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You’re Invited to The NYC Screening of @Beyond The Lights November 11th #NYC #Free #Screening #BeyondTheLights
You Are Invited To The NYC Screening of
Beyond The Lights
Beyond the Lights is the story of Noni, the music world’s latest superstar. But not all is what it seems, and the pressures of fame have Noni on the edge – until she meets Kaz Nicol, a young cop and aspiring politician who’s been assigned to her detail. Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of those around them who urge them to put their career ambitions ahead of their romance. But it is ultimately Kaz’s love that gives Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.
Tuesday, November 11 at 7pm at Regal Ewalk in Times Square.
http://www.relativityscreenings.com/3D3KBTL
Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver, Colson “MGK” Baker and Danny Glover
Disclosure: 3decades3kids is a Relativity Pictures movie partner. No compensation was received for this post. All opinions are that of our own. We love the movies and enjoy sharing screening opps with our readers. Please follow us on Twitter .@3decades3kids for early announcements on screenings in the NYC area. Contact me at ELGEorgia@aol.com.
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فرم نمایه ها
جلد 4، شماره 2 - ( 6-1394 ) جلد 4 شماره 2 صفحات 8-14 | برگشت به فهرست نسخه ها
DOI: 10.18869/acadpub.3dj.4.2.8
Tabatabaei S H, Akhavan Tafti M, Yaghoobi B. Prevalence of Head and Neck Sarcomas in the Main Health Centers in Yazd from 1994 to 2014. 3dj. 2015; 4 (2) :8-14
URL: http://3dj.gums.ac.ir/article-1-166-fa.html
Prevalence of Head and Neck Sarcomas in the Main Health Centers in Yazd from 1994 to 2014. مجله انگلیسی زبان دانشکده دندانپزشکی گیلان. 1394; 4 (2) :8-14
Prevalence of Head and Neck Sarcomas in the Main Health Centers in Yazd from 1994 to 2014
Introduction: Head and neck sarcomas involve a group of rare malignant diseases with a high histological variability involving various anatomical sites that can lead to under-reporting of the true incidence of these neoplasms. This study aimed to epidemiologically investigate the occurrence of sarcomas of the head and neck within the past 20 years in Yazd, Iran (1994– 2014).
Materials and methods: In this descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study, 16114 patient’s records with malignant tumors were examined via the census method, which were available in the archives of 8 main treatment centers in Yazd, Iran within a 20-year period. Age, sex, occupation, habitat, type of sarcoma, tumor location and grade, metastasis, recurrence, and history of head and neck irradiation were recorded. Data were analyzed in SPSS software version 17.
Results: Among 586 cases of sarcomas, 59 cases (10.06%) were identified with head and neck sarcomas. The mean age of the patients was 32.22 ± 8.31 years, of which 26 (44.01%) patients were males and 33 (55.9%) were females. Soft tissue sarcomas were noted in 41 cases (69.5%) rhabdomyosarcoma was the most common (27.1%). Eighteen (30.5%) patients had hard tissue sarcomas osteosarcoma (15.3%) was the most common. Soft tissues of the head and neck were the most (49.20%) involved sites. Most sarcomas were low grade. In 5 patients (8.5%), metastases occurred to the head and neck, and the tumor relapsed in 16 patients (27.1%).
Conclusion: The findings of the current study were inagreement with those of other reports referred to in different studies. This suggests that the epidemiology of head and neck sarcomas in Yazd, Iran is similar to other geographical regions.
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نوع مطالعه: پژوهشي | موضوع مقاله: Surgery
کلیه حقوق این وب سایت متعلق به مجله دانشکده دندانپزشکی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گیلان می باشد.
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Trump and the Gordian Knot, Year Two
Imperialer Niedergang, Trump
PATRICK ARMSTRONG | 09.03.2019 | FEATURED STORY
About a year ago I advanced the theory that US President Trump understood that the only way to “Make American Great Again” was to disentangle it from the imperial mission that had it stuck in perpetual wars. I concluded that his statements implied that he believed that
1) the post 9/11 military interventions did nothing for American security;
2) foreign interventions impoverish the country;
3) the alliance system is neither useful nor a good deal for the country;
4) Russia is not the once and future enemy.
I further argued that he understood that the Gordian Knot of entanglements could not be cut from the American end because Americans were too wedded to the idea that the USA was “the indispensable nation” or too complacently accepting of the conceit that it had a moral obligation to set the world aright. (Gallup has just revealed that Americans greatly overestimate the respect and affection the rest of the world holds for them.) In any case “The Swamp” was too entangled in the war business ever to change. I speculated that he understood that the cutting could only come from the other side.
In short I saw method in Trump’s boorishness and well-displayed contempt for Washington’s allies.
So what do we find thirteen months later? Well, of course, one year is not nearly enough time to cause American allies to quit. Washington has not pulled out of NATO and no one has left it, the wars continue, the bases remain; but the Knot is loosening a bit. Despite very strong pressure from Washington, Ankara is going ahead with its S-400 purchase and Berlin is determined to complete Nord Stream. Washington has made its opposition plain – and with menaces – but these two important allies persevere in their contumacy.
Recently more cracks widened. Secretary of State Pompeo at Warsaw, trying to get everyone on board with attacking Iran: “Sadly, some of our leading European partners have not been nearly as cooperative. In fact, they have led the effort to create mechanisms to break up our sanctions.” Vice President Pence at the Munich conference all but ordering the allies to get on board with Washington’s leadership, to stop buying weapons from “our adversaries” and equating opposition to Washington’s stand on Iran with anti-Semitism.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/09/trump-and-gordian-knot-year-two.html
These efforts fell flat. Even The Economist called the Warsaw effort “shambolic” and a number of invited key players sent lower-ranking substitutes. So unenthusiastic was the response that the meeting had to be rebranded as about security in the Middle East rather than about making war on Iran. So, altogether, a bust: the whistle blew but the dogs didn’t come. But worse, Pence’s speech at Munich, praising Trump in every paragraph and threatening allies, fell completely flat with almost no applause. German Chancellor Merkel, speaking for the opposition (lots of applause) demurred. NPR sums up the two meetings:
First, in Warsaw, Poland, the U.S. organized a conference seeking to marshal international outrage over Iran, and Vice President Pence urged France, Germany and the U.K. to abandon the Iran nuclear deal, accusing them of concocting a “scheme” to continue to business with Iran. Top European allies trying to keep the nuclear deal alive declined to send top-level diplomats to the conference.
Then on Saturday, in Munich, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the security conference with several critiques of U.S. foreign policy – and received a sustained standing ovation.
So, a failure for Washington but, if you agree with my theory, a success for Trump’s scheme.
Merkel devoted some time in her speech to Russian gas supplies, pointing out that in the Cold War, both Germanies reliably received gas from Moscow, thereby reminding Pence, if he was listening, of Disagreement Number Two – Nord Stream. We had earlier been reminded of Disagreement Number One which was the unilateral American rejection of the JCPOA. Washington has sanctioned Tehran; the repellent CAATSA (not, in fairness, Trump’s doing) means that anyone who trades with someone Washington dislikes will also become a target of Washington’s sanctions. In reaction, Germany, France and the UK have developed a Washington-independent payment system. How effective it will be remains to be seen but it is undeniably a rebellion against Washington’s fiat.
And now we come to Disagreement Number Three: Washington’s rejection of the INF Treaty. Negotiated in 1987 between the USA and the USSR, it eliminated all land-based missiles with ranges between 500 and 5500 km. The Treaty had been preceded by large demonstrations across Europe against the deployment of American missiles. Washington’s excuse is that Russia has violated the Treaty (Theodore Postol has convincingly argued that, whatever Russia may have done, the USA did violate it). Some see it as the latest target of Washington’s dismantling of the arms control treaties of the Cold War, although one cannot rule out the possibility that this is Trump’s opening position to get an new INF Treaty with Russia and China. But it could put the Europeans on Moscow’s target list if the US puts intermediate range missiles into Europe. (The European protests were a causative factor of the original treaty.) In her Munich speech, Merkel called the cancellation “very bad news” and the former head of the NATO Military Committee, Harald Kujat, flatly called it “a betrayal of the security of the European allies“. The full ramifications of this latest trampling of allies’ interests have not been felt but the Atlantic Alliance will not be stronger for it. And I doubt allies will be any happier with Pompeo’s latest blank war cheque.
Even in Korea, where Trump’s new foreign policy has had, perhaps, its greatest success, we see a touch of the same thing. The two Koreas and China are moving forward whatever Washington does or, as in the Hanoi meeting doesn’t, do.
The economic integration plans are moving forward even before the nuclear issue has been resolved, the sanctions have been lifted, or a formal treaty ending the war has been signed. The entire region appears to be breaking out of Washington’s orbit and charting a new course on its own.
Two things seem pretty clear: the Trump Administration is alienating its allies and it doesn’t seem to care very much that it is. Washington has always overborne its allies but it has usually been more polite and discreet about it. Today there is no attempt to hide it: Trump & Co brusquely tell them our way or else.
Will Washington’s contempt and indifference make Europe start to look east?
Donald Trump and his “America First” attitude has thereby afforded Europeans some space to maneuver and establish some level of autonomy, resulting in increasing synergies with Moscow and especially Beijing.
Or will Europe swallow the insults? Will it stand on its “own two feet“? Or have its feet atrophied? We don’t know yet: there is talk, but talk is cheap and easy.
My question remains: we see the alienation but is it deliberately-caused or is it not? Is Trump behaving in a boorishly unilateral way to force his allies to break the imperial connection, or is it just the habitual “America First” style now crudely stripped of the earlier politesse?
(Which is not to say that they’re aren’t some significant inconsistencies in Trump’s foreign policy and, on closer examination, these exceptions become very confusing and inconsistent themselves. I will take up this question separately.)
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All-Time Series Record
Lions Fall To Captains In Regular Season Finale
Chris. Newport
Chris. Newport (20-5, 11-3) 22 21 27 22 92
Penn State-Harrisburg (10-15, 4-10) 21 11 14 20 66
Pts: Jessica Daguilh - 20
Reb: Team - 9
Ast: Zhara Tannor - 2
Pts: Shanique Mattis - 15
Reb: 3 Players (#00, #23, #TM) - 6
Christopher Newport 92, Penn State Harrisburg 66
Harrisburg Starters
Mattis, Miller, Payne, Davis, and Hamby
Christopher Newport Starters
Tannor, Kirkland, Fan, Howdyshell, and Dagulin
The Penn State Harrisburg Women's Basketball team fell to Christopher Newport in its Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) regular season finale on. Before the game, The Lions honored the five members of its 2019 Senior Class, Shanique Mattis, Rachel Miller, Aireo Payne, Briana Davis, and Abrianna Hamby, before the game. The Blue & White were led in scoring by Mattis with 15 points.
Both offenses found their groves early on, with Mattis and Davis each connecting on early three-pointers helping the Lions take a 8-2 lead. The Captains would answer, going on a 15-0 run to recapture the momentum. Harrisburg answered back powered by a pair of layups from Mattis. Kendis Butler knocked down her first three-pointer of the game giving the Lions an 18-17 advantage. Rachel Miller would connect on a three to close out the quarter.
The teams would trade the lead back-and-forth in the opening minutes of the second quarter. Laurel Amey drove the lane for a layup giving the Lions a 27-24 lead three minutes into the quarter. A 10-0 Captains run midway through the quarter allowed the Captains to take control of the game and hold a 43-32 lead heading to the half.
The Captains would control play in the second half, stifling any and all of Harrisburg's attempts to rally. Five different Lions would connect from behind arc in the second half, helping Harrisburg add 10 three-pointer to their single season record total of 255. The Captains would put the game outreach in the fourth quarter, powering to a 92-66 victory.
Inside the Numbers
- Shanique Mattis led the Lions offense with 15 points and 6 rebounds
- Kendis Butler scored 14 points, going 3-5 from behind the arc
- The Captains were led by Jessica Dagulin who scored 20 points
- Harrisburg connected on 10 three-pointers bringing their season total to 255, ranking them in the top ten nationally
The Lions will make their first CAC playoff appearance when they travel to #2 seeded Southern Virginia on Tuesday February 19 at 7 p.m.
Tue, 02/19 | Women's Basketball at Southern Virginia L, 69-62 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 02/16 | Women's Basketball vs. Chris. Newport L, 92-66 (Final) RC | BX | V
Wed, 02/13 | Women's Basketball at St. Mary's (Md.) W, 79-62 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 02/09 | Women's Basketball at Mary Washington L, 66-28 (Final) RC | BX | V
Wed, 02/06 | Women's Basketball vs. Frostburg St. W, 60-56 (Final) RC | BX | V
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I cannot even begin to explain to you how excited I was when I got my hands on a copy of Hilary's new novel Plan Cee. It was as exciting as if someone put a table full of all the deliciously bad food that I love in front of me and told me I could eat it all and not put on a pound!! I know - right?!
I'm sure you all know already that I am an avid fan of Hilary's and I am so excited that I have been able to follow her on her journey from her debut memoir Dangled Carat, to the release her first fictional novel, Plan Bea and now the sequel, Plan Cee. From the moment I read the last page of Plan Bea I hoped, no, I knew, there had to be a sequel. Hilary left us with such an amazing hook that left me dying to know more. The thought of having to wait for Plan Cee to be released proved almost too much that I wanted explode! But finally that day came... Plan Cee had arrived!! Queue the (very rational) high-pitched squeal when I saw it in my inbox. I am almost certain the e-mail was even glowing!! Okay - maybe I have a slightly over-active imagination, but that is certainly what was going on in my head.
So before I get too carried away, I will tell you a bit about the book first and then I will let you know my thoughts on it. I can't wait to share them with you. Though I am sure you can already get a sense of my opinion ;)
Would you abandon your present for a second chance at your past?
Cecelia Reynolds has spent most of her life trying to forget the commitment-phobic man who broke her heart. It wasn’t easy, but eventually she did it, or so she thought…
As Cecelia and her husband gather for a friend’s wedding, her perfect world is thrown into complete turmoil. Even though it’s been twenty years since she last laid eyes on Keith Emerson, all it takes is one glance for her to feel emotions she thought were long gone. When Keith ends up officiating the ceremony, she quickly realizes his message of love is directed at her, not the happy couple. But can she believe him?
We live our entire lives thinking we know ourselves. But do we ever really?
As secrets and lies cause Cecelia’s world to spin completely out of control, she is forced to seek advice from the most unlikely ally. In the process, she must confront the demons of her past and the events that shaped her into the woman she is now. Will she finally learn the real meaning of love, friendship, and family?
While this book is a sequel to Plan Bea, it also reads as a standalone.
Well I can say for certain that, once again, Hilary has not disappointed and has created another little masterpiece. I love the way we follow the story through both Cecilia and Keith's perspectives. Hilary writing is very clear and easy to read, which really makes it easy to follow the story, even though you are jumping between the first person perspective of two different characters.
I already fell in love with the characters in Plan Bea, yes, even Bea! Hilary has develop really strong characters with lots of depth, so you really feel you can understand them. Each character has their own personality and traits which follow through both novels really well.
