com Terms of §6
2.) The amount of CPU usage my computer was using simply having their website loaded. Pictured below - a whopping 95%
Leave it to a lobbyist for MacKeeper to have high CPU usage...
A big question regarding if MacKeeper is a scam is still lingering. To use the definition of a scam directly from the dictionary:
a dishonest scheme; a fraud.
"an insurance scam"
synonyms:fraud, swindle, fraudulent scheme, racket, trick; More
swindle.
"a guy that scams the elderly out of their savings"
synonyms:swindle, cheat, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull;
If those are the definitions of a scam, then MacKeeper is most definitely a scam. "Deceive": MacKeeper claims your computer is at high-risk when it is not. It seems ridiculous that a company that many find trustworthy is still in operation.
Now I do differ with some of my colleagues in this belief. People like mac-interactive said, "I think it has been a scam in it’s history, but now they seemed to have morphed into a general support service.
An example of a point in history of when it definitely was a scam can be seen in the September 2011 Apple Help Writer article (since updated) and here: http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/. A fake scan window that claims that the (clean system) is in a SERIOUS condition."
The other thing I have found that MacKeeper does to deceive its customers is constantly touting their 5-star rating from shopperapproved[dot]com. Here is one of the 5-star reviews. Read the review carefully. It doesn't seem like a 5-star review to me.
The website shopperapproved[dot]com is a site in and of itself that is questionable. In its first 12 days online, it had over 1,000 reviews, which sounds fishy to me. Also, according to TrustPilot, ShopperApproved[dot]com has a trust-rating of 3.4/10, basically meaning you shouldn't trust it.
Deception in Support: The funniest thing MacKeeper does, is it only speaks to its reviews from this site, but you have to dig to find their negative reviews, which there are a ton of them.
Again, their deception is almost staggering into wanting to make you believe that everything they do is 5-star service, and every customer representative you chat with through MacKeeper is the most Apple-savvy technician you could possibly find. Yet, every time I have chatted with someone on MacKeeper, which is well over twenty times, I have always "chatted" with the same representative, Andrew, or according to MacKeeper's website, Andrii (above-left). They have only FIVE customer support staff members, all who are, according to MacKeeper's website, "Apple Certified Professionals," which is their equivalent to the Apple Certified Support Professional, which is an actual accreditation through Apple. Yet, when you look at each profile, four of the members are only certified through OS X 10.9 Mavericks (circled in the picture above), which came out in October 2013. One member is certified with OS X 10.10 Yosemite, released in June 2014. We are currently on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and it's 2018!
They will walk you through your system scan, then tell you, "Your system is at critical risk," which is a direct quote from a chat log I had with them. This was after installing MacKeeper on a fresh operating system, meaning that I erased a hard drive, installed an operating system, installed MacKeeper, and ran their scan. They said my newly installed operating system was at "Serious" status. Below you can see a video-only beginning interaction which they claim is a chat with a real person. It's not. It's 100% auto-generated text. They are auto-responses, just one message after another, which you can see below (no audio).
This type of "support" leads to reviews like the this review. One of the more bizarre parts is that I have installed MacKeeper probably over one-hundred times to experiment with it, have chats with their "technicians," etc. Yet over all this time, I have never ONCE been asked to review the software. Even if you go to shopperapproved[dot]com, you can't just leave a review for something. I still have no idea how those reviews appear, but mac-interactive believes that once a purchase is made, the customer is sent a specific link to leave a review.
One of the most difficult parts is finding positive MacKeeper reviews that aren't from shopperapproved[dot]com. When you type it into an internet search, you get some options, but then you stumble across an ad, yes an ad, that is for "MacKeeper reviews." The link to it? It goes to MacKeeper's website! I couldn't believe this. Do you know what this means? It basically means that MacKeeper is paying for an ad that claims it has MacKeeper reviews and it goes directly to their site. The advertisement on Google below and left leads to the page below and on the right. It is absolutely reprehensible. One of the funniest parts, MacKeeper's ad gave them only 4.1 out of 5 stars 😂😂😂.
There have been some reviews left over the years from well-known website. In 2014, a company/website called 9to5Mac said, "Buying MacKeeper is basically paying to get scammed everyday."
Likewise, two years prior, CultOfMac.com noted, "MacKeeper uses hidden "activators" which download malware without the user's consent."
Even people who write positive reviews of MacKeeper on their webpages, like macsumo[dot]com almost always have advertisements for MacKeeper on their website. If I am going to give an honest review about a product, I probably shouldn't be running their advertisements too. Isn't that exactly what a conflict of interest is? But this goes back to the CJ Affiliate part of it; getting paid for clicks.
MacKeeper is so bad at having their content reviewed, that their own Youtube channel put up this video, saying it was a review of MacKeeper. By the way, noticed how it says "Shopper Approved" in the title. They claimed this video was her testimonial.
This shows your what a mess MacKeeper is. If this is their types of reviews, then you can tell they are a fledgling operation. That is, if their reviews are even legitimate, which I highly doubt.
Blatant Lies: One of the things that companies similar MacKeeper purport is that if you use free antivirus or malware software and don't pay for it, that you yourself become the product. Now I realize that on occasion, this holds true. The idea of "too good to be true" can be accurate in many circumstances when you are talking about computers. However, until recently, Malwarebytes for Mac was 100% free, and it still is free but contains a paid option. ClamXAV, one of my favorite virus-scanners was free until approximately a year ago. EVERY tool created by Patrick Wardle (@patrickwardle) on his website, Objective-See.com (@objective-see) is free, and they are amazing tools that are perfect for anyone concerned about computer security or information security. Please let me know if you are interested in any of these, and I can give you more information.
Apple's Faux pas: As much as I would like to place 100% of the blame directly on MacKeeper's shoulders, you simply can't without calling out Apple simultaneously. Apple has, for seven years, allowed ZeoBIT, LLC, followed by Kromtech Alliance Corp., to carry a valid, signed certificate, meaning that Apple is allowing MacKeeper to be produced for their machines. Apple even once called out MacKeeper on the Apple Support Twitter account, claiming MacKeeper to be malware in January of 2018. Unfortunately, this tweet has since been removed, which is a shame. It felt like a momentary win for Apple, only for them to most likely kowtow to MacKeeper threats.
According to mac-interactive, "It did exist on the App Store for a while as the 911 Bundle, which was a great shame." I did confirm this in only a few seconds of research. If Apple could be more upfront with the terrible software that is out there, we may be able to curb this problem.
Final Thoughts: The problem is that there are also garbage pieces of software that not only don't help your computer, they seem to actually make it worse. There are a surprising number of these, and unfortunately, most of the ones you may see in the App Store aren't good. I highly suggest doing some research before downloading any antivirus or malware protection, and even ask me if you would like.
Lastly, I'd like to leave you with my own review of MacKeeper, and yes, it is SHOPPER APPROVED! Enjoy!
In Computer Security Tags mackeeper, scam, apple, mac, security, information security, infosec, kromtech, kromtech alliance, zeobit, macos, mac security, apple security, computer security, computer scam
Is This A Scam - Part II
March 6, 2018 Stuart Ashenbrenner
This publication has been a long time coming, but for some reason, it always has gotten put on the back-burner in lieu of a "more interesting" story. After reading a news article out of Chesapeake, Virginia today, which was February 22nd, I realized that this was an article that needed to be written. So, this is:
The trigger for this post was actially an article I read which referred to a gentlemen who was contacted and told that he owed the IRS money, and that he needed to pay or "the police will come."
Let's first address the fact that we are in full swing of IRS scams. It's terrible that people choose such a time to profit off of others, with so much sensative data, but I guess you could say hackers don't exactly have the highest moral standards. That being said, DO YOUR TAXES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Do not wait. The longer consumers wait to file their taxes, the better the chance of having your identity stolen. Now I'm not try to scare you, but let me put it in this perspective...if you wanted to steal people's IRS information, what would be the best time to do it? April 5-14th most likely. Plus, the longer hackers operate, the more likely they are to get caught, so hackers typically will try to infiltrate a system and get out in a small amount of time, so file your taxes as soon as you can.
Now I want to get back to the main reason behind this post - the scam portion of the story I mentioned in the opening paragraph. If you read my last post, I mentioned a scam that happened right in Corvallis, Oregon, and quite frankly, is occurring all over the country.
Scammers are contacting "customers" and explaining the to them that "they may be in trouble with the police if they don't give (insert amount of money) to (insert company name ie: IRS). In order to do this, the scammer almost always has the customer do one of the following: go to a Western Union and wire the money, buy gift cards then give the scammer the gift card number on the back, or the scammer sends a check for an amount more than requested, you then wire back the excess amount of money.
I spoke with a customer that I was working with last night who said, "Who would fall for that?" I responded, "Apparently quite a few people."
Just be cautious when you receive phone calls and keep these in mind:
NEVER WIRE SOMEONE MONEY OR BUY GIFT CARDS TO "SETTLE DEBT"
Apple, Comcast, Microsoft, or the IRS will NEVER call you because of a "hacked account." Apple, Comcast, and Microsoft will email you (most likely); the IRS will send you a letter
If it sounds fishy, it probably is.
Get a second opinion. That's why I'm here! Give me a call (541.714.5880) or an email (stuart@crashsecurity.com) about what happened, because 99% of the time, I'll know within the first two sentences (just because I've seen these types of issues so many times).
Please spread this to your friends, as I know this has been an issue of my town of Corvallis.
Be safe out there, and get your taxes done early!
-Stuart
In Computer Security Tags apple, infosec, info, information security, mac, macOS, scam, computer scam, phone scam, scammers, irs
The Scam of A-Tech Network
April 12, 2017 Stuart Ashenbrenner
Have you ever seen a pop-up with a phone number saying you have a "virus?" So have we. Take a dive with us into a company called A-Tech Network, and how they will attempt to scam you out of all of your money.
In Computer Security Tags A-Tech Network, A-Tech Solutions, adware, apple, atech, bad software, computer scam, computer, genieo, infosec, mac, mackeeper, malware, pup, ransomware, scam, scams, security, tech, virus
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↪ Title 38. Educational Institutions.
↪ Chapter 19. Teachers, School Officers, and Other Employees in General.
Chapter 18N. Scholarships for Opportunity and Results.
Chapter 20. Retirement of Public School Teachers.
Chapter 19. Teachers, School Officers, and Other Employees in General.
Subchapter I. General.
§§ 38-1901 – 38-1910
Subchapter II. Foreign Exchange Program.
Subchapter III. Repealed Provisions.
§ 38–1901. Sexual discrimination; salary deductions; employment as clerk or librarian.
In assigning salaries to teachers, no discrimination shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties; nor shall it be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of such teachers any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades; and no such teacher shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian.
(Sept. 1, 1916, 39 Stat. 695, ch. 433, § 1.)
1973 Ed., § 31-608.
§ 38–1902. Installment payments to certain teachers.
On and after July 1, 1943, the Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in which the 10 salary payments shall be made to teachers assigned to instruction in elementary science and school gardening, and in health, physical education, and playground activities.
(July 1, 1943, 57 Stat. 322, ch. 184, § 1, par. 2.)
1973 Ed., § 31-609a.
§ 38–1903. Teachers in the Americanization schools; custodial staff.
(a) Officers and teachers in the Americanization, evening, and summer schools may also be officers and teachers in the regular day schools.
(b) Members of the custodial staff in the evening, summer, and Americanization schools may also be members of the custodial staff in the day schools.
§ 38–1904. Teaching vacancies.
Teaching vacancies which occur during any school year may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects and teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination.
§ 38–1905. Vocational education.
The Board of Education is authorized and empowered to establish occupational schools on the elementary school level for pupils not prepared to pursue vocational courses in the trade or vocational schools and also to carry on trade or vocational courses on the senior high school level or in senior high schools.
(Apr. 10, 1936, 49 Stat. 1194, ch. 175, § 4.)
§ 38–1906. Classification of research assistants.
Research assistants shall be classified as teachers for payroll purposes and for retirement purposes.
(Apr. 5, 1939, 53 Stat. 568, ch. 39, § 4.)
§ 38–1907. Employment of substitutes for engineer, janitor, laborer, fireman, or caretaker; salary deductions.
In the event of the absence of any engineer, assistant engineer, janitor, assistant janitor, laborer, fireman, or caretaker at any time during school sessions the Board of Education is hereby authorized to appoint a substitute, who shall be paid the salary of the position in which employed, and the amount paid to such substitute shall be deducted from the salary of the absent employee.
(Mar. 4, 1913, 37 Stat. 956, ch. 150, § 1.)
§ 38–1908. Heads of certain departments; compensation.
From and after 10 days following August 28, 1958, there shall be only one person in charge of the following departments in the public school system of the District of Columbia: Art, business education, English, foreign languages, guidance and placement, history, home economics, industrial arts, mathematics, military science and tactics, music, science, trade and industrial education, and health, physical education, athletics, and safety; except that in the case of persons reassigned pursuant to this section, nothing contained herein shall be construed to decrease the rate of compensation that any such person is receiving on the effective date of this section. If such person is placed in a lower salary class and the present salary of the incumbent falls between 2 step rates for the newly assigned class, he shall receive the higher of such rates. Whenever a department is established hereafter in the public school system of the District of Columbia there shall be but 1 person in charge of such department.
(Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1012, Pub. L. 85-838, § 3.)
§ 38–1909. Employment of substitutes — Authorized; compensation.
The Board of Education is hereby authorized to employ substitute teachers and attendance officers for service during the absence of any teacher or attendance officer on leave with pay or on leave without pay and to fix the rate of compensation to be paid such substitutes.
(Oct. 13, 1949, 63 Stat. 843, ch. 686, § 6; Aug. 5, 1953, 67 Stat. 362, ch. 319, § 1; Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 530, ch. 569, title V, § 22; Oct. 2, 1972, 86 Stat. 760, Pub. L. 92-454, § 3.)
This section is referenced in § 38-1103.
Board of higher education, crediting of leave accumulated pursuant to this section, see § 38-1103.
Teachers’ retirement system coverage, see §§ 38-2021.08, 38-2021.13.
§ 38–1910. Employment of substitutes — Retired teachers.
Persons who have retired as teachers under the provisions of subchapter I of Chapter 20 of this title; or subchapter II of Chapter 20 of this title; or subchapter III of Chapter 83 of Title 5, United States Code; may be employed as substitute teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia when it is not practicable otherwise to secure qualified and competent persons. Any such persons granted temporary employment under authority of this section shall continue to receive their annuities during such employment and no deduction shall be made from the compensation of such persons for retirement benefits. The service rendered by such retired teachers employed as substitute teachers shall not be used to recompute their annuities.
(Apr. 24, 1958, 72 Stat. 98, Pub. L. 85-385, § 1.)
§ 38–1921. Authorized; eligibility.
(a) The Board of Education of the District of Columbia is authorized to participate in the teacher foreign exchange program in cooperation with the United States Office of Education.
(b) Any employee of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia who is subject to the provisions of the District of Columbia Teachers’ Salary Act of 1955 [§§ 38-1963 to 38-1982, repealed] shall, with the approval of the Board of Education, be eligible to participate in such program, and shall, if accepted for such foreign assignment, serve for a period not to exceed one calendar year, and shall, at the conclusion of such service, be returned to the position which he held before the exchange was effected; provided, that in any one calendar year not more than 10 such employees shall participate in such program.
(Sept. 28, 1950, 64 Stat. 1076, ch. 1091, § 1.)
“The District of Columbia Teachers’ Salary Act of 1955,” referred to in subsection (b) of this section, refers to the Act of August 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 521, ch. 569.
§ 38–1922. Payment of salary.
The Board of Education of the District of Columbia is authorized to pay the full salary of the educational employee of said Board during the time such employee is performing teaching duties in a foreign country under such exchange program, in the same manner and to the same extent as if such educational employee were actually performing his teaching duties in his regularly assigned position in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and any such educational employee participating in such program shall, for purposes of promotion, computation of annual increment, computation of service for pension credit, including salary contributions to the pension fund, and leave of absence credits, be considered as performing teaching duties in the schools of the District of Columbia.
§ 38–1923. Assignment of foreign teachers; loyalty oath.
(a) Each professionally qualified person from a foreign country exchanged under the provisions of this subchapter with an educational employee of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia shall during the period of such exchange serve as a substitute for the exchanged teacher and shall be assigned in the public schools of the District of Columbia as the Board of Education shall determine. Such exchange teacher shall serve without compensation for such service from the District of Columbia or any agency thereof; provided further, that the term of such assignment or exchange shall not exceed one calendar year.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any foreign teacher, instructor, or professor assigned to duties in the public schools of the District of Columbia under the provisions of this subchapter shall not be required to take an oath of office or any oath of allegiance or loyalty to the United States, but shall satisfy the Board of Education of the District of Columbia as to his personal, moral, and professional fitness to teach in the public schools of Washington, District of Columbia.
1973 Ed., § 31-699b.
§ 38–1941. Payment of salaries. [Repealed]
(May 26, 1908, 35 Stat. 291, ch. 198, § 1; June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 364, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 304(a); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1012, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, § 104(a); May 10, 1989, D.C. Law 7-231, § 30, 36 DCR 492.)
§ 38–1942. Head of Department of Military Science and Tactics; salary. [Repealed]
(July 29, 1946, 60 Stat. 708, ch. 693, § 1; May 10, 1989, D.C. Law 7-231, § 31, 36 DCR 492.)
§ 38–1943. Rules for division of time and computation of pay for services. [Repealed]
(May 26, 1908, 35 Stat. 291, ch. 198, § 1; June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 365, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 304(b); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1012, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, § 104(b); May 10, 1989, D.C. Law 7-231, § 32, 36 DCR 492.)
§ 38–1944. Double salaries — School teachers and employees in District. [Repealed]
(Oct. 6, 1917, 40 Stat. 384, ch. 79, § 9; July 8, 1918, 40 Stat. 823, ch. 139,§ 1; June 5, 1920, 41 Stat. 1017, ch. 253, § 1; Aug. 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 491, 493, Pub. L. 88-448, title IV, §§ 401(i), 402(a)(17), (18); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 15, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1945. Double salaries — Custodial employees in District. [Repealed]
(July 1, 1942, 56 Stat. 467, ch. 467; Aug. 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 491, Pub. L. 88-448, title IV, § 401(k); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 16, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1946. Leave with part pay authorized; limitations. [Repealed]
(June 12, 1940, 54 Stat. 349, ch. 342, § 1; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78,§ 17, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1947. Report of person on leave; termination of leave. [Repealed]
§ 38–1948. Leave of absence for educational purposes — Compensation of elementary and secondary school teachers. [Repealed]
(June 12, 1940, 54 Stat. 349, ch. 342, § 3; Aug. 21, 1964, 78 Stat. 584, Pub. L. 88-472, § 1; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 17, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1949. Leave of absence for educational purposes — Compensation of other employees. [Repealed]
(June 12, 1940, 54 Stat. 349, ch. 342, § 4; Aug. 21, 1964, 78 Stat. 584, Pub. L. 88-472, § 2; Mar. 12, 1976, D.C. Law 1-53, § 2, 22 DCR 5132; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 17, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1950. Leave of absence for educational purposes — Inclusion for promotion and retirement purposes. [Repealed]
§ 38–1951. Masculine pronoun construed to include female employees. [Repealed]
§ 38–1952. Sick and emergency leave. [Repealed]
(Oct. 13, 1949, 63 Stat. 842, ch. 686, § 1; Oct. 29, 1951, 65 Stat. 660, ch. 601, § 1; Dec. 18, 1967, 81 Stat. 659, Pub. L. 90-212, § 1(a); May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 140, Pub. L. 90-319, § 5; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 18, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1953. Credit for cumulative leave on transfer or promotion. [Repealed]
(Oct. 29, 1951, 65 Stat. 660, ch. 601, § 4; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78,§ 21, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1954. Reinstatement after leave without pay granted. [Repealed]
§ 38–1955. Additional leave credits for service prior to July 1, 1949. [Repealed]
(Oct. 13, 1949, 63 Stat. 842, ch. 686, § 2; Oct. 29, 1951, 65 Stat. 660, ch. 601, § 2; Dec. 18, 1967, 81 Stat. 659, Pub. L. 90-212, § 1(b); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 18, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1956. Maternity leave. [Repealed]
§ 38–1957. Additional leaves in emergencies. [Repealed]
(Oct. 13, 1949, 63 Stat. 843, ch. 686, § 4; Oct. 29, 1951, 65 Stat. 660, ch. 601, § 3; Dec. 18, 1967, 81 Stat. 659, Pub. L. 90-212, § 1(c); Feb. 19, 1976, D.C. Law 1-47, § 2, 22 DCR 4683; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 18, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1958. Days of leave with pay defined. [Repealed]
(Dec. 20, 1950, 64 Stat. 1114, ch. 1141, § 1; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78,§ 19, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1959. Refund required for unearned advanced leave; exceptions. [Repealed]
§ 38–1960. Rules and regulations; definitions. [Repealed]
(Oct. 13, 1949, 63 Stat. 843, ch. 686, § 7; May 10, 1989, D.C. Law 7-231, § 33, 36 DCR 492.)
§ 38–1961. Regulation of vacation periods and annual leave. [Repealed]
(Mar. 5, 1952, 66 Stat. 14, ch. 81, § 1; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 20, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1962. Prior leave; promulgation of rules. [Repealed]
(Mar. 5, 1952, ch. 81, § 2; Aug. 5, 1953, 67 Stat. 362, ch. 320, § 1; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 20, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1963. Salary schedule. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 521, ch. 569, title I, § 1; July 25, 1958, 72 Stat. 414, Pub. L. 85-552, § 1; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1004, Pub. L. 85-838,§ 1; Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 913, Pub. L. 87-773, § 1; Oct. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 1229, Pub. L. 87-881, title I, § 101(1); Aug. 14, 1964, 78 Stat. 431, Pub. L. 88-426, title III, § 306(i)(5); Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 882, Pub. L. 88-575, title II, § 201(1); Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1594, Pub. L. 89-810, title II, § 202(1); May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 132, Pub. L. 90-319,§ 2(1); May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 135, Pub. L. 90-319, § 2(2); June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 358, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 302(1); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1005, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, § 102(a); Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1042, Pub. L. 93-407, title II, § 202(1), (2); Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2175, Pub. L. 93-635, §§ 4, 5; Mar. 29, 1977, D.C. Law 1-90, § 2(1), (2), 23 DCR 9532b; May 18, 1977, D.C. Law 2-1, § 2(a), 23 DCR 9698; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1964. Eligibility requirements for appointment and promotion; definitions. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 524, ch. 569, title II, § 3; June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 362, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 302(3); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78,§ 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1965. Probationary period. [Repealed]
§ 38–1966. Teaching certificates; renewals; rules and regulations. [Repealed]
(Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1049, Pub. L. 93-407, title II, § 204; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 12, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1967. Assignment of certain employees to salary classes. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 524, ch. 569, title III, § 4; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1007, Pub. L. 85-838, § 1; Oct. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 1232, Pub. L. 87-881, title I, § 101(4); Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1598, Pub. L. 89-810, title II, § 202(3); June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 362, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 302(4); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1009, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, § 103(2); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1968. Application of chapter; teacher-aide positions; initial assignment of school principals and periodic evaluation. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 525, ch. 569, title III, § 5; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1009, Pub. L. 85-838, § 1; Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1598, Pub. L. 89-810, title II, § 202(4); May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 139, Pub. L. 90-319, § 2(8); June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 362, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 302(5); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1010, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, § 103(3); Mar. 3, 1979, D.C. Law 2-139, § 3204(e), 25 DCR 5740; Mar. 5, 1981, D.C. Law 3-133,§ 31(b), 27 DCR 4417; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1969. Assignment to service steps — method; promotions. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 526, ch. 569, title IV, § 6; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1009, Pub. L. 85-838, § 1; Oct. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 1233, Pub. L. 87-881, title I, § 101(5), (6); Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 885, Pub. L. 78-885, title II, § 201(2); June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 362, Pub. L. 91-297, title III,§ 302(6), (7); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1970. Assignment to service steps — New employees; adjustment of existing employees; ilitary service; transfer from Board of Higher Education. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 527, ch. 569, title IV, § 7; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1010, Pub. L. 85-838, § 1; Oct. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 1234, Pub. L. 87-881, title I, § 101(7); Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1599, Pub. L. 89-810, title II, § 202(5); May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 138, Pub. L. 90-319, § 2(3); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1010, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, § 103(4), title II, § 203(a); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
Annuities, purchase of service credit towards years of service, see § 38-2021.08.
§ 38–1971. Probationary employees; salary increases; termination. [Repealed]
(May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 138, Pub. L. 90-319, § 2(4); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1972. Temporary employees. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 528, ch. 569, title IV, § 9; Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1600, Pub. L. 89-810, title II, § 202(6); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78,§ 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1973. Promotions — groups A-1, B, C, and D; administrative errors. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 528, ch. 569, title IV, § 10; Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1601, Pub. L. 89-810, title II, § 202(7); May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 138, Pub. L. 90-319, § 2(5); June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 363, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 302(8); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1011, Pub. L. 92-518, title I,§ 103(5); Mar. 29, 1977, D.C. Law 1-90, § 2(4), 23 DCR 9532b; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1974. Promotions — Higher-paid salary classes. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 528, ch. 569, title IV, § 11; Oct. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 1234, Pub. L. 87-881, title I, § 101(11); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78,§ 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1975. Evening, summer, and Americanization schools; salaries. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 529, ch. 569, title V, § 13; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1011, Pub. L. 85-838, § 1; Oct. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 1234, Pub. L. 87-881, title I, § 101(10), (11); Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 886, Pub. L. 88-875, title II, § 201(3); Nov. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 1601, Pub. L. 89-810, title II, § 202(8); May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 138, Pub. L. 90-319, § 2(6); May 27, 1968, 82 Stat. 139, Pub. L. 90-319, § 2(7); June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 363, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 302(9), (10); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1008, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, §§ 102(b), 103(6); Sept. 3, 1974, 88 Stat. 1049, Pub. L. 93-407, title II, § 202(3), (4); Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2177, Pub. L. 93-635, § 11; Mar. 29, 1977, D.C. Law 1-90, § 2(5), 23 DCR 9523b; May 18, 1977, D.C. Law 2-1, § 2(b), 23 DCR 9698; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
For temporary amendment of section, see § 206(b) of the Police Officers, Fire Fighters, and Teachers Retirement Benefit Replacement Plan and Fiscal Year 1998 Revised Budget Support Act of 1997 Technical Amendments Emergency Act of 1998 (D.C. Act 12-351, May 20, 1998, 45 DCR 3673), and § 206(b) of the Police Officers, Fire Fighters, and Teachers Retirement Benefit Replacement Plan and Fiscal Year 1998 Revised Budget Support Act of 1997 Technical Amendments Congressional Review Emergency Act of 1998 (D.C. Act 12-432, August 6, 1998, 45 DCR 5920).
§ 38–1976. Appropriation for summer school salaries. [Repealed]
(Oct. 26, 1973, 87 Stat. 508, Pub. L. 93-140, § 22; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 13, 29 DCR 49.)
1973 Ed., § 31-1542a.
§ 38–1977. Method of salary payment. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 529, ch. 569, title V, § 14; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1011, Pub. L. 85-838, § 1; Oct. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 1235, Pub. L. 87-881, title I, § 101(12); June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 364, Pub. L. 91-297, title III, § 302(11); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1011, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, § 103(7); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1978. Regulation of vacation and leave periods of certain employees. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 529, ch. 569, title V, § 15; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1012, Pub. L. 85-838, § 1; Oct. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 1235, Pub. L. 87-881, title I, § 101(13); Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1011, Pub. L. 92-518, title I, § 103(8); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1979. Sick and emergency leave provisions applicable to certain employees. [Repealed]
§ 38–1980. Sabbatical leave provisions applicable to certain employees. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 529, ch. 569, title V, § 17; Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78, § 11, 29 DCR 49.)
§ 38–1981. Foreign teacher exchange program applicable to certain employees. [Repealed]
§ 38–1982. Teacher retirement provisions applicable to certain employees. [Repealed]
(Aug. 5, 1955, 69 Stat. 529, ch. 569, title V, § 19; Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1013, Pub. L. 92-518, title II, § 202(b); Mar. 16, 1982, D.C. Law 4-78,§ 11, 29 DCR 49.)
Schoolteachers, retirees, reemployment as substitute teachers, see § 38-1910.
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Hollywood’s Own Killing Fields: Covering Celebrity Gun Deaths
By David Robb
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President Barack Obama’s call to action to stem the tide of gun violence has particular relevance to Hollywood. While there are industry conservatives who disagree with the president’s call for increased background checks and vetting measures, and liberals who will feel the president hasn’t gone far enough, there is also a long trail of industry insiders and their loved ones lost to gun violence. I have had the grim task of reporting many of these over the last quarter-century, and when I sat down and contemplated the carnage in the wake of the president’s appeal Monday, I was taken aback at how long the list actually is.
In 1989, when 21-year-old My Sister Sam star Rebecca Schaeffer was gunned down in her doorway by a deranged fan, the Screen Actors Guild spearheaded a campaign to make it more difficult for stalkers to obtain the home addresses of celebrities. Her killer had obtained her address in the Fairfax District through a private detective, who got it from the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Hollywood Backs Obama On Gun Control, NRA Has
It was the first celebrity shooting death I covered as a reporter, but it would not be the last. Today, largely thanks to SAG’s efforts, it’s no longer legal for the DMV to give out celebrities’ home addresses to anyone. But SAG has no jurisdiction over how easy it is for troubled potential killers to get their hands on guns. Schaeffer’s killer, who at the time was too young to buy a gun legally, got the .357 Magnum he shot her with from his brother, who had purchased it legally in Arizona.
Six years later, I covered the shooting death of Selena, the popular singer who was murdered in a hotel room in Texas by the president of her fan club, who had legally purchased the .38 revolver used in the crime. The killer didn’t need Selena’s home address – just easy access to a gun.
In 1996, I covered the murder of actor Haing Ngor, who survived the real-life killing fields of Cambodia and then went on to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in The Killing Fields, only to be gunned down outside his home in Los Angeles by a local street gang. The murder weapon never was located.
A year later, I covered the murder-suicide of MPAA general counsel William J. Billick III, who chased his wife out of their home, and then went back inside and shot their 18-month-old twins, Daniel and Alexandra. Then he turned his legally purchased handgun on himself. The funeral was as sad as any I ever covered.
In 1998, I covered the shooting death of actor, comedian and Saturday Night Live stalwart Phil Hartman. He was killed by his wife, Brynn. She too had legally purchased the murder weapon – one of several she’d bought for home protection. After killing her husband, she shot herself.
Many others in the industry have been killed by gunfire — most famously, singer-songwriter John Lennon in 1980. He was shot multiple times by a stalker with a gun that had been legally purchased in Hawaii.
Others to meet a similar fate include:
Rapper-actor Tupac Shakur, gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996 by unknown assailants;
Rapper Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls and the Notorious B.I.G.), was gunned down six months after Tupac in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles by unknown assailants;
Publicist Ronni Chasen (pictured, left), shot to death in 2010 while driving her car through Beverly Hills after leaving the premiere of Burlesque. Police say that the killer, an ex-con, later used the same gun to kill himself. How he got the gun remains unclear.
Music executive John Atterberry, killed by a crazed gunman who went on a shooting spree at the corner of Sunset and Vine in 2011. The shooter later was killed by the police. How he obtained the weapon is unclear.
Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, of The Little Rascals fame, was shot to death in 1959.
Many family members of celebrities have also been killed by guns. Bill Cosby’s 27-year-old son Ennis was shot to death in 1997, while fixing a flat tire just off the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles. It remains unclear how his killer, an 18-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, obtained the weapon.
Cheers and Frasier star Kelsey Grammer’s father was shot to death in 1968. In 1986, Dallas star Patrick Duffy’s mother and father were shotgunned to death during a robbery of the bar they owned in Montana. Mark Ruffalo’s brother, Scott, was shot to death in 2008 during what police described as a game of Russian roulette. In 2011, The Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault’s brother was shot to death in Ohio by his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend. When Allman Brothers founders Gregg and Duane Allman were little, their father was shot to death by a hitchhiker. When Sean Combs was only 3, his father also was shot to death. Basketball great Michael Jordan’s father, James Jordan Sr., was shot to death in 1993. Singer Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his own father, in 1984.
Ice Cube’s sister, Beverly Jean Brown, was shot to death by her husband in South Central Los Angeles in 1981. “America is built on the gun,” the rapper and Straight Outta Compton producer later said. “America is in love with the gun. It’s a sick love affair. But it’s just hard to break.”
No doubt, there will be more celebrity shooting deaths to cover in the days ahead. Like Ice Cube said, America is in love with the gun, and Hollywood is not immune to its tragic effects.
Ronni Chasen
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From CCTV to MTV: Paper on the Cheap
If bands could get to No. 1 on the charts for ingenuity rather than record sales, then the amusingly irreverent unsigned trio, The Get Out Clause, would win hands down. The English indie band exploited a legal loophole to make an innovative video for their single Paper on the cheap.
“We wanted to produce something that looked good and that wasn’t too expensive to do,” says guitarist Tony Churnside, 29, who met the other band members at The University of Salford in Manchester. Desperate to make a video for their new single Paper, but with no budget to hire a crew, the Manchester guys decided to let the state do the filming instead. The band used footage from some of the many CCTV surveillance cameras stationed around their home city of Manchester to create their own music video. The Get Out Clause played in front of CCTV cameras at 80 locations (out of the 13 million CCTV “security” cameras currently deployed throughout England), including at Deansgate, on a bus, on a zebra crossing and in the Castlefield Amphitheater. They then approached the companies who owned the cameras and used England’s Freedom of Information Act to obtain the footage.
The images were then pieced together and used as the video for one of the band’s songs, Paper. James Thomson of the band said, “You can’t help but go somewhere and not see one of these CCTV cameras, so we just thought we’d regurgitate what was available to us.” Tony Churnside, the band’s guitarist, said: “Legally, you are supposed to be able to get this footage back as it is information that is held about you. The vast majority of these places didn’t respond, so there was only a few we managed to get footage from in the end.” In all, the band had played in front of 80 CCTV cameras, and managed to get a quarter of the tapes back. The video ended up showing the band playing in 20 different locations throughout Manchester.
The Get Out Clause: Paper
The BBC Interview: From CCTV to MTV
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Rooms: The Secret Life of Things Behind Closed Doors
October 17, 2009 — Patrick Zimmerman
The Dining Room of William F. Buckley’s Apartment on Park Avenue and 73rd Street, Where Buckley Entertained
The $30,000 a Night Bathroom at The Four Seasons Hotel Discreetly Deluxe Ty Warner Suite
Room 4, the Very Private Personal Shopping/Dressing Room at Bergdorf Goodman
The Backstage Quick-Change Room for Actors in “The Lion King” at the Minskoff Theater
The Clowns Private Room (Clown Alley), Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden
A House Halfway to Hades: A Cramped Flophouse in the Bronx
A Garment Business Sweatshop in New York City’s Garment District
Inside the Dancers’ Private Dressing Room at Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club
The Pleasure Grottoes at a Brooklyn Swinger Sex Club, Where the Outré Meet the Ordinary
Photography by: Fred R. Conrad, The New York Times
“A traveling barfly finds himself in a small town near the border and entertains the locals at the tavern one night with amazing tales of his adventures. This barfly has been everywhere, of course, and makes a great impression, especially on a young man of romantic nature who, alas, is rather poor.
Early the next morning, the young man turns up at the traveler’s room, eager to thank him for the words of inspiration he heard the night before. But the barfly seems distracted and, as he pours himself the first drink of the day, he turns and says: “Please, sir. If you really want to help, tell me where I am, not what you learned.”-Alan Feuer, The New York Times
The Secret Life of Things Behind Closed Doors
New York City, as in other large cities like Los Angeles or Chicago, is a city of rooms, a city where many secret things occur behind closed doors. Who knows what mysteries are even now unfolding inside the apartment in that very ordinary-looking building on the corner of 38th Street and Seventh Avenue or, for that matter, who knows what’s happening in the apartment right next door to it?
The guiding concept of this series of photographs by Fred Conrad entitled Rooms, was to visit rooms inside of places about which you may never have thought, or even if you’ve imagined what they’re like, you’ve probably never actually been there. The photographs capture a wide range of social and economic levels of life in New York City, including: scenes at a sweatshop, a sex club, the dressing-room in a stripper-club, a morgue in Harlem, New York City’s Office of the Mayor, the behind-the-scenes kitchen of a fancy-gourmet restaurant, super-elegant bathrooms and even a bowling alley in the basement of the Frick Museum of Art.
The framework of the project was fairly simple the whole time: to look at the interiors of rooms in the city and, from that very small perspective, to attempt an exploration of the rich fabric of New York. And the year-long project confirmed that New York City-as is the case with other large urban centers-is a city of rooms in which the really good stuff always tends to happen clandestinely behind closed doors. Nevertheless, this little photographic project has merely scratched the surface of the city’s mysterious life behind closed doors. One can imagine repeating a project like this in a few years when a large number of the rooms will have changed dramatically, which of course they will.
The Control Room of the “Today” Show, Where a Dozen Behind-the-Scenes Staff Members Keep the Show Afloat
Slide Show: Rooms/The Secret Life of Things Behind Closed Doors
(Please Click on Image to View Full-Screen Slide Show)
You can read more about the Rooms photographic project here.
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WFG Title Company of California Appoints Manager for Orange County
WFG Title Company of California announced the hiring of a new SVP and Orange County manager. The company named Bryan Kelley in the role. Kelley comes to WFG from one of the nation's largest title underwriters, where he oversaw a national title and closing division.
Compass Real Estate Services Welcomes New EVP
Compass Real Estate Services, a subsidiary of Compass Property Services, announced the appointment of industry veteran J. Glenn Hollis as EVP and regional manager. Compass Real Estate Services is an exclusive cooperative of brokers, providing real estate services to institutional and consumer clients throughout the Southeast United States.
Genworth Names New Chief Risk Officer
Genworth Financial, Inc., announced the hiring of Lori M. Evangel as EVP and chief risk officer. Evangel joins the company from Aflac, where she served as managing director and chief risk officer for global developments, positions that involved her working to develop the company's investment division risk management function.
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The Worst of American Idol: Seasons 1-4
2002 TV-PG 2h 0m DVD
Witness the most painful performances, the most embarrassing moments and the most outrageous contestant reactions with this worst-of collection from the first four seasons of the series that became a phenomenon. Included are William Hung's classic rendition of "She Bangs," the two worst performances from each season, a worst performance montage, the most memorable reactions by judges and contestants, bad fashion, inadvisable gimmicks and more.
Paula Abdul, William Hung, Simon Cowell, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Randy Jackson, Brian Dunkleman, Ryan Seacrest, Nikki McKibbin, Tamyra Gray, R.J. Helton, Christina Christian, Ryan Starr, A.J. Gil, EJay Day, Jim Verraros
Bruce Gowers
TV Shows, TV Reality Programming, Pop, Rock & Pop
TV-PG - This program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children.
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Paul · March 14, 2015
With all the craziness lately, I never wrote about Namine’s most recent trip to the dentist last month. Some pretty important points were discussed.
For the most part, the appointment was pretty routine. Namine is comfortable with her doctor there, and has been for some time. Once the checkup was done, we moved quickly into unfamiliar and uncomfortable territory.
The dentist commended Namine on doing a good job with keeping her teeth clean. She brushes, flosses, and swishes (you know, mouthwash) pretty much all by herself now, and she’s pretty thorough. She has a hard time reaching those teeth in the back, so she does still need a little help.
I don’t believe I wrote about one of the omega loops coming out, but it did, all by itself. It was kind of alarming, to be honest. One night Namine was flossing, and POP! off came the loop.
If you don’t recall what the omega loops were, let me take you back in time a bit. When Namine was given a palatal lift prosthesis to help with her speech, it was attached by way of hooks, which were attached to metal rings. These metal rings, in turn, were attached to Namine’s teeth.
Sparkly!
Namine has not needed the prosthetic for some time now; the pathologist at the hospital declared that her speech has improved because of it, but now it can benefit her no longer. But the omega loops, being glued to her teeth, remained.
Removing the other omega loop at the dental clinic proved to be much more difficult than the first. The loops were attached to teeth in the back of her mouth, so she had to open as wide as she could to make room for the dentist’s hands and tools.
After removing the omega loops, the dentist removed a loose tooth. But this was no ordinary loose tooth, and this leads nicely into what will happen over the next year or two.
Even though Namine’s mouth is growing along with the rest of her — something her plastic surgeon suggested may not happen after the mandibular distraction — it’s still small. It will always be small, and there is nothing any doctor or procedure can do about it.
Namine’s adult teeth are also coming in faster than anyone anticipated. These two events — her jaw being too small and her adult teeth coming in quickly — are converging to create a dilemma: there is not enough room in her mouth for her teeth.
The immediate problem was the loose tooth, which was being pushed out of the way of the adult replacement of a completely different tooth. So the dentist pulled it. Namine has had teeth pulled — she’s asked me to do it before, and she’s even done it herself — but this tooth was, in my opinion, not quite ready to go. It was loose enough to be painful, to say nothing of the new tooth hurting her as it was coming in, but it still resisted coming out. The dentist did get it out, but Namine was none too happy with her. (In all fairness, I wouldn’t have been, either.)
Obviously, the solution to Namine’s problem will not be as simple as pulling teeth. That possibility has been discussed, but the dentist did not feel that it was a viable solution. No, what she wanted to try — not immediately, but soon — was a palatal expander.
The purpose is to widen Namine’s jaw, in order to make room for all the adult teeth which will be coming in soon. (In the x-rays, they can already seen some displacement in existing teeth and ones about to come in.) Our concern, however, is for Namine’s palate. It’s already been repaired once, after all, and a scar can clearly be seen where a gaping hole used to be.
The dental clinic wants to go ahead with this in about a year. Under “normal” circumstances (whatever that means), they’d suggest having this done in two or more years, which would give her jaw some more time to grow. But it’s against how quickly Namine’s teeth are coming in, so the procedure will likely need to be done sooner rather than later.
The dental clinic wants to go ahead with the planning and execution of installing the palatal expander without consulting the cleft palate team. We, however, feel differently. The dental clinic say that they anticipate no problems with the procedure, but to that I say: famous last words.
We won’t allow them to proceed with this plan until we’ve met with the cleft palate team to discuss what they think on the whole matter. We’ve had to switch doctors a few times, what with the staff changes, but we’re fortunate in that Namine’s plastic surgeon is still at the hospital. He’s followed Namine closely, and we’re interested to hear his opinion.
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City of Lausanne
Lausanne is the capital city and biggest town of the canton of Vaud in Romandy, Switzerland. A municipality, it is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (French: Le/Lac Léman). It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura Mountains to its north-west. Lausanne is located 62 kilometres (38.5 miles) northeast of Geneva.
The municipality Lausanne has a population of about 140,000, making it the fourth largest city in Switzerland, with the entire agglomeration area having 420,000 inhabitants (as of March 2015).[11] The metropolitan area of Lausanne-Geneva (including Vevey-Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains, and foreign parts) was over 1.2 million inhabitants in 2000.
Lausanne is a focus of international sport, hosting the International Olympic Committee (which has recognized the city as the “Olympic Capital” since 1994), the Court of Arbitration for Sport and some 55 international sport associations. It lies in a noted wine-growing region. The city has a 28-station metro system, making it the smallest city in the world to have a rapid transit system. Lausanne will host the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
City of Lausanne is a member of Energy Cities since 1995
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CBK asks Sajith where he got funds to build houses
"These house are beautiful. From where did you get the money?",fourth Executive President of the country, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who attended the opening ceremony of a housing scheme for the first time, has questioned Sajith Premadasa, Minister of Housing and Construction.
She made this inquiry at the opening ceremony of 'Ranindugama' village at Ranpokunugama, Attanagalla. It is said that 24 houses have been built in the village which is the 213th housing scheme completed with the funds provided by India.
Responding to Chandrika's question, Sajith has said, “ thanks to my international relations".
He has said that while others have taken loans with extremely high interest rates, they have offered him Rs. 1.2 million as a full grant for his housing project.
Sajith accepts Chandrika's request
Premadasa had inspected an old housing scheme in Veynagoda, in which 94 working families live,on Chandrika's request before they visited the Ranindugama housing facility.
It is reported that President Maithripala Sirisena also visited the area during the Presidential Election campaign.
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A study of the Couvade syndrome in the male partners of pregnant women in the UK
Brennan, Arthur B. (2008) A study of the Couvade syndrome in the male partners of pregnant women in the UK. (PhD thesis), Kingston University, uk.bl.ethos.485327.
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The Couvade syndrome or pregnancy-related symptoms in men occurs mainly in industrialised countries around the globe. However, a comprehensive review of available literature suggests that there is a notable dearth of research within the United Kingdom. To address this, a 2-phase study was conducted in the UK. Phase I comprised a qualitative phenomenological study of a purposive sample of fourteen .men, who were interviewed to explore the characteristics of the syndrome and explanations for it. The use of interview fieldnotes and summary sheets provided supplementary data. Three themes emerged from an inductive analytical approach: "emotional diversity in response to pregnancy", "nature, duration and management of symptoms" and "explanatory attempts for symptoms". Few, if any, previous study instruments of the Couvade syndrome have been informed by qualitative studies and evidence of their validation is lacking in the literature. Phase II sought to develop and pilot test a structured questionnaire based on the findings of the qualitative study to assess the physical and psychological symptoms of the syndrome in 23 purposively selected male partners of pregnant women. The questionnaire was completed repeatedly over two time periods. The Cronbach Alpha Coefficient of reliability test for the total scale was 0.89. Other tests of internal consistency showed high reliability and validity, except for nine items, which were subsequently removed from the final amended questionnaire. Few studies have investigated the type, severity, distress and duration of the syndrome's symptoms collectively. These were investigated using the newly developed questionnaire and the perceived stress coping scale in an experimental group of men with pregnant partners (n =182) over the 1st and 3rd trimesters of gestation and 4-weeks into the postpartum period. This was compared with a control group (n = 181) whose partners were not pregnant over a 3 and 6-month comparative time period. Results indicated a significantly higher incidence of 26 physical and 17 psychological symptoms associated with the syndrome for those in the experimental group. There were also statistically higher median severity and distress values for the majority of physical and psychological symptoms in the experimental. group. Symptom severity and distress for physical and psychological symptoms commenced in 1st trimester, dissipated in 2nd trimester, returned in the 3rd trimester and then decreased upon the birth or shortly in the postpartum period except for a minority of symptoms. For the control group the median severity and distress scores for physical and psychological symptoms between 3 and 6-month comparative time periods were all non-significant except for "sore gums" which revealed a statistically significant decrease between these periods. In the experimental group the physical symptoms of the longest duration in the 1st trimester were "stomach pain/cramps and "back pain", "weight gain" and, "stomach distension" in the 3rd trimester and, "tiredness" in the postpartum period, The psychological symptom of the longest duration during the 1 st and 3rd trimesters was "sleeping less than usual" and, "early morning waking" in the postpartum period. In the experimental group there no statistically significant associations between age and the severity and distress of physical and psychological symptoms. There was only one significant association between social class and the severity of the physical symptom of "poor appetite" and none for the distress of the remaining physical symptoms. There were statistically significant associations between social class and the severity scores of three psychological symptoms including "early morning waking", "feeling frustrated" and "feeling stressed". There were also statistically significant associations between social class and the distress scores of "sleeping less than usual" and "feeling frustrated". The largest number of associations were evident between the previous number of children and severity scores of "unable to keep food down", "cough"," sore throat", "pain while urinating", "toothache, "sore gums" and "mouth ulcers". Significant associations between previous number of children and the distress scores were also shown for "stomach pain/cramps" (P=O.018), "indigestion, "cough"," urinating more than usual" and "sore gums". There were also significant associations with the severity scores of 2 psychological symptoms namely, "sleeping less than usual" and "unable to cope with daily life" and the distress scores of the preceding symptom and "early morning waking". Binary logistic regression revealed five physical symptoms as strong predictors of the Couvade syndrome namely, "cough", "leg cramps", "headache" and "diarrhoea" and "pain while urinating" and four, which were weak or unreliable predictors with low R2 values. There were also three psychological symptoms, which were revealed as strong predictors of the syndrome including "loss of concentration", "sleeping less than usual" and "lack of motivation" and a further four, which were weak predictors. There was a higher incidence of all perceived stress coping (PSC) indicators as well as statistically higher median scores for the majority of indicators in the experimental compared to the control group. Between the 1st and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy the median scores of all PSC indicators increased, as did seven in the postpartum period where a further two decreased and one remained constant. For the control group the median PSC scores between 3 and 6-month comparative time periods were all non-significant. For the experimental group, the association between total perceived stress coping scores and the severity scores for physical and psychological symptoms showed no statistically significant relationships at all which was surprising. Binary logistic regression revealed 5 perceived stress coping indicators as weak or unreliable predictors of the Couvade syndrome with low R2 values. Thus, the results support the existence of the Couvade syndrome and its time course, and the male partner's of pregnant women in the study confirmed symptoms as severe and distressing. In view of such findings, men's health needs should be accorded a greater profile within the realms of antenatal care as their health can affect pregnancy outcome. In addition, past problems with the syndrome's diagnosis should now be resolved with regression analysis identifying clear symptom predictors for its presence.
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Alfandari, Julia Yael and Baker, Jo and Atteya, Regula Amnah (2011) Defamation of Religions: International Developments and Challenges on the Ground. London: SOAS School of Law Research Paper No. 09/2011.
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This paper aims to provide a general overview of the current debate on religious defamation laws internationally, and to research and analyze the use and impact of the ‘defamation of religion’ concept and blasphemy laws on freedom of expression in three OIC member states. Part I of the paper will explore the evolution of the concept within the UN in three sections: Section One looks at the positions held by the OIC since the introduction of the initial resolution on defamation of religion at the UN; Section Two explores the counter positions held by NGOs and states in disagreement; and Section Three examines the treatment of this concept in other UN reports, namely from its committees and independent experts, as a measure of the current international consensus. Part II of this project is a study of three selected OIC member states: Algeria, Syria and Pakistan. In this section we present the national laws on religious defamation and blasphemy in each country, including amendments and contemporary moves towards reform. We then follow with a series of recent cases that have employed these laws in each of the three countries, and analyse the use of each in relation to the impact it had on freedom of expression, and other rights and freedoms enshrined in human rights law. By doing so we aim to identify whether the de facto prohibition of defamation relating to religion falls within the spirit of, or conversely is repugnant to each state’s obligations under international human rights law.
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10 Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment
Sunday, July 19th 2015. | Health
If you are interested to know the differences between visual impairment and blindness, you have to check Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment. Blindness is condition where the person completely loses his or her visual ability. On the other hand, the visual impairment is occurred when the ability of eyes to see objects decreases. Get more interesting facts about visual impairment and blindness below:
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 1: the causes of visual impairment
Let’s find out the causes of visual impairment. Those include trauma, stroke, brain problems and prematurity.
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 2: the rate
Based on the report in 2012, it was estimated that 39 million people were blind and 246 million people have low vision.
Blindness and Visual Impairment Facts
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 3: the people who have poor vision
Do you know that most people who have poor vision live in developing countries? Many of them are the people whose age is more than 50 years old. The main causes of poor vision in the developing world include the glaucoma, age related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 4: blindness
Cataract is considered as the most common cause of blindness. More than 22 million cases of blindness are caused by cataract.
Blindness and Visual Impairment Numbers
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 5: the causes of cataracts
Cataracts may occur for various causes such as the generically transmitted syndrome, metabolic disorders and intrauterine infections.
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 6: the risk of having cataracts
The risk of having cataracts is more common in adults than in children. After the age of 40, the risk of having cataracts is doubled. When the people are aging, the risk of having cataract is increased.
Blindness and Visual Impairment
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 7: pediatric glaucoma
The cataract removal surgery is considered as one of the most common causes of pediatric glaucoma. Find out another common disease in asthma facts.
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 8: the pregnancy related condition
The pregnancy related condition can be caused by the retinopathy of prematurity and congenital rubella syndrome.
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Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 9: traveling
It is no easy for the people who have serious visual impairment to travel alone. But it is possible for them to do it using different kinds of techniques and tools. The professional who can teach the blind people are the mobility and orientation specialists. Get facts about blindness here.
Facts about Blindness and Visual Impairment 10: the tools
The international symbol of blindness is the white cane with red tip. This tool is very important for the blind people for it can increase the mobility.
Do you have any questions on facts about blindness and visual impairment?
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My passion for music is just as strong, if not stronger than my love for reading and writing. So when I first heard about Matthew Jarpe’s debut novel “Radio Freefall”, I was instantly intrigued by its proposed blend of rock n’ roll and science fiction. To be honest, I wasn’t sure how the author was going to make such a combination work, but he did, and “Radio Freefall” could end up being one of my favorite SF novels of the year.
In a nutshell, “Radio Freefall” takes place in the early 2030s, revolving around Walter Cheeseman, head of WebCense which started out as a product to police the World Wide Web for parents and grew into Earth’s most ‘powerful transnational bureaucracy’ by controlling the flow of information. Mr. Cheeseman’s ultimate goal though is world domination, and the first step towards realizing that dream is Unification—one government, one language, one currency, etc. Playing the part of ‘hero’, are a couple of unlikely protagonists: Aqualung, an overweight musician in his early-fifties who’s just as talented with a guitar as he is with technology; and Quinn Taber, a brilliant computer nerd who is obsessed with getting revenge against Walter Cheeseman. Other characters and subplots include the band Snake Vendors and their meteoric rise to fame; Molly, an illegal AI (artificial intelligence) who is Taber’s partner-in-crime; Nationalists who oppose the Unification; a sentient virus called the Digital Carnivore that controls the entire web; crime lords & hitmen; a superintelligence developed by a company on the Moon; and Freefall, a massive space station that plays a key role in the overall story.
All in all, the future Earth that inhabits “Radio Freefall” is vividly rendered by Matthew Jarpe, especially the technologies—AIs, uplinking, reprogramming, holograms, memes that compel a human to commit suicide, engineered viruses used as recreational drugs, living on the Moon, Individual Identification Numbers, etc.—even though a lot of the concepts have already been explored in some variation or other by such authors as Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and William Gibson just to name a few. Partly because of that, but mainly because of my record industry background, I thought Mr. Jarpe’s futuristic music ideas were the most fascinating characteristics in the book, some of which included an underwater arena, Aqualung’s Machine which uses sound to manipulate the moods of a crowd during a live performance, a Feedback movement where bands give the people what they want by altering their music to match the peoples’ tastes & dispositions, an orbital concert, and gigs where individual band members from all across the globe can perform together through holographic projections. Besides the technological aspects, Jethro Tull, Buddy Holly, Les Paul, Kurt Cobain, Spin magazine, Woodstock, and so on are referenced; song lyrics are prominently featured throughout the novel; the fascination between rock stars & death is wittily explored; and other music-related topics are incorporated.
Of course there’s more to “Radio Freefall” than just rock n’ roll and science fiction; there’s a bit of crime noir injected into the mix—Who’s Aqualung? What’s his story? Where did the Digital Carnivore come from?—and a compelling political statement regarding individuality / diversity. As far as the writing, I was pretty impressed by Matthew Jarpe. The pacing was electric, the plot handled pretty smoothly apart from a few lackluster revelations, and I loved the main characters, especially Aqualung who I hope to see in future sequels, which is a strong possibility considering how the book ended ;) In short, I had a lot of fun with “Radio Freefall”, which melded music & science fiction in ways I had never imagined, and I truly believe that Matthew Jarpe is well on his way toward becoming a big-time writer…
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Tia Nevitt said...
I'm glad you reviewed this. I'll put an announcement over on my blog.
Tia, thanks for the linkage! "Radio Freefall" was a really fun book to read and I'd definitely recommend checking it out if you get the chance...
Fletch said...
Robert-
I would suggest Bradley Denton...
See his novels- "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede", and "Blackburn", - and also his 'shorts' collections- "One Day Closer to Death" and "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians".
Fletch. I appreciate the tips and will look into those titles! Much love & respect...
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SINGLES BAR 27
A round-up of recent EPs and singles
MERRY HELL will launch their eagerly awaited acoustic album, Anthems To The Wind, in a couple of months. Forget Costa del Folk, Wigan will be the place to be! To whet our appetites they have an EP, Bury Me Naked, led of by one of our favourite songs. The acoustic line-up has given them the opportunity to completely rearrange the song with Virginia Kettle’s voice well out front and what sounds like a barrel organ giving it a jolly lift. ‘Sailing Too Close To The Wind’ is based on acoustic guitar and ‘Drunken Serenade’ is given a ceilidh feel with Neil McCartney’s fiddle driving the song. The set is finished off with an anthemic ‘No Place Like Tomorrow’. Brilliant from start to finish.
www.merryhell.co.uk
‘The Durham Light Infantry’ is an old song by the mighty Whisky Priests. It has now been re-recorded by writer GARY MILLER and is now the lead single from his new project, From Coalfield To Battlefield. In this version Gary is accompanied by The Ferryhill Town Band brilliantly scored by Sam Lord and producer Iain Petrie. The single includes vocal and instrumental versions and is one of the very few occasions when an instrumental is the equal of the vocal version. There’s a gorgeous riff, if that’s the right word, that serves as a fill in the song and decorates the second version. Lovely stuff.
www.whippetrecords.com
Having self-produced his first two EPs, BEN MORGAN-BROWN has enlisted Josh Clark to oversee his third, Cold Rooms. You might think that a solo voice and guitar doesn’t require a huge amount of production but Josh has certainly got the best out of the Exeter based singer songwriter. The opening title track begins gently enough but Ben’s guitar rings underneath his voice while building up to a big finish. The instrumental, ‘I See That You’, is gorgeous with an almost retro feel as Ben finger-picks a low continuo while striking plangent top notes. There are some nice synth tones at the end of ‘No More Fooling’, too.
www.benmorganbrown.co.uk
DARWIN’S DAUGHTER is better known to her family as Fiona Ruth Hannon. She lives in Ireland and The Dark is her first EP. The first thing to say is that she has one hell of a voice which stands up well to the orchestra that tries to dominate the opening track, ‘Dark Fires’. It’s better when the production takes its foot off the gas and lets us hear the trio of Anthony Gibney, Max Greenwood and Kim V Porcelli – Greenwood’s piano played at the top end of the keyboard decorates beautifully.
https://www.darwinsdaughtermusic.com/what-we-do-1/
Eithne Ní Chatháin goes by the INNI-K which is a blessing for those of us who don’t have the Gaelic. Following her debut album, The King Has Two Horse’s Ears she releases a single, ‘Edges’, before going on tour. She’s impossible to categorise with her powerful voice, fiddle and electric guitar supported by double bass and percussion. We need to hear more.
http://www.inni-k.com/
KRIS WOODBIRD is something of an enigma. He lives n Stockholm and has released a number of singles over the last year of which ‘I Am A Boy’ is the latest. Very simple: just one voice and one voice, it’s desperately fragile with self-destructive overtones. He talks about smashing his head against a wall, being unworthy and living far away from home. A new album is expected this year.
https://www.kriswoodbird.com/
Posted on February 22, 2018 Author EditorCategories EP ReviewsTags Ben Morgan-Brown, Bury Me Naked, Cold Rooms, Darwin's Daughter, Edges, Ferryhill Town Band, Gary Miller, I Am A Boy, Inn-K, Kris Woodbird, Merry Hell, Singles Bar 27, The Dark, The Durham Light Infantry
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7th February – Clayton Donaldson
Clayton Donaldson has played a big part in Birmingham City’s revival this season under Gary Rowett and helped his side to a 1-1 draw with Fulham on his birthday but unfortunately could not add to his goal tally.
Now 31 it has been a long road for the 31 year old to reach the Championship but he has always scored goals at whatever club he has been at in England. It seemed like he made a bad decision leaving Brentford for Birmingham in the early months of the season but in recent weeks his new club have started playing much better.
The striker started his career at Hull City and scored on his debut on the 22nd October 2002 against Port Vale in the Football League Trophy. Shortly afterwards he joined Northern Premier League club Harrogate Town on loan and also scored on his debut for them against Gateshead. He spent three months at the club, scoring five times in 10 games. Back at his parent club he signed a new two year deal and made a further two appearances before the end of the season. After short loan spells at Scarborough and Halifax Town, he returned to Harrogate again on loan and had more success with the club, winning the Conference North Player of the Month in October 2004 and scored four times in 11 games before being released by his parent club.
In June 2005 Donaldson joined York City and had an impressive first season, finding the back of the net 18 times and being named Clubman of the Year. During his second season he was being linked with moves away from the club and this may have distracted for short periods and many clubs tabled bids for the striker but none were accepted. After 26 goals in the Conference he did leave York in the summer of 2007 and made the step up to the SPL and joined Hibernian. Donaldson got his first goal for the club after winning and scoring a penalty against Falkirk but was later sent off in the game. After serving his suspension he scored on his return against Motherwell and then later in the month got a hatrick against Kilmarnock.
During the second half of the season he was frozen out of the team and didn’t play leading to a transfer to Crewe Alexandra in the summer. He first season wasn’t as prolific as he hoped but he improved in his second season despite injuries and eventually in his third season he showed his true potential. He ended the campaign as League Two’s top scorer with 28 goals.
Once again his talents were seen by teams in higher leagues and on the 1st July 2011 he joined League One side Brentford. In each of his three seasons he hit double figures and was a constant threat to the opposition, ending his time there with over 50 goals but even though he helped them to promotion at the end of the 2013-14 season he declined their new contract offer and joined Birmingham. He is already in double figures so he has proved he can make the step up to the level and it will be interesting to see how far he can go.
The final word can go to Birmingham manager Gary Rowett. “He deserves his purple patch because he works so hard for the team. His role is pivotal to the way we play and he plays it brilliantly. He occupies defenders and all the players appreciate the role he does. He’s picking up goals as well and for me they’re bonuses.”
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14th September – Steven Naismith
Steven Naismith has been one of the surprising stars of the Premier League so far and now at the age of 27 he is getting towards the best years of his career.
Everton have had an indifferent start to the season but with their 2-0 victory over West Brom they will be hoping this is where things will get more consistent for them and they will battle for a place in the top four. Despite this being their only league win so far, they have also only lost one game and Naismith has been in excellent form, scoring in the first three games of the season against Leicester City, Chelsea and Arsenal.
The striker started his career at Kilmarnock and signed professionally in August 2002, then making his debut as a substitute against Hibernian on the 24th April 2004. He had to wait until February 2005 to score his first senior goal against Hearts in a 2-2 draw. It was in the 2005-06 season that he really began to make a name for himself as he won the SPL Young Player of the Month in August and January and then the SPL Player of the Month award in March.
He continued to be one of the best strikers in Scotland and was therefore linked with moves away from the club and after 115 games and 35 goals for Kilmarnock he moved onto Rangers on the 31st August 2007. His first season at the club started off well but a knee injury in April 2008 kept him out of action for eight months. After missing the majority of the following campaign he returned to help Rangers lift the Scottish Cup.
In the 2009-10 season he received his first SPL winners medal after the club won back to back titles but this time Naismith had played enough games to get one. He played 28 times in the league, scoring three times. While at Rangers he was used a lot as a wide player and this was part of the reason he did not score a lot of goals but the 2010-11 season he had his best goal return at the club, hitting the back of the net 15 times and winning the Players’ Player of the Year and Supporters Player of the Year.
The 2011-12 season could have been so much better for Naismith if it wasn’t cut short by injury. He started the season by scoring on the opening day against Hearts, and followed this up by scoring eight times in the first eight league games, including two against Celtic in a 4-2 win. After nine goals in 11 games he suffered a cruciate ligament injury and did not play for the club again.
Naismith joined Everton on the 4th July 2012 after Rangers had been liquidated. He made his debut as a substitute in a 1-0 win over Manchester United. He did not have the best first season as he was largely used as a substitute but he has the record of scoring the final goal of David Moyes’ reign at the club in a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea.
Under new manager Roberto Martinez he made a rare start against Chelsea in September 2013 and scored the game’s only goal. As the season progressed he became a more important member of the team and his good run of form coincided with Everton winning seven games on the bounce and also helping them to fifth place and also their highest point tally ever in the Premier League.
The final word can go to David Moyes. “He is an established international who can play in a number of positions. He will be an excellent addition to the players we already have and will hopefully prove to be very useful for us.”
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7th June – Lee Johnson
Lee Johnson is 33 today and is the youngest manager in England and has been in charge of Oldham Athletic since the 18th March 2013.
It is remarkable that a club would give the manager’s job to a 31 year old but he has achieved all his expectations and has proved to be a very good appointment. His dad, Gary, is also a football manager so he has obviously had a lot of help and always has someone to call when he needs someone to talk to about tactics and other areas of management.
Johnson had an interesting start to his football career as he left Arsenal after a falling out with one of the coaches at the club and was then signed by Watford but he could not break into their team and ended up at Brighton. While at Brighton he only played once in the Football League Trophy but he did manage to score a goal in the game against Cardiff City. In 2001 he joined his father’s team Yeovil Town in the Conference and while at the club he helped them gain promotion twice as they rose to League One. The player also began to have a growing reputation as he was getting better and better as the club got higher up the leagues and he won their Player of the Year award three years in a row.
After 191 league appearances for Yeovil he left in January 2006 to join Scottish Premier League side Hearts for £50,000 and manager Graham Rix was delighted with his signing. “He will bring enthusiasm, ability, he wants to play and he wants to get better. He is dynamic. He wants to get on the ball and make passes. He is full of energy and he is competitive.” His debut was memorable as it came in a 4-1 victory over Edinburgh rivals Hibernian. However Graham Rix was sacked soon after and Johnson only made one substitute appearance after he left.
In August 2006 he was reunited with his dad as he joined Bristol City and had a very good first season by helping them win promotion to the Championship. Johnson was a key figure in Bristol City’s run to the playoff final in the Championship, unfortunately they lost the game against Hull City but the player’s reputation had grown and he was one of standout players in the division.
He remained a key member of the squad for many years but in 2010 he was loaned out to Derby County for a month and played four times for the club before returning to his parent club. He also had a brief loan spell at Chesterfield before leaving the club permanently in January 2012.
Johnson signed a two and half year deal with Kilmarnock in the SPL and he played a crucial part in the Scottish League Cup final as he set up the only goal of the game against Celtic and picked up a winners medal just a little over a month after signing for the club. Less than a year later though he decided to leave the club and was soon appointed the manager of Oldham.
His first game in charge was a 3-0 win over Hartlepool United which lifted the club out of the relegation zone and they successfully avoided relegation. His most important victory was over his dad as his team beat promotion chasing Yeovil Town towards the end of the season which must have been a great moment for the younger Johnson.
In the summer he had time to change the style of the club and the fans took to it warmly as they were playing fast attacking football and they received many plaudits for the way they played. However, a lot of the time they were seen as admirable losers after not getting the results they deserved but they did finish the season with a 10 match unbeaten run and finished the season in 15th place. Johnson was rewarded with a new three year contract by the board.
The final word can go to his dad Gary. “Over the years, he has been on all the courses. He’s gone out and met a lot of coaches, he’s been to Barcelona all off his own back and at his own expense. He just wants to learn, he’s like a sponge as far as wanting to take things in.”
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27th May – Paul Gascoigne
Paul Gascoigne is one of the greatest players England have ever produced and in terms of natural talent not many have even come close.
He provided so many good memories for football fans in the 90s ranging from his impressive World Cup showing at Italia 90 to that goal against Scotland at Euro 96. Although he has been in the headlines for the wrong reasons since his retirement it should not be this that he is remembered for as he was a wonderful player.
Gazza started his career at Newcastle United and was a special talent from an early age as he captained the youth team as they won the Youth Cup in 1985 with him scoring twice in the final. He was soon quickly promoted to the first team and Jack Charlton gave him his debut on the 13th April 1985 against QPR. But it was Willie McFaul that gave him his first start on the opening day of the new season. He scored his first goal a few weeks later against Oxford United and impressed for the entire season, scoring another eight goals.
Newcastle struggled in the next season but Gazza still managed to score five times in 24 league games and was vital in helping the club avoid relegation. The season after though was his best personally, as he was named the PFA Young Player of the Year and was in the PFA Team of the Year and in the summer he moved to Tottenham Hotspur for a British record of £2.2 million.
In his first season he scored seven times in 37 league games and helped the club reach sixth place. They then rose to the third place the season after and he was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1990 and also Tottenham’s Player of the Year. In the 1990-91 season he played a key part in helping the club win the FA Cup as he scored six times in the competition, including one against Arsenal in the semi final. However, an injury in the final meant that he would miss the entire 1991-92 season.
Lazio had already agreed a deal to sign the midfielder and they eventually got their man for £5.5 million. He was loved by the Lazio fans because he scored an 89th minute equaliser against fierce rivals Roma but he did have a tough time in Italy and did not settle well. Despite this he helped them qualify for Europe for the first time in 16 years. Over the next two seasons he struggled with injuries and in July 1995 he joined Rangers for £4.3 million.
And he once again became a club legend by scoring in the Old Firm Derby, it was an extraordinary goal as he ran almost the full length of the pitch before scoring. Rangers won the league that season and he scored a hatrick against Aberdeen to clinch the title. They also went on to win the Scottish Cup and Gascoigne finished the season with 19 goals.
Rangers won the title again in the 1996-97 season and Gascoigne scored hatricks against Kilmarnock and Motherwell and finished the year with an impressive 17 goals in 34 appearances. He also scored twice in the League Cup final victory over Hearts. His last season at the club was less successful as Rangers lost their title and didn’t win their single trophy which led to the player moving back to England, this time joining Middlesbrough for £3.45 million.
It started well for him as he helped them get promotion back to the Premier League and was then even more impressive in helping them finish sixth in their first season back but unfortunately his form did not last and he eventually left the club and joined Everton.
He started well but only played 32 league games for the club, scoring one goal which turned out to be his last in England away to Bolton Wanderers. He left the club in March 2002 and ended the season at Burnley where he made six appearances but they narrowly missed out on the playoffs and he left after just two months. Gascoigne then had a short spell in China playing for Gansu Tianma and started off well by scoring twice in his first four games but troubles off the pitch meant he had to leave. His last club was League Two Boston United but after only playing five times in three months he decided to retire.
The final word can go to Sir Alex Ferguson who has admitted he wished he signed the player. “He was a fantastic footballer. He was the best player England produced since the days of Bobby Charlton. He was the best player of his era, a breath of fresh air because he played with a smile.”
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Lawson Crouse
Lawson Crouse (born June 23, 1997) is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was part of the Canadian gold medal-winning team at the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Crouse was the Florida Panthers' first round selection in the 2015 NHL Draft and was traded to the Coyotes in August 2016.
(1997-06-23) June 23, 1997 (age 22)
Mount Brydges, Ontario, Canada[1]
215 lb (98 kg; 15 st 5 lb)
NHL team
11th overall, 2015
Lawson was born and raised in Mount Brydges, Ontario.[2] He is the youngest of three children and has two sisters, Sara and Kyla.[2][3] His sister Kyla plays hockey at Queen's University.[2][3] His father Mike coached him throughout his minor hockey career, and mother Kristen is a principal.[4]
Playing careerEdit
JuniorEdit
Kingston Frontenacs (2013-2016)Edit
Crouse was selected by the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in the first round, fifth overall, in the 2013 OHL Priority Selection. In the 2013–14 season, Crouse appeared in his first career OHL game on September 19, 2013, scoring his first career goal in that game against Andrew D'Agostini in the Frontenacs 11–4 win over the Peterborough Petes. On October 4, 2013, Crouse recorded his first multi-goal game of his junior career, scoring twice in a 7–4 win over the Ottawa 67's. On March 4, 2014, Crouse had a season high four point game, scoring two goals and adding two assists, as Kingston lost to the Barrie Colts 7–5. Overall, Crouse finished the 2013–14 season with 15 goals and 27 points in 63 games, helping the Frontenacs into the playoffs. In seven post-season games, Crouse was limited to one assist, as the Frontenacs were upset by the Peterborough Petes in the first round.
Crouse improved during his second season with the Fronteancs in 2014–15. He recorded his first career OHL hat-trick on November 28, 2014, scoring three goals against goaltender Dawson Carty of the Kitchener Rangers in a 5–0 Frontenacs victory. He played in 56 games with Kingston, scoring 29 goals and 51 points. On March 29, 2015, Crouse scored his first career OHL playoff goal against Jake Smith of the North Bay Battalion in a 3-2 loss. Overall, in four playoff games, Crouse scored two goals and three points, as the Frontenacs were swept by the Battalion in the Eastern Conference quarter-finals.
Crouse returned to the Frontenacs for a third season in 2015–16, and Crouse once again saw an improvement in his offensive numbers. On March 5, he scored a hat-trick (as well as adding one assist) in a 7–2 win over the Flint Firebirds. Overall, in 49 games, he scored 23 goals and 62 points. Crouse opened the post-season with a three point game, scoring a goal and adding two assists in a 6-0 win over the Oshawa Generals. On March 26, Crouse scored his first multi-goal playoff game, scoring twice against Justin Nichols of the Oshawa Generals in a 7-3 win. In nine post-season games, Crouse scored seven goals and 11 points, as Kingston lost to the Niagara IceDogs in the Eastern Conference semi-finals.
