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12 Geniuses Podcast
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Posts in Energy Sector
Cashing in on Climate Change - An Interview with Andrew Winston
Andrew Winston has worked in the clean business industry for over a decade. Globally recognized as an expert on how companies can navigate climate change for profit, Andrew has thoroughly researched the importance of adaptability for companies in this time of change. In this interview, Andrew discusses the implications of changing climate from what our new world will look like to how we can all participate in saving the environment. Andrew also provides insight on how businesses can harness the environmental movement for better employee engagement, increased profits, and company longevity. In this interview, Andrew discusses:
Part One: The current state of the climate, creating value through sustainability, the pace of warming, defining global warming and climate change, the 1.5 Degree Report, changes to Earth’s geography, The Paris Agreement, We’re Still In movement in the United States, how countries are working to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, how to slow down climate change.
Part Two: The Big Pivot, consumer access to sustainability information, how large sized companies are making environmentally conscious changes, attracting employees with an eco-friendly company culture, the clean economy, how to make your company eco-friendly, investment opportunities in the clean economy, innovations to help save our planet.
Andrew’s publications are available on amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-S.-Winston/e/B001H6O3R2/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
More information about Andrew is available at www.andrewwinston.com.
Innovation, Leadership, Energy Sector, disruption, talent attractiondon macpherson May 14, 2019 climate change, sustainability
Imagine life in the year 1900. Imagine how people heated their homes. Think about how people got from place to place. Yes, there was the steam engine, but personal travel was walking or with a horse and buggy. The world is better than ever and one of the foundational reasons for this is because of access to energy. On a daily basis, the average person is estimated to use about 41 pounds of coal in energy per day…that’s 15,000 pounds a year. But that is changing quickly. In this interview, energy expert Lauren Azar talks about her 25 year career in the energy field and what the future of energy in America will look like. Lauren discusses:
Part I: Working in the Field of Energy
Mentorship, young people entering the energy field, energy industry law, working in the Department of Energy, working for the federal government, working for Secretary Chu, navigating hard power and soft power in decision making, working in a male dominated industry
Part II: Planning for Changes in Energy Sources and Overall Consumption.
Energy policy planning, security vulnerabilities in the electrical grid system, the future of coal in America, the future of renewable energy, energy storage methods (battery, compressed air, etc), solar panels, internet of things and AI’s impact on energy, solar roads
Organizations, People, and Resources Mentioned: Former Secretary of the Department of Energy Steven Chu, Xcel Energy
“Once energy storage becomes cost effective, we no longer need to have just-in-time infrastructure. That is going to fundamentally change this industry. It’s going to fundamentally change this nation.”
Lauren Azar on the impact energy storage capabilities will have on our future energy supply.
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Tag Archives: multi academy trusts
Is the total academisation of schools in England a good idea?
Posted on March 21, 2016 by staceydingwall
In one of the major announcements made as part of last week’s Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, declared that all schools in England must become academies by 2020, or at least have official plans to do so by 2022. Any schools who fail to comply with this timetable will be forced to do so under new powers adopted by the government.
The policy, Osborne claimed, would “set schools free from local bureaucracy” and is part of his government’s plan to “make sure that every child gets the best start in life”. As the plan was announced, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan tweeted that “Full academisation will empower great teachers & leaders giving them autonomy and accountability to let their schools succeed”. Writing in a white paper published the following day, her department stated that removing schools from local authority control would help to “empower local communities, putting children and parents first and clearly defining the role of local government”.
More academies – the reaction
Reactions to the announcement were broadly negative, with the reform attracting criticism from local authorities, the shadow education secretary, unions, teachers, think tanks and parents, amongst others. Alongside Conor Ryan, Director of Research at the Sutton Trust, many pointed towards the fact that limited evidence exists of academies’ ability to improve the attainment levels of disadvantaged pupils, which was their original purpose. A loss of accountability to parents was also raised as a concern by some, including the Local Government Association, who stated that they opposed the handing over of “significant” powers in areas – including the curriculum – to “unelected civil servants”.
It was also noted that the government has decided to go ahead with the reform despite a recent letter to Morgan from Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Chief Inspector of Schools in England and head of Ofsted, which described the results of recent HMI inspections of academies as “worrying”. Wilshaw also wrote that many of the inspected multi-academy trusts displayed the same weaknesses as the worst performing local education authorities, and that the large salaries paid to the chief executives of these trusts was a “poor use of public money”.
Ongoing concerns
The Budget announcement comes almost two years after we first looked at issues with the academies programme on the blog. At that time, we reported on concerns that money which could be spent on addressing the shortage of school places in London was instead being used to open academies in areas where there was no urgent need for more places.
International experience: America and the Netherlands
After facing similar criticism to the English programme of failing to improve the attainment of poorer pupils, some are suggesting that the American charter schools programme, which heavily influenced the creation of the academies programme, is in decline. The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, continues to be a vocal opponent of the movement, despite facing legal challenges over his refusal to guarantee space to new and expanding charter schools.
Speaking at a town hall meeting in South Carolina in November 2015, former charter supporter and potential Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton voiced her opinion that charter schools do not engage with the “hardest-to-reach” kids, or if they do, “they don’t keep them”.
Writing for the Institute of Education, University College London blog, Toby Greany and Melanie Ehren considered the experience of the Netherlands, a country whose schools system has higher rates of autonomy than England. Two issues experienced by the Dutch Schools Boards, which were set up to oversee groups of primary schools, are highlighted as particularly relevant for England:
Some Boards have been placed into special financial measures due to their failure to correctly predict their pupil numbers; this, it is argued, could befall academies in England who cover more than one local authority area.
Due to limited engagement with teaching staff and parents, the Boards have not managed to fully embed themselves as legitimate in the eyes of society.
Evidence update
Since our 2014 blog, both the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) have published new evidence on academies, focusing on their impact on pupil attainment. In their May 2015 review of available evidence, the NFER noted several difficulties in evaluating the performance of academies due to several gaps in the evidence. The review concluded that while there is some evidence to suggest that sponsored secondary academies have had a positive impact on attainment, no significant difference in progress could be found between converter academies and similar non-academy schools. In addition, no conclusive evidence was found of the impact of academisation on primary pupils’ attainment.
In a think piece published alongside the evidence review, the NFER concluded that further expansion of the academies programme by the government would require the following factors to justify it:
a clearly articulated theory of change
the right evidence
sufficient capacity
Given the reaction to the Budget’s announcement, it can be assumed that most are of the opinion that the government has not yet managed to provide sufficient justification for its decision.
Further reading from our blog on the English education system:
Improving attainment … what recent evaluations tell us
Government’s free schools programme comes under fire again
Posted in Education and Skills | Tagged #Budget2016, academies, academies programme, academy expansion, accountability, America, attainment, Bill de Blasio, CEP, charter schools, Dutch School Boards, education, evidence, free schools, George Osborne, government, Hillary Clinton, IOE, local education authority, local government, multi academy trusts, Netherlands, NFER, Nicky Morgan, Ofsted, primary schools, secondary schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw | 1 Comment
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A Love Letter to His Dad that Changed Everything
This one really hit me.
I, for one had a bad relationship with my dad and I have forgiven him for what he did and for what he failed to do as a father and as a husband to my mother.
Even when I watched the latest TV series of ABS-CBN titled ‘Hawak Kamay’–it also left a pinch in my heart.
Watch the video and you will witness how moving the conversation between the father and his son. Listen to the heart-wrenching words of the son as he poured out his feelings toward his dad.
Gonzaga Sisters in ABS-CBNmobile’s First-Ever Reality Show
It’s a real ‘Sisters’ Act’ thing for celebrity sisters Toni and Alex Gonzaga as they appeared on the newest and first-ever reality show on ABS-CBNmobile aptly titled as ‘Team Gonzaga’, which premiered last Saturday, July 19.
Sisters’ Act on ABS-CBNMobile.com with ‘Team Gonzaga’ – Alex and Toni. They are seen here being interviewed by the press. Photograph courtesy and taken by Ted Claudio of WazzupPhilippines.com
Scenes are from Toni and Alex’s exciting adventures behind the cameras, their special interviews as they share stories about their personal lives, family, and their relationship as sisters.
The show is accessible via mobile every Saturday, 12noon exclusively through the iWantTV application using smartphones equipped with ABS-CBNmobile SIM cards, or through the website by using the registered ABS-CBNmobile number. This is an added value service feature of ABS-CBNmobile.
‘Team Gonzaga’ is the newest offering of ABS-CBNmobile following the hit shows on mobile such as ‘experienceDANIEL in 30 days’, ‘experienceKATHRYN in 15 days’, and ‘experienceKATHNIEL’, and ‘PBB All-In’ as well.
For more updates about ‘Team Gonzaga’ go to ABSCBNMobile.com, or visit its official social media accounts on facebook and twitter, respectively.
Philippines’ bet lands fourth place in MU 2013
Instead of rejoicing for the hope of bringing home the crown, the third runner-up finish of Philippines’ representative Ariella ‘Ara’ Arida in the recently concluded Miss Universe 2013, has dampen the spirits of Filipinos. There were mixed reactions, but most of her countrymen accepted their candidate’s achievement.
Ariella Arida walked onstage in her two-piece red swimwear.
Arida fell short of her predecessor’s feat, Janine Mari Tugonon as first runner-up in Miss Universe beauty tilt last year.
During the first round of eliminations, Arida was the last one to be called in the Top 16. Then she was called in second in the Top 10 semi-finalists. She went on fourth to join the Top 5; she was the only Asian who made it with four other Latinas.
However, the question thrown to her by the judge, Tara Lipinski was something that shocked the Laguna belle, “What can be done about the lack of jobs for young people starting their careers around the globe?”
She replied, “For the people who have lack of jobs. I do believe that we people should invest in education and that is my primary advocacy, because we all know that if everyone of us is educated and well aware of what we are doing, we could land into jobs and we could land a good career in the future. Education is the primary source and ticket to a better future.”
Basing on what she said, it was obvious that she knew what she wanted to convey, but was having a hard time formulating her answer to make it sound good and persuasive.
But, if the author of this post was given the same question, this could have been my answer: “The lack of jobs is one of the major problems even in my native land, but every government must look into the root of it all. Instead of governments focusing on corrupting the coffers of their respective countries; they should find means in investing their expertise in pushing for the advancement of the people, and one of which is improving the quality of education. I advocate to providing alternative training for the people to be entrepreneurial and profitable. If everyone is given equal opportunities to find meaningful ways to prosper, then the lack of jobs will be minimized.”
Gabriela Isler from Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2013 at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia. While Patricia Yurena Rodriguez from Spain placed first runner-up, Constanza Baez from Equador was second runner-up, and the fourth runner-up is Brazil’s Jakelyne Oliveira.
Most of those who protested for the Philippines’ placement may have forgotten that Miss Universe is still a beauty pageant, in the first place. The question and answer portion may have some bearing, but at the end of the day–beauty is still given importance, which the Filipina beauty may have lacked as opposed to the other Top 3 finalists, which the judges may have based on.
Other finalists were from Costa Rica, Ukraine, China, Great Britain, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, USA, Nicaragua, Switzerland, and India.
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NEC Sets July 8 For By-Elections – Receives Over US$600,000
Posted on June 19, 2019 by Lincoln Barcon Leave a comment
The National Elections Commission (NEC) has set a new date for the conduct of the combined Montserrado Senatorial and Representative By-elections.
Addressing a news conference yesterday, NEC Chairman, Cllr. Jerome Korkoya disclosed that the conduct of the by-elections in Montserrado is still on course, but with some adjustments. He said due to the financial constraints, the Commission has set July 8, 2019 for the conduct of both by-elections instead of the previous date of July 2, a week extension.
Cllr. Korkoya disclosed yesterday that the Commission has so far received from the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Finance, Development Planning the amount of L$9,114,000 which amounts to US$600,000 plus.
With the availability of this amount, Cllr. Korkoya said though the combined Senatorial and Representative By-elections will be held within the constitutional timeframe of 90 days, but with a seven days’ extension, meaning that the elections will now be held on July 8, 2019 with some adjustments.
He said NEC has found vendors to print the ballot papers and bring in other electoral material before the June 30 deadline. According to the NEC boss, accreditation of election observers, international and local media is ongoing presently; while the Commission is at the same time recruiting several persons to serve as poll workers during the conduct of the by-elections in Montserrado County.
Meanwhile, the National Elections Commission is calling on candidates in the by-elections to reframe from any form of violence during this electoral period.
On June 4, 2019, NEC assured Liberians that the conduct of the combined Senatorial and Representative By-elections in Montserrado County scheduled for July 2, 2019 was still on course despite the issue of funding to carry on the process.
Cllr. Korkoya told a news conference that though the by-elections will be held on the constitutional time, but due the little delay in negotiations with the Government of Liberia on funding the process, there will be some adjustments made for a smooth electoral process.
After the announcement of key dates for the conduct of the combined by-elections, Cllr. Korkoya disclosed that the Commission submitted a budget of US$2.5 million for the conduct of the two by-elections in Montserrado County, but the government responded with a commitment of US$1.5 million to conduct the process due to the financial constraints.
The NEC boss added that following series of negotiations with the Ministry of Finance Development Planning, the Liberian Government agreed to pay the full US$2.5 million for the by-elections, but has committed US$1.5 million as initial payment to the commission to conduct the two by-elections.
He said due to the insufficiency of the US$1.5 million, the money will be used on sensitive electoral materials with adjustments as some of the activities will not be done, including the replacement of lost voters’ cards. “We expect all the electoral materials to be in the country by June 30, 2019,” he then added.
The NEC boss added, “If the electoral materials cannot be in the country by June 30, 2019, we will reverse to the National Legislature for legal authorization. We are working to live within the 90 days as enshrined in the constitution.”
But yesterday, Cllr. Korkoya confidently told journalists that the combined Montserrado County Senatorial and Representative by-elections will now be held on July instead of the previous date of July 2, 2019
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Gender + Sexuality
‘It Just Really Sucks. It Kills Me’: Transgender Families Unnerved by School Board Race
In Chilliwack, five of 17 trustee candidates oppose lessons about sexual orientation, gender identity. A Tyee special report.
By Katie Hyslop 21 Sep 2018 | TheTyee.ca
Katie Hyslop is The Tyee’s education and youth reporter. Follow her on Twitter here.
Chilliwack, an hour and a half drive from Vancouver, is a rural community roiled by debate over the province-approved approach to teaching about gender identity and sexuality. Photo by Ian Meissner, Wikimedia Commons.
WHAT IS SOGI 123?
Barry Neufeld’s explosive Facebook post came almost a year after Chilliwack school district changed its Safe Schools anti-bullying policy to include references to gender identity, following its addition to the BC Human Rights Code in the summer of 2016.
The policy change was part of a Ministry of Education directive to all 60 school districts and private schools to update their anti-bullying policies to reference gender identity and sexual orientation by the end of 2016.
Separate but related to the policy changes are the SOGI 123 lesson plans and district policy-developing tools. Developed by the ARC Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, University of British Columbia, BC Teachers’ Federation, and 56 of the 60 B.C. school districts including Chilliwack, the materials on the site include grade-appropriate lesson plans, templates for creating sexual orientation and gender identity policies, and professional development materials for teachers and administrators.
SOGI 123 lesson plans are broken up by elementary and secondary schools, and by individual grades, and include topics like family diversity, gender identity, intersex biology, discrimination and bullying. While the SOGI 123 site provides a curated list of sexual orientation and gender identity-related lesson plans, a more substantive list of B.C. teacher-developed lesson plans mentioning sexual orientation and gender identity can be found through searching the Teach BC website run by the BC Teachers’ Federation. - K.H.
WHO CAN BAN SOGI 123 FROM CLASSROOMS?
Beyond Chilliwack, anti-SOGI 123 rallies have been held in Langley, Abbotsford, New Westminster, Richmond, Burnaby, and Vancouver. At least one candidate in the Burnaby school board election, Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, is running on an anti-SOGI 123 platform.
But could Thompson and similar-minded candidates really stop what they rail against?
The use of SOGI 123 lesson plans is not mandated by the government. But whether districts can ban SOGI 123 materials or lesson plans to be used in schools is a matter of some debate.
Teachers are supposed to have autonomy over their lesson plans as outlined in their collective agreements. However, a ministerial order passed in the last days of the BC Liberal government gives school boards the power to approve or disapprove of learning materials used in the district.
But BC Teachers’ Federation president Glen Hansman says that order has yet to be put to the test, and that’s where the discrepancy between teachers’ contracts and the order comes from. If trustees do use it to try to ban SOGI 123 materials, they will be challenged on the basis of the 2002 Supreme Court of Canada case that overturned the Surrey school board’s ban on books with LGBTQ2S+ characters and content, he said.
“If a set of trustees were to pass a motion that would disallow it, they would have to have some pretty substantive reasons to meet the threshold set by that Supreme Court of Canada decision,” said Hansman, “and disallowing it on the basis of some families not liking trans people wouldn’t be in keeping with that decision.”
While the materials have the support provincially from the teachers union and associations representing school trustees, parent advisory councils, and superintendents, as well as tri-partisan support from the BC Liberals, NDP and Greens, they remain contentious in the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland. – K.H.
Mallory Tomlinson and her family are waiting until the night of the Chilliwack school board election on Oct. 20 to decide whether they need to leave town.
The mother of two elementary-school aged children, one of whom is transgender, is worried about the election of the so-called “hate slate”: five of the 17 trustee candidates vying for seven seats who are vocally against the use of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) policy and teaching materials, more commonly known as SOGI 123, in their district. (For more about what SOGI 123 covers, see top sidebar.)
“If they get in, I don’t think we’ll be staying,” said Tomlinson. The family lives across the road from the Chilliwack school district offices, where rallies both for and against SOGI materials have been held since fall 2017.
That’s when incumbent trustee Barry Neufeld published his incendiary Facebook post against SOGI 123 lesson plans used in district schools, mislabeling them as curriculum and saying that “allowing little children to choose their gender is nothing short of child abuse.”
Curriculum, which is established and mandated by the province, dictates prescribed learning outcomes for each course and grade offered in British Columbia. Whereas lesson plans like those aggregated on the SOGI 123 website are optional class plans for helping teachers reach these prescribed learning outcomes. And whether or not school trustees have the power to dictate to teachers what resources they use is unclear enough that it likely would need to be settled by a court case (see second sidebar).
Still, despite other pressing issues in a district with overflowing enrollment, SOGI 123 has turned into the defining fight of the Chilliwack school board race, dividing the community and raising anxieties.
The Tyee reached out to the five candidates opposed to SOGI 123, including incumbent Neufeld and former teacher Erma Vietorisz, who did not respond by press time.
Anti-SOGI trustee candidate Kaethe Jones: ‘I think you can teach respect for all kinds of children, and you don’t have to bring all the sex ed into it.’ Source: Candidate’s Facebook page.
The three candidates The Tyee did speak to — Darrell Furgason, incumbent trustee Heather Maahs, and Kaethe Jones — deny their opposition has anything to do with hate or not supporting trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and two spirited students.
“I do not hate people who are part of the LGBTQ community or who are transgendered,” said Jones, a retired special education teacher.
“But I believe that is something between the child and their parents. They need to go to a professional to deal with this. I don’t think you need to bring that into the classroom and teach everybody about it. I think you can teach respect for all kinds of children, and you don’t have to bring all the sex ed into it.”
‘The twisted things I’m hearing’
Since their son began openly living as a boy, Tomlinson and her husband have been called child abusers by a neighbour both online and in person.
Accusations of “child abuse” regarding the implementation of SOGI 123 are a frequent line from many anti-SOGI campaigners in the community, who Tomlinson says hold up posters on overpasses and hand out flyers.
Tomlinson, a peer facilitator for the Chilliwack Gender Support Network helping trans kids, adults and families in the region, has been attending the pro-SOGI 123 rallies in the district with her children since fall 2017. Tomlinson doesn’t expose her kids to the anti-SOGI rallies, but they know about the opposition.
Tomlinson told The Tyee her son “takes it at face value: he knows these people are wrong, he knows what they’re spreading is wrong.” Nevertheless, she’s concerned about the anti-SOGI message her son is being exposed to out in the community: “It just really sucks. It kills me.”
Five of the current seven members on the Chilliwack school board released a letter last January in support of SOGI 123, and called on Neufeld to resign the next day.
But Tomlinson blames the school district for not sending out information to parents explaining that SOGI 123 is about recognizing and respecting a diversity of gender identities and sexual orientations to prevent bullying and help LGBTQ2S+ students feel safe in schools.
Instead, in absence of communication and education from the district, parents and community members have been conducting their own research, which she says results in a lot of misinformation.
“The twisted things that I’m hearing that people think SOGI 123 is teaching, it’s just astounding. People think that kids are being taught about anal sex,” she said.
There are no mentions of sexual health, sexual education or anal sex on the SOGI 123 website. BC Teachers’ Federation President Glen Hansman notes that the SOGI 123 site came online in the fall of 2016, but there have been no substantive changes to the provincial sexual health curriculum since 2006. Sex ed lesson plans are also available on the teachers’ union’s Teach BC website, although teachers are not required to upload their own lesson plans to the site.
If parents are concerned about what their children are learning in class, however, Hansman advises them to talk to their teachers. “Every teacher is going to do things in a completely different way,” he said.
Elizabeth Beacom, a transgender woman and mother of two children in the district, adds, “There is nothing inherently sexual about sexual orientation or gender identity. Especially for kids who may be gay or lesbian, that attraction is no different than another child’s level of interest in terms of ‘I think that boy’s cute’ or ‘I want to hang out with that girl.’”
‘Kids are not guinea pigs’
Trustee candidates Furgason, Maah and Jones told The Tyee they are running on platforms that prioritize academics.
In Furgason’s case, he’s concerned about the lower test scores and graduation rates of boys compared to girls. Maah talks about the poor math and reading scores of the district’s middle school children, which she says are below the provincial average.
Jones wants to implement recommendations from a 2013 report on improving special education services in the district and hire more teachers on call.
But their campaigns also focus on their opposition to the SOGI 123 materials.
“This has no realm in the hands of teachers who aren’t qualified to be teaching non-scientific or morally bankrupt views outside of parental concerns. So I want inclusivity, alright, but I want everybody’s views understood,” said Furgason, director of Christian education groups Worldview Studies Center and the local chapter of Summit Ministries.
“Let’s ask the Muslims and Sikhs what they think about this genderism.”
Furgason, who has a PhD in Religious studies, has a three part-lecture series “Understanding the Challenge of Islam” for sale via the Worldview Studies Center website, which focuses on “showing that Islam has never been a religion of peace, and that it produces terrorism and violence as a result of Mohamed's commands for his followers to be involved in Jihad.” In fact, study after study has debunked that characterization.
Furgason is also director of the Chilliwack branch of Summit Ministries, whose 2016/17 board of directors included incumbent candidate Maah.
Maah says SOGI 123 advocates a particular lifestyle that is against the values and morals of many parents in the district. But also she maintains it isn’t based on peer-reviewed studies.
“We don’t know what the long-term effect of presenting all these gender options to students are,” she said. “Kids are not guinea pigs.”
BCTF President Glen Hansman says SOGI 123 is well grounded in ‘a body of research on this specific topic and the need to ensure that all students, including LGBTQ youth, have safe and inclusive school environments.’ Photo submitted.
But Hansman and others The Tyee spoke to, including Elizabeth Saewyc, professor and director of UBC’s School of Nursing and executive director of the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, say many of the materials backing up the SOGI 123 materials are peer reviewed and evidence-based.
“There actually is a body of research on this specific topic and the need to ensure that all students, including LGBTQ youth, have safe and inclusive school environments,” Hansman said.
This includes a report from McCreary Centre Society and Stigma & Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre on the evidence surrounding school-based interventions aimed at reducing health inequalities for LGBTQ2S+ youth, which says evidence from other studies shows the mental health of all youth, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender, improves with the presence of school-based interventions.
And a 2011 national survey of Canadian high school students on homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in schools, conducted by EGALE Canada and researchers from the University of Winnipeg.
Hansman adds that no lesson plans in the province are peer reviewed: “I think people are imagining that there is some sort of consortium or a panel out there that adjudicates teachers’ lesson plans, and there isn’t,” he said, adding teachers are trained in pedagogy and how to work with the age-levels they specialize in.
Jones, who previously served as a BCTF union rep, says she was completely unaware of SOGI 123 until trustee Neufeld’s post last year.
“Since then I have done research online and discovered a few things about the resource,” she said. “Early on they talk about gay and lesbians, they talk about two mummies, two daddies, and they don’t mention that there could be a family that has a mother and a father.”
The SOGI 123 website disputes this, saying “SOGI 1 2 3 provides tools and resources for creating a welcoming, inclusive environment for ALL students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
A Google away
All three candidates maintain parents are excluded from decisions about whether SOGI is used, that they weren’t consulted.
“Another one of my platforms is parents’ rights,” said Furgason. “Parents have been excluded — if you look at the sex ed class and the SOGI platform — parents are not to be told if a child expresses a point of view about male or female and the teacher happens to be pro-SOGI.”
But Tomlinson disputes this, pointing out that the SOGI 123 lesson plans are online for parents to see.
“SOGI 123 won’t change any kids’ minds about their sexuality or gender identity — kids are smart and some books or lesson plans aren’t going to be enough to change a child’s sexuality or gender identity— but it will help those who feel anxious about their safety and well-being at school to feel better,” she said.
When asked how they would respond to LGBTQ2S+ students or their parents who say opposition to SOGI makes them feel unsafe, the candidates against SOGI 123 had reactions ranging from “that would make me very sad” from Maah, to Furgason, who dismissed the question as a hypothetical.
“We don’t know this demographic, that’s hypothetical, we don’t know these people. And from talking to them and seeing them at rallies — all humans are insecure at some time in their life,” he said.
Furgason added that transgender people are like those with anorexia in that it is a psychological disorder. However, the American Psychiatric Association, which produces the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that defines gender dysphoria, which had previously been defined as “gender identity disorder,” denies that it is a disorder.
“Part of removing stigma is about choosing the right words. Replacing ‘disorder’ with ‘dysphoria’ in the diagnostic label is not only more appropriate and consistent with familiar clinical sexology terminology, it also removes the connotation that the patient is ‘disordered,’” reads a fact-sheet from the American Psychiatric Association.
Furgason also argues that transgender people are such a minority in Chilliwack the attention afforded them is unwarranted.
“Where are these people? How many of them live in my town and go to these schools? Less than one per cent,” said Furgason.
Data from the 2013 BC Adolescent Youth Survey conducted by the McCreary Centre Society did find less than one per cent of youth surveyed in the province identified as transgender. The report on Fraser East, which includes Chilliwack, Abbotsford, and Fraser Cascade school districts, found so few trans students the number was too small to report.
However, SOGI 123 materials also focus on sexual orientation, and 19 per cent of youth province-wide and 17 per cent in Fraser East identified as non-heterosexual in 2013. It’s worth noting that 2013 was the first year the survey asked students if they identified as transgender or two-spirited, and the 2013 report states students were less likely to report identifying as “completely straight” that year versus the surveys in 2008 and 2003. The results of the 2018 survey are expected next year.
‘You’re on one side or the other’
Neufeld’s attacks on SOGI 123 have ignited reaction beyond Chilliwack’s borders. Education Minister Rob Fleming has called on the incumbent trustee to step down, while the BC Teachers’ Federation and CUPE local 411 have filed a human rights complaint against Neufeld.
But Chilliwack’s own MLA Laurie Throness of the BC Liberals has come out against SOGI 123. Throness voted against his party’s own bill to add gender identity to the BC Human Rights Code in 2016.
‘I’m Going to Stop You Right There,’ the Teacher Said
Beacom believes it is unlikely a majority of trustees elected next month will be anti-SOGI 123. Nor does she feel unsafe living in Chilliwack, but acknowledges she is likely in the minority among the local transgender community.
“I feel like they would probably say they don’t feel like they have that same level of assurance of their safety,” she said, adding beyond the anti-SOGI and transphobic flyers handed out in the community, and the online comments that “borderline on what I would consider to be threatening,” she hasn’t heard of incidents where someone’s safety has been compromised.
Tomlinson does feel her family is unsafe in the face of SOGI 123 opposition. She calls the anti-SOGI 123 demonstrations in the Lower Mainland “hate rallies,” noting that members of the Soldiers of Odin, an anti-immigration group, have attended, and that one organizer invited the Hells Angels to participate.
“It has really divided the city between pro and anti,” she said. “Either you’re on one side or the other, and [there] doesn’t seem to be an in-between.”
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HomeEntertainment’12 Years A Slave’ To Be Incorporated Into Public High School Curriculum
’12 Years A Slave’ To Be Incorporated Into Public High School Curriculum
February 25, 2014 Dvon Entertainment 0
The award-winning film 12 Years a Slave, a striking and brutally vivid retelling of the true story ofSolomon Northup, will be incorporated into public high school classrooms around the nation beginning in September 2014, according to a The National School Boards Association (NSBA) press release.
The NSBA is partnering with New Regency, Penguin Books, and the filmmakers to distribute copies of the acclaimed film, book, and study guide to America’s public high schools, giving students an unvarnished view of slavery in America that is seldom introduced inside the classroom.
The initiative, coordinated by Montel Williams, is modeled against an initiative Williams launched that ultimately led to distribution by The Montel Williams Show of copies of the Civil War film Glory to public high schools.
“12 Years a Slave is one of the most impactful films in recent memory, and I am honored to have been able to bring together Fox Searchlight and National School Boards Association to maximize its educational potential. When Hollywood is at its best, the power of the movies can be harnessed into a powerful educational tool. This film uniquely highlights a shameful period in American history, and in doing so will evoke in students a desire to not repeat the evils of the past while inspiring them to dream big of a better and brighter future, and I’m proud to be a part of that,” said Williams.
“Since first reading 12 Years a Slave, it has been my dream that this book be taught in schools. I am immensely grateful to Montel Williams and the National School Boards Association for making this dream a reality and for sharing Solomon Northup’s story with today’s generation,” said Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years.
“The National School Boards Association is honored to partner with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Penguin Books to ensure that every public high school student in America has the opportunity to stare the stark realities of slavery in the eye through books and film,” said NSBA President David A. Pickler. “We believe that providing America’s public high school students the opportunity to bear witness to such an unrelenting view of the evils of slavery is essential toward ensuring that this history is never forgotten and must never be repeated.”
This groundbreaking film won the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Picture, the PGA Award for Best Picture, the BAFTA Award for Best Film and is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Motion Picture of the Year
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Are Most Americans Employed in the Primary Sector?
by Steve Lander
Primary sector jobs -- such as orchard work -- are relatively scarce.
The primary sector of the economy refers to jobs that involve extracting materials. It spans everything from food extraction -- such as fishing and farming -- to taking items from the ground through mining or logging. As the economy has advanced, more Americans have moved up to more advanced sectors of the economy, leaving a small minority working in the primary sector.
Understanding the Primary Sector
The primary sector spans the most basic types of economic activity -- getting raw materials for food or other purposes. While the nature of farming has changed, a modern farmer produces essentially the same product as a farmer 5,000 years ago -- as does a fisherman or a gold miner. However, with advances in technology and more effective procedures, fewer people, relative to the size of the population, are able to produce more.
Primary Sector Employment
As of 2010, approximately 4.17 million people were employed in the primary sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data complied in the book "Service Management: An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management and Operations." These were split between the 3.42 million working in agriculture and the 0.75 million working in mining and logging activities. The number of workers is almost the same as it was in 1970, when 4.14 million people worked in extraction. However, 6 percent of workers were involved in extraction in 1970, while only 3 percent were doing it in 2010, also based on the compiled BLS data. The primary sector is, however, seeing growth in female workers as women turn to operating small-scale and organic farms for a number of reasons, including the desire to start businesses with a unique niche and the growth of movements like the eat-local movement, according to Michelle Napier-Dunnings from Michigan Food and Farming Systems.
Primary Sector Economic Output
The primary sector's role in the U.S. economy is roughly commensurate with its size. The 3 percent of the workforce involved in it generated roughly $396.5 billion worth of America's gross domestic product in 2010, according to "Service Management: An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management." In 1970, extraction represented $42.4 billion, or 4 percent of the country's economic output. While these figures are not adjusted for inflation, this means that roughly the same number of people were able to produce more than nine times as much in 2010 as they were in 1970, in terms of dollar value. Adjusted for the inflation rate -- which turned one dollar in 1970 into $5.62 in 2010 -- production grew from $238.3 to $396.5 billion over that time in 2010 dollars.
Secondary and Tertiary Sectors
Most of the population works in the secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy. The secondary sector, which encompasses construction and manufacturing, employed 17.04 million people, or 13 percent of the workforce, in 2010. It created $2.21 trillion of economic activity -- 15 percent of the GDP. The tertiary, or service, sector, employed 84 percent of the workforce, or 112.12 million people. It was responsible for 82 percent of the economy, which is $11.9 trillion.
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Steve Lander has been a writer since 1996, with experience in the fields of financial services, real estate and technology. His work has appeared in trade publications such as the "Minnesota Real Estate Journal" and "Minnesota Multi-Housing Association Advocate." Lander holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Columbia University.
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Service High student arrested over stabbing threat, officials say
Author: Madeline McGee
A Service High School student was arrested Tuesday after he reportedly made a comment about stabbing someone, police and the Anchorage School District said.
Frank Hauser, the principal at Service High School, said in an email to parents that the boy had become “emotionally upset and was overheard by another student stating that he felt like stabbing someone.”
Anchorage police said in an alert said that the student had heard the boy say he was “going to stab someone,” and that student told their parents, who called police. A patrol officer responded to their residence around 6:36 p.m. Monday, police said.
It was not immediately clear what the student was upset about. That’s still under investigation, as is the question of whether the threat was directed at anyone in particular, said MJ Thim, a spokesman for the Anchorage Police Department.
“At this point we don’t have any information that it was directed at a specific person,” Thim said.
School resource officers met the boy when he arrived at school Tuesday morning and took him into custody, police said. He was arrested after being interviewed, and charges have been forwarded to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Police do not make specific charges public unless the juvenile is charged as an adult, Thim said.
The student who made the alleged threat didn’t have any weapons with him when officers arrested him, police said.
Madeline McGee
Madeline McGee is a general assignment reporter for the Daily News.
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Delta Air Lines Logo History and Evolution
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Delta Air Lines Logo History and Evolution. Delta Air Lines, commonly known as Delta, is a major airline in the United States, with its headquarters and its largest operations center at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.
The airline, together with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, operates more than 5,400 daily flights and serves an extensive domestic and international network that includes 319 destinations in 54 countries on six continents, until October 2016.
Delta Air Lines Logo History and Evolutiona
Delta is one of the four founding members of The SkyTeam airline alliance and operates joint ventures with AeroMexico, Air France-KLM, Alitalia, Korean Air, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia and WestJet. The regional service is operated under the Delta Connection brand.
One of the five remaining legacy carriers, Delta is the sixth oldest operating airline by date of foundation, and the oldest airline still operating in the United States. The history of the company goes back to Huff Daland Dusters, founded in 1924 in Macon, Georgia, as a dust removal operation.
The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana, and was later renamed Delta Air Services, in reference to the nearby Mississippi Delta region, and began providing passenger services on June 17, 1929. Among the predecessors of the current Delta Air Lines, Western Airlines and Northwest Airlines began flying passengers in 1926 and 1927, respectively.
The airline has been evolving its logo dozens times, they are transforming its brand several times. Here are the logo evolution and history.
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Success! Su from Burma raised $1,500 to fund eye surgery.
Su's treatment was fully funded on December 31, 2018.
Su's story
Su's update
Su underwent eye surgery.
Now, her vision is becoming clearer. Following her surgery and recovery, Su will return to her village and continue her studies.
She says, “I hope I would get better soon and be able to go back to school. I want to be a teacher someday and I will support my family.”
Now, her vision is becoming clearer. Following her surgery and recovery, Su will return to her village and continue her studies. She says...
Su is a 12-year-old student from Burma. She lives with her parents and six-year-old sister in San Ywar Gyi Village, Myanaung Township, Ayeyarwady Division. In her free time, Su likes to listen to music and dance.
One year ago, Su began to experience itchiness, pain, and blurry vision. These symptoms have made it increasingly difficult for her to see clearly. Su was diagnosed with retinal detachment, a condition in which the retina pulls away from the supportive tissue in the eye, resulting in vision loss. If left untreated, she could lose vision completely.
Su is scheduled to undergo surgery to reattach her retina on November 22. Our medical partner, Burma Children Medical Fund, is requesting $1,500 to cover the total cost of her procedure and care. After his surgery, Su’s vision will hopefully be restored, and she will resume her daily activities comfortably.
Su says, “I want to become a teacher in the future.”
Su is a 12-year-old student from Burma. She lives with her parents and six-year-old sister in San Ywar Gyi Village, Myanaung Township, Ayeya...
Su's case was submitted by Bue Wah Say at Burma Children Medical Fund in Burma.
Su's Timeline
Su was submitted by Bue Wah Say, Project Officer at Burma Children Medical Fund, our medical partner in Burma.
Su's profile was published to start raising funds.
Su received treatment at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital. Medical partners often provide care to patients accepted by Watsi before those patients are fully funded, operating under the guarantee that the cost of care will be paid for by donors.
Su's treatment was fully funded.
Su's treatment was successful. Read the update.
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23-GPPV (Retinal Detachment)
On average, it costs $11,807 for Su's treatment
Subsidies fund $10,307 and Watsi raises the remaining $1,500
Patients may experience blurred or dim vision, shadows or blind spots in the field of vision, sensitivity to light and glare, and double vision.
Reduced vision can result in social isolation, depression, increased risk of falling and accidents, and ultimately a greater tendency to be disabled. Without surgery, the patient will have no choice but to live with end-stage ocular disease, often resulting in blindness or pain.
The healthcare system in Burma does not permit the average citizen to receive proper eye examinations. This lack of attention to ocular health is due to a variety of reasons. However, a low optometrist-to-population ratio and insufficient funds are the leading causes.
Surgery will only be performed if the pressure in the eye is stable. The time it takes to stabilize the pressure in the eye depends on the severity of damage to the eye. For this condition, the patient undergoes two surgeries.
The patient will regain his or her vision, though it may not be perfectly clear. Fortunately, the surgery prevents a complete loss of vision.
Potential side effects include bleeding, infection, scarring, persistent swelling, wound separation, and the need to undergo additional surgery.
Burma has 309 ophthalmologists and 150 eye nurses. Fewer than half of the ophthalmologists perform surgery, and almost two-thirds confine their practice to the cities of Yangon (with a population of about six million) and Mandalay (about three million), where many people have the financial capacity to meet high out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Aside from these main facilities, there is roughly one ophthalmologist for every 500,000 people, and eye health screening and treatment for children and adults is neither comprehensive nor consistent.
There are no alternatives. If left untreated, the patient will eventually lose his or her vision completely.
Precious is a baby from Kenya. She has a left inguinal hernia. Fortunately, on May 24, she will undergo repair surgery at our medical partner's care center. Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is requesting $423 to fund Precious's surgery. Once completed, this procedure will hopefully allow her to live more comfortably.
Bernard is a young boy from Kenya. Since birth, Bernard has had an umbilical hernia. This hernia causes him pain and if not treated, it may result in intestinal tissue damage. Fortunately, on August 2, he will undergo repair surgery at our medical partner's care center. Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is requesting $423 to fund Bernard's surgery. Once completed, this procedure will hopefully allow him to live more comfortably.
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Twinomugisha is a farmer from Uganda. He is married and has six children. For about two months, Twinomugisha has had left inguinal hernia. If not treated, Twinomugisha will be at risk of negative symptoms and complications . Fortunately, on April 9, he will undergo hernia repair surgery at our medical partner's care center. Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is requesting $219 to fund Twinomugisha's surgery. Once completed, this procedure will hopefully allow him to live more comfortably and confidently. Twinomugisha says, “I will have a positive mind thinking after receiving this treatment because am so paining.”
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The Vital Statistics Act
It has been in effect since June 3, 2019.
1 Jan 2019 to 2 Jun 2019 — Bilingual version (PDF)
10 Nov 2017 to 31 Dec 2018 — Bilingual version (PDF)
1 Nov 2017 to 9 Nov 2017 — Bilingual version (PDF)
2 Jun 2017 to 31 Oct 2017 — Bilingual version (PDF)
10 Nov 2016 to 1 Jun 2017 — Bilingual version (PDF)
1 Mar 2016 to 9 Nov 2016 — Bilingual version (PDF)
5 Nov 2015 to 29 Feb 2016 — Bilingual version (PDF)
15 Jun 2015 to 4 Nov 2015 — Bilingual version (PDF)
1 Feb 2015 to 14 Jun 2015 — Bilingual version (PDF)
5 Dec 2013 to 31 Jan 2015 — Bilingual version (PDF)
14 Jun 2012 to 4 Dec 2013
C.C.S.M. c. V60
Table of Contents Bilingual (PDF) Regulations
1 In this Act,
"approved form" means a form that is approved by, or acceptable to, the director; (« formule approuvée »)
"birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, of a product of conception in which, after such expulsion or extraction, there is breathing, beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or unmistakable movement of voluntary muscle, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached; (« naissance »)
"burial permit" means a permit to bury, cremate, remove, or otherwise dispose of a dead body; (« permis d'inhumer »)
"cemetery" means land set apart or used as a place for the interment or other disposal of dead bodies, and includes a vault, mausoleum, and crematorium; (« cimetière »)
"cemetery owner" includes the manager, superintendent, caretaker, or other person in charge of a cemetery; (« propriétaire de cimetière »)
"certificate" means a certified extract of the prescribed particulars of a registration filed in the office of the director; (« certificat »)
"chief medical examiner" means the chief medical examiner under The Fatality Inquiries Act; (« médecin légiste en chef »)
"common-law relationship" means the relationship between two adults who, not being married to each other, are cohabiting with each other in a conjugal relationship; (« union de fait »)
"cremation" means disposal of a dead body by incineration in a crematorium; (« crémation »)
"director" means the Director of Vital Statistics provided for under this Act; (« directeur »)
"duly qualified medical practitioner" means a physician who holds a valid certificate of practice issued by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba under The Regulated Health Professions Act; (« médecin »)
"error" means incorrect information, and includes omission of information; (« erreur »)
"event registrar" means a person appointed as an event registrar under section 27; (« registraire général de l'état civil »)
"funeral director" means any person who owns, controls, operates, or manages a funeral home or chapel, who takes charge of a dead body for the purpose of burial, cremation or other disposition; (« entrepreneur de pompes funèbres »)
"lay funeral director" means any person other than a funeral director who takes charge of a dead body for the purpose of burial, cremation or other disposition; (« entrepreneur de pompes funèbres profane »)
"married woman" includes a woman who, within the period of gestation prior to the birth of the child in respect of whose birth an application for registration is made under this Act, was lawfully married; (« femme mariée »)
"medical certificate" includes, where applicable, a supplemental medical certificate completed under subsection 15(4) of The Fatality Inquiries Act; (« certificat médical »)
"medical examiner" means a medical examiner under The Fatality Inquiries Act and includes the chief medical examiner; (« médecin légiste »)
"minister" means the member of the Executive Council charged by the Lieutenant Governor in Council with the administration of this Act; (« ministre »)
"occupier" means the person occupying any dwelling and includes the person having the management or charge of any public or private institution where persons are cared for or confined, and the proprietor, manager, keeper, or other person in charge of a hotel, inn, apartment, lodging-house, or other dwelling or accommodation; (« occupant »)
"prescribed" means, unless otherwise indicated, prescribed by regulation made under this Act; (version anglaise seulement)
"state" means any state or territory of the United States and includes the District of Columbia; (« état »)
"stillbirth" means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception in which after the expulsion or extraction there is no breathing, beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or unmistakable movement of voluntary muscle,
(a) where the expulsion or extraction occurs after a pregnancy of at least 20 weeks, or
(b) where the product weighs 500 grams or more. (« mortinaissance »)
S.M. 1991-92, c. 10, s. 2; S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 2; S.M. 2002, c. 48, s. 23; S.M. 2009, c. 15, s. 250; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52.
2 For all purposes within the legislative competence of the Legislature of Manitoba the death of a person takes place at the time at which irreversible cessation of all that person's brain function occurs.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS
3(1) The birth of every child born in the province shall be registered as provided herein.
Statement respecting birth
3(2) After the birth of a child in the province, and prior to the release from the health facility, or in the case of a home birth, within five days after the birth,
(a) the mother of the child or the father of the child; or
(b) any employee in the health facility in which the child is born; or
(c) if there is no person to whom clause (a) or (b) applies, the person standing in the place of the parents of the child; or
(d) if there is no person to whom clause (a), (b) or (c) applies, the occupier of the premises in which the child is born, if the occupier has knowledge of the birth;
shall complete and deliver or mail a statement in an approved form respecting the birth to the event registrar or to the director.
3(3) The father of a child born to a woman who is not his wife is not required to comply with subsection (2), unless the father and the woman make a joint request in writing under subsection (8) respecting the particulars of registration.
Plural births
3(4) If more than one child is delivered during a single confinement, a separate statement for each child shall be completed and delivered or mailed as provided in subsection (2); and in each statement the number of children born during the confinement and the number of the child in the order of birth shall be given.
Child of married woman
3(5) Subject to subsections (6), (6.1), (6.2), (7) and (8), the birth of a child to a married woman shall be registered showing the particulars of her husband as those of the child's father.
3(6) The birth registration of a child born to a woman as a result of artificial insemination, whether born before or after the coming into force of this subsection, shall be completed
(a) showing, with the written consent of the woman and her spouse or common-law partner in an approved form, the particulars of the spouse or common-law partner as those of the father or other parent of the child; and
(b) in accordance with the regulations.
Common-law partner
3(6.1) For the purpose of subsection (6), a woman's common-law partner is the person who, not being married to the woman, is cohabiting with her in a conjugal relationship of some permanence and, where the woman and her common-law partner register their common-law relationship under section 13.1, they are deemed to be cohabiting in a conjugal relationship of some permanence.
Consent submitted after child's birth registered
3(6.2) If the consent referred to in clause (6)(a) is submitted to the director after the registration of the child's birth, the director may amend the registration, on receipt of the prescribed fee, to add the particulars of the father or other parent where the birth was registered without those particulars.
No particulars of father
3(7) Subject to subsection (8), no particulars of the father shall be given in the statement made under subsection (2) in respect of a child's birth, and the birth shall be registered without any particulars as to the father, where
(a) the child is born to an unmarried woman; or
(b) the child is born to a married woman who files with the director a statutory declaration that at the time of conception she was living separate and apart from her husband and that her husband is not the father of her child.
Joint request to register father
3(8) If a woman referred to in subsection (7) and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of the woman's child make a joint written request to the director for the person to be registered as the father, the child's birth may be registered showing the person as the father. If the request is made after the registration of the child's birth, the director may, subject to subsection (9.3), amend the registration in accordance with the request on receipt of the prescribed fee.
If parents of child marry each other
3(9) If the parents of a child marry each other after the child's birth they may make a joint written request to amend the registration of birth under subsection (8).
Name of child
3(9.1) The following applies to the name of a child shown on the registration of the child's birth:
(a) there must be both a given name and a surname;
(b) the given name and the surname must consist only of the letters "a" to "z" and accents from the English or French languages, but may include hyphens and apostrophes;
(c) the surname may consist of up to four names, combined with or without hyphens.
Surname if parent does not complete registration
3(9.2) If a person who is not the child's parent completes the statement under subsection (2), the surname given to the child must be
(a) if the parents have the same surname, the parents' surname;
(b) if the parents have different surnames, a surname consisting of both parents' surnames, hyphenated in alphabetical order;
(c) if only one parent is known, that parent's surname; or
(d) if neither parent is known, the surname chosen by the person standing in the place of the parents.
Limitation on change of surname of child
3(9.3) After a child has attained the age of 12 years, the registration of a change in the child's surname may be made only under section 21 or 23.
Additional evidence required
3(10) If the director is not satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the statement, the director may, before the statement is registered or at any time after it has been registered,
(a) require the attendance of the person who signed the statement or of any other person; and
(b) examine that person respecting any matter pertaining to the registration of the birth.
Continuing liability to complete statement
3(11) If the statement is not completed and delivered or mailed in the manner, and within the time, herein provided, every person upon whom the duty of completing and delivering or mailing the statement is imposed remains liable to perform that duty notwithstanding the expiration of the time provided and is, in respect of each successive period of five days thereafter during which he or she neglects or fails to complete and deliver or mail the statement, guilty of a violation of this Act.
Certification of birth by event registrar
3(12) Upon receiving a statement in an approved form respecting the birth, the event registrar shall, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the statement, sign and date it and within five days deliver it to the director for registration.
Procedure where responsible persons not found
3(13) If the event registrar is unable to find any of the persons required under subsection (2) to complete and deliver a statement respecting the birth of a child the event registrar shall complete the statement with the particulars he or she knows, and the statement constitutes the registration of the birth.
Amending record
3(14) On receipt of a statement made under section 24 or 29 of The Family Maintenance Act, the director shall amend the registration of birth accordingly and every birth certificate issued after the making of an amendment under this subsection shall be issued as if the original registration had been made as amended.
S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 3; S.M. 2002, c. 24, s. 54; S.M. 2002, c. 48, s. 23; S.M. 2008, c. 42, s. 92; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52; S.M. 2014, c. 25, s. 21; S.M. 2019, c. 5, s. 33.
4 [Repealed]
S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 4.
Registration of birth by director
5 When a birth is not registered in accordance with subsection 3(2) if application for the registration thereof is made by any person to the director in an approved form, verified by statutory declaration and accompanied by the prescribed fee and by a statement in an approved form respecting the birth and such other evidence as may be prescribed, the director, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the matters stated in the application and that the application is made in good faith, shall register the birth by signing the statement, and thereupon the statement constitutes the registration of the birth.
S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 5; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52.
Statement respecting birth of foundling
7(1) Where a new-born child is found deserted the person who finds the child and any person in whose charge the child may be shall give to the event registrar in the health facility in which the child is placed or the director as the case may be, within seven days after the finding or taking charge of the child, such information as they may possess as to the particulars required to register the birth of the child and shall include information relating to the exact location the child was found.
Duties of event registrar
7(2) The event registrar, upon receipt of such information regarding the birth of the child, and upon being satisfied that every reasonable effort has been made to identify the child without success shall
(a) require the person who found or has charge of the child to complete a statutory declaration concerning the facts of the finding of the child and to complete, so far as the person is able, a statement required under subsection 3(2);
(b) cause the child to be examined by the local medical officer of health or a duly qualified medical practitioner with a view to determining as nearly as possible the date of the birth of the child, and require the examiner to make a statutory declaration setting forth the facts as determined by the examination; and
(c) make a detailed report of the case and transmit to the director the evidence regarding the birth of the child.
7(3) [Repealed] S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 7.
Registration of birth of foundling
7(4) The director, upon receipt of the report and the evidence mentioned in subsection (2), shall review the case and, if satisfied as to the correctness and sufficiency of the matters stated, shall register the birth; and the registration shall, subject as herein provided, establish for the child a date of birth, a place of birth, and a surname and given name.
Copies to Director of Child and Family Services
7(5) The director, upon registering a birth under this section, shall transmit forthwith to the Director of Child and Family Services appointed under The Child and Family Services Act a copy of all documents respecting the child filed pursuant to this section.
Subsequent establishment of identity
7(6) If, subsequent to the registration of a birth under this section, the identity of the child is established to the satisfaction of the director or further information with respect thereto is received, the director shall
(a) cancel, add to, or correct, the registration of the birth made under this section; and
(b) where necessary, cause a new registration in accordance with the actual facts of the birth to be made and filed in substitution for the registration first made under this section;
and the director shall thereupon make a notation of any cancellation on the registration first made, and no certificate shall thereafter be issued in respect thereof.
Date of new registration
7(7) Where a new registration of the birth of a child is made under subsection (6), the date of registration shall be as shown on the registration first made.
Notification to Director of Child and Family Services
7(8) The director shall notify the Director of Child and Family Services forthwith of any action taken under subsection (6).
Certificate to be cancelled
7(9) Where a person has received a certificate issued in respect of the registration of the birth of a child made under subsection (4), if the registration is cancelled under subsection (6), that person shall deliver the certificate to the director for cancellation if the director so requires.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 10, s. 3; S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 7; S.M. 2012, c. 40, s. 46.
Addition of given name by director
8(1) Except in a case to which section 21 applies, where the birth of a child has been registered, and
(a) [repealed] S.M. 2013, c. 54, s. 76;
(b) the child was registered without a given name;
both parents, the surviving parent, the guardian of the child, the person proposing the given name, or the child after attaining the age of 18 years, may deliver to the director an application setting forth the particulars of the given name, accompanied by a statutory declaration completed by the applicant, and such other documentary evidence as is satisfactory to the director, and the director, upon being satisfied that the application is made in good faith and upon payment of the prescribed fee, shall make a notation of the change in the registration of the birth.
Statutory limitation of alteration or addition
8(2) No alteration of, or addition to, a given name shall be made in a registration of a birth, except as provided in this Act.
Changes to be shown on certificate
8(3) Any birth certificate issued after the making of a notation pursuant to this section shall be prepared as if the registration had been made containing the new given name at the time of registration.
REGISTRATION OF STILLBIRTHS
9(1) Every stillbirth in the province shall be registered as provided herein.
Statement respecting stillbirth
9(2) Where a stillbirth occurs, the person who would have been responsible for the registration thereof as provided in section 3, if it had been a birth, shall complete and deliver to the event registrar or director a statement in an approved form respecting the stillbirth.
9(3) The duly qualified medical practitioner in attendance at a stillbirth or, where there is no duly qualified medical practitioner in attendance, a duly qualified medical practitioner or a medical examiner shall cause a medical certificate to be completed in an approved form showing the cause of the stillbirth and shall deliver it to the director.
Certificate by event registrar
9(4) Where an event registrar is satisfied that there was no duly qualified medical practitioner and no medical examiner within a reasonable distance from the place where a stillbirth has occurred, and that it is not reasonably practicable to have the medical certificate completed as provided in subsection (3), the event registrar may, in lieu of the medical certificate, prepare and sign a certificate prepared from the statements of relatives of the parents of the stillborn child or of other persons having adequate knowledge of the facts.
Certification of stillbirth by event registrar
9(5) Upon receiving a statement in an approved form respecting the stillbirth, the event registrar shall complete the statement setting out the proposed date and place of burial, cremation or other disposition of the body and, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the statement, sign and date it and within five days of receiving it deliver it to the director for registration.
Burial permit
9(6) Upon the registration of a stillbirth, the event registrar shall forthwith prepare and deliver to the person requiring it for the purpose of the burial, cremation, or other disposition of the body of the stillborn child, a burial permit.
Application of sections 3, 5 and 14 to 19
9(7) Subject to this section, sections 3, 5 and 14 to 19 apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require to stillbirths.
REGISTRATION OF ADOPTION
Order of adoption to be sent to director
10(1) Within 10 days after a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench makes an order of adoption under The Adoption Act, the registrar of the court must send one or more certified copies of the order to the director.
Registration of adoption orders
10(2) The director must register the following upon receipt:
(a) a certified copy of an order of adoption made under The Adoption Act or any former Act relating to adoptions;
(b) a certified copy of an order, judgment or decree of adoption made by a court of competent jurisdiction outside Manitoba respecting a person born in Manitoba.
Confidentiality of pre-adoption and adoption documents
10(3) The following documents received by the director must be maintained in a confidential manner:
(a) all pre-adoption birth registrations, including any documents relating to these registrations;
(b) all associated court orders, judgments, decrees and other documents relating to adoptions.
Limited disclosure of pre-adoption and adoption documents
10(4) The director may give a copy of a document maintained under subsection (3) only
(a) upon request, to the director under The Adoption Act for the purpose of carrying out responsibilities under that Act; or
(b) in accordance with an order of a court in Manitoba, to the person named in the order.
Substituted registration of birth for adoptee born in Manitoba
10(5) If a person's birth and adoption are registered under this Act, the director may, upon production of satisfactory evidence of the identity of the person, together with an application for the reregistration of the birth in the approved form and payment of the prescribed fee,
(a) set aside the person's pre-adoption birth registration made under this Act; and
(b) replace the pre-adoption birth registration with a substituted registration of birth, in accordance with the facts contained in the adoption order, judgment or decree and the application for reregistration.
Cross-referencing birth registrations and adoption orders
10(6) Whether or not an application is made for the substitution of a registration of birth under subsection (5), the director must
(a) annotate the adopted person's pre-adoption birth registration and any substituted registration of birth with a reference to the registration of the adoption;
(b) annotate the adoption order, judgement or decree registered under subsection (2) with reference to the pre-adoption birth registration of the adopted person; and
(c) in accordance with the adoption order, judgment or decree,
(i) replace the adopted person's name, if ordered, and
(ii) replace the birth parent's name and particulars with the adoptive parent's name and any particulars given in the adoption order, judgment or decree.
Adoptee born in another Canadian jurisdiction
10(7) If the director receives an adoption order under subsection (1) respecting a person born in another province or territory of Canada, the director must give a certified copy of the order to the person responsible for the registration of births in that province or territory.
Adoptee born outside Canada
10(8) If the director receives an adoption order under subsection (1) respecting a person born in a jurisdiction outside Canada, upon a request accompanied by the relevant particulars, the director may give a certified copy of the order to a person responsible for the registration of births in that jurisdiction.
Additional documents or information
10(9) At the director's request, a person requesting registration of a document under this section must give any additional documentation or information in respect of the adoption, including evidence of the identity of any parties to the adoption.
10(10) The documentation or information given by a person requesting registration of a document under this section must
(a) be satisfactory to the director; and
(b) meet any prescribed requirements.
Birth certificate issued after adoption registered
10(11) After a pre-adoption birth registration is replaced with a substituted registration of birth under subsection (5), every certificate of birth subsequently issued for the adopted person
(a) must be in accordance with the substituted registration of birth; and
(b) must not indicate anything that would disclose the adoption.
Restriction on changes to pre-adoption birth registration
10(12) After an adoption is registered under subsection (2), the director must not at any time amend the pre-adoption birth registration, add information or particulars to it, correct errors on it, substitute a subsequent registration for it or cancel it, unless permitted to do so under subsection (6) or section 41.1.
S.M. 1997, c. 47, s. 134; S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 10; S.M. 2014, c. 25, s. 22.
REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES
11 Every marriage solemnized in the province shall be registered as provided herein.
Statement respecting marriage
12(1) Every person authorized by law to solemnize marriage in the province shall, immediately after solemnizing a marriage, prepare a statement in an approved form respecting the marriage, which statement shall be signed by
(a) each of the parties to the marriage;
(b) at least two credible witnesses to the marriage; and
(c) the person by whom the marriage was solemnized.