I love learning about the story between Cecilia and Keith. One thing that this story reminds us is that we should never pre-judge a person or situation. There is always more to a story that what may first meet the eye. Without giving too much away, we found out that Cecelia has misunderstood a situation from her past for many years and this has ended up affecting her dramatically throughout her life. If only Cecelia had known the truth earlier.
This story shows us how a few little lies can end up getting in between a number of relationships - friendships, husbands and wives, children. I felt heartbroken for Cecilia's husband Bryce, but at the same time Cecilia's story is written in a way where you sympathise with her situation. Nothing in life is ever black and white, and this story is a clear reminder of that.
This story doesn't end on quite the cliffhanger we ended Plan Bea with, but there is still a large curiosity to know what the future holds for the characters. I absolutely loved Plan Cee, just as I expected to. I can't wait to continue reading more about these wonderful characters Hilary has created.
Plan Cee is a beautiful story that captures both the destruction that can be caused from lies and secrets, but also the strength of love and friendship.
I would without a doubt give Plan Cee;
Get your hands on a copy:
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About Hilary:
By day, Hilary Grossman works in the booze biz. By night she hangs out with her "characters." She has an unhealthy addiction to denim and high heel shoes. She's been known to walk into walls and fall up stairs. She only eats spicy foods and is obsessed with her cat, Lucy. She loves to find humor in everyday life. She likens life to a game of dodge ball - she tries to keep many balls in the air before they smack her in the face. She lives on Long Island.
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Chat soon beautifuls,
One October morning in 1932, Vicente Sorolla entered the white house on the hill and was never seen again.
Now, Detective Dori Orihuela witnesses his brutal murder in her nightmares.
Drawn to this tough but tender woman, Vicente materializes out of the butler's pantry and asks her to find his lost love, Anna. Dori wonders if she's not only about to lose her badge, but also her sanity.
Dori has always been drawn to the mysterious Queen Anne Edwardian house in her hometown. But after a devastating injury that puts her career on the line, Dori isn’t sure if she made the right decision purchasing this rundown old mansion.
Her wisecracking Grammy Cena has waited too long for her independent granddaughter to return home. She hires a a kooky psychic to banish the ghost and a handsome contractor with whom Dori has an unhappy past.
With a promise to Vicente, Dori may solve a forgotten Prohibition era murder. Or she may exhume secrets someone died to protect.
Now that you have a little flavour of what this book is all about, here is Mary Castillo talking about how the book relates to her own family history... enjoy!
From Mary Castillo:
Lost in the Light is not just a homage to one of my all-time favorite movies, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, it is also a journey into my family history. Much of my childhood was spent at my Great Grandma Nana's house in the Westside barrio of National City. As a child, I remember watching the first runs of the San Diego trolley and flagging down the ice cream man during the summers. When I smell pink “naked ladies” flowers, or peppertree and ivy, I'm taken back to my Grandma Nana’s house where she had grown yerba buena next to the white shed and still used her scrubbing board to do the laundry.
Like Vicente, the ghost in Lost in the Light, my great grandmother, Eduvijen Holguin Melendez and her little brother, Ceferino Holguin arrived in National City in 1925 from Douglas, Arizona. Their grandmother, Maria Duran, moved out west because a nephew had said there was a lot of work to be had with the Santa Fe Railroad. Back then, the barrio was a muddy railroad town. Families lived in make-shift train cars and little clapboard shacks with chickens in their yards. My Grandma Nana used to tell me how she would wash my great grandfather’s work clothes in kerosene to get the tar out.
While researching at the Local History Room at the National City Public Library, I found my great grandmother and grandfather's address in the 1926 city directory, my great great great grandmother's listing as well as my mother's grandmother. I also listened to my Great Uncle John Mendez's oral history and found out that my great grandfather on my mom's side had been shot in a gambling hall! By looking at those addresses and the Mexican last names, it was plain to see that the Westside of National Avenue in the 1920's up till the 1970's was the Mexican side of town. Anglos, the term my Grandma Nana used, lived on the east side that had paved streets, lawns and running water. The Westside got a sewer system and paved streets in the 1940's.
The research that went into Lost in the Light has given me a greater perspective of exactly how far my family, like many Mexican Americans, has come from those early days. In 1996, when my Grandma Margie saw me in my USC cap and gown, she said, "Look at this. Everyone told me that my sons would grow up to be bums. One is a fire captain and the other an engineer. Now my granddaughter is a USC graduate."
One of my deepest hopes with this book is that it will honor the humble, but hard-working people I come from.
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Mary Castillo is an Amazon bestselling author and audiobook narrator. She writes chilling paranormal mysteries and sexy, heartwarming romantic comedies, all with compelling characters that keep you turning the pages long past your bedtime! Her debut, Hot Tamara was selected by Cosmopolitan magazine as a Red Hot Read and Latina magazine called Mary “an author to look out for” and selected In Between Men and Names I Call My Sister for the Top 10 Summers Reads in July 2009. Lost in the Light was a finalist in the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Paranormal Mystery.
Mary grew up in a haunted house in National City, CA. She cries every time she sees the movies, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Casablanca, and may have developed a mild addiction to listening to audiobooks while she knits.
Webpage: www.MaryCastillo.com
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Press Release: Bihar police attempts to disrupt anti-trafficking NGO-Apne Aap’s work in Araria
June 20, 2012 by Apne Aap
Bihar police attempts to disrupt anti-Trafficking NGO-Apne Aap’s work in Araria
Police arrests anti-trafficking activist, files station diaries against founder and state head, confines 15-year-old daughter of Apne Aap staff member in police lock up
NHRC ask DGP Bihar to issue report in four weeks, NLSA asks Purnea District Judge to report action
New Delhi, June 20 : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the DGP Bihar to submit a report within four weeks on the arbitrary arrest and subsequent humiliation by the Araria police of anti-trafficking activist and Apne Aap staff member, Mohammed Kalam on 1st June, 2012.
The arrest of Mohammed Kalam is one of a series of attempts by the police to disrupt the work of Anti-Trafficking NGO, Apne Aap in Araria, Bihar.
On 2nd June, the DSP Araria filed a station diary against the Founder of Apne Aap, Ruchira Gupta and State Coordinator, Manish Jha saying that they threatened him.
On 11th February, the police picked up 15-year-old Kajal Khatoon, the daughter of Fatima, a staff member of Apne Aap, near midnight on the pretext of “rescuing” her and kept her in the Forbesgunge Thana all night with no food, water, blanket and no female escort. She was not even allowed to meet her mother;
In May 2012, the police subjected an Apne Aap employee to search and intimidation in his hotel room;
On 2nd June, the SP Araria openly flouted a Supreme Court order and paraded Mohammed Kalam with handcuffs and ropes around his wrists in front of the media.
The brother-in-law of Mohammed Kalam was stopped by the police while driving home on his motorcycle and harassed on the pretext of checking his documents.
Since 2009, Apne Aap has managed to get 51 traffickers arrested, rescued 25 girls and enrolled 24 girls from the red-light district in school. It has organized 110 women to close down brothels in the homes they were living in, leading to the Rampur red-light area shrinking from 72 brothels to 15 and Khawaspur from 17 to 1.
Mohammed Kalam is the Chief Investigator of Apne Aap Women Worldwide in Bihar. Last December, he informed us that his investigations revealed that girls are being bought and sold in the Kali Mela, which comes to Forbesgunge every January. On the basis of his investigation, we filed a complaint with the police. Subsequently on 11th February, the local police conducted a raid around midnight but did not invite any Apne Aap employee to accompany the police force for this raid. In fact, no female social worker was taken on the raid. However, in the subsequent FIR, the SP wrote that an Apne Aap employee, Ms Soumya Pratheek accompanied him on the raid. Ms. Pratheek objected to this and wrote a letter to get her name removed from the FIR as she was not there first of all and secondly the raid violated many human rights norms. Twenty-four girls were rescued in the raid. Inexplicably a staff member’s daughter was picked up in the raid, while curiously some of the other rescued girls were either handed back to their exploiters or to a shelter in neighboring District Purnea about a 100 km away, instead of the short-stay home in Araria itself.
Strangely, one of the rescued girls, Sony, kept in the Purnea Shelter filed a complaint before a magistrate under Section 164 Cr PC, three and a half months after her rescue suggesting that she may have been subjected to duress or inducement in the long interim period. Secondly, she named someone called Kalam and three others. No corroborative evidence was collected by the police to verify if this was the same Kalam. It is also a point to note that the police have only arrested Mohammed Kalam while the others accused in the FIR are still at large.
Mohammed Kalam was ironically arrested on a statement made by a girl who was rescued on an Apne Aap complaint based on an investigation that was led by Sri Kalam. It is not possible that a person with 8 years of experience in anti-trafficking will file a complaint against himself.
Mohammed Kalam holds an LLb degree. He is from the OBC Nat community and was educated by his sister who was pushed into prostitution. He is fighting against sex-trafficking in honour of his mother and two sisters. They educated him so that one day he could stand up against this injustice. He was nominated for the US International Visitor’s Programme in 2011 and named The Week Magazine’s Anti-Trafficking Hero in 2004 and was a resource person for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime anti-trafficking training programme to sensitize Bihar police.
About Apne Aap : Apne Aap Women Worldwide is a grassroots Indian organization working to empower girls and women to resist and end sex trafficking in brothels, red light districts, slums and villages in Bihar, West Bengal, Delhi and Maharashtra.
About Ruchira Gupta : Ruchira Gupta was inspired to found Apne Aap after making her Emmy Award-winning documentary, ‘The Selling of Innocents’. Ruchira has campaigned tirelessly to promote the leadership of survivors in the global fight to end trafficking – bringing groups of survivors to speak before the UN General Assembly in 2008 and 2009.
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Official website Metalloinvest
Metalloinvest in 2014
Company Profile and Operational Highlights
Key Events 2014
History of the Сompany
Metalloinvest’s results in 2014 demonstrated that the Company has pursued the right development strategy in the areas of production, finances, and investments, and our achievements will act as a foundation for the Company’s continued sustainable growth”.
Andrey Varichev,
CEO Management Company
Strategy Report and Business Model
Message from the Chairman of the Board
Structure of the Company's Assets
Long-term Strategy
Investment Programme: 2014
Metalloinvest continues to develop its strategic projects aimed at supporting and growing its production capabilities, minimising costs, improving market positions, protecting the Company’s long-term financial stability and increasing shareholder value”.
Ivan Streshinsky,
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Financial and Operational Results
Operational Results
Key Operational Results
Largest implemented projects
Certification Audits
In 2014, Metalloinvest has focused its efforts on developing the Company’s production assets and achieving strong financial results. Metalloinvest has continued to implement its strategy and has reached its targets. It has maintained a strong financial footing and realised its production targets, while exceeding production forecasts for some products”.
Management Bodies
Internal Control and Audit System
The Board of Directors takes a proactive position, both in forming a long-term strategy, and in material issues of operating activity and assessment of work efficiency of the top managers. Qualification and professional experience of the members of the Board of Directors allow us to successfully implement the Company's development strategy”.
Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility
Interaction with Stakeholders
We recognise that the Company cannot develop in a sustainable manner unless it takes into consideration external economic, environmental and social factors. Ongoing dialogue with our stakeholders, an understanding of their expectations and a focus on creativity and partnership are the fundamentals of our approach to responsible business management”.
A balanced commercial policy, long-term and mutually beneficial relations with our key partners, possibility to quickly respond to changes in conditions in the foreign markets, and focus on products with high added value allow the Company to effectively meet the challenges of today, including the declining prices in the global markets and instability of macroeconomic situation”.
Nazim Efendiev,
First Deputy CEO — Commercial Director
Metalloinvest’s steel was used in the construction of Bugrinsky Bridge in Novosibirsk. Bugrinsky Bridge has the biggest arch span in Russia, it is 380 metres long and 80 metres high. It is supported by approximately 9 kilometres of steel cables. The total length of the bridge is over 2 kilometres. The first vehicles crossed the bridge in October 2014.
Metalloinvest took part in the implementation of a large transportation project in Siberia — a bridge over the River Vakh between the Tomsk Region and Yugra. The bridge connected Strezhevoy and Nizhevartovsk to become part of one of the main sections of a motorway in Western Siberia. The bridge is 1 kilometre long, the total weight of its spans is 7,000 tonnes. The throughput capacity of the bridge is 8,000 vehicles per day. The bridge was put into operation in November of 2014.
In September 2014, the Otkrytie Arena, the home stadium of Spartak Moscow football club, was commissioned. The stadium capacity is 45,000. The stadium is included in the list of host facilities for the 2018 World Cup. Rolled steel items for the new stadium were supplied by Ural Steel.
As estimated by the Company, in 2014, Metalloinvest’s market share in key steel segments was:
55–60% in bridge construction;
35–40% in ship building;
55–60% in construction steel;
35–40% in reservoir plants and chemical engineering plants segment.
In 2015, the Company plans to:
increase the sales of bridge steel, and grow its market share to 65%;
increase its market share in the ship building segment to 45–50% by growing sales at Ural Steel;
increase its market share in the segments of rolled steel products for construction and reservoir plants to 65–70%.
Geography of Shipments
The Company aims at geographical diversification of its shipments to the end consumers. Metalloinvest ships its iron ore products within Russia, to the CIS, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, and countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Export supplies of crude iron ore and HBI to Europe and the CIS go through the border terminals and sea ports on the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. Supplies to Europe travel through the CIS countries. Most supplies to China are made on DAP basis and go via a rail terminal in Zabaikalsk.
North America & South America
& Africa
60%Share in the total shipment iron ore, Pellets and HBI/DRI
Main consumers
NLMK
Koks Group
Kosaya Gora Iron Works
39%Share in the total shipment of steel products
Minsk Traktor Plant
Gomselmash
US Steel kosice
Arselor M ittal
Tata S teel
Duferdofin
Hay Speed
OM-NIA
Eurings
2%Share in the total shipment iron ore, Pellets and HBI/DRI
NTN Brazil
Niagara Lasalle
Erdemir
Demirjian
Diler
Kroman Celik
Demirsan
Kobe Steel
Suifenhe
3%Share in the total shipment of steel products
Huffaz Seamless
NTN Thai-land
Diversification of iron ore product shipments
Iron ore Product Shipments in 2013–2014, %
Russia is a priority sales market for Metalloinvest. In 2014, Russia's share of iron ore product supplies remained unchanged from 2013 and stood at 16.2 million tonnes (59%). The large consumers in the domestic market include Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, Severstal, Evraz, KOKS Group, Kosaya Gora Iron Works and others.
In 2014, the share of supplies to Europe increased to 23% (6.3 million tonnes) from 20% in 2013, primarily due to a considerable increase in shipments to U.S. Steel Kosice. Other large consumers in the regions are ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel, Arvedi and Ferriere Norde.
In 2014, the share of shipments of iron ore products to Asia slightly decreased from 2013 levels (from 8% to 5% for China, and from 9% to 6% for other Asian countries). It happened due to an increase in supplies to the European markets, which generated a higher margin for the Company (due to the shorter transport leg). Shipments to China amounted to 1.5 million tonnes, and shipments to other Asian countries, 1.6 million tonnes in 2014. Among the larger Asian consumers are Kobe Steel (Japan), and the Chinese enterprises of Xilin Group and others.