ProfessionalEdit
Crouse was drafted 11th overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft by the Florida Panthers. On July 15, 2015, the Panthers signed Crouse to a three-year, entry-level contract.[5]
The Panthers assigned Crouse to his junior hockey team, the Kingston Frontenacs, for the 2015–16 season. When the Frontenacs were eliminated from the OHL playoffs, Florida assigned Crouse to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Portland Pirates, for the remainder of the season. In his first career AHL game, Crouse was held off the scoresheet in a 3–2 loss to the Springfield Falcons. Overall, he appeared in two games with the Pirates, scoring no points.
Arizona CoyotesEdit
On August 25, 2016, Crouse was traded (along with Dave Bolland) to the Arizona Coyotes for a conditional second-round pick in 2017 and a third-round pick in 2018.[6] Following an impressive training camp and pre-season, Crouse made the Coyotes regular season roster. On October 15, Crouse made his NHL debut, as he was held off the score sheet in a 4–3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. On November 1, Crouse scored his first career NHL goal against Martin Jones of the San Jose Sharks in a 3–2 win.[7] On January 31, Crouse recorded his first career multi-point game, earning two assists in a 3–2 loss to the Los Angeles Kings.[8] Crouse finished his rookie season by appearing in 72 games, scoring 5 goals and 12 points.
Crouse began the 2017–18 season with the Coyotes. However, after struggling during the early part of the season, Crouse was reassigned to the Coyotes' AHL affiliate, the Tucson Roadrunners.[9] In Tucson, Crouse earned an assist in his first game, as the Roadrunners defeated the Iowa Wild 4–1 on October 27. On November 11, Crouse scored his first two goals of the season in a 4–1 win over the Bakersfield Condors. Later in the season, Crouse recorded his first career three point game in the AHL, scoring two goals and an assist in a 5–3 win against the San Diego Gulls. In 56 games with the Roadrunners, Crouse scored 15 goals and 32 points. In the playoffs, Crouse appeared in his first career AHL playoff game on April 19, earning an assist in a 4–2 win over the San Jose Barracuda. In game three of the series, on April 25, Crouse scored his first career AHL playoff goal against Antoine Bibeau of the Barracuda in a 6–0 Roadrunners victory.
Crouse played the entire 2018-19 season with Arizona, appearing in 81 games, while scoring an NHL career high 11 goals and 25 points. Crouse also accumulated a team high in penalty minutes with 67.
On June 2, 2019, Crouse, a restricted free agent, re-signed with the Coyotes on a 3-year, $4.6 million contract, worth an average annual value of $1.53 million.
Regular season and playoffsEdit
2012–13 St. Thomas Stars GOJHL 5 0 1 1 0 — — — — —
2013–14 Kingston Frontenacs OHL 63 15 12 27 64 7 0 3 3 7
2014–15 Kingston Frontenacs OHL 56 29 22 51 70 4 2 1 3 18
2015–16 Kingston Frontenacs OHL 49 23 39 62 56 9 7 4 11 2
2015–16 Portland Pirates AHL 2 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2016–17 Arizona Coyotes NHL 72 5 7 12 48 — — — — —
2017–18 Arizona Coyotes NHL 11 1 0 1 7 — — — — —
2017–18 Tucson Roadrunners AHL 56 15 17 32 70 9 2 6 8 2
2018–19 Arizona Coyotes NHL 81 11 14 25 67 — — — — —
NHL totals
AHL totals
OHL totals
Medal record
Representing
IIHF World U18 Championship
2014 Canada Ontario U17 5th 5 2 2 4 0
2014 Canada IH18
2014 Canada WJC18
2015 Canada WJC
2016 Canada WJC 6th 5 2 3 5 2
Junior totals
Awards and honoursEdit
Second All-Rookie Team 2014 [10]
IIHF World U20 Championships Gold Medal 2015
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^ a b Maloney, Patrick (July 10, 2013). "Mt. Brydges siblings taking separate hockey paths". The London Free Press. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
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^ "Panthers trade Dave Bolland, Lawson Crouse to Coyotes for picks". CBC News. August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
"Prince Philip" redirects here. For other uses, see Prince Philip (disambiguation).
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Philip in March 2015
Consort of the British monarch
6 February 1952 – present
Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark
(1921-06-10) 10 June 1921 (age 98)
Mon Repos, Corfu,
Elizabeth II (m. 1947)
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Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
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Princess Alice of Battenberg
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Commands held
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HM The Queen
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HRH Princess Beatrice of York
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark,[1] 10 June 1921),[fn 1] is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was an infant. After being educated in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth, whom he had first met in 1934. During the Second World War he served with distinction in the Mediterranean and Pacific Fleets.
After the war, Philip was granted permission by George VI to marry Elizabeth. Before the official announcement of their engagement in July 1947, he abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles and became a naturalised British subject, adopting the surname Mountbatten from his maternal grandparents. He married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947. Just before the wedding, he was created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich. Philip left active military service when Elizabeth became queen in 1952, having reached the rank of commander, and was formally made a British prince in 1957.
Philip and Elizabeth have four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. Through a British Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of the couple not bearing royal styles and titles can use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor, which has also been used by some members of the royal family who do hold titles, such as Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward.
A keen sports enthusiast, Philip helped develop the equestrian event of carriage driving. He is a patron, president or member of over 780 organisations and serves as chairman of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award for people aged 14 to 24.[2] He is the longest-serving consort of a reigning British monarch and the oldest ever male member of the British royal family. Philip retired from his royal duties on 2 August 2017, at the age of 96, having completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952.
2.2 Naval and wartime service
3 Marriage
4 Consort of the Queen
4.1 Royal house
4.2 Duties and milestones
4.2.1 Charles and Diana
4.2.2 21st century
4.3 Retirement
5 Personality and image
6 Portrayals in film and literature
8 Titles, styles, honours and arms
8.1 Honours and honorary military appointments
8.2 Arms
10 Ancestry
Mon Repos, Philip's birthplace
Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born in Mon Repos on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921, the only son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg.[3] Philip's four elder sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophie. He was baptised in the Greek Orthodox rite at St. George's Church in the Old Fortress in Corfu. His godparents were his paternal grandmother Queen Olga of Greece, represented by Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, and Alexandros S. Kokotos, the Mayor of Corfu, representing the people of Corfu.[4][unreliable source?]
Shortly after Philip's birth, his maternal grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg, then known as Louis Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, died in London. Louis was a naturalised British citizen, who, after a career in the Royal Navy, had renounced his German titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten—an Anglicized version of Battenberg—during the First World War, owing to anti-German sentiment in Great Britain. After visiting London for the memorial, Philip and his mother returned to Greece where Prince Andrew had remained behind to command an army division embroiled in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).[5]
The war went badly for Greece, and the Turks made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, King Constantine I, was forced to abdicate and the new military government arrested Prince Andrew, along with others. The commander of the army, General Georgios Hatzianestis, and five senior politicians were executed. Prince Andrew's life was believed to be in danger, and Alice was under surveillance. In December, a revolutionary court banished Prince Andrew from Greece for life.[6] The British naval vessel HMS Calypso evacuated Prince Andrew's family, with Philip carried to safety in a cot made from a fruit box. Philip's family went to France, where they settled in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud in a house lent to them by his wealthy aunt, Princess George of Greece and Denmark.[7]
Because Philip left Greece as a baby, he does not have a strong grasp of the Greek language. In 1992, he said that he "could understand a certain amount".[8] Philip has stated that he thought of himself as Danish, and his family spoke English, French, and German.[8] Philip, who in his youth was known for his charm, was linked to a number of women, including Osla Benning.[9]
Youth[edit]
Philip studied at Gordonstoun School, Scotland.
Philip was first educated at The Elms,[10] an American school in Paris run by Donald MacJannet, who described Philip as a "know it all smarty person, but always remarkably polite".[11] In 1928, he was sent to the United Kingdom to attend Cheam School, living with his maternal grandmother, Victoria Mountbatten, Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, at Kensington Palace and his uncle, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire.[12] In the next three years, his four sisters married German princes and moved to Germany, his mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and placed in an asylum,[13] and his father took up residence in Monte Carlo.[14] Philip had little contact with his mother for the remainder of his childhood.[15] In 1933, he was sent to Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, which had the "advantage of saving school fees" because it was owned by the family of his brother-in-law, Berthold, Margrave of Baden.[16] With the rise of Nazism in Germany, Salem's Jewish founder, Kurt Hahn, fled persecution and founded Gordonstoun School in Scotland, which Philip moved to after two terms at Salem.[17] In 1937, his sister Cecilie, her husband Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, her two young sons, Ludwig and Alexander, her newborn infant, and her mother-in-law, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, were killed in an air crash at Ostend; Philip, then 16 years old, attended the funeral in Darmstadt.[18] The following year, his uncle and guardian Lord Milford Haven died of bone marrow cancer.[19]
Naval and wartime service[edit]
After leaving Gordonstoun in early 1939, Philip completed a term as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, then repatriated to Greece, living with his mother in Athens for a month in mid-1939. At the behest of the Greek king, George II, he returned to Britain in September to resume training for the Royal Navy.[20] He graduated from Dartmouth the next year as the best cadet in his course.[21] During the Second World War, he continued to serve in the British forces, while two of his brothers-in-law, Prince Christoph of Hesse and Berthold, Margrave of Baden, fought on the opposing German side.[22] Philip was appointed as a midshipman in January 1940. He spent four months on the battleship HMS Ramillies, protecting convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian Ocean, followed by shorter postings on HMS Kent, on HMS Shropshire, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).[23] After the invasion of Greece by Italy in October 1940, he was transferred from the Indian Ocean to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet.[24]
Philip served aboard HMS Valiant in the Battle of the Mediterranean.
On 1 February 1941,[25] he was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant after a series of courses at Portsmouth, in which he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the qualifying examination.[26] Among other engagements, he was involved in the Battle of Crete, and was mentioned in dispatches for his service during the Battle of Cape Matapan,[10] in which he controlled the battleship's searchlights. He was also awarded the Greek War Cross of Valour.[21] More ordinary duties included stoking the boilers of the troop transport ship RMS Empress of Russia.[27] In June 1942, he was appointed to the V and W-class destroyer and flotilla leader HMS Wallace, which was involved in convoy escort tasks on the east coast of Britain, as well as the Allied invasion of Sicily.[28]
Promotion to lieutenant followed on 16 July 1942.[29] In October of the same year, he became first lieutenant of HMS Wallace, at 21 years old one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy. During the invasion of Sicily, in July 1943, as second in command of HMS Wallace, he saved his ship from a night bomber attack. He devised a plan to launch a raft with smoke floats that successfully distracted the bombers, allowing the ship to slip away unnoticed.[28] In 1944, he moved on to the new destroyer, HMS Whelp, where he saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla.[30][31] He was present in Tokyo Bay when the instrument of Japanese surrender was signed. Philip returned to the United Kingdom on the Whelp in January 1946, and was posted as an instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire.[32]
Marriage[edit]
Further information: Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten
Philip's monogram
In 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the visit, the Queen and Louis Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark.[33] Elizabeth fell in love with Philip, and they began to exchange letters when she was 13.[34]
Eventually, in the summer of 1946, Philip asked the King for his daughter's hand in marriage. The King granted his request, provided that any formal engagement be delayed until Elizabeth's 21st birthday the following April.[35] By March 1947, Philip had abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles, had adopted the surname Mountbatten from his mother's family, and had become a naturalised British subject. The engagement was announced to the public on 10 July 1947.[36]
Though Philip appeared "always to have regarded himself as an Anglican",[37] and he had attended Anglican services with his classmates and relations in England and throughout his Royal Navy days, he had been baptised in the Greek Orthodox Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, wanted to "regularise" Philip's position by officially receiving him into the Church of England,[38] which he did in October 1947.[39]
The day before the wedding, King George VI bestowed the style of Royal Highness on Philip and, on the morning of the wedding, 20 November 1947, he was made the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich of Greenwich in the County of London.[40] Consequently, being already a Knight of the Garter, between 19 and 20 November 1947 he bore the unusual style His Royal Highness Sir Philip Mountbatten, and is so described in the Letters Patent of 20 November 1947.[40]
Philip and Elizabeth were married in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, recorded and broadcast by BBC radio to 200 million people around the world.[41] However, in post-war Britain, it was not acceptable for any of the Duke of Edinburgh's German relations to be invited to the wedding, including Philip's three surviving sisters, all of whom had married German princes. After their marriage, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born before Elizabeth succeeded her father as monarch in 1952: Prince Charles in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950. Their marriage is now the longest of any British monarch.[42][43]
Philip was introduced to the House of Lords on 21 July 1948,[44] immediately before his uncle Louis Mountbatten, who had been made Earl Mountbatten of Burma.[45] Philip, like his sons Charles and Andrew and other royals, ceased to be members of the House of Lords following the House of Lords Act 1999. He never spoke in the House.
After his honeymoon at the Mountbatten family home, Broadlands, Philip returned to the navy at first in a desk job at the Admiralty, and later on a staff course at the Naval Staff College, Greenwich.[46] From 1949, he was stationed in Malta (residing at Villa Guardamangia) after being posted as the first lieutenant of the destroyer HMS Chequers, the lead ship of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean Fleet.[47] On 16 July 1950, he was promoted to lieutenant commander and given command of the frigate HMS Magpie.[48][49] On 30 June 1952, Philip was promoted to commander,[50] though his active naval career had ended in July 1951.[51][52]
With the King in ill health, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh were both appointed to the Privy Council on 4 November 1951, after a coast-to-coast tour of Canada. At the end of January 1952, Philip and his wife set out on a tour of the Commonwealth. On 6 February 1952, they were in Kenya when Elizabeth's father died and she became queen. It was Philip who broke the news to Elizabeth at Sagana Lodge, and the royal party immediately returned to the United Kingdom.[53]
Consort of the Queen[edit]
Royal house[edit]
Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II with the Duke of Edinburgh, June 1953
The accession of Elizabeth to the throne brought up the question of the name of the royal house, as Elizabeth would typically have taken Philip's last name on marriage. The Duke's uncle, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, advocated the name House of Mountbatten. Philip suggested House of Edinburgh, after his ducal title.[54] When Queen Mary, Elizabeth's grandmother, heard of this, she informed the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who himself later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declaring that the royal house was to remain known as the House of Windsor. Prince Philip privately complained, "I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children."[55]
On 8 February 1960, several years after the death of Queen Mary and the resignation of Churchill, the Queen issued an Order in Council declaring that Mountbatten-Windsor would be the surname of her and her husband's male-line descendants who are not styled as Royal Highness or titled as Prince or Princess.[56] While it seems the Queen had "absolutely set her heart" on such a change and had it in mind for some time, it occurred only 11 days before the birth of Prince Andrew (19 February), and only after three months of protracted correspondence between constitutional expert Edward Iwi (who averred that, without such a change, the royal child would be born with "the Badge of Bastardy") and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan who had attempted to rebuff Iwi.[57]
After her accession to the throne, the Queen also announced that the Duke was to have "place, pre-eminence and precedence" next to her "on all occasions and in all meetings, except where otherwise provided by Act of Parliament". This meant the Duke took precedence over his son, the Prince of Wales, except, officially, in the British parliament. In fact, however, he attends Parliament only when escorting the Queen for the annual State Opening of Parliament, where he walks and sits beside her.[58] Contrary to rumours over the years, the Queen and Duke are said by insiders to have had a strong relationship throughout their marriage, despite the challenges of Elizabeth's reign.[59][60] The Queen referred to Prince Philip in a speech on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 as her "constant strength and guide".[60]
Prince Philip receives a Parliamentary annuity (of £359,000 since 1990[fn 2]) that serves to meet official expenses in carrying out public duties. The annuity is unaffected by the reform of royal finances under the Sovereign Grant Act 2011.[61][62] Any part of the allowance that is not used to meet official expenditure is liable for tax. In practice, the entire allowance is used to fund his official duties.[63]
Duties and milestones[edit]
As consort to the Queen, Philip supported his wife in her new duties as sovereign, accompanying her to ceremonies such as the State Opening of Parliament in various countries, state dinners, and tours abroad. As Chairman of the Coronation Commission, he was the first member of the royal family to fly in a helicopter, visiting the troops that were to take part in the ceremony.[64] Philip was not crowned in the service, but knelt before Elizabeth, with her hands enclosing his, and swore to be her "liege man of life and limb".[65]
In Queensland, Australia, 1954
In the early 1950s, his sister-in-law, Princess Margaret, considered marrying a divorced older man, Peter Townsend. The press accused Philip of being hostile to the match, to which he replied "I haven't done anything." Philip had not interfered, preferring to stay out of other people's love lives.[66] Eventually, Margaret and Townsend parted. For six months, over 1953–54, Philip and Elizabeth toured the Commonwealth; as with previous tours the children were left in Britain.[67]
In 1956, the Duke, with Kurt Hahn, founded The Duke of Edinburgh's Award in order to give young people "a sense of responsibility to themselves and their communities". In the same year, he also established the Commonwealth Study Conferences. From 1956 to 1957, Philip travelled around the world aboard the newly commissioned HMY Britannia, during which he opened the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and visited the Antarctic, becoming the first royal to cross the Antarctic Circle.[68] The Queen and the children remained in the UK. On the return leg of the journey, Philip's private secretary, Mike Parker, was sued for divorce by his wife. As with Townsend, the press still portrayed divorce as a scandal and eventually Parker resigned. He later said that the Duke was very supportive and "the Queen was wonderful throughout. She regarded divorce as a sadness, not a hanging offence."[69] In a public show of support, the Queen created Parker a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.[70]
Further press reports claimed that the Queen and the Duke were drifting apart, which enraged the Duke and dismayed the Queen, who issued a strongly worded denial.[71] On 22 February 1957, she granted her husband the style and title of a Prince of the United Kingdom by Letters Patent, and it was gazetted that he was to be known as "His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh".[72] Philip was appointed to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on 14 October 1957, taking his Oath of Allegiance before the Queen in person at her Canadian residence, Rideau Hall.[73] Remarks he made two years later to the Canadian Medical Association on the subject of youth and sport were taken as a suggestion that Canadian children were out of shape. This was at first considered "tactless", but Philip was later admired for his encouragement of physical fitness.[74] In Canada in 1969, Philip spoke about his views on republicanism:
It is a complete misconception to imagine that the monarchy exists in the interests of the monarch. It doesn't. It exists in the interests of the people. If at any time any nation decides that the system is unacceptable, then it is up to them to change it.[75]
Visiting Salford University in 1967
Philip is patron of some 800 organisations, particularly focused on the environment, industry, sport, and education. His first solo engagement as Duke of Edinburgh was in March 1948, presenting prizes at the boxing finals of the London Federation of Boys' Clubs at the Royal Albert Hall.[76] He was President of the National Playing Fields Association (now known as Fields in Trust) for 64 years, from 1947 until his grandson Prince William took over the role in 2013.[77] He served as UK President of the World Wildlife Fund from 1961 to 1982, International President from 1981, and President Emeritus from 1996.[68] In 1952, he became patron of The Industrial Society (since renamed The Work Foundation).[10] He was President of the International Equestrian Federation from 1964 to 1986,[78] and has served as Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Salford, and Wales.[79] In 2017, the British Heart Foundation thanked Prince Philip for being its patron for 55 years, during which time, in addition to organising fundraisers, he "supported the creation of nine BHF-funded centres of excellence".[80] He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.[81]
Charles and Diana[edit]
Philip in 1992
At the beginning of 1981, Philip wrote to his eldest son, Charles, counselling him to make up his mind to either propose to Lady Diana Spencer or break off their courtship.[82] Charles felt pressured by his father to make a decision and did so, proposing to Diana in February.[83] They married five months later. By 1992, the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales had broken down. The Queen and Philip hosted a meeting between Charles and Diana, trying to effect a reconciliation, but without success.[84] Philip wrote to Diana, expressing his disappointment at both Charles's and her extra-marital affairs, and asking her to examine both his and her behaviour from the other's point of view.[85] She found the letters hard to take, but nevertheless appreciated that he was acting with good intent.[86] Charles and Diana separated and later divorced.
A year after the divorce, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997. At the time, the Duke was on holiday at Balmoral with the extended royal family. In their grief, Diana's two sons, Princes William and Harry, wanted to attend church and so their grandparents took them that morning.[87] For five days, the Queen and the Duke shielded their grandsons from the ensuing press interest by keeping them at Balmoral, where they could grieve in private.[87] The royal family's seclusion caused public dismay,[87] but the public mood changed after a live broadcast made by the Queen on 5 September.[88] Uncertain as to whether they should walk behind her coffin during the funeral procession, Diana's sons hesitated.[88] Philip told William, "If you don't walk, I think you'll regret it later. If I walk, will you walk with me?"[88] On the day of the funeral, Philip, William, Harry, Charles, and Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, walked through London behind her bier.
Over the next few years, Mohamed Fayed, whose son Dodi Fayed was also killed in the crash, claimed that Prince Philip had ordered the death of Diana and that the accident was staged. The inquest into the Princess of Wales's death concluded in 2008 that there was no evidence of a conspiracy.[89]
21st century[edit]
During his wife's Golden Jubilee in 2002, the Duke was commended by the Speaker of the British House of Commons for his role in supporting the Queen during her reign. The Duke of Edinburgh's time as royal consort exceeds that of any other consort in British history;[90] however, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (his mother-in-law), who died aged 101, has had the longest lifespan to date. Philip is also the oldest ever male member of the British royal family, and the third longest-lived following Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[91]
In April 2008, Philip was admitted to King Edward VII's Hospital for "assessment and treatment" for a chest infection, though he walked into the hospital unaided and recovered quickly,[92] and was discharged three days later to recuperate at Windsor Castle.[93] In August, the Evening Standard reported that he was suffering from prostate cancer. Buckingham Palace, which usually refuses to comment on rumours of ill health, claimed that the report was an invasion of privacy and issued a statement denying the story.[94] The newspaper retracted the report and admitted it was untrue.[95][96]
In June 2011, in an interview marking his 90th birthday he said that he would now slow down and reduce his duties, stating that he had "done [his] bit".[97] His wife, the Queen, gave him the title Lord High Admiral for his 90th birthday.[98] While staying at Sandringham House, the royal residence in Norfolk, on 23 December 2011, the Duke suffered chest pains and was taken to the cardio-thoracic unit at Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, where he underwent successful coronary angioplasty and stenting.[99] He was discharged on 27 December.[100]
On the balcony of Buckingham Palace, 2012
On 4 June 2012, during the celebrations in honour of his wife's Diamond Jubilee, Philip was taken from Windsor Castle to the King Edward VII Hospital, London, suffering from a bladder infection.[101][102] He was released from hospital on 9 June.[103] After a recurrence of infection in August 2012, while staying at Balmoral Castle, he was admitted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for five nights as a precautionary measure.[104] In June 2013, Philip was admitted to the London Clinic for an exploratory operation on his abdomen, spending 11 days in hospital.[105] On 21 May 2014, the Prince appeared in public with a bandage on his right hand after a "minor procedure" was performed in Buckingham Palace the preceding day.[106] In June 2017, he was taken from Windsor to London and admitted to King Edward VII Hospital after being diagnosed with an infection.[107] He spent two nights in the hospital and was unable to attend the State Opening of Parliament and Royal Ascot.[108][109]
Retirement[edit]
Prince Philip retired from his royal duties on 2 August 2017, meeting Royal Marines in his final solo public engagement, aged 96. Since 1952 he had completed 22,219 solo engagements. Prime Minister Theresa May thanked him for "a remarkable lifetime of service".[110][111] On 20 November 2017, he celebrated his 70th wedding anniversary with the Queen, which made her the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum wedding anniversary.[112]
On 3 April 2018, Philip was admitted to the King Edward VII Hospital for a planned hip replacement, which took place the next day. This came after the Duke missed the annual Maundy and Easter Sunday services. On 12 April his daughter, Princess Anne, spent about 50 minutes in the hospital and afterwards said her father was "on good form". He was discharged the following day.[113] On 19 May, six weeks later, he attended the wedding of his grandson Prince Harry to Meghan Markle and was able to walk with the Queen unaided.[114] That October, he accompanied the Queen to the wedding of their granddaughter Princess Eugenie to Jack Brooksbank,[115] with The Telegraph reporting that Philip works on a "wake up and see how I feel" basis when deciding whether to attend an event or not.[116]
On 17 January 2019, 97-year-old Philip was involved in a car crash as he pulled out onto a main road near the Sandringham Estate. An official statement said he was uninjured. An eyewitness who came to the prince's aid described having to wipe blood off his hands.[117] The driver and a passenger of the other car were injured and taken to hospital.[118] Philip attended hospital the next morning as a precaution.[119] He apologised,[120] and three weeks later voluntarily surrendered his driving licence.[121][122] On 14 February the Crown Prosecution Service announced that prosecuting Philip would not be in the public interest.[123] The Duke is still allowed to drive around private estates, and was seen behind the wheel in the grounds of Windsor Castle in April 2019.[124]
Personality and image[edit]
Philip at the World Championship Coach-and-fours, 1982
Philip played polo until 1971, when he started to compete in carriage driving, a sport which he helped expand; the early rule book was drafted under his supervision.[125] He was a keen yachtsman, striking up a friendship in 1949 with Uffa Fox in Cowes. He and the Queen regularly attended Cowes Week in HMY Britannia. His first airborne flying lesson took place in 1952; by his 70th birthday he had accrued 5,150 pilot hours.[126] He was presented with Royal Air Force wings in 1953.[127] In April 2014, it was reported that an old British Pathe newsreel film had been discovered of Philip's 1962 two-month flying tour of South America. Filmed sitting alongside Philip at the aircraft's controls was his co-pilot Captain Peter Middleton, the grandfather of the Duke's granddaughter-in-law, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.[128][129]
Her Majesty the Queen at Breakfast painted by her husband in 1957. Biographer Robert Lacey described the painting as "a tender portrayal, impressionistic in style, with brushstrokes that are charmingly soft and fuzzy".[130]
He has painted with oils, and collected artworks, including contemporary cartoons, which hang at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Sandringham House, and Balmoral Castle. Hugh Casson described Philip's own artwork as "exactly what you'd expect ... totally direct, no hanging about. Strong colours, vigorous brushstrokes."[131]
His down-to-earth manner was attested to by a White House butler who recalled that, on a visit in 1979, Philip had engaged him and a fellow butler in a conversation, and poured them drinks.[132] As well as a reputation for bluntness and plain speaking,[133] Philip is noted for occasionally making observations and jokes that have been construed as either funny, or as gaffes: awkward, politically incorrect or even offensive, but sometimes perceived as stereotypical of someone of his age and background.[134][135][136][137][138] In an address to the General Dental Council in 1960, he jokingly coined a new word for his blunders: "Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practised for a good many years."[139] Later in life he suggested his comments may have contributed to the perception that he is "a cantankerous old sod".[140]
The historian David Starkey described him as a kind of "HRH Victor Meldrew".[141] For example, in May 1999 British newspapers accused Philip of insulting deaf children at a pop concert in Wales by saying, "No wonder you are deaf listening to this row."[142] Later Philip wrote, "The story is largely invention. It so happens that my mother was quite seriously deaf and I have been Patron of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf for ages, so it's hardly likely that I would do any such thing."[143] When he and the Queen met Stephen Menary, an army cadet blinded by an IRA bomb, and the Queen enquired how much sight he retained, Philip quipped: "Not a lot, judging by the tie he's wearing." Menary later said: "I think he just tries to put people at ease by trying to make a joke. I certainly didn't take any offence."[144]
During a state visit to China in 1986, in a private conversation with British students from Xi'an's North West University, Philip joked, "If you stay here much longer, you'll go slit-eyed."[145] The British press reported on the remark as indicative of racial intolerance, but the Chinese authorities were reportedly unconcerned. Chinese students studying in the UK, an official explained, were often told in jest not to stay away too long, lest they go "round-eyed".[146] His comment had no effect on Sino-British relations, but it shaped his own reputation.[147]
Portrayals in film and literature[edit]
Philip has been portrayed by several actors including Stewart Granger (The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana, 1982), Christopher Lee (Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story, 1982), David Threlfall (The Queen's Sister, 2005), and James Cromwell (The Queen, 2006). In The Crown (2016 onwards), he has been portrayed by Matt Smith and Finn Elliot and he will be played by Tobias Menzies in future episodes.[148]
Prince Philip appears as a fictional character in Nevil Shute's novel In the Wet (1952), Paul Gallico's novel Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Moscow, Tom Clancy's novel Patriot Games, and Sue Townsend's novel The Queen and I.[149] A fictionalised Philip (in his capacity as a World War II naval officer) is also a minor character in John Birmingham's Axis of Time series of alternate history novels.
Books[edit]
The prince has authored a number of books:
Selected Speeches – 1948–55 (1957, revised paperback edition published by Nabu Press in 2011) ISBN 978-1245671330
Selected Speeches – 1956–59 (1960)
Birds from Britannia (1962) (published in the United States as Seabirds from Southern Waters) ISBN 978-1163699294
Wildlife Crisis with James Fisher (1970) ISBN 978-0402125112
The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962–1977 (1978) ISBN 978-0846414537
Competition Carriage Driving (1982) (published in France 1984, second edition 1984, revised edition 1994) ISBN 978-0851315942
A Question of Balance (1982) ISBN 978-0859550871
Men, Machines and Sacred Cows (1984) ISBN 978-0241111741
A Windsor Correspondence with Michael Mann (1984) ISBN 978-0859551083
Down to Earth: Collected Writings and Speeches on Man and the Natural World 1961–87 (1988) (paperback edition 1989, Japanese edition 1992) ISBN 978-0828907118
Survival or Extinction: A Christian Attitude to the Environment with Michael Mann (1989) ISBN 978-0859551588
Driving and Judging Dressage (1996) ISBN 978-0851316666
30 Years On, and Off, the Box Seat (2004) ISBN 978-0851318981
Forewords to:
Royal Australian Navy 1911–1961 Jubilee Souvenir issued by authority of the Department of the Navy, Canberra (1961)
The Concise British Flora in Colour by William Keble Martin, Ebury Press/ Michael Joseph (1965)
Kurt Hahn by Hermann Röhrs and Hilary Tunstall-Behrens (1970)
The Art of Driving by Max Pape (1982) ISBN 978-0851313399
National Maritime Museum Guide to Maritime Britain by Keith Wheatley, (2000)
The Royal Yacht Britannia: The Official History by Richard Johnstone-Bryden, Conway Maritime Press (2003) ISBN 978-0851779379
1953: The Crowning Year of Sport by Jonathan Rice, (2003)
British Flags and Emblems by Graham Bartram, Tuckwell Press (2004) ISBN 978-1862322974
Chariots of War by Robert Hobson, Ulric Publication (2004) ISBN 978-0954199715
RMS Queen Mary 2 Manual: An Insight into the Design, Construction and Operation of the World's Largest Ocean Liner by Stephen Payne, Haynes Publishing (2014)
The Triumph of a Great Tradition: The Story of Cunard's 175 Years by Eric Flounders and Michael Gallagher, Lily Publications (2014)[ISBN missing]
Titles, styles, honours and arms[edit]
Main article: List of titles and honours of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
The Duke of Edinburgh, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Canadian Regiment, presenting the 3rd Battalion with their Regimental Colours in April 2013
Philip has held a number of titles throughout his life. Originally holding the title and style of a prince of Greece and Denmark, Philip abandoned these royal titles prior to his marriage, and was thereafter created a British duke, among other noble titles. The Queen formally issued letters patent in 1957 making Philip a British prince.[72]
When addressing the Duke of Edinburgh, as with any male member of the royal family except the monarch, the rules of etiquette are to address him the first time as Your Royal Highness, and thereafter as Sir.[150]
Honours and honorary military appointments[edit]
The Duke of Edinburgh was appointed by King George VI to the Order of the Garter on 19 November 1947, the eve of his wedding. Since then, Philip has received 17 different appointments and decorations in the Commonwealth, and 48 from foreign states. The inhabitants of some villages on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu worship Prince Philip as a god; the islanders possess portraits of the Duke and hold feasts on his birthday.[151]
Ni-Vanuatu with pictures of Philip
Upon his wife's accession to the throne in 1952, the Duke was appointed Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps, Colonel-in-Chief of the British Army Cadet Force, and Air Commodore-in-Chief of the Air Training Corps.[152] The following year, he was appointed to the equivalent positions in Canada, and made Admiral of the Fleet, Captain General Royal Marines, Field Marshal, and Marshal of the Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom.[153] Subsequent military appointments were made in New Zealand and Australia.[154] In 1975, he was appointed Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, a position he handed over to his son Andrew in 2017.[155] On 16 December 2015, his role as Honorary Air Commodore-in-Chief was handed over to the Duchess of Cambridge.
To celebrate his 90th birthday, the Queen appointed him Lord High Admiral of the Royal Navy (the highest title in the organisation)[156] and Canada appointed him to the highest ranks available in all three branches of the Canadian Armed Forces.[157]
On their 70th wedding anniversary, 20 November 2017, the Queen appointed him Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) of the Royal Victorian Order, making him the first British national since his uncle Earl Mountbatten of Burma to be entitled to wear the breast stars of four orders of chivalry in the United Kingdom.[158]
Arms[edit]
Coat of arms of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Following his marriage to Princess Elizabeth until 1949, Prince Philip's arms featured a differenced version of the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, derived from his ancestor Princess Alice.[159]
Unlike the arms used by other members of the royal family, the Duke's arms no longer features the royal arms of the United Kingdom, as he was granted new arms by King George VI in 1949. However, they do feature elements representing Greece and Denmark, from which he is descended in the male line; the Mountbatten family arms, from which he is descended in the female line; and the City of Edinburgh.
Issuant from a ducal coronet Or, a plume of five ostrich feathers alternately Sable and Argent;
Mantling Or and ermine
Upon a coronet of a son of the sovereign Proper, the royal helm Or[160]
From 1949:
Quarterly: First Or, semée of hearts Gules, three lions passant in pale Azure (For Denmark), Second Azure, a cross Argent (For Greece), Third Argent, two pallets Sable (For Battenberg or Mountbatten), Fourth Argent, upon a rock Proper a castle triple towered Sable, masoned Argent, windows, port, turret-caps and vanes Gules (For Edinburgh), the whole surrounded by the Garter.[160]
Dexter, a representation of a wild man girt about the loins with a lion skin, crowned with a chaplet of oak leaves, holding in the dexter hand a club Proper (from the Danish and Greek royal coat of arms); sinister, a lion queue fourchée ducally crowned Or and gorged with a naval coronet Azure;
GOD IS MY HELP
The Order of the Garter ribbon
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
(Shamed be he who thinks evil of it)
A banner of the Duke's arms is used as his personal standard.[161]
The arms of Denmark and Greece, represent the Duke of Edinburgh's familial lineage. The arms of the City of Edinburgh represent Philip's dukedom. The naval crown collar alludes to the Duke's naval career.
From 1947 to 1949:
"Arms of Greece surmounted by an inescutcheon of the arms of Denmark; and over all in the first quarter the arms of Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria, viz, the Royal Arms differenced with a label of three points argent, the middle point charged with a rose gules and each of the others with an ermine spot. The shield is encircled by the Garter and ensigned with a princely coronet of crosses pattée and fleurs-de-lis, above which is placed a barred helm affronte, and thereon the crest; out of a ducal coronet or, a plume of five ostrich feathers alternately sable and argent. The supporters are, dexter, the figure of Hercules proper, and sinister, a lion queue fourche ducally crowned or, gorged with a naval coronet azure."[159]
Issue[edit]
Their children
Their grandchildren
14 November 1948 29 July 1981
Divorced 28 August 1996 Lady Diana Spencer Prince William, Duke of Cambridge Prince George of Cambridge
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
Prince Louis of Cambridge
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Archie Mountbatten-Windsor
9 April 2005 Camilla Parker Bowles None
15 August 1950 14 November 1973
Divorced 28 April 1992 Mark Phillips Peter Phillips Savannah Phillips
Isla Phillips
Zara Tindall Mia Tindall
Lena Tindall
12 December 1992 Timothy Laurence None
19 February 1960 23 July 1986
Divorced 30 May 1996 Sarah Ferguson Princess Beatrice of York None
Princess Eugenie of York None
10 March 1964 19 June 1999 Sophie Rhys-Jones Lady Louise Windsor None
James, Viscount Severn None
Ancestry[edit]
Philip is a direct descendant of Russia's Tsar Nicholas I via his paternal grandmother Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia.[162] He is related to the House of Romanov through both his father and his mother. In 1993, scientists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of Empress Alexandra of Russia's family, more than 70 years after their massacre in 1918, by comparing their mitochondrial DNA to living matrilineal relatives, including Prince Philip, her maternal grandnephew. Philip, Alexandra and her children are all descended from Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the daughter of Queen Victoria, through a purely female line.[163]
Ancestors of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh[164]
8. Christian IX of Denmark
4. George I of Greece
9. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel
2. Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
10. Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
5. Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
11. Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
1. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
12. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
6. Prince Louis of Battenberg
13. Countess Julia Hauke
3. Princess Alice of Battenberg
14. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
7. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
15. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
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The Prince of Wales,
Duke of Rothesay
Earl of Merioneth
Baron Greenwich
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Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (sister)
Sophie, Princess George William of Hanover (sister)
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Prince Philip Designers Prize
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The Duke of Edinburgh
The Prince of Wales (in Scotland: the Duke of Rothesay)
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The Earl of Wessex
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The Duke of Sussex
Viscount Severn
Peter Phillips
The Earl of Snowdon
The Duke of Gloucester
The Duke of Kent
Prince Michael of Kent
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Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1830–1837)
Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1840–1861)
Alexandra of Denmark (1901–1910)
Mary of Teck (1910–1936)
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1936–1952)
Philip Mountbatten (1952–)
Current consorts of sovereigns
'Masenate Mohato Seeiso
Lalla Salma
Jetsun Pema
Saleha
Masako
Azizah
Jawahir
Suthida
Shamsa
Nanasipauʻu
See also : List of current sovereign monarchs - Category:Royal consorts - Category:Queens consort
British princes
The generations indicate descent from George I, who formalised the use of the titles prince and princess for members of the British royal family.
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Prince Albert1
King George V of Hanover
King Edward VII
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Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
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Prince Alexander John of Wales
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Prince George William of Hanover
Prince Christian of Hanover
Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
King Edward VIII
King George VI
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Alastair, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh2
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
10th generation
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
James, Viscount Severn3
Prince George of Cambridge
1 Not a British prince by birth, but created Prince Consort. 2 Not a British prince by birth, but created a Prince of the United Kingdom. 3 Status debatable; see his article.
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Generations are numbered by descent from George I.
King Constantine I
Prince Nicholas
Prince Andrew
Prince Cristopher
King Alexander I
King Paul I
Prince Peter
King Constantine II
Crown Prince Pavlos
Prince Nikolaos
Prince Philippos
Prince Constantine-Alexios
Prince Achileas-Andreas
Prince Odysseas-Kimon
Prince Aristide-Stavros
See also House of Glücksburg
Danish princes
The generations are numbered from the implementation of hereditary monarchy by Frederick III in 1660.
King Christian V[1]
Prince Frederick[1]
Prince George, Duke of Cumberland[1][4]
King Frederick IV[1]
Prince Christian William[1]
Prince Christian[1]
Prince Charles[1]
Prince William[1]
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester[1]
Prince George[1]
King Christian VI[1]
Prince Frederik Charles[1]
Prince Frederik Christian[1]
King Frederick V[1]
King Christian VII[1]
Hereditary Prince Frederick[1]
King Frederick VI[1]
King Christian VIII[1]
Hereditary Prince Ferdinand[1]
King Frederick VII[1]
King Christian IX[5]
King Frederick VIII[5]
King George I of Greece[5]
Prince Valdemar
King Christian X
King Haakon VII of Norway
Prince Harald
Prince Gustav
King Constantine I of Greece[2]
Prince Nicholas[2]
Prince Andrew[2]
Prince Christopher[2]
Prince Aage
Prince Axel
Prince Erik
Prince Viggo
King Frederick IX[3]
Hereditary Prince Knud[3]
King Olav V of Norway[1]
Prince Gorm
Prince Oluf
King George II of Greece[2]
King Alexander I of Greece[2]
King Paul I of Greece[2]
Prince Peter[2]
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh[2][4]
Prince Michael[2]
Prince George Valdemar
Prince Flemming Valdemar
Prince Henrik[5]
Prince Ingolf[3]
King Constantine II of Greece[2]
Crown Prince Frederik
Prince Joachim
Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece[2]
Prince Nikolaos[2]
Prince Philippos[2]
Prince Vincent
Prince Nikolai
Prince Felix
Prince Henrik
Prince Constantine-Alexios[2]
Prince Achileas-Andreas[2]
Prince Odysseas-Kimon[2]
Prince Aristide-Stavros[2]
1 Also prince of Norway
2 Also prince of Greece
3 Also prince of Iceland
4 Also prince of The Kingdom of Great Britain / The United Kingdom
5 Not Danish prince by birth, but created prince of Denmark
Princes that lost their title following an unequal marriage are shown in italics
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Generations are numbered by their descent from Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg
Princess Marie
Prince Alexander
Prince Henry
Prince Francis Joseph
Princess Alice
Princess Louise
Princess Victoria Eugenie
Prince Leopold
Prince Maurice
Prince Philip*
*Not Mountbatten or Battenberg by birth. Adopted the surname Mountbatten from his maternal line on abandoning his patrilineal Greek and Danish princely titles.
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9th Duke of Wellington
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7th Duke of Westminster
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Through education, advocacy, and direct services, Planned Parenthood seeks to ensure healthy sexuality, family health, and access to high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare.
The topic of reproductive education and healthcare has long been a source for debate both nationally and in Arkansas. At the height of the Depression, Little Rock (Pulaski County) activist Hilda Cornish was convinced that the ability to limit family size could be crucial to a family’s financial survival. In February 1931, Cornish established the Little Rock Birth Control Clinic, the first such service in Arkansas. Services were provided at a minimal fee for any married woman whose family made less than $75 per month. Establishment of this clinic was met with public resistance; one woman wrote, “I am not interested in the advice and supplies you are peddling. Women should not stoop to such practices.”
Seeing the need for services beyond Pulaski County, Cornish also helped organize birth control clinics in Fort Smith (Sebastian County), Trumann (Poinsett County), Hot Springs (Garland County), Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), and Fayetteville (Washington County). In 1940, under Cornish’s leadership, the Planned Parenthood Association of Arkansas was successful in convincing the University of Arkansas Medical School (now the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) to include birth control methods in its curriculum and provide services at the University Hospital. With the addition of these new services, the Little Rock Birth Control Clinic was closed.
Over the next fifteen years, the Planned Parenthood Association of Arkansas found it increasingly difficult to find funding. In October 1955, the board of directors decided to dissolve the organization. Planned Parenthood did not exist in central Arkansas for the next nearly thirty years.
Planned Parenthood in Arkansas was revived in 1984. In response to an attempt to include the Unborn Child Amendment in the November general election, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America sent two staff members to Little Rock to assist local activists, led by Brownie Ledbetter, in campaigning against the measure. Just over a week before the November election, the Arkansas Supreme Court removed the amendment from the ballot.
From these efforts in 1984 came the organization Arkansans for Reproductive Health, which developed into Planned Parenthood of Greater Arkansas, located in Little Rock. On October 28, 1985, Planned Parenthood of Greater Arkansas was incorporated as an affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. While protesters marched down Arch Street, Planned Parenthood of Greater Arkansas held its first birthday party at the restored home of Hilda Cornish in September 1986. In 1987, the Planned Parenthood health center was opened at a West Markham location. The health center moved to its current 12th Street location in 2006.
In 1998, Planned Parenthood of Greater Arkansas merged with Planned Parenthood of Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. The new affiliate became officially known as Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma, Inc. (PPAEO). In 2012, PPAEO merged with Planned Parentood of the Heartland; aside from Arkansas and Oklahoma, the new affiliate operates centers in Iowa and Nebraska. In 2016, the Arkansas and Oklahoma centers changed their affiliation to Planned Parenthood of the Great Plains, based in Overland Park, Kansas. The Little Rock and Fayetteville Planned Parenthood health centers provide the following services: annual reproductive health exams, breast and cervical cancer screening, testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections for men and women, pregnancy testing, counseling and referrals, contraceptive information and methods, HIV testing, and emergency contraception. The centers offered medication abortion, but a 2015 law required the presence of a physician when a woman took an abortion-inducing medication; a series of appeals followed, and on May 29, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the law, allowing it to go forward and thus ending such services barring further legal action.
In March 2015, the Arkansas General Assembly passed SB 569, which denies any state funding to Planned Parenthood or any social service agency that refers patients to abortion providers; this includes grants for programs not related to abortion, such as disease prevention programs. Governor Asa Hutchinson announced on August 14, 2015, that the Arkansas Department of Human Services planned to terminate its Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood, thereby ending Medicaid reimbursements for people who seek healthcare there. Some officials have stated that this could violate federal law by restricting Medicaid recipients from receiving care from a qualified health provider. In response, Planned Parenthood filed suit on September 11, 2015, in order to restore this funding. On October 2, 2015, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from cutting off Medicaid payments to the organization. However, on August 16, 2017, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower court ruling, allowing the state to re-institute its ban on funding Planned Parenthood.
Arkansas Eugenics Association and the Little Rock Birth Control Clinic Files. History of Public Health in Arkansas Collection. Archives Collections. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Leung, Marianne. “‘Better Babies’: The Arkansas Birth Control Movement During the 1930s.” PhD diss., University of Memphis, 1996.
Peacock, Leslie Newel. “Planned Parenthood: More Than Abortion.” Arkansas Times, May 26, 2016, pp. 14–21. Online at http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/planned-parenthood-more-than-abortion/Content?oid=4423326 (accessed May 26, 2016).
Planned Parenthood. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/ (accessed September 30, 2016).
Murry Newbern
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Norway leads the way to become the first country in the world to achieve a 100% electric mobility
Norway leads the way in the transition to a 100% electric mobility model. The volume of energy that transportation needs constitutes a fourth of the country’s total consumption, which is the reason why they find their electrification absolutely feasible. In addition, its mobility goals are aligned with the rest of the sustainable goals: to reduce 40% of the emissions by the year 2030 and become neutral in carbon emissions by 2050.
There are many characteristics that make Norway ideal for transport electrification. Among them, the political consensus for implementing measures that incentivise the use of electric vehicles, their knowledge of the electric transportation sector, their experience in R&D, their search for sustainable solutions and the country’s natural resources that enable them to have an almost 100% electric system.
Norway is the country with the highest number of electric vehicles per capita in the world. Only in 2017, 21% of the new vehicles were electric and adding the hybrid models, 52% of the cars sold in the country last year were electric or hybrid. Thus and for the first time, the Scandinavian country had a participation in the fossil fuel market below 50%.
One of the keys to their success has been the support plan to the citizens, which exempts new electric cars from almost all taxes, giving benefits such as free or subsidized parking, a system of recharge points and use of highways, ferries and tunnels.
Land, sea and air, the ambitious proposal of the Norwegian electrification
By land: the country’s target is that all new cars, city buses and light vans should be zero-emissions by 2025.
If we look at the railway transport, we will find that it is already electrified by 78%.
By sea: 40% of all ships in the local transport should use biofuels or be low or zero-emission by 2030.
The Ampère Ferry initiated the technological change in the sea. Since then, four additional electric ferries have come into operation and another 62 are on its way. Furthermore, by the year 2021 they expect a third of the Norwegian vessels to be electric.
By air: being aware that airplanes use big quantities of fossil fuel and generate high levels of emissions, they are planning that all national air traffic becomes electric by 2040.
Spain’s first 100% electric taxi has already covered over 323,000 km
Articles Sustainable Mobility
51-year-old Roberto San José Mendiluce, born in and resident of the city of Valladolid in Castilla-León, is Spain’s first 100% electric taxi driver – an honour he has held for the past six and a half years. With 12 years experience under his belt, his life changed completely in October 2011 when he unknowingly purchased the country’s first 100% electric taxi. Since then, his 100% electric Nissan LEAF has travelled over 323,000 km. In this article, Roberto shares his experience of the past six and a half years, which have been very encouraging in every sense, as we will see below.
To take the decision to buy a 100% electric taxi, I basically compared the fuel costs generated by my previous taxi, a Volkswagen Touran 2.0 TDI 140 CV DSG (with an estimated consumption of 8.5 l/100), knowing that in four and half years it would have travelled 320,000 km and have consumed some 27,200 litres of fuel. Taking an approximate fuel cost of 1.2 €/litre, the total cost of fuel would amount to €32,640. The purchase price of the Nissan LEAF was €30,650 (including a €6,000 discount resulting from a subsidy). Taking the consumption of the old taxi at 8.5 l/100 and the cost of fuel at €1.20, the investment in the purchase of an e-taxi would be paid back after 300,000 km (cost of diesel €30,600).
Of course, to the gross fuel saving must be added the savings made in maintenance costs and breakdowns. These are essentially brake pads (for example, I have still got the original set that are 50% worn), filters, fan belts, injectors, distributor, etc. Read more…
Roberto San José Mendiluce
Spain’s first 100% electric taxi driver, since October 2011
Article published in: FuturENERGY April 2018
Acciona receives the world’s first grid-scale energy storage certificate by DNV GL
Acciona Energia has received the first ever prototype certificate for a grid-scale energy storage solution by DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body. The handover of the certificate took place at the American Wind Energy Association’s 2018 Windpower Conference in Chicago.
To explore the possibilities of grid-scale storage, Acciona Energia started up a hybrid plant for storing electricity in batteries as part of its grid-connected wind farm at Barasoain in Navarra, northern Spain.
The plant in Barásoain is equipped with a storage system that consists of two batteries located in separate containers: one fast-response battery of 1 MW/0.39 MWh (capable of maintaining 1 MW of power for 20 minutes) and another slower-response battery with greater autonomy (0.7 MW/0.7 MWh, maintaining 0.7 MW for 1 hour). Both have Samsung SDI Li-ion technology connected to a 3-MW AW116/3000 wind turbine of Acciona Windpower (Nordex Group) technology, from which they capture the energy to be stored. The wind turbine is one of five that make up the Experimental Wind Farm at Barásoain, operated by the company since 2013. The entire system is managed by control software developed in-house by Acciona Energia and is monitored in real time by the company’s Renewable Energies Control Center (CECOER).
The storage plant introduced by Acciona has now become the first in the world to undergo system-level certification. The certification process was carried out in line with the GRIDSTOR Recommended Practice, which is based on industry standards and considers safety, performance and reliability for grid-connected energy storage systems.
Key element
Energy storage is a key element in the transition to a more sustainable energy mix. It allows renewable sources such as wind and solar power to operate at full capacity during peak generation periods by storing excess energy until it is needed to meet later demand. While many energy storage technologies are well established at smaller scales, their application at grid-scale is still in its early days.
“The market for grid-scale energy storage systems is relatively unexplored, but we see rapid developments. Certifying new systems like Acciona’s grid-scale storage plant demonstrates that pioneering projects like this are meeting the required safety, performance and reliability standards and providing the industry with confidence in the quality of emerging new technologies,” said Kim Mørk, Executive Vice President, Renewables Certification at DNV GL.
Mørk added that “as part of our commitment to helping the industry transition to a low-carbon energy mix while maintaining safety and reliability of supply, we focus our efforts to develop industry guidelines on grid-scale energy storage to help designers, manufacturers, investors, insurers and authorities mitigate risks and control costs in energy storage projects”.
For his part, Rafael Esteban, CEO Acciona Energy USA Global LLC, said that “our company is at the forefront of the energy transition through our solutions to facilitate the integration of variable-generation renewables into the grid and manage the power produced. Adding the energy storage plant to our Barasoain Experimental Wind Farm will improve the quality of energy sent to the grid, allow us to explore other applications for balancing supply and demand and create a path for commercial storage solutions in our wind power projects.”
“With any emerging technology, technology qualification and certification is essential in understanding and managing risk”, added Esteban.“In the near future, the bodies involved in the approval and financing of storage systems worldwide will demand these certificates. Acciona also wants to be a pioneer in this area. By applying for certification from such a solvent entity as DNV GL, we can guarantee that our plant fulfils all the conditions to operate with full confidence.”
Source: Acciona
Filling station of the future to deliver electricity, hydrogen or methane
Cars equipped with electric engines or other alternative drives are making major inroads. Scientists at the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) set out to develop a suitable filling station for these vehicles. Launched in mid-February 2018, this project goes to create a fuel ‘pump’ for the future. This dispenser is to deliver renewable electrical power, hydrogen and methane in the most efficient, cost-effective and purpose-driven way possible. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is funding this project with around €1.3 million. It will run for five years as part QUARREE 100, an initiative to test an urban quarter’s fully renewable power supply.
Vehicular mobility is sure to change markedly in the years ahead. Far more cars running on electricity sourced from wind and the sun will soon be out on the road. The same goes for fuel cell vehicles powered with renewable hydrogen and natural gas vehicles that run on methane, another climate-friendly fuel produced using solar power. The network of charging points and hydrogen filling stations is expanding on a massive scale. Some stations furnish both electricity and hydrogen, but none dispenses electrical power, hydrogen and methane. ZSW aims to change that with this project.
Tiered use of renewable energy
What the Stuttgart-based scientists have in mind is to develop a multi-energy dispenser. The idea is to use the grid to charge electric cars’ batteries with renewable electricity sourced from wind power plants and the like. A large stationary battery will store unused power when supply is greater than demand, and dispense it when demand is greater than supply. “If the battery is full and recharging electric cars cannot deplete it, this green electricity will be converted into hydrogen in a second step,” says ZSW’s Dr. Ulrich Zuberbühler by way of explanation. Fuel cell vehicles run on this type of energy. And if hydrogen production exceeds demand, the surplus gas goes into a storage tank.
Tomorrow’s filling station will include third stage to produce methane when the hydrogen storage tank is full and demand from fuel cell cars is low. Carbon dioxide will then be added to the hydrogen to convert into methane. Both gases react to a catalyst to form methane. This fuel is the main component of natural gas, so natural gas cars can readily use it. If refueling cars do not deplete the methane supply, the surplus gas is stored and then piped into the natural gas grid when the storage tank fills up.
“With our project, the coupling of the electrical grid with mobility will not be limited to electric cars,” explains Zuberbühler. “The other alternative drives will also benefit from it.”
ZSW’s researchers are talking about tiered use of renewable energy. Their priority is to make the most of resources by minimizing energy losses. Stage one is the first choice and remains so until its potential is exhausted. The most efficient use of regenerative electricity is to power electric motors. None of the energy is lost in translation, and battery storage loss amounts to no more than ten percent. Stages two and three—conversion to hydrogen and then methanation—are only an option once demand for electrical power has been met. Electrical power can be converted to hydrogen at around 75 percent efficiency; the figure for methane is roughly 60 percent. These gases are long-term, zero-loss stores of energy. Efficiency increases by a few percentage points when the waste heat generated during the conversion process is put to use.
Efforts to enhance components
With this project, ZSW aims to improve the efficiency, service life and cost-effectiveness of the two main components, a high-pressure alkaline electrolyzer and a plate methanation reactor. Scientists want to advance the state of the art for both on a 100-kilowatt scale. Electrolysis and methane synthesis will have to take place separately, which requires some form of hydrogen buffer or intermediate storage facility. The institute will develop a concept for this and assess its safety.
The researchers have three years to develop the technology, work out a safety concept and clarify all the details for approval. The results will be tested at an on-site demo facility starting in 2020.
Stepping up ‘sector coupling’
Green electricity accounts for around a third of the power in Germany’ grid, and its share is growing. This figure expected to rise to 65 percent by 2030. Off-grid use—for example, in electric cars and as an alternative fuel—would help make the transportation sector more climate-friendly. Little progress has been made on this front. The alternative fuels hydrogen and methane also have great advantages. They can serve as chemical media for long-term, loss-free energy storage. On top of that, they can be fed into Germany’s natural gas grid and used to heat buildings without leaving a carbon footprint. The term coined to describe this convergence of electricity, fuel and heating across industries is sector coupling.
The funding for this project is part of a joint initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs to promote solar in building projects and energy-efficient urban development.
The Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, ZSW) is one of the leading institutes for applied research in the areas of photovoltaics, renewable fuels, battery technology, fuel cells and energy system analysis. There are currently around 235 scientists, engineers and technicians employed at ZSW’s three locations in Stuttgart, Ulm and Widderstall. In addition, there are 90 research and student assistants.
Electric vehicle manufacturer EMOSS Mobile Systems chooses Allison 4500 fully automatic transmission
With its commitment to address emissions and noise regulations in Europe, EMOSS Mobile Systems has developed an Allison transmission-equipped electric semi-truck that has a range exceeding 300 miles.
The EMOSS Electric Vehicle with Extender Range (E.V.E.R.) semi-truck utilizes a 120 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery pack and a liquefied petroleum gas electricity generator to recharge the battery and achieve maximum range. It is further equipped with an Allison 4500 fully automatic transmission and rated for a gross combination weight of up to 50 metric tons.
“For us, the Allison gearbox is the only combination that gets us the right performance,” said Martijn Noordam, chief technology officer at EMOSS. “Customers who have driven the Allison-equipped EMOSS trucks are 100-percent happy with them. They never thought a start-stop duty-cycle on a 30 percent grade was realistic, yet the truck has executed perfectly.”
Calibrated to use six forward gears when fully-laden, the Allison transmission is critical for hauling heavier payloads and navigating challenging topographies, in countries such as Switzerland and Austria, where mountains and steep slopes are frequent.
“Allison remains committed to the evolution and optimization of the drive train and all forms of commercial vehicle propulsion,” said Randy Kirk, senior vice president of product engineering at Allison. “The Allison automatic provides a proven, immediate and well-integrated solution that enables electrification across a broad range of commercial applications.”
The Allison automatic transmission is key to the driveline. The transmission provides torque multiplication to reduce demand on the electric motor and the battery pack. It also enables the electric motor to operate within the optimal efficiency range for a larger portion of the drive cycle, reducing energy consumption, extending the vehicle’s range and facilitating the use of less-expensive, lighter and smaller components.
EMOSS unveiled the Allison-equipped E.V.E.R. truck, based on a DAF chassis, in November at the eCarTec exhibition in Munich, Germany and plans to commence testing with pilot customers later this year. In addition to the E.V.E.R. truck, EMOSS is currently developing Allison transmission-equipped electric trucks for use in construction, delivery and refuse applications. These applications include dump trucks, medium-duty straight trucks, refuse collection vehicles and additional semi-truck configurations.
With over a decade of experience in electric mobility, and its full electric powertrain development and integration expertise, EMOSS is a partner for bus and truck manufacturers. Under its own brand, EMOSS is an OEM for electric trucks, buses and vans, as well as auxiliary/battery systems.
FCC celebrates more than 40 years committed to electric mobility for municipal services
FCC Medio Ambiente (the Spanish brand for FCC Environment) celebrates more than 40 years’ commitment to energy efficiency and the introduction of electric vehicles for the provision of environmental services. With more than 115 years’ history in providing urban services, FCC has been a pioneer in research into and the introduction of new sustainable and efficient technologies. In 1974 the company developed and put into service the first electric powered lorry to collect solid urban waste.
FCC Group’s environmental services area, known as FCC Medio Ambiente, currently has a fleet of nearly 12,000 urban service vehicles equipped with the most innovative systems on the market. 550 vehicles in this fleet are either electric, hybrid or self-recharging electric with exclusive FCC technology. It is the most advanced technology that exists for collection services, and is the result of research carried out over more than 40 years through its Machinery Department which has, since its origins, invested in projects designed to achieve more comfortable and sustainable cities.
The electric vehicle fleet provides a service with a lower environmental impact and achieves various fundamental advantages: it does not pollute, its emissions are zero referred to the energy consumed and sound emissions are within the lowest technically possible limit, especially during start-up, braking and in the use of the bodywork. FCC’s technology reaches these advantages without losing power or load capacity performance compared to a vehicle with a conventional diesel engine. It also delivers a much higher energy efficiency since it provides a substantial energy saving of between 70 and 80% compared to internal combustion engines, which in turn means lower operating costs and increased service life.
The most advanced technology for collecting waste in cities
Today, FCC Medio Ambiente is one of the world’s largest environmental services companies and has been undertaking its activity since 1911 when it was awarded the contract for cleaning and conserving the sewerage system in Barcelona, which it continues to provide. Since July 2016 in this contract, FCC has been using the first complete fleet of 100% electric vehicles with 13 sets of specialised machinery on heavy trucks, 28 sets of specialised machinery in vans, as well as an additional 15 vans. It is a clear practical case of eco-efficient engines, and an engineering project with electrical technology carrying the FCC stamp.
FCC’s research into electric vehicles is framed within the set of actions the Group has committed to in fighting climate change. These actions translated in 2016 into avoiding the emission of nearly 480,000 tonnes of CO2, increasing the use of alternative energies by 18% and generating 29% more energy from renewable fuels in its projects.
The challenge to FCC is to continually improve, to keep on reducing the environmental impact and to improve the public’s quality of life. The development and implementation of new technologies is increasingly important and this is why FCC Medio Ambiente continues, after more than a century, to invest and seek innovative solutions to the benefit of the environment and of society.
Terberg electric truck uses Allison transmission to maximize productivity, launch with GCW up to 65 tons
For nearly two years, SCHERM Group has used a 100-percent electric Terberg YT202-EV terminal tractor with an Allison fully automatic transmission to efficiently deliver materials to the local BMW Group plant.
“The electric truck has proved itself in city distribution and the just-in-time delivery for BMW is working fluently,” said Ulf Frenzel, fleet manager for SCHERM Group. “The Allison transmission makes it possible to specifically use the power of the electric motor in the best manner. And the e-truck can be maneuvered easily and is extremely easy to drive.”
The fully-electric tractor is equipped with a three-phase synchronous motor (614 V) with a maximum power rating of 138 kW (188 hp) and a fully automatic Allison 3000 Series™ transmission. The Allison Automatic is the key to the driveline: the truck has to launch with a gross combination weight (GCW) of up to 65 tons and achieve maximum speed as quickly as possible to meet the tight delivery schedule. This is made possible by the transmission’s torque converter that multiples engine torque during start-up and acceleration.
Additionally, the Allison transmission eliminates power interrupts for increased productivity – even with a smaller engine. Without the Allison, a direct drive with a larger and significantly more expensive engine would have been necessary. The transmission’s Power Take-Off (PTO) provision is used to drive the hydraulic pump, which saves an additional electric generator.
“The Allison transmission proves its reliability and ease of use in daily operation” said Frenzel. “In addition, we have shorter maintenance downtime than with a conventional diesel vehicle, better productivity and therefore we are much more efficient.”
The 65-ton electric vehicle commutes in two-shift operation eight times daily, five days a week, between the BMW plant in Munich and the SCHERM logistics center which is 3 km away. Since it was put into service in 2015, the vehicle has completed over 3,000 tours equal to approximately 17,000 km. Over the last two years, more than 8,000 liters of diesel have been saved – equivalent to 22 tons of carbon dioxide.
“We are really satisfied with the e-truck,” said Frenzel. “We wanted to prove that electric mobility also works in freight transport, and we achieved our goal.”
Following SCHERM’s success, Elflein Spedition & Transport also began using a similar Allison-equipped electric truck for short-distance transports to the BMW Group plant in Leipzig in November 2016. Because of a higher annual driving performance compared with the vehicle in Munich, carbon dioxide savings of up to 21 tons are possible in Leipzig each year.
Eiffage Energía successfully tackles its first project in Africa
The range of Eiffage Energía’s activities outside Spain started when it began the process of internationalisation of its business lines in 2008, with the construction in Amareleja (Portugal) of the most innovative, ever growing, photovoltaic solar plant so far.
Currently, Eiffage has subsidiaries in Mexico and Chile and its presence on the European continent is still unstoppable. Now, it has also just completed its first project in a new continent: Africais now on the map of its activities, a milestone within its electrical infrastructure works demonstrating the company’s good health.
Thus, Eiffage Energía has successfully tackled its first job on African soil in an overseas department belonging to France and located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar: Reunion Island: There it has carried out the expansion of the electricity transmission network of the island through a 66 kV double circuit Simplex line and approximately 44 km of extension.
The implementation of the work entrusted to the company Électricité De France (EDF), was divided into three sections of line that will connect the substation of Saint-Paul and the factory Gol in Saint Louis . The third of these sections, which comprises the Saint-Leu terminal and the factory Gol in Saint Louis, was finally awarded to Eiffage Energie Transport et Distribution, its commissioning taking place last Saturday 28 May. Meanwhile, Eiffage Travaux Publics, another of the subsidiaries of the Eiffage Group, has been responsible for all the necessary civil works in the project.
Eiffage Energía’s participation in the expansion of Reunion Island’s electricity network has been the assembling and hoisting with cranes of 45 supports, and by helicopter, the laying of optic fibre and conductors in a total of 12.58 km, for which it has counted on the specialised work and experience of a team of 25 people.
Source: Eiffage Energia
Electric truck reduces emissions in Munich
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For more than six months, the SCHERM Group has been using a 100-percent electric Terberg YT202-EV terminal tractor with an Allison 3000 Series™ fully automatic transmission for the BMW Group’s material transports. As compared to a diesel truck, the YT202-EV saves nearly 12 tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the environment annually.
According to Rainer Zoellner, e-truck project manager at the SCHERM Group, if the electric truck continues to prove itself through the end of its one-year pilot program, project expansion is likely. The BMW and SCHERM groups have a six-figure investment in the pilot project. Thanks to the electric drive, the vehicle generates almost no fine particle pollution and operates very quietly. In addition, the Allison-equipped truck delivers advantages as drivers negotiate Munich’s dense traffic and narrow streets. The 40-ton automatic truck shuttles between SCHERMS’s logistics center and BMW’s plant about 3 km (1.86 miles) away eight times daily during the work week.
The YT202-EV transports components for BMW automobiles, such as shock absorbers, springs and steering systems in two shifts, from 6 a.m. to midnight. The short, repetitive duty cycles are well-suited to the electric truck. With a range of up to 100 km when the battery is fully charged, it can complete the 48 km route per day without pausing to be charged. At night, the batteries are charged for three to four hours with 100-percent green electricity at SCHERM’s own charging station.
Electric motor and Allison – an ideal combination
The heart of the fully-electric YT202-EV terminal tractor is the Siemens liquid-cooled, three-phase synchronous motor (614 V) with a maximum power rating of 138 kilowatts (188 hp). According to Erik-Wim Vos, electric vehicle manager at Terberg Benschop in the Netherlands, the Allison 3000 Series fully automatic transmission is the key to this driveline. “The electric truck should launch with a gross combination weight of up to 65 tons and must achieve maximum speed as quickly as possible,” he said. “In this circumstance, the Allison fully automatic transmission with torque multiplication and full power shifts makes the difference. Moreover we use the live Power Take-Off (PTO) provision to drive the hydraulic pump, which saves an additional electric generator.”
In other words, without an Allison transmission, a direct drive with a larger and significantly more expensive engine would have been required for the YT202-EV. The Allison 3000 Series is also the exclusive transmission solution used in conventional YT towing tractors.
Electric truck spreads in Europe
To date, twenty YT202-EV terminal tractors are in operation throughout Europe, including Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, with additional vehicles due for delivery this year. Since July 2014, logistics service provider Berliner Hafen- und Lagergesellschaft mbH (BEHALA) has used a YT202-EV to transport containers from Berlin’s Westhafen (Western Harbor) to destinations across the city. However, the electric trucks in other countries are used primarily by food companies, including Migros, Ferrero and Bakker Barendrecht (Univeg).
Erik-Wim Vos estimates future interest in the electric terminal tractor will be very high.
Source: Allison Transmission
Scutum presents 100 electric scooters for Correos in Repsol Campus
Correos has added to its fleet 100 electric scooters Scutum S02, manufactured by Scutum, which will be added to all new sustainable vehicles of the postal company.
The delivery ceremony of the Scutum motorcycles was held this morning at the Campus Repsol of Madrid, with the participation of its President, Antonio Brufau, who opened the meeting, with the President of Correos , Javier Cuesta; Scutum CEO, Carlos Sotelo; the Director General of Caixa Capital Risc, Carlos Trenchs; President of the CDTI, Maria Luisa Poncela, and the CEO of TAC, Jorge Magaña.
The S02 model Scutum, company owned by Repsol, “la Caixa” through Caixa Capital Risc, and the CDTI, meets all the needs of postal staff. It reaches a speed of 80 km/h and supports up to 175 kg of cargo, with a range of 100 kilometers. It features LED lighting, reverse function and 3 different driving modes: City, Sport and Eco, which saves 500 euros more than 10,000 kiómetros.
Correos has managed to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 30% in recent years. With this incorporation of sustainable vehicles, the company goes one step further in its process of renewal and expansion of its fleet of electric vehicles, achieving a considerable reduction in emissions, commitment shared with Scutum.
“Continuing the commitment to sustainability of the postal company which I chair, we have taken the renewal of the fleet, to launch a new project under the Action Plan 100-300-1.500 to manage the electric vehicle as a whole” said Javier Cuesta, President of Correos , who supports the initiatives of companies, organizations and citizens to promote the transition to a low carbon economy.
Correos fleet currently consists of more than 12,600 vehicles, of which about 9,000 are motorcycles, which cover more than 60 million kilometers per year to distribute 3,600 million shipments annually, approximately.
Carlos Sotelo, CEO of Scutum, says that “the delivery of these 100 electric scooters for Correos is a big boost for us. We are pioneers in the field and after five years of research, development, rigor and commitment, we can say that we now have the best electric bike designed to fleets, being sales leaders in the electric motorcycle Spanish market. Correos is a forerunner of change and hope to continue working together towards more sustainable mobility. ”
Manufactured entirely in Spain, Scutum S02 scooter have been specially designed for the city and to facilitate the day-to-day work.
Scutum scooters offer high customization possibilities. The electric scooters incorporated by the POST OFFICE, added to the standard model, a hand brake and the entity’s box. The design of the fairing is in corporate yellow with company logo and side green, highlighting their sustainable quality.
The 100 Scutum will be divided in different post offices in different parts of the country: 25 in Madrid, 25 in Barcelona, 15 in Valencia, 12 in Málaga, 8 in Zaragoza, 8 in Sevilla and 7 in Vizcaya.
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In 1972, three all-female rugby teams symbolized three esteemed universities-Colorado Condition College, the College of Colorado at Boulder, and also the College of Illinois at Champaign. Once the pioneer people graduated, Colorado rugby training schools soon sprouted in main metropolitan areas and concrete areas within the condition. In 1978, the very first ever Women’s National Rugby Titles was located through the Women’s Rugby Club in Chicago. Before this event, the Usa Rugby Football Union (USARFU) was created to promulgate playing rules and safeguard players’ legal rights.
An exciting-female, all-star national rugby team was created in 1985. Dubbed Wivern, they toured in England and France and went undefeated. Possibly unsurprisingly, a number of these players continued to have fun playing the 1991 World Cup. The United States Women’s National Team was created later and it was known as the ladies Eagles. Ironically, Women Eagles players weren’t permitted to put on the Bald eagle emblem throughout their first bout using the Canadian Women’s National Team.
As an indication of good sportsmanship, the ladies Eagles faced their Canadian counterparts for the following 10 years. Their yearly tourney was dubbed the CanAm series. The Ladies Eagles continued to be undefeated over the entire series. In 1990, the ladies Eagles altered its name to USAPresidents 15 and visited Nz to compete within the Women’s World Rugby Festival. During this period, the united states national team received 3 wins and 1 loss. Most Colorado rugby clubs would recall this was their first loss given that they began representing the united states in 1985.
The entire year 1991 marked a historic reason for rugby in america. Jaime Jordan was elected Treasurer for that Board of Company directors from the USARFU in 1991. The Women’s National Team also won the very first Women’s Rugby World Cup in Cardiff, Wales. They defeated the brand new Zealand national team and began towards the finals where they battled the formidable British team.
In 1996, the nation’s team altered its name once again. Now dubbed Atlantis, they was created by the best female rugby players at that time. Emil Signes, among the best rugby coaches ever, handpicked these players from existing rugby teams across the nation. The Women’s National 7s team won their first Worldwide 7s tournament in Hong Kong.