Certification of marriage by event registrar
12(2) The person who solemnizes a marriage shall complete the statement in an approved form and, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of it, sign and date the statement and within five days after the day of the marriage deliver it to the director for registration.
S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 11; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52.
Registration of marriage by director
13 When a marriage is not registered within one year from the day of the marriage, if application for registration thereof is made by any person to the director in an approved form, verified by statutory declaration and accompanied by the prescribed fee and by a statement in an approved form respecting the marriage and such other evidence as may be prescribed, the director, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the matters stated in the application and that the application is made in good faith, shall register the marriage by signing the statement, and thereupon the statement constitutes the registration of the marriage.
REGISTRATION OF COMMON-LAW RELATIONSHIPS
13.1(1) If both parties to a common-law relationship
(a) are living in the province;
(b) are adults; and
(c) wish to register their common-law relationship;
they shall do so in accordance with this section.
Statement regarding common-law relationship
13.1(2) Each party to the common-law relationship shall complete a statement in an approved form respecting the existence of the common-law relationship, which includes
(a) the date on which the common-law relationship commenced;
(b) the residence of the common-law partners; and
(c) a statement that neither party to the common-law relationship is married to another person or is a party to another common-law relationship registered under this Act.
Execution of statement
13.1(3) The statement shall be signed by both parties and witnessed in accordance with the regulations.
Registration by director
13.1(4) On the receipt of
(a) the statement in an approved form respecting the common-law relationship; and
(b) the prescribed fee;
the director, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the statement, shall register the common-law relationship.
REGISTRATION OF DISSOLUTION OF COMMON-LAW RELATIONSHIPS
13.2(1) If one or both parties to a common-law relationship wish to register the dissolution of their common-law relationship, they shall do so in accordance with this section.
Statement regarding dissolution of common-law relationship
13.2(2) If the parties to the common-law relationship have lived separate and apart for a period of at least one year, either party to the common-law relationship, or both parties jointly, may complete a statement in an approved form, respecting the dissolution of the common-law relationship.
13.2(3) The statement shall be signed and witnessed in accordance with the regulations.
Service if statement signed by one party
13.2(4) If the statement is signed by only one of the parties to the common-law relationship, it must be served on the other party in the manner set out in the regulations.
Registration of dissolution by director
(a) the statement respecting the dissolution of the common-law relationship;
(b) if the statement is signed by only one of the parties, proof that the statement was served on the non-signing party within 30 days before the date on which the statement is presented for registration; and
(c) the prescribed fee;
the director, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the statement and, where required, the proof of service, shall register the dissolution of the common-law relationship.
One dissolution registered
13.2(6) The director shall not register more than one dissolution in respect of a registration of a common-law relationship.
REGISTRATION OF DEATHS
14(1) The death of every person who dies in the province shall be registered as provided herein.
Personal particulars of the deceased
14(2) The personal particulars of the deceased person shall, upon the request of the funeral director, be completed in an approved form,
(a) by the nearest relative of the deceased present;
(b) if no relative is available, by any person present at the death;
(c) by any other person having knowledge of the facts;
(d) by the occupier of the house in which the death occurred; or
(e) by the medical examiner who has been notified of the death and has made an inquiry or held an investigation regarding the death.
Medical certificate by last attending physician
14(3) The duly qualified medical practitioner last in attendance during the last illness of a deceased shall, within 48 hours of the death, complete and sign a medical certificate in an approved form stating the cause of death according to the most recent version of the International Classification of Diseases as published by the World Health Organization and shall immediately deliver the certificate to the event registrar.
Medical certificate by medical examiner
14(4) Where, under The Fatality Inquiries Act, a medical examiner is required to complete a medical certificate in respect of a death, the medical examiner shall immediately complete and sign a medical certificate in an approved form stating the cause of death according to the most recent version of the International Classification of Diseases as published by the World Health Organization and shall immediately deliver the certificate to the event registrar.
Death without medical attendance
14(5) Where a deceased person, at the time of death, was not under the care of a duly qualified medical practitioner for the condition that brought on the death or where the duly qualified medical practitioner under subsection (3) is not available to complete and sign a medical certificate and there is no reason to believe that the death is the result of any of the circumstances set forth in subsection (6), no burial permit may be issued by the event registrar before
(a) a medical examiner or a duly qualified medical practitioner completes and signs the medical certificate of death in accordance with subsection (4); and
(b) registration of the death is completed in accordance with this Act.
Deaths that require inquiry under Fatality Inquiries Act
14(6) Subject to subsection 17(2), if it appears that the deceased person died in any of the circumstances set out in subsection 7.1(1) of The Fatality Inquiries Act that require an inquiry to be conducted under that Act, no burial permit may be issued by the event registrar before
(a) an inquiry into the death is conducted under The Fatality Inquiries Act;
(b) a medical examiner completes and signs the medical certificate of death in accordance with subsection (4); and
(c) registration of the death is completed in accordance with this Act.
"Not under the care"
14(7) In subsection (5), "not under the care of a duly qualified medical practitioner" means the deceased, in the period of 14 days preceding the death, is not seen, attended or treated by a duly qualified medical practitioner, or, where use of a delegate is approved by the chief medical examiner, by a delegate of the duly qualified medical practitioner.
14(7.1) [Repealed] S.M. 2017, c. 15, s. 40.
Fatality Inquiries Act applies
14(8) Subsections 16(2) and 16(3) of The Fatality Inquiries Act apply to a death to which subsection (6) applies.
R.S.M. 1987 Supp., c. 4, s. 23; S.M. 1991-92, c. 10, s. 5; S.M. 1993, c. 29, s. 207; S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 12; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52; S.M. 2016, c. 21, s. 2; S.M. 2017, c. 26, s. 31; S.M. 2017, c. 15, s. 40; S.M. 2019, c. 5, s. 33.
Certification of death by event registrar
15(1) Subject to subsections 14(6) and 14(8), upon receipt of personal particulars in respect of a deceased, the event registrar shall, in a death registration form approved by the director, set out the personal particulars and the proposed date and place of burial, cremation or other disposition of the body and shall, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the particulars, sign and date the form and, within five days of receiving it, deliver it to the director for registration of the death.
Death registration by chief medical examiner
15(2) Where the chief medical examiner issues a medical certificate under section 40 of The Fatality Inquiries Act in respect of a death where the body is not recovered or located, the chief medical examiner shall, to the extent possible in the circumstances, complete a death registration form approved by the director in accordance with subsection (1) and deliver it to the director for registration of the death.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 10, s. 6; S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 13; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52.
Registration of death by director
16 When a death is not registered within one year from the day of the death, if application for registration thereof is made by any person to the director in an approved form verified by statutory declaration, and accompanied by the prescribed fee and by a statement in an approved form respecting the death and such other evidence as may be prescribed, the director, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the matters stated in the application and that the application is made in good faith, shall register the death by signing the statement, and thereupon the statement constitutes the registration of the death.
Notice of registration of death
17(1) Upon the registration of a death under section 15, the event registrar shall prepare and issue a burial permit; but the burial permit shall have no force or effect unless compliance has been made with The Public Health Act and The Fatality Inquiries Act.
Duty of medical examiner
17(2) When a person dies under any of the circumstances referred to in subsection 14(6), if it is impossible for the medical examiner to complete a medical certificate, the event registrar, upon the medical examiner releasing the body for burial, shall issue a burial permit and the medical examiner shall cause a medical certificate in an approved form to be completed and sent to the director and, upon request by the director, shall after the completion of the inquiry, send a supplemental certificate giving the facts as found.
Registration before burial or other disposition
17(3) Subject to subsection (4), no person shall
(a) bury or otherwise dispose of the body of any person who dies in the province;
(b) remove the body from the province; or
(c) conduct or take part in a funeral or religious service in connection with the burial or other disposition of the body;
(d) a medical certificate is issued;
(e) the death is registered under this Act;
(f) a burial permit is issued by the event registrar; and
(g) the person conducting the funeral or religious service is in possession of the burial permit.
Burial etc. before registration of death
17(4) Where, by reason of the distance of the place where a burial or a funeral or religious service takes place from the address of the nearest event registrar, or for any other reason, it is impracticable to obtain a burial permit from the event registrar or director before the burial takes place, any person, who is called upon to conduct a funeral or religious service before the burial, or removal for burial, of a dead body, may conduct the service without being in possession of a burial permit; but, in that event, that person shall
(a) obtain the personal particulars respecting the deceased;
(b) obtain the required medical certificate;
(c) complete the statement in an approved form, which under section 15, is required to be completed by the event registrar;
(d) before, or as soon as possible after, the funeral or religious service, obtain a burial permit in an approved form; and
(e) forthwith send the statement, medical certificate, and burial permit to the director after endorsing on the burial permit and signing a certificate such as is required from a cemetery owner under subsection 18(2).
Removal of body
17(5) Where the body of any person is to be removed by a common carrier to the place of burial or other disposition, the removal shall not take place unless the copies of the burial permit have been affixed to the outside of the casket.
Duties of funeral director
17(6) The funeral director or lay funeral director at the place of burial or other disposition shall
(a) remove any copies of the burial permit affixed to the outside of the casket;
(b) deliver the copy of the burial permit to the person conducting the funeral or religious service; and
(c) deliver the copy of the burial permit to the cemetery owner.
Death outside the province
17(7) Where a death occurs outside the province and the burial or other disposition of the body is to take place in the province, a burial permit or such other document as is prescribed under the law of the province or country in which the death occurs, signed by the proper officer, is sufficient authority for the burial or other disposition of the body and the event registrar shall forthwith deliver a copy of the medical certificate stating the cause of death to a medical examiner.
Registration after burial
17(8) Where burial has taken place without registration, the death may, with the approval of the chief medical examiner, be registered, but registration shall not take place after three months from the death without the consent of the director.
Registration with approval of chief medical examiner
17(9) Where a body is found elsewhere than in premises that are usually occupied, a medical certificate must be issued in respect of the death and the death may not be registered without the approval of the chief medical examiner.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 10, s. 7; S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 14; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52; S.M. 2012, c. 40, s. 46; S.M. 2017, c. 15, s. 40.
Registration of death before burial
18(1) Subject to subsection 17(4), no cemetery owner shall permit the burial or cremation of a dead body in the cemetery, unless the funeral director, lay funeral director or the person officiating at the burial has delivered to the cemetery owner the copy of the burial permit.
Returns of burials and cremations
18(2) Every cemetery owner shall, at the end of each calendar month, transmit to the director a return in an approved form of the burials and cremations that took place during that month in the cemetery; and shall transmit therewith the burial permits relative thereto after endorsing on each permit a certificate stating the date on which the burial or cremation took place and signing the certificate.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS OCCURRING ON THE HIGH SEAS
Births and deaths on high seas
19 Upon receipt from the Minister of Transport of information transmitted under the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 respecting the birth of a child or the death of a person on board a ship whose port of registry is within the province, the director, if satisfied as to the truth and sufficiency of the particulars received, shall register the birth or death.
CHURCH RECORDS
Filing of church records of baptisms, etc.
20 Where registers or records of baptisms, marriages, or burials kept by any church or religious body in the province are now on file or are hereafter with the approval of the director placed on file in the office of the director the registers or records shall be preserved as part of the director's records.
S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 16.
Notation of change of name
21(1) Where the name of a person has been changed in Manitoba by deed poll before July 1, 1938, or is changed under The Change of Name Act, or is changed in another province or territory of Canada or in a foreign state by or under a statute of that province or territory or that foreign state, the director, on production of proof of the change and satisfactory evidence as to the identity of the person,
(a) if the birth, marriage or common-law relationship of the person is registered in the province, shall cause a notation of the change to be made on the registration thereof; and
(b) if the change was made under The Change of Name Act and the person was born or married or registered a common-law relationship in Canada but outside the province, shall transmit to the officer in charge of the registration of births, marriages and common-law relationships in the province or territory of Canada in which the person was born or married or registered a common-law relationship a copy of the proof of the change of name produced to the director; and
(c) if the change was made under The Change of Name Act and the person was born or married or registered a common-law relationship outside Canada, shall, if requested by the person whose name has been changed, transmit to the officer in charge of the registration of births, marriages and common-law relationships in the foreign state in which the person was born or married or registered a common-law relationship, a copy of the proof of the change of name produced to the director.
Meaning of "foreign state"
21(2) In subsection (1) the expression "foreign state" includes any country in the Commonwealth other than Canada and, in the case of the United States, means a state of that country.
Certificate after change of name
21(3) Every birth, marriage or common-law relationship certificate issued after the making of a notation under this section except for a change of surname made by election as a result of marriage or common-law relationship shall be issued as if the registration had been made in the name as changed.
FRAUDULENT REGISTRATIONS AND CERTIFICATES
Cancellation of registration and birth certificates
22(1) On written application by any person, and after notice to, and hearing of, all persons interested, or, where the holding of a hearing is not possible, on receipt of a statutory declaration or such other evidence satisfactory to the director as may be adduced by any person interested, the director, if satisfied that a registration was fraudulently or improperly made, may order that a notation be made on the registration to that effect and order that every certificate issued in respect of that registration be delivered to him or her for cancellation.
22(2) Where a notation has been made under subsection (1), no certificate shall be issued thereafter in respect of the registration.
Certificates fraudulently or improperly obtained or used
22(3) On written application by any person and after notice to and hearing of all persons interested, or where the holding of a hearing is not possible, on receipt of a statutory declaration or such other evidence satisfactory to the director as may be adduced by any person interested, the director, if satisfied that a certificate was obtained or is being used for fraudulent or improper purposes, may make an order requiring the delivery to him or her of that certificate.
Certificate to be delivered to director
22(4) A person who is in possession or control of a certificate in respect of which an order has been made under subsection (1) or (3) shall forthwith, upon receipt of the order, deliver the certificate to the director who shall preserve it in a permanent file together with the order and all documents relating thereto.
CORRECTIONS OF ERRORS IN REGISTRATIONS
Corrections by event registrar
23(1) If, while the registration of a birth, stillbirth, marriage, or death is in the possession of an event registrar, it is reported that an error exists in the registration, the event registrar shall inquire into the matter and, if satisfied that an error has been made, shall correct the error according to the facts by making a notation of the correction on the registration without altering the original entry.
Correction by personal appearance
23(2) If the person who furnished the information contained in the registration to be corrected appears in person, the event registrar may permit correction by altering the original entry.
Correction by director
23(3) If, after a registration has been received or made by the director, it is reported that an error exists in the registration, the director shall inquire into the matter and, upon production of satisfactory evidence verified by statutory declaration, and upon payment of the prescribed fee, shall correct the error by making a notation of the correction on the registration without altering the original entry.
Certificate from registration after correction
23(4) If, after the correction of an error, application is made for a certificate, the certificate shall be prepared as if the registration had been made containing correct particulars at the time of registration.
Minor change in name
24(1) The director upon
(a) application of a person whose birth is registered under this Act; or
(b) application of the parents of a minor whose birth is registered under the Act; or
(c) application of both parties to a marriage registered under this Act; or
(d) application of both parties to a common-law relationship registered under this Act;
for a change in spelling of a name as it appears in the birth, marriage or common-law relationship registration, may investigate the matter and, if satisfied that the alteration is minor and will not likely mislead anyone materially or adversely, may upon payment of the prescribed fee alter the registration of the birth, marriage or common-law relationship by changing the spelling of the name of the person whose birth is registered under this Act or the name of either or both of the parties to the marriage or common-law relationship registered under this Act.
Certificates after spelling change
24(2) Every birth, marriage or common-law relationship certificate issued after an alteration to the spelling of a name under subsection (1) shall be issued as if the original registration had been made with the name as changed.
CHANGE OF SEX DESIGNATION
25(1) The following definitions apply in this section and section 25.1.
"applicant" means a person who applies to the director under subsection (2), (3) or (4). (« auteur de demande »)
"health care professional" means a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner, psychologist or psychological associate or member of a prescribed health care profession who
(a) is licensed, certified or registered to practise his or her health care profession in the jurisdiction within which he or she practises; and
(b) is in good standing with the regulatory authority for that profession in that jurisdiction. (« professionnel de la santé »)
"psychological associate" means a person who is licensed, certified or registered to practise as a psychological associate without supervision. (« psychologue associé »)
"resident of Manitoba" means a person who is legally entitled to be or remain in Canada and makes his or her home in and is ordinarily present in Manitoba, but does not include a tourist, transient or visitor to Manitoba. (« domicilié au Manitoba »)
Application to change sex designation on birth registration
25(2) A person whose birth is registered in Manitoba may apply to the director to change the sex designation on the person's birth registration.
Application for change of sex designation certificate
25(3) A person may apply to the director for a change of sex designation certificate if the person is a Canadian citizen who has been a resident of Manitoba for at least one year before the date the application is submitted.
Application to change sex designation on marriage registration
25(4) A person whose marriage is registered in Manitoba may apply to the director to change the sex designation on the person's marriage registration if the other party to the marriage consents to the change in writing in an approved form and the person meets one of the following criteria:
(a) the person is also an applicant under subsection (2) or (3);
(b) the person had an amendment made to the person's birth registration under section 25 as it read before the coming into force of this subsection;
(c) the person had an amendment made to the sex designation on the person's birth registration in another jurisdiction.
Application materials — birth registration amendment or sex designation certificate
25(5) An application for a change of sex designation on a person's birth registration under subsection (2) or a change of sex designation certificate under subsection (3) must be made in an approved form and be accompanied by the following:
A signed statutory declaration in an approved form that meets the requirements in subsection (7).
(a) a supporting letter from a health care professional that meets the requirements in subsection (8);
(b) at the director's discretion, alternative supporting material that meets the requirements in subsection (9).
Evidence of
(a) the applicant's current full legal name and date and place of birth;
(b) the names of the applicant's parents; and
(c) the applicant's identity.
Evidence that
(a) the applicant's birth is registered in Manitoba; or
(b) the applicant is a Canadian citizen and has been a resident of Manitoba for at least one year before the date the application is submitted.
Evidence of the applicant's domicile or habitual residence if not in Manitoba.
For a change of sex designation on the applicant's birth registration,
(a) all documents respecting the birth that were previously issued under subsection 32(2) and that are in the applicant's possession or control; and
(b) a signed application in an approved form for a new birth certificate to be issued under subsection 32(2).
The prescribed information, if any.
The prescribed fee.
Application materials — marriage registration amendment
25(6) An application for a change of sex designation on a person's marriage registration under subsection (4) must be made in an approved form and be accompanied by the following:
A statutory declaration in an approved form that is signed by both parties to the marriage.
For a change of sex designation on the marriage registration of a person described in clause (4)(b) or (c), evidence of the applicant's current full legal name and proof of identity.
For a change of sex designation on the marriage registration of a person described in clause (4)(c), documentation that meets the requirements in item 1 of subsection (9).
Statutory declaration — change of sex designation
25(7) In a statutory declaration provided under item 1 of subsection (5), the applicant must attest to the following:
The applicant identifies with the requested sex designation.
The applicant is currently living full-time in a manner consistent with the requested sex designation and intends to continue doing so.
The statutory declaration may include additional statements to which an applicant must attest.
Supporting letter requirements
25(8) A supporting letter must meet the following requirements:
The letter must be provided by a health care professional who
(a) has treated or evaluated the applicant; and
(b) practises in a jurisdiction in Canada or, in the case of an applicant under subsection (2) who is domiciled or habitually resident outside Canada, a health care professional who practises in a jurisdiction in or outside Canada.
The letter must
(a) identify the applicant by the applicant's current full legal name and date of birth;
(b) include a statement that the sex designation on the applicant's birth registration (if born in Canada) or on documents evidencing the applicant's Canadian citizenship (if born outside Canada) is, in the health care professional's opinion, inconsistent with the sex designation with which the applicant identifies;
(c) include a statement that the health care professional is of the opinion that the sex designation requested by the applicant is consistent with the sex designation with which the applicant identifies;
(d) include evidence that the health care professional is qualified to practise in his or her jurisdiction;
(e) include a statement about the duration of the health care professional's relationship with the applicant;
(f) if the applicant is a minor, include a statement that the health care professional is of the opinion that the minor has the capacity to make health care decisions;
(g) be in an approved form; and
(h) include the prescribed information, if any.
Alternative supporting materials
25(9) As an exception to subsection (8), the director may accept the following materials in support of the requested change of sex designation for an applicant whose birth is registered in Manitoba:
Documentation from a jurisdiction outside Manitoba effecting a change of sex designation, or acknowledging that a change of sex designation has occurred, in that jurisdiction if
(a) the documentation is issued by a person, office or body in the jurisdiction that, in the director's opinion, has functions under the jurisdiction's laws relating to changes of sex designation;
(b) the legal requirements of the jurisdiction for such changes are, in the director's opinion, comparable to the requirements under this Act; and
(c) the applicant was domiciled or habitually resident there when the documentation was issued.
Documentation from a medical practitioner who
(a) treated or evaluated the applicant; and
(b) is licensed, certified or registered to practise medicine in a jurisdiction in Canada and is in good standing with the regulatory authority for medical practitioners in that jurisdiction;
that indicates that the applicant's sex designation should be changed as a result of transsexual, gender reassignment or similar surgery undergone by the applicant.
Any other prescribed documentation.
Director may request additional documentation, evidence, etc.
25(10) At the director's request, the applicant must provide any additional documentation, evidence, material or information in respect of the application.
Documentation, etc. must satisfy director, meet other prescribed requirements
25(11) The documentation, evidence, material or information provided by an applicant under this section must
(b) meet the prescribed requirements, if any.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 10, s. 8; S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 20; S.M. 2014, c. 22, s. 2.
Director may change sex designation on birth registration
25.1(1) If the applicant's birth is registered in Manitoba and each applicable requirement under this Act has been met, the director may amend the registration to change the applicant's sex designation.
Birth certificates issued without mention of change
25.1(2) Every birth certificate issued in respect of the applicant after an amendment is made under subsection (1) must be issued as if the original registration had been made with the sex designation as changed.
Documents to be returned
25.1(3) A person who is in possession or control of a document issued under subsection 32(2) in respect of the applicant before the amendment is made under subsection (1) must return the document to the director immediately, upon request, for cancellation.
Change of sex designation certificate
25.1(4) The director may issue a change of sex designation certificate to an applicant who meets each applicable requirement under this Act.
Director may change sex designation on marriage registration
25.1(5) If the applicant's marriage is registered in Manitoba and each applicable requirement under this Act has been met, the director may amend the registration to change the applicant's sex designation.
Marriage certificates issued without mention of change
25.1(6) Every marriage certificate issued in respect of the applicant after an amendment is made under subsection (5) must be issued as if the original registration had been made with the sex designation as changed.
If change of sex designation made under previous section
25.2 On application and payment of the prescribed fee, the director may issue a change of sex designation certificate to a person who had a change of sex designation made to the person's birth registration under section 25 as it read before the coming into force of this section.
Appointment of director and other officers and employees
26(1) A Director of Vital Statistics or an Acting Director of Vital Statistics and an Assistant Director of Vital Statistics, and such other officers and employees as may be required, may be appointed as provided in The Civil Service Act.
Duties of director
26(2) The director shall, under the control of the minister, be responsible for the administration of this Act and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the regulations or by the minister.
Duties of assistant director and inspectors
26(3) The Assistant Director of Vital Statistics may, subject to such limitations, if any, as may be imposed by the minister, exercise the powers and perform the duties of the director; and shall also perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the regulations or by the minister.
Meaning of "Recorder of Vital Statistics"
26(4) Where, in any Act of the Legislature or any regulation, rule or order made under an Act of the Legislature, there is reference to the Recorder of Vital Statistics, it shall be conclusively deemed to be a reference to the Director of Vital Statistics.
Appointment of event registrars
27(1) The director may appoint a person to be an event registrar with respect to one or more of the following registrations under this Act:
(a) births;
(b) marriages;
(c) deaths;
(d) stillbirths.
Former district registrars
27(2) A person who was appointed a district registrar before this section comes into force is deemed to be an event registrar under this Act.
28 [Repealed]
Enforcement of Act by event registrar
29 Every event registrar shall, under the supervision and direction of the director and in accordance with the regulations, enforce this Act and shall make an immediate report to the director of any violation of this Act.
Duty of event registrar
30(1) Each event registrar shall examine each statement respecting a birth, stillbirth, marriage, or death, when presented for registration, to see that it has been made out in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations and the instructions of the director.
Defective birth or marriage notice
30(2) If a statement of birth, stillbirth, or marriage is incomplete, the event registrar shall immediately require the informant to supply the missing items, if they can be obtained.
30(3) [Repealed] S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 24.
Obtaining information
30(4) An event registrar shall use all proper means available to obtain the information necessary for the purpose of completing the records required to be made.
Retention and destruction of documents
30(5) An event registrar shall keep copies of statements and other documents with respect to births, stillbirths, marriages and death for the period of time and in the manner set out in the regulations and destroy them in accordance with the regulations.
Action by event registrar when party fails to complete statement
30(6) An event registrar who has reason to believe a birth, stillbirth, marriage, or death, has occurred but has not been registered,
(a) shall immediately request that the responsible person complete the relevant statement for registration; and
(b) if the person fails to comply with the request, shall send all information in his or her possession with respect to the matter to the director.
Notice to Director
30(7) The director on receiving a statement of the birth of a child whose parents are not legally married to each other or in respect of the marriage of whose parents there exists, in the opinion of the director, a reasonable doubt and the mother of the child is under the age of 18 years, shall, within three days after receiving the statement, send a copy of the statement to the Director of Child and Family Services.
Searches of registrations and church records
31(1) The director may, on application and payment of the prescribed fee, make a search for a person for
(a) the registration of any birth, stillbirth, marriage, common-law relationship, or death; or
(b) the record of any baptism, marriage or burial, placed on file in the office of the director under section 20.
The limitations that apply to the issuance of a certificate, certified copy or photographic print under section 32 also apply to a search under this section.
Report on search
31(2) The director shall make a report on the search which shall state whether or not the birth, stillbirth, marriage, common-law relationship, death, baptism, or burial is registered or recorded and, if registered shall state the registration number thereof, and the report shall contain no further information.
Searches for research or statistical purposes
31(3) The director may make a search for any person or organization for bona fide research or statistical purposes where
(a) the director is satisfied that the research or statistical purpose cannot reasonably be achieved unless the record is provided in a form which identifies an individual; and
(b) the director obtains from the person or organization a written undertaking not to disclose the contents of the record in any form which could reasonably be expected to identify the individual.
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES AND COPIES
Issuing certificates and copies
31.1 If the director is satisfied that the information will not be used for an unlawful or improper purpose, the director may issue a certificate or a certified copy or photographic print of a registration in accordance with section 32.
Birth — 100 years ago or more
32(1) With respect to a birth that occurred 100 years ago or more, the director may issue the following documents on application and payment of the prescribed fee:
(a) a certificate of birth, only to a person referred to in clauses (2)(a) to (h);
(b) a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of the birth, to any person.
Birth — less than 100 years ago
32(2) With respect to a birth that occurred less than 100 years ago, the director may issue a certificate of the birth or a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of the birth only to the following persons, on application and payment of the prescribed fee:
(a) the person whose birth is registered;
(b) a person whose name appears as a parent on the registration of the birth;
(c) a guardian of the person whose birth is registered;
(d) a person authorized in writing by a person referred to clause (a), (b) or (c);
(e) a person or agency that requires it to comply with The Adoption Act or The Child and Family Services Act;
(f) a public officer or police officer who requires it for use in the discharge of his or her duties;
(g) a person on the order of a court;
(h) a person authorized in writing by the director or minister.
Form of birth certificate
32(3) A certificate of birth shall be in an approved form and contain at least the following particulars:
(a) the name of the person whose birth is registered;
(b) the date of birth;
(c) the place of birth;
(d) the sex of the person whose birth is registered;
(e) the date the birth was registered;
(f) the registration number.
Certificate of birth registration search
32(4) Where a person applies to court for a declaration that he or she is or is not in law the parent of a child, the director may, if satisfied that the information will not be used for an unlawful or improper purpose, issue a certificate of birth registration search to the person, or to another person authorized in writing by that person, on application and payment of the prescribed fee.
Form of certificate of birth registration search
32(5) A certificate of birth registration search shall be in an approved form and contain the following particulars, if stated on the birth registration:
(a) the full name of the child;
(b) the date and place of the child's birth;
(c) the sex of the child;
(d) the kind of birth;
(e) the maiden name of the mother and her age at the time of the birth;
(f) the name of the father or other parent and that person's age at the time of the birth;
(g) the birth registration number;
(h) the birth registration date.
Marriage — 80 years ago or more
32(6) With respect to the registration of a marriage that occurred 80 years ago or more, the director may issue the following documents on application and payment of the prescribed fee:
(a) a certificate of marriage, only to a person referred to in clauses (7)(a) to (f);
(b) a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of the marriage, to any person.
Marriage — less than 80 years ago
32(7) With respect to a marriage that occurred less than 80 years ago, the director may issue a certificate of the marriage, or a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of the marriage, only to the following persons on application and payment of the prescribed fee:
(a) a party to the marriage;
(b) if both parties to the marriage are dead, a child or parent of either party;
(c) a person authorized in writing by a person referred to in clause (a) or (b);
(d) a public officer or police officer who requires it for use in the discharge of his or her duties;
(e) a person on the order of a court;
(f) a person authorized in writing by the director or minister.
Form of marriage certificate
32(8) A certificate of marriage shall be in an approved form and contain at least the following particulars:
(a) the names of the parties to the marriage;
(b) the date of the marriage;
(c) the place where the marriage was solemnized;
(d) the date the marriage was registered;
(e) the registration number.
Common-Law Relationships
Common-law relationship certificate
32(8.1) The director may issue a certificate of common-law relationship, or a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of common-law relationship, only to the following persons, on application and payment of the prescribed fee:
(a) a party to the common-law relationship;
(b) if both parties to the common-law relationship are dead, a child or parent of either party;
Form of common-law relationship certificate
32(8.2) A certificate of common-law relationship shall be in an approved form and contain at least the following particulars:
(a) the names of the parties to the common-law relationship;
(b) the residence of the common-law partners at the time they registered the common-law relationship;
(c) the date on which the common-law relationship commenced;
(d) the date on which the common-law relationship was registered;
Dissolution of common-law relationship certificate
32(8.3) The director may issue a certificate of dissolution of common-law relationship, or a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of the dissolution of common-law relationship, only to a person who is entitled to apply for a common-law relationship certificate and on payment of the prescribed fee.
Form of dissolution of common-law relationship certificate
32(8.4) A certificate of dissolution of common-law relationship shall be in an approved form and contain at least the following particulars:
(b) the date on which the common-law relationship commenced;
(c) the date on which the common-law relationship was registered;
(d) the registration number of the common-law relationship;
(e) the name of the party or parties who registered the dissolution of the common-law relationship;
(f) if only one party signed the statement regarding dissolution, the date on which the other party was served with the statement;
(g) where both parties jointly signed the statement of dissolution, the date on which the parties began living separate and apart;
(h) the date on which the dissolution of the common-law relationship was registered.
Death — 70 years ago or more
32(9) With respect to the registration of a death that occurred 70 years ago or more, the director may issue a certificate of death, or a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of the death, to any person on application and payment of the prescribed fee.
Death certificate — death less than 70 years ago
32(10) With respect to a death that occurred less than 70 years ago, the director may issue a certificate of death to any person, on application and payment of the prescribed fee.
Form of death certificate
32(11) A certificate of death shall be in an approved form and contain at least the following particulars:
(a) the name of the deceased;
(b) the age of the deceased at the time of death;
(c) the sex of the deceased;
(d) the date of death;
(e) the place of death;
(f) the date the death was registered;
(g) the registration number.
Cause of death not disclosed
32(12) No certificate of death or certified copy or photographic print of the registration of death shall disclose a cause of death, unless
(a) the document is issued under subsection (9); or
(b) the cause of death is disclosed on the written authorization of the minister or on the order of a court.
Certified copy — death less than 70 years ago
32(13) With respect to a death that occurred less than 70 years ago, the director may, subject to subsection (12), issue a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of death only to the following persons on application and payment of the prescribed fee:
(a) a spouse, child, parent or sibling of the deceased;
(b) the executor or administrator of the estate of the deceased;
(d) a person who satisfies the director that it is required for an application to disinter a body under The Public Health Act;
(e) a public officer or police officer who requires it for use in the discharge of his or her duties;
(f) a person on the order of a court;
(g) a person authorized in writing by the director or minister.
Stillbirths
No certificate issued
32(14) No certificate of birth or death shall be issued with respect to a stillbirth.
Certified copy of registration or search record
32(15) The director may issue a certified copy or photographic print of the registration of a stillbirth or a record of search only to the following persons on application and payment of the prescribed fee:
(a) a person whose name appears as a parent on the registration of the stillbirth, or a person authorized in writing by such a person;
(b) a sibling of the stillborn child;
(c) a person authorized in writing by the director or minister;
(d) a person on the order of a court;
(e) a person who satisfies the director that it is required for an application to disinter a body under The Public Health Act.
Certified copy from church records
32(16) On application and payment of the prescribed fee, but subject to the limitations that apply to the issuance of certificates, certified copies and photographic prints under this section, a person may obtain a certified copy of a record on file under section 20 in respect of a baptism, marriage or burial.
S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 26; S.M. 2002, c. 48, s. 23; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52.
Certificates to be issued only by director
33(1) Every certificate, certified copy, or photographic print, issued under section 32 shall be issued by the director; and no person other than a person herein authorized to do so shall issue any document that purports to be issued under this Act.
Signature of director
33(2) Where the signature of the director or any person appointed pursuant to subsection 26(1) is required for any of the purposes of this Act, the signature may be written, engraved, lithographed or reproduced by any other mode of reproducing words in visible form.
Certificate valid after change of director
33(3) Every document issued under this Act under the signature of the director or of any person appointed pursuant to subsection 26(1) is valid notwithstanding that the director or the person so appointed has ceased to hold office before the issue of the certificate.
Certificates as evidence
34 Every certificate purporting to be issued under section 32 is admissible in evidence in any court in the province as prima facie proof of the facts certified to be recorded, and every certified copy or photographic print purporting to be issued under section 32 is so admissible in evidence as prima facie proof of the facts recorded therein; and it is not necessary to prove the signature or official position of the person by whom the certificate or certified copy purports to be signed.
Photographic films and prints as copies
35 Where a provision of this Act refers to a copy of any document or paper, or to a copy on an approved form of any document or paper, or requires the making or retaining of such a copy or such a copy on an approved form, the reference shall be deemed to include, and the requirement shall be deemed to be complied with, by the making or retaining of a photographic film of the document or paper; and a print from such a photograpic film shall be deemed to be, and to have the same effect and serve the same purpose as, a copy or a copy on an approved form of the document or paper.
Appeal from refusal of director to register
36(1) Where an application for the registration of a birth, stillbirth, marriage, common-law relationship, or death is refused by the director, if, within one year of the refusal, an application is made to the Court of Queen's Bench, the court, upon being satisfied that the application is made in good faith and as to the truth and sufficiency of the evidence adduced on the application, and having regard to the standards respecting delayed registration set forth in the regulations for the guidance of the director, may make an order requiring the director to accept the application and register the birth, stillbirth, marriage, common-law relationship, or death; and the registrar of the court shall forthwith send a copy of the order to the director who shall comply with the order and attach the copy to the registration.
Appeal respecting search or issue of certificate
36(2) Where an application for a certificate or a search in respect of the registration of a birth, stillbirth, marriage, common-law relationship, or death, is refused by the director, if, within one year of the refusal, application is made to the Court of Queen's Bench the court, upon being satisfied that the application is made in good faith and that the applicant has good reason for requiring the certificate or search, may make an order requiring the director to issue the certificate or make the search; and the registrar of the court shall forthwith forward a copy of the order to the director who shall comply therewith.
Appeal from order under section 22
36(3) Where the director has made an order under section 22, any person interested may, within one year thereafter, appeal therefrom to the Court of Queen's Bench and the court may make an order confirming or setting aside the order of the director and the order of the judge shall be final and shall be binding on the director.
36(4) At least 30 days' notice of the application or appeal shall be served on the director.
Power to take affidavits
37 The director and every event registrar may take the affidavit or statutory declaration of any person for the purposes of this Act.
Publication by director of statistical information
38 The director may compile, publish, and distribute, such statistical information respecting the births, stillbirths, marriages, common-law relationships, deaths, adoptions and changes of name, registered during any period as deemed necessary and in the public interest.
39 The director must prepare a statistical report of the births, stillbirths, marriages, common-law relationships, deaths, adoptions and changes of name for the previous calendar year and include it in the annual report required by subsection 24(1) of The Special Operating Agencies Financing Authority Act.
Records property of the government
40(1) All records, books, and other documents, pertaining to any office under this Act are the property of the government.
Delivery of records to successor
40(2) Where a vacancy occurs in any office under this Act, the person having the possession, custody, or control of any books, records, or other documents, pertaining to the office shall give up possession of and deliver them to the successor in office or to any person appointed by the director to demand and receive them; and any person who fails to comply with this subsection is guilty of an offence.
41(1) No event registrar or employee in the government shall communicate, or allow to be communicated, to any person not entitled thereto any information obtained under this Act, or allow any such person to inspect, or have access to, any records containing information obtained under this Act.
41(2) Subsection (1) does not prohibit
(a) the compilation, furnishing or publication of statistical data that does not disclose specific information about a particular person; or
(b) the provision of information to the chief electoral officer under The Elections Act.
41(3) Every person who wilfully violates the provisions of this section is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000.
Information that does not meet registration requirements
41.1(1) Despite anything in this Act, the director may refuse to register a document submitted for registration under this Act — or may register the document and sever information from it — if the director
(a) is not satisfied that the document or information meets all the registration requirements under this Act and the regulations;
(b) is not satisfied as to the truth or sufficiency of any statements made in the document; or
(c) has reason to believe that the document submitted for registration or any supporting document submitted with it
(i) is false or contains any false or misleading information, or
(ii) was submitted in bad faith or for an unlawful or improper purpose.
Severing information on documents
41.1(2) The director may sever information from a document in accordance with subsection (1), before the document is registered, or at any time after it has been registered.
42 Every notation made under this Act shall be effected without altering or defacing any entry on the registration; and shall be dated and initialled by the person making the notation.
Return of certificate if alteration or addition to a registration
42.1 A person who has in his or her possession a certificate or a certified copy with respect to a registration under this Act that was issued before the making of an alteration or addition in accordance with this Act shall, upon request return the certificate or the certified copy to the director for cancellation.
Director to examine notices sent in by event registrars
43(1) The director shall examine the original statements received from the event registrars, and if any are incomplete or unsatisfactory shall require such further information to be furnished as is necessary to make the record complete and satisfactory.
Information as to births, marriages, and deaths
43(2) All clergymen, physicians, informants, funeral directors, lay funeral directors and persons in charge of health facilities connected with any case, and all persons having knowledge of the facts, shall furnish such information as they possess regarding any birth, marriage, or death, upon demand of the director or any event registrar made in person, by mail, or through any other person.
Protection from liability
43.1 No action or proceeding may be brought against the director or any person acting under the authority of this Act for anything done, or omitted to be done, in good faith, in the exercise or intended exercise of a power or duty under this Act or the regulations.
Failure to carry out duties
44(1) Every person who fails to give any notice, or to furnish any statement, certificate or particulars required under or pursuant to this Act, within the time limited by this Act, is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.
Compliance by one person sufficient
44(2) Where more than one person is required to give any notice, or to register, or to furnish any statement, certificate or particulars required under or pursuant to this Act and the duty is carried out by any of such persons, the other or others are not liable.
Failure to obtain permit for transportation of body
45(1) Subject to subsection (2), and any other Act, a common carrier transporting or carrying, or accepting through its agents or employees for transportation or carriage, the body of a deceased person without the burial permit issued under this Act, is guilty of an offence and is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding $200.
Burial permit issued outside province
45(2) If the death occurred outside the province and the body is accompanied by a burial permit issued in accordance with the law in force where the death occurred, the burial permit is sufficient to authorize the transportation or carriage of the body into or through the province.
False information
45.1(1) Every person who wilfully makes or causes to be made a false or misleading statement in any application, registration, statement, certificate, return or other document respecting any particulars required to be furnished under this Act is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000. or imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or both.
False information re registration in Manitoba
45.1(2) Every person who wilfully makes or causes to be made a registration of a birth, marriage, death or stillbirth as having occurred in Manitoba in respect of any person whose birth, marriage, death or stillbirth did not occur in Manitoba is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000. or imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or both.
False documents
45.2(1) No person shall
(a) wilfully use or possess a false, fictitious or altered certificate, certified copy or other document purporting to be issued under this Act or a certificate, certified copy or other document that has been cancelled by the director; or
(b) for any unlawful or improper purpose,
(i) use or possess a certificate, certified copy or other document issued under this Act that relates to another person, or
(ii) with respect to a certificate, certified copy or other document issued under this Act that relates to him or her, permit another person to use or possess that certificate, certified copy or other document.
45.2(2) A person who violates a provision of subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000. or imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or both.
General penalty
46 Every person who fails to comply with or violates any provisions of this Act or the regulations, for which failure or violation no penalty is otherwise provided, is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.
Consent to prosecutions
47(1) No prosecution shall be commenced under this Act without the consent of the minister.
Conviction, etc. not affected by want of form
47(2) No conviction, warrant, or commitment order, or any other proceeding, matter or thing made, done, or transacted, in or relating to the execution of this Act, shall be vacated, quashed, or set aside, for want of form or for any defect that does not substantially affect the justice of the case.
48 For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act according to their intent, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make such regulations and orders as are ancillary thereto and are not inconsistent therewith; and every regulation or order made pursuant to, and in accordance with the authority granted by, this section has the force of law; and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations and orders,
(a.1) setting out the manner in which documents are to be served on a person;
(b) prescribing the duties of the director;
(c) prescribing the duties of, and records to be kept by, the event registrars;
(d) prescribing the information and returns to be furnished to the director, and fixing the times when information and returns are to be transmitted;
(e) respecting the retention, storage and destruction of statements and other documents by event registrars;
(f) designating the persons who may have access to, or may be given copies of, or information including personal information and personal health information from, the records in the office of the director, and prescribing an oath of secrecy to be taken by such persons;
(f.1) respecting the sharing of information, including personal information and personal health information, for the purpose of ensuring that documents issued or information obtained or maintained under this Act or under similar legislation of other jurisdictions are not used for an unlawful or improper purpose;
(g) for the registration of births, marriages, common-law relationships, deaths, stillbirths, adoptions, or changes of name, in cases not otherwise provided for in this Act;
(h) respecting the conditions that must be complied with in connection with the issue of a burial permit;
(i) prescribing the fees to be paid for searches, certificates, and anything done or permitted to be done under this Act and providing for the waiver of payment of any such fees in favour of any person or class of persons; and providing that any one or more services shall be rendered without payment of any fee in such cases, or to such government departments, public officers, courts, societies, organizations or persons as may be specified in the regulations;
(j) designating the persons who may sign registrations and notations;
(k) prescribing the evidence on which the director may register a birth, stillbirth, marriage, or death, after 90 days from the date thereof;
(k.1) respecting changes of sex designation under sections 25 and 25.1, including, without limitation, defining terms used in those sections, respecting notifications of changes of sex designation and prescribing anything referred to in those sections as being prescribed;
(l) and (m) [repealed] S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 34;
(n) authorizing every Band Administrator in Manitoba to act, ex officio, as an event registrar for the Indians under his or her jurisdiction; and
(o) for the purpose of effectively securing the due observance of this Act, and generally for the better carrying out of the provisions thereof and obtaining the information required thereby.
S.M. 2001, c. 5, s. 34; S.M. 2002, c. 26, s. 60; S.M. 2002, c. 48, s. 23; S.M. 2011, c. 35, s. 52; S.M. 2014, c. 22, s. 3.
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Talking to the dead
Q: I read in some of the books written by Shaykh Al-Islam about talking to the dead. He said that it is Satan who comes out of the grave and talks to those who have come to him, and some other related things. Does the story of Mutarrif, which was mentioned by Ibn Al-Qayyim, belong to this category? Is there a limit for talking to the dead, if in fact it is Satan who responds?
A: The souls of the dead approaching their graves on Thursday night or Friday morning, recognizing those who visit or pass them and greet them more clearly than other times, and meeting of the living with the dead on this day are all matters that belong to the Ghayb (Unseen), which is known exclusively by Allah and therefore can only be known about through a revelation from Him to one of his prophets. Information about this has not been confirmed in a Hadith from the Prophet (peace be upon him), as far as we know. It is not sufficient to rely on dreams to learn more about this, as they are not always correct, therefore talking about them or relying on them is tantamount to conjecture about the Ghayb. Secondly: What you read in "Zad Al-Ma`ad" by Ibn Al-Qayyim (may Allah be merciful to him) in this regard is based on what was narrated by Abu Bakr `Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn `Ubayd ibn Abu Al-Dunya in his book "Al-Qubur (Graves)" in the chapter on: "The dead knowing about visits from the living." This includes Hadith, Athar (narrations from the Companions), and dreams that have not been authenticated. The following is a critique of them. Ibn Abul-Dunya said, "I was told by Muhammad ibn `Awn that he was told by (Part No. 1; Page No. 647) Yahya ibn Yaman that he was told by `Abdullah ibn Sam`an that he was told by Zayd ibn Aslam on the authority of `Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, No man visits the grave of his brother and sits by him without his brother enjoying his company and responding to him (his greetings) until he rises." In the Sanad (chain of narrators) of this Hadith there is Yahya ibn Yaman, about whom Ibn Hajar said in "Al-Taqrib," "Yahya ibn Yaman Al-`Ijly Al-Kufy is a faithful worshipper who makes many mistakes, but he changed." In its Sanad there is also `Abdullah ibn Ziyad ibn Sulayman ibn Sam`an Al-Makhzumy Al-Madany about whom Ibn Hajar said in "Al-Taqrib," "He is a Matruk (a narrator whose Hadith transmission was disregarded as being unreliable). He is also accused by Abu Dawud and others of telling lies." Ibn Abul-Dunya further said, "I was told by Muhammad ibn Qudamah Al-Jawhary that he was told by Ma`n ibn `Isa Al-Qazzaz that he was informed by Hisham ibn Sa`d that he was told by Zayd ibn Aslam on the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said, When a man passes the grave of his brother whom he knew and greets him, he (the deceased) will return the greeting and know him. If he passes the grave of someone he did not know and greets him, he will return the greeting." In the Sanad of this Hadith there is Muhammad ibn Qudamah Al-Jawhary Al-Ansary Abu Ja`far Al-Baghdady about whom Ibn Hajar said in "Al-Taqrib," "He is lenient." In its Sanad there is also Hisham ibn Sa`d Al-Madany Abu `Abbad or Abu Sa`d Al-Qurashy, who is judged as Da`if (weak) by Yahya ibn Ma`in and Al-Nasa'y. Harb said, "He did not satisfy Ahmad." He is mentioned by Ibn `Abdul-Bar in the chapter: "Those judged as Da`if among those who write Hadith." Ibn Sa`d said, "He narrated many Da`if Hadiths and was a Shi`ah (Shi'ite)." Ibn Hajar (Part No. 1; Page No. 648) stated in "Al-Taqrib," "He is truthful but makes errors. He was accused of being a Shi`ah." Ibn Abul-Dunya further reported, "I was told by Muhammad ibn Al-Husayn that he was told by Yahya ibn Bistam Al-Asghar that he was told by Masma` that he was told by a man from the family of `Asim Al-Jahdary that he said, 'I saw `Asim Al-Jahdary in a dream, two years after his death. I said to him, 'Aren't you dead?' He said, 'I am.' I asked, 'Where are you?' He relied, 'By Allah! I am in one of the gardens of Paradise along with a group of my companions. We meet every Thursday night and Friday morning with Bakr ibn `Abdullah Al-Muzny to receive news about you.' I wondered, 'Is it your souls or your bodies that meet?' He answered, 'Impossible! The bodies have disintegrated; it is the souls that meet.' I then asked, 'Do you know that we visit you?' He said, 'Yes, we know about it on Thursday night, all of Friday, and Friday night until sunrise.' I asked, 'Why then and not all the other days?' He replied, 'Due to the merit and greatness of Friday.'"In this Sanad there is an unknown narrator and also Yahya ibn Bistam, about whom Ibn Hajar said in "Lisan Al-Mizan," "Abu Hatim said that he was truthful." However, Ibn Hibban said that it was not lawful to narrate Hadith from him, as he was inviting people to Qadriyyah (a deviant sect that claims Allah has no power over His Creation and humans are independent of Him) and because his narration includes those who are Munkar (whose narrations conflict with authentic Hadith). Al-`Aqily said that he was one of the Da`if narrators. Abu Dawud said, "His Hadith is disregarded as being unreliable." Mu`tamir ibn Sulayman asked him, "Are you a follower of Qadriyyah?" He answered, "Yes."However, even if the Sanad was authentic, it could not be accepted as evidence, because it is only the dream of a fallible person, and this cannot be used as evidence. (Part No. 1; Page No. 649) Ibn Abul-Dunya further reported, "I was told by Khalid ibn Khidash that he was told by Ja`far ibn Sulayman on the authority of Abu Al-Tayyah that he said, 'Mutarrif would go out early in the morning, but if it was Friday he would go out at nightfall.' And he said, 'I heard Abu Al-Tayyah say, 'I was informed that he was given a light on his whip. When he approached some graves one night, while riding his horse, he saw the occupants of the graves sitting on their graves. They said, 'This is Mutarrif, who comes (to visit us) on Friday.' He asked them, 'Do you know that it is Friday?' They replied, 'Yes! We even know what the birds say.' He said, 'What do they say?' They answered, 'They say: Peace, peace.'" Khalid ibn Khidash is Abu Al-Haytham Al-Muhallaby. Their authority Al-Basry is judged by Ibn Hajar in "Al-Taqrib" as a truthful man who makes errors. Moreover, as this narration is about a dream, it cannot be taken as evidence to refute an established principle and the Sunnah (unchangeable law) of Allah, as the dead do not talk to the living and the living cannot hear the speech of the dead. The only exception to this would be as a miracle that was given to a prophet (peace be upon all of them). The dead also will not come out of their graves, until the Day of Resurrection as Allah (Glorified be He) says: After that, surely, you will die. Then (again), surely, you will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection. As for the dead returning a greeting, there is a Hadith Da`if that mentions this, which is quoted by Shaykh Ibn `Abdul-Hady in "Al-Sarim Al-Manky." However, even if we verified the authenticity of the dream, it could not be taken as evidence (Part No. 1; Page No. 650) of the acceptability of what was mentioned by Ibn Al-Qayyim, as it has been narrated from a fallible person on the authority of an unknown narrator.May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.
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WHAT IS AN APOSTLE?
written by Andrew Corbett
THE EARLIEST UNDERSTANDING OF “APOSTLE”
Our understanding of what an apostle in New Testament times was has been based largely on what we know of Paul the apostle. The current definitions and descriptions of what an apostle was has been based upon insufficient scholarship if it has only been drawn on Paul the apostle and his ministry. An examination of the ministry of the New Testament apostle is integral to our investigation of the early Church’s New Testament leadership structure. Therefore we need to re-evaluate our understanding of what a New Testament apostle was by ensuring that we are limiting our apostolic paradigm to just Paul the apostle. For this to be achieved we will examine the background to Christ’s commissioning of the first apostles, and their subsequent development from that point. While we have established that the Jewish Synagogue structure appears to have influenced the structure of the New Testament Church, it is argued by some that the commissioning of the first apostles by Christ was a parallel to the Jewish Law’s provision of a Saliah. These men were commissioned messengers charged to represent their sponsor in some matter. One noted scholar, Dr. Schmithals, however, vigorously rejects the Jewish institution of the Saliah as the origin of the concept of the New Testament Apostle. Despite this, there can be no doubt that the apostles were representatives of Christ, sent by Him, and charged to represent Him in some matter.
(i) THE INFLUENCE OF THE MISSIONARY MANDATE
Christ first commissioned His disciples to be missionaries (emissaries on a mission to convert people through the preaching of the Kingdom of God). Historically, Judaism was divinely intentioned to be a “missionary” religion, yet it was by and large exclusive (not open to outsiders being added to their number). Christ scolded the Pharisees’ attempts at proslytization (missionary activity) when He said –
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.”
Matthew 23:15 (NIV)
Therefore, the Church’s earliest understanding of its missionary mandate was not yet appreciated. The original mission may have been understood to convince all Jews that Christ was their Messiah and that He had achieved their salvation. Even though Christ had told them to go into all the world to preach the Gospel (Mark 16:15), they may have thought that this was to exclusively reach the dispersed Jews (the Diaspora, or Dispersion). We surmise this by the reluctance of the apostles to leave Jerusalem, and statements found in the New Testament that seem to support this.
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
Romans 1:16 (NIV)
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia
First Peter 1:1 (NKJV)
Added to this is that we have already established the influence of Judaism over the early Church, where there was no “evangelist”, or “missionary-scribe”. These factors combined to reduce the early Church’s initial revelation of evangelism for the world.
(ii) FROM DISCIPLE TO GOVERNOR
The first apostles had witnessed Christ focus His ministry on the Jews, almost to the point of apparently excluding Gentiles. They possibly failed to appreciate that they were being discipled for the task of world evangelisation. Their first role as “apostles” was as “disciples”. They were followers of the Chief Apostle.
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
Hebrews 3:1 (NIV)
Before the apostles were to be released into their governing ministries, they were first grounded as disciples. This required that they had a humble, servant’s heart. They came under Christ’s strict discipline and often felt the sting of His loving rebukes (Mark 8:33; Mat.26:40; Mark 16:14). They were grounded in the Word of God, and taught how to approach God in prayer (Mat. 6:6-18). They learnt how to walk with Christ daily and emulate His character (Acts 4:13).
As disciples, followers, of Christ they were sent by Him to preach the message of the Kingdom (Mat. 10:7). The foundational ministry of all apostles can be summed up as: following and proclaiming Christ. No matter how scholarly we attempt to become when defining what an apostle was, we must not lose sight of this most simple starting point. Eventually the apostles would go on to govern the burgeoning Church. But this could only happen because they had learnt to follow and proclaim Christ first. Paul supported his own apostolic calling on the basis that he encountered Christ and had continued to walk with Him (1Cor. 15:8; 1Cor. 11:1).
After the Ascension, the apostles were told to wait for the baptism in the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8 [NIV] “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”). They appear to have continued as proclaimers shortly after this happened. When there was an influx of new converts, they became the governors or overseers of the Church. To enable them to adequately govern the Church they requested that the Church free them to study God’s Word and pray rather than go house to house meeting individual needs (Acts 6:4 [NIV] “and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word”). The apostles recognised that Christ had called them to be overseers, or governors of the Church.
(iii) APOSTOLIC CHARISMA
Since they were firstly disciples (disciplined followers), we see that character comes before charisma in those that Christ appointed as apostles. But this is not to suggest that character alone was sufficient for those called to be apostles. They also had an added dimension to their ministry that would separate them from the other ministries that Christ would eventually gift His Church with. We must add this further dimension to our foundational understanding of what an apostle was: this is the miraculous authority given to the apostles.
Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits…They went out and preached that people should repent. They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.
Mark 6:7, 12-13 (NIV)
The first apostles displayed so much charismatic power that the observing population were in awe of the miraculous signs and wonders they performed (Acts 2:43). Their unquestioned power to perform miracles caused a great reluctance on the part of the unchurched community to associate with the Church (Acts 5:12-13). Later on Paul regarded the “charisma dimension” as one of the distinguishing marks of a true apostle.
The things that mark an apostle–signs, wonders and miracles–were done among you with great perseverance.
Second Corinthians 12:12 (NIV)
(iv) TO GROUND-BREAKER
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
First Corinthians 12:29 (NIV)
While some Christians are called to preach, and some are even called to preach in a pioneer or cross-cultural sense (such as missionaries), not all are given the gift of apostleship. It is wrong to assume that the modern concept of a cross-cultural missionary is the functional equivalent of a Biblical apostle. Care must be taken to also not diminish the important ministry of the apostle to that of a preacher or missionary. Dispensational scholar, Professor Everett F. Harrison (of Fuller Theological Seminary), criticizes the cheap modern adaptation of the term apostle when he says-
“…warrant is lacking for making the ‘apostle’ the equivalent of ‘missionary.’ In the practice of the modern church, prominent pioneer missionaries are often called apostles, but this is only an accommodation of language. In the apostolic age one who held this rank was more than a preacher (2Tim. 1:11).”
His former colleague at Fuller Theological Seminary, Professor C. Peter Wagner, makes a similar point in his book Churchquake.
Our English word “missionary” comes from the Latin missionarius, which means a person sent into an area to do religious work. This gives it a close affinity with the concept of “apostle” as a sent one. The gift of missionary is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to minister whatever other spiritual gift they have in a second culture. Peter had the gift of apostle, but not the gift of missionary. Paul had the gift of apostle and the gift of missionary.
Wagner might be drawing a long bow by trying to assert that not all apostles are missionaries. The statement assumes that a missionary is necessarily a cross-cultural minister, and an apostle is not. The apostolic mandate to go into all the nations, and to the ends of the world, seems to indicate that Christ expected His first apostles to each be cross-cultural. To appeal to the statement that Peter was an apostle to the Jews only, may tend to ignore that it was Peter who first ministered apostolically to the Samaritans (Acts 8) and the Gentile house of Cornelius (Acts 10). Whether Peter and the other apostles realised it or not, Christ expected them to evangelise cross-culturally.
The revelation that the apostle was a ground breaking minister took several years for the first apostles to understand. Eventually they would plant churches in North Africa, India, and Europe.
(v) THE APOSTLE’S MISSIONARY PERSPECTIVE
The revelation that the apostles were called to the nations was still not immediately realised. Yet their changing role was about to be fundamentally changed by Christ’s commissioning of Saul of Tarsus to be an apostle to the Gentiles (Acts 9:15 [NIV] “But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel”).
In the apostolic ministry of Paul, we see a greater revelation of what Christ had intended the apostle to be. Although Paul initially went to the Jews first, he later abandoned this approach and concentrated on reaching the Gentiles.
Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.”
Acts 13:46 (NIV)
We can see that the ministry of the apostle developed to the point of appreciation that the apostle was to be a “ground breaker”.
It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
Romans 15:20 (NIV)
This was pre-empted in their training under Christ’s ministry when He sent them ahead of Himself.