In 2014, the share of the Middle East and North Africa in the structure of shipments grew from 3% to 4% (0.7 and 1.1 million tonnes respectively) as a result of increasing the volumes shipped to Erdemir (Turkey), the largest consumer in the region.
Iron ore products and metal resources are shipped to Russian steelmaking plants via direct sales. Price calculation in most contracts is based on the iron ore price index Platts (62% Fe, CFR China).
The share of exports in the structure of shipments of pig iron and steel products in 2014 was 88% and 60% respectively. The key sales markets of the Company's Steel Segment are Western Europe, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, CIS countries, North America.
Metallised Product Shipments in 2013–2014, %
Development of long-term partnership with the customers allows the Company to maintain a high level of competitiveness.
In 2014, the Company concluded the following long-term contracts:
Metalloinvest and KOKS Group signed a one-year iron ore concentrate supply contract. According to the contract, the total amount of iron ore concentrate supplies will exceed 1 million tonnes.
Metalloinvest signed a three-year pellet supply contract with Kosaya Gora Iron Works. According to the arrangements achieved by the companies, the total amount of supplies will make 1.9 million tonnes.
Metalloinvest and Ferriere Nord S.P.A., an Italian steelmaking plant (a company of Pittini Group), concluded a long-term hotbriquetted iron (HBI) supply contract.
Metalloinvest and Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) extended the existing long-term pellets supply contract till December 31, 2015. According to the arrangements achieved by the companies, the total amount of supply will make 6.6 million tonnes of pellets. Earlier in 2011, Metalloinvest and NLMK signed a four-year pellet supply contract for the supply of about 21.6 million tonnes.
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In parenthesis is the number of years left on the player’s contract.CB Shareece Wright (FA), Aaron Colvin (3), Deante Burton (1), Kayvon Webster (FA)CB Johnathan Joseph (1), Johnson Bademosi (1), Kayvon Webster (FA)CB/S Kareem Jackson (FA)SS Justin Reid (3), Andre Hal (2)FS Tyrann Mathieu (FA), A.J. Moore (2), A. J. Hendy (2)Kareem Jackson was the highest paid player on the team last season who’ll be a free agent this offseason. He may demand the largest contract (among Texans’ defensive backs) in the market. At the age of 31, Jackson arguably had his best season last year when playing the nickel-safety position. But due to injuries creating a lack of depth at corner, Jackson was forced to revert back to playing on the outside. Jackson was named as a reserve for the Pro Bowl and finished the 2018 season with 87 tackles, one sack, and two interceptions. Since he was by far the Texans’ best secondary player last year, it’s hard to imagine the Texans not bringing back Jackson in a similar role. If the Texans cannot lock up the veteran defensive back before free agency begins, he will be tough to keep around; he could easily leave Houston in search of a defense that can best use his talents and/or are willing to pay him the big bucks on what will likely be the last big deal of his NFL career.Kevin Johnson had his fifth-year option exercised that will keep him in Houston through 2019 if the Texans want that to happen.K-Jo was brought into the organization to be the next franchise cornerback Arian Foster Jersey , but he was literally knocked out of the season after taking a nasty hit against the Patriots in Week 1. This was his second concussion in less than a month and forced the Texans to shut down the former first-round pick for the rest of the season. For Johnson’s own health and the sanity of the Texans, both parties should move on from this relationship. A foot injury in 2016 slowed him down. The MCL sprain he suffered after that may make it difficult for him to drive on the ball. The concussions definitely make it difficult to rely on him suiting up and contributing long term. Nevertheless, since the Texans already lack depth at the corner position, the most likely scenario is that Johnson enters the 2019 season on the Texans’ roster and in a position to be a starter. Still, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Brian Gaine cuts ties with the injury-prone corner.Speaking of Gaine, the new general manager performed well in his first year in the position. However, the signing of cornerback Aaron Colvin to a four-year contract was by far the worst misstep of last offseason. Playing the nickel corner position in Jacksonville was a pretty sweet deal for Colvin; A.J. Bouye and Jalen Ramsey handled the opponents’ best receivers, allowing Colvin to frequently play against average talent. Colvin asked for a bigger role when he joined the Texans, but he was clearly not up to the task. He did suffer an ankle injury midway through the season, but even when healthy the Texans had seen enough from Colvin. In the biggest game of the season, the Wild Card game against the Colts, Colvin was a healthy scratch.It’s not exactly an endorsement of Colvin’s long-term fit in Houston that the coaching staff chose to go with another player like Shareece Wright instead of a high-dollar free agent acquisition.If you are like me and are ready to get rid of Colvin, you’re in luck. Just not yet.Colvin’s contract has an out in 2020 that the Texans should pursue if Colvin doesn’t improve in 2019. After next season, the Texans could liberate themselves of Colvin with just a $2 million dead cap hit.Next on the list are Shareece Wright and Kayvon Webster. Wright was signed in the wake of the Kevin Johnson concussion injury and played significant snaps this season. If you are a fan of the Texans and want to blame someone for the long passes the Texans gave up this season, look no further than Wright. At times, he was the best man-coverage corner the Texans had on their roster. Other times Andre Johnson Jersey , he looked as though he was playing with lead cleats, especially if a receiver put any sort of double-move on him. Though he provided depth, Wright erred on too many plays to be kept as a backup corner. Webster was also brought in after Kevin Johnson’s injury and was working to recover from an Achilles injury that ended his 2017 season when the Texans signed him. Well, Webster’s 2018 season only lasted two snaps as he tore his quad against the Cowboys and was placed on Injured Reserve again. Two serious injuries in consecutive seasons give the Texans no reason to keep Webster on as a backup corner. Free agent Tyrann Mathieu, who many fell in love with the second he announced he would be joining the Texans, had an up-and-down season (along with the rest of the secondary). Quickness and size appear to be too much for him at times, but he would absolutely set opposing players ablaze with devastating hits. Mathieu can play all over the field and fits into Romeo Crennel’s defensive system. Will Mathieu return to the Texans next season? He turns 27 in May, so the Honey Badger definitely has some years left in the league. In terms of continuity and leadership, the Texans should keep Mathieu and pay him well; other teams will be eager to bring him into the fold if he doesn’t stay in Houston.The last player to cover is 34 year old corner Johnathan Joseph. He has one year left on his contract, but does he have one more year left in the tank? T.Y. Hilton and other speedy receivers had field days against him. The off-coverage he must play to compensate for his lack of speed down the field allows for receivers to have a free release. Most likely, Joseph will be back for another season since the team is so thin at the corner position. The only two arguments for not flushing the toilet on the Texans’ entire secondary are depth and salary cap hits. The Texans do have a significant depth problem at the position that may take multiple offseasons to solve. Fortunately, they also have significant salary cap room to use, though much of that may go to keeping Jadeveon Clowney and re-signing Kareem Jackson and/or Tyrann Mathieu. Wiping the plate clean of this mediocre secondary sounds nice, but finding immediate and effective alternatives without losing excessive salary cap room will be a tall task for Brian Gaine this offseason.
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Future of the Campus in a Digital World
J. Michael Haggans
In the evolutionary process of digital transformation now underway, the metaphorical walls and gates that have defined higher education are falling down. The literal walls and gates, the physical campus will need to be rethought to avoid a similar fate. They may be beautiful, historic and evocative, but these attributes will not be sufficient. Those places that do not add educational value, even though beautiful will become the American equivalent of the grand country estates of England, museums of a faded golden age.
For those who view the traditional shared experience of campus as essential to authentic higher education, this is a critical time. Maintaining business as usual and not adjusting facilities trajectories soon enough will put institutions at risk.
Changing Assumptions
Until recently the need for a physical campus was based on several assumptions:
Physical class time was required.
Meaningful exchanges occurred face to face.
The value of an institution was tied to a specific geography.
Books were on paper.
An undergraduate degree required eight semesters.
Research required specialized locations; and
Interactions among students and faculty were synchronous.
These assumptions are now either obsolete or optional. As a result, physical changes are beginning to be made. Classrooms and libraries are being retooled. Student housing and campuses are evolving in response to social media and the changing use patterns of the campus community. From classrooms to libraries to residence halls, digital transformation is changing the physical presence and requirements for institutions that choose to remain competitive.
Some seasoned observers of the current challenges to higher education believe that there is nothing new. Colleges and universities have gone through multiple periods of change and transformation since their emergence almost 1000 years ago. Each time, institutions have adapted and survived.
Competition and Conversation - Changes in competition and the public conversation make this time different. In the United States not only are institutions faced with declining public financial support, but also with questions of legitimacy and cost-effectiveness. They have survived such situations in the past, but the only competition then was less education, not more, not differently delivered.
It would be simplistic to see competition only in the form of for-profit universities. Competitors are everywhere and they take many forms: edX, Minerva, Western Governors University, the ‘nationalization’ of Southern New Hampshire University and Arizona State University, digital course/service aggregators, emerging alliances, online courses developed and promoted by textbook publishers and any number of start-ups promising the next big thing. In addition, traditional institutions are mobilizing to enrich their own on-line offerings for their on-campus students and to preempt ‘cherry-picking’ from the competition.
Even though many competitors may eventually fail, they should not be seen as fads. We should see them as merely the latest forms of a process of digital transformation that has been underway for less then two decades. The imperfections of current forms can be seen as areas for certain improvement. From verification of student identity to modularization of course structure, from mentoring and meaningful interaction, improvements and refinements are being made with entrepreneurial speed.
Until recently, conversation and speculation about the digital transformation of higher education was about pedagogical and technological innovation, in the rapidly evolving hybridization of classroom and online experience. Such issues were largely confined to traditional forums like the Chronicle of Higher Education and its ilk. Only rarely was the rising level of experimentation and adaptation seen outside academic circles. The conversation has moved to the political arena and the editorial page, no longer be confined to the faculty lounge.
While appropriate to acknowledge the historical resilience of traditional institutions, it is not wise to expect colleges and universities to survive in their current form. We have just begun to see the merger of institutions and rising economic pressures leading to business model transformations. As we go forward it will become clear that the legacy costs of bricks and mortar campuses will either contribute to the value of an institution or to its decline.
Implications for the Physical Campus
Once upon a time, college campuses were built around chapels. Today’s universities were built for books, lectures and private offices. A library was assumed to be a repository for paper books with rooms for reading. Academic buildings were the pedagogy-of-lecture cast in concrete. Scholarly isolation was crystalized in private offices.
Digital transformation is forcing institutions to rethink the most basic assumptions about books and lectures. Some are even challenging assumptions about private offices. Within the academic career of current graduate students, long-standing assumptions about higher education have been overturned. Iterative cycles of research, innovation and investment have inexorably raised the performance of non-traditional educational approaches. Time in class need not be face-to-face. Students in a course need not experience it synchronously. Textbooks need not be printed. Contact hour and credit hour are losing literal meaning, just like dialing the phone. Undergraduates have never known anything else.
Learning – Pedagogy is being rethought to exploit the flexibility and placelessness of digital formats while maximizing the value of class time. It is happening course-by-course, department-by-department, and college-by-college. Innovative instructors are exploiting the potential for more effective teaching and learning outcomes. As a result, learning environments – formerly known as classrooms – need to be adapted to support the hybridization of experience. Curricular change still moves through the molasses of traditional committee processes. Pedagogy can move at the speed of an individual instructor as she develops a new course or re-develops part of the existing curriculum.
Almost all pedagogical innovations lead to less in class lecture time, and more problem solving, applying the concepts of the course. Lecture halls and many existing classrooms are ill suited for even minor deviation from the straight lecture model. Group discussion is compromised by rigid seating arrangements. Project work is stifled by the “tablet-arm.” Rooms built for mid-20th century lectures are poor substitutes for 21st century learning spaces
In the digitally driven future of higher education, three-dimensional classroom spaces still will be needed. They won’t be used in the traditional manner and they won’t be the traditional kind. They will be bigger, flatter, faster and there will need to be fewer classrooms for the same number of students.
Classes that meet on campus will need additional area per student to accommodate interactive configurations, such as those allowing group work in the flow of the traditional class period. Typically these will be flat floors allowing easy configuration changes. At the same time, these rooms must be faster, with access to robust bandwidth.
Both physical and administrative adaptations will be required. While there will be more floor area per student when in class, the number of classroom hours per degree will drop, and all the while the expectation for digital transmission capability will continue to rise. To justify the required investment, institutions will have to rethink the administration of classroom scheduling to maximize effectiveness for students and faculty, and to achieve increased utilization. These are not new or easily managed issues for higher education. The accelerating move to online instruction will expose existing weaknesses of current systems and the benefits of more strategic investments and scheduling.
Libraries - Libraries are finding the need to provide more usable space for students and faculty. Whether engaged in study, research or course projects, the campus community continues to migrate back to the library. Many librarians are seizing the opportunity to make most of the books go somewhere else. The on-campus space, once used for book storage, can then be renovated and reconfigured for use by the campus community. Libraries have never been about books. They have always been about access to and use of information.
Pedagogical developments recognize the need for much of the learning process to occur outside the formal classroom setting. These developments through “flipping” and other forms of hybridization are requiring the availability of student workspaces outside the classroom. Libraries tend to be well located and able to create more useable space by shedding many of their books, through de-acquisition, remote locations or automated retrieval systems.
Offices – While the rest of North America has moved to mobile devices and shared workspaces, academic organizations tend to be locked into the private, fixed office arrangement of an earlier era - little changed from a time without web browsers and cell phones. Administrative workplaces are often just as quaint.
This might be appropriate if faculty members could actually be in their offices, administrators could function at the speed of paper, and students did not expect 24/7 access. It is troubling that these spaces are used with increasing rarity. Moreover, since the typical office arrangement restricts face-to-face communication, it is dysfunctional. It is ironic that the scholarly isolation crystalized in private offices can work against the forms of interaction that are essential to continued institutional adaptation.
Responding to this challenge is more difficult than improving teaching spaces. It is more problematic than transforming libraries. While workplaces must be functional, offices are personal. The perquisites of status, faculty identity – the very culture of the academy - are threatened.
Digital Visible – From an institutional perspective, many of the implications of digital transformation are difficult to see, lost in a thicket of business issues presenting themselves with increasing urgency. Moreover, the changes induced by digital transformation are difficult to address through traditional facilities development and capital funding processes. These transformations are not about the need for a single new - or better - building, a campus student recreation center or teaching laboratory. This is about adjusting the performance of the whole campus to support a digitally transformed pedagogy and academic community.
The inherent adaptability of students and faculty should allow most institutions the time to modify the campus environment. No campus will easily meet the evolving expectations of the digital transformation. Renovating or creating new buildings suited for evolving ideas about books, lectures and offices will take more than a decade. Campuses that begin to move quickly on their libraries and learning spaces will be better able to provide expected capabilities. Those that can’t move quickly enough will be left to offer less in an increasingly transparent higher education marketplace.
If faculties and administrations have been slow to realize the implications of digital transformation, facilities managers are two steps further behind. Struggling to find money to replace roofs on obsolete buildings, most facilities operations are still in a building mode. More has always been better. This will seldom - and very selectively - be true for a digitally transformed campus.