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Government Agency: If 9 Substations Are Destroyed, The Power Grid Could Be Down For 18 Months
Michael Snyder March 18, 2014 1 View
What would you do if the Internet or the power grid went down for over a year? Our key infrastructure, including the Internet and the power grid, is far more vulnerable than most people would dare to imagine. These days, most people simply take for granted that the lights will always be on and that the Internet will always function properly. But what if all that changed someday in the blink of an eye? According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's latest report, all it would take to plunge the entire nation into darkness for more than a year would be to knock out a transformer manufacturer and just 9 of our 55,000 electrical substations on a really hot summer day. The reality of the matter is that our power grid is in desperate need of updating, and there is very little or no physical security at most of these substations. If terrorists, or saboteurs, or special operations forces wanted to take down our power grid, it would not be very difficult. And as you will read about later in this article, the Internet is extremely vulnerable as well.
When I read the following statement from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's latest report, I was absolutely floored...
"Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer."
What would you do without power for 18 months?
FERC studied what it would take to collapse the entire electrical grid from coast to coast. What they found was quite unsettling...
In its modeling, FERC studied what would happen if various combinations of substations were crippled in the three electrical systems that serve the contiguous U.S. The agency concluded the systems could go dark if as few as nine locations were knocked out: four in the East, three in the West and two in Texas, people with knowledge of the analysis said.
The actual number of locations that would have to be knocked out to spawn a massive blackout would vary depending on available generation resources, energy demand, which is highest on hot days, and other factors, experts said. Because it is difficult to build new transmission routes, existing big substations are becoming more crucial to handling electricity.
So what would life look like without any power for a long period of time? The following list comes from one of my previous articles...
-There would be no heat for your home.
-Water would no longer be pumped into most homes.
-Your computer would not work.
-There would be no Internet.
-Your phones would not work.
-There would be no television.
-There would be no radio.
-ATM machines would be shut down.
-There would be no banking.
-Your debit cards and credit cards would not work.
-Without electricity, gas stations would not be functioning.
-Most people would be unable to do their jobs without electricity and employment would collapse.
-Commerce would be brought to a standstill.
-Hospitals would not be able to function.
-You would quickly start running out of medicine.
-All refrigeration would shut down and frozen foods in our homes and supermarkets would start to go bad.
If you want to get an idea of how quickly society would descend into chaos, just watch the documentary "American Blackout" some time. It will chill you to your bones.
The truth is that we live in an unprecedented time. We have become extremely dependent on technology, and that technology could be stripped away from us in an instant.
Right now, our power grid is exceedingly vulnerable, and all the experts know this, but very little is being done to actually protect it...
"The power grid, built over many decades in a benign environment, now faces a range of threats it was never designed to survive," said Paul Stockton, a former assistant secretary of defense and president of risk-assessment firm Cloud Peak Analytics. "That's got to be the focus going forward."
If a group of agents working for a foreign government or a terrorist organization wanted to bring us to our knees, they could do it.
In fact, there have actually been recent attacks on some of our power stations. Here is just one example…
The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reports that a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman is acknowledging for the first time that a group of snipers shot up a Silicon Valley substation for 19 minutes last year, knocking out 17 transformers before slipping away into the night.
The attack was “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred” in the U.S., Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time, told Smith.
Have you heard about that attack before now?
Most Americans have not.
But it should have been big news.
At the scene, authorities found "more than 100 fingerprint-free shell casings", and little piles of rocks "that appeared to have been left by an advance scout to tell the attackers where to get the best shots."
So what happens someday when the bad guys decide to conduct a coordinated attack against our power grid with heavy weapons?
In addition, as I mentioned at the top of this article, the Internet is extremely vulnerable as well.
For example, did you know that authorities are so freaked out about the security of the Internet that they have given "the keys to the Internet" to a very small group of individuals that meet four times per year?
It's true. The following is from a recent story posted by the Guardian...
The keyholders have been meeting four times a year, twice on the east coast of the US and twice here on the west, since 2010. Gaining access to their inner sanctum isn't easy, but last month I was invited along to watch the ceremony and meet some of the keyholders – a select group of security experts from around the world. All have long backgrounds in internet security and work for various international institutions. They were chosen for their geographical spread as well as their experience – no one country is allowed to have too many keyholders. They travel to the ceremony at their own, or their employer's, expense.
What these men and women control is the system at the heart of the web: the domain name system, or DNS. This is the internet's version of a telephone directory – a series of registers linking web addresses to a series of numbers, called IP addresses. Without these addresses, you would need to know a long sequence of numbers for every site you wanted to visit. To get to the Guardian, for instance, you'd have to enter "77.91.251.10" instead of theguardian.com.
If the system that controls those IP addresses gets hijacked or damaged, we would definitely need someone to press the "reset button" on the Internet.
Sadly, the hackers always seem to be several steps ahead of the authorities. In fact, according to one recent report, breaches of U.S. government computer networks go undetected 40 percent of the time…
A new report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) details widespread cybersecurity breaches in the federal government, despite billions in spending to secure the nation’s most sensitive information.
The report, released on Tuesday, found that approximately 40 percent of breaches go undetected, and highlighted “serious vulnerabilities in the government’s efforts to protect its own civilian computers and networks.”
“In the past few years, we have seen significant breaches in cybersecurity which could affect critical U.S. infrastructure,” the report said. “Data on the nation’s weakest dams, including those which could kill Americans if they failed, were stolen by a malicious intruder. Nuclear plants’ confidential cybersecurity plans have been left unprotected. Blueprints for the technology undergirding the New York Stock Exchange were exposed to hackers.”
And things are not much better when it comes to cybersecurity in the private sector either. According to Symantec, there was a 42 percent increase in cyberattacks against businesses in the United States last year. And according to a recent report in the Telegraph, our major banks are being hit with cyberattacks "every minute of every day"...
Every minute, of every hour, of every day, a major financial institution is under attack.
Threats range from teenagers in their bedrooms engaging in adolescent “hacktivism”, to sophisticated criminal gangs and state-sponsored terrorists attempting everything from extortion to industrial espionage. Though the details of these crimes remain scant, cyber security experts are clear that behind-the-scenes online attacks have already had far reaching consequences for banks and the financial markets.
For much more on all of this, please see my previous article entitled "Big Banks Are Being Hit With Cyberattacks 'Every Minute Of Every Day'".
Up until now, attacks on our infrastructure have not caused any significant interruptions in our lifestyles.
But at some point that will change.
Are you prepared for that to happen?
We live at a time when our world is becoming increasingly unstable. In the years ahead it is quite likely that we will see massive economic problems, major natural disasters, serious terror attacks and war. Any one of those could cause substantial disruptions in the way that we live.
At this point, even NASA is warning that "civilization could collapse"...
A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.
Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common."
So let us hope for the best.
But let us also prepare for the worst.
Take a look at the future of America: The Beginning of the End.
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Repurposing an anti-diabetic drug into an anti-cancer drug: Awakening the sleeping/cancer-protecting angels in mutant p53-expressing human tumors: Pioglitazone (trade name: Actos), an anti-diabetic drug, increases the expression of tumor suppressors genes, such as TIMP3, CCM3/KRIT1, p53, TAp63, TAp73, INK4a/ARF, and others, induces regression of p53-mutated human tumors, via down-regulation of its target gene, 28/August/2018, 12.09 am
A sere(ne)laxin-way to stay free of cardiac diseases: Serelaxin-based therapy for attenuating pathogenesis-associated with Myocardial infarction: Serelaxin, a recombinant Relaxin-2, decreases IRF3 (Interferon regulatory transcription factor-3), GM-CSF (Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor) and GRK2(G protein-coupled receptor kinase) expression, inhibits undue leucocyte activation and invasion, suppresses recruitment of inflammatory cells, inhibits ventricular dilation, and promotes heart repair and survival, via up-regulation of its target gene, 27/August/2018, 11.25 pm
Awakening the sleeping/cancer-protecting angels in mutant p53-expressing human tumors: PCGF2/Mel-18 increases the expression of tumor suppressors genes, such as FBOX11, Sprouty1/2, p53, TAp63, TAp73, INK4a/ARF, and others, induces regression of p53-mutated human tumors, via down-regulation of its target gene, 28/August/2018, 12.17 am
Published by admin_auro at August 27, 2018
From Significance of the study to Public health relevance:
Given that: (1) cancer suppressor p53 is mutated in more than 50% of human cancers of different tissue origin; (2) p53 pathway is altered in about 80% of tumors.; (3) our understanding is incomplete in terms of molecular targets and the oncogenic/malignant pathways involved in mutant p53-overexpressing tumors; (4) cancer causes the highest economic loss compared to all the known causes of death worldwide; and (5) cancer causes the considerable economic loss worldwide, there is an urgent need to find: (i) a cheaper alternative to the existing expensive drugs; (ii) a side-effect-free natural product-based drug; and (iii) a way to effectively treat and stall metastatic progression and relapse of mutant p53-overexpressing human cancers.
From therapeutic strategy to Research Findings:
(i) Therapeutic strategy:
This study suggests a therapeutic strategy for stalling the progression of p53-deficient/deleted or mutant-p53 expressing metastatic cancers. By activating tumor suppressor p53’s unmutated “homologous protein such as TAp73/p63” in p53-deficient or mutant-p53 expressing metastatic cancer cells, one can stall their progression.
(ii) Research findings:
Pioglitazone (Actos) has been shown to function as a tumor suppressor in a number of cancers. However, the mechanism of action remains largely unknown.
Figure 1. Mechanistic insight into how Pioglitazone (Actos) functions as an anticancer/antimetastatic agent in mutant p53-expressing tumors. Pioglitazone (Actos), by activating tumor/metastasis suppressor genes, such as TIMP3, CCM3/KRIT1, p53, TAp63, TAp73, INK4a/ARF and others, in metastatic tumors, it may inhibit the progression of mutant-p53 expressing human cancers.
Figure 2. Pioglitazone (Actos) functions as an anti-tumor/metastatic agent through induction of tumor/metastatic suppressor genes, such as TIMP3, CCM3/KRIT1, p53, TAp63, TAp73, and INK4aThis study suggests that PCGF2/Mel-18 may function as an anti-cancer/metastasis agent by increasing the expression a number of tumor/metastasis suppressor genes.
Pioglitazone (Actos), by increasing the expression of its target gene, it may increase the expression of tumor/metastasis suppressors genes, such as TIMP3, CCM3/KRIT1, TA-p73, TAp63, p53, INK4a/ARF and others. Thereby, it may inhibit the migration and invasion of metastatic cancer cells expressing mutant-p53 (figure1).
Therapeutic opportunity:
Given the ability of Pioglitazone (Actos) to induce the expression of a number of tumor/metastasis suppressor genes, it may be used, either alone or in combination with other anticancer drugs, to inhibit the progression of p53-mutated invasive metastatic tumors. Taken together, this study suggests, for the first time, that oncologists may consider treating metastatic cancer patients with Pioglitazone (Actos), as it may stall the progression of advanced metastatic cancers. (figure 2).
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Citation: Boominathan, L., Repurposing an anti-diabetic drug into an anti-cancer drug: Awakening the sleeping/cancer-protecting angels in mutant p53-expressing human tumors: Pioglitazone (trade name: Actos), an anti-diabetic drug, increases the expression of tumor suppressors genes, such as TIMP3, CCM3/KRIT1, p53, TAp63, TAp73, INK4a/ARF, and others, induces regression of p53-mutated human tumors, via down-regulation of its target gene, 28/August/2018, 12.09 am, Genome-2-BioMedicine Discovery center (GBMD), http://genomediscovery.org
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Small molecule-based Lifespan extension comes of age-β-guanidinopropionic acid (β-GPA) aids in Lifespan extension: β-guanidinopropionic acid (β-GPA) activates autophagy, promotes leanness, increases insulin sensitivity, improves motor function, increases adult stem cell proliferation, alleviates ageing feature and extends lifespan, via upregulation of its target genes ATG5 (Autophagy-related 5) and telomerase, 15/July/2019, 10. 6.31 am
Solving a long standing puzzle as to how Astragalus membranaceus functions as a pain reliever: Mechanistic insights into how Astragalus membranaceus-derived compound Astragaloside functions as a pain medication: Astragaloside, derived from Astragalus membranaceus or its oil, increases the expression of PD-L1, TRPV1, and CGPR, decreases the expression of Cox-2, attenuates acutes and chronic pain, and suppresses mechanical and thermal hypersensitivity and inhibits nociceptive neuron excitability, via up-regulation of its target gene, 12/July/2019, 11.39 pm
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Swiss vote on immigration boosts far-right parties through rest of Europe | World news | The Observer
Posted on February 15, 2014 February 15, 2014 by geofftkennedy
Swiss vote on immigration boosts far-right parties through rest of Europe | World news | The Observer.
When Christian Ragger heard that the Swiss had voted to cap immigration into their country in a referendum last weekend, he was “deeply impressed”, he says. “All over the world, immigration is protected [from being limited]. It required a special courage to vote in that way. This was a typically democratic Swiss action.”
Ragger heads the local branch of the Austrian Freedom party (FPÖ) in its mountainous stronghold of Carinthia, in the south of the country. Once led by the flamboyant Jörg Haider, the FPÖ has been called everything from populist to neo-Nazi, yet it would be hard to imagine anyone less like the stereotype of a bull-necked, red-faced Alpine far right-winger than the FPÖ’s trim and cosmopolitan young leader.
Ragger speaks good English and excellent Italian and, before joining the regional government, was a partner in a law firm that has branches in Milan and Florence.
When Haider’s party joined the Austrian government after winning 27% of the vote in the 1999 general election, other European Union countries were so horrified that they took the unprecedented decision to reduce to a minimum their contacts with Austrian officials. Since then, Haider has died and the FPÖ has split. Now it is back – and with a vengeance. It came second in each of the last five opinion polls in Austria – and those were all carried out before last weekend’s vote.
“The result in Switzerland has played right into the hands of the FPÖ,” says Claudia Grabner, editor of Carinthia’s regional daily, Kärntner Tageszeitung. “And that is not just because of immigration. For years now, the FPÖ has been holding up Switzerland as an example. Its leaders have been saying, ‘Look at the Swiss: they’re not in the EU, they’re not in the euro, and they’re doing better’.”
She believes the FPÖ could now get 25% of the vote in the European Union election in May. Ragger says that in Carinthia they are already polling 30%.
A strong showing by the FPÖ would increase the likelihood that the biggest single group in the next European parliament will be made up of Eurosceptics. Not that Ragger would like you to put that label on either him or the FPÖ. His party denies that it wants to pull Austria out of the EU. “But ever since we joined, we’ve been calling for reforms,” he says.
Like Britain’s Eurosceptics, the FPÖ is unhappy about the country’s loss of sovereignty to an unelected European commission. As for the euro, says Ragger, its strength has been a disaster for Austria in general and his own region in particular. Carinthia, bordering Italy and Slovenia in the eastern Alps, is overwhelmingly dependent on exports.
“For the first time in Carinthia we have unemployment running at over 12%,” says Ragger. “It used to be around 6%. We are seeing a lot of bankruptcies and we have lost a lot of jobs. And yet we are still taking in immigrants – from Bulgaria and Romania, but also from Afghanistan and Syria. They now make up 10% of the population.”
He reckons that, if Austrians had been given the same chance as the Swiss, they too would have voted for a curb on immigration. “In the country as a whole it would have been a majority. But in Carinthia it would have been 60%,” he says.
On the flat, snow-covered fields a seven-minute drive from the FPÖ’s head office in the regional capital of Klagenfurt stands a football stadium, a monument to former leader Haider’s vainglorious folly.
As governor of Carinthia, he dreamed of converting his skiing-mad fellow citizens to the “beautiful game”. Haider cajoled the central government into making Klagenfurt a venue for the Euro 2008 football tournament, and tapped a local bank for the funds to build a suitable stadium.
Because of that and other disastrous ventures, the bank had to be bailed out by the taxpayer. Although the 30,000-capacity stadium is occasionally used for international matches and other big fixtures, a spokesman for the management confirmed that the home team, SK Austria Klagenfurt, draws a crowd of “around 500”.
Werner Bauer, a Viennese political scientist, describes the FPÖ’s comeback from the scandals that erupted after Haider’s death in a car crash as “astonishing”.
The secret of its success, he says, has been to tap into the anger of the “losers from globalisation” under its leader since 2005, Heinz-Christian Strache. “Austrians are very anxious and very conservative. And now a majority are against the EU,” says Bauer.
He claims that the party’s officials are generally “extremely rightwing” and that a lot once belonged to burschenschaften – student fraternities, many linked to the far right. “But,” he adds, “you cannot say that the FPÖ’s supporters are all very rightwing.”
Ragger denies that the party machinery is staffed by far rightwingers. “Up until about two years ago, that was probably true,” he acknowledges. “But we are hoping to get into government at the next election, and for that reason we are reorganising our party officials.”
The FPÖ’s chief in Carinthia readily agrees that it has broadened its electoral base. “The main voters for our party now are the workers. In the national election last year, for the first time, we received more working-class votes than the Socialists. We too are New Labour,” he says with a grin.
The FPÖ’s social and employment policies, though, sound anything but Blairite: an end to short-term contracts; pensions for all after 35 years in employment; and guaranteed places in retirement homes.
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Recruiting Video
Rhody Opens 2018 Season at Boston University
RHODE ISLAND vs. BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Friday, Aug. 24 at 7 p.m.
Nickerson Field (Boston, Mass.)
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The Rams open the 2018 season on Friday night, when they travel to Boston University for a 7 p.m. game against the Terriers.
Rhody returns 15 players - including nine starters - from last year's team, which advanced to the semifinals of the A-10 tournament.
Eleven new players have joined the squad - five internationals and six Americans.
Rhody was picked to finish fourth in the 2018 A-10 preseason coaches poll.
Seniors Dominik Richter and Chae Brangman, as well as junior Peder Kristiansen, collected preseason all-conference honors.
Last year, 10 different players combined to score the Rams' 28 goals. Seven of those player are back in 2017, including three players - Brangman (8g/3a), junior Stavros Zarokostas (5g/4a) and Richter (4g/4a) who finished the 2017 with double-digit points.
Three of four starters return to the Rams' back line as Kristiansen, Middrup and Dickson combined to hold opponents scoreless eight times last season, including a pair of shutouts against top-25 teams.
For the first time in four years, Rhode Island will be without the services of 2018 graduate Nils Leifhelm, who finished his collegiate career with a 40-28-9 record and 23 shutouts - second most all-time at Rhode Island.
The Rams are 25-15-1 all-time in season openers, including a 3-0 season-opening victory last year against Boston University.
The Rhody/Boston University Series
Boston University leads: 23-16-8
First Meeting: 1963; BU won 5-3.
Last Meeting: August 25, 2017; URI defeated BU, 3-0, in Kingston, R.I.
Current Streak: Rhode Island, one win.
Boston University's last win: September 24, 2010 (3-0) in Boston.
Of Note: Chae Brangman, Stavros Zarokostas and Peder Kristiansen each scored a goal in last season's 3-0 victory over BU.
Scouting the Terriers
Boston University turned in a 7-8-4 record last season, finishing 6-2-1 (2nd place) in the Patriot League.
The Terriers were picked to finish second in the Patriot League this season.
BU returns midfielder Toti Knutsson, who led the team lead with 11 points (3g/5a) last season. He is joined in the midfield by Matt McDonnell, who scored a team-best four assists in a year ago.
Mike Bernardi started the majority of the games between the posts last season, finishing the year with a 6-5-2 record, seven shutouts and a 1.17 goals against average.
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Teen sentenced to life in prison for murder of 10-year-old Colorado girl
Posted 8:23 am, March 12, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
Aidan Zellmer
BRIGHTON, Colo. - A teenager who pleaded guilty to killing a 10-year-old girl was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years, according to KDVR.
Aidan Zellmer, 17, was charged as an adult in the death of Kiaya Campbell on June 7, 2017, after they left her father’s home to go to a shopping center.
As part of a plea deal, Zellmer pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder after deliberation on Feb. 1.
“In 27 years as a prosecutor, I have never seen a 15-year-old commit such a violent act,” 17th Judicial District Attorney Dave Young said.
An Amber Alert was issued and a massive search was launched.
Neighbors found her battered body in a ravine behind homes near 128th Avenue and Jasmine Street the next day.
She had been beaten to death, according to an Adams County Coroner's Office autopsy report.
According to an affidavit released after Adams County District Judge Sharon Holbrook imposed the mandatory sentencing, Zellmer and Campbell left the house to go steal Pokeman cards and candy.
The affidavit showed Zellmer hit Campbell in the head five times with a metal pipe and dragged her into a ditch, leaving her there to die.
Campbell suffered multiple blunt-force injuries to the head as well as wounds to several fingers, according to the autopsy report.
Kiaya Campbell (Photo: Thornton Police Department)
The affidavit said Campbell's body was found naked from the waist down and there was evidence of a sexual assault, though the sex crime charges were later dismissed as part of the plea deal.
Two days later, officers arrested Zellmer, who was 15 at the time and lived in the same home in the 12400 block of Forest Drive in Thornton, by using blood and DNA on his shoes that tied him to the murder.
His mother was in a relationship with Campbell's father at the time.
"Kiaya will not be forgotten," Holbrook told the family.
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Fatih Akin's Cinema of Intersections
Noah Isenberg
Film Quarterly, Vol. 64 No. 4, Summer 2011; (pp. 53-61) DOI: 10.1525/FQ.2011.64.4.53
Noah Isenberg is the author, most recently, of Detout (BFI Film Classics, 2008) and is currently finishing a critical biography of Edgar G. Ulmer for the University of California Press. He directs the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.
A career survey of the work of Turkish German director Fatih Akin, whose films (notably The Edge of Heaven and Soul Kitchen) combine comedy with darker notes, emphasizing the theme of dual identity and paying particular attention to the use of music.
In July
Head-On
The Edge of Heaven
© 2011 by the Regents of the University of California.
Vol. 64 No. 4, Summer 2011
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The New Gestural Cinema
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Tag Archives: Prophecy
John’s Third Book of Revelation Restored
John was given a third book to write in Revelation, but not liking what it said, THEY removed it from the Bible. It has been restored into the King of kings’ Bible; and is available to all as God and Christ intended.
The Hierarchy Enslaving You (T.H.E.Y.) didn’t like it, because it condemns their priests. And THEY did exactly what the book WARNED them not to do:
Revelation 30:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of this Book of Prophecy, the Father shall take away his right to the Tree of Life and he will be cast out of the Holy City and will share not the eternal gift of paradise and bliss, which are written in this book.
John and Christ must have known that THEY would do it.
You will appreciate John’s third book because it gives clarity to his first and second books; and reveals more insight about the time of the end.
THEY essentially removed Chapters 23-29; making John’s original Chapter 30 the last chapter in their version – Chapter 22.
From the original, THEY also left out the portion about His Second Coming in Revelation 30:16.
John’s Third Book of Revelation as presented in the King of kings’ Bible:
23:1 To the seven spirits in the province of Asia, your brother John bore faithful witness for your deliverance from reproach, being known that the pure soul is energy (Light – Dan. 12:3 ).
23:2 Having the ear, I, John in the spirit, write, for there came a loud voice like a trumpet behind me, I turned and did see the Light and fell at his feet as though dead (ch. 1:17).
23:3 Out of the Light came forth the voice saying, “John, be not afraid, for I hand you a key that transcends death and Hades (ch. 1:18 ), for you have not forsaken your first love, do all things that you did at first”.
23:4 For the beast will be slain and his sign will be laid down by the Lamb. A great trumpet will sound from a high place and a great star set on a staff will be carried into the midst of the crowd.
23:5 And the Lord will bless this place and make it a Holy City, and it will be called the New Jerusalem. And the City will come out of heaven from God and be of jasper and of crystal. And the wall of the City will have twelve foundations and the gates will bear the names of the Apostles.
23:6 And the Lamb will sit in the midst and will number thirteen. For seven will be called and five will be chosen. The City will be measured by a rod of gold and to its measure will be added every kind of precious stone.
23:7 And they will bare their feet and bow their heads, for all nations and kings of the Earth will see no other splendour. And the Temple gates will not shut by day, and there will be no night there.
23:8 And the impure will burn as transparent glass and the pure as gold. The glory of nations will sit by the Throne of the Temple that is within the City. And any that come in shame or deceit will bear no fruit, and their seed will be as iron.
23:9 Each will know the prophecy of the other, and each forehead bear the sign. For the Words of Prophecy must not cause false witness, for Aristeas (who could leave his body at will) knew his Lord, for the Word is solemn and cause it not to be tampered with, for the Spirit said, “Come, whoever is thirsty, take the gift of the Water of Life”.
23:10 Anyone who receives the Word from the Temple of Light will be born again (John 3:3-10) and those who make false witness will walk naked as a thief. They will carry no name and their mouths will be as the mouths of the beast, for they will sit with the spirit of demons and lie with the frog.
23:11 And the City will be borne on a “Cloud” of Light (Matt. 17:5), not set upon the Earth, but carried by the Spirit. Through the gates will come many peoples and languages and they will speak with a single tongue and read of the Book of Life.
23:12 And the Priests of the Earth will come forth and call The Book evil and make pain of the 144,000 who are of the Light. But The Priest will read of The Book and the Word will turn the stomach sour, but in the mouth it will be as sweet as honey.
23:13 Thus, the Word will be revealed by the Spirit of the Light. But the Priests of the Earth will not see the Word, but make witness to the defiled word, which came out of the mouths of angels, but fell into the hand of the beast.
23:14 What the Spirit opens, no-one can shut; and what he shuts, no-one can open. The defiled priest will lie with the beast.
The remaining chapters can be read in the King of kings’ Bible, which JAH has made available for free online reading.
JAH has restored other books that were removed from the Bible such as the books of Enoch, 2 Edras, Wisdom, and Thomas. He also restored Chapter 29 of Acts.
Tags: Christ's Second Coming, John's Third Book of Revelation, Prophecy
Categories Prophecy, The King of kings' Bible
Who Owns the World?
According to many truthers, the world belongs to essentially what we can call the “Mega”. All kinds of posts and podcasts call out the mega-rich, mega-corporations, mega-banks, mega-war machines, mega-governments and mega-churches. Yes, there is a label for those who think they own the world. It’s a brand they’ve created – MEGA. With all their big ideas, they think they are quite worldly. But being “worldly” is quite the opposite of what we’ve been guided to be, by all the holy books – the Torah, the Holy Bible and the Holy Koran.
The holy books guide mankind on how to live on this planet, dedicated to good and helping others, and overcoming his natural, human-self wanting all the things tied to this temporal world. Did you get that? Temporal means temporary. The holy books tell us the world is temporary and the “I AM” has set an appointed day for Final Judgement – to judge how each soul-being lived his human-being lives. “O my People! This life of the present is nothing but (temporary) convenience: it is the Hereafter that is the Home that will last” (Sura 40:39). There is a perfect order to how our star system, the Earth, moon, stars and planets are governed. And Earth as we know it doesn’t end with a second sun or meteor hitting it out of orbit or whatever. It ends how the “I AM” decrees; and He’s had it written down for us.
The holy books instruct man to follow the straight path, The Way – The Strait Way (Matt. 7:13-14) or The Straight Way (Sura 23:73). They instruct man to love and obey the “I AM” –Yahweh, God, Allah– above all. This means above all people, like movie stars-idols, pop-idols, sports-idols, monarchs, clergy and chief executives. Yet, man seems fixated on bowing to them and worshipping them as if they were gods, thus breaking the First Heavenly Commandment. Remember that one? The one that tells us to love and obey the “I AM” with all our hearts and minds and strength and to have no other gods, or assign any other partners to Him. Look at how man treats his false gods/idols and how he turns away from the One True God. It’s not okay to idolize them; and man can’t propagandize reasoning in the heavens for doing so, although he’s managed to do it in this world. The riches of the world are not legal-tender in the heavens. And like the book The Way home or face The Fire asked, “What are they going to do with all the stuff in the end?”
The holy books warn man of the penalties for not obeying the Laws of the “I AM”, giving examples of punishments we’ve already lived through in past lifetimes, like the Flood and the destructions of Jerusalem and Babylon. At least those were giving soul beings another chance; however, the souls in Sodom and Gomorrah were wiped from existence using heavenly fire. And there’s still nothing there. With all these punishments, some label the “I AM” as unloving. That’s pretty arrogant to say, because we fallen angels could have been executed immediately, instead of being cast to this prison planet. The “I AM” CREATED this beautiful Earth to give us a chance to prove our loyalty to Him – this means doing, and not doing, WHATEVER HE COMMANDS – the test of obedience. It’s not like we have to wonder what is good or evil, because we’ve been given the Law Books. But in our arrogance, we continue to oppose, imitating Lucifer’s arrogance and beliefs. And he’s mega-crazy.
For one, he’s the warmonger who instigated an attempt to overthrow God, the Guardian Of Divinity and Ruler of the Universe. Well, he’s still creating war and vying for control, and still LYING and USING us. His demented illusions of reality aren’t REALITY, any more than his associates’ mega-plans for the world are sane. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Let’s stop biting the poison fruit, which has put us to sleep. We’ve got to stop being little satans, “destroyers”, opposers, to God’s Will. The apple of our eye shouldn’t be dollar signs; it should be what we cherish. And we should cherish our Creator for His loving mercy and forgiveness to give us a chance to enter Heaven again, to become angels again. And to do this we must drink from the Cup of Immortality – the Holy Grail. And to do this we’ve got to follow the Law and believe the Truth of who we really are, Spirit-Beings, just like our Savior, Messenger, and Example showed us. We need to believe Him, not the serpent’s whispers. Why follow Lucifer’s example, being little satans and becoming fuel for the fire? That’s crazy. After thousands of years of believing Satan’s pretty little lies, we’ve managed to transform our beautiful reform-school into a lunatic-asylum, run by fellow hellions, as if it were ever a good idea to turn a prison over to the inmates.
Thank goodness, this world is only temporary! Every soul has had quite awhile to prove who he wants his master to be. Some are wheat ready for harvest, but most are chaff to be burned. Some are sheep with one Shepherd; some are goats that destroy. Some are doves; some are ravens. And some are believers; some are unbelievers, who should have never traded their faith for fortune-hunting.
Satan is offering all kinds of fortunes to those who do his bidding of destroying Earth and its inhabitants. He hates it here. He hates the fallen angels because we wanted another chance. “Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the Earth and all that is between!” (Sura 21:16). Earth wasn’t created as a playground for evil spirits, although that’s what it seems now. It is our reform-school. Lucifer was so arrogant that he wouldn’t bow to being a human-being with limitations, saying to “I AM” that he wouldn’t enter something made of mud after being made of energy. Now, he’s convinced man that we are self-sufficient creators ourselves, so arrogant that we tell God that we too can create a man and pick up some clay and wave it at Him. God says, then get your own dirt. After God created the Earth, He created man, “And the “I AM” God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became alive and was given a soul [spirit Being] (human+being)” (Genesis 2:7). “If it were His Will, He could destroy you, O mankind, and create another race for He hath power this to do” (Sura 4:133). Lo, how we forget to be humble in His sight; and He sees all things. And the Heavenly Angels like Gabriel record all our deeds.
“And God said, Let us make man in Our image, and teach him to be like Us: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:26). When He said this, He wasn’t giving permission to destroy it, but to be good stewards. If God wasn’t in charge of the world’s timing, man would have already destroyed it and himself for Satan, the Great Destroyer. And if we understand the Clear Signs, we’d realize we are running out of time. “And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the Time of the “Dead”, that they should be Judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy Servants the Prophets, and to the holy people, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth” (Revelation 11:18).
Who’s destroying the Earth? Mankind with mega-heads, with the arrogance to drill and spill oil in the oceans; with the audacity to alter the air and adjust the weather; with technology-science to create terminator seeds; with pollutants to corrupt the fertile land and fresh water; with defiance to decimate the rainforests; and with politicks to suck the life out of everyone. And Mankind, with his drugs, wars, lies and deceit. In their vanity, some men are blinded to the destruction by the dollar signs in their eyes, as they see money as their god; but all too often they know the effects of what they do. Make no mistake, Satan knows the end result to all the destructive activities. He’s inspired most of them, and convinces man that man is supreme and intelligent, which is a lie. Insanity destroys the world. And we are all on death row, because unless we receive pardons, we are “dead men walking”; that’s why we are called the Dead by Jesus. Do you still want to arrogantly imitate Satan, or do you want to gain some humility and bow down to your Creator?
It is the “I AM”, the Most High, the Almighty, the Ruler of the Universe who OWNS the world! Man doesn’t own it, nor has the right to buy and sell it; rape and pillage it; destroy and pollute it; or divide and conquer it. The Native Americans knew this even back in the day. They told the white man they couldn’t sell the land to them, because it wasn’t theirs to sell; that it belonged to Great Grandfather, the Great White Spirit – the “I AM” who has many beautiful names. They also considered how their decisions would affect the Earth for the next seven generations as yet unborn. It’s ironic how often “intelligent” barbarians call respecters of the Earth “savages” to obtain what is not theirs. “But to God belong all things in the heavens and on earth… (Sura 4:126)… For the earth [is] the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof (1 Corin. 10:26).”
The Earth not only belongs to its Creator, but it is also His footstool. “… All the heavens are Thy throne for ever, and all the Earth Thy footstool for ever and for ever” (Enoch 83:3)… Heaven [is] My throne, and earth [is] My footstool (Acts 7:49)… The “I AM” said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool (Psalms 110:1)… But to which of the angels said He at any time, Sit on My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? (Hebrews 1:13)… Then shall the kings, the princes, and all who possess (and think they own) the Earth, glorify Him Who has dominion over all things; and him who was concealed (and does own it), for from eternity the Son of Man was concealed, whom the Most High preserved in the presence of His power and revealed to the Elect (Enoch/Idris 61:10)”. It will be Christ Prince Michael’s footstool, given to Him, to teach those released from their sentences by their desire to truly be spirits again, instead of clinging to the world. They follow the Laws of the “I AM”, passing the test of obedience.
“Truly man is, to his Lord, ungrateful; And to that (fact) he bears witness (by his deeds); And violent is he in his love of wealth (Sura 100:6-8)… There is the type of man whose speech about this world’s life may dazzle thee, and he calls God to witness about what is in his heart; yet is he the most contentious of enemies. When he turns his back, his aim everywhere is to spread mischief through the Earth and destroy crops and cattle. But God loveth not mischief. When it is said to him, “Fear God,” he is led by arrogance to (more) crime. Enough for him is Hell: an evil bed indeed (to lie on)! (Sura 2:204-206).
“The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, and his heart is turned away from his Maker. For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly” (Wisdom 10:12-13). A man who trusts in his riches will fall, for his worldly riches will not profit in the day of wrath. He cannot sell his riches to escape what has been in his heart. The only thing a man can truly sell is his soul. And this phrase is making its way as a cliché in satanic cults, but it so happens to be very real. “Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but is of the world…” (1 John 2:15-16).
There is a difference between having what one needs, taking care of it with respect and having an insane amount of stuff, worshipping materials and possessions as gods, where one cannot manage them without using others. There is a difference between preparing for the war and collapse, storing necessities and exchanging paper for gold and the Act of instigating war for gold and absolute power. “He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want (Proverbs 22:16)… he who is a greedy miser and thinks himself self-sufficient, and gives the lie to the Best, We will indeed make smooth for him The Path to Misery; nor will his wealth profit him when he falls headlong (into the Pit) (Sura 92:8-11)… Woe to every (kind of) scandal-monger and-backbiter, who pileth up wealth and layeth it by, thinking that his wealth would make him last for ever! (Sura 104:1-3) … O ye who believe! Devour not usury (interest), doubled and multiplied; but fear God; that ye may (really) prosper (Sura 3:130)… In those days they shall not be saved by gold and by silver. Nor shall they have it in their power to secure themselves, and to fly. There shall be neither iron for war, nor a coat of mail for the breast… All these things shall be rejected, and perish from off the Earth, when the Elect One shall appear in representation of the Lord of Spirits. (Enoch/Idris 51:6-10).” There’s another important fact everyone is overlooking, “The silver [is] Mine, and the gold [is] Mine,” saith the “I AM” Lord of hosts” (Haggai 2:8).
The Elect One, the Messenger, and the other Holy Guardian Angels do what is decreed by the “I AM” for Earth. “Never did We send a Warner to a population, but the wealthy ones among them said: “We believe not in the (Message) with which ye have been sent (Sura 34:34)… Nor was thy Lord the one to destroy a population until He had sent to its Centre an Apostle, rehearsing to them Our Signs; nor are We going to destroy a population except when its members practice inequity (Sura 28:59)…When We decide to destroy a population, We (first) send a definite order to those among them who are given the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved true against them: then (it is that) We destroy them utterly (Sura 17:16).”
To those struggling with how unfair the world seems at present, don’t lose hope, FAITH, or the will to do GOD’S WILL (Matthew 6:10). Remember, things aren’t always as they seem and this world is temporary. Those who cleave to the “I AM” will have a pleasant reward, just prove your loyalty to the Most High and Him alone. Ask what is His Will for you to do; be grateful for things you have, stop buying into consumerism if you have what you need, because materialism is how fortunes were made and the earth polluted and destroyed; help others; but don’t enable bad habits or behavior; set an example by following The Way; say thank You to the “I AM” all the time; ask Him for help and guidance every day; and tell Him you love Him.
The insane riches that “belong” to a select few label them most definitely as mega-fuel. Think of it as a process of elimination for the Heavens. “If any do wish for the transitory things (of this life), We readily grant them – such things as We will, to such person as We will: in the end have We provided Hell-Fire for them: they will burn therein, disgraced and rejected (Sura 17:18)… Leave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please themselves: let (false) hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (elucidate them). Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand. Neither can a people anticipate its Term, nor delay it (Sura 15:3-5).”
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven… for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of Light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the force (energy) that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and materialism” (Matthew 6:19-24).
“Seest thou? If We do let them enjoy (this life) for a few years, yet there comes to them at length the (Punishment) which they were promised! It will profit them not that they enjoyed (this life)! (Sura 26:205-207)… Those who rest not their hope on their meeting with Us, but are pleased and satisfied with the life of the Present, and those who heed not Our Signs, their abode is the Fire, because of the (evil) they earned (Sura 10:7-8).”
“The Unbelievers spend their wealth to hinder (man) from The Way of “I AM”, and so will they continue to spend; but in the end they will have (only) regrets and sighs; at length they will be overcome: and the Unbelievers will be gathered together to Hell-Fire; (Sura 8:36)… Remember how the Unbelievers plotted against thee, to keep thee in bonds, or slay thee, or get thee out (of thy home). They plot and plan, and “I AM” too plans, but the Best of Planners is “I AM” (Sura 8:30).
Because most want to be humans rather than their spirits, and few human+Beings are fighting for the True Kingdom, the world is going to get darker. “And at that time shall Michael [the Archangel] stand up, the Great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the Book [of Life]” (Daniel 12:1). It is prudent to prepare yourselves without boasting for attention, but don’t get so caught up in prepping that it becomes a god. Prepare your souls. The Synagogue of Satan will probably be allowed to do most of what it has planned before the rug is pulled from underneath it – suddenly. Everything could be different though, if we’d all label ourselves for God.
King of kings’ Bible
Handbook for Prisoners, Prison Officers and Governors
GM Terminator Seeds
Slaves To The System
Tags: Bible, End Times, Fallen Angels, Koran, Prophecy, Torah, World, World Ownership
Categories Armageddon/WW3, CHRIST, New World Order, Prophecy, The King of kings' Bible
Dialing 666-SELF, Hell-o Satan
Most of us think it’s important to be ourselves. Well, this isn’t exactly true. It is a human trait to want this to be true, but the human Self is the “traitor” to the spiritual Being. Some falsely think that being spiritual is “finding self”, but they are self-delusional, because the Being, or spirit, isn’t selfish. BEING is about losing self, overcoming self and controlling one’s self, through a spiritual desire to do so. This is the real process of becoming spiritually reborn.
It becomes a journey back Home, where a person decides to travel along a good path or takes the high road, instead of the lowly one. The first step is to realize that one cannot be caught up in one’s self, because that means stagnation, and one rots there. To begin a true spiritual journey, a person must realize it’s a quest. He cannot be made anew in one instant or one day. It’s DAILY, all the days of his life. He proves he wants renewal by the process he initiates. Once a true heart’s desire is made manifest by action, its intent is revealed, and a saving grace will come.
A life can no longer be just about the body-vehicle and its likes and dislikes, and about what it thinks it is or wants. This is where a person strays into imitating an animal, not actively being a spirit. Doesn’t a dog have its favorite toy, a cat its favorite food, and a horse its favorite post? Look at your favorite things and realize you are defining your spirit as your self, the thing you must overcome. Examine how habitual you really are; how much you are on auto-pilot throughout the day; and how much you really try to comfort your self.
How did Self get a bad name? Quick answer: it’s operated by Satan. Just as the Holy Spirit is a person’s direct line to God, the Self is the direct line to Satan. When a person makes a decision to start really phoning Home, he can stop dialing 666-SELF. He’s not aware that he’s programmed it on auto-dial as he asks himself, “What do I do? What do I want?” Ringie-ding-ding. How do we know this is Satan’s number? Man was created on the sixth day, and over time his number triple-inflated as did his ego, because his life became about himself, as he made himself first, last and everything in between, 666. He lost his Creator’s number, a simple one really, “1”. The Creator is the beginning and end, the ONE, there’s nothing after, and especially not the suffix “world”.
So here we are. Sentenced to earth because we wanted to listen to Lucifer. Well, we get to hear him loud and clear now, all the time, with this Self-link wired to him. It’s hell. We wanted another chance to prove we’d be faithful to God only, and listen to only Him from then on. We were asked to prove it. Then, we find ourselves still believing Satan’s lies and pretend to be deaf, which blinds us, and then makes us dumb. Dumb animals, who hear “we are only human”; and it gives us a chance “to be ourselves” and find all our favorite things. The more human we are, the more we want all this worldly stuff, thus it should be easy to see that the elites are very human, perhaps the most human of all, which means they aren’t shape shifting, unless their weight fluctuates from how much food they consume or how many drugs they take. They also aren’t the greys, well maybe Dorian Greys.
Again, here we are. Hard-wired to Satan through Self, and it’s a pretty reliable land-line. But we are also internally connected to our Creator through the Holy Spirit, it’s cellular, a telepathic communication-energy wave.
We can also look at these connections using an analogy of a computer. The human body is a complex computer with a main drive and two servers, where the individual consciousness is the soul, represented by the mainframe. One server is G(o)od and the other D/evil. Which server an individual consciousness relies on determines if the operating system is Spirit-driven or Self-driven. Both are motivators, but one means life and one means death. A soul that is spirit-driven will be able to drink from the Holy Grail, Immortality; but a soul who relies on himself remains human and will die upon Judgment that “that’s all he wanted to be”. And Satan will sing, “Ra-ra-re” and place a “sould” sign on his mind, because man bought the idea that he was only human or that life was just about his human experience. When all a person thinks about is his Self, he has a mark of the beast on his forehead (on his mind).
The other option is having the Seal of God, which means a person learns to communicate WITH, listen to, and follow only God’s commands, advice and guidance in his daily walk and talk. A person decides to Be and Act like he wants to become, an eternal spirit, or angel again. The spirit is tied to feeling and intuition from our Creator. Spirit is calm and discerning, and operates by a quiet “knowing”. God nudges and softly guides. It is Satan who pushes and yells in someone’s head. The self is tied to emotion through Satan’s need for someone to act quick and irrational, fight or flight, basically so that he can create a big mess in one’s life. He constantly tells the self what to believe. But don’t worry, he’ll be there to advise on how to fix it, then it becomes a vicious circle of self-help. This is why it is essential to be in Spirit-mode, where a person can be objective and a passer-by to all the chaos, roadblocks and madness in this Hell. He can recognize Satan’s games, then learn to monitor which thoughts and instilled by God or which thoughts are transmitted by Satan. From that perspective, he should be able to make wise decisions.
Why does Satan have this power? He did not submit to becoming Adams and Eves like we did. Yes, he was cast here too, but didn’t enter a human body. God granted him permission to test us. The kicker is he only can transmit thoughts; which means humans DO all the actions. If they didn’t DO them, Satan wouldn’t have any arms and legs, no power to DO anything physically. The biggest example of this is his synagogue of elites. By their free-will choice, they believe him and physically do what he says. The ritualistic ones know they are talking with Satan, and do all kinds of unholy things. Then there are ones who are just lost in them-selves, making a killing off everyone’s misfortune, with no clue Satan is the one motivating them, with material bonuses, and he convinces them that greed is good. Beware though, because Michael Douglas probably earned himself throat-cancer for promoting that idea in the film “Wall Street”. Then, there’s us, who think we are just human and get on the tread mill, take our daily bread of distraction, and watch the dollar bills fly out the window. And Satan’s got our ear, convincing us this is how it is.
On the bright side, we were given a most wonderful example through Christ who came here to show us how to overcome Satan and spiritually be in control of self. He did it! Satan couldn’t con Jesus into forgetting who He was, or revel in being human, or bow to him for possessions. Christ should have remained our example, but we forgot the best part of the Message: What He told us to do and What he did. Now, it seems we get to hear Satan in surround sound. What Satan wants isn’t going to happen though. He and his synagogue want God and Christ to just go away and leave the world to them. They don’t think they are doing anything wrong anymore (really). Satan’s convinced them they think they make fine gods, all by them selves, and they do what they think must be done. We should have no other gods before the I AM, remember? …which brings up an expression, “people have the governments they deserve.”
What we need to understand is the human EGO will never accept Christ or a true spiritual path. Satan will never accept Christ and he’s going to oppose us accepting Christ through our egos. He’s even managed to turn spirituality into a SELF quest-ion. Why did Christ say to crucify (control) self, self-will, daily? He certainly knew it was tied to the enemy within. It is this EGO-self that a soul must fight on an individual basis. Once a person wins in the battlefield in the mind, Satan’s connection to them just becomes theater. The easiest way to see this is by observing someone whose life is chaos. It is a sure sign he is not following a spiritual path and also a warning to return to one. Most don’t get it, playing the victim because Satan tells them everyone is out to get them or life just isn’t fair. Satan will also use this chaos as distractions for someone who is on a spiritual path. They’ll come out of the woodwork when a person decides to travel the good path, because Satan will say “game on”.
And just like in the movie “Revolver”, the only way to become smarter is to play a smarter opponent. Satan is smarter than us right now, only because we believe him. But we can outsmart him, once we realize he continues to use all the same moves, tactics, fears, and imaginations… over and over again, day after day, year after year. They WORK. In a sense, he’s got our number too and simply hits redial. He’ll expose all his moves, which if we examine our individual selves closely, he only has a few. We simply neutralize each, one by one. In doing so, we overcome. This is why studying the Bible helps. It keeps us focused on the Truth, the Word, and Life. When we are in this frame of mind, we hear Father’s guidance more easily. Also spend time with Father in a quiet place alone. Satan hates scripture. Use it on him, mentally. He cannot stand talk about God and Christ. This is reflected in how his minions, or agents, try to get everyone to shut up about Them.
In “Revolver”, the lead character finally understood who was talking to him and overcame the voice within, so much so he had no more fear, not even fear of death. It is the spirit that can get to this point, not the self-ego. It’s time to put the spirit in control. For instance, how many “bad” habits do we have that we just can’t give up? It is our human animal that has addictions, not our spirits. Addictions come in all shapes and sizes, like sexual perversions, collections, acquisitions, idolizing, shopping, food and drugs. They are just about anything we devote ourselves to, or Love with a capital L. Reveling in all these human materialistic things does not advance our souls, but it does provide ego self-satisfaction. We cannot serve two masters, God and mammon. There has to come a point where a soul consciousness must overcome the human-animal weaknesses, impulses and justifications for remaining ego-bound. And given the time we’re in, it really becomes a matter of life and death. Stop trying to overcome the bad habits and OVERCOME them, just as Yoda says in Star Wars, “Try not; do, or do not. There is no try.” Identify what to do or not do; and follow through. Actively and decidedly turn away from the bad habits (and you know which ones those are); then adopt good habits like singing the New Song. Do you want to be spirit to achieve immortality with Christ and be with Father again, or do you want to be human with Satan and die?
Think of the process this way. Say someone systematically steals and lies everyday, for years. Maybe he half-heartedly stops for one or two days, but the habit returns so easily into routine again. Then, one day real Judgement comes, where all thieves and liars are to be executed as was written in the Heavens and he just didn’t care to care. But he begs for his life although he knew the punishment. At that point, he promises never to steal and lie again. Is he to be believed? Where is the proof he wouldn’t do them again? There is none, because he, himself, decided not to care to really change, and that will be known in the Heavens.
It’s time to care. It’s time to overcome. It’s time to know this is a struggle to fight Satan, but it must be done daily, within and without. If a person is sincere and honest, he will be helped and guided. If he controls his self, his ego, God will control Satan for him. God only has to think someone is protected and he is. His protection is for those who love and obey Him only. If you are going to fight Satan, stop listening to yourself. Listen to God, then DO it His Way. Let your spirit shine by asking God what is His Will for you to do! Be Christ-like and dial “1”.
The Different Effects of (human) Nature and (spiritual) Grace
Tags: 666, Being Spiritually Reborn, Control Self, Crucify-Control Self Daily, Fallen Angels, Immortals, Jesus, Mark of the Beast, Prophecy
Categories CHRIST, Fallen Angels, Seal of God
3 WORLD WARS: Division of Religion to One-Worldism
It is a “Game of Risk” to engineer war for the world. There are three main players, Esau, Ishmael, and Jacob. Esau is the crafty one who doesn’t play by the rules, and is out-numbered by his two opponents. If only he could set them against each other. What better way to win than to have your enemies wipe each other out, first? And this is exactly what the Idumeans have done to the Muslim and Christian nations today. To accomplish this, they staged events to infuriate God’s children one against the other, and started a war of terror. The Idumeans do plan to announce themselves once the Christians and Muslims have annihilated each other, according to their Talmudic doctrine and Protocols.
Albert Pike, an Idumean, wrote that after WW3, “those who will aspire to undisputed world-domination will provoke the greatest social-cataclysm the world has ever known… the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world-minority of the world-revolutionaries and will exterminate those … disillusioned with Christianity… (they) will receive the true light through the universal-manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view.”
What Christians need to realize is God loves Muslims. And what Muslims need to realize is Allah loves Christians, in that God “I AM” and Allah “I AM” are the same. Both are descendants of Abraham through his sons Isaac and Ishmael. Esau (Edom-Edumeans-Idumeans) comes to play because he sold his birthright and became very wicked. Esau and Jacob were Isaac’s twin sons. Because Esau was the first born, he would have received the blessings and birthright of his dad. But in a hunger-fit, he sold his “birthright” to Jacob for a bowl of pottage/soup. Thus, God inspired their mother Rebekkah to help Jacob obtain the “blessing”. Jacob would later become a “Champion of God” and was renamed “Israel”. Esau was furious and vowed to kill Jacob. That’s been on-going for millennia, Esau made sure his descendants would continually plot to steal the birthright back.
These same Idumeans were the counterfeit-Jews who plotted to kill Jesus Christ. “They killed him not”, as in the Holy Koran Sura 4:157, because they could not kill Christ, Jesus’ spirit-Being; only the body-vehicle called Jesus that He was using while here. Extremists have taken this Sura to mean that his body didn’t die. It did, but His spirit didn’t. He was resurrected and ascended to Heaven. Jesus rebuked the Idumean Talmud, Hebrew for “Traditions of the Elders/Fathers”, and considered it a man-made, satanic-inspired unholy doctrine. They are not the true House of Judah, who are the descendants of Judah, the fifth son of Israel, who went to Scotland for the most part. Idumeans, who interbred with the Ashkenazim, are Eastern Khazars who converted to Judaism in the 8th century A.D. and kept the Talmudic government. They are impostors, as Jesus proclaimed, “I (Christ) know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are NOT, but [are] (Idumeans) the Synagogue of Satan.” (Revelation 2:9). Note, this was said in the Book of Revelation about the future.
The Synagogue of Satan, Idumeans, infiltrated the Christian churches long ago, through the Roman Catholic Church. They infiltrated the Protestant Church too, training young Idumean men in seminary schools to lead Christians into false beliefs. They even head up Christian organizations, like the communist National Council of Churches, which helped create the United Nations. It should be no shock that they also entered Islam, ironically through Mecca, the “Arab Babylon, city of merchants/market-system”.
Prophet Mohammed Mustafa was given the Holy Koran, by Gabriel, much like John was given the Book of Revelation by Christ. Mohammed was from Mecca, but he had to flee, as they rejected him and the Koran. Mecca was a thriving pagan city, full of idol-worship of 600 idols. Mohammed taught pilgrimages should be to Jerusalem, toward God’s “Holy of Holies” on Mount Moriah, where Abraham offered his miracle son Isaac to God, which is the only place God gave permission for a church to be built. This new pilgrimage did not go over well with the pagan moneychangers in Mecca. They didn’t want to lose control or any money. Mohammed tried to overcome them, but failed. Unfortunately, some of his followers persuaded him to strike a deal with the Meccans. If he wanted to return and teach, pilgrimages were to remain Mecca bound.
After Mohammed’s death, the Meccans did some pretty devious acts. They wrote the Hadith, which in Arabic means “Traditions of the Fathers”, essentially the “Talmud” for Muslims. With it, they discredited the Holy Bible and created Sharia Law, which is NOT part of the Holy Koran; it is part of their Hadith. They also renamed their black pagan rock Kaba, Arabic for “Holy of Holies” or “House of God”. There’s only one place God calls the “Holy of Holies”. All references to it in the Holy Koran refer to Mt. Moriah. And they changed Isaac’s name to Ishmael, Abraham’s other son, in Koran Sura 2:125 and 2:127. It was Isaac who was offered as written in Sura 37:101-102, “And We gave Abraham the “good news” of a boy ready to suffer and forbear (through the angel messengers We sent to him). Then, when the boy reached the age of serious work with him Abraham said, “O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in sacrifice.” Sura 37:112 confirms Isaac was the good news: “And We gave him the “good news” of Isaac – a prophet – one of the righteous (through the angel messengers We sent to him). And continues, Sura 37:113 “We blessed Abraham and Isaac.” Muslims wrongly face Mecca, when they should face Jerusalem as per Sura 2:125-126 indicates. The House (of God) is the Station of Abraham where he offered Isaac in sacrifice in the “City of Peace”. “And remember Abraham said: “My Lord, make this a City (Jeru) of Peace (salem)…”.
By these devious acts, the Meccans and the papacy, as its agents were involved in Mecca, prevented the Holy Koran from being added to the Holy Bible, which God intended to be the Gospel of Unity after the New Testament. It also meant Christians should read it. They also prevented Mohammed’s mission of uniting true believers into keeping God’s Covenant. This treason against God, dividing instead of uniting everyone, has its punishment. Muslims are being punished now. Christians are NEXT. God said there would be Blessings for keeping His Law, and Curses for breaking it. Biblically, God is known to send one’s enemy to punish him, and the communists are preparing for war against the Christians. Of course, none of this would be happening if His children obeyed Him, and stopped rebelling. But we continue to follow Satan through the Idumeans, who are leading everyone to damnation.
Idumeans, “Esau”, pretend to be Jacob/Israel, yet are fully aware they are not. They have imitated Jacob, who wore Esau’s clothes and his mother glued kids’ hair on him so that he would seem hairy like Esau, to get Isaac to believe he was giving the blessing to Esau, who had truly sold it. Isaac was on his deathbed and blind and it was the kids’ hair on Jacob’s hands and neck that convinced him Jacob was Esau. Later, knowing they would do this, Jesus said, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits… Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into The Fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7:15-20).
Through their treacherous and devious acts, the fake Israelites are bankrupting true Israelites, both spiritually and materially so that they will accept slavery, and sell their birthright for worldly possessions. They also continue to destroy the Muslim world, robbing them of any wealth and dignity. The Idumeans could have been grafted in to being Israelites, adopted children of God, as Mohammed was, if they had chosen to be a “Champion of God”. Instead they align themselves with evil and greed. God hates them for their wickedness: “As it is written, Jacob (Israel) have I loved, but Esau (Edom) have I hated” (Romans 9:13).
The “I AM” also addresses Esau in the Bible, “I have loved you, saith the “I AM”. Yet ye say, Wherein hast Thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the “I AM”: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the “I AM” Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, the people against whom the “I AM” hath indignation for ever” (Malachi 1:2-4). The “I AM” makes Judgement clear, “For, behold, the Day cometh, that shall burn like an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the “I AM” Lord of hosts, that it shall leave of them neither root nor branch (nothing)” (Malachi 4:1).
Once the Christians and Muslims destroy each other as much as possible, the Idumean-plan is to bring in the communist forces to take care of the rest. The Christian nations will be unguarded because their military is decimated in the Middle East, not to mention it being down-sized by their engineered debt-tactics of destruction; and equipment is deemed faulty and recalled. Most equipment isn’t on the mainland, it’s elsewhere getting destroyed and worn out; Special Forces die in “tragedies”. Christian soldiers are far away from home fighting for the Idumeans, blinded to all the underlying evil and the mind-control of whom they believe the enemy is, but is not. Idumeans work on all levels to destroy their enemies from within.
The Communists are the perfect dark, or rather, red force to do the bidding of those who hate God’s Children, because they don’t believe in God themselves. They will have no problem carrying out all kinds of acts against humanity. One might say God wouldn’t let all this happen. Really? No one keeps His Law, and the punishment is always slavery and death, this fact isn’t going to change. We don’t want to represent Him, but we want Him to represent us. He isn’t going to bow down to selfish humans, who constantly run around like little animals with no regard to Him. He also said He would bring Israel (the People Israel, 12-Tribes) back into slavery one last time before Judgment.
And why do all three religions steer followers to read everything BUT the Bible. Who’s in control of them? The Idumeans want Jews to read the Talmud, instead of the Torah; the Meccans want Muslims to read the Hadith, instead of the Koran; and the Churches want Christians to read a lot of other doctrine. What could possibly be in the Bible? Truth. All three can be found, cross-referenced together, in the King of kings’ Bible, sourced below.
While Christians should read the Holy Koran as the third part of the Bible, Muslims should also read the Holy Bible, as they were instructed to do in the Koran. Do not be deceived by the Hadith: “We did indeed aforetime give the Book (Torah) to Moses: be then NOT IN DOUBT of its (The Torah) reaching (THEE): and We made it a Guide to the Children of Israel” (Sura 32:23). “Moreover, We gave Moses the Book (Torah), COMPLETING (Our favour) to those who would do right, and explaining ALL things IN DETAIL, and a GUIDE and a MERCY, that they might believe in the meeting with their Lord. And this (Torah) is a Book which We have revealed as a BLESSING: so follow it and be righteous, that YE may receive mercy: Lest YE should say: ‘The Book (Torah] was sent down to two Peoples before us, and for our part, we remained unacquainted with all that they learned by careful study’: Or lest YE should say: ‘If the Book (Torah) had only been sent down to US, we should have FOLLOWED its guidance BETTER than they.’ Now then hath come unto YOU a clear (Sign) from your Lord, and a GUIDE and a MERCY: then who could do MORE WRONG than one who rejecteth “I AM”’s Signs (and Torah – Bible), and turneth away therefrom? In good time shall We requite those who turn away from Our Signs, with a dreadful penalty, for their turning away” (Sura 6:154-157).
The “I AM” also discusses Israel/Jacob in the Koran: “I AM” did aforetime make The Covenant with the Children of Israel, and We appointed twelve captains among them. And “I AM” said: “I am with you: only if ye establish constant prayer; practise regular charity; believe My Apostles; honour and assist them; and loan to “I AM” a beautiful loan; then verily I will wipe out from you your evils, and admit you to Gardens with rivers flowing beneath; but if any of you, after this, resisteth faith, he hath truly wandered from The Way of Rectitude.” (The Covenant in the Torah – The Song of Moses). But because of their breach of their Covenant, We cursed them, and made their hearts grow hard: they change the words from their (right) places and forget the best part of the Message that was sent them, nor wilt thou cease to find them – barring a few – ever bent on (new) deceits: but forgive them, and overlook (their misdeeds): for “I AM” loveth those who are kind. From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a Covenant (The Song of the Lamb), but they forgot the best part of the Message that was sent them: so We estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the Day of Judgment. And soon “I AM” will show them what it is they have done” (Sura 5:13-15).
EVERYONE’s been deceived by Satan: Revelation 12:9, “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out to the earth, and his angels (us – Luke 9:55) were cast out with him (Matthew 25:41).” But no one wants to truly admit what this means: time is up. We’ve had lifetimes to fight the good fight, as our souls have been immortal these 6,000 years. We’ve had plenty of time to learn to be good. We’ve had opportunities to prove our obedience and allegiance to God, instead of to Satan and other men (fellow prisoners with us fallen angels). There will be a seventh millennium, a thousand years with Christ as King and High Priest, for those who receive their pardon, because they know to return to God’s Law and fight for the Kingdom, once and for all, and justice for ALL. Satan and the evildoers, the nonbelievers, and unfaithful to God’s Covenant will face Hell-fire. The “true in faith” will remain with Christ/Mahdi to teach them, once the Earth has been cleansed of its evil.
Below are a few quotes from Idumeans, found in Myron C. Fagan’s transcript on “The Illuminati and the Council of Foreign Relations” sourced below:
(1) We will push the Christians into wars, by a judicious exploitation of their pride and stupidity. They will massacre each other and thus make more space where we can place our own people.”
(2) “… By an indefatigable campaign in favour of the Democratic form of government, we will divide the Gentiles amongst themselves in political parties, we shall thus destroy the unity of their nations, we will sow the seeds of discord. Powerless, they will have to accept the law of our bank, always united, always devoted to our cause.”
(3) “Let us use all our force to replace the circulation of gold by that of paper: our banks will absorb the gold, and we shall decide then what value the paper money will have, this will make us the masters of every man’s existence… We have already established men of ours in all the key positions.”
(4) “You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are disturbers. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom not merely of the last great war but of nearly all your wars…”
(5) “All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general.”
(6) “Our race has given to the world a new Messiah, but he has two faces and bears two names, on one side he is called Rothchild, head of the great capitalists, on the other, Karl Marx, the high priest of the enemies of capitalism.”
Well, Karl Marx said he would drag God down from the Heavens and defeat Him, and those Marxists (Socialists-Fabians-Communists) believe him. This ideology in the mind is a Mark on the forehead of the beast-system that controls them. Their One-Worldism religion does not become the New Dawn. Read the Bible, they lose, as well as anyone who follows them.
The Truth About The Hadith and The Truth About the Koran
The King of kings’ Bible
The Illuminati and The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and The Only Way to Defeat the NWO
Tags: Hadith, Holy Bible, Holy Koran, Mohammad, New World Order (NWO), Numbers, Prophecy, Sharia Law, Talmud, War prophecy, WW3
Categories Armageddon/WW3, Middle East Prophecy, New World Order, Prophecy, The King of kings' Bible
We Are IMMORTAL Until Judgement Day
Life’s biggest questions usually have a simple answer. We ponder who we are; what we are doing here; what is heaven; what is hell; what is our purpose; why bad things happen; why does God let us suffer. One big clue to the answer is that we are immortal beings who cannot be destroyed. When the human-animal body dies, the soul behind its wheel is reborn into another human-animal, getting a fresh-start as a newborn baby. Basically, the soul trades in the old vehicle for a new one, in order to continue on life’s journey to reach the ultimate destination: Heaven, back Home to Father.
But no one has made it back, except Jesus Christ, who ascended and returned to Heaven. Everyone else has been stuck here learning to be like Him, lifetime after lifetime. He even spoke of reincarnation (regeneration), telling us we would see Him again in the future. All souls will see Him again, for final Judgement, because we are the same set of souls coming ‘round again and again. Thus, in one of our lifetimes, His return would happen. Christ has a vested interest in us, because we were once His family, until we sided with Lucifer and tried to overthrow the Lord. That landed all of us here, cast into Hell with Lucifer. Yes, we are in the prison-planet Hell, known as Earth; and human beings, all six billion of us, are fallen-angels trying to make our way Home.
We were given the death-sentence for this original high-treason, but God and the elders decided to us give time to prove our “so-called” promises to be good again. Thus, Earth was created for us; and we all submitted into being Adams and Eves, except Lucifer, who tests us as the enemy within; and without by getting others who listen to him to cause us harm and havoc.
God has Blessings for following His Law, and Curses/Penalty-clauses for continued defiance. Each soul, inside human-form should stop rebelling and just be obedient, following all the rules of Heaven. No soul is getting back in, unless he can follow them, no bad apple back into Heaven’s bushel/barrel, so to speak. The Laws of Heaven are the Ten Commandments given to Moses and Christ’s Two Commandments. And as long as a soul is in human-form, he is also supposed to follow God’s Judgements, Statutes, Economics, Agricultural Policies and Diet as given in the Torah, because they keep the world’s environment safe and abundant for everyone to learn.
Well, we didn’t do that; instead we’ve enjoyed destroying the planet. And for what? Mammon, reveling in being a mammal, an animal, wallowing in mud. Yes, we’ve spent lifetimes following Satan who’s convinced us that we are only human, and getting us to do very selfish things, mammon-human things, until that’s all we serve and worship. Satan knows Judgement is approaching and plans to take as many of the six billion traitors with him as possible. He hates us, even the ones he pretends to love. And all the souls who still side with him come Judgement Day will meet his same fate, which is Hell-fire which is the only way to destroy an immortal soul. It was done once before, to Sodom and Gomorrah, where all souls, save Lot and his family, were executed, wiped from the planet by the Heavenly arsenal. That’s coming around again, because we’ve been given enough time. How much time do we need? Satan and his evil-doer-human synagogue are in complete control of this world. Who controls the world? Know them by their fruits.
God has allowed the death of human-animal bodies, because He gave us free-will and He knows souls are immortal. He flooded the Earth that killed all our animal bodies, save Noah, his family and the other animals he placed on the Ark. But God knew all souls would be coming ‘round again as Noah’s sons would repopulate the Earth with animal-bodies to re-house the souls. This cleansing gave all the souls another chance to prove they could be good, as they would become another human-being.
Nature teaches us about the process of life and death here. In the Spring, new life is formed; in the Summer, it grows; in the Fall, it withers; and in the Winter, it dies. But Spring comes again. Earth is a learning environment, both for the human-animal and spirit-soul within. If the soul takes care of the Earth, it takes care of itself, because the learning environment is maintained. Unfortunately, we’ve cut off its oxygen with devastating of the forests; we’ve poisoned the water and food by allowing chemicals, pesticides, and genetically modified man-made science. Now, WW3 is upon us, which will cause so much devastation, it’s almost incomprehensible.
After six thousand years, Satan has gotten even more insane and perverted. He’s even convinced a few that they can destroy all the Earth and most of the people, but still have a little left over for them to wallow in, with servants to boot. They are as insane as he is. All of them think this satanic plan of a one-world order system is going to be set up on Earth. They’re trying to contain and control everyone long enough to get it done; before anyone can overcome them, as there will be a point of no return (WW3). These evil souls probably were the same ones who thought they could kill Christ’s body and remain in control back in the day. Christ still has the same message today as back then: return to God’s Law. No one wants to do this, preferring selfish-satanic laws that are killing us all.
What spirits in these human bodies long for is to go Home, to be with Father and their real spiritual family again. Nothing in this world can replace it, not possessions, human desires, money, food, sex, alcohol or drugs. They are just temporary escapes from the fact that we are still prisoners, and under the shadow of the death-sentence for still siding with Lucifer. Most of the time, we all like being human. It’s kind of like being plugged in to the Matrix, where we have no idea there that is more, living in an illusion of space. Satan’s synagogue sees us as batteries for their temporary fixes to escape the truth and set up their own king-doom on Earth. The approaching seventh millennium will be under Christ’s Reign, the One who truly loves us and has endured our madness for too long. Before we think He will need to prove anything to us, we might want to think about what we still have to prove to Father.
Stop begging Father to bow down to you and your human needs. Realize it is humans who need to become humble. We are the ones on death-row. The Lake of Fire will kill the immortal soul. And for all those souls who continue to want to live with Satan under his rules, this lake trip will be their final destination for Eternity – a fate worse than death. For those who can muster faith/trust in Father again, and return to The Law and believe in Christ, be like Him, they will receive pardon and get to enter the Kingdom on Earth for 1000 years, to learn to be really good without Satan and his cohorts around misguiding them. Every soul is here because it fought for Lucifer in Heaven. Every soul must now fight against him to get out of here.
If we are immortal, why worry now? Because souls imprisoned on Earth are only immortal until Judgement Day, where God will return with Hell-Fire, not just for a couple of cities, but for the whole of Satan’s world. And the faster Satan’s New World Order Synagogue pushes for WW3, the faster Judgement Day comes. It isn’t going to be their version of judgement, or their alternative new millennium. It’s going to be God’s. Judgement Day cleanses the Earth again from all those who still continue to do evil against God, Christ and everyone else. How does each soul’s tally sheet look? Have we done enough good to receive our pardons in this lifetime, don’t even worry about the tally sheet of previous lifetimes, which still count. We’ve each had two guardian angels watching us our entire prison-sentence. They are the ones we see in paradise, after the tunnel of light, between lifetimes, as they show us what we did right and wrong. Our next lifetime, our situation, body type, ailments, and such are determined by karma, what goes around, comes around, or cause and effect – sowing and reaping.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, THAT shall he also reap.
Not many want to admit this is it, time is up. Satan is in complete control of the world. Visualize if the people had put Jesus on the Throne back in the day and rejected the schemes of the scribes, priests and Pharisees. How much could we have learned over the past thousands of years? God’s Kingdom would be thriving and it would be “on Earth as it is in Heaven”. We’d probably be angels again back at Home.
Tags: Armageddon/WW3, End Times, Fallen Angels, Immortal Beings, Immortals, Judgement Day, Prophecy, The Truth is Out There, The Way home or face the Fire
Categories Armageddon/WW3, Fallen Angels, New World Order, Prophecy
The POPE and QUEEN: Their Biggest Secrets
The British monarch and the papacy’s biggest secrets are the true identity of the People Israel and the fact that Jesus was born into British Royalty. These are kind of big secrets to hide, if one wants to control the world, as they and their handlers do. But in God’s time, all will be known.
Jesus was British Royalty through Mary’s bloodline
Mary was from the British Royal family and her uncle Joseph of Arimathaea was a very rich and powerful man, as Rome’s minister of mines. Joseph was the brother of Mary’s mother Ann. Historical records show that Mary was a member of the British royal family, descended from David and also the priestly line of Levi. Mary was the cousin of Elisabeth. This Levitical connection is confirmed both in the Gospel of Luke and also in the Koran, which also confirms that Mary traveled to the East to give birth to Jesus in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. Mary’s Levitical and Davidic lineage meant that Jesus was therefore eligible to be both King and High-Priest, also in fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy.
Jesus was not born a peasant boy to a poor woman. The monarchy and church have gone to great efforts to keep Mary’s lineage obscure. After all, no one should mind being poor if Jesus was, right? But ironically, the monarch and church don’t mind being unGodly rich at everyone else’s expense. Together, they have worked to deceive, mislead and rob everyone. They are involved in the Synagogue of Satan (Idumeans, counterfeit Jews) made up of bankers, lawyers, politicians, priests, ministers, and elite-powerhouse individuals who are still making a killing off the Babylonian market-system. They serve mammon-materialism, which in the end will be their downfall. It will also be the downfall of the true People Israel, if they give up their birthright.
Jesus spent his missing years in Glastonbury, England.
Jesus could not have been from Nazareth, or spent His missing years there, because it didn’t exist before the 4th century A.D., long after His ascension. The term “Nazarite” means a vow to separate oneself unto the “I AM”. Jesus the Nazarite means He took the Nazarite Vow as outlined in the Book of Numbers, Chapter Six. His disciples would also have taken the vow, setting themselves apart by being obedient to this strict vow in the eyes of God. The fact that some counterfeit Jews (not of the true House of Judah) practice some of the Laws in the Torah does not make up for the fact that they actually follow the Talmud, their own unGodly satanic doctrine. And sometimes, they don’t even practice these laws correctly. The vow of not shaving the corners of the beard means not to have a goatee; it doesn’t mean having long side tresses of hair hanging over the ears.
When king Herod ordered the slaughter of the innocents, Jesus escaped with the help of His great uncle Joseph of Arimathaea, getting Him safely from Egypt to England, Mary’s homeland, which was free from pagan Roman control. Jesus would spend his young years with Mary’s relatives, the Druid kings, who knew the prophecies and who lived by God’s Law.
The Levitical Druid religion ruled Britain at the time; and the word Druid means “Truth”. “The Truth Against the World” is their motto. Glastonbury was a Druid centre of learning and there was an observatory on the summit of Tor Hill for the study of astronomy. They were waiting for their Messiah Jesus (Yesu/Hesus) to come. According to the Irish version of the Gospel of Matthew, the Druids came to the East to worship the King of kings. By the time they got there, they found a child, not a baby. That’s why Herod ordered the slaughter of every male child up to the age of two years old. The real true Druids were the Levitical priesthood of the ten “lost” tribes of Israel, in exile.