When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
Luke 9:1-2 (NIV)
(vi) THE EARLY APOSTOLIC FUNCTION
The apostle’s ministry was much more than that of our modern concept of a missionary. He was not merely a cross-cultural preacher to the unconverted. And he was also more than a governor. Dr. Bill Hamon has identified six main functions of the first century apostles. These include-
(i) Taking the gospel to unreached areas (Rom. 15:20, NIV)
(ii) Planting churches upon the foundation of Christ and helping established churches return to this scriptural foundation (1Cor. 3:10, 11; Gal. 1:6-10; 3:13; Rev. 2:15)
(iii) Appointing and training the initial leaders of a church (Acts 14:21-23; Titus 1:5)
(iv) Dealing with specific problems, false doctrines or sins (1Cor. 1:1 – 16:24; Acts 15)
(v) Promoting unity in the Body of Christ and networking churches (Eph. 4:1-16; Acts 11:27-30; Rom. 15:25-27; 1Cor. 16:1-4; 2Cor. 8:9)
(vi) Demonstrating and imparting the supernatural dimension of the kingdom of God (2Cor. 12:12; Acts 4:33; 8:4-20; 10:44-46; 19:16; 2Tim 1:6-7).
The term “apostle” comes from the Greek word apostolos, which literally means ‘one sent forth’. According to Coombs the term “is first found in maritime language, referring to a cargo ship or fleet being sent out. Early usage of this term carried the twofold sense of an express commission and being sent overseas.” Coombs cites Kittel, the author of The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, who says that term apostle carries the meaning of an official envoy that is commissioned with the full authority of the sender.
It is upon this basis that we begin to see that the ministry of the apostle was more than just that of a preacher, missionary, or church-planter. It was a ministry of ambassadorial authority. Yet the apostle’s role and function was still being developed throughout the early years of the Church. Part of that development is described in Acts 6. This was a critical phase in both the development of the Church and the ministry of the apostle. It was a crossroads where the Church could have stalled with a limited structure, and understanding, of leadership. For this reason we need to examine the establishment of deacons within the Church as a vital layer in the structure of the early Church’s leadership.
© 2001 Andrew Corbett, Tasmania, Australia
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Florida’s High Court Weighs In On Rear End Accident Case – Van v. Schmidt
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Even a seemingly “minor” car accident can cause serious injuries to the drivers and passengers involved. In Van v. Schmidt, the Florida Supreme Court took on a case where the property damage was apparently minimal, but one driver claimed significant personal injury.
Mr. and Ms. Van were injured in an October 2007 car accident when the automobile in which they were driving was rear-ended by a car driven by Mr. Schmidt, who was allegedly intoxicated at the time. Mr. Van alleged that he ultimately underwent cervical spinal fusion surgery to address a neck injury sustained in the accident. While Schmidt acknowledged that he caused the accident, he argued that the crash was not the cause of Van’s injury. The accident was a minor fender bender (causing only $800 in damage to Van’s car), according to Schmidt, and Van had pre-existing back and neck conditions at the time, stemming from a prior fusion surgery and car accident.
All three of the experts who testified for Van said that his injuries were caused at least in part by the 2007 accident. So did the defense’s expert, Dr. Trimble. Meanwhile, Van, his wife, and their daughter all testified that Van was able to perform a number of activities before the 2007 accident that he was no longer able to do, including yard work, playing with grandchildren, walking dogs and swimming. Van was also no longer able to travel to see his grandchildren and had problems sitting for extended periods of time, according to these witnesses. Although Van admitted that he suffered from emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease well before the accident and had not been able to work since 1976 as a result, he said these impairments did not prevent him from engaging in hobbies and activities.
After a three-day trial, the jury returned a verdict finding that Van had not suffered injury as a result of the 2007 accident. The Vans then filed a motion for new trial, arguing that the verdict was against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial judge agreed. The trial court ruled that the question of whether Van was injured by the accident was one that required expert evidence and noted that all of the experts who weighed in on the matter agreed that Van suffered at least some injury in the crash.
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The First District Court of Appeals reversed the decision on appeal, however, and ordered that the jury verdict be reinstated. The appeals court found that the trial court abused its discretion in granting the new trial. The First District said the trial court’s decision was “premised on an erroneous conclusion of law,” specifically that the jury could not find that Van wasn’t injured in the accident without expert evidence supporting the conclusion. The First District noted that other lay evidence conflicted with the expert testimony, including photos of the damage, Mr. Van’s testimony, and medical records showing that he complained of back pain and was taking medication for it before the accident.
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On further appeal, the Florida Supreme Court agreed that the trial judge’s ruling was premised on the erroneous conclusion that the jury could not find against Van without expert evidence supporting the conclusion that he wasn’t injured in the accident. However, the high court said the appeals court wrongly ruled that the jury verdict should be reinstated. Because the court could not say whether the trial court would have reached the same decision but for its erroneous conclusion regarding expert evidence, the court held that the case should be remanded to the trial judge for further consideration.
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Jun. 03, 2006 TV Tokyo
1Season 1 Jun. 03, 2006
The Legend of Thunder, Part 1 Jun. 03, 2006
Pikachu's Winter Vacation Jun. 17, 2006
A Family That Battles Together Stays Together! Jun. 24, 2006
Cerulean Blues Jun. 24, 2006
We’re No Angels! Jul. 01, 2006
Showdown at the Oak Corral Jul. 08, 2006
The Blue Badge of Courage Jul. 22, 2006
Oaknapped! Jul. 29, 2006
Celebi and Joy! Aug. 05, 2006
A Date with Delcatty Aug. 12, 2006
Training Daze Aug. 19, 2006
Journey to the Starting Line! Aug. 26, 2006
Putting the Air Back in Aerodactyl Sep. 02, 2006
Luvdisc Is a Many Splendored Thing! Sep. 23, 2006
Those Darn Electabuzz! Sep. 23, 2006
The Search for the Legend Sep. 30, 2006
Of Meowth and Pokémon Oct. 07, 2006
Trouble in Big Town Oct. 14, 2006
Big Meowth, Little Dreams Oct. 21, 2006
Pikachu's Winter Vacation Dec. 11, 2006
Rachael Lillis
Pokémon Chronicles, partly known in Japan as Pocket Monsters Side Stories, is a spin-off series of the Pokémon anime, revolving around characters other than Ash Ketchum.
It first aired in Britain on Toonami, where the initial run has now finished. The only places where episodes are currently airing for the first time are the Caribbean, and Latin America on Cartoon Network Monday to Friday at 9:00pm EST/ 10:00 MXT. The show airs in India on Cartoon Network Thursday and Friday at 7:30pm IST. However, in Latin America, it seems the show has been cancelled because Poo Poo Power was put when Pokémon Chronicles usually is. The series made its U.S. premiere on Cartoon Network on June 3, 2006 at 7 PM US ET/PT after it ended in most other countries. In addition, episodes are available online through Cartoon Network’s “Toonami Jetstream” online video site, and moved to the Miguzi block for November at 5:30 PM US EST on November 6, 2006.
Four DVDs have been released in the United Kingdom, with a U.S. release still non-existent. All of the episodes have been released as extras on the first six season box sets of Pokémon in Australia. A box set containing all 22 episodes has also been released in Australia.
Original title Pokémon Chronicles
TMDb Rating 7.3 3 votes
First air date Jun. 03, 2006
Last air date Dec. 11, 2006
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Image Courtesy Lok Sabha TV)
Modi attacks Congress, seeks political consensus for new India
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday unleashed a strong attack on Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi stating that the government had not put them behind bars since it was not the Emergency, while calling upon the opposition party to support the BJP government's efforts towards women empowerment in the form of Triple Talaq bill.
Outlining his government's commitment to make the country strong, prosperous and inclusive, Modi in his reply in the Lok Sabha to the motion of thanks to the President's Address to the joint sitting of the two houses of parliament, called upon all opposition parties to "rise above political boundaries to create a new and modern India".
He cited former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to emphasise on duties and not merely rights and said: "there was need of a paradigm shift of moving from rights to duties". He said it was also the duty of public representatives to create "public awareness" on the issue.
He invoked the Emergency of 1975 and said people had returned his government to power after testing it for the past five years.
Modi sought to distinguish the work culture of BJP from other parties, saying that the party stays away from negativity and believes in "drawing a bigger line" rather than erasing the line of its rivals.
Modi rejected Congress allegations that it was targeting Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Referring to speech of Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury who had accused Modi government of making allegations against top leaders to defame them and challenged it to arrest UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and President Rahul Gandhi, Modi said his government was being criticised for "not putting (people) to jail".
He said the country was not under Emergency and due process of law will be followed while continuing the attack on corruption.
"If you get bail, enjoy it," he said in a veiled reference to Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
Modi also accused the Congress leadership of not thinking "beyond family" and that only a few contributed to the national progress.
Challenging the Congress, he asked if it had praised late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before 2004 or till 2014. "You did not praise Narasimha Rao, was the name of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh taken during the debate. They do not think outside the family," he said.
"There are some people who feel only a few names contributed to national progress. They only want to hear those few names and ignore the others. We think differently, we feel each and every citizen has worked for India's progress," he said.
"You are riding high. I congratulate you. You can't see properly from a height, people on the ground look small. We do not believe in being on a high. We believe in connecting with the grassroots," he said.
He also used the anniversary of the imposition of Emergency to attack the Congress, saying it had killed the soul of the nation.
Referring to the Triple Talaq Bill, he said Congress can make up for two "missed opportunities" on the issue of women empowerment in the past.
"They first missed in 1950s when Uniform Civil Code was being debated and then after 35 years when Shah Bano case came up. Now is the third chance when they can support Triple Talaq Bill.
"There are reports that a Congress minister had said at the time when Shah Bano case was being debated in the country that 'upliftment of Muslims is not the responsibility of the Congress, if they want to lie in gutter, let them be'," Modi said and added that the members of the main minority community need to made part of country's progress.
He targeted Congress over its criticism of `Make in India' initiative, and said that China exports arms while India was world's biggest arms importer.
Modi said the President's Address is the voice of how the government will fulfill the aspirations of common people.
"Where do we want to take the country, how we intend to take it, what will be the priorities, we have tried to present a roadmap. "The great men of the country saw a dream of a powerful, prosperous, inclusive India. The demand of time, the expectation of people is that we do this with determination and with greater speed. In today's global atmosphere, India should not lose this opportunity. We can remove all obstacles to meet the aspirations," he said.
Referring to BJP-led NDA returning to power with greater majority, he said there was "nothing more satisfying then to see your work being endorsed by people"
Modi said the dream of ruling BJP-led NDA government is not to reach heights but to stay connected to grassroots.
"Together we can deal with any challenges that come our way. We can overcome challenges if we all come together.
Modi, who was cheered by BJP members through his speech, said he does not think about elections in terms of who won and who lost. "For me, what is satisfying is the opportunity to serve for 130 crore Indians and do work that has made a positive difference in the lives of our citizens.
Modi said his government will work towards creating jobs and give a boost to tourism.
He rejected Congress allegation that Prime Minister had negated contributions of previous governments and said he had praised work of all the prime ministers and parties in power in the past.
He said former President Pranab Mukherjee was honoured with Bharat Ratna during the NDA rule.
He urged people to observe 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and 70th anniversary of Independence in keeping with the ideals of freedom fighters.
He also urged people to take steps to conserve water. (ANI)
J-K: 40 Rashtriya Rifles summer school for children of Gujjars,...
Dhoke (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 17 (ANI): An unit of the Indian Army, the 40 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) is running a summer school for children of Gujjars and Bakerwals here.
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 17 (ANI): Chairman of Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has met and briefed state Governor Lalji Tandon over civil service examination question paper in which a question referred to the governors of states as "kathputli (puppet)".
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Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 17 (ANI): Newly-appointed Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for giving him an opportunity and said that he will try to solve some of the contentious issues the state is facing
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 17 (ANI): The death toll in the Dongri building collapse incident that took place on Tuesday has now mounted to 13, while nine peo
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): India and Uzbekistan exchanged views on current counter-terrorism challenges including combating terror financing during the eighth meeting of India-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism here on July 16.
Rajnath Singh awards Raksha Mantri Trophy for Best, Second Best...
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh awarded Raksha Mantri Trophy for the Best and Second Best Command Hospitals of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) for the year 2018, in the national capital.
Community radio stations create awareness about govt schemes...
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 17 (ANI): A team from National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) visited a Community Radio Centre built with funding from UNESCO at Pastapur village of Medak district in Telangana and conducted a study on its functioning and to assess its im
Rajasthan govt to enact laws against mob lynching, honour...
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], July 17 (ANI): Rajasthan Government has decided to enact strict laws to control incidents of mob lynching and honour killing, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Tuesday while replying to a debate in the state Assembly.
Delhi HC defers hearing on rebel AAP MLAs plea challenging...
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): Delhi High Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing on the petition of two rebel AAP MLAs Anil Bajpai and Colonel Devender Sehrawat challenging the state Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel's decision to initiate the proceedings of disqualification for July 19.
Patna SP directs all deputies to collect information of RSS, its...
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 17 (ANI): A letter from the month of May has come into view now showing that Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) in Patna has directed Deputy SPs (Special Branch) to "collect names, addresses, phone number and professions of the office bearers of RSS residing in their
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): India on early Wednesday witnessed a partial lunar eclipse (ardh chandra grahan as it is called in Hindi) for few hours.
India looking forward to investment of over Trillion Pound...
London [UK], July 17 (ANI): India is looking forward to an investment of over a Trillion Pound Sterling in the next five years, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said in London, adding that the relationship that people and governments of UK and India share is an ideal opportunity to quickly grab the deal.
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American journalist, translator killed in Afghanistan
Zainullah Stanekzai and Josh Smith
Jun 5th 2016 6:23PM
LASHKAR GAH/KABUL, Afghanistan, June 6 (Reuters) - A veteran American photojournalist and a translator working for NPR were killed while accompanying Afghan troops in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, NPR and military officials said.
NPR's David Gilkey and Afghan translator Zabihullah Tamanna were in an Afghan army Humvee traveling between the provincial capital of Helmand province, Lashkar Gah, and Marjah, when their vehicle was struck by an 82mm rocket during a Taliban ambush, Shakil Ahmad Tasal, a spokesman for the Afghan army's 205th Atal Corps told Reuters.
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The attack occurred around 2:30 p.m. local time and also killed the vehicle's driver, an army soldier, Tasal said.
The pair were traveling on assignment with fellow NPR employees Tom Bowman and Monika Evstatieva, who were both unharmed, according to a statement from NPR.
Gilkey was an award-winning veteran of covering Afghanistan and other conflict zones.
"David has been covering war and conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. He was devoted to helping the public see these wars and the people caught up in them. He died pursuing that commitment," Michael Oreskes, NPR's Senior Vice President of News and Editorial Director, said in a statement.
The road between Marjah and Lashkar Gah had only recently been reopened by security forces after heavy fighting in the area. The details of the attack and the journalists' deaths were confirmed by the 205th Corps commander, General Mohammed Amin.
Helmand has been the scene of deadly fighting between Taliban insurgents and NATO-backed government troops.
Afghanistan is among the most dangerous countries for media, with at least 27 journalists killed since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
In January at least seven employees of a major Afghan TV station died in a suicide attack in Kabul, while the last foreign journalist killed in the country was Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was shot to death by an Afghan policeman while covering the elections in 2014. (Editing by Mary Milliken)
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History of fight against al-Qaeda, Taliban in Afghanistan
ZHAWAR, AFGANISTAN - APRIL 1: Associated Press reporter and stringer Patrick O'Donnell walks up a riverbed outside of the Zhawar training camp built and controlled by Afghan mujahideen leader Jalaluddin Haqqani in the Afghan-Pakistan border area outside of Khost, Afghanistan in April 1,1990. Osama bin Laden also contributed heavy machinery and funds for construction of Zhawar training camp as well as the caves in the background that stored ammunition and heavy weapons for the Hezb-i-Islami (Khalis) mujahideen group Haqqani was aligned with. Haqqani befriended bin Laden and offered him land for training camps opened nearby for Arab fighters. Haqqani received funds from the CIA and the Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency, or ISI. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED: Osama Bin Laden with Muhammad Atif, an ex-Egyptian police officer in 1997. Muhammad Atif has been killed by U.S. bombing in Southern Afghanistan. He was responsible for the killing of U.S. troops in Somalia in 1993 where he was commanding Al-Qaida troops. (Photo by MIR HAMID/DAILY DAWN/GAMMA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
AFGHANISTAN - MAY 26: (FILE PHOTO) (JAPAN OUT) (VIDEO CAPTURE) A man CNN identifies as Qaed Senyan al-Harthi (center, wearing red and white head-cloth) stands next to al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden (left in white turban) on May 26, 1998 in Afghanistan. According to CNN, Al-Harthi, also known as Abu Ali, was killed with six other men as they traveled in a truck in Yemen. CNN also reports that a U.S. 'Hellfire' missile fired from an unmanned CIA drone aircraft killed Al-Harthi, who was thought to be the main Al Qaeda operative in Yemen. (Photo by CNN via Getty Images)
AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 20: (JAPAN OUT) (VIDEO CAPTURE) Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire and fugitive leader of the terrorist group al Qaeda, explains why he has declared a 'jihad' or holy war against the United States on August 20, 1998 from a cave hideout somewhere in Afghanistan. Bin Laden is thought to be the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C. (Photo by CNN via Getty Images)
SANGESAR - MARCH 1: Young Taliban attending a madrassa March 1, 2000 in Sangesar, Afghanistan congregate near the adobe mud apartment where Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban movement, stayed and studied during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. During a firefight against the the Soviet army, Mullah Omar was blinded by shrapnel from a Soviet mortar and lost the site in one eye. Mullah Omar and the ruling Taliban government were forced from power following the al Qaeda 9-11 attacks on the U.S.Mullah Omar is believed to be residing in neighboring Pakistan. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
A video grab dated 19 June 2001 shows members of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda, or 'The Base',organization carrying AK-47 (Kalashnikov) sub-machine-guns in a video tape said to have been prepared and released by bin Laden himself. The United States was on alert on 23 June as reports came from the Middle East that bin Laden's fighters were preparing to hit US and Israeli interests around the world. Copies of the video tape, which shows him as well as Al-Qaeda guerrilla fighters training at their al-Farouq camp in Afghanistan, have been circulated to a limited number of Islamists. AFP PHOTO/Yasser Al-ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)
395586 01: This undated Department of Defense photograph released October 9, 2001 shows the Qandahar surface-to-air missile site in Afghanistan before being attacked by US forces. Three days of airstrikes by US and British warplanes have begun to weaken the al-Qaida network and the Taliban regime, according to Pentagon officials. (Photo by Department of Defense/Getty Images)
395586 02: This undated Department of Defense photograph released October 9, 2001 shows damage to the Qandahar surface-to-air missile site in Afghanistan after being attacked by US forces. Three days of airstrikes by US and British warplanes have begun to weaken the al-Qaida network and the Taliban regime, according to Pentagon officials. (Photo by Department of Defense/Getty Images)
395586 07: This undated Department of Defense map released October 9, 2001 shows terrorist training camps, military sites and humanitarian aid sites in Afghanistan. Three days of airstrikes by US and British warplanes have begun to weaken the al-Qaida network and the Taliban regime, according to Pentagon officials. (Photo by Department of Defense/Getty Images)
395589 04: (FILE PHOTO) Children participate in military training in this undated still frame from a recruitment video for Osama bin Laden''s extremist Al-Qaida network. (Photo by Al Rai Al Aam/Feature Story News/Getty Images)
397425 13: A collection of documents lay on the floor of a room inside a house on a suspected Al Qaeda base November 16, 2001 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Items found include a page torn from a flying magazine with flight training ads, a map of Afghanistan, packaging from a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 98, detailed notes writted both in Arabic and English and other documents. (Photo by Tyler Hicks/Getty Images)
397428 08: A bomb making notbook is shown November 17, 2001 in an abandoned house once used by Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terrorist network in Kabul, Afghanistan. The residential house is littered with wires and all sorts of electronic and other bomb-making gear and was abandoned when Northern Alliance troops approached the city before it's fall to the rebels. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
398388 01: Former Taliban fighters, who surrendered to the Northern Alliance following their defeat in Kunduz a week ago, gather at a window to the courtyard of a jail complex December 8, 2001 in Shebargan, Afghanistan. Although the prisoners have not been sentenced, about a third of them are suspected of being members of Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist group. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - JANUARY 1: Two CH-46 Sea Knights land at the Marine's base at Kandahar International Airport, 01 January, 2002. U.S. Marines and Afghan allied forces executed a raid on an as-yet unnamed location in the hopes of finding Taliban and al-Qaida forces. (Photo credit should read ROB CURTIS/AFP/Getty Images)
400454 03: This Osama Bin Laden propaganda poster was found in an al Qaeda classroom by U.S. Navy SEALs on a search and destroy mission in the Zhawar Kili area January 14, 2002 in Eastern Afghanistan. Navy special operations forces are conducting missions in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (Photo by U.S. Navy/Getty Images)
400160 05: An FBI wanted poster presented by US Attorney General John Ashcroft shows Al Rauf Bin Al Habib Bin Yousef Al-Jiddi (top and bottom ) and Faker Boussora (bottom R) January 25, 2002 in Washington, DC. Ashcroft said that Al Rauf Bin Al Habib Bin Yousef Al-Jiddi, 36, a Canadian citizen born in Tunisia, was identified in part from a suicide letter found in the rubble of the Afghanistan residence of Mohammad Atef, believed to have been Osama bin Ladens military chief. (Photo by FBI/Getty Images)
401308 15: U.S. Navy SEALs explore the entrance to one of 70 caves they discovered during a Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE) mission January 14, 2002 in Zhawar Kili area of Eastern Afghanistan. The caves used by al Qaeda and Taliban forces were destroyed by Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel or air strikes called in by the SEALs. The Navy SEALs are in Afghanistan supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. (Photo by U.S. Navy/Getty Images)
402085 12: United States Army 10th Mountain soldier Jorge Avino from Miami, Florida carves the body count that their mortar team has chalked up on a rock March 9, 2002 near the villages of Sherkhankheyl, Marzak and Bobelkiel, Afghanistan. The team said they have killed 40 plus people, hit 12 vehicles and destroyed 1 mortar team near the villages were an al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold came under intense bombing and firefights as the coalition forces battled to root them out. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
SHAH-E-KOT, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 17: United States Army and Canadian soldiers look over the rugged Shah-e-Kot mountains as they search for caves or Taliban and al-Qaida fighters on the loose, 25 km (15 miles) southeast of Gardez, in Afghanistan, 15 March 2002. Hundreds of American and Canadian troops were lifted into the mountainous region at high altitude to search for and destroy any enemy they encounter. (AP Photo/ Mikhail Metzel, Pool) (Photo credit should read MIKHAIL METZEL/AFP/Getty Images)
HESARK, AFGHANISTAN - JULY 16: U.S. Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne watch from defensive positions as an inbound Blackhawk helecopter lands July 16, 2002 in village of Hesarak, eastern Afghanistan. The army raided the village to conduct a follow-up search for possible Al-Qaida or Taliban intelligence materials and to provide humanitarian aid. The raid was a follow-up to a similar raid there four days ago that yielded two detainees and undisclosed intelligence materials. (Photo by Scott Nelson / Getty Images)
QIQAY, AFGHANISTAN -JULY 29: Two Afghan boys sit together in a village that is suffering from a shortage of food and water July 29, 2002 in Qiqay, Afghanistan. As U.S. soldiers continue their search for hidden weapons and equipment left by retreating Taliban and al-Qaeda forces, they try to assess the needs of Afghans and pass on their information to humanitarian organizations. (Photo by Wally Santana/Pool/Getty Images)
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 14: Afghan soldiers wait to train for the Afghan National Army (ANA) at a base September 14, 2002 outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. At the request of the Afghanistan Interim authority, U.S. military forces and French Army forces are training, advising and assisting the ANA at the compound which was once used as a training site by the Mujahadeen, Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 2: US Army spokesman Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty speaks to the media at a press centre on March 2, 2004 at in Kabul, Afghanistan. The foreign media has returned to Afghanistan following reports that the capture of Osama Bin Laden is nearing, although Lt. Col. Hilferty deflected questions regarding those reports. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 9: (US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT AND NEWSWEEK OUT) Afghans citizens in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 9, 2004 vote at the Jaffaria Mosque in their first ever presidential elections. Up to 10.5 million Afghans were registered to vote. The vote was marred by accusations of voting irregularities with 14 candidates boycotting the results. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
-, -: A video grab taken 06 July 2006 from the pan-Arab satellite television network al-Jazeera shows al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri. In this video produced by the al-Qaeda linked media group Assahab, al-Zawahri claimed, on the eve of the anniversary of the July 7, 2005 London bombings, that a string of attacks will continue and become stronger until forces were pulled out of Afghanistan and Iraq and until financial and military support to America and Israel ended. **QATAR AND INTERNET OUT** (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
IN FLIGHT, PAKISTAN - FEBRUARY 17: Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area is seen from the air February 17, 2007. NATO and the Afghan government say that Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters cross into Afghanistan from the Pakistani side to stage attacks on NATO troops, especially since a peace deal was signed in September 2006 between Pakistani forces and the Taliban. The Pak military, which has some 80,000 troops stationed in the tribal areas, says the Afghan government and NATO should stop blaming Pakistan for Afghanistan's internal problems. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
URSTAN PASS, AFGHANISTAN - MAY 2007: Mira Wars and his fellow soldiers from the Afghan National Army, Weapons Company, 2¼ Kandak 3 Brigade 201 Corp., based in Gowardehs OP (observations post) 3 miles from the border with Pakistan (Nuristan Region) take a break and pray. This company has soldiers from all the different tribes living in Afghanistan. (Photo by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Edit by Getty Images)
MAIMANA, AFGHANISTAN - DECEMBER 2007: Ahmadullah Rais, 40, is a high-ranking commander under the orders of General Dostum, and is awaiting the general's order to take up the fights against the Taliban once more, in Maimana, Afghanistan. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Edit by Getty Images)
LAGHMAN PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 23, 2008: A map showing Spir Kundey, where on August 18, 2008, French soldiers on a patrol in Uzbeen Valley were ambushed by insurgents. 10 French soldiers were killed as well as one of their translators. Commander Farooki who is part of the Emirati Islami gathering, the Taliban, the Hezb-i-Islami, the Tora Bora front, and Al Qaeda took part in the ambush with his men. His men took two Famas (French weapons) from the dead bodies of the soldiers. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images)
WATAPOR VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 4: US Army soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division's 4th Brigade, 2nd Battalion - 12th Infantry Regiment, based in Fort Carson, Colorado, fly through mountainous terrain along the Watapor Valley September 4, 2009 in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Local Afghan taliban and foreign fighters have strongly resisted the presence of US forces in Kunar. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
MATTANI, NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, PAKISTAN - DECEMBER 22, 2009: New recruits being trained under the authority of Abdul Rehman, who claimed they were part of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist militant group, however this claim was later denied upon verification by senior contacts within that group. Part of their training program was a 15km hike with weapons training. The best recruits will be sent on to a commando training camp in Kashmir, before taking up jihad in Afghanistan, India or Iraq. Lashkar-e-Taiba is a Pakistani jihadist group created in the 1980s to fight in Afghanistan, and especially in Indian Kashmir. Their members have often claimed they were trained by former military officers. They were also allegedly employed by the Pakistani intelligence agency called the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in India and Afghanistan. They were officially banned in 2001, following an attack on parliament in New Delhi, India, so they regrouped under the name Jama'at-ud-Da'wah. It is widely claimed that the group was responsible for the Mumbai bombings in November 2008, which killed nearly 200 people. Since then, they have been on the UN list of terrorist organizations. The US authorities liken them to al-Qaeda, and as much of a security risk. The Pakistani authorities in Islamabad state that they have dismantled Lashkar-e-Taiba, however overseas intelligence services state this is not possible. The group's fighters are implicated in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and India, however they are not currently in battle with the Pakistani authorities, due to a supposed good relationship with the military there. They fight alongside the Taliban against NATO forces, and are the best trained and most battle-hardened fighters in the region. Their training is very military and regimented, compared to that of the Taliban which is more basic. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images)
Four of the twelve Al-Qaeda suspects are seen behind bars during their hearing in a special court in the Yemeni southeastern port of Mukalla, charged with terrorism-linked offences on October 11, 2010. The defendants are charged with forming an armed group, planning attacks and procuring passports with the intention of using them to join Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
An Afghan man reads a newspaper on a street of Kabul on May 3, 2011, which details the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The United States has warned that it would probe how Osama bin Laden managed to live in undetected luxury in Pakistan, as gripping details emerged about the US commando raid that killed the Al-Qaeda kingpin. Officials said DNA tests had proven conclusively that the man shot dead by US special forces in Abbottabad was indeed the Islamist terror mastermind who boasted about the deaths of 3,000 people in the September 11 attacks of 2001. AFP PHOTO/Massoud HOSSAINI (Photo credit should read MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images)
Photo of hostage Japanese journalist released nearly a year after he entered Syria
Hopes and fears for jobs as Afghan cement factory reopens
Dalai Lama thinks Europe has let in 'too many' refugees
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Magical Starlight Theatre was formed in September 1994 and is a program of The Naperville Park District. Magical Starlight’s express mission is to produce quality, family-oriented theatrical presentations.
Magical Starlight strives to include community actors and production staff of all ages in its productions. Included have been such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Peter Pan. Magical Starlight provides a unique opportunity for adults and young people to
Magical Starlight strives to include community actors and production staff of all ages in its productions. Included have been such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Peter Pan. Magical Starlight provides a unique opportunity for adults and young people to work together as peers and learn from one another. In addition, a conscious effort is made to include as many family members as possible in all aspects of each production.
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TT: George Bush? Who he?
It was another lackluster week for New York theater, as I report in today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, which contains variably unenthusiastic reviews of Christopher Durang’s Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them and the Broadway transfer of Rock of Ages. Here’s an excerpt.
What will American playwrights do without George W. Bush to kick around? Judging by Christopher Durang’s “Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them,” it would appear–at least for the moment–that they’ll simply have to keep on kicking. Mr. Bush, it seems, is the indispensable man of political theater, the all-purpose target without whom no self-respecting progressive, Mr. Durang included, can hope to get through the working day.
To be sure, Mr. Bush is never mentioned by name in “Why Torture Is Wrong,” but he is omnipresent all the same, for it is his war on terror that is the highly specific subject of Mr. Durang’s scattershot satire. How specific? This specific: “John Yoo from the Justice Department wrote a torture memo that says it isn’t torture unless it causes organ failure. And even if it does that, as long as the President says the words ‘war on terror,’ it’s A-okay.” In case you didn’t notice, that’s a joke. “Why Torture Is Wrong” is full of such “jokes,” which is one of the reasons why it soon outstays its welcome: Mr. Durang, who is under normal circumstances a very witty man, has made the mistake of letting his anger get the best of him….
“Rock of Ages” is a moderately amusing jukebox musical whose ear-shredding score consists of a compilation of the greater and lesser hits of such noted arena rockers of the ’80s as Pat Benatar, Bon Jovi, Foreigner, Journey, Styx and Twisted Sister, all of which I loathed when I first heard them on the radio a quarter-century ago. It would be the grossest of understatements to say that I expected nothing out of “Rock of Ages,” so I’m pleased–sort of–to report that it could have been a whole lot worse….
“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilirating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”
Edna Ferber, A Peculiar Treasure
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Fall in love with Bogotá, a capital with a thousand faces
A global stage: that is what Bogotá becomes every time it hosts fairs such as the International Book Fair, the Stereo Picnic Festival or the Ibero-American Theater Festival. The latter also takes dramaturgy to the streets, parks and cultural centers: 1,200 artists who take over the city, mixing daily life with fiction. This is the cultural face of Bogotá.
There is also a face that contrasts the color of its traditional brick architecture and the green background of its eastern hills. From the top of one of them, called Monserrate, you can truly see the size of a city in which about 8 million people live.
There is also the face of development. Even though it was here where the legend of El Dorado came to life, today there is a real Dorado: the airport, an air terminal in which 31 million passengers pass through each year. It was considered to be the best in the region by the auditing company Skytrax.
Work travelers also arrive here, as it is the fifth best city in Latin America to do business, according to the 2016 ranking of América Economía. In addition, on account of its direct foreign investment, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) considers Bogotá to be one of the Latin American cities that will have a leading role in the future of the region. That's the face of business and progress in Bogotá.
Not only is it the economic center of Colombia; it is also its academic heart: it is the city with the most universities and research centers in the country.
Not to mention other aspects, such as its gastronomy—with culinary options from all around Colombia—, its sports—with its high-performance centers, stadiums, coliseums and parks—, or even its natural side—with its hills and the most important metropolitan park in the region—. Bogotá is a destination of a thousand faces, which always offer a greeting smile.
Route Through Bogotá's Icons
Route Through Bogota's Memory
Route of the Squares and Traditional Markets
Nightlife Route
An essential tour of the most emblematic places in the capital.
Monserrate is one of the highest points in Bogotá (3,152 meters above sea level). It's the most visited tourist attraction in the city, with about two million people every year. At its summit you will find the Basilica of the Lord of Monserrate and the restaurants Casa Santa Clara (typical Colombian food) and Casa San Isidro (French cuisine).
In 2018 the National Geographic Magazine named it one of the ten best history museums in the world. It has a collection of nearly 34 thousand pre-Columbian gold pieces, as well as ceramic, stone and textile objects.
El Chorro de Quevedo
It is believed that this was the place where Bogotá was founded about 500 years ago. This is a great place to try chicha: a fermented corn drink that people have drunk since pre-Columbian times.
Museo Botero
This museum was founded in 2000 when Colombian artist Fernando Botero donated 123 of his works and 87 pieces of universal art to the city from authors such as Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.
It first opened on October 12, 1892 to commemorate the fourth centenary Christopher Columbus’s arrival to America. It is considered a National Monument. The theater has a neoclassical architectural style and its construction was in charge of the Italian architect Pietro Cantini.
The Cachaco—a character from the Bogotá tradition during the first half of the 20th century—always dressed elegantly and was always well groomed. This route goes through five places—still open—that these picturesque representatives of the city’s memory used to visit.
It is one of the oldest libraries in the continent (1776). It currently contains around 4 million pieces.
Florida Bakery
It first opened 82 years ago at Carrera Séptima, an emblematic street in the city. Its puff pastries have turned Florida into one of the most important places to have 'onces' (a mid-afternoon snack) in downtown Bogotá.
San Francisco Bowling Alley
It is one of the oldest bowling alleys in Latin America (1941). Many of its processes (scoring, ball collecting and pine organization) are still manual.
The son of an Italian migrant gathered his family's culinary tradition and created this cafe-restaurant in 1964, in which pasta and artisan pizzas are protagonists.
Café Pasaje
A cafe with tangos and boleros, decorated with old advertising. After 82 years, the cafe has had many important milestones: in 1941, for example, Independiente Santa Fe, one of the main soccer teams in the city, was founded here.
Calle de los sombreros
The Cachaco attire always included a hat, which was bought in this street next to the administrative center of Bogotá. Around seven hat shops, with iconic styles such as the gardelian or the borsalino, are still open today.
Iglesia La Concepción
This church is one of the oldest buildings in Bogotá (1583). It was built in a Baroque style with muqarna alfarjes, geometric ornamentations, Corinthian capitals and religious figures carved in wood.
La Puerta Falsa
Its name comes from its location in front of the lateral (or false) door of the Primatial Cathedral. The Sabogal family has been running the business for 202 years, serving its classic aguadepanela with cheese and its award-winning chocolate tamale.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Bogotá has been undergoing a constant process of modernization. 74.7% of its territory corresponds to rural land, and the marketplaces are the bridge between the city and the countryside. This is a tour around the city’s most important exponents.
Flea Market of Usaquén
Inspired by street markets such as the one in San Telmo (Buenos Aires), this market was created 28 years ago. Today, 480 merchants sell artisan products.
El Virrey Flower Market
In this park in the north of the city you will find flowers such as alstroemerias, roses or carnations; even exotic species like ginger, crane flowers, birds of paradise and opals.
7 de Agosto Square
Since 1972, this market has congregated the merchants of the 7 de Agosto neighborhood around fruits, vegetables and meats, which are sold in its 276 stalls. It’s also a great place to have a traditional rice soup.
In this 24,310 square-meter market there are around 1,800 commercial stalls selling fruits, vegetables, meats, flowers, condiments and sea products. It is also famous for its typical restaurants.
Pasaje Rivas
125 years ago, this market was founded as a Parisian-style boulevard for high class shopping. Over the years, it became the first commercial complex for Colombian artisans.
The party in Bogotá lasts until three in the morning in most areas of the city. The stops in the route will make you experience the capital's diverse nightlife, which has something to offer for every taste.
During the day, it works as a restaurant and offers a menu of 20 Colombian dishes. But on Fridays and Saturdays, from 9:30 p.m., it becomes a party place with reggaeton, salsa, dance hall, reggae and champeta.
The place is located on the 41st floor of a building that used to be the Hilton Hotel: 500 square meters of restaurant and bar, with two floors and an outdoor terrace that offers a panoramic view of the city.
Theatron
Is the best-known LGBTI nightclub in Bogotá. On Saturdays it hosts the biggest party in the city for up to 7 thousand people with 14 halls divided by musical genre (including reggaeton, tropical, rock, pop, techno, dance hall, ballads and rancheras).
Armando Records
Armando is a fictional local character that traveled around the world and fell in love with the music he was discovering. Upon returning to the city, he wanted to share all that musical knowledge. In his bar there are three atmospheres (electronic, tropical and pop), and an international party with DJs, concerts and thematic events.
Andrés Carne de Res
According to the International Nightlife Association, this place was one of the 100 best clubs in the world in 2018 For 36 years, this restaurant bar, specialized in meat and typical food and decorated with traditional Colombian elements, has been an icon of Bogotá's party scene.
Typical Dishes
Villanos en Bermudas
Specialty: Fusion cuisine.
In 2016, Argentinian chef Nicolás López and Mexican chef Sergio Meza, friends in cooking, travels and flavors, met in Bogotá and decided to open a restaurant that would break culinary stereotypes. Two years later, Villanos en Bermudas became one of the best restaurants in the region, according to Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants. Nicolás and Sergio want to recover the tradition of food not as an extravagant luxury, but as a shared experience in which someone cooks and someone else eats.
The menu (made up mostly of local products) varies every week: they want to create a scenario in which there are no expectations. The only recurrent dish is acid bread (made with a three-year-old sourdough). Here, visitors can find dishes such as soursop salad, tomatoes and beans, or rice with creamy coconut, accompanied with fried sawfish and mango salad.
Specialty: Colombian Fusion cuisine.
This is the best restaurant in Colombia according to the lists Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants 2018 and The World's Best Restaurants 2018. It was founded 14 years ago by chef Leonor Espinosa to revolutionize typical Colombian food: it seeks to go beyond emblematic dishes such as ajiaco and bandeja paisa, and give a 'twist' to its ingredients, preparations and presentations.
The menu is a trip around Colombia's regions, since it's goal is to recover gastronomic traditions. That is why the foundation that bears her name researches the flavors and ingredients of the indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. Leonor's initiative received the Basque Culinary World Prize in 2017 for its social work.
Tamal santafereño
Amasijo (in some places prepared with rice) that contains meat and chicken, peas and carrots, wrapped in plantain leaves and steamed.
Chocolate santafereño
Hot chocolate drink served with milk and, sometimes, cinnamon and cloves.
Pedro Escobar
He enrolled at the Gato Dumas gastronomy school a day after graduating as a lawyer and later received his degree as a sommelier from the Argentinian School of Sommeliers. He is the creator of Nueve, a restaurant that opened its doors 10 years ago and stands out for its tapas menu, its dishes to share and its 165 wine references. It was recently recognized as one of the "5 places to visit in Bogotá" by The New York Times. In 2017, he was a special guest at the Ñam Gastronomic Festival in Chile.
Ajiaco santafereño
This dish, perhaps Bogotá's greatest gastronomic emblem, is the result of the miscegenation of indigenous cultures and the Spanish contribution during the colony.
For 8 servings:
750 grams of peeled red potatoes (papa sabanera) cut into slices.
750 grams of white potatoes (papa pastusa) peeled and cut into slices.
4 litres of water.
2 scallion stems.
1 coriander branch.
4 ears of corn cut into pieces.
2 kilos of chicken.
3 branches of guascas.
250 grams of peas.
1 kilo of peeled Creole potatoes cut into slices.
Cream.
Capers.
Sliced avocado.
Hot Sauce (ají criollo).
Cover the potatoes with water.
Heat the water with the scallions, the coriander branch and a little salt. When it boils, add the ears of corn and the chicken. Let cook for 40 minutes and remove all the broth.
Shred the chicken into small stripes and store it with the ears of corn.
Add half of the guascas, the white and red potatoes, and the peas (optional) to the broth. Cook for 20 minutes.
Add the Creole potatoes and cook for 20 more minutes.
Add the rest of the guasca leaves and the cob in pieces, and adjust the saltiness.
Serve the ajiaco with the warm shredded chicken, accompanied by cream, capers, avocado and hot sauce.
Conferencia PyCon 19 Colombia
From february 8 to 10.
Carrera Verde Colombia 2019
February 17.
Parque Simón Bolívar.
Bogotá Design Festival 2019
From march 5 to 9.
Centro Cultural LCI Bogotá (calle 77a N° 13-12).
Concierto de Lenny Kravitz
Movistar Arena.
El Dorado International Airport, 15 kilometers from the city center.
Spanish.
Colombian Peso (COP).
18 °C (64.4 °F)
Buses (Transmilenio and SITP): from 4:00 to 23:00. *Upon arrival in Bogotá, check the schedules, which may vary according to the day. Price: 2,300 COP (0.72 USD) per ticket. Taxis minimum rate: 4,400 COP (1.38 USD).
3-star hotel: 150,000 COP (47.22 USD) per person, per night. 5-star hotel: 600,000 COP (188.91 USD) per person, per night.
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F-35 Data Fusion: How the Smartest Fighter Shares What it Sees
By Nick Zazulia | September 4, 2018
AI, data fusion, data sharing, digital edition, F-35, JSF, Lightning II, Link 16, Lockheed Martin, MADL, sensor sharing
Four British Royal Air Force F-35B flying in tandem. (Lockheed Martin)
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II’s calling card is being a mobile sensor package that can the effectiveness of an entire fleet — an entire military front — by sharing data and coordinating information such that the situational awareness of every warfighter present is increased exponentially.
From the start, making good on that promise has been a rocky endeavor, but the potential has kept the program a priority. It’s finally to the point where Lockheed Martin and the military are happy with what it enables.
The first step is the fusion engine that takes the myriad data the F-35 collects with its different sensors and combines it into a holistic picture that can be fed to the pilot — or other combatants.
Lockheed Martin fellow and Information Fusion Chief Scientist Thomas Frey provided an example of the process at June’s AIAA Aviation Forum in Atlanta.
If there are 35 aircraft near an F-35, the infrared sensor might pick up all of the nearby aircraft, but has no way to tell who is friend or foe, just the direction each one is in from heat signals. The electronic warfare systems can pick up 22 of them. Six are within the Doppler radar’s field of view, giving a clear picture of those six.
The F-35 also incorporates data from air- and ground-based allies to help sort out where friends are on the battlefield. Combining the angle or range data from multiple aircraft is especially useful, as the system will automatically triangulate a target’s geolocation from multiple sources who picked it up.
Once of all of that is incorporated, the fusion engine can combine it into one picture of the battlefield that it displays to the pilot, identifying the location and distance of all 35 targets and which are foes. The autonomous sensor manager assigns a percentage to how confident it is in each of its determinations.
At the same time, it’s constantly rechecking each of those determinations and sending its data into the networks for other aircraft to be doing the same thing. One important distinction is that the final map of information it comes up with after all that combination is referred to as Tier 3 data: incorporating everything the F-35 observed as well as everything it received from allies, what Frey calls “rumors.”
What the F-35 sends out to the network is only its Tier 1 data, though, or information it has observed and measured with its own sensors. That way, each jet is only feeding the network with first-hand, reliable information so the others, and the network as a whole, can be the source of new Tier 3 data without being muddied by compounding rumor data that may or may not have been reliable.
Testing shows that this is important, both to create the clearest final information and conclusions: Frey said that blind-firing missiles based on shared target data has been successful in tests. It also lets each machine use the data as it sees fit. That matters because depending on where a jet is on the battlefield, different things need to be prioritized. If a target is nearby, the system automatically assigns it a high priority and focuses its sensors and processing power on accurately determining its nature and location because it knows the pilot will imminently need to make decisions about it. If the same target is farther away, it might be lower priority, so the same prominence is not placed on it. Further, while this all happens under the surface, pilots can interact and request certain information, targets or focuses if they so choose. In those cases, it’s helpful if the system has the raw data every F-35’s sensors has collected rather than the impressions it has already synthesized that data and the rumors it has received into.
The sharing itself is a big undertaking, though. That’s a lot of data that needs to be passed to different parties in near-real-time. To that end, the F-35 has to primary channels through which to share data: the multi-function advanced datalink (MADL) network and Link 16.
“For MADL, you can best think of that as a way to extend one avionics system into multiple aircraft,” said Lockheed Martin's F-35 missions systems expert, Greg Lemons. “It’s designed around a four-ship flight group to be able to exchange the data that each aircraft sees, and for each airplane to take that data and fuse that into the information for the pilot.”
MADL allows a lot. More information can be shared than via other methods and it’s hard to jam. The downside is that it’s really just for inter-F-35 communications. The B-2 Spirit bomber is MADL-compatible, and there were plans to upgrade the F-22 Raptor, but they were scrapped. There has been talk of other fighter upgrades to the new network, but it’s expensive and cumbersome.
The legacy Link 16 system has wide compatibility. Lemons said that, unlike most platforms which simply put a Link 16 communication box onboard, the F-35 went an extra step of flying with a receiving box to see what other aircraft would get from them.
“On Link 16, you have to understand how the other platform uses your data and processes it so you can send it to them in a way that is meaningful to them,” he said. “The challenges were more associated with how the other platforms would interpret our data and making sure what we sent them provided them good information rather than information they couldn't use because of how it was formatted.
"There's a lot of leeway in the (Link 16) standard such that you can think you're giving someone good information, but really all you've given them is something that confuses their software.”
This story is part of our expansive F-35 coverage. You can also learn about the fighter's helmet-mounted display system, automatic ground-collision avoidance, electronically scanned array radar and where the program stands heading into the future.
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Changing Australia’s national terrorist threat advisory system
24 Jul 2015|Clare Murphy
Along with the release this week of Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Strengthening Our Resilience, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced an overhaul of Australia’s public terror alert system.
The changes were agreed at the 40th meeting of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), which focused on the threat of violent extremism. The current National Terrorist Threat Advisory System has four levels: low, medium, high and extreme. The new system will have five levels: not expected, possible, probable, expected and certain. The Government’s expectation is that this new language will be easier for the public to understand.
An upgrade in the threat level would be accompanied by a statement explaining what the new threat means, where this could be coming from, what are potential targets and how an attack could potentially be carried out. It’s not clear if there would be a similar process for a potential downgrade in level.
By making an announcement at COAG and expressly referring to the approval of state and territory leaders, the Prime Minister sent a clear message about the importance of drawing in the various state jurisdictions into counterterrorism decisionmaking and processes. That’s vital for a country as big as Australia.
The announcement reinforces the findings of the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet’s Review of Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Machinery released in January. The Review suggested that revising the levels with clearer language may make the system easier to understand. The Review also stated that more levels might make it easier to raise or lower the alert to better respond to changing circumstances.
The government should be commended for its commitment to maintaining a public terror alert system. Terror alert levels are no perfect science, and changing threat levels is a complex decision. But as Anthony Bergin and I outlined in Sounding the alarm: terrorism threat communications with the Australian public, we’re better off having some sort of system than having no attempt to inform the public of the terror threat.
The new system will be introduced at the end of this year, subject to community discussion. It’s heartening to see that the public will be consulted to confirm that they find the new language useful. As we recommended, testing the terminology could avoid the use of arbitrary or ambiguous language. We need to know how the public will interpret directions and ensure that they understand what to do in the event of an attack. This could also take into account regional or ethnic variations in how risk is perceived.
Another change to be commended is the collapsing of the Public Alert system and the classified ASIO threat level into one public system. The Review found that having public and private levels systems was unnecessarily complex, recommending they be collapsed into one; there’s no reference as to whether this will occur. Some commentators were confused when the classified level was announced a day before the public level was raised to High last year. Combining the two systems may reduce public confusion over assessment of our national security.
But the Prime Minister’s announcement failed to consider other recommendations from the Review. Despite announcing the agreement of state and territory leaders, there’s no reference to whether the new system might feature different warnings for different regions of the country. Again, this is particularly relevant for a country as big as Australia: an attack is Melbourne is not necessarily likely to warrant a similar heightened threat to Darwin. In our ASPI report and accompanying opinion piece, Anthony Bergin and I recommended that geographically-targeted information could better prepare different regions for a relevant threat.
We also advocated the adoption of a sunset clause for raising the terror alert. There’s an inherent difficulty in lowering the terror level—an attack shortly after the scaling down of the threat would be a national security nightmare, not to mention a political one. But a sunset clause requiring an alert to be scaled down after six months in the absence of an attack, or new intelligence, might prevent an environment of high alert being ‘the new normal’.
This might help in ‘depoliticising’ the terrorism issue. Both the Prime Minister and Attorney-General George Brandis stressed after the level was raised that this was a decision based on intelligence rather than political will. Politicians might be pleased to have the task of changing the terror alert taken out of their hands.
It’s pleasing to see the government take steps to improve our public terrorism advisory system. Consistent assessment of the way we communicate the threat of violent extremism is vital to staying on top of the complex and changing risks to our national security.
But despite worthwhile changes, the system is still no perfect science. It’s important to consider other ideas that could compliment the changes the government has announced. Further reform could enhance the government’s ability to make the best-informed assessments of the terror threat to Australia.
Clare Murphy is a researcher in ASPI’s Strategic Policing and Law Enforcement Program. Image courtesy of Flickr user Tom Page.
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Bob and Shirley are married. Bob has an events management business with an annual turnover of $1.7 million, and Shirley owns a consultancy business with an annual turnover of $1.8 million.
Bob acts in accordance with Shirley's wishes because he values her consultancy and business expertise - as a result, Bob is Shirley's affiliate because he acts in accordance with her directions and wishes in relation to his business. Shirley will need to count Bob's turnover in working out her aggregated turnover.
However, Shirley is not Bob's affiliate, because she does not act in accordance with his wishes or in concert with him in relation to her own business.
Example: Not affiliates
Matt and Sandy are married and share in the running of their household. Matt owns a cleaning business with an annual turnover of $1.7 million, and Sandy has a bakery with an annual turnover of $1.8 million.
They have nothing to do with each other's businesses. They have:
separate bank accounts for their businesses
different business locations
their own employees.
Neither Matt nor Sandy controls the management of the other's business.
Even though Matt and Sandy are married, neither is an affiliate of the other because they:
do not act in concert with each other in respect of their businesses, and
neither acts according to the directions or wishes of the other.
As a result, neither Matt nor Sandy has to include the annual turnover of the other's business in calculating the aggregated turnover of their own business.
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Taste of Fencing
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Maestro Mark Holbrow - Head Fencing Master
Maestro Holbrow is the Head Fencing Master and founder of Bucks County Academy of Fencing. Maestro Holbrow holds his fencing master's certification from the United States Fencing Coaches Association and the Academie D'armes Internationale. He studied under Stan Sieja, Head Fencing Master for Princeton University, for seven years from 1974 to1980, and acted as his apprentice and assistant coach for Princeton from 1978 to 1980. Over the last 37 years, he has produced a number of cadet (under 17), junior (under 20), and senior national finalists in all three weapons.
In 1986 Maestro Holbrow was a member of the US team that competed in the World Fencing Masters Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. He was the only member of the five man team to qualify and compete in all three weapons at the championship. Although he considers epee to be his favorite competition weapon, he was on the three-man team who took the bronze medal for the US in sabre. In May of 2001, Maestro Holbrow was invited to the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs to take part in the US Fencing Association's new "Black Star" elite coaches training program. Coaches having students in the top 32 of the US national point standings were invited to participate in this program. Maestro Holbrow was one of 12 coaches from across the United States who took part in this program.
Dirk Goldgar - Moniteur
Dirk Goldgar is certified by the USFCA and rated AAI in foil, epee and sabre. He is an independent computer consultant who resides in Pennington and has been an instructor with BCAF for over 14 years. He has over 18 years of extensive competition experience in foil and epee. He has dominated foil competitions at BCAF and has been one of the top ranked competition foil fencers in the Philadelphia Division for many years. Mr. Goldgar holds a B classification in foil and earned his A classification in epee at the NAC in Pittsburgh in December 2005. He is active in the Veteran's circuit and took 3rd in V50 Foil at Nationals in Atlanta, August 2006 and 3rd in V50 Epee at the Richmond NAC, December 2006.
Jim Ferrone - Moniteur d'Armes
Jim Ferrone is certified by the USFCA in foil and epee. He started fencing for North Hunterdon High School in 1987 and began instruction under Maestro Holbrow in 1988. Mr. Ferrone is currently an A-rated epee fencer and has competed in several national and regional championship events. In 1999, he helped BCAF to an 8th place finish in the team epee event at Summer Nationals. He was the head coach at the Lawrenceville School from 1995-1997, taught fencing at a summer camp program in 1996 and has been coaching privately since 1998.
Jon Kurpaska - Moniteur D'Armes
Jon is certified by the USFCA in foil and began fencing foil at the BCAF in 2002. He took up fencing for a graduation project while in high school and has been fencing ever since. Jon was president of the Fencing Club at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 2004-2005 and vice president from 2005-2007 years. While there Jon trained hundreds of IUP students on the basics of fencing. He competed regionally at various colleges across Pennsylvania during that time, mainly Penn State, University of Pitt and Carnegie Mellon, fencing at the top level at many club collegiate events. After graduation, he went on to teach English in Europe and fenced with the Krakowski Klub Szermierzy from 2008-2009. In 2010 he returned home and has continued fencing and is a foil instructor at BCAF and BCAF-West.
Lisa Martini
Lisa started as a beginner at BCAF in 1996 and enjoyed fencing for 4 years. She became co-owner and Operations Manager of BCAF in 2000. Ms. Martini is here to answer questions, help with equipment ordering, keep track of class payments and schedules, etc. Please feel free to contact here with any questions, comments or feedback.
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Eduard Hueber
Eduard was born in Vienna, Austria and studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich, and upon graduating, he pursued a triple career in practicing, teaching and photographing architecture. After having taught at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, Syracuse University in Syracuse NY, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY, he moved to New York City to concentrate on architectural photography. His intimate knowledge of architecture and the building process gained him early success, especially in Europe.
Today, Eduard still enjoys bridging all continents and photographing around the world, and is always grateful to come home to New York City.
Ines Leong
Ines was born in Macau and grew up in the California Bay Area. She studied at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA to pursue architectural photography. After graduation, she moved to New York City and joined archphoto in 2005. Ines first worked as an assistant, later becoming the manager of the digital department. In 2008, she was promoted to associate photographer, and continues her role as head of the digital department.
Ines has been working with many young architects throughout New York City, and has traveled overseas on assignments. Her work has been published in A+U, Architectural Record, and architekur aktuell.
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No One's Safe
Leighton Artist Studio
Mature Subject Matter | Limited audience capacity
This performance takes place outdoors, please wear appropriate clothing and footwear for walking level forest trails.
This performance has a limited capacity and requires registration. Please use the "Get Tickets" button to register for free.
View the No One's Safe house program.
Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 5:00pm - Sold Out
Friday, June 28, 2019 - 5:00pm - Sold Out
Photo by Rita Taylor.
A Murder Mystery Opera Event
“No One’s Safe” is a workshop performance. The audience will follow a murder mystery in the woods, but won’t find out who the murderer is. That’s part of the fun, and why we are presenting this as a workshop performance free for the public.
Once you choose which character to follow, you will begin an interactive experience that takes you into the complex and intimate world of the Marshalls. You will witness the discovery of a murdered family member, and will follow a character as you wind your way through the Leighton Studios and the lives of this complex group of people.
Composed by Nicole Lizée
Libretto and Stage Direction by Joel Ivany
Scenic and Costume Design by Adriana Bogaard
Lighting Design by Chantal LaBonté
Stage Manager - Kate Porter
Associate Stage Manager - Natasha Bean-Smith
In collaboration with Against the Grain Theatre and Canadian Opera Company
A Retrospective on the original Show's Creation:
Nicole Lizée
Called a “brilliant musical scientist” (CBC), award winning composer and video artist Nicole Lizée creates new music and video from an eclectic mix of influences including the earliest MTV videos, turntablism, rave culture, glitch, Hitchcock, Kubrick, and 1960s psychedelia. Her commission list of over 50 works includes the Kronos Quartet, BBC Proms, San Francisco Symphony, Carnegie Hall, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sō Percussion, and l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
Nicole has received several awards including the Canada Council for the Arts Jules Léger Prize, SOCAN Jan. V. Matejcek Award, Toronto Images Festival Award, and the Canada Council Robert Fleming Prize for achievements in composition. In 2016 she received a JUNO nomination for composition of the year. She is a Lucas Artists Fellow (California) and a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow (New York City/Italy). In 2016 she was selected by composer Howard Shore to be his protégée as part of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.
Joel Ivany
Stage Director Joel Ivany is the founder and artistic director of Against the Grain Theatre, and is the program director of Opera in the 21st Century at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. His recent directing credits include staging Plácido Domingo’s 50th Anniversary Gala at LA Opera as well as productions of Dead Man Walking (Vancouver Opera, Minnesota Opera), Verdi’s Macbeth (Minnesota Opera), Carmen (Vancouver Opera, Canadian Opera Company), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Edmonton Opera), Gavin Bryars’ Marilyn Forever (Adelaide Festival, Australia) Kopernikus (Banff Centre), and revival director for Le nozze di Figaro (Norwegian National Opera). He is equally at home on the concert stage collaborating with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on productions of Mozart’s Requiem and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins. He is the winner of the Dora award, Outstanding New Opera for Figaro’s Wedding in 2014. He is a prizewinner in the European Opera Directing Prize for his concept of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
He holds a music degree from Western University and an artist diploma in Opera Directing from the University of Toronto.
Adriana Bogaard
Adriana Bogaard is a graduate of the National Theatre School’s Set and Costume design program and UBC’s Drama and Film department. She has designed sets, costumes, lights, props, and puppets for companies including Caravan Farm Theatre, Harthouse Theatre, The Howland Company, Nightwood Theatre, The Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Against the Grain Theatre, and The Banff Centre. Originally from Nelson, British Columbia, she is a three-time recipient of the BC Arts Council’s Scholarship for outstanding students of the arts. Also a scenic painter and an assistant art director in the film industry, she lives and works in Toronto.