Facilities implications are beginning to emerge. Some are subtle: less demand for lecture halls and traditional classrooms, fewer on-campus hours per student, less justification for traditional offices, and increased demand for bandwidth everywhere.
Some will be more dramatic: reduced ability to fund research facilities as “profits” from undergraduate education decrease, less justification to retain obsolete buildings and programs, and more demand for flexibility in space assignments and management.
Economic reality, political discourse, pedagogical innovation and technological development are now aligned to allow - if not require - the rapid expansion of higher education by digital transformation. Some institutions will be weighed down by over-investment in bricks and mortar. If they lack a sufficiently marketable brand involving academic excellence, community or other extrinsic value, the future will be difficult.
Those with sufficient endowments and/or public funding will have enough time to make required adjustments. The rest may struggle to maintain any relevance, as they shrink in subjective stature and objective size.
Changing Trajectory
University presidents and provosts are always faced with the choice of staying the course or modifying the trajectory of their institutions. Due to failing business models, rapidly evolving digital competition and declining public support, the stakes are rising. All should be asking how they should think about the campus built for the 21st century. My recommendations:
Build no net additional square feet
Upgrade the best; get rid of the rest
Manage space and time; rethink capacity
Right-size the whole
Take sustainable action
Make campus matter
Build no net additional square feet. Start with the assumption that you have enough space. Critical observers of academic culture can recount story after story of “turf protection” behavior that leads to the retention of obsolete facilities even after appropriate replacements have been provided. These patterns could be afforded in a resource rich environment. The environment has changed, but the behavior has not.
Resisting edifice complex is difficult. There are some facilities - most notably student housing - that are said to be self-funding and thus add no fiscal or operational burden to the institution. The use of the term - self-funding - results in the inevitable gaming of the system. There are donors who wish to pay for bricks and mortar, but have no interest in kilowatt-hours and building depreciation. My advice is to adopt a policy of no net additional area as a strategic approach to refocusing institutional priorities, rather than a tactical response to fiscal constraints.
Upgrade the best; get rid of the rest. All higher education functions from instruction and research to officing and library require greater bandwidth and physical flexibility. Retaining obsolete facilities diverts resources from investments in modernizing the “keeper” buildings, and leads to replacing roofs on buildings that should be torn down.
This is the essence of good stewardship. It means properly caring for the institutional legacy that will survive long into this century. Often this means retaining and preserving the built history of the place – the Lawn and Ranges of the University of Virginia, or any campus’s “Old Main” are the prime examples. Good stewardship also means making hard choices about what legacy can be retained. Assuming all old buildings are worthy of keeping will make the campus no more viable than the old country houses of England.
Manage space and time; re-think capacity. Re-conceptualize the campus in terms of patterns and intensity of use rather than area per student, faculty member, library volume or research dollar. The carrying cost of the physical environment is 24/7. Effectiveness and intensity of use needs to be factored into the management picture. Many patterns of academic facilities use have more to do with traditions of privilege rather than need. Management for both space and time leads to choices that provide strategic value.
Most campuses already have either too much capacity, or too few students. As more of the activity of higher education moves to digital platforms, this will become more apparent. Plan to have more capacity (production of "degrees" per unit of building area). Students will be spending less "seat time" per degree. The consequence will be the potential for increased productivity within the existing facility complement. In the typical case, the instructional capacity of the institution will increase by at least one-third. Alternatively, the institutions will have more space than their market and business model can support.
Right-size the whole. Find those areas where significant adjustments are justified. Classroom and teaching laboratories usually represent less that a tenth of campus space. Yet, they are the most important to the value proposition offered by the physical campus. Adapting teaching environments for the needs of students and faculty should take priority.
In recent years there has been significant growth in research space and administrative offices. Research revenues per square foot of assigned area are well documented. However, it is extremely rare for space to be reallocated due to poor research performance. Since offices often make up more than 30% of campus space, there are more opportunities there than in classrooms. Across the country academic administrative offices are stuck in mid-20th century configurations, while the rest of the world has changed.
Take sustainable action. Make facilities decisions to reduce the institution’s carbon footprint per credit hour (or other educational equivalent) delivered. However simplistic this may seem, such a metric leads to sound long-term financial investment strategies, denominated by productivity. Taking action begins by not building unnecessary facilities and continues with reinvesting in the best of existing assets and getting rid of unnecessary and redundant facilities. Only after these steps are investments in new state-of-the-art carbon neutral facilities justifiable.
The most sustainable building is the one that is never built. Unfortunately, most institutions continue to build space they don’t need and can’t afford to maintain and operate. Even if these buildings are at the cutting edge of sustainable design, institutions are increasing their carbon footprint problem. Having more bricks than necessary is expensive, regardless of how good those bricks are.
Make campus matter. With so much of higher education available in digital and largely asynchronous forms, the justification for a campus must derive from something more than “we have always done it this way.” Even at the most traditional institutions “on-campus time per degree” will decrease. This change in convention will make the support of increasingly limited face-to-face time of strategic value, rather than an assumed byproduct of traditional campus life.
There must be something significantly better about the “live performance” and it needs to be more than “sense of place.” I believe it is a function of sharing time and place. Whether in the form of agenda driven or serendipitous conversation, “live” interaction and discussion among students and instructors has a bandwidth that exceeds any current digital alternatives. This is a luxury. To justify the expense of a campus, it must be exploited to improve the value of the outcome, not simply to increase the price of admission.
The 21st Century Campus
Fiscal, pedagogical and technological challenges require institutions to accept and support hybrid forms of online education. Survivors will be able to maintain at least some of the traditional campus values of face-to-face instruction. Planning for the emerging future will require integration of wide range of institutional concerns from evolving business models to efficient use of capital resources.
Some are just fine. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford are examples of elite institutions for which technological transformation and rising financial demands are manageable. Add to this A-list others with strong financial stability and a well-established marketing brand, and you have a group of institutions that are not at risk.
Some like state-defining flagships are too big to fail, but risk decreasing quality by trying to be “all things to all people.” Others have relatively large endowments, truly unique missions and exceptional alumni support. These will survive, perhaps continue grow, with modest tweaks here and there.
The Shakeout - If observers from Peter Drucker to Clayton Christensen are even partially right, absent the strengths of wealth, brand, mission and scale, all the rest - a vast swath of American higher education - face threats to continued existence, at least in their current form. Some are too small to withstand periodic fluctuations in demand. Some have poorly differentiated missions and lack sufficient market identity. Some already have structural deficits and lack sufficient financial flexibility to do much more than live “paycheck to paycheck.” Still others including smaller regional universities have declining public support and locational disadvantages.
The physical campuses that survive will be smaller than some might wish, and never so large that it compromise an institution’s mission to serve its students, faculty and community. Provosts and presidents will need to consider how much campus they actually need. Their campus planners will be caught between decisions of building or not building, in a vise formed by the expectations of deans and practical fiscal constraints of the whole institution. As each contemplates changes to the trajectory of their institution, they will be well served to have the courage to consider both a blank slate and “Old Main.” Making campus matter in the 21st century will require two contradictory ideas: respecting legacy and starting fresh.
Even for those choosing to retain a traditional residential model, the digital transformation of higher education is changing the methods and means of teaching, learning, scholarship, research, communications and unmooring all from conventional notions of place. In such a fluid milieu, traditional approaches to campus planning, design and facilities management are of limited value.
Traditional institutions don’t view the campus as real estate. Yet, as academic business models morph into being less place-dependent, the importance of making prudent facilities investment choices will become more clear, but no less difficult. Overcoming resistance based on nostalgia can be relatively easy compared to changing traditional turf protection and operating practices. Along with altering decades of institutional inertia, such changes will be painful.
Identity - The identity of traditional institutions is tied to recognizable icons such as the neoclassical dome of Building 10 at MIT or the porches of Old Main at Arizona. Without such markers, every institution might well be as placeless as the University of Phoenix, which uses the term “campus” to refer to rented space in generic office buildings. This strategy, however opportunistically based in marketing wordplay, allows Phoenix to right size facilities with the practical efficiency of real estate investment and disinvestment.
Creating and sustaining the 21st century campus will require more than preserving physical legacy. It requires changing an institution’s facilities trajectory. It requires a different way of thinking about the campus. Instead of boasting more area per student, institutions need to focus on effectiveness, considering the campus with its icons and legacy as a blank slate. Only in this way is it possible to define minimum functional requirements rather than planning an unattainable idealized maximum.
Conclusion - Keeping the best of the existing campus (the richest iconography and most cost effective) will be easy choices. Disinvesting in the obsolete and replacing with only what is required will be more difficult. Until recently constant expansion -- while maintaining a wide range of obsolete and underutilized buildings -- was standard practice with limited consequences. In the early 21st century few institutions can continue to tolerate such luxury.
As the need for synchronous place and time evaporates, investments in the physical campus will be questioned as never before. For campuses to be justified, they must provide values that are not available by other means. To become such places, they will need to be adapted and transformed as if their survival were at stake.
Michael Haggans is a Visiting Scholar in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota and Visiting Professor in the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a licensed architect with a Masters of Architecture from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has led architectural practices serving campuses in the US and Canada, and was University Architect for the University of Missouri System and University of Arizona.
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A brand New Year and the Hunters strode out with a renewed sense of purpose and confidence to wallop over the North Eastern Warriors 5-0 and storm to the top of the league on the first day of 2019. A healthy 3-point advantage suggests that they will stay in the top half of the league for a considerable time. However, the tie wasn’t as straightforward nor were it as one-sided as the score-line suggests.
After a confident start to the league, the Hunters hit a bit of a roadblock in their last game as the Awadh Warriors came up on top 4-1. So as they approached their first match of the New Year, a little bit of apprehension was to be expected. And it did show up in the opening exchanges as the other warriors of the league – the North Eastern Warriors – put one past the Hunters with a win in the mixed doubles match.
Kim Sa Rang and EomHye Won tried to make it an equal fight but the Warriors’ team of LM Chuen and Kim Na Ha clearly had a measure of them right from the start. A confident start gave them the opening game at 15-8, while the Hunters made a fight of the second game to force a golden point. But it were the Warriors who took the opening matching.
Lee Hyun Il had the responsibility of the trump match for the Hunters and a shaky first game left him on the ropes, and had he not held his nerve it could well have been a very different look to the result of the tie. But then, he did and that’s why he’s such a champion player. After losing the first game, he roared back to take the second one and romped home comfortably in the third.
This put the Hunters ahead, but just ahead.
Third tie of the evening was the Vodafone Super match between PV Sindhu and SainaNehwal – a clash much awaited and anticipated. And Sindhu was quick out of the blocks to establish a healthy lead. However, SainaNehwal is nothing, if not a fighter. She came thundering back to first equalize and then to take the game 11-15.
This clearly had the Hunters skipper rattled, and despite the Winter cold – she was clearly feeling the heat. But then she channelized her disappointment of losing the first game to absolutely romp home 15-9 and 15-6 to script a comprehensive win. If not for the first set resurgence, SainaNehwal was a bit too flat and Sindhu totally cantered to a win in the second and third games.
Two wins out of the three, and with the Hunters confident of a win, it was Mark Calouw’s turn to take the court for the Hunters. And going by the evidence, its been akin to a duck taking to water. He put on an absolute show for the fans – he roared, smashed, and enthralled the capacity crowd to go home victorious in straight games – 15-11 15-14.
And thus, the Warriors hadn’t just lost the trump but also the tie. A 4-0 lead on the night meant that the Hunters couldn’t be beaten. And the wounded Warriors just hadto be playing for a bit of pride.
With the result of the tie settled, the final match of the evening was an absolute humdinger, with wildly swinging request and equally wildly swinging fortunes for both teams. The Hunters eventually trumped 15-10 12-15 15-14 in a thrilling contest. The victory completed a 5-0 win for the Hunters, sending them to the top of the table with 17 points.
The Hunters will now head to Ahmedabad to take on the home team in their penultimate encounter, and then finish their league phase in Bangalore. On the evidence of things so far, they should surely look to extend their stay in Bangalore with a semi-finals spots definitely in the reckoning for the team from Hyderabad.
A mini break between this match and the next, should give the Hunters a good chance to rejuvenate some tired legs and come out all guns blazing as the league hits the business end of the season!
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Category: 2014 Q3 – Summer
New anime series debuting in Summer 2014.
Summer 2014 capsules
But before all that, a few words about Sword Art Online II : well, so far, it’s not doing a bad job of not rubbing me the wrong way, like Alfheim Online did. The writing is still pretty poor (go, go, tepid exposition !), but the setup of bringing in Kirito to investigate a bizarre murder spree in a new game setting is a decent one. (Also, anything that marginalizes the absence of chemistry he’s got with Asuna is welcome.) I might still watch this after all.
via [In Which I Review] New anime, Summer 2014 – Page 3.
A couple of shorts before moving on to the full Monday shows…
Mobile Suit Gundam-san is yet another of those comedy SD skits Sunrise puts out occasionally. (This one adapted from a 4-panel gag manga.) It starts off by an Austin Powers-style naked dance by Char, which should give you an idea of the high level of humour we’re dealing with here. It’s mildly funny, but nothing to go out of your way for.
Secret Princess Himegoto adapts a manga about a pretty boy being blackmailed into crossdressing by the student council. It’s got a main character called Unko (“Poop”). That kinda sums up my opinion of it.
So, Persona 4 The Golden Animation. I reviewed the original series back in 2011 ; this is a weird spin-off that adapts an updated rerelease of the game.
The selling point here, apparently, is a new character being added to the main cast, Marie. The script thus chooses wisely to fast-forward through a very bare bones version of the plot (skipping all the business related to Konishi), so that Marie can get 5 minutes or so of screentime after the end credits. To say that her introduction feels very forced an unnatural is an understatement ; she’s just dropped in without any explanation by the gamemaster. The core problem here is that this series is at its best with deadpan weirdness, and Marie’s way too melodramatic to fit in. So, well, it doesn’t quite work.
(By the way, the whole thing seems to have been reanimated from scratch, with a somewhat higher budget ; every single scene is slightly different from the previous series.)
Black Butler – Book of Circus spends its first episode re-establishing the premise with a “Day in the Life of Sebastian Michaelis”… Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as it’s a charming setup, and the script does get to play a bit with clever ellipses. I’ve got no clue where this would fit in continuity, but it’s not like this franchise ever sweats this kind of fine detail.
Anyway, this is good fun, and I’m glad it’s back.
(Also, no Grell whatsover for now, which is a definite plus in my book.)
Hey, someone finally fansubbed the first episode of Fran♥cesca : Girls Be Ambitious, more than a week after it aired !
… Having had a look at it, I can easily see why nobody bothered to do it for so long.
The high concept is that this is a series of 11-minute episodes built around a recently-created mascot character for Hokkaido, the titular Francesca. Who happens to be some sort of undead idol or something. But she barely shows up at the end of the first episode ; in practice, it mainly features the head of the anti-undead Hokkaido forces (of course a cute sassy girl) investigating killing the shit out of a recent surge of zombies rising from the ground. Also, tons of jokes that probably make sense to people who know of Hokkaido’s culture, but are completely impenetrable to me.