They observed: “In the year 7 B.C. there was a conjunction of Jupiter (the king of the planets) and Saturn (thought to be the protector of Israel) in the Constellation of Pisces (the Sign of the Messiah), as computed in 1603 by the Astronomer Royal in Prague – Johannes Kepler, that was first visible at daybreak on the 12th of April 7 B.C. (Passover in 7 B.C. was on Monday April 13th which commenced at sundown on the 12th). The earth-shattering significance of this conjunction – Messiah; King; Protector of Israel; Passover – would have been unmistakable to the Levitical Druid astronomers in the British Isles, where the monarch was also the Archdruid.” (please see source about Glastonbury)
The Bible indicates Jesus traveled to the Temple in the Holy Land at age 12, as was customary. If Jesus was advanced enough at this age to amaze the elders with His knowledge, it is unlikely he just sat around until the age of 33 to start witnessing. He most likely went about His Father’s business of teaching the Word, until it was time to complete His mission. Gildas the Wise (born Strathclyde c. 493 – died 570 A.D.), who spent time at the Glastonbury Abbey, states: “These islands received the beams of light – that is, the holy precepts of Christ – the true Sun, as we know, at the latter part of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, in whose time this religion was propagated without impediment and death threatened to those who interfered with its professors.” – De Excidio Britanniae (The Ruin and Conquest of Britain). The English were already converted to Christianity through Christ himself, and were not the savages the Roman church made them out to be.
In 1668 A.D., the great church historian, Hugh Paulinus de Cressy said, “This, our land of Brittany, though called by the Romans another world, as being divided from the whole then discovered habitable earth, yet the riches of Divine mercy received the beams of the Son of Righteousness before many other countries nearer approaching to the place where He first rose.” He also says, “Now the most eminent of the primitive disciples and who contributed most to this heavenly building, was Joseph of Arimathaea and eleven of his companions along with him, among whom is reckoned his son of the same name.”
There are official records, including at least four Vatican documents, which confirm Joseph of Arimathaea fled from the Holy Land to the Christian safe haven of England, with Mary and other followers of The Way who were being persecuted for their beliefs, after the Crucifixion. According to these four documents, 12 hides of land were given by the British High-king to Joseph and his companions, free from tax in perpetuity, which was also confirmed by official historical records including the Domesday Book. The Domesday Booke was completed in 1088 A.D. and it contains this record. “The Domus Dei, in the great monastery of Glastonbury, called the secret of Yahweh. This Glastonbury church possesses in its own villa XII hides of land which have never paid tax.” It is the burial place of (virgin) Mary and Joseph of Arimathaea.
But eventually, the Catholic Church became more and more powerful and the earlier teachings of Christ became lost to the mysteries of Catholicism, then Protestantism. And of course, the church built a church on the precious lands of Glastonbury, even though it shouldn’t have. And they created “Mary Worship”, another blasphemy.
The Queen and Pope’s Handler is Satan
The Vatican pushes its hidden agenda with essentially its own doctrine, far removed from anything Holy. And according to the Book of Revelation, Chapters 17-18, it will be destroyed, because it does the bidding of Satan, through his Synagogue. With the ever-growing news about its hidden crimes, perversions and monstrosities, this should be apparent. What more do people need, a judgement in “their” court against itself? After they hold one’s head and let one box into the air unable to reach/hit their target, whilst pretending that they are contemplating justice, their verdict will be one of injustice.
In their attempts to rule alongside Satan, the monarch and the Roman Catholic Church, have deceived the whole world. When Satan offered them the world, if they bowed down to him; and they took the deal. But the British and British-related people should not follow them blindly into damnation. This is a life or death situation. If the People Israel understood their birthright as God’s Chosen, why would they choose to sell it, like Esau the progenitor of the Idumeans, instead of claim it?
Do people want Christ as King or Elizabeth as queen? Do people want Christ as High Priest or keep the pope falsely there? By worshipping the queen and the pope, setting them apart as royalty, people are worshipping evil. “Know a tree by the fruit it bears, by their fruits will you know whether they be good or evil.”
The Truth about the British Monarchy
The Abrahamic Covenant
Tags: British Queen, Glastonbury, Jesus Christ, Last Pope, Lost Tribes of Israel, Prophecy, Queen, TRUE ISRAEL, Vatican Prophecy
Categories CHRIST, Evil Vatican, King of England, TRUE ISRAEL
Christ will DESTROY THE CHURCH
The Roman Catholic Church will not only be destroyed for its high treason against God, but the Protestant Church will also meet its end for playing the Whore’s harlot daughter. Christ said not to build or pray in churches, and encouraged a one-on-one relationship with God instead. He left the Holy Spirit, giving everyone the ability to communicate with Father as He did, telepathically. But for some insane reason, man decided to create all kinds of churches and come up with all kinds of non-biblical doctrine, taking another bite of the forbidden apple, because Satan convinces him he knows best.
Why would Christ warn us? For one, He knows Satan’s tactics a whole lot better than we do. In creating the churches, instead of simply following God’s Law and communicating directly with Him, we gave Satan an “in” to control us through our beliefs in Christ. While it is known that atheist-Marxists have infiltrated our governments through their “socialist” agenda to take down Christian nations; and it’s known that counterfeit-Jews and Marxists infiltrated the Vatican; it’s not quite so known that they have infiltrated the other churches as well through the National Council of Churches (NCC). Now, a few well-appointed Anti-God communist council-members make decisions on behalf of 45 million church members, which they’ve done for years, including spending donations to fund communist’s activities. All the while, church members associated with the NCC think they are funding humanitarian projects and feel good about themselves, unaware they fund lobbying efforts and support for the satanic United Nations. The NCC has a resolution which states that the United States will soon have to subordinate its will to that of the UN and that all American citizens must be prepared to accept it. God is never mentioned in the UN Charter and their meetings are never opened with prayer.
If your church is a member of the NCC, you are now currently funding and supporting its agenda of gun control and immigration reform. [Those supposed fake tweets from the president to rally support for gun control probably were NCC generated… keep reading.] The NCC was instrumental in the actual creation of the satanic United Nations, which forbids any allegiance to God, and is part of the New World Order, which works toward one government and one religion. The creators of the UN stipulated in advance that there should be no mention of God or Jesus Christ in the UN Charter, or in its headquarters. Well, these communists don’t want religion like you may think. In their interdenominational approach to unification of world religions, they plan to put Christ to death once and for all. That’s their plan. God has a different plan as outlined in the Bible. It might be best to read the King of kings’ version, instead of the versions owned by the NCC.
In the Illuminati and the Counsel on Foreign Relations and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion transcript, Myron C. Fagan revealed two important Illuminati tactics: (1) In 1492, the Grand Sanhedrin gave advice to the Talmudic Jews to avoid the Spanish Inquisition, telling them to “convert” to Christianity to make their sons clerics to destroy the churches; and (2) Much later and inline with these plans, Illuminati-Rothschild ordered agent Jacob Schiff to create a movement to destroy Christianity in the United States, and it was to be accomplished by those who were entrusted to preserve it, by the pastors, the men of cloth. Illuminati-Rockefeller also enlisted Reverend Harry F. Ward to be the Judas and helped him set up the Methodist Foundation of Social Services. He was to teach ministers to craftily preach that Christ was a myth, amongst MANY other lies. God knew this would happen, “For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” (2 Corinthians 11:13-15)
The Methodist Foundation of Social Service, essentially a communist front, changed its name to the Federal Foundation of Churches in 1908; then again, changed its name to the National Council of Churches in 1950 after receiving a suspicious reputation. “Judas” Harry Ward was also the head of the American Civil Liberties Union and co-founded the American League Against War and Fascism, that later became the Communist Party of the United States.
What are they lobbying for today? As mentioned earlier, gun control. Through Faith-Calling, essentially an arm of the NCC, a February 2013 “Inter-faith Action Alerts” toolkit was posted featuring actions to take giving sample tweets and Facebook posts to use. The NCC/Faith-Calling initiatives are: require universal background checks for all gun purchases; ban semi-automatic assault weapons and high-capacity magazines; make gun trafficking a federal crime; and improve access to mental health services. Through Faith-Calling, the NCC encourages members to call Senators and insist on action to prevent gun violence. It suggests you tell them you are calling as a member of the faith community and emphasize the policies you support. Basically, the NCC is encouraging members to blindly follow them and their policies. Again, if you are giving money to your church that is a member of this communist organization, you are funding gun-control and the destruction of America.
The NCC also pushes for immigration reform. The Church World Service Global, essentially another NCC arm, posted a blog on Feb. 27, 2013, entitled, Immigration Reform Has Mandate, Momentum, and Movement, it states: “We can’t allow that issue to be derailed or detoured now, even by the looming draconian spending cuts that could be triggered by the sequester on March 1. Those of us who have been close to the immigration reform issue, and who have been advocating for years for comprehensive immigration reform, refuse to be distracted from the task. We will not be distracted from getting a bill that includes a path to citizenship written, debated and passed. It’s that simple – and we hope members of Congress will give that task fresh, rational consideration. We know it is possible for them to multi-task. It matters little whether the final bill is one sent over by the White House in the absence of such proposed legislation from the Senate. Since the election the president has said repeatedly that if the Senate process falters he will have a bill ready. The hoped-for legislative debate on immigration-reform should move our country forward to passage of a bill that provides a path to citizenship not conditioned on enforcement triggers that could lead to further delays in the granting of citizenship.” Wow, this blogger sounds like a presidential speechwriter.
What’s the big deal about immigration-reform? Shouldn’t Christians be welcoming to others? Unfortunately, the big plot surrounding immigration is sinister. Increased population means increased social services and financial burdens which help bankrupt this Christian nation. A population that will work for peanuts lowers the standard of living for everyone. Increased population with diversified religions dilute the Christian faith. Increased population dilutes the patriots so that they cannot come together and fight for God and country, as they are outnumbered. Of course, because the Synagogue of Satan wants to win in the end, these tactics are all justified. The NCC supports these efforts.
They are working toward WW3 to bring about their one-world government, which is commonly known to truthers. To emphasize this, On January 12, 1952, Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich gave a keynote speech to the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest, Hungary, stating: “This program will achieve its objective, the Third World War, which will surpass in destruction all previous contests. Israel, of course, will remain neutral, and when both sides are devastated and exhausted, we will arbitrate, sending our Control Commissions into all of the wrecked countries. This war will end for all time our struggle against gentiles. We will openly reveal our identity with the races of Asia and Africa. I can state with assurance that the last generations of white children are being born. Our Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping out inter-racial tensions, forbid whites to mate with whites. The white women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for mixing the dark with the white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy, will become only a memory… Our superior intelligence will easily enable us to retain mastery over a world of dark peoples. There will be no more religions… To convince you of the certainty of that leadership, let me point out to you how we have turned all of the inventions of the white man into weapons against him. His printing presses and radios are the mouthpieces for our desires, and his heavy industry manufactures the instruments which he sends out to arm Asia and Africa against himself. Our interests in Washington are greatly extending the Point Four program for developing industry in backward areas of the world so that after industrial plants and cities of Europe and America are destroyed by atomic warfare, the whites can offer no resistance against the larger masses of the dark races, who will maintain an unchallenged technological superiority… And so, with the vision of world victory before you, go back to your countries and intensify your good work, until that approaching day when Israel will reveal herself in all her glorious destiny as the Light of the World!”(Common Sense 1952) (please see Illuminati source below)
What people may be failing to see is the NWO-United Nations army, made up of mostly communists, is the army of evil, the Synagogue of Satan. When a soldier chooses or is ordered to wear the UN emblem and march under the UN flag, he joins an army of Satan. Every man should know what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. He will be judged on this fact come the dreadful day of the Lord, where He will judge His people. If you’ve read the Bible about the Battle of Armageddon, that is approaching, then you know that the army of the Lord wipes Satan’s army completely out.
Christ warned you of the deceits of man and their governments, even governments of religion. God said the United Nations will fall: Because, even because they have seduced My people, saying, Peace; and [there was] NO peace; and one built up a wall (U.N.O. and NATO), and, lo, others daubed it with untempered [mortar]: Say unto them which daub [it] with untempered [mortar], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind (Operation “Desert Storm”) shall rend [it]. Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where [is] the daubing wherewith ye have daubed [it]? Therefore thus saith the Lord “I AM”; I will even rend [it] with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in Mine anger, and great hailstones in [My] fury to consume [it]. (Ezekiel 13:10-13, King of kings’ Bible)
According to the “APOSTASY: The National Council Of Churches”, the U.S. military labeled the NCC as subversive and a communist organization, yet today it enjoys its fake reputation of being a faithful entity. Other interesting highlights of this article, sourced at bottom, include-
“By February 1901, delegates from local church federations met at Philadelphia and formed the National Federation of Churches, forerunner of a larger, more powerful Fabian organization whose projects on behalf of the Communist apparatus would radically alter the course of American history.”
“The FCC then chose as its constitution the same plan of federation that had earlier been adopted by the Socialists attending the 1905 Inter-Church Conference on Federation. They also adopted “The Social Creed of the Churches” written by English Communist Harry F. Ward, who had earlier submitted his Plan to Nikolai Lenin for approval.”
“As former top Communist Benjamin Gitlow told the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953: ‘This group wielded tremendous influence in the religious field and did Trojan Horse work in advancing the Communist conspiracy in religion.’”
“Another denunciation appeared in the Naval Institute Proceedings of 1928, which established that the Federal Council had been meddling in defense matters and was ‘probably the most powerful propaganda organization in the country.’”
At the 1942 convention of the FCC, it called for: Ultimately, “a world government of delegated powers.” Complete abandonment of U.S. isolationism. Strong immediate limitations on national sovereignty. International control of all armies and navies. A universal system of money…. Worldwide freedom of immigration. Progressive elimination of all tariff and quota restrictions on world trade …. A ‘democratically controlled’ international bank …. Many duties now performed by local and national governments ‘can now be effectively carried out only by international authority.’ Individual nations… must give up their armed forces ‘except for preservation of domestic order’ and allow the world to be policed by an international army and navy…”
“Supporting evidence was likewise given in sworn testimony by such experts as former Communists Paul Crouch, Karl Prussion, and Albert Vassart. The latter testified that ‘In 1936, Moscow sent out an order to have sure and carefully selected Communist youth enter the seminaries and become priests.’ After all, Stalin had himself been a seminarian.”
“The following year, while the National Council of Churches was pushing to abolish Bible reading in public schools, Walter Reuther presented a check to the N.C.C. for $200,000 — a grant from the C.I.O.’s Philip Murray Memorial Foundation.”
“Diplomatic recognition by the United States of Red China — and its admission to the United Nations; Co-existence with ‘the Communist nations’; Avoidance of ‘the posture of general hostility’ to ‘the Communist nations’; Ratification of the genocide convention; Internationalism to supercede national patriotism; ‘Disarmament by multilateral agreement’ for ‘universal disarmament’; ‘The creation of a permanent United Nations police force’ and abolition of universal military training; ‘Abolition of the system of military conscription’ and of the Selective Service System; Extension of trade and travel without restriction between the United States and Communist countries.”
“The manual then named two such identified Communist ministers — the Reverend Eliot While, and the Reverend Claude C. Williams. It was Williams who once boasted: ‘Denominationally I am a Presbyterian, religiously a Unitarian, and politically I am a Communist. I am not preaching to make people good or anything of the sort, I’m in the church because I can reach people easier that way and get them organized for Communism.’”
“In 1968, Comrade Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party-USA, declared that Communism and the church share so many goals that ‘they ought to exist for one another.’ Hall, said the N.C.C. article, ‘cited current red goals for America as being ‘almost identical’ to those espoused by the liberal church… We can live together in a Socialist nation.”
With all of this information coming out about how Satan, through his worldly-encompassing socialist synagogue, has taken over everything through the rule of men who do evil, is it any wonder the churches are Christ’s enemy too? Why not do what God said to do and keep the Sabbath Holy (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday) and study the Law, His Law in the Bible, and teach this to your children? It is your choice to continue to observe Sunday, that honors the satanic sun god and continuing to support Anti-God activities which will be everyone’s downfall.
The Illuminati and the CFR and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, including scripture references
Apostasy: The National Council of Churches www.reformed-theology.org/html/issue07/apostasy.htm
NCC: The Interfaith Call-in Day to Prevent Gun Violence Toolkit:
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1845/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=12224
CWS Global: Immigration reform has mandate, momentum and movement: http://www.cwsglobal.org/blog/immigration-reform-mandate.html
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Ferrari SF90 Stradale
The Ferrari SF90 Stradale is an upcoming mid-engine PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) sports car produced by the Italian automobile manufacturer Ferrari. The car shares its name with the SF90 Formula One car with the name standing for the 90th anniversary of the Scuderia Ferrari racing team and "Stradale" meaning for road.[3]
2020 (expected)
Centro Stile Ferrari under Flavio Manzoni
Sports car (S)
2-door berlinetta
Longitudinal mid-engine, all-wheel-drive
Ferrari F8 Tributo
4.0 L (3,990 cc) twin-turbocharged Ferrari F154CD V8
3 electric motors (one mounted on the transmission and two on each front wheels)[1]
Engine: 780 PS (574 kW; 769 hp)
Electric motors: 220 PS (162 kW; 217 hp)
Combined: 1,000 PS (735 kW; 986 hp)
8-speed dual clutch
7.9 kWh lithium-ion[1]
26 km (16 mi)[1]
1,600 kg (3,527 lb) (base, dry)
1,570 kg (3,461 lb) (Assetto Fiorano, dry)[2]
Battery and driving modes
The car has a 7.9 kWh lithium-ion battery for regenerative braking, giving the car 26 km (16 mi) of electric range.[4][1] The car comes with four driving modes depending on road conditions. The modes are changed by the eManettino knob present on the steering wheel.
The eDrive mode runs the car only on the electric motors. The Hybrid mode runs the car on both the internal combustion engine and the electric motors and is the car's default mode. In this mode, the car's onboard computer (called control logic) also turns off the engine if the conditions are ideal in order to save fuel while allowing the driver to start the engine again. The Performance mode keeps the engine running in order to charge the batteries and keeps the car responsive in order for optimum performance. The Qualify mode uses the powertrain to its full potential.
The control logic system makes use of three primary areas; the high voltage controls of the car (including the batteries), the RAC-e (Rotation Axis Control-electric) torque vectoring system and the MGUK along with the engine and gearbox.[5]
The SF90 Stradale is equipped with three electric motors, adding a combined output of 220 PS (162 kW; 217 bhp)[6] to a twin-turbocharged V8 engine rated at a power output of 780 PS (574 kW; 769 hp) at 7,500 rpm.[5] The car is rated at a total output of 1,000 PS (735 kW; 986 hp) at 8,000 rpm[6][7] and a maximum torque of 800 N⋅m (590 lb⋅ft) at 6,000 rpm.[8][9]
The engine is an evolution of the unit found in the 488 Pista and the upcoming F8 Tributo models.[10] The engine's capacity has been increased to 4.0 L (3,990 cc) and the bore has also been increased to 88 mm (3.46 in). The intake and exhaust of the engine have been completely modified. The cylinder heads of the engine are now narrower and the all-new central fuel injectors run at a pressure of 350 bar (5,100 psi). The assembly for the turbochargers is lower than that of the exhaust system and the engine sits 50 mm (2.0 in) lower in the chassis than the other mid-engine V8 models in order to maintain a lower centre of gravity. The engine utilises a smaller flywheels and an inconel exhaust manifold.[5]
The front wheels are powered by two electric motors (one for each wheel), providing torque vectoring. They also function as the reversing gear, as the main transmission (eight-speed dual-clutch) does not have a reversing gear.[4]
The engine of the SF90 Stradale is mated to a new 8-speed dual-clutch transmission. The new transmission is 10 kg (22 lb) lighter and more compact than the existing 7-speed transmission used by the other offerings of the manufacturer partly due to the absence of a dedicated reverse gear since reversing is provided by the electric motors mounted on the front axle. The new transmission also has a 30% faster shift time (200 milliseconds).[11][12]
The interior of the SF90 Stradale features Ferrari's high-tech technology. A 16-inch curved display located behind the steering wheel displays various vital statistics of the car to the driver. The car also employs a new head-up display that would reconfigure itself according to the selected driving mode. The steering wheel is carried over from the 488 but now features multiple capacitive touch interfaces to control the various functions of the car. Other conventional levers and buttons are retained. The interior will also channel sound of the engine to the driver according to the manufacturer.[12]
The SF90 Stradale employs eSSC (electric Side Slip Control) which controls the torque distribution to all four wheels of the car. The eSSC is combined with eTC (electric Tractional Control), a new brake-by-wire system which combines the traditional hydraulic braking system and electric motors to provide optimal regenerative braking and torque vectoring.
The car's all-new chassis combines aluminium and carbon fibre to improve structural rigidity and provide a suitable platform for the car's hybrid system. The car has a total dry weight of 1,570 kg (3,461 lb) after combining the 270 kg (595 lb) weight of the electric system.
Ferrari states that the SF90 Stradale is capable of accelerating from a standstill to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 2.5 seconds,and 0–200 km/h (124 mph) in 6.7 seconds and can attain a top speed of 340km/h 340 km/h (211 mph).[13]
The manufacturer claims that the SF90 Stradale can generate 390 kg (860 lb) of downforce at 250 km/h (155 mph) due to new findings in aero and thermal dynamics.
The main feature of the design is the twin-part rear wing which is an application of the DRS (Drag Reduction System) used in Formula One. A fixed element in the wing incorporates the rear light, the mobile parts of the wing (called "shut off Gurney" by the manufacturer) integrate into the body by using electric actuators in order to maximise downforce. The SF90 Stradale uses an evolution of Ferrari's vortex generators mounted at the front of the car.
The car employs a cab-forward design in order to utilise the new aerodynamic parts of the car more effectively and in order to incorporate radiators or the cooling requirements of the hybrid system of the car. The design is a close collaboration between Ferrari Styling Centre and Ferrari engineers.
The rear-end of the car carries over many iconic Ferrari Styling elements such as the flying buttresses. The engine cover has been kept as low as possible in order to maximise airflow. According to the car's lead designer, Flavio Manzoni, the car's design lies in between that of a spaceship and of a race car. The rear side-profile harkens back to the 1960s 330 P3/4.[5]
Assetto Fiorano
A higher-performance version, the SF90 Stradale Assetto Fiorano, will be available as well. The Assetto Fiorano has racing-derived Multimatic shocks and lightweight carbon fibre parts like door panels and underbody. The Assetto Fiorano also employs a light weight titanium exhaust system. The above measures save 30 kg (66 lb) as compared to the standard SF90 Stradale.[4]
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^ a b c d Barlow, Jason (29 May 2019). "The new Ferrari SF90 Stradale is a 986 bhp (735 kW; 1,000 PS) hybrid supercar". Top Gear. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
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Ferrari (; Italian: [ferˈraːri]) is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1939 out of Alfa Romeo's race division as Auto Avio Costruzioni, the company built its first car in 1940. However, the company's inception as an auto manufacturer is usually recognized in 1947, when the first Ferrari-badged car was completed.
In 2014 Ferrari was rated the world's most powerful brand by Brand Finance. In June 2018, the 1964 250 GTO became the most expensive car in history, setting an all-time record selling price of $70 million.Fiat S.p.A. acquired 50% of Ferrari in 1969 and expanded its stake to 90% in 1988. In October 2014 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCA) announced its intentions to separate Ferrari S.p.A. from FCA; as of the announcement FCA owned 90% of Ferrari.
The separation began in October 2015 with a restructuring that established Ferrari N.V. (a company incorporated in the Netherlands) as the new holding company of the Ferrari group and the subsequent sale by FCA of 10% of the shares in an IPO and concurrent listing of common shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Through the remaining steps of the separation, FCA's interest in Ferrari's business was distributed to shareholders of FCA, with 10% continuing to be owned by Piero Ferrari. The spin-off was completed on 3 January 2016.Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it is the oldest and most successful racing team, holding the most constructors championships (16) and having produced the highest number of drivers' championship wins (15). Ferrari road cars are generally seen as a symbol of speed, luxury and wealth.
Ferrari F154 engine
The Ferrari F154 is a family of modular twin-turbocharged, direct injected V8 petrol engines designed and produced by Ferrari since 2013. It is a replacement for the naturally aspirated Ferrari/Maserati F136 V8 family on both Maserati and Ferrari cars.
They are the first turbocharged Ferrari road engines since the 1987 2.9-litre F120A V8 of the Ferrari F40.
Fiorano Circuit
The Fiorano Circuit is a private racetrack owned by Ferrari for development and testing purposes. It is located in Fiorano Modenese, near the Italian town of Maranello.
Built in 1972, it was originally 8.4 metres (27.6 ft) wide and 3000 metres (1.86 miles) long. In 1992, a chicane was added making it 3021 metres (1.88 miles) long, then in 1996 a new renovated track was introduced (a fast bend to replace a sharp corner at the end of the pit straight) which shortened the total length by 24 metres (0.02 miles). The average F1 lap speed is over 160 km/h (99 mph) and the F1 top speed is 290 km/h (180 mph). As Fiorano is a testing track, it has a wide range of corner types, with corner diameters between 370 metres (1,213.9 ft) and 13.71 metres (45.0 ft). Thus Ferrari is able to simulate corner and track types of other Grand Prix circuits.
The track is equipped with telemetry sensors and a large skidpad for tyre testing. In 2001 an irrigation system using rain collected in eight cisterns was installed to simulate wet track conditions. When Scuderia Ferrari are testing a F1 car at the track, it is common to see Tifosi watching the test from the roadside, which is the closest point from which the track is viewable to the public.
Ferrari customers are allowed to test drive new cars at the Fiorano circuit. The Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano is named after this track.
In the 16 years from the time the track opened until his death in 1988, Enzo Ferrari would either sit in his house which was located at the circuit and listen to, or actually sit track side and watch his beloved scarlet Formula One cars testing. Legend has it that this was actually the real reason that the "old man" had the circuit built, so he could enjoy his cars and his drivers without the presence of other F1 cars or the press. In reality Ferrari made the decision of building his own testing track when he realised that the Modena Autodrome could no longer serve this purpose.
Flavio Manzoni
Flavio Manzoni (born 7 January 1965 in Nuoro, Sardinia) is an Italian architect and automobile designer. He is the Senior Vice President of Design at Ferrari.
List of ZF transmissions
This list of ZF transmissions details those automotive transmissions created by the German ZF Friedrichshafen AG engineering company.
There are two fundamental types of motor vehicle transmission:
Manual — the driver has to perform each gear change
Automatic — once placed in drive (or any other 'automatic' selector position), it selects the gear ratio dependent on engine speed and load automatically.Furthermore, they may also be manufactured solely as a gearbox, and use an entirely separate final drive unit (including its differential) – or be supplied as a transaxle, which includes both the gearbox and final drive unit within one housing.
List of production cars by horsepower
This list is limited to unmodified production cars which meet the eligibility criteria below. All entries must be able to be verified from reliable sources.
List of sports cars
This page is a compilation of sports cars, coupés, roadsters, supercars, hypercars, race cars, and super SUVs, both discontinued and still in production. Cars that have sport trims (such as the Honda Civic SI) will be listed under the sport trims section. Production tunes will include cars modified by outside brands and then sold. This does not include in-house brands such as Ford's Special Vehicle Team, which will be included in the main list. Some vehicles are sold under different brands, therefore some vehicles may be listed more than once but usually link to the same page. Different countries/continents may also classify vehicles differently, for example; the Toyota 86 name is known throughout most of the world. However, in Europe, it's sold as the Toyota GT86, and in the United States and Canada it's sold under the Scion marque as the Scion FR-S (at least, until 2016) and the Subaru marque as the Subaru BRZ.
Scuderia Ferrari S.p.A. (Italian: [skudeˈriːa ferˈraːri]) is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturer Ferrari and the racing team that competes in Formula One racing. The team is also nicknamed "The Prancing Horse", with reference to their logo. It is the oldest surviving and most successful Formula One team, having competed in every world championship since the 1950 Formula One season.
The team was founded by Enzo Ferrari, initially to race cars produced by Alfa Romeo, though by 1947 Ferrari had begun building its own cars. Among its important achievements outside Formula One are winning the World Sportscar Championship, 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Spa, 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, Bathurst 12 Hour, races for Grand tourer cars and racing on road courses of the Targa Florio, the Mille Miglia and the Carrera Panamericana.
As a constructor, Ferrari has a record 16 Constructors' Championships, the last of which was won in 2008. Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter, Michael Schumacher and Kimi Räikkönen have won a record 15 Drivers' Championships for the team. Since Räikkönen's title in 2007 the team narrowly lost out on the 2008 drivers' title with Felipe Massa and the 2010 and 2012 drivers' titles with Fernando Alonso.
Michael Schumacher is the team's most successful driver. Joining the team in 1996 and departing in 2006 he won five drivers' titles and 72 Grands Prix for the team. His titles came consecutively between 2000 and 2004, and the team won consecutive constructors' title from 1999 until the end of 2004; this was the team's most successful period.
Currently, Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc are the two main race drivers.
The team is also known for its passionate support base known as the tifosi. The Italian Grand Prix at Monza is regarded as the team's home race.
Stradale (Italian for "road-going") may refer to:
Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, street-legal derivative of a racecar
Dallara Stradale, first streetcar from racecar maker Dallara
Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale
Turin Auto Show
The Turin Motor Show (Italian: Salone dell'Automobile di Torino) was an auto show held annually in Turin, Italy. The first official show took place between 21 and 24 April 1900, at the Castle of Valentino, becoming a permanent fixture in Turin from 1938 having shared it with Milan and Rome until that time. From 1972, the show was held biannually and in 1984, it moved into Fiat's shuttered Lingotto factory.The event was last held in Turin in June 2000, and cancelled from 2002, resulting in the Bologna Motor Show taking over the role of Italy's International Motor Show. Since 2015, Turin again now holds a Motor Show, albeit as an open air festival to keep exhibitors' costs down and provide free access to the public. It is held in the precinct of the Parco del Valentino.
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V12 Grand tourer 550 Maranello 575M Maranello 599 GTB Fiorano F12berlinetta 812 Superfast
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Posted by (VAL202) in SOCCER BETTING TIPS and tagged with BETROTH, current-events, ENGAGEMENT PARTIES, ENGAGEMENT RINGS, LOVE AFFAIRS November 27, 2012
An engagement or betrothal is a promise to marry, and also the period of time between proposal and marriage – which may be lengthy or trivial. During this period, a couple is said to be betrothed, affianced, engaged to be married, or simply engaged. Future brides and grooms may be called the betrothed, a wife-to-be or husband-to-be, fiancée or fiancé, respectively (from the French word fiancer). The duration of the courtship varies vastly.
Long engagements were once common in formal arranged marriages and it was not uncommon for parents betrothing children to arrange such many years before the engaged couple were old enough to marry.
Betrothal (also called espousal) is a formal state of engagement to be married.
Typical steps of a match were the following:
• Negotiation of a match, usually done by the couple’s families with bride and groom having varying levels of input, from no input, to veto power, to a fuller voice in the selection of marriage partner.
o This is not as widely practiced as it was historically, although it is still common in culturally conservative communities in Israel, India, Africa, and Persian Gulf countries, although most of these have a requirement that the bride be at least allowed veto power.
• Negotiation of bride price or dowry
o In most cultures evolved from Europe, the modern practice has reduced bride prices or dowries to the engagement ring accompanying the marriage contract Judaism, while in other cultures (such as those on the Arabian Peninsula), these are still part of negotiating a marriage contract.
• Blessing by the parents and clergy
• Exchange of Vows and Signing of Contracts
o Often one of these is omitted
• Celebration
The exact duration of a betrothal varies according to culture and the participants’ needs and wishes. For adults, it may be anywhere from several hours (when the betrothal is incorporated into the wedding day itself) to a period of several years. A year and a day are common in neo-pagan groups today. In the case of child marriage, betrothal might last from infancy until the age of marriage.
The responsibilities and privileges of betrothal vary. In most cultures, the betrothed couple is expected to spend much time together, learning about each other. In some historical cultures (including colonial North America), the betrothal was essentially a trial marriage, with marriage only being required in cases of conception of a child. In almost all cultures there is a loosening of restrictions against physical contact between partners, even in cultures which would normally otherwise have strong prohibitions against it. The betrothal period was also considered to be a preparatory time, in which the groom would build a house, start a business or otherwise prove his readiness to enter adult society.
In medieval Europe, in canon law, a betrothal could be formed by the exchange of vows in the future tense (“I will take you as my wife/husband,” instead of “I take you as my wife/husband”), but sexual intercourse consummated the vows, making a binding marriage rather than a betrothal. Although these betrothals could be concluded with only the vows spoken by the couple, they had legal implications: Richard III of England had his older brother’s children declared illegitimate on the grounds their father had been betrothed to another woman when he married their mother.
A betrothal is considered to be a ‘semi-binding’ contract. Normal reasons for invalidation of a betrothal include:
• Revelation of a prior commitment or marriage,
• Evidence of infidelity,
• Failure to conceive (in ‘trial marriage’ cultures),
• Failure of either party to meet the financial and property stipulations of the betrothal contract.
Normally a betrothal can also be broken at the behest of either party, though some financial penalty (such as forfeit of the bride price) usually will apply.
Customs for engagement rings vary according to time, place, and culture. An engagement ring has historically been uncommon, and when such a gift was given, it was separate from the wedding ring.
The tradition of giving a ring for marriage engagement originated from Judaism that was originally a golden nose ring (Chayei Sarah 24:22) given by Eliezer of Damascus to Rebecca, with Saadiah Gaon also citing as a possible source of the practice in the phrase in Nehemiah 7:46 be’nei tabbaot (children of the rings). The latter case refers to betrothal (see above) rather than engagement; one of the three ways in which betrothal may be accomplished in Judaism is by the husband giving the bride money or an object of at least nominal value. In fact, it is a long-standing practice within Judaism to contract the betrothal with a ring.
Romantic rings from the time of the Roman Empire sometimes bore clasped hands symbolizing contract from which the later Celtic Claddagh symbol (two hands clasping a heart) may have evolved as a symbol of love and commitment between two people. Romans believed the circle was a bond between the two people who were to be married and signified eternity, but was first practiced on the fourth finger/ring finger by the Romans, who believed this finger to be the beginning of the vena amoris (“vein of love”), the vein that leads to the heart. In cultures with European origin, and many other countries, an engagement ring is worn following the practice of the Romans who “…wore the ring either on the right middle finger or the left ring [4th] finger, from which, according to ancient Egyptian physicians, a nerve led directly to the heart.” The custom in Continental Europe and other countries is to wear it on the right hand. One historical exception arose in monarchical regimes, in which a nobleman entering into morganatic marriage, a marriage in which the person, usually the woman, of lower rank stayed at the same rank instead of rising ranks, would present their left hand to receive the ring, hence the alternative term ‘marriage with the left hand’ (Ger. Ehe zur linken Hand), the offspring of such marriages considered to be disinherited from birth.
The modern Western form of the practice of giving or exchanging engagement rings is traditionally thought to have begun in 1477 when Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, gave Mary of Burgundy a diamond ring as an engagement present.
In other countries like Argentina, men and women each wear a ring similar to wedding bands. They are made of silver (“alianza de plata”) when manifesting an informal “boyfriend-girlfriend” relationship, though this first step might not always happen; howbeit depending on finances, this may be the only ring given at all. The gold band (“anillo de compromiso” or “alianza de oro”) is given to the bride when the commitment is formal and the [optional] diamond ring (“cintillo”) is reserved for the wedding ceremony when the groom gives it to the bride. The gold band that the groom wore during the engagement – or a new one, as some men choose not to wear them during engagement – is then given to the groom by the bride; and the bride receives both the original gold band and the new diamond at the ceremony. The bride’s diamond ring is worn on top of the engagement band at the wedding and thereafter, especially at formal occasions or parties; otherwise the engagement band suffices for daily wear for both parties. At the wedding, the rings are swapped from the right to the left hand. In Brazil, they are always made of gold, and there is no tradition for the engagement ring. Both men and women wear the wedding band on their right hand while engaged, and, after they marry, they shift the rings to their left hands. In Nordic countries such as Finland and Norway, both men and women wear an engagement ring.
In the modern era, some women’s wedding rings are made into two separate pieces. One part is given to her to wear as an engagement ring when she accepts the marriage proposal and the other during the wedding ceremony. When worn together, the two rings look like one piece of jewelry.
Some engagements are announced at an engagement party, traditionally hosted by the bride’s parents. These parties are given in the family’s usual style of entertainment. Traditionally, engagement parties were normal parties at which a surprise announcement of the engagement was made by the father of the bride to his guests. Therefore, it is not a traditional gift-giving occasion since no guests were supposed to be aware of the engagement until after their arrival.
In modern times, engagement parties often celebrate a previously publicized engagement. Whether presents are given at these engagement parties varies from culture to culture.
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Brewers and Breweries in Gosport
Gosport Papers series. No.5.
Local Historian Philip Eley has finally published his new book in this series.
A ‘must have’ for all those who are interested in Gosport’s history, particularly those who enjoy the locally brewed real ales.
Ale and beer appear in the surviving records of what is now the Borough of Gosport from the fourteenth century onwards, although it is not until 1628 that a brewer is mentioned. Until then brewing would have been mainly on a domestic scale, for consumption either in the home or at a public house, but it was around this time that the ‘common brewer’ emerged, selling beer wholesale to retail outlets, which he may or may not have himself owned.
The expansion of Portsmouth Naval Dockyard not only boosted the local economy but also encouraged the development of large-scale breweries selling beer for use in the Navy’s ships. Only the richest brewers could compete in the market but fraud put an end to their business, the Admiralty buying Gosport’s Weevil Brewery to supply direct.
Although this was by far the largest brewery in the town there was scope for entrepreneurs, some concentrating on the malt which Weevil needed in great quantities, others investing in ‘tied houses’ in which to sell their beer. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the middle of the French Wars, Gosport was at the height of its prosperity, teeming with soldiers, sailors and merchants, supporting a number of medium-sized breweries.
The brewers themselves became pillars of local society, serving as local Paving Trustees, and involved in charitable work. The post-Napoleonic-War depression put an end to the growth of the older breweries but, ironically saw the inception of the two longest-lived breweries — Biden’s and Blake’s — both remaining in their respective families for over a century. National legislation favoured the medium and large sized breweries and only those who also owned pubs stood much of a chance of survival.
Once most local pubs were owned by one or other brewer the only way breweries could grow was to buy up their rivals. Along with improvements in transport this led to the emergence of regional breweries and by the end of the 1930s the last of Gosport’s breweries had closed, most of the beer sold in Gosport’s pubs being brewed in Portsmouth.
The histories of Gosport’s breweries, large and small, are here revealed using local records, wills, inventories, newspapers and company minute books. There is also a brief look at the ‘new-wave’ of breweries which emerged around the turn of the 21st century.
Thirty years of research has resulted in this infomative publication which can be obtained from the Gosport Tourist Information Centre at Gosport Ferry or from the author (see illustration above).
Price: £6
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The National Language
Uzma Aslam Khan & Aamer Hussein
Several of the pieces in our Pakistan issue were translated from the national language, Urdu, which boasts a rich literary history. Ollie Brock spoke to two of our contributors to discover their epxerience of literature in Urdu, and which writers we should be paying more attention to.
Uzma Aslam Khan
OB: You grew up in Karachi, which held its first literature festival earlier this year, following a growing worldwide interest in Pakistani writing in English. Is Urdu literature being overlooked? Should we be seeing more of it in translation?
UAK: Outside the subcontinent, Urdu literature is deeply overlooked. We should absolutely be seeing more translations in English. But this is not true only for Urdu. The indigenous languages – such as Sindhi, Seraiki, Punjabi, Balochi, and Pashto, to name just a few – are even more overlooked, even within Pakistan, though they existed on the soil that became Pakistan long before Urdu or English did.
Who, in your view, is the single greatest writer in Urdu (living or dead)?
It’s Urdu poetry that I love best, more than Urdu prose. (And more than poetry in English, which, with a few exceptions, lacks the immediacy with which I feel poetry in Urdu.) If I had to single out one poet, it would have to be Faiz Ahmad Faiz. There’s no other artist who’s captured the range of human emotion more beautifully and heart-wrenchingly than Faiz. I still remember my first experience of not only listening to his poetry but actually understanding it, and this was while hearing his two oft-quoted poems ‘Hum dekhainge’ (‘We will see ‘) and ‘Dashte tanhai me’ (‘In the Desert of Loneliness’) sung by the amazing Iqbal Bano. The songs were playing in our home in the 1980s, during General Zia’s military rule, and many of those present who were singing with Iqbal Bano were also crying. Later, my father asked if I understood the poems, the first of which was a fiery and optimistic call to change, the second of which was a lament of loss and separation. I felt I did understand them, but I let him explain that celebration and mourning, love and despair, in Pakistan, are two things that are never separated. If that was true in the eighties, it’s no less true today, possibly, it’s even truer, which is why Faiz continues to matter, continues to be remembered, and continues to make us sing and cry.
What books in Urdu have most influenced your writing?
Aside from Faiz’s poetry, it’s the fiction of Saadat Hasan Manto that made the deepest impression. The association is once again with my father. Manto’s short story ‘Toba Tek Singh’ was my closest glimpse of the scars of Partition that my father never shared with us. His family came to Lahore in 1947 from a tiny village near Amritsar; his grandparents were beheaded before his mother’s eyes. I think he let his children see his past through reading ‘Toba Tek Singh’, a satirical account of the inmates of a mental asylum who have nowhere to go at Partition, but are forever left in limbo, between Pakistan and India.
The story made me deeply suspicious of easy categorization, particularly along ethnic and religious lines. It also made me understand that I come from a country that wasn’t shaped by those who migrated to it, like my parents, nor by the many indigenous tribes who’d lived there long before any one presumed to scratch lines across their land. Mine is the first generation of writers to be born in Pakistan, so, like my parents, I also carry the weight of beginning. The need to look in Pakistan’s looking-glass and know the slippery ghosts of my history has been imperative for me as a writer. I don’t think I’ve ever stopped hungering to know my place in these chaotic layers. It’s the hunger to make up for what was never said. It’s the terror of being left as voiceless as the inmates of the asylum.
Does Urdu give you something that non-speakers will never quite get?
Well, it gives me two languages to play with in my writing. It also gives me two languages to love and curse in. For instance, when I first got married, and my non-Urdu-speaking husband and I would quarrel, I would frequently revert to Urdu. Now he understands much of it, unfortunate at times, but fortunate when we listen to Iqbal Bano.
Aamer Hussein
OB: In your piece in our Pakistan issue you describe arriving in England as a teenager, and immersing yourself in books and films. Did books in Urdu form part of these initiations?
Apart from the poetry of Faiz, which I read in a bilingual edition, I had no exposure to Urdu literature in London until I was about nineteen, when I was sent to a private tutor to relearn the language, in which I sat an A level when I was about twenty, in order to enter university to study Persian (which uses a variation of the same script).
It’s clearly become very important to you since – you contribute to the Annual of Urdu studies. Is Urdu literature a resource we’re overlooking in the English-speaking world? Should we be seeing more of it in translation?
At university, I studied the canon of Urdu poetry, with a focus on eighteenth and nineteenth-century classics. But traditional Urdu poetry, which depends heavily on rhyme and meter, is almost untranslatable, partly because of very different syntactical rules from English.
Realist fiction in the sense we recognise it came to Urdu late, and we studied only a few examples of it. I developed an interest in it in the early nineties; I’d already almost completed my first book, so I can’t say it was an influence on me as a writer, but I’ve read hundreds of contemporary short stories and dozens of novels, and think there are some fine examples, particularly of the former.
I don’t think we’ve had as many good translations as we deserve, but there are several competent translators in Pakistan, India and the States. One of the greatest Urdu writers of the 20th century, Qurratulain Hyder, who began her career in Pakistan in the 40s and moved back to India in 1960, actually translated several of her own works into English including her magnum opus River of Fire. They’ve been published in the States by New Directions. Manto is known, too. Some of Pakistan’s finest, like Intizar Hussain and Fahmida Riaz, haven’t been as well served and still remain almost entirely unknown except to specialist audiences.
If realist fiction came later, what were the myths that dominated until then? Nadeem Aslam’s novella which opens our issue, ‘Leila in the Wilderness’, is a retelling of the story of separated lovers Leila and Qes. How important is myth to Urdu culture?
I’d say legend (rather than myth) is crucial to all the Pakistani languages. The story of Laila and Majnun (‘The Mad’, as Qais was known) is one we borrowed from Arabic via Persian, and it is part of our imagination. Rumi wrote many beautiful verses about them. There are other cultural imports, too, like the pre-Islamic Persian story of Shirin and Farhad; Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, a much-elaborated story via the Quran from the Old Testament, which is retold in various versions (including my own story, ‘The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger’). On home ground we have the folk legends of the Indus, immortalised by Shah Abdul Latif in his mystical poems, including those of Umar and Marvi and Sassi and Punhal from my native Sind (Marvi is alluded to in my forthcoming novel, The Cloud Messenger, and novelist Bina Shah evokes several of them in her last novel).
When print culture began to thrive in the nineteenth century, the epic cycles and old romances began to be transcribed in prose and were recorded in book form in definitive versions. Among these are the The Tale of Amir Hamza and The Four Dervishes, which is a favourite of mine. They’re recently enjoying a new and enchanted readership in English.
So it seems a good thing that they were put into print. But does this erode the oral culture they came from? Is it possible that these ‘definitive versions’ suggest a fixed origin for myths, a sort of national ownership that is in fact false – as they are products of that mingling that you mention?
I think ‘transcribed’ was an inaccurate word: the correct terms (note the plural) should be, variously, collated, edited, collected and retold, because that’s how the print versions were constructed. Ours is a culture that places great emphasis on the written word. There’s an assumption that storytellers worked from manuscripts, some of them in Persian. Some may have been memorized by amateur narrators and professional storytellers, others were simply read out from handwritten scripts.
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Posted on Mon, May 28, 2018 Mon, May 28, 2018
What if . . . ?
Construction of a new Israeli settlement is seen through barbed wire in Kiryat Arba near the West Bank city of Hebron, Feb 7, 2017. (photo: EPA Photos)
What if Oregon were subjected to military occupation?
By Catherine Alder | Za’atar | Spring 2018
Oregon: A land without a people for a people without a land.
I was asked to speak about my international work at Ainsworth UCC. This piece is what I shared. I want to share with you in an unusual way. Imagine with me. Step into another’s experience. Let’s play “What if . . . ?”
What if the state of Oregon suddenly was designated by other countries as the place to come for hundreds of thousands of people in trouble in Europe?
The rap from those countries about Oregon is that it is perfect. “A place without a people for a people without a place.” Send them there! BUT HEY, WE ARE HERE! WE are the Oregonians! Well, we think, it will be OK. We are good people. We will welcome these strangers who are in trouble. There is plenty of land for the new people to build. We will share.
But, when the new people come from Europe, they come with guns and run out 100‘s of thousands of Oregonians. Now 750,000 Oregonians live in refugee camps in bordering states. The new people set up a government and say Oregonians who ran away are not allowed to come back home. These people are not like other refugees who have come gently and respectfully to live among us. This is very different.
Continue reading “What if . . . ?”
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UN Blacklist: Why Israel is doing everything it can to thwart the UN Human Rights Council
Israeli security forces take aim as a Palestinian protester looks on during clashes in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Nov 24, 2017. (photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)
About 100 local companies and 50 international companies that operate in the West Bank and east Jerusalem have received warning letters that they will be on the list.
By Haaretz | Nov 26, 2017
“We will do everything we can to ensure that this list does not see the light of day.”
— Israeli UN ambassador, Danny Danon
Weeks ahead of the expected completion of a UN database of companies that operate in Israels West Bank settlements, Israel and the Trump Administration are working feverishly to prevent its publication. . . . [Ed. note: The publication has subsequently been postponed.]
While Israel is usually quick to brush off UN criticism, officials say they are taking the so-called blacklist seriously, fearing its publication could have devastating consequences by driving companies away, deterring others from coming and prompting investors to dump shares of Israeli firms. Dozens of major Israeli companies, as well as multinationals that do business in Israel, are expected to appear on the list.
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New US embassy may be in Jerusalem — but not in Israel
The former Diplomat Hotel, now part of the United States consular compound in Jerusalem, was built on disputed territory. (photo: Thomas Coex / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images)
The site of the US diplomatic compound is in occupied territory that has never been formally incorporated into Israel.
By Isabel Kershner | The New York Times | Mar 7, 2018
“Much more important than what the State Department says, it is what their actions say. You don’t build an embassy in territory that is not sovereign to Israel.”
— Eugene Kontorovich, director of international law at the conservative Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem
In two months, the United States plans to open a new embassy to fulfill President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
There’s just one problem: The embassy may be in Jerusalem, but it may not be fully in Israel.
The diplomatic compound that will serve as the American Embassy until a permanent site is found lies partly in a contested zone known as No Man’s Land.
No Man’s Land encompasses the area between the armistice lines drawn at the end of the 1948–49 war and was claimed by Jordan and Israel. Israel won full control of it in the 1967 war, so the United Nations and much of the world consider it occupied territory.
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How Israel is privatizing its occupation of Palestine — enriching the security industry and allowing the country to evade accountability for human-rights violations
By Antony Loewenstein and Matt Kennard / The Nation
“Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report, ‘Occupation Inc.,’ that detailed how ‘Israeli and international businesses have helped to build, finance, service, and market settlement communities.’ It added, ‘In many cases, businesses are “settlers” themselves.’”
It is 4:30 a.m. with the moon still high in the sky, but Palestinians from across the West Bank are already disembarking from buses outside the Qalandia checkpoint near Jerusalem. They’re about to begin a day’s work on the other side of the separation wall, in Israel.
Qalandia is one of the busiest checkpoints through which Palestinians with the required work documents can travel from the occupied Palestinian territories to Israel. With unemployment around 26 percent in the West Bank (in Gaza, it’s far worse — among the highest in the world, according to the United Nations), it’s always extremely busy at this early hour, because Palestinians need work, which is more readily available in Israel, especially in construction, manufacturing, and agriculture. . . .
The warehouse-like checkpoint looks like a cattle pen on the inside: Metal bars on either side and above form a narrow chute, enclosing and herding the workers—many of whom have traveled from villages more than an hour away—toward the point where their documents will be checked by Israeli officials. They then wait on the Israeli side for transport from their employers.
For years, these checkpoints were manned by personnel from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israeli Border Police. But starting in January 2006, gun-toting private security guards joined the soldiers and police. Today, there are 12 checkpoints in the West Bank and two on the Gaza border that use such guards. Israel is slowly privatizing its occupation.
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Shepherding under Occupation
By the Jordan Valley team, Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)
“We have been living next to the settlement for many years and we don’t do any harm to anyone, we just want to live and to be able to walk with our sheep and have access to the land”
We arrived early, just after sunrise. We met with Abu Sami [pseudonym] and his family along with members of Ta’yush, an joint Israeli and Palestinian organization. Abu Sami lives close to a settlement in the North of Jordan Valley and his family looked very afraid of the consequences of the land action that was about to take place. Abu Sami and his family were preparing to graze their sheep on land that the settlers have taken control of in Khirbet Tell el Himma. The land is privately owned by a Palestinian family and Abu Sami rents it from them to graze his sheep, however, because of frequent harassment from settlers, the family are no longer able to use it. Today was going to be different. [Continue reading . . .]
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Mary of the Day (April 26, 1467) PART TWO – Our Lady of Good Counsel (Genazzano – Italy)
by Fr. John Francesco Maria LimPosted on April 25, 2018 April 25, 2018
“She came” yes, but from where? (A Brief History)
If so far the documents are incontrovertible, there is an oral tradition, five hundred years old, which reinforces the prodigious character of the facts regarding this beautiful Marian icon. It unites the belief of two people, very different in geography, culture and language. It is inconceivable to think that these two realities have agreed to deceive everyone for centuries. Father Amedeo Eramo, rector of the Shrine, effectively said this: “Here we are dealing with two peoples who at the same time (for five centuries) affirm this humanly inexplicable fact: the image of the Mother of Good Counsel comes from Scutari (Albania). How is it possible to think of a collective infatuation, a mystification, a common pious invention? “.
S.S. John Paul II, visiting Genazzano just before going to Albania, endorsed this belief: “From Scutari comes the image of Our Lady of Good Counsel here venerated: according to a pious tradition, it migrated from the church that housed it there, thus escaping miraculously the Turkishinvasion of 1467 “.
And at this point we need to say something to frame together both the history and tradition of this event. Indeed, in 1467 the invasion of the “Land of Eagles”, Albania, began by the Ottoman power. This coincides with the extinction of the great athlete of Christ, as he is called the most formidable champion of the Christianity of his time, Giorgio Castriota Skanderbeg. As long as Skanderbeg lived, Albania resisted. With his death the definitive collapse takes place. The Christians fleed further and further north from the Islamic invasion. The last stronghold is Scutari, almost at the border with Montenegro.
“Come back, O pious Mother, come back to Albania soon”
Just outside this city is the Shrine of Our Lady of Shkoder (Scutari). It was built after the fall of communism on the same place where, at the time of the Turkish invasion, a prodigious fresco of Mary and Child was venerated in a little church.
New Sanctuary of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Scutari (Albania)
The Albanians have always maintained that it is the same fresco revered in Genazzano. One day, under the pressure of the Turkish offensive, the piece of the wall with the fresco disappeared. Then the sanctuary was reduced by the invaders to an open ruin, but you could still see an empty rectangle on the wall.
In 1967, this ruin was blown up with dynamite by the Stalinist-Maoist government. It was an uncomfortable presence for a state that declared itself to be an atheist already in its Constitution. In fact, for centuries Albanian Catholics, residing above all in the “eagles” mountains, went there to pray: “Come back, come back, O pious Mother, come back to Albania soon”.
The Bishop of Scutari, Paolo Cambsi, came to Genazzano in 1754, where he testifies that in that church there was no longer the Madonna where it was once revered by the faithful, even if they still go there to pray and on some nights, as confirmed even by Turkish sources, there was seen above the building “an unusual splendor (…) like a white cloud”. He adds that the Madonna of Genazzano “is of the same color of which other images of the Blessed Virgin are painted in the aforementioned church”. A century later, in 1878, this attestation is confirmed in a letter to the prior of Genazzano by the general vicar of the diocese of Scutari, Angelo Radoja: “We can say with all sincerity that we have always heard not only from the priests, but much more from our ancestors, who certainly did not have the slightest need to deceive their posterity, that in the little church at the foot of the Scutari fortress between the two rivers Driono and Boiana, there existed the image of the Lady of Scutari (…) and that some years before the Turks got possession of Scutari, it left the church and was carried miraculously to a foreign land, that is to Genazzano “.
In the nineteenth century the Albanian bishops officially proclaimed Our Lady of Good Counsel, the patron saint of Albania. In 1932 there was a great Albanian national pilgrimage to Genazzano, presided over by the Archbishop of Scutari, and of which the newspaper of the Vatican Osservatore Romano spoke extensively. The pilgrims placed a memorial stone still preserved: “Return Our Lady in Albania “.
Before being suppressed by the communist regime, the apostolic delegate Msgr. G.B. Nigris wrote on the 28th of December 1946: that “April 25, 1467 is the date when the fresco would have miraculously detached from the altar and, crossing the Adriatic on a flight among a bevy of angels would have descended to Genazzano”, adding that unfortunately the evidence was destroyed in the «violent Islamization of the country», but that still remains «the widespread and living devotion of Our Lady of Good Counsel, venerated as Patroness of Albania (…) There is no house of Catholics in which the image of Our Lady of Good Counsel is not enthroned “.
One tradition harmonizes with the other. The Genazzano people believe that, from a remote common tradition, there was a couple of Albanians who settled in the town a few days after “Her coming”, they were named Giorgio and Sclavis. After seeing the fresco starting from Scutari, they would have followed it on the waves of the sea. The deeds of the notary M.A. Roses, ranging from 1487 to 1529, speak of six Albanians residing in Genazzano and there is the testament of one of them, a certain Giorgio, in favor of his children. Some families of Albanian origin, still living in Genazzano, say they come from their ancestor Giorgio.
Giorgio and Sclavis followed the fresco on the waves of the sea
The first existing documents linking Albania to the apparition date back to 1681, but we must bear in mind that the sanctuary was robbed much earlier, which is why Alexander VI excommunicated the thieves in 1502. In 1778, eight elders of Genazzano, laymen and priests, a notary documented a document confirming the old tradition, by which it was declared that the Madonna came from Scutari.
The art critics recognize in the Madonna of Genazzano a wonderfully successful blend of Byzantine iconography with the technique of Venetian color, a painting suitable for the crossroads of the two cultures that was Albania. Four popes went to the Sanctuary of Genazzano. Pope Leo XIII, due to the political impediment that kept him locked up in the Vatican, could never come personally as Pope, however he elevated the church to the rank of basilica and inserted the invocation Mater Boni Consilii (Mother of Good Counsel) in the Loreto litanies. Numerous saints and founders, among them S. Don Bosco and S. Don Orione, pilgrims to the medieval town of Lazio to ask Mary for the gift of the Holy Spirit, the gift of the Counsel and precisely, in moments of particular difficulty.
THE PRECIOUS GIFT OF COUNSEL
But what is this extraordinary gift of counsel that we can ask Our Lady of Genazzano? We will try to explain it in a few words.
First of all, it one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, who “in their fullness belong to Christ”, according to what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches. That is to say, as St. Louis of Montfort speaks of Him as “the eternal and incarnate Wisdom”, another gift from the Paraclete, one could say that He is also “the eternal and incarnate Counsel”.
And the theologian Fabiàn Rodero explains: “She is the mother of good counsel, first and foremost because she is the Mother of the” Admirable Counselor “(Is 9,5), as Isaiah prophetically calls the Redeemer of the world”.
As if to say that by identifying Jesus Christ with the Good Counsel, we ask this gift from Mary, we ask Her to unite us fully to Her Son, this work of unity by which She is the most adequate and perfect instrument in order to achieve it.
And then the Counsel is what the Lord himself offers us when he tells us: ” I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.”(Psalm 32, 8).
Theologians of the Catholic Encyclopedia teaches that the gifts of the Holy Spirit perfects the virtues of those who receive them. And, in the particular case of the Counsel, it perfects us particularly in the virtue of prudence, making us “to do promptly and surely, for a supernatural intuition, what is convenient, especially in difficult cases”.
The lack of such a gift makes us “confused in thought, hasty in our resolutions, imprudent in words, daring in deeds”. In the opposite sense, with the gift of the Counsel “the Christian soul has the sure discernment of the means, sees its own life and faces it fearlessly – as hard and repugnant as it is”. «Now who more than Our Lady – full of grace, who kept everything in his heart and meditated, that all generations will call Her blessed – must enlighten us with her “counsels?”» Writes the rector of the Sanctuary, Father Amedeo Eramo (OSA).
How can we be surprised then if popes, saints, men and women of great faith have come to the feet of the Madonna di Genazzano to ask for this gift of “counsel”, especially in times of difficulty, uncertainty and risk for their apostolic works?
(The End)
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Rising costs take toll on new corporate, emerging market debt
Reuters 1 October 2018
By Claire Milhench
LONDON (Reuters) - Corporate and emerging market bond sales fell in the third quarter due to rising borrowing costs and trade tensions, while volatility crimped fund managers' emerging debt appetite.
Debt issuance from companies has been falling all year as the U.S. steadily raises rates, while a turbulent summer effectively closed the market for emerging sovereigns such as Turkey and Russia - a marked contrast to 2017's bumper issuance.
Hard currency bond sales from developed market corporates amounted to $572.8 billion in the third quarter according to Thomson Reuters data, down from $676.2 billion in the second quarter and $712.1 billion in the first.
Volumes were also down almost 11 percent on third quarter 2017, despite notable deals such as U.S. telecoms operator AT&T's, $3.75 billion senior floating-rate issue.
Third-quarter investment grade bond sales totalled $490.8 billion, data from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) showed, outpacing Q3 2017's $482.2 billion.
Meanwhile junk bond sales fell to $62.8 billion from $81.7 billion in the second quarter and versus $105.4 billion in Q3 2017, the IIF data showed, despite a $1.2 billion deal to help finance KKR's leveraged buyout of Envision Healthcare.
SLUGGISH SALES
Emerging market debt sales totalled $12 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data, compared with $53.2 billion in the second quarter and down 72 percent year-on-year, although Middle Eastern and Asian issuers were quite active.
Ranko Milic, head of CEEMEA debt capital markets at UBS, said that some emerging economies had specific problems: "The market has been completely closed for Russian and Turkish names and those are two pretty big markets for CEEMEA."
A sell-off in Turkey's lira and Argentina's peso triggered emerging market contagion in August, prompting bond spreads to blow out to a two-year high and clobbering emerging debt fund performance.
"There has clearly been a correction in spreads but not to levels where the market would completely close down," Maarten-Jan Bakkum, a senior strategist at NN Investment Partners, said.
A debut $500 million 10-year bond from frontier market issuer Papua New Guinea last month was six-times oversubscribed, even though it was viewed as a tough sell in a more cautious market.
Other notable issues included $2 billion in sukuk from Saudi Arabia and a 154.2 billion yen Philippines Samurai bond - an Asian record.
In a sign asset managers wanted to stock up on high-quality names to ride out the turmoil, there was also strong demand for a $1 billion South Korean bond.
Issuance by emerging market corporates was $17 billion, down from $27.4 billion in the second quarter and less than half the $39.1 billion in third quarter 2017, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Sales came mainly from Middle Eastern and Asian banks, real estate companies and utilities, such as Saudi Electricity. South African chemicals and energy company Sasol also raised $2.25 billion.
(Reporting by Claire Milhench; Editing by Alexander Smith)
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Deals - Americas
April 15, 2019 / 2:56 PM / 3 months ago
Vivendi presses on with UMG stake sale as music arm drives revenue
Sudip Kar-Gupta, Gwénaëlle Barzic
PARIS (Reuters) - France’s Vivendi said on Monday it was forging ahead with the planned sale of up to 50 percent of its Universal Music Group (UMG), as the iconic division boosted the media conglomerate’s quarterly revenue.
Yannick Bollore, Chairman of the Supervisory board of media group Vivendi, attends the company's shareholders meeting in Paris, France, April 15, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Vivendi plans to sell the UMG stake, which some analysts have valued at 40 billion euros ($45.2 billion), to maximize the music arm’s value and help fund purchases of other businesses.
The growing public demand for subscription and ad-based music streaming services, and the recent signing of several major license deals, have put the owners of music rights such as UMG in the spotlight of investors as they compete with streaming platforms such as Spotify.
UMG is the world’s biggest music labels ahead of Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music, and its soaring profit have been key drivers of Vivendi’s stock price.
Vivendi’s first quarter sales jumped 10.7 percent from last year to 3.46 billion euros, boosted by UMG and Vivendi’s recent acquisition of the Editis publishing business.
Vivendi shares were up 0.8 percent in late trading as analysts welcomed further strong figures from UMG, which offset lower sales at Vivendi’s Canal Plus TV unit.
UMG’s revenue rose 22.9 percent to 1.5 billion euros, helped by chart-topping songs from U.S. pop star Ariana Grande and sales from the soundtrack of hit movie “A Star Is Born”.
Most of its revenue comes from streaming, and some analysts said it might be hard for UMG to maintain that level of growth, although its sales figures were nevertheless reassuring.
“UMG’s strong figures are timely, given Vivendi’s plans to sell up to 50 percent of the business, and they should help to bring about a high market valuation for UMG,” said Roche Brune Asset Management fund manager Gregoire Laverne.
Analysts at brokerage Liberum echoed that view, keeping a “buy” rating on Vivendi’s shares.
TENCENT MUSIC ON THE SCENE
Vivendi has said it could sell up to 50 percent of UMG to one or more strategic partners. Analysts value the stake at between 20 billion euros and 40 billion euros.
U.S. buyout firm KKR and China’s Tencent Music Entertainment Group were exploring rival bids for the UMG stake, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in February.
Vivendi remains confident of success in Italy: executive chairman
Liberty Media has also said it would look into it. Analysts have also mentioned Google, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba and Apple as potential buyers.
Vivendi said on Monday it was finalizing which banks would advise it on the UMG deal, adding that accountancy and consultancy firm PWC was also conducting due diligence on UMG.
Vincent Bollore, whose company Bollore Group owns about 26 percent of Vivendi’s share capital, is to be formally replaced by his son Cyrille on the company’s board this month.
Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise
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Budget session: Parliament thaw likely next weekhttps://indianexpress.com/article/india/budget-session-second-part-parliament-thaw-likely-next-week-5092603/
Budget session: Parliament thaw likely next week
Sources said Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar has already indicated during informal discussions with Opposition leaders that the government may reformulate the motion to accommodate their demand, and that this move has Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s backing.
Written by Pradeep Kaushal | New Delhi | Updated: March 10, 2018 9:40:13 am
The initial round over, next week may see MPs get down to serious business involving key financial business in the Budget Session.
The first week of the second part of Budget Session of Parliament washed out, a thaw in the current stalemate may be possible next week.
While regional parties from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana have been protesting over state issues, and holding up proceedings along with other opposition parties, the more strident critics of the government — the Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Left parties — suspect that their noisy protests are a creation of the BJP.
They believe the government is propping up these parties to dilute the bank fraud issue, which they want to take up in a big way. This perception is based on the fact that these parties are either aligned with the BJP — like the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) — or are friendly with the NDA government, like YSR Congress, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and AIADMK. Besides, issues these parties are raising have to be resolved by the Central government, therefore it makes no sense to paralyse the two Houses, many in the Opposition feel.
The Congress, TMC, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Left are pressing for a discussion on the bank fraud, allegedly effected by Nirav Modi, under a rule which entails voting at the end. The motion must mention the Punjab National Bank fraud, they contend.
The Lok Sabha agenda listed for now states that N K Premachandran of RSP, a Left Front constituent, and K C Venugopal of the Congress will “raise a discussion on alleged systemic irregularities in banking sector over the years and its impact on Indian economy”.
On Friday, Mahajan told the media that she is engaged in a “daily dialogue with (all) parties” for the purpose.
The Congress has also brought about the dispute over the Rule under which the discussion should take place. While Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress’s floor leader in Lok Sabha, has given notice for a discussion under Rule 184, which is a sort of censure motion necessitating voting at the end, party whip K C Venugopal has given a notice under Rule 193, which implies a talk-out debate and does not involve voting.
Sources said the Congress may climb down a bit and press for the admission of an adjournment motion. Other opposition parties are said to favour this idea. The Speaker told the media in response to questions that it is not necessary which Rule is invoked. The more important point is that parties talk with one another. “The first thing is that the House should run. Rule, one can see later,” she said.
Sources pointed out that demands of regional parties of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have lost steam.
The Union Water Resources Ministry has already initiated a process for the implementation of the recent Supreme Court order on sharing of Cauvery river water. The ministry has convened a consultation meeting with chief secretaries of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry. So, it will get untenable for the AIADMK to be part of this exercise and simultaneously agitate on the issue in Parliament. Also, the Centre has taken a final position on the TDP-YSR Congress demand for a special status for Andhra Pradesh, and BJP and Telugu Desam have decided to stay together in an alliance thereafter.
1 B Com student stabbed to death outside college in Chennai
2 Dabholkar, Pansare case: Kin want agencies to rope in ‘special interrogators’
3 Maharashtra government gives a boost to services sector
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Major Lazer Releases New Track & Dishes on Upcoming Fresh Music
Earlier this month, we spilled the tea on how . Today, we have very exciting related news!
It comes as no surprise that due to recent events the American electronic dance music trio have had to pull together to make magic happen.
The group has been working very hard to rollout their next album, leaving fans wanting more and more!
Today, the beloved trio have released a brand new single christened ‘Make It Hot‘, in collaboration with Anitta.
” It’s a crazy record. We’ve been working with Anitta for years. She’s one of the biggest artists in Brazil, and a breakout star and someone unique like that is kind of the vibe for Major Lazer. That’s what I’m trying to do with the difference in the projects is Diplo just putting out house records for the next foreseeable future, and then Major Lazer go with more of the pop-centric and more club music, and just that makes the most sense.“
Diplo stated on Apple Music’s Beats 1
If this news wasn’t exciting enough, Zane Lowe chose this track to be featured on his World Record via Apple Music Beats 1. And in celebration of the new release, Zane Lowe took this opportunity to bring Diplo and Walshy Fire in the studio to discuss the single and touch on the group altogether.
If you haven’t heard the track, we strongly suggest you take a moment to listen below; it’s gearing up to be the hit of the summer!
Even more intriguing, Diplo confirmed new music is on its way, “Yes. Brand new song – it’s Major Lazer, J. Balvin, El Alfa – Big Club Record – Tik Tok. That new new.“
We absolutely can’t wait to hear what the talented group has been working on. It sounds like it fits the Major Lazer sound, that we’ve grown to know & love.
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What if an Heir to a Will Cannot Be Found?
By Jennifer Williams
Generally, distribution of an estate to the rightful beneficiaries is a straightforward process, occurring at the end of a probate proceeding after all debts are paid and just before the estate is closed. It is always possible that an heir is out of touch with the rest of the family. Each state has its own probate laws that detail what to do if an heir is missing and no one knows how or where to find him. However, while time frames and deadlines may vary by state, the basic procedure for handling the inheritance property of a missing heir is fairly standard across the U.S.
Search Requirement
All personal representatives must make a genuine effort to find all the beneficiaries of the estate for which he is appointed. This duty is imposed by state law and is uniform across all states. The personal representative is usually required to advertise his appointment and the opening of the estate's probate in a local newspaper, in an effort to encourage all heirs to step forward. This advertisement usually must run for a number of consecutive weeks, giving all heirs the best chance of seeing it. The personal representative also contacts each known heir directly to notify him or her of the probate.
Missing Heir
When an heir to an estate cannot be found, he is considered a missing heir. The personal representative is required to search for the missing heir, but sometimes even the most diligent search produces no results and the heir remains missing. When this happens, the process is the same regardless of whether the missing heir is one of many heirs to the estate or the sole heir. The inheritance of the missing heir is held in trust for a length of time as determined by state law, after which the inheritance goes to the next heir in line to inherit, as determined by the state laws of intestate succession. Usually, the next in line to inherit the missing heir's inheritance are his heirs or legatees, i.e. designated beneficiaries who are not necessarily blood relatives. However, if the missing heir has no next of kin, his inheritance eventually escheats to the state, which means legal ownership of the inheritance transfers to the state.
Property Held in Trust
If an heir is still missing when the estate is distributed, his inheritance property is transferred into trust and the estate closes. How long the property stays in trust varies state to state. In Washington State, for example, property of a missing heir is transferred to a trustee who posts a bond and retains the property for three years. After three years, if the heir still has not come forward, the trustee transfers the property to the county treasurer who holds it for another four years and 90 days after which the property escheats to the state department of revenue.
Heirs of the Missing Heir
After the missing heir has been missing for a certain amount of time, states usually allow the legatees or heirs of the missing heir to petition the probate court for distribution of the property. In Washington state, for example, the missing heir must have been missing for five years before the heirs or legatees can ask the court to give them the missing heir's share of the inheritance held in trust by the state. Heirs or legatees can petition sooner if the court determines there is a strong likelihood that the missing heir is actually deceased.
Escheat
Eventually an unclaimed inheritance escheats to the state where the estate was probated. This happens when a missing heir does not come forward and no heirs or legatees of the missing heirs petition for the property to be released to them. That time deadline varies from state to state, but states generally try to afford a missing heir a reasonable number of years to come forward and claim his inheritance. California, for example, allows an heir to reclaim his escheated property by filing a petition with the probate court and serving it on the state Attorney General. Once satisfied the heir is who he says is and is entitled to the property, the court orders the county auditor to withdraw the money from the treasury and give it to the heir.
What if a Person Dies and Leaves His Estate to Someone Who Can't Be Found?
Lancaster Law Office: What Happens to Property of Heirs or Legatees Who Cannot Be Found
California Legislature: California Probate Code s. 11850, 11854
Law Offices of Stephen Bilkis: New York Heir Finder
Merriam-webster.com: Legatee
Greenwhich Research: Laws of Descent and Distribtuion
What to Do When Someone Dies Without Leaving a Will?
When someone dies without a will or other estate planning direction, this is legally known as dying "intestate." Intestate estates are distributed to heirs according to state statutes. Spouses and children are first in line to inherit intestate estates. If there is no spouse or children, then next of kin inherit. An intestate estate must pass through probate court before it is distributed to heirs. If there are no relatives, an intestate estate passes to the state.
What if You Cannot Find Heirs in Succession?
When someone dies without a will to bequeath his property, the law leaves little doubt about who receives the fruits of his lifetime’s labors. It goes to his next of kin, and there’s no room for creativity, compassion or need. Probate courts distribute according to degrees of kinship, with the decedent’s most closely related family members receiving first right.
Tennessee Estate Laws on Intestacy
A Tennessee resident who dies without a will leaves behind an intestate estate. Tennessee intestate succession statutes determine how such an estate is divided among the descendants of the deceased, who is known as the decedent. Only property that is owned solely by the decedent is governed by intestate succession statutes. Property left in a trust or property that a decedent owns jointly with survivorship rights is not subject to intestate succession.