Chantal LaBonté
Originally from southwestern Ontario, Chantal is a Montreal based lighting designer and a recent graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada (NTSC). In the past year she lit for Ondinnok, Imago Theatre, The Great Canadian Theatre Company, Théâtre la Catapulte, Théâtre du Trillium, Vox Théâtre, and Théâtre Français de Toronto among others. She has also worked on lighting installations at the Complexe Desjardins and continues to work alongside lighting designer Nicolas Ricard in numerous events and festivals. In 2016 and 2017, Chantal won a Rideau Award for best lighting design of the year for On Verra (Théâtre du Trillium, Ottawa) and Les Passants (co-production between Théâtre la Catapulte and GCTC, Ottawa). In addition to designing, Chantal also tours internationally with la Compagnie Marie Chouinard as their main lighting manager. Chantal is thrilled to be back in Banff this summer to work along side Joel Ivany.
Kate Porter
Kate Porter is a Toronto-based Stage Manager, working in both opera and theatre. She has spent 14 seasons as ASM at the Canadian Opera Company, where she has recently stage-managed L'elisir d'amore and Götterdämmerung, and where she will stage-manage La boheme this spring. At Vancouver Opera, she has stage-managed Dead Man Walking and Carmen, both directed by Joel Ivany, The Overcoat, a musical tailoring (co-produced with Tapestry Opera and Canadian Stage), and Rigoletto. Kate was last at the Banff Opera program in 2012, as Stage Manager for The Secret Garden. She also spent 3 seasons as ASM at the Wexford Festival Opera, in Ireland. Her recent theatre credits include We Are Not Alone (Crow's Theatre), What a Young Wife Ought to Know (2b theatre company), 6 productions at Tarragon Theatre, and 9 seasons at the Thousand Islands Playhouse.
Natasha Bean-Smith
Natasha is a Toronto-based Stage Manager. Select ASM credits include: Opera Atelier (Orpheus & Eurydice, The Magic Flute, Der Freischütz), The Thousand Islands Playhouse (Leading Ladies, Blithe Spirit), Mirvish Productions(Billy Elliot). Select SM credits include: Opera Atelier (Actéon & Pygmalion in Toronto, Chicago and Versailles, The Return of Ulysses, Dido & Aeneas), Tarragon Theatre (Guarded Girls, Hamlet, Sequence, Within the Glass, The Bakelite Masterpiece, The Ugly One), Theatre Smash (Kiss with ARC and Canadian Stage, Durango with fu-GEN, Das Ding with Canadian Stage, The Ugly One). Natasha is also a concert manager for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
Thu, Jul 4, 2019
Silent Light
Silent Light is a new Opera based on the film Stellet Licht by Carlos Reygadas.
Catch one of the three consecutive shows on July 4, 5 & 6.
Shay Kuebler and Radical System Art present Epilogos
Epilogos builds its performance language off a blending of theatre, dance, martial arts and the interaction of these elements to video and live sound. In Epilogos, all the performance elements are...
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Joshua Hammer: "The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu" | Talks at Google
Authored by Joshua Hammer, one of today’s most seasoned journalists, THE BAD-ASS LIBRARIANS introduces readers to Abdel Kader Haidara, a mild-mannered historian and librarian from Timbuktu who morphed into one of the world’s greatest smugglers and pulled off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. A true story, this “vivid, fast-paced narrative” (Kirkus Reviews) is a tale of triumph and positivity that takes place in the Islamic world—something that has sadly been missing in recent months, and arguably recent years. A recent review from Publishers Weekly sums the book up beautifully: “Hammer does a service to Haidara and the Islamic faith by providing the illuminating history of these manuscripts, managing to weave the complicated threads of this recent segment of history into a thrilling story.”
Haidara’s story begins in the 1980s when, as a young adventurer and collector for a government library, he journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River to track down and salvage thousands of ancient Islamic manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. Through his efforts, the city acquired 350,000 precious volumes, many written during the Golden Age of Timbuktu in the 1500s. Tragically, his efforts nearly unraveled when Al Qaeda militants seized control of Timbuktu and most of Mali in 2012. As the militants tightened their control, Haidara organized a clandestine and dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of Timbuktu, by road and by river, to the safety of southern Mali. THE BAD-ASS LIBRARIANS recounts Haidara’s heroic and ultimately successful effort to outwit Al Qaeda and preserve Mali’s literary patrimony.
Today, the manuscripts are held in a dozen specially-prepared safe houses in Mali’s capital of Bamako, which were set up by Haidara with funding from several European countries, including Switzerland and Germany. Now that they’re safe, Haidara’s focus is digitizing and cataloging them, and fundraising for their eventual return to Timbuktu.
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Scars of Youth
By shane.morales
Is first love forever?
Twenty-five year old Jessica Fowler has lived with the regret of the love she abandoned. Her heart still belongs to the boy she fell in love with in high-school, but she's come to accept that she can never regain the love she lost.
Kyle Andersen has moved to a new city and is determined to make a new life for himself, but he still feels incomplete. He's never gotten over the girl who broke his heart when he was just fifteen, and the love he still feels for her anchors him to his past.
On the same night, the two remember each other, and they think back to that one year in high-school that came to define their lives.
This is their story.
Set at boarding school in Switzerland, Scars of Youth is the emotional first book in a unique series about the power of first love and second chances.
Heavy Influence: Skid Out (A Prequel Novella)
God’s Love Made Manifest
Tardy Bells and Witches' Spells: Womby's School for Wayward Witches
Legacy #3 the Fire Chronicles
My name is Shane and I'm a young-at-heart romantic. I love to read young adult love stories, and watch shoujo anime about high-school kids falling in love. I'm inspired by these stories to write my own tales of young love.
I grew up as an ex-patriot in Saudi Arabia and was lucky enough to travel the world when I was young. When I was a teenager, I attended a boarding school in Switzerland. I went to college in Maryland and studied Physical Geography with an emphasis on Comparative Paleo-Anatomy (I know a lot about dinosaur hip structure).
In my spare time I like to play Dungeons & Dragons with my friends, Guild Wars 2 on my computer, and read Japanese Manga. My weaknesses include kittens, pepperoni pizza, and John Hughs films.
I live in Florida with the love of my life (whom I met in Saudi when we were 14) and two Feline Masters.
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Taysja Sevilla celebrates in disbelief as she is crowned the 2019 Pure International Young Miss America in Orlanda, Florida.
Pure International Young Miss America
For Taysja Sevilla, entering pageants isn't about the glitz and the glory, but for the satisfaction of helping others through community service.
Sevilla, a sophomore at Beloit High School, hopes to enter the military after high school graduation to earn her doctorate through the Navy. Here patriotism to her country shines through in her pageantry as she was recently crowned Pure International Young Miss America on July 4th in Orlando, Florida.
"Some people think all pageants are glitz and glamor and honey boo boo stuff," said Sevilla. "But with Pure it is all about how big your heart is, not how big your hair is."
Pure Pageantry's motto is to 'Inspire, Lead and Achieve'. They are now working on an even bigger project of, 'Being the Impact'.
"This project shows how just one act of kindness can change another persons world," said Sevilla.
For Sevilla to win the honor of her recent title is very inspiring as this is only her second year of competing. Last year, as her first, she received the Young Miss Midwest title at the Kansas State pageant.
She now continues to represent the state of Kansas, the United States and her hometown of Beloit.
"When they announced my name, I said to myself, "No way", laughed Sevilla. "Even after I had the crown and the sash at hand, I thought I was dreaming. I still can't believe it."
During competition, Sevilla, had to go through a series of events including: Interview- a one on one talk with the three judges (1/2 of the 100 point score); Personal Introduction- a 30 second speech on the stage in front of the audience presenting herself and the work she has provided through community service (10 points); Formal wear - of evening gowns (10 points); and Modeling (10 points).
"Interview was probably one of the hardest sessions I had to do," Sevilla said. "I'm pretty humble and it is hard to talk about myself. I'm not very good at talking to people but as soon as I walked in, the nervousness seemed to just go away. Pageantry has helped me gain confidence in myself and I am much more approachable now."
The main aspect about Pure that Sevilla enjoys is the community service.
"Pure Pageantry is whole heartedly into community service, and I'm in for the cause as well," she said.
Sevilla has performed community service in Beloit with helping on a Blessing Box drive, a diaper drive for Heart Choices, and helped at the first ever Lakefest event just last weekend. She will be taking part in the 'Fill the Boot' project in Kansas City on August 31, is preparing to participate in the Muscular Dystrophy walk in September and the Buddy Walk in support of Downs Syndrome in October. Along with the local Meals on Wheels and other charities, Sevilla likes giving back to others.
"I love helping others no matter what the situation," said Sevilla. "I get satisfaction when others are happy. It makes me happy as well."
During competition, Sevilla said she had 11-15 competing in her Young Miss category.
"It is a lot of hard work," Sevilla said. She had to learn how to walk in heels and has a coach for practicing interviews. It can also get costly with the purchase of gowns.
When asked about Miss America, Sevilla stated that she is just trying to be a kid right now, but that option is open to her. The small town girl is supported by her mom and dad, Kate and Peter, and her three brothers as well. She says her friends are also proud of her achievements.
"My mom was over the moon when they announced my name and was crying," said Sevilla. "They love and support me no matter what I do. I am happy to have
everyone's support."
For now, Sevilla, will continue community service and prepares for the International event which will be held in Columbus Ohio. This year she competed with all 50 states and will compete with the UK, Germany, and countries from all over the world in next years event. She enjoys being a mentor and hopes to inspire others to reach for their goals as well, in whatever it is they choose to do.
"I started in Pure Pageantry, and they are now my forever family," said Sevilla. "I will miss it when it is over, but Miss America is still an option."
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3 Cancers on the Rise and What You Should Know to Protect Yourself
While the news on the cancer front is generally encouraging, there are a few cancers that are increasing — particularly among younger Canadians.
photo credit: shutterstocck
“There’s been a dramatic increase in thyroid cancer rates,” says Dr. Smith. Between 1970 and 2017, thyroid cancer rates of incidence increased in women from 3.9 to 23.4 per 100, 000 and in men from 1.5 to 7.2 per 100 000 while mortality rates have remained stable at around 0.5 per 100, 000 for both sexes, according to a 2017 study in The Canadian Medical Association Journal. The biggest surge was seen in women aged 40 – 60 years, though it is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in people aged 15 – 29.
Dr. Sam Wiseman, associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia, attending surgeon St. Paul’s Hospital and director of research in the Department of Surgery at Providence Health Care in Vancouver, says the surge in diagnoses are believed to be related to more incidental pickups caused by an increase in imaging and the availability and utilization of neck ultrasounds. Dietary and environmental factors aren’t out of the question either. Exposure to radiation, certain genetic conditions, a family history of thyroid cancer, obesity, certain benign thyroid conditions and being tall are all risk factors.
Methods used for detection
He says that with the use of sophisticated and commonly-used imaging, such as CT, MRI and PET scans, the nodules are found during scans for other health investigations — as in Kruse’s case. “There’s increased detection of these cancers — many of which, though not all, would have remained clinically insignificant in a person’s life.”
Dr. Wiseman says that most nodules (95 percent) are benign and even if cancer is diagnosed — be it papillary carcinoma or follicular carcinoma — survival rates are high. “The vast majority of thyroid cancers have an excellent prognosis.” He says that more lethal forms do exist but are rare. These include poorly differentiated carcinoma, anaplastic carcinoma, and medullary carcinoma.
According to Dr. Wiseman, aggressive treatment is now weighed more carefully than in the past. If a nodule is found that’s less than a centimeter in size, active surveillance is recommended. “Follow-up with ultrasound is an option for those people,” he says. For cancers, patients generally need a portion, or all of, their thyroid gland removed — and may also need additional treatment with radioactive iodine. “It hinges upon the characteristics of the patient’s tumour,” he says.
The best news is that despite the steady increase in diagnoses, “overall mortality has remained unchanged,” says Dr. Wiseman. Net survival for thyroid cancer at five years is 98 percent, according to the Canadian Cancer Society. And survival rates are higher for those diagnosed under age 40.
Regardless, if someone finds a lump or swelling in the neck, notices hoarseness or other voice changes, has difficulty swallowing or breathing, experiences a sore throat or cough that doesn’t go away, or has a persistent pain in the front of the neck, they should see their doctor.
Related: Here are the symptoms to check for and how to cope if you do have a thyroid disorder.
First the good news: “Colon cancer is very rare under the age of 50,” says Dr. Prithwish De, director of Surveillance and Cancer Registry, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO).
That said, when CCO researchers looked at national data on colorectal cancer from the mid 1990s until 2010, they discovered that the biggest increases were among those aged 15 – 29. “There was about a seven percent increase per year (in incidence) from the mid 1990s to 2010,” says Dr. De. Perplexed, the researchers looked at other trends in this demographic. “A seven percent increase is quite large, says Dr. De. “We tried to explain that looking at the lifestyle risk factors.”
Related: Are Your Odds of Developing Cancer Really 50/50?
However, Dr. De says that most risk factors for colon cancer — inactivity, a diet high in red meat and little fibre, smoking and drinking — were not suspected as drivers of the spike in these colon cancer cases, since there hadn’t been a notable increase in the prevalence of these risks for that age group. “Food and vegetable intake has been going up, people have become more physically active, alcohol intake hasn’t changed much and smoking has been decreasing in all age groups,” says Dr. De. Instead, the team focused on body mass. “The one that stood out in terms of significant increases was obesity,” he says.
Dr. De says scientists are now looking at how diet and body weight affect the development of colon cancer.
Symptoms to watch for
In the meantime, he suggests minimizing the risk of colon cancer, and monitoring symptoms such as a change in bowel habits, blood in stool, abdominal pain, excessive gassiness, or narrower stool. He also suggests younger patients with these symptoms take action. “Doctors don’t tend to consider cancer among young people very often,” he says. “They should be more vigilant.”
Related: This daily habit could reduce your risk by 20 percent.
Uterine cancer diagnoses are on the rise. It was the most commonly diagnosed reproductive system cancer in 2010, with a rate of 30.3 new cases per 100 000 women, according to Statistics Canada. That incidence represented the highest rate of uterine cancer since 1992.
There are two main types of uterine cancer. Endometrial carcinoma, which starts from cells in the lining of the uterus (called the endometrium), is the most common form of this cancer. There are also uterine sarcoma, which develops in the supporting tissues of the uterus, and carcinosarcoma, which sometimes develops in the uterus.
What’s driving the increase in diagnoses? Dr. Lilian Gien, a gynecologic oncologist at the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, says that obesity may play a part. “There’s an increase in the rate of obesity.” When you have a lot of extra body fat, that extra estrogen can change the lining of the uterus, she says.
It’s for that reason that most cases of uterine cancer are diagnosed in women who are in menopause. The median age group of patients with endometrial carcinoma is 61 years with 75 – 80 percent being post-menopausal. Only 3 – 5 percent of women who develop it are under 40.
Risk factors include:
Having Lynch Syndrome, a genetic condition that also increases the risk of colorectal and stomach cancers, being overweight, having abnormal periods and being diabetic, says Dr. Gien.
She says having irregular periods means that the lining of the uterus is not shedding each month. If this occurs, taking low-dose contraceptives can make you have more regular periods and reduce the risk of developing endometrial cancer. A hormone-releasing IUD can also help thin the lining of the uterus and prevent it from turning into cancer, she says. For women who do develop uterine cancer, survival rates are high: 84 percent of those diagnosed will survive for at least five years.
“Don’t think that there’s nothing you can do about it,” says Dr. Gien.
Related: How one social worker who was diagnosed broke the news to her kids.
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Professional Physical Therapy - Williston Park
Professional is an award-winning organization, honored as the recipient of the 2016 ADVANCE for Physical Therapy and Rehab Medicine magazine’s annual Practice of the Year award, and most recently, Professional has been named among the best workplaces in health care by Fortune Magazine; the only phys...
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Glen Rowell, PT, DPT, OCS
Available Mon, 07/22
Glen received his degree in Physical Therapy from New York University in 1992, and then entered into Touro College’s Advanced Masters in Orthopedic Physical Therapy program which he graduated from in 1997. He later went back and completed his Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2007. Glen has been a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopedic Physical Therapy since 2000. In 2001 Glen opened a practice with two offices which he owned and operated for 15 years. He has had teaching positions at Touro College, NYU, NYIT, and Kingborough College. He has been a mentor for students in NYU and Touro College’s PT Orthopedic Residency Programs. Glen became a Certified Hip Specialist through Hospital for Special Surgery in 2010. Prior to and during private practice, Glen worked in administrative and clinical positions in numerous physical therapy settings, ranging from acute-care and in-patient rehab to sports performance and coaching.
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Polly has over 15 years of diverse clinical experiences in acute care, sub-acute rehabilitation and out-patient clinics. She received her bachelors degree in physical therapy from the Philippines in 1991. She strongly believes in continuing professional education. She then graduated her doctorate in physical therapy from Utica College in 2014. Polly joined Professional Physical Therapy to focus in orthopedic rehabilitation.
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The Legend of the Petoskey Stone
The sixth tale in our Legend series, The Legend of the Petoskey Stone focuses on the naming of this unique fossil, found only on the shores of Lake Michigan. From the ancient, warm sea that covered most of the state, through Native American history and the history of the town named after a great chief, The Legend of the Petoskey Stone is a welcome addition to the fables so richly told and illustrated by this much-loved and honored children's book team. Author Kathy-jo Wargin has earned national acclaim through award-winning children's classics such as Michigan's official state book, The Legend of Sleeping Bear, Children's Choice Award winner The Legend of the Loon, The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell, and many others. Kathy-jo enjoys writing about nature and its effect on all our lives, and is a frequent guest speaker throughout the country. She is also a faculty member of the Bear River Writers Workshop, sponsored by the University of Michigan. She lives in Petoskey, Michigan. Since the publication of The Legend of Sleeping Bear, artist Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen has been an established presence in the world of children's book illustration. His many other titles with Sleeping Bear Press include The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell, Adopted by an Owl, Jam & Jelly by Holly & Nellie, and The Legend of Leelanau. Gijsbert and his family live in Bath, Michigan.
The Legend of the Cape May Diamond
Trinka Hakes Noble (author), E. B. Lewis (illustrator)
At the southernmost tip of New Jersey lie the resort town of Cape May and its sparkling sandy beaches, sheltering the Delaware Bay. Formed by melting glaciers thousands of years past, the Delaware River flows from its headwaters to spill into the Delaware Bay. And for thousands of years, fragments of quartz rock have ridden the river, plucked from the mountains lining its banks. Polished and buffed as they tumble along, these rock particles dazzle like gemstones when tossed onto Cape May's sandy shores. Beloved by beachcombers, these "diamonds" are the daughters of the river, linking the state's past and present. Delving into the natural beauty of New Jersey's famous coastline, storyteller Trinka Hakes Noble has crafted a wondrous tale explaining the origin of the Cape May Diamond.Trinka Hakes Noble's award-winning picture books include The Last Brother, The Scarlet Stockings Spy (an IRATeachers' Choice, 2005), and the popular Jimmy's Boa series. Her awards include ALANotable Children's Book, IRA-CBC Children's Choice, and several Junior Literary Guild Selections. She lives in Bernardsville, New Jersey. E.B. Lewis is the acclaimed illustrator of numerous award-winning picture books, including the 2005 Caldecott Honor Book, Coming On Home Soon. He teaches illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York City. He lives in Folsom, New Jersey.
B is for Blue Planet: An Earth Science Alphabet
Ruth Strother (author), Robert Marstall (illustrator)
How much of Earth's surface is covered by water? How do the northern lights get their colors? Planet Earth has been home to mankind for hundreds of thousands of years and while scientists have learned a lot about it, they're still unraveling many of its mysteries. B is for Blue Planet: An Earth Science Alphabet explains what we do know about our planet and what more we have to learn. Examine Earth's diverse ecosystems (deserts), discover geological wonders (karst caves), learn about weather phenomena (hurricanes), and much more. Ruth Strother has been in the publishing industry for more than twenty years and is the author of fifteen books for children. She also wrote Sleeping Bear's W is for Woof: A Dog Alphabet. Ruth lives in Southern California. Bob Marstall was a K-12 art teacher for many years, and today he is an award-winning children's book illustrator. He tours all over the country, lecturing in schools on the integration of art and science. Bob lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
D is for Desert: A World Deserts Alphabet
Barbara Gowan (author), Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen (illustrator)
D is for Desert: A World Deserts Alphabet uses the alphabet to explore desert regions around the world, explaining the science behind what determines a desert and showcasing fascinating features and desert inhabitants. Budding scientists will traverse the rocky deserts of Mongolia astride the Bactrian camel, spy on the poisonous Gila monster and other lizards in the Sonoran Desert, discover geological wonders in Bryce Canyon National Park, and learn about desert weather phenomena such as dust storms and flash floods, and much more. A glossary of key desert-science terms and concepts is included.
F is for French: A Quebec Alphabet
Elaine Arsenault (author), Renn Benoit (illustrator)
Founded in 1608, what city is one of the oldest in North America? Where and when was Canada's first road built? What world-famous circus was the inspiration of Baie-Saint-Paul street performers? Discover the answers to these questions, along with other facts, in F is for French: A Quebec Alphabet. Readers young and old can romp the sandy beaches of Les Iles de la Madeleine, visit Montreal's Space for Life (Canada's largest natural science museum complex), brave the arctic cold in the Nunavik region, or sit back and enjoy the music at one of the many performances taking place at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. This richly illustrated alphabet book is bilingual. A poem and informative sidebar text for each letter appears in French with an English translation.
T is for Territories: A Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut Alphabet
Michael Kusugak (author), Iris Churcher (illustrator)
In T is for Territories: A Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut Alphabet, acclaimed storyteller Michael Kusugak gives an A-Z tour of Canada's three territories, the northern region of the country that is a giant in size, history, and culture. Young readers can kick up their heels at the Arctic Winter Games with sports such as the one-foot high-kick, listen to world-renowned storytellers at Whitehorse's International Storytelling Festival, or experience Wood Buffalo National Park where sometimes visitors have to stop and wait for wildlife to get out of the way. Everyone will enjoy this alphabetical journey that showcases the riches of the territories.
P is for Prairie Dog: A Prairie Alphabet
Anthony D. Fredericks (author), Doug Bowles (illustrator)
Fact: At one time prairies covered about 40% of the United States but today only about 1% of North American prairies exist. P is for Prairie Dog: A Prairie Alphabet explores North American prairies as it explains their important role and showcases their wonders. Science writer Anthony Fredericks gives an A-Z tour of the many facets and fascinating facts of the prairie ecosystem. Inhabitants including the bison, the quail, and, of course, the prairie dog are highlighted along with descriptions of insect and plant life. Former schoolteacher Tony Fredericks is an award-winning author of many nature and animal books for children. A frequent presenter at schools and conferences across the country, Tony teaches education courses at York College in York, Pennsylvania. Doug Bowles has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years. His books for Sleeping Bear include One Kansas Farmer: A Kansas Number Book and S is for Sunflower: A Kansas Alphabet. Doug lives in Leawood, Kansas.
G is for Gladiator: An Ancient Rome Alphabet
Debbie Shoulders, Michael Shoulders (author), Victor Juhasz (illustrator)
According to Roman legend, what famous twins were raised by a she-wolf? Who wrote the epic poem, The Aeneaid? What famous leader brought law and stability, yet was stabbed to death by a group of senators? Life in ancient Rome was certainly not for the faint of heart! In G is for Gladiator: An Ancient Rome Alphabet, readers are given an A-Z introduction to ancient Rome, including its social, political, and civil customs and practices. Husband-and-wife writing team Debbie and Michael Shoulders explore topics such as Roman law, architecture, mythology, and of course, the ultimate "fight club" (gladiatorial combat). From the relaxed surroundings of the public baths to the rigid codes of the military legions, Rome's ancient civilization is unveiled. Colorful, entertaining artwork from Victor Juhasz, the illustrator of Z is for Zeus: A Greek Mythology Alphabet, brings it all to vivid life. Debbie and Michael Shoulders also coauthored D is for Drum: A Native American Alphabet. Debbie teaches middle school and reviews children's literature. An educator for 30 years, Mike now writes and travels year-round, championing literacy. He has written 10 books for Sleeping Bear Press. They live in Clarksville, Tennessee. Victor Juhasz's books include R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet and D is for Democracy: A Citizen's Alphabet. His work appears regularly in many major magazines and newspapers including Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Victor lives in Stephentown, New York.
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American Indians of the West: Battling the Elements
Katelyn Rice (author)
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781480756717
With the Battling the Elements: American Indians of the West e-Book, introduce your students to the diverse lifestyles of West Coast American Indians. Your class will learn about the different tribes in the Southwest, the Great Basin, the Plateau, the Pacific Northwest, and California. This e-Book also looks at other aspects of daily life including tools and building materials used, trade networks, and how life drastically changed for the American Indians once the European settlers arrived. This intriguing nonfiction reader breathes life into early US history with primary source documents that features images of Native American artifacts, maps, and other materials from that era. Build literacy and subject content knowledge with this high-interest e-Book that explores history, geography, and other social studies topics. American Indians of the West: Battling the Elements provides access to every type of learner with appropriately leveled content. The e-Book contains text features such as captions, bold print, glossary, and index to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. Aligned to McREL, WIDA/TESOL, NCSS/C3 Framework and other state standards, this text readies students for college and career readiness.
Hatshepsut: First Female Pharaoh
Shirley Jordan (author)
Hatshepsut was a young woman who became the first female pharaoh of Egypt and ruled for about 20 years! Readers will learn about Hatshepsut's amazing life as she made her way from regent to queen of Egypt in this captivating biography. The stunning images, intriguing facts, supportive text, glossary and index combine to create an enlightening and entertaining reading experience as children learn about kings, queens, pharoahs, and other aspects of Egyptian history.
American Indians in the 1800s: Right and Resistance
Katie Blomquist (author)
Spark a curiosity for past events with this nonfiction reader focusing on the lives of native people as pioneers began moving westward during the nineteenth century. With the American Indians in the 1800s: Right and Resistance e-Book, students will explore the significant historical events that affected native people, including the Indian Removal Act, the Trail of Tears, the Seminole Wars, Red Cloud's War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Nez Percé War, Wounded Knee, and more. Breathe life into the pages of history with primary source documents that offer significant clues on what life might have been like for American Indians during the 1800s. Authentic artifacts, including maps, government documents, and other primary sources offer an intimate glimpse of what life was like during this era. Students will build content knowledge across geography, history, and other social studies strands, with content that can be leveled for a variety of learning styles, as well as below-level, above-level, and English language learners. This reader contains text features, including captions, bold print, glossary, and index to increase comprehension and academic vocabulary. A "Your Turn!" activity continues to challenge students as they extend their learning. Aligned to McREL, WIDA/TESOL, NCSS/C3 Framework, and other state standards, this text readies students for college and career readiness.
Heather E. Schwartz (author)
Excite students as they learn about the Early Explorers during the Age of Discovery. This e-Book takes a look at some of these ambitious world travelers that have helped map the modern world – from the Vikings, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, to Amerigo Vespucci. Primary source materials offer a glimpse into the past as students immerse themselves with authentic maps, artifacts, and images from that era. Build literacy and subject content knowledge with this high-interest book that explores history, geography, and other social studies topics. The Early Explorers e-Book provides access to every type of learner with appropriately leveled content. The reader contains text features such as captions, bold print, glossary, and index to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. Aligned to McREL, WIDA/TESOL, NCSS/C3 Framework and other state standards, this text readies students for college and career readiness.
Racing to Colonize the New World
Christina Hill (author)
Take your students on a trip with the early explorers searching for new routes with Racing to Colonize the New World. This e-Book takes look at the discovery of the "new world" and the people already living there. This informational text features primary source materials offering a historical snapshot of past events with maps, artifacts, and images from that era. Build literacy and subject content knowledge with this high-interest book that explores US history, geography, and other social studies topics. The Racing to Colonize the New World e-Book provides access to every type of learner with appropriately leveled content. The reader contains text features such as captions, bold print, glossary, and index to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. Aligned to McREL, WIDA/TESOL, NCSS/C3 Framework and other state standards, this text readies students for college and career readiness.
The New England Colonies: A Place for Puritans
Kelly Rodgers (author)
Students will learn more about the group that traveled across the Atlantic to create New England with The New England Colonies: A Place for Puritans e-Book. This rigorous informational text examines Puritan Society, including family life, Puritan women, town systems, and more. Spark a curiosity among your students and connect them to events from a long ago with these nonfiction readers that feature primary source material. Build literacy and subject content knowledge with this high-interest book that explores US history, geography, and other social studies topics. The New England Colonies: A Place for Puritans e-Book provides access to every type of learner with appropriately leveled content. The reader contains text features such as captions, bold print, glossary, and index to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. Aligned to McREL, WIDA/TESOL, NCSS/C3 Framework and other state standards, this text readies students for college and career readiness.
American Indians of the Plains: Surviving the Great Expanse
Jennifer Prior (author)
Highlight some of the fascinating aspects of life on the Plains with the American Indians of the Plains: Surviving the Great Expanse e-Book. Students will explore different facets of Plains culture, including the importance of buffalo in everyday life – as their source of food, clothing, homes, weapons, and many other things. This informational text takes a look at some of the distinctive features of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Pawnee, Osage, Omaha, and Crow tribes. Ignite a curiosity with this nonfiction reader that breathes life into the pages of history with real-life artifacts from that era. Build literacy and subject content knowledge with this rigorous, high-interest reader that explores US history, geography, and other social studies topics. The American Indians of the Plains: Surviving the Great Expanse e-Book provides access to every type of learner with appropriately leveled content. The e-Book contains text features such as captions, bold print, glossary, and index to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. Aligned to McREL, WIDA/TESOL, NCSS/C3 Framework and other state standards, this text readies students for college and career readiness.
American Indians of the East: Woodland People
Explore the culture and customs of the Woodland People with the American Indians of the East: Woodland People e-Book. Students will learn about the diverse group of tribes that stretched along the East coast, including the Northeastern and Southeastern regions. This e-Book looks at some of the important aspects of everyday life, including their strong farming culture with the "Three Sisters" crops – corns, beans, and squash. Spark a curiosity with this nonfiction reader filled with primary source material that offers a glimpse on how life was truly like for the Woodland People. Build literacy and subject content knowledge with this high-interest book that explores US history, geography, and other social studies topics. American Indians of the East: Woodland People provides access to every type of learner with appropriately leveled content. The e-Book contains text features such as captions, bold print, glossary, and index to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. Aligned to McREL, WIDA/TESOL, NCSS/C3 Framework and other state standards, this text readies students for college and career readiness.
Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend
Take an in-depth peek at the life of legendary Pocahontas , the famous historical figure who helped create peace between the American Indians and European settlers. With the Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend e-Book, students will examine what happened with John Smith and the daughter of Chief Powhatan, as well as Pocahontas' new life in an English village. Bring a greater understanding to historical events with this e-Book filled with primary source documents from this time period. Build literacy and subject content knowledge with this high-interest book that explores US history, geography, and other social studies topics. Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend provides access to every type of learner with appropriately leveled content. The reader contains text features such as captions, bold print, glossary, and index to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. Aligned to McREL, WIDA/TESOL, NCSS/C3 Framework and other state standards, this text readies students for college and career readiness.
Investigating Landforms
Lynn Van Gorp (author)
Earth's surface is always changing and scientists study landforms to learn about these changes. Destructive forces like earthquakes and volcanoes are discussed as well as weathering and erosion from water runoffs. Readers will learn about some of the most famous and majestic landforms in existence, like the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Angel Falls, Mount Fuji, and Columbia River Gorge, through stunning images, easy-to-read text, fascinating sidebars, and supporting glossary and index. An engaging lab activity is featured to encourage readers to further explore how landforms occur!
Wendy Conklin (author)
The Cold War lasted for more than 40 years. This interesting book gives readers a look at what caused the Cold War and some of the important events from this time. The helpful glossary, index, and easy-to-read text allows readers to further understand such things like totalitarian government, communism, capitalism, atomic bombs, blacklisting, espionage, and arms race. The fascinating images and photos along with the vibrant scrapbook layout, introduce leaders and events like the Berlin Wall, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Fidel Castro, and the Cuban missile crisis. This book will have children fascinated and engaged from beginning to end!
Modern Middle East
Blane Conklin (author)
Readers will explore some of the biggest issues that have happened in the Middle East and learn about the impact that these happenings have effected people all over the world. The vibrant images, stunning and engaging sidebars, accessible glossary and index, and easy-to-read text make this book a perfect introduction to such topics as the Yom Kippur War, The Oslo Accords, Saddam Hussein, and religious extremism. Readers will be fascinated and captivated as they move through this alluring title.
Debra J. Housel (author)
Immigrants from all over Europe flocked to America in the 1800s, bringing their hopes and their dreams with them. This fascinating title allows readers to discover such topics as Ellis Island, Angel Island, and assimilation. The influx of immigrants enriched the American culture but also provided challenges to the United States. Through appealing images, a vibrant scrapbook layout, stunning facts, intriguing sidebars, and a helpful glossary and index, readers will be excited and engaged from cover to cover!
Confucius: Chinese Philosopher
Confucius is now considered the greatest philosopher in Chinese history. This inspiring and enlightening biography will allow readers to discover Confucius' life of peace and harmony, his beliefs, and his philosophies that people still use today through interesting sidebars, facts, clear photos, supportive text, and a helpful glossary and index. Readers are also introduced to other important aspects of this period in China's history including the Zhou Dynasty, Meng-Tzu, and legalism.
Lisa Zamosky (author)
Trade routes gave rise to the ancient kingdoms in Africa, providing a rich history in culture, trade, and tradition. This appealing book will allow readers to explore the civilization, people, culture, religion, history, and traditions of Sub-Saharan Africa through plenty of colorful photos, fascinating facts, a helpful glossary and index, and supportive text. Other highlighted topics include the Kush civilization, Askum Kingdom, Zagwe dynasty, Ghana, Mansa Musa, Songhai Empire, the language of Swahili, and Zimbabwe. The colorful scrapbook layout and engaging sidebars will leave children interested and intrigued from cover to cover!
Mansa Musa: Leader of Mali
Mansa Musa was the king of Mali as it became one of the largest empires during the time of Musa's rule. Readers will discover the life of Mansa Musa in this appealing biography that uses vivid images, appealing maps, and stunning facts to engage children. A glossary and index work in conjunction with the easy-to-read text to teach readers about the Mali ruler, griots, Mali trade, Mecca, Malian religion, and other kings and queens.
Christine Mayfield (author)
The ancient city of Mesopotamia was located in the Middle East and was made up of empires such as the Babylonian Empire, Assyrian Empire, Persian Empire, and Phoenician Empire. Readers will explore these incredible empires and discover how each made contributions and influenced the world as it exists today. The fascinating sidebars filled with captivating facts work in conjunction with the vibrant, alluring images to engage and excite readers as they learn about the Sumerian society, Hebrews, Phoenicians, nomads, and more! A glossary and index are provided to aid in better understanding of the content.
Hammurabi: Babylonian Ruler
Hammurabi was king of Babylon and later became the king of Mesopotamia. This fascinating biography introduces readers to Babylonian history and explains how Hammurabi changed Mesopotamia. Through appealing photos and images and intriguing facts, readers will also learn about the Persian Empire, the form of writing called cuneiform, Gilgamesh, Cyrus the Great, Darius, and other kings and rulers of ancient times. Featuring a glossary and index for support, children will be sure to be enthralled as well as enlightened as they read from cover to cover!
Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs
The Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs were three groups of people found living in the ancient Americas, including the Andes Mountains and a city named Tenochtitlán. This intriguing book features details about these three incredible civilizations and explores how each of them fell when Spanish explorers found their settlements. Through detailed images and maps, captivating sidebars and facts, and an accessible glossary and index, readers will learn about leaders like Moctezuma as well as how these civilizations used farming, hieroglyphics, and glyphs to create their unique cultures.
Many different people have lived in India for thousands of years. Readers will learn about some of the people who have lived there and influenced the Indian religions, culture, and way of life. Featuring vivid photos, maps, stunning facts, supportive text, and an accessible glossary and index, this book allows readers to explore such topics as The Mauryan Empire, The Gupta Empire caste systems, The Mughal Empire, King Ashoka, Aryans, Buddha, Mohandus Gandhi, and the Taj Mahal. Interesting and engaging, children will be motivated and excited to learn as they move through the pages!
Christine Dugan (author)
Even though the Roman Empire ended in A.D. 476, its legacy still lives on today. Julius Caesar, gladiators, aquaducts, and The Colosseum are just a few of the topics discussed in this incredible book that uses vibrant, beautiful photos and intriguing facts to teach readers about the Roman Empire. Featuring a glossary, index, and easy-to-read text, this book will have children both engaged and fascinated as they learn what a big impact the Romans had on the past and on our lives today.
This fascinating book reveals how various civilizations, Greek gods, and Greek wars influenced Greek culture. The beautiful images, stunning facts, and supportive text work together to teach readers about Greek philosophy, the city-states of Greece, Athens, Sparta, Acropolis, Minoan civilization, and Plato. Readers will be captivated by the vibrant photos and engaging facts about such incredible Greek creations that are still in our world today, like The Acropolis, The Illiad, and The Odyssey. A glossary and index are featured to aid in better understanding of the content and vocabulary.
Gisela Lee (author)
Chinese culture has changed greatly over the years, but the Chinese people still celebrate the great changes in their culture and nation. This appealing book will teach readers about the incredible history of China, the Great Wall, and the various dynasties that ruled, including the Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, and Ming. Readers will also discover Chinese philosophies that are still practiced today, such as Confucianism and Taoism. The stunning photos, incredible facts, and engaging sidebars work in conjunction with the easy-to-read text, helpful table of contents, and accessible glossary and index to provide readers with a reading experience that is both enjoyable and informative.
From pharaohs to hieroglyphics, readers will learn all about the Egyptian dynasty in this fascinating book! The appealing photos and engaging text invite readers to learn about the Ancient Egyptian civilization, the construction of the great pyramids, mummies, Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra. Working in conjunction with easy-to-read text, the table of contents, glossary, and index combine to create a helpful and accommodating learning tool.
The French Revolution: Terror and Triumph
Heather Schwartz (author)
From King Louis XVI to Naploean Bonaparte, readers will discover the incredible people, ideas, and battles that lived and occurred during the French Revolution. The captivating photos and images and compelling facts work in conjunction with the supportive text, glossary, and index to provide an engaging and exciting reading experience as children learn about the storming of the Bastille, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens, Robespierre, and King Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette.
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Thomas Jordan: Why sovereign money would hurt Switzerland
Speech by Mr Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, at the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gallen (s/bf-HSG), Zurich, 3 May 2018.
by Thomas Jordan
Today, the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gallen celebrates its 50th anniversary. Let me extend my sincere congratulations on reaching this milestone. Our financial system has evolved steadily over the past five decades. In the early years of the institute, the world was still dominated by Bretton Woods, the post-war monetary system with its fixed exchange rates and the US dollar as anchor currency. Thereafter, flexible exchange rates were the order of the day, and more recently, banks have had to face the challenges of the financial crisis.
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Three Russians, one Ukrainian charged over MH17 crash
By Mike Corder Associated Press,June 19, 2019, 8:23 a.m.
Dutch police spoke about the charges. (John Thys/AFP/Getty Images)
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (AP) — The international investigation team into the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 charged three Russians and a Ukrainian separatist with the murder of 298 people on board the plane that was shot down over Ukraine.
The case is set to start in March 2020.
The team said that even if the four may not have pushed the button itself to launch a Buk missile that downed the plane, they were implicated in the preparations of the launch, making it sufficient to charge them.
The announcement of the prosecution team further pointed fingers at the Russian authorities and they called on further cooperation from the government.
They said that they did not ask for the extradition of the four since the Russian Constitution prohibits it.
Still, prosecutor Fred Westerbeke said ‘‘in the short term we will ask Russia to hand the summons to the suspects.’’ He added that we will ‘‘ask for Russia to cooperate again with legal help.’’
Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, whose son Bryce was among the dead, expressed relief that five years after the plane was blown out of the sky above conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, a trial could finally start next year.
‘‘This is what we hoped for,’’ Fredriksz-Hoogzand said. ‘‘This is a start of it. It is a good start.’’
She added that she did not expect any of them to appear for the trial, due to begin on March 9.
All 298 passengers and crew on board the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed on July 17, 2014, when a missile shattered the Boeing 777 in midair, sending debris and bodies raining down onto farms and fields of sunflowers.
The families of those killed were informed of the trial date early Wednesday at a closed-doors meeting ahead of a news conference by investigators.
The investigation team, made up of detectives and prosecutors from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia, Belgium and Ukraine, last year said that it was convinced that the Buk missile system used to shoot down flight MH17 came from the Russian army’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile brigade, based in the Russian city of Kursk.
Russia has always denied responsibility for shooting down the flight and claimed last year that the Buk missile came from Ukrainian army arsenals. The Netherlands and Australia have said they hold Moscow responsible for providing the Buk missile system used in the downing.
Progress in the criminal investigation has been slow. The Joint Investigation Team, or JIT, appealed in September 2016 for witnesses to provide evidence that could help identify two men heard speaking on intercepted communications discussing movements of a convoy in the days before the attack.
At the time, the JIT said ‘‘there is no evidence that these calls are directly related to the shooting down of MH17.’’
The appeal said one man had the first name and patronymic Andrei Ivanovich and used the call sign ‘‘Orion’’ while communicating. The other communicated as ‘‘Delfin’’ and had the names Nikolai Fyodorovich.
Online journalism platform Bellingcat said last year it had identified ‘‘Orion’’ as a Russian, Oleg Vladimirovich Ivannikov, and said it had determined with ‘‘very high certainty’’ that at the time of the downing of flight MH17 he was an officer of the main directorate of the general staff of the Russian Ministry of Defense, known as GRU, and that he served as a military adviser to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine at the time the jet was shot down and supervised ‘‘procurement and transport of weapons across the Russia Ukraine border.’’
In December 2017, Bellingcat said that, based on its investigations, it had established ‘‘to a high degree of certainty’’ that the man known as ‘‘Delfin’’ is Russian Col. Gen. Nikolai Fyodorovich Tkachev. He denied having been in Ukraine in 2014.
Bellingcat said in a tweet Tuesday that before the JIT press conference it will publish a report ‘‘identifying more individuals involved in the downing of MH17.’’
If Russian suspects are charged in the Netherlands, it remains to be seen if they ever appear for trial.
The Russian Constitution bars extradition of Russian nationals for trials abroad and says that for crimes committed abroad Russians can only be tried in Russia.
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Have a Big Goal But No Clue How to Get There? Here’s Why Dominoes Can Help
22 February 2018 20 March 2018 / By Bryan Falchuk
Creating a clear mental image of your ultimate goal allows you to map all the steps you need to take.
The night before I started writing my first book, I was on a call with a mentor I’ve turned to for advice and guidance. He asked me about my ultimate goal, which I told him about. He said, “OK, that’s the last step. Now work backward, step-by-step, until you get to today. Then you know exactly what you need to do to get there. It’s like lining up dominoes in reverse.”
See your goal as the last Domino.
The image struck me so clearly–the ultimate thing you are trying to achieve is that final domino you need to knock over. Then you line up each thing you need to do in reverse order all the way back to this moment.
The thing about knocking over dominoes is that any of them that are slightly out of line, going the wrong way, or the wrong distance from the ones before or after will mean the whole chain stops. It is no different with actions you need to take to achieve your goal–anything that is not aligned to your goal should not be in the plan. And if you find yourself doing something that does not lead to the final domino, stop and get back on track.
For me, it was about getting my message out into the world and having it impact people’s lives at a broad scale. He asked me how I would know I got there. That is, what is a way to show that the last domino has fallen. I said a good measure would be to get on stage and present my idea at a TED talk, which I will be doing two of this year. I also said sitting across from Oprah on a couch in the woods for an episode of Super Soul Sunday would also be a good measure, but that just made him laugh, so let’s focus on TED.
Work backwards to plot your path to success.
In that conversation, it was not clear how I could get there from where I was at that moment to being on that stage sharing my ideas. I was doing some life coaching work as a side-hustle, but the scale was not big enough to get me to my ultimate goal, or at least not for a very long time. So I worked backward.
I needed to pitch TED organizers with my idea if I wanted to present to their audience. The domino before that is to have an idea worthy of pitching. The dominoes just kept aligning one by one, closer and closer to my starting moment. And when I got there, it was clear to me that I needed to turn the philosophy I had been using in my coaching work into a book. That would begin the journey of dominos knocking each other over to end up at the final goal of having a meaningful impact on as many people as possible.
And now I have two TED talks lined up for this year.
The Domino idea applies broadly, but especially to business.
In business, it is no different. I’m an advisor to a safety technology start-up. In the early days, we had an ultimate goal of the product achieving a certain level of penetration into the market–our last domino.
To get there, we had to successfully sell at least a certain number of units to customers. To do that, we needed to have a revolutionary product that would compel enough customers to want to adopt it. To do that, we had to have a clear understanding of what would be compelling so we could design a product that resonates with the market. To do that, we needed to interview customers, do market research and more.
I’m simplifying the steps (there was a lot of white board space dedicated to all of the dominoes), but you get the point. Regardless of the specifics of these two examples, the exercise applies universally in personal and business settings of all kinds.
Now it’s your turn: Line up your dominoes in reverse order
So ask yourself, what is it you are ultimately trying to achieve. Visualize that domino clearly. Then ask yourself what comes before it, step-by-step. Write each domino out–that becomes your plan of action.
You may find you missed some things along the way, and you may find that you included some things that were not crucial or would lead you astray. That’s ok. As long as you keep your focus on the final domino, and dynamically evaluate whether each particular action leads to that domino, you will get there.
This post is inspired by my best-selling book, “Do a Day: How to Live a Better Life Every Day” available in print, eBook and audio book formats. It originally appeared in my Inc.com column on February 7th, 2018.
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Bryan Falchuk is a best-selling author, speaker and life coach. He has faced major adversities and learned how to overcome and achieve. From obesity to running marathons, from career struggles to success as a C-level executive, from watching illness threaten his family to finding lasting health, he has been through many lessons he used to develop his unique approach to inspiring others to succeed. Bryan's work has been featured in several top publications like Inc. Magazine, The LA Times, Chicago Tribune and more. He has spoken at multiple TEDx events, and has been a featured guest on over 100 podcasts and radio shows.
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GoldmanÔÇÖs glittering profits
The broker-dealers latest quarterly results show that it made $1.9 billion in the three months to the end of June. This compares with the $927 million it recorded in 2012 and comes amid what can be described as tougher trading conditions.
Its earnings were lifted by big returns on its own investments in shares and debts, which generated $1.4 billion in net revenues, up from $200 million a year ago. The profit that Goldman made on its own investments came as it sold off its last remaining shares in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
Other bright spots in its revenue figures came from the fees earned by its investment banks, with net revenues up 29 percent to $1.6 billion. Market-making traders generated a 28 percent rise in net revenues to $2.7 billion.
Goldman's share price gained 3.5 percent at the start of trading on Tuesday in response to the news.
URS to buy Scott Wilson
URS Corporation has announced it is to buy UK design and engineering consultancy Scott Wilson Group for $242.5 million.
Hewitt Associates to merge with Aon
Chicago based insurance conglomerate Aon Corp. has agreed to buy human resources specialist Hewitt Associates for $4.9 billion in a cash-and-stock deal that will almost triple the size of its consulting arm.
AECOM expands through acquisition
Technical and management support services consultancy AECOM Technology Corporation has strengthened its global footprint with an agreement to acquire Davis Langdon, a UK-based cost and project management consultancy firm, in a transaction valued at US$324 million.
L-1 Identity Solutions to be sold in $1.6 billion deal
US defense group L-1 Identity Solutions is to be sold to French rival Safran, with the UK’s BAE Systems also acquiring three of its Intelligence Services divisions, the company announced today.
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Wachemo university(WCU)
Wachemo university
ESTABLISHMENT OF WACHEMO UNIVERSITY Being one of the nine newly established universities that started their work in 2004 E.C, his Excellency Prime Minster Meles Zenawi
laid down its cornerstone at Hossana in February 2001 E.C. In his speech, the Primer said that besides widening access to education, the opening of Wachemo University will have a big contribution to speed up the development of Hossana town and its surrounding. Moreover, the Primer added that for the farmers of Hadiyya who have a special trend in wheat production, the presence of the university will have a big contribution in making them even more productive
NAMING THE UNIVERSITY When the cornerstone of today’s Wachemo University laid down, it was to be called Hossana University. However, as it takes into account the people’s interest, the topographic nature of the environment and demonstration of the actual condition of the community, it is reasonable to change it by its historical name ‘Wachemo’. The term wachemo by its local language, on one hand, indicates the place that is surrounded by trees with fresh air and suitable for living. On the other hand, it is believed that it was the name of the founder of Hossana town, respected, rich and hero man. Therefore, the former name of the town as well as the name of the university has taken into consideration these and other historical bases.
CURRENT STATUS OF WACHEMO UNIVERSITY
The first construction phase of the university is classified into 25% and 75% in which more than 98% of the 25% has been completed. The 25% of the first phase construction is of 12 blocks consisting of students’ dormitory, cafeteria, library, classrooms, laboratory and other accommodation services. More than 69.7% of the 75% construction which is of 32 blocks has been completed.
LOCATION OF WACHEMO UNIVERSITY
Wachemo University is found in Hossana town of Hadiyya administrative zone in SNNPRS. Hossana town is 230kms away from Addis Ababa, and the University is 3kms away from the center of the town.The topographic feature of the town is of both plain and plateau lands, and this has contributed to its natural scenery. Being suitable for living and showing progress from time to time, it has been considered as one of the fast growing cities among the 22 reform cities in the region
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Tulsa Attorney, Businessman Charged in Stock Fraud Case
Category Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities, Business Services
A Tulsa attorney, a Tulsa businessman and three others have been accused by a Federal Grand Jury on a series of charges including conspiracy, wire fraud and securities fraud.
Attorney George David Gordon, also known as G. David Gordon; businessman Richard Clark, also known as Rick Clark; Joshua Wayne Lankford, Dean Sheptycki and James Reskin were named in the indictments unsealed Tuesday.
U.S. Attorney David O’Meilia for the Northern District of Oklahoma announced the unsealing of the 24-count indictment, saying the accused had reaped from defendants ‘‘in excess of $41 million through manipulating the publicly traded stocks of three companies.”
The indictment alleges the five were involved in a ‘‘pump and dump’’ scheme where they owned and controlled accounts for receipt, purchase and sale of various penny stocks.
Two companies, based in Tulsa at the time of the alleged scheme also were among those whose stock was manipulated. They were Deep Rock Oil & Gas, Inc., and Global Range Beverage Solutions, Inc., formerly known as Pacific Peak Investments. The third company, National Storm Management Group, Inc., is based in Glen Ellyn, Ill.
Gordon, 47, and Clark, 61, were arrested and made their initial appearances Tuesday afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District Oklahoma.
Reskin, a Louisville, Ky., attorney, was scheduled to make his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Sheptycki, 41, a resident of the Bahamas, was arrested by Bahamian authorities and currently awaits extradition to the U.S.
Lankford, 35, of Dallas, has not been arrested and law enforcement is seeking him as a fugitive.
Gordon, Lankford, and Sheptycki, in a related action, also face civil action by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
QuikTrip to Pay Nearly $750,000 in Back Pay
Ex-Sonic President Speaker at 40 Under 40 Event
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Paul Branscombe named Wilton town administrator
Jessie Salisbury
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WILTON – It’s official, Paul Branscombe in the new town administrator, and he is settling into the position he has been filling as interim administrator since May 3. Former Administrator Scott Butcher and his two assistants resigned abruptly on March 26, citing conflicts with the select board.
That left the town office with no employees and a pile of uncompleted tasks.
The Select Board made the announcement on July 2. Branscombe had been a finalist in the process that hired Butcher.
In an interview on July 6, Branscombe spoke briefly about what has been called “the financial mess” that he inherited.
“They were all overwhelmed,” he said of his predecessor, due to a lack of experience. Butcher had never before served as administrator. “And apparently he was one of those people who couldn’t ask for help.”
Branscombe, 69, brings a solid background in management to the position. He previously served as administrator for the towns of Gilmanton and Ashland. He currently lives in Louden and lived in Worcester, Mass., for about 20 years where he worked in the insurance industry.
“We’ve restored the selectmen’s office,” Branscombe. He gave a great deal of credit for that to his new assistant Janice Pack and Finance Officer Deborah Harling, both of whom with considerable experience in town affairs. “Among us, we have about 39 years of experience. I feel very good about this.”
Next week this town will face an audit, he said, “and I can’t say it will be a good one. The town has been using Quick Books, which is not a recognized municipal system.” Under Butcher, the town had contracted with Business Management Systems, Inc. to set up a new system, but the contract was never implemented.” They have since been using both systems in parallel.
He met recently with Jim Foley of BMSI to get that on track again. “We need to be accepted by the (state Department of Revenue Administration) again.” Some of the problems go back a number of years, he said.
This week he will hold his first meeting with department heads, and after that staff meetings. “I want to hear from Land Use and the assessor. Then we have to start getting ready for budget season.”
He has “great department heads,” he said, public works, ambulance, fire and police departments. “Everyone is so accommodating.”
Part of the problem, he said, was lack of communication in the previous administration. “We haven’t been able to get reports, but now we can, thanks to the staff. Things weren’t being done correctly and it has been time consuming” to get records and files straightened out.
With a functioning office again, he said, “we’ve taken a lot of responsibility back from the selectmen.”
There are a lot of on-going projects that need to be dealt with: dams and bridges, work that was postponed, including the New Reservoir Dam which is under a letter of deficiency from the state; Old County Road Bridge which will require extensive, and expensive, stone work; and the possible closing of the Stagecoach Road bridge. A hearing on that is set for July 16.
“We’re working with DES on the dam,” he said, and a required archeological survey has been completed. No ancient Native American presence was found.
“I’m working with the Economic Development Committee on the welcome signs and updating the town website, and the Riverwalk is coming up. (Those projects) fall on the select board, not the committee.”
He would also like to work more closely with the schools, joint purchasing of supplies, for instance. “The school is the major part of the tax bill,” and they should not be totally separate entities.
“I have an open door policy,” Branscombe said. “Come in and chat. Those people out there are our eyes and ear,s” so we can know what is going on.
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Gold medal for King’s Ely Junior Judo star, Lucas
King’s Ely Junior pupil Lucas Hilcenko won a Gold medal at a national Judo competition.
Lucas, 12, who lives with his family in Sutton, represented the school at the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) Independent School Boys’ Judo Tournament. The competition took place at High Wycombe Judo Centre in Buckinghamshire.
Lucas, who has been a pupil at King’s Ely since joining King’s Ely Acremont Nursery aged just 2, competed against two other boys on the day, and won a Gold medal in the ‘Less than 50kg/Under 14 category’.
Head of King’s Ely Junior, Richard Whymark, said: “Lucas has worked so hard over the years to develop his Judo skills to this level. It is a great source of pleasure for us to see his hard work paying off this way.”
Lucas is a member of the busy King’s Ely Judo Club. From Judo to Jazzy Beads Club and Photography to Pottery, King’s Ely Junior has a holistic ethos and this is reflected in the energy invested in the breadth and depth of the co-curricular offerings of the school.
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Diane F. Cash, 64
DENNIS — Diane F. (de Rohan) Cash, 64, died Sept. 25, 2007.
She is survived by her loving and devoted husband of 44 years, Francis B. Cash.
She was born in Dorchester, and raised in Barnstable and Yarmouth.
Diane graduated from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, and Dell School of Medical Technology in North Carolina.
She worked at St. Anne's Hospital and Cape Cod Hospital. Diane later became a Real Estate Broker.
Her greatest love and joy was her family; she was a devoted mother and grandmother, adored by her children and grandchildren. She believed in peace and equality and was an active participant in several social justice organizations.
Beside her husband she is survived by her children Christine Cash Joyce and her husband Michael of Mansfield, Cynthia D. Cash and companion Cliff Taylor of Hyannis and Francis D. Cash and his wife Eileen of Boston. She has one sister Audrey Ramos of VA.
Diane was predeceased by her brother Michael de Rohan. There are seven grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Calling hours will be held Friday, Sept. 28, 2007, from 5 to 8 p.m., at the Doane Beal & Ames Funeral Home, 729 Route. 134, South Dennis.
A Funeral Mass will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, at 10 a.m. at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, South Street, Hyannis, followed by a burial at Oakridge Cemetery, Route. 134, South Dennis.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the American Cancer Society, 1115 W. Chestnut St., Brockton, MA 02401.
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After being smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago to be with her brother Wei, Zhenzhen, an illegal Chinese immigrant, discovers the true cost of her arrival.
Moving Parts is one of a handful of new feature films being produced within the Caribbean, poised to present new images and stories to the international market. After the death of her father, a Chinese immigrant, Zhenzhen, is smuggled into Port of Spain in order to be with her brother Wei. Unbeknownst to them, the restaurant where Wei has found her work serves more than just food. Zhenzhen arranges for an advance from the restaurant’s owner, Mrs. Liu, in order to pay the money she owes as a result of her illegal entry onto the island, and Mrs. Liu’s narcissistic son, Shin, takes a unwanted interest in Zhenzhen’s future. When a devastating event tears at the very fabric of Zhenzhen’s existence, only through the help of a neighboring art gallerist, Evelyn, and the restaurant’s Cook, does she have a chance at life. Moving Parts is unique in that it is not a thriller, but rather a human drama, exposed from the inside out. Utilising a local context, this film will address one of the most pressing contemporary global social issues, human trafficking. The film will present a fresh approach to a difficult topic through the eyes of female characters, crafted by a female writer/director, shot by a female cinematographer and produced by Caribbean women.
Caribbean Creativity is an official backer of Moving Parts through their Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
Dir: Emilie Upczak | 2017 | T&T | drama
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UK 'not where it should be' in regard to Brexit, leading business groups warn
Five of the leading business groups in the UK have warned MPs that the UK is 'not where it should be' in regard to its Brexit plans.
The government recently confirmed that it has decided to prioritise preparing for a 'no deal' Brexit, and intends to advise UK businesses to begin implementing their contingency plans.
In a joint letter, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the Institute of Directors (IoD), the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and manufacturers' organisation the EEF stated that UK firms have been 'watching in horror' as politicians have focused on 'factional disputes' rather than the practical steps that need to be taken to secure an advantageous Brexit deal.
The letter also said that firms are 'pausing or diverting investment' in order to prepare for a potential no deal Brexit scenario.
The business groups believe that there is 'not enough time' to prevent the 'severe dislocation and disruption' that will come hand-in-hand with a no deal Brexit scenario. They have called for MPs to 'talk to their local business communities' over the festive break in order to help 'find a way forward' when they return to Parliament.
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Catford Town Centre Regeneration still under review
Posted On 03/07/2016 By Editor
The regeneration of Catford has been years in the planning and looking at the recent regeneration review, we are a long way off from seeing any real changes.