As far as promotional vehicles from tourism boards go, this one at least has the merit of originality. But that’s pretty much it ; it looks badly-animated (is this Flash-based ?), and at its core it’s comedy where I don’t get most of the jokes. (Which don’t look that funny, anyway.)
I’ll pass.
Posted on 2014/07/17 2014/07/18 Categories 2014 Q3 - SummerTags 4-panel manga adaptation, anime shorts, capsules, from RPG.net, Gundam, half-episodes, humour, light novel adaptation, manga adaptation, mons, mystery, science-fiction, videogame adaptationLeave a comment on Summer 2014 capsules
Nobunaga Concerto
Adaptation of yet another manga where a random Japanese teenager travels to the past and switches places with Nobunaga Oda.
Saburou, our lead character. Not very bright, shallow, terrible at Japanese history (he vaguely remembers about this Nobunaga dude) : the perfect protagonist for this kind of story ! How he travels to the past is refreshingly unexplained (it just happens suddenly).
Nobunaga himself happens to be passing by, on the run from servants who want him to stay at home. Hey, random weird lookalike, want to take my place for a while ? I’ll give you this cool sword. Saburou’s all “hey, cool sword” (after a bit of “where’s the camera filming this, anyway ?”), but quickly realizes that Nobunaga’s early life was a bit prison-like, and wants to go home.
Kichou, Nobunaga’s wife. “Wait, he had a wife ? She’s cute !” And so Saburou decides to stay around a bit more. She’s all too happy from the attention, after him seemingly having forgotten all about her. (“I know it was an arranged marriage, but still…”)
Nobunaga’s servants are baffled by their master’s bizarre new behaviour, despite his renewed healthiness. Has he lost his mind ? One of them lets himself be convinced it’s better to just kill him off, but Saburou somehow manages to deflect this. And hey, he can’t die now ; this would totally wreck history and stuff ; after all, Nobunaga’s supposed to conquer Japan or something. The servants then marvel at their master’s “hidden ambitions”.
Noboyuki, Nobunaga’s younger brother, sees the occasion as his chance to get rid of him. After manipulating that servant failed, he tries something against Kichou… but it doesn’t work out ; he winds up being sent off to an asylum for his trouble.
From now on, Saburou is taking this a bit more seriously. He’s started reading his history book (although it’s way too imprecise to be of much use). Anyway, he’s going to try his best ; Nobunaga totally conquered Japan and lived happily after, right ? (Ahah, no. We even had the history lesson at the episode’s beginning reminding us how it’s supposed to end ; Saburou didn’t pay attention, as usual.)
Cell-shaded CG characters everywhere ! You ever love it or hate it ; I think it works quite well, giving the anime a bit of an “historical painting come to life” look. It helps that the CG backgrounds are gorgeous. And there are some nifty stylistic touches here and there.
For a premise so well-trodden, this is a surprising breath of fresh air. Part of it is that it’s played entirely straight by most characters, with the comedy resulting from the clash of cultures. But the real selling point here is the sheer charm of Mamoru Miyano’s performance, perfectly convincing as this little git way out of his depth. It’s impressive how you end up rooting for a character so punchable.
It’s fun, it’s charming, and it looks great. I didn’t expect to enjoy this at all, but it turns out I did. I’m in.
Posted on 2014/07/16 2014/07/16 Categories 2014 Q3 - SummerTags from RPG.net, humour, manga adaptation, sengoku era, transported to another worldLeave a comment on Nobunaga Concerto
Blade Dance of the Elementalers (Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance)
Adaptation of a fantasy light novel series.
Kamito, our generic male lead. He’s the second guy to ever manage taming an elemental spirit, and the first one was known as the Demon Lord or somesuch. Subtle foreshadowing ! Anyway, he’s a complete anomaly in a world where Elementalers are usually female.
Greyworth, headmaster of the Elemental Academy of the same name, has specifically headhunted him so that he can participate in the next Blade Dance tournament.
Claire Rouge (sic) is the first student he meets on the grounds, and it’s irritation at first sight. Impulsive, reckless, she feels humiliated by their first contact, and is bent on having him contract with her as her slave to offset this.
Other major characters introduced here include the head of the Student Guard Corps, the archer who also wants him for herself, and the teacher irritated by everyone’s antics. (He’s been put into the problem student class, because of course.) Also, a maid. “Why is there a maid ?” Wise words, Kamito, wise words.
Very cheap indeed. The character designs are especially bad and generic. And of course, tons of lame fanservice : it starts with a “caught bathing naked” scene and goes on with multiple panty shots throughout the episode.
Nice score, though.
Oh, dear. This is by far the worst thing I’ve watched this season. Even Momo Kyun Sword and Akame ga Kill weren’t this irritating and facepalm-inducing. The beyond-generic plot is merely an excuse to string along a series of cliché harem antics, with characters who grow more and more annoying as the episode goes.
This is awful on just about every level. Avoid like the plague.
Posted on 2014/07/14 2014/07/16 Categories 2014 Q3 - SummerTags female harem, from RPG.net, heavy fanservice, heroic-fantasy, light novel adaptationLeave a comment on Blade Dance of the Elementalers (Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance)
Tokyo ESP
Adaptation of a manga series about mutants ESPer terrorists trying to take over Japan.
The Brotherhood of Evil Espers have launched an attack against Tokyo, which involves multiple bombing and stuff like stealing the Diet. You know, the whole building housing the Parliament. (And obviously that makes a lot of hostages.) The Doctor, our Magneto figure, has illusion powers ; his right-hand-woman teleports around, which makes her swords even deadlier. They have various other members in the building and on the ground.
The authorities’ reaction is rather lackluster. All those tanks deployed everywhere beforehand ? Completely useless. The attempts to parachute special forces onto the flying Diet ? The copter can’t even get close enough. Section Four of the Anti-Esper forces are the only one shown as remotely badass (yay bike-fu !), and they can barely manage a fragile draw against one esper.
It’s thus not surprising that most people are pining their hopes on the return of the White Girl, who apparently showed up in previous crises to save the day. It’s just too bad that the anti-Esper ban covers her too. But come on, like that’s going to stop her.
The episode does a good job of building suspense around her arrival. Instead, most of it is devoted to her band of usual associates stepping up to help out, however little they can. (It’s not like the psychometric and precognitive kids can go hand-to-hand against the baddies.) They haven’t been in contact with her, but surely she’s coming any moment now, right ?
This is apparently set in the same universe as Ga-Rei: Zero, and its heroines have a gratuitous cameo right before the shit hits the fan. I’ve not watched that series, but their one minute of interaction and the overall writing quality at play here have bumped up my list.
Very impressive. A lot of budget is spent on making the superpowers look cool, and it shows. (They really didn’t need to make the teleporting effects look so elaborate, but I’m glad they did.) It’s a big spectacle show, and it delivers.
Unfortunately, this is also the kind of world where super-powered women have their suits’ zippers down to their navel for no good reason. Oh, well.
Well, that was fun. It’s not exactly high art, but it’s well-filmed superheroics with some strong atmosphere and a decently-rounded cast. Good soundtrack, too. Sometimes it gets a bit too stupid for its own good (lol the normal dude who wields two guns at once, like that ever works), but most of the time it looks cool enough to get away with it.
I’m game for this.
Posted on 2014/07/11 2014/07/12 Categories 2014 Q3 - SummerTags from RPG.net, manga adaptation, thinly-disguised x-menLeave a comment on Tokyo ESP
Invaders of the Rokujyouma?! (Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?)
Adaptation of a supernatural romantic comedy light novel series.
Koutarou, our male lead, wants nothing more than starting a generic high school life. Sure, Mom is gone, and Dad is always away trying to earn some dough, but he’s not going to let that get him down. He’s got the mandatory perverted best friend, a budding relationship with the president of the knitting club, and is on good terms with his new houselady. (Who happens to be his own age.) He can’t believe his luck on this place being so cheap.
Sanae, the ghost girl haunting the room, might be part of the reason why. Anyway, she doesn’t want to share, so will he please go away ? (Koutarou starts rummaging through his stuff for religious charms.)
Yurika, the inept magical girl who crashes in the middle of their battle to warn them that there’s dangerous amounts of magical energy here, so they need to evacuate immediately. Er, please ?
Kiriha, the envoy from an underground race who just so happens to emerge into this room, and wants to use it as her base to CONQUER THE WORLD !
Theiamillia, a princess from an alien race who wields Nanoha-like magitek devices, and seems able to summon just as much firepower. Fortunately she comes with a supervisor in tow, immediately chiding her on the fact that destroying the planet would go against her mission of making its people submit to her will.
I’m surprised the walls are still standing by the end of the episode.
Well, it seems studio Silver Link have finally surrendered and are now making anime that look just like everything else. Oh, well. It still looks quite good, with good effects for the battle sequences.
And of course, notable amounts of fanservice.
Okay, I have to admit, the joke is pretty funny, as more and more ludicrous invaders keep barging in and making the previous ones go lulwat. (The next episode’s title suggests that even more are due to come, but they’re not on promotional materials.) But once you’ve introduced such a premise, what do you do with it ? Now that a non-aggression pact has been signed, we’re already back to a more conventional harem romantic comedy setup, and that’s not really promising.
I’ll go with my gut instinct and give it a pass. We’ve got better comedies airing this season.
Posted on 2014/07/11 2015/12/18 Categories 2014 Q3 - SummerTags female harem, from RPG.net, humour, light novel adaptation, magical girl
Love Stage!!
Adaptation of a yaoi romantic comedy manga.
Izumi, our main character, is drifting through college. He’s got delusions of becoming a manga artist, but his art’s worse than mine. He’s basically just an otaku, fanboying over this one magical girl series.
His parents would very much like him to follow in the family business, i.e. show business. Mom’s still acting, while Dad has moved on to running a talent agency. (Bro is fronting a famous rock band.) But Izumi just won’t have any of this. He just feels too awkward on set.
A decade or so ago, Izumi did act in a wedding agency’s commercial with his parents ; he was a last-minute replacement for the child actress catching the bouquet. (Yes, actress. Izumi looks so feminine that it wasn’t hard to wing it.)
Ryouma, who was the boy playing opposite Izumi in that commercial, is very interested in the wedding agency’s project of making a sequel. His one condition is reuniting the whole original cast. The parents are delighted, as he’s now a very famous actor/model. Izumi’s way less enthusiastic, but they eventually managed to bribe it into participating.
Sagara, the uptight manager, is one of the few people on set who knows Izumi’s not a girl (the others being his personal makeup/costuming squad, who’ve been sworn to secrecy). You can see him obviously having little patience for Izumi’s apathy, but damn it this is his job and he’s going to do it well. What he didn’t anticipate : somebody changing the script at the last moment to include a kiss between Ryouma and Izumi. Uh oh…
Not very good ; the standard yaoi character designs are rather ugly.
Well, it’s yaoi. I was all prepared to write it off as “not my thing”, especially as it looks rather shabby.
… And then the jokes start hitting a homerun, and it turns out I’m actually enjoying this quite a lot. This is fun. That the premises seems devoid of the rape subtext so endemic to the genre is a big plus, but it’s just got charm. Izumi’s parents are ridiculously entertaining, the little pokes at show business are quite funny, and the whole thing is quite well scripted overall, with good comedic timing.
I’m surprised to say this has a good chance of staying on my watchlist.
Posted on 2014/07/10 2014/07/11 Categories 2014 Q3 - SummerTags from RPG.net, humour, manga adaptation, protagonists in college, romanceLeave a comment on Love Stage!!
Magimoji Rurumo
Adaptation of an ecchi comedy manga series.
Shibaki, our generic high school protagonist… no, scratch that, he’s a complete pervert. His terrible reputation at school might be slightly overstated (he does have moments of white-knighting, or just plain misunderstandings), but let’s be frank : he’s a horndog.
Rurumo, a deadpan witch who shows out of nowhere to claim his life. Well, not exactly out of nowhere ; he did make a half-assed summoning ritual with the occult club earlier that day, but had not clue it would actually work. (The show loves to put explanatory flashbacks like this just a bit too late, which makes him look like he has a two-minute attention span.) Anyway, they eventually find a loophole to avoid such unpleasantness… Except she comes back a few months later.
Chiro, her cat familiar, eventually explains the score in private to Shibaki. Rurumo has been demoted for her previous failure and needs to recomplete her training, which takes the form of single-use magic coupons Shibaki can use to direct her. (She can’t do magic of her own initiative anymore.) What she doesn’t know is that those coupons are tied to Shibaki’s life : once they’re all gone, he’s toast…
About average, with just about as much focus on fanservice as you’d expect.
Well, that was unpleasant. The jokes are mildly funny, but there’s an overall sadistic atmosphere that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Sure, a lot of comedy in general revolves around terrible stuff happening to people who don’t (or do) deserve it, but this show pushes it too far into gratuitously malicious territory. It’s all the worse when it tries to make a bid for audience sympathy at the end with the dramatic twist : it doesn’t work, as the protagonist is too much of a jerk for me to care.
There are much better comedies this season ; I have no time to bother with this one.
Posted on 2014/07/10 2014/07/11 Categories 2014 Q3 - SummerTags from RPG.net, heavy fanservice, humour, magical girl, manga adaptationLeave a comment on Magimoji Rurumo
Momo Kyun Sword
Adaptation of a light novel series very loosely based on the tale of Momotarou.
Momoko, our teenage female lead. Born from a peach, and also blessed with huge peaches in the front. (This terrible pun isn’t mine, the show did it first.) Also, dumb as a hammer.
She has three sidekick gods : a monkey, a dog and a pheasant, who get the straight man role by default. She can fuse with any of them to get superpowers.
The plot, such as it is, involves demons looking for “peach fragments”, and the Heavens sending a team of four warriors to stop them. They’re completely useless, and Momoko ends up saving the day. She’s enlisted to keep up the good fight.
So much fanservice ! Everyone, and especially Momoko, shows so much skin it’s a wonder their clothes don’t fall off. Momoko still gets her clothes shredded at the end, because of course.
I knew we were missing something this season : the vacuous fanservice-fest with barely an excuse plot. It’s terrible on every level, really. It’s not even worth my time deriding it.
Really don’t bother with this one.
Posted on 2014/07/09 2014/07/09 Categories 2014 Q3 - SummerTags from RPG.net, heavy fanservice, heroic-fantasy, Japanese folklore, light novel adaptation, so boring it nearly put me to sleepLeave a comment on Momo Kyun Sword
La Bonne Vie (Jinsei)
Adaptation of a comedy light novel series.
Yuuki, our generic highschool student male lead. He’s been tasked by his cousin (who’s the president of the Second Newspaper Club) to shepherd the life advice columnists. Which mostly means he has to play the straight man to those bozos.
Rino, the science specialist, is an arrogant and socially awkward nerd whose idea of casual conversation involves advanced scientific topics that leave everyone else baffled. Also, she’s obviously being pushed by the other characters to become Yuuki’s love interest ; she’s not entirely uninterested, but it’s going to be a long road.
Fumi, the humanities specialist, is a nice girl who tries desperately to accommodate everyone, however absurd that may be. Also, big jugs.
Ikumi, the sports specialist, is athletically superhuman, but rarely bothers to consult her brain before acting.