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212 Acres Purchased for New Industrial Park
DALLAS, TEXAS, April 29, 2014 – Midlothian Economic Development, a non-profit industrial development corporation in Midlothian, Texas, has acquired 212 acres located at the northwest corner of Highway 67 and Miller Road, according to Larry Barnett, President of Midlothian Economic Development. The new Midlothian Business Park will be developed on the land in support of Midlothian Economic Development’s focus to attract companies from outside the area to build their business within the City of Midlothian.
“The southern side of the DFW Metroplex has experienced increased building activity and the emergence of the area as an attractive industrial location,"said Barnett. "With the influx of companies relocating manufacturing and distribution facilities to the Dallas-Fort Worth region, we want to be able to offer smaller sites in a planned park environment. The new business park will offer sites designed for manufacturing companies who will appreciate the amenities and quality of life that Midlothian offers, and the close proximity to major industries.”
The new Midlothian Business Park is located in the heart of the community's industrial development, with easy access to major highways.
Colliers International represented Midlothian Economic Development in the acquisition, with Tom Pearson and Chris Teesdale negotiating the sale with David Shipman of Shipman Companies in Burleson. Gary Pickens, President of United Properties Southwest, will provide development management services to bring buildable, ready sites to the market, and Mark Pross of Pross Design Group will handle master plan layout and overall design for the park.
“DFW led the nation in industrial absorption in 2013, and we are excited about the future prospects for growth of our area and for Midlothian with the new sites that will be coming on the market,” said Pearson.
“Being able to offer a fully developed site in this kind of location can make the difference between whether a community gets considered for a relocation," Teesdale added. "We are very impressed with the exceptional quality of the Midlothian community."
The new Midlothian Business Park adds to excellent industrial real estate already in Midlothian with TXI's RailPort Business Park, a 1,600 acre fully developed park, and home to GDF Suez, an electric power plant, and three distribution warehouses totaling over 2,000,000 square feet for such companies as Target, QuikTrip and Toys R Us. Recent new additions include Buckley Oil Company and Midlothian LNG, LLC.
Midlothian Business Park will be marketed to companies desiring to build manufacturing and/or distribution facilities ranging from 25,000 to 150,000 square feet.
“Having a park designed for smaller users will give us an additional option to offer companies that are seeking a developed site in the Metroplex," said Barnett.
"The city of Midlothian is extremely proud of the corporate citizens who have chosen to be a part of the Midlothian's robust economy and we are optimistic that many more will choose our city with the development of Midlothian Business Park," said City Manager Don Hastings.
About Colliers International
Colliers International is a global leader in commercial real estate services, with over 15,800 professionals operating out of more than 485 offices in 63 countries. A subsidiary of FirstService Corporation, Colliers International delivers a full range of services to real estate users, owners and investors worldwide, including global corporate solutions, brokerage, property and asset management, hotel investment sales and consulting, valuation, consulting and appraisal services, mortgage banking and insightful research. The latest annual survey by the Lipsey Company ranked Colliers International as the second-most recognized commercial real estate firm in the world.
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Category: Joe Tex
Joe Tex – The Best of Joe Tex, Vol. 1
ARTIST: Joe Tex
TITLE: The Very Best of Joe Tex, Vol. 1
YEAR RELEASED: Compilation
SINGLES: Top 10: Hold What You’ve Got (#5, #1 R&B), You Got What It Takes (#51, #10 R&B), I Want To (Do Everything For You) (#23, #1 R&B), A Sweet Woman Like You (#29, #1 R&B), The Love You Save (May Be Your Own) (#56, #2 R&B), SYSLJFM (The Letter Song) (#39, #9 R&B), I Believe I’m Gonna Make It (#67, #8 R&B), Skinny Legs and All (#10, #2 R&B)
OTHER SONGS YOU MAY KNOW: Show Me (#35, #24 R&B), One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (#65, #20 R&B)
LINEUP: Joe Tex and the great Muscle Shoals studio band at Fame Records.
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT: Great collection of underrated soul singer from 1964-68.
SOME WORDS, PHRASES AND CLAUSES ABOUT THIS RECORD: Joe Tex had recorded 30 or so singles with only one song even sniffing the charts (at #102), but his record company embarked on a distribution deal with Atlantic Records, and Tex went down to Muscle Shoals to record some tracks. The result was “Hold What You’ve Got”, which set the Tex formula for the first few singles – impassioned singing, impassion spoken word pleading, excellent backups.
Tex, who also was a songwriter as well as singer, changed his approach after a while and made some more contemporary soul tracks that became huge hits, with hot backing tracks, horns and his impassioned, pleading vocals.
As you can see above, Tex made a lot of appearances on the charts. There’s a second volume of hits covering the last part of his career, and when that comes up these two albums together will present a great portrait of an underrated artist.
NOTES & MINUTIAE: Tex was involved in a feud with James Brown which started in the 50’s and escalated through the 60’s.
IS THERE A DELUXE VERSION: No
GRADE: A-: While the pleading, singing style does seem out of date, his talent definitely is not and should be remembered.
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Understanding Gun Violence
Understanding Social Loss: Why We Need Ethnographies of Gun Violence
In his “Understanding Gun Violence” series contribution, Jooyoung Lee poses the question: “What might gun violence research look like if we centered our analysis on victims?” In addressing the matter, he focuses on ethnographic approaches and the concept of “social loss” that extends beyond individual victims to a whole range of effects on families and neighborhoods. Drawing on his own extensive research in Philadelphia, Lee engages with victims as they move from the hospital to their homes and communities. In one instance, the connection between pain management due to gun violence and the opioid crisis becomes clear.
by Jooyoung Lee February 5, 2019
I once attended a talk where an audience member asked panelists, “How much does gun violence cost us?” Panelists offered different responses, each highlighting the broad economic burden of shootings. One person talked about the public tax dollars that fund emergency and inpatient care for uninsured gunshot victims. Another panelist noted that shootings often knock a person out of the labor market indefinitely, thus diminishing tax revenues that would have come from their labor. A third person mentioned that the estimated annual costs of firearm injuries exceed the annual budget for the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security combined.
I learned a lot from this panel, but left wondering: What might gun violence research look like if we centered our analysis on victims? What would this growing field look like if we broadened our notion of loss? What if we also focused on the social losses felt by victims, their families, and entire communities after a shooting?
“By spending time with victims, ethnographers gain access to domains of suffering that are often neglected in social science work on gun violence.”
Ethnographers are uniquely positioned to answer these questions. Immersive, long-term fieldwork enables researchers to be “there” with victims as they navigate life after fatal and nonfatal shootings. This is a difficult, but precious vantage point. By spending time with victims, ethnographers gain access to domains of suffering that are often neglected in social science work on gun violence. It’s one thing to read statistics about injury, death, and their associated costs, and an entirely different thing to witness suffering up close. Prior theoretical concerns become less urgent when you are spending time with a mother who is mourning the murder of her child, or when you are with a victim who cannot afford to buy new colostomy bags.
Ethnography also shows how firearm related injuries and death reorganize the social worlds of victims, their loved ones, and entire communities. The person who spends time with victims quickly realizes the collective work that goes into rebuilding the lives of the wounded. These insights are not only important from a substantive perspective—they can also change public perceptions of gunshot victims, who are still viewed by many as “guilty victims” undeserving of empathy and care.
Ethnography of social loss
I learned these lessons while studying nonfatal gunshot victims in Philadelphia, a city that some folks call “Killadelphia.” I started this project during the first year of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. On Friday afternoons, I’d set up shop in an empty exam room inside the outpatient trauma clinic at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), which was and continues to be one of the busiest trauma hospitals in the country. I interviewed 40 victims over several months. They were returning to the hospital days, months, and even years later.
Some were alone. Other came with family. Some interviews were long. Others were short. Some interviewees gave detailed accounts about how they got shot. Others were succinct and focused on the emotional toll of being injured. Some were visibly injured. Others seemed healthy until their bodies betrayed them in front of me. I learned a lot from these interviews, which introduced me to the pain, post-traumatic stress, and everyday challenges during life after the shooting.
“ My understanding of ‘social loss’ was enriched by fieldwork outside of the hospital.”
But, my understanding of “social loss” was enriched by fieldwork outside of the hospital. As Colin Jerolmack and Shamus Khan argue, what people say is not always a good indicator for what they do.1Colin Jerolmack and Shamus Khan, “Talk Is Cheap: Ethnography and the Attitudinal Fallacy,” Sociological Methods & Research 43, no. 2 (2014): 178–209. Or, to put it another way, self-reports of behavior are not always a good representation of people’s lives. This is one of the methodological reasons for doing ethnography. By spending a lot of time with people, researchers are able to see people’s behaviors, interactions, and sense-making across time and in different social contexts. These observations pierce through the veneer of first impressions and selected narratives. They help researchers see a more complex, humanistic portrait of people trying to meet the demands of everyday life. This is especially valuable in gun violence research because victims—who are disproportionately young Black men in the United States—are not always forthcoming about the ongoing challenges, fears, and uncertainties they face when they get out of the hospital.
I saw this in my interactions with a guy I call “Ervin,” a 27-year-old Jamaican American man who I met in my second week at the hospital. Ervin was 26 when he got shot, which put him in the most at-risk demographic group for getting shot. In the United States, young Black men like Ervin are 16 times more likely to get shot and injured than their white counterparts.2A yearly average was developed using five years of most recent available data: 2013 to 2017. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Nonfatal Injury Reports, National Centers for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This disparity extends across the life course. In fact, homicide (most of which are committed with firearms) is a leading cause of death for young Black men in the United States. It is not a leading cause of death for any other demographic group.
We met on a quiet Friday afternoon in the clinic. He was eager to show me his legs, which still had retained hollow-point bullets in them. In addition to persistent and excruciating pain, Ervin complained about intermittent swelling in his legs. He also told me that he was depressed. The transition into life after the shooting was hard, as it robbed him of an active life that he had loved. But, throughout it all, Ervin was stoic and smiling. He told me that he was managing his pain and debility.
Yet I got a different picture the following week when I visited him at his mom’s house. Ervin was struggling a lot more than he was letting on. He had trouble getting into and out of bed. He rarely sat down because doing so would cause his legs to swell up. And, even when he didn’t have pain, Ervin was scared to leave his house. To make matters worse, the nerve damage in his legs was much more disruptive than what he had described. Every so often, he’d seize up and wince in pain as the retained bullets scraped against nerve endings. This would send bolts of “electricity” down his legs into his toes. This was painful and it made Ervin lose confidence in his body. Like so many others in the hospital, Ervin had gone from being young and able-bodied to being disabled overnight.
However, the suffering spread beyond Ervin. His partner, her two kids, and his mom were sad, frightened, and stressed about what had happened. Like Ervin, they also lived in fear, suddenly more aware of how quickly their lives could change or end. They also shrank away from the world to stay out of harm’s way. As I dug deeper, I saw how the trauma of Ervin’s shooting spilled over into their lives and the lives of others as well.
Discovering new links in a world of suffering
Ervin was one of nine people that I followed around when I left the hospital. This fieldwork confirmed some of the stories that I had heard there. It deepened my understanding of suffering. And in other moments, it introduced me to ideas that I hadn’t considered and wouldn’t have known without doing fieldwork.
“Over the next year or so, I followed Paul around Philadelphia as he became increasingly addicted to Percocet and other prescription opioids.”
For example, my time with “Paul” introduced me to a sprawling illicit economy for chronic pain management. One day, I showed up to the homeless shelter where he was staying. After meeting some of his friends, Paul complained that he was having pain and asked for a lift to buy Percocet off the books. I drove him to a stoop where he bought Percocet from a street-corner dealer. Over the next year or so, I followed Paul around Philadelphia as he became increasingly addicted to Percocet and other prescription opioids. All the while, he took greater risks to find pain relief, eventually running out into traffic and pretending to get hit by a car so he could get physical rehabilitation.3Jooyoung Lee, “The Pill Hustle: Risky Pain Management for a Gunshot Victim,” Social Science & Medicine 99 (December 2013): 162–8.
My time with Paul informed the rest of my interviews and fieldwork. I began to ask other victims if they were self-medicating with opioids and other prescription drugs. As it turned out, Paul wasn’t the only one. Others were self-medicating with Vicodin and other painkillers, while some were using Xanax to treat their anxiety and depression. This single interaction (and many others over the next couple years) revealed an entire world that I had not anticipated at the outset of this study. It forced me to revisit what I thought I was explaining. With each turn, I broadened my thinking about how victims cope with their injuries and lingering trauma.
A small but growing field of ethnographic studies on gun violence has inspired my thinking. In different ways, these ethnographies highlight the payoffs of “being there” and show how extended fieldwork opens rich insights into the social losses associated with shootings. John Rich interviewed wounded young Black men inside a Boston hospital and then followed up with these victims over time. He learns about the “invisible scars” that they carry long after they have been released from clinical care and documents how they alter their lives in the aftermath.4 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008More Info → Laurence Ralph spends time with the Crippled Footprint Collective, a group of wheelchair bound young men who share their stories of pain and trauma with at-risk high school students. Not only are these performances meaningful to youth in attendance, they are also meaningful to young men who construct a new sense of self from their role as mentors.5 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014More Info → Waverly Duck draws from extensive fieldwork in a community to show how local understandings of shootings contradict police and criminal justice views of “gang-related” violence.6 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015More Info → Others, like Forrest Stuart, Joseph Richardson Jr., Desmond Patton, Tanya Sharpe, and Cid Martinez, are also working on projects that describe how gun violence transforms individuals, families, and communities. We can learn a lot from these studies, which examine social losses accrued by victims in the aftermath of shootings.
This isn’t an easy road. Fieldwork takes a long time. There is a lot of confusion and uncertainty during fieldwork. Each new interaction potentially leads a person down new roads, forcing them to consider new ideas. And when all is said and done, it can be a challenge to figure out how a mountain of ethnographic data fits together into a coherent whole.
But, when done well, the ethnographer uncovers aspects of social life that are invisible to researchers using other methods. Not only is this research valuable from a substantive perspective, it can also help change the public conversation about communities whose lives are framed by institutions that are not “there” with them on the ground. By getting close to people, and documenting their lives, ethnographers have a unique perspective that can reshape taken-for-granted images of stigmatized populations.
In some social science circles, there is a tendency to look down upon research that contains an “applied” component. Moving forward, I don’t see this is as a tenable position for social scientists, particularly as governments and the mass public question the relevance and importance of academic research. Our work should aim to reach public audiences and reduce suffering in the world. Part of this project rests on our ability to explode stereotypical images of people whose lives are represented in narrow and ultimately harmful ways. This is a worthy direction for future gun violence research.
Banner photo credit: TC Davis/Flickr
Colin Jerolmack and Shamus Khan, “Talk Is Cheap: Ethnography and the Attitudinal Fallacy,” Sociological Methods & Research 43, no. 2 (2014): 178–209.
A yearly average was developed using five years of most recent available data: 2013 to 2017. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) Nonfatal Injury Reports, National Centers for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jooyoung Lee, “The Pill Hustle: Risky Pain Management for a Gunshot Victim,” Social Science & Medicine 99 (December 2013): 162–8.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008More Info →
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014More Info →
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Jooyoung Lee
Jooyoung Lee is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. He is also a faculty member in the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs, an international scholar in the University of Pennsylvania Injury Science Center, and a Senior Fellow in the Yale University Urban Ethnography Project. His first book, Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central (University of Chicago Press, 2016) won the 2018 Charles Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is currently finishing a new book, Ricochet: Surviving Gun Violence in Killadelphia, which is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. In addition to academic writing, Lee has also published articles in the New York Times, VICE, Maclean's, Toronto Star, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is also a recipient of the Oswald Hall Award for teaching excellence at the University of Toronto. When he is not doing research, he teaches and trains Brazilian jiujitsu.
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3 Lies About Members of Congress You Are Fooled Into Believing
by David Yee in Electoral Reform Sep 18, 2015
From PT Barnum traveling the country dazzling audiences with “genuine fakes,” to the modern day Internet, Americans love a good lie.
They excite us and at times elicit outrage. Often, though, in the modern age, they show how little we really know about a subject.
But even at that, we still love them — and share them wildly.
Three particular lies circulate the Internet, ones that have become part of the collective wisdom of political arguments.
Lie #1: Congress Gets Lifetime Full Pensions
While the president has received a full pension for life since the days of Harry Truman, who complained that he spent $50,000 of his own money each year responding to mail from citizens, Congress does not have that same perk.
Members of Congress have been required to pay Social Security since 1984, and they participate in the federal government’s FERS pension program like all other federal employees.
Two-term House members are not eligible for any pension, while a one-term senator is eligible for a small pension at age 62.
Lie #2: Congressional Pay can be Stopped or Altered on a Whim
Any number of memes circulate the Internet when it comes to changing the congressional pay package due to minimum wage or sequestration.
The simple reality is… The Constitution doesn’t allow it.
Originally intended to be a part of the Bill of Rights, the 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992. It requires any pay changes to congressional salaries to be delayed until after the next House election.
The logic behind it was simple: the Founders sponsoring the amendment didn’t want Congress to have the power to keep raising their salaries without a check in place — the ballot box.
Historically, congressional pay is actually “lower” as a ratio than in 1790.
One of the first duties of the first Congress was to set congressional wages. Before that, the individual states were responsible for paying their respective representatives.
Historically, congressional pay is actually 'lower' as a ratio than in 1790.
David Yee, IVN Independent Author
After some wrangling, the pay was set at $6 per day of Congress being in session. Congress met about 165 days on average, making the pay about $990 per year.
In context, a private in the army made roughly $48 per year during this period. Effectively, congressional members were making about 20 times the pay of a private.
Currently, privates in the Army make about $18,000 per year, which means that the current Congress makes about 10 times the pay.
While this still places them in the top 5% of wage earners, at least it hasn’t surpassed the original ratios!
What we really need to consider, though, is that most members of Congress don’t even need a salary at all, with over 51% of congressional members having a net worth of over $1 million (compared to 6% in the general population).
Politicians crave power. If we really want to get their attention, limitations to their power is the only real answer.
Lie #3: Changing Congressional Eligibility is As Simple As a New Law
Warren Buffet actually did say what was in this popular meme, but primarily as a joke, and realizing full-well that it would take more than a law to change congressional eligibility.
Getting three-fourths of the states to agree on the color of an orange would be impossible.
@yee_ivn
Article 1 of the Constitution contains the qualifications for being a member of Congress. Just like the 22nd Amendment was needed to limit presidential terms, any move to change eligibility for office would require a constitutional amendment.
It has been 44 years since the last constitutional amendment was passed from start to finish.
It is a pie-in-the-sky delusion for anyone to buy-in to any of the numerous schemes that require a constitutional amendment to be passed from such a bitterly entrenched partisan Congress.
And everyone should be leery of the potential of a so-called “run-away convention” if one was called by the states. Even at that, one look at the electoral map should indicate that getting three-fourths of the states to agree on the color of an orange would be impossible.
We need to change our focus from schemes that are impossible to ones that actually might work, which means change by small, yet deliberate efforts that move toward a common goal.
Debunking Political Arguments
In today’s world, we are bombarded with information from all kinds of sources. Sometimes we go out looking for it — to feed our own beliefs and outrage — but sometimes we just see them in our daily lives.
Deciding whether or not the information we see is true is critical for an honest political process. We should not be making decisions based on half-truths and lies that others create.
Thankfully, the Internet is an equally great source of real information. Each of these three lies can be debunked in less than 30 seconds, from sites that are totally credible.
Whether or not we want to know the truth is the real issue, but that is something totally separate. Because sometimes we cling to lies just because it feeds what we already “know” is true.
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David Yee
Currently studying the research aspects of business science as a doctoral student in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (GCU)--after completing a Master's in Business Administration, a Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management (FHSU), and a Bachelor's in Business/Economics (FHSU/UMKC). Curriculum Vitae available through website link. Currently working through the dissertation process, topic: Job Crafting among Commission Sales Personnel.
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Mike Vale
Be it for a never-ending string of his chart-topping productions and remixes, Beatport endorsements (feat. in Hottest Tech-House Artists and Ones To Watch), Mike Vale has firmly established himself across the underground house music scene.
Mike’s passion for music began at a very young age while combing through his dad’s extensive record collection. After years of spinning at local clubs and countless hours of refining his craft in the studio, his breakthrough came in 2011 with his original production “Pretty Woman”. Released on Tomcraft’s Great Stuff, it reached the top of the Beatport charts and was supported by the biggest names in the industry like Carl Cox, Marco Carola and Pete Tong. Right after that Mike further strengthen his name as an in-demand remixer, reworking Pleasurekraft’s “Anubis” among other projects.
The next big step in Mike’s career came in 2012, when he remixed Prok & Fitch’s “Symphony” for Stealth Records, which hit #1 on Beatport’s House chart and stayed there for two weeks. To build on that momentum the label further released Mike’s original production “Don't Give A Damn” (ft. Stella Mercury), which peaked at #2 on Beatport House Charts. Intrigued with young Slovenian’s sound the label’s boss Roger Sanchez started booking him for his parties in Miami and Ibiza, while Mike became his regular support at gigs in his home region. After one of the gigs in Ibiza in the summer of 2014 Roger invited Mike to his studio. It took them quite a while to finish their first venture and this year they’ve finally released “That Sound” as S-Man & Mike Vale on Toolroom Trax. Stirring a lot of action they've already lined up the next release “Do It Well” featuring serial UK chart-topper Kelli-Leigh (“I got U”, “I Wanna Feel”, “Love Too Deep”) on vocals. This track will also feature a video and is expected to heat global dance floors deep into 2017.
But this was just one of Mike’s many project he was successfully developing in recent (of) years. He co-produced a string of releases with fellow countryman Umek, including major club hits such as “All I Want”, “How’s Your Body” and “Hard Times” ft. Chris The Voice, rework of Chris Lake’s “Helium” and a remix of Mason’s “Exceeder” for Armada which struck #1 on overall Beatport Chart.
After this intense period Mike build his new studio, which gave him a new drive for recent string of releases on labels such as Toolroom (“Common Ground”), Glasgow Underground (“Dark Rooms” and remix of Golden Boy’s “Freed” - supported by BBC Radio 1) and Undr the Radr (“Def Jam EP” with Alex Ranerro).
Equally proficient both in the studio and behind the decks Mike’s touring schedule has taken him across the globe to the U.S., Canada, the UK, Holland, India, all over Asia and of course his home turf in Eastern Europe. “For me, there’s nothing quite like the experience of playing in front of different crowds, and taking them on a journey throughout my sets. When I DJ, it’s all about the groove,” he explains. Event highlights have included Space, Ibiza for Carl Cox’s Revolution party, major festivals like Ultra Europe and Mystic Garden, his residencies at Cirkus Ljubljana, Slovenia (winter) and Byblos Poreč, Croatia (summer) and regular guest performances at the cradle of regional electronic music culture, Ambasada Gavioli. (This autumn) (don’t miss Mike Vale’s new tour) in (the) USA and his first mini tour for Argentinian fans.
選択されたディスコグラフィ Mike Vale
Be it for a never-ending string of his chart-topping productions and remixes, Beatport endorsements (featured in “Hottest Tech-House Artists” and “Ones To Watch”), DJ-sets from all around the globe or his warm personality, Mike Vale does indeed stand out from the myriad of generic sounding peers and has quickly established himself across some of the most sort after labels in the game. His music is also supported by some of the biggest tastemakers in the business, including Jamie Jones, Hot Since 82, Marco Carola, Roger Sanchez as well as featuring regularly on BBC Radio 1.
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Tag: Empire State Of Mind
An American Odyssey in Song: New York – Boroughs, Bridges and “Feelin’ Groovy”
Welcome to this occasional series where I am attempting a virtual journey around the 50 States of America in song. For anyone new to this place, I have a continuous route map where I enter and leave each state only once. Suggestions for the next leg always welcome!
It’s quite some time since I continued on my American Odyssey in Song and that would be because I developed a severe case of Odyssey block! After struggling somewhat to identify any songs at all for the New England states, once I hit New York there were just too many. I have started this post on numerous occasions but always gave up half way through. This time however I’m going to buckle down and get on with it.
No time for lengthy paragraphs about the state itself this time though as loads of songs to get through. Suffice to say it must be one of the most diverse states in the whole of the US as not only does it have Long Island, whose “Hamptons” are where rich New Yorkers go to spend their summers, but it also has the wilderness areas to the north where hunting and fishing are the pastimes of choice. The state borders Canada and two of the Great Lakes but at the foot of the triangle there is one of the most iconic and culturally rich cities in the world, New York.
Time to get this party started then and it’s not going to be pretty – Via “a stream of consciousness” is how I’m going to tackle this one. Everyone will have different songs that they associate with New York but these are the ones that have come to mind over the last few weeks. Ready, steady, go….
There can’t be many people who are not familiar with the sights of New York City but just in case, here’s a whistle stop tour courtesy of MGM and those three sailors who had a whirlwind 24-hour leave back in 1949. Ok, ok guys, we’ve got it – “The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, the people ride in a hole in the ground”.
You can’t have failed to notice that Mr Francis Albert Sinatra plays one of the sailors in that clip and I’m sure it’s expected that his version of the song New York, New York will feature here, but that would just be too obvious, so unusually for me I’ll enter the 21st century and share Empire State of Mind by Mr Shawn Corey Carter (otherwise known as Jay-Z).
Jay-Z, Rapper and Businessman
Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys:
https://jukeboxtimemachine.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/05-empire-state-of-mind-feat-alicia-keys.mp3
Lord knows I’m not usually a fan of rap but I was truly blown away by this “song” (if that’s what it’s called) when it came out in 2009. Some fantastic lines in there referencing Sinatra’s New York, New York but also Afrika Bambaataa, the Bronx DJ who became known as the Godfather of hip-hop. The rap part on it’s own I probably wouldn’t have warmed to that much (although I don’t know), but with the inclusion of Alicia Keys vocals it became something really special. The pair are both from NYC and the song’s main writer, Angela Hunte, grew up in the same building as Jay-Z – 560 State Street, Brooklyn, an address mentioned in the song.
Something that comes across loud and clear from the lyrics of Empire State of Mind is that NYC is not just the island Manhattan as I had often thought as youngster. Oh no, NYC is made up of five boroughs – Brooklyn and Queens on the western end of Long Island, Staten Island which nestles up against New Jersey and The Bronx, north of Manhattan. Manhattan itself only becomes an island because of that tiny sliver of water linking up the East River with the Hudson.
New York City, despite being made up of these five boroughs is very much centred on Manhattan, so how is it all linked up? Why by ferries and bridges of course. I am reminded of the scene in Saturday Night Fever where John Travolta’s character tries to impress his potential love interest with his knowledge of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, that double-decked suspension bridge that connects Staten Island and Brooklyn.
Another iconic bridge is the one that featured in the opening sequence to one of my favourite TV shows from the early ’80s – Taxi starring Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch. Whenever I hear this theme song I am right back in my student room, my little white portable telly perched precariously on the edge of my desk, just in the right place for the aerial (coat hanger?) to pick up a signal. It would have been mid-week and I was probably having a break from all those laborious hours spent writing everything out in longhand (no computers in those days). A flatmate might have popped in for a coffee whilst we watched the show. Sometimes those memories are the best, ones where nothing in particular was happening, just normal everyday life but hearing that theme reminds me of the scene. A beautiful piece of music called Angela by Bob James.
Angela (Theme from Taxi) by Bob James:
https://jukeboxtimemachine.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/12-angela-theme-from-_taxi_.mp3
Of course I had to do some research after rewatching that clip to find out which bridge it actually was that came up every week in the titles – Joy, oh joy, it was none other than the Queensboro Bridge – So what I hear you ask? The alternative name for that bridge is The 59th Street Bridge and considering this whole series was inspired by the Paul Simon song America, it is fitting that his song about the bridge be included in this post.
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) by Simon and Garfunkel:
https://jukeboxtimemachine.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/08-the-59th-street-bridge-song-_fee.mp3
Paul Simon said that he’d spent most of 1965 in England but after coming back to the US, and having success with The Sound of Silence, life became really hectic for a while and he found it difficult to adjust. One day, going home to Queens over the 59th Street Bridge, he kind of started to snap out of it as the day had been a really good one, a “groovy one” – Once home he started to write the song subtitled Feelin’ Groovy that went on to appear on the 1966 album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” recorded with musical partner Art Garfunkel.
But enough about bridges, in the New York of 1977 the phenomenon that was disco had started to really make its mark. Manhattan had Studio 54 where Liza, Michael, Mick and Bianca were regulars but across the Brooklyn Bridge (oops, more bridges), they had a local disco called 2001 Odyssey and every Saturday night, aforementioned John Travolta (playing the character Tony Manero), temporarily left his monotonous life behind and became “king of the dance floor”. Watching him now, the dancing doesn’t look quite as impressive as it did when we first experienced Saturday Night “Fever” and the parodies have been ruthless, but I still have fond memories of going to see that movie when it first came out in the UK in 1978. As someone who has been known to “do a John” over the years and clear the dancefloor, it can be an exhilarating feeling (and not showy-off at all of course!).
You Should Be Dancing by the Bee Gees:
https://jukeboxtimemachine.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/23-you-should-be-dancing-1.mp3
The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack album, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time. How Deep Is Your Love is the song that appears in the closing scenes of the movie as we watch a desolate Tony ride the New York subway late at night. It is one of my all-time favourite love songs (which is probably why it became the choice for my Valentine’s Day post).
So far we’ve checked out the geography of New York and talked about the bridges and the nightlife. What about the people? I read an article recently about the flamboyant octogenarian fashionistas, who cut a dash on 5th Avenue – Way to go ladies!
Of course New York has long been known for its flamboyant characters and Sting sang about one of them, eccentric gay icon Quentin Crisp, in his 1988 song Englishman In New York. Another “character” committed to song was when Rod Stewart wrote and recorded The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) in 1976. This story song tells the tale of a young gay man who became successful and popular amongst Manhattan’s upper class – He was “the toast of the Great White Way”, which is the nickname given to the Theatre District of Midtown Manhattan. Georgie attends the opening night of a Broadway musical, but leaves “before the final curtain call” and heads across town. He is attacked near East 53rd Street by a gang of thieves and one inadvertently kills him. The song was apparently based on a true story about a friend of Rod’s old band The Faces.
I have waited a fair amount of time to feature Rod Stewart in this blog as it seems to be universally accepted that by the late ’70s he had sold out and his albums just weren’t up to the calibre of his earlier ones but hey, I was a mere 16-year-old schoolgirl at this time and was a big fan. This song especially, combining the melancholy and sombre Part II with the more popular Part I has long been a favourite of mine.
The Killing Of Georgie (Part I and II) by Rod Stewart:
https://jukeboxtimemachine.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/13-the-killing-of-georgie-1.mp3
We’ve spent an awful lot of time in New York City so far in this post but what about the rest of the state? Back in the early sixties before kids started heading off to Europe on holiday they used to go with their parents to resorts such as Kellermans in the Catskill Mountains. This is where “Baby” Houseman spent the summer of 1963, and fell for dashing dance instructor Johnny Castle. Dirty Dancing was a low-budget film that had no major stars but became a massive box office hit and was the first film to sell more than a million copies on home video. It has some great dance scenes and the soundtrack is full of classic songs from that early ’60s era such as Be My Baby, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Love Is Strange and this one, Stay by Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs.
Kellermans in the Catskills, the setting for Dirty Dancing
Stay by Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs:
https://jukeboxtimemachine.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/1-03-stay.mp3
There are some great scenes in the movie where the landscape of the Catskills is kind of the star. I must admit to having become a bit of a fan of this movie in my later years although didn’t really take much heed of it when it first came out – I think it’s down to the nostalgia element, the music choices and the sadness that comes from the realisation that my days of dalliances with a young Johnny Castle are well behind me. Whatever, I’ve ended up writing about songs from it three times now (Be My Baby, Doomed Romances and Summer’s End) and they take the prize for being my least viewed posts – Sacre bleu!
Another song that makes me think of Upstate New York is Woodstock, written by Joni Mitchell but made famous in 1970 by Matthews Southern Comfort. The irony of course is that Joni Mitchell hadn’t even made it to the infamous festival which took place on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm, but wrote about it after having watched it from her hotel room in New York. The lyrics tell the story of a spiritual journey and make prominent use of sacred imagery, comparing the festival site with the Garden of Eden. The saga commences with the narrator’s encounter of a fellow traveller, a “child of God”, and concludes at their ultimate destination where “we were half a million strong”.
Iain Matthews of Matthews Southern Comfort was actually from Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire but he had previously been with the band Fairport Convention who were at the time heavily influenced by American folk rock.
Well I don’t know about you but I’m exhausted – This post has been a long time coming and I’m sorry it’s so wordy, but I for one am now just pleased that it’s “in the can” so that the journey can continue. Next time we’ll be passing through the Lincoln Tunnel into New Jersey so as ever, suggestions for that state are more than welcome. Unlike with the New England states I have a feeling that it’s now going to get a whole lot easier.
A final clip before I go however – One of my favourite movies used to be Manhattan directed by Woody Allen (it now sadly troubles me). I was given the soundtrack album by the boyfriend of the day after going to see it, as I was just so bowled over by George Gershwin’s compositions. They were all performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and somehow I now always think of Rhapsody In Blue when I see the New York skyline.
Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin:
https://jukeboxtimemachine.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/2-20-rhapsody-in-blue.mp3
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) Lyrics
(Song by Paul Simon)
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy
Ba da da da da da da, feelin’ groovy
Hello, lamppost, what’cha knowin’?
I’ve come to watch your flowers growin’
Ain’t’cha got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in doo-doo, feelin’ groovy
I got no deeds to do
No promises to keep
I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me
Life, I love you
All is groovy
Author AlysonPosted on August 24, 2017 May 20, 2019 Categories 1940s songs, 1960s songs, 1970s songs, 1980s songs, 2000s songs, An American Odyssey In Song, Days of Disco, Music from the Movies, Musicals, Rap, Rod Stewart, Simon & Garfunkel, Songs from Dirty Dancing, Television showsTags Angela, Bob James, Dirty Dancing, Empire State Of Mind, Englishman In New York, EnglishmanIn New York, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, Jay-Z, Joni Mitchell, Matthews Southern Comfort, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, New York, Rhapsody In Blue, Rod Stewart, Saturday Night Fever, Sting, Taxi, The 59th Bridge Street Song (Feelin' Groovy), The Bee Gees, The Killing Of Georgie (Part I and II), Woodstock, You Should Be Dancing28 Comments on An American Odyssey in Song: New York – Boroughs, Bridges and “Feelin’ Groovy”
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Tag: Katie Melua
Katie Melua, Mike Batt and “Nine Million Bicycles”
Last time I wrote about the great punk-rock beauty Debbie Harry. Roll forward to the mid noughties and another rare beauty came along in the form of Katie Melua. Although born in Georgia (the former Soviet Republic one) she had moved to Northern Ireland with her family as a child, before heading across to London to attend the BRIT school in her late teens. She has been one of its most successful attendees along with the late Amy Winehouse and of course Adele.
Unlike Debbie Harry however, Katie did not give us punk attitude, instead she gave us…… Really annoying lyrics! I have written before about songs that I had hitherto quite enjoyed because I had never really listened to the lyrics properly (Rupert Holmes’ Pina Colada song – grrr) but it didn’t take long at all for some of Katie’s songs to really grate.
Exhibit A – Nine Million Bicycles which charted in September 2005. I know I am probably being pedantic here but every time I heard her sing about “the fact”, “the thing we just couldn’t deny” (those nine million bicycles traversing the streets of Beijing), I kind of had to say to myself – Really? Could it not possibly be nine and a half million, or perhaps a bit less than nine million now that car ownership has risen? But no, Katie was emphatic in her song that nine million was the exact number.
Nine Million Bicycles by Katie Melua:
https://jukeboxtimemachine.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/02-nine-million-bicycles.mp3
Of course we then get on to the next verse and now she tells us that “we are twelve billion light years from the edge” but that “it was a guess and no-one could ever say if that was true”. As it turns out they could, and no, it wasn’t true. Cosmologist Simon Singh took to writing an article for the Guardian pointing out that scientists had pretty much worked out after much research and careful measurement that the universe was actually 13.7 billion years old. A playful spat ensued with Katie re-recording the song with this new information contained within – Needless to say it wasn’t a howling success and both parties had a bit of a laugh about it and agreed that a modicum of poetic license was needed for the song to work, but just shows how hot under the collar we can get when faced with incorrect facts.
I put it all down to the “fact” that the song was written by Mike Batt who despite massive success in many different strands of the music industry will, for me, always be “Head Womble”. There can be no-one of my age who will not have occasionally dipped into an episode of The Wombles on television after coming home from school in the afternoon. They were way ahead of their time with all their recycling, now part of our modern day lives, but back in the 1970s a bit of a novelty and a cue for entertainment.
When Mike Batt got the job of writing the theme song for the animated show, rather than accept a flat fee he chose to acquire the character rights for The Wombles and formed a pop group, releasing a string of top-selling singles and albums between 1973 and 1975. Must have been very hot work “Wombling Free” around BBC Television Centre but quite liberating, as the costumes could be worn by whoever was available on the day. It turns out this was often members of Steeleye Span or the guitarist Chris Spedding (he of Motor Bikin’ fame) whom Mike worked with frequently.
So when Mike discovered Katie in the mid noughties, I think he was so thrown by her amazing beauty that his old Wombling song-writing skills momentarily left him and he put together odd lyrics juxtaposing “facts about love” with erroneous “scientific facts”.
Just one more bone of contention however about a line from the song before I move on – Katie sang about how she would “never tire of the love she would be given every night”. Written by a man indeed as I don’t know of any of my female friends, however happy with their other halves, who would not tire of being given love every night! Sometimes a mug of cocoa and a good book is all that is required – Just sayin’…..
Nine Million Bicycles Lyrics
(Song by Mike Batt)
There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That’s a fact,
It’s a thing we can’t deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die.
We are twelve billion light years from the edge,
That’s a guess,
No-one can ever say it’s true
But I know that I will always be with you.
I’m warmed by the fire of your love everyday
So don’t call me a liar,
Just believe everything that I say
There are six billion people in the world
and it makes me feel quite small
But you’re the one I love the most of all
We’re high on the wire
With the world in our sight
And I’ll never tire,
Of the love that you give me every night
Postscipt:
And in case anyone can’t remember how much fun it was to be a Womble in 1974, here is a clip from Top Of The Pops to remind you (just try to avert your eyes from Noel Edmonds’ revealing shirt and medallion during the introduction). All members present and correct I think – Orinoco, Madame Cholet, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Wellington and Tobermory. Didn’t even have to look it up, such is the power of a childhood memory.
Author AlysonPosted on July 5, 2016 February 22, 2018 Categories 1970s songs, 2000s songs, Television shows, The SongwritersTags Katie Melua, Mike Batt, Nine Million Bicycles, The Wombles1 Comment on Katie Melua, Mike Batt and “Nine Million Bicycles”
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Tag: Scooper
The Double Deckers, Aswad and “Don’t Turn Around”
Last time I wrote about the film Summer Holiday but of course there was another Double Decker London bus that is etched on the memory of most people my age – The one used by that eclectic bunch of youngsters called, not surprisingly, “The Double Deckers”. The kids television sitcom, Here Come the Double Deckers, ran for 17 episodes between 1970-71 and was must watch telly for pre-teens of my generation.
It all makes sense now in that it appears to have been made jointly by American 20th Century Fox and a British independent film company, obviously to appeal to both markets. It had a very different look to it at the time from most of our home-grown shows made by the BBC, Granada or Thames Television. Most of the child actors in it were however British and they included gang leader Scooper (sorry but even in those days I’m sure the writers should have been able to come up with a cooler name than that), Spring, Billie, Brains, Doughnut (you can imagine the furore nowadays over that one), Sticks (the token American) and little Tiger. All stereotypes were covered but of course in reality it is highly unlikely that such a bunch would have ended up hanging out together at all, as right through life we do tend to gravitate towards people most like ourselves but no matter, you didn’t really think about things like that at age 10, you just really enjoyed the show.
Something that has surprised me, it turns out that Scooper and Spring (whom I will write about more in a minute) were both aged around 17/18 when this was aired so like Ant and Dec, who got too old to hang around the youth club at Byker Grove, this pair were well past the age of playing in an old disused junk yard in 1971 – Wouldn’t have done for the little ‘uns to see Scooper and Spring head off for a “swift half” however in the midst of building a gun that shoots chocolate candy so all good, wholesome, family fun.
Anyway back to our two heroes, the ones who obviously got a taste for life in the entertainment industry at a young age and kept going. Peter Firth, who played Scooper, has gone on to have a lengthy career in film, theatre and television and is currently masquerading as “Head Spook” Sir Harry Pearce in the long-running BBC drama set in the offices of MI5.
Looking back at the young Peter, he is a good-looking lad with a fine head of hair but I remember as a student watching him play the time-traveller Dominick Hide and although only in his 20s he definitely had thinning hair and a receding hairline – Nothing wrong with that at all but probably led him down a different path from that of becoming leading man material, and one which has served him well.
So now we come to Spring, the lovely Brinsley Forde who quite soon after his days as a Double Decker formed the reggae band Aswad. I don’t remember there being many home-grown reggae bands in the UK in the late ’70s and early ’80s but Aswad, although they never appeared on mainstream shows like Top Of The Pops, seemed to continually tour the Student Union circuit so were pretty well known for a long time before making the leap to chart success, reaching No. 1 in 1988 with Don’t Turn Around. Hadn’t realised that this break-up song had been recorded by so many people before Aswad gave it the full-blown reggae treatment, but it certainly worked well for them. Also hadn’t realised it was a Diane Warren composition, that lady lyricist, who along with Bernie Taupin could walk down a street unrecognised but must be one of the highest paid individuals, ever, in the music industry.
So, “What’s It All About?” – Being a child star seems to have mixed blessings as many haven’t had a smooth ride to adulthood at all. It seems however that once you find your particular niche, best to just keep your head down and work hard at it. Like Diane Warren, better to have a fairly anonymous life and enjoy what you do than experience the stress, strain and fleeting success of teen idolatry. Looking forward to seeing much more from Peter Firth and Brinsley Forde MBE in the future but for those of us who watched kids telly in the early ’70s, they will always be, Double Deckers!
Don’t Turn Around Lyrics
(Song by Albert Hammond/Diane Warren)
If you wanna leave, baby
I won’t beg you to stay
And if you wanna go, darlin’
Maybe it’s better that way
I’m gonna be strong, I’m gonna be fine
Don’t worry about this heart of mine
Walk out the door, see if I care?
Go on and go now but
Don’t turn around
‘Cause you’re gonna see my heart breakin’
I don’t want you seein’ me cryin’
Just walk away
It’s tearin’ me apart that you’re leavin’
I’m lettin’ you go and I won’t let you know
Baby, I won’t let you know
I won’t miss your arms around me
Holdin’ me tight
And if you ever think about me
Just know that I’m gonna be alright
I know I’ll survive it, I’ll make it through
And I’ll learn to live without you but
I wish, I could scream out loud
That I love you
I wish, I could say to you
Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go
I don’t want you seein’ me crying
I’m lettin’ you go
Author AlysonPosted on July 16, 2016 March 19, 2018 Categories 1980s songs, Break-up songs, Television showsTags Aswad, Brinsley Forde, Diane Warren, Don't Turn Around, Here Come The Double Deckers, Peter Firth, Scooper, The Double Deckers3 Comments on The Double Deckers, Aswad and “Don’t Turn Around”
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J.C. Peters
The Dog and its Day
Want to Own a Gun? Join the Militia!
There is no point in trying to convince a junkie that drugs are bad. Even if he agreed, he’d still want to keep using.
And he probably won’t agree. He’ll say that drugs are only bad if you don’t know what you’re doing. That he has it under control, that there are other things that are much worse for your health. He might even say that if everyone just mellowed out a bit more the world would be a much better place, i.e., we need more drugs, not less.
So it is with gun owners.
The basic pro and con arguments about gun control
Guns now kill more people in the U.S. than car crashes.
Guns don’t kill people, people do.
Of course gun possession is tied to gun violence. Look at Europe, where there are far fewer gun owners and also far fewer deadly shootings.
Thank God we’re not Europe. Bunch of socialists over there.
Ok, look at Australia then. They decided to curb firearm possession after a mass shooting in 1996, restricting the sale and ownership of guns while offering gun owners money in return for their guns. As a result, gun related violence in Australia significantly decreased.
Wouldn’t work here, we have over 300 million guns. Also, thank God we’re not Australia.
A 20-year-old fatally shoots 20 kids and 6 staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut.
If only those staff members had had guns. We should arm all school teachers.
Other shootings at schools, churches, movie theaters, malls.
Listen, the only thing stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. If anything, we need more guns, not less.
And then there is of course the Second Amendment, constitutionally protecting the right to bear arms.
You damn right there is.
Second Amendment origins
Invoking the Second Amendment is the easiest argument gun rights proponents can make. Even a six-year-old can be taught to counter any argument in favor of gun control with those fourteen hallowed words: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
Of course that is just the half of it. The complete Second Amendment reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
Now, gun rights proponents rarely quote those first thirteen hallowed words of the Second Amendment and most of them probably don’t give a hoot about the necessity of a well regulated militia, but the Framers did, or else they wouldn’t have put it in, back in 1789.
Having won their independence from the British Empire less than a decade earlier, ‘freedom’ to the Framers first and foremost meant freedom from tyranny. A well regulated militia composed of the people — not a standing army commanded by the central government — was seen as essential, and for it to be effective the people had to have a right to keep and bear arms, one that could not be taken away by the government.
The original draft of the Second Amendment, written by James Madison, at once makes clear this specific purpose of the right to keep and bear arms. It read: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person”.
The purpose of the right to keep and bear arms was for the people to be able to render military service to ensure a free country, a duty of which only the religiously scrupulous were to be exempted. The House of Representatives agreed with Madison and even added an extra phrase to make sure it was understood that everybody was to be part of the militia.
The version approved by the House on August 24, 1789, read: “A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the People, being the best security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person.“ (emphasis added).
Both the religious exemption and the ‘body of the People’ phrase were struck from the final version approved by the Senate and Congress a few weeks later, but the connection between the right to keep and bear arms and being part of a well regulated militia remained as fundamental as it had been in Madison’s first draft. To the Framers at least, the last fourteen words of the Amendment were not the most important part, the first thirteen were. The right to keep and bear arms is an individual right, yes, but only insofar as it is necessary to perform one’s duties as a member of the militia. In other words: those who want to exercise their right to keep and bear arms must also be part of a well regulated militia.
The well regulated militia
And who should regulate the militia? That power the Framers gave to Congress. As Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 of the Constitution says: “The Congress shall have power to…..provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.”
The Framers thus dealt with the conundrum of how to ultimately protect the free state against tyranny while at the same time making the federal government much stronger — as the new Constitution certainly did, compared to the ineffective Articles of Confederation — by using the same method of checks and balances they applied throughout the system of government. Citizens would have a constitutional, individual right to keep and bear arms so they could perform their duties in the militia, Congress would have the constitutional right to regulate the militia and the individual states would have the constitutional right to appoint officers and train the militia.
Now, over the years (decades, centuries), the Framers’ original idea of having a people’s militia at the ready to guard against the perennial threat of tyranny has taken a backseat to their idea of protecting the people’s right to own and carry weapons so the government cannot render that militia a paper tiger. These days, all that gun rights proponents talk about is their right to protect themselves and their loved ones, but while that is certainly important, it is not what the Second Amendment seeks to protect.
The Supreme Court could restore the Framers’ original intention of the Second Amendment by ruling that the individual right to keep and bear arms is inextricably linked to being a member of a well regulated militia. It could then list some minimum criteria the militia needs to fulfill to be considered ‘well regulated' — such as limiting membership to those over 21, being of sound mind and without a criminal record, etc. — before leaving the intricacies to Congress, as per Article V of the Constitution.
Restoring the original idea of a well regulated militia — an organized military force outside of the regular army — would move the discussion about gun regulation away from the current no man’s land, scarred by decades-old muddied trenches, toward a battlefield more open to practicable solutions. After all, most people would agree that an organized fighting force needs some regulation as to who can join, what weapons are used, what kind of training is offered and what the command structure is.
Gun owners today are in many cases untrained, undisciplined and unorganized. Their right to keep and bear arms might protect them, it does not protect the nation, as the Framers intended. It is time to restore the original intention of the Second Amendment.
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Demi Lovato’s New Album Will Tell Her ‘Side of the Story’ Following Near-Fatal Overdose
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Demi Lovato opened up about what fans can expect from her new album, revealing she's going to tell her "side of the story" following her overdose last year. On Tuesday (June 25), the "Sober" singer took to her Instagram Stories to share details about her next record and why she doesn't care if people don't like what she has to say.
"You know what’s great about making an album?" Lovato wrote. "You get to say anything you want, be as open and honest as possible and tell your side of the story regardless of who might not like it."
The 25-year-old's album update comes just one week after she teased new music on Instagram by posting a selfie from a recording studio and captioning it, “Making magic.”
This isn't the first time Lovato has seemingly addressed her relapse since her near-fatal overdose in July 2018. In December 2018, she called out the media for twisting the story—and just like now, she made reference to telling her side, prompting fans to wonder what really happened the night of her overdose.
"If I feel like the world needs to know something, I will tell them MYSELF,” she tweeted. “Otherwise people stop writing about my recovery because it’s no one’s business but mine."
"Someday I’ll tell the world what exactly happened, why it happened and what my life is like today," she wrote. "But until I’m ready to share that with people please stop prying and making up s--t that you know nothing about."
"I still need space and time to heal," Lovato added.
It seems like that time is finally here and her comeback is closer than ever. Not only is the pop star currently recording music, but she recently hired Scooter Braun as her new manager.
Source: Demi Lovato’s New Album Will Tell Her ‘Side of the Story’ Following Near-Fatal Overdose
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Korean Law Regarding Sexual Groping: An Overview
By Juwon Kang, July 25, 2015
I. Understanding the Key Terms
In Korea, you may have heard of the term “indecent act” (추행). It basically refers to the crime of “(sexual) groping” or “inappropriate sexual touching.” I personally prefer the broader term “inappropriate sexual touching” because not only is there “groping,” but there is also “forcible grinding” and “forcible kissing.” Unlike groping, the latter two do not entail so much using one’s hand to achieve gratification.
Meanwhile, the term “indecent act” is actually a much broader term than (even) “inappropriate sexual touching.” An “indecent act” does not require physical contact! For example, forcing another person (e.g., by making threats with a knife) to watch one masturbate in an enclosed area (e.g., inside an elevator) constitutes an “indecent act.” An “indecent act” is a very broad term referring to any act objectively capable of producing feelings of sexual humiliation or revulsion that infringes upon the right to sexual self-determination of another person. Technically speaking, physical contact is not a requirement.
Nevertheless, an overwhelming majority of “indecent acts” are essentially groping or inappropriate sexual touching. When you hear about an “indecent act” in the news, it’s (almost) safe to assume they are referring to groping or inappropriate sexual touching. This is why I am not averse to using the three terms synonymously.
But, another reason why I prefer the term “inappropriate sexual touching” (over groping) is because those three words (i.e., touching, sexual, & inappropriate) encapsulate what a defendant must argue in order to exonerate him/herself. In essence, a defendant must argue:
1) “I did not even touch!” or
2) “I touched, but it wasn’t sexual!” or
3) “I touched and it was sexual, but there was consent!”
Any one of these arguments, when successful, is enough to find a defendant not guilty (i.e., a full defense).
DID YOU KNOW? In the “masturbation example” above, one key/operative word is “enclosed.” Had the man (just) publicly masturbated in an open area, the crime would have been either “Public Obscenity” (공연음란) or “Obscene Exposure” (과다노출). The fact that it took place in an enclosed area implies that the victim could not flee, and therefore her right to sexual self-determination was infringed.
DID YOU KNOW? Before Korea’s laws on rape became gender-neutral in 2013, a woman raping a man would constitute the crime of “Indecent Act (by Compulsion).” Male-on-male rapes as well. By definition, a man could not fall victim to the crime of rape. This has all changed now.
II. Types of “Indecent Acts” in Korean Law
The term “indecent act” is a term I (and other people) use generally. No crime is actually named just “indecent act.” The official names are much longer. Longer because they usually specify the manner in which an “indecent act” is perpetrated. The following are the official names of all “indecent act” crimes and their corresponding (criminal) punishments. Prison sentences are in red, and criminal fines in orange.
1. “Indecent Act at Crowded Public Place” : max 1 year or max 3 mil won
2. “Indecent Act through Abuse of Occupational Authority, etc.” (Victim is under one’s protection or supervision by reason of business, employment or other relationship) : max 2 years or max 5 mil won
3. “Indecent Act through Abuse of Occupational Authority, etc.” (Victim is held in one’s custody after being detained in accordance with the law) : max 3 years or max 15 mil won
4. “Indecent Act by Compulsion” / “Quasi Indecent Act by Compulsion” (Victim is 19 or older) : max 10 years or max 15 mil won
5. “Indecent Act by Compulsion” / “Quasi Indecent Act by Compulsion” / “Indecent Act by Authority or Fraudulent Means” (Victim is ages 13-18) : min 2 years of fixed term or 10-30 mil won
6. “Indecent Act by Compulsion” / “Quasi Indecent Act by Compulsion” / “Indecent Act by Authority or Fraudulent Means” (Victim is 12 or younger) : min 5 years of fixed term or 30-50 mil won
7. “Indecent Act by Compulsion” / “Quasi Indecent Act by Compulsion” (Victim is a disabled person) : min 3 years of fixed term or 20-50 mil won
8. “Indecent Act by Authority or Fraudulent Means” (Victim is a disabled person) : min 1 year of fixed term or 10-30 mil won
9. “Indecent Act by Compulsion” / “Quasi Indecent Act by Compulsion” (Victim is a family member or relative) : min 5 years of fixed term
Most of the translations above, I went by the KLRI (Korea Legislation Research Institute) translation. I usually go by their translation mainly because coming up with my own could potentially create confusion to the English reader. One could mistakenly think that KLRI and I are referring to two different/separate things, when actually we’re not. Indeed, one problem with KLRI translations is that a Korean legal term is sometimes translated into different/separate English terms for no reason. I suspect this is because the translations are done by several different people with no one person to coordinate everything.
FYI, I have translated “위력” as “Authority.” “Quasi” is a translation of “준” which refers to instances where the victim is already incapacitated (e.g., drunk, asleep…), and the perpetrator takes advantage of that. “Compulsion” is a translation of “강제” which refers to situations where violence or intimidation is used as a means to perpetrate the actual crime (i.e., two-step process: intimidation/violence –> indecent act). Oh and, “fixed term” basically means it cannot be life imprisonment.
One thing I wanna say about “Indecent Act by Compulsion” (강제추행) is that even though the crime specifies intimidation or violence as a necessary means, these means are not really necessary. This is because the Supreme Court of Korea has interpreted that the preliminary act of intimation/violence and the actual indecent act can take place simultaneously! When a victim is taken by surprise, the “indecent act” itself also constitutes “violence.” I think the original drafters failed to see that (unlike rape) groping usually takes place suddenly and instantaneously (i.e., not a two-step process).
One must keep in mind: On top of the above-mentioned punishments, a person found guilty will also be registered as a “sex offender” and probably be ordered to attend many hours of “sex offender treatment program.” His/her personal info can be disclosed on the internet. In egregious/habitual cases, a person found guilty might also be ordered to wear a GPS ankle bracelet or even undergo chemical castration!
A foreigner who is convicted of an “indecent act” crime will likely be denied re-entry to South Korea. An innocent person should never admit to guilt even when his/her employer is willing to pay the criminal fine.
Earlier this month, a British female exchange student here in Korea accused a subway station employee of molesting her. She originally called the police saying she had been kidnapped by other foreigner students. The police came to her rescue and took her to the nearest subway station. Not long after, she again called the police (this time) saying an employee there forcibly kissed her, touched her… The employee vehemently denies the accusation saying he found her crying in the station, so he only tried to help. There was no CCTV there, but the employee claims a cleaning lady was there to verify. The case is under investigation, and the parties are said to undergo a polygraph.
DID YOU KNOW? A “criminal complaint” is not a requirement for prosecuting/punishing someone for any “indecent act” crime. So for instance, if an undercover cop catches someone red-handed in the subway, the police can prosecute that perpetrator regardless of whether the victim’s wishes to seek punishment. This also means the perpetrator will still be punished even if some sort of (monetary) settlement is later reached between the perpetrator and the victim. When a settlement is reached, the perpetrator usually ends up with a lighter punishment. But, punishment itself cannot be avoided. Same with all rape crimes.
III. Recent Court Cases Worthy of Note
1. The Seoul High Court recently found a man not guilty of inappropriate sexual touching (and other charges). He had originally been charged with the crimes after he started groping a co-worker’s girlfriend who was spending the night at this home (in one of his rooms). The man slowly started groping her thinking she was asleep. In fact, it was established in court she was not asleep; she was just pretending to be asleep. The man was found not guilty because: a) She was not asleep, so the crime cannot be “Quasi …” + b) The groping started slowly and gradually (e.g., first checking to see if she was asleep) which means she had ample time/opportunity to say no (which she didn’t) + she was not taken by surprise. This case is in the Supreme Court now. (Link)
2. The Seoul High Court found a man in his 30s guilty of inappropriate sexual touching. He had been charged with the crime after he touched/caressed the back of the hand + cheek of an 8-year-old girl. This happened in the playground of an apartment complex. The man was sentenced to 3 years in prison (4 years probation). What was key in this case was that the victim stated that the touching was “not really pleasant to her.” The man was, however, able to avoid wearing a GPS ankle bracelet because he had no priors. (Link)
3. The Ulsan District Court found a man in his 50s guilty of sexual inappropriate touching. He had been charged with the crime after he touched a 10-year-old girl’s buttocks three times. This crime also happened within the premises of an apartment complex. The man was fined 40 million won, ordered to attend 120 hours of “sex offender treatment program,” and his personal info is to be disclosed for 2 years. The man committed this crime while he was on probation for a similar crime. But, reports imply he was able to avoid a prison sentence because a settlement was apparently reached with the victim’s family. (Link)
4. The Daegu District Court found a man in his 60s not guilty of inappropriate sexual touching. He had been charged with the crime after he touched/slapped a (young) woman’s thigh, while on the subway. He touched her thigh once while telling/ordering her to uncross her legs. It seems he was trying to scold her that her dress was too short/revealing. The court here ultimately felt there was no intent to grope the woman. (Originally, the lower court had found him guilty and fined 1.5 million won.) FYI, the man’s defense here would have been the “I touched, but it wasn’t sexual!” defense I talked about earlier. (Link)
5. The Daegu District Court found a man in his 40s not guilty of inappropriate sexual touching. He had been charged with the crime after he suddenly put his hands inside the armpits of a female coworker (a teacher) during a get-together dinner (at a restaurant). He did so while saying “Let’s go for a 2nd round (of drinks)!” The man was found not guilty mainly: a) Because whether he intended to “grope” was still unclear + b) Because of conflicting witness accounts (of other coworkers, the restaurant owner). Originally, the lower court had found the man guilty mainly because the female co-worker expressed disapproval right away + he publicly apologized to her. (Link)
6. The Daegu High Court affirmed a lower court decision which had found a 22-year-old man not guilty of inappropriate sexual touching at a club. He was indicted solely based on the female victim’s description that the perpetrator was wearing a pink shirt and had short hair. The courts all felt this was not enough to convict the man especially considering that: the club was dark and crowded + the club had special blue lighting + the victim was drunk herself and only glimpsed the perpetrator from the side/rear. (Link)
7. The Ulsan District Court found a 46-year-old man guilty of inappropriate sexual touching after he slapped a female coworker on the buttocks on two separate occasions. He was fined 4 million won and ordered to attend 40 hours of “sex offender treatment program.” (Link)
8. The Supreme Court of Korea reversed and remanded an appellate court decision which had found a male physical therapist guilty of inappropriate sexual touching. He had been fined 3 million won for touching (w/o consent) a female patient’s breasts. The Court exonerated the man because the female victim could have easily extricated herself + did not (at the time) clearly express any disapproval + filed a criminal complaint after two days. Also, the man clearly and consistently denied the claims from the very beginning. All in all, the victim’s claim alone was not enough to convict the man. (Link)
9. Earlier this month, the Daejeon District Court found a high school teacher guilty of inappropriate sexual touching. He had been charged with the crime after he habitually molested 23 of his students from 2013 to 2014. The court sentenced him to 18 months in prison (no probation). This means he will actually serve time in jail. He was also ordered to attend 40 hours of “sex offender treatment program.” (Link)
10. The Seoul Northern District Court found a man in his 40s guilty of inappropriate sexual touching. He had been charged with the crime after he habitually molested the two young daughters of his cohabitating girlfriend. He was sentenced to 2 and half years in prison (no probation). This means he will actually serve time in jail. He was also ordered to attend 80 hours of “sex offender treatment program.” But, the prosecution’s request for a GPS ankle bracelet was denied by the court. The court denied it saying: he had no priors, he no longer lives with the victims, and the assessment report for possibility of recidivism did not come out as high. FYI, GPS ankle bracelets and chemical castration require the request from prosecution. The court cannot just order. (Link)
IV. Afterword
If you are a defendant and you know yourself to be innocent, do not at any point admit to any guilt. Be consistent in your denials from beginning to end. Point out any inconsistencies in the accuser’s statements. Even if you lose a case, by all means appeal. Don’t give up.
If you are a victim, clearly express disapproval right away and report the crime ASAP. Do not wait a few days to report. Demand an apology. Also, do not exchange any friendly text messages with the perpetrator. Be consistent and specific in your allegations from beginning to end.
At any rate, it’s generally not a good idea to go ahead and touch someone (you don’t know).
Drivers vs. Cyclists: Driver’s Liability under Korean Law
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Eric Carr - Icon
For over 40 years the rock group KISS has used iconic imagery to represent the band. Klick Tee Shop pays homage to all these amazing artists who created these works and the legacy of Eric Carr.
Eric Carr - The Fox Belt
Eric Carr adorned a fox belt when he first joined the band as seen in many now famous photos by Lynn Goldsmith. Klick Tee Shop’s design, "The Fox Belt" is a combination of Eric’s belt, comic book hero illustration styles, and the Japanese Chikara symbol (meaning power) which was first used on the Hotter Than Hell Album artwork and later used on Eric’s drum-kit throughout the 80s.
Eric Carr- Smile
"When you met Eric or you were around Eric, you remembered Eric for him, for his personality, you know. And I guess I'll always remember him because of that smile. I mean, the first thing I think of when you bring up his name is that smile” - Bill Aucoin
Devereaux's Gun
The park’s resident evil genius Abner Devereaux doesn’t appreciate the three night concert by KISS and he schemes in his underground laboratory a plan to steal the band’s power with his robots and Talisman powers stealing gun. “I will destroy you! All of you! And you, KISS, will be my instrument!” Those who possess the gun holds the power.
Phantom Wolfmen
NBC aired the film on October 28, 1978. Due to the film's poor acting and semi-comedic script, most fans disliked the film. Despite the film's poor quality, it has attained cult film status. The film's plot revolves around the band, who use their superpowers to battle an evil inventor Abner Devereaux and to save a California amusement park from destruction.
The Talisman is the source of each member's power. To quote from the 1978 Phantom of the Park movie (also known as the Attack of the Phantoms), "Without them we’re just ordinary human beings." Despite the film's poor quality, it has attained cult film status. This t-shirt pays tribute to that.
The Talismen
Phil Shouse, Ryan Spencer Cook and Jeremy Asbrock are the Talismen. Their first performance as "The Talismen" happened Saturday May 11, 2019 at the Indy KISS expo. Joining the group on stage included, Christopher Williams, Lita Ford, John Corabi, Jean Bouvier, Mark Slaughter, and more.
KISS My Merch
KISS My Kollectibles is a podcast and network of Facebook groups that include KISS My Wax and KISS My Vintage. The podcast is co-hosted by Jason Herndon, Andrew Sgambati, and Joe Lalich.
Wicked Lester
The band formed in 1970, under the name Rainbow. Two notable members were bassist Gene Klein (born Chaim Witz) and rhythm guitarist Stanley Eisen.
Demon Skull
Clean, simple, and bold. In 1973 when the band had just begun, the demon wore a skull design costume. Here's my rendition of that design as a salute to hottest band in the world.
Eagle Wings
When the spaceman landed in 1973 he wore an eagle winged t-shirt. This was the spaceman's very first stage costume. Here's my rendition of that design as a salute to hottest band in the world.
Dragon Face
The dragon face boot first made its appearance on the 1976 Destroyer album cover and was redesigned multiple times for various costume renditions. This T-shirt design is based on that '76 costume piece.
Catman Michigan
In some cultures, black cats are considered good luck. They are a sailor's best friend, a symbol of feline greatness. In 1975, Kiss, known for its lavish costumes, face paint, and pyrotechnics, rolled into town to meet the Cadillac Michigan High School football team, which credited its winning season a year earlier to the band's music. Peter Criss wore a jacket that bore a black cat.
Muther's Music Emporium
This vintage middle-finger granny on a rocker design is based on the 1970s Muther’s Music Emporium, Nashville, TN. Ace Frehley with KISS played and wore this tee back in 1974. Here's my rendition of that design as a salute to hottest band in the world.
Love Gun Riser
The band at the pinnacle of its international fame, performed for the first time to tens of thousands of fans at the legendary Budokan Hall in Tokyo in April 1977. Here's my rendition of that drum riser as a salute to hottest band in the world!
Elder Bolt
The ninth studio album released on November 10, 1981. The Elder last album to feature the spaceman until their 1996 reunion. The basic plot of "The Elder" involves the recruitment and training of a young hero (The Boy) by the Council of Elders who belong to the Order of the Rose, a mysterious group dedicated to combating evil. The spaceman's stage costume included a lightning bolt design. Here's my rendition of that costume.
Tom & Jerry are at long last found. Previously the "Alter Cats" were first seen on the Destroyer tour that sat alongside the Catman’s drum kit. They were last seen at the Pulsations Nightclub in Glenn Mills, PA. But the cats are back now on this one of a kind t-shirt for real fans.
Sam The Serpent
The stage prop - Sam The Serpent makes its first appearance on the '76 Destroyer tour and traveled up until the 1979/1980 Dynasty tour. Sam also made a special guest appearance in the made for TV movie The Phantom of the Park.
New York Groove
In 1978, the song, "New York Groove" was released as a single and made it to No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 late that year. This song was written by Russ Ballard and originally released by the English band, "Hello" in 1975. The spaceman's guitar was custom-built and illuminated by Robison-Industries.
Paul Charles Caravello (July 12, 1950 – November 24, 1991) Played with the band from 1980 to 1991. Caravello took up the "Fox" persona. He remained a member until his death from heart cancer on November 24, 1991, at the age of 41. This t-shirt design is based upon the belt worn by Eric when he first joined the band. The belt bares a fox head.
In August 2018 the Gene Simmons band along with Ace Frehley toured Australia and Japan. The incredible touring band included : Ryan Spencer Cook, Philip Shouse, Jeremy Asbrock and Christopher Williams. A Japanese fan deemed the band the "Ikemen" meaning, "handsome" (cool) in Japanese. This design is based upon the tiger white jackets worn by Ace and Peter.
Chikara may refer to: 力, (Chikara), the Japanese word meaning power, capability, or influence. is a compilation album by hard rock band Kiss, released in 1988 The album was released on CD only in Japan in support of Kiss' 1988 Japan tour. It was limited to 100,000 copies and has long been out of print. Early copies included a special sew-on patch of the Chikara symbol.
Bat Pants
The demon in his early edition of his costume during the '74 Hotter Than Hell tour, wore leather rhinestone studded pants with a bat design. Here’s Klick Tee Shop’s version that will make you say, "BA NA NA NA NA NA NA BAT PANTS!”
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The North Texas Food Bank Announces 6th Annual Harvest
Kristi Bare
6th Annual Harvest chairs Marvin and Lisa Singleton
The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) announces Lisa and Marvin Singleton as chairs of the 6thAnnual HARVEST.
The annual fundraiser benefiting the North Texas Food Bank will be held on Friday, September 20, 2019, from 7 – 10 p.m., at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden’s A Tasteful Place gardens and pavilion. Attendees will raise much-needed funds to help provide the 92 million meals that are needed annually to fill the need for food assistance in North Texas – all while enjoying delicious food donated and prepared by some of Dallas’ top chefs and restaurants. DJ Lucy Wrubel will return for another year to entertain and delight the crowd with her signature sounds.
Sponsors at the Silver level and up will enjoy early entry to begin sampling the more than 20 chef stations, in addition to access to a VIP area featuring specialty cocktails, exclusive chef stations and more.
“We are thrilled to have Lisa and Marvin Singleton serving as chairs for the sixth annual Harvest,”said Trisha Cunningham, President and CEO of the North Texas Food Bank. “This event is critical to our efforts to raise awareness and funds in support of our mission to provide healthy food for hungry North Texans – especially children and seniors. To date Harvest has helped us raise more than $1 million, providing more than 3 million meals for our neighbors in need. With Lisa and Marvin at the helm and the enchanting backdrop of the Arboretum, I know we will move the needle even further for those that are counting on us.”
“It’s a staggering statistic that 1 out of every 4 children in our community lives in a food insecure household,” said Lisa Singleton. “While the NTFB meets food assistance needs across many audiences, this vulnerable population is served through three signature NTFB programs that help identify those in need and provide access to the meals necessary to help them succeed and thrive. Together, these three programs – Food 4 Kids, Kids Café and the School Pantry – serve over 550,000 chronically hungry children annually and distribute another 500,000 pounds of food through school pantries. Marvin and I believe no child should go hungry, and it is our goal to raise more than $300,000 through Harvest this year to help NTFB in their mission of closing the hunger gap.”
Harvest sponsorships begin at $500 and individuals tickets are $200 each and are available now, https://www.501auctions.com/ntfb. Or for more information, contact Sarah Elias,214.431.4683 or Sarah.Elias@ntfb.org.
ABOUT THE NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK (NTFB)
The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) is a top-ranked nonprofit hunger-relief organization, serving 13 counties. The Food Bank’s administrative headquarters is located in the Dallas Farmers Market, and its new distribution and volunteer center – the Perot Family Campus – opened in Collin County in September 2018. Each day, NTFB provides access to more than 190,000 meals for hungry children, seniors, and families through a network of more than 1,000 programs and more than 200 Partner Agencies. In fiscal year 2018, NTFB provided access to 72 million nutritious meals. While the NTFB is making steady progress toward closing the hunger gap, much work remains to be done to reach the organization's 10- year goal of providing 92 million nutritious meals annually by 2025. To donate, volunteer or advocate, visit www.ntfb.org
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January 2: Hagelin “real close;” Clague; Campbell; Kings to play in outdoor game?
Jon Rosen January 2, 2019 0 Comments
Practice Quotes
INSIDERS. A good afternoon to you from El Segundo. Several quick notes from Toyota Sports Center, where the Reign practiced at 9:00 a.m. – more on that shortly – followed by a skate including Kyle Clifford, Jonny Brodzinski (IR / shoulder surgery), Carl Hagelin (IR / knee sprain), Alec Martinez (IR / upper-body) and, ultimately Derek Forbort. After the Zamboni cut the ice, a larger group including the aforementioned skaters took part in a practice that gave way to a heavy amount of skill development. Both Jonathan Quick and Jack Campbell took the ice.
Notes!
–Hagelin and Brodzinski were in red no-contact jerseys, while Martinez wasn’t. This wasn’t a practice with any real contact, so don’t pay attention to the color on Martinez’s jersey. He’s still effectively a no-contact guy, and though he’s improving, his return isn’t imminent. Hagelin, meanwhile, isn’t expected to play against Tampa Bay, “but he’s real close,” according to Willie Desjardins.
–I’ll have a story on Kale Clague either tonight or tomorrow morning. Clague, the team’s second round pick from 2017, just finished up a highly encouraging December in which he posted seven points (1-6=7) in 10 games and has demonstrated a real surge in confidence as players have been called up to the Kings and his role has grown. “You know, you always hear ‘confidence,’ and I think unless people have played, it doesn’t really matter what you do – when you’re confident going in you do things,” Sean O’Donnell, Player Development said. “You don’t think too much, you just do it because you’re like, ‘I can do this right now,’ and he’s making plays at the offensive blue line that you really can’t teach. He’s doing shoulder shakes and shimmies and he’s leaving guys behind him and you don’t do that if you’re squeezing your stick or you’re thinking too much, so I just think that he’s been put in situations now where he’s getting on, goalie’s pulled last minute and he’s the defenseman out there, power play, five-on-three, he’s the guy out there, and players feel that and he’s taking it and running with it, and I just think his confidence offensively is real high right now.”