The number of different landowners with stakes in and around the town centre, as well as financial issues, have hampered the project over the years. Now The Council has either direct or indirect ownership of Catford Shopping Centre and Milford Towers as well as the Town Hall, Civic Suite, Laurence House and Broadway Theatre, giving it more influence on future regeneration plans.
The regeneration programme is mainly focused on the sites owned by the Council as well as the road network, which is predominantly owned by Transport for London (TFL). Progress of the programme is heavily reliant on a decision by TFL on whether to realign the South Circular (A205). The town centre local plan was withdrawn back in 2013 due to a delay in TFLs decisions on the South Circular.
Key elements of the Council’s vision for Catford include
the redevelopment of Catford Shopping Centre to create new retail space
demolition of Milford Towers and the provision of several hundred new homes across the town centre
major infrastructure work to the road network (which is mostly owned by TFL) which would create a more joined up town centre and could also free up additional space for development
new community facilities, pedestrianised areas and open spaces
a possible re-location of Council services which would provide further development space on the existing site
Highlights from the report
Two options have been considered for the highways network in Catford: the hybrid scheme and the gyratory scheme. The Committee heard from an officer from TfL who discussed the benefits and drawbacks of both schemes as well as their costs. TfL advised the Committee that they currently do not have funding allocated for either scheme.
The hybrid scheme would divert the South Circular behind Laurence House – (see image below). In August 2014 TfL completed their initial study of the impact of this hybrid scheme. It was called the hybrid scheme as it represented a compromise between TfL’s priorities and those of the Council. The scheme has an estimated cost of £15 to £20 million. Modelling has shown that benefits of the hybrid scheme would include: reduction in journey time for some bus routes; general improvements to traffic times; realignment of A205 out of the Town Centre; some improvements for pedestrians and the provision of 1,039 homes.
The gyratory scheme would retain the current road layout of the roads with certain localised improvements – see image below. The Council had commissioned a study on the impacts of this scheme. The scheme has an estimated cost of £10 to £15 million. Benefits of the Gyratory scheme included: reduction in bus journey time on four routes; a slight improvement in traffic times; some improvements for pedestrians; and the provision of 1,295 homes.
Currently neither scheme included substantial improvements for pedestrians. Both schemes aimed to improve signal timings and pedestrian provision but once a scheme was selected, more work could be done to ensure objectives for pedestrians and cyclists were delivered.
Housing provision
The Council had bid for Catford Town Centre to be designated as a Housing Zone by the Greater London Authority (GLA). Housing Zone are identified by the GLA as areas that could deliver significant housing, and the GLA provides some funding to accelerate these developments. London Boroughs have to bid for this funding. The funding from the GLA to support the building of affordable housing and infrastructure
The GLA has now designated Catford Town Centre as a Housing Zone. This has provided additional funding to the regeneration programme. The details of the funding agreement between the Council and the GLA are still be decided. The houses would need to be delivered within 10 years of the funding agreement.
A report outlining the timeline for the regeneration programme including consultation with residents about the development plans is due to be presented at the Sustainable Development Select Committee in September/October.
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Cannot believe after all this time TFL still not sure if want to realign the south circular or not. If not should have not objected in 2013 and lead to the whole Catford Plan being shelved.
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U.S. man Michael Nguyen jailed for "attempt to overthrow" Vietnam's government
June 25, 2019 / 5:13 AM / CBS/AP
U.S. citizen Michael Nguyen is escorted by policemen before his trial at a court in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam June 24, 2019. REUTERS
Hanoi, Vietnam -- A Vietnamese court has sentenced an American to 12 years in jail for what was described in court as an "attempt to overthrow" the Communist nation's government. State-owned Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Tuesday that 55-year-old Michael Phuong Minh Nguyen was also convicted of inciting people to participate in protests with the intent to attack government offices in the capital, Hanoi, and in southern Ho Chi Minh City.
Nguyen's lawyer, Nguyen Van Mieng, told the Reuters news agency that he had sought a reduced sentence.
"It's such a long sentence," Mieng told Reuters by phone. "Michael admitted guilt at the trial and asked the jury to reduce his sentence so that he could soon reunite with his family."
Nguyen's wife, Helen Nguyen, was quoted by the newspaper as saying the sentence was "a slap to the United States."
She said their youngest child, one of their four children, cried out "why, why, why" when she heard the news.
Two Vietnamese men, Huynh Duc Thanh Binh, 23, and Tran Long Phi, 21, were sentenced to 10 and 8 years in prison respectively on the same charges after a half-day trial Monday in Ho Chi Minh City.
This picture from the Vietnam News Agency taken and released on June 24, 2019 shows US citizen Michael Nguyen (L) standing on trial in Ho Chi Minh City. Getty
They were arrested last July in Ho Chi Minh City after returning from Hue in central Vietnam, where they had traveled to recruit more anti-government protesters, according to the state media report.
The protests Nguyen is accused of planning did not occur.
Nguyen is from Orange County, California, and his wife was a guest of Rep. Katie Porter at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address earlier this year.
"I'm disappointed with this outcome, and my heart aches for the Nguyen family and for our Orange County community," Porter told the Orange County Register newspaper in an email.
The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said in a statement Tuesday that it was disappointed by the verdict and will "continue to raise our concerns regarding Mr. Nguyen's case, and his welfare, at all appropriate levels."
Protests are rare in Vietnam, where the Communist authorities do not tolerate criticism of the government. More than a dozen people were tried last year on charges of conducting anti-government propaganda.
Human Rights Watch ranks Vietnam among countries with the least freedom of expression.
Nguyen's sentencing comes about a year after another American man was convicted of participating in, but not planning, a demonstration in Ho Chi Minh City and deported.
William Nguyen is seen being escorted by police before his trial at a court in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on July 20, 2018 STRINGER / REUTERS
William Nguyen, 32, from Houston, was arrested in June 2018 during protests against a proposed law on special economic zones that many say would benefit Chinese investors.
A court official said Nguyen, who is of Vietnamese descent, admitted to the violation and showed remorse, which resulted in a lenient sentence. He had faced up to seven years in prison.
First published on June 25, 2019 / 5:13 AM
Bezos and Kennedy on future space travel
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell sat down with Jeff Bezos and Caroline Kennedy. They discussed the future of space travel, along with plans to put the first woman on the moon. Bezos hopes his moon lander will be on that mission.
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Hong Kong street life
Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir
Fan Ho, a celebrated Chinese photographer, film director and actor was born in Shanghai in 1937 and immigrated with his family to Hong Kong in 1949. He photographed the city as it became a major metropolitan center. In 2010 Fan Ho revisited his black and white negatives from the 1950s and 60s that were never printed. By sandwiching the negatives he created new images. These images are being exhibited simultaneously in San Francisco at the Modernbook Gallery and Hong Kong at AO: Vertical Art Space through December 2014 and are available in a new book, "Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir".
Forget Me Not, 1948/2012
Credit: Fan Ho/ Courtesy of Modernbook Gallery
Credit: Fan Ho
Back Lane, 1960
Coolie and Kids, 1975
Dream of Old Hong Kong, 1957/2014
End of the Day, 1955
Hong Kong Venice, 1962/2011
Life Goes On, 1966/2010
Life in Shadow, 1955
Old Street Kaleidoscope, 1955/2011
Magic Reality, 1962/2014
Mirror Lake, 1952/2008
Moonlight Concerto, 1958/2014
Working Class, 1966/2010
Journey to Elysium, 1952/2007
Structure, 1975/2002
The Lone Ranger, 1954
The Trap, 1959/2011
Trio, 1956/2011
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Great Classes, Great People, Great God
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Mrs. Bowen has a degree in secondary education but has found over the years that her favorite age range is 5th through 8th grade. Mrs. Bowen spent many years at home raising her daughters but has a lot of experience in the classroom with students. Not only does she have classroom experience in the middle school range, but she also has held many volunteer positions with children including Children's Program Teacher, Asst. Direct and Director with Community Bible Study since 2004.
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Denise graduated from The College of Charleston with a B.S. in Mathematics and worked in healthcare management and banking while accompanying her Army husband, Gregg, around the United States and Germany. Denise and Gregg have two daughters, Kathryn and Natalie, and a son-in-law, Josh. Denise homeschooled for 8 years and both girls have now graduated from James Madison University. Denise has been blessed to be a part of the CCA staff for the past 10 years and she thoroughly enjoys teaching and getting to know each student.
Mary holds a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She married her husband Brad in 1992 and began life as a wife of a US Marine. They lived in North Carolina, Hawaii, Louisiana and South Carolina before settling in Richmond. During these military years, She was privileged to teach and mentor children from a variety of backgrounds and in a variety of environments. She and Brad have three children, ages 19, 15 and 11 whom they have home schooled for many years. One of her greatest joys is working with children and young adults, teaching, encouraging and cheering them on to the life God has for them.
Shona graduated from the College of Charleston with a BS in Sociology. She and her husband Mark have been blessed with five children. They enjoyed the adventures of many cross-country moves during Mark’s twenty-year active duty Navy career. Shona has been homeschooling since 1997. Both of her sons are graduates of the Virginia Military Institute and currently serve in the military. Her oldest two daughters are in college, and her youngest is a high school student at CCA. Her children have attended CCA since 2010. In her spare time she enjoys helping homeschool moms prepare their students for college admittance, and is a professional organizer.
Kristin Brown
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Kristin has a Bachelor of Science in Education with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology from Va Tech. After graduating, but before getting married and starting her family, she worked in Tucson, AZ and Winston-Salem, NC as a wellness coordinator and instructor and spent one summer as a program directorat a camp in Connecticutfor children with special needs. When she moved to Richmond In 2005, she began staying at home to focus on her family. She participated as a teacher at a homeschool preschool co-op before beginning to homeschool 9 years ago. She believes that learning can be fun and enjoys helping others learn something new!
Kristin and her husband have 2 girls ages 16 and 13. They all spend most of their free time at the softball fields!
Andrew Dunks has had more than 20 years of fencing experience, and won many tournaments as a high school and collegiate fencer. He has been studying classical rapier fencing for almost a decade. Rev. Dunks currently serves as pastor to a small congregation in Richmond. He previously served as chaplain and teacher at several private Christian high schools, where he taught Biblical Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, and The Works of C.S. Lewis during the class day, and coached fencing after school. He is married with two grown children, and needs to keep fencing so he won’t get fat.
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Lucy Gregory
Abigail Grove
Tracy graduated in three years from Barton College with a degree in Mathematics and a concentration in Education. She taught high school math for three years in Hanover County before starting a family. Tracy home educated her own children for seventeen years. Her daughter is a 2014 Liberty University graduate and was married in Spring 2016. Her son graduated from Eastern Nazarene College in Boston, MA in May 2019, where he went to play baseball and live in the city he loves. She also now has a grandson that she absolutely adores!! Tracy has been with the academy from the beginning and enjoys being able to follow both of her passions: teaching math in the classroom and being deeply involved in the lives of her husband and "children" and grandson. Tracy also works with Ms. Williamson as one of the directors of CCA.
Lucy was born in Venezuela, South America. Spanish is my native language. The Lord brought me to this beautiful country at the young age of sixteen, where I attended Lakewood Sr. High School, and graduated in 1999. Since I was a young girl in Venezuela, I've had a passion to learn the English language and was intrigued by the american culture. I've been married to my American husband, Chris who I met in St. Petersburg, FL, twenty years ago. Currently, we have been married for eighteen years, we have three beautiful daughters that We’ve homeschooled since 2013...what a blessing! Our daughters are also bilingual, which we believe could potentially open more opportunities for their future endeavors. This is my second year teaching Spanish at CCA and I absolutely LOVE teaching a wide variety of grades and ages. More importantly, I love to serve the Lord by coming alongside CCA families interested in obtaining the required foreign language credit, and becoming familiar with the Spanish language and culture.
Abigail Pegram Grove holds an Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education, but for 14 years, she has offered middle and high school classes throughout the Richmond homeschool community in writing, grammar, literature, and history. Her heartfelt desire is to offer academic instruction to supplement home education and to aid students in the development of an organized, engaging writing style. Abigail lives with her husband and son in Chesterfield where they enjoy Star Wars marathons and late night discussions about Harry Potter, faith, parenting, and basketball.
Holly Hood
Jeannette Gratz
Instructional art teacher, Mary Johnson, has created a thriving business in which her experience as a master teacher, her vibrant personality, and her eye for method and detail make her an asset to aspiring artists at all levels.
Mary’s goal is to teach the fundamental techniques necessary for each participant to discover their unique style. Mary provides a friendly environment helping, encouraging and challenging each student to reach his or her individual artistic potential. As her students grow in skill and confidence, she teaches the increasingly subtle techniques used by great artists. Mary offers a multimedia art experience! From painting and drawing to collaging and 3D projects, students of all ages and ability levels are welcome. Her own considerable skill and recognized contribution to the artistic community of the greater Richmond area make her the perfect choice for your needs. Mary does not disappoint; Mary inspires.
Holly Hood graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Biblical studies. She taught for six years before coming home to raise and teach her own three children. She has been a homeschooling mom for the past thirteen years and has been the director of a homeschool program for the past eight. She loves teaching children and is looking forward to teaching your child.
Jeannette Gratz is the mother of 21 year old Deaf twins. When she first learned her twins were Deaf, she began taking Sign language classes at a college, but soon learned that immersing herself in the Deaf World was the best way to learn their culture and their language. She has taught many sign language classes throughout the years for high schools, churches, and programs for parents and advocates of Deaf children. Jeannette is surrounded by American Sign Language in her home life, professional life, and even in her ministry as the Deaf Ministry pastor at Southside Nazarene Church. She is a firm believer that American Sign Language makes the world a better place, and is a huge advocate for bringing Deaf Culture into all areas of life: school, work, church, etc.
Katie Learned
Brooke Miller
Joy Moody
Formerly homeschooled, Katie holds a Bachelor degree in Mathematics and has a passion for the subject. Katie has been teaching and tutoring homeschool students in the Richmond area for upwards of five years. She enjoys gardening, reads an absurd number of math-related books, and during breaks finds herself inexorably drawn to Khan Academy’s upper level math videos and/or bios of famous mathematicians from days past. (Archimedes anyone?)
Brooke has a B.S in Psychology and a M.A in Teaching from Liberty University. She came out of college stepping into the world of social work, however she found her passion was in teaching. Brooke taught for six years in public education, most of those years teaching 6th and 8th grade English. Soon after the birth of my first child, she left the public school environment to stay at home with her daughter. Then, a year and a half later her son was born. For the last three years, she worked part-time, having the privilege of helping oversee and lead programs for Grace Home Ministries. However, the need to be more available to her family and her husband, as he walks into a new role as a pastor, is leading her to end that season and begin a new one. Her days are filled with caring for her two littles, serving at church, investing time in the community with Grace Home Ministries, and playing soccer in her free time. She has also recently found joy as an ESL tutor for students in China with VIPKID. She is really excited to continue in her love for teaching and have the opportunity to teach in the homeschool environment
Joy has her degree in Exercise Science from VCU. She was recruited by the Chesterfield Co. Public School System to be a middle school Health & Physical Education teacher in order to make exercise fun for children. After her oldest daughter was born, she chose to stay home and only work part time. She uses her degree and various certifications in Personal Training and Group Exercise to teach adults movement for the YMCA of Greater Richmond. This part time job has great flexibility and has allowed Joy to focus on her first calling-homeschooling her 3 daughters. Her oldest started at the CCA in Kindergarten and is a rising high school sophomore. She loves people and enjoys teaching no matter the age.
Sarah Tarabocchia
Juliana Moore
Linda Sundquist
Juliana Moore earned both her Bachelor of Arts in German and Master of Teaching degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999. While at VCU in her senior year, she was awarded the Excellence in German award for highest academic achievement. Prior to making the decision to stay home and raise her own children, Juliana taught German levels 1 through 5 here in Chesterfield County at both Monacan High School and Midlothian Middle School. After taking a break from teaching, she is excited and looking forward to being back in the classroom and teaching a subject she enjoys so much. Juliana is married with two children ages 12 and 16, both of whom are homeschooled and have also attended CCA since kindergarten. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, reading, cooking, music, and other creative projects. She and her family are active members of her local church, where she co-leads a weekly women’s Bible study.
Linda graduated from William and Mary with a BS in Biology, and worked as a naturalist, Research assistant in university labs and swimming instructor until she was blessed to stay home with her 4 children. She was delighted to homeschool them for 25 years and teach in 3 different co-ops. The three oldest have completed college (William and Mary, Harvard, and USoCal) and the youngest will finish in a few years. She has recently been a substitute teacher in Rockingham Co and Fairfax Co Public Schools, and tutored English and ESL. She and her husband moved to the area in June 2018 for his job at a local church. She loves all aspects of Biology and the amazing complexity of life, and is looking forward to teaching this class again!
Sarah Tarabocchia is a Midlothian, Virginia native and attended VCU School of Nursing, but it was her love of the creative arts that drew her to become a professional photographer and studio owner. Sarah has over 20 years of photographic experience in both film and digital media. While her professional experience has focused mainly on weddings and portraits, she has also taught high school students digital photography since 2015 and home educated her three children since 2007. For her, teaching the fundamentals and art of photography has allowed her to share her passion with the next generation of photographers. Currently, she owns Sarah Chase Photography and resides in Midlothian with her husband, three teenagers and two dogs.
Jerry Varner
Tanya Williamson
Stephanie York
A graduate of Nyack College (Nyack, NY) with a bachelors degree in Bible and Student Ministry, Jerry has been in full time student ministry for over 22 years now. He has spoken to students all over the country about what it means to love Jesus, be His Church, and love His Word. He has been with CCA for several years, with an approach to teaching that is fun, conversational, and thought provoking. Students who go through Jerry's classes has said they feel better equipped for life after high school as they live out their faith in Christ. Jerry is a dad to four and a husband to one.
Tanya homeschooled 3 children for 7 years and has successfully sent one homeschooled child to college on a full academic scholarship. Prior to homeschooling, Tanya taught at Heritage Christian Academy where she developed, implemented, and taught a program for gifted students. Also at HCA, Tanya taught the 3rd grade. Her education includes degrees in English Literature from Christopher Newport University, Early Childhood Development from JTCC, and History from Mary Baldwin College. Since entering the homeschool arena, Tanya has worked to become well-versed in homeschool curriculum and appropriate benchmarks for students. While history has been her main teaching endeavor at CCA, this year she has returned to a former love of medicine/nutrition and returned to school herself. Tanya is currently a licensed Nutritional Therapy Practioner. In addition to teaching, Tanya enjoys working with Ms. Francis directing CCA and fulfilling all the various administrative duties.
Stephanie is a graduate of VCU with degrees in Education and Psychology. Prior to having children she was an elementary teacher in Chesterfield County. She also has experience directing a Christian preschool and implemented
a private Kindergarten program. Stephanie is the mother of three boys that she homeschooled for seven years.
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2017 Looks to Be Another Big Year for Tech M&A
Written by Pino Vallejo
For global technology investors, deal-making is set to be one of the biggest investment opportunities of 2017, and they may have the new U.S. president to thank for it.
Tech companies are one of the biggest accumulators of offshore capital. According to some estimates, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., and Alphabet Inc. hold a combined $486 billion offshore, as of Sept. 30. Donald Trump has suggested cutting taxes on companies’ accumulated offshore earnings from the current 35 percent to 10 percent, in order to encourage companies to shift cash back to the U.S.
If some of this cash-pile is brought back onshore, David Older, head of equities at Carmignac Gestion SA and a former fund manager at Point72 Asset Management LP, suspects there will be a surge of M&A.
“Companies such as Netflix has been a very strong performer since Trump’s election,” said Older. “These are large deals — but the type of thing you might see happening with this repatriated cash.”
Netflix declined to comment on this story.
The software sector has already experienced a surge of deal making over 2016. Last year the global volume of M&A decreased 8.9 percent year-on-year, while the volume of tech deals increased 5.9 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce.com Inc. spent a combined $40 billion on acquisitions last year — much of that on software firms — while July was the biggest month for software deals since 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Tech stocks are also on a tear. The S&P 500 Information Technology Index rose 12 percent over 2016, and 8.2 percent this year, as of Feb. 15, compared to 9.5 percent and 4.4 percent respectively for the S&P 500.
“We’re very overweight ‘software as a service’ stocks,” said Ben Rogoff, technology director and lead manager of the Polar Capital Technology Trust Plc, a 1.1 billion pound ($1.37 billion) fund. “Embedded in that view is that they capture all the incremental software spend, but are also likely to remain M&A targets.”
For Older, companies such as Alphabet and Amazon, which are leading the push into cloud computing, may be behind a number of smaller deals over 2017.
Carmignac currently has a significant position in ServiceNow Inc., a cloud computing company based in Santa Clara. “We think this is a bite-sized acquisition for someone who wants to beef up their cloud offerings,” said Older.
Polar’s Rogoff has maintained a position in Splunk Inc., a data analytics company based in San Francisco. Splunk’s share price dropped 13 percent over 2016, despite being one of the fastest-growing vendors, according to data from Bloomberg.
To read a BI Company Primer about Splunk, click here
“With our largest software bets, most of those we would build in some exception or hope of M&A, and Splunk is definitely one of them,” said Rogoff.
A spokesman for ServiceNow declined to comment. Splunk did not respond to a request for comment.
Snap Inc.
Rather than a private deal, one of the most anticipated deals of 2017 could be the upcoming initial public offering of a social media company known for its transient messaging service.
Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, filed confidentially for an initial public offering late last year, and is targeting a valuation of about $20 billion to $25 billion.
Rogoff said it is likely Snap will be in his portfolio this time next year.
“It’s a unique asset with an attractive and rapidly growing audience,” he said. “Although the company has only recently begun monetization in earnest — making valuation tricky on current metrics — we are familiar and attracted to the model having held Facebook since its IPO.”
During Snap’s last private funding round, the social media company was valued at $18 billion. A spokesman for Snap declined to comment.
“If it doesn’t become anything more than a peripheral network, then it is going to be Twitter-like not Facebook-like,” said Mark Hawtin, Investment Director at GAM Holding AG, which manages $118 billion.
Fund managers may not have long to wait for the flurry of tech deals to turn into a deluge. This year, Cisco has already announced its $3.75 billion deal to acquire AppDynamics Inc, while according to a report published Tuesday by law firm Baker McKenzie LLP, 2017 is set to the biggest year for tech M&A since the dot-com boom.
“The caveat is we need a benign Trump on trade and a soft-ish Brexit,” said Baker McKenzie Chairman Paul Rawlinson. “Will we get that? Let’s see.”
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Louise Minchin on why she loves triathlons
Louise Minchin
Chester-based BBC presenter Louise is a strong woman - literally - thanks to her passion for triathlons. She's determined to recruit some new enthusiasts from her Cheshire Life following...
Louise and fellow triathletes enjoing the camaraderie of the event at Cholmondeley Castle
I am on what can only be described as a post-triathlon high! While I’m writing this I am bursting full of endorphins and energy, my whole body buzzing with the excitement and the sapping exhaustion.
Over the weekend I raced twice, and both races reminded me why I love triathlon, and why I want to encourage others to take part, to join in and dare to try it.
The Llandudno Sea Triathlon was a fantastic, exhilarating and challenging race. I loved swimming in the mountainous waves of the Irish Sea and struggling up the steep inclines of the Great Orme on my bike. After all the effort, I managed to come fifth in my age-group, which is a great result for me.
But my favourite race took place in the stunning grounds of Cholmondeley Castle, swimming in the Deer Park Mere, cycling around the park and running beneath the Norman castle walls.
It was a mixed-relay super-sprint which is fast and furious. I love mixed-relay particularly because it is one of only a few sports where men and women compete together. Excitingly, it has recently been added to the list of Olympic disciplines and will feature in Tokyo 2020.
There are two men and two women in every team; each person must complete a swim, a bike and a run and when they have finished, pass the timing chip to the person next in line.
The camaraderie in triathlon is unequalled and there is never a heavier dose of amiable support tinged with a healthy competition, than in a relay.
Within minutes of the start, the transition area, where all the competitors’ triathlon kit is stored, resembles a teenager’s bedroom with cycles, wetsuits, goggles, trainers strewn everywhere. It is a study in motion, with triathletes jumping into the water, leaping on their bikes and sprinting for the finish and everyone cheering.
It is very difficult to tell how you are doing in the race, but I had some incredibly fast team-mates from Total Tri Training, Lindsay Griffiths, Dave Morgan, and Bradley Pollitt.
I was volunteered to start for our team and came out of the swim in fourth position, but left them work to do after my bike and run, leaving us in about ninth. Between them they caught up all those places, and by the time Brad stormed over the finish line, we were back in fourth.
We didn’t win a medal, but we felt like winners and went home happy as we were beaten only by teams from the North-West Triathlon Academy, who were less than half our age.
What a fabulous day out, and in my biased triathlon view, there is no better way to have fun and see the countryside. I would love to see some of you try it next year!
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Los Angeles and the Mid-Atlantic Accent
What was once a prominent accent within the upper class, theater, and the American film industry of the 1930s and 40s, the mid-Atlantic accent has since lost its prevalence. However, that’s not to say the accent isn’t still used today. Though it hardly outgrew Los Angeles’ film production, the mid-Atlantic accent has been used in media more recently to achieve a stylistic effect. With Los Angeles remaining a booming city for the film and media industry, voice talent for this accent is still sought after today.
At Creative Media Design in New York City, we work with mid-Atlantic accent voice over talent aplenty. This distinguished accent can provide the perfect touch to a variety of media productions and, even if you’re located in the Los Angeles area, CMD can still supply you with the perfect talent for your next production. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with this classic accent so you can determine whether or not it’d be a good fit for your brand’s image.
The Mid-Atlantic Accent: Los Angeles Origins
Though it may not have directly emerged from Los Angeles, the mid-Atlantic accent was certainly popularized in Hollywood’s film industry of the 1930s and 40s. In terms of its origins, the accent was consciously acquired in the early 1900s with intentions of blending the speech of American and British pronunciation. Simply put, the accent is all but natural. Also referred to as a transatlantic accent, it was developed to be understood by both Americans and the British.
Early uses of the mid-Atlantic accent existed within elite cultures, such as political figures and upper-class American citizen, and the aforementioned film industry. It was actually taught in acting schools in the early 1900s. By the 1930s, the accent became typical of Los Angeles and Hollywood actors. In short, a majority of the films in the 1930s and 40s utilized the accent, most likely due to its elegant sound and lack of geographical origin. But its elegant sound isn’t the only favorable characteristic.
Characteristics of the Mid-Atlantic Accent
In addition to the appealing sound of the mid-Atlantic accent, there are some other distinguishing characteristics that set it apart from other speeches and pronunciations. Carefully taught within American boarding schools and theater, this interesting accent has been described in a variety of ways. Today, many ask why early film actors talk so weird, but others don’t see it that way. Here are some defining characteristics of the mid-Atlantic accent:
Combination of UK and US accents
A non-rhotic accent (dropping the R sound when it doesn’t precede a vowel)
Features quasi-British elements
Long A words like “father” are rounded to sound more like “fawther”
By simply searching Katharine Hepburn, you can get a great example of the mid-Atlantic accent. You can also check out our voice talent page to hear some great examples.
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While its popularity dropped following World War II, the mid-Atlantic accent remains an interesting and often-sought-after sound in a range of productions. Its unique origins make it like none other, not to mention its history. If you think you’ve got the accent dialed, let us hear it and fill out our new talent form.
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You call that a standard?
Robert Glushko, Berkeley professor who was involved in early XML proceedings, decries how powerful interests have distorted the standards process.
Martin LaMonica
April 28, 2004 4:00 AM PDT
Robert Glushko has a problem with standards.
There is a clear demand from customers for products that work together based on widely used standards. But Glushko contends that the standards process is stacked to favor large tech companies, which can control and ultimately benefit most from specifications that are ratified as industry standards.
Glushko, an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley, speaks from experience. As co-founder of XML company Veo Systems, Glushko was involved in early efforts to create business-to-business e-commerce standards using XML, or Extensible Markup Language, in the late 1990s. His involvement in XML led to work with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), which was formed to promote XML-related specifications, and the United Nations' Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (CEFACT).
In 1999, the United Nations and OASIS joined forces to promote ebXML, which was designed to enable electronic business over the Internet, rather than over expensive proprietary networks. But as ebXML began to mature as a technical specification, another set of XML-based specifications collectively called Web services--which had the backing of IBM and Microsoft--came onto the scene. Today, Web services are more widely used than ebXML.
Glushko said his experience working on ebXML reflects how powerful interests can derail the work of well-established standards organizations. He also contends that the standards development in governmental organizations, such as the United Nations, is a very politicized process. High-minded goals, such as cheap global e-business standards, can easily be tarnished by money, power and access to powerful bureaucrats.
CNET News.com spoke to Glushko to get his views on the state of technology standards after revelations that Microsoft paid some travel expenses of U.N. technical committee members on a CEFACT mission--a move that critics claim gave the software giant unfair influence in pressing the case for Web services over ebXML standards within the United Nations.
Q: Why have so many standards emerged for electronic commerce?
A: One of the issues here is what a standard is. That is one of the most abused words in the language and people like you (in the media) do not help by calling things standard that are not standards. Very few things are really standard. Standards come out of standards organizations, and there are very few of those in the world.
There is ANSI (American National Standards Institute), there is ISO (International Organization for Standardization), the United Nations. Things like OASIS and the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization) are not standards organizations. They create specifications that occasionally have some amount of consensus. But it is the marketing term to call things standard these days.
So what's an actual standards organization?
Well, a standards organization is something that is chartered to be a standards body that has some standard procedures?To me, a standard, in the best case, is some kind of specification which is developed by consensus of all the serious players and for stakeholders of some domain. (Standards development) has some open process and (the standards) are freely available and implementable. And there are not very many bodies that meet that definition.
How did you get involved with the United Nations?
They were trying to figure out how to do this kind of XML EDI (electronic data interchange) stuff, and I recommended that they work with OASIS...We talked for several months and the ebXML initiative was kicked up by the end of 1999.
Very few things are really standard. Standards come out of standards organizations, and there are very few of those in the world.
Now looking back...the key issue for us was that this was something of an arranged marriage, kind of a cross-cultural arranged marriage...CEFACT wanted a way to make (EDI) relevant in the age of the Internet and Web...(and) to be able to bring the benefits of EDI and automated business to smaller businesses primarily in developing countries. That was part of the overall mandate of CEFACT.
The XML people were saying, "We are a bunch of vendors, smaller XML companies. And it will be great if we can have some more international clout--maybe working with the standards body will give us that." So we sort of saw in each other a kind of ideal partner for what we did have. Mainly, they did not have expertise, and we did not have credibility. So that let us work together...It was one of the most heady times in my career.
This is around the same time that other XML technologies, notably Web services specifications like SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol, an XML-based communication protocol), were getting off the ground with Microsoft and IBM. What happened then?
We really tried to get every significant player involved. Microsoft, which is a member of OASIS, had not joined ebXML. And at that time, we did not know why. It turned out that they were doing SOAP and stuff in the background.
We did not know that at the time we started ebXML. But when they came out with SOAP, they said, "Well, we don?t want to join ebXML because you do not do SOAP." We said, "Look, we will make ebXML messaging compatible with SOAP; please join ebXML." We practically begged them.
We ended up making ebXML messaging compatible with SOAP, but they did not join anyway. So, it was clear that it was already starting to be some kind of unraveling of the big tent and the happy community.
So what is the net result right now? IBM and Microsoft have taken the lead on developing a lot of Web services standards beyond SOAP, including others for electronic business.
(Web services are) proprietary specifications, please.
Why do you call them proprietary specifications?
Because they are proprietary. Look at the IP (intellectual property) policies that are published on the WS-I. There are all sorts of licensing of IP. They're not royalty-free. There is a lot which is completely unclear from an IP (perspective), which means you cannot afford to implement if you're a vendor.
IBM and Microsoft have submitted to the W3C and OASIS for development many specifications that involve other companies. How is that exclusionary?
Look, the whole issue of openness is really a red herring. I can say that my process is completely open and anyone in the world can participate. But let's schedule my meetings every quarter and once in Tokyo and once in Berlin and once in Vienna and once in Vancouver and once in Washington. Effectively only the biggest players in the world can play. So, making it open, but making it infeasible to participate means it is, in effect, not open.
No one should be upset about the fact that people are trying to influence the direction of standard bodies--that is what people do.
In some sense, even if the IP policy of WS-I and ultimately the other bodies were completely open and royalty-free, this would still be a problem. By having a rival organization to the OASIS which is where (these XML e-commerce standards) started, you are raising the stakes for the participant because now (smaller) companies like mine would have to play in two places rather than one. And you quickly price the smaller player out of the standards game.
How do governmental standards bodies like the United Nations and CEFACT differ from WS-I, OASIS and W3C?
The U.N. is not really (made up) of vendors. In fact, CEFACT was for a long time hostile to the vendor participation. Countries are members of CEFACT. Delegations from various countries and governmental organizations join CEFACT to advance business standards for the world, and they (send) people as volunteer delegates from their countries.
Now think about what that means. That means clearly you are not really a volunteer delegate because someone has to pay your way to get to the meetings, right? So, occasionally it is a government body, but usually some employer would say: "I think it is worthwhile to have my employee on this standards body because maybe we can find some way to influence the process for our benefits." Everyone has a self-interest here.
So, people join these things and they are funded by companies?But the process is inherently a very slow and parliamentary and rigorous formal process. That's what gives it the credibility, because they really feel they could take the long time (necessary to reach consensus) and people are involved. But the problem is that (relying on) the participation of volunteer delegates from (different) countries does not fit the time constraints of technology companies very well. And so ultimately most companies quit that game and they go straightaway to the W3C or OASIS. That is sort of problem. CEFACT was becoming progressively irrelevant in the '90s as the Internet was happening because it did not move fast enough.
A New York Times article from February cited people who complained about Microsoft paying the travel expenses for U.N. technical committee members, which apparently gave it undue influence over the standards process. Is that common?
I think it is a brilliant idea to try to influence the direction of the one legitimate standards body out there. But the problem is (Microsoft) did it in a way that does not look good with the lights turned on. I mean, everyone tries to influence the process, everyone funds different people to participate in these activities--that is just how the game is played. Someone has to pay the salary for people who are delegates. It is just Microsoft apparently didn't try to do it in a way that is very transparent. And that is the problem.
No one should be upset about the fact that people are trying to influence the direction of standard bodies--that is what people do. It is just that the one legitimate standards body left now looks like it is being contaminated by things which do not look quite right.
What do you think that a body like the United Nations can do to cut down on this issue of influence?
An awful lot of people I worked with on ebXML on the U.N. side as well as the OASIS side were extremely hard-working people who were really committed to the vision of ebXML as the world's e-business standards.
But I think there were a couple of people who are professional standards bureaucrats, who take care of themselves more than they take care of the vision...people who would rather have little empires than advance the cause of world e-commerce and interoperable standards.
Discuss: You call that a standard?
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The 16 Most Charming Christmas Markets in Europe
by Katherine LaGrave
From Germany to Estonia (and back again).
There's nothing in the world quite like the holiday season in Europe, and if you’re there from late November through the New Year, it’s easy to see why: There are wooden chalets in 13th-century towns, snow-capped cathedrals, seasonal cookies and cakes in display windows (better still: in your mouth), and of course, all the hot mulled wine you can drink. Put all of it together, and the towns practically twinkle with fairy-tale festiveness. We’d venture to say there’s hardly a wrong way to do Christmas across the continent, but it's worth hitting some of the biggest celebrations first. Here, in no particular order, are 17 of the best Christmas markets in Europe.
Old Town and Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czech Republic
Why we love it: Just five minutes’ apart by foot, Prague’s Old Town and Wenceslas markets are the best in a city that already tops our list of places to spend Christmas. (It's all that Gothic architecture and mulled wine stalls.) Don’t miss the barbecued pork or trdelník, a hot, rolled pastry rolled in cinnamon and sugar and cooked over a grill. Also, pack the hat and gloves: It can get cold here in December.
When: December 1 to January 6
Cologne Christmas Market, Germany
Why we love it: In front of Cologne's landmark cathedral, this market has what you'd expect of a classic German spread: the Glühwein, the crafts, the twinkling lights. One thing that stands out, though, is its entertainment—more than 100 stage performances throughout the festival, including Christmas swing music and gospel. After you've had your fill of tunes—and food—head toward nearby Hohe Strasse and Schildergasse, two of Cologne's well-known shopping areas, to walk off all those bratwurst.
When: November 26 to December 23
Trento Christmas Market, Italy
Why we love it: Each year, the cobblestoned streets of Trento, in the northern Italian region of Trentino–Alto Adige, are filled with twinkling trees and 90 wooden huts in two places—the strollable Piazza Fiera and Piazza Cesare Battisti—to combine for what Italians call Città del Natale, or "Christmas Town." Vendors sell sheep's cheeses and dried orange slices below the 13th-century Buonconsiglio Castle, and the Alps in the distance provide an incredible backdrop to the whole scene.
When: November 24 to January 6
Tallinn Christmas Market, Estonia
Why we love it: In addition to Estonian Christmas dishes like black pudding and sour cabbage (it's better than it sounds, we swear), Tallinn's market in the Town Hall Square also has a Santa who arrives by reindeer-pulled sleigh. The highlight, though, is its Christmas tree, which the city has been putting up in front of its town hall since 1441—making it the first Christmas tree to ever be displayed in Europe.
Brussels Winter Wonders, Belgium
Why we love it: Every December, Brussels's Grand-Place around the Bourse stock exchange, the Place de la Monnaie, the Place Sainte-Catherine, and the Marché aux Poissons are transformed into a winter wonderland, with more than 200 wood chalets, a covered ice rink, a Ferris wheel (pictured), and a light and sound show projected onto the Grand-Place.
Tuomaan Markkinat, Helsinki, Finland
Why we love it: This market scores major points for its mix of contemporary and traditional. Though visitors can do everything from play bingo for a vegan ham to watch a holiday outfit contest for dogs, it's not all quirky: Choirs sing Christmas carols on the weekends, and visitors can stroll illuminated market stalls while drinking more of that hot mulled wine. Not feeling Finnish enough for you? Relax in the wood-heated unisex sauna, smack in the middle of the market in Senate Square.
When: December 1 to 22
Advent Feast at the Basilica, Budapest, Hungary
Why we love it: One of Budapest's landmarks is St. Stephen’s Basilica, which is Hungary's largest church and dedicated to the country's first king, Stephen. It's fitting, then, that this festival takes place around the church, in Szent István Square, with 80 vendors, a skating rink, and weekend folk dance shows. Most of the action is in full swing before Christmas, but if you're there on January 1, stop by the fair for some lencseleves, or lentil soup—it's traditionally made in Hungary on New Year's Day as a symbol of prosperity for the coming year.
Dresden Striezelmarkt, Germany
Why we love it: Founded as a one-day market in 1434, the Dresden Striezelmarkt is Germany's oldest. The annual focal points here are typically the 45-foot high Christmas pyramid and the Stollen, buttery fruitcake dusted with powdered sugar and packaged with a special seal depicting the city's famous former king, August the Strong.
Manchester Christmas Market, U.K.
Why we love it: Manchester has Christmas markets spread around its downtown core, but our favorite is in picturesque Albert Square, where the main market has been based for the past two decades. (It will get a new home next year, as the Town Hall backing the square is slated for a years-long renovation.) Traditional German bratwurst are on offer, as are dishes from around the continent—think Hungarian goulash, Spanish paella, and even a hog roast. Walk off the meal by browsing the wooden stalls, which sell everything from amber jewelry to French soaps.
When: November 9 to December 22; Albert Square is open until December 23
Viennese Christmas Market, Austria
Why we love it: Some cities just look better covered in snow, and Vienna—which already ranks high on our list of best cities in the world—is one of them. The city's Viennese Christmas Market, which takes place in front of City Hall and has everything from reindeer rides to an ice rink for skating and curling, is as classic as it gets.
Salzburg Christkindlmarkt, Austria
Why we love it: Salzburg's famed Christkindlmarkt in the center of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Old City isn't just mulled wine and market stands: There are daily sing-alongs (Tuesdays from 6–8 p.m.) and traditional wind music performed above the square on Thursday and Saturday nights. We're not mad about the Bauernkrapfen (fried pastries), either...
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark
Why we love it: The real-life inspiration for Disneyland, this twinkling theme park is beloved by tourists and locals alike; come winter, it’s decked out in more than 500,000 fairy lights. Don't miss Danish treats like aebleskiver, small pancake puffs topped with powdered sugar, or honninghjerter. Similar to German gingerbread, this dense honey cake is sometimes filled with jam and buttercream and topped with a chocolate glaze. Hygge, indeed.
Nuremberg Christkindlmarkt, Germany
Why we love it: Head to the Hauptmarkt, the central square in the city's old town, for this market—one of the world's most popular, with more than two million annual visitors. Each year, the celebrations officially open with a speech given by the Christkind—the traditional gift-giver and symbol of the Christmas Market—from the balcony of the Frauenkirche, a monumental Gothic church.
Christmas Market at East Princes St. Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
Why we love it: Adjacent to the Scottish National Gallery, this annual market turns Edinburgh's sprawling East Princes St. Gardens into a "Santa Land" with a Christmas-tree maze and a mini-train ride for the little ones. Take it all in from atop the 108-foot tall Ferris wheel, aka the Edinburgh Eye.
When: November 17 to January 5; closed Christmas Day
Christmas Market at Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden
Why we love it: If you're looking to get really traditional, visit this open-air museum on the island of Djurgarden in the center of Stockholm, where all of the historic homes and farmsteads are decorated accordingly. Tuck into smoked turkey and sugared almonds at the market, or, if you’re feeling more adventurous, participate in traditional dances around the festive tree at Bollnäs Square and make your own Christmas decorations in the workshop.
Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt, Germany
Why we love it: Considered by many Germans to be one of the most traditional markets in the country thanks to its sparkling trees, local artisans, and location, the Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt has nearly 300 stalls set against the backdrop of the Old Castle, which dates back to the 10th century. Sip on the usual mulled wine, sure, but don't miss the chance to sample some Maultaschen: large, ravioli-like noodles that are a speciality of the region.
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Global Gathering for Good Sees Young, Bright Future for Business
LONDON - Young people are driving the growth of businesses that benefit society and the environment, the organizer of a global gathering of ethical entrepreneurs said as it opens Wednesday.
Some 1,500 people are meeting in Edinburgh as the 10th Social Enterprise World Forum - one of the most important networking events for the sector - returned to its birthplace after being hosted in Melbourne, Seoul and Rio De Janeiro.
'The key thing [that's changed] in the decade is the transformational views of, and engagement with, young people,' Gerry Higgins, head of CEIS, which convenes the forum, told Reuters.
'Increasingly, young people are looking for careers of purpose, looking at social enterprise as a way of being involved in business and doing social good - and that has to be significant and heartening and positive.'
Scotland is the only country globally with a dedicated 10-year strategy to support social enterprises, or businesses that seek to make a profit while also doing good.
The country of 5 million has almost 6,000 social enterprises, providing about 80,000 jobs, the government says, many of them in poor rural communities.
Higgins, who has worked in the sector for more than 30 years, said he was encouraged by a rise in the number of universities teaching ethical entrepreneurs as well as growing interest from governments around the world.
Scores of universities, from Hong Kong and India to Greece and South Africa, now teach students about social enterprises, typically through work placements or incubating their startups.
Taiwan is sending more than 60 delegates to the forum as the government regards businesses with a social mission 'as a way of reaching young people,' said Higgins.
'Ten years ago, when we pitched up in countries speaking with our partners to their government about social enterprise, God it was a hard sell,' he said.
But politicians are increasingly providing ethical firms with policy support, like the rest of the business sector, because they recognize the economic benefits they can deliver, he said.
'There are a lot of communities and individuals being supported by social enterprises around the world in a more sustainable way than existed 10 years ago,' he said.
'Ten years isn't a long time in the growth of a business movement. We're really at the start of the work of creating a global business model that's used by an increasing number of people coming into the market.'
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Law & Policy, Telecom & Wireless
U.S. Government Penalty Impacts ZTE's Results For 2016
2016 was not a great year for Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE. The company says it had total losses of CNY767 million.
ZTE published its performance briefing for the entire year of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017; and the company also disclosed the financial impact of its "incident" in the U.S. Two weeks ago, ZTE confirmed that it reached a deal with the United States Department of Commerce to pay USD892 million for violating American sanctions on Iran and North Korea.
According to the performance briefing, ZTE's operating revenue was expected to reach CNY101.233 billion in 2016. Due to the incident in the U.S., the company paid a one-time penalty of USD892 million, which was about CNY6.15 billion, and its total losses were CNY767 million; and the company's net losses were CNY2.357 billion.
If excluding the above-mentioned losses, ZTE's total profit was CNY5.414 billion, a year-on-year increase of 25.82%; and its net profit attributable to shareholders was CNY3.825 billion, a year-on-year increase of 19.24%.
Reconciliation with the U.S. government is conducive to eliminating the huge business uncertainty. Statistics showed that during the first quarter of 2017, ZTE's operating revenue expected to see a year-on-year increase of 10% to 20%; while its net profit attributable to shareholders was expected to increase by 20% compared with the same period of last year. ZTE said the company has returned to the normal development track.
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Anniversaries – April 23
Molly Amelia Greacen says she considers herself a bit of a pioneer.
Twenty-five years ago, the newly divorced mother of a 2-year-old graduated from the New England School of Acupuncture and came back to Boulder to start a practice.
In 1982, she said, she was one of four acupuncturists practicing in Boulder.
Now, she’s one of more than 100 in a region that is home to three acupuncture colleges.
Greacen originally shared an office on Pine Street when she first started an acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine practice. She then moved to join Wellspring Partners in Health, a holistic medical clinic where she spent the next 10 years. She has since moved her practice to her home.
Over the years, Greacen has taught classes, wrote articles and authored a book.
“I have seen so many changes in this town! From a university/cowboy town to a mecca of holistic medicine as well as high tech, entrepreneurs and environmentalists,” Greacen recently wrote in an e-mail. “I love my work, and (am) so grateful that I have been able to work in this field, as well make my home in beautiful Boulder Valley.”
The love appears to run in the family. Greacen said her son is in his first of medical school and plans to be a holistic practitioner.
One year — The Caring Clinic
The Caring Clinic, of Boulder, celebrates one year of providing low-cost natural health care for nonprofit staff and volunteers. Douglas Frank and Lyna Norberg, acupuncturists, strive to protect the well-being of those working to make the world a better place. Call 303-449-3114 or 303-447-3030.
Three years — Colorado’s Best Beef Co.
Colorado’s Best Beef Co., of Boulder, marks its third anniversary. The business sells all-natural Charolais beef with no feed antibiotics, no growth hormones or steroids and is dry-aged 14 to 21 days. The company now has specialty items made exclusively from its beef. Contact: www.naturalbeef.com; 303-449-8632.
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Bluegrass band sits in with choir for Boulder…
Bluegrass band sits in with choir for Boulder concerts
RapidGrass band member Alex Johnstone, at center, plays the mandolin during a "Blugrass Mass" rehearsal with the Boulder Chorale on Tuesday at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Boulder. For more photos of the rehearsal go to dailycamera.com
Choir member Justin Burry sings during a "Blugrass Mass" rehearsal with the Boulder Chorale and bluegrass band RapidGrass on Tuesday at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Boulder.
What: “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass,” featuring RapidGrass and the Boulder Chorale
When: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 18; 4 p.m., Sunday, March 19
Where: First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce Street, Boulder
Cost: $5-$20
More info: boulderchorale.org
The sacred space of a church holds a special kind of lure for Mark Morris.
Morris, the lead guitarist and vocalist for the Golden-based bluegrass outfit RapidGrass, isn’t drawn by religious fervor or piety. Instead, it’s the sound quality of a church that serves as the powerful bait; it’s the unique resonance of the holy structures that seems to perfectly fit the bluegrass genre’s call-and-response structures and communal dynamic.
The music thrives in sites designed for spiritual and congregational celebration.
“Churches are the best places to play bluegrass. The acoustics are usually the best,” Morris said. “We’ve played churches in France; I have a little venue in Idaho Springs that’s in an old church. They’re our favorite place to play.”
When the five members of RapidGrass head to Boulder’s First Methodist Church this weekend, they’ll offer audiences a brand of music that’s a more traditional fit for the setting. The “Bluegrass Mass” concerts on March 18 and 19 will feature a collaboration between the folk ensemble and the Boulder Chorale. The Chorale’s 110 singers will take the stage with RapidGrass to perform composer Carol Barnett’s “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass,” a piece that fuses the ceremony of classical choral music with the down-home earnestness of bluegrass.
The fusion of formal choral music and improvisation-based folk music may seem like a stretch for casual listeners of either genres. But according to members of both the Boulder Chorale and RapidGrass, the marriage of the styles isn’t such a dramatic intersection. Both forms of music have roots in the sacred traditions of the church; both rely on a combination of technical complexity and sheer emotional power for their effect.
“We like to play music that’s technically daunting, but still very easy to listen to,” said Morris, who’s toured the world with RapidGrass and the acoustic outfit the Hickory Project. “We want the virtuosic elements of technique to come through, but in a song that more people can relate to.”
Accessibility is also a goal of the Bolder Chorale. The ensemble’s season features plenty in the way of traditional choral music, titles from the likes of Beethoven and Bach that any fan of old-world classical will recognize. But the organization has also worked to add titles to its lineup that incorporate other musical traditions. In 2016, the Chorale tackled a mass by jazz legend Dave Brubeck and performed a program of tangos and marimbas.
The driver behind that musical diversity is a desire to attract a broad audience and turn more listeners on to the appeal of carefully organized vocal music.
“I’m convinced that if we can get any kind of music into the right kind of classical concert, then the audience will enjoy it,” said Ethan Hecht, executive director of the Boulder Chorale. Hecht added that the upcoming collaboration has the potential to open the classical repertoire to a whole new audience. “If we get bluegrass fans in the door for this show, maybe they’ll be more likely to come next time we do Beethoven or Brahms.”
The program will offer plenty of common ground for bluegrass purists. In addition to the performance of “Bluegrass Mass,” the show will feature a solo set by RapidGrass.
“We’re going to do a whole set of our music,” Morris said, adding that the show will come a few months before the release of RapidGrass’ new album. “I think the contrast between the choir music and our original music will definitely stand out and maybe draw some fans from audience members who haven’t heard of us before.”
The show will also feature performances of folk staples “Wayfaring Stranger” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” by the Chorale. What’s more, singer, songwriter, guitarist and Colorado Bluegrass Society Board Member Kevin Slick will deliver a lecture highlighting the roots of both genres and exploring the ties between the sacred choral music of the church and the community anthems that are the roots of bluegrass.
All of this music will put the featured composition in context. According to Vicki Burrichter, artistic director of the Boulder Chorale, Barnett’s piece revels in the deepest traditions of both forms of music, while emphasizing their common ties.
“You cannot sing in a chorus without wishing to share in the beauty and ideas of some of the greatest minds who have ever lived, and without wanting to harmonize — literally and figuratively — with your neighbor,” Burrichter said in a statement. “‘The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass’ combines this idea of a theology and a community based in equality and care for all with a glorious celebration of one of America’s great indigenous art forms.”
Community is at the heart of bluegrass, in its spirit and in its structure. As string players swap solos and licks, they’re taking part in a conversation, one that encourages listeners to add their own two cents through dance moves and hoots and hollers. It’s a celebratory music, one that thrives in a note of joy that’s sure to hold an appeal for the singers in the Boulder Chorale.
“Our choir, for the most part, aren’t professional musicians,” Hecht said. “This is something they do because they get some joy and meaning out of it for their lives. We can go out and give a concert and have a good time. It doesn’t have to be serious classical stuff all the time.”
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LeBron James knows Cavs can’t get cavalier
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The Cavaliers’ LeBron James, right, looks to make a move around the Raptors’ Pascal Siakam during the first half of their playoff game at Quicken Loans Arena on Saturday in Cleveland, Ohio.
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — A devout student of the game, LeBron James understands that history says the Cavaliers will likely eliminate the Raptors.
The Toronto test isn’t over.
“We still got some work to do,” he said.
By winning Games 1 and 2 of their Eastern Conference semifinal on the road, James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are in position to eliminate the Raptors for the third straight postseason. The Cavs have won eight straight playoff games over top-seeded Toronto heading into Saturday night’s Game 3.
The Cavs are 15-0 in the playoffs when they’ve opened a 2-0 lead. James, a three-time champion, has an even more impressive mark — 21-0 when winning the first two games.
But while the past points to Cleveland eventually moving into the conference finals against Boston or Philadelphia, James knows better than to rush things.
“There’s no fast-tracking the process where you say, ‘OK, let’s try to end this thing so we can get some rest,'” he said following the team’s morning shootaround. “You do that and you get a lot of rest. You do that and you can be home and end up losing 4-2. So, that ain’t it. No, you don’t do that. You don’t cheat the game gods. I’ve never been a part of that.”
James is coming off a 43-point performance in Game 2, when he demoralized the Raptors with fadeaway jumpers that were virtually indefensible. He’s having perhaps his finest playoff run, averaging 34.4 points, 9.9 rebounds and 9.0 assists in 41.8 minutes.
Pushed to seven games in the opening round by the Indiana Pacers, the Cavs entered their series with Toronto as underdogs. But once again, they’re controlling the Raptors who know beating James four times in five games will take everything they have.
“It’s 0-2 period,” Toronto forward C.J. Miles said. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m not me disrespecting the guy. You don’t want to be down 0-2 to anybody. It’s unfortunate; especially looking at the fact we had 59 wins and were one of the best home teams in the league. You don’t see that coming from us on our home floor, which is why it’s disappointing, especially the second game, not being able to do what we wanted to do.
“We are where we are now.”
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10 things Buhari said at Advisory Committee on Implementation of new Minimum Wage
By . | Published Date Jan 9, 2019 12:31 PM
President Muhamamdu Buhari on Wednesday inaugurated a Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage and reiterated his commitment to its payment.
Inaugurating the committee shortly before the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, Buhari restated his committment to an upward review of the minimum wage “as it is time to do so’’.
Here are ten things he said at the event:
1.The last time Nigeria’s national minimum wage was reviewed was in 2011. It is therefore evident that a review is necessary, despite the prevailing fiscal challenges. This is why I constituted the Tripartite Committee of Government, Organized Private Sector and Labour to consider the National Minimum Wage and make recommendations to Government for its upward review.
2. That Committee has since submitted its report with some recommendations. We are currently working on the final steps that will lead to the submission of a National Minimum Wage Amendment Bill to the National Assembly.
3. I want to make it clear that there is no question about whether the National Minimum Wage will be reviewed upwards. I am committed to a review of the Minimum Wage.
4. Also, it is important to explain that even though the subject of a National Minimum Wage is in the Exclusive Legislative List, we have been meeting with the State Governors because it is imperative that the Federal Government carries the State Governments along in determining any upward review of the minimum wage for workers.
5. This is especially necessary considering the prevailing public sector revenue challenges, which have made it extremely difficult for some of the governments to pay workers as and when due.
6. As you know we, at the Federal level, have made adequate provision for the increase in the Minimum Wage in our 2019 Budget proposals which we submitted to the National Assembly. Therefore, we will be able to meet the additional costs that will be incurred in moving up all personnel who are currently earning below the new minimum wage.
7. However, we anticipate that after the new minimum wage has been passed into law we will be going into negotiations for salary review for all the workers who are already earning above the new minimum wage. It is therefore important that we are properly prepared to meet these demands.
8. We must therefore look at ways of implementing these consequential wage adjustments in a manner that does not have adverse effects on our national development plans, as laid out in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). The ERGP sets appropriate targets for levels of Capital Expenditure, Public Debt, Inflation, Employment, etc. It is absolutely important that the implementation of a new minimum wage does not adversely affect these targets, and thereby erode the envisaged gains for the workers.
9. It is against this background that I have set up a Technical Committee to advise Government on how best to fund, in a sustained manner, the additional costs that will arise from the implementation of the consequential increases in salaries and allowances for workers currently earning above the new minimum wage.
10. The Technical Committee being inaugurated today will be chaired by an Economist and Financial Expert, Mr. Bismarck Rewane. Other members of the Committee are experienced economists and administrators from the private sector working together with all the relevant officials in the Government.
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‘Lack of platform, awareness responsible for low pro-bono culture’
By Clement A. Oloyede @Lord_Clem | Published Date Jan 8, 2019 5:20 AM
Barrister Mutiu Akinsanya
Barrister Mutiu Akinsanya is the coordinator of “Building the Culture of Pro-bono in Nigeria”, a collaborative effort between Justice Research Institute (JRI), Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). In this interview, he identified lack of platform and awareness as major factors responsible for low pro-bono services by Nigerian lawyers. Excerpts:
What motivated ‘Building the Culture of Pro-bono in Nigeria’ project?
It is a project aimed at providing free legal services to indigents and the disadvantaged in the society. We have a clearing house where we implement the project by getting lawyers to sign up and identify beneficiaries and then merge them with lawyers who then take up the cases free of any cost.
Unlike other climes in the world, it has been discovered that in Nigeria, pro-bono is not what it ought to be and this is despite the fact that we have the Legal Aid Council. This agency has its only challenges, including lack of adequate manpower. What this means is that NGOs also need to come together.
The NBA needs to do what it can to provide these services. So, identifying that this is a problem that needs a solution was the reason JRI came up with the idea and got other stakeholders to also key in to provide a platform to provide these services for the society.
What is responsible for low culture of pro-bono among lawyers?
A lot of lawyers do not know that there is a lot to be benefited apart from being paid for legal services. Apart from the fact that it is a requirement to becoming a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), it also gives fulfillment when you are giving back to the society. Also, the people benefiting from the services today may become great people tomorrow and may become sources of referrals of big clients to law firms and lawyers. So, the free services lawyers give out today may still come back to them in future with huge benefits.
For young lawyers, some of them may not be given the opportunities of taking full part in cases that come to their law firms, but if pro-bono cases come, they can participate fully in drafting of the processes, court appearances and these will help them in building their experience such that when they are faced with bigger cases, they will have the requisite experience to tackle whatever challenge that comes with such cases.
With all these benefits, what then is responsible for this low culture?
Partly, lack of awareness is a factor. But, again, there are a lot of people that are aware but probably for some of them the platform is also not there. With the platform that we have now, we have ways of getting the beneficiaries to show proof that they cannot afford services. So, it is after all the evaluation that we will now link them with a lawyer.
What is the procedure for lawyers and beneficiaries to be part of the project?
We have a portal and lawyers can sign up on www.probono.ng. We are working with several government agencies; we have written to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). When we get these would-be-beneficiaries, we have to sign them up on the portal and then we merge them with lawyers. We expect the lawyers to take up the cases. We monitor the progress of those cases.