The format involves Yuuki reading aloud letters from other students (3 this episode), and the four of them brainstorming an answer to publish ; since the three specialists have wildly different opinions and agendas and keep going on completely unrelated tangents, the final result is usually utterly chaotic.
Decent, although the shine in Yuuki’s hair is really distracting.
Also, there’s a completely gratuitous wet T-shirt scene, and some breast fondling.
Oh, dear. This is a gag show that just isn’t funny. Most of the jokes are too laborious or over-extended to work, when they’re not completely impenetrable. It doesn’t help that a lot of them rely on walls of text that probably worked better in the source medium. Moreover, the format is already starting to get repetitive.
Well, they can’t all be winners. Having two good comedy shows this season (three if you count Barakamon) is already pretty good.
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Terror in Resonance (Zankyou no Terror)
It’s the grand reunion of director Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) and composer Yoko Kanno ! Okay, it’s the third time in two years, but he’s barely directing any of Space Dandy himself, and let’s just politely forget about Kids on the Slope. This is much more like it : a more personal original anime series that he’s apparently been trying to produce for years. Given the subject matter, I believe him.
This is a show about terrorism. And it’s not pulling any punches.
The story focuses on a team of two teenage terrorists, Nine & Twelve. (They’ve got proper names they use at school, but those are most probably aliases.) Nine is the tall guy with glasses and scary eyes ; Twelve is a cheerful ball of energy whose playful attitude and smile are no less scary. Together, they commit acts of terror. Stealing plutonium from a secure recycling facility, setting off bombs that destroy most of a skyscraper, posting cryptic videos on YouTube, the works.
Their motives remain nebulous. Their very codenames suggest there’s somebody else pulling the strings. They feel righteous in their attacks against modern civilization, but the short flashbacks/dreams about their childhood only raise more questions over how they got there. What’s clear is that they are ready to kill.
Lisa is another student attending their new high school. Withdrawn and a frequent target of bullies until Twelve rescued her, mostly for the lulz. Later on, she randomly bumps into him in the middle of placing bombs, and Nine offers her a choice : dying or becoming their accomplice.
Before the skyscraper attack, the police aren’t really paying attention to some random videos on the web (the uranium theft six months ago is top secret, of course) ; that’s obviously going to change. The script gives plenty of screentime to a bored police inspector who spends his time solving crosswords while his partner surfs around the Net ; presumably he’s going to be important in the investigation.
Very good. The direction makes the terrorism sequences look like clockwork : while it’s not immediately obvious what the end objective is, the various steps are perfectly clear to follow.
Yoko Kanno’s soundtrack is ace, of course. Maybe one of her best scores in a while.
Well, this was impressive. This is basically filmed like a heist movie, except we have no clue whatsoever about what drives the protagonists, to say nothing of their endgame. What helps considerably is how plausible most of their attacks are ; whoever designed them did their research well. (The second episode opens with a scene of the police piecing out what they did exactly, and it turns out to have needed very little resources, merely impeccable planning and timing. Also, tons of refuge in audacity.)
I’m slightly less confident on how Lisa is going to fit into all this ; I presume it’s going to be more interesting than introducing some tepid romantic tension. Still, I’m willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt on this, as everything else is very intriguing indeed.
A good thriller by masters of the form. Definitely one of the highlights of the season.
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Home Business Film drama promotes Hotel Doolin weddings
Film drama promotes Hotel Doolin weddings
A scene from “Say I Doolin”, a five-part drama based on a relationship that forms between two people who meet at Hotel Doolin.
A Clare hotel has developed an innovative method of promoting its wedding packages by commissioning a five-part drama based on a relationship that forms between two strangers who meet at Hotel Doolin.
Produced by filmmaker James Skerritt and commissioned by the north Clare hotel, the first episode of “Say I DOolin” has been published today (Monday, 19 January 2015) on YouTube and Hotel Doolin’s social media platforms with a new episode appearing each day up to Friday.
There will be daily prize giveaways for viewers with one couple winning a wedding package for up to 100 guests at Hotel Doolin.
“We wanted to create a bit of excitement around our Wild Atlantic Wedding package so following a conversation with film producer James Skerritt we came up with the idea for ‘I Say Doolin”,” explained Donal Minihane, General Manager, Hotel Doolin.
“The story revolves around two people visiting our hotel to attend the annual Doolin Writers Weekend before meeting again at the Doolin Folk Fest and the Doolin Craft Beer Festival. The film was shot on location at Hotel Doolin over a 5 month period during 2014. The purpose of this promotion Is to get as many people as possible to watch the episodes each day at the end of which we will pose a question on our Facebook page before handing out a daily prize, culminating with Friday’s main giveaway,” added Mr. Minihane.
The first episode of “Say I DOolin” is available to view on YouTube and on the Hotel Doolin Facebook page.
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Louis Barthas: Eyewitness to the French Army Mutinies, May-June 1917
by Yale University Press
in European History, History, Military History
Edward M. Strauss—
“On May 26 [1917] the first American combat troops arrived in France….
“The arrival of the first American troops coincided with a dramatic change on the French sector of the Western Front, where the growing number of desertions turned, on May 27, to mutiny. At the Front itself, along the Chemin des Dames [ridge], as many as 30,000 soldiers had left their trenches and reserve billets and fallen to the rear. Then, in four towns behind the lines, the troops ignored their officers’ orders, seized buildings, and refused to go to the Front….For a week there was chaos through the French war zone, as the mutineers refused to go back into the line. The military authorities took swift action: under [French General Philippe] Pétain’s guiding hand, mass arrests and Courts Martial followed….More than four hundred soldiers were sentenced to death, fifty of them being shot, the rest being sent to penal servitude in the French colonies. For several million infantrymen, some of whom had been fighting for nearly three years, Pétain brought in immediate improvements, organizing longer periods of rest, more home leave, and better food….Within six weeks the mutinies were over….”—Martin Gilbert, The First World War, (1994), pp. 333-334.
“The general mood of those involved – and they comprised soldiers in fifty-four divisions, almost half the army – was one of reluctance, if not refusal, to take part in fresh attacks but also of patriotic willingness to hold the line against attacks by the enemy. There were also specific demands: more leave, better food, better treatment for soldiers’ families, an end to ‘injustice’ and ‘butchery,’ and ‘peace’….[Pétain] set in train a series of measures designed to contain [the unrest] and return the army to moral well-being….”—John Keegan, The First World War (1998), pp. 330-331.
After the war, French infantryman Louis Barthas, ardent socialist and pacifist, provided a first-hand, on-the-scene account of these events:
“At this time [spring 1917] the Russian Revolution broke out. Those Slavic soldiers, only yesterday enslaved and bent double under the weight of iron discipline, unknowingly marching off to massacres like resigned slaves, had thrown off their yokes, proclaimed their liberty, and imposed peace on their masters, their hangmen.
The whole world was stupefied, petrified by this revolution, this collapse of the immense empire of the czars.
These events had repercussions on the Western Front and throughout the French ranks. A wind of revolt blew across almost all the regiments.
There were, besides, plenty of reasons for discontent: the painful failure of the Chemin des Dames offensive, which had no result but a general slaughter; the prospect of more long months of war ahead, with a highly dubious outcome; and finally the long wait for home leaves – it’s that which bothered the soldiers most, I believe.
I cannot pretend to tell the whole story of what happened almost everywhere just then. I will stick to writing what I know, regarding our regiment and the repression which followed.
There was, at the end of the village [Daucourt, 6 km. south of Sainte- Menehould], a shopkeeper for whom the war brought only profit. He sold beer, and he had a cute little waitress to serve it to customers – powerful attractions which, every evening after supper, brought a whole crowd of poilus, a well-behaved clientele which plunked down in groups in the big courtyard adjacent to his shop. One evening, some of the soldiers were singing, others were entertaining their fellows with songs and skits, when a corporal began singing words of revolt against the sad life in the trenches, words of farewell to the dear souls whom we might not see again, of anger against this infamous war, the rich shirkers who left the fighting to those who had nothing to fight for.
At the refrain, hundreds of voices rose in chorus, and at the end fervent applause broke out, mixed with cries of “Peace or revolution! Down with war!,” as well as “Home leave! Home leave!”
On another evening – patriots, cover your ears! – the “Internationale” [socialist anthem] was heard, bursting like a storm.
That time, our chiefs got stirred up. It gave our old friend [Captain] Cros-Maryrevielle such an unbearable itch that he quickly sent a patrol of four men and the inevitable corporal to remind those vile whiners that, 8 o’clock having rung, the men had to hand over the street, the taverns, and the ladies to the officers, and report to the sergeants-of-the-day who were waiting to carry out roll call at the doorways of our empty billets.
The patrol prudently judged that it should beat a hasty retreat, and our captain-cop came out himself, escorted by the local police squad.
He tried to speak with moderation, but as soon as the first words left his mouth he was halted by formidable shouting.
Sputtering with rage but powerless, he turned on the unfortunate sergeants, who had unwisely reported that “no one was absent,” and forced them to call roll a second time.
A crowd of several hundred soldiers, scorning the roll calls, had massed in front of the police station, where Captain Cros had sought refuge. To give him even more of a scare, one hothead fired a couple of pistol shots in the air.
At noon on May 30, there was even an assembly outside the village, to constitute, following the Russian example, a “soviet” composed of three men from each company, which would take control of the regiment.
To my great astonishment, they came to offer me the presidency of this soviet, that’s to say, to replace the colonel – nothing less than that!
That would be quite a sight – me, an obscure peasant who put down my pitchfork in August 1914, commanding the 269th Regiment. That went way beyond the bounds of probability.
Of course I refused. I had no desire to shake hands with a firing squad, just for the child’s play of pretending we were the Russians.
But I did decide to give an appearance of legality to these revolutionary demonstrations. I wrote up a manifesto to give to our company commanders, protesting against the delay in furloughs. It began like this: “On the eve of the [Chemin des Dames] offensive [in April], General [Robert] Nivelle had read to our troops an order of the day saying that the hour of sacrifice had rung….We offered our lives and made this sacrifice for the fatherland but, in exchange, we said that the hour of home leaves had also sounded, a while ago…,” etcetera.
The revolt was therefore placed squarely on the side of right and justice. The manifesto was read out, in a sonorous voice, by a poilu who was perched astride the limb of a tree. Fervent applause underscored his last lines.
My vanity was hardly flattered. If they learned that it was I who had drawn up this protest, moderate as it was, my fate was clear: a court-martial, for sure, and possibly twelve [French] bullets dispatched to send me off to another world, long before my appointed hour.
Meanwhile the officers had taken note of the call for an enormous assembly of soldiers, out by the Daucourt washhouses. They tried to interrogate some poilus about the purpose of this meeting, but no one was willing to respond, or they answered evasively.
Our commandant tried to block the road by the police station, but the poilus got through by using other routes.
In the afternoon the order was given for immediate departure. It included the formal promise that home leaves would begin again, starting the next day, at a rate of sixteen per one hundred men. They needed nothing more to reestablish order. In spite of that, there were lively disturbances, especially in the encampment of the 4th Machine-Gun Company, a few moments before departure, and the men headed out only after singing the “Internationale” right in the faces of the stupefied but powerless officers.
At three o’clock, under a brilliant sun, we left Daucourt. At five o’clock, the regiment marched through Sainte-Menehould, where tragic events had just played out.
Two regiments had just mutinied and seized their barracks, crying “Peace or Revolution!”
General “X,” who went to try to harangue the mutineers, was grabbed, slammed against a wall, and was just about to be shot, when a much-beloved commandant succeeded in saving the general and winning the promise that the insurgents be allowed to make their way to the camp at Châlons for a long rest.
Rifle shots were fired on a group of officers who were trying to approach the barracks. The bullets went wild and hit some innocent victims in the town, killing two, it is said.
They judged it prudent to separate the three battalions of the 296th Regiment from one another, and they billeted us fairly far apart. Our battalion was quartered in barracks four kilometers from Sainte-Menehould. It was only when we got there that we learned that the other battalions were elsewhere.
The next day [May 31] at 7 a.m. they assembled us for departure to the trenches. Noisy demonstrations resulted: cries, songs, shouts, whistling; of course, the “Internationale” was heard. I truly believe that, if the officers had made one provocative gesture, they would have been massacred without pity, so great was the agitation.
They chose the wisest path: waiting patiently until calm was restored. You can’t cry, shout, and whistle forever, and among the insurgents there was no leader capable of taking decisive direction. We ended heading for the trenches, not without an undertone of griping and grumbling.
Soon, to our great surprise, a column of mounted cavalry came up and rode alongside us. They accompanied us all the way to the trenches, like convicts being led to forced labor!
Annoyed and suffocated by the dust kicked up by the horses, we didn’t have to wait long before scuffles broke out between foot soldiers and cavalrymen, and then some brawls; there were even a few blows from rifle butts, on the one side, and from the blunt sides of sabers, on the other. To prevent a real battle from breaking out, they had to move the cavalrymen farther away, which wasn’t at all disagreeable to them.
We passed through Moiremont, the final inhabited and civilized place…..”
From Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918, translated by Edward M. Strauss (2014), pp. 325-328.
Note: In December 1917 the 269th Infantry Regiment was dissolved and its units dispersed to other regiments. “The role played by the 269th in the antimilitarist demonstrations of last June was probably not unrelated to the disgrace which fell upon us,” writes Louis Barthas in an understatement.
Louis Barthas (1879–1952) was a cooper in a small town in southern France. Edward M. Strauss is a fundraising director in higher education and former publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. He lives in New York City.
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Dirty Streets: Distractions Review
Distractions (released on the 14th of Sept.) is the latest album from Memphis, TN band Dirty Streets. Being just a trio comprised of Justin Toland on guitar and vocals, Thomas Storz on bass, and Andrew Denham on drums; these guys swirl up a big sonic concoction of heavy blues rock, psychedelic rock, and a little touch of soul.
The first thing to grab you will be the gargantuan riffs from “Loving Man”, and the trend follows with “The Sound”. Beginning with these two tracks is just what the doctor ordered. Sometimes you just need music like this. It’s a blissful romping sound which at times Led Zeppelin captured (with John Paul Jones and John Bonham being key components), but it also has the power and the guts of a band like Mountain.
“Dreams” softens the mood slightly with an honestly ‘dreamy’ sounding tracks (with hints of the Rolling Stones and CCR), but the hand plunges back into the bag to retrieve some more chunky and mettlesome riffs with “Riding High” – which needs to be included on everyone’s ‘driving songs’ playlist or compilation. “Can’t Go Back” and “Distractions” keep it bawling and belting along into the belly of the album, and our interest is totally unfaltering. At this point we can realize Dirty Streets is all about getting in there, in the thick of it, finishing the job, and getting out. You won’t be hearing lengthy guitar solos with ‘finger pyrotechnics’, but solos that compliment the song without overpowering the presence of the rest of the band. Track length too; is clean and concise. The point is reached quickly and seldom does a song go over four minutes.
We get some morsels of filthy wah and a brilliant vocal delivery as the rhythm section forges out steel on “Take a Walk”. This segues to more depth in song writing and a slight genre shift with “Deaths Creep”. A more acoustic flavor is used with the Southern feeling “On The Way”. The riff-machine does return though, to close the album with “Trying to Remember”.