–From Elliotte Friedman’s 31 thoughts (emphasis LAKI):
27. Like the NHL trying different outdoor locations. It is no longer about the TV audience. You go and have a great time. It’s very hard not to have fun on them, you really have to be a Debbie Downer. Regina will be terrific. Dallas is a bit more of a gamble, but I’m intrigued by the league waiting to see who the opponent will be. Las Vegas had strong TV numbers for this year’s classic, making the Golden Knights a surprise contender. But if the league goes to West Point — which would complete the military trifecta — owner Bill Foley’s Army history might mean the Knights go there. Colorado likely gets Los Angeles for its game at Air Force.
The Stadium Series game will be played at Falcon Stadium on Saturday, February 15, 2020. Colorado previously hosted a Stadium Series game on February 27, 2016, falling 5-3 to Detroit. Los Angeles has ties to the area through owner Philip Anschutz; the Kings faced the Avalanche in a preseason game at Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs, where the Air Force Academy is located, prior to the 2014-15 season.
–Wednesday’s practice was highly attended for an “optional” in the midst of a three-in-four. Among those to take the ice was Jack Campbell, who had scant rest during a performance Tuesday in which he stopped 46 of 47 shots. “Yeah, just working on my game,” he said about taking the ice the next morning to get work in. “It was nice to get back out there, but I’ve still got a lot to get better at. So just come out today, a couple guys staying out for extra work, and we just are all trying to get a little better. So, it was good.”
Campbell noted that his early lunging save on Jonathan Marchessault was a welcome-back moment that allowed him to find his game after he had missed 24 straight due to surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his knee.
“To be honest, in the first I was so excited I was a little shaky, which you know, I wasn’t seeing it very well,” he said. “And then kind of made that save on Marchessault back door and then it kind of settled in and then I was tracking it well. So, you know, it’s just one of those things, you come back, I kind of needed one or two plays to be like, ‘alright, I got it.’ And then obviously the guys boxed out and cleared my rebounds out early – that was huge – and then that kind of allowed me to settle in the game.”
–More to come over the upcoming days, but here’s this morning’s World Juniors update, courtesy of LAK-dot-com contributor J. Dylan Burke: LA Kings Prospects Head to Quarterfinal of World Junior Championships
All Kings will be active in the quarter-finals. Today, Johan Sodergran and Sweden are currently underway against Switzerland, while Markus Phillips, Jaret Anderson-Dolan and Canada face Rasmus Kupari and Finland at 3:30, and Mikey Anderson and the United States face the Czech Republic at 5:00 p.m.
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More from Desjardins:
Willie Desjardins, on what he’s liked about Sean Walker’s performance:
I like his mobility. He gets back to pucks quick. He’s been able to join up on the rush. Basically, his puck-moving has been good, and his attitude, too. He comes every day working hard and ready to get better.
Desjardins, on how he uses the film of Tuesday’s game:
No, there’s good and bad. You look at the first period, we were pretty good in the first period. For me, of you can ever be good for a part of a game, there’s no reason you can’t be good for the whole game. We’ve got to look at that and realize that we can play well, and I think fatigue was a factor, for sure. I think in the first period, on our screen we had like 30 breakouts. That’s way, way too high. Your D are going to get tired by the end of the night. They’re not going to be able to get up in the play, they’re not going to be able to do the things you want, and they wore us down. We’ve got to look at them, too. They’re doing things right, and maybe we can adapt some of those things to our game.
Desjardins, on Jack Campbell’s performance Tuesday:
I could tell you it was just average, but [laughs]. It was pretty good. I would hope – I’ve seen Jack before. They’ve done a great job with Jack. Dusty, he did a really good job with him down in the minors, getting him ready for this spot. I’ve been excited to see the difference in him since I first knew him this year, since I first had him five years ago or whatever it would be, and every situation, he’s responded well. When we lost Quickie, he had to be able to carry it when he did. He stepped up and did it. We knew last night would be a tough game. It’s not like we were going in there thinking, ‘well, this is going to be an easy game for us.’ Back-to-bacl against a good team, so it was a game that didn’t set up all in our favor, so we knew we’d need good goaltending – but that was exceptional goaltending. And not just his goaltending, but the way he handled the puck was great, as well.
Desjardins, on any inkling Dusty Imoo would be a coach when he played for him in Japan:
I was kind of surprised as a goaltending coach. To tell you the truth, I didn’t see that in him. It was good I worked with him. He was a great goalie for me. He was a high-end in-a-game player – he was a guy that always got better in games – but I never really saw him being that kind of student of a game where he wanted to keep doing it. But it’s good to see him, and he’s done a great job, and the guys he’s worked with, you see they’re getting better, so it’s a real complement to him.
Desjardins, on Campbell’s growth from when he had him in the American Hockey League:
I don’t think you could put it in as a word, but he was an OK American League goaltending, and now he’s a good NHL goaltender with an upside. Like, he can still get better. Back then, he took over my starting goaltending down in the American League for a real short period of time, and then he got hurt. So, he just showed that he was just on the verge of becoming a starter down there. … It’s really great to see his game develop to this level and just how he’s matured.
Desjardins, on players he had coached that he felt had a good coaching makeup:
You always see lots of guys that you think could be that way. I had Alex Burrows, he’s going to go that way. Fiddler in Dallas, Kevin Bieksa, he was a guy that I could see him being a good coach down the road. There are quite a few guys – Dan Hamhuis – like I said, there’s lots of guys when you go through and you watch him, ‘yeah, this guy could become a pretty good coach.’
Desjardins, on Tampa Bay being an “outstanding team”:
It seems like that’s all we get is outstanding teams. Like, our schedule of late has been such a hard schedule. It’s very possible going into that schedule and not coming away with a lot, and if that happened, it would be so bad, but guys found a way, and I’ve got to give them a ton of credoit. Those were tough games, and they found ways to get points. So this game’s another game where we have to be on top of our game. If we’re going to get points, we have to be on top of our game. That’s our challenge.
Toffoli now credited for an assist after winning the puck prior to Muzzin’s stretch pass; Quick also picks up a helper. pic.twitter.com/twRNV6Arev
— Jon Rosen (@lakingsinsider) January 2, 2019
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Jóhann Jóhannsson: Last and First Men
Film and live score
Sat 1 Dec 2018 8.00pm - 10.00pm
JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON Last and First Men
Daníel Bjarnason conductor
(You will be redirected to the Barbican Centre website)
Tickets: £20 £25 £30 £35
The London Symphony Orchestra performs Jóhann Jóhannsson’s breathtaking multimedia work; a requiem for the last of humankind.
Based on the cult Science Fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men uses music, film and Tilda Swinton’s mournful narration to form a poetic meditation on memory and loss. It sits somewhere between fiction and documentary, placing images of a decaying futuristic landscape – filmed in 16mm black and white in the former Yugoslav republics – against Jóhannsson’s haunting orchestral score.
Having passed away in February, we've made the decision not to replace Jóhann – instead, the performance will go ahead in tribute to him, and recordings that Jóhann made of his own parts will be played live alongside the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daníel Bjarnason.
Produced by the Barbican
Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, the Barbican Centre and Sydney Opera House
Film co-produced by Flanders Festival Kortrijk with the support of Gone West, Province of West Flanders
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Top 10 Greatest Women Freedom Fighters of India
Posted On August 16, 2015 rupsha mukherjee 0
Liberation struggles in different countries often become synonymous with certain heroic male figures, who are immortalized in the pages of history as epitomes of strength and valour. We often hear about the likes of Martin Luther King Jr in the American struggle against racism or Nelson Mandela in South Africa during the anti-Apartheid movement. Creation of heroic figures have been a trend in glorifying a nation’s past in order to inspire and encourage the present. Even though there have been the likes of Rani Laxmi Bai in India and Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, who have fought for national causes, their names do not feature in the primary lists of freedom fighters who showed a beam of light to the rest of the world. Have you heard of Helen Suzman or Sucheta Kriplani or perhaps Tegadalay Habte Abraha ? A number of you may not be aware of these names but their contribution has been immense when it comes to serving their country besides advocating for the rights of women.
In India, the struggle for independence from the British has been marked as the foremost freedom struggle in the country. Many such women freedom fighters had immense contribution towards this struggle and I am going to list some of them down in this article. Besides the freedom struggle against imperial rule, there have been a couple of noteworthy women freedom fighters whom I would like to highlight over here. Judging and ranking the immense contributions of the following bravehearts is not a feasible activity but I would like to acknowledge the ten women freedom fighters and their grit in equal measure even though their positions may vary in this ranking. The ten greatest women freedom fighters of India are as follows:
10. Annie Besant
She was an eminent British socialite and women’s rights activist, who eventually got involved in the Indian freedom struggle. She joined the Indian National Congress and in 1917 was elected as the president of the Indian National Congress. The Home Rule Movement, demanding autonomy and self-rule for the Indian state was initiated under her behest along with Lokmanya Tilak. She even developed close contacts with the Irish home rulers. She had immense interest in theosophical activities. She played an important role in mobilizing demonstrations and protests during the Independence struggle. She was arrested a couple of times. Despite opposition from her native country and even within the Congress, in the later part of her life too she remained quite vocal about India’s right to Independence.
9. Kamala Nehru
She was an eminent freedom fighter, besides being the wife of the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. She actively took part in the Swadeshi movement and arranged for the burning of foreign goods as a mark of protest against the Empire. Spent a large part of her time in Gandhiji’s Ashram, trying to imbibe the ideals of Gandhi-ism. She was a major force behind the Non-cooperation movement in 1921. In fact, during her lifetime and even later on, she was addressed to as JL Nehru’s wife more than anything else. Despite being under the constant shadow of India’s one of the most popular leaders, she carved a niche for herself by encouraging women’s groups to participate in the freedom struggle and also went to jail twice under the British rule.
Kittur Rani Chinammma
She was the queen of a princely state of Kittur in Karnataka who led an armed rebellion in 1824 against the British. She was eventually arrested in the end of the rebellion but even today, she is regarded as one of the bravest women in Karnataka. Chennamma’s legacy and the first victory of war are still commemorated in Kittur from 22nd–24 th October, in the Kittur Utsav. She became a symbol of one of the first resistances against the British in the Independence movement and her statue was unveiled in the Parliament House complex in 2007.
Begum Hazrat Mahal
She was a leading figure of the National Uprising of 1857, which is often referred to as the First War of Independence. She took control of Lucknow during this Uprising and declared her son as the King of Oudh. On 10 May 1984, the Government of India issued a commemorative stamp in honour of Mahal. She has also been named as the ‘Lakshmi Bai’ of Awadh due to her strength and valour, shown during the 1857 mutiny.
Bhikaiji Cama
She was one of the frontrunners in setting up the Indian Home Rule Society. She is known for inspiring and revolutionary speeches, advocating gender equality in both India and abroad. A number of revolutionary literary works were produced by her and she gave a number of fiery speeches of a nationalist hue before enthusiastic audiences. She was a stalwart who took the issues of the subcontinent to foreign and tried to get the world’s attention on the issues plaguing the Indian nation. On 22 August 1907, at the International Socialist Conference in Stuttgart, Germany, Cama raised and unfurled what she called the “First flag of Independence”.
Savitribhai Phule
She is considered as one of the pioneers of women’s education in India during the British rule. Even after being subjected to insults and rebuke, she continued in her endeavour to provide education for the girls and the women of this country in the middle and the later parts of the 19th century. Seen as a major social reformer in British India, she, along with her husband, founded the first women’s school in India at Bhide Wada, Pune in 1848. She fought for women rights and even for those who were considered untouchables in those times.
Sucheta Kriplani (Mazumdar)
She was the first woman Chief Minister in India and served a term between 1963 to 1967 in the state of Uttar Pradesh. She came into the forefront of the freedom struggle during the Quit India movement in 1942. Played a role in allaying communal tensions during the partition riots in 1946-47. She was a part of the subcommittee that drafted the Indian Constitution. She was also the founder of All India Mahilla Congress, which came into existence in 1940. Post independence, she was involved actively in public life and Indian politics.
Sarojini Naidu
She has been one of the more acknowledged faces of the freedom struggle in India in our history books . The ‘Nightingale of India’, was a spirited freedom activist and a poet, who took part in the Civil Disobedience movement of 1930-34. She even went to jail with the likes of MK Gandhi and others of the Indian National Congress in British India. She joined the INC in the wake of the partition of Bengal in 1905. Became the first woman governor of independent India. Her collection of poems are still considered as important Indian writing in English, even though many consider them to be of mediocre literary content. She was given the Kaisir-i-Hind medal by the British government for her work during the plague epidemic in India.
Irom Sharmila (Chanu)
Considered as a modern day Gandhian figure by many, Sharmila has been pursuing a relentless protest against AFSPA( Armed Forces Special Powers Act) in Manipur since November 2000. She has been on a hunger strike since then till the present day even though nasogastric intubation was forced on her time and again. As a mark of protest against the Malom massacre in Manipur, she began her fast against the government of India. Though she continues to divide opinions across the country in terms of her demands and fasting as a legitimate right, Sharmila has been seen as a symbol of resistance as the woman undertaking the “world’s longest hunger strike”.
Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi
She is still regarded as an epitome of strength and courage displayed by a woman. In fact, her bravado is often attributed to the iconic picture of the Rani fighting the British in the battlefield with her son, Damodar Rao tied to her on the horseback. She was the Maratha queen of Jhansi, who resisted the British and even defied the Doctrine of Lapse, according to which the British rulers refused to accept her adopted son Damodar as the legal heir.In the period between 1857-58, she resisted the British from taking control over her kingdom of Jhansi. She is seen as a figure who through that iconic picture is seen to be with maternal instincts yet having a heart of steel to defend her kingdom, qualities that are often considered as binaries.
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The sign on the faҁade of this building, today owned by the City, reminds us that the glottologist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli (1829-1907) lived there.
In 1861, in his early 30’s, he took the role of lecturer at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria of Milan. In that capital of the Lombardy region, he taught, wrote texts on linguistics and published articles in Italian and European magazines. In 1873 he founded the magazine Archivio glottologico italiano that is still published today.
In 1889 he was elected Senator of the Italian Kingdom. He died in 1907 in Milan where a monument still exists to him in the cemetery.
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Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks of being alike lawful in all the States. Welcome, or unwelcome, such decision is probably coming, and will soon be upon us, unless the power of the present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown. We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State. To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty is the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation. This is what we have to do. How can we best do it?
The South would be in no more danger in this respect than it was in the days of Washington. I suppose, however, this does not meet the case. You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.
Slavery is the great political question of the nation. Though all desire its settlement, it still remains the all-pervading question of the day. It has been so especially for the past six years. It is indeed older than the revolution, rising, subsiding, then rising again, till fifty-four, since which time it has been constantly augmenting. Those who occasioned the Lecompton imbroglio now admit that they see no end to it. It had been their cry that the vexed question was just about to be settled, 'the tail of this hideous creature is just going out of sight'. That cry is 'played out', and has ceased.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.
If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a plan of gradual emancipation and go to work energetically and very kindly to get rid of the evil. Now let us test them. Frank Blair tried it; and he ran for Congress in '58, and got beaten. Did the democracy feel bad about it? I reckon not, I guess you all flung up your hats and shouted 'Hurrah for the Democracy!'
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
On the other hand, the free states carry on their government on the principle of the equality of men. We think slavery is morally wrong, and a direct violation of that principle. We all think it wrong. It is clearly proved, I think, by natural theology, apart from revelation. Every man, black, white or yellow, has a mouth to be fed and two hands with which to feed it, and that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature — opposition to it, in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Repeal the Missouri Compromise — repeal all compromises — repeal the Declaration of Independence — repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them.
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Died: April 15, 1865 (aged 56)
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"You shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. "Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends. "The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat.read more. Christian Canvas Art
As a secular, non-sectarian, universal notion of art arose in 19th-century Western Europe, ancient and Medieval Christian art began to be collected for art appreciation rather than worship, while contemporary Christian art was considered marginal. Occasionally, secular artists treated Christian themes (Bouguereau, Manet) — but only rarely was a Christian artist included in the historical canon (such as Rouault or Stanley Spencer). However many modern artists such as Eric Gill, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Jacob Epstein, Elizabeth Frink and Graham Sutherland have produced well-known works of art for churches.[1] Salvador Dali is an artist who had also produced notable and popular artworks with Christian themes.[2] Contemporary artists such as Makoto Fujimura have had significant influence both in sacred and secular arts. Other notable artists include Larry D. Alexander and John August Swanson. Some writers, such as Gregory Wolfe, see this as part of a rebirth of Christian humanism.[3] Christian Canvas Art
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” ... Christian Canvas Art
What does the Bible say about creativity? The very first verse of Scripture actually describes a creative act as "God created the heavens and the earth." Additionally, from Genesis, the Bible says, "God created man in his own image." This could be interpreted as we are creators just as God created us. We create relationships, art, homes, cities, nations and many more things including inventions even yet to be known! The creative spirit is certainly favored by God and our fellow man. Learn more from the collection of Bible verses about creativity below! Christian Gifts
“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.” And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do.” ... Share Your Faith Products
Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— ... Christian Canvas Art
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Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.read more.
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ... Share Your Faith Products
"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days. Share Your Faith Products
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“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. ... Bible Verse Wall Art
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Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. Bible Verse Wall Art
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. Christian Gifts
David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever. And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it. And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites: of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his brothers; ...
For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel and five-sided doorposts. So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. So also he made for the entrance of the nave four-sided doorposts of olive woodread more. Bible Verse Wall Art
and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, Christian Canvas Art
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
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And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” ... Christian Canvas Art
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work. He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same. He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital. ... Bible Verse Wall Art
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ... Bible Verse Wall Art
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"You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth. "As a jeweler engraves a signet, you shall engrave the two stones according to the names of the sons of Israel; you shall set them in filigree settings of gold.read more.
"Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding, the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father.
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Martin Ruef
Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Entrepreneurship
344 Soc Psych Bldg,, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708
martin.ruef@duke.edu
My research considers the social context of entrepreneurship from both a contemporary and historical perspective. I draw on large-scale surveys of entrepreneurs in the United States to explore processes of team formation, innovation, exchange, and boundary maintenance in nascent business startups. My historical analyses address entrepreneurial activity and constraint during periods of profound institutional change. This work has considered a diverse range of sectors, including the organizational transformation of Southern agriculture and industry after the Civil War, African American entrepreneurship under Jim Crow, the transition of the U.S. healthcare system from professional monopoly to managed care, and the character of entrepreneurship during early mercantile and industrial capitalism.
Ph.D., Stanford University 1999
M.A., Stanford University 1994
B.S., Virginia Polytech Institute and State University 1990
Jane Addams Award (for Best Article). American Sociological Association, Section on Community and Urban Sociology. 2017
Viviana Zelizer Award (for Best Book). American Sociological Association, Economic Sociology Section. 2015
Organizations, Occupations and Work Section/W Richard Scott Award. American Sociological Association. 2014
W. Richard Scott Award (for Best Article). American Sociological Association. Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work. 2014
Finalist for George Terry Award (for Outstanding Contribution to Management Knowledge). Academy of Management. 2011
Max Weber Award (for a Scholarly Book Publication). American Sociological Association, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work. 2011
Fellow. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). 2008
John F. Mee Award (for Contribution to Management History). Academy of Management. 2007
Eliot Freidson Award (for Outstanding Book). American Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Section. 2002
Ruef, M. Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Ruef, M. The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Ruef, M., and M. Lounsbury. The Sociology of Entrepreneurship. Vol. 25. New York: Elsevier, 2007.
Aldrich, H., and M. Ruef. Organizations Evolving (2nd Edition). London: Sage, 2006.
Scott, W. R., M. Ruef, P. J. Mendel, and C. A. Caronna. Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Ruef, Martin. “Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory.” American Journal of Sociology. University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Ruef, M. “The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860.” The Historian. Blackwell Publishing Inc., June 1, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1111/hisn.12527. Full Text
Ruef, M. “The Port Royal Experiment: A Case Study in Development.” Journal of Southern History, 2016.
Ruef, M. “Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757.” Contemporary Sociology, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306115609925l. Full Text
Ruef, M. “Human Capital, Inter-Firm Mobility, and Organizational Evolution.” Contemporary Sociology. American Sociological Association, 2009.
Ruef, M. “From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 2008.
Ruef, M. “The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement..” American Journal of Sociology, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1086/502999. Full Text
Ruef, M. “Social Movements and Organization Theory.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 2005.
Ruef, M. “Changing Organizations: Business Networks in the New Political Economy.” Social Forces, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2003.0043. Full Text
Ruef, M. “The Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 2002. https://doi.org/10.2307/3094916. Full Text
Ruef, M., and M. Nag. “The Classification of Organizational Forms: Theory and Application to the Field of Higher Education.” In Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education, edited by M. Kirst and M. Stevens, 84–109. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015.
Ruef, M. “The Human and Financial Capital of the Southern Middle Class, 1850-1900.” In The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by J. D. Wells and J. R. Green, 202–24. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2011.
Ruef, M. “Entrepreneurial Groups.” In Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research, edited by H. Landstrom and F. Lohrke, 205–28. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010.
Ruef, M., B. Bonikowski, and H. Aldrich. “Business Owner Demography, Human Capital, and Social Networks.” In New Firm Creation in the United States, edited by P. D. Reynolds and R. T. Curtin, 95–114. New York: Springer, 2009.
Ruef, M. “Reason and Rationalization: Modes of Argumentation among Health Care Professionals.” In The Cultural Turn: Perspectives on Communicative Practices in Workplaces and Professions., edited by C. Thralls and M. Zachry, 93–111. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press, 2007.
Ruef, M. “Karl Mannheim.” In Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer, 2756–59. London: Blackwell, 2007.
Ruef, M. “Organizational Ecology.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Organizational Behavior, edited by N. Nicholson, P. G. Audia, and M. M. Pillutla, 285–89. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
Aldrich, H., N. Carter, and M. Ruef. “Startup Teams.” In Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Organizational Creation, edited by W. B. Gartner, K. Shaver, N. Carter, and P. Reynolds, 299–310. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.
Ruef, M. “At the Interstices of Organizations: The Expansion of the Management Consulting Profession, 1933-97.” In The Expansion of Management Knowledge: Carriers, Flows, and Sources, edited by K. Sahlin-Andersson and L. Engwall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Ruef, M. “The Household as a Source of Labor for Entrepreneurs: Evidence from New York City during Industrialization.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal forthcoming (2019). https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1309. Full Text
Aldrich, H., and M. Ruef. “Unicorns, Gazelles, and Other Distractions on the Way to Understanding Real Entrepreneurship in America.” Academy of Management Perspectives 32, no. 4 (2018): 458–458. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2017.0123. Full Text
Ruef, M., and Angelina Grigoryeva. “Jim Crow, Ethnic Enclaves, and Status Attainment: Occupational Mobility among U.S. Blacks, 1880-1940.” American Journal of Sociology 124, no. 3 (2018): 814–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/701020. Full Text
Rickne, Annika, M. Ruef, and Karl Wennberg. “The Socially and Spatially Bounded Relationships of Entrepreneurial Activity: Olav Sorenson -- Recipient of the 2018 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.” Small Business Economics 51, no. 3 (2018): 515–25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0075-8. Full Text
Ruef, M. “Ecological and Rational Choice Models of Endogenous Change.” Rationality and Society 29, no. 1 (2017): 55–62. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463116685664. Full Text
Wezel, F., and M. Ruef. “Agents with Principles: The Control of Labor in the Dutch East India Company, 1700-1796.” American Sociological Review 82, no. 5 (2017): 1009–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417718165. Full Text
Kwon, S. -. W., and M. Ruef. “The Imprint of Labor Markets on Entrepreneurial Performance.” Journal of Business Venturing 32, no. 6 (2017): 611–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.08.002. Full Text
Ruef, M., and S. W. Kwon. “Neighborhood Associations and Social Capital.” Social Forces 95, no. 1 (2016): 159–90. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sow053. Full Text
Godfrey, P., J. Hassard, E. O’Connor, M. Rowlinson, and M. Ruef. “What is Organizational History? Towards a Creative Synthesis of History and Organization Studies.” Academy of Management Review 41, no. 4 (2016): 590–608. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2016.0040. Full Text
Grigoryeva, A., and M. Ruef. “The Historical Demography of Racial Segregation.” American Sociological Review 80, no. 4 (2015): 814–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122415589170. Full Text
Ruef, M. “Reply to Critics -- Between Slavery and Capitalism.” In Trajectories, 28:41–44. ASA Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, 2016.
Ruef, M. “Organizational Sociology has a Past ... Does it Have a Future?.” In Work in Progress. ASA Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, 2014.
Ruef, M., and A. Harness. “The Myth of Modern Management: Roman and Antebellum Management Ideology in Comparative Perspective.” In Academy of Management 2007 Annual Meeting: Doing Well by Doing Good, Aom 2007, 2007.
Kim, P., H. E. Aldrich, and M. Ruef. “Fruits of Co-Laboring: Effects of Entrepreneurial Team Stability on the Organizational Founding Process,” 2005.
Aldrich, H. E., N. M. Carter, and M. Ruef. “With Very Little Help From Their Friends: Gender and Relational Composition of Nascent Entrepreneurs' Startup Teams.” In Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 156–69, 2002.
RUEF, M. “The Rise of Managed Health Care: An Inquiry into the Evolution of Discourse, Ideology, and Power,” 1999.
Service to Duke University
Service to the Profession
Chair, Department of Sociology. 2016 - 2019
Director/Associate Director, Markets and Management Studies. 2013 - 2016
Certificate Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. 2014 - 2015
Board Member, American Sociological Review. 2015 - 2018
Board Member, Social Forces. 2014 - 2018
Guest Editor, Academy of Management Review (STF). 2014 - 2016
Associate Editor, Administrative Science Quarterly. 2010 - 2012
Council Member, ASA Economic Sociology Section. 2009 - 2012
Board Member, Administrative Science Quarterly. 2005 - 2009
Board Member, Strategic Organization. 2002 - 2005
Board Member, American Journal of Sociology. 2002 - 2004
Chair, Viviana Zelizer Award Committee. 2017
Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South.
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At 21 James Baxter was travelling across the United States, spending time in studios from Albuquerque to Los Angeles, taking influence from the deserts and wilderness of the Mid West and West Coast.
Returning to the U.K, James brought back big influences from across the Atlantic, and blended them with his British-born idols. With nods to the likes of James Taylor, Ryan Adams, Paul McCartney, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake and Paul Simon, this Southampton songwriter is set to showcase the technicolour melody and incessant lyricism of his album in waiting.
Formed in 2015, The Dead Freights are an indie rock’n’roll band from Southampton, UK. Consisting of frontmen Charlie James and Robert Franklin, bassist Robby Spencer and drummer Louis Duarte.
Dual harmonies, with a redolence of a Lennon/McCartney partnering, strut over crunchy, melodic guitars twinned with a powerfully tight rhythm section. The Dead Freights prowl any stage with a classic, contagious rock’n’roll attitude and a strong arsenal of suggestive, driving anthems.
After playing in and around the UK for three years, the band signed to indie label Mi7 Records in mid-2018. They recorded at Abbey Road studios in late-2018 and released their debut single “Reason & Walls”. They were named “Big In 2019” by This Feeling.
Trampolene have toured continuously over the last 2 years, with stand out supports with The Libertines, Buzzcocks, Peter Doherty, Reverend & The Makers, The Enemy, Pretty Vicious, Catfish & The Bottlemen and Carl Barat & The Jackals.
Trampolene performed at the Isle of Wight Festival (headlining The Jack Rocks/This Feeling Stage), The Great Escape, Tramlines, Y Not, Hope & Glory and Reading Festivals this summer.
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Mayor Dave Announces Funding for Series of New Initiatives
Mayor Dave Hodgson has announced a series of new initiatives including a climate change fund, support for young people, local public realm improvements and further measures to attract people to Bedford town centre. Alongside the new initiatives, continued funding is also set to be allocated for the successful Bedford Jobs Hub.
The initiatives will be delivered over the next four years, and will be funded via a £2.4 million reserve created via a reallocation of existing council reserves which are no longer required. It follows a process a thorough examination of council reserves to ensure they are directed at key priorities.
The reallocation of the funding for the initiatives is set to be approved by Mayor Dave's Executive at its meeting on Wednesday 26th June.
Commenting, Mayor Dave Hodgson said: "Despite ongoing reductions in government funding, we are working to ensure every penny we do have is used for the benefit of local people and communities. The funding being allocated to these initiatives over the next four years demonstrates the strength of our commitment to making a real difference to people's lives. From the town centre to our local neighbourhoods, from our local to our wider environment, and from our young people to those of all ages seeking employment, this funding will have a positive impact on people and places right across Bedford Borough."
The full list of initiatives are as follows:
Town Centre Initiatives
This will help fund initiatives, such as public events and activities, which will attract people to Bedford town centre and encourage additional visitors. It will be additional and complementary to the range of services, goods and attractions offered by the town centre's traders
Climate Change Fund
The re- establishment of a climate change grant fund will seek to repeat the success of Mayor Dave Hodgson's Climate Change Fund previously in reducing carbon emissions in Bedford Borough. The previous fund helped to make not-for-profit organisations and facilities more sustainable, via a wide array of renewable energy and energy conservation measures
Young People Empowerment Fund
The Council will support local initiatives operated by the Third Sector to enable children and young people to develop and expand their skills and experiences. Funding will be used to support initiatives taking place in local communities which can demonstrate a positive impact for children and young people
Street Scene and Local Environment Improvements
Measures supported will protect and enhance open spaces, highways and the public realm in general. It will be designed to help ensure the public realm in local neighbourhoods is maintained to a good standard
Jobs Hub Funding
Funding for the successful Bedford Jobs Hub will be secured within this Reserve for the next four years. The Jobs Hub offers bespoke careers advice and guidance to people of all ages who live in Bedford Borough, helping them to find work, training and business opportunities.
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Researchers map the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia around the world
June 11, 2019 June 11, 2019 pneumoniaLeave a comment
Researchers have mapped the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia around the world and revealed how these bacteria evolve in response to vaccination. Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Emory University (Atlanta, USA), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked with many collaborators around the world to carry out a global genomic survey of Streptococcus pneumoniae, discovering 621 strains across more than fifty countries.
The research is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases today (10th June), and with a sister paper in EBioMedicine, reveals which strains of S. pneumoniae (also known as the pneumococcus) are circulating around the world and explains why pneumococcal pneumonia rates are still high despite the existing vaccines. Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this work will help predict which strains will be important for new pneumococcal vaccines, and shows that ongoing global genomic surveillance is vital.
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people a year globally and is the single largest infectious cause of death of children under 5 years old worldwide. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia. Healthy people often carry these bacteria without becoming ill, but they can cause fatal infection, especially in young children and some adults.
Many countries around the world have introduced the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)** over the last ten years. This vaccine, which targets the coat around each S. pneumoniae bacterium, has greatly reduced the number of childhood infections. However, while PCV is highly effective against up to 13 important coat types, there are over a hundred types known, and despite the vaccine, pneumococcal pneumonia rates remain very high.
To understand and help combat this infection, researchers set up the Global Pneumococcal Sequencing project (GPS) to carry out genomic surveillance of S. pneumoniae worldwide. Working with partners around the world, the researchers sequenced the DNA of over 20,000 S. pneumoniae samples from infected people from 51 countries.
Samples were collected both before and after PCV introduction, and the DNA sequences and health data were compared. This makes it possible to determine changes in the bacteria that could affect how well the vaccine protects against the pneumococcus, and whether new strains are emerging that would impact disease severity and ease of treatment.
The researchers discovered 621 genetic strains globally, each associated with one or more coat types. They also saw that the levels of non-vaccine type bacteria rose after the introduction of PCV, showing how bacteria evolve in response to the vaccine.
Professor Stephen Bentley, senior author on the papers, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said: “Pneumonia is a huge threat to health worldwide. We now have an unprecedented view of the global population of S. pneumoniae bacteria, the usual cause of bacterial pneumonia, and can see evolutionary changes that lead to vaccine evasion. This will give crucial information for future vaccine strategy worldwide, and help save lives.”
Dr Rebecca Gladstone, joint first author on two of the papers, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said: “Our study gives the first genomic description of the S. pneumoniae population of the world. This has never been possible before, as previously only samples from individual populations had been studied. Now we have global data, showing which strains are present in each country, and can use this to understand pneumococcal infection on a world-wide scale.”
The pneumococcus can cause disease in other areas of the body too, for example infecting the brain or blood, causing meningitis or bloodstream infections, which can all lead to sepsis. Infant vaccination with PCV protects against these pneumococcal infections too. By reducing the transmission of S. pneumoniae between children, PCV also reduces the number of adult infections through herd immunity.
Dr Lesley McGee, Co-Principal Investigator on the project from the Streptococcus Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, said: “It is vital to understand the strains of S. pneumoniae present around the world, and how they respond to the introduction of PCV. This genomic study allows us to not only see the current most important global strains but also helps understand their evolution. This information will open the door to developing predictive tools to identify the strains likely to emerge in response to vaccine use.”
Professor Robert Breiman, Director of the Emory Global Health Institute, and Principal Investigator for the project, added: “GPS turns a spotlight onto a new era in which the intersection of genomics and public health enables unparalleled capacity for optimizing prevention strategies, while providing an immensely valuable tool for forecasting and addressing new challenges ahead.”
Professor Keith Klugman, Director of the Pneumonia team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said:
We must continue to immunize children around the world because vaccination is the single best way of reducing the risk of pneumonia, as it prevents children passing S. pneumoniae between them and adults. However, we are fighting a battle against evolution of bacterial strains. This research shows the importance of ongoing global genomic surveillance to understand which strains are likely to cause a threat, to help reformulate the next generation of vaccines.”
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Lo, S and Gladstone, R . et al. (2019) Pneumococcal Lineages Associated with Serotype Replacement and Antibiotic Resistance in Childhood Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in the Post-PCV13 Era: An international whole genome sequencing study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. doi.org/10.1016/ S1473-3099(19)30297-X.
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Food allergy caused by absence of beneficial bacteria in the gut
June 25, 2019 June 25, 2019 allergyLeave a comment
A study by scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, published today in Nature Medicine, makes a strong case that the national epidemic of food allergy is caused by the absence of certain beneficial bacteria in the human gut.
The loss of these bacteria acts as a switch that makes children susceptible to food allergy.”
Talal Chatila, MD, director of the Food Allergy Program at Boston Children’s and a senior author on the paper
But the study, conducted primarily in mice, also points the way toward treatments that may protect children from developing food allergies — and reverse the disease in people who already have it.
We’re hoping this will lead to a treatment for food allergy, not just a preventative approach.”
Co-senior author Rima Rachid, MD, assistant director of the Food Allergy Program in Boston Children’s Division of Immunology
The study, which also tested human gut bacteria, was carried out by Azza Abdel-Gadir, PhD, a former postdoc, and Emmanuel Stephen-Victor, PhD, a current postdoc in Chatila’s lab, both first co-authors on the paper, in collaboration with first co-author Georg Gerber, MD, PhD, and senior co-author Lynn Bry, MD, PhD, both of Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
For reasons that remain a mystery, the number of Americans who suffer from food allergy has risen sharply over the last decade to as many 32 million, according to one recent estimate. Nearly 8 percent of children in the U.S. — about two in every classroom — are affected.
One hypothesis is that certain Western lifestyle factors — an increase in births by Caesarean section, a decline in breastfeeding, increased use of antibiotics and smaller family sizes, for example — is disrupting the normal microbial balance in the gut, depriving babies of the “good” bacteria that prepare the immune system to recognize food as harmless.
Rachid began testing this hypothesis by studying gut bacteria in babies with and without food allergies. Her team collected stool samples from 56 food-allergic patients and 98 matched controls. Gerber and his colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital analyzed those samples for changes in bacterial content. The work revealed that the bacteria in the feces of babies with food allergies were different from those of controls. But did those bacterial differences play a role in their food allergies?
To find out, the team transplanted fecal bacteria from the babies into a special strain of allergy-prone mice. They fed the mice small doses of chicken egg protein to sensitize their immune systems to this allergen, then challenged the mice with a large dose.
The results: Mice that had been given fecal bacteria from food-allergic babies went into the life-threatening reaction called anaphylaxis. “The fecal bacteria from food-allergic subjects did not protect against food allergy, whereas the bacteria from control subjects did,” Chatila says.
To find out which bacteria might be offering that protection, the team turned to Bry at Brigham and Women’s. Bry provided a mix of six bacterial species from the order Clostridiales, which previous studies had suggested might protect against food allergy. When these bacteria were given to the mice, the animals were protected from food allergy to chicken egg protein, whereas mice given other common bacteria were not. “If you give them the right bacteria, the Clostridia, they’re completely resistant to food allergy,” Chatila says.
Bry then provided a second mix of unrelated bacteria from the order Bacteroidales. It too was protective. And finally, when the team treated mice that already had food allergy with the Clostridiales or Bacteroidales mixes, they found those therapies completely suppressed the animals’ allergic reactions.
Chatila believes the study proves that the loss of protective gut bacteria is a critical factor in food allergy. “At the very least it is a fundamental mechanism. And more likely, in my mind, it is the fundamental mechanism on which other things can be layered,” he says.
While previous studies have suggested that certain bacteria can protect against food allergies, Chatila and his colleagues go a step further, describing the specific immunological pathway by which the bacteria act in mice. It begins with a protein, known as MyD88, that serves as a “microbial sensor” in the immune system’s regulatory T cells.
“You need the bacteria to give particular signals that are picked up by nascent regulatory T cells in the gut,” Chatila explains. Those signals trigger a chain reaction that changes the gut regulatory T cells into a specific type, known as ROR-gamma regulatory T cells, that protect against food allergies. As a result of this work, Chatila says, “we now have a fundamental concept of how food allergy happens” — a theory he hopes other scientists will now test.
Chatila and Rachid believe their findings will eventually lead to new treatments that prevent the development of food allergies in newborns at risk. The treatments might take the form of probiotics — mixes of beneficial bacteria — or drugs that prime the immune system in the same way.
And for the millions who already suffer from food allergies, the same treatments may be able to reverse their disease. “Remember,” Chatila says, “in adult mice that had become food-allergic, we could suppress their disease by introducing the good bacteria, which means to us there is the potential to treat somebody with established food allergy and reset their immune system in favor of tolerance.”
Ultimately, Chatila cautions, the promising results in mice will have to be duplicated in humans. But that may happen soon. Rachid is already conducting a first-of-its-kind clinical trial at Boston Children’s to test the safety and efficacy of fecal transplants in adults with peanut allergy. And Chatila notes that several companies are already preparing bacterial mixes for clinical trials. “If the race continues with the same intensity, or accelerates, I think you’ll see a product on the market within five years,” he predicts.
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‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Veep’ take top honors at Emmys
Posted By: Brian BeesleyPosted date: September 19, 2016
The cast and crew from Game of Thrones accept the award for outstanding drama series at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
By LYNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES — “Game of Thrones” conquered the Emmy kingdom Sunday, honored as top drama for the second consecutive year and becoming the most honored prime-time TV series ever on a night of surprises and sharp political jabs.
“Veep” repeated as best comedy series and its star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, won a record-breaking sixth Emmy as best comedy actress. Jeffrey Tambor’s trophy as top comedy actor for “Transparent” also was his second.
But the top drama acting trophies were far from predictable: Rami Malek of “Mr. Robot” and Tatiana Maslany of “Orphan Black” were the winners, both overcoming heavyweight competition.
“Oh, my God. Please tell me you’re seeing this too,” said a stunned Malek, who plays an emotionally troubled engineer caught up in a dangerous hacking conspiracy.
“Games of Thrones,” the fantasy saga based on George R.R. Martin’s novels, received a total of 12 awards Sunday and at last weekend’s technical arts ceremony for a cumulative 38, besting “Frasier” by one to claim most prime-time series awards ever.
The Emmys proved more adroit than the Oscars at recognizing and honoring diversity in Hollywood’s top ranks, with trophies going to minority actors and behind-the-scenes artists including writers Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang of “Master of None.”
But Viola Davis of “How to Get Away with Murder” failed to repeat her 2015 best drama actress win, the first for a woman of color.
Tambor, who plays a transgender character on “Transparent,” called on Hollywood to make him the last non-transgender actor to get such a role.
A shaking Louis-Dreyfus ended her speech by dedicating the trophy to her father, who she said died Friday. Before that, she honed in on GOP contender Donald Trump’s campaign.
“I’d also like to take this opportunity to personally apologize for the current political climate,” she said. “I think that ‘Veep’ has torn down the wall between comedy and politics. Our show started out as a political satire but it now feels more like a sobering documentary.”
She promised to “rebuild that wall and make Mexico pay for it.”
Her victory gave her six best comedy wins — five for “Veep,” one for “The New Adventures of Old Christine” — and broke her tie with Candice Bergen and Mary Tyler Moore.
Maggie Smith was honored as best supporting actress in a drama series for the final season of “Downton Abbey.” It was her third win for playing the formidable dowager. As has become her custom, she didn’t attend the ceremony. After Smith’s win, Kimmel said her Emmy would not be mailed to her but would be kept in the Microsoft Theater’s Lost and Found until she shows up to claim it.
Ben Mendelsohn of “Bloodline” won as best supporting drama actor and also was a no-show.
John Oliver captured the top variety talk series award for “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” besting competitors including Jerry Seinfeld and host Jimmy Kimmel — who received barbed consolation on stage from Matt Damon, his longtime faux nemesis. The loss “makes a lot of sense,” Damon said.
“The People v. O.J. Simpson,” which earned the second-highest number of nominations, converted five to trophies Sunday.
The dramatic retelling of the football star’s murder trial was honored as best limited series and writing, and earned awards for stars Courtney B. Vance, Sterling K. Brown and Sarah Paulson.
Paulson, who played prosecutor Marcia Clark, brought her as a guest and singled her out from the stage.
Clark was not the “the two-dimensional cardboard cutout that I saw on the news” but a “whip-smart” woman dedicated to justice for the case’s victims, Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.
Regina King claimed the award for supporting actress in a limited series for “American Crime,” her second trophy for the program.
Louie Anderson was honored as best supporting actor in a comedy series for his portrayal of a loving but tough mom in “Baskets.”
“Mom, we did it!,” Anderson shouted, hoisting his trophy and dedicating the award to his late mother, Ora Zella Anderson. “I have not always been a good man but I play one hell of a woman.”
“Saturday Night Live” cast member Kate McKinnon won the trophy for best supporting actress in a comedy for, officially, playing various characters. But she knew who to credit.
“Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres, thank you, Hillary Clinton,” she said, naming two of the famous people she’s caricatured on the show.
The Democratic presidential contender responded quickly with a tweet: “Congratulations on your Emmy, Kate! Big fan of yours, too.”
The ceremony started out with a political edge. In a video bit, Jimmy Kimmel was shown trying to get to the ceremony and encountering former GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush as a limo driver.
“Did you know you could make $12 an hour working for Uber?” a game Bush said, smiling. He advised Kimmel that “if you run a positive campaign, the voters will ultimately make the right choice”— then told Kimmel curtly it was a joke.
In his opening monologue, the host said he was holding “Celebrity Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett responsible for the “Donald Trump phenomenon.”
In an attempt at comedy that fell flat, the ceremony announcer indicated that Bill Cosby would be taking the stage. After an awkward silence, Kimmel said it was a joke — the TV star embroiled in decades-old accusations of sexual assault wasn’t invited.
A pair of key changes made by the TV academy may have affected the outcomes in Sunday’s 27 categories. It revised how votes are cast and counted, switching from a ranking and points system to letting voters simply check off their top choice. That sharpened the selection process and might have affected past winners who managed to collect enough second-place votes to overcome the competition.
In another revision, this one implemented last year, voting was expanded from blue-ribbon panels to — depending on the award — giving substantially more or all of the academy’s 20,000-plus members the chance to vote for finalists.
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Parent-to-Parent Volunteers
These are our Parent Volunteers… parents who are sending their kids to integrating schools and who are happy to talk with parents thinking about this decision.
Lisa (Kansas City)
I grew up going to Indianapolis Public Schools and now live in Kansas City, Missouri. I have 3 kids in public schools here, 7th grade, 4th grade, and 1st grade. We are a white family in a majority Hispanic and black K-8 language immersion magnet school. Our school serves a lot of ELL students, but enrolls a lower number of low income families than many of the district’s schools. Looking forward to chatting with you!
Ali (Austin)
My name is Ali Takata. I live in Austin, TX with my husband and two daughters. After three years in our segregated, privileged, neighborhood public school, I started to educate myself about school segregation. As a result, I simply could not continue to uphold our racist education system with my choices and I decided transfer them to another school. Their present elementary school is 82% black and brown, and 89% econ disadvantaged. It’s not a perfect choice, but our decision feels like a tiny step towards dismantling one of our many racist structures.
Molly (New Haven)
Molly Wheeler is a resident of New Haven, CT, where she is a parent of five children, ranging in age from 2 to 19. Originally from New Hampshire, Molly is an archivist at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library but is currently pursuing coursework for a switch to nursing.
Colleen (Los Angeles)
Colleen is a mother of three, and a converted integrationist. Unwittingly Colleen enrolled her kids in an integrating school. Over the few years surrounded by this issue and all the angsty talk about this issue she has become convinced that integration is the key to many of the problems plaguing our nation. She struggles to balance her desire to convert innocent preschool parents at the park to the integration movement with sounding like a zealot, a kook or most likely a sanctimonious jerk. She grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and is one of eight children who all have red hair (some details that probably have a large influence on her identity).
Rebekka (New York)
My name is Rebekka and I am a parent of 3 children, ages 5, 8 and 10, all of whom attend an integrated public school in the Capital Region of New York State. I grew up attending integrated public schools in Rochester, NY and am passionate about equity in education.
Jessica (Houston)
My name is Jessica and I am a parent of 5 children, ages 11,9,7,5 and 3. My children attend global majority Title one schools in Houston, TX. We chose our neighborhood schools, but the majority of our neighborhood does not, and this led me to want to learn more about the history of segregation in our country and it’s ongoing effects today. We love our school and the journey has been one of learning, challenge and growth.
Tonya (Boston)
My name is Tonya. I’m a parent of two children – one of whom is currently a senior in the only public arts high school in Boston public schools. Living through years of budget cuts has demonstrated the ways in which well-meaning white families can both work with and also further marginalize families of color in the district. I look forward to talking with families interested in building multi-racial school communities that focus on lifting up the most marginalized voices.
Ailene (Hoboken)
My eldest daughter attends a global-majority school in Hoboken NJ. Our district and our town have undergone tremendous changes in the last 10-15 years, yet segregation in our elementary schools still persists. Our daughter’s experience as a now first grader has been a rich, yet challenging one. I want families to know that being “the first” or one of the first in a school is a gift and privilege, and to be mindful of the community that they are joining.
Andrew (Denver)
Andrew is a father of a 2nd grader and nearly 5 year old in Denver. His kids attend the same, integrating elementary school he attended.
Erica Hunt (Saint Paul)
Our choice for integrated schools reflects our commitment to being rooted in our culturally diverse neighborhood where we have lived for almost twenty years.
Denise (Santa Fe)
I’m Denise, and am a recent transplant to Santa Fe, NM via Dallas, southern and northern California, and Boulder, Colorado. I have one son who is 6 years old and in the first grade. Like so many, Nikole Hannah-Jones gave me my lightbulb moment around the positive impacts of school integration for all children, yet we found ourselves confronted with this choice when looking for an elementary school for our son and the realization we weren’t going to get a spot in the popular school. Through this journey I came to realize that maybe the popular choice isn’t necessarily the best choice, and that our personal choices have broader societal impact. My passion is to facilitate dialogue and share stories around the realities of public schools, to dispel the rumors, perceptions and fears that perpetuate segregation.
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Charlie Gard Dead After Being Taken OFF Life-Support!
Posted on July 24, 2017 July 31, 2017 by mnsnews15
UPDATE JULY 28th 2017 1:40p.m. EST: 11-month-old Charlie Gard has died Friday, July 28th, 2017 after being removed from life-support by Great Ormond Street Hospital. Charlie’s parents Chris Gard and Connie Yates said in a statement, “Our beautiful little boy has gone, we are so proud of you Charlie.”
Charlie Gard’s parents ended their legal fight over treatment for their 11-month-year-old terminally-ill baby boy Monday, July 24th, 2017. Connie Yates read a statement in court saying “The last 11 nearly 12 months have been the best, the worst and ultimately life-changing months of our lives but Charlie is Charlie and we wouldn’t change him for the world. All our efforts have been for him. This is one of the hardest things that we will ever have to say and we are about to do the hardest thing that we’ll ever have to do which is to let our beautiful little Charlie go. All we wanted to do was take Charlie from one world renowned hospital to another world renowned hospital in the attempt to save his life and to be treated by the world leader in mitochondrial disease. We feel that we should have been trusted as parents to do so but we will always know in our hearts that we did the very best for Charlie and I hope that he is proud of us for fighting his corner. We are struggling to find any comfort or peace with all this, but one thing that does give us the slightest bit of comfort is that we truly believe that Charlie may have been too special for this cruel world.”According to Barrister Grant Armstrong “Damage to Charlie’s muscle and tissue was irreversible,” and that “the parents’ worst fears have been confirmed, it is now too late to treat Charlie”.
According to Barrister Grant Armstrong “Damage to Charlie’s muscle and tissue was irreversible,” and that “the parents’ worst fears have been confirmed, it is now too late to treat Charlie”.
Following their decision in UK High Court, Chris Gard spoke to the public and the media outside the UK High Court saying “We are so sorry that we couldn’t save you.” Mr. Yard also blamed the courts saying that “a whole lot of time has been wasted,” and “Had Charlie been given the treatment sooner, he would have had the potential to be a normal, healthy little boy.” Charlie’s father also had this to say about his son, “We all have to live with the ‘what-ifs’ which will haunt us for the rest of our lives. Our son is an absolute warrior and we could not be prouder of him and we will miss him terribly. His body, heart, and soul may soon be gone but his spirit will live on for eternity and he will make a difference to people’s lives for years to come. We love you so much, we always have and we always will and we are so sorry that we couldn’t save you. Sweet dreams baby, sleep tight our beautiful little boy, we love you.”
This latest development ends a 5-month legal battle over Charlie’s future. The couple had already lost their case in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in London. Charlie’s parents were fighting for the right to take the 11-month-old to the US for a therapy trial for his rare genetic condition, overseen by Dr. Michio Hirano a doctor from New York who came to the UK to see Charle on July 17th and 18th. Great Ormond Street (GOSH) doctors, however, did not change their diagnosis of Charlie saying that the “treatment is experimental and will not help, arguing life support treatment should stop and Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity.” (See Story: American Doctor Fails To Convince UK Doctors To Allow Treatment Of Charle Gard!)
GOSH responded to the Gard’s previous statement regarding the parent’s decision to end the legal process which said in part “the agony, desolation, and bravery” and that the parent’s decision has “GOSH’s utmost respect and humble all who work there”.
Sources: ITV News; Sky News UK
Tagged #charliesarmy, #charliesfight, Charlie Gard, Chris Gard, Connie Yates, Dr. Michio Hirano, European Court of Human Rights, London, UK High Court, UK Supreme Court
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Stay Human [DVD]
Artist: Michael Franti & Spearhead
Featuring music from Michael Franti's tenth studio album, Stay Human Vol. II, available now.
In a quest to hold on to humanity and STAY HUMAN in the craziness of the world we live in today, award-winning musician Michael Franti takes us on a personal journey through his songs and stories of extraordinary humans who inspire him to overcome cynicism with optimism and hope. Michael shares the tales of Robin Lim, a midwife who opened a birthing clinic in the aftermath of a devastating typhoon in the Philippines; Steve & Hope Dezember, a young couple whose love carries them through Steve's battle with ALS; Arief Rabik, an environmental scientist in Bali who perfected a method to make industrial and household products with bamboo in an effort to curb deforestation; and Sive Mazinyo and Busisiwwe Vazi, who help inspire their community of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, through music and education. Michael reflects on his own journey facing adversity as a child, struggling to find his voice as a musician, and how he came to find inspiration through these stories. He hopes to inspire people to become changemakers by utilizing creativity, tenacity, and heart to face our daily challenges as individuals, and together as citizens of our planet to STAY HUMAN.
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What Do MLB Odds Say About Chicago On The Road Against Toronto?
Written by Alex Murphy on May 27, 2015
With just 2 months of the season in the books, there is still plenty of time for teams who got off to a slow start to recover. Some teams are going to have a more difficult job than others, with the division they play in having a major part of how things might go. The Toronto Blue Jays are still very much alive and well in the AL East, while the Chicago White Sox have a much larger hole to climb out of in the Central. These two will complete a 3-game series in Toronto on Wednesday. Let’s check what is expected of this game and who is the favorite in the MLB odds.
Chicago White Sox vs Toronto Blue Jays MLB Betting Preview
Time: Wednesday May 26, 12:37 p.m. ET Venue: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario National TV: CSN, WSCR 670, WRTO 1200, SNET, SN 590 Opening line: Toronto -160
FINAL: @BlueJays 6, White Sox 0 @1DrewHutch with the complete game shutout! #ComeTogether pic.twitter.com/FVXwf6pxtG
— Blue Jays (@BlueJays) May 26, 2015
The Blue Jays (21-26) are coming off a pretty dismal run of games where they only won 2 of 11. The return of Jose Reyes might just serve as the spark that this team needs to get out of a rut. They have won 2-straight now, including Reyes first game back on Monday, and have cranked out 14 runs while only giving up 2 in those games. The one thing that Toronto has in their favor is that they are playing in a division that no-one seems to want to win at the moment. It looked for a while as though the Yankees might run away with things, but they have gone in the tank hard, leaving the cellar dwelling Jays just 3 games behind of Tampa Bay, who are now on top. Marco Estrada (1-3, 3.90 ERA) will get the start for Toronto on Wednesday. The Blue Jays have lost the last 4 games that Estrada has been a part of. The Chicago White Sox (19-23) are also sitting at the bottom of their division, but the big difference there is that they are 8 games out of first right now. You have to go back 9 games to find the last time that the White Sox scored 4 or more runs in a single game, so it really shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that they went 2-6 in the games that followed. Chicago has now lost 3 straight games, which includes the first game in the series with the Blue Jays. This set of games is just the first of a total of 11 games that the Sox will play on the road in the coming days, which has to be alarming when you consider that they are just 7-13 on the road this season. Jeff Samardzija (4-2, 4.28 ERA) will start for Chicago on Wednesday. He has been one of the best players for the Sox all season, and went 8 innings in each of his last 2 starts, picking up the win in both.
Key Betting Trends
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Chi White Sox’s last 9 games when playing on the road against Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Chi White Sox’s last 8 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Toronto’s last 9 games when playing at home against Chi White Sox
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Toronto’s last 7 games
Consider This Before Placing Your Bets
As good as Samardzija has been, his recent wins have come against teams with a whole lot less power than the Jays. I don’t think this will be a blowout, but I do like Toronto to come out with the win in this one. Sources: ESPN.com: http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/chw/chicago-white-sox Baseball-reference.com: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/estrama01.shtml
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Kenyon Martin announces retirement from professional basketball
By Brett PollakoffJul 2, 2015, 11:31 PM EDT
A year ago at Summer League in Las Vegas, Kenyon Martin was eying a full-time return to professional basketball, and was hopeful of receiving an opportunity to once again play for the Knicks.
“Definitely,” Martin said, when asked if he hopes to return to New York. “I’m comfortable here. Me and Melo have got history, so of course this is where I would love to play. I’m not done by any stretch of the imagination, and I would love to be a Knick again. I’m going to try to make it happen.”
It never happened.
Martin’s only shot last season was in Milwaukee, where a former teammate in Jason Kidd, now the Bucks’ head coach, saw it fitting to give him a chance.
He appeared in just 11 contests, and once it became clear that he was finished, Martin saw fit to announce his retirement in advance of next season.
From Marc Spears of Yahoo Sports:
“It’s been a great 15 years,” Martin, 37, told Yahoo Sports. “Thanks to all the fans that supported me over the years. But a time does come when you have to walk away, and the time is now for me. I’m ready for the next chapter of my life. I would like to thank the Nets, Nuggets, Clippers, Knicks and Bucks for the opportunity to play the game that I love.
“It’s been real. Thanks for the love.”
Martin was the consensus 2000 college basketball player of the year at the University of Cincinnati. He also played briefly for the China Xinjiang Flying Tigers during the NBA lockout in 2012. His basketball career ended when the Bucks opted not to sign him for the remainder of the season after he completed two 10-day contracts and was waived on Feb. 19.
Martin played a total of 15 NBA seasons, and was an All-Star with the Nets back in 2004. He was a member of those New Jersey teams that went to the Finals in consecutive seasons in 2002 and 2003, and played with Carmel Anthony in Denver for the bulk of his time with the Nuggets.
Martin was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft, and leaves the game with career averages of 12.3 points and 6.8 rebounds in 30.6 minutes per contest.
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Nazr Mohammed plans to play another season
By Dan FeldmanMay 26, 2015, 11:34 AM EDT
The 10 oldest players to play in the NBA this season:
1. Andre Miller
2. Tim Duncan
3. Kevin Garnett
4. Vince Carter
5. Pablo Prigioni
6. Manu Ginobili
7. Nazr Mohammed
8. Jason Terry
9. Kenyon Martin
10. Paul Pierce
With Duncan, Pierce and Ginobili noncommittal about their futures, the 37-year-old Mohammed could climb the ranking next year.
K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune:
Small item but Nazr Mohammed said he plans to play an 18th NBA season and is confident he'll sign somewhere.
— K.C. Johnson (@KCJHoop) May 16, 2015
Mohammed, who spent the last three seasons with the Bulls, will become a free agent this summer.
He’s a serviceable third center, though his production has slipped noticeably from even last season. At his age, it’s surely only downhill from here.
Chicago has plenty of talent in front of him with Joakim Noah, Pau Gasol and Taj Gibson (and Nikola Mirotic, who takes power forward minutes that could otherwise go to one of the preceding three players). The Bulls will likely keep another big for depth, but the stability of their top bigs could afford them to use that roster spot on developing a younger player.
It’s no lock an NBA team will sign Mohammed, but he seems to be liked by teammates and coaches. It’d hardly be surprising if some team sees value in having him around on a minimum contract.
Tags: Andre Miller, Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, Jason Terry, Joakim Noah, Kenyon Martin, Kevin Garnett, Manu Ginobili, Memphis Grizzlies, Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Nazr Mohammed, Nikola Mirotic, Pablo Prigioni, Pau Gasol, Paul Pierce, Sacramento Kings, San Antonio Spurs, Taj Gibson, Tim Duncan, Vince Carter, Washington Wizards
Bucks waive Kenyon Martin to clear roster space for trade additions
By Kurt HelinFeb 20, 2015, 8:36 AM EDT
Kenyon Martin, who was brought to Milwaukee to provide some depth up front and be a veteran presence in a young locker room, has been let go to make way for more youth.
The Bucks added Michael Carter-Williams, Tyler Ennis and Miles Plumlee via trades. They already had a full 15-man roster and only sent out Brandon Knight and Kendall Marshall in those trades. The Bucks needed to clear one more roster space.
Martin was the guy. He was waived Thursday
“We thank Kenyon for his contributions on the court and in the locker room,” said Bucks GM John Hammond said in a statement. “He’s a real professional and we wish him well.”
Martin — a former teammate of Bucks’ coach Jason Kidd — had played through two 10-day contracts then was signed for the rest of the season with the Bucks, who were looking for depth up front with Larry Sanders away from the team. But Martin didn’t play much. He got in 11 games for a total of 104 minutes, and while he could give the team a few minutes his prime is clearly far in the rear view mirror.
It’s unlikely another team gives him a shot.
Tags: Brandon Knight, Kendall Marshall, Kenyon Martin, Larry Sanders, Michael Carter-Williams, Miles Plumlee, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, Tyler Ennis
Report: Milwaukee Bucks in talks to buy out Larry Sanders
By Kurt HelinFeb 16, 2015, 11:23 AM EDT
Larry Sanders has played in just 27 games for the Bucks this season. First he missed time for personal reasons. Then came a 10-game suspension from the league for marijuana use (he failed at least four tests to get there). Now that suspension has been extended past the 10 games (the team is again listing him out for “personal reasons”). All that comes after last season when a nightclub brawl left him with an injured thumb in need of a surgery. There were the charges of animal cruelty. Sanders has played just 50 games for the Bucks over two seasons since his four-year, $44 million deal kicked in.
The Bucks have had enough; they are moving on without him.
The Bucks have started talks to buyout the remaining two pus years of Sanders’ contract, reports Marc Stein of ESPN.
Buyout discussions have begun between the Milwaukee Bucks and Larry Sanders that would make the recently suspended big man a free agent, according to league sources…
He’s been one of the league’s most impactful defensive big men when he’s been on the floor, but the surprising Bucks — off to a 30-23 start under Kidd — have coped well without him this season, posting a 12-7 record in those games while relying on the likes of John Henson, Ersan Ilyasova, Zaza Pachulia and the recently signed Kenyon Martin.
The Bucks see a future where this core of players — with a few additions — could grow into a real threat in the East. Sanders was to be part of that core, their defensive anchor, but this season the Bucks’ defense has been 1.9 points per 100 possessions better when Sanders is off the court. For Milwaukee, he’s just not worth the disruptions.
Sanders has said he plans to continue his NBA career and tweeted this out last week.
Soon you all will know the truth.
— Nappy Gilmore ™ (@LarrySanders) February 10, 2015
While it’s common for a player seeking a buyout to take a discount to get out of his deal (for example, that’s what Amare Stoudemire will do for the Knicks) there is no motivation for Sanders or his agent to give the Bucks a price break. They will pay full price to make him go away.
Next summer, if he does show he’s not smoking anymore, some team will take a shot on him. However, it’s going to be for far, far less than the $11 million he was set to make this year.
Tags: Amare Stoudemire, Ersan Ilyasova, John Henson, Kenyon Martin, Larry Sanders, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks, Zaza Pachulia
Bucks sign Jorge Gutierrez to 10-day contract
By Dan FeldmanJan 28, 2015, 5:30 PM EDT
The Bucks waived Nate Wolters to sign Kenyon Martin (who’s sticking around for the rest of the season), but that move backfired – even more so than initially – when Kendall Marshall suffered a season-ending injury.
Suddenly short-handed at point guard, Milwaukee is turning to the D-League.
Bucks release:
The Milwaukee Bucks have signed guard Jorge Gutierrez to a 10-day contract, General Manager John Hammond announced today.
Gutierrez played for Jason Kidd with the Nets last season. The 26-year-old was dealt in the Andrei Kirilenko trade to the 76ers, who waived him, and then signed in the D-League.
Because Larry Sanders has been suspended for at least six games and already served five (of his 10), the Bucks can place him on their suspended list. This allows them to add a 16th player without waiving anyone.
Milwaukee has a deep and talented roster, so Gutierrez will have a tough time sticking if Sanders meets the terms of his suspension and is reinstated this season. But Gutierrez’s familiarity with Kidd gives him at least a slim chance of impressing on the fly and remaining on the roster.
Tags: Andrei Kirilenko, Kendall Marshall, Kenyon Martin, Larry Sanders, Milwaukee Bucks, Nate Wolters, Philadelphia 76ers
Kenyon Martin announces retirement from professional basketball July 2, 2015 11:31 pm EDT Nazr Mohammed plans to play another season May 26, 2015 11:34 am EDT Bucks waive Kenyon Martin to clear roster space for trade additions February 20, 2015 8:36 am EDT Report: Milwaukee Bucks in talks to buy out Larry Sanders February 16, 2015 11:23 am EDT Bucks sign Jorge Gutierrez to 10-day contract January 28, 2015 5:30 pm EDT Report: Bucks to sign Kenyon Martin through end of season January 28, 2015 8:00 am EDT Bucks sign Kenyon Martin to second 10-day contract January 19, 2015 12:44 pm EDT Report: Pelicans closing in on signing Nate Wolters to 10-day contract January 14, 2015 12:02 am EDT Nate Wolters somehow clears waivers January 13, 2015 2:06 pm EDT Report: Houston Rockets interview Kenyon Martin for coaching position October 24, 2014 7:31 pm EDT Kobe Bryant on Julius Randle playing with Kobe, for Byron Scott: ‘If you f— this up, you’re a really big idiot’ October 23, 2014 12:15 am EDT Kenyon Martin ‘not surprised’ by Carmelo Anthony re-signing, hopes to return to Knicks next season July 12, 2014 8:30 pm EDT Former Nets’ owner Lewis Katz dies in plane crash June 1, 2014 11:07 am EDT Tanks for nothing: Top pick usually not franchise-changer May 21, 2014 11:00 am EDT Jason Kidd, when asked if trash talk was motivating factor in Nets ’04 sweep of Knicks: ‘That wasn’t really a series’ April 25, 2014 6:58 pm EDT Report: Knicks player says team’s CAA clients get preferential treatment March 10, 2014 7:07 pm EDT Wednesday And-1 links: Trade rumor updates, mostly bad news if you want trades February 19, 2014 5:59 pm EDT Amar’e Stoudemire says Mike Woodson, not minutes limit, keeping him off the court February 4, 2014 5:12 pm EDT Report: Knicks make late push for Andrew Bynum, still looking for another big man February 3, 2014 11:35 am EDT The Extra Pass: Should Indiana be worried about its offense? And Tuesday’s recaps. January 29, 2014 8:00 am EDT Deron Williams returns, chooses to come off the bench in Nets’ blowout win over Knicks January 20, 2014 6:58 pm EDT Knicks lose Amar’e Stoudemire, Kenyon Martin for at least two weeks due to injury January 17, 2014 6:16 pm EDT Lance Stephenson’s career-high 28 points lead Pacers to blowout win over Knicks January 16, 2014 10:20 pm EDT Carmelo Anthony out with sprained ankle, will not play Christmas Day vs. Thunder December 25, 2013 1:52 pm EDT Amar’e Stoudemire denies he’ll be out “a while” December 17, 2013 7:13 pm EDT Knicks lose by 41 points at home to Celtics December 8, 2013 3:30 pm EDT Knicks and Nets might not remain so mockable for long, so enjoy it while you can December 5, 2013 1:33 pm EDT Tweet/Quote of the Day: Metta World Peace says Knicks’ locker room problems all about pasta December 3, 2013 5:54 pm EDT Report: Kenyon Martin, Metta World Peace had “heated” argument December 2, 2013 7:37 pm EDT Carmelo Anthony: “I think we’re playing to lose” December 2, 2013 10:02 am EDT Report: Rockets asking for two first round picks in any trade for Omer Asik December 1, 2013 4:50 pm EDT Report: Knicks’ Woodson not on hot seat but management wants lineup changes November 18, 2013 3:18 pm EDT Andrea Bargnani has a huge night for Knicks (VIDEO) November 9, 2013 12:30 pm EDT Carmelo Anthony led closed door meeting with Knicks’ players after Bobcats loss November 8, 2013 3:10 pm EDT Knicks coach Woodson says he’s not worried about job security, won’t look over his shoulder November 6, 2013 8:13 pm EDT Knicks’ Tyson Chandler out 4-6 weeks with fractured right fibula November 6, 2013 12:15 pm EDT Knicks Tyson Chandler leaves game with knee injury November 5, 2013 8:56 pm EDT Former All-Star Michael Redd to officially retire as a Buck Wednesday November 5, 2013 3:22 pm EDT Kenyon Martin questionable for Knicks season opener October 20, 2013 12:30 pm EDT Danny Ainge: Not worth tanking for Andrew Wiggins October 4, 2013 1:25 pm EDT
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Mom accused of letting men rape her 2-year-old daughter
July 19, 2018 1:56 PM July 19, 2018 1:56 PM
A woman has been charged after investigators said a 2-year-old child was raped.
Azzie C. Watson, 25, is accused of child abuse and endangerment.
Kansas City police said they were called to a hospital on June 29 for a reported rape. When officers arrived at the hospital, Independence police handed them a recording made by Watson’s boyfriend, in which she admitted to watching the child get raped several times by two men, according to court documents.
WDAF-TV reported that court documents state Watson’s boyfriend recorded Watson talking about repeatedly taking her daughter to a house where her daughter was raped about five times.
On the recording, Watson said she had gone to a house where she was involved sexually with two men. According to court records, Watson said in the recording that, when she saw the child being sexually assaulted, she asked for the child back, but the men would not give her the child.
Medical records stated that the child tested positive for chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease.
During police questioning, Watson said she made the story up because she was afraid of her boyfriend and he “wasn’t believing the truth.”
This report originated from KMBC-TV. The Associated Press contributed.
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Media Focuses on Clinton’s Non-Stories, Largely Ignores GOP Zombie Issues
Tags: Bill Weld, birther, budget bill, Chris Christie, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, George Washington Bridge closure, government shut-down, John McCain, Kurt Eichenwald, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, Newsweek, pay for play Trump Foundation, Ralph Nadar, Spanish political promises, zombie issues
Benghazi and Hillary Clinton’s emails are two issues that Republicans refuse to let die, despite tens of investigations into each one that fail to prove anything that the Democratic presidential candidate has done wrong. Today, the Clinton Foundation zombie problems returned when a headline referencing a quote from Bill Clinton read “‘Natural’ For Foundation Donors to Seek Favors.” As usual, the media, determined to make something out of nothing, took this headline out of context from Bill Clinton’s response in an NPR interview:
“It was natural for people who’ve been our political allies and personal friends to call and ask for things. And I trusted the State Department wouldn’t do anything they shouldn’t do.”
Leaked emails show that people aren’t getting the favors that they request, and all the aggressive searching by Hillary haters has found absolutely no “pay for play” from the Clinton Foundation that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
While dwelling on Clinton non-stories, Sunday talk shows ignored the real story about the “pay for play” Trump Foundation already fined for illegal campaign donations to Florida’s AG Pam Bondi in exchange for her dropping an investigation into the fraudulent Trump University. A less biased media would have covered the New York investigation into Trump illegally using the Trump Foundation charity funds to purchase at least one oil painting and one football helmet. Trump has not donated one cent to his “foundation” since 2008 while he gets credit for donating funds that other people gave to his foundation. Instead of reporting on Trump’s “pay for play” violations, the media concentrated on Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis and Trump’s infomercial on Dr. Oz’s show.
The same media largely ignored Kurt Eichenwald’s detailed cover story in Newsweek which reported that Trump’s business interests “will constantly jeopardize the security of the United States” if Trump wins the presidency and does not sever all connections to the Trump Organization. As Eichenwald wrote, the Trump Organization has been “largely ignored” by media despite its “serious conflicts of interest and ethical quagmires” in nearly all foreign policy decisions during a Trump presidency. Eichenwald provides information about the Trump Organization’s “deep ties to global financiers, foreign politicians, and even criminals” and “a web of contractual entanglements that could not be just canceled” which could conflict with presidential major national security decisions and negotiations.
GOP members zombies:
Donald Trump desperately wanted to drop the birther issue after claiming for many years that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States. His giant mistake, however was blaming Clinton for initiating the theory. A strategist had suggested that the 2008 Clinton campaign could use the idea that Barack Obama was “not American,” but Clinton immediately quashed it. There’s no fire where Trump is blowing smoke. Yet campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus repeatedly accused Clinton of starting the birther theory on Sunday talk shows.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie went one better. He told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump hadn’t said anything about the issue “for a long time.” Fortunately, Tapper, a journalist who believes in telling the truth, reminded Christie that Trump continued birthering for five years after the president released the long-form birth certificate to the public in 2011. A lively exchange of “true” and “not true” ensured followed by Christie saying, “It wasn’t like he was talking about it on a regular basis.” In fact-checking Christie’s claim, the Washington Post wrote:
“This is such bogus spin that we have to wonder how Christie manages to say it with a straight face…. [C]learly Christie is either lying or he is so misinformed that he has no business appearing on television.”
Christie should shift to protecting himself. His involvement in the closure of the George Washington Bridge that created havoc and physical danger to people has returned. While his allies and employees have pled guilty or gone to court in this issue, Christie has stuck to his position that “I had no knowledge or involvement in the planning or execution of this act.” In today’s trial for two of those accused of closing the bridge, both both prosecutors and lawyers for the defendants agree that Christie “knew his close associates were involved in a plan to shut down lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge as it was happening and that the closings were intended to punish a local mayor for declining to support him.”
In 2013, at the time of the event, Christie ridiculed the controversy because his office would never be so petty and partisan. After evidence proved that it was a petty and partisan vendetta, Christie claimed ignorance. The micromanaging governor swore that he had no idea that his top aides used his name to abuse their power. Today Assistant U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna has told jurors that David Wildstein and Bill Baroni “bragged” to the governor directly about the scheme to close lanes onto the George Washington Bridge in order to deliberately cripple Fort Lee. The trial is against former top Christie aides Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly, but Christie may suffer the fallout, perhaps to the point of being impeached. It already lost him being a potential GOP vice-presidential candidate, and last May, Christie’s approval rating had fallen to 29 percent.