We are also aware of the challenges of the justice system in Nigeria which include delay, so we are working with various heads of courts. We are hoping they will give us waivers for filing fees and make cases coming from the pro-bono house to be fast tracked. If an indigent goes to court and the matter is done within few months that joy of getting justice will be there because justice delayed is justice denied.
What are the focus areas of this project?
The clearing house is working to expand its reach and impact in bringing justice to our vulnerable. Currently, we will be providing pro bono legal services in certain focus areas. They are: Domestic violence, child abuse, land displacement (in Kaduna), Sexual harassment and assault, disinheritance of widows and orphans, disinheritance by reason of gender, Unfair dismissal (employment matters with sexual harassment or discrimination undertones, Commercial Cases (involving oppression of indigent persons such as petty traders on matters such as unlawful taxation) and rape.
How many lawyers do you have on the project now?
Presently in Abuja we have about 30 lawyers and we are sure more will sign up. In Sokoto State, we have about 20 lawyers and handling over 50 cases at the moment. In Kaduna, we started last month and we have gotten about five lawyers on the project. We are just starting in Kebbi and Osun states. And in this month, we will be working with the local branches of the NBA in all these states.
Lawyers in Nigeria should embrace the project because even though there is no money in it, in the long run, they will benefit from it.
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#NotTooYoungToRun and the rest of us
By Ibrahim Kabiru Dallah | Published Date Mar 29, 2018 4:00 AM
One of the concept of the “#NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN” Project is to encourage young people in Nigeria to take over the various political leadership roles in the country through a robust and effective electoral processes and stop complaining about accidental leaders.
There is no doubt our current democratic processes are expensive for young Nigerians to participate but then they should not be discouraged to seek for political leadership through a democratic process.
However, it was also discovered that some of these young Nigerians sell their chances either through monetary inducement or political bargain even if they are imminently qualified and eligible. This act should be discouraged and stopped especially during electioneering.
In recent time, we have had few young leaders that have failed in one way or the other in their cause of steering state affairs in political positions; it should not be a yardstick for measuring leadership acumen of the young people in Nigeria.
For the purpose of this piece and to encourage some of the young people in Nigeria that are currently making us proud in either the political or business arena, I want to center this piece on prominent young Nigerians across the 36 states of Nigeria that are doing very well and to appeal to them to seek for leadership and elective positions in order to add value to humanity.
As young Nigerian, I have traversed through the length and breadth of this country. The aim of these trips are to actualize the concept of our project, “#NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN “ it also afforded me the opportunity to identify some young Nigerians who are doing well in their private lives and have capacity to change the face of our political system.
In continuation of these trips, we visited Katsina State, because of its peculiarities, this is a state that had produced three Nigerian leaders and one vice president, while Late Umaru Yar adua was elected as a civilian president, General Buhari was both Military Head of state and currently a civilian president. General Shehu Yar’adua was Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, equivalent to civilian Vice president. It may interest us to know General Shehu Yar’adua attained that position at the age of 36. Katsina has also produced a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, 2 Presidents of Court of Appeal, 2 Directors General of National Intelligence Agency, 2 Directors General of SSS and Inspector General of Police, all these people occupied the positions during their younger years. These feats spurred us to visit the state if the younger ones are inspired or encouraged to run for political office. I must first and foremost commend the visionary leader, Governor of Katsina State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari for not only mentoring young people in his state but for providing them with an enabling environment and political platform to showcase their talents and what they can do for the people of Katsina State, apart from Kogi State, Katsina is the only state that has given over 10 young people an opportunity to serve in the current administration namely Abubakar Sada Ilu as Commissioner of Land and Survey, Mustapha Kanti Bello as Commissioner Solid Minerals, Ibrahim Zakari as the Special Adviser on International Relations and Investments and host of others. For that singular honour, Governor Masari need to be commended not condemned for always having young people at heart.
Honestly, God has blessed Katsina with many young men but there is one young man called Ibrahim Zakari that cannot be ignored, for the first time I heard his name last December when I visited Katsina State, I understand and confirmed his appointment is honorary which means He enjoys no Financial reward of whatsoever like salary, car, house, Office running cost from the state Government. He is currently the Honorary Special Adviser (SA) to the Government of the Katsina State on international relations and investments. As we are all aware, people go into politics to make money in Nigeria but for this young Ibrahim is an exception. He has used his contacts and attracted a lot of investments to Katsina state.
Ibrahim Kabiru Dallah is Leader of the Nigerian Youth Parliament, Abuja.
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Eustace Mullins: Occultist and Disinfo Agent of the Far-Right
Submitted by David Livingstone on Tue, 01/19/2016 - 17:58
Among the modern-day classics of conspiracy literature is Eustace Mullins’ Secrets of the Federal Reserve, which continues to define perceptions of the nature and purpose of the cabal that is currently suspected of secretly manipulating the world. However, as revealed in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, conspiracy culture is often deliberately manipulated in order to call out and neutralize potential dissidents.
As closer look at the career of Mullins reveals a typical example of the nefarious networks involved in nurturing feats of a “Jewish conspiracy” on behalf of American intelligence and the Zionists. After World War II, the CIA recruited leading Nazis and neo-Nazis, who went on for form a Fascist International, which served the organization in their fight against “communism.” Like their predecessors, this fascist network continued to cultivate the feat or a “Jewish” conspiracy as a sly method on the part of Zionists to continue to justify continued support for the state of Israel, and to cultivate sentiments favorable to World Bank and IMF policies of neoliberalism, falsely known in the conspiracy community as “Libertarianism.”
Mullins was mentored in his research on the Federal Reserve by Ezra Pound. As demonstrated in Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Pound was not only a notorious fascist, but also one of the key occult figures of the twentieth century, with deep ties to the CIA. A close friend of Golden Dawn member Yeats, Pound was an expatriate American and a major figure of the early modernist movement, and helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway.
Pound was also a close friend of James Jesus Angleton, a Knight of Malta and key member of the Georgetown Set who created the CIA. Angleton, the long-time chief of Counterintelligence, was the head of the CIA’s Vatican Desk as well as the Israel Desk. Angleton was responsible for liaison with Israel’s Mossad and Shin Bet agencies, crucial relationships that he managed for the remainder of his career. Angleton also become responsible for the Lovestone Empire, the network run for the CIA by Jay Lovestone. A former head of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), later a trade union leader, Lovestone worked with foreign unions using covert funds to construct a worldwide system of anti-communist unions. According to CIA agent and later Watergate burglar Howard Hunt, “the Communist Party of the United States, in fact, at the moment, was practically a branch of the Justice Department.”[1]
During World War II, the Italian government paid Pound to produce radio broadcasts criticizing the US and in particular the Jews. As a result, Pound was arrested for treason by American forces in Italy in 1945 and interned at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C, where he became a patient of MK-Ultra psychiatrist Dr. Winfred Overholser. As Colin Ross explained in The CIA Doctors, it was there that Dr. Winfred Overholser Sr. funded LSD research through the Scottish Rite Committee and was at the center of the mind control network.[2] St. Elizabeth’s is also where presidential assailants, serial killers or other federal cases are kept, such as Ezra Pound and John Hinckley, Jr. who shot Ronald Reagan.
Mullins was himself a fascist and a member of National Renaissance Party (NRP), a key organization of World Union of National Socialists (WUNS). The organization was created in 1962, when veteran US Navy Commander George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party (ANP), met with National Socialist Movement (NSM) chief Colin Jordan, and agreed to work towards developing an international network between movements as an umbrella group for neo-Nazi organizations across the globe.
Following Rockwell's assassination in 1967, NRP member Matt Koehl became head of WUNS as well as the ANP, later known as National Socialist White People’s Party. Koehl was the leader of a self-defined religious organization called the New Order, which describes itself on its website as follows: “We are the Movement of Adolf Hitler. We are His heirs. He has given us a commission, which it is our duty to discharge.”[3] New Order was a successor organization to the original American Nazi Party (ANP), founded by Lincoln Rockwell, which became a self-styled National Socialist religious group which promotes Esoteric Nazism as an alternative faith for “Aryans.”
The NRP, which founded in 1952 by James Madole, became a concern to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, who regarded both fascism and communism as “of grave concern to the committee.” Their report, Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups continues, “both seek to destroy our constitutional government and supplant it with a godless dictatorship in which the individual is deprived of his rights and liberties to become an abject slave of the state… Those who would support the extreme right today do as great a violence to our national institutions as do those on the extreme left.”[4] The report concludes that these organizations exploited racial and religious hatreds to gain financial support, and that many of them were led by “racketeers” mainly concerned with gaining financial reward by their activities.
The NRP publication, the Bulletin, referred to Hitler as the “George Washington of Europe” and promised: “What Hitler accomplished in Europe, the National Renaissance Party shall accomplish in America.” Its nine-point program advocated abolition of parliamentary government in the US in favor of government by a “trained elite” establishment of a fascist corporatism, encouragement of racial pride, preservation of the “white Aryan” race by gradual deportation of racial minorities, and denying Jews American citizenship, professional and political posts and the right of intermarriage. John M. Lundoff, Brooklyn chairman of the NRP, in the April 1952 Bulletin asked the youth of America to choose between “parliamentary democracy with its empty promises and discord or the clear, brave, and youthful Fascist principles outlined here.”[5] Similarly, in a leaflet entitled, “Asiatic Barbarism Versus Western Civilization,” Madole proclaimed:
Only the superbly efficient totalitarian economic systems of Fascists, National Socialist, and Communist regimes are adaptible [sic] to the strain of TOTAL WAR as practiced in the 20th century… The spirit of democracy is a glorification of weakness and cowardly conduct. It glorifies the coward instead of the fighter, it raises feeble weaklings to leadership rather than a trained, iron-hard, and youthful elite…
Madole's NRP was frequently in the headlines during the 1960s and 1970s for its involvement in violent protests and riots in New York City. Although he never attracted more than a small group of followers, Madole, according to Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, established himself as the father of postwar occult fascism. Madole's ideas on race were developed from Blavatsky whom he quoted to the effect that the Jewish Kabbalah derived from Aryan sources in Central Asia.[6]
Madole’s slogan for the NRP was taken from Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “no happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.”[7] Alongside books on Theosophy, the NRP literature list included Gerald Gardner’s The Meaning of Witchcraft, Lewis Spence’s The History and Origins of Druidism, Paul Carus’ History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil and a number of books on runes.[8] According to Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Madole “wanted to translate mankind and the world into the authoritarian utopia of a revived Vedic hierarchy, employing violent and draconian means if necessary. The sectarian religion of Theosophy, borrowings from Hinduism, paganism and Satanism, and mystical biological and eugenic ideas all served to explain and justify his militant attack on the democratic and liberal institutions of the modern world.”[9]
There were also close relations between the NRP and the Church of Satan, of Anton Lavey. Madole and LaVey met frequently, and Madole is said to have erected a large satanic altar in his apartment, which included an image of Baphomet, and Madole played LaVey’s recording of the Satanic Mass at several NRP meetings. One NRP bulletin shows a picture of Madole and an SE trooper with the high priest of the Temple of Baal. But the Church of Satan was soon undermined by schismatics who started rival cults. Douglas Robbins, another ex-leader from the Church of Satan, cultivated close links with the fascist NRP of James Madole, and formed the satanic Order of the Black Ram with some other NRP members “to celebrate the ancient religious rites of the Aryan race.”[10]
Mullins founded the Free Ezra Pound Committee (FEPC) of which Matt Koehl was chairman. Researcher Ernie Lazar published a scathing report of Mullins’ dubious past and neo-Nazi affiliations based on several FBI reports, showing that Mullins altered FBI documents which he reproduced in his book, excising portions which referred to his homosexuality, his anti-Semitism and his connections to neo-Nazis and racial extremists. The HCUA reported that Mullins “eulogizes” Hitler in the anti-Semitism NPR’s Bulletin and wrote an article titled “Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation,” in 1952. In his self-published virulently anti-Jewish book The Biological Jew, Mullins compares Jews with biological parasites.[11]
Mullins was a roommate on several occasions in New York City and Chicago with Matt Koehl, with whom he had a homosexual affair. Eustace Mullins, Matt Koehl and Edward Fleckenstein were arrested near Middletown, New York circa 1955 in connection with their sodomizing of a hitch-hiking teenage boy in the back seat of a car in which they all were travelling. This probably accounts for why Mullins is described in FBI memos as follows: “Mullins is a warped, degenerate and depraved individual.”[12]
Koehl was also the Youth Section Leader of the American Committee for the Advancement of Western Culture (ACFAWC), founded by H. Keith Thompson, and of which Mullins served as “Treasurer.” Thompson served as a communications officer aboard the USS Mt. Olympus, the flagship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of December 1946 to April 1947. Byrd led 4,000 military troops from the US, Britain and Australia, known as Operation Highjump, to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. However, according to popular legend, the Byrd expedition was an “invasion” and encountered heavy resistance from Nazi “flying saucers” and had to call off the invasion.
Thompson resigned from the US Navy in order to accept commission as a Second Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps. However, in February 1949, he faced a General Court Martial on charges of “scandalous conduct tending to destruction of good morals (sex deviate) and Maltreatment of Person Subject to His Orders.”[13]
Thompson hoped that the ACFAWC would become a coordinating group for white racial and nationalist activities of groups around the world. James Madole and other officers and members of the NRP also were represented on the ACFAWC, which had the role of serving as “a high policy planning group for the coordination of racial nationalist activities in America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.” Among others associated with ACFAWC were Benjamin H. Freedman, a convert from Judaism to Roman Catholicism who became anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist activist. Freedman was well known to the ADL and the American Jewish Committee as an active supporter of the Arab cause in the Middle East.
Freedman was a financial backer of the author Conde McGinley, publisher of the periodical Common Sense, to which Mullins was a frequent contributor. In 1954, Rabbi Joachim Prinz (1902-1988) was awarded $30,000 in a libel suit against McGinley for having called him a “red rabbi.” The HCUA described Common Sense as "almost exclusively a vehicle for the exploitation of ignorance, prejudice and fear" and as “a clearinghouse for hate propaganda throughout the country." A typical 1962 article in Common Sense was an “expose” entitled: “Zionist Invisible Government Plotting To Establish a World Government Under A Red Dictatorship Led By Asiatic Marxist Jews.”[14]
Around the end of his life, Mullins began writing for Willis Carto’s magazine Barnes Review. Carto a longtime figure on the American far-right was an influential political racial theorists through the Liberty Lobby and successor organizations which he helped create. The Liberty Lobby, which was active in the 1950s, is regarded as the source of an insurgent wing of the Patriot Movement through its promotion of themes of White supremacy and anti-Semitism. While in prison for possessing falsified passports, Francis Parker Yockey was visited by Carto who eventually became the chief advocate and publisher of his ideas.
Yockey was active with many far-right causes around the world and remains one of the seminal influences in many extremist right movements. By fusing anti-Semitism with anti-Americanism, Yockey identified the United States rather than Russia as Europe’s main enemy. Unlike most European and American neo-Fascists who advocated an alliance with the United States against Communism, Yockey spent the rest of his life attempting to forge an alliance between the worldwide forces of Communism and the international network of the extreme Right.
Yockey believed that true Rightists should aid the spread of Communism and Third World anti-colonial movements wherever possible, with an aim toward weakening or overthrowing the United States. Yockey spent part of 1953 meeting Gamal Nasser in Cairo, and maintaining links with the CIA’s leading Nazi, Otto Skorzeny, Hitler’s former star commando.[15] Yockey worked briefly for the Egyptian Information Ministry, writing anti-Zionist propaganda, seeing Arab nationalism as another ally to challenge "the Jewish-American power.”
Yockey was continuously pursued by the FBI for over a decade and was finally arrested in 1960, when authorities discovered falsified passports and birth certificates in his suitcase. Betraying his interest in the occult, papers found at the time of his arrest included his own essays on the principle of polarity in the psyche, a book on palmistry and politics, and a bibliography of books on the “second body,” on reincarnation and on cosmic rays.[16]
Carto also belonged at one time to the John Birch Society.[17] In Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, sociologist Sara Diamond noted that to reduce the cost of producing and distributing anti-Communist materials, corporations turned to non-profit organizations such as the JBS.[18] According to Eustace Mullins, who claims that he was told personally by one of its founders Revilo Oliver, whom he regarded as a “good friend,” that the JBS was created by Nelson Rockefeller who appointed Robert C. Welch, a 32nd degree Mason, to found and run the organization.[19]
When Revilo Oliver left the JBS, he became editorial advisor for Carto’s Institute for Historical Review. Carto ran a group called Youth for George Wallace to aid the third party presidential campaign of George Wallace in 1968. Wallace’s anti-desegregation campaign galvanized much of the American far-right and white supremacist groups. A memo in the FBI file of Eustace Mullins discusses an article he wrote which was published in Conde McGinley’s Common Sense, that developed the theme “that the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in schools is the culmination of a Communist International directive to the CPUSA to use the Negro racial issue and the issue of civil rights as a method to weaken America.” Mullins lied, claiming the document: “is in the files of the FBI today but the Director is under strict orders not to reveal (it) at any cost because it would brand the Supreme Court as a front or agent of the Communist International.”[20] No such document was ever found.
When the campaign failed, he converted what remained of the organization into the National Youth Alliance. As National Chairman for this group, Carto was successful in recruiting Dr. William Pierce, who after Rockwell’s death, reorganized it into the American neo-Nazi group, the National Alliance in 1974, of which Pierce became the leader.
In 1987, Mullins wrote a strange work called The Curse of Canaan, which regurgitates ideas expressed by Christian Identity minister William Potter Gale. Gale, a former senior officer on General Douglas MacArthur’s staff, warned the world that a satanic Jewish conspiracy disguised as communism was corrupting public officials and the courts, undermining the United States and wrecking its divinely inspired Constitution. Jews, explained Gale, were offspring of the devil, while non-whites were “mud people” and whites were the real Hebrews of the Bible. “Arise and fight!” Gale preached in an infamous sermon broadcast to Kansas farmers in 1982. “If a Jew comes near you, run a sword through him,” he summoned them. But, it turns out that Gale was descended on his father’s side from a long line of devout Jews, as explained Daniel Levitas.[21]
Mullins followed the course of history as a battle between the descendants of Shem against the descendants of Canaan. The descendants of Canaan are polluted through interbreeding with a “pre-Adamite” population, who are black-skinned, and with demons from the time of the Sons of God of Genesis. Throughout history they represented parasitical merchants, beginning with the Phoenicians and to the Black Nobility of our time. The descendants of Shem, or Semites, he believes, should not be confused with the Jews, who are impostors descended from Edomite Khazars. The descendants of Shem are the builders of civilization, and ancestors of the Irish. Thus, explains Mullins, “the history of mankind for the past three thousand years has been the history of struggle between the fair-skinned descendants of Shem and the darker-skinned descendants of his brother, Ham, yet you will not find this struggle defined in any historical work.”
[1] Saunders. Who Paid the Piper, p. 191.
[2] Colin A. Ross, The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists (Manitou Communications, 2006)
[3] [http://www.theneworder.org/what_is.htm]
[4] “Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups,” House Committee on Un-American Activities Report [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.archive.org/download/Preli...
[6] Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935, (Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press, 1985), 2004. p. 81.
[9] Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun, p. 83.
[10] Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890–1935, p. 83.
[11] (Faith and Service Books, Staunton, VA, 1968).
[12] FBI HQ file 105-15727, #42; 6/2/59 memo from A. Rosen to J. Edgar Hoover
[13] Ernie Lazar, Eustace Mullins and the Conspiratorial Extreme Right. [https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/mullins]
[14] “Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups.”
[15] Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun, p. 77.
[17] “Willis Carto,” Extremism in America. ADL [http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/carto.asp]
[18] Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States (Guilford Press, 1995), p. 52.
[19] Eustace Mullins, Murder by Injection.
[21] Daniel Levitas. “What is behind the rare-but-recurring phenomenon of Jewish anti-Semites?” Intelligence Report, Winter 2002, Issue Number: 108
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By far the most ridiculous
Permalink Submitted by Taylor Lei (not verified) on Mon, 01/25/2016 - 23:29
By far the most ridiculous article that I have ever read.
Praise for the best researcher and truth teller, Mr. Mullins
Permalink Submitted by Brigitt Hraves (not verified) on Tue, 10/04/2016 - 01:07
what a bunch of crap! First of all Robert Frost was NOT a protege of Mr Ezra Pound, it was James Joyce. Mr Pound was not only an incredible poet but also a courageous patriot who was silenced by being thrown into St Elizabeths Insane Asylum for warning Americans not to get into the war, secondly, Eustace Mullins exposed the corrupt government and the Zionist Jews, please stop lying and tell the people the truth, anytime you guys are exposed you wanna cry the same old worn out name "anti Semetic" shut your deceiving mouth and don't you ever put your dirty mouths on Pound or Mullins, they are the true heroes!
Cry "Anti-semitic"???
Permalink Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 10/12/2016 - 17:03
Permalink Submitted by Jon (not verified) on Tue, 11/13/2018 - 14:32
Yea, this article and author are a joke. Mullins can not be "debunked" truth does not lie.
Taylor Lei ,then you know
Permalink Submitted by tommy roberts (not verified) on Mon, 05/27/2019 - 23:29
Taylor Lei ,then you know nothing.
Permalink Submitted by A commenter (not verified) on Thu, 01/28/2016 - 12:58
I've read Dying God and most of T & I at this point. My question is if all of high level society has been controlled by the "Might Makes Right" crowd for an extended period of time, and you more or less seem to say that Satanists have ruled Europe in its entirety for 1500 years or close to it via the bloodlines, how is that any notion of good still exists? If the evil ones have had the means for such a period of time and not acted with greater force to eliminate the good, what's restraining "the conspiracy" from acting?
possible answer to your question
Permalink Submitted by volkan yilmaz (not verified) on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 19:56
thats a very good question. My oncle always says: The evil people still dont understand that their issue is in vain. they repeat their mistakes continously, which is the prove that God has plans also. And God is the best of planners. I hope this answers to your good question bro.
Eustace Mullins
Permalink Submitted by H.C. Elenbaas (not verified) on Mon, 02/08/2016 - 04:21
You make a complete fool of yourself while believing the propaganda of ADL-agents like Ernie Lazar (family member of Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia for Chabad Lubavitch?). Do you seriously believe that if the FBI had a sodomy case against Eustace Mullins, that they would have dropped it that easily? If you really consider that to be truthful, think again and read Mullins' A Writ for Martyrs, or The Rape of Justice, to get an idea of what happened in Mullins' life after he dared publishing his (and Ezra Pound's) Federal Reserve book in 1952.
You love to make a "fascist" of Eustace Mullins, but you forget to mention that since the 1980s he warned his audiences that the Rothschilds (the leading power within the ruling Sabbatean-Frankist "Jewish" elite) not only created Monopoly Capitalism, Zionism and Communism, but also National Socialism (Nazism) and Fascism.
Try to learn from Eustace Mullins instead of trying to make a criminal caricature out of him, which only shows that you don't know where you're talking about. Maybe start your debrainwash with this 17 p. interview with Eustace Mullins in The Spectrum, Volume 4, Number 3, of September 2002, http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spectrum/volume4/S0403.pdf
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Permalink Submitted by ErnieL (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 08:49
1. I have no connection of any kind to ADL and I have never heard of Berel Lazar. So that is your first fabrication.
2. The FBI did not have "a sodomy case" against Eustace Mullins because sodomy was NOT even a federal crime falling under the jurisdiction of the FBI. So that is your second absurdity and only reveals your profound ignorance.
3. Mullin's autobiographical memoir (A Writ For Martyrs) is largely fictional.
4. With respect to the sexuality of Mullins, there is considerable factual evidence which clearly establishes that he was gay. You obviously have no respect for facts and I'm sure you have never done one second of independent historical research,. Instead, you just mindlessly accept whatever Mullins wrote about himself -- which eliminates anything you have to say from serious consideration.
Now-- let's return briefly to the question of Mullin's sexuality. Below I summarize just SOME of the available evidence.
According to Mullin's service records archived at National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Mullins was hospitalized twice while he served in the US Army Air Corps (September 11-17, 1943 and again from December 14, 1944 thru February 29, 1945). The US Army psychiatrists who examined Mullins made a diagnosis of “constitution psychopathic state, inadequate personality, EPTI” [EPTI = existing prior to induction] and they stated that "Mullins also exhibited both psychopathic and neurotic trends, both due to the same dynamic latent homosexuality..." [See HQ 105-15727, serial #111 = section 4, pages 145-146 which is 1/28/59 summary memo from SAC St. Louis to SAC Chicago.]
John Kasper to Ezra Pound, 7/30/1952, page 5 [Kasper letters are in the Ezra Pound collection at Beinecke Library at Yale University.]
"Finally, I have always stood by Mullins for his many virtues. I have never condemned him as have others for being a notorious homosexual. I have seldom complained about anything he has done to me personally as I can understand (usually) some reason why he might do such a thing. However I was angry about the stupid remarks he made to Lyle Stuart editor of Expose in connection with yourself and Il Duce. They were stupid as stupid can be, ignorant, vulgar, and a hurt (I think) to yourself and himself." ...
I assume you know the definition of the word "notorious" ??
Upon returning to New York from a trip to his hometown in Merchantville NJ, Kasper wrote to Ezra Pound that when Kasper arrived back at his apartment, he found that “Mull has moved a 17yo nazi in while I was gone” and “there ain’t room in here for 3, let alone 2…I had to move the Storm Trooper out.”
John Kasper wrote to Ezra Pound circa March 1954 that “Mull’s around. We are very cordial but he’s becoming impossibly decadent with the 2, 5, and 7 fifteen-year-old boys he keeps around him.”
In December 1955 letters to Gerald L.K. Smith, Mullins wrote that Elizabeth Dilling was the source for allegations circulating within the “patriot movement” that Mullins was “a notorious ex-convict convicted of many sex crimes against children.” [12/15/55 Mullins letter to GLKS.]
William B. Wernecke interviewed 02/10/59 by FBI re: Mullins “whom he described as a homosexual…” [HQ 105-15727, #95, page 14.] Incidentally, Mullins lived on Wernecke's farm for some period of time.
With respect to Mullins, Wernecke told FBI that Mullins resided at 2239 N. Lincoln Ave – Chicago with Matt Koehl. “Mullins is a very intelligent individual but is inclined to be a 'sissy'.” Wernecke described Mullins as “a homosexual and as a quasi-blackmailer. As an example, Wernecke cited that Mullins several years ago learned that a married man (name unknown) was guilty of extra-marital relations. In order to obtain free board and room, Mullins moved into this man’s home and threatened to expose his extra-marital relations to his wife if he were not allowed to stay there.”
According to Wernecke, "Mullins formerly assisted Admiral Crommelin in his unsuccessful campaign for Governor. Crommelin expelled Mullins from his campaign force because of Mullins’ homosexual tendencies.” [Chicago 65-582, #188, 2/27/59 Chicago Special Agent report, page 4.]
Fred Weiss “instructed Mana Truhill to gather all possible information regarding homosexuality among leaders in nationalist field such as Eustace Mullins, Edward Fleckenstein, Ray Foster and Keith Thompson…” [HQ 105-15727, #95, page 8, which is 7/26/62 Correlation Summary – section 4, page 89; Originally in HQ 105-23413, #9, page 2]
Washington field office informant WF-T1 told FBI that on 2/26/59, he (informant)had conversation with George Lincoln Rockwell. During that conversation, Rockwell “made a remark on 2/26/59 that Eustace Mullins is a homosexual.” [HQ 105-15727, #3 which is 3/20/59 report by WFO Special Agent Richard B. Lavin – in section 3, page 26 which originally appeared in WFO 62-8067.]
G-2, 5th Army HQ in Chicago also received report from one of their informants on 7/10/56 that “…Mullins is a homosexual…” [HQ 105-15727, #unrecorded, page 3; SAC Chicago to J. Edgar Hoover; section 2, page 14; Original report in Chicago 105-1152]
Another Chicago informant told FBI in July 1956 that “Eustace Mullins left New York City during July 1956 to be near Matthias Koehl. Koehl and Mullins previously resided together in New York City and both were believed to be homosexuals.” [HQ 105-15727, #23, page 6 which is 1/19/59 report by Chicago Special Agent re info provided by informant CG-T3 on 07/17/56.]
When 16-year-old William Suther was interviewed by Sgt. Fred Jackson, Juvenile Officer of Melrose, IL Police Department, Suther told Jackson that Mullins was a homosexual. Sgt. Jackson described Suther as being “effeminate in manner and speech…” Note: George Lincoln Rockwell told FBI that William Suther was Mullins’ “girlfriend”. [HQ 105-15727, #53, which is 6/5/59 SAC WFO to J. Edgar Hoover; section 3, page 106. Suther accompanied Mullins on a trip to New York City in May 1959.]
Fred Weiss interviewed on June 5, 1959 and he advised that Mullins arrived at Weiss’s farm in Middleton NY “several weeks ago on a Friday evening” and “was accompanied by boy about 18 years of age whose name Weiss could not recall.” [SAC NYC teletype to J. Edgar Hoover, HQ 105-15727, #52, = sections 3, page 104; Original is NYC 100-112532, #19, 6/5/59 teletype from SAC NYC to Hoover]
HC Elenbass
Permalink Submitted by Justin Theriault (not verified) on Sat, 02/13/2016 - 07:58
You say David made a complete fool of himself and the you go an dpost links from a webite full of so-called chnnelled information from the "pleiades". Funny.
You focussed on one tiny detail and try to debunk it, but ignore the whole slew of other evidence. How about Mullins' association with Pound, or with the National Rennaissance Party? Mullins laid bare his worldview in his book the Biological Jew. Have you read it? He is not an "anti-semite"?
Whether Mullins is a homosexual or not is besides the point. He was a fascist, as per his associations that David meticulously pointed out. Don't shoot the messenger and you have zero credibility posting informaton from sources that claim aliens are coming to transform humanity based on Channelled information from God knows what. Is that would you call reliable sources? You're funny.
Permalink Submitted by sunaj (not verified) on Thu, 03/24/2016 - 04:23
Eustace Mullins was a phenomenal researcher from what I have read of his works, he was definitely a conservative christian and did not apologize for giving his interpretation of events from a christian perpesctive,yet I have always found his research fascinating, his investigations to be inpeccable and his reseach on the Jews to be some of the best work on the subject, and considering that most of our history comes from the pen of historians who write from their own perspective he is no different,
I do find your remarks about Mullins being homosexual, based on the reports of the FBI, who are nothing more than criminals and gangstalkers when it come to their treatment of dissidents to be absurd, nor do I find your remarks about him being associated with Neo-Nazi groups believable,
your article makes me wonder just who is paying your salary,which I hope to discover after more research,
sunaj
Comment by Sunaj
You could not be more mistaken when you claim that the assertions regarding Mullin's homosexuality are based upon reports of the FBI. The reports in the FBI file about Mulllin's sexuality originate from his military service records which are archived at the National Personnel Records Center in St Louis. In addition, the other reports re: Mullins being a homosexual which appear in FBI files, come from interviews of friends and associates of Mullins who were interviewed by the FBI -- including George Lincoln Rockwell and Ed Fleckenstein and William Wernecke.
However, INDEPENDENT of what appears in FBI files, there is correspondence about Mullins which can be found in the private papers of many white nationalists who were friends and associates of Mullins -- including some of his former roommates. See my previous message in this thread which presents just some of that evidence -- including a letter by John Kasper -- who was a roommate with Mullins in New York City and another acolyte of Ezra Pound.
BY CONTRAST: What research have YOU done to support your claims?
More details are in the newly revised edition of my Mullins report:
https://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/mullins
I usually like your articles,
Permalink Submitted by pau (not verified) on Sat, 03/26/2016 - 11:11
I usually like your articles, but this one couldn't be more biased.
Sacred Cows
Permalink Submitted by David Livingstone on Sat, 03/26/2016 - 11:44
Mullins is a sacred cow of conspiracy culture. You don't need to revere him like a saint in order to take from him the good inforation he has shared. But be careful. This is an other example of the Noble Lie. Just because he is sometimes right, doesn't mean he's always right.
Don't base the validity of information on the personality of the communicator. Learn to trust only in yourself, and guard against the manipulation of information packaged in order to steer you in a certain direction. It's the sugar coating of the poison pill.
To read the details in my
Permalink Submitted by volkan yilmaz (not verified) on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 04:48
To read the details in my daily life, there are two sentences in this article that i can use as glasses for nearsightedness.
Jay Lovestone, a former head of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), later a trade union leader, worked with foreign unions using covert funds to construct a worldwide system of anti-communist unions.
Francis Parker Yockey spent the rest of his life attempting to forge an alliance between the worldwide forces of Communism and the international network of the extreme Right.
Conclusion: In my opinion this article is an eye opener.
Permalink Submitted by Brigitt Graves (not verified) on Fri, 07/15/2016 - 13:37
I love and admire Eustace Mullins, his books expose a wealth of information about the real enemy, Zionist Jews who in their own words (The Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion) will deceive, manipulate, bribe, mind control their way into the NWO, they call themselves parasites so don't get the story twisted, be honest and stop trying to discredit this patriotic truth teller, thank you oh and btw let's tell every truth seeker to listen to Harold Rosenthals interview as well. It's confirmation of exactly what Mr Mullins has written about
Mullins a Pied Piper
The Pied Piper plays a tune that the rats love to hear.
Mullns' associations don't mean that a lot of what he said isn't true. In fact, how else could he lure people to his agenda if a lot of it wasn't true? He may even have been sincere. But despite the quality of some of his information, he was duped into a white supremacist interpreation which originates in the Kabbalah, whether he knew it or not. So one way or the other, he was serving a Zionist agenda.
Stop looking for a hero. Rely on yourself. There is no fault with you to take what is good from Mullins and reject the rest. Don't look for a man to have all the answers. Take information where you can find it, and remember that every man is only human and subject to faults.
Mullins as a Researcher
Mullins' descriptions of his life-long political beliefs and associations are often complete fabrications calculated to present himself and his activities (and those of his closest friends and associates) in a highly favorable manner but his descriptions are indisputably false.
In short, Mullins deliberately lied in order to manipulate his readers into accepting whatever he wanted them to believe.
Consequently, one has to ask the obvious question:
If a person can so blatantly lie about himself and his friends and his life-long beliefs and associations --- then why should we believe that he is capable of performing intellectually honest, accurate, and fair historical research or writing?
Permalink Submitted by Narrat Eikood (not verified) on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 08:13
I read Mullins' Secrets of the Federal Reserve and found it be revealing and instructive. But when I read his book, 'The Curse of Canaan' I was appalled by the downright heresy in the book. As far as I am concerned he was not a conservative Christian but rather a false prophet. How Christians need discernment today to sift truth from error!
Eustace applied for a marriage certificate
If you had done your research you would have known he almost got married and you enjoy calling him a homosexual to try to put him in a bad light but you failed at that too. I feel sorry for you that you spread lies but true Americans know the truth about this incredible Saint, God help you
Comment by Brigitt
1. What is your evidence that Mullins "almost got married" ?? BE SPECIFIC
2. One of Mullin's associates who helped arrange his book-signing tours around the country sent me an email stating
"...ask anyone who knew him and you'll find out" that Mullins "Had a very low opinion of women."
3. Apparently, YOU think acknowledging that Mullins was a homosexual (as his friends did) diminishes him in some materially important way. Perhaps you should investigate your own personal biases and prejudices so that you can eliminate your homophobic attitudes.
Answer to your question
Permalink Submitted by BRIGITT GRAVES (not verified) on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 08:23
I have a copy of the license, you can get one yourself, just go on Ancestry.com
Homophobic is what Im not
The Lord God has called it an abomination, an abomination is a thing that causes disgust or hatred. I don't have to defend myself, but I will defend my Lord, he said is sin, so don't get it confused, I love gays, I love muslims, I love everyone except those who defend perversion and harming children and animals so please do not call me homophobic, nothing could be farther from the truth. If you are gay, your sinning, sinning keeps you separated from God, that's all. God Bless and read the canon! It's good stuff!
Permalink Submitted by fran (not verified) on Wed, 10/12/2016 - 13:23
Thanks! i am very pleased to have found your site and your books. I also feel people are just people and we all should learn to trust ourselves. Apparently your Eustace Mullins article has hit some button to those who need to follow someone elses thought. It is obvious there is much truth in his books but there s some stench to them i think to discredit the thruth he mentions and in my opinion it is not accident and he probably willingly colaborated with that project. Please read this very refreshing article and site http://mileswmathis.com/eust.pdf
What is far right ?
Permalink Submitted by Samir (not verified) on Fri, 07/07/2017 - 10:18
What is far right ? Neoliberls or something else
Permalink Submitted by H.C. Elenbaas (not verified) on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 12:13
Black Muslim "David Livingstone" joined ADL-agent Ernie Lazar (family of Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia for Chabad Lubavitch ?) in Ernie's smear campaign against the late Eustace Mullins, who apparently 7 years after he passed away is still of tremendous danger to the Canaanites... :-)
Was "Livingstone" offended because of what Eustace found out and published in The Curse of Canaan (1987) about the dark skinned lady Naamah, decendant of Cain and his pre-Adamite wife? Naamah was the second wife of Noah, and against God's Will on Noah's Ark she had intercourse with Noahs son Ham. Result: a black son Cush, who became the father of Nimrod. Another son of Naamah and Ham was Canaan, who became patriarch of the Canaanites.
Eustace Mullins in "The Curse of Canaan: A Demonology of History":
"In order to understand why the name of Shem was systematically reviled and concealed
throughout the records of history, we must return to the record of his thoroughly degenerate and
evil nephew, Canaan. Canaan was so wicked that his last will and testament to his children was a
formula for vice. It read, "Love one another (that is, of this tribe only), love robbery, love
lewdness, hate your masters, and do not speak the truth." This remarkable document, the Will of
Canaan, is to be found in only one place in all the world's theological literature, the Babylonian
Talmud, where it is presented thusly, "Five things did Canaan charge his sons: love one another,
love robbery, love lewdness, hate your masters, and do not speak the truth." Pes. 113b.
The Will of Canaan has been the Canaanites prescription for all of their operations during the
ensuing three thousand years. Meanwhile, the people of Shem, knowing nothing of this
document, vainly tried to "convert" the Canaanites, and turn them from their evil ways. If the
descendants of Shem had been warned of the precepts imparted by this document, the history of
the last three thousand years could have been very different. The Will of Canaan today remains
the operating instructions of the Canaanite heirs, who presently control the World Order. At the
same time, it remains unknown to the peoples whom the Canaanites continue to rob, enslave,
and massacre. The Will of Canaan contains the instructions necessary to resist the results of the
Curse of Canaan, which condemn them to slavery. The instructions to "hate your masters," that
is, Shem and Japheth and their descendants, is a command to commit genocide against the
people of Shem. For this reason, all subsequent Canaanite rites are based upon these
exhortations to struggle and commit acts of violence against the people of Shem. It is not only
the basis for all of the revolutions and "liberation movements" since that time, it is also a basic
incitement to commit genocide and to carryon racial wars. Because of the three-thousand-year
historical blackout, the people of Shem have never understood their peril, and they have
frequently been subject to massacre because their essential goodness made it impossible for
them to believe the vileness of the Canaanites. The Will of Canaan has always been concealed
from them because it is the basic program of conspiracy and secret rites which enable the
Canaanites to wreak their hatred upon the descendants of Shem."
Eustace Mullins has foretold
Permalink Submitted by gregY (not verified) on Mon, 05/27/2019 - 23:34
Eustace Mullins has foretold the future , better listen and take appropriate action, we are headed for Big Trouble.Even the Shills that try to denigrate him will suffer just the same except for a very few, and you ain't one of them.
Let him speak for himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEveYNT3uL4
Permalink Submitted by Robin Fredericks (not verified) on Thu, 05/30/2019 - 09:35
This is the type of thing Eustace warned us about.
Israel tells African migrants to leave Jerusalem.
https://youtu.be/qvZlh4XuY8w
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land.
https://youtu.be/dPxv4Aff3IA
The Stream - Black and Jewish in Israel
https://youtu.be/Cl2xJHNkFGk
Empire Files: Israeli Army Vet’s Exposé - “I Was the Terrorist”
https://youtu.be/1Rk1dAIhiVc
HISTORY: Jewish Slavetrade Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Aa3Wu6ocV0
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AS HEARD IN COURT MARCH 9, 2018
PEOPLE V. MESZAROS, GEORGE- Defendant was convicted of a felony violation of Penal Code section 4573(a), Bringing Methamphetamine into the Jail. Defendant was sentenced to 3 years in prison with 1 year in custody and 2 years on mandatory supervision. The case was prosecuted by DDA Harbarger with assistance from Orland Police Department Officers Simpson and Cessna.
PEOPLE V. HILL, CARLOS- Defendant was convicted of two felony violations of Penal Code section 243(d), Battery with Serious Bodily Injury. Defendant was sentenced to 240 days in county jail, 3 years formal probation probation, and Substance Abuse Treatment. The case was prosecuted by DA Stewart with assistance from Glenn County Sheriff's Office Deputy Owens.
PEOPLE V. SUMAHEIT, DAVID- Defendant was previously convicted of a felony violation of Penal Code section 273.5, Corporal Injury on a Spouse, and Penal Code section 30305(a)(1), Felon in Possession of Ammunition and sentenced to prison. Defendant was found in violation of Post Release Community Supervision for the 3rd time and was sentenced to 180 days in county jail. The case was prosecuted by DDA Coffey with assistance from Glenn County Probation Department Officer Van Eck.
PEOPLE V. HENLEY, ELIZABETH- Defendant was convicted of a felony violation of Penal Code section 666.5/10851, Vehicle Theft with a Prior Vehicle Theft. Defendant was sentenced to 3 years formal probation, 240 days in county jail stayed, and Substance Abuse Treatment. The case was prosecuted by DDA Harbarger with assistance from Orland Police Department Officers Simpson and Branson.
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Home Business and Money Billionaire George Soros funded Ferguson riots
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Billionaire George Soros funded Ferguson riots
by James Richard Jan 30, 2015
written by James Richard Jan 30, 2015
SAN ANTONIO, January 29, 2015 – That all too familiar mainstream media reports that the Ferguson protests, which by now have spread all across the nation, are comprised of grassroots Americans who have spontaneously risen up in frustration due to the allegedly racist police and justice system.
It has now become very obvious that this is a complete lie. The community organizers and their sheepish followers that were bussed into Ferguson, incurring costs of travel, lodging, loss of work, from all across the nation were unsurprisingly not self-funded by their own hard-earned savings.
According to the Washington Times‘ Kelly Riddell, the Hungarian-born, radical progressive billionaire George Soros, who is worth approximately 24 billion dollars, has funded the Ferguson protests and riots with at least 33 million dollars since August of 2014.
Riddell reports that Soros paid community organizers of communist inspired groups, like Black Lives Matter, to rile up the black and extreme-left community in order to create as much civil unrest as possible with the ultimate goal of tearing down the heart and soul of America – capitalism and the free market system.
“There’s a solitary man at the financial center of the Ferguson protest movement. No, it’s not victim Michael Brown or Officer Darren Wilson. It’s not even the Rev. Al Sharpton, despite his ubiquitous campaign on TV and the streets. Rather, it’s liberal billionaire George Soros…” – The Washington Times
Emphasizing how much of an effect Soros’ funding had on the protests Riddell writes that, “The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre.”
Soros has a history of funding groups, organizations and movements that he believes may have a chance to rip the fabric of American society into pieces, in the hopes that the anarchy that is produced therefrom would result in the destruction of the free market and the capitalist system in general.
Soros’ funding begins with the Open Society Foundations (OSF) , which he created in 1993. According to its website, OSF has provided grants totaling over 11 billion dollars since its inception, promoting radical activist groups that encourage the abolition of the current form of American governance.
OSF spent most of 33 million dollars on busing groups of community organizers and their followers to Ferguson, as well as providing food and shelter for the out-of-town rioters, to make sure that the protests and riots continued to surge.
One of these groups that has by all accounts become the defacto leader of the movement is called Black Lives Matter (BLM). BLM’s website is rife with anti-American sentiment focused on destroying our current way of life.
For example, this excerpt is from the article titled, “Black State of the Union,” which is prominently displayed on the BLM homepage:
“This corrupt democracy (America) was built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery. And continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color. We recognize that not even a Black President will pronounce our truths. We must continue the task of making America uncomfortable about institutional racism. Together, we will re-imagine what is possible and build a system that is designed for Blackness to thrive.”
Patrisse Cullors, one of the co-founders of BLM, considers herself to be a community organizer, like President Obama. She is not afraid at all of expressing her militant communism. In an article she recently wrote she stated,
“…we are calling for 2015 to be ‘the year of ungovernability.’ There are not just a few bad apples who do terrible things to black people. We live in a country shaped by racism generally and anti-black racism specifically. We are born into a culture that values whiteness and deems blackness valueless. Our laws, economy, education institutions and legal systems are infected by institutionalized racism.”
On the BLM website, Cullors and her colleagues dictate a list of “demands” that BLM requires in order to stop their destructive behavior. Some of their demands are literally straight out of the Communist Manifesto, including demanding a “full, living wage for all of our people.”
In Cullors article also emphasizes how President Obama, who has a very well documented relationship with Mr. Soros, encouraged the protesters:
“So where do we go from here? The transformation underway in Ferguson is just beginning. “This isn’t just an issue for Ferguson, this is an issue for America,” President Obama said on Monday night. “Communities of color aren’t just making these things up.” We have been reminded that black lives matter, that black people and our allies in protest and reform are prepared to force this country into active recovery – from its ever-present struggle with integrity, from its propensity for violence, from anti-black racism.”
Cullors, just like Obama, is very well versed in using platitudes and generalities without stating any specifics. She and her colleagues at OSF and BLM constantly use buzzwords like, “justice, equality, and human rights,” without any explanation as to the actual policy solutions they are seeking. This is a tactic that the original community organizer, Saul Alinsky, strongly encouraged.
The most amazing thing about the Ferguson riots and the movement that has resulted therefrom is that from the very beginning, it has all been based upon one big lie – that Michael Brown was murdered by Officer Darren Wilson due to his skin color, while Brown had his hands in the air attempting to surrender.
Even the Obama Justice Dept., after a lengthy investigation, didn’t indict Wilson, because the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative is simply not true.
Soros was a huge financial backer of the Occupy Wall Street Protests, as well as the massive 2006 amnesty protests, both of which were sold to the American people as grassroots movements that spontaneously grew from Americans’ desire to implement two ideas that are at the core of progressive ideology: amnesty/open borders, and increasing taxes on the rich/wealth redistribution.
Considering his history of funding groups with similar agendas, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Soros is the pump that keeps the wellspring of racial animosity and division flowing in Ferguson and across the country.
The reason that this provably false conception of the events in Ferguson has continued to resonate to this day should be obvious: Obama and his community organizer allies, with the critical financial support of Soros, and the ideological support of the mainstream media, need this lie to live on in order to further their ultimate goal of bringing down the capitalist system and punishing the West for what they perceive as its racist, colonialist, manipulative history.
Only the words of the infamous Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, can fully explain why this proven lie has continued to prop up this destructive anti-American movement:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Fortunately, We The People have the strongest weapon that we could ever hope for to fight against those who wish to fundamentally transform our great nation: the truth.
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India's announcement on demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1000 bills.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night announced demonetisation of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 notes (the two highest denomination bills) with effect from midnight, making these notes invalid. Some highlights:
The existing bills can be deposited in a bank account until end of the year. This forces people who literally hid bags of cash ("black money") to either reveal the out-of-circulation currency, or effectively forego it forever.
The new Rs. 500 and Rs. 2000 denomination bills will come into circulation next year.
While it is a major assault on black money, fake currency and corruption, do you think this move will pay off? What other interesting consequences do you think will result from this?
RBI explains Narendra Modi's announcement on demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes
http://newsite.thehindu.com/news/national/RBI-explains-Narendra-Modis-announcement-on-demonetisation-of-Rs.-500-and-Rs.-1000-notes/article16225089.ece
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Published on Commonweal Magazine (https://www.commonwealmagazine.org)
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It was Wittgenstein who famously suggested that real thinking requires a descent into primeval chaos. Because Hannah Arendt witnessed the attempted eradication of her own people, and—as she argued at the outset of The Human Condition—the birth of the modern world “with the first atomic explosion,” primeval chaos wasn’t far from the surface in the twentieth century. After she escaped the turmoil of Nazi Germany, understanding the paradox of modernity became her life’s work: on the one hand, the promise of unending progress; on the other, the horrifying prospect that the modern project could very well “end in the deadliest, most sterile passivity history has ever known.” The appropriate response, she thought, was “very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.” But the enduring controversies surrounding Arendt confirm Wittgenstein’s insight: to think what we are doing was, and remains, much easier said than done.
Arendt’s penchant for this kind of thinking was first cultivated by Martin Heidegger, who was both her teacher and her lover in the 1920s. But where traditional philosophy often operates in the realm of abstract ideas, Arendt’s characteristic focus was on the way ideas were acted upon and embedded in human history. In her view, thought divorced from action led to political impotence, while action devoid of, or dislocated from, thought was a recipe for tyranny. She saw the latter take shape first hand with Heidegger’s devastating gravitation to the Nazi party. It may have been partly because of this sinister coupling of philosophy with the politics of despotism that she refused the label of political philosopher. Instead, she saw herself as a political theorist—that is, as one who looked “at politics, so to speak, with eyes unclouded by philosophy.” In many ways, Arendt’s confounding relationship with Heidegger foreshadowed the vexing trials, both personal and intellectual, that she would face as a German Jew, a displaced European, and, finally, an American citizen. Though much—perhaps, too much—has been made of their affair, the influence of Heidegger’s teaching on Arendt is inarguable, and the trajectory of her thought was clearly rooted in the ultimate task of his phenomenology: to understand die Sachen selbst, “the things themselves.”
From the Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) to The Life of the Mind (1971), Arendt’s pursuit of “the things themselves” resulted in a fervent challenging of conventional wisdom and a refusal to accommodate popular opinion. As Richard H. King argues in Arendt and America, her writing seems “designed to unsettle.” Instead of shutting issues down, Arendt “opened them up for reassessment.” Anne C. Heller’s too-brief Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times [1] conveys a similar point, underscoring the urgency of Arendt’s message, while capturing the stark resistance she encountered throughout her career.
That resistance persists today, and is at the forefront of Ada Ushpiz’s documentary, Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt. [2] Like Margarethe von Trotta’s drama Hannah Arendt (2012), Vita Activa is centrally focused on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, and the animosity Arendt experienced after writing a series of New Yorker articles in 1963, which became the book Eichmann in Jerusalem. As recently as ten years ago, Richard Bernstein says he could still give a lecture on the subject and at some point “somebody in the audience would suddenly get up and start screaming at me…how could I defend this vicious anti-Semite?” What upset so many people about Arendt’s treatment of Eichmann was that she described him as a bureaucratic clown, instead of a monster. Not only did she believe that his role in the Holocaust exemplified what she called the “banality of evil,” she also worried that the Eichmann case, which ought to have strengthened Israel’s legitimacy, ultimately undermined it by devolving into a show trial. As she observed, “it was history [not Eichmann] that, as far as the prosecution was concerned, stood in the center of the trial.” But the sole charge of the court was to deliver judgment of one man’s guilt or innocence. Confusing these different tasks actually made it harder to see how deeply invested the Nazi regime was in normalizing evil as a legal and political necessity.
After the publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem, discrediting Arendt became a cottage industry in various intellectual circles—so much so that, as Anne Heller suggests, this chapter of Arendt’s life remains the starting point for “almost every discussion” of her work, which is deeply unfortunate. While Vita Activa is worth viewing, it does not correct the problem. Nor will it provide newcomers with an appreciation of Arendt’s intellectual and literary range. Another serious shortcoming, as Roger Berkowitz has pointed out, is that Ushpiz dubiously rewords more than thirty of Arendt’s quotes (heard in voice-over throughout, accompanied by scenes of bustling city streets, Nazi rallies, or mass burials) that are critical to appreciating the subject.
For more careful documentation, one can turn to Richard King’s Arendt and America [3], which investigates how “Arendt’s life and thought were changed by coming to America.” Some, like Marshall Berman, have claimed that Arendt’s American experience had little or no influence on her thought. King demonstrates the implausibility of this position by examining her careful engagement with American history and political theory, shedding light on her deep affection for the country’s literature, and for its Constitution. Arendt did not think America’s founding document was beyond criticism, but she did consider it to be one of the most remarkable political achievements in human history. As she argued in On Revolution (1963), it was the American Revolution, not the French, that was able to empower “the ‘grass roots’ of the people,” while “founding a new body politic stable enough to survive the onslaught of centuries to come.” King’s attention to these aspects of Arendt’s scholarship reminds us that, while the Eichmann trial deserves serious consideration, it is only one piece of a remarkable biography.
Unfortunately, Arendt and America cannot quite decide whether it’s a chronological intellectual history or a thematic argumentative assessment, and it fails to gain momentum. Another problem with the book is that it spends too much time reassuring readers that Arendt’s provocations were within the range of what is now acceptable discourse. Though King is at his best when offering a clear defense of her ideas on their own terms, he too readily looks to areas of particular sensitivity in contemporary politics—such as forced migration, statelessness, racism—and then tries to determine whether or not Arendt was, or still would be, out of touch with today’s prevailing views.
For example, he offers a thorough outline of Arendt’s treatment of race in America and the nuanced position she developed, rooted in her own experience of bigotry. King even points to the fact that her objection to forced desegregation of schools—voiced in her famous essay “Reflections on Little Rock”—was shared by both Malcolm X and Zora Neal Hurston. But he still feels compelled to entertain questions about whether or not Arendt was a racist, or slightly racist, or something. In fact, Arendt’s primary concern with Brown vs. Board of Education was that the Supreme Court’s decision had, “very unfairly, shifted the burden of responsibility from the shoulders of adults to those of children.” While she abhorred the intellectually and morally bankrupt practices of the Jim Crow South, she feared that subjecting children to humiliation and hostility could lead to deeper confusion, resentment, and mistrust. She also worried that the result would set race relations on a path that would be more “color conscious” than “freedom minded.” Like Martin Luther King Jr., Arendt believed that sustainable political strength grew out of shared human objectives, not private interests or individual identities. Given the racial and ethnic tensions currently plaguing both America and Europe, Arendt’s argument about the dangers of identity politics would seem to deserve more than the dismissive judgment that she was on the wrong side of history.
A similar prescience can be found in her work on the dangers of cultural conformism, mass consumption, anti-institutionalism, and anti-intellectualism: all of which Arendt wrote about in the pages of this magazine. In her 1954 Commonweal essay “The Threat of Conformism,” she argued [4] that America needed to preserve space for political dissent, but that “the non-violent coercion of public disapproval is so strong that the dissenter has nowhere to turn in his loneliness and impotence, and in the end will be driven either to conformity or to despair.” Arendt probably would not have been surprised at the influence of web-based outrage and hashtag noise one can find on both ends of the ideological spectrum today, or by the rise of demagogues such as Donald Trump. In The Origins of Totalitarianism, she wrote that when a dangerous “mixture of gullibility and cynicism” infects a body politic, it is ripe for leaders who promise a world where “everything is possible and nothing is true.” In light of Trump’s success, one wonders what a Kanye West or Mark Zuckerberg could do with a celebrity-obsessed electorate.
According to Magarethe von Trotta’s movie poster, Hannah Arendt’s thinking “changed the world.” And while that’s partly true, it’s hard not to notice that her most important ideas appear to have been either forgotten or ignored. Even so, changing the world was not her objective. “Do I imagine myself being influential? No,” she said. “I want to understand. And if others understand—in the same sense that I have understood—that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.”
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Robert L. Kehoe III is a writer in residence at the Steve and Laurel Brown Foundation, Upper House, in Madison, Wisconsin. He is also a contributing editor at The Point magazine, and his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review of Books, Books and Culture, and First Things.
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Mechanical Material Fatigue
What Is Material Fatigue?
Material fatigue is a phenomenon where structures fail when subjected to a cyclic load. This type of structural damage occurs even when the experienced stress range is far below the static material strength. Fatigue is the most common source behind failures of mechanical structures.
The process until a component finally fails under repeated loading can be divided into three stages:
During a large number of cycles, the damage develops on the microscopic level and grows until a macroscopic crack is formed.
The macroscopic crack grows for each cycle until it reaches a critical length.
The cracked component breaks because it can no longer sustain the peak load.
For certain applications, the second stage cannot be observed. A microscopic crack instead grows rapidly, causing sudden failure of the component.
The details of the last two stages are usually considered within the topic of fracture mechanics. The term fatigue applies mainly to the first stage. There is, however, some overlap between the disciplines and the measured number of cycles to fatigue often includes the last two stages as well. Because the largest part of the component's life is spent before it is possible to observe a macroscopic crack, most designs aim to avoid ever encountering such damage.
Fatigue Variables
Under the influence of a nonconstant external load, the state in the material also varies with time. The state at a point in the material can be described by many different variables such as stress, strain, or energy dissipation. The fatigue process is typically viewed as controlled by a specific such variable. A load cycle is defined as the duration from one peak in the studied variable to the next peak. In a general case, all cycles do not have the same amplitude. For a superficial discussion, it can, however, be assumed that the fatigue-controlling state variable has the same value at the start and end of each load cycle. In elastic materials, a cyclic load causes a periodic-cyclic stress response. For such cases, the load cycle is easily defined. This is illustrated by the figure below, where stress is the fatigue-controlling state variable.
Figure depicting common variables that are used to predict material fatigue. Common variables used for fatigue prediction.
The stress varies between a maximum stress, \sigma_{\textrm{max}}, and a minimum stress, \sigma_{\textrm{min}}, during a load cycle. In the field of fatigue, the variation in stress is often defined using the stress amplitude, \sigma_{\textrm{a}}, and the mean stress, \sigma_{\textrm{m}}. Further, variables defining the stress range, \Delta\sigma, and the R-value are frequently used to describe a stress cycle. The relation between the different fatigue stress variables is
\begin{align*} \sigma_{\textrm{m}}& =\frac{\sigma_{\textrm{max}} + \sigma_{\textrm{min}}}{2}\\ \sigma_{\textrm{a}}& =\frac{\sigma_{\textrm{max}} - \sigma_{\textrm{min}}}{2}\\ \Delta\sigma& =\sigma_{\textrm{max}}-\sigma_{\textrm{min}}\\ R& =\frac{\sigma_{\textrm{min}}}{\sigma_{\textrm{max}}} \end{align*}
The most important parameter for the fatigue damage is the stress amplitude. For any detailed analysis, the mean stress, however, must be taken into account as well. A tensile mean stress increases the sensitivity to fatigue, whereas a compressive mean stress allows for higher stress amplitudes.
The material response to a sequence of load cycles is highly dependent on the nature of the external load, which can be periodic, random, and even consist of repeatable blocks. For the latter two cases, the description of the load cycle is not as easy as in a pure periodic case; it requires special procedures.