Distractions by Dirty Streets is not the usual chewing-gum-for-the-ears garbage you hear on mainstream modern rock radio airwaves. And thank God for that! If you enjoy bands like Wolfmother, Rival Sons, or any of the older bands we mentioned above; check out Distractions, as it’s definitely a good introduction to this band from Memphis, out of their five albums.
– Loving Man
– The Sound
– Take a Walk
– Riding High
Review by Ethan Burke
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Sony's No Good Deed took in $1.82 million on Tuesday to lead the daily box office for a fifth consecutive day. The low-budget thriller from Screen Gems starring Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson increased 13 percent over Monday. That represented one of the day's poorer daily holds among wide releases on Tuesday. In the bigger picture, No Good Deed continues to outpace expectations with a healthy five-day start of $27.68 million. That places the film 7 percent ahead of the $25.96 million five-day take of 2009's I Can Do Bad All By Myself.
Guardians of the Galaxy held steady in second place with $0.779 million. The blockbuster sci-fi superhero adaptation from Disney and Marvel was up 35 percent over Monday and down a very slim 17 percent from last Tuesday. Daily percentage increases over Monday were strong in general on Tuesday. Guardians of the Galaxy is the highest grossing release of 2014 thus far domestically with $307.34 million through 47 days.
Dolphin Tale 2 grossed $0.703 million to remain in third place. Like Guardians of the Galaxy, the family film sequel from Warner Bros. also increased 35 percent over Monday. Dolphin Tale 2 has grossed $17.10 million in five days. That is on the lower end of pre-release expectations and places the film 18 percent behind the $20.78 million five-day start of 2011's Dolphin Tale.
Fox Searchlight's The Drop stayed in fourth place with $0.492 million. The crime drama starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and the late James Gandolfini was up 28 percent over Monday's performance. The Drop has grossed $4.98 million in four days, which represents a very solid start given that the film is only playing in 809 locations.
Let's Be Cops rounded out the day's unchanged top five with $0.457 million. Fox's low-budget action comedy increased 31 percent over Monday and was down only 21 percent from last Tuesday. Thanks in part to continued strong holding power; Let's Be Cops has grossed $73.86 million through 35 days of release.
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TIGARD — When people are most convinced they don’t need God, He can do some of His best and most dramatic work, a top U.S. figure in the worldwide Alpha movement said here as he outlined why he envisions the Pacific Northwest as an epicenter for spiritual revival.
“The world is watching this place,” Dane Sanders, Alpha ambassador for the U.S., said Nov. 30 as featured speaker at Westside: A Jesus Church in Tigard during an annual promotional dinner for the Alpha ministry in the Northwest. “The ‘edgy’ people want to watch what happens here.”
Alpha is an evangelistic course that introduces the basics of the Christian faith through a series of talks and discussions. Since 1970, an estimated 24 million people have heard the Gospel worldwide through the program.
Alpha is described by its organizers as “an opportunity to explore the meaning of life.” Alpha courses are held in churches, homes, workplaces, prisons, universities and a wide variety of other locations. The course began in Britain decades ago and is run throughout the world by various Christian denominations.
What Alpha has going on just in this part of the region may indicate how a deep spiritual hunger here can be satisfied. Kirk Petersen, Alpha’s Northwest director, said four times the number of churches are participating in the program now as compared to 10 years ago. While traditionally drawing only from the Protestant community, there now are Roman Catholic churches involved, said Petersen. He added that more and more teens also are getting involved.
“Alpha has become a place for people fo find an on-ramp back to faith,” Petersen said.
Sanders outlined why he believes the Northwest could see a great spiritual move. He said, for example, that the Portland area attracts counterculture people who are inclined “to stretch, to discover,” but who also have a “radical sense of hunger” spiritually.
He said that while the nation as a whole is still at the beginnings of a “post-Christian era,” this region has actually reflected that for some time. “The Northwest has been here (at that point) for a while,” he said.
But that does not diminish the reality of the fundamental spiritual hunger and loneliness that many here experience, Sanders said. He said the shift away from a “Christian center” and from a cohesive sense of family has pushed people toward a “false connectivity” that leaves them needing real love and truth.
Sanders likened the situation here to what was happening decades ago in Alpha’s birthplace. “I would argue that 30 years ago in London is where Portland is today,” he said.
The beauty of the Alpha program, according to Sanders, is that it allows people to come just as they are, with whatever preconceived ideas and questions they have, and lets them openly express them without being challenged, insulted or embarrassed.
And what better place for such a program than in this part of the Northwest, he suggested.
“It is so counterculture, so Portland-like, actually, to put the microphone down and listen … What if we became famous for being the place in which you were heard, if we became famous for listening?” he said.
No one has ever been “argued into the Kingdom (of God),” Sanders stated, but God himself can convince people of their need for Him. “What if we could trust the Holy Spirit to be good at His job?” Sanders asked. “What if we can trust the Holy Spirit to be competent?”
Sanders said the effectiveness of the course was shown in a survey by noted Christian researcher George Barna. Barna found that for every 100 people with atheistic leanings who take the course, a stunning 82 percent come to faith in Christ.
Prior to Sanders’ talk, several Northwest residents who had gone through Alpha shared the huge change it brought to their lives. Charlie Spencer took Alpha through East Side Baptist Church in Springfield, but only initially went because of his wife’s interest, and was “kicking and screaming the whole way.”
He said he attended with absolutely no faith beliefs whatsoever. But halfway through the second course session, Spencer said, he was hit with the reality of what he was hearing about the Gospel, prompting him to suddenly exclaim, “I think I believe!”
Now he is a street evangelist.
“I didn’t think life could be this good,” he said. “God’s power is beyond measure, and I know that in my heart today.”
Cody and Ashley Williams enrolled in Alpha at Bridgetown Church in Portland. Then heavily into New Age and occult practices, they at first thought they really didn’t need the program, because they believed in a divine power already. But they acknowledged that they were always seeking spiritually because their lives were “going downhill.”
However, through the course, the Holy Spirit got through to the couple and they eventually completely renounced their ungodly practices.
“Thanks to Jesus, the veil has been lifted,” taking them from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of light, Cody said.
“We know what we got saved from and we know what we got saved into,” he said.
To learn more about Alpha in the Northwest, phone Petersen at 503-819-2605 or go online to alphausa.org/portland
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Obama Cool in the Age of Insecurity
Posted by L' Enfant Terrible on 5/19/2010 01:11:00 PM
Labels: Architecture, L'Enfant Terrible, Moshe Safdie
If the good citizens of Annapolis ever decide to invade the District of Columbia, drunk, chewing on unlit cigars and armed to the teeth, they will make it no further than 99 New York Avenue, the fortress headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms. But until that day, the ATF building will remain the worst building in Washington D.C.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the federal government redoubled its efforts, begun after the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building, to make sensitive government buildings more secure. In the fifteen years since Oklahoma City, bollards, planters, walls, and retractable security gates have replaced park benches, eliminated landscaping, and narrowed sidewalks around most federal buildings in Washington and around the nation. For most of our important ceremonial buildings, the GSA has cleverly concealed these security measures within the architecture. For instance, few visitors to Washington would ever guess that the low wall around the Washington Monument is the last line of defense against a dump truck packed with explosives.
But even in Washington, the ATF Headquarters, designed by Israeli/Canadian/American architect Moshe Safdie and completed in 2008, breaks new and disturbing ground for architectural insecurity. Driving along New York Avenue (because nobody would ever want to walk near this building) one is arrested by the colossal barricade trying desperately to fill up the block. The ATF offices cower on the south side of the site away from New York Avenue, like a dog expecting to be kicked. In between the barricade and the building is a lovely no-mans-land. Dead end steps lead down from New York Avenue into this secret garden as if the garden had originally been intended as public refuge from the traffic noise of New York Avenue only to be walled off at the last moment by neurotic security consultants.
On the south and east sides of the site, just steps from the New York Avenue Metro station, gateway to the burgeoning NoMa neighborhood, the bulk of the building is hidden behind a single-story security cordon, making 2nd street feel like an alley where a few of the cordon's undistinguished storefronts have been turned over to retail. But these spaces feel like they've been banished from the kingdom, left to live as undesirables outside the castle walls. The only unobstructed view of the actual office building is from the narrow N Street side, but even here the building is sequestered from the street by bollards and planters and too-tall walls and even taller fences and a pointless pergola.
The dead end steps, the DMZ garden, the inhospitable retail, the planters and bollards and pergola--on all sides this is an unremarkable office building subsumed by architectural paranoia, dressed up with empty urban gestures. So why is this building in Washington DC at all? Why not exile it to a remote site outside the beltway?
This was the strategy of the American Consulate in Istanbul, the first of the post 9/11 embassies, which New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman dubbed the place Where Birds Don't Fly. The suburban embassy is too hard a target for terrorists to bother with, but more to the point, its very inaccessibility has made it a symbol not of our highest values but our worst fears. The best that can be said of the Istanbul Consulate is that it is not in Istanbul at all, but far away from anyplace that matters, like the crazy aunt in the attic. But in Washington DC, the ATF has stumbled out onto the front porch, wearing nothing but a top hat and tutu, and is screaming at the neighbors about alien invasions.
Fortunately there is prescription for this architectural nervous disorder: Philadelphia architects', Kieran/Timerlake’s design for the new American Embassy in London. Perched atop a gently sloping berm and surrounded by a reflecting pool, the glass cube, swathed in bubble wrap, is alighted on an open colonnade at street level. The design for the new American Embassy is distinctly urbane and utterly unflappable: Obama cool. Posed conspicuously on the south bank of the Thames, surround by a decidedly urban neighborhood of office buildings, this building is not afraid of the crowds. It will be the life of the party. Home to the "High-Tech-Modern Architects," Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, London is a showcase of technological innovation in architecture.
But even in such sophisticated company, Kieran/Timberlake's design stands out. The bubble wrap insulates and regulates sunlight and features next-generation "thin film" photovoltaics, a technology pioneered in the United States. But more important than the transparent skin, is the openness at the street. The first floor colonnade is a stylish storefront, taking its cues from the transparent Apple Stores, drawing in shoppers from the marketplace of ideas. Openness, transparency, technology: these are the values that America's buildings should symbolize around the world, and the values that should inform our federal buildings here at home. The ATF building will go down as one of the starkest expressions of a dark age in American federal architecture, but there is light on the horizon.
Colin on May 19, 2010, 1:45:00 PM said...
"Obama cool"? Oh give me a break. In any case that's not the US embassy in Instanbul, but the consulate. The embassy is located in the country's capital of Ankara.
Sheila on May 19, 2010, 1:48:00 PM said...
Thanks for the heads up on the consulate--changed it.
"The ATF offices cower...like a dog expecting to be kicked." Well said.
Critic said...
Nice article, but the view from above of the London embassy looks worse than the moated ATF. It appears as though its drawn a line around itself, pulling away from its neighbors with its own moat. The street view doesn't look so bad, but I'm not sure the Philadelphians pulled off what Safdie botched.
ERC said...
Yep, that's an ugly building alright.
zzindc on May 19, 2010, 5:00:00 PM said...
I think you overstate your case. I am no great fan of the ATF Building but I do appreciate its attempt to create a secure building in an urban setting. Would that the FBI's Hoover Building had retail accessible to the public in its perimeter! (And secure or not, New York Ave is a misguided urban freeway to be protected from.) Doubtless, the London embassy does wear its skin better - perhaps that's a lesson learned from ATF - but the embassy still keeps its urban neighbors far far away - it's the same attitude as the ATF Building, just in a prettier dress. Let's see what the ATF retail is like once that neighborhood is built out with more offices and customers. And let's see what the embassy is like once the moat is filled and its urbanity is something to be seen, from afar. Either or both might provide some surprises.
L' Enfant Terrible on May 19, 2010, 7:43:00 PM said...
I don’t mean to suggest that Barak Obama is somehow responsible for this wide-ranging aesthetic sensibility. I simply mean that Kieran/Timberlake seem to have tapped into the zeitgeist, best described as “Obama Cool”. . . in much the same way that the Saarinen embassy it replaces tapped into the impeccably stylish Kennedy mystique even though it was opened in 1960, the same year Kennedy took office. But don’t take my word for it, just watch Fred Armisen’s impression, “Obama Plays It Cool”
le terrible poo said...
does anyone, other than myself, see the irony in that safdie is responsible for the architecture of the ATF fortress AND the institute of peace in foggy bottom? it reminds me of when crazy, idealist fashion designers decide to create law enforcement uniforms... or vice versa.
i find it curiously odd.
L' Enfant Terrible on May 19, 2010, 11:44:00 PM said...
Stay tuned for Safdie part deux.
thank you for putting into words what i always muttered to myself as i saw that awful building going up. i am always put in a bad mood whenever i happen drive by it. argh.....
im glad you mentioned the grounds of washington monument. it is a great counterpoint to how you can deal with security while creating great public space. in addition, there are constantly emerging technologies for security measures (blast resistant glass, reinforced columns, collapsing sidewalk pavement, etc.). so for anyone to applaud this ridiculous attempt of its security measures (let alone its architectural integrity) is entirely uninformed.
(am not looking forward to the institute of peace building....)
Really?! said...
I'm not architect nor building critic, but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BUILDING (and I live around the corner so its not like I only see it every once in a while). It is a building that represents EXACTLY the agency it serves--ATF...[explicative] with us!
It is supposed to be an imposing building. I'm sorry, I just don't think of lush landscapes and flower beds when I think of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion and I don't mean any disrespect, but your take on the building sounds like someone who doesn't appreciate Miles Davis cause he didn't play enough notes. Why not just appreciate it for what it is, because I believe the building evokes the exact sentiment that the ATF wants to give off.
clchurch on May 20, 2010, 9:01:00 AM said...
Well, the ATF building is no worse than the FBI building, and that was built long before Waco.
About the only good thing that building has going for it is the 5 guys I can stop at on my walk home.
Funny that DOJ is leasing next to it and doesn't have nearly the fortress
Pesonally, the big barriers remind me of the colonades in front of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican - big hands that hold, protect, maybe strangle....
Melanie on May 20, 2010, 11:58:00 AM said...
This building is St. Peter's next to the FBI building. That thing is the worst building in town, and I hear they're tearing it down soon.
i've obviously missed the connection between president obama, cool and this building. would some one please explain. btw, i think the design of the building is awkward and irrational. that's its unattractive, i get. the relationship to the president, i don't. help! :(
While this building could have been better executed, it's worth remembering that ATF was the primary target in the Oklahoma City bombing. They were making decisions in the context of having been attacked.
Many federal agencies would like nothing more than to move a great portion of their operations out of the District to secure (and less expensive) suburban campuses. Congress and the GSA have worked to keep federal jobs in DC in the belief that the economic development and symbolic benefits outweigh the costs and security advantages of relocating. The results aren't always perfect, but I appreciate their efforts.
Also, GSA isn't responsible for the Washington Monument. It's a DOI property.