Dick Cheney, another zombie, has come to life in the body of GOP vice-presidential candidate, Mike Pence who said that his role model is the vice-president who put the United States into the preemptive war with Iraq costing the country millions of jobs and trillions of dollars. Cheney’s career as VP was a time of incompetence, lies, opaque ruling, scandal, missing emails, and deadly bad judgment. When he left office, Cheney’s approval rating was 13 percent, about half Richard Nixon’s support at the height of Watergate. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Cheney an “idiot.” If Trump were elected and followed his plans, Pence, who sees himself a Cheney clone, “would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy” while Trump would focus on “making America great again.”
The zombie of Ralph Nadar, which may have led to George W. Bush’s appointment as president in 2000, may have returned in the name of Gary Johnson. A rumor circulated last week that Bill Weld might drop out of the race as Libertarian vice-presidential candidate because he didn’t want to be another Nadar. “No chance,” says Gary Johnson, top of the Libertarian ticket. Polling at 9 percent, Johnson is far away from the 15-percent threshold for participating in a presidential candidate debate, an advantage for him because he doesn’t interview well and might lose votes in a debate. Asked on public radio whether he was worried about votes for him leading to Trump as a president, he responded that he didn’t care and that it wouldn’t be his problem.
A pattern in GOP campaigning is to have one message in English and a different one in Spanish. For example, during his successful Nevada senatorial run in 2012, Dean Heller put his hardline immigration policy into English with a softer approach in Spanish. Another shift came from the GOP response to the State of the Union address last year when the Spanish version supported immigration reform—opposite to the message in English. This last spring, Kansas printed the wrong voter registration deadline, six days after the deadline, in the Spanish version and omitted the use of a passport for identification.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) brought this zombie to life in his struggling re-election. In Spanish, McCain brags about seeking comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship for children brought illegally to the United States; the English skips over these policies and draws an image of McCain as hardcore immigration control. After this “translation” was questioned, a campaign spokesperson said that the website versions were “never intended to be identical.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blocking the budget bill has aroused the zombie of shutting down the government. Congress has only 11 more days—two “working weeks” before a the government closes down, but McConnell “delayed” a procedural vote until 2:15 pm tomorrow. At least the bill may allow Puerto Rico’s Planned Parenthood clinic to access federal grants to fight the Zika virus, a provision that had held up the bill for several months. In his arrogant manner, McConnell said that “Senate Republicans stand ready to move forward” and wants Democrats to “complete negotiations,” something that they have been willing to do for some time.
Asked about the agreement, Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, “Close is relative.” The Dems also want funding for the Flint (MI) water crisis to be in the mix, something the GOP turns down.
Ideally two weeks is enough time, but the bill must be sent to the House, returned, and then reconciled while ultra-conservatives in that chamber demand itty-bitty budget bills instead of an omnibus which go into next year instead of being a stopgap that returns—in zombie fashion—on December 9 this year.
Just a few zombies from people who ignore history.
Trump Loses with Blacks, Women
Tags: birther, child care, Corinne Miller, Donald Trump, Flint (MI), Hillary Clinton, maternity leave, parental leave, Rev. Faith Green-Timmons, Sexism, universal child care
Donald Trump’s appearance at a black church in Flint (MI) yesterday drew a great deal of attention—but what’s new about that! The series of events:
After Trump gave Flint’s mayor Karen Weaver only one day notice that he planned to tour the closed water treatment plant because of the lead, she said it was not a good time because the city was still trying to deal with the problems. She was also out of town trying to get help from Congress after the total disaster that Michigan’s businessman turned governor had caused.
Trump went anyway, giving his usual “Hillary hate” trash talk in a black church.
The pastor of the church, Rev. Faith Green-Timmons, gently stopped him by saying, “Mr. Trump, I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done for Flint, not to give a political speech,”
Trump said, “Oh, oh, OK, OK, OK. That’s good. Then I’m going to go back onto Flint, OK.” The pastor also stopped the heckling from his audience who were bringing up specific examples of Trump’s racial discrimination in housing and employment. Green-Timmons said that Trump “is a guest in my church and you will respect him.”
A video shows Green-Timmons’ graciousness and Trump’s obsequiousness. Yet Trump lied about the event on Fox and Friends this morning, describing Timmons as being a “nervous mess” and the audience as shouting “Let him speak, let him speak.” He also claimed that Timmons had planned to ambush him.
Yesterday the Senate voted 94-3 to end debate on a bill that includes $220 million in emergency assistance for communities such as Flint as well as $4.9 billion over five years to repair systems related to drinking water. They also voted 85-12 to waive a budget rule complicating the Flint funding that would take money from the Energy Department’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program.
The problem now is the House. It has been suggested that Trump would better spend his time by calling his “friend” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to ask for this bill to be passed in that chamber. At this time, the House waterways bill doesn’t have Flint funding.
Former Michigan epidemiologist Corinne Miller has pled guilty to not reporting to the public dozens of Legionnaires’ disease at the same time that Flint changed its water source, also the cause of the high lead content in the drinking water. The water may have caused at least 91 Legionnaires’ cases, including 12 deaths. The plea deal of no contest on Wednesday to a misdemeanor of willful neglect of duty led to dismissal of felony misconduct and conspiracy charges. Eight people have been charged in the water crisis.
The day before his appearance in Flint, Trump opened up another can of worms showing his sexism. With the help of his daughter Ivanka, the GOP presidential candidate tried to woo women voters with vague promises of “maternity leave” and funding for child care. After people recovered that surprise that a Republican would endorse this action, they learned that his suggestions are not as generous as he promised. His programs favor the rich and target “well-off white women,” according to journalist Joan Walsh.
Trump introduced his program by saying in a high-pitched tone that his daughter told him, “Daddy, Daddy, we have to do this.” Ivanka Trump is under the impression that child care is a brand new idea in the United States, indicating that she hasn’t done her homework. Universal child care existed in the nation from 1943 to 1946 but disappeared until Congress passed a bill in 1971 that GOP President Richard Nixon vetoed.
A 1990 law to help subsidize child care failed during the early 21st century when GOP George W. Bush reduced its funding. Even if Republicans are willing to support child care—unlikely because they think that this increases the “nanny state”—they are always unwilling to pay for it. Parental leave has also been an issue for over two decades—always quashed by the GOP.
In Trump’s plan, “maternity leave”(not parental leave) is only for six weeks, only for women, and only through already cash-strapped unemployment insurance, thereby helping women only in the states where legislatures opt in and providing much less than most women’s salaries. Trump’s plan also requires women to quit their jobs for the “maternity leave” because of unemployment insurance guidelines.
Although Trump uses the term “tax credit” when discussing his policy, the policy on his website indicates that it is a “tax deduction,” a far different proposal. Credit means that people will get the full amount back. Salaries of the working poor are so low that they don’t itemize deductions, leaving them with nothing whereas the wealthy can deduct expensive nannies and private day-care facilities and get 15 to 30 percent return. Trump’s plan would also give stay-at-home mothers credits even if they didn’t need child care to have jobs.
An irony of Trump’s speech is that his business provides neither maternity nor child care. Although Trump and his daughter claimed that he did provide the latter, it was only for wealthy Trump hotel guests. The claim that Hillary Clinton has never had either a “maternity leave” or child care policy and “never will” is also a lie. The only maternity leave provided for Trump employees is the federally-mandated 12-week unpaid leave. Yesterday in a discussion on public radio, Trump’s economic advisor Steven Moore stated that people shouldn’t have children if they can’t afford them.
In the past, Trump has found pregnant women and mothers of newborns “an inconvenience” and more. He said that pregnancy is “an inconvenience for business” because employers get only 84% of their working moms’ brains, according to Trump. He added that women “should” feel like they will be replaced if they do not return to work quickly even if they will not necessarily be replaced. Trump also called an attorney “disgusting” when she needed a break from a deposition to pump breast milk and that working women are bad for marriages. Confronted by Trump’s statements about women in an interview with Cosmopolitan, Ivanka Trump complained about “a lot of negativity in these questions” and cut the interview short.
In contrast to Trump’s proposals, Clinton’s plan provides a paid 12-week “family leave” for fathers and family members caring for a sick relative. The costs would be covered by higher taxes on the wealthy—such as Donald Trump and his family members. Other Clinton suggestions include a wide variety of child-care and preschool programs with costs capped for the middle class at ten percent of their salaries.
No plan can be carried out without congressional legislation. Yet Trump’s plan is regressive and sexist, perhaps because his look on life is regressive and sexist. This is his perspective on men rearing their children:
“I won’t do anything to take care of [my children]. I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids. It’s not like I’m gonna be walking the kids down Central Park.”
The term “maternity leave” not only goes beyond outmoded language, but also its limits to females hold back women, lowering their wages and reducing their hiring. These policies also discriminate against men in gay couples, other men who want to take an active part in rearing newborns, and adoptive individuals and couples.
Basically, Trump is losing white college-educated women who have voted Republican, and he wants them back.
Even with the undesirability of Trump’s plan, Republicans are criticizing Trump’s plan as “an enormous new entitlement that will blow the debt,” as conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote. He further complained about “the government stepping in and telling private industry what to do.”
Be careful of all those headlines and lead paragraphs that Trump has finally admitted that Barack Obama was born in the United States. He still refuses to say those words although his campaign leaders and surrogates are swearing that this is what he believes. Asked if his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, is right when she says he has reversed his almost decade-long position that the president was born outside the U.S., Trump said, “It’s okay. She’s allowed to speak what she thinks. I want to focus on jobs. I want to focus on other things.” Before that, Trump had said, “I’ll answer that question at the right time. I just don’t want to answer it yet.”
Trump still hasn’t said that he believes President Obama meets the constitutional requirements to hold the office where he has been for almost two terms. I’m still waiting for Trump to answer the question.
[Update: Trump finally actually said the words! Late yesterday, he said, “President Obama was born in the United States, period. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.” Trump is still falsely claiming that Hillary Clinton started the birther rumor that he pushed for the past eight years.]
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Make America Suffer Again
Filed under: Health Care,Uncategorized — trp2011 @ 8:52 PM
Tags: Greg Walden, health insurance, Nancy Pelosi, pre-existing conditions, tax cuts, TrumpCare, U.S. economy
The House passed its “We Don’t Care” bill this morning to take health insurance away from tens of millions of people in the United States. The 217-213 had 20 GOP “no” votes from those smart enough to know how furious their constituents would be with a “yes” vote. Only one of them belonged to the scorched-earth Freedom Caucus. Voters didn’t even have an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office to help them make a decision.
In their race to the bottom, the GOP also ignored the impact the 100+ million people who get insurance from employers. Because the bill allows large employers to offer the same benefits as state requirements, companies can skimp on benefit standards in states that get waivers to opt out of current ACA regulations. The same employers can also bypass any limits on out-of-pocket expenses for expensive illnesses and impose lifetime limits of cost. Premiums may cost less, as Republicans promised, people would have little health care covered. Congressional members and staff are lucky: the new bill exempts them from losing quality insurance.
In the time of DDT and the GOP, governance means voting for a bill that has a life-or-death impact with no information on costs and other affects. The legislators who voted for it hadn’t even read it and don’t want to know the outcome of their legislation that affects one-sixth of the U.S. economy. Republicans leaders didn’t let anyone read the legislation in advance. All people know about the bill is that gives massive tax breaks to the wealthiest in the nation and guts protections for everyone else. Now that it’s passed, people know what’s in the bill, and it looks even worse than previously believed.
Trumpcare winners:
The rich and corporations getting $600 billion in tax breaks.
Millionaires getting a $50,000 tax break each year for a total of $275 billion to the richest two percent.
The 400 richest families each getting an average $7 million each year.
Insurance companies getting $145 billion in tax breaks over ten years.
Drug companies rewarded with $25 million in tax breaks over ten years.
The richest two percent getting a $117 billion tax cut.
Trumpcare losers are the 24+ million low-income sometimes DDT supporters who lose health care (24 million) or people who will pay up to $13,000 more for premiums. No one will have protection from huge increases in drug costs, and the loss of $117 billion in revenue shortens Medicare’s ability to pay full benefits by at least three years.
Eight years ago, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said this about the Affordable Care Act on MSNBC:
“I don’t think we should pass bills that we haven’t read, that we don’t know what they cost.”
At the same time, Mike Pence ridiculed the Democrats:
“Don’t blame us, we didn’t read the bill we voted for.”
In 2009, House Republicans had a fit about the possibility of voting for the ACA without a CBO score, and Ryan demanded that the CBO analysis be expedited before a vote. In fact, Congress and President Obama and spent 14 months writing that bill in 2009 and 2010 with dozens of hearings, committee markups, and consultation with the health care system that won support from hospitals and doctors while waiting for multiple CBO scores. No one in the health care system wants Trumpcare, and Republicans’ only rationale for voting in favor of the bill is that they promised to do it. Oh yes, and it gives massive cuts to the wealthy.
Perhaps most prescient is DDT’s 2014 tweet:
“It’s Thursday. How many people have lost their healthcare today?”
Today is Thursday, and we don’t know the affect of the House vote, but it’s sure to be tens of millions of people if the House bill passes the Senate.
According to DDT’s statements last Sunday, he hasn’t read the revised plan to satisfy the scorched-earth Republicans. On Face the Nation, DDT told John Dickerson that the bill keeps pre-existing conditions and “I mandate it.” Pressed for clarification, DDT added, “We actually have a clause that guarantees [protections to those with pre-existing conditions].” [No, “we” don’t.] The GOP bill clears the way for states to remove this benefit. DDT said that “Obamacare” “doesn’t cover pre-existing conditions.” [Yes, it does.] Even VP Mike Pence said that Republican policymakers are “keeping our promises to protect people who have pre-existing conditions.” Of course, he believed that Michael Flynn didn’t have anything to do with the Russians.
According to a Harvard study about the health care bill, Trumpcare would “effectively end enrollment in the insurance markets for families that make less than $75,000 a year.” In 2015, that was over 70 percent of the people in the United States.
Another population that would suffer from Trumpcare are students needing special education help. Medicaid provides schools districts with such services as physical therapists and feeding tubes as well as preventative care like vision and hearing screenings. Republicans voting to do away with these services may not know about this issue because the House did not allow any public testimony before the vote.
If DDT and Congress are successful in repealing the ACA, discrimination can be the law of the land. One section is the ACA stops federal funds from going to anyone or any group discriminating on the basis of race, skin color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. That includes pregnancy, sex stereotyping, gender identity; religious-connected providers could deny contraception, sterilization, in vitro fertilization, or anything else against “religious” beliefs. People could be turned away from emergency rooms for any reason. At this time, 20 percent of the hospitals in the nation have an affiliation with religion—up 50 percent since 2010, and many times small communities have only these hospitals. At the same time, the federal and state governments are rapidly closing non-religious clinics such as those operated by Planned Parenthood.
In addition to ethical reasons to keep and repair the ACA, its loss will result in the loss of 1.8 billion jobs.
Oregon’s only GOP representative was a leader in destroying the ACA. Greg Walden is now proud of his part in doing away with the small hospitals in his rural district and losing insurance for the largest number of people in his state. DDT acknowledged the part that Ryan and Walden played in taking insurance from Walden’s constituent when he said, “This is the group.” Walden’s district added more Medicaid recipients than any other GOP district and more than all except three Democrat-held districts. That makes it fourth out of 435 districts in helping people under the ACA. One of Walden’s colleagues pointed out that 640,000 people with pre-existing conditions could lose their insurance, but Walden claimed, “We are protecting people with pre-existing conditions. Those conditions continue to be protected.” Either he has not read the bill, or he lies. People have said he’s a nice man. So sad.
The GOP is backing a losing horse with its argument for less government. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that a majority of people, 57 percent, thinks that government should do more—not less—to help solve the nation’s problems. That’s an increase of 14 percent in just two years and almost double the percentage since 1996. In that time the number of people who think that the government should do less has dropped by over one-third. A study from Baylor University has also found that more government enhances human happiness.
Last month the New York Times’ hired climate denier Bret Stephens. Now the NYT equates Ryan’s lie (“under no circumstance can people be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition”) and Pelosi’s statement (“up to 17 million children … who have pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied coverage by insurers” thanks to the ACA) as both “misleading.” It may be possible that Rupert Murdoch bought the newspaper while I wasn’t paying attention.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) (3rd L) after signing legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and to cut off federal funding of Planned Parenthood at the U.S. Capitol January 7, 2016 in Washington, DC.
The bill that passed today and moved on to the Senate was even more draconian that the earlier bill, and that one got only 17 percent approval. Yet Republicans are celebrating their success at taking insurance away from 24 million people and allocating much higher charges for people with pre-existing conditions with cases of Bud Light rolled into the Capitol. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the other GOP leaders are even giddier than they were over a repeal in January 2016. Following their beer-bust in the Capitol, Republicans took buses for more celebration in the White House Rose Garden, historically a place where bills are signed into law. Never before have House Republicans reveled in passing a bill that may not survive the Senate. And certainly not a bill designed to create misery for millions of people in the United States.
It’s a new time: Make America Suffer Again.
How Enduring Are GOP Delusions about Trump?
Tags: Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump, hate crimes, polls, Presidential campaign, Trump supporters, U.S. economy
Why do people support Donald Trump for U.S. president? The answers are all over the place. Demographics show a majority are poor, lack a high school diploma, and hold racist beliefs. They disagree with being racists but use racial slurs and want to get rid of immigrants while keeping America white. Nate Silver, one of the best prognosticators for U.S. elections, tweeted, “Strongest correlate I’ve found for Trump support is Google searches for the n-word.” Others have noticed the same comparison.
Trump promised to pay lawyers to help one of his supporters who attacked a protester, and that promise may have led to other racist supporters. Jan Stachowiak has called for armed volunteers to help him intimidate and even kill black protesters at the GOP convention. He echoed Trump’s declaration that President is a terrorist sympathizer and now calls on “patriots … to defend this nation against a domestic terrorist organization supported by the terrorist in the White House.”
Hate speech and crimes have accelerated since the rise of Donald Trump. People are attacking Muslims and other minorities in his name, and immigrants and Muslims students are increasingly experiencing bullying by their classmates. Children of color are facing “an alarming level of fear and anxiety.” Out of 5,000 comments from a survey of 2,000 K-12 students, over 1,000 mentioned Donald Trump. Jewish journalists are being attacked for articles critical of Trump, and many are targeted with the (((echo))) symbol, used by white supremacists online to single out the names of Jewish people and coordinate attacks against them.
Republicans try to claim that they like Trump because he says what he thinks—although much of what he expresses on one day is reversed the next. Another reason they gave for their Trump votes is that he will get jobs. Below are some self-delusions from Trump supporters that don’t hold up to the light:
Trump will get everyone jobs. The massive reduction of taxes for the wealthy could financially ruin people in the nation. Higher interest rates could cause housing prices to tumble, by as much as $100,000, and undermine the economy, destroying over 3 million jobs. Trump has a pattern of cheating hundreds of employees, contractors, and bondholders when he refuses to pay his debts. If Trump runs the country like he runs his businesses, the nation is headed for bankruptcy. But that’s a topic for an entire blog!
Trump will either change his impossible proposals or Congress will stop him. One of his ideas is a tax plan that would increase the debt by $10 trillion. The GOP hasn’t stood up to Trump thus far; there’s no indication that they’ll start if he gets elected. Congress cannot stop his foreign policy—for example, supporting Russia as he has indicated—because the president has control in this area. If the courts and Congress can stop every crazy Trump idea, then the GOP wouldn’t worry about Hillary Clinton’s getting elected.
Trump will be fine no matter how much he changes policies. The GOP has complained about Obama because, they whine, he is divisive, arrogant, delusional, and economically illiterate while he uses executive power for political ends. Trump is all these multiplied by at least 100.
Trump will understand that he will need to be more “presidential.” After a brief fling with a teleprompter, Trump continues to pick fights with his own GOP and refuses to take any advice in campaigning. He claims that he will spend his time and resources trying to take California and New York along with other blue states for the general election. Instead of backing away from his racist remarks, he has denied media access to his press conferences to at least ten outlets, including the influential Washington Post.
Trump can get smart advisers. Trump takes no advice from anyone for his campaign, and there’s no indication that he will pay attention to advisers if he were president. Trump’s past and current advisers show that he selects the same kind of toxic person as he is. By now, he has alienated almost everyone on his short list for vice-president, and his philosophy of firing everyone who offends him—a simple thing for a thin-skinned person like Trump—means that anyone around him will be short term.
Republicans have no other choice. Thus far, the “Never Trump” keeps looking for a resurgence at the convention, especially if delegates demand that Trump release his tax returns. Mitt Romney could run, or Republicans could vote Libertarian. Supporting Trump is disastrous for GOP candidates like John McCain, past presidential candidate and Congressman for 34 years, who is struggling in Arizona against his Democratic opponent. Marco Rubio (R-FL), considering another run for senate after he talked about how much he hated being a senator and didn’t bother to attend to vote, may run again. If he wins, his forced support for Trump may stain him for life.
Republicans can disown Trump in the future. Conservative advisers claim that they need to not worry about this election and look to the future. The GOP looked to the future after their loss in 2012, deciding that the party’s survival needs support from women and minorities. Instead, they’ve gone over the cliff in the opposite direction.
Although Trump claims that he hasn’t “started yet,” he’s been running for president for over a full year, and he wrapped up the GOP nomination in early May. Today Trump fired longtime friend and campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, because he “needs a change.” Lewandowski has no experience with national campaigns and kept Trump away from anyone who does.
Trump’s polls are starting downhill. The Democratic primary in Michigan shows that polls are not infallible, but Trump loved them throughout his campaign because he looked good. By now, he’s behind Hillary Clinton by double digits in some polls although he calls that being “even” with her.
Trump’s problems go far deeper than dropping polls. He promised his voters that he would pay for his entire campaign himself so that nobody could control him, but he seems to be out of money. And donors aren’t flocking to him. The Koch brothers, known for giving to the sleaziest of conservative politicians, refuse to fund Trump. Charles Koch said he can’t give any money to the Trump campaign until there’s a major shift in tone and policy—and he doesn’t expect it to happen.
In the past, Trump lobbed another hand grenade every time he lost positive attention. Last week’s explosion was to accuse U.S. military members of stealing money in Iraq. In the past, Trump had claimed that he was a champion of soldiers and veterans, going so far as to say he was raising money for them that they never received. This accusation hurt Trump’s image. That may be the reason that he called for religious and ethnic profiling on Sunday’s Face the Nation, hoping that a bit of generic racism would help his standing. He’s also called for people to be put into prison if they don’t report on their neighbors.
Trump has already started telling people to snitch on each other in his rallies. http://www.dailywire.com/news/6656/trump-rallies-now-ejecting-fake-trump-supporters-hank-berrien After he tried that approach, a woman smugly pointed to two people quietly sitting near her. Security took them out after she showed how one of them had held up three fingers and demonstrated. She said she didn’t know what it meant, but the gesture was like the Boy Scout salute.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus says that people don’t care what Trump says. If he’s wrong, there goes the election. If he’s right, the nation is worse than I like to think. Trump has had an amazing influence on the electorate, however. Since January, Democratic voting registration increased 218 percent in just California. Registration is up 123 percent among Hispanics, an electorate that has an 87-percent infavorability toward Trump.
For almost a year, most of the media went along with Trump’s craziness, always assuming that people tired of it. After a study showed that Trump coverage in eight major outlets pushed him into the nomination, giving him $2 billion of free advertising, journalists are changing the “cute” reporting of the past to now illustrate the danger that is for the United States. Increasing fact-checking shows that Trump tells the truth 3 percent of the time. The tipping point might have been Trump’s racist remarks against an honorable judge, but it’s more likely that they got fed up with Trump’s criticism about the press, calling reporters, among other descriptors, “the worst human beings” he had ever met.
Hopefully more people in the media may more accurately cover Trump. The next questions are how long GOP politicians will put Trump ahead of the country and how long voters will continue to believe him.
Congress Struggles with Defense, TPP Bill
Filed under: Foreign policy — trp2011 @ 7:17 PM
Tags: defense budget, fast-track, human trafficking, meat labeling, TPP, Trade Adjustment Assistance, trade deficit, Trans-Pacific Partnership, U.S. economy, war slush fund
Conflicting headlines this past week show the confusion with the defense bill in the Senate. On Thursday, senators passed the $612 billion defense policy bill that would ban torture and authorize weapons for Ukraine. The 71-to-25 vote also tightened restrictions on resettling detainees in other countries, blocking President Obama from closing the Gitmo detention facility by requiring congressional approval. The bill included a $38 billion slush fund for war, the same fund that allowed George W. Bush to spend billions outside the budget for his wars and sidestepped the sequester law restricting expenditures. GOP presidential candidates Ted Cruz (TX) and Rand Paul (KY), the only Republicans to vote against the bill, joined Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and 22 Democrats to oppose the bill. President Obama said he would veto the bill because it violates the sequester law.
Immediately after this vote, the Senate rejected a measure to pay for the defense bill because it didn’t lift spending limits in other areas of the budget. The bill to fund the defense budget failed to overcome a filibuster, 45 to 50, with only the only positive Democratic vote from Indiana’s Sen. Joe Donnelly.
While the Senate was struggling with defense bill, the House passed the TPP fast-track for the second time, still trying to give the president the authority to close trade deals. Last week, the vote was 219-211, but the companion measure, the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) to help workers displaced by trade failed. This week the vote was the bare minimum of 218 to 208 with the promise the Republicans will support the TAA at some other time.
William Pitt described how the “trade adjustment” works. A worker for a software company gets a living wage and health benefits by doing customer assistance on the phone. The TPP can air-mail the job to the Pacific Rim because those workers get paid much less–$0.56 an hour in Vietnam, for example. All the other jobs have been sent across the ocean, too, leaving the jobless destitute. The “assistance” is the part that didn’t get passed although Republicans said they would get back to it—sometime. It’s a guarantee that TPP will kill jobs, and without the minimal “assistance” for “trade adjustment, ex-workers will have nothing instead of very little.
The GOP-dominated Senate requires two 60-vote majorities to pass the TPA (ability to fast-track the TPP without the bother of amendments or debate) and TAA separately before trying to connect them for return to the House. Representatives will have to vote on it and then provide reconciliation and another passing vote. The president has sworn that he won’t sign the fast-track without the money piece, but he may be desperate enough to get the TPP passed that he may change his mind.
Even legislators with good intentions have folded on their principles. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) passed out of committee an amendment to the TPP to bar Tier 3 nations, offenders of human trafficking, from being a part of the trade deal. The White House called the amendment a “deal breaker” because it wants Malaysia, and Menendez watered down his amendment to state that Tier 3 countries would have to make “concrete efforts” to stop human trafficking, also commonly known as slavery. President Obama is willing to accept slavery in order to get his trade deal.
On the same day last week that Congress slowed down the TPP by voting against the TAA, the House voted to overturn rules requiring country-of-origin labeling for meat. Support for the law came from a response to 1999 World Trade Organization rules while opposition declared that labeling the meat was “unfair” to foreign countries and worried about sanctions or lawsuits from countries sending meat into the United States. Overturning a labeling law would keep people from being informed consumers, supporting U.S. farmers, or knowing that their meat had been inspected.
The House struck down a law because they were afraid of international tribunals that adjudicate trade disputes. This Investor-State Dispute Settlement process is primarly controlled by corporations and their lawyers. Trade agreements erase the ability to regulate commerce and finance which raises prices and guts laws for the common good.
Columnist David Brooks’ column about the harm from the defeat of the TPP needs fact-checking:
Claim: Damage the U.S. economy as evidenced by the growth in the nation’s manufacturing exports from earlier trade treaties. Fact: Lori Wallach reports that on NAFTA’s 20th anniversary, the U.S. has a $181 billion trade deficit with Mexico and Canada with a related loss of 1 million net U.S. jobs and over $360 million paid to corporations because of the “investor-state” tribunal attacks on, and rollbacks of, domestic public interest policies. The United States Department of Agriculture has projected that GDP gains from the TPP is approximately zero.
Claim: Stifle future innovation. Fact: Proposed TPP copyright provisions silence businesses, researchers, and artists while expensive cost of enforcement would impede new Internet-based start-ups. Excessive copyright terms prevent artists and creators from accessing, remixing, and recreating new works out of existing ones.
Claim: Imperil world peace. Fact: With the conservative enthusiasm and history in attacking the Middle East, and now considering an attack on Russia because of Ukraine, this statement smacks of hypocrisy. Brooks claims that the TPP protects the U.S. from being controlled by China, yet there’s nothing preventing China from joining the TPP and taking over because corporations are in control of it.
Legislators are making millions of dollars—200 of them, to be exact—from their votes in favor of TPP. The highest paid representative was House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who brought in $5.3 million for his yes vote; Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was second at $2.4 million, the same as Paul Ryan (R-WI). Fourth spot was $1.6 million for Pat Tiberi (R-OH), the same as Steny Hoyer (D-MD) who changed to nay and got only $282,710 for that vote. Other House members getting over $1 million for yes votes are Joe Crowley (D-NY), Patrick Murphy (D-FL), Richard Neal (D-MA).
For representatives who voted against the TPP, TPP lobbyists—security brokers, investment companies, and bankers—paid over $23 million to oppose them..
Information about the TPP:
With no currency provisions, the TPP will not help U.S. economy. Companies like Walmart and GE benefit from an over-valued dollar, since it allows them to buy and/or produce goods cheaply abroad.
Trade agreement will not increase the number of jobs in the U.S., but it increases barriers in copyright protection for drugs and Hollywood media and raises prices for drugs and media content.
The ballooning trade deficit from trade agreements weighs down economic growth and wages. For example, the agreement with South Korea increased U.S. exports by $1 billion while increasing imports by $12 billion. It cost the United States 75,000 jobs.
The TPP is weaker than the 2007 deals with Peru, Panama, and Columbia.
The TPP allows corporations to sue sovereign governments–such as the United States–for monetary damages in what companies perceive as “expected future profits.”
Only corporations can sue governments; workers don’t have that right.
In seeking to “harmonize” regulations, trade agreements set a regulatory ceiling that will, as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said, “punch holes in Dodd-Frank without directly repealing it,” by forcing regulators to roll back capital or leverage requirements. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Congress, “Normally in a trade agreement, the pressure is to lower standards [on regulations] and that’s something that we just think is not acceptable.” President Obama may try to hold the line, but a future GOP president will definitely use trade deals to further undermine regulations.
Weak “rule of origin” guidelines allow China to import goods into TPP member countries without any tariffs, while freed from following any TPP regulations.
The TPP is a secret deal that most members of Congress have not gone to the effort to read. Even if they have, they are forbidden from telling anyone what is in the agreement.
President Obama’s claim that everyone opposing the TPP is just a “politician” overlooks the fact that the president, too, is a politician. The TPP gives nothing to the United States and erases progress, going so far as to replace parts of the constitution.
Congress Debates Unemployment Benefits
Tags: austerity, deficit, deficit reduction, Rand Ghayad, Rand Paul, U.S. economy, unemployment benefits
On December 28, 2014, the U.S. economy started losing a billion dollars each week. That was the date when 1.3 million no longer received unemployment benefits because they had been unemployed for over six months, and Congress refused to renew these benefits, an average of $256 per week per person. Within six months, another 1.9 million people may lose these benefits if no action is taken. People receiving these benefits will most likely spend the benefits immediately on services and goods.
This emergency unemployment compensation was first passed in 2008 when the unemployment rate was 5.6 percent and the average duration of unemployment was 17.1 weeks. Five years after George W. Bush signed the bill the rate is 7 percent, and the duration is 36 weeks. With the expiration of the law, unemployed people can collect benefits for only a maximum 26 weeks.
A bill to renew the emergency benefits was introduced by Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI) and Dean Heller (R-NV)—two states with the highest unemployment rate—and the Senate has determined it a priority, beginning today. Because of the severe weather, Senate Majority Leader postponed the vote until tomorrow when he hopes to have the necessary 60 votes.
The following map shows the likelihood of people losing benefits in each state until benefits are renewed. The darker the shading, the greater percentage of the population losing the benefits.
Every state but one—North Dakota—has added more people than jobs since the recession began, totalling 9.2 million jobs for the country. In 33 states, the difference between jobs and population is 5 percent or more. New Jersey takes the biggest hit with 1 percent of the state population losing benefits.
Eligibility and benefits are determined at the state level, meaning that unemployment benefits vary across the nation. This map shows the differences among different states:
The GOP members have several off-the-wall opinions of why they want to eliminate benefits. Some of them want to “get back to normal,” even though the fire of the recession has not been put out yet. They think that the country can be “normal” if they pretend it is. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) pretends that he is trying to get the unemployed back to work because employers discriminate against those who have been out of work for the longest times.
Paul has also been insulting to the unemployed by stating that they are unwilling to take lower-paid jobs below their skill level. The senator fails to understand that employers don’t want to hire well-educated people for jobs that don’t require this level of education because they think that the workers will leave as soon as they get a better job. Those who are unemployed for a longer period are also discriminated against because employers think that they don’t want a job or have lost their skills.
GOP theories of keeping the unemployed from having benefits are all debunked by legislative actions in North Carolina. Because this state cut off unemployment benefits earlier than any other state, North Carolina has shown that the result is a shrinking labor force. The unemployed have stopped looking for jobs because they don’t exist. Congress wants to do the same thing.
Paul used economist Rand Ghayad to prove his point, and Ghayad responded. “Paul cites my work on long-term unemployment as a justification – which surprised me, because it implies the opposite of what he says it does.” The economist further explained that good policy “requires more than a cursory or selective reading of the research.”
Ghayad writes in The Atlantic, “But just because companies discriminate against the long-term unemployed doesn’t mean long-term benefits are to blame. Paul might know that if he read beyond the first line of my paper’s abstract.” Again the economist’s explanation is the same as any reasonable thought, that only if people stopped looking for jobs would cutting benefits drop the unemployment rate. It might hide problems with the labor market, but it won’t cure them. The article concludes:
“A careful reading reveals we can be both hard-headed and warm-hearted in this holiday season.”
The tragedy of unemployment is the large number of people looking for jobs. Each single job averages three job seekers, and the number is much higher in cities. When two new Wal-Marts opened in Washington, D.C. last month, other 23,000 people applied for fewer than 600 jobs—about 40 job seekers per job. The elite GOP in Congress exhort the unemployed to look for lower-paying jobs: that’s what they’re doing at Wal-Mart.
The very people blaming people for unemployment are the ones who caused the problem. Eight months ago, the New York Times reported on how the Congressional austerity measures—those promoted by GOP lawmakers—have kept the unemployment rate from dropping another point. Without the austerity measures, the economic growth would also have most likely grown two additional points in the previous year. This information comes from both private sector and government economists. “Immediate deficit reduction is a drag on full economic recovery.”
The focus of GOP members of Congress was deficit reduction, and they succeeded. The deficit is shrinking faster than at any other time in the past 60 years. At the same time, however, the economy has not grown enough to provide sufficient employment. Spending cuts have reduced demand and taken capital out of the economy while people who could increase demand lost money through payroll tax increases when the breaks were eliminated. Solutions for unemployment: stop the sequestration cuts, invest in infrastructure, and extend federal aid to prevent the growing public-sector layoff.
When the GOP blocked the president’s American Jobs Act, they also blocked over one million jobs. Sequestration wiped out another 700,000 potential jobs. If the GOP had passed the jobs act and not the sequestration, 15 percent of the unemployed might now have jobs, lowering the unemployment rate below 6 percent.
Almost two months ago, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) distributed the House GOP agenda for 2014—a blank sheet of paper. We can be pretty sure that they will continue with their historic approach of avoidance and obstructionism.
GOP Government Shutdown: Some of the Damage
Tags: government shutdown, Teabag Party, U.S. economy
After inflicting pain on tens of millions of people in the United States and endangering our global standing, enough Republicans in the House voted against the shutdown to reopen all the agencies. The GOP House refused for six months to conference about the budget while the Democrats already agreed to fund the government at levels demanded by the GOP. Despite the wailing from the GOP, the U.S. deficit has steadily dropped since 2009 with a $450 billion decrease this year—at least until the GOP threatened to not raise the debt ceiling.
Only one issue was raised in the debacle—that of denying affordable health care to the working poor. By focusing on an area in which they knew they could not succeed, federal GOP legislators postponed dealing with any other issues such as immigration, gun control, and jobs for at least a month. They are simply stalling until the 2014 elections with the hope that they will then control both congressional chambers.
A majority of people aren’t opposed to the Affordable Care Act. One poll shows that 58 percent oppose Congress cutting off funding to stop Obamacare. CBS/NY Times found that 56 percent of voters want Congress to uphold the law, and a Gallup poll shows that 64 percent wants the Affordable Care Act kept as is or kept with some changes.
A summary of some damage that misguided, self-centered, controlling, bullying Republicans caused during the past three weeks:
Economy:
Spending: After surging to $95 in August, average self-reported daily spending in the U.S. fell back significantly in September to $84, the lowest level since February.
Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index: The drop of 12 points last week to -34 was the largest one-week drop since Lehman Brothers collapsed in five years ago before Barack Obama was elected. Americans’ economic outlook slid 17 points.
Small businesses: The shutdown of parks, monuments, and other federal lands was disastrous for all private tourism companies. Government-backed Small Business Administration loans are not being issued. [The shutdown also meant that the KKK could not have their rally at the Gettysburg National Park]
Real estate: Agents saw less business, and individuals could not get mortgages.
Farms: Lack of a farm bill hurt dairy families and cotton farming.
Fishing and king crab fishing boats: These boats are forced to stay docked without government approval of permits and quotas, costing Alaska fisherman potentially “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Biofuels standards: Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the man who claimed that immigrants have thighs the size of cantaloupes from running drugs, complained that the EPA could not just keep writing a standard that he wanted. Iowa leads the nation in corn-based ethanol production, a major contributor to King’s campaigns.
Acts of desperation: Sugar daddy websites, focusing on relationships that feature older men who spend lavishly on women, witnessed a spike in interest, attributed to young women losing government benefits.
Nuclear plants: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission furloughed 3,600 of its employees, roughly 90 percent of its workforce.
Border Control: Training stopped.
EPA: Cleanup on 62 percent of the nation’s Superfund sites was abandoned.
FDA: The food inspection program was stopped, amidst a salmonella outbreak.
NASA: The websites were pulled down, keeping the country from knowing weather dangers such as a hurricane headed toward Louisiana.
FEMA: After 86 percent of the agency’s employees were furloughed, areas of the country in dire need—such as the aftermath of the South Dakota—failed to receive any aid.
Fatal accidents: Investigation on these events, including the church bus accident in Tennessee that killed at least people and the fatal welding accident in the Washington, D.C. subway tunnel, stopped.
Pig virus monitoring: This program stopped.
Mining: Although corporations were allowed to continue drilling and logging on federal lands, there was no safety supervision or first-responders available. About 90 percent of the workers at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration were kept away from their jobs, as were most employees at the Mine Safety and Health Administration, at the same time that three coal miners were killed in equipment accidents.
Investigations: The Chemical Safety Board suspended its investigation of the April explosion of a fertilizer facility in West, Texas, and the board’s head said that it would have “no ability to respond” to a new chemical disaster.
Women, Children, & Families:
Food stamps: States discontinued payments to eligible families needing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
Heating assistance: The poor in some states will not receive this help if states have run out of money.
Child care subsidies: Some states ran out of money to provide these.
Department of Agriculture: The agency no longer supported the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program to help 9 million pregnant women and new mothers buy healthy food and provide nutritional information and health care referrals for the needy.
Domestic violence programs, Meals on Wheels, and food pantries: These programs suffered as people went hungry and abused victims had no access to shelter.
School children: The closure of some roads through the Great Smoky Mountains stopped children from taking buses to school. Head Start children could not attend school in many places.
Health care clinics: Some of these could not take on new patients or work with drug companies to get free medicine for indigent people.
Research/Statistics:
National Institutes of Health: The lab closures kept a seriously-ill, three-year-old boy from receiving a blood test until Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) stepped in to help. Promising treatment stopped for 30-year-old Michelle Langbehn, with Stage IV sarcoma.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Lack of information made the country more dangerous, and CDC could not participate in the flu vaccination program.
Other research: Furloughed researchers cannot continue their studies that often rely on time-important investigation—for example projects to study insects just as the pests are finding winter hiding places inside home. NOAA ships were sent back to port, pulled off their surveying research to help the fishing industry.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Court cases were delayed.
Furloughs: Over 800,000 “nonessential” people were pulled away from their responsibilities, and over 1.2 million “essential” federal employees worked without pay.
Veterans: They could not receive federal tuition assistance. All regional veterans’ offices wereclosed, and processing of any benefits, including health, were greatly slowed.
Survivors of military members who die since the shutdown began: Until a private group stepped in, families did not receive the “death gratuity” of $100,000 promised to immediately reach them within 24 to 36 hours and did not have their family travel covered to Dover Air Force Base where the bodies arrive in the U.S.
Native Americans: They could not receive scholarships, and others had nutrition programs, foster care payments, financial assistance for poor, and anti-elder-abuse programs cut.
Disabilities: The Social Security administration did not schedule new hearings for those applying for disability benefits, and the Veterans Appeal Board was closed, stopping veterans’ appealing decisions on disability benefits.
Surveillance:
The Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: This group could not convene to examine NSA’s surveillance problems.
Court cases: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and LinkedIn had to wait until the shutdown was over to see any movement on their lawsuits against the U.S. government over surveillance transparency.
Trade Accord: The skeletal staffs for government agencies stopped a trade accord with Europe.
The dollar: Slowing of the U.S. economy depreciates the dollar and causes the U.S. to lose competitiveness in Europe.
Foreign affairs: President Obama’s cancelation of his meeting with world leaders in Asia caused him to miss the opportunity to work with world leaders regarding Syria and Iran, thereby putting the U.S. at greater risk.
Russia: After federal websites shut down, other countries considered the adoption of U.S. websites. For example, the Russian Pirate Party offered to host NASA’s downed website during the U.S. shutdown. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration would have celebrated its 55th anniversary on the first day of the shutdown. The Pirate Party of Russia promotes e-democracy, the freedom of information, and the protection of personal privacy, operating on a monthly budget of $200.
It’s the tip of the iceberg, and the thugs in the Tea Party plan to start all over again in less than three months. They need to be stopped.
Dumb & Dumber – The Gop Party Can’t Quit
Tags: Bob Corker, Cherice Moralez, filibuster, G. Todd Baugh, George H.S. Bush, health insurance, hostage, Marco Rubio, Marriage equality, Obamacare, Stacey Rambold, Ted Cruz, U.S. economy
After Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got to make his long speech, ending yesterday, about defunding Obamacare, the Senate was supposed to vote on the Continuing Resolution. That didn’t happen, but lots of other things did.
The media had a field day comparing Cruz and the real Texas filibusterer Wendy Davis, who fought draconian anti-women state laws. Cruz is “aimless and self-destructive” (New York Times editorial board), elitist (GQ), and likely guided more by presidential aspirations than principles (CNN). Josh Marshall, the editor and publisher of Talking Points Memo, called Cruz, his former Princeton colleague, an “arrogant jerk” — and worse.
Davis, Texas state senator, was the subject of a glowing Vogue profile and became a superstar on almost every major network. She was the “Sunday Spotlight” for ABC’s This Week and was interviewed by Jeff Zeleny in the dinner theater where she once waited tables. Even conservative columnist Peggy Noonan described Davis as “so spirited, she has such energy and she seems to have such commitment.” As Dylan Byers wrote on Politico, “When a Democrat like Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis filibusters against abortion restrictions, she is elevated to hero status, her tennis shoes become totems. When Cruz grandstands against Obamacare, he is a laughingstock in the eyes of many journalists on Twitter, an “embarrassment” in the eyes of The New York Times editorial board.”
Since Cruz’s speech, Huffington Post has discovered that he doesn’t accept government health insurance because his wife’s employment as a regional head of a Goldman Sachs division gives him top-notch health insurance. According to a 2009 New York Times report, top executive officers and managing directors at the bank participate in a health care program that costs Goldman more than $40,000 in annual premiums for each participant’s family.
After yesterday’s vote to move ahead on the Continuing Resolution to keep the government functioning past this coming Monday, GOP greed bogged down the process into inaction by demanding a bizarre set of conditions. Without these, they plan to shut down the government and send the economy into a tailspin. Originally conservatives (aka Tea Partiers to right) just wanted to defund Obamacare, but their list has vastly expanded just five days before the U.S. shuts down:
Approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline: After 3,900 temporary jobs, the pipeline from Alberta’s tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast would support 35 permanent and 15 temporary jobs. Annual emissions would be “the equivalent of 6 million cars on the road,” according to the EPA.
Weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: The GOP has had a strong yen to promote predatory lending practices from banks and financial institutions.
Cut $120 billion from federal health programs over the next decade:. In addition to repealing other benefits for health reform, this would increase Medicare costs.
Increase offshore oil drilling and energy production on federal lands: The GOP wants to have new drilling on the entire U.S. Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast off Southern California, and much of Alaska’s offshore space despite the fact that Congress refuses to make drilling safer after the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Block federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions: In 2007 the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide under the 1973 Clean Air Act. With the discovery that exposure to air pollution kills about 200,000 people a year, the GOP wants to reverse the EPA control. Up to 3 million premature deaths could be avoided each year globally by 2100 if aggressive emissions cuts are made.
Restrict most forms of federal industry regulation: The GOP wants all major regulations to need Congressional votes and nullify any not approved within 70 days. Such a law would require federal agencies to have Congressional approval for changes in vehicle safety standards, reductions in greenhouse emissions, or streamlining the FDA’s process for approving new drugs.
Pass a tax-reform blueprint that the GOP finds acceptable.
Block any ways to combat climate crisis.
Eliminate Net Neutrality for a free and open Internet.
Extend destructive sequestration spending cuts.
Execute pro-corporatre tort reforms, including limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.
Ban abortions after 20 weeks.
And there may be more! Meanwhile Democrats are asking for nothing except to keep the country functioning.
More Republicans are angry about the behavior of the ultra-conservative legislators. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) lambasted Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) after they refused to agree to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) request to move up a cloture vote on a continuing resolution funding the government from Friday to Thursday evening. Corker argued that the Senate should act as soon as possible in order to give their House colleagues more time to avert a government shutdown, criticizing Cruz for putting on a “show” meant to attract attention instead. Corker said:
“It’s my understanding again, relative to this vote tonight happening tomorrow instead, is that my two colleagues, who I respect, have sent out e-mails around the world and turned this into a show possibly, and, therefore, they want people around the world to watch maybe them and others on the Senate floor.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is also having a worse week than usual. Because U.S. senators present names to the president for appeals court potential nominees, Rubio and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-FL) are responsible for suggesting qualified professionals to serve on federal district courts in their state. They selected Judge William Thomas after subjecting him to a background check. President Obama’s team agreed, and Thomas was headed to be the first openly gay black man to serve as a federal judge. Rubio has now announced his opposition to the judicial nominee he selected for the position. Without the approval of both senators, Thomas has lost the nomination. Rubio must still want to be the 2016 GOP presidential candidate.
The GOP also had a bad day yesterday after the Inspector’ General’s Office issued a report that there was no bias in the independent audit of the attack in Benghazi, contrary to the claims from Republican legislators. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has spent much of his political capital for the last year to prove that the State Department was trying to protect then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The report was overseen by Acting Inspector General Harold Geisel, assigned to his role by Condoleezza Rice in 2008, and calls for GOP attacks on the Benghazi audit to stop.
Today is also the day that admitted rapist and former high school teacher Stacey “Sandy” Rambold, 54, walked out of the Montana State Prison after his 31-day sentence for raping 14-year-old Cherice Moralez. That was in 2007, three years after the school district that employed him had told him not to touch or be alone with female students.
After the legal process of convicting him, District Judge G. Todd Baugh, said, “He’d suffered enough.” At the same sentencing, he said the victim, Cherice Moralez, was “older than her chronological age.” In response to public outcry, Baugh added, “Obviously a 14-year-old can’t consent.” But he continued that this wasn’t “some violent, forcible, horrible rape.” It wasn’t, said the judge, “this forcible beat-up rape.” He also stated that the 14-year-old was “as much in control of the situation” as the 49-year-old teacher.
In an almost incoherent defense of his actions, Baugh told the Billings Gazette:
“I think what people are seeing is a sentence for rape of 30 days. Obviously on the face of it, if you look at it in that way, it’s crazy. No wonder people are upset. I’d be upset, too, if that happened.”
Judge Baugh made it happen.
Just before her 17th birthday, Moralez, tormented by classmates, killed herself with a gun. After her suicide, the prosecution made a “deferred prosecution agreement” with Rambold. All charges, including the one to which Rambold admitted, would be dismissed if he completed a sex-offender treatment program and met other requirements including no contact with children. When the rapist failed to meet the conditions of the agreement, prosecutors asked the judge for a 20-year sentence. Baugh ruled that Rambold’s violations “were more technical and not the kind you would send someone to prison for.”
Hanlon said the pain of her daughter’s death hasn’t faded. Rambold made unauthorized visits with relatives’ children and failed to disclose he was in a sexual relationship with a Washington woman.
State prosecutors are appealing the sentence, claiming that Montana’s state law requires a minimum sentence of two years for Rambold. With no new offenses, however, he will stay out of prison pending the appeal which could take 12 to 18 months. Unless the original sentence if overruled, Rambold must register as a sex offender and stay on probation until 2028.
A formal complaint to remove Baugh from the bench for alleged bias is pending before the state Judicial Standards Commission.
If Baugh’s reaction were unique, it would be horrifying. But even worse, this is a common event. Defense lawyers used the same defense for a juvenile detention guard in Louisiana when he raped a 14-year-old girl in his care. The case won’t be heard again until March 24, 2014, because of a crowded court docket. In 2000, a South Caroline Circuit judge cut a 27-year-old youth minister’s sentence in half to six years because the 14-year-old girl’s body “was [at] an unusual stage of maturity.”
Last weekend, former President George H.W. Bush was the official witness at the wedding between Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen, long-time friends of the Bushes. It was reported that the Bushes gave the newly-weds Target bake-ware as a gift.
Good News for President Obama
Tags: consumer sentiment, deficit, government spending, home equity, oil production, speculation, stimulus, stock market, U.S. economy, unemployment
While Mitt Romney and other Republicans find it vital to point out the fallacies of President Obama’s policies and actions, the conservatives determinedly ignore the way that the current administration is bringing the country out of the disasters that George W. Bush and the other neocons brought onto the United States. Here’s a sampling:
U.S. consumer sentiment rose up from 78.3 to 83.1 this month, its highest in five years, shortly after the U.S. unemployment rate tumbled to its lowest in nearly four years.
During George W. Bush’s rule, the stock market crashed, and trillions of dollars of private wealth were erased with the market bottoming out at 6,547 in early 2009. Now the stocks have rebounded to almost twice that, closing out last week at 13,329.
A boom in oil production within the United States has the country on a course to cut its reliance on imported crude oil to about 42 percent this year, the lowest level in two decades. Republicans claim that the president’s energy policies drive up the prices because of shortages and regulations, but the reason behind inflated prices is speculation. The CEO of Exxon-Mobil, Rex Tillerson, told a Senate hearing last year that this speculation was driving up the price of a barrel of oil by as much as 40%.
For a while Mitt Romney was using the “are you better off than you were four years ago” question to put down what President Obama has accomplished during his term. Here are some differences.
When the economy was in a tail spin in early 2009, the auto industry was on pace to sell 9.3 vehicles that year. Now, GM is coming back, Chrysler is solid, and Ford Motors is on a roll; September car sales in the U.S. reached a 14.88-million annual pace.
By the end of the first quarter of 2009, $16 trillion in home equity had been erased through bad bank methods. Now, home prices are heading up, and home equity has rebounded more than $11.5 trillion.
By February 2008, ten days after the current president took his oath of office, the unemployment had shot up from 5 percent the year before to 8.3 percent. In less than nine months, the unemployment rate topped out at 10 percent. Now the unemployment rate is 7.8 percent, still high but consistently declining.
Compare the current unemployment situation to that of President Reagan, patron saint of the conservatives. Ten days before he took office, the unemployment rate was 7.4 percent; nineteen months later it peaked at 10.8 percent in November 1982. By the time, Reagan started his second term, it had fallen to 7.3 percent, just 0.1 percent of recovery in four years. That’s only 20 percent of what the current president has managed in less time.
Obama inherited a deficit of nearly $1.3 trillion from Bush/Cheney the moment he took the oath of office, a deficit that he has dropped $200 billion this year, the smallest deficit in four years, despite the Republican policies that drive the deficit.
Although the conservatives refuse to admit that the 2009 stimulus benefited the country, “facts matter,” to quote VP Joe Biden.
Although the Romney campaign constantly likes about how much the government has spent during the past four years, it is actually the Republican presidents that spend far more. As the chart shows, only Bill Clinton spent less during the last half century.
The above chart also shows how unemployment claims grew during the last part of George W. Bush’s rule, only to start shrinking after President Obama’s inauguration.
When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, the nation had a large surplus and was on track to pay off the entirety of its debt, roughly $5 trillion at the time, by the end of the decade. After their election, Bush/Cheney went on a binge, charging the costs of two wars, two tax cuts, Medicare expansion, and a Wall Street bailout with no idea of how to pay for them except to accuse the next Democratic president of having an enormous deficit. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) described the Bush/Cheney era as a time when the GOP decided “it was standard practice not to pay for things.”
It’s against this backdrop that the Romney-Ryan ticket intends to pass trillions in additional tax cuts, increase defense spending, increase entitlement spending, and destroy health care reform, a move that would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the debt. Once again the Republicans want to further bankrupt the United States.
In fact, Ryan has already contributed a grand total of $6.8 trillion to the federal debt during his time in Congress, voting for at least 65 bills that either reduced revenue or increased spending. It’s horrifying to imagine what he would do if he were give more control than he has had as one person out of 435 representatives in the House.
Aside: William Koch is facing a federal lawsuit for allegedly and illegally imprisoning and interrogating an employee. Kirby Martenson, a former executive for a number of Koch subsidiary companies, claims that he was fired, imprisoned, and interrogated for an excessive amount of time at the Old West ghost town replica that Koch built recently. Check out the entire story here.
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SWELLING PORTFOLIO
By Keith J. Kelly
JOANNE Lipman, the editor-in-chief of Condé Nast Portfolio, and David Carey, the magazine’s president and publisher, were on the road in Boston yesterday.
And although they were traveling together, it appears each faces a very different road.
Carey seems to be sitting pretty, while Lipman is sweating it out.
Earlier this week, Carey wrapped up the December issue with 111.3 ad pages. That comes after a 185 ad-page debut in April, followed by 121.2 in September, 117.9 in October and 108.2 in November. That’s 643.6 ad pages at a time when other business magazines are struggling.
“It’s the second-biggest five-issue launch for a magazine behind, O, The Oprah Magazine in 2000,” said Carey. “Advertisers are clearly voting in favor of monthly magazines with great production values where their ads look great.”
According to Media Industry Newsletter, through mid-October, Forbes was down 2.94 percent in ad pages, while Fortune was down 16.28 percent and BusinessWeek was down 17.29 percent.
Lipman, meanwhile, is battling negative press associated with the resignation of Portfolio.com Managing Editor Chris Jones, the latest in a string of top-level departures on the magazine’s editorial staff.
Women’s Wear Daily broke the news that he had told the staff on Wednesday, but other sources said he had given his resignation to Lipman anywhere from two weeks ago to one month ago, but had been asked to remain quiet until a replacement was found.
As word began leaking out, Lipman sent a midnight e-mail to staffers – which, of course, was promptly posted on Gawker.com. Lipman’s e-mail told staff to ignore the negative stuff in the press and that everything was going smoothly.
In fact, the magazine has about 150 staffers, including about 90 on the magazine and Web site, and only six have left. But the departures have been high-profile people, including Lipman’s No. 2 Jim Impoco, a magazine veteran who was fired as deputy editor. Michael Caruso, who was listed as a contributing editor but worked on major features and cover stories, also exited.
Several high-profile writers, including Katrina Brooker and Kurt Eichenwald have also left for one reason or another, and there are rumors more are on the way.
Jones was also told that he was going to have to start vetting his projects through Ed Felsen thal, a former top editor at The Wall Street Journal who recently signed on as a consultant. And there were rumblings that Jones, an ex-Yahoo! guy, was going to have to report to Ari Brandt, another Yahoo! alum who now works on Portfolio’s business side.
“He hated Brandt,” said one source, who said Jones quit without a new job in place. He “has been unhappy for a while and when it looked like Lipman was going to get more involved in the Web, that was the last straw.”
Staffers continue to complain about Lipman’s management style. One insider says she changes her mind often on story ideas – and doesn’t seem to remember.
When reached via e-mail, Lipman said of Jones, “He’s done a great job building and launching portfolio.com – which is exactly what he came here to do.”
She said Jones will stay through the end of November to help with the transition.
Lipman, who was a top editor at the Journal, took issue with criticism of there being a Journal clique at the magazine.
“On the print side, we continue to attract top talent,” she said. “We’ve brought on more than a dozen experienced writers and editors since September, from publications including The New Yorker, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Details and The Los Angeles Times.
Some entrepreneurs still have faith in magazines, despite the gloomy assessments.
Here’s a rundown on three publications that have launched or are about to launch in the weeks ahead.
* Manhattan Media, the folks who in August purchased New York Press and last year launched City Hall, are next month introducing The Capitol, a new monthly newspaper covering the Albany political scene from Gov. Spitzer on down.
It’s part of a strategy by Tom Allon, the CEO of Manhattan Media, to keep political publications profitable – and local.
“The model is politics, policy and personalities,” said Allon. “It’s a good combination of public policy and bills that are in the Legislature and the people who are in government.”
The new newspaper will be modeled after City Hall, a paper that Manhattan Media launched last year to cover city politics. City Hall was modeled after the popular D.C. political weekly, The Hill, where Allon cut his teeth.
Allon’s already skimping on the cost of an editor. Edward-Isaac Dovere, who is already editing City Hall, will be the editor of The Capitol, which will have a staff of four or five full-time reporters and editors.
* ZS Publishing on Nov. 15 will begin publishing Jewish Living, a bimonthly lifestyle magazine.
Daniel Zimmerman, president and publisher of this start-up, got the idea for the magazine one December day when he noticed all of the red and green that adorned magazines such as Martha Stewart Living and O, The Oprah Magazine.
But when he got to the Jewish magazines, he noticed very serious, weighty topics – such as Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians – and nothing about Judaism’s holiday celebrations.
“It wasn’t the first time that I felt like the only kid without a Christmas tree,” he said.
So Zimmerman, who moved down from Canada where he was an advertising executive, raised about $4 million from an undisclosed number of Canadian investors to finance the magazine’s launch. He’s also teamed up with his wife Carol Moskot, who is now the magazine’s creative director.
The first issue will have a $4.99 cover price and a circulation of 100,000.
Zimmerman said he joined with the United Jewish Appeal in several cities, including Baltimore, Toronto and West Palm Beach, Fla., to have copies distributed through the organization’s branches in those cities.
* Charlotte, N.C.-based Easter Post Publishing Co., which owns a number of small newspapers, will soon begin publishing Gardens & Gun.
Rebecca Darwin, a publishing veteran of The New Yorker, is the magazine’s publisher and president, and just this week landed another transplanted Southerner, Sid Evans, to be the new editor-in-chief.
Evans was the editor-in-chief of Field & Stream, once a Time Inc.-owned magazine that is now part of Bonnier Publications.
“I hate to be leaving Field & Stream, but this is just too good an opportunity to pass up,” he said.
keith.kelly@nypost.com
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Samoa US Consular Information Sheet
Samoa consists of the two large islands of Upolu and Savai’i and seven small islets. The country has a stable parliamentary democracy with a developing economy. To Read More Show Less
rist facilities are accessible by bus, taxi and car and are within walking distance of access roads. Infrastructure is adequate in Apia, the capital, but it is limited in other areas. Nearly all Internet connections use a relatively slow dial-up method. Samoa has two digital telephone service providers, and visitors can easily purchase prepaid phones that cover virtually the entire country. The Samoa Tourism Authority, at http://www.visitsamoa.ws/, provides a wide range of information of interest to travelers. Read the Department of State Background Notes on Samoa for additional information.
U.S. nationals who are not U.S. citizens, and who are resident in American Samoa, must obtain a visitor permit prior to all travel to Samoa. U.S. nationals have not been permitted to travel to Samoa on certificates of identity since May 2005 except on a case by case basis. (U.S. law distinguishes between individuals who are citizens and those who are nationals. The U.S. passport bio-page shows one’s status as either a citizen or a non-citizen national.) As of March 22, 2006, visitor permits to travel to Samoa can be applied for at the new Samoa Consulate General office in Pago Pago, American Samoa. A valid passport and an onward/return ticket are required for all Americans (both citizens and nationals) to travel to Samoa. Visitor permits are not required for U.S. citizens (only for U.S. nationals) seeking to stay in Samoa for up to 60 days. All visitors are required to pay a departure tax of 40 Tala (approximately 17.50 USD) upon leaving the country. Further information about entry requirements and the departure tax may be obtained from the Samoa Mission to the United Nations at 800-2nd Avenue, Suite 400J, New York, NY 10017, telephone (212) 599-6196, fax (212) 599-0797. Visit the Embassy ofSamoa web site at http://www2.un.int/public/Samoa/ for the most current visa information.
In Apia and many villages, stray dogs wander the streets. Visitors should not approach or feed them; they can become aggressive in the presence of food or if they feel threatened.
Although there have been no major accidents involving the ferry service linking Upolu and Savai’i, vessels are sometimes overloaded. One of the ferries, a multi-deck automobile ferry, sometimes transports passengers on its automobile deck. Americans who choose to use this ferry are encouraged not to remain in the automobile deck during the crossing and to ride only in the passenger compartment in order to avoid injury from shifting vehicles.
Samoa has numerous “blowholes” (lava tubes open to the sea where wave action produces, often spectacular, geysers). These blowholes are popular tourist attractions. The footing around the mouths of most blowholes is very slippery. To avoid being swept in, visitors should not approach too closely and should never stand between the opening of the blowhole and the sea.
Snorkeling and diving in ocean lagoons is a popular activity for many visitors to Samoa. Tide changes can produce powerful currents in these lagoons. Visitors are encouraged to consult local residents and tour operators about hazards and conditions at a particular location before venturing into the water.
The Department of State urges American citizens to take responsibility for their own personal security while traveling overseas. For general information about appropriate measures travelers can take to protect themselves in an overseas environment, see the Department of State’s pamphlet A Safe Trip Abroad.
Overall, Samoa is considered a low threat environment. Nevertheless, visitors should remain aware of their surroundings, lock their doors at night, and not leave their belongings unattended. Incidents of petty theft/robberies of personal effects are common. Some such incidents have involved residential break-ins. While rare, violent assaults, including sexual assaults have occurred in Samoa. No specific groups have been targeted, nor have there been any racially motivated or hate crimes against Americans. Police responsiveness in Apia is generally good. Because of the very limited police presence elsewhere in Samoa (where order is maintained primarily by local village authorities), police responsiveness elsewhere is problematic.
Health care facilities in Samoa are adequate for routine medical treatment, but are limited in range and availability; complex illnesses and life-threatening emergencies generally need to be treated elsewhere. Dental facilities do not meet U.S. standards, but good dental treatment and some emergency care can be obtained nearby at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The national hospital and a small private hospital are located in Apia, and there are several small district hospitals on Savai'i and in outlying areas of Upolu. There are no hyperbaric chambers on any of the islands for the treatment of scuba diving related injuries. Serious cases of decompression sickness are evacuated to the nearest treatment center in Suva, Fiji, or Auckland, New Zealand. Serious medical conditions and treatments that require hospitalization and/or medical evacuation to the United States can cost thousands of dollars. Travelers should carry emergency evacuation insurance. Doctors and hospitals often expect immediate cash payment for health services. There is no reported incidence of malaria or rabies in Samoa. Occasional outbreaks of typhoid and non-hemorrhagic dengue do occur.
Information on vaccinations and other health precautions, such as safe food and water precautions and insect bite protection, may be obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s hotline for international travelers at 1-877-FYI-TRIP (1-877-394-8747) or via the CDC’s web site at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx. For information about outbreaks of infectious diseases abroad consult the World Health Organization’s (WHO) web site at http://www.who.int/en. Further health information for travelers is available at http://www.who.int/ith/en.
While in a foreign country, U.S. citizens may encounter road conditions that differ significantly from those in the United States. The information below concerning Samoa is provided for general reference only, and may not be totally accurate in a particular location or circumstance.
Safety of public transportation and rural road conditions in Samoa, are considered fair, while urban road conditions/maintenance is considered good. Taxis in particular are widely available and used by Samoans and visitors alike; buses are slow, generally crowded and uncomfortable, and rarely utilized by visitors. Rental cars can also be obtained. No roadside assistance is available. Most major roads are tar-sealed, but secondary roads are predominantly dirt and gravel and may be overgrown with vegetation. A four-wheel drive vehicle is recommended for travel on these roads. Travelers should be aware that vehicle safety regulations are rarely enforced and traffic violations occur routinely. Roads outside Apia are often narrow, winding, relatively steep, with narrow or no shoulders, and poorly lighted. Pedestrians as well as vehicles and livestock regularly travel these roads. Due to poor and deteriorating road conditions, night driving on unlit rural roads can be dangerous and should be avoided if possible. Roads in Samoa often traverse small streams. Drivers are urged to exercise extreme caution when fording these streams, which can become swollen and dangerous with little warning. Vehicles should never enter a stream if the roadbed is not visible or if the water’s depth exceeds the vehicle’s clearance.
Speed limits in Samoa are 25 miles per hour in the Apia area and 35 miles per hour outside Apia, with certain exceptions. At unmarked intersections, traffic on the left has the right of way. As in the United States, vehicular traffic moves on the right side of the road; although right-hand-drive vehicles (mainly from New Zealand) do exist in Samoa. Importing right hand drive vehicles to Samoa is currently legally forbidden.
Please refer to our Road Safety page for more information. Visit the web site of the country’s national tourist office at Samoa Tourism Authority at http://www.visitsamoa.ws/.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has assessed the Government ofSamoa’s Civil Aviation Authority as being in compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) aviation safety standards for oversight of Samoa’s air carrier operations. For more information, travelers may visit the FAA’s web site at http://www.faa.gov/safety/programs_initiatives/oversight/iasa.
Some overseas treatment centers, known as Behavior Modification Facilities, operate in Samoa. Though these facilities may be operated and staffed by U.S. citizens, the Samoan government is solely responsible for compliance with local safety, health, sanitation and educational laws and regulations, including all licensing requirements of the staff in country. These standards, if any, may not be strictly enforced or meet the standards of similar facilities in the U.S. Parents should be aware that U.S. citizens and non-citizen nationals 14 years of age and older have a right to apply for a passport and to request repatriation assistance from the U.S. government, both without parental consent. Any U.S. citizen or non-citizen enrollee has the right to contact a representative from the U.S. Embassy. For further information, consult the Department of State's Fact Sheet on Behavior Modification Facilities, available via the Bureau of Consular Affairs home page. Parents may also contact the U.S. Embassy in Apia or the country officer in the Office of American Citizens Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs at 202-647-5226.
Although some businesses (especially those in Apia or those frequented by tourists) do accept credit cards, many (including gas stations) do not. Major credit cards (Visa, Master Card, and American Express) are accepted at major hotels and some restaurants and stores. Samoan currency can be obtained from ATMs, which are located in Faleolo Airport and in many locations in Apia. For more information on ATM locations and banking services see ANZ web site at http://www.anz.com/samoa/overview.asp and WESTPAC web site at http://www.westpac.com.ws/pacific/publish.nsf/Content/PFSA+HomePage.
Disaster Preparedness: Samoa is located in an area of high seismic activity. Although the probability that a major earthquake would occur during an individual trip is remote, earthquakes can and will continue to happen. Major cyclones have occurred in the past and are always a concern. Strong winds and very heavy rains are common, especially during the rainy season from November to April. During this period, Samoa receives most of its annual average of over 130 inches of rain. General information about natural disaster preparedness is available via the Internet from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) web site at http://www.fema.gov/.
Customs: Samoa customs authorities may enforce strict regulations concerning temporary importation into or export from Samoa of items such as firearms, fruits, pets and other animals, and drugs. It is advisable to contact the Samoan Mission to the United Nations at 800 2nd Avenue, Suite 400J, New York, NY 10017, telephone (212) 599-6196 for specific information regarding customs requirements. Please see our Customs Information.
While in a foreign country, a U.S. citizen is subject to that country's laws and regulations, which sometimes differ significantly from those in the United States and may not afford the protections available to the individual under U.S. law. Penalties for breaking the law can be more severe than in the United States for similar offenses. Persons violating Samoa’s laws, even unknowingly, may be expelled, arrested or imprisoned. Penalties for possession, use, or trafficking in illegal drugs in Samoa are severe, and convicted offenders can expect long jail sentences and heavy fines. Engaging in sexual conduct with children or using or disseminating child pornography in a foreign country is a crime, prosecutable in the United States. Please see our information on Criminal Penalties.
Samoa is not a member of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. For information see our Office of Children’s Issues web pages on intercountry adoption and international parental child abduction.
Americans living or traveling in Samoa are encouraged to register with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate through the State Department’s travel registration web site so that they can obtain updated information on travel and security withinSamoa. Americans without Internet access may register directly with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate. By registering, American citizens make it easier for the Embassy or Consulate to contact them in case of emergency. The U.S. Embassy is located in the Accident Compensation Board (ACB) Building, Fifth Floor, Apia. The Embassy is open to the public from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday. The Embassy's mailing address is U.S. Embassy, P.O. Box 3430, Apia, Samoa 0815. The telephone numbers are (685) 21436/21631/22696 and 21452. The fax number is (685) 22030. An Embassy officer can be reached after hours in an emergency involving the welfare of a U.S. citizen or non-citizen national at (685) 21514 or (685) 777-1776. Visit the U.S. Embassy’s web site at http://samoa.usembassy.gov/.
This replaces the Consular Information Sheet (now known as Country Specific Information) dated May 21, 2007, to update sections on Country Description and Crime.
Report of Dengue situation in American Samoa
Disease Dengue Fever American Samoa - 2 years ago
American Samoa. 8 Mar 2017.
(susp) as of mid-February 30 cases of Dengue.
<http://www.mvariety.com/regional-news/93558-american-samoa-declares-health-emergency-over-dengue>
A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map showing the location of American Samoa in the Pacific can be accessed at <http://healthmap.org/promed/p/380>
and a map of the island at <http://www.nationsonline.org/maps/tutuila-island-map.jpg>. - ProMED Mod.TY
American Samoan authorities continue to report cases of Chikungunya as now numbers reach 626
Disease Chikungunya Virus American Samoa - 5 years ago
Date: Sat 20 Sep 2014
Source: Radio New Zealand [edited]
<http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/255101/chikungunya-still-spreading-in-samoa>
Latest figures from Samoa's Ministry of Health show an increase of suspected and confirmed cases of chikungunya [virus infections] from 400 to 626 since the outbreak of the acute fever, rash and joint pain disease was reported in July [2014].
However, the ministry says so far presentation of the main signs and symptoms of those affected have largely been mild.
The highest number of people affected is recorded in the districts of Vaimauga west in the urban area with 151 cases; Faleata east, 139 cases; and 113 in Faleata west. The majority of patients is young.
In American Samoa, the chikungunya outbreak is on the wane. Health officials say there are now 823 probable cases of the mosquito-borne illness, with 15 people requiring hospital care.
[The chikungunya outbreak continues to grow in Samoa, from 269 cases reported on 25 Aug 2014 to 433 reported on 8 Sep 2014 and now to 626 cases. One hopes that a prompt and aggressive clean up of breeding sites will reduce the vector mosquito population enough to halt, or at least reduce, transmission.
On 26 Jul 2014, it was reported that American Samoa had about 100 cases, with 3 laboratory confirmed as chikungunya virus infections (see ProMED-mail archive no. 20140727.2638925). This is a sharp outbreak, with over 700 cases in a little over one month, apparently peaking at 823 probable cases reported above. Once introduced into American Samoa, spread of the virus is not surprising, because it has had dengue virus transmission in the past, and the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue viruses can transmit chikungunya virus as well.
A map showing the location of Samoa in the Pacific Ocean can be accessed at <http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/oceania/wsnewz.gif>. A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map showing the location of both Samoa and American Samoa in the Pacific Ocean can be accessed at <http://healthmap.org/promed/p/380>. - ProMed Mod.TY]
Now over 700 cases of Chikungunya reported in American Samoa
Date: Mon 9 Sep 2014
<http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/253977/chikungunya-related-cases-reach-over-700-in-american-samoa
The latest reports from American Samoa reveal that chikungunya-related [febrile] cases have now reached over 700, and there is now one probable case in Ofu, Manua. The virus was discovered in the territory in July 2014, but there have been no reported cases in Manua until now.