Material response of a frame with a cutout that is subject to three generalized loads. Frame with a cutout that is subjected to a random load. The time histories of three generalized loads – two bending moments and one twisting moment – are shown. Stress contours represent the material response to a corresponding unit load.
Low- and High-Cycle Fatigue
Fatigue analysis is not always based on a stress response. This branch, however, has historically received much attention since the majority of research has been performed in regimes where stress-based models are useful. Based on the number of load cycles needed to produce a crack, it is customary to make a distinction between low-cycle fatigue (LCF) and high-cycle fatigue (HCF). The limit between the two is not distinct, but it is typically of the order of 10,000 cycles. The physical rationale is that in the case of HCF, the stresses are low enough that the stress-strain relation can be considered elastic. When working with HCF, the stress range is usually used for describing the local state. For LCF, meanwhile, strain range or dissipated energy are common choices.
Fatigue Models
Research in the field of fatigue first began in the 19th century and its continuation has resulted in a number of methods for fatigue prediction. One of the classical models is the so-called S-N curve. This curve relates the number of cycles until failure (i.e., lifetime), N, to the stress amplitude in uniaxial loading. The general trend is that a longer lifetime is obtained with a decrease in stress amplitude. Usually, the dependence is very strong, so that a decrease of the stress amplitude by 10% can increase the lifetime by 50%. Some materials exhibit a stress threshold in fatigue testing. At stresses below this threshold, known as the endurance limit, no fatigue damage is observed and components can operate for an infinite lifetime. Not all materials have an endurance limit, though. Therefore, they can fail due to fatigue even at low levels of stress.
An S-N curve, one of the classical models for fatigue prediction. S-N curve for a material with an endurance limit (solid line) and without an endurance limit (dashed line).
In multiaxial loading, the directions or locations of the external load vary and thus deform a structure in different directions. This means that at each time instance, a full stress or strain tensor rather than a scalar value must be evaluated. This is often treated by critical plane methods, where many planes in space are investigated in search for the critical one where fatigue is expected to be initiated.
In random loading, the stress cycle cannot be described with single stress amplitudes since each cycle is different from the next. To predict fatigue, the full stress history must be transformed into a stress spectrum that can be related to fatigue in the next step of the analysis. The Rainflow counting algorithm can be used to define a set of stress amplitudes with corresponding mean stresses. The Palmgren-Miner linear damage rule is a popular way to predict fatigue under such a set of different stress levels.
A simulation plot depicting the use of the Rainflow counting algorithm to predict stress cycle distribution. Stress cycle distribution according to the Rainflow counting algorithm.
Random loading is common in vibrational fatigue where structures experience dynamic loads. Since the stress depends on the excitation frequency, the fatigue evaluation can be made in the frequency domain using, for example, power-spectral density methods.
In the case of certain materials, fatigue life is highly influenced by the number of micromechanical defects. For these materials, the location of the defects has a strong influence on the component's lifetime. For instance, a defect in the vicinity of the stress concentration significantly reduces the lifetime of a component as compared to a component with a defect that is far from the stress concentration. Probabilistic methods can be used to handle these types of applications.
When it comes to selecting a model for fatigue prediction, there is no general choice. The applicability of each model depends on both material and loading type. It is, however, possible to narrow the number of applicable models by simply asking a few qualitative questions (as seen in the blog post "Which Fatigue Model Should I Choose?").
Fatigue Material Data
A fatigue evaluation requires both a fatigue model and material data. Each model requires a different set of material parameters that can be obtained from material tests. Fatigue testing can be a rather time-consuming process, as a single test can run for many cycles before fatigue is observed. In high-cycle fatigue, for example, a specimen can last for one million cycles before it fails.
Furthermore, the influence of the microstructure on fatigue sensitivity introduces a scattering in the test results. This is caused by the fact that materials are inhomogeneous on the micromechanical level. Take an alloy, for instance, where there are crystallized grains and the grain boundaries cause stress concentrations. In a metal cast, there might even be pores formed during the solidification process. Therefore, on a local scale, the strains may be much larger than the macroscopic average values and dislocations within the crystals could occur. Because the location of such micromechanical irregularities are more or less randomly distributed, there is a large scattering in the number of load cycles that a certain type of component can be subjected to, even if the external load is well defined. Because of this, a large number of specimens need to be tested before reliable fatigue data is found.
Plot of fatigue material data using an S-N curve. S-N curve for different components of the one material. The black squares represent results from individual tests and indicate the scattering of data.
When evaluating test results, it is important to consider statistical effects as well. Here are two examples of such effects:
If two sets of bars with different diameters are tested in tension with the same nominal stress, the larger one appears to have a shorter lifetime. The reason is that, within a larger volume of material, the risk of finding a microscopic defect of a certain size is greater.
If the same type of bar is tested when subjected to both tensile and bending loads, but giving the same peak stress, the one tested due to bending appears to have a longer lifetime. During bending, only a small volume of the material is subjected to the greatest stress.
Additionally, effects such as surface treatment and operating environment will further influence the fatigue strength.
The combination of all of these effects as well as the consequences of a potential failure must be taken into account when transforming measured data into allowable values for a certain structure.
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HFF’s Two-Fer in $368M NJ Office Deal
Working on behalf of Mack-Cali Realty, the firm arranged the record-breaking sale and procured financing for three of the six buildings included in the 1.1 million-square-foot disposition.
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Short Hills, N.J.—As part of a major office portfolio transaction in which it represented the seller, HFF also secured $124.5 million in financing for a big chunk of the deal, HFF announced late last week.
101 John F. Kennedy Parkway in Short Hills, N.J
The portfolio sale, as Commercial Property Executive reported in March, totaled about 1.1 million square feet and sold for $368 million, making it one of the biggest office portfolio deals in New Jersey’s history.
The financing that HFF arranged was specifically for three of the six office buildings in the deal: 51, 101 and 103 John F. Kennedy Parkway in Short Hills, N.J., which total 564,000 square feet. The buildings are directly across John F. Kennedy Parkway from the 1.3-million-square-foot Mall at Short Hills.
HFF worked on behalf of the borrower/buyer, Mack-Cali Realty Corp., to place the 10-year, fixed-rate loan through Citi and Goldman Sachs & Co.
The seller of all six properties was RXR Realty. The other three properties are in Madison, N.J.
The Short Hills properties, which are in the Route 24 Corridor, were built between 1981 and 1988 and are fully leased to major tenants, including KPMG, Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Dun & Bradstreet and Investors Bank.
The HFF debt placement team representing Mack-Cali was led by Senior Managing Director Jon Mikula, who in a prepared statement called the Short Hills assets “some of the premier Class A office buildings in the state.”
Michael DeMarco, Mack-Cali president added, “This transaction exemplifies our strategy of owning only the best assets in strong markets that offer tenants state-of-the-art office spaces with a suite of first-class amenities.”
Mack-Cali also owns 150 JFK Parkway, on the other side of the street and barely a quarter-mile east. That building is home to the New Jersey offices of Roseland Residential Trust, a Mack-Cali subsidiary.
This portfolio purchase is part of a surge of activity by Mack-Cali in New Jersey. At the beginning of February, the company tagged HFF to start marketing a 26-building, 1.2-million-square-foot portfolio of office and flex space in Moorestown and Burlington townships. And in January, Mack-Cali announced that HFF would represent it in the disposition of nine Class A office properties totaling 2.2 million square feet, in Bergen County.
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Founder and CEO, Made in Brownsville
After earning a master’s in architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quardean Lewis-Allen could have entered the world of corporate architecture. But the third-generation Brownsville resident returned to Brooklyn to design something grander.
At Harvard he was keenly aware that he was a rarity in the art and design fields.
“I was wondering why there isn’t a pipeline for people of color to be in these professions,” he said.
Lewis-Allen founded the nonprofit Made in Brownsville in 2013 to teach skills such as graphic design, 3-D design and fabrication, apparel and product design, photography, videography, coding and fine arts to young adults ages 14 to 24.
So far 129 people have participated in the program, and several have become freelancers for the nonprofit’s creative agency while they work toward job placement or entrepreneurship.
Made in Brownsville’s clients have included the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the city Health Department and the TV show Shark Tank, for which the nonprofit designed marketing materials for a casting call.
Lewis-Allen, who is also an adjunct studio instructor at City College, expects the organization to grow its revenue from client projects nearly fivefold, to $72,000, this year. The nonprofit has a $600,000 budget, with most of its funds coming from foundations.
Lewis-Allen is preparing to move operations to a larger location in the neighborhood, where he will be able to fit a full woodshop, a laser cutter, a 3-D printer and printmaking equipment.
“Round one is giving them the tools to exponentially grow their skills,” Lewis-Allen said. “My vision for Made in Brownsville is to employ hundreds of people in a large creative agency.”
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Ovation of the Seas in numbers
Earlier this month, Royal Caribbean’s third Quantum-class vessel arrived into British shores for a series of short cruises prior to transferring to Asia and later Australia. Ovation of the Seas is every bit as impressive as her sister ships, Anthem of the Seas and Quantum of the Seas, but with a few noticeable tweaks to make her more adaptable to an Asian market.
As well as English, much of the signage throughout the ship is also displayed in Chinese and there are many connecting staterooms on board, which accommodate multi-generational families. Other noticeable differences include a change in décor, the introduction of a Kung Fu Panda Noodle and Dim Sum restaurant, and a larger casino – all of which will accumulatively appeal to the Asian market.
Many of the features that have played a helping hand in making the Quantum-class distinctive, exciting and innovative also feature onboard Ovation of the Seas. Passengers will be able to: ride bumper cars in SeaPlex, skydive above the ship with RipCord by iFly, surf the waves with FlowRider, witness robotic arms swing frantically to make a range of cocktails, watch spectacular shows in Two70, and ascend to a height of 92 metres above the ship in the North Star.
Did you know that, at its total length, the North Star is twice as tall as Beijing’s iconic Temple of Heaven? That’s just one of the many statistics that feature on Royal Caribbean’s colourful info-graphic, which features below.
Many people may be put off cruising on board Ovation of the Seas due to the high number of passengers and a lack of space. At maximum capacity, a total of 4,905 guests can cruise on board this vessel at any one time.
In order for Royal Caribbean to provide an accurate account of how much space there actually is on board, they have gone to the trouble of establishing how much fruit can be crammed onto the ship. Thus, the cruise line has reassured consumers by confirming that a total of 56 billion lychees can be crammed onto the vessel, which weighs in at 168,666 GRT.
At full capacity, that works out at approximately 11,416,922 lychees per person on board. Considering the average lychee fruit measures 5cm long and 4cm wide, this equates to a considerable amount of space for each passenger. And with so much to see and do on board, your customers will never struggle to find somewhere they can call a place of their own during a cruise on board Ovation of the Seas.
But don’t think too much about the numbers. This ship along with the third Oasis-class vessel, Harmony of the Seas, which is set to launch in May 2016, define the meaning of having fun. These ships are perfect for families as they really do offer something for all tastes, age groups, and desires.
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Dean Foods Attracts Takeover Interest
Stocks of the slumping dairy company soar as Saputo reportedly eyes a possible acquisition
Dean Foods, one of the United State’s largest milk producers, announced this February that it was looking for “strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value.” One such alternative included an outright sale, although others have speculated that options for the dairy company include a joint venture, shedding assets, or continuing the company’s current business plan. It is, however, $887 million in debt.
According to a report from The Globe and Mail, Saputo, the Montreal-based dairy company, is interested in pursuing the outright sale option, as it reportedly looks into an acquisition of Dean Foods.
This isn’t the only acquisition on Saputo’s mind, as the company is also considered a potential bidder for Kraft Heinz’s sour cream and cottage cheese brand Breakstone’s, as reported by Seeking Alpha. In March, Breakstone’s announced that it was considering selling the brand for $400 million.
Saputo has been running through acquisitions, snapping up Dairy Crest in Europe, F&A Dairy Products in the United States, and Woolwich Dairy in Canada, to name a few. The dairy company is not only strengthening its foothold in the United States, but across the globe as well.
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Interview: Private Lecturer Minka Breloer
Zebu cattle in Ngaundere, Cameroon
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Private lecturer Dr. Minka Breloer directs the "Helminth Immunology" working group at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNI). Together with PD Dr. Norbert Brattig from the Department of Molecular Medicine, she represents the BNI as a partner in the German-African collaborative project "Analysis of Host-Parasite Cross-Talk Based on the Bovine Model for Human Onchocerciasis, Onchocerca Ochengi", which the DFG has funded since 2009. Working together here are four German partner institutes at the universities of Münster, Tübingen as well as DESY and the BNI with Cameroonian partners from the university in Ngaoundere and the "Institute Agricultural Research for Development" (IRAD) in Wakwa.
What is the thematic background of the project?
We are studying parasitic worms. They differ from other pathogens in their size – compared to viruses or bacteria, they are huge. Worms enter their hosts (i.e., humans) and parasitise there in spite of their size in some cases for years and decades. They accomplish this by actively dampening our immune response. Our immune system has "built-in" negative feedback controls to quickly end immune responses and to prevent immune reactions from overshooting. The worms can use these feedback controls to overactivate immune cells with damping function. In this way, they succeed in evading our immune response. We ask ourselves how exactly the worm interacts with the immune system of the host and, conversely, how the host affects the development of the worm. We are studying this communication between parasite and host in the model of the Onchocerca ochengi worm, which infects zebu cattle. Because O. ochengi is closely related to the human-pathogenic Onchocerca volvulus, the pathogen responsible for river blindness, the results from this system can, in my option, be better applied to humans than findings that were gained in the mouse models from thread worm infections, which I worked with previously.
How are you approaching the problem?
We suspect that the worms release protein molecules which ensure that the immune system is switched off. In Cameroon, our partners have acquired a herd of cattle with more than 20 calves that graze in a pasture along a river near Ngaoundere where O. ochengi is endemic and is transmitted by mosquitoes of genus Simulium. For me, as someone who has previously worked only on the mouse model, this is very fascinating. First, our partners on-site prepared worms from the infected cattle and harvested protein molecules released by the worms (excretory/secretory proteins or ESPs). In Germany, our experts for biochemistry used the latest methods to separate this protein mixture into the individual components and determine the nature of the proteins with mass spectrometry. Our molecular biological experts could then recombinantly, i.e., in a test tube, produce a protein that was identified in this way. My working group then receives these proteins for immunological characterisation. On the one hand, we use various models with immune cells from the mouse to study whether and how these proteins can dampen immune responses. On the other hand, we return to the infected cattle in Cameroon with exactly these proteins and study whether they could as well be the target of a protective immune response. In addition, blood samples were taken from the cattle before the infection and at various times after the infection. Our partners in Cameroon are studying on-site which proteins are detected by antibodies or by the immune cells of the cattle.
What effect does the project have on-site in Cameroon?
The infection of cattle with O. ochengi is a significant problem for cattle farming on-site, and the related human pathogen o. volvulus infects an estimated 5 million people of whom approximately 30,000 are blinded as a result of the infection. In our project, we are gathering important knowledge on the course of worm infections. Nevertheless, with such questions I always like to point out the DFG does not promote African health policy, even in the German-African projects on infectology, but rather primarily promotes projects that are scientifically outstanding. As we are studying the communication between parasitic worm and host, we are first and foremost performing basic research. Such projects do not necessarily have an immediate impact on the health situation at the local site. In the long term, a better understanding of this host/parasite communication will, however, serve as the basis for the development of better treatments and vaccines. In my opinion, only basic research with its "long-term approach" is truly capable of preparing for unexpected problems and future developments, such as the occurrence of new infections or complications.
Minka Breloer
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What might an added value look like?
With our project, we can, of course, identify good vaccine candidates and show paths to medications with fewer side effects. Many people live with a worm infection without dramatic symptoms, but do have a weakened immune system due to the immunosuppressive activity of the worm. As a result, vaccinations may not function in these people, as we recently demonstrated in a mouse model (Hartmann et al., 2011 Journal of Immunology). If we can better understand exactly how the worm switches off the immune system, we can develop vaccines that work independent of the infection status of the patient.
How did you come to be involved with the project?
Previously, I performed purely immunological basic research, but had always been interested in the regulation of our immune responses. Just over three years ago, I took over leadership of a working group that was to concentrate on pathogenic, i.e., disease-transmitting, worms. I was then contacted by the leading applicant, Professor Eva Liebau from the University of Münster, who I already knew from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNI) – as I had already started to examine the immunological feedback control circuits, using the example of worm infections in mice. So, I was brought on board to provide immunological expertise. Maybe I am good example of how a researcher's horizon can be expanded within the scope of a cooperation project, as, without the project, I certainly never would have had access to worm-infected cattle or ESP from O. ochengi.
How do you cooperate with your partners?
In the description of our strategy, you have already seen that all partners must combine their respective expertise (veterinary medicine, parasitology, biochemistry, molecular biology and immunology) to be able to jointly study the question of host/parasite interaction. Thanks to the funding, I personally had the opportunity to hire a doctoral researcher from Cameroon, Manchang Tanyi Kingsley, for three years and to further train him in my working group. We have, mainly at the University of Münster, many master's students from molecular biology who travel to Cameroon for several months within the scope of the project – as well as many Cameroonian students who come here. In addition to the scientific education, I believe that the human contacts thereby established are important. Particularly through the personal contact with the young researchers at the start of their careers, a network is renewed that is very sustainable and which will also lead to further contacts beyond this project. A German researcher who, for example, personally knows researchers in Cameroon from when he worked on his master's thesis and, ideally, had good experiences during the collaboration, will much more easily be able to establish an efficient collaboration if he later becomes the leader of a working group or a professor. In addition to the scientific findings, I see this as one of the most important successes of this project: the personal contacts that are established between Germany and Cameroon in this cooperation.
How do you experience science in Cameroon?
For me, the collaboration with my Cameroonian doctoral researcher is the first long-term contact and this exchange is very exciting for me. It is clear that science is organised and financed much differently in Cameroon than with us. In Germany, good researchers should change their research institute every five years and have serious problems finding an indefinite position, something which may, for example, be a prerequisite for family planning. As I understand it, if a person in Cameroon lands a position, it is often immediately for life. Instead, the researchers there often have enormous problems to raise the funding necessary for performing research. It happens that they are paid their full salary, but sit practically idle in their laboratories because they aren't able to purchase test tubes. In this regard as well, the cooperation project is, of course, a blessing. In early 2012, I will travel for the first time to our cooperation partners in Cameroon for an expected period of two weeks, during which time I will be able to personally form a more comprehensive picture.
What ideas do you have for the future?
The topic of immunoregulation runs through my research and I find it very exciting to now work in cooperation with an African partner. My vision would be to establish more complex immunological methods, such as the flow cytometry that we use in Germany, in Cameroon step-by-step. The combination of the "Cameroonian possibilities", the studying of natural worm infections in more than 20 cattle with the establishment of modern immunological techniques on-site, would give the Cameroonian partners a unique ability or advantage that may also lead to new cooperations and projects.
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B. Joseph Schaeff
joseph.schaeff@dinsmore.com
Fifth Third Center
1 S. Main Street, Suite 1300
Joe focuses his practice on trademark, copyright and licensing matters. He supervises trademark searching, filing, maintenance and protection programs for a number of multinational companies. He has worked on numerous acquisitions and divestitures involving intellectual property. Client counseling is a major focus of his practice.
He received a B.A. degree with a double major in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Dayton in 1972. He received a J.D., with honors, from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1975.
Upon admission to the Ohio bar, Joe practiced in the private and corporate sectors for several years. Since 1978, he has practiced exclusively in the field of intellectual property, specializing in trademark and copyright matters. He was a founding partner of Killworth, Gottman, Hagan & Schaeff in 1985, which grew to be Dayton, Ohio’s largest intellectual property firm before its merger with Cincinnati-based Dinsmore in 2003.
Joe currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton School of Law. He taught as an adjunct at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law during 2003. He has lectured on intellectual property matters at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Wright State University, the University of Dayton and Sinclair Community College. He has served on the faculties of a number of continuing legal education programs.
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1975)
University of Dayton (B.A., 1972)
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
House of Delegates, past member
Legal Assistants Committee, past chairman
Dayton Bar Association
International Trademark Association
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, adjunct professor (2003)
University of Dayton School of Law, adjunct professor (1983-1997, 2010, 2015 - present)
INVENTING FLIGHT Centennial Celebration, Dayton, Ohio, intellectual property counsel (1999 - 2004)
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"Lawyer of the Year" in Dayton for Litigation - Intellectual Property (2015, 2017)
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The Salthill Promenade
It’s hard to beat Salthill’s location. Situated on the northern inner shore of Galway Bay, the Aran Islands are visible to the right and Galway City 'The City of the Tribes’ to the left. Directly across Galway Bay is the Burren (County Clare) and to the west are the bogs and mountains of Connemara. On a clear day you feel as though you could reach out across the bay and touch the Clare hills though there are also many days when you can’t see them at all. There’s an old expression which goes, 'when you see Aran and the Clare hills it’s a sign of rain and when you can’t see them, it’s actually raining!
The Irish for Salthill is ‘Bóthar na Trá’, which literally means ‘the road by the sea’. The main road west to Connemara was ‘An Bóthar Ard’ (‘the high road’) or Taylor’s Hill as it is known today. Two hundred years ago, the Salthill area was mostly agricultural land around a small village occupied mostly by fishermen. The road west was bounded on the right by a high landlord’s wall, from the 237 acre O’Hara estate, while further along the coast was the 100 acre estate of Lord Oranmore and Browne.
In 1839, a storm destroyed many of the traditional thatched cottages along by the coast in the Salthill area. This disaster was closely followed by the Great Famine which decimated the area leaving some of the landlords bankrupt and resulting in the sale of their estates. Among the casualties was Lord Oranmore and Browne. Part of his estate was subsequently bought by an entrepreneur named Barton who then developed a number of summer lodges along the coast road to be rented to university professors. This area, now known as Rockbarton, still bears the developer’s name.
The largest development of the time was the building of the Eglington Hotel, which opened its doors in 1860. This was a major step up from the guesthouses and small hotels already in operation and attracted a different more upmarket clientele. Shortly afterwards the Galway and Salthill Tramway Company laid down tram tracks from Eyre Square to its western terminus at The Eglington Hotel. This inexpensive transport made Salthill accessible for tourists and day trippers who travelled to Galway by train and then out to the beach by tram. The small fishing village had become a popular tourist resort with many new amenities being developed, the promenade was built and new facilities were put in place for swimmers. A golf club was constructed on Genetian Hill and later moved on to Barna road before finding its permanent home near Blackrock and an old swampy area was developed and became Salthill Park. A tennis club was built on Threadneedle Road and the “amusements” came to Salthill Park each summer.
Salthill continues to grow and develop. The changes have seen the area grow from a small fishing village into a thriving, bustling, busy modern resort.
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Harber’s History: Old Jefferson church was heart of community
In 1966, the church closed with the influx of the dam, and not one trace remains today.
Harber’s History: Old Jefferson church was heart of community In 1966, the church closed with the influx of the dam, and not one trace remains today. Check out this story on dnj.com: http://on.dnj.com/1OXllAd
Susan Harber, For The Daily News Journal Published 7:14 a.m. CT Jan. 9, 2016
Paul Rogers standing beside the original Old Jefferson Church of Christ in 1953.(Photo: Submitted)
“Shall we gather at the river?” What fateful and prophetic words for a minister to proclaim each Sunday, as the adjoining Stones River would soon infringe the foundation of the church itself. The Old Jefferson Church of Christ was on the cusp of the low banks of two rivers flowing together into one. A bustling congregation on Jefferson Pike was the height of goodwill in the once thriving town of Old Jefferson. This original, one-room, white-shingled church was the center of the community.
James and Henreta Wade, relatives of church leader Walter Lenoir, deeded the lot to the trustees of the Church of Christ in 1915. The church building was then erected for $1,000 with boxes used as temporary benches in the assembly room. In 1949, seating was installed; and three classrooms were added in 1953. A school bus and wagons were two mediums of transportation in the 1920s to and from the building. In the 1930s, a pot-bellied stove kept the solitary meeting room warm on a cold Sunday morning; and in 1953, gas heating was installed.
This exciting church welcomed every stranger with open arms and was well known as a friendly and inviting assembly. Long-term attendees included several families with a namesake of Lenoir, Waller, Fergus, Dunn, Lannom, Wilkinson, Francis, Wilkerson and Wilson.
The women wore their best attire on Sunday mornings along with hat and gloves. They were the definitive “movers and shakers” of the church prospering behind the scenes to make this church stand tall.
Ruth Dunn taught a children’s class for years and taught my mom, Judy Johns, in Sunday school. Wide-eyed boys and girls sat in different corners of the large room awestruck by the stories brought to life by this endearing teacher.
At Christmas, there was a decorated tree in the church building, and every child received a special gift. Notable historian Martha Wright of Murfreesboro relates that members Walter Lenoir and Lee Victory delivered Christmas presents 61 years ago to the children of the congregation. Lee Victory dressed as Santa and gave Martha a Bible at 9 years of age that she still has today.
Before 1958, there were no elders. The church was united as team players in decision making. There was no baptistry within the building, and baptisms took place in the nearby Stones River. These waters could be chilling on a winter day. My grandmother was baptized in these waters in 1928; and my mother, wearing her best attire, followed her in 1948.
Church dinners were rare in the 1940s and 1950s in a one-room church. Yet, inviting guests into personal homes was an enduring trend. My grandmother Emily Johns was a member for 35 years and promoted an open door on Sundays and greeted visitors and traveling preachers to “come home with me and have lunch.” Emily and Glendon Johns awaited these guests to their home with a delicious meal and welcomed them as part of their family.
The church was moved back from the road in 1953; and Sunday school rooms were added. There were 60 members attending the church in 1950. The revivals were highly anticipated and took place once a year.
Robert Sydney Waller was the faithful and committed song leader of many years. There was no youth group within the congregation. One of the first outings for the teens occurred in 1953 with an exciting trip to Chattanooga with their minister.
Paul Rogers, my dad, was the new preacher in town in 1952 and took his job seriously. He was only 18 years old and a freshman at David Lipscomb College. He had no car to transport himself the first year and caught rides with member Walter Lenoir to and from Nashville each weekend. Paul slept most Saturday nights on a floor mattress in Lee Victory’s home, situated just a couple doors down from the church. This led to decades of deep friendship with the Victory family. Walter Fergus, an elder in 1960, was also a lifetime friend to my dad. Paul made a presence within the community with door knocking, and the membership increased to 120 within four years. He also expanded the church with an additional wing for Sunday School rooms. He was active with the youth and coached a softball team on Lamar Road. My personal reward stems from having Paul as a very special father, along with a wonderful mother, Judy Johns. Judy met Paul at age 16 within the Old Jefferson church, and they were married three years later.
In 1966, the church closed with the influx of the dam, and not one trace remains today. The building was once utilized as a storage facility. However, nothing was taken in the memories of a good day. A new site was developed for Old Jefferson Church of Christ on two acres of land on Old Jefferson Pike in 1966. The excellent and longstanding minister Ron Caldwell, a close friend of Paul Rogers, has served this current location for over 30 years and is beloved within the community. The original Old Jefferson Church of Christ is gone but not forgotten. Memories of a thriving and loving church will always be the herald of a congregation brimming with goodwill and blessings to all. As the preacher said, “Let us gather by the river.”
Contact Susan Harber at susanharber@hotmail.com.
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Teen Mama Drama
Parents, pay attention: In the United States, one in six girls will become a teen mom, and oftentimes, the baby's father gets a free pass and is not held to the same responsibilities in raising the child. Dr. Phil reveals the cold, hard facts about teen pregnancy.
A Family in Turmoil
Eighteen-year-old Taten has no job, no phone, no car and no permanent place to live. What he does have is a 3-month old daughter with Autumn, 16, and a second child on the way, according to another teen. Although he cheated on her, Autumn says she still wants Taten in her life. Autumn’s mother, Michelle, wishes Taten would “drop off the face of the Earth” for what he did to her daughter.
Taten meets Dr. Phil.
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Another Baby on the Way?
Autumn’s former best friend, Caitlyn, 16, says she’s pregnant with Taten’s child, although Taten is not convinced. Caitlyn’s mother, Dana, doesn’t mince words about what she thinks of the young man, and Dr. Phil calls her out for her part in her daughter’s predicament.
“You can roll your eyes all you want, lady — it’s your daughter who’s pregnant!”
A Better Father
Is Taten the father of Caitlyn’s baby? Dr. Phil reveals the paternity results. Will Taten man-up and be a better dad to one — or both — babies? And, Caitlyn had to drop out of high school and says Autumn is the reason why. Can Dr. Phil get the two teen moms to come together as allies instead of enemies? Plus, don’t miss the shocking facts about teen pregnancy. Find out what the future may have in store for these young moms.
“If you rekindle a relationship with him right now, it will be at your baby’s expense.”
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'Beauty And The Beast' Characters Move In New Posters
By Robert Anthony
Finally, the long-awaited release of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" live-action remake starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens is less than two months away.
Those who have been anticipating its release can attest to the fact Disney has blessed us with enough content related to the film over the last few months to hold us over until March 17.
First, we were given a sneak peek at Mrs. Potts creepily human-like appearance. Then, we were teased with the official promotional poster for the film. Finally, we were delivered the official trailer for "Beauty and the Beast."
The trailer racked up over 127.6 million views in just 24 hours, beating out the record for the "Fifty Shades Darker" trailer, which was viewed 114 million times in 24 hours.
I'm sure director Bill Condon's feeling pretty good about that.
Unfortunately, all the trailer did was get us even more impatient!
The good news is there are a bunch of new "motion posters" of each character from the movie that just might help ease the pain of having to wait until March.
Disney released 11 new motion posters of character from "Beauty and the Beast" and they are truly magical. Here's Emma Watson as Belle.
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Here's Dan Stevens as the Beast.
Next, we have Luke Evans as Gaston.
Here's Kevin Kline as Maurice.
Behold Josh Gad as LeFou.
Here's Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts.
Then there's Ewan McGregor as Lumiere.
Let's not forget Ian McKellen as Cogsworth.
Here's Stanely Tucci as Cadenza.
Next, there's Audra McDonald as Garderobe.
And finally, here's Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Plumette.
Magical might be an understatement. Hey, Disney, can you guys make these for every movie?
If that isn't enough to calm your nerves until the March 17 release of "Beauty and the Beast," nothing will.
Well, maybe I'm wrong... There is one more thing you can do to suppress your restiveness. Have you ever heard Emma Watson sing before? Check out the clip below. You're welcome.
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How Cara Delevingne Went From Model To Artist's Muse
We speak to Jonathan Yeo about his portraits of the ubiquitous model
By Bibby Sowray
Cara Delevingne is no stranger to seeing her image plastered on billboards around the world - but she's not so familiar with seeing it hanging in an art gallery. Until now.
The British model is one of the more prominent subjects in artist Jonathan Yeo's latest exhibition, 'Jonathan Yeo Portraits', currently on show in Demark.
We spoke to Yeo to find out wht he chose Cara as his latest muse. Read on to find out more...
Jonathan Yeo Portraits at The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, is open to the public from Sunday, 20 March until Thursday, 30 June 2016.
Q: Why did you want to paint Cara?A: As a portraitist, I'm always concerned with revealing and portraying identity. Performers always offer a challenge to the portrait painter as you never know if you're getting "themselves" or perhaps a character they are playing at that time. These were ideas I had already started exploring in my collaboration with Kevin Spacey and wanted to take them even further. I liked the fact that Cara is constantly playing with her identity in her professional life and also on her social media platforms. In a way her blurring of reality and fiction was even more subtle because of the level of her exposure through these more personal channels of communication, which provided an even more interesting challenge to me.
Q: How did the collaboration come about?A: We were introduced by a mutual friend about two years ago but we were both already aware of each other's work. I found her face very interesting and so realised straight away she could make a good portrait subject. What I thought so much about was how she uses Instagram and other platforms to share what are, essentially, self portrait images and is therefore in the vanguard of the way our lives are changing through technology. I also realised that the fact she was moving from modelling into acting made her use of changing identities relevant, too, so at that point it occurred to me it could be not a single painting but several.
Q: What's the concept behind the work?A: The work is concerned with image making and performed identity. It also explores the transition from traditional to contemporary portrait making, which has become an integral part of contemporary life with the rise of social media. Everyone, including pre-teen kids, are making self-portraits on a daily basis and are able to dissect and read images in a way that used to be the reserve of artists and art historians. Whether it is playing with lighting to flatter themselves, putting objects in the background to make statements about their identity etc., people are creating images of themselves and others in a way that has more in common with the 16th Century portraits that hang in the museum where my exhibition is being held, than much of the art created since the birth of photography. The masks, opticians glasses, and theatre binoculars partially conceal Cara's identity in the pictures, which I thought was a fun idea given that she has one of the most sought after faces in the world, but also they are there to remind us of the fact these images are addressing visual play and the differences, or perceived differences between painting and photography.
Q: You've said she was the perfect muse – what made her the perfect muse?A: I meant that in the sense she's not just a passive model but someone whose participation actively feeds back into the evolution of the paintings. As a subject she seemed to connect many of the different ideas that the portraits were exploring better than anyone I could think of. When you add in the element of her being currently seen as the epitome of fashionable beauty, to her being simultaneously a brilliant subject, active collaborator, and inspiration for the development of themes in the work, it is hard to imagine a more ideal muse at this moment in time.
Q: How long did she sit for you?A: She sat for me roughly 6 times over the last 18 months. I took photos and drew her also, so I could work when she wasn't around. I often work this way with busy subjects and it's also often helpful to see them outside the studio in their own and other environments, so I get a feel for who people are in different situations.
Q: You've painted lots of famous people, how did Cara differ?A: She was very at ease with herself and was also quick to understand what I was trying to do. I'm increasingly concerned with exploring the wider possibilities of portraiture and meeting Cara also coincided with a point in my life when I was looking for subjects who could represent more complex narratives in the paintings.
Q: What message do you hope this body of work conveys?A: That painting is more relevant than it has been for many years and the thought process behind image making is affecting many areas of contemporary life.
ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF JONATHAN YEO
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Dec 03 2018 by Patricia Karounos
Categories : Movies & TV
We chat with one of the stars of the hit CBC series ahead of its season three finale
“I wish you could see me right now,” Meredith MacNeill, one of the stars and co-creators of CBC’s hit comedy series Baroness von Sketch Show, says to me as soon as we get on the phone. She then proceeds to describe her current state of dress in hilarious detail—which, sorry not sorry, I can’t relay back to you because it would give away info about a sketch for next season—from her trailer. “You’d laugh your f*****g head off.”
If you’ve seen even just one episode of Baroness von Sketch, it wouldn’t surprise you that MacNeill is just as funny IRL as she is on the satirical sketch series, which also stars co-creators Carolyn Taylor, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen and tackles everything from everyday minutiae “Blanket Scarf” to bigger concerns “Unfounded.” [Editor’s note: “Unfounded” is a sketch about sexual assault and may be triggering to some people]. Not only has the show found success here, it’s also won a loyal following stateside. We caught up with MacNeill ahead of the show’s season three finale this week to chat about having creative control of the series and some of her favourite sketches.
Were there any topics or stories you really wanted to explore for season three?
Every season has a different feel. For me, we had two seasons under our belts, so I felt I had an opportunity to talk about some things in sketch that were really important to me—I dove into sexual assault, for example. Of course, it was still playful and light, and there were sketches about being a single mom and the struggle of just putting a corner sheet on by yourself. So it still has the flavour of every other season, but I also wanted to talk about things that were really hard too.
Was it the confidence of having already done two seasons that made you want to address these more serious things?
We already had some of that type of material. It was just that we had such strong support from our producers, and, as a team of four, we are getting to know how we work and what we can do every season. So we try to push the boundaries, and this was the boundary I wanted to press up against a little bit.
You and your co-creators all write, produce, act in and edit the show. Why was it important for the four of you to keep creative control over all aspects of it?
As creators of content, when the original idea is seen from the starting line all the way through, we’re able to hold on to the truth of the original message. That’s the advantage we have as artists being part of the whole process.
When you started working on the show, why did you decided to do a sketch comedy as opposed to a more traditional sitcom?
It was just something that resonated with the four of us. We were four women in our 40s who wanted to talk about how we see the world and we felt that sketch was the best way to do that—it’s a way to tackle so much subject matter.
Do you have any favourite sketches you’ve done so far?
I always love to do physical sketches. They’re really fun and quite freeing. Sometimes it’s hard to express what you want with just language, so having the ability and opportunity to be able to physicalize the inner turmoil and awkwardness of life is an absolute privilege. [Season one sketch] “Dry Shampoo” was so much fun. It’s really about a woman and a breakdown of her family—she’s lost her her children, she’s in the middle of a divorce. So to ground that and then go as big as you want and keep that truth at the centre core. One of my favourite things to do is to ground something really as solidly as I can and then see how wild we can get.
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The Works of Susan Glaspell
By: Tasha • Essay • 380 Words • November 10, 2009 • 578 Views
Essay title: The Works of Susan Glaspell
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Tylia Ashley
Professor Parker-Bruce
English 1102-140
On July 1, 1876, in Davenport, Iowa Susan Glaspell was born. She Drake University where she earned a Bachelors degree in 1899 and worked on the staff of the Des Moines Daily News as a journalist. Her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered, was published in 1809 and her short stories were both sold to magazines such as Harper's and The Ladies' Home Journal. Glaspell married to George Cram Cook who was known as a classics professor, a novelist and poet. They later moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and founded the Provincetown Players theatre group in 1915 with some friends. She originally wrote “A Jury of Her Peers” as a play entitled “Trifles”, it was written in just ten short days. The play was produced in 1916 and in 1917 she rewrote it as a short story “A Jury of Her Peers.” The influence for this short story came from a murder that Glaspell covered while working for the Des Moines Daily News, as a reporter. Later Susan was the one to arrange the first reading of a play by Eugene O’Neill and help launched his career. Glaspell writing is “strongly feminist, dealing with the roles that women play, or are forced to play, in society and the relationships between men and women.” While there she wrote more than ten plays, including Women’s Honor (1918), Bernice (1919), Inheritors (1921), and The
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Vol 18 No 24
Neoliberal termites unbalance Fair Work Bill
Tim Battin
In the Rudd Government's attempt to 'sell' the Fair Work Bill currently before the parliament, ministers have relied on an appeal to a middle ground. Employers haven't got everything they wanted, we are told, and neither have the unions. So the Bill must be about right ... right?
Were we to judge a piece of legislation as if it were a pendulum, which is what several Rudd ministers seem to want us to do, we would first point out that the Howard legislation was extremely unbalanced; prohibiting employers and employees from including specified matters in enterprise agreements, fining individuals or unions for asking for prohibited content, making industrial action by employees almost impossible to carry out (while allowing employers to engage in industrial action with relative ease), ceasing the conditions of an enterprise agreement once it had nominally expired.
Using WorkChoices as any point of comparison defies commonsense understanding of the pendulum metaphor. The jig of 'striking a balance' was up three years ago when Barnaby Joyce said he could support the passage of WorkChoices because he had been assured that public holidays would be retained!
A much less vacuous way to argue is to debate proposals on their intrinsic, intellectual merit, rather than whether they strike a balance between, say, Margaret Thatcher and Genghis Khan.
What was particularly concerning during 2007 was that the parliamentary Labor Party, secure on a wave of vociferous community opposition to the Howard Government's industrial relations laws, consciously pulled down the public's expectations by focusing disproportionately on AWAs and the most visibly extreme of the laws.
It is a measure of the extremism of where we have been — and, sadly, where we largely remain — that Greg Combet last Wednesday boasted that the new legislation would ensure that each employee could choose to be a member of a union.
It is precisely because the Labor Party, aided and abetted by the mainstream media, zeroed in on the absurd and outrageous features of Howard's legislation that the more submerged and dangerous aspects of the laws went largely unremarked. As we debate the new Bill, the challenge is to flush out its neoliberal presuppositions.
One of these precepts is that, in exercising their right to take industrial action, workers should be obliged to undergo a secret ballot. It seems difficult to be opposed in principle to a secret ballot, given the historical association with democratic movements. The worrying facet is that a secret ballot suggests employee-employee coercion is a potential problem while employer-employee coercion in the lead-up to strike action is not.
Even more concerning is the practical effect of secret ballots. A secret ballot delays and entangles. One conservative calculation of the period needed to take industrial action, so that such action would legally comply with WorkChoices, was more than two months.
Other neoliberal tenets abound within the new Bill. No strike pay is allowed. The Bill persists with the pretense of honouring the principle of workers having the right to take industrial action, while subjecting it to a test that will take account of the economic interests of third parties (which means the principle is not honoured at all).
It is difficult to conceive of any strike action that would not affect third parties or sections of the economy. No wonder Heather Ridout is happy with the Bill.
Perhaps most insidious of all is the practice of paying homage to collective bargaining while keeping Howard's ban on pattern bargaining. The position is doubly contradictory because it also flies in the face of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value (elsewhere enunciated in the Bill).
The attempt to justify the neoliberal antipathy to collective bargaining across an industry is based on a false choice: efficiency versus equity. In more specific terms, (less rabid) neoliberals would have us believe that we have to balance — there's that word again — fair outcomes against productivity. And productivity growth, we are told, is threatened by pattern or industry bargaining. Well, no it isn't, but that's an argument for another day.
We ought to be wary of any ideology that makes us compromise with falsity. The architects of the Fair Work Bill 2008 would have served the community immeasurably better by jettisoning neoliberal ideas, identifying first principles of justice, and allowing everything else to flow from there. There is no trade-off between prosperity and justice. We can have both, and should demand nothing less.
Tim Battin is senior lecturer in politics at the University of New England, and is author of Choice for Whom?, a critique of the Howard IR legislation from the viewpoint of Catholic social thought.
Recent articles by Tim Battin.
Maintaining the rage against WorkChoices
Topic tags: fair work bill, workchoices, rudd government, unions, industrial action, Greg Combet, Heather Ridout
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It is extraordinary that the neo-lib economic policy that gave rise to WorkChoices robustly survives the demise of the Bush administration and the onset of a global financial crisis partly caused by its values. The theories, and the lobby group for them,remain alive and well enough to undermine the integrity of the Fair Work restitution of balance to the IR system.
There are welcome features of the Labor changes, most notably the eventual restoration from 1 January 2010 of a close to adequate safety net for workers below the $100,000 threshold.
Otherwise, Fair Work is attended by a process-rich stifling of the collective bargaining system, the absence of any barrier to preclude future statutory interventions to destroy independent functioning of the new independent umpire, and a'neutrality' that characterizes so much of the model, especially in regard to union roles in representing interests of employees and in maintaing access to flexibility terms that will operate to aid the reduction of union presence in workplaces. These are all are very troubling features of the legislative package. This is curate's egg legislation by a government intent on remaining electable through not provoking the agents of corporate global capitalism in Australia. No one who worked to overthrow WorkChoices should cease to pay close attention to the adequacy and durability of the Fair Work system that retains so many of the WorkChoices settings. Ironically, a truer restoration of balance may be led by the incoming US adminstration: during the campaign, Barack Obama, pointed to teh need for a President who didn't "choke whenever he has to say the word union"; of course it remains to be seen how that need will be translated by the new administration. We do know that our own leader will not choke when the subjects of unionism or workers rights to strike come up; he will have already left the room because he won't want to be caught in a wrong photo opportunity!
Paul Munro | 01 December 2008
A somewhat unbalanced article Tim. What you're missing is the increasingly enlightened attitudes shown by today's successful employers when they don't have to deal with unions running a class struggle agenda. Most employers, along with most of the workforce, have moved on, unlike many unions, particularly those in the public sector. Put simply, it makes good business sense to treat employees fairly. Unfortunately many unions see such attempts as undermining their power base or as a sign of weakness. Workchoices, for all its flaws, was at least an attempt to address these facts.
The other side of unfair dismissal laws (at least for small business) is that they are rorted by the unscrupulous, creating a strong disincentive to employ people.
Ian Robertson | 01 December 2008
Tim seems to be a nice young man, an idealist.'We ought to be wary of any ideology that makes us compromise with falsity' he writes. That's a bit like saying that we should be wary of any theology that makes us compromise with sin.
Claude Rigney | 03 December 2008
Balance needs to be controlled by regulation. Does balance still allow legal payment by a business to a Union in order to achieve industrial peace? Does balance still allow strikes in the middle of concrete pours? Does balance allow the pseudo training safety ripoffs of the mining unions? etc It's war out there.
Ken Fuller | 05 December 2008
Well said. Labor has sold out those that voted them in. Employers are feted and workers treated as criminals.
Forget the bigots calling you unbiased, I work both sides and know you are objective and right.
Trevor | 06 December 2008
Worthy sentiments. What a pity Jesuit Social Services is happy to apply WorkChoices legislation when it suits them.
David | 10 December 2008
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) establishes overall transportation policy for the United States. Under the DOT umbrella are 11 administrations whose jurisdictions include highway planning, development, and construction; urban mass transit; railroads; aviation; and the safety of ports, highways, and oil and gas pipelines. Decisions made by the department in conjunction with appropriate state and local officials can significantly affect other programs such as land planning, energy conservation, scarce resource utilization, and technological change.
The DOT was established by Congress in 1966 (49 U.S.C.A. § 102) "to assure the coordinated, effective administration of the transportation programs of the Federal Government" and to develop "national transportation policies and programs conducive to the provision of fast, safe, efficient, and convenient transportation at the lowest cost consistent therewith." The department became operational in April 1967 with elements transferred from eight other major departments and agencies. As of 2003, it consists of the office of the secretary and 11 operating administrations whose heads report directly to the secretary and have highly decentralized authority.
Office of the Secretary of Transportation
The DOT is administered by the secretary of transportation, who is the principal adviser to the president in all matters relating to federal transportation programs. The secretary administers the department with the assistance of a deputy secretary of transportation, an associate deputy secretary, the assistant secretaries, a general counsel, the inspector general, and several directors and chairpersons.
The federal aviation administration (FAA), formerly the Federal Aviation Agency, was established by the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C.A. § 106) and became a component of the DOT in 1967. The FAA is charged with regulating air commerce in ways that best promote its development and safety and fulfill the requirements of national defense; controlling the use of the navigable airspace of the United States by regulating both civil and military operations in that airspace in the interest of safety and efficiency; promoting, encouraging, and developing civil aeronautics; and consolidating research and development with respect to air navigation facilities.
The FAA is responsible for installing and operating air navigation facilities; developing and operating a common system of air traffic control and navigation for both civil and military aircraft; and developing and implementing programs and regulations to control aircraft noise, sonic booms, and other environmental effects of civil aviation.
In addition, the FAA operates a network of airport traffic control towers, air route traffic control centers, and flight service stations. It develops air traffic rules and regulations and allocates the use of the airspace. It also provides for the security control of air traffic to meet national defense requirements.
The FAA is responsible for the location, construction or installation, maintenance, operation, and quality assurance of federal visual and electronic aids to air navigation. The agency operates and maintains voice/data communications equipment, radar facilities, computer systems, and visual display equipment at flight service stations, airport traffic control towers, and air route traffic control centers.
The agency maintains a national plan of airport requirements, administers a grant program for the development of public use airports to assure and improve safety and to meet current and future airport capacity needs, evaluates the environmental impacts of airport development, and administers an airport noise compatibility program with the goal of reducing noncompatible uses around airports. It also develops standards and technical guidance on airport planning, design, safety, and operations and provides grants to assist public agencies in airport system and master planning and airport development and improvement.
The FAA provides a system for registering aircraft and recording documents that affect title or interest in the aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, appliances, and spare parts.
Under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 and the International Aviation Facilities Act (49 U.S.C.A. § 1151), the agency promotes aviation safety and civil aviation abroad by exchanging aeronautical information with foreign aviation authorities; certifying foreign repair stations, air personnel, and mechanics; negotiating bilateral airworthiness agreements to facilitate the import and export of aircraft and components; and providing technical assistance and training in all areas of the agency's expertise.
One important FAA function is the regulation and promotion of the U.S. commercial space transportation industry. It licenses the private-sector launching of space payloads on expendable launch vehicles and commercial space launch facilities. The FAA also sets insurance requirements for the protection of persons and property and ensures that space transportation activities comply with U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
The Federal Highway Administration became a component of the DOT in 1967. It administers the highway transportation programs of the DOT under Title 23 U.S.C.A., and other pertinent legislation. The administration oversees highway transportation in its broadest scope, seeking to coordinate highways with other modes of transportation to achieve the most effective balance of transportation systems and facilities.
The administration administers the federal aid highway program, which provides funding to the states to assist in constructing highways and making highway and traffic operations more efficient. This program provides for the improvement of approximately 159,000 miles of the National Highway System, which includes the 43,000-mile dwight d. eisenhower system of interstate and defense highways and other public roads. The federal government generally provides 90 percent of the funding for the construction and preservation of the interstate system, and the relevant states provide 10 percent. For projects not on the interstate system and most projects on other roads, 80 percent of the funding comes from the federal government and 20 percent from the states.
The administration is also responsible for the Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program, which assists in the inspection, analysis, and rehabilitation or replacement of bridges on public roads. In addition, it administers an emergency program to assist in the repair or reconstruction of federal aid highways and certain federal roads that have suffered serious damage over a wide area from natural disasters or catastrophic failures.
The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) Program provides funding to reduce air pollution. Transportation improvement projects and programs that reduce transportation-related emissions are eligible for funding. Funds can be used for highway, transit, and other transportation purposes.
The administration is responsible for several highway-related safety programs, including a state and community safety program jointly administered with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and a highway safety construction program to eliminate road hazards and improve rail-highway crossing safety. These safety construction programs fund activities that remove, relocate, or shield roadside obstacles; identify and correct hazardous locations; eliminate or reduce hazards at railroad crossings; and improve signs, pavement markings, and signals.
Under the provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (23 U.S.C.A. § 101), the administration is authorized to establish and maintain a national network for trucks, review state programs regulating truck size and weight, and assist in obtaining uniformity among the states in commercial motor carrier registration and taxation reporting. The administration works cooperatively with states and private industry to achieve uniform safety regulations, inspections and fines, licensing, registration and taxation, and accident data for motor carriers.
The agency also exercises federal regulatory jurisdiction over the safety performance of all commercial motor carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce. It deals with more than 330,000 carriers and approximately 36,000 shippers of hazardous materials. The administration conducts reviews at the carrier's facilities to determine the safety of the carrier's over-the-road operations. These reviews may lead to prosecution or other sanctions against violators of the federal motor carrier safety regulations or the hazardous materials transportation regulations.
The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (49 U.S.C.A. § 2701) authorizes the administration to establish national standards for a single commercial vehicle driver's license for state issuance, a national information system clearinghouse for commercial driver's license information, knowledge and skills tests for licensing commercial vehicle drivers, and disqualification of drivers for serious traffic offenses, including alcohol and drug abuse. The agency administers the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program, a partnership between the federal government and the states, under the provisions of sections 401–404 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (49 U.S.C.A. §§ 2301–2304).
The purpose of the Federal Railroad Administration is to promulgate and enforce rail safety regulations, administer railroad financial assistance programs, conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy, provide for the rehabilitation of Northeast Corridor rail passenger service, and consolidate government support of rail transportation activities.
The administration administers and enforces the federal laws and related regulations designed to promote safety on railroads and exercises jurisdiction over all areas of rail safety, such as track maintenance, inspection standards, equipment standards, and operating practices. It also administers and enforces regulations enacted pursuant to railroad safety legislation for locomotives, signals, safety appliances, power brakes, hours of service, transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles, and the reporting and investigation of railroad accidents. Railroad and related industry equipment, facilities, and records are inspected, and required reports are reviewed. In addition, the administration educates the public about safety at highway-rail grade crossings and the danger of trespassing on rail property.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established by the Highway Safety Act of 1970 (23 U.S.C.A. § 401). The NHTSA carries out programs concerning the safety performance of motor vehicles and related equipment and the safety of motor vehicle drivers, occupants, and pedestrians. The administration conducts general motor vehicle programs aimed at reducing the damage that motor vehicles sustain as a result of crashes. It also administers the federal odometer law, issues theft prevention standards, and promulgates average fuel economy standards for passenger and nonpassenger motor vehicles.
Under the NHTSA program, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards are issued that prescribe safety features and levels of safety-related performance for vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. Damage susceptibility, crashworthiness, and theft prevention are studied and reported to Congress and the public.
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended (42 U.S.C.A. § 6201), sets automotive fuel economy standards for passenger cars for model years 1985 and thereafter. The NHTSA has the option of altering the standards for the post-1985 period. The NHTSA develops and promulgates mandatory fuel economy standards for light trucks for each model year and administers the fuel economy regulatory program. The administration also establishes rules for collecting and reporting information concerning manufacturers' ability to meet fuel economy standards. This information is used to evaluate technological alternatives and manufacturers' economic ability to meet fuel economy standards.
The NHTSA maintains a national register of information on individuals who have had their licenses to operate a motor vehicle revoked, suspended, canceled, or denied, or who have been convicted of certain traffic-related violations, such as driving while impaired by alcohol or other drugs. The information obtained from the register assists state licensing officials in determining whether to issue a driver's license.
The Highway Safety Act provides federal matching funds to states and local communities to assist them with their highway safety programs. Areas of primary emphasis include impaired driving, occupant protection, motorcycle safety, police traffic services, pedestrian and bicycle safety, emergency medical services, speed control, and traffic records. The NHTSA provides guidance and technical assistance in all of these areas. The Highway Safety Act also provides incentive funds for encouraging states to implement effective impaired-driving programs and to encourage the use of safety belts and motorcycle helmets.
Federal Transit Administration
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) was established as a component of the DOT in 1968. The FTA works with public and private
mass transportation companies to develop improved mass transportation facilities, equipment, techniques, and methods. The administration encourages the planning and establishment of area-wide urban mass transportation systems, helps state and local governments finance such systems, and provides financial assistance to state and local governments to increase mobility for older, disabled, and economically disadvantaged persons.
Maritime Administration
The Maritime Administration was transferred to the DOT in 1981. The Maritime Administration conducts programs to aid in the development, promotion, and operation of the U.S. merchant marine. It is also charged with organizing and directing emergency merchant ship operations.
Through the Maritime Subsidy Board, the Maritime Administration handles subsidy programs under which the federal government, subject to statutory limitations, pays the difference between certain costs of operating ships under the U.S. flag and foreign competitive flags. The government also subsidizes the difference between the costs of constructing ships in U.S. and foreign shipyards. The Maritime Administration provides financing guarantees for the construction, reconstruction, and reconditioning of ships and enters into capital construction fund agreements that grant tax deferrals on moneys to be used for the acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of ships.
The administration constructs or supervises the construction of merchant-type ships for the federal government. It helps industry generate increased business for U.S. ships and conducts programs to promote domestic shipping and to develop ports, facilities, and intermodal transport.
Under emergency conditions the Maritime Administration charters government-owned ships to U.S. operators, requisitions or procures ships owned by U.S. citizens, and allocates them to meet defense needs. It maintains a National Defense Reserve Fleet of government-owned ships that it operates through ship managers and general agents when required for the national defense. An element of this activity is the Ready Reserve Force, consisting of a number of ships that can be activated for quick response.
The administration regulates sales to aliens and transfers to foreign registry of ships that are fully or partially owned by U.S. citizens. It also disposes of government-owned ships found nonessential for national defense.
The administration operates the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, where young people are trained to become merchant marine officers, and conducts training in shipboard firefighting in Earle, New Jersey, and Toledo, Ohio. It also administers a federal assistance program for the maritime academies operated by California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Texas.
St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation was established by Congress in 1954 (33 U.S.C.A. §§ 981–990) as an operating administration of the DOT. The corporation, a wholly government-owned enterprise, is responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of the part of the St. Lawrence Seaway that is between the port of Montreal and Lake Erie and within the territorial limits of the United States. It is the function of the Seaway Corporation to provide a safe, efficient, and effective water artery for maritime commerce, both in peacetime and in time of national emergency.
The corporation coordinates its activities with its Canadian counterpart, particularly with respect to overall operations, traffic control, navigation aids, safety, navigation dates, and related programs designed to fully develop the seaway system. The corporation encourages the development of traffic through the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway system in order to contribute to the economic and environmental development of the entire region.
Research and Special Programs Administration
The Research and Special Programs Administration was established in 1977. It is responsible for hazardous materials transportation and pipeline safety, transportation emergency preparedness, safety training, and transportation research and development activities.
The september 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when four commercial airliners were hijacked by terrorists who flew two of them into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon (the fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania), had a significant impact on the Department of Transportation. In November 2001, Congress passed legislation that created within the DOT the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), an agency established to increase airport security. The following November the Homeland Security Act was passed, which authorized the establishment of the homeland security department. On March 1, 2003, the new department assumed management of the United States Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration, both of which had been operating administrations of the DOT.
Although no longer in charge of overseeing the protection of airline passengers, the Department of Transportation remained responsible for the safety of Americans traveling on the nation's highways. To that end the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) was making efforts in early 2003 to collaborate with other DOT components, federal agencies, state and local officials, business associations and the private sector to develop a plan for "emergency transportation operations preparedness." The purpose of the plan is to engage in regional and local cooperation and planning to facilitate the safe, continuous movement of people and goods during a national security event or emergency.
Cobb, Roger W., and David M. Primo. 2003. The Plane Truth: Airline Crashes, the Media, and Transportation Policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.
Sweet, Kathleen M. 2002. Terrorism and Airport Security. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen.
Transportation Department. Available online at <www.dot.gov> (accessed August 14, 2003).
Airlines; Automobiles.
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T 1040/04 (Floor covering/UNILIN) of 23.3.2006
E04F 15/04
F16B 5/00
Decision text in EN (PDF, 76.704K)
Floor covering, consisting of hard floor panels
Unilin Beheer B.V.
Otger Terhürne Holzwerke GmbH & Co. KG
Berry Finance N.V.
ROYSOL
The following question is referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal:
Can a patent which has been granted on a divisional application which did not meet the requirements of Article 76(1) EPC because at its actual date of filing it extended beyond the content of the earlier application, be amended during opposition proceedings in order to overcome the ground of opposition under Article 100(c) EPC and thereby fulfill said requirements?