This says it all: A few weeks ago, I picked up a friend at BWI and we drove into DC via the B-W Pkwy. As we crested the bridge over the tracks we caught first sight of the ATF building and he said to me, "Why did they put a prison at the gateway to the Nation's Capital?" I had to sheepishly explain that it was in fact a Federal office building and, of course, he was appalled.
justjo on May 20, 2010, 4:11:00 PM said...
interesting comments. although i never knew this was the ATF, i think it's interesting. i dont find it so horrible unlike the other posters. i note the security and thought maybe there was a green courtyard somewhere...o well...beauty is in the eye...
Dustin on May 21, 2010, 7:31:00 PM said...
As an interesting side note, the central branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library looks very similar. (It was, obviously, designed by the same architect.)
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Takeovers: Conflict of Interests
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Henley on 20 May (HL15640), whether they have reviewed the decision-making processes in investment institutions which hold equity investments in both the offeror and the offeree in a takeover situation but on behalf of different clients and where a particular outcome might favour one group of clients over another .
<p>Asset managers act as agents of investors in their funds. They are required to manage their funds in the best interests of all of their fund investors and to appropriately avoid, manage and disclose conflicts of interests that could, and do arise between different investor groups. This is a requirement of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II).</p><p> </p><p>Asset managers should have policies, procedures and governance in place to effectively manage any conflicts arising from their stewardship obligations.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA has recently published a Policy Statement (PS 19/13) ‘Proposals to promote shareholder engagement: Feedback to CP 19/7 and final rules.’ This sets out final rules to implement requirements of the Revised Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II). SRD II introduced new requirements to improve shareholder engagement and increase transparency around stewardship. The rules came into effect on 10 June 2019 requiring asset managers to disclose and make publicly available their policies on how they engage with the companies they invest in. They also require asset managers to provide certain information to institutional investors, including occupational pension schemes. The new rules are designed to foster stewardship, and better stewardship should lead to better decision making in relation to mergers and acquisitions.</p>
Business: Investment
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by KPMG 2018 Global CEO Outlook: UK, published on 11 June, in regard to business investment in the UK after Brexit.
<p>The report concluded that uncertainty had weakened CEOs’ confidence in their own country’s growth prospects since the 2017 report; which fell in 6 of the 11 top economies surveyed.</p><p>In the 2019 KPMG report, confidence in the UK economy improved and was matched in official statistics by a 0.5% expansion in business investment in the first quarter of 2019, according to the ONS ‘GDP first quarterly estimate’.</p><p> </p>
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support businesses increase footfall in shopping centres.
<p>The Retail Sector is changing, we are committed to helping communities adapt and support the retail sector during this change. The Government and the retail sector recognise that action is needed to ensure the sector thrives. The creation of the Retail Sector Council demonstrates this commitment to the continued success of the retail sector.</p><p>In Budget 2018, we set out Our Plan for the High Street, a £1.6bn package to support the sustainable transformation of our high streets, including a £675m Future High Streets Fund and a High Streets Task Force to support local leadership.</p>
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[Letter from Rich'd Adams to Messrs. Saml. & Wm. Vernon]
Manuscript copy of a letter from Richard Adams of Richmond, Virginia, to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding slave and agricultural trade.
[Letter from Thornton & Yates to Messrs. Samuel & William Vernon]
Letter from Thornton & Yates of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Samuel and William Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island.
Manuscript copy of a letter dated June 27, 1770, from Adams & Griffin of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island regarding remittance of payment to London merchant Thomas Adams. Followed by a letter that includes further billing from Perkins Buchanan & Brown of London and a discussion of projected agricultural markets for the upcoming fall. Adams & Griffin note that slaves "are in the greatest demand, and the first that arrive will sell at a good price."
Manuscript copy of a letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, discussing Slave trade.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding slave and agricultural trade.
[Letter from William Taylor to Messrs. William Vernon & Company]
Letter from William Taylor in Richmond Town, James River [Richmond, Virginia] to William Vernon & Company in Newport, Rhode Island.
[Letter from Rich'd. Adams to Messrs. Saml. & Wm. Vernon]
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, to notify of current sales of slaves and express disappointment that additional shipments had not arrived.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island regarding the "favorable" slave market in Richmond.
Letter from Richard Adams of [Richmond] Virginia, to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding slave and agricultural trade.
Letter from Richard Adams of Williamsburg [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding slave and agricultural trade.
Messrs. Saml. & William Vernon & Co. in acct. with Richard Adams
Account record by Richard Adams of expenses related to trade in London and Bristol on behalf of Samuel and William Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island]. Includes mention of the Schooner Little Sally.
[Letter from Rich'd. Adams to Messrs. Saml. & Wm. Vernon and Thos. Taylor]
Manuscript copy of a letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island and Thomas Teakle Taylor, captain of the Schooner Little Sally, dated July 4, 1763, to notify of the safe arrival of a "very likely" slave shipment, and the general state of the Richmond market.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond, Virginia, to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding slave and agricultural trade.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island and Thomas Teakle Taylor, captain of the Schooner Little Sally, to notify of the safe arrival of a "very likely" slave shipment, and the general state of the Richmond market.
Sales of 8 Slaves Remains of a Cargo Imported in the Little Sally Capt. Wm. Taylor, July 1763 and sold by Rich'd Adams on Acct. Messrs. Sam. & Wm. Vernon & Co. R. Island
Account record of the sale of 8 slaves from the [Schooner] Little Sally, sold by Richard Adams for Samuel and William Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island]. Includes names of purchasers.
Manuscript copy of a letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, discussing Slave trade and sale profits.
[Manuscript copy of letter from William Taylor to Messrs. William Vernon & Company]
Manuscript copy of letter dated July 5, 1764, Letter from William Taylor in Richmond Town, James River [Richmond, Virginia] to William Vernon & Company in Newport, Rhode Island.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, discussing Slave trade and sale profits.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond, Virginia, to William and Samuel Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island], regarding slave and agricultural trade.
Manuscript copy of a letter dated March 20, 1764, from Richard Adams of Richmond, Virginia, to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding slave and agricultural trade. Followed by a letter that provides further market details.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island and Thomas Teakle Taylor, captain of the Schooner Little Sally, to notify of current sales and encourage additional slave shipments of men under the age of twenty.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, discussing Slave trade.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond, Virginia, to William and Samuel Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island], regarding slave and agricultural trade. Includes price list of commodities.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding a dispute over remittance of sale profits.
[Letter from William Taylor to Thomas Vernon]
Letter from William Taylor at the Virginia James River [Richmond, Virginia] to James Vernon, post master, in Newport, Rhode Island. Followed by additional note from Taylor dated October 24, 1763.
Sales of 52 Negro's Imported in the Schooner Little Sally Capt. William Taylor and sold on acct. of Messrs. Saml. & Wm. Vernon & Co. Merchts. Newport Rhode Island
Account record of the sale of 52 slaves from the Schooner Little Sally, sold by Richard Adams for Samuel and William Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island. Includes names of purchasers and counties of residence.
Messrs. Samuel & Wm. Vernon & Co. in Acct. with Rich'd Adams
Account record by Richard Adams of expenses related to trade on serveral ships belonging to Samuel and William Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island]. Includes mention of the Brig Royal Charlotte and the Schooner Little Sally.
Manuscript copy of a letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island dated December 26, 1768, regarding the "favorable" slave market in Richmond. Followed by a letter in which Adams & Griffin, further note the improved market.
Manuscript copy of a letter dated October 25, 1767, from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, discussing Slave trade.
Letter dated September 1, 1769, from Adams & Griffin of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island regarding the slow sale of slaves shipped on the Brig Othello, citing their poor condition. Followed by a letter signed by Adams & Griffin to that the remaining slaves had been sold. Includes list detailing the "state of the market."
Sales 66 Negroes Receiv'd [of] the Brig Othello, Capt. John Duncan & Sold on Accot. Mss. Samuel and William Vernon, Merchts. Rhode Island [by] Adams & Griffin
Account record for the sale of 66 slaves from the cargo of the Brig Othello, sold in Richmond, Virginia, by Adams & Griffin for Samuel and William Vernon of [Newport], Rhode Island. Includes names of purchasers, price paid, and gender and age of slaves bought.
Manuscript copy of two letters dated March 20 and April 14, 1764, from Richard Adams of Richmond, Virginia, to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding slave and agricultural trade. Includes price list of commodities. Followed by a letter that provides further market details.
Letter from Richard Adams of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island, notifying of the arrival of the Brig Othello with a shipment of 90 slaves.
Letter from Adams & Griffin of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island regarding shipments of corn and slaves on the Brig Othello, owned by the Vernons. Includes mention of the inferior quality of a recent slave shipment with "too great a proportion of children & the grown ones rather too old."
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Universal Credit: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps he is taking to tackle universal credit fraud.
Mr Jim Cunningham
<p>The Department takes its obligation to prevent, detect and investigate fraud very seriously and will investigate all claims where fraud may have been committed. We have recently set up a dedicated team to investigate a specific type of emergent fraud, and we are also committed to the use of penalties such as prosecutions and tough financial penalties to discourage fraudulent behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has also recently been working to further improve knowledge and awareness of Universal Credit (UC) fraud amongst Jobcentre and Service Centre staff. Guidance has also been issued to ensure that all staff are aware how to quickly refer cases of suspected fraud to the Department’s Counter-fraud team.</p><p> </p><p>Most welfare losses, across Government, arise from claimants failing to report changes of circumstances. UC provides a single, digital interface through which claimants can more easily report these changes. UC also allows us to adjust benefit entitlement in line with changing circumstances in real time. Internal and external data matches are increasingly helping to inform benefit payments and alerting staff to check for any undeclared changes in people’s circumstances. Once UC is fully rolled out, we expect cross-welfare losses to fraud, error and overpayments to be reduced by around £1 billion per year</p><p> </p><p>As of June 2019, potential fraudulent advance claims equate to less than 1 per cent of all Universal Credit claims.</p>
Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham
Universal Credit: Proof of Identity
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure accurate verification of universal credit claimants who request an advance.
<p>As of June 2019, potential fraudulent advance claims equate to less than 1 per cent of all Universal Credit claims.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has been working to improve knowledge and awareness of advances fraud amongst Jobcentre and Service Centre staff. Guidance has also been issued to ensure that staff are aware how to refer cases of suspected fraud to the Department’s Counter-fraud team.</p><p> </p><p>We are developing our service iteratively and improving any areas in the service that may currently be presenting issues, to minimise the risk of fraud while ensuring that we can continue to provide financial support to those claimants who need it.</p><p>We cannot share advance detail of the specific security improvements we are making but this includes improving our process for verifying a claimant’s circumstances.</p>
Tobacco: Smuggling
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that economic operators who are unable to comply with the Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019 due to software issues will not be penalised.
<p>The Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019 require the movement of tobacco products to be recorded by economic operators through the supply chain.</p><p>Tobacco manufacturers are required to provide economic operators with the software necessary to record movements.</p><p> </p><p>If an economic operator is unable to comply with the Regulations due to software issues, HM Revenue & Customs will consider what action to take on a case-by-case basis according to the facts of the particular case.</p>
Robert Jenrick
Biography information for Robert Jenrick
Diesel Fuel: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2019 to Question 272300, what the diesel duty revenues were from (a) shipping, (b) agriculture, (c) road users, (d) rail and (e) any other sectoral information held by his Department in each of the last 10 years.
Duty is collected when fuel leaves a refinery or import terminal, so HMRC data does not break down diesel duty revenues by sectors where fuel is used. HMRC publishes information on historic fuel duty receipts on Page 5 of the <a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Tax%20and%20Duty%20Bulletins/Oils0519.xls" target="_blank">Hydrocarbon Oils Bulletin</a>. This shows receipts for diesel taxed at the full rate of duty for road use and also for rebated ‘gas oil’. This refers to marked diesel which is taxed at a reduced rate of duty because it is intended for off road use in sectors such as agriculture and construction, as well as for maritime and rail transport.
Biography information for Alan Brown
Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the ethnic minority pay gap in the UK.
<p>The Government is committed to a cohesive society where everyone can enter and progress at work and achieve on merit, whatever their background.</p><p>The Government consulted on how best to implement mandatory ethnicity pay reporting. We received over 300 detailed responses and will set out next steps in due course.</p><p>The Government has also launched the Race at Work Charter which commits signatories to effective practices that support fairness at work. Over 170 employers have signed up to date.</p>
Surveillance: Philippines
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the UK exported surveillance equipment to the Philippines in 2019.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle
<p>The Government publishes Official Statistics (on a quarterly and annual basis) about export licences granted, refused and revoked on GOV.UK. These reports contain detailed information by destination, including the overall value, type (e.g. Military, Other) and a summary of the items covered by these licences. These can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data.</a></p><p>The data currently provides details of licences up to 31 March 2019. Information about the period 1 April to 30 June will be published in October 2019 and data covering the period 1 July 2019 to 30 September 2019 will be published in January 2020.</p><p>All export licences are issued in strict accordance with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.</p>
Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle
Surveillance: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps he is taking to comply with the recommendation of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression to impose an immediate moratorium on the export, sale, transfer, use or servicing of privately developed surveillance tools until a human rights-compliant safeguards regime is in place.
<p>The Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria provide a thorough risk assessment framework for considering licence applications, and take into account the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the country of final destination.</p><p> </p><p>Licensing decisions are based on the most up-to-date information and analysis available at the time, including reports from NGOs and our overseas network.</p><p> </p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on fiscal measures to support his work on tackling climate change.
Daniel Zeichner
<p>The Secretary of State has had discussions on a number of occasions with the Chancellor regarding action on climate change and uses taxpayers’ money to support nature based solutions.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Daniel Zeichner
World Meteorological Organisation
To ask Her Majesty's Government what changes, if any, they have advocated to the World Meteorological Organization about the changes to the organisation and funding of the hydrological work of that organisation; and what are the connections of that work with the hydrological programmes of UNESCO.
Lord Hunt of Chesterton
<p>The UK’s Permanent Representative to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), with support from the UK Hydrological Adviser, was actively engaged in discussions at the World Meteorological Congress in June 2019, promoting efficiency and transparency in the intergovernmental agreements on the budget and reform of WMO. The UK remain closely involved in the hydrological work of WMO, with the UK Hydrological Adviser promoting the establishment of appropriate links between WMO and UNESCO, supported by his role as vice-chair of UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme.</p>
Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans UK regulators are implementing to ensure continuity of electricity supplies from national and local grids to supply electric cars during rush hour journeys.
Viscount Waverley
<p>The Government is committed to making sure consumers have secure, affordable and clean energy now and in the future.</p><p>The Capacity Market secures the capacity required to meet peak demand, including demand for electric vehicles, in a range of scenarios through auctions held four- and one-year ahead of delivery. Although currently in a standstill period, the Capacity Market has already procured the bulk of the electricity capacity we need up to 2022.</p><p>In addition, the Government has taken powers in the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 to mandate that charge points sold or installed in the UK must be smart enabled – allowing demand for charging of electric vehicles to be shifted, where appropriate, to off-peak times.</p><p>Finally, Ofgem regulates network companies to ensure that they deliver a safe, reliable network whilst investing for the future and providing value for money for consumers. This includes ensuring that networks can reliably deliver the energy that consumers need, including for charging electric vehicles.</p>
Biography information for Viscount Waverley
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