Health officials are urging residents not to travel to Manua if they have chikungunya, and testing is being done to determine whether the case in Ofu is due to the virus. Since July 2014, there have been 11 hospitalisations with the virus but no deaths.
Health officials continue to urge those with symptoms to drink plenty of fluids, get a lot of rest, and visit the emergency department if symptoms become serious.
[On 26 Jul 2014, it was reported that American Samoa had about 100 cases, with 3 laboratory confirmed as chikungunya virus infections (see ProMED-mail archive no. 20140727.2638925). This is a sharp outbreak, with over 700 cases in a little over one month. Once introduced into American Samoa, spread of the virus is not surprising, because it has had dengue virus transmission in the past, and the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue viruses can transmit chikungunya virus as well.
A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map showing the location of American Samoa in the Pacific Ocean can be accessed at
<http://healthmap.org/promed/p/380>. - ProMed Mod.TY]
Reports on Chikungunya in American Samoa on Tutuila Island
Date: Tue 5 Aug 2014
Source: Radio New Zealand International [edited]
<http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/251430/300-plus-chikungunyah-cases-in-american-samoa>
The American Samoan Department of Health says there are now more than 300 confirmed cases of chikungunya or 'chik' virus in the territory.
The Health Director Motusa Tuileama Nua says his department and LBJ hospital have confirmed the outbreak of fever, rashes, and joint pains among people on the main island of Tutuila is due to chikungunya.
He says there have been 343 recorded cases, with 6 patients hospitalised and no deaths, since the beginning of July [2014].
He recommends those who are ill with fever and body aches do not travel off island.
Communicated by:
Roland Hubner
Superior Health Council
roland.hubner@sante.belgique.be
[CHIKV has been circulating in Pacific islands this year (2014).
Maps showing the location of American Samoa in the Pacific Ocean can be accessed at
<http://trendspig.com/static/80a8247f628c3b2803bf41bafba06618.gif> and
American Samoa: confirmed
Date: Fri 8 Aug 2014
Source: Samoa News [edited]
<http://www.samoanews.com/content/en/doh-lbj-now-offering-chik-virus-hotline>
The American Samoa Department of Health and the LBJ hospital have created a 24 hour a day hotline for the CHIK virus. The CHIK hotline number is 731-7511.
The Health Alert issued yesterday [7 Aug 2014] confirms chikungunya (CHIK) virus as the cause of fever, rash, and joint pains outbreak on Tutuila and there have been more than 390 recorded cases, with 7 patients hospitalized and no deaths since 1 Jul 2014.
According to the health alert, there is no cure for CHIK virus [infection, and] it can usually be treated at home by drinking lots of fluids, taking pain medicine like Tylenol, ibuprofen, or Aleve as needed but only as much and with cautions as recommended on the package.
The health alert urges not to work while your joints are painful, let them rest and apply ice or cold packs on the joints and this may protect against prolonged joint pain.
DOH notes you should go to the Emergency Room to see a doctor if symptoms persist more than 10 days, or if you have bleeding from any part of the body or bruised skin. Call the hotline "or come to the ER or clinic if you are worried about your condition getting worse."
The alert once again urges that people stay indoors in air-con, behind screens, or under bed nets while you are ill, because if you are bitten by mosquitoes while you are ill, you can spread the disease to your family and neighbors.
For travelers, the DOH urges those who are ill not to travel off island, including to Manu'a. "If you travel and become ill when you arrive, tell the doctor who sees you that you may have been exposed to the CHIK virus." [Byline: B. Chen]
[Interestingly, the 5 Aug 2014 report above indicated that there were 343 reported cases, and in the subsequent report of 8 Aug 2014 above, that number has increased to 390 cases, indicating that transmission of CHIK virus is continuing. - ProMed Mod.TY]
Samoa: suspected cases
Source: Island Business [edited]
<http://www.islandsbusiness.com/news/samoa/5980/acute-fever-and-rash-outbreak-declared-in-samoa-tw/>
Samoa's Ministry of Health has reported 2 deaths from acute fever and rash, saying it is now an outbreak. A press statement from the Director General, Leausa Toleafoa Dr Take Naseri, says there have been 21 recorded cases as of earlier this week with 4 people hospitalised.
The cases are suspected to be chikungunya virus, similar to dengue fever, but results are yet to be confirmed and 3 children and one man have been admitted to the intensive care unit.
The ministry says collaboration with other government agencies, and media campaigns, aim to raise awareness of the outbreak and help its containment.
Samoa has also sought assistance from the Ministry of Health's development partners including the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and the World Health Organisation.
In neighbouring American Samoa, there have been more than 300 confirmed cases of chikungunya.
[This is the 1st ever ProMED-mail report of a chikungunya outbreak in Samoa. Concerning the current outbreak, it would be unusual to have 2 deaths from chikungunya virus infections of a total of 21 recorded cases. One explanation for the high proportion of fatal cases could be significant underreporting of non-fatal cases. No mention is made indicating that there were contributory underlying medical conditions in these 2 fatal cases. ProMED-mail will be interested in receiving results of the laboratory tests when they become available.
Maps showing the location of Samoa in the Pacific Ocean can be accessed at
<http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/oceania/wsnewz.gif> and
at <http://healthmap.org/promed/p/2>. - ProMed Mod.TY]
26 ill with Amoebic Dysentery in American Samoa
Disease Amoebic Dysentery American Samoa - 5 years ago
Date: Wed 14 May 2014
<http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/244374/amoebic-dysentery-outbreak-in-american-samoa>
Health officials in American Samoa are warning the public about an amoebic dysentery outbreak which has so far affected 26 people, half of which have been admitted to the LBJ hospital. A Pacific Island Health Officers' Association Epidemiologist, Mark Duran, says the department of health is leading an investigation into the source of the parasite.
Dr Duran says amoebic dysentery is spread through contamination of human waste. "It especially attacks the intestines and invades its way into the wall of the intestines; it causes abdominal pain, it causes bloody diarrhoea, fever." Dr Duran says in serious cases the parasite can travel through the body and cause abscesses especially in the liver.
[Maps of American Samoa can be seen at
<http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/oceania/asnewz.gif> and
Cuba is an independent island country situated in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the islands and covers 42,000sq miles. The climate is sub tropical throughout the year with most of the rainfall in Read More Show Less
the northern parts of the country. Temperatures of between 20C to 35C are fairly standard throughout the year. Generally the winter effects of the American continent only last for short periods.
Safety & Security:
The majority of tourists visiting Cuba will have no difficulty but bag snatching and other street crime appears to be increasing. The old Havana area and other major tourist resorts may be particular areas of concern in this regard. On arrival be careful to only use your recognised tour operator. If you are taking a taxi at any stage make sure it is a registered one and not a private vehicle. It is unwise to carry large quantities of money or jewellery away from your hotel and try not to flaunt wealth with your belongings. Pickpockets are too common an occurrence on buses and trains and at train stations so be careful with your essential documents and credit cards. Valuables should not be stored in suitcases when arriving in or departing from Havana as there have been a number of thefts from cases during the time the cases are coming through baggage handling. There is an airport shrink-wrap facility for those departing Havana which reduces the risk of tampering. Remember to carry a photocopy of your main documents (passport, flight tickets etc).
Road Safety:
Following a number of serious road accidents involving tourists, you are advised not to use mopeds for travelling around Cuba or in Havana. Also, if you are involved in any accident a police investigation will be required to clear you and this may significantly delay your travel plans. On unlit roads at night there have been a number of accidents associated with roaming cattle (sounds like Ireland!). The traffic moves on the right side of the roads. There is a main highway running the length of the country but many of the country roads are in poor repair.
Local Laws & Customs:
When arriving into Cuba make sure you are not carrying any items which could be considered offensive. Any illicit drug offense is treated very seriously and Cuban law allows for the death penalty to be used under these circumstances. If you require personal medication for your health, make sure it is in original packing and carry a letter from your doctor describing the medication. Never agree to carry any item for another individual and always secure your cases once they are packed. Taking photographs of military or police installations or around harbours, rail and airport facilities is strictly forbidden.
Since 1993 it is now possible to use US dollars for all transactions within Cuba. Remember, there is a 20$ airport departure tax. Certain travellers cheques and credit cards may not be acceptable within Cuba. This is particularly true of American Express cheques and cards but check your situation with the travel operator before departure.
Health Facilities:
Generally healthcare facilities outside of Havana are limited and many standard medications may not be available. It is important to carry sufficient quantities of any medications which may be required for the duration of your time in Cuba.
Food & Water:
The level of food and water hygiene varies throughout the country and between resorts. On arrival check the hotel cold water supply for the smell of chlorine. If it is not present then use sealed bottled water for both drinking and brushing your teeth throughout your stay. Cans and bottles of drinks are safe but take care to avoid pre-cut fruit. Peel it yourself to make sure it is not contaminated. Food from street vendors should be avoided in most cases. Bivalve shellfish are also a high risk food in many countries and Cuba is no exception in this regard. (Eg Mussels, Oysters, Clams etc)
Malaria & Mosquito Borne Diseases:
Malaria transmission does not occur within Cuba and so prophylaxis is not required. However, a different mosquito borne disease called Dengue has begun to reoccur in the country over the past few years. This viral disease can be very sickening and even progress to death. It is rare for tourists to become infected but avoiding mosquito bites is a wise precaution.
Swimming, Sun & Dehydration:
The extent of the Cuban sun (particular during the summer months (April to October) can be very excessive so make sure your head and shoulders are covered at all times when exposed. Watch children carefully as they will be a significant risk. Drink plenty of fluids to replace what will be lost through perspiration and, unless there is a reason not to,
take extra salt either on your food or in crisps, peanuts etc. Take care if swimming in the Caribbean to stay with others and to listen to local advice. Never swim after a heavy meal or alcohol.
Rabies Risk in Cuba:
This viral disease does occur throughout Cuba and it is essential that you avoid any contact with all warm blooded animals. Dogs, cats and monkeys are the most commonly involved in spreading the disease to humans. Don't pick up a monkey for a photograph! If bitten, wash out the wound, apply an antiseptic and seek urgent medical attention.
Vaccinations for Cuba:
There are no essential vaccines for entry / exit if coming from Ireland. However, for your own personal protection travellers are advised to have cover against the following;
Tetanus (childhood booster)
Typhoid (food & water borne disease)
Hepatitis A (food & water borne disease)
For those planning a longer or more rural trip vaccine cover against conditions like Hepatitis B and Rabies may also need to be considered.
Cuba is becoming a popular destination for tourists and generally most will stay very healthy. However commonsense care against food and water borne disease is essential at all times. Also take care with regard to sun exposure, dehydration and mosquito bites.
Ethiopia - US Consular Information Sheet
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is a developing country in East Africa.
It is comprised of nine states and two city administrations (Addis Aba Read More Show Less
a and Dire Dawa).
The capital is Addis Ababa.
Tourism facilities can be found in the most populous regions of Ethiopia, but infrastructure is basic.
The ruling EPRDF party and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi maintain strong control of the government and economy.
Despite several years of high economic growth, the country remains vulnerable to external economic shocks and recurring drought.
Read the Department of State Background Notes on Ethiopia for additional information.
To avoid possible confusion or delays, travelers are advised to obtain a valid Ethiopian visa at the nearest Ethiopian Embassy prior to arrival, and must do so if entering across any land port-of-entry.
For example: travelers wishing to enter Ethiopia from Kenya at the land border at Moyale, must obtain an Ethiopian visa first.
Ethiopian visas ARE NOT available at the border crossing point at Moyale.
Travelers should apply for Ethiopian visas at the Ethiopian Embassy in Nairobi or at other Ethiopian embassies in other countries.
Ethiopian visas are available to U.S. citizens upon arrival at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa.
U.S. citizens may obtain one-month or three month, single-entry tourist visas or 10-day single-entry business visas upon arrival at Bole International Airport.
This service is available only at Bole International Airport and is not available at any other ports of entry in Ethiopia.
The visa fee at Bole International Airport is payable in U.S. dollars.
Such visas can be extended by applying at the Main Immigration Office in Addis Ababa.
Business visas of up to three-months validity can also be obtained at Bole International Airport upon arrival if the traveler has a sponsoring organization in Ethiopia that has made prior arrangements for issuance through the Main Immigration Office in Addis Ababa.
Travelers whose entry visa expires before they depart Ethiopia, must obtain a visa extension and pay a monthly penalty fee of $20 USD per month.
Such travelers may also be required to pay a court fine of up to 4000 ETB (USD $435) before being permitted to depart from Ethiopia.
Travelers are required to pay the penalty fee before they will be able to obtain an exit visa (USD $20) permitting them to leave Ethiopia.
Individuals intending to stay in Ethiopia for a prolonged period of time are advised to contact the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington prior to traveling.
The Ethiopian Embassy is located at 3506 International Drive NW, Washington, DC 20008; telephone (202) 364-1200; fax (202) 587-0195.
For the most current visa information, visit the Embassy’s web site at www.ethiopianembassy.org.
Inquiries by Americans located overseas may be made at the nearest Ethiopian embassy or consulate.
While Ethiopia is generally stable, domestic insurgent groups, extremists from Somalia, and the heavy military buildup along the northern border pose risks to safety and security, particularly along Ethiopia’s border areas and in the Somali region.
In the past year, there has been an increase in targeted bombings in Addis Ababa and in other parts of Ethiopia.
In November 2008, the Government of Ethiopia issued a warning to its citizens alerting them of the potential for terrorist attacks and subsequently increased security measures to unprecedented levels.
Throughout Ethiopia:
Americans are strongly advised to review their personal safety and security posture, to remain vigilant and to be cautious when frequenting prominent public places and landmarks.
Targeted bombings in Addis Ababa and south eastern Ethiopia in 2008 resulted in numerous injuries and deaths.
Americans are advised to avoid public gatherings and public places, including hotels, if possible, and using public transportation and transportation hubs.
They are advised to beware of unattended baggage or packages left in any location, including in mini-buses and taxis.
Ethiopia/Eritrea Border Area:
Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace agreement in December 2000 that ended their border war.
However, the border remains an issue of contention between the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The border area is a militarized zone where there exists the possibility of armed conflict between Ethiopian and Eritrean forces.
American citizens are advised to avoid travel in the areas along the Eritrean/Ethiopian border (within 50 km/30 miles of the Ethiopian/Eritrean border) because of the dangers posed by land mines and because of the possibility of conflict between Ethiopian and Eritrean defense forces.
Due to abductions and banditry, Americans are advised to avoid travel within 30 miles of the Ethiopian-Eritrean border west of Adigrat to the Sudanese border, with the exception of the town of Axum, and within 60 miles east of Adigrat to the Djiboutian border.
Embassy personnel are permitted to travel in these areas only on a case-by-case basis. Travel to the northern Afar Region towards the Eritrean border is also discouraged.
Embassy personnel are permitted to travel there only on a case-by-case basis.
Somali Region:
Since the mid-1990's the members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) have clashed with Ethiopian government forces near the city of Harar and in the Somali regional state, particularly in the Ogaden zones.
In April 2007, the ONLF claimed responsibility for attacking a Chinese oil exploration installation south of Jijiga, in Ethiopia's Somali region.
The attack resulted in deaths, kidnappings and the wounding of dozens of Chinese and Ethiopian citizens.
In 2008, a hotel in the town of Jijiga was bombed and two hotels in the town of Negele Borena were bombed.
American citizens are reminded that the U.S. Embassy strongly discourages travel to Ethiopia's Somali region and that a Travel Warning for Somalia has been issued that advises against all travel to that country.
Armed insurgent groups operate within the Somali, Oromiya and Afar regions of Ethiopia.
In December 2006, the Ethiopian Government, at the invitation of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, began military operations against extremists in Somalia.
As of November 2007, military operations continue in Mogadishu, where an African Union peacekeeping force, AMISOM, is deployed.
In 2008, two staff members of a non-governmental organization (NGO) were abducted in the Somali region.
Gambella Region:
Sporadic inter-ethnic clashes remain a concern throughout the Gambella region of western Ethiopia following outbursts of violence there in 2003 - 2004.
There is a heavy military and police presence in the town of Gambella.
While the security situation in the town of Gambella is calm, it remains unpredictable throughout the rest of the region, and violence could recur without warning.
Travel to this region is discouraged.
Travel in Ethiopia via rail is discouraged due to past episodes of derailment, sabotage, and bombings.
In southern Ethiopia along the Kenyan border, banditry and incidents involving ethnic conflicts are also common.
Travelers should exercise caution when traveling to any remote area of the country, including the borders with Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya and Sudan.
Ethiopian security forces do not have a widespread presence in those regions.
Up-to-date information on safety and security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the U.S. and Canada, or for callers outside the U.S. and Canada, a regular toll-line at 1-202-501-4444.
Pick-pocketing, “snatch and run” thefts, and other petty crimes are common in Addis Ababa.
These are generally crimes of opportunity rather than planned attacks.
Travelers should exercise caution in crowded areas and should avoid visiting the Mercato in Addis Ababa, a large open-air market.
Violence in the Mercato has been on the rise.
In 2008 an explosion in the Mercato killed several and wounded more than a dozen individuals.
Also in 2008, there was a shooting in the Mercato.
Travelers should limit the amount of cash they carry and leave valuables, such as passports, jewelry, and airline tickets in a hotel safe or other secure place.
Travelers should keep wallets and other valuables where they will be less susceptible to pick-pockets.
Travelers should be cautious at all times when traveling on roads in Ethiopia.
There have been reports of highway robbery, including carjacking, by armed bandits outside urban areas.
Some incidents have been accompanied by violence.
Travelers are cautioned to limit road travel outside major towns or cities to daylight hours and travel in convoys, if possible.
There is no local equivalent to the “911” emergency line in Ethiopia.
Distress calls should be made to the local police station, the telephone number of which can be obtained by calling directory assistance at 997.
This is the number for directory assistance throughout Ethiopia.
In Addis Ababa, the number for police is 991, for the fire brigade 939, and for an ambulance 907.
Health facilities in Addis Ababa are very limited and are generally inadequate outside the capital.
Even the best hospitals in Addis Ababa suffer from inadequate facilities, antiquated equipment, and shortages of supplies (particularly medicines).
There is a shortage of physicians.
Emergency assistance is limited.
Psychiatric services and medications are practically nonexistent.
Serious illnesses and injuries often require travelers to be medically evacuated from Ethiopia to a location where adequate medical attention is available.
Such “medevac” services are very expensive and are generally available only to travelers who either have travel insurance that covers medevac services or who are able to pay in advance the considerable cost of such services (often in excess of USD 40,000).
See Medical Insurance below.
Travelers must carry their own supplies of prescription drugs and preventive medicines, as well as a doctor's note describing the medication.
If the quantity of drugs exceeds that which would be expected for personal use, a permit from the Ministry of Health is required.
Malaria is prevalent in Ethiopia outside of the highland areas.
Travelers who become ill with a fever or flu-like illness while traveling in a malaria-risk area and up to one year after returning home should seek prompt medical attention and explain to the health care provider their travel history and which anti-malarials they have been taking.
For additional information on malaria, protection from insect bites, and anti-malarial drugs, please visit the CDC Travelers' Health web site at http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/index.htm.
Tuberculosis is an increasingly serious health concern in Ethiopia.
For further information, please consult the CDC's Travel Notice on TB at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/yellowBookCh4-TB.aspx
Ethiopia is a mountainous country and the high altitude may cause health problems, even for healthy travelers.
Addis Ababa is located at an altitude of 8,300 feet.
Travelers may experience shortness of breath, fatigue, nausea, headaches, and inability to sleep.
Individuals with respiratory (including asthma) or heart conditions should consult with a health care professional before traveling to Ethiopia.
Travelers to Ethiopia should also avoid swimming in any lakes, rivers, or still bodies of water.
Most bodies of water have been found to contain parasites.
Travelers should be aware that Ethiopia has a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
Ethiopia has had outbreaks of acute watery diarrhea, possible cholera, typhoid, or other bacterial diarrhea in the recent past, and the conditions for reoccurrences continue to exist.
Further information on prevention and treatment of cholera and other diarrheal diseases can be found at the CDC web site at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/contentDiseases.aspx.
Ethiopian authorities are monitoring the possibility of avian influenza following the deaths of poultry and birds; preliminary results are negative.
For additional information on avian flu please visit the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/.
The U.S. Department of State is unaware of any HIV/AIDS entry restrictions for visitors to or foreign residents of Ethiopia.
Please verify with the embassy of Ethiopia before you travel.
Further health information for travelers is available at http://www.who.int/ith/en
Specific medevac insurance, which generally covers evacuation of a patient from Ethiopia to a location where adequate medical attention is available, is often inexpensive and available through a variety of companies that can be accessed online.
Medicare and Medicaid recipients are not covered overseas and are advised to purchase supplemental health and medical evacuation insurances.
The information below concerning Ethiopia is provided for general reference only, and may not be totally accurate in a particular location or circumstance.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Ethiopia has the highest rate of traffic fatalities per vehicle in the world.
Roads in Ethiopia are poorly maintained, inadequately marked, and poorly lighted.
Road travel after dark outside Addis Ababa and other cities is dangerous and discouraged due to hazards posed by broken-down vehicles left in the road, pedestrians walking in the road, stray animals, and the possibility of armed robbery.
Road lighting in cities is inadequate at best and nonexistent outside of cities.
Excessive speed, unpredictable local driving habits, pedestrians and livestock in the roadway, and the lack of basic safety equipment on many vehicles are daily hazards on Ethiopian roads.
While travel during daylight hours on both paved and unpaved roads is generally considered safe, land mines and other anti-personnel devices can be encountered on isolated dirt roads that were targeted during various conflicts.
Before undertaking any off-road travel, it is advisable to inquire of local authorities to ensure that the area has been cleared of mines.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has assessed the Government of Ethiopia’s Civil Aviation Authority as being in compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) aviation safety standards for oversight of Ethiopia’s air carrier operations.
For more information, travelers may visit the FAA’s web site at http://www.faa.gov/safety/programs_initiatives/oversight/iasa/.
The Ethiopian government has closed air routes near the border with Eritrea and has referred to the airspace as a “no-fly zone.”
The FAA currently prohibits U.S. aircraft and U.S. pilots from flying in Ethiopian airspace north of 12 degrees north latitude, the area along the country's northern border with Eritrea.
For complete information on this flight prohibition, travelers may visit the FAA's web site at http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/air_traffic/publications/notices/2008-11-20/PART3_SEC1.cfm.
Ethiopia does not recognize dual nationality.
The government of Ethiopia considers Ethiopians who have become naturalized U.S. citizens to be Americans.
Such individuals are not subject to Ethiopian military service.
The Ethiopian government has stated that Ethiopian-Americans in almost all cases are given the same opportunity to invest in Ethiopia as Ethiopians.
Several years ago the government of Ethiopia arrested people of Eritrean origin who initially failed to disclose their U.S. citizenship.
However, this has not occurred in recent years.
Ethiopian officials have recently stated that Eritrean-Americans are treated as U.S. citizens and are not subject to arrest simply because of their ties to Eritrea.
For additional information, see our dual nationality flyer.
Permits are required before exporting either antiques or animal skins from Ethiopia.
Antique religious artifacts, including "Ethiopian” crosses, require documentation from the National Museum in Addis Ababa for export.
Foreign currency should be exchanged in authorized banks, hotels and other legally authorized outlets and proper receipts should be obtained for the transactions.
Exchange receipts are required to convert unused Ethiopian currency back to the original foreign currency.
Penalties for exchanging money on the black market range from fines to imprisonment.
Credit cards are not accepted at most hotels, restaurants, shops, or other local facilities, although they are accepted at the Hilton and Sheraton Hotels in Addis Ababa.
Some hotels and car rental companies, particularly in Addis Ababa, may require foreigners to pay in foreign currency or show a receipt for the source of foreign exchange if paying in local currency.
However, many hotels or establishments are not permitted to accept foreign currency or may be reluctant to do so.
Ethiopian institutions have on occasion refused to accept 1996 series U.S. currency, although official policy is that such currency should be treated as legal tender.
Ethiopian law strictly prohibits the photographing of military installations, police/military personnel, industrial facilities, government buildings, and infrastructure (roads, bridges, dams, airfields, etc.).
Such sites are rarely marked clearly.
Travel guides, police, and Ethiopian officials can advise if a particular site may be photographed.
Photographing prohibited sites may result in the confiscation of film and camera.
There is a risk of earthquakes in Ethiopia.
Buildings may collapse due to strong tremors.
General information about natural disaster preparedness is available via the Internet from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at http://www.fema.gov/
Persons violating Ethiopia’s laws, even unknowingly, may be expelled, arrested or imprisoned.
Penalties for possession, use, or trafficking in illegal drugs in Ethiopia are severe, and convicted offenders can expect long jail sentences and heavy fines.
Americans living or traveling in Ethiopia are encouraged to register with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate through the State Department’s travel registration website so that they can obtain updated information on travel and security within Ethiopia.
The U.S. Embassy is located at Entoto Avenue, P.O. Box 1014, in Addis Ababa; telephone: 251-11-124-2424; emergency after-hours telephone: 251-11-124-2400; consular fax: 251-11-124-2435; web site: http://ethiopia.usembassy.gov/
This replaces the Country Specific Information for Ethiopia dated April 30, 2008 to update sections on Country Description, Entry/Exit Requirements, Safety and Security, Crime, Information for Victims of Crime, Medical Facilities and Health Information, and Traffic Safety and Road Conditions.
871 diagnosed with Cholera in Ethiopia
Disease Cholera Ethiopia - 3 days ago
Date: Tue 2 Jul 2019
Source: Anadolu Agency [edited]
<https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/871-people-contract-cholera-in-ethiopia/1521255>
Ethiopia has diagnosed 871 people with cholera, an acute infectious diarrheal disease, an official said. "So far, 871 people have been diagnosed with cholera in different areas," the local broadcaster FANA stated, quoting the Director General of Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Getachew Tolera. The cholera cases have spread in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Somali and Afar provinces, as well as in 2 major cities of the country. The disease has so far caused deaths of 17 persons, FANA quoted Getachew as saying.
The majority of cases have been reported from Oromia province, with 350 people diagnosed with the infectious disease. As many as 202 people have contracted it in Amhara, 19 in Tigray, 131 in Afar and 33 in Somali regions. Some 125 persons have been diagnosed with the disease in the capital Addis Ababa and one in Dire Dawa city in Eastern Ethiopia. In a bid to control further spread of the disease, 26 quarantine centres have been set up across the nation. Getachew said medicines are being made available to the affected areas. At least 291 000 people have been vaccinated in the West Harerghe zone of Oromia province, according to the local broadcaster. [Byline: Addis Getachew Tadesse]
Cholera cases across Ethiopia
Disease Cholera Ethiopia - 30 days ago
<https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/525-people-infected-with-cholera-in-ethiopia/1501455>
At least 525 people have been infected with the cholera bacterium in Ethiopia, according to health sources [information released] on [Tue 11 Jun 2019]. The Ethiopian Public Health Institute confirmed that the cause of the death of 16 people by this infectious disease caused by _Vibrio_ bacteria. The deadly epidemic occurred in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray regional states as well as the Addis Ababa city administration.
The majority of the casualties were recorded in Amhara, with 14 people, the local broadcaster FANA quoted, Beyene Moges, the deputy director of the institute, as saying in a press conference. Beyene also cited as saying that 19 samples were examined in a lab to determine the cause. Medicinal supplies were dispatched to the affected areas, according to FANA.
Cholera is an acute epidemic infectious disease and it is characterized by watery diarrhoea, extreme loss of fluid and electrolytes, and severe dehydration.
12 daths in Ethiopia's northern Amhara State are suspected to be due to Cholera
Disease Cholera Ethiopia - 1 month ago
Date: Thu 23 May 2019 Source: XinHuaNet [edited] <http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/23/c_138083427.htm>
An acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) outbreak in Ethiopia's northern Amhara regional state has left 12 people dead, an official said on Thu 23 May 2019. Asaye Gebreselassie, deputy director of Wag Himera zone in Amhara regional state, said the outbreak killed 4 people and sickened 67 others in recent days, according to state media outlet Ethiopia News Agency.
A medical taskforce comprising federal, regional and zonal personnel has been deployed to the affected areas, Gebreselassie said. With the rainy season expected to start in June and continue until mid-September, the government is trying to prevent the spread of the AWD.
Federal and regional health institutions have been combating the diarrhea outbreak by treating unhygienic conditions in factories, health facilities, agricultural areas and eateries.
Younger children in Ethiopia most vulnerable to Measles
Disease Measles Ethiopia - 2 months ago
Date: Sun 19 May 2019
Source: Vax Before Travel [abridged, edited]
<https://www.vaxbeforetravel.com/ethiopian-children-remain-risk-measles-virus>
The eastern African country of Ethiopia has been reporting measles outbreaks for many years, however, in 2019, new information indicates children are the ones most vulnerable for this infectious disease.
According to reporting by the European Commission, approximately 54% of the 4000 measles cases in Ethiopia reported during 2019 affected children under 5 years of age.
Moreover, over 60% of the children had never received their 1st measles vaccine dose.
This new data estimates that by the end of 2019, about 3.5 million children will be susceptible to the measles virus, mainly because of the failure to achieve the 'herd-immunity' necessary to interrupt transmission.
Moreover, these Ethiopian children are not the only under-vaccinated population.
An estimated 169 million children missed out on the 1st dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, or 21.1 million children a year on average, said UNICEF on 25 Apr 2019.
And, the measles virus is one of the leading causes of death among children, particularly in developing countries. An estimated 100,000 measles deaths occurred globally in 2017.
Ethiopia announced it would aggressively confront this under-vaccination issue by integrating the measles vaccine 2nd dose (MCV2) vaccination into the routine immunization program in the 2nd year of life.
The Ethiopian Ministry of Health said about 3 348 363 children will receive measles vaccine 2nd doses.
Dr Chatora Rufaro, World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopia representative said in a press release, "The introduction of the 2nd dose of measles vaccination in Ethiopia will significantly contribute to a reduction of measles morbidity and mortality as well as the overall child mortality by preventing measles outbreaks."
To notify visitors about Ethiopia's ongoing measles risks, the CDC issued an initial Level 1 Travel Alert in 2015. Since then, the CDC advises all visitors to Ethiopia to ensure they are immunized against the measles virus. [Byline: Don Ward Hackett]
[HealthMap/ProMED-mail map of Ethiopia:
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3 deaths from suspected Cholera in the Amhara region of Ethiopia
Disease Cholera Ethiopia - 2 months ago
Source: New Business Ethiopia [abridged, edited]
<https://newbusinessethiopia.com/acute-water-diarrhea-outbreak-kills-3-people-in-ethiopia/>
The outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) has killed 3 people in the North Gondar Tselemt area in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. The 3 people who were getting medical treatment after acquiring AWD have passed away, according to the state broadcaster ETV. The report indicated that currently 151 people affected by AWD are also identified in 3 locations of Amhara region. Currently in North Gondar, Tselemt area, 90 people infected with AWD have been identified and are being treated. While in Abergele area, 58 people and 4 in Beyeda area are getting treatment after acquiring AWD.
The ETV report indicated that the 152 suspected of acquiring AWD are being treated separately in the 3 localities. It is indicated that a medical team at the national, regional, and zone level is mobilized to contain the outbreak in the areas. In addition, teams from WHO and Doctors Without Borders are also engaged to combat AWD in the areas, according to ETV.
Ethiopia has the poorest sanitation facilities in Africa and has been frequently hit by AWD. In Ethiopia, AWD outbreaks have been reported in different parts at different times. The outbreak in Moyale area in the southern part of the country in 2016 resulted in a total of 268 cases and 2 deaths reported. In 2017, it was also reported that some parts of the Somali region of Ethiopia were also affected by an AWD outbreak resulting in the deaths of many people.
[Especially in east Africa, AWD is used instead of cholera. - ProMED Mod.LL]
The Gambia is situated on the coast of West Africa and is a common tourist destination. It enjoys a tropical climate with a rainy season between May to October each year. Harmattan winds can be experienced Read More Show Less
during the dry season.
Stability throughout the country has been in question since a coup in 1994 but generally tourists remain unaware of any particular difficulty in this regard. Civilian rule has been in place since 1996. There is a successful tourist industry and the majority of travellers will remain in the resort regions along the coast.
It is uncommon to hear of attacks against tourists but it is considered unwise to flaunt personal wealth. Thus wearing valuable jewellery or watches should be avoided. Use the hotel safety deposit boxes for storing items of value and keep an eye on personal belongings while on the beach, on ferries or walking through market places. Many of the main tourist beaches have police or hotel security but there would be a risk if visiting some of the more isolated areas along the coast.
In the main tourist regions road transport is perfectly reasonable but travelling throughout the country, particularly during the rainy season, is much more difficult. Paved roads exist in the capital, Banjul, but pedestrians still need to take care while out walking. If leaving the main tourists resorts it is essential to travel with a recognised guide. If driving, take care to stop at all check points and never reverse to avoid a road checkpoint. It is safer to use a taxi where possible (green ones for tourists). Avoid travelling to the Casamance region in Senegal (close to Gambia border), as this area is quite unstable at present. The region around Ziguinchor has also unexploded mines and armed bandits and so it would be wise to avoid.
Ferry Risks
Taking the Banjul to Barra ferry may involve safety risks as the boat is frequently overcrowded and does not carry enough life belts etc for the number of passengers. All the engines for the ferry do not always work and it may be wiser to consider travelling 150km upriver and use the Yelitenda to Bambatenda ferry.
The level of medical facilities varies greatly throughout the country. The Medical Research Council facility in Banjul offers excellent healthcare but travellers are advised to carry sufficient supplies of any personal medication they may require while abroad.
Food & Water Facilities
The main tourist resorts offer a good standard of food for tourists. However, it is wise to ensure that all food is fresh and well cooked. Avoiding bivalve shell fish (oysters, mussels, clams etc) is essential as these foods are frequently associated with illness among those who partake. The tap water supply may not always be regularly maintained and so it is safer to use sealed mineral water for both drinking and brushing your teeth while in The Gambia. Ice in drinks will be made from tap water and so best avoided. Food and fluids should not be purchased from street vendors except in the case of fruit, which you will then peel yourself. Tinned drinks may be safe but be careful to clean the lip before drinking straight from the can.
Malaria & Mosquitoes
The risk of malaria in The Gambia is generally between June to December each year. Tourists have seldom been at significant risk up until recently when there has been a significant increase in the numbers of cases returning to Europe with the disease. Malaria prophylaxis should be used throughout the year. Mosquitoes mainly bite between dusk and dawn but other species can bite at any time of the day.
Rabies Risk
There is an ever-present risk of Rabies in Africa and The Gambia is no exception. The disease is mainly transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected dog but other animals also pose a risk including cats and monkeys. The disease can also be transmitted through licks and scratches’ so avoiding all contact with animals is a wise precaution.
Sun Exposure & Dehydration
The heat and radiation from sunlight in The Gambia can be very significant especially for fair skinned Irish travellers. Make sure you use a wide brimmed hat and keep covered from the suns rays. Dehydration and salt depletion are also common and you will need to increase the amount of fluid (and salt, unless there is a contraindication) while in this climate.
Local Laws & Customs
The Gambian authorities take strong action against those involved in any drug trade and so take care not to carry any item for another person at any time. It is a predominantly Muslim country and so care should be taken to respect their customs for example by dressing modestly particularly when away from the main tourist regions. Never take photographs or videos of any police or military installations.
If travelling to The Gambia you are advised to consider vaccination cover against the following;
Yellow Fever (mosquito borne viral disease)
Poliomyelitis (childhood booster)
Occasionally travellers are advised to also consider protection against diseases like Hepatitis B, Rabies and Meningitis.
Malaria prophylaxis is essential at all times of the year for your personal protection.
Tourist holidays to The Gambia are increasing after a lull following the unrest of the mid 90’s. However, the recent increase in malaria during December 2000 among European tourists shows how travel to tropical Africa must be treated with the respect it deserves. The majority of travellers who follow sensible guidelines will travel healthy and well.
26yo in Netherlands with Yellow Fever after return from visit to Gambia and Senegal
Disease Yellow Fever Gambia - 8 months ago
Date: Thu 22 Nov 2018
From: Vanessa Field vanessa.field@nhs.net
Dr. Bram Goorhuis and Dr Martin Grobusch of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network site, Center for Tropical & Travel Medicine, AMC, Amsterdam, have reported a patient with confirmed yellow fever (YF) after travel to the Gambia and Senegal. The patient is a 26-year-old male, with no significant medical history, and previously unvaccinated against YF, who had travelled, together with his girlfriend, to the Gambian coastal region, Mansa Konko (14 days) and the Niokolo Park game reserve, Senegal (3 days). He had exposure to insect bites, but not tick bites, and did not have contact with fresh water or animals. He did not take malaria chemoprophylaxis.
On 17 Nov [2018], whilst on his flight home to Amsterdam, Netherlands, he developed a fever, chills, photophobia, and some transient gastrointestinal complaints (frequent liquid stools and abdominal discomfort). On 20 Nov [2018], he was transferred to the Center for Tropical and Travel Medicine, Amsterdam, from a peripheral hospital, with fulminant hepatitis (AST 22,000 U/L; ALT 12,500 U/L) and signs of liver failure. He tested negative for malaria and dengue; yellow fever PCR showed a very high viral load of 3.82 x 109/L. Due to an evolving encephalopathy, and a potential need for liver transplantation, the patient has now been transferred to the Erasmus Medical Center, a GeoSentinel site (Dr. Jan Nouwen and Dr. Perry van Genderen), Rotterdam, Netherlands. More follow-up is pending.
The last reported case of yellow fever in a traveller from the Gambia was in 2001 in a 47-year-old unvaccinated Belgian woman, who acquired yellow fever during a one-week vacation and subsequently died. Ref. Colebunders R et al.: A Belgian Traveler Who Acquired Yellow Fever in the Gambia. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2002. 35(10): e113-e116. doi: <https://doi.org/10.1086/344180>.
The Ministry of Health in Senegal last notified the WHO in 2001 of 3 cases of yellow fever in K'dougou and Saraya Health districts, near the border with Mali and Guinea Conakry. A mass vaccination campaign followed. There have been no official reports to the WHO from the Gambia.
Ref: WHO Disease Outbreak News
<http://www.who.int/csr/don/2011_12_01/en/>.
In 2017, there were major yellow fever (YF) outbreaks in Brazil and Nigeria. These outbreaks were not marked by the rapid urban spread seen in 2016 in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), yet they illustrate the increased risk of YF and urban outbreaks with international spread. The "Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics" (EYE1) strategy was developed with the goal to reduce the risk of YF through a continuum ranging from outbreak detection and response to prevention. The YF surveillance network also identified suspected cases in several other high-risk countries including Congo, DRC, and Liberia.
Ref: World Health Organization (WHO) Weekly epidemiological record, 10 Aug 2018, No. 32, 2018, 93, 409-416; Yellow fever in Africa and the Americas, 2017.
<http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/273782/WER9332.pdf?ua=1>.
World Health Organization (WHO) data suggest that the rate of yellow fever transmission is increasing, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The WHO estimates that, after adjustment for underreporting, about 200 000 cases of yellow fever occur each year. In most of west Africa, with the exception of the Gambia, yellow fever vaccination coverage is low, and there are regular epidemics of yellow fever that fluctuate according to the sylvatic cycle. Since the mid-1990s, epidemics have been reported from Ghana, Gabon, Liberia, Senegal, Benin, and Ivory Coast.
Yellow fever remains endemic in west Africa. Even urban yellow fever has recently been detected in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Many countries in areas of endemicity in Africa (such as the Gambia) and South America (such as Venezuela) do not require travelers to undergo yellow fever vaccination. International guidelines for travellers recommend vaccination against yellow fever for persons traveling to these countries, but vaccination is not required by the countries themselves.
Davidson Hamer, MD (GeoSentinel PI)
Professor of Global Health and Medicine
Boston University School of Public Health and School of Medicine
Vanessa Field, MD
Chair, GeoSentinel Tracking and Communication Working Group
International Society of Travel Medicine
[Drs. Hamer and Field are thanked for this report of the Netherlands case and the overview of the YF situation in endemic countries. The Netherlands case is another example of failure of travellers to receive YF vaccination at least 10 days prior to arrival in an endemic country. Although the Netherlands case presents no risk of initiation of ongoing YF virus transmission, it does illustrate the fact that viremic individuals can travel long distances and, should their destination be an area that could support transmission, such as Central America or south/southeast Asia, can initiate an outbreak in a population that is overwhelmingly unvaccinated. - ProMED Mod.TY]
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Gambia's Jammeh clings on as tourists flee
Tourism Gambia - 2 years ago
Banjul, Gambia, Jan 18, 2017 (AFP) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh looked determined to cling to power on Wednesday as his mandate came to an end, prompting neighbouring Senegal asking the UN to back regional actions against him. Jammeh has announced a state of emergency which he said was necessary due to interference of foreign powers in the West African country's December 1 election, which the president of 22 years lost to opponent Adama Barrow.
Barrow, who is currently sheltering in Senegal, maintains his inauguration will go ahead on Thursday on Gambian soil, putting the country on a collision course. Senegal on Wednesday presented a draft resolution to the UN Security Council seeking support for west African efforts to press Jammeh to step down, diplomats said in New York. But the text does not explicitly seek council authorisation to deploy troops to The Gambia, they added. Jammeh's declaration immediately triggered travel advisory warnings by Britain and the Netherlands, with around 1,000 British tourists expected to leave on special flights on Wednesday alone. The 15-nation Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) has repeatedly urged Jammeh to respect the outcome of the vote and step aside, a call backed unanimously by the international community.
The exact location of the inauguration was "in the hands of ECOWAS," said James Gomez, the inauguration's head organiser who said he had spoken with Barrow twice on Tuesday. Gomez said that plans for the transfer of power in a huge stadium outside the capital Banjul were now cancelled, but added "there will be a big celebration" despite the state of emergency. A source at Nigeria's military HQ told AFP a deployment to Senegal, whose territory surrounds The Gambia, would happen "very soon", ramping up expectations of a possible military intervention. Under the Gambian constitution a state of emergency lasts up to 90 days if the national assembly confirms it -- which the legislature did late Tuesday. The country's vice-president Isatou Njie-Saidy resigned Wednesday, family sources said, along with environment minister Pa Ousman Jarju, the latest in a mass string of cabinet members deserting Jammeh's government.
- Tourist disappointment -
Tourists were streaming out of the country, leaving the small airport near Banjul struggling to handle extra flights. Brian and Yvonne Souch, a couple from Witney in southern England, told AFP they were unaware of the potential risk of flying to the country 10 days ago and felt tour company Thomas Cook should have kept them better informed. "We didn't know anything until we came down for breakfast," Brian Souch said, sitting in shorts and sleeveless T-shirt in the lobby of a hotel in the Kololi tourist strip as he awaited a bus to the airport.
Thomas Cook said in a statement Wednesday a programme of additional flights into Banjul airport would bring home the 1,000 package holidaymakers it has in The Gambia, followed by up 2,500 more at the "earliest possible flight availability". Holidaymakers were told that Thomas Cook flights would stop completely in a few days time, leaving them at risk of being stranded. The Dutch travel firm TUI Nederland told AFP Tuesday it would repatriate "about 800" clients. Some tourists were unfazed by the news as the state of emergency, however, as their countries have not issued travel alerts. "We have over two weeks left and we are staying," said Mariann Lundvall, who flew into Banjul to escape Finland's freezing winter. "If the Finnish government decides we go, then we go," she added, but with a pained face added "the climate in Helsinki... it is so cold now!" The panic caused by the state of emergency could prove devastating for the country's economy, which experts say relies on tourism for up to 20 percent of the economy.
- Stockpiling -
Gambians were taking precautions and stocking up on food and supplies in the few shops that remained open in districts near the capital, with roads quiet and street hawkers notably absent. A source told AFP that patients at Banjul's Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, which sits opposite Jammeh's seat of power, were removed for security reasons. Only those in intensive care remained. Fatou Sarr, a resident of the fishing community of Old Jeshwang, said: "Only a few shops had bread this morning and they ran out of stock very early. If this stalemate drags on for a week or two, the country will run out." Citizens continue to pack their bags and stream out of Gambia -- a small, narrow enclave of Senegal except for its coast -- by road and ferry heading for Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea, taking as many possessions as they could carry. "My two children and I are staying with my aunt. We don't know what will happen tomorrow," said a 50-year-old woman who recently took shelter in Senegal, adding that she hoped to return home soon.
Gambia's president declares state of emergency
Disturbances Gambia - 2 years ago
Banjul, Gambia, Jan 18, 2017 (AFP) - Gambia's Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency just days before he was due to step down, with British and Dutch travel agencies scrambling to evacuate thousands of tourists Wednesday. Jammeh, who has ruled The Gambia with an iron fist for 22 years, initially acknowledged opponent Adama Barrow as the victor in December elections, but later rejected the ballot count as flawed and lodged a complaint with the country's Supreme Court. He declared a state of emergency on Tuesday due to the "unprecedented and extraordinary amount of foreign interference in the December 1 presidential elections and also in the internal affairs of The Gambia," Jammeh announced on state TV.
Citizens were henceforth "banned from any acts of disobedience to the laws of The Gambia, incitement to violence and acts intended to disturb public order and peace," Jammeh said, asking security forces to maintain law and order. Under the Gambian constitution a state of emergency lasts up to 90 days if the national assembly confirms it -- which the legislature did late Tuesday, a parliamentary source told AFP. In Washington, the US State Department urged Jammeh to "peacefully hand over power" to Barrow -- who is in Senegal, where he plans to remain until his planned inauguration Thursday. "Doing so would allow him to leave office with his head held high and to protect the Gambian people from potential chaos," spokesman John Kirby said. "Failure to do so will put his legacy, and more importantly The Gambia, in peril."
The 15-nation Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) has also repeatedly urged Jammeh to respect the outcome of the vote and step aside, a call backed by the UN Security Council, African Union and others. Jammeh has rebuffed two high-level delegations by west African leaders pleading with him to go. "The potential for military intervention and civil disturbance is high," the British foreign ministry said on its website, a warning echoed on social media by its Dutch counterpart, who both urged citizens to avoid all but essential travel. British travel agency Thomas Cook said it had "implemented our contingency plans to bring all our UK customers home," and was trying to arrange evacuation of up to 3,500 tourists from Banjul airport as soon as possible. "We will operate a programme of additional flights into Banjul airport over the next 48 hours," the company said in a statement, adding this included four extra flights on Wednesday. The Dutch travel firm TUI Nederland told AFP it would repatriate "about 800" clients.
- String of resignations -
Four more cabinet ministers in Jammeh's government defected, a source close to the regime told AFP on Tuesday. Foreign minister Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, finance minister Abdou Kolley, trade minister Abdou Jobe and tourism minister Benjamin Roberts all resigned, the source said, requesting anonymity for safety reasons. They follow the high-profile defection last week of information minister Sheriff Bojang, who is now in neighbouring Senegal. Citizens continued to pack their bags and stream out of Gambia -- a small, narrow enclave of Senegal except for its coast -- by road and ferry heading for Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea, taking as many possessions as they could carry. One traveller told AFP that those arriving at 10:00 am would have to wait until the following day to board a ferry at Banjul port to cross the river headed for Senegal, unless they bribed officials, due to huge numbers exiting the city.
- Military deployment? -
Military intervention in The Gambia seems closer than ever, following declarations by the UN and African Union that boots on the ground could get the green light without a rapid resolution to the crisis. In Nigeria -- the regional power of west Africa -- a source at the country's military HQ said, "We are deploying to Dakar, Senegal, very soon." "We are deploying platforms, a few personnel, pilots, technicians and the maintenance crew," said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. "You already know that this deployment is in connection with the unfolding development in The Gambia." In Rabat, it was reported that Morocco had offered Jammeh asylum for accepting the election defeat and stepping down "in return for a golden retirement", but Banjul sources were reluctant to confirm the claim. Seven journalists -- from Sweden and Senegal, plus four from Kenya and South Africa who were working for a Chinese TV channel -- were expelled late Monday soon after they arrived at Banjul airport to cover the ongoing crisis.
Report on tourism in Gambia as African migrant traders head home
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:39:37 +0100
By Jennifer O'MAHONY
Banjul, Gambia, Dec 13, 2016 (AFP) - The cocktails keep flowing by the pool on the tourist strip, but in The Gambia's markets many African migrant traders are packing up their businesses and heading home. The international community is piling pressure on President Yahya Jammeh to leave power after 22 years and hand over to opposition leader Adama Barrow, who won an election two weeks ago only for Jammeh to later reverse his original concession of defeat.
Of the economy's two main sources of investment from abroad, tourism appears to be weathering the country's political storm far better than the thousands of petty traders who move to The Gambia from the rest of west Africa. President-elect Barrow told AFP on Monday claims that tourist numbers could be hit were "exaggerated", and with hotels and restaurants full, for the moment he appears to be right. Flights from Brussels and London are still arriving like clockwork for the peak winter sun season, with many holidaymakers telling AFP they return to the country year after year -- and aren't changing their minds.
"I did think there were more checkpoints," said Elly Preston, a returning retired schoolteacher spending three and a half months in Kololi, the Gambian heartland of full English breakfasts and karaoke bars stuffed with crooning pensioners. Preston had seen alarming posts on the Tripadvisor tourism website, but with hotel prices as low as £40 a night (48 euros) she stuck with her instinct and left behind the cold and rain of Cleckheaton in northern England. "I feel safe here. I know everybody and we come together," she said from her sunlounger, waving at a friend she met while on holiday here a few years ago.
Reading a thriller while taking in some rays in the late afternoon, Joseph Fowlis from Liverpool is well aware that Jammeh has refused to stand down, and supports Barrow's fight for change. "Taxi drivers told me they want a democracy," he told AFP. "And why shouldn't they have one?" But that hasn't affected his budget break. Apart from a higher than usual level of political conversation in the back of cabs, he said, little had changed from the previous years he has been here. "If you didn't know about it you wouldn't think anything of it," he said. Hotel owners are slightly more nervous, but as long as the tour operators keep the flights up, business will boom, they told AFP.
- Trader panic -
The tiny west African state relies on largely British and Scandinavian tourists for 20 percent of its GDP. Meanwhile Guineans, Mauritanians and Senegalese are well known for importing goods and selling them to the local population. In a recent speech, Jammeh said 100,000 foreigners were working in The Gambia's markets, but did not specify a source for that figure. Fifteen minutes down the road from Kololi, the hawkers and fruit sellers of Serekunda market have a very different interpretation of the events unfolding.
Amadou Wurri Jallow, a Guinean shopkeeper, spoke of his fear of soldiers being stationed on the streets of his neighbourhood. "I do not understand why soldiers armed with machine guns would be deployed every night in built-up areas of Serekunda," Jallow said. "This is really frightening and disturbing. I am leaving for my country until this political stalemate is resolved peacefully." Fallou Diop, a Senegalese hawker who has lived and worked in The Gambia for the past few years, told AFP shortly before his departure to the city of Touba in central Senegal that the uncertainty was too much. "Since no one can tell how this problem would come to an end, I am going back to Touba until the dust settles," he said.
Gambia reopens borders with Ebola affected countries though screening continues
Disease Ebola Virus Gambia - 5 years ago
Date: Fri 14 Nov 2014
Source: StarAfrica, APA (Agence Africaine de Presse) report [edited]
<http://en.starafrica.com/news/the-gambia-re-opens-its-border-to-ebola-affected-nations.html>
The head of disease control in the Gambia, Sanna Sambou, has confirmed the reopening of the country's border to countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus, APA reported on Friday [14 Nov 2014]. Mr Sambou noted that border closure was not the best solution to contain the virus, hence the need to reopen borders to allow in and out movement of people between the Gambia and countries affected by Ebola. According to media reports, the issue of border closure, as a result of the outbreak of the disease, was deemed discriminatory and unworthy by the World Health Organisation (WHO), adding that it should be considered a global pandemic.
Despite the restoration of the border crossing, however, Sambou said the health authorities are poised to continue on the thorough screening of people moving into the country from Ebola hit nations. It could be recalled the Gambia in September [2014] announced that it would no longer be granting entrance to Guineans, Liberians, Nigerians or Sierra Leoneans, due to fear of the disease getting into the country.
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Home / 2014 / October / From smart grids to flying robots, engineer finds many applications for theory
From smart grids to flying robots, engineer finds many applications for theory
UC Santa Cruz computer engineer Ricardo Sanfelice uses hybrid systems analysis to understand and control systems with complex dynamical behavior
By Melissae Fellet
Ricardo Sanfelice (Photo by C. Lagattuta)
The future of electricity involves a "smart" grid, in which the energy distribution system is fully computerized, with sensors and wireless devices monitoring remote parts of the system and communicating with a central operations center. Automated technology can then adjust and control the components of the grid to improve its efficiency and manage the integration of renewable energy sources.
The intermittency inherent in renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power poses a challenge for electric companies, which must provide a consistent power supply. Smart grid technology could help meet this challenge.
Ricardo Sanfelice, an associate professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, and his students are developing and testing theories about how to control the flow of electricity through a smart grid. “I have a student writing mathematical equations with one hand and wiring circuits with the other,” he said.
To test their theories on a large scale, the researchers will use a smart grid test bed at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. Sanfelice, who recently moved to UC Santa Cruz from the University of Arizona, said he is also interested in collaborating with local utility companies and other companies working toward the future smart grid.
The complex dynamical behavior of smart grid systems is partly due to the combination of two kinds of behavior: continuous changes and abrupt jumps in currents and voltages. Sanfelice specializes in understanding and controlling such "hybrid systems" in which continuous and discrete behavior is intertwined. Hybrid systems often involve both analog and digital components or so-called "cyber-physical systems," in which embedded computers and networks monitor and control physical elements or processes.
A simple example of a hybrid system is a thermostat programmed to keep the temperature in a room constant. Changes in temperature occur in a continuous manner, steadily dropping in cold weather, for example, until the temperature drops below the set point. Then a heater kicks on to warm the room, providing an abrupt or discrete change in the system that occurs at irregular intervals as the thermostat switches the heater on and off.
Scientists previously modeled such hybrid systems by treating them mathematically as either continuous or discontinuous systems. But Sanfelice says many problems can only be understood by considering both aspects of a hybrid system.
Aerial robots
The control of flying robots or drones is another area in which Sanfelice applies hybrid systems analysis. When an aerial robot flies inside a building from an outdoor area, it has to make several sudden adjustments. The navigation system, for example, might switch from using GPS outdoors to onboard cameras indoors. The flight system also has to accommodate changes in airflow and pressure as the device moves through a doorway or window into a building.
Sanfelice hopes to expand the robotics applications of his research at UCSC by partnering with robotics companies in the area. His lab will have space to test their computational theories using ground-based and aerial robots in a controlled setting. One of his main interests is in networks of robotic or autonomous systems in which computer algorithms have to make decisions in response to changes in the network.
Sanfelice also sees examples of hybrid systems in nature in areas such as neuroscience, and he’s hoping to tackle the theory behind these problems as well. Spikes of activity caused by neurons firing together may contribute to the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, for example. Using theory to understand that synchronicity could suggest ways to desynchronize the firing, Sanfelice said.
Synchronized fireflies
Another example of a hybrid system found in nature is the synchronized flashing of fireflies. If each firefly has an internal timer that resets each time it flashes and also resets in response to flashes from other fireflies, the light show can begin with flashes from just one or a few fireflies. As others in the group see the light and reset their internal timers, their timers will eventually synchronize, so that all the fireflies flash together.
Sanfelice has worked out mathematical equations to determine when synchronization will happen, how fast it happens, and what happens when new fireflies join the group. Students in his cyber-physical systems class are using those equations to create a “virtual firefly” app for mobile phones. Phones with the app installed would communicate with each other so that, once activated, the screens on a few phones randomly light up and, over time, all of the phones flash together.
"This effort is relevant to event-based synchronization in network systems, such as the need to synchronize the time of multiple computers over large data networks," Sanfelice said.
Though he enjoys figuring out the mathematics to describe hybrid systems, Sanfelice also feels it’s important to use those equations for practical applications. “I get excited when there’s a system I can understand and contribute to a problem that is relevant,” he said.
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Newsroom / News Releases October 16, 2008
Endangered Puaiohi Successfully Transported to Kauai Forest Preserve
HONOLULU – Oct. 17, 2008 - On Monday (Oct. 13), 12 endangered puaiohi birds were successfully transferred from the Big Island to the Alakai Wilderness Preserve on Kauai, thanks to a collaborative conservation effort by the Zoological Society of San Diego, state and federal agencies, and Hawaiian Airlines.
Altogether, 23 puaiohi – also known as the small Kauai thrush – have been transported and released into their native environment on Kauai over the past week. The flock of birds, one of which can easily fit in the palm of the hand, was reproduced and raised in a protected setting at the San Diego Zoo’s Keauhou Bird Conservation Center at Volcano on the Big Island.
“The puaiohi is one of Hawaii’s most critically endangered birds and we are all doing what we can to save these birds from extinction and protect their habitat,” said David Leonard, wildlife biologist with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) Division of Forestry and Wildlife. “The work done to release the puaiohi back into the forest is a very complex process that takes place in a difficult area to reach, but is important to its conservation.”
Other government agencies joining the Zoological Society, DLNR, and Hawaiian in the transporting of the puaiohi are the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit. The collaborative effort is part of the Kauai Endangered Forest Bird Recovery Project, the mission of which is to monitor the birds’ reproduction and survival, as well as track newly released birds.
Early Monday morning, 12 puaiohi were carefully placed into two onboard carrying cases and buckled into passenger seats on Hawaiian from Hilo to Lihue, accompanied by biologists Robby Kohley and Rebecca Espinoza from the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center.
On Kauai, following a one-hour drive into Kokee State Park and a one-mile hike to the trailhead of the Alakai Wilderness Preserve, the birds were placed into a protected acclimation aviary where they will live for a week before being released into the surrounding forest.
“It’s exhilarating to see progress made in the recovery of an endangered species. The collective efforts put forth by state and federal agencies and Hawaiian Airlines to save the puaiohi is making all this possible,” said Alan Lieberman, conservation program manager for the San Diego Zoo.
The puaiohi is native to Kauai and was the last of Kauai’s birds to be discovered by western ornithologists. It feeds on fleshy fruits, insects, snails and prefers to nest in remote ravines that are difficult to access. The current population of puaiohi on Kauai is estimated at approximately 500 individuals.
Hawaiian is supporting the Hawaii species conservation effort by transporting biologists and endangered birds free of charge several times a year.
The nation’s top-ranked airline for service in the 2007 Airline Quality Ratings, Hawaiian has led all U.S. carriers in on-time performance for each of the past four straight years (2004-2007) and in fewest misplaced bags for the past three years (2005-2007) as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Consumer surveys by Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and Zagat have all ranked Hawaiian as the top domestic airline serving Hawaii.
Now in its 79th year of continuous service in Hawaii, Hawaiian is the state’s biggest and longest serving airline, as well as the second largest provider of passenger air service between the U.S. mainland and Hawaii. Hawaiian offers nonstop service to Hawaii from more U.S. gateway cities (10) than any other airline, as well as service to the Philippines, Australia, American Samoa, and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides approximately 150 daily jet flights among the Hawaiian Islands.
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA). Additional information is available at HawaiianAirlines.com.
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Newsroom / News Releases Traffic Statistics March 17, 1999
Hawaiian Airlines Reports February Traffic Statistics
HONOLULU, March 18, 1999 -- In systemwide service during February 1999, Hawaiian Airlines recorded Revenue Passenger Miles (RPMs) of 343,483,000, an increase of 15.4 percent from 297,656,000 RPMs reported for the same month in 1998.
Available Seat Miles (ASMs) in February 1999 were 443,821,000, an increase of 1.5 percent from 437,178,000 ASMs recorded in February 1998.
Systemwide Load Factor (LF) in February 1999 was 77.4 percent, an increase of 9.3 points from 68.1 percent in February 1998.
Hawaiian carried 438,478 passengers in February 1999, an increase of 12.1 percent from 391,078 passengers reported for February 1998.
For the first two months of 1999, Hawaiian recorded total RPMs of 698,840,000, an increase of 14.7 percent from 609,456,000 RPMs recorded for the same period in 1998.
Through February, total 1999 ASMs were 940,225,000, an increase of 2.8 percent from 914,649,000 ASMs recorded for the first two months in 1998.
Average 1999 systemwide Load Factor through February was 74.3 percent, an increase of 7.7 points from 66.6 percent for the same period in 1998.
Hawaiian carried a total of 874,851 passengers during the first two months of 1999, an increase of 10.6 percent from 791,198 carried during the same period in 1998.
RPM = one paying passenger transported one mile
ASM = one seat transported one mile
LF = percentage of seating capacity utilized
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Rob Katz
Insight into the Impact Investment Market: An Interview with Amit Bouri
Editor’s Note: This article also appears in the Acumen Fund Blog.
J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently released “Insight into the Impact Investment Market,” a report incorporating data from more than 2,200 private transactions and the perspectives of 52 impact investors on returns, risk, and impact measurement practices. The report states that while the impact investing industry is “in its infancy and growing,” its outlook is generally positive: data indicate that the surveyed investors are planning to invest almost USD 4 billion over the next year and that they expect impact investments will compose between five and ten percent of overall portfolios in ten years’ time.
One of the report’s authors is Amit Bouri, director of Strategy and Development for the GIIN. I recently spoke with Amit about the challenges and opportunities he sees across our nascent industry. I first met Amit in 2009, when he was a strategy consultant at the Monitor Institute. In fact, he was part of the team that produced the “Investing for Social & Environmental Impact” report (2009), which essentially launched impact investing as a sector by describing the role private capital can play in advancing social and environmental causes.
Rob Katz: Can you describe to our readers how you got involved in the field of impact investing in the first place, and also what prompted you to make the shift from Monitor Institute to the GIIN?
Amit Bouri: In early 2008, I worked on a project funded by J.P. Morgan, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation while working at Monitor Institute. Our goal was to identify ways to increase the amount of private investment capital working to address social and environmental issues. There was a lot of impact investing activity from pioneering organizations, but we sought to determine what building blocks and infrastructure were needed to scale the industry.
As we worked on the report, we realized that a lot of the industry-building work depended on collective action – for example, the creation of impact measurement standards and forums for investors to convene and share best practices. Coordination and collaboration were needed to harness the energy of investors to build an industry where capital could efficiently flow to high-impact projects at scale. The GIIN was created to lead this collective action as a credible, objective, and responsive institution to the investor community, with a mission to increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing.
Thus, I was motivated to join the GIIN because the market-building work was challenging, and it was an opportunity to help accelerate the flow of impact investment capital to address the world’s pressing social and environmental challenges.
RK: Why this report, and why now?
AB: Though the industry has grown, it is still young and remains opaque. Potential and current impact investors are faced with information asymmetry; they often don’t know how their investment practice compares relative to the rest of the market, and lack context for their work.
The GIIN tries to increase clarity through the community that we have created and through our market-building programs. For example, we manage the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS), a set of metrics that can be used to describe an organization’s social, environmental, and financial performance. The IRIS initiative encourages voluntary contribution of IRIS-aligned data and aggregates it anonymously to produce market intelligence as a public good.
Last summer’s Impact Reporting and Investments Standards (IRIS) report complements the J.P. Morgan-GIIN report because both rely on data-driven analysis. The latter discusses investment mechanics in terms of expectations, realized returns, impact goals, fee structures, and others, to bring more clarity to the market. It adds investors’ perceptions to these data to give a snapshot of where the market is today and where it’s going. As more information is shared, investors can get a better sense of the overall direction of the market.
RK: In 2009, Monitor Institute identified three issues in the impact investing industry in their report, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: (1) Lack of intermediation, (2) Lack of infrastructure, (3) Lack of absorptive capacity i.e., dealflow.
In the 2011 J.P. Morgan-GIIN report, investors listed the top three challenges to industry growth as: (1) Lack of track record of successful investments, (2) Shortage of quality investment opportunities, and (3) Inadequate impact measurement practice.
As we move into 2012, how have things changed?
AB: We have seen a lot of progress along all three fronts over the last couple of years, but the report highlights the long-term nature of these challenges. The GIIN works on these market-building projects that will help build a successful industry.
The 2009 Monitor report emphasized legitimizing impact investing. In 2011-2012, governments and institutions have launched impact investing initiatives, and several others are in development. In terms of infrastructure, the GIIN has contributed to progress in impact measurement through IRIS; 65 percent of investors surveyed in the GIIN-J.P. Morgan report said they aligned their metrics with IRIS (See Figure 15 of the report).
That said, there are still a few areas that are pretty intractable. Intermediation has grown a lot stronger and valuable experience has increased, but many fund managers aren’t on their third or fourth funds – they’re on their first or second. We need to be patient as it takes time to build experience, but there are opportunities to develop more products that address the needs of different types of investors and investees.
RK: Some investors think there is a tradeoff between social impact and financial returns in impact investing, while others think not. Is this a disagreement, or does it represent the diversity of actors in the field (Figure 9)?
AB: This year’s report showed that there are a diversity of impact investors with various return expectations, impact goals, and perceptions about tradeoffs. The nature of a deal and the type of investor will affect perspectives on the relationship between financial returns and social impact. For example, microfinance institutions in emerging markets and community development finance in the United States will have different strategies and return profiles than investment opportunities in less-developed sectors.
This diversity is evident in the 2011 report, in which investors responded to questions about the relationship between impact and financial returns. Sixty-two percent of the 52 investor respondents said they would sacrifice financial returns for greater impact. However, when asked whether a tradeoff is necessary, only 40 percent said yes. Looking deeper in the data, all of those who would not sacrifice returns for greater impact also believed that a tradeoff was not generally necessary. Those who would sacrifice returns for greater impact were split – one-third of them believed a trade-off was necessary, while the others did not. Overall, it’s interesting to see that many impact investors believe they don’t have to give up financial returns in order to generate impact.
RK: Who are the new investors moving into the space, including high net-worth individuals, and how do they change things from when it was primarily institutions and foundations?
AB: We’re seeing new investors of all types – including high net worth individuals, angel investors, and others investing through private banks and family offices, as well as new institutional investors. As new inflows of capital enter the market, greater formalization will occur. Processes that were ad hoc in the past will be standardized. The evolution of impact measurement is one example: Investors have been measuring impact for a long time, but they’ve typically been using proprietary systems. The market cannot scale without standardized, credible performance terms and metrics that have the same rigor as financial accounting measures. Also, tools and platforms like the GIIN’s ImpactBase, the online global directory of impact investment funds and products addressing the market’s information asymmetry, will continue to be essential as the market scales. Finally, continued convenings of the increasing number of actors in the impact investing community are needed to chart the course going forward, and to keep the focus on impact. The GIIN will continue to be a platform to channel this energy and dedication.
The progress we’ve seen is thanks to everyone pitching in – sharing data, experimenting with new processes and tools, contributing expertise, and improving products and systems. This report embodies that collaborative spirit in many ways because 52 investors have shared sensitive, private data aggregated as a powerful knowledge product, and offered as a public good.
RK: How is the GIIN working to alleviate the top risks faced by investors, as identified by respondents in the report, which were (1) Illiquidity or long tenors of investment, (2) Uncertainty regarding achievement of stated financial objectives, and (3) Uncertainty regarding achievement of stated impact objectives?
AB: It is critical to talk about the risks faced by the industry in addition to discussing financial returns and social or environmental impact as the market grows. The top risk identified by investor respondents, illiquidity, is not surprising, because most impact investments require patient capital. In the current financial markets, there’s a lot of emphasis on liquidity in general.
The uncertainty around achieving stated financial returns and impact objectives is also understandable given that the investors are working in a market in its infancy and growing. With brief track records, little shared data on realized returns, and the long tenors of deals, the market lacks information on how things are playing out. The GIIN, and we hope others, will continue to surface data to address the risks and increase certainty in the market.
RK: What are other big trends you’re seeing?
AB: Some of the other trends we’re seeing are (1) continued enthusiasm among new and existing industry actors and (2) demand for tools and resources that support the practice. With the industry’s energy and momentum, the question is: How can we develop resources and tools that help impact investors effectively place capital to address the world’s most pressing social and financial challenges?
The GIIN has been working to create and maintain market infrastructure, and we are increasing our focus on supporting practitioners. For example, we are working to increase IRIS adoption while continuing to advance and refine the standards. In addition, the GIIN will soon release a set of impact investment profiles that highlight specific deals in response to those who want tangible examples. With these examples and further data-driven work, we hope that the GIIN helps accelerate the flow of impact investment capital addressing social and environmental challenges.
A few interesting thoughts emerged from our conversation, particularly on the relationship between social impact and financial returns and the role of information access in growing the sector. As impact investing goes mainstream, the achievement of social impact and financial returns will be increasingly important. It’s clear that Amit and the GIIN emphasize shared information, accountability, and collaboration: transparency of impact objectives, methods, and measurement will be vital in taking impact investing to the next level.
Thanks to Rohit Gawande of Acumen Fund and Min Pease of GIIN for their editing and research contributions to this interview.
Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
impact investing, investment fund, metrics
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Kara Cook-Schultz
Landmark victory: EU bans bee-killing pesticides
Time for U.S. states to ban neonics
In a historic vote today, the European Union (EU) passed a continent-wide restriction on the use of bee-harming pesticides. Despite immense pressure from the pesticide industry, the EU nations sided with bees.
Citing concerns for food production, the environment and for biodiversity, the EU is set to completely ban the outdoor use of neonicotinoid insecticides (“neonics”) that have been blamed for killing bees, birds, wildlife, and for keeping other bees from laying eggs.
“This is an historic ban,” said Kara Cook-Schultz, Director for U.S. PIRG’s Ban Bee-Killing Pesticides campaign. “The EU is protecting its bees, its food, and its citizens from these toxic pesticides. It’s time for the U.S. to catch up.”
According to the new rule, all outdoor use of the three substances will be banned and the neonicotinoids in question will only be allowed in permanent greenhouses where no contact with bees is expected, as the EU announced on Friday.
Here in the U.S., policymakers have yet to step up. And with beekeepers in this country reporting record-breaking bee losses this year — up to 40% or more — action to protect bees is more urgent than ever.
The EU vote comes after significant findings by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) that neonics in particular pose an unacceptable risk to bees and to food production.
This news comes one week after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed its comment period asking for public comments about the risks of using several bee-killing pesticides. U.S. PIRG provided thousands of comments to the EPA, urging them to restrict the use of these dangerous pesticides.
States like Connecticut and Maryland have recently passed partial bans on the use of bee-killing pesticides. Other states like Massachusetts and Wisconsin are currently considering similar bans. This news from the EU and the EFSA provides more evidence that a ban on neonicotinoids is needed throughout the country.
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APL Champion Memories: Ryan Moore (2002, 2004) June 18, 2014 By Dave Shedloski
Ryan Moore claimed APL titles in 2002 and 2004. (USGA/Steven Gibbons)
In 2004, Ryan Moore, of Puyallup, Wash., became the first player to win the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Amateur Public Links championships in the same year, a feat duplicated three years later by Colt Knost. Moore, who also claimed the 2002 APL with a 10-and-9 win over Lee Williamson at The Orchards Golf Club in Washington, Mich., defeated Dayton Rose, 6 and 5, in the 2004 APL championship match at Rush Creek Golf Club in Maple Grove, Minn. Later that summer, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas All-American edged Luke List in the championship match at Winged Foot Golf Club’s West Course to claim the U.S. Amateur. That capped a remarkable year in which Moore, the 2000 U.S. Junior Amateur runner-up, also won the NCAA individual title and the Western Amateur. The 2003 USA Walker Cup Team competitor turned professional in 2005 and has won three PGA Tour events, most recently at the 2013 CIMB Classic in a playoff over Gary Woodland.
What are your memories of the APL?
I won it twice. The first time I won it, in Michigan, I was just on fire. It was kind of crazy. I think I played some of the best golf I had ever played to date, and maybe the best I've ever played. I think I was like 13 under par or 14 under par for the 27 holes we played [in the final]. It was just unbelievable how comfortable I felt that day. That one holds a special place in my heart.
How about winning a second APL two years later?
The second one, in 2004, I just played very solid, but I played pretty well that whole summer, winning the U.S. Amateur and the NCAAs. Every part of my game was good. I don't remember the score in the final, but I do remember that whole period of time being a lot of fun.
What did winning that first APL do for your confidence?
It helped my confidence and it helped me realize I could compete with anybody out there, and I could win at that level, which was something I hadn’t done at the college and amateur level yet.
What are your thoughts on the APL being retired?
I was disappointed to hear that it's going away. I was a bit shocked, but I guess I understand their reasoning behind it. Was it the right decision? I don't know. I get it. The Masters thought enough of it to give the winner a spot in the field every year, so it was obviously a good [championship]. A lot of good players have won it. A lot of good players have competed in it. I’m just sorry to see it go, especially when it has meant something special to me and my golf career.
Dave Shedloski is an Ohio-based freelance writer whose work has previously appeared on USGA websites.
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