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 100(c)
Amendment of a patent granted on a divisional application -Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
I. According to the decision dated 2 August 2004 the Opposition Division maintained European Patent No. 1 024 234 in amended form on the basis of the fourth auxiliary request with the following claim 1, which had been amended, with respect to claim 1 as granted, by the addition of the passages in bold and by the omission of the text in square brackets:
" Floor covering,
(a) consisting of hard floor panels (1)
(b) which are rectangular, i.e. elongated or square, and
(c) which have a first pair as well as a second pair of opposite sides (2-3, 26-27),
(d) said panels (1) at least at the edges of the second pair of opposite sides, being provided with coupling parts (4-5, 28-29), substantially in the form of a tongue (9-31) and a groove (10-32),
(e) whereby these coupling parts (4-5, 28-29) are provided with integrated mechanical locking means (6) comprising respective locking elements (11-13, 33-34, 46-47) extending in the longitudinal direction of the related edges,
(f) which locking means (6) are made in one piece with the core (8) of the panels (1),
(g) whereby, in the coupled condition of two of such panels (1), the coupling parts (4-5, 28-29) together with said locking means (6) provide a locking
g1) in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the panels (1),
g2) as well as in a direction perpendicular to the coupled edges and parallel to the plane of the panels (1),
(h) whereby the basic material of the floor panels (1), in other words, the material of the core (8), [substantially] consists of HDF-board or MDF-board,
(i) said coupling parts and locking means (6) being formed out of said core (8) are realized in such a manner that two of these floor panels (1) can be engaged by shifting them laterally in a substantially planar fashion towards each other, thereby providing
i1) a snap-together connection
i2) in which said locking elements grip behind each other and
i3) in which the coupling parts (4-5,28-29) and the locking means (6) provide for an interlocking, free from play, according to all the directions in the plan which is situated perpendicular to the panel edges, so that the subsequent development of gaps on the upper surface of the floor covering is excluded."
The description of the patent according to the fourth auxiliary request, as maintained by the Opposition Division, contained amendments, one of which was the deletion of paragraph [0016].
II. The disputed patent was granted on the basis of European divisional patent application No. 00 201 515.4 filed in accordance with Article 76 EPC on the basis of earlier European patent application No. 97 928 169.8 filed on 7 June 1997 and published as WO-A-97/47834.
The earlier EP application No. 97 928 169.8 claimed the following priorities:
- BE 9600527 filed on 11 June 1996, and
- BE 9700344 filed on 15 April 1997.
III. Grant of the patent was opposed by opponents OI, OI' and OII - OVII. At the conclusion of the opposition proceedings, the Opposition Division found that the grounds of opposition, namely insufficient disclosure (Article 100(b) EPC), added subject-matter (Article 100(c) EPC) and lack of novelty and inventive step (Article 100(a) EPC), did not prejudice the maintenance of the patent in amended form.
During the assessment of novelty and inventive step, the Opposition Division further found that the invention as claimed was entitled, not only to the second claimed priority (BE 9700344 of 15 April 1997), but also to the first claimed priority (BE 9600527 filed on 11 June 1996).
IV. An appeal was lodged against this decision by the Proprietor of the patent. Appeals were also filed by Opponents OI, OI', OII, OV, OVI, OVII. However, during the appeal proceedings Opponents OI, OI', OII, OIII, OV and OVI withdrew their opposition.
A further opposition was filed by an intervening party (OVIII) during the appeal procedure in accordance with Article 105 EPC.
To summarize, the parties remaining in the appeal proceedings and the corresponding relevant dates are:
- Appellant I: Proprietor;
Appeal filed on 4 October 2004, appeal fee paid on the same day and the statement of the grounds of appeal received on 9 December 2004;
- Appellant II: Opponent OVII:
Appeal filed on 4 August 2004, appeal fee paid on the same day and the statement of grounds of appeal received on 10 December 2004;
- Intervening Party: Opponent OVIII:
Intervention filed on 14 February 2006, appeal and opposition fees paid on the same day and the statement of grounds of appeal received on the same day;
- Party as of right: Opponent OIV.
V. Appellant I requested that the decision under appeal be set aside (except for the fifth auxiliary request) and that the patent be maintained on the basis of the main request or one of four auxiliary requests filed on 9 December 2004, or of one of the sixth or seventh requests filed on 9 March 2006, or of one of the auxiliary requests eight to eleven filed on 21 February 2006.
According to the fifth auxiliary request, Appellant I requested that the appeal of Appellant II be dismissed.
VI. Claim 1 of the main request has the following wording:
"Floor covering,
(h) whereby the basic material of the floor panels (1), in other words, the material of the core (8), consists of HDF-board or MDF-board,
characterized in that
i3) in which the coupling parts (4-5,28-29) and the locking means (6) are configured such that the panels (1) in coupled condition, at the related edges, are connected in a manner free of play."
This claim is similar to claim 1 of the main request dated 8 June 2004, which had been refused by the Opposition Division, but with the difference that the term "substantially" has been deleted in the pre-characterising feature (h).
The Opposition Division considered that the main request dated 8 June 2004 comprised subject-matter, which extended beyond the content of the earlier application as filed, contrary to Article 76(1) EPC. This objection was then deemed to be overcome by the amendments (mainly in feature i3) made to claim 1, which was submitted as the fourth auxiliary request and was duly maintained by the Opposition Division (see paragraph I above).
VII. Appellant II and the Intervening Party requested that the decision under appeal be set aside and that the patent No. 1 024 234 be revoked.
Appellant II further requested that the proceedings be suspended until the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) had reached a decision in pending case G 1/05.
VIII. During the oral proceedings held on 23 March 2006, the sole item of discussion was whether the filing of divisional European patent application No. 00 201 515.4 and the subsequent grant of patent No. 1 024 234 met the requirements of Articles 76(1) and 100(c) EPC respectively.
(a) Appellant II argued as follows:
The description of the divisional application as filed and of the patent as granted contained a relatively long paragraph ([0017] in the application as published and paragraph [0016] in the granted patent), which had been added to the description as filed in the earlier application WO-A-97/47834.
The added paragraph listed a large number of additional features of the invention, which were to be taken into consideration either in isolation or in any possible combination. Some of these combinations defined new embodiments, which had not been disclosed in the earlier application.
Additionally, the feature defined at column 3, lines 51 to 56 of the published divisional application (EP-A-1 024 234) relating to an angle (a) "different from 90 degrees", had no support in the earlier application WO-A-97/47834, where the same angle (a) had been limited to "smaller than 90 degrees" (see page 13, lines 13 to 16).
Since the referral under consideration in G 1/05 deals with the same type of deficiency with respect to Article 76(1) EPC, the proceedings should be suspended until the decision of the EBA is issued.
(b) Appellant I argued as follows:
Firstly, the objection under Article 76(1) EPC was not set out in the statements of grounds of appeal by the Opponents. It was only raised because of the referral G 1/05, which occurred a year later. This is a new objection and a new ground of appeal and as such should not be allowed into the proceedings.
Secondly, the feature of defining an angle different from 90 degrees does not provide the skilled person with new information, which can not be derived from the earlier application. An angle greater than 90 degrees would not allow a lateral snap-in connection or an angling engagement of the panel couplings, so that for the skilled person "different" clearly means less than 90 degrees. In addition, even if angle (a) were greater than 90 degrees, there would always be an angle smaller than 90 degrees between the horizontal plane and the tangent line (l), i.e. the complementary angle to (a).
Appellant I emphasised that if the Board were to consider the possibility of a deficiency with respect to Article 76(1) EPC, mere suspension of the appeal procedure would not be appropriate in view of the question before the EBA in G 1/05, but rather, that an additional question should be referred to the EBA.
(c) After the debate on the issue related to Articles 76(1) and 100(c) EPC had been closed and after due deliberation the Board announced that:
"With regard to the pending referral in case G 1/05 it will of its own motion refer a further question of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal in respect of an already granted patent."
(d) The other formal and substantive issues to the appeal have not been considered at this stage of the appeal procedure.
1. The appeals comply with the provisions of Articles 106 to 108 EPC and of Rules 1(1) and 64 EPC and are, therefore, admissible.
The intervention complies with the provisions of Article 105 EPC and is also admissible. This was not contested by the parties to the proceedings.
2. The issue of Article 76(1) EPC has already been discussed during the opposition proceedings and concerned both the claims and the description.
It appears from the annex to the summons to attend oral proceedings issued by the Opposition Division on 13 February 2004 (see especially item 5 on pages 4 and 5) that paragraph [0016] of the description of the patent as granted was, along with other parts of the patent, deemed to contain fresh subject-matter over the earlier application.
By letter dated 8 June 2004, in reply to this summons, the proprietor deleted paragraph [0016].
In its decision, the Opposition Division further objected that claim 1 of the main request covered embodiments wherein a visible gap could be present after initial laying of the floor panels (see for instance the last paragraph of item 2.1.2 of the reasons, page 13 of the decision), and that these embodiments would not have solved the problem defined on page 3 of the description of the earlier application.
The Opposition Division reasoned that feature i3) of claim 1:
"in which the coupling parts (4-5,28-29) and the locking means (6) are configured such that the panels (1) in coupled condition, at the related edges, are connected in a manner free of play"
made no mention of the absence of gaps and the prevention of their subsequent development.
It is apparent from the decision as a whole, that the Opposition Division considered that in order to meet the requirements of Article 76(1) EPC, independent claim 1 needed to include in the definition of the invention feature i3), as set out in claim 1 of the fourth auxiliary request.
Feature i3) reads:
"in which the coupling parts (4-5,28-29) and the locking means (6) provide for an interlocking, free from play, according to all the directions in the plan which is situated perpendicular to the panel edges, so that the subsequent development of gaps on the upper surface of the floor covering is excluded."
3. During the appeal proceedings, the question arose as to whether a granted patent based on a divisional application could be amended in the opposition phase in order to overcome the objection under Article 100(c) in combination with Article 76(1) EPC. This issue became of relevance as a consequence of the referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (G 1/05, see decision T 39/03 - 3.4.2 dated 26 August 2005), which raises in question (1) a similar point of law, but in the context of examination proceedings.
3.1 In the present case, the facts relating to the requirements of Article 76(1) EPC are as follows.
During the opposition procedure, paragraph [0016] of the description of the patent as granted was deleted.
This paragraph was part of the divisional application, as filed, (see paragraph [0017] of the published application) but was not present in the earlier application WO-A-97/47834.
For the following reasons, the Board considers that there is at least one feature present in said paragraph, which defines subject-matter extending beyond the content of the earlier application.
The feature concerned is the angle (a), which is defined as being between the tangent line (l) determined by the contact surfaces of the locking elements and the underside of the floor panels; this angle is illustrated in figures 7, 9 and 23. In paragraph [0017], column 3, lines 51 to 56 of the published divisional application (EP-A-1 024 234), and in paragraph [0016], column 3, lines 50 to 55 of the patent specification, the value of angle (a) is defined as being "different from 90 degrees", whereas in the earlier application (WO-A-97/47834), the angle (a) was either defined as being smaller than 90 degrees (embodiment of figures 5 to 7 and for instance page 13, line 16, and page 14, lines 27 to 29), or as being 90º (embodiment of figure 8).
The extended subject-matter thus resides in the new embodiments having an angle (a) greater than 90 degrees.
3.2 The arguments of Appellant I, that the feature defining an angle different from 90 degrees did not provide the skilled person with new information, are not convincing. As observed by Appellant II, it would seem possible to permit a lateral snap-in connection or an angling engagement of the panel couplings with an angle (a) greater than 90 degrees.
Accordingly, the skilled person would not implicitly and automatically read "different from 90 degrees" as meaning "smaller than 90 degrees". Since angle (a), as illustrated in figures 7, 9 and 23, is always shown as the angle formed in counter clockwise direction between the horizontal plane and the tangent line (l), there is no room for interpretation of this definition as suggested by Appellant I by referring to the complementary angle.
3.3 The Board therefore concludes that the requirements of Article 76(1) EPC were neither met by the divisional application at its filing date, nor by the patent as granted.
4. This conclusion is relevant to the maintenance of the patent in amended form according to any one of the requests filed by Appellant I irrespective of any other possible objections under Article 76(1) EPC concerning the claims or other parts of the description.
5. Referral
5.1 Having regard to the wording of Article 100 EPC which reads:
"Opposition may only be filed on the grounds that:
(a) ...
(b) ...
(c) the subject-matter of the European patent extends beyond the content of the application as filed, or if the patent was granted on a divisional application ..., beyond the content of the earlier application as filed.",
the infringement of this provision, which corresponds exactly to the wording of Article 76 EPC, constitutes expressis verbis a ground of opposition to a European patent granted on a divisional application.
In G 1/95 (OJ EPO 1996, 615, see paragraphs 4.1 and 4.2 of the Reasons) the Enlarged Board of appeal construed the function of Article 100 EPC as being to provide, within the framework of the Convention, a limited number of legal bases, i.e. a limited number of objections on which an opposition can be based.
All grounds for opposition mentioned in Article 100 EPC have their counterpart in other Articles of the EPC, which have to be met during the procedure up to grant.
In particular, the grounds of opposition in Article 100(c) EPC relates to a single separate and clearly delimited legal basis on which an opposition can be based, i.e. unallowable amendment before grant.
On the other hand, Article 123 EPC, in conjunction with Rule 57a EPC, allows the proprietor to amend a European patent after it has been granted, provided that the amendment is occasioned by one of the grounds of opposition specified in Article 100 EPC, i.e. including the aforesaid grounds set out in Article 100(c) EPC.
A purely syllogistic approach would then lead to the logical conclusion, from the combination of Article 100 and Rule 57a EPC, that the proprietor may amend his patent, in order to overcome the objection that the divisional application on which it was granted extended beyond the content of the earlier application as filed. This right has been constantly acknowledged and put into practice by the Boards of Appeal.
5.2 Nevertheless the following first question of law was referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal by Board 3.4.02 in their decision T 39/03 dated 26 August 2005:
"(1) Can a divisional application which does not meet the requirements of Article 76(1) EPC because, at its actual filing date, it extends beyond the content of the earlier application, be amended later in order to make it a valid divisional application?"
5.3 Although this referral in G 1/05 deals with the corresponding deficiency in respect of the requirements of Article 76(1) EPC, it applies only to examination proceedings.
It is in the interest of the proper administration of justice not to prejudge in any way a future decision of the Enlarged Board. It is also not appropriate to suspend the appeal proceedings until said decision had been reached, since the possibility that the first question in G 1/05 (above) be answered in the negative cannot be excluded. If that were to be the outcome of G 1/05, the present Board would remain confronted with the important point of law of the possible prohibition on amending a granted patent, i.e. a title deed to intellectual property, as compared with an application. To answer the question while the aforesaid referral is still pending would, in fact, amount to an usurpation of the competence "ratione legis" of the EBA.
5.4 The present Board therefore refers the following question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of its own motion.
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T 0820/92 (Contraceptive method) of 11.1.1994
A61K 37/56
Continuous delivery of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone compositions in combination with sex steroid delivery for use as a contraceptive
The General Hospital Corporation
In the case of a method involving administration of two or more substances (here: an LHRH contraceptive composition and oestrogenic and/or progestational steroids) the question for the purposes of Article 52(4) EPC is not whether the main or even the only reason for carrying out the whole of the claimed method is non-therapeutic. Rather a method claim falls under the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC already if the purpose of the administration of one of the substances is a treatment by therapy, and the administration of this substance is a feature of the claim (cf. point 5.9 of the Reasons).
Patentability of a contraceptive method involving a concurrent therapeutic step (no)
Presence of one step prohibited under Article 52(4) EPC prevents method being allowable
I. European patent application No. 87 902 913.0 filed as an International patent application and published under No. WO 87/05514 was refused by the Examining Division.
The decision was taken on the basis of Claims 1 to 13 filed by letter dated 26 April 1991.
II. The ground for refusal was that Claims 8 to 13 did not comply with the requirements of Article 57 EPC.
The decision was essentially based on the following reasons:
(a) Claims 8 to 13 related to a method for preventing pregnancy in female mammals, inter alia human females (cf. Claim 9). The claims encompassed the personal and private use of the contraceptive (cf. Claim 10: oral intake).
(b) Notwithstanding the lack of an explicit exclusion from patentability in the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the absence of case law thereupon, it was current practice of the European Patent Office (EPO) not to allow claims to methods of contraception of a human female where such methods involved the personal and private use of a substance. This was because the said use did not fall within the definition of industrial application set forth in Article 57 EPC.
(c) Decision T 144/83, OJ EPO 1986, 301, referred to by the Applicant, was not concerned with a method of contraception, but with a cosmetic method. Although the said decision implied that the private oral administration of non-therapeutic substances was acceptable under Article 57 EPC, the highly personal and confidential nature of contraception clearly distinguished the methods for preventing pregnancy from cosmetic methods and from the administration of food.
III. The Appellant lodged an appeal against this decision and paid the appeal fee. First and second auxiliary requests were filed by the Appellant with the Statement of Grounds of appeal.
IV. In an official communication pursuant to Article 110(2) EPC the Board indicated two further questions to be taken into consideration, namely, (i) whether the combination of a contraceptive method with a therapeutic method was excluded from patentability under Article 52(4) EPC and (ii) whether any of the requests on file met the requirements of Article 84 EPC.
V. During oral proceedings which took place on 11 January 1994 a new main request and a first and second auxiliary request were filed in one version for all States.
Claim 1 of the main request reads as follows:
"A delivery system for preventing pregnancy in a female mammal, comprising:
(1) a first delivery system, for administration to said mammal during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, comprising a contraceptive effective amount of an LHRH composition and a physiologically effective amount of an estrogenic steroid; and,
(2) a second delivery system, for administration to said mammal during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, comprising a contraceptive effective amount of an LHRH composition, a physiologically effective amount of an estrogenic steroid and a physiologically effective amount of progestational steroid."
Claims 2 to 7 relate to specific embodiments of the delivery system according to Claim 1.
"A method for preventing pregnancy in a female mammal, comprising:
(a) administering via a delivery system a contraceptive effective amount of an LHRH composition and a physiologically effective amount of an estrogenic steroid to said female during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, beginning at the onset of normal menses in said female; and,
(b) replacing first said delivery system at the end of said follicular phase with a second delivery system, wherein said second delivery system administers a contraceptive effective amount of an LHRH composition, a physiologically effective amount of an estrogenic steroid and a physiologically effective amount of progestational steroid to said female during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, until the beginning of the normal menses in said female."
Claims 9 to 13 relate to specific embodiments of the method according to Claim 8.
The first auxiliary request differs from the main request in that Claim 8 reads as follows:
"The use of an LHRH composition, an estrogenic steroid and a progestational steroid in the preparation of an agent for preventing pregnancy in a female mammal, the agent comprising:
Dependent Claims 9 to 14 therein relate to specific embodiments of the said use.
The second auxiliary request differs from the main request in that Claims 8 to 13 are deleted.
The Appellant's arguments with respect to the objection raised by the Board under Article 52(4) EPC are essentially as follows:
(a) While the oestrogenic and progestational steroids were not added in the delivery system of the present application as contraceptive, but to correct any biological functions adversely effected by the LHRH, the overall effect of the claimed delivery system was a contraceptive effect. Therapy was not the subject-matter of the claims. The method claims, in particular, were directed to the prevention of pregnancy and not to a therapeutic application. The presence in the delivery system of physiologically effective amounts of oestrogenic and progestational steroids was to be regarded merely as an "advantage" of the system by which any health problems caused by the main contraceptive ingredient (LHRH composition) were alleviated.
(b) Reference was made to the case law of United Kingdom, France and Germany to show that:
(i) pregnancy was not a disease;
(ii) contraception was not regarded as a form of disease therapy;
(iii) contraception was therefore not a method of medical treatment by virtue of national case law or medical definition.
Thus, since the present method claims were directed only to the prevention of pregnancy, no exclusion under Article 52(4) EPC should apply.
(c) According to the established European case law, any exceptions to patentability should be construed narrowly (see, for example, T 320/87 OJ EPO 1990, 71, point 6 and T 19/90 OJ EPO 1990, 476, point 4.5).
In cases T 144/83 (loc.cit.) and T 36/83 (OJ EPO 1986, 295) where no clear distinction was possible between the therapeutic and the cosmetic effect the Board did not allow this to work to the disadvantage of the Applicant and allowed the method for cosmetic treatment.
In decision T 290/86 (OJ EPO 1992, 414) the Board emphasised the importance of the wording of a claim for deciding whether or not a claimed invention should be excluded from patentability under Article 52(4) EPC. In the light of the latter decision, the exclusion from patentability under Article 52(4) EPC would be justified only if the present method claims were directed to "the use of steroids for preventing or alleviating the side effects of LHRH". However, the present claims were directed to a method for preventing pregnancy; thus, they should be allowed.
(d) according to decision T 208/84 (OJ EPO 1987, 14), even if the idea underlying an invention might be considered to reside in a mathematical method (which was per se excluded from patentability under Article 54(2)(a) EPC), a claim directed to a technical process in which the method was used did not seek protection for the mathematical method as such and, therefore, was not excluded from patentability. In the light of said decision, no exclusion under Article 52(4) EPC should apply in the present case because the claimed method of contraception did not seek protection for the therapeutic effect of the added oestrogenic and progestational steroids.
The Appellant also submitted other arguments relating to the grounds of rejection by the Examining Division.
VI. The Appellant requested that the decision under appeal be set aside and that a patent be granted on the basis of the main request, or the first auxiliary request or second auxiliary request, as submitted during the oral proceedings.
1. The appeal is admissible.
2. Formal admissibility of the new sets of claims (Article 123(2) EPC)
The Claim 1 of each request has been amended to make clear that the delivery systems actually comprise an LHRH composition and one or more steroids, thus overcoming the clarity objection raised in the first official communication by the Board. This amendment finds its basis in the original application documents (see, for example, page 12, lines 11 to 18 and page 4, second paragraph).
Moreover, in Claim 1 of all requests and in Claim 8 of the main and first auxiliary request the effective amount of the oestrogenic and progestational steroid has been qualified by the introduction of the adverb "physiologically". This amendment finds a basis in the original application documents (see, for example, page 10, lines 21 to 22 and page 11, lines 4 to 5).
Thus, no objection under Article 123(2) EPC arises.
3. Clarity (Article 84 EPC)
The claimed subject-matter is adequately defined to meet the requirements of Article 84 EPC. The adopted functional language ("contraceptive effective amount" and "physiologically effective amount") is allowable and in line with the case law (see in particular T 68/85, OJ EPO 1987, 228).
4. Patentability of the product Claims 1 to 7 of all requests
During substantive examination the Examining Division acknowledged the patentability under Article 52(1) EPC of the delivery system according to Claims 1 to 7 (see appealed decision, point 8). Also in the Board's view, none of the available prior art documents, alone or in combination, discloses or suggests the claimed delivery system. This is, therefore, considered patentable under the provisions of Articles 54 and 56 EPC.
No other objections to the patentability of these claims were seen.
5. Main request: the method Claims 8 to 13.
5.1. Claim 8 is directed to a method for preventing pregnancy in a female mammal. The contraceptive effect on the female mammal is ensured through the administration of an LHRH composition.
The administration of the large doses of LHRH compositions which are necessary to block ovulation in the female produces a reversible and complete biochemical castration at pituitary level which results in a total suppression of gonadotropin and ovarian steroids secretions (estradiol and progesterone) (see present description pages 2 to 3). This pituitary quiescence leads to the side effects of oestrogen deficiency, including hot flashes, vaginal dryness and, most ominously, osteopenia and osteoporosis (see description, page 3, lines 23 to 29; page 10, lines 26 to 28 and page 11, second paragraph).
The oestrogenic and progestational steroids are administered according to the claimed method not to maintain or reinforce the contraceptive effect of LHRH, but only to "mimic the physiological secretion of steroids in the menstrual cycle" (see page 5, lines 5 to 7. of the description) and thereby to counteract the above side effects. In fact, "physiologically" effective amounts of the said steroids are administered in order to compensate for the total suppression of their secretion caused by the LHRH composition.
5.2. It is established case law that a prophylactic treatment, aimed at maintaining health by preventing ill effects that would otherwise arise, amounts to a method for treatment by therapy as referred to in Article 52(4) EPC, and that therapy is not limited to treatments which restore health by curing diseases which have already arisen (T 144/83, loc.cit.; T 81/84, OJ EPO 1988, 207; T 19/86, OJ EPO 1989, 25; G 5/83, OJ EPO 1985, 64).
In the present case while the treatment of the female mammal with the LHRH composition is carried out to produce the desired contraceptive effect, the concurrent treatment with the oestrogenic and progestational steroids is carried out not to produce any contraceptive effect but as a prophylactic treatment which avoids the ill consequences which would otherwise occur as a result of the use of the LHRH composition. This latter step is a treatment by therapy within the meaning of Article 52(4) EPC.
5.3. The Appellant sought to avoid this conclusion by arguing that the method as a whole is a contraceptive method and that this avoids the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC applying to the claim. This argument is based on a misconception of the nature of the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC. By providing that methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods practised on the human or animal body shall not be regarded as inventions which are susceptible of industrial application, the first sentence of Article 52(4) EPC creates an exclusion from patentability that has been consistently interpreted by the EPO Boards of Appeal as meaning that such a method cannot be the subject-matter or part of the subject matter covered by a claim.
5.4. The parallel drawn by the Appellant with case T 208/84 (VICOM) (loc.cit.) is not considered pertinent. Article 52(2) EPC provides that certain activities of an abstract and intellectual character shall not be regarded as inventions, but Article 52(3) EPC provides that this exclusion applies only to the activities as such. This has been interpreted as meaning only that a claim directed to such activities per se is not allowable but that a claim is allowable where the interaction of such an activity with something else can be regarded as an invention. This contrasts with the position under Article 52(4) EPC which prevents the methods specified from being patented, even though otherwise they might be considered as an invention susceptible of industrial application as required by Article 52(1) EPC. It is to be noted that no provision similar to Article 52(3) EPC limits the exclusion of Article 52(4) EPC.
5.5. The decided cases show that in considering whether a request for a particular set of claims is allowable under Article 52(4) EPC, the critical question is whether there is any disclosure of a method none of whose steps fall under the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC, i.e. none of whose steps are either a method for the treatment of the human or animal by therapy or surgery, or a diagnostic method practised on the human or animal body. The question is not merely one of having a suitably worded claim, but whether on the disclosure of the case such a method claim is allowable at all.
5.6. No method claim was considered allowable in case T 290/86 (loc.cit.) because the disclosed method of eliminating plaque inevitably had the therapeutic effect of prevention of caries and periodontal disease, and so fell under the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC, irrespective of the fact that removal of plaque could also have the cosmetic effect of improving the appearance of the teeth.
Nor was a method claim considered allowable in case T 780/89 (OJ EPO 1993, 440) where the Appellants argued that immunostimulation was used to improve meat production and not as a therapeutic treatment. However the Board considered that this did not alter the legal position (see Reasons, point 7) since even if more meat was produced because fewer animals became sick or died, the method for which patent protection was claimed remained a therapeutic treatment.
In case T 116/85 (OJ EPO 1989, 13) the Board considered that the particular use disclosed of a pesticidal composition to treat pigs to remove ectoparasites (mange mites) amounted to a therapeutic treatment, so that claims to this use fell under the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC even though in general agricultural uses were patentable. It did not accept that merely because such a method carried out by a farmer could be considered industrial this would make the method lose its character of being treatment by therapy.
In each of these three cases the Appellant had failed to satisfy the Board that the method claims were not directed to a use prohibited by Article 52(4) EPC.
5.7. In case T 144/83 (loc.cit.), particularly relied on by the Appellant, the Board considered that the claimed use of an appetite suppressant was unrelated to the therapy of the human or animal body, and that the claims were formulated to clearly relate to a non-therapeutic use. The decision thus turns on the facts found by the Board in that particular case. It is also said there that exclusions from patentability such as Article 52(4) EPC must be construed narrowly and should not apply to treatments which are not therapeutic in character, and that the difficulty in distinguishing between a therapeutic and a cosmetic effect should not be allowed to work to the disadvantage of the Applicant who, according to the wording of his claims, seeks patent protection for cosmetic treatment but not for the therapeutic treatment as such. This must be seen in the context of the view of the Board that a non-therapeutic use of this particular treatment clearly existed. The case is no authority for the propositions that if there is any doubt as to whether the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC applies it must be resolved in the applicant's favour, or that something described as a cosmetic treatment can ipso facto be considered as non- therapeutic.
In T 36/83 (loc.cit.) the Board found that there was described both a novel non-medical use and a novel medical use of thenoyl peroxide, particularly as a comedolytic, and accordingly allowed both a claim to a cosmetic use, and a claim to the compound for use in a method of therapeutic treatment for the human or animal body under the provisions of Article 54(5) EPC. In reaching this conclusion the Board treated the use of the word "cosmetic" in the context of this application as sufficient to exclude therapeutic uses, without the need for a specific disclaimer of such uses.
In each of these cases the Board had thus satisfied itself that no method of treatment by therapy was covered by the claims it allowed.
5.8. In case T 182/90 of 30 July 1993 (Headnote published in OJ EPO, 1993, Vol. 11, page XVII), method claims were allowed even though one step of the method included a surgical step on a living animal. But they were allowed (see Reasons, point 2.5.2) on the basis that the method used in that case consciously ended in the laboratory animal's death, and this prevented the surgical step from being considered a prohibited treatment by surgery. The Board stated in Reasons, point 2.5.1, that normally the presence of a surgical step in a multi-step method for treatment on the human or animal body confers a surgical character on that method, which would bring it within the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC.
5.9. In the case of a method involving administration of two or more substances, the question for the purposes of Article 52(4) EPC is not whether the main or even the only reason for carrying out the whole of the claimed method is non-therapeutic. Rather a method claim falls under the prohibition of Article 52(4) EPC already if the administration of one of the substances is a treatment by therapy, and the administration of this substance is a feature of the claim.
5.10. The Board considers that since the method for preventing pregnancy according to Claims 8 to 13 of the main request includes a treatment by therapy the said claims fall within the prohibition on patentability set out in Article 52(4) EPC.
5.11. Given this conclusion, there is no need to go further into the question whether, and if so, in what circumstances a patent can be granted under the European Patent Convention for a method of contraception.
6. First auxiliary request: Claims 8 to 14.
6.1. Claim 8 is directed to the use of an LHRH composition, an oestrogenic steroid and a progestational steroid in the preparation of an agent for preventing pregnancy in a female mammal, the said agent comprising a first and a second delivery system as set out in Claim 1. The claim is permissible according to decision G 5/83 (loc.cit.). This Claim 8 and, consequently, Claims 9 to 14 dependant on it, are considered patentable under the provisions of Article 52(1) EPC for the reasons already given in point 4. above. Thus, the first auxiliary request is allowable.
For these reasons, it has been decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order that a patent be granted on the basis of the claims of the first auxiliary request submitted during the oral proceedings on 11 January 1994 and a description composed of pages 1 to 5, 7 to 10 and 12 to 16. as originally filed and pages 6 and 11 as filed with the letter of 14 October 1991.
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Longines to become title partners of FEI Nations Cup Jumping
Longines will become title partner of the FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping series as part of a long-term agreement with the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), with the new partnership being celebrated at next month’s Final in Barcelona. Longines, which became the FEI’s first Top Partner in 2013, has also extended its global partnership with the FEI in a historic agreement signed in Gothenburg (SWE) today.
The landmark agreement, which was brokered by FEI President Ingmar De Vos and Longines Vice President and Head of International Marketing Juan-Carlos Capelli, is the most significant in the history of the FEI.
The initial long-term partnership between the global governing body of equestrian sport and the Swiss watch brand has another five years to run, but under the terms of the new agreement, the global partnership has now been extended.
In the year of the brand’s 185th birthday, Longines will also be title partner of the 2017 FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping Final at the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona (ESP), the iconic venue for the Olympic equestrian events at the Barcelona Games 25 years ago.
Next month’s Final will be renamed the Longines FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping Final and the series, starting from 2018, will be known as the Longines FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping.
Also included in the extended global agreement are Longines’ continued role as FEI Top Partner, and title partnership of the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League. Longines also remains Official Timekeeper and Official Watch of the FEI and Official Timekeeper of the FEI World Equestrian Games™.
Additionally, Longines will continue to invest in the development of cutting-edge time-keeping and data-handling services and related technology, together with the FEI, specifically for equestrian sport.
“This new and extended agreement with Longines is the most significant in the history of the FEI and possibly even in the history of equestrian sport”, FEI President Ingmar De Vos said. “It doesn’t just secure the long-term future of our flagship team series, the FEI Nations Cup, it provides the whole industry with a previously unseen level of support.
“We are so grateful for what Longines does for the equestrian world and the trust that they place in the FEI as a partner. It’s a logical extension of the existing very successful partnership and I know I speak for the entire equestrian community when I express my gratitude to Longines, and particularly to Mrs Nayla Hayek, Mr Walter von Känel and Mr Juan-Carlos Capelli, for their unwavering support of our sport.”
Juan-Carlos Capelli, Longines Vice President and Head of International Marketing said: “We are really proud of the strong partnership we have established with the FEI since 2013, which has made Longines a major player in this field. Since then the brand has further reinforced its association with this prestigious institution through events and series taking place all across the globe, and today, in becoming the Title Partner of the Longines FEI Nations Cup Jumping.”
“We would like to thank the President of the FEI, Mr Ingmar de Vos, as well as his team for having made this new agreement possible and we already look forward to the great Final in Barcelona, which will mark our first prominent presence at a newly-named Longines FEI Nations Cup Jumping competition.”
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USTDA Supports U.S. and Kenyan Business Partnerships in Power Sector
(USTDA) Nairobi, Kenya – Today, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency signed two grants that leverage U.S. technology solutions and investment to increase access to affordable, reliable electricity in Kenya.
USTDA is partnering with Kenyan company, Xago Africa Limited, on developing a utility scale solar photovoltaic power plant with battery storage in Siaya County, Kenya. North Carolina-based Alevo USA, Inc., a battery storage technology manufacturer will provide technology and analytics services for the project. The plant will be among the first utility-scale battery storage installations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
“Energy storage will transform transmission networks,” said Paul W. Webb, Xago Managing Director. “It will rapidly accelerate the take-up of renewables, and we are proud to be partnering Alevo, which leads the field in battery technology and network analytics.”
USTDA signed an additional grant with the Kenya Electricity Generating Company Limited (KenGen) for a study assessing the use of U.S. technology solutions to increase energy efficiency and power production. Nevada-based energy equipment manufacturer, Langson Energy, Inc., is conducting the study in partnership with KenGen.
“USTDA is pleased to facilitate new business partnerships between U.S. and Kenyan companies that can spur long-term, sustainable economic growth,” said Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Director Lida Fitts. “The adoption of innovative and cost-effective U.S. technology can help Kenya to meet its energy development goals.”
U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, Robert F. Godec, signed the grants on behalf of USTDA, at a ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, along with Eng. Albert Mugo, KenGen MD & CEO, and Xago Managing Director, Paul W. Webb.
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Froome undergoes successful six-hour operation after high-speed crash
By Eurosport
13/06/2019 at 17:41Updated 13/06/2019 at 17:45
Chris Froome has undergone a successful six-hour operation after a high-speed crash on Wednesday left him in intensive care with multiple fractures.
The Briton was flung into a wall by a sudden wind while attempting to blow his nose during a recon ride at the Criterium du Dauphine. He was travelling at 54km/h.
Froome, who was airlifted to hospital for surgery, suffered a fractured right femur, a broken hip, a fractured elbow and fractured ribs.
On Thursday, Team Ineos confirmed Froome's procedure was a success, with the six-time Grand Tour winner "actively engaging in discussing his rehabilitation options".
“First things first, the surgery was a success. The operation, which lasted for six hours, went very well," Dr Richard Usher told TeamINEOS.com.
“Chris woke up this morning and was reviewed by the intensive care consultants and the orthopaedic specialist who operated on him and they’re both very happy with his progress to date.
" Chris will remain in hospital for the next few days for observation, but he is already actively engaging in discussing his rehabilitation options, which is very encouraging."
“As he begins his road to recovery, the Team will now only be providing further updates at a stage where it is necessary to do so."
Team Ineos' statement added: "Chris has asked the Team to extend his thanks for the overwhelming number of messages of support that he’s received over the last 24 hours. They mean a lot to him."
Froome will release a statement of his own in the coming days.
Video - Team Ineos boss Dave Brailsford explains how Chris Froome crashed
Speaking on Wednesday, Team Ineos boss Dave Brailsford admitted to BBC Sport Froome was "not in great shape", with his chances of racing in the Tour de France over.
"He's been operated on to make sure that first phase of medical care is as optimal as possible and we will manage it from there. It's an evolving situation. It is concerning, there is no doubt about that," said Brailsford. "He's not in great shape. There are crashes and bad crashes and this was a bad crash."
Brailsford told Belgian media shortly after the incident that it is "pretty clear" that Froome will not be fit for the Tour de France, and revealed more details, saying:
"Our primary focus now is obviously on ensuring Chris gets the very best possible care, which he will do, so he can recover as soon as possible.
"One of our big strengths on this team is coming together in difficult moments, and we will ensure we do everything possible to support Chris and his family."
Brailsford continued: “Even though we all recognise the risks involved in our sport, it’s always traumatic when a rider crashes and sustains serious injuries.
“Chris had worked incredibly hard to get in fantastic shape and was on track for the Tour, which unfortunately he will now miss.
Froome crashed during stage four of the Criterium du DauphineGetty Images
“One of the things which sets Chris apart is his mental strength and resilience – and we will support him totally in his recovery, help him to recalibrate and assist him in pursuing his future goals and ambitions.”
Froome hit a wall at high speed during a course reconnaissance of the 26.1 km individual time trial around Roanne in central France.
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The news comes as a huge blow to the four-time Tour de France Champion, who had looked in decent form in the opening three stages of the Dauphine as his preparations continued for the 2019 Tour de France, where he was expected to be joint team leader with defending champion Geraint Thomas.
Sir Dave Brailsford has wished Froome well in his recoveryGetty Images
Froome’s crash came towards the end of his recon of Wednesday's time trial course, a stage that was expected to see him challenge for the overall lead of the Dauphine.
With Thomas expected to race at the Tour de Suisse next week and Egan Bernal on the road to recovery after an injury that ruled him out of the Giro d'Italia, Froome faced some serious competition for the lead role at Ineos in this year's Tour de France.
But all indications were that Froome had done enough to be Ineos' unofficial leader at the Tour, ahead of both Thomas and Bernal, as he aimed for an historic fifth title. Team director Dave Brailsford appeared to confirm as much when he said this week:
"We're going to do all we can to support Chris in his bid to win a fifth Tour, to cement his place in history and join the exclusive club of five-time winners. Sport is full of history and legends. We have to try and do great things, but we also have other riders to manage, too, like Geraint and Egan."
The Tour de France begins on July 6, with Thomas now likely to be Ineos' main GC contender as he looks to defend his 2018 title.
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→→Linguistics→Past Research & Resources→Documentation and Description→Dialectal and Cultural Diversity among Ėvens in Siberia
Natalia Aralova (MPI-EVA)
Alexandra Lavrillier (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
Dejan Matić (MPI fuer Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen)
Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2, Dynamique du Langage)
Evgeniya Zhivotova (MPI-EVA)
Luise Zippel (MPI-EVA)
The project was funded by Volkswagen Foundation and DoBeS Programme.
Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Traditionally, Ėvens are nomadic hunters and reindeer pastoralists. Reindeer, both domesticated and wild, play an important role in their culture and ethnic self-identification. Reindeer herding, however, has become highly endangered throughout the Russian North, which has had extremely negative effects on the Ėvens' self-perception and social relations. Therefore the project did not only seek to document the language, but also the state of reindeer herding among the Ėvens in different regional settings.
Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes. So far, only two variants of one of the dozen or more dialects have been documented to a notable extent; these variants are also the least endangered ones. Other dialects are either on the verge of extinction or moribund.
The project aimed at documenting three highly endangered variants of Ėven that currently still have enough fluent speakers to make a comprehensive documentation feasible. These are the dialect spoken in the village of Sebjan-Küöl in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), which is the westernmost Ėven dialect still spoken; the dialect spoken in the village of Topolinoe in Yakutia, which also belongs to the Western dialect group, but is in an intermediate geographic location and the dialect spoken in the Bystraja district on Kamchatka representing the Eastern dialect group. We attempted to record speech from as many fluent individuals as were willing to contribute their knowledge to the project, and to cover as wide a range of genres as possible, including folklore, procedural texts, oral life histories, and spontaneous conversations.
Given the importance of reindeer herding for Ėven culture and self-identification, a thematic focus was the collection of ethnographic and linguistic data pertaining to the domain of reindeer husbandry. To this aim, reindeer terminology was collected and illustrated photographically, and procedural texts describing various aspects of reindeer husbandry (such as the preparation of leather and the sewing of herders’ garments, the construction of the traditional nomadic yurt, the saddling and harnessing of reindeer) were elicited. This linguistic focus on reindeer was mirrored by the ethnographic documentation of the role of reindeer husbandry in the modern Ėven ways of life. A strong focus of the project was on the collection of comparable data, in order to enable the documentation of cultural and linguistic differences as well as similarities. For this purpose, the elicitation of texts and information dealing with identical topics in all three field sites was emphasized.
Sebjan-Küöl
Sebjan-Küöl (Sebjan for short) is located approximately 400-500 km to the north of Yakutsk in the Verkhoyansk mountain range, on a tributary of the Dulgalakh river, which in turn flows into the Yana river further north. For most of the year, it is reachable only by air (helicopter or small biplanes); only in late winter and early spring (from the end of December until mid- to late April) can the village be reached by truck along frozen rivers (the so-called ‘winter highway’).
Sebjan-Küöl was first founded in 1932, when it was part of the ‘national district’ of Sakkyryyr, together with other predominantly Ėven-speaking settlements further north. In 1965 the Sakkyryyr district was disbanded, and Sebjan-Küöl was included in the Kobjaj district of which it is still a part.
Sebjan is a predominantly Ėven village with not quite 800 inhabitants, of which approximately 85% are registered as Ėvens, with the remainder being predominantly Sakha (Yakuts). Its isolated location might account for the fact that the Ėven language in Sebjan is currently still being transmitted to (some) children, although Sakha (Yakut) has taken over as the dominant language in public use. The village subsists mainly on reindeer breeding, with 11 reindeer brigades herding over 15,000 reindeer, several thousands of which are privately owned. Life amongst the reindeer herders of Sebjan-Küöl in the 1990s is vividly described in the book ‘Reindeer People’ by Piers Vitebsky.
Vitebsky, Piers (2005): Reindeer People. Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia. London et al: Harper Perennial.
Topolinoe
The village of Topolinoe is located in the Tompo District of the Republic of Sakha, some 500 km to the north-east from Yakutsk. The village is situated on the south-eastern fringe of the Verkhoyansk mountain range, on the left bank of the river Tompo, around 600m above sea level. It was founded in the early 1970s to replace the old village of Tompo, which had been the main settlement of Tompo Ėvens since the late 1940s.
There are approximately 900 people living in the village, some 800 of which are ethnic Ėvens, the others being mostly Sakha (Yakuts) and Russians. Apart from hunting, which is still an important form of subsistence, the main occupation of Tompo Ėvens is reindeer herding. Despite the adversities of the post-Soviet era, the number of reindeer belonging to the people of Topolinoe has remained comparatively large: in summer 2009, there were roughly 20,000 animals organised in 16 herds. The herds and the herders roam the taiga throughout the year along the mountain rivers of the Verkhoyansk and the Suntar-Khayata ranges. They are concentrated in three groups – the south-western group around the river Baray, the northern group around the Adyča River, and the eastern group close to the river Suntar.
These three pasturing grounds correspond to the locations of the historical groups of Ėvens which the Soviet administration first united in the Tompo District in the early 1930s and then settled together in the village of Tompo during the sedentarisation campaign in the late 1940s. These are the Baray Ėvens, who used to roam the taiga in the west, the Adyča and Memel Ėvens in the northern and in the central parts of the region, and the Suntar Ėvens in the east.
The joining of different clans has had interesting linguistic consequences. The older speakers of Tompo Ėven are still aware of the differences between the three groups: Baray Ėven shows affinities with the western dialect of Sebjan-Küöl and displays strong Sakha influence, Adyča Ėven represents a variety of the northern Indigirka dialects, while Suntar Ėven belongs to the group of dialects spreading from Oymyakon to the Sea of Okhotsk. In the speech of the middle generation, which is also the last generation to have learned Ėven as their mother tongue, the differences seem to have levelled off, giving rise to a new variety with a dominant Adyča component.
In spite of the preservation of the traditional subsistence pattern and the teaching of Ėven at school, inhabitants of Topolinoe under thirty have only a limited or no knowledge of their heritage language.
Bystraja district
The Bystraja district, which was formed in 1926, is located in the centre of the Kamchatkan Peninsula. Currently it contains only two main settlements, the administrative centre Esso, and Anavgai. The villages can be reached from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij, the capital of the Kamchatka Region (Kamchatka Krai), by a daily bus route. Esso is 530 km away from Petropavlovsk, and Anavgai lies 25 km to the northwest of Esso. In 2006, the Bystraja district counted approximately 3,000 inhabitants, of which nearly 900 (~30%) were Ėvens (Gernet 2008). Slightly less than half of the Ėvens live in Anavgai, where they are the majority group. Nowadays, the overall majority in the district is made up of Russians; in addition, there is a sizeable Koryak community that lives mostly in Anavgai.
The Ėvens appeared in Kamchatka as late as the mid-19th century, when several Ėven clans immigrated from Eastern Siberia. They led a fully nomadic way of life until the 1920s without settling down. In 1926, the settlements Anavgai, Lauchan, and Kekuk were formed, and in 1932, Esso was declared the administrative centre of the National (Ėven) Bystraja district. From the 1950s, several predominantly Ėven settlements (amongst others, Kekuk, Lauchan, and Bystraja) were closed down in the course of the enlargement policy of the Soviet state, in which smaller collective farms were merged into larger units. The inhabitants of the disbanded settlements were relocated to Twajan (which was in its turn shut down in the mid-1970s), Anavgai and Esso. In the Kamchatka Region, Ėvens are also settled in the Oljutor and Penzhina districts (Burykin 2004).
The indigenous inhabitants of the Bystraja district predominantly practise hunting and fishing, in addition to several reindeer herding brigades. A characteristic feature of indigenous life in this area are also the traditional so-called ‘fishing camps’. These are autonomous homesteads consisting of a yurt as well as several outbuildings and occasionally even a vegetable patch, which are located on rivers that are visited by the salmonid runs. As a rule, older people live here year-round, while younger family members visit for the summer months.
In the Bystraja district, the Ėven language is currently severely endangered, being replaced by Russian. According to the most optimistic estimates of the speakers themselves, Ėven is only in use amongst people older than 40, and it is not being transmitted to children anymore.
Gernet, Katharina (2008) "Kulturrevolution" in Zentral-Kamtschatka: Die Integration der evenischen Rentiernomaden in die sowjetische Gesellschaft. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.
Burykin, A.A. (2004) Язык малочисленного народа в его письменной форме. Петербургское Востоковедение, Санкт-Петербург [A minority language in its written form]
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Oh, Eorl’s a jolly good fellow: Giants player Eorl Crabtree receives an Honorary Fellowship from Huddersfield University
PROP forward Eorl Crabtree swapped his rugby shirt for a cap and gown.
And the Giant was delighted to receive a special award from Huddersfield University.
The 27-year-old received an Honorary Fellowship, granted for his 10 years of loyal service to the Huddersfield Giants and the town.
It means he can use the letters Hon Fellow after his name if he wants.
Eorl, instantly recognisable for his flowing blond locks, brought along to the ceremony his proud gran Margaret Pearson, mum Lesley Pounder, dad Jerry Crabtree and wife Helen Crabtree.
The former Honley High School pupil told the Examiner: “I’m massively proud and it is also a very proud moment for my family.
“It’s a very different experience for me.
“I’m usually dressed in shorts and T-shirt and now I’m dressed in a hat and gown – I’m totally out of my comfort zone.
“It’s a bit strange, I didn’t know what to expect and what a big deal it all was until I got here.
“I’ve met Patrick Stewart and even one of the Queen’s representatives; everyone has been so nice and friendly.
“It’s a really relaxed atmosphere and the best bit about it is I’ve got to meet all the honorary graduates from all walks of life.”
During his 10 years as a Giant, Eorl has played a key role in the club’s transition from Super League strugglers to one of the most formidable sides in the game, regularly challenging for top cups.
Off the pitch he’s been an ambassador for his club and home town, which the university, sponsors of the Giants, wanted to recognise with the award.
Eorl, currently the Giants’ longest-serving player, has also spent much of his spare time supporting local charities and making public appearances.
At 6ft 6in Eorl is currently the tallest player in Super League. He said: “It’s really strange how fast the 10 years have gone.
“I started when I was 17 and now I’m 27. I’ve done so much in 10 years: it has been very eventful.
“I was born in Cleethorpes but we moved to Huddersfield when I was two; so I see myself as being from here.
“I’ve never really wanted to play for anybody else: I’ve had offers, but I’ve turned them all down.
“My heart has always been here. I’ve wanted to achieve something with Huddersfield and also play for England with some of the other Huddersfield players.”
Eorl has made more than 220 appearances for the Giants and has also become a regular member of the England squad.
He is the nephew of the professional wrestler Shirley “Big Daddy” Crabtree.
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Booker T Washington
W E B Du Bois
Washington: "An All American Educator".
There are people whose abilities, determination and energy take them far past any limitations life tries to place on them. Booker T. Washington was one of those people. He overcame a childhood of slavery and illiteracy to become the most prominent educator and leader of black Americans during the late 19th and early 20th century. Booker T. Washington uses his own unique language and writing styles to illustrate these fine qualities in his influential and awe-inspiring autobiography, Up From Slavery. .
As I began reading Washington's autobiography I became rather intrigued with the language and tone he uses when portraying his life as a young boy during his hard times of slavery and thereafter. Washington's use of language and tones expresses to me, the reader, his amount of intelligence, by using speech that is without slang and is in perfect English, which allows his story to be easily read and understandable. Washington lived in the most horrible and inhumane conditions that anyone could ever live in, and explains these conditions throughout his story. What interested me the most was the tone that he uses to explain his story. He leaves me with the feeling that he was somewhat upbeat and content with what he had to go through, instead of angry and hopeless. By using this tone in his writing, I was able to eventually gain a better perspective about the type of person Booker T. Washington really was. He was a man who speaks, not with complaint or blame, but with a sense of determination and understanding. As he explains, "I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race"(923). This shows me that his mind is so far above that of ignorance, that he is able to relinquish all senses of hate towards the people who enslaved him and his entire race. His tone fills you with a sense of hope, that anything can be achieved, and that you can overcome anything with the right amount of dedication.
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Bombardier Delivers NetJets Global with Great Fanfare
First Signature Global 6000 is incorporated into NetJets’ growing fleet.
NetJets Global 6000
Bombardier recently delivered the first Signature Global 6000 to NetJets. A big deal has been made of the delivery of this ultra-long-range business jet since it is the first Global to be delivered as part of one of the largest orders in business aviation history – a deal worth a total of $2.8 billion. Bombardier ceremoniously handed over the keys of the Global 6000 to NetJets in February and unveiled the airplane at the NBAA Convention just a few weeks ago in Orlando, Florida.
Bombardier pulled out all the stops during the delivery ceremony of NetJets’ Global 6000 at the Bombardier’s Global Completion Center hangar in Dorval, Canada. The delivery included a dramatic video (included below) that was partially projected onto the airplane itself.
“Today, NetJets has unquestionably become a part of the Bombardier family,” said Steve Ridolfi, President, Bombardier Business Aircraft.
The Global 6000 is part of NetJets’ Signature Series of new business jets, which include the latest entertainment and cockpit capabilities, including Rockwell Collins’ Pro Line Fusion flight deck. The Signature Global 6000, which NetJets calls “a home away from home,” even includes a stand up shower, a feature that may come in handy on a 13-hour leg.
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Buffett, Bezos, Dimon find health care CEO in Harvard professor
By Brittany De Lea Published June 20, 2018 Business LeadersFOXBusiness
The health care brainchild of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett officially has a chief executive.
The power trio announced on Wednesday that Dr. Atul Gawande, Ariadne Labs founder and renowned surgeon, will lead their new health care project beginning July 9.
“We said at the outset that the degree of difficulty is high and success is going to require an expert’s knowledge, a beginner’s mind, and a long-term orientation,” Bezos said in a statement. “Atul embodies all three, and we’re starting strong as we move forward in this challenging and worthwhile endeavor.”
Gawande is a practicing surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where the health care company will be headquartered. He is a New York Times bestselling author and a writer for The New Yorker. He is also a professor of public health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.
Gawande will continue to perform general and endocrine surgery during his tenure as CEO.
Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway announced in February that they were teaming up to form a health care company that aims to increase transparency and cut costs for their employees.
It is unclear at this point how exactly the three prominent business executives plan to lower health care costs, though once they have a model in place, Buffett has said he would potentially like to use it on a wider scale across the country.
Dimon told CNBC earlier this month that this will be a long-term project and that the three companies are “not looking for immediate success.”
One of the big influences the prominent U.S. corporate giants could have in the health care market is pricing leverage. They will theoretically be able to negotiate discounted rates directly with drugmakers on behalf of their massive collective network, cutting out middlemen like pharmacy benefit managers.
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‘Life of Pixel’ Kickstarter campaign launched
Posted by admin | May 7, 2013 | Desktop, Mobile, News |
Super Icon, a London based independent games development studio comprising of husband and wife team Richard and Claire Hill-Whittall and Steve Howard, have today announced that Life of Pixel, a Playstation Mobile title that has received praise from both critics and gamers, has launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to make the leap to PC, Mac, iOS and Android.
“Super Icon chose Kickstarter as a way of getting Life of Pixel onto different platforms because of the wide audience reach, this game will not only appeal to gamers, but also to artists, musicians, culture lovers, it really does span a wide range of interests” commented Claire. “Having already self-funded the development and release of Pixel on Playstation Mobile, a lot of the risk has been eliminated, “we just now need that last bit of help to get Life of Pixel onto other platforms” noted Richard.
Life of Pixel is a retro platform game with plenty of modern twists and puzzle elements. Tired of being part of the crowd, Pixel wanted to see more and learn about his background. Luckily, he happened to live right next door to a videogame museum and under the cover of darkness he sneaked in to take a look.
The game is comprised of 72 levels and is described as a journey through the early history of gaming as you will visiting a wide range of 9 classic game machine including ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Atari 2600, C64, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Gameboy & NES. The aim is for the player to collect a certain amount of gems to open the EXIT door, with the focus on completing the level in the fastest possible time.
Those interested to back Life of Pixel can click here.
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Wii » Miscellaneous » Compilation
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
Wii Rank: 386
2008 Wii Rank: 386
Two grisly titles from the popular THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD series are being compiled into one action-packed horror shooter for the Wii. Both THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2 and III will feature the original arcade experience, complete with branching storylines, over six ghoul-filled game modes and bonus content. Re-live your glory days in the arcades and mow down packs of clawing, biting undead with the new rapid-fire Wii Zapper!
Nintendo Life 03/24/08 Review 8 out of 10
TotallyGN 06/16/09 Review 5 out of 10
Nintendojo 08/14/08 Review 7 out of 10
Pelit (Finland) 05/01/08 Review 70 out of 100
NTSC uk 06/22/08 Review 6 out of 10
Gaming Target 05/27/08 Review 5 out of 10
Cubed3 05/19/08 Review 7 out of 10
gamesTM 05/01/08 Review 7 out of 10
PALGN 04/17/08 Review 6.5 out of 10
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House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return Review: 6 / 10
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With late spurt, exchange enrollment almost catches up to last year’s total
The Pulse December 20, 2018 Andy Miller 0
Health Insurance670 Health Reform442 Uninsured82
After an “avalanche’’ of sign-ups in the past week, Georgia’s final enrollment in the health insurance exchange reached close to last year’s figure. The...
After an “avalanche’’ of sign-ups in the past week, Georgia’s final enrollment in the health insurance exchange reached close to last year’s figure.
The number of late sign-ups was a surprise because enrollment had been lagging significantly just a few days ago.
Federal health officials announced that the preliminary sign-up number for 2019 coverage was 460,139, about 4 percent lower than the total reached a year ago.
The slight year-to-year drop in the state tracked national enrollment trends. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said Wednesday that the national sign-up number was 8.45 million, down from 8.82 million at the same point last year. The 4 percent drop was not the steep decline some had feared.
The exchange, created by the Affordable Care Act, was designed for people who don’t have access to employer insurance or government coverage, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Georgia’s sign-up figure roughly doubled the total enrollment as of the week before. As of Dec. 8, 233,584 Georgians had enrolled for ACA insurance.
“We had an avalanche of demand for navigator help,’’ said Kathleen Connors of Georgia Refugee Health and Mental Health, which runs the state’s program of exchange navigators, who assist people in enrolling.
She said Thursday that the 4 percent drop was not significant, “especially since there’s such a lack of public awareness that [ACA coverage] is even available.’’
President Trump is an outspoken critic of the ACA. But CMS chief Seema Verma said the administration has taken strong steps to run a smooth and efficient sign-up process and that Wednesday’s numbers are “another sign that the administration’s efforts are working,” the Associated Press reported.
For example, Verma told the AP that the website HealthCare.gov was down for less than an hour this open enrollment season. Five years ago, when the exchanges launched, website malfunctions were a major problem.
Factors that prompted the warnings of a big enrollment decrease for 2019 included Trump’s slashing of federal funds for navigators and for marketing and advertising about the exchanges.
The elimination of the individual mandate, the ACA tax penalty for people who don’t have health coverage, was also expected to depress enrollment, because more people might choose to go uninsured. And the increased availability of short-term insurance plans, which don’t offer the same level of benefits as the ACA-compliant plans on the exchanges, was seen as possibly siphoning off some of the exchange clientele.
Bill Custer, a health insurance expert at Georgia State University, said Thursday that another factor could be that more people have found jobs and are now eligible for insurance at work.
Custer said the late spurt of sign-ups is similar to that of Open Enrollments for workplace coverage and for Medicare.
He said he believes the now defunct individual mandate, as it was designed, was not an important driver for people to get coverage.
Last week, a federal judge in Texas, ruling on the latest legal challenge to the ACA, declared the entire health law unconstitutional. He cited Congress’ elimination of the tax penalty. The decision is expected to be appealed, which could be a long process, and in the meantime the ACA remains in effect.
Georgia’s final totals on exchange enrollment “show there is still a demand for individual health insurance in Georgia, and policymakers can take steps to strengthen the exchanges to get more Georgians covered,’’ said Laura Harker of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.
Some states run their own exchanges, while the majority let the federal government run them. Among the states with federally run exchanges, the largest numbers of sign-ups this year were in Florida (1.8 million), Texas (1.1 million), North Carolina (502,500) and Georgia.
The number of people signing up increased this year in five states: Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Wyoming.
Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, declared the ACA “far from dead and remarkably resilient,” the New York Times reported.
Connors said that Georgians with ‘’special circumstances’’ – such as a loss of a job, a birth in the family or a change in income – can still enroll.
To get enrollment help, she said, Georgians can call 888-230-7772, go to the websites HealthCareGA.org and ObamacareParaLatinos.org where people can sign up for appointments, or visit Georgia Refugee Health and Mental Health’s offices.